Today, 23 October 2004

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    13 1 October 23 24 2004 mita (P) 105/07/2004 weekentTODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com
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    CLIMATE& CALAMITY
    1065 1  -  John Holdren Peace on Earth could be shattered if nothing is done soon CLIMATE change is one of the most dangerous and difficult challenges facing mankind today. It is dangerous because climate is the envelope within which all other environmental conditions and processes operate. It is difficult because
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      69 1 PAP GETS SET I TO CELEBRATE O I 50™ ANNIVERSARY L I IS PLATINUM LOSING -|Q I ITS LUSTRE? lO I WENGER GOES I FOR NO 50, AND I IMMORTALITY OU I r&*sm sa Ys I *f!F f* he took I l^. improve I sex lire I 'f A if
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      PAP turns 50
      476 2  -  Derrick A Paulo Party marks occasion with commemorative book derrick@newstoday.com.sg AS THE People's Action Party celebrates its 50th anniversary dinner on Saturday, three of its top leaders revisit its success through penned messages in its commemorative PAP 50 book. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Minister Mentor Lee
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      Private medical insurance schemes have also become 'less effective': Mr Khaw
      645 2  -  Tan Hui Leng WEEKS after he last criticised the national medical insurance scheme and put it under a microscope, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has turned on similar private insurance plans. Private insurance plans for large hospital bills such
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      Lock icon I took sex drug, not cocaine
      493 4 -AFP LONDON Adrian Mutu admits he took drugs, but claims it was not cocaine but a drug to improve his sex life. "The only reason I took what I took was because I wanted to improve my sexual performance," said the 25-year-old Chelsea striker
      -AFP; PHOTOS BY AFP  -  493 words
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      Lock icon 4 MORE ARRESTED IN S'PORE
      127 4 Channel News Asia FOUR more people, two foreigners and two locals, involved in the recent cocaine drug bust were in court on Friday. They were charged with the consumption of illegal drugs and are out on bail. Andrew William Veale, 40, a British banker, has
      – Channel News Asia  -  127 words
    • GLOBALroundup
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        Howard Cabinet untouched
        53 4 Australian Prime Minister John Howard left his election-winning ministerial team untouched in a Cabinet review on Friday. Mr Howard said there was no need to reshuffle the Cabinet as new faces had been introduced in the 14 months leading up to the Oct 9 election as incumbent
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        Lock icon Castro still firmly in control
        66 4 AP Demonstrating he retains firm control over Cuba, President Fidel Castro, 78, told of conducting government business by mobile phone during an ambulance ride. Mr Castro underwent an operation to repair his left knee, which was broken in eight pieces, and the immobilisation of his
        – AP  -  66 words
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        Taiwan pol sorry for curses
        66 4 Taiwanese opposition lawmaker Liv Wen-hsiung apologised on Friday for using vulgar language when alleging that the island's leader, Mr Chen Shui-bian, gave a cash present to former Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso as a birthday present, reported AP. The apology came a day after Mr Chen
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        Hooters set to hit China
        37 4 America's Hooters restaurant chain is set to open its first China outlet on Sunday in Shanghai's Hongqiao district, bringing its racy combination of cold beer, chicken wings and skimpily-dressed waitresses to China.
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        Masterpiece discovered
        51 4 A 1 6th century painting by El Greco, valued at £500,000 ($1.5 million), has been discovered in an envelope in Spain, reported the BBC. The family that owned the oil-on-wood altarpiece did not know what they had until they took it to a valuation session at Christie's auction
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      79 2 restore health to you ft (And heal you C of your wounds," -The Bible, Jeremiah 30:17 "^^V Worship Services at Pan Pacific Hotel Sundays 9.30 am and 11.30 am, Mondays 7.30pm /\cademy ■of j« j Counsellors Help straighten out someone's life today. And be richly rewarded as a Certified Counsellor.
