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  • 13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday October 14, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • 791 1  -  Ng Shing Vi 'Insurgents' needed to break rules THEIR latest recruitment ad might read: Subversives and Insurgents wanted. The Unquestioning need not apply. No, that is not an excerpt from some terror group's leaflet, but a rallying cry aimed at the Singapore Civil Service. And the call
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  • 480 1  -  Surekha A Yadav ONCE a month, they come from across the island to take part in the oldest form of trade in the world barter. Some 150 Singapore businesses have signed up with Barter Xchange, which helps them connect with other businesses keen
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 33 1 NEWSX^/lEWS mSASA Lee says Quality of population key to keeping Singapore's edge/2 ■Jeremy Lim Rules for charities must consider life's uncertainties/3 Rohit Brijnath Time for India's young stars to step up/42 HI j^^^-
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  • hot news
    • 526 2  -  Tor Ching Li Quality population is key: MM Lee WHILE no longer a First World country in a Third World region, Singapore is still "10 to 20 years ahead" of its neighbours, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told a 500-strong group of delegates to the Global
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    • 769 3  -  Jeremy Lim |\IEWS£S!B!BSBL Why rules for charity organisations should take into account the uncertainties of the future WHEN I was floating in my mother's womb, my parents expected a healthy, normal and, perhaps, gifted child. Otherwise, my mother would not have spent countless
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 57 4 Channel News Asia The bush fire along East Coast Park Service Road has been put out, but the Civil Defence Force said yesterday it would continue to damp down burnt surfaces. The fire began on Tuesday morning, and at its height, spanned an area
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      • 64 4 Channel News Asia A nine-year-old girl, Huang Na, has been missing since Sunday. The Chinese National was last seen at the food court in Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre at about 1 pm. She is 1.2 m tall, has black shoulder-length hair and was wearing a blue denim
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    • 455 4 Tasked with relieving Iraq's debt, reports say he is also working to recover money for Kuwait LONDON United States President George W Bush's special envoy, Mr James Baker, who has been tasked with persuading the world to forgive Iraq's massive debts, is
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    • 310 4  -  Tan Hui Leng TOURISTS coming to Singapore are spending more on transport and medical services, according to a study on tourist spending by Visa. The study, which looks at transactions made by visitors using Visa credit and debit cards here, found that tourists
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  • singapore news
    • 169 6 Channel News Asia TWO local personalities have been called in by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) for urine tests and are awaiting the test results expected on Oct 22. One of them is former DJ Sheik Haikel and the other is Channel News
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    • 445 6  -  Lee U-Wen Located along Simei Avenue, new campus is the size of 10 football fields A STATE-OF-THE-ART Sports Excellence Centre and three niche areas of study are just samplings of what students at the Institute of Technical Education's new campus can look forward to
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    • 580 8  -  Wong Fei Wan Lt Ng also says he was told to 'learn on the job' THE commando who dunked trainees repeatedly during the combat survival training (CST) that eventually killed Second Sergeant Hu Enhuai, said he had received no training on how to conduct the
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 55 8 Channel News Asia Ten NSmen were injured on Pulau Tekong yesterday morning, when their truck landed on its side. The truck, with 1 3 servicemen on board, was believed to have hit a tree. Two servicemen were warded for fractures and facial injuries. Eight
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      • 36 8 Newsßadio 93.8 Indonesia has released all 30 Singaporean and foreign divers detained in Bintan during a diving trip, said Singapore's Foreign Affairs Ministry. The 21 Singaporeans left for home yesterday by ferry.
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      • 61 8 Newsßadio 93.8 Singapore passports may be replaced soon with electronic cards that can store personal data and photographs. These new e-passports may be small enough to embed in a SIM card or wristwatch. A top computer security advisor from the Home Affairs Ministry, Mr Yu
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      • 42 8 Channel News Asia The Health Ministry has advised Singaporeans travelling overseas to take the flu vaccine at least a week before visiting Northern Hemisphere countries, in anticipation of a surge of flu cases as winter sets in.
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      • 43 8 CNA More needy people were given help vvith their hospital bills last year. Hospitals and nursing homes received $33,649,500 from MediFund, up 28.5 per cent from 2002. There were 216,214 applications. More than 99 per cent were approved.
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  • world news
    • 190 10 Agencies TAIPEI Taiwan President Chen Shuibian responded calmly yesterday to China's angry rejection of his peace overtures, saying patience was needed in efforts to reduce tensions with Beijing. "A-bian, the government and the people need to have patience," Mr Chen told reporters, referring to himself
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    • 603 10  -  Shibu Ittv Kuttickal But will these debates really make a difference? JUST hours ahead of the third and final debate between US President George W Bush and Democratic Party challenger John F Kerry, the world is looking to see who will deliver the knockout punch to surge
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 43 10 Man wants to name son A father in Henan, in central China, has been denied permission to name his son reports Ananova.com. The argument was that the keyboard character was now in common usage. Under Chinese law, names must be translatable into Mandarin.
