Today, 26 February 2005

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    Masthead
    17 1 /VIEfyJjXCORP February 26 27 2005 mica (P) 105/07/2004 weekend TODAY incorporating JMTCfIiS we set you thinking todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Group CEO Ernest Wong resigns from Media Corp
    664 1 Will leave in Sept this year after 5 years, to pursue other interests THE chief of MediaCorp is stepping down after having led the diversified media group through its toughest years and trumped the competition. Group chief executive officer Ernest Wong announced
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    DESIGNING WAR
    1013 1 Sleepless soldiers, painless wounds and a monkey that can move things with its mind Pope Brock WHEN you look at a cockroach, you may see an annoying pest, but the imagineers at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) see something beautiful: A perfect sixlegged prototype for
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  • hot news
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      A brouhaha over Citiraya
      594 3  -  Val Chua Sias retracts position on stock suspension after admitting error in letter val@newstoday.com.sg IN AN embarrassing turn of events, an investors association has had to swallow its words over a crucial error in a letter it had sent to the Singapore Exchange (SGX). One day
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Civil service needs collective approach to tackle problems: DPM
      202 4 Newsßadio 93.8, Channel News Asia CIVIL servants will soon be appraised on how well they work with departments outside their own as well. Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan announced this while putting out the call for closer inter-agency cooperation. He said
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      Doc brain drain not OK
      640 4  -  Tan Hui Leng Young docs will lose out from move of top practitioners to private sector: Khaw huileng@newsto day, com. sg THERE are some in his ministry who think that the migration of doctors from the public to the private sector is "not a loss",
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    • SINGAPORE snippets
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        Budget debate resumes
        40 4 Parliament will sit from Monday until March 11, excluding weekends. Debate will resume on the Government's financial policy for the coming financial year, as outlined in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Budget statement on Feb 1 8.
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        Clinton heads for Singapore
        53 4 Former United States President Bill Clinton will visit Singapore on Monday and Tuesday, following his tour of the region as the UniteaNations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the tsunami-affected countries. Mr Clinton will meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor
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        Lock icon Poly grads still in demand
        77 4 Newsßadio 93.8 Polytechnic graduates continued to be sought after by employers last year but their starting pay dipped, a graduate employment survey done by polytechnics showed. Nine in 1 0 found jobs within five months, while seven in 1 0 secured full-time permanent positions. The
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        Lock icon Murder suspect nabbed
        51 4 Newsßadio 93.8 A 36-year-old murder suspect was arrested on Friday at the Woodlands Checkpoint as he tried to leave the country. The man will be charged on Saturday with the murder of Tan Ong Ngar, who was stabbed to death on Thursday night at Pearl Centre in
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      Lock icon Saudi visit signals start of a stronger relationship, says SM Goh
      302 4 Channel News Asia, Radio Singapore International SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong said he had achieved his main aim of signalling Singapore's interest to nurture stronger ties with Saudi Arabia during his visit there. Singapore hopes to manage the funds
      – Channel News Asia, Radio Singapore International; CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  302 words
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      Eurasian Association chief dies
      124 6  -  Derrick A Paulo EURASIAN Association (EA) president Bryan Davenport (picture) died on Friday night at the age of 62. The man who led the EA for five years underwent an intestinal operation at Mount Elizabeth Hospital last week. He was moved out of intensive care on
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      Lock icon 2 perish in Bukit Purmei fire
      126 6 Newsßadio 93.8, Channel News Asia TWO people were killed and one was injured when a fire broke out on Friday morning in a third-floor flat on Bukit Purmei Road. Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers found the body of a man in the living
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      Lock icon Casino consultants
      447 6 Newsßadio 93.8, Channel News Asia Pair on opposite sides of debate earn Genting trip from MediaCorp CORPORATE training consultant Carolyn Oh is your typical Singaporean professional. What the 30-year-old has that is different from most other Singaporeans, though, is the experience of a four-year stay in Las Vegas.