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  • singapore news
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        Lock icon Key suspect in Indonesian bank fraud case arrested
        97 6 AFP A top suspect in a multi-million-dollar state bank fraud case was arrested Friday after he returned to Indonesia from Singapore, police said. Senior officers said Adrian Waworuntu, a suspect in the fraud case involving Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI), was escorted by
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        Lock icon Genome research gets US$1m
        84 6 Channel News Asia Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have been awarded a grant of more than US$l million ($1.7 million) by the US National Human Genome Research Institute. This is to help the GIS further its work on a novel molecular cloning technology
        — Channel News Asia  -  84 words
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        Lock icon Gifts for courteous drivers
        57 6 Channel News Asia Courteous drivers spotted will get a goodie bag and a set of speciallyproduced Road Courtesy mascots, in a two-month programme that is part of the Road Courtesy Campaign launched on Friday. The Traffic Police will also send letters promoting road safety and courtesy
        — Channel News Asia  -  57 words
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        Lock icon Man arrested on drug charge
        56 6 Channel News Asia Officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested a man suspected of selling psychotropic drugs in the River Valley Road area. They seized 68 Ecstasy tablets, 22 Erimin-5 tablets, 24g of Ketamine and 14g of Ice from the suspected trafficker, an unemployed
        — Channel News Asia  -  56 words
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        Lock icon No double tax on income
        51 6 Newsßadio 93.8 Singaporeans who receive income from Mongolia can soon avoid paying taxes on their earnings twice, with the Singapore-Mongolia agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion coming into force. It applies to income derived on or after January next
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      Lock icon Rumours not true, says Tiger Air CEO
      745 6  -  Tav Tsen-Wave Patrick Gan 'shocked' by reports that he resigned after a 'fiasco' waye@newstoday.com.sg IT IS surprising how quickly rumours spread when a chief executive officer of a budget airline backed by powerful shareholders such as Singapore Airlines is said to be leaving
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      Diva debunks argument
      522 8  -  Wong Fei Wan Lieutenant highlights inconsistencies in testimonies of all five witnesses feiwan@newstoday.com.sg ONE of the commandos accused of dunking a captain in a tub of seawater highlighted on Friday the inconsistencies in the testimonies of five witnesses. Debunking the prosecution's argument that a "common thread" ran
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      NKF opens new centre at KK Hospital
      304 8  -  Surekha A Yadav ONE out of every 600 births in Singapore is born with cleft lip palate. Such a deformity, or any congenital craniofacial anomaly, affects the child sufferer's ability to lead a normal life due to severe health repercussions like breathing problems
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      274 6 Robert A Fffl /lN SINGAPORE >W *m M O.Z > 4th November 2004 (Thursday) fJLJ^^ > 730Pm 10.30pm > Singapore Expo, Hall I TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE WHY THE RICH GET RICHER HOW YOU CAN, TOO! You may have heard of Rich Dad, Poor Dad by best selling
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      Lock icon SO, DID SADDAM REALLY TRY TO KILL BUSH'S DAD?
      1206 10  -  Jim Lobe -IPS UIHJ.-UM.IU.mjfcI.MJ.MHS B.I.imi.W.MI.BHSBI WASHINGTON Now that President George W Bush's allegations about former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ties to Al Qaeda and ambitious weapons programmes have been discredited thoroughly, another outstanding charge remains to be resolved. During a campaign
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      Lock icon Ex-govt official tejls of Blair's 'tipping poinf
      398 12 -AFP Robin Cook criticises redeployment of troops to Iraq as the last straw LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to redeploy British troops into a United States-controlled volatile area of Iraq could mark the "tipping point" of his mandate, former foreign secretary Robin
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        G8 name banned, but G Ate, G VIII OK
        60 12 British officials have banned former-English football star Paul Gascoigne from changing his name to G8 because numbers are outlawed, reported The Sun. However, they said that Mr Gascoigne, who wants to rename himself to bury his hell-raising image, could call himself
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        did the chicken cross railway line?
        63 12 Why railway A British express train travelling at 125mph had its fuel line damaged after a collision with a chicken in Swindon, Wilts, according to The Sun. The delayed commuters didn't seem to mind, having a good laugh with jokes like "Why did the
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        Urinating did not make dirtier
        61 12 Urinating place Argentinian Julian Perez Dorrego was cleared of urinating on the steps of a museum in the capital Beunos Aires because they were already dirty, reported Ananova.com. The court dropped the community service sentence for Mr Dorrego, a lawyer, after he appealed on the
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        Turning on tap to avoid sitting for exam
        51 12 Three Italian girls and a boy confessed to blocking drains and turning on taps in a bathroom over the weekend at Milan's famous The Parini School to avoid sitting for an exam, reported the BBC. Damage was estimated at 500,000 euros ($1.05
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      Lock icon Myanmar confirms reform road map
      241 12 Agencies YANGON Myanmar's military leadership reiterated its commitment to its "road map to democracy" on Friday, following the abrupt appointment of a new prime minister, hardliner Lieu-tenant-General Soe Win. Junta leaders told senior diplomats in Yangon that they would continue with the seven-point "road map"
      – Agencies  -  241 words
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      Lock icon Monument to decadence of Marcos era
      238 12 -AFP TACLOBAN The Santo Nino Shrine on Leyte island in the central Philippines is a monument to the decadence of the Marcos era. Popularly known as the Malacanang Palace (the presidential palace in Manila) of the south, it was created by former First Lady
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      Lock icon Sikh boys to argue case
      157 12 AFP PARIS A French court examining an appeal on Friday from three Sikh boys who have been excluded from classes for wearing an under-turban has ordered the school authorities to hold a disciplinary hearing so that the boys can formally argue their case. By ordering
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      Lock icon Laos told of bomb attacks
      128 12 AFP WASHINGTON Opponents of the Lao government may be plotting multiple bomb attacks in Vientiane and other areas of Laos timed to coincide with next month's meeting of South-east Asian leaders, which Laos is hosting from Nov 25 to 30, the United States said on
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      ADDICTED TO CREDIT
      689 14 TO THE sin-list of "alcoholism, smoking, drugs, porn, child abuse", Singaporeans can chalk up another fatal addiction: Credit cards. On this "stealthy but deadly social menace" of debt accumulation, letterwriter Murali Kumara Sharma lamented: "What is happening to our country, that once had one of the highest
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      Stand up for Singapore, Singaporeans
      178 14  -  MATTHEW TAN Letter from AS A born and bred Singaporean with my roots firmly here, it was most disappointing and frustrating to hear non-Singapore-ans who have chosen to live here make comments such as: "No wonder Singaporeans can't make it!" It is an insult to
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      'Civil unrest" only if bosses change first
      312 14  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AHMAD Fear of being blacklisted blocks staff speaking up I Letter from HAVING spent two stints in the public sector in a Ministry and a statutory board in the past decade, I have serious doubts that the recent calls for "civil
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      Not right to change ERS conditions now
      151 14  -  HAN KOK JUAN I Letter from MMMMManffPfMI I REFER to Ms Santi Yeo Her Chuan's letter, "More ERS for mums with more children" (Oct 19). She suggested that mothers be given more Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS) based on the number of children they
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      Have we gone to the dogs?
      728 16  -  Neil Humphreys We're culling cats and silencing canines I HAVE been goosed before. Not sexually, but in a literal sense and I still bear the emotional scars. I was attacked by a deranged, runaway goose that appeared utterly determined to render me impotent. Naturally,
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      Department stores should not play profane, raunchy songs
      223 16  -  JERUSHA DEVAN] Letter from THANK you, mr brown, for your article, "Poetry with swear words" (Oct 22). It gives me the opportunity to raise an issue that has been troubling me. I do think there should be a body that can assert
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      singaporeseen
      112 16 CATWATCH TODAY photographer Koh Mvi Fong captured this tableau on the Singapore River. A black cat is snapped while gazing out at the bronze sculptures of a family of three Kucinta cats on the Cavenagh Bridge. While the sculptures depict one aspect of Singapore's heritage, the current situation with