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      • 79 10 AP Police in Crystal, Minnesota, responding to the call of a convulsing Elvis Presley impersonator, found themselves in a chase of another faux celebrity dressed as one of the Blues Brothers. As 'Elvis', jumped up and started to sing show tunes for
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      • 87 10 A South African businessman has refused to leave Croatia until he finds a girl he spotted across a crowded bar, reports Ananova. com. Keith Van Der Spuy has never spoken to the girl but says she is the most beautiful woman he has seen. He has
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      • 44 10 A 14-year-old schoolgirl destroyed a cash machine with her bare hands in Ukraine, reports Ananova.com. Police said the girl, who "looked as if she couldn't hurt a fly", started punching the machine in a fury after it swallowed her bank card.
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    • 166 10 AFP. BANGKOK The Thai government announced plans yesterday to tackle the kingdom's obsession with the supernatural following the brutal slaying of a young girl by her family in an occult ritual. The government said it would launch a public awareness campaign to rid the nation of
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    • 366 11 AFP Computer can be turned into entertainment centre LOS ANGELES US software behemoth Microsoft yesterday unveiled a new technological assault that will bring music, movies and television into consumer living rooms through their computers. Microsoft chief Bill Gates unveiled the expanded Windows XP
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 71 11 AFP Former US schoolteacher Mary Kay LeTourneau is to marry a former pupil, now a young man, whom she was convicted of raping and barred from contacting in 1 997. The child educator, who is now in her early forties, is engaged to her former pupil,
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      • 75 11 AP A top Palestinian security leader who is a relative of President Yasser Arafat escaped unharmed yesterday when a car bomb exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, as Israel's Prime Minister tried to cobble together a governing team to carry out his plan to withdraw
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      • 67 11 AFP Pop superstar Michael Jackson hit out yesterday at US rapper Eminem over what he branded an "outrageous and disrespectful" video that mocks the King of Pop and shows him cavorting with children. Jackson, who is awaiting trial on child molestation charges, wants the rapper's Just Lose
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    • 168 11 AFP FALLUJAH US forces hammered rebel positions in Iraq's Sunni Muslim hotbeds of Fallujah and Ramadi yesterday, killing 11 people, as the disarming of Shia militiamen gathered pace in Baghdad despite US warnings of internal rifts. As the US military went on the offensive
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    • 288 13 AFP Pre-emptive action would only be used as a last resort to save Australian lives SYDNEY After kicking up a storm by threatening to carry out pre-emptive strikes against terrorist bases in the region, Australian Prime Minister John Howard backed away from the controversial
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    • 223 13 -AFP PARIS Genes handed down by one's mother and having a large number of older brothers may determine whether someone is a homosexual, according to a study published yesterday. Put together, these two factors may account for perhaps 20 per cent of
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    • 216 13 AFP L LONDON When American magician David Blame starved himself for 44 days inside a glass box suspended above ground here, many condemned the stunt as pointless. Not so, said doctors specialising in malnutrition. The medics who treated Mr Blame after his fast ended last
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 55 13 Agencies Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from a London-bound Malaysia Airlines plane after an apparently drunken Vietnamese student told a fellow passenger that he had a bomb in his hand luggage, reported the New Straits Times yesterday. The 25-year-old was taken into
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      • 55 13 AP A group or 33 employees at the Sussex Printing Corp in Delaware have won a U*****.7 million (almost $362 million) Powerball jackpot, said a lawyer for the workers. He added that each member of the office pool would receive
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      • 60 13 AFP The US Federal Communications Commission plans to slap a record US$l.l 8-million ($2-million) fine on Fox Broadcasting for violating indecency rules. The fine stems from the airing of an episode of last year's short-lived series, Married in America, which had
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      • 76 13 AP A Taiwanese couple, who unwittingly paid an AsBo,ooo ($97,600) deposit on the Sydney house where Filipino student Sef Gonzalez had stabbed his parents and sister to death would get their money back, a real-estate agent said yesterday. The
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      • 65 13 AP Tourists in South Africa have been eaten by lions, leopards and crocodiles; trampled by elephants and buffalo; gored by rhinos; and crushed by hippos. Now, in a first for the "when-animals-attack" genre, two women were killed when a giraffe crashed on their car
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    • 567 15  -  Ng Shing Vi STACEY Ong, two months shy of her 21st birthday, has been putting up with pain in her wisdom teeth because she is too young to undergo dental surgery at a public hospital without parental consent Her parents are too busy
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    • 271 15  -  JIMMY HO KWOK HOONG JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from. LAST week, I was asked to distribute ribbons in support of the Yellow Ribbon Project I share the belief of many Singaporeans that we should give ex-offenders a shot at a new life. What
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    • 302 15  -  SARAH LIM Letter from I READ with concern your report, "Teenage abortion: doctor's dilemma" (Oct 9-10). As the parent of an 11-year-old girl, I am appalled that abortions are performed on under-age girls without parental consent and that this is supported by the Termination
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    • VOXpopuli
      • 117 17  -  Grace Teo Wei Lynn I refer to the letter, "Water sports will disturb the peace" (Oct 1 3) by Madam Yong Siew Kirn. As a Bedok resident, I'm deeply concerned. This subject was discussed on Class 95's Morning Express and the worry appears to extend beyond the
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      • 77 17  -  Michael Chua Kheng Hwee It's commendable the Government is taking steps to encourage Singaporeans, especially the young, to become entrepreneurs. But it is hard as long as people who have become bankrupts after trying their hand in businesses are avoided like the plague by banks. Even those
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    • 562 17  -  Narayana Narayana YOUR article, "It's IPOs galore but where's the quality?" (Oct 12) begins with "the long-awaited listing of Star Hub will finally take off tomorrow". "Tomorrow" has become the present and Star Hub, after just tipping the bar at 95.5 cents, marginally
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  • Businesstoday
    • 176 19 SHARES of Star Hub fell 3.7 per cent in their first day of trading on concern that earnings growth will be limited in the saturated mobile phone market Falling 3.5 cents, they closed at 91.5 cents yesterday, reported Bloomberg. Being in a saturated market,
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    • 362 19  -  Val Chua Temasek will bring companies of the ST group directly under its control TEMASEK Holdings will disband the Singapore Technologies (ST) group's holding company and absorb the group's companies directly into its fold. Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd (STPL) the holding company of companies such as ST
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    • market BUZZ
      • 185 19 AWARD-winning acrobatic pizza-maker Oriana Tirabassi will be back at Prego Restaurant and Deli from Oct 21 to 31, during which diners will be in for a treat as she shows off her fascinating pizzamaking stunts and tempts diners with an exciting array of her signature pizza
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      • 186 19 L'OREAL has launched e-Strat 5, the 2005 edition of its e-Strat Challenge. Open to all students in their final or penultimate year of university studies, as well as students enrolled in Master of Business Administration (MBA) courses, this challenge is an online business
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 69 19 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended marginally higher on late bargain hunting, bucking four straight sessions of falls. The ST Index rose 0.1 1 point, or 0.01 percent, to close at 1,971.15. Losers led gainers 161 to 156 as 749.3 million shares worth $828.8 million were traded. Singapore Airlines rose
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      • 78 19 SingamasC 2kHK$ 3.900 -0.271 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 108.800 -0.20( NOL 2.970 -0.11 c DBS 15.400 -0.10( UOB 13.400 -0.10( Venture 16.100 -0.10( HSCEI DB eCW*****1 0.630 -0.09( SPH 4.700 -0.06( CITYDEV 6.450 -0.05( DairyFarm 900 0S$ 2.350 -0.05( )y percentage •hilling 0.100 icoWise 0.080 -16.7 -15.8
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      • 36 19 US$ 0.5927 UK£ 0.3311 Yen 65.103 HK$ 4.6194 RM 2.2522 Euro 0.482 Rupiah 5417.1 Bant 24.528 Peso 33.46 A$ 0.8195 Indian Rs 27.166 Won 680.04 C$ 0.751 Yuan 4.9053 NZ$ 0.8805 NTS 20.086
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      • 57 19 Nikkei 225 *****.99 Pis -5.82 -0.05 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries faiwan Wtd *****.58 3725.20 5963.07 -80.01 +7.80 -16.49 -0.60 +0.21 -0.28 Korea Comp 856.18 -1.91 -0.22 KLCI 853.31 +0.51 +0.06 SET Index 661.29 +3.02 +0.46 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 863.17 1790.73 247.27 5676.73 +13.97
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      • 26 19 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by jold US$/oz iilver us$/m 'latinum us$/oz 413 Rubber rentsAg 6.81 Palm Oil RM/tonne 834.5 Brent crude us$/barrei 219 1469 47.65
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    • business news
      • 392 21  -  Tor Ching Li We will win MP3 player war by this quarter: Sim Wong Hoo THE war between Singapore's Creative Technology and US-based Apple on the personal digital entertainment (PDE) front is about to end, according to Creative's chief executive officer Sim Wong Hoo. "This quarter,
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      • 225 21 Takeover bid for Elec Eltek Dow Jones KINGBOARD Chemical, which makes printed circuit boards, is making a hostile bid for Hong Kong's Elec Eltek International Holdings. If its bid to raise its shareholding is successful, it will then offer to buy the Hong Kong firm's thinly-traded Singapore-listed unit, Elec Eltek
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      • 395 21  -  Tay Tsen-Waye DESPITE the lacklustre performance of the initial public offer (IPO) market this year, one new mainboard aspirant remains confident that its 13-year history in providing IT outsourcing services to the Hong Kong government will make it an attractive proposition
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      • 326 23  -  Tor Ching Li Start-up co-funding programme to generate $350 m in value-add and more than 1,400 jobs this year TWENTY new local companies received a total of $11 million in public and private sector funding for their enterprises yesterday under the Startup Enterprise Development
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      • 172 23 AFP GENEVA Singapore continued to set the pace in terms of its macroeconomic environment for the 104 countries in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual ranking of the most competitive economies this year. Comprising the Asian countries that made it to the top 10
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      656 25  -  Felix Cheong Former model Shobha De writes juicy novels to shock Indian society, but don't call her the Jackie Collins of South Asia MEETING Indian author Shobha De for the first time, you realise what a study in contrast she is. She has the poise of an aristocrat,
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    • 552 27  -  Jeanine Tan Idol results are quite logical really, says judge Ken Lim SINGAPORE Idol judge Ken Lim, who many feel is the most intuitive of the four judges, dismisses talk that the results of the competition have been shocking. Never mind that hot favourite Jeassea
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      169 29  -  Jaime Koh BOOK REVIEWS Anita Shreve HAILED as a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart, American author Anita Shreve does not disappoint with her latest work, Light on Snow. In deceptively simple yet elegant prose, Shreve tells the story of 12-year old Nicky Dillion and her
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    • 391 29  -  David Chew Cyril Wong's new online journal aims to introduce local bards to the world LOCAL poet Cyril Wong (picture) has started a new online poetry journal and he hopes the journal christened softblow will soon make its presence felt internationally. Borne out of a passion
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    • 103 29 Eveline Gan SHANGHAI photojournalist Wang Rong Jiang (picture) walked away with the Click Art Best Photo Essay Award trophy yesterday. He was one of the 219 participants from 32 countries who took part in the inaugural ClickArt-World Photojournalist Meet last December. "I'm surprised I won
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    • 129 30 Babelicious actress Fiona Xie, who can be seen prancing around in a swimsuit in The Champion. The new series will air on weekdays at 9pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 8, beginning this Wednesday. "I usually read a book without knowing what the title is. Most of the
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    • 335 30  -  David Chew LOUISE Welsh (picture) insists that she is far from being a deviant. "I lead a boring, normal life. I work on my book during the day, meet my friends at night. I'm anything but deviant, really!" she said. Welsh the woman behind works of fiction
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    • 172 30 -AFP ROME A pathologist who exhumed the remains of the Italian poet, Petrarch, as part of celebrations marking his birth 700 years ago has appealed for the return of his skull, presumed stolen by 17th century grave robbers. When Padua pathologist Vito Terribile Wiel Marin opened the
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    • 164 31 AP A PRODUCTION company making a film directed by Christopher Reeve has vowed that his animated feature about the New York Yankees will hit cinemas in 2006. The movie, tentatively titled Yankee Irving, can move forward without Reeve because he had put in
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        340 33  -  Pearlvn Tham Carlton's wedding show helps couples plan IF THERE is one occasion in your life when you can truly be the star, it would have to be your wedding day. This is why Carlton Hotel Singapore wants to help you turn up the glamour factor on this
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      • 50 33 From this Saturday to Oct 31, confirm your wedding reservations with Carlton Hotel and you will receive a dozen complimentary bottles of wine when you book your wedding banquet at the Empress Ballroom or half-a-dozen complimentary bottles of wine when you book the Esplanade Room.
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      • 297 33  -  Pearlyn Tham YOU may have been to beauty seminars and talks before but the Beauty Clinique Seminar organised by skincare specialist Bionn International promises to be a different experience. A talk by a Bionn International trainer and nutritionist, and Dr Jacob Vromen are scheduled during
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      • 479 35  -  Pearlvn Tham New night and day products from L'Oreal busts cellulite in problem areas DIMPLES can be beauty assets when they appear on your cheeks the cheeks on your face, that is. But when they appear elsewhere like on your thighs and buttocks, they are
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      • 98 37 THANKS to its proximity and attractions, Malaysia remains the place to go for Singaporeans. To bring Malaysia even closer to the Republic, two fairs Discover Malaysia Tourism Fair and Fascinating Malaysia will be held on the weekend of Oct 29 and Oct 31. In conjunction with
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    • 255 42  -  TAN YO-HINN IN FEBRUARY, the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) unveiled their high performance coaching team, aimed at pushing the sport to greater heights. But in a blow to the plan, the SAA have now lost James Mayo, their head coach for middle
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