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  • world news
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      Lock icon ON THE VERGE OF A SPLIT
      806 8  -  Shibu Ittv Kuttickal US, Canada Anglican churches told to withdraw voluntarily over homosexuality issue shibu@newstoday.com.sg THE turmoil in the worldwide Anglican Communion over the issue of homosexuality has taken the 78-million-strong church to the brink of a split In a decision that is seen
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      Pre-marital Aids screening for Muslims in Perak
      186 8 IPOH Muslims planning to marry in the state of Perak will soon have to go for mandatory Aids screening. If found HIV-positive, the decision to marry will be left to them, reported The Star. The State's legal adviser will be studying how the
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    • Article
      Terror chief's aide nabbed in Baghdad
      139 8 BAGHDAD Iraqi forces have captured what the government described as a trusted aide to Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who leads a shadowy insurgency affiliated with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. The man identified as Talib Mikhlif Arsan Walman Al Dulaymi
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      Upsurge in rapes linked to binge drinking
      249 10 LONDON A new rape trend, linked to night-time binge drinking, is emerging in the United Kingdom, where predatory men are targeting drunken women. Many victims are too embarrassed to file a report, reported the Times, which could explain why rape attacks are on
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon Quake recorded off Aceh
        29 10 -AFP A powerful earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale was recorded 314 km off Aceh province, near the Simeulue Islands. There were no casualties.
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        Lock icon Filipino police hunting for V-Day bomb suspect
        58 10 AFP Filipino police are hunting for a homeowner after seizing seven kilograms of TNT, gunpowder and 90 blasting-caps in a house in the largely Muslim district of Taguig. They suspect the materials were used in the recent Valentine Day bombings.The Abu Sayyaf Muslim
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        Hundreds of fires break out in Malaysia
        43 10 Hundreds of fires have broken out in Malaysia, forcing fire department officials to activate its national operation centre in Putrajaya and mobilise more than 2,000 personnel to curb the growing problem, reported the New Straits Times.
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      Lock icon Judges warned of God's wrath
      268 10 Agencies Bashir also cautions his prosecutors JAKARTA The terrorism trial of Indonesia's Abu Bakar Bashir wrapped up in characteristically fiery fashion, with the Muslim cleric telling judges they would face God's punishment if they convicted him. The 66-year-old cleric has been on trial since October
      – Agencies; AFP  -  268 words
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      Singaporeseen
      104 12 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore and it can appear on this page. Give your lull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sglnclude a 50 word caption to describe yourself and your
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      Lock icon Websites for free local, int'l news
      99 12  -  LIM BOON HEE News Asia. Letter from NOW that Singapore Press Holdings has decided to charge for reading the online version of the Straits Times, more people will turn to free online versions of Today and Channel News Asia. The latter two excellent websites
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      'Outsiders', mind your own business
      133 12  -  JEANIE GOH Letter from, I SUPPORT reader Lav Beng Van's recommendation to leave it to maids/employers to settle the off-day issue (Feb 24). As he pointed out, the maid has plenty of rest when her employer is at work. Take my maid she is home
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      SHOCKING!
      759 12  -  Neil Humphreys MAIDS NEEDTO REST? Revolutionary idea will give them one whole day off a month AMONG British working-class households, our family was rather unique because my granddad employed a maid. Me. From the age of 11,1 went to school five days a week and on Saturdays worked at
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    • Letter
      Poly students should get concessionary fares, too
      198 14  -  BRANDON CHNG TZE TZI Letter from SINGAPORE has five polytechnics, each of which specialises in courses not available in the others. It is thus common for a student who, for example, lives in Pasir Ris or Punggol, to travel by bus to the
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      Pay smokers not to light up
      223 14  -  i LIM YAO HO Punitive measures don't work on poor Letter from EFFORTS to get smokers to quit smoking have been punitive, by means of cigarette taxes. This has proven to be ineffective as the lower income earners and the jobless would rather have
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    • Letter
      Worrying loopholes in database
      250 14  -  LEE CHENGWEI Letter from I RECENTLY, I emailed the Accounting Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) hoping to clarify some doubts about company registration in Singapore. The answers I got were worrying. My questions were straightforward. Did the law require every Singapore-registered company to have a valid operating
