Today, 8 February 2005

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    20 1 TODAY incorporating utrCHIS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Tuesday February 8,2005 todayonline.com TODAY incorporating tMTC&tS Tuesday February 8,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 103/07/2004
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    Thaksin quells autocracy fears
    753 1  -  Fabio Scarpello needed to form a one-party government "We have more than 370 seats or 380. That should be enough," Dr Thaksin, the only elected Thai Prime Minister to complete a full four-year term, told reporters. The rest of the main parties Democrat, Chart Thai and
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    PM LEE CONGRATULATES PM THAKSIN
    156 1 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday warmly congratulated his Thai counterpart, Dr Thaksin Shinawatra, on his decisive victory in weekend elections. "My warmest congratulations on your decisive victory in Thailand's general elections on 6 February 2005," Mr Lee wrote in a letter to Dr Thaksin.
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Settle down and roost: SM
      222 2  -  Tor Ching Li Bigger families, greater prosperity among Goh's wishes chingli@newstoday.com.sg HAVE more Rooster year babies that will be the one Lunar New Year greeting on Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's lips constantly this festive season. "I hope that young married couples will have a
      ERNEST CHUA AND DON WONG  -  222 words
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      PM's CNY message: Keep families thriving, relevant
      270 2 WHILE the Government will have to meet the challenges of shifting social norms, it cannot supplant the role of the family. This was the crux of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Chinese New Year message yesterday. Mr Lee called on families to keep
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      Lock icon Snuffing out public smoking
      237 3 Agencies Indonesia, Cuba get tough on smokers in offices, bars and restaurants JAKARTA From next year, Indonesia will stub out smoking in offices, restaurants and bars, in a bid to improve the quality of air in the city and protect the health of workers. The government
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      Brunei royals lose $153m case to UK businessman
      276 3 A BRITISH businessman has won a £50 million ($153 million) legal ruling against members of the Brunei royal family for breaching an investment agreement to launch The Coffee Bean Tea Leaf chain in the United Kingdom. Mr Mark Burby (picture), a director
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      Lock icon Calculate Budget benefits online
      106 3 Channel News Asia YOU can check how much you and your family will get out of this year's Budget The Finance Ministry has set up an online tool that will enable the public to calculate the benefits immediately after the measures are announced in Parliament The
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon Talks on lifting of ban fruitful
        92 3 Newsßadio 93.8 The National Council of Social Service (NCSS) and the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped are trying to reinstate the association's ability to collect taxexempt charity money. Both sides met yesterday to resolve some management control issues. The NCSS suspended the association's
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        Lock icon SilkAir suspends flights
        85 3 Newsßadio 93.8 Silk Air is suspending its services to Padang in Indonesia and Krabi in Thailand. Its twice-weekly service to Padang will be suspended from the Feb 23 till the end of April. Services to the Indonesian city will resume in May. Flights to Krabi will be
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Senior citizens cruise into the Chinese New Year
      281 4 Patricia Yap IT'S the time of the year when families gather and bond over pip-ing-hot steamboat Chinese New Year reunion dinners. However, while most people will be making their rounds to the homes of friends and relatives this festive season, 93-year-old Madam
      Patricia Yap; PATRICIA YAP  -  281 words
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      Lock icon Make a profit from your spring cleaning
      285 4 Newsßadio 93.8 THIS Chinese New Year, some Singaporeans are giving a new meaning to the words "spring cleaning". Instead of throwing away what they don't want, they'll be organising garage sales to make money from items such as clothes, accessories, cosmetics and shoes.
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      Lock icon Crowing all the way to the bank
      554 4  -  Ansley Ng Chinatown vendors are smiling as festive season brings rich pickings ansley@newstoday.com.sg AFTER shooting bustling scenes of Chinatown every Chinese New Year for the last decade, shutterbug Mr Seetoh Chee Kong came to a queer conclusion: There are no poor Singaporeans. Armed
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      More than 100 bush fires in Jan
      186 6 THE year got off to a blazing start In January, there were 104 cases of bush fires across the island three times more than the 37 reported in the same period last year. In the past five days, at least six bush fires
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      MOE plans to promote more as senior teachers
      452 6  -  Lee U-Wen Younger staff will get opportunities to build up their portfolios u-wen@newstoday. com, sg THE Ministry of Education (MOE) wants to promote more of its younger, capable teachers to the rank of senior teacher earlier in their careers. Only 637 senior
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      NUS lands exclusive deal with scientific breakthrough
      317 6  -  Tan Huileng IN AN age overshadowed by the spectre of biological terrorism and infectious epidemics, the blood of the humble horseshoe crab has provided a National University of Singapore (NUS) team with a key to tackling biological toxins. The research team's discovery has
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Indon govt to sue defaulting M'sian firms
      406 8 Agencies Workers offered amnesty still not paid, says Manpower Minister JAKARTA The Indonesian government plans to sue Malaysian companies that have taken advantage of a continuing amnesty for illegal immigrants to withhold salaries of Indonesian citizens. Many Indonesian illegal immigrants in Malaysia could
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Shock for online lovers
        62 8 An online romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife. The man unwittingly fell head over heels for his wife who described herself as a cultured, unmarried woman.
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      • Article
        Fireman took truck on joy ride
        77 8 A suburban Sydney fireman has been suspended after his station was unable to answer an emergency call because he drove the fire engine on a pizza run. The fireman took the station's only pump truck out to the shop and went on a joyride
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        Speeding drivers made to leapfrog
        68 8 Truck drivers caught speeding in an Indian state are being made to hop like frogs. Police in Bihar dish out the humiliating punishments instead of taking offenders to court, reports Newindpress.com. For the leapfrog punishment, speeding truck drivers have to sit on their haunches, hold
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      Lock icon Shias poised for win
      301 8 BAGHDAD With clear signs pointing to a sure win for Iraq's Shia alliance, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani seized the upper-hand to set out radical demands that Islam be the sole source of legislation in the country's new constitution. The latest tally puts the senior cleric-backed
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      Lock icon Condi promises active US role in Mideast peace moves
      442 10 Agencies A security coordinator will mediate between Israel and the Palestinians RAMALLAH (West Bank) United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday promised active US involvement in Mideast peace making, saying Washington would dispatch a high-level "security coordinator" to the region
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      Lock icon Rumours of Clinton eyeing top UN job create unease
      247 10 WASHINGTON America's right-wing Republican party is reportedly alarmed by rumours that former Democrat president Bill Clinton is eyeing the top job in the United Nations, reported The Daily Telegraph yesterday. The rumours come in the wake of Mr Clinton's appointment last
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Solo yachtswoman almost home
        41 10  -  John Wanstall Yachtswoman Ellen Mac Arthur was just 283 km from the Ushant finishing line last night, in her attempt to break the record for solo, non-stop voyage around the world. She is expected to finish today.
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        Lock icon Nepal clamps down on political freedom
        44 10 AP Nepal's new royal government banned criticism of the security forces yesterday and warned that violators could be put under house arrest. The government also banned political activities by public servants and said it could seize private property.
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        Lock icon The hazards of being a barber in Baghdad
        37 10 AP Muslim extremists in Baghdad are increasingly targeting barbers, who trim men's beards. The radicals accuse them of violating Islamic teachings that say men should keep their beards long.
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      Lock icon UK tightens up on immigration
      164 10 AFP LONDON Unskilled foreigners will find it harder to migrate to Britain under new proposals, which call for stricter screening of asylum seekers and tighter border controls. British Prime Minister Tony Blair told BBC Radio 4 that what Britain needs is "a set of rules
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      Focus On The Family
      222 12  -  Dr James Dobson Ibiws by SUNDAY, DAY OF REST Remember when the world seemed to slow down on Sundays? Monday through Friday was for work and school. Saturday was for chores, and Sunday was a quieter day when things geared down for the world to catch
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      Lessons, not legislation, key to changing attitudes on litter
      273 12  -  ANTHONY OEI MORE LETTERS ON PAGE 14 I Letter from I AM not surprised that Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, found all sorts of flotsam in the Singapore River during an inspection tour on Sunday ("Dr
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      If a tree falls...
      334 12  -  LU CHISEN Is Spore just paying lip-service to preservation? I Letter from THERE was a lot of publicity in the press two weeks ago regarding new legislation covering the preservation of trees. However, within a day of the announcement, all the mature trees along Jalan Membina
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    • Letter
      Plenty of free parking space during CNY
      143 12  -  ENG SOH SENG Letter from Deputy DirectonUarParKS^^^^^^^^^ For Director (Housing Administration) Housing and Development Board I REFER to the letter, "Free parking on Chinese New Year?" by Stephanie Sung Lim Eng. Currently, more than 80 per cent of HDB car parks are already
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    • Letter
      HDB judged parts intended for use in upgrade unsuitable
      351 12  -  HO SEIN YEAN Letter fromß Deputy Director (Rental Housing) For Director (Housing Administration) Housing and Development Board I REFER to the letter, "Upgrade now to meet the pressing needs of rental-flat tenants" by Mr David Goh Chee Hoe. Mr Goh stated
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    • Letter
      Lef s hope revived Bugis Street lives up to expectations
      364 14  -  PHILIP D PICKERING I Letter from I REFER to Sim Kah Choon's I Say commentary, "Grand Old Bugis Street" (Feb 4). I first had the pleasure of coming to Singapore in July-August 1968 as part of a naval contingent aligned
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      REPORTING FOR DUTY TO DISABLED
      729 14  -  RON CHANDRAN-DUDLEY HRHHI 70, president of the Disabled People's Association Mr Ron Chandran-Dudley, the president of the Disabled People's Association, has been a social work volunteer for 50 years. The former Raffles Institution student lost his eyesight in a rugby game when he was 19.
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      612 15 BROUGHT TO YOU BY (rSißx) NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD FREE ENTRY TO THE NUB M SEUMS HTI |M^ Celebrate the Rooster Year at the museums! Enjoy free admission only on Feb 10. SINGAPORE BPlihiiV f willßfK fcflfftWflfffflflWl PHILATELIC MUSEUM Fs, fill Ml MMiWMtk 23-B Coleman Street .1 818 I'-,** Date: Feb
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon PSA pays $639m for Hong Kong foothold
      585 16 Dow Jones Move diversifies risk, but analysts question hefty price paid HONG KONG Singapore's PSA International has finally got a foothold in the world's largest container port of Hong Kong after a number of failed attempts. PSA, fully owned by Temasek Holdings, confirmed
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      Lock icon Deutsche Bank offers to buy China Aviation Oil debt
      184 16 Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Bank has offered to buy some of the debt of China Aviation Oil Singapore (CAO), the Asian Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified creditors. The creditors declined to disclose the price Deutsche Bank offered for the debt, the newspaper
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      Lock icon Tiger applies to fly to Manila
      89 16 Bloomberg TIGER Airways has applied for rights to fly to Clark Field in the northern Philippines, serving passengers wanting to travel to Manila. The budget airline said yesterday that it was confident flights to the former US military base "can start in time for
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    • MarketWATCH
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        ST Index— 2,118.10+4.52
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        Lock icon Singapore
        122 16 SHARES closed mixed in thin pre-holiday trading yesterday. The ST Index rose 4.52 points, or 0.2 per cent, to close at a new four-year high of 2,118.10. In the broader market, losers narrowly outpaced gainers 200 to 198. Trading volume totalled 529.9 million shares valued at $486.25 million ahead
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 16 US$ 0.6092 UK£ 0.3261 Yen 63.695 HK$ 4.7518 RM 2.3149 Euro 0.4744 Rupiah 5,613.6 Baht 23.301 Peso 33.267 A$ 0.7901 Indian Rs 26.505 Won 625.22 C$ 0.7645 Yuan 5.0425 NZ$ 0.8630 NTS 19.259
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        Commodities
        26 16 Gold uss/oz 415.70 Silver uss/oz 6.600 Platinum uss/.i 872.80 Rubber censAg 206.00 Palm oil mm, 1,273.50 Brent crude uss/borrei 43.50 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg
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        World markets
        57 16 Index Value 0 Pis .hange Nikkei 225 11,499.86 +139.46 +1.23 Hang Seng 13,795.00 +209.83 +1.54 All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 4,182.90 Closed +26.70 +0.64 Korea Comp 949.19 +15.64 +1.68 KLCI 912.58 +5.06 +0.56 SET Index 725.76 +6.66 +0.93 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,041.62 2,016.84 Closed -6.76 +21.27
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        SGX most active
        57 16 )y volume JTAC SlobalVoice >ingTel -irstLink Ihina Sun >ingpu (1 Ventur fita (IFSTech :dw Close 0.635 0.085 2.570 0.150 0.420 0.750 0.285 0.260 0.755 0.520 Change +0.030 +0.005 +0.030 +0.010 -0.010 +0.005 -0.015 -0.030 Pts +5.0 +6.3 +1.2 +7.1 -2.3 +0.7 -1.9 -5.5 '000 26,757 16,003 12,922
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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    • the business fo marketing
      • Impact
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          GRABbag
          91 17  -  New heads for CNBC Asia Pacific BUSINESS News and information network CNBC Asia Pacific has promoted Peter Juno (picture) to senior vicepresident and director of operations and Cynthia Owens (picture) to senior vice-president, news programming. Mr Juno will be responsible for the overall strategic planning, development and implementation of
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          Ads invited to take part in Effie Singapore Awards 2005
          71 17 THE Institute of Advertising Singapore has announced the call for entries for the Effie Singapore Awards 2005. The focus of the Effie Singapore Awards is to identify campaigns that have met or surpassed their goals. Only campaigns that ran in
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          Not just skin deep
          233 17 MARKETING cosmetics is being taken to a higher level these days with companies such as L'Oreal offering ordinary consumers cutting-edge solutions that draw on state-of-the-art medical research. The Paris-based cosmetics giant is sponsoring www.iSkin.tv one of the world's first multi-media skincare and aesthetic platforms in conjunction
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          Tsunami lifts Coke, Starbucks, Microsoft brand image
          166 17  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla A POLL of 20,000 consumers in 20 countries was carried out a week after the South Asian Tsunami to measure their changing opinions on American brands in light of their corporate social responsibility efforts pertaining to the disaster. Coca-Cola, Starbucks
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          Finding a niche for Asian brands in global market
          639 17  -  Seah Siew Hua This strategy may be only way to survive, says Banyan Tree Group chief siewhua@newstoday.com.sg BESIDES its world famous airline, Singapore has, arguably, few other brand names that are as recognisable globally as the Banyan Tree name. And it
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    • savvy investor
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        Lock icon CapitaLand's annual profit triples to $313 million
        455 18 Agencies Property developer says China will become its biggest market in 3 years CAPITALAND, South-east Asia's biggest developer by assets, said profit last year more than tripled, boosted by a rebound in Singapore's real estate market that reported its first gain in private
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        CORPORATEbriefs
        206 18 Consumer goods company Hosen Group warned yesterday that its profit before tax for the year ended Dec 31 would be substantially lower than in the previous year. The firm said it had lower-than-anticipated sales in the last quarter of fiscal 2004 due to late orders from customers and lower
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        Lock icon GE reports record $402m net profit
        215 18 Agencies GREAT Eastern Holdings (GE) reported yesterday a record net profit of $402 million last year, or 85 cents per share, up from $312 million, or 66 cents per share, in 2003. The insurer's bottomline was boosted by a $71-million gain from the disposal
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        Lock icon Eu Van Sang's H1 profit up 10% to $5.3m
        150 18 Channel News Asia TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine retailer Eu Van Sang posted a record net profit of $5.3 million for its fiscal first half ended Dec 31, up 10 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier. Revenues surged 19 per
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        Lock icon US medical devices firm eyes S'pore IPO
        199 18 Dow Jones A US-BASED medical devices company, LMA International NY, is preparing for a Singapore listing in a move that will test the local appetite for companies operating in the high-risk, high-growth biomedical industry. LMA, which is incorporated in the Netherlands Antilles, plans
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        Lock icon SembCorp Marine's 2004 profit rises 27%
        228 18 Dow Jones SEMBCORP Marine, South-east Asia's biggest shipyard company, reported a better-than-expected rise of 27 per cent in full-year earnings as high oil prices and a regional export boom fuelled demand for oil rig conversion and ship repair services. SembCorp Marine, 63-per-cent owned by
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    • Infotech
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        New power surge for search engines
        960 20  -  Seah Siew Hua siewhua@newstoday.com.sg WITH search engines in a race to I introduce new features to capture Web hits and advertising dollars, it might seem that online users will soon be able to find just about everything online. This possibility has come closer to
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        SHORTcuts
        367 20 Shared storage for home office Maxtor's Shared Storage solution lets home or small office/home office users centralise, organise and share files on a wired or wireless network. The drive plugs into a network router via a 1 0/1 00 Ethernet port and installs quickly with automatic network configuration. The
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      96 20 Googfe As the search market embraces broader types of media searching techniques, with greater libraries of information being made available, it is the users who will reap the benefits. THE NEXT STOP Google and Yahoo! launched video search services last month. Google Video is the first that lets users search
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      Lock icon EXPECTATIONS
      1174 22  -  Jeanine Tan Director Francis Lawrence (left) and Keanu Reeves in Hong Kong to meet the press ahead of the opening of Constantine. Constantine director Francis Lawrence on defying the conventions of comic book movie adaptation FIRST-TIME director Francis Lawrence was a man with a mission when he took the
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      Lock icon Meet the shy music mogul
      575 24  -  David Chew Veteran Babes Conde can claim Dick Lee as a groupie, but prefers to keep things quiet david. chew@newstoday. com.sg SHE was probably harsher on the contestants of Singapore Idol than Dick Lee was as a judge. Ask any one of her former MDC
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    • incinemas
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        IN ADDITION ...
        305 25 IN ADDITION Czech democracy fights for Team America The North Korean embassy in Prague has demanded that the film Team America: World Police be banned in the Czech Republic, saying the movie harms their country's reputation. In the film, by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, a team
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        Race to the end
        475 26  -  Mervin Tav mervin@newstoday.com.sj WE'VE all got theories on who will win this season's The Amazing Race and its US$l million ($1.64 million) prize. But the only way to know for sure is to watch every minute of the two-hour-long final episode. Fans will tune in with
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    • health
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        Lock icon They sleep at dawn
        664 28  -  Lynette Leong Women and the elderly are those most likely to suffer from insomnia health@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU experience chronic fatigue, poor concentration, feel sleepy during the day or find yourself less productive than usual at work, you are not alone. These are the consequences of insomnia,
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        Lock icon New fusion classes shake up fitness menu
        348 28 KRT IN the old-school approach to exercise, cardiovascular conditioning, strength training and flexibility are like entrees on a restaurant menu that you have to order separately, one at a time. But in the new school of fitness, combination platters are hot Pilates with
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      354 33 -AP NEW YORK Jose Canseco says in his upcoming book that he injected Mark McGwire with steroids and introduced several other sluggers to the drugs, the Daily News reported Sunday. The long-awaited Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How
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      579 34 Agencies Secretive North Koreans welcomed in Tokyo before tense showdown ASIAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Japan v North Korea TOKYO North Korea's football team arrived here yesterday for a World Cup qualifier against Japan, where hostility is simmering toward the Stalinist state over their abductions of Japanese. About
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      159 34 AFP FRANKFURT The ongoing match-fix-ing scandal in Germany took a new twist yesterday, with disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer claiming the football leagues in Austria and Greece are also involved in the betting scandal. Up until now, the scandal had been confined to Germany. But in an
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