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    The platinum pursuit
    888 18  -  Tay Tsen-Waye waye@newstoday.com.sg IN THE world of shiny plastic, the colours of gold and platinum used to mean the difference of at least $100,000 in annual income, but not anymore. Cutthroat competition for market share among banks has slashed minimum entry barriers for those who aspire to
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  • MarketWATCH
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      World markets
      56 18 ndex Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Wumbai Sensex Value *****.13 3709.90 5774.67 828.17 853.88 659.05 850.77 1762.14 235.10 5641.06 Change Pis +67.90 +4.00 -22.57 +7.54 +4.67 +9.78 +16.60 -4.46 +4.50 -31.96 +0.63 +0.11 -0.39 +0.92
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      Your S$1 buys
      36 18 US$ 0.5977 UK£ 0.3271 Yen 64.233 HK$ 4.6547 RM 2.2711 Euro 0.4738 Rupiah 5443.2 Baht 24.698 Peso 33.633 A$ 0.8105 Indian Rs 27.335 Won 682.05 C$ 0.7432 Yuan 4.9464 NZ$ 0.8622 NTS 20.198
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      Commodities
      21 18 Gold uss/oi 425 Silver uss/oi 7.3 Platinum uss/oi 854.8 Rubber centsAg 235.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1388 Brent crude uss/borrel 50.72
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      Lock icon Singapore
      133 18 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended mixed in moderately active trading on Friday. The broad market was higher but weakness in banks, which have a heavy weighting in the ST Index (STI), drove the index lower. TheSTI fell 2.1 1 points, or 0.1 per cent, to close at 1,967.07. Advancers
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      ST Index: 1,967.07 -2.11
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      Lock icon SGX most active
      58 18 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg fy volume .&M Cytech bartered Izeus Horizon -ung Choi iTATSChP >SC Corp R liinaAvOil Mo-Treat Close 0.005 0.045 1.100 0.195 0.140 0.415 1.060 0.010 1.450 0.805 Change -0.005 +0.020 +0.025 +0.020 +0.020 -0.010 -50.0 +1.9 +6.4 +1.9 +1.4 -1.2 'OOO 161,295 143,043
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      SGX top rises
      76 18 By$ Venture GreatEast Close Change 16.100 +0.200 11.700 +0.100 KepCorp SPC 8.100 +0.100 3.840 +0.100 NOL 2.970 +0.070 Magnetomp CITYDEV 0.820 +0.060 6.350 +0.050 Fortune Reil HKS JSH 500USS Noble Grp 6.050 +0.050 6.800 +0.050 1.100 +0.050 By percentage Close Change Teamsphere 0.085 +30.8 LANKom 0.145 +26.1
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      SGX top falls
      81 18 Creative 50 iukit Sem Close 19.700 12.900 Changi -0.301 -0.201 JOB 13.300 -0.201 )UE 7.150 -0.151 )BS XBC 15.400 13.600 -0.101 -0.101 .ungKee BMU (obinson \mlekW*****0 (honqGuan 0.820 6.800 0.950 1.670 -0.081 -0.051 -0.041 -0.041 )y percentage .&M MediaS Close Change 0.005 -50.0 0.015 -25.0 'DC Corp
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      Lock icon CSM 'unaware' of any offer
      100 20 Channel News Asia CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's third-largest maker of customised chips, was "unaware" of any offer for its shares by a third party, it stated in a regulatory filing. Chartered said that it received numerous queries from the media and investors about rumours
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      Lock icon Allied expects loss
      75 20 Channel News Asia ALLIED Technologies expects to report a loss for the second half of the current financial year ending Dec 31, the metal stamper said in a regulatory filing with the Singapore Exchange. It said second-half results will be affected by the write-down in the inventory
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      Ascott's luxury benchmark
      504 20  -  Tor Ching Li Developer unveils its flagship serviced apartments in Bangkok in Bangkok chingli@newstoday.com.sg NOT only is Bangkok attracting low-cost airlines and budget-travellers, the capital of Thailand is also booming with serviced apartments and high-spending visitors. The Ascott Group, the mainboard-listed unit of property developer Capita Land,
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      Lock icon CEOs go on a 'bull run' in CBD, with their ties on
      284 22  -  Tay Tsen-Waye AN UNFAMILIAR silence fell across the Central Business District (CBD) on Friday evening, as 10 roads were closed to motorists between 4.30 and 7.30pm. With the roads emptied of rush-hour traffic, more than 2,000 runners filled
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      Lock icon China: 9.1% rise in Q3
      432 22 Agencies Succeeds in cooling growth without causing slump BEIJING China's economy expanded an official 9.1 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter, its slowest pace in more than a year, suggesting that Premier Wen Jiabao's efforts to cool the economy may be succeeding. The expansion
      – Agencies  -  432 words
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      Lock icon SPC reports record five-fold surge in income for third quarter
      173 22 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Petroleum Co (SPC) said third-quarter net income surged more than five-fold to a record high, because of soaring profit from refining crude oil into gasoline and other fuels. Profit rose to $63.8 million, or 12.9 cents a share,
      – Bloomberg  -  173 words
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      Kwan, Wee win top Entrepreneur award
      277 22 THEIR product is what revolutionised the global window film industry but you probably wouldn't have heard of them, until now. Mr Andrew Kwan and Mr Wee Hian Woon, founder-directors of 13-year-old Globamatrix Holdings took home the coveted Rotary-Asme (Association of Small Medium Enterprises) Entrepreneur
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      Qian Hu issues profit warning
      100 22 QIAN Hu Corp will not be posting a profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30, the mainboard-listed ornamental fish breeder and distributor said in a regulatory filing with the Singapore Exchange yesterday. The details of the company's quarterly consolidated results would be finalised and
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      The male fashion hunter
      450 25  -  PearlynTham ANTHROPOLOGISTS, philosophers and the very bored have theories as to why men and women shop differently. One theory goes back to the Stone Age when men hunted for food while women had the more leisurely task of gathering fruit Maybe that is why women today
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      FASHION COMES TO A HEAD
      75 26 Designers ahead of the fashion pack went for dramatic headwear and hair pieces earlier this week. Case in point: China International Beauty Week, which kicked off on Tuesday in Beijing and, at another corner of the globe, designer showings of Spring-Summer 2005 collections at the
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      Timeless elegance
      131 26 SHE is an award-winning London designer, an avid environmentalist and an anti-war campaigner. And she was one of the late Princess Diana's favourite designers. Of course, Katharine Hamnett is also well-known for her stylish range of watches that showcase her unique sense of fun, rebellion, glamour and elegance.
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      A scent for the Individuelle
      235 26 RECOGNISED by its signature star icon, it is a brand perhaps best associated with high quality designer pens and accessories. But now, Montblanc fans female fans, to be exact can smell as chic and elegant as the brand itself. The new Femme Individuelle fragrance was
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      61 28 H^^^- 21 -31 October 2004 L Be enthralled by Pizza Acrobatica World Champion, Ms Oriana Tirabassi, as she brings you the enticing tastes of authentic Italian pizzas, together with her fascinating pizza-making stunts at Pregol For reservations or enquiries, please call (65) 6431 6156. Difflfvi TlipPlo>7n 80 Bras Basah Road
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      547 28  -  CMLim Chef Tan emerges after 10 years to serve his popular Peranakan dishes food@newstoday.com.sg PERANAKAN exponents say that the litmus test of good true-blue Nonya cuisine is how well the buah keluak ayam and the sambal belachan turn out. But taste is subjective and straight-talking chef Charlie Tan,
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        152 28 There's a Japanese feast to be had at Liang Court and better yet, there's a treat in store for those who spend a minimum of $50 at the three Japanese restaurants namely Kotobuki, Tampopo and TomTom from now until the end
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        Will the pizza go splat? She keeps you guessing
        127 28 Award-winning acrobatic pizza-maker Oriana Tirabassi is back at Prego, where she will be showing off her pizza-making skills and tempting diners with her signature pizza creations until the end of the month Oriana was placed second in the World Championships for
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      Lock icon Teochew fare done up right
      806 30 THRIFTY Teochew families and foodies alike will love Teochew Garden restaurant's "Super Value Dinner" ninecourse meal for 10 people, which is not only light on the digestive system, but on your wallets as well. As is the style of Teochew cuisine, the dishes are light
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      It's the perfect getaway
      597 32 IF YOU'VE been looking for a restaurant far removed from the city and set in a rustic environment, Beaulieu House is the answer. Nestled in the lush surrounds of Sembawang Park and overlooking the Johor Straits, Beaulieu House has a setting that immediately relaxes you. Lim
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      Tablets for your travel woes
      320 34  -  Ariel Tarn TO ease the load of corporate road warriors, Fujitsu is introducing three tablet PCs that promise portability and performance in cool-as-ice form factors. The highlight is the Lifeßook T4OlO (picture), a convertible notebook with a swivel-hinged 12.1-inch wide-angle LCD screen. With its smooth
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      Awe-in-all camera
      508 35  -  Trevor Tan Digital Camera Review The 3.2-megapixel EX-SlOO takes great stills and clips and is only 17mm thin trevor@newstoday.com.sg WHEN I received the 17mm-thin, credit-card-sized Casio Exilim EX-SlOO, my mind was flashing with scepticism about the kind of pictures it could take. But after test-driving this "smallest optical
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      Play a stealthy assassin in this ninja caper
      311 35  -  Dawn Ong Game Review HAVE you noticed that recent ninja games hardly portray ninjas as the covert mercenaries that they were? For example, Ryu from the hit Ninja Gaiden was more swashbuckling than stealthy. Tenchu: Return From Darkness slows the pace of
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        Brother DCP-1 lOC All-in-one
        122 35 BROTHER'S DCP--1 IOC is a flexible ink-jet solution that combines a borderless colour printer, colour copier and colour scanner in one device. It delivers speeds of up to 20 monochrome pages per minute (ppm) and up to 15 ppm for colour prints. Users will be able
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        Panasonic X5OO Mobile Phone
        125 35 PANASONIC'S X5OO is designe. give you more photo options. Its VGA camera comes with 4x digital zoom and a close-up mode to capture more details. You would have little problem taking pictures in the dark, with the photo light and twilight mode to assist you. A
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        Kodak Easyshare DX7590 Digital Camera
        124 35 SHAPED like a single-lens reflex camera, Kodak's 5-megapixel Easyshare DX7590 is an enhanced version of the DX6490 that was launched last year. It possesses the same professionalquality 1 Ox optical zoom lens, image processing chip and low-light precision while offering new features such as a
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        GP Powerßank Torch 4-in-l Charger
        73 35 THE GP Powerßank Torch 4-in-l can hold four pieces of GP NiMH rechargeable AA batteries and functions as a torch, an emergency light and a night light. When plugged in for charging, the emergency light feature will be triggered automatically in the event of a
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      Green machine
      535 36  -  Colin Yong Mitsubishi proves eco-friendly cars need not be ugly, boring THIS two-door coupe can carry four adults, hit a top speed of 130kmh and run for 400 km on a single refuel. Yet, it only emits pure steam from its exhaust pipe. Built by Michelin with the
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      Taylor-made for success
      376 36  -  Sheldon Trollope TTTHEN it comes to choosV V ing cars to participate in a fuel-saving challenge, a 3-litre sports utility vehicle, a sevenseat multi-purpose vehicle and a large 2-litre family saloon may not be the best candidates. Still, a Lexus RX3OO, Toyota Picnic and Toyota Camry were
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      SHELL'S CHALLENGE GOES PUBLIC
      91 36 The Shell Better Mileage Public Challenge ends on Oct 29. Three hundred participants will drive their own vehicles filled with the same amount of Shell Better Mileage petrol. At the end of each round, the participants will have the distance travelled and mileage efficiency of their
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      news tracks
      516 38 Stretched Colt ready for local launch THE high-performance Mitsubishi Colt Plus Ralliart edition will be one of the stars of the Singapore Motorshow 2004, which runs from Nov 11 to 21. Launched earlier this month in Japan, the Colt Plus is 30cm longer than the standard Colt and
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  • property
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      Jump in launches, sales
      670 39  -  Lee U-Wen Sales figures of private developments jumped almost 20%, compared to the previous quarter u-wen@newstoday.com.sg PRIVATE home developers and buyers, riding on the wave of a robust economic outlook, are coming back into the market in droves. Real estate figures released by the Urban Redevelopment
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      Green haven in Seletar Hills
      119 39  -  Ted Chen PROPERTY seekers who are yearning for solace in the outskirts of the city may want to consider buying this freehold single-storey semi-detached house at 18 Jalan Lekub for $950,000. Marketed by Louis Yeap Realty, the four-bedroom house off Yio Chu Kang Road in
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      hot property
      112 39  -  Ted Chen Asking price: $1.65 million THIS freehold two-storey semi-detached house off Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1, with an asking price of $1.65 million (negotiable), will no doubt attract savvy buyers. Jointly marketed by Louis Yeap Realty and PropNex, it was fully renovated at a cost of $300,000
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      Price is not the issue