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon No end to the criticism
      542 16  -  Val Chua But Credit Bureau head sees the organisation as a misunderstood victim val@newstoday.com.Sß IT WAS formed amid much hype and criticism in 2002, but after two-and-half-years in existence, it seems that only the criticism has remained. But according to its head, the Credit Bureau
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      Lock icon New audit standard set to mitigate fraud
      221 16 Channel News Asia THE Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (Icpas) has issued more stringent auditing standards aimed at mitigating accounting fraud. Called the Singapore Standards on Auditing (SSA 240), it will take effect for the audit of financial statements from Dec
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    • Market WATCH
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        World markets
        54 16 Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex *****.25 *****.09 4130.50 6207.83 996.95 903.51 740.04 1083.37 259.05 6569.72 Pis +127.10 +96.18 +33.50 +79.49 +9.85 -0.13 +3.15 -18.64 -0.89 -4.49 +1.10 +0.68 +0.82 +1.30 +1.00 -0.01
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 16 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6143 0.3217 64.739 4.7914 2.3344 0.4654 5676.2 23.596 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 33.636 0.781 26.845 618.91 0.761 5.0843 0.8521 19.111
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        Commodities
        21 16 Gold us$/oz Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oi 433.90 7.29 865.80 Rubber cents/kg 211.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1366.00 Brent crude us$/barrel 49.40
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        Lock icon Singapore
        113 16 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed lower on Friday, hurt by a slew of negative corporate news, despite overnight gains on Wall Street and firmer showings in some other major Asian bourses. The ST Index ended 17.51 points, or 0.8 percent, lower at 2,135.08. Decliners outnumbered advancers 304 to 1
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        ST Index: 2,135.08 -17.51
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        Lock icon SGX most active
        64 16 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by fy volume \ccs 'Food JTAC jlobalVoite JniFiber >t(ir Hub Capitaland Chartered ling Tel China Sun Close 0.305 1.420 0.650 0.075 0.335 1.180 2.540 1.120 2.680 0.420 Change -0.055 -0.120 +0.020 -0.005 +0.010 -0.030 +0.080 -0.020 -0.005 -15.3 -7.8 +3.2 -6.3 +3.1 -2.5
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        SGX top rises
        86 16 By Close Change F&N 16.100 +0.400 lardine C&C 11.500 +0.200 lurEng 2.400 +0.110 BukilSem 13.300 +0.100 OBS Bk 6% NCPS10 108.000 +0.100 Fortune Reil HKS 6.600 +0.100 ihang Asia 2kHK$ 11.300 +0.100 KS Tech 1.490 +0.090 lapitaland 2.540 +0.080 HSCEI DB eCW*****1 0.660 +0.075 )y percentage Close
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        SGX top falls
        80 16 jy$ Close ilA 200 12.000 Change -0.400 )BS 15.000 -0.300 ilA 12.000 -0.300 JOB 13.700 -0.300 Venture 14.300 IMH 400USS 18.200 -0.300 -0.200 HSI*****SGAePW*****0 0.570 -0.190 \PB Breweries 8.150 -0.150 CITYDEV 6.650 iingamasC 2kHKS 5.750 -0.150 -0.150 >ini By percentage Close :apilalandDBePW***** 0.010 China Dairy W*****4 0.060
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    • business news
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        Lock icon A regulatory setback
        298 17 Satya needs OK from China before it can serve writ to CAO SATYA Capital, a Hong Kong-based investment company, said that it needs approval from China before it can serve a writ against the Beijing-based parent of China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp or CAO. A treaty between
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        CORPORATE briefs
        135 17 Hong Leong Finance had a net profit of $86.9 million, or 20.1 cents a share, for the full year ended Dec 31, compared to $77.6 million, or 1 8 cents a share, a year ago. Net interest income fell 3 per cent to $1 88.7 million. Income from
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        Lock icon Capita Land buys Beijing site
        130 17 Bloomberg CAPITALAND, which expects China to be its biggest market in three years, has bought a Beijing site for 547.6 million yuan ($lOB million) to build high-rise apartments, offices and shopping areas. The development will be Capita Land's first project in Beijing that combines commercial
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        Lock icon Jetstar Asia names chief exec
        153 17 Bloomberg JETSTAR Asia, the international budget carrier of Qantas Airways, has appointed Mr Ken Ryan as chief executive, the company said in a statement yesterday. Mr Ryan, who has been with Qantas for more than 10 years and has held senior positions, was also regional
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  • style
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      S-CLASS DESIGNS
      472 18  -  Pearlyn Tham From the Singapore runway, these two collections will compete for the regional Mercedes-Benz Asia Fