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  • 28 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Friday November 5, 2004 i MICA (P) 103/07/2004 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Friday November 5, 2004 iv 4ICA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • 775 1  -  Derrick A Paulo but worries ahead as US tackles its twin deficits and it must come to grips with China juggernaut FOUR more years of a George W Bush presidency should be good for Singapore and the region, but he must now pay closer attention to
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  • 821 1  -  Lan Bremmer NEWS3U3U3!^ THE world has watched the presidential election in the United States closely to see what the outcome might mean for the next four years of American foreign policy. Much has been written about how a Bush win would simply produce more
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    • 34 1 NEWSX^/lEWS Mono Sabnani 'Tabloiditis' fever sweeps the world/3 mr brown US needs Electoral College reform/26 S-League nod Paya Lebar set for 2005 season/68 ARAFAT SLIPS INTO A COMA WORLD 1 8 I |l *M
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    • 33 1 ON PAGE 16 Singapore leaders send congratulations More hawkish policies in the Middle East More Asian Americans in key positions His ruthless tactics win Bush the presidency WHAT SINGAPOREANS HAVE TO SAY: 2
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  • hot news
    • 284 2  -  ■Jeanine Tan AFTER 12 nightspots here rejected the National Cancer Centre's (NCC) call to ban smoking in pubs earlier this week, one pub has announced that it intends to go smoke-free by the end of this month. Shamus O'Donnell's pub owner,
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    • 97 2 Is US President George W Bush's reelection good news or bad for you? Here's what some Singaporeans say. Great news for business in Asia, considering all the Free Trade Agreements with the US. Eddie Yeo, 35, banker Bush knows what he's doing. Like with Iraq, he actually declared war.
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    • 708 3  -  Mano Sabnani NEWSs&nunsn^— Internet-savvy younger generation prefers compact, low-cost newspapers to the broadsheet THE Paris-based World Association of Newspapers has been talking about "tabloid fever" as a global phenomenon sweeping the streets and news-stands. In this age of the Internet and digital television and radio,
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  • singapore news
    • 149 6  -  Tor Ching Li THE 50-year-old woman who jumped off the Redhill MRT platform on Aug 31 and died a day later had a history of mental illness and harboured suicidal thoughts, according to the coroner's inquiry held yesterday. Investigations revealed that Madam Teo
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    • 512 6  -  Lee Wern SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan was in Taiwan visiting his parents-in-law the day he was supposed to attend a court hearing here. Senior counsel Davinder Singh pointed this out in court yesterday to oppose Dr Chee's application to reconvene a hearing
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    • 135 8 Channel News Asia ALL the Registers of Electors have been certified on Oct 29, the Elections Department announced yesterday. There will be 2,113,540 voters in the next General Elections. The registers were recently opened for checking between Sept 28 and Oct 11, in what has been called a
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    • 327 8 A DISAGREEMENT over the rituals to be conducted before the closure of the Sri Marathadi Muneeswara Temple in Changi led to a tense situation yesterday morning when JTC Corp moved in to repossess the land on which the unregistered temple has stood for
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    • 334 8  -  Lee U-Wen NE CDC's programme to needy housewives' aid WITH a combined income totalling just $1,800 per month, part-time classroom assistant Alicia How and her husband, a salesman, can barely take care of themselves and their two kids. Indeed, Madam How's 22-year-old son has been giving private tuition
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 98 10 Newsßadio 93.8 Pius Gilbert Louis, who was convicted of hitting a lawyer, has had his 1 0-year prison term reduced to six by the Court of Appeal. The former Acting School owner punched a woman lawyer representing his estranged wife in February 2002. He was sentenced to six
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      • 93 10 Channel News Asia The fourth commando accused of not stopping the dunking of combat-survival trainees has testified that the two other accused Lieutenants Divanandhari and Ng Chin Fong were in charge of the water treatment station on the day of the dunkings. Warrant Officer
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      • 67 10 -AP Parts of the now-destroyed Changi Prison, which the Japanese used to jail Allied prisoners during World War 11, are to be displayed at a museum in New Zealand. The Air Force Museum had acquired a block of concrete from the prison's perimeter wall, a
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      • 66 10 Two hundred bottles of wine will be given away over the weekend at the Wine for Asia 2004 fair at the Singapore Expo Hall 4. The first 1 00 pairs of paid admissions on each day will get a bottle each. Admission to the event, which boasts
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    • 371 10  -  Tav Tsen-Wave S'poreans poised to take advantage of China boom: Rich Dad author The United States is on its way down economically and Singapore is well placed geographically and culturally to take advantage of the transfer of financial power from the US to China.
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    • 75 12 Prior to a heavy downpour, a menacing sky casting dark shadows at 3pm over Singapore's Marina Bay. Many parts of Singapore experienced heavy thunderstorms yesterday afternoon. Floods were reported in several areas, including at Bencoolen Street, outside the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Thomson Road outside
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    • 369 12  -  Tan Hui Leng With $20,000 award, NUS professor starts 'HER' for infertile couples YEARS of seeing infertile couples go through the emotional roller-coaster in their attempts to conceive, have moved a professor here to start a fund for needy childless couples. National University of
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    • 309 12 IN TWO months' time, German luxury carmaker BMW will finally come to a decision which was due early this year as to whether it will set up its Asian design centre here. The establishment of the proposed design centre, first mooted
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  • world news
    • 483 16 Analysts expect a continuation of hardline policies in the Middle East NEW YORK The Middle East yesterday braced itself for another four years of Mr George W Bush's hawkish policies as Europe looked forward to drawing a line on the unprecedented spat with the United States over
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    • 302 16 WASHINGTON As the US President basked in the spotlight following his re-election, lurking in the shadows was Mr Karl Rove the man behind Mr George W Bush's extraordinary political rise. As Mr Bush claimed his hardfought re-election victory on Wednesday, he thanked Mr
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    • 143 16 SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President S.R. Nathan have sent congratulatory messages to President George W Bush. Praising Mr Bush's strong leadership and moral courage especially in the fight against global terrorism and hailing the flourishing relations between the US and Singapore, Mr Lee
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    • 284 16 WASHINGTON Asian Americans are moving up the ladder in US politics, winning key positions in Congress, state legislatures and local councils in elections held parallel to the nail-biting presidential race. The community has become an influential voting group in the United States, with some
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    • 550 18 Israel preparing for 'day after' his death JERUSALEM Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is in a hospital near Paris for treatment of an unidentified ailment, is in a coma, according to BBC reports quoting unidentified Palestinian officials. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom was reported as saying
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    • 155 18 BANGKOK Fear spread among Buddhists in southern Thailand yesterday after suspected Islamic insurgents gunned down at least seven people in less than 24 hours in the latest bout of violence since the death of 87 Muslims in military custody last week. Two state
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 48 18 -AFP An Australian army helicopter crew had its wings clipped after displaying a sign reading "show us your tits" at bikini-clad spectators during last month's Gold Coast Grand Prix, defence officials said yesterday. The airmen were supposed to be looking out for possible terrorists.
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      • 115 18 -AFP Authorities in Paris' historic Pere Lachaise cemetery have sealed off one of its most visited tombs to stop the perpetration of lewd acts on the bronze form of a 1 9th-century journalist. The funerary relic of Mr Victor Noir has long been held as
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    • 355 20 Agencies Alleged Jl leader calls bombing charges against him a 'joke' JAKARTA Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, on trial for leading the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network, yesterday rejected as a "joke" charges that he masterminded the Bali and Marriott hotel bombings. Appearing in court
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    • 241 20 KUALA LUMPUR In its latest attempt to combat widespread "money politics", Malaysia's ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) has offered immunity to members who are willing to report on vote buying at the recent party elections. Umno members who had received money
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    • 177 20 -AFP MELBOURNE A female Australian teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old schoolboy may escape jail after a judge said yesterday that her victim's consent was a mitigating factor. Karen Ellis, a married mother of three, pleaded guilty in Melbourne
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 56 20 AFP The emir of Abu Dhabi was elected on Wednesday as president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), succeeding his father, who died a day earlier. Sheikh Khalifa is the eldest son of the late Sheikh Zayed, the founding father of the seven-member UAE federation
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      • 54 20 AP Dutch prosecutors said police have arrested eight more suspected Islamic radicals in connection with the brutal killing of celebrity Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was murdered while cycling down the street. The alleged killer, a 26-year-old Amsterdam resident of Moroccan origin, is
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      • 80 20 AFP Taiwan's High Court dismissed the Kuomintang-led opposition bid to annul the result of the controversial March elections on Wednesday. President Chen Shui-bian won the elections narrowly after a mysterious shooting on the eve of the elections slightly injured Mr Chen and
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  • voices
    • 229 22  -  Dr James Dobson TODAYS ..by MYSTERY IN MARRIAGE If you want to put some new life in your marriage, try thinking like a teenager again. We all remember fondly or otherwise, the craziness of our dating days the coy attitudes, the flirting, the chasing after the
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    • 511 22 Hottalk news that moved you AFTER the tears, the lessons. Readers wrote in with their messages of outrage and sympathy for the mother of eight-year-old Huang Na, whose body was found on Sunday. But with the outpouring of emotion came the questions. In an I Say commentary,
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    • 185 22  -  i ETHAN GOH Letter from NEWS of the death of Huang Na (above) shocked the nation. But, as tragic as the episode was, it was not without one positive effect The three weeks of uncertainty following the little girl's disappearance saw thousands of Singaporeans, almost all of
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    • 266 22  -  ONG-ANG Al BOON (Mrs), I Letter from I Director, The Association of Banks in Singapore WE REFER to the letter, "Fairness needed at all times" (Oct 30) and would like to make the following clarifications. Banks have always ensured that marketing materials, such as brochures
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    • 241 22  -  JEFFREY TIMMERMANS I Letter from Asia-Pacific News Editors, Equities, Dow Jones Newswires I WRITE in reference to a letter from Mr Alain Vandenborre, chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry, that was published on Nov 2. It stated that Dow Jones
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    • 191 24  -  LIM BOON HEE Punggol Fields residents' long wait for amenities I Letter from I AM a little surprised that Singapore is ranked above Hong Kong and Shanghai in a best-managed city survey, "Singapore is world's best-managed City" (Nov 4), by Jones-Lang Lasalle. If that is
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    • 212 24  -  KATHRYN LAU Letter from Assistant Corporate Communications Manager, Transit Link Pte Ltd WE REFER to Mr Lim Boon Hee's letter, "Flaw in Giro system for ez-link top-ups" (Oct 26). We thank Mr Lim for his feedback and would like to assure him and
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    • 144 24  -  i CHUA KHENG HWA o: a i ,x n _.._i- Letter from I Director, Policy, Singapore Workforce Development Agency I REFER to the report "450,000 could become unemployed in 2 years" (Nov 4) by Ng Shing Yi. The opening sentence states that "The Workforce
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    • 125 24  -  DOROTHY GOH Letter from I I AM a non-smoker and I fully welcome the idea of nightspots having a smokefree ladies night. I use to be a party-goer, but the thought of becoming a passive smoker in such places has dampened
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    • 892 26  -  mr brown From 4D to GRCs, the '51' states over in America could learn from Singapore FINALLY, the US elections are over and Singaporeans can return to other important things in life, like watching CSI. It was certainly nail-biting. Many of you, I know, were
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  • Businesstoday
    • 228 28 Dow Jones EDUCATIONAL services provider Informatics Holdings reported yesterday a net loss of $26.7 million, or 8.53 cents a share, for its fiscal second quarter ended Sept 30, up sharply from a loss of $2.7 million, or 0.87 cent a share, a year ago. The
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    • 65 28 Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings is selling between 330 and 340 million Sing Tel shares worth about $800 million to institutional investors. The share placement represents about 2 per cent of SingTel's outstanding stock. The offering is aimed at improving the liquidity of SingTel's stock and
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    • 358 28 Dow Jones CEO Lee says understanding of local conditions helps investments SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Sing Tel) may broaden its horizons by investing outside Asia in the future, but it plans to concentrate on the region for now, company chief executive Lee Hsien Yang said
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    • 227 28  -  Jaime Koh SINGTEL beat expectations to report a 62-per-cent rise in second-quarter net profit to $766 million, or 4.33 cents a share, boosted by growth in its regional markets. The group's revenue grew 9.5 per cent to $3.12 billion for the
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    • business news
      • 397 30  -  Val Chua HSBC targets lucrative niche sector as potential growth area UK-BASED HSBC Group has seen a rising number of Islamic-structured financing deals in Singapore in recent months, with individual deals amounting up to "hundreds of millions", a top company official said yesterday. Interestingly, the
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      • 264 30 Petra Foods said yesterday that the public tranche of its initial public offering was four times subscribed. The cocoa processor had offered 178.5 million shares at 88 cents each. The shares start trading today. Jardine Cycle Carriage said its profit rose 1 8 per cent in its fiscal third
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      • 301 32 AFP Sino-Asean trade poised to hit $167 billion this year TRADE between China and the 10 Asean nations should surpass US$lOO billion ($167 billion) this year, said Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Vi while calling for the fast tracking of a proposed free trade area (FTA). "From January to September,
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      • 94 32 UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) customers can enjoy deposit interest rates equivalent to the rates paid on their home loans. The newly-launched UOB Home Plus a new mortgage loan product for the purchase and refinancing of private residential properties pays these rates on deposits of up to
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      • 79 32  -  Jaime Koh SINGAPORE'S manufacturing sector expanded for the 17th consecutive month last month, according to the Singapore Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which posted a reading of 51.5 points for October. The PMI is a leading indica- tor of trends in the manufacturing sector. A reading of
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        • 52 32 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended lower on profit-taking. The ST Index reached a four-year high of 2,026.91 in intra-day trading, before closing down 6.78 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,010.65. In the broad market, decliners led advancers by 221 to 141 while 614.9 million shares worth $657.2 million
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      • 642 36  -  Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg BUSiNESSssmmsoL Perceptions are as important as reality as the Asian giants compete for the investment dollar CHINA and India are both trying to become rich each in its own way. China is big in manufacturing. India's strength is
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      • 559 38 Bloomberg The local unit rises on speculation of stock inflows THE currencies of Singapore and Taiwan rose on optimism that quickening economic growth would attract increased investment into regional stocks from overseas. On Wednesday, Singapore's key stock index rose as much as 0.5 per
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        • 70 38 Elec Eltek (US$2.B3) BUY Dow Jones DBS Vickers keeps "Buy" on Elec Eltek and keeps the 12-month target price at U553.65 ($6.08). The broking firm believes that stable margins will offset a potential rise in raw material prices, given robust PC and PC-related segment demand and increasing orders from communication
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        • 91 38 Bio-Treat Technology (77.5 cents) HOLD Dow Jones Given the strong order book and earnings visibility tor the next two years, DBS Vickers raised Bio-Treat's earnings forecasts for FYOS by 22 per cent to $282 million and for FYO6 by 8 per cent to $311 million, compared to FYo4's $251 million.
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        • 76 38 Singapore Telecom ($2.45) BUY Kirn Eng Securities Its results were above expectations. Sing Tel has successfully reduced its dependence on domestic earnings as 64 per cent of its profit before tax now comes from overseas. With good growth potential at its regional associates, Sing Tel is poised for further growth.
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    • 938 44 Pixar and Dream Works draw up success their own way THERE'S more than one way to make an animated hit. Just ask the people at Pixar and Dream Works. With the days of Disney dominating the animated feature long gone, though films like Bambi, Dumbo and Snow White
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    • 80 46 Local celebrity pair (from left) Christopher Lee and Farm Wong were joined by Hong Kong stars Xenix Kwok and Frankie Lam at the launch of Xando X-Fat at Robertson Quay on Wednesday night. The four use the latest addition to Xando's range of all-nat-ural weight management products.
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    • 128 46 Shark Tale is helping to raise awareness about shark conservation. Local cinema companies Shaw Organisation and Golden Village, which are screening the animated adventure about a little reef fish who befriends a shark, have pledged their support for Wild Aid. The international conservation group is concerned about
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    • 404 46 WE'RE down to five contestants in Singapore Idol, but we're actually looking at only two potential Idols, argues Razali Abdullah (razali@newstoday.com.sg). So how did they do last night, with each hopeful getting to belt out two songs? TAUFIK BATISAH Call 1900 112 1 901 or SMS 1
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      • 450 50  -  yong shu chiang^ After Finding Nemo's success, Shark Tale has an upstream swim FILM REVIEW by Shark Tale THE people at Dream Works won't like this, but rival animation studio Pixar had already made the underwater world their domain before Shark Tale. Dream Works may have
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      • 201 50  -  DAVID CHEW FILM REVIEW BY IN THE first Princess Diaries instalment, protagonist Mia (Anne Hathaway) was transformed from a gawky teenage geek into a stunning princess. Transformation complete, there seems to be nothing worth exploring in its sequel, The Princess Diaries 2. "Castle politics" and "life
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      • 275 52  -  yong shu chiang Coming-of-age film is touching and well-acted FILM REVIEW by Meisje (Girl) MURIEL is a country girl who ventures into the city on a mission. She's running away from her mundane life, no longer content to be a mummy's girl with a
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      • 242 52 SIX years after leaving Singapore audiences in stitches with the play, Bottoms Up, Mumbai funny man Bharat Dabholkar is set to stage another hilarious comedy here this weekend. Featuring stage and screen actors from Mumbai, Funny Thing Called Love is a colourful play about the
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      • 230 54  -  EVELINE GAN FILM REVIEW by Everybody has Secrets THREE hot sisters, one hot guy, stir in lots of sex and add a pinch of secrets. And you have a winning formula for a South Korean romantic sex comedy. Everybody Has Secrets, about three sisters
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