      1281 40  -  Ted Chen Location, tenure and that little extra make property hunters go upmarket tedchen@newstoday.com.sg THE economic upturn has prompted developers to test the market with mid-to-high-end property launches, the latest of which was United Overseas Land's (UOL) Newton Suites. The 118-unit freehold property, which was
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      870 42  -  Gurmeet Singh /7i\ A METALWORKS Functional home accessories that double up as sexy, sleek works of art news@newstoday.com.sg WITH the festive season around the corner, there's no better time to dress up your home with shiny works of art. A carefully picked accessory placed strategically at the right
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      chaos rules
      788 44  -  Zul Othman news@newstoday.com.sg TTTHEN you're handed a CD V V by a band claiming that their sole reason for existing is to "bring back the snarling, spitting anarchy of real rock 'n' roll" and that they are "Singapore's answer to true rock 'n' roll", you begin to wonder
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      More nominations for MediaCorp in this year's Asian TV Awards
      165 44 MEDIACORP has 18 nominations at the Asian Television Awards this year, up from 11 nominations last year. Channel 5 News and Channel News Asia (CNA) have been nominated in the Best News Programme category, a major award. In addition, CNA's
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      TURNING THE TABLES
      597 46  -  Zul Othman Trance DJ Paul Van Dyk shows his political side newsWnewstoday.com.sg HE'S arguably the most famous trance DJ in the universe. An appearance by Paul Van Dyk behind the decks guarantees round-the-block queues, from Honduras to Hong Kong. His albums hedonism meant to be played with
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      Foreign flavours dominate ZoukOut
      412 46  -  Zul Othman THIS year's ZoukOut, the annual outdoor dance music festival hosted by the selfsame nightspot, returns to Sentosa on Dec 4, albeit for one night only. Last year's ambitious two-day event, which featured live bands on one day and an all-DJ line up on the
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      Technology so advanced it comes personally signed
      830 47 The world of Mercedes-Benz The letters A, M and G may not mean much on their own, but put them together and they form an acronym synonymous worldwide with cutting-edge technology and exclusivity in the automobile world. AMG was founded in 1967 by
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      Why can't people leave Jerry Ong alone?
      287 48  -  -Jeanine Tan JUST when you thought the Jerry Ong bashing would cool off now that he is out of Singapore Idol, a news report supposedly from the Channel News Asia (CNA) website claimed that he died in a car accident on Monday. According
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      And the Idol lesson this week is ...
      534 48  - And the Idol lesson this week is Jeanine Tan Maia, Maia #1 Sex doesn't always sell, #2 Show range, and #3 Some publicity can be bad publicity j eanine@newstoday.com. sg MAIA Lee, the Singapore Idol finalist who often wriggled her hips, flashed her ample cleavage and at times breathed and
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      'Why I paid $11,100 for an evening with her'
      767 50  -  Elisa Chia 'Sailorboy' breaks his silence over why he bid one-and-a-half times his monthly salary for a date with model Eileen Wee elisa@newstoday.com.sg JUST call me Sailorboy, he greeted me, teasingly, in singsong fashion. It set the tone for Today's chat
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        201 51  -  David Chew FIVE-year-old Dara was looking at a painting about war and its atrocities and said: "I like how the light is spread out and how the blue is so blue. But I think it's also scary, because the children (in the painting) seem
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      Student-athletes can skip O Levels
      456 56  -  TAN YO-HINN Sports School students will no longer need the Cambridge certificate for entry into poly yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE O-Level examinations have, for so long, been the biggest hurdle for students aspiring to progress to the polytechnic or university. The Cambridge exams have also forced some
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      Sports Hub on track: Dr Balakrishnan
      155 56 SPEAKING at the Sports School on Friday, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said the construction of the Sports Hub, expected to start next year and scheduled for completion by 2009, is still on track. There were fears that the Government's move to look for tenders for
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      Lock icon Studies, coach selection remain sticking points
      399 56  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg THE parents of China-born athletes Luan Wei and E Xiaoxu are pleased that the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) have revived their contract offer. But they want the SAA to review two of the terms in the contract On Friday, Edmond Pereira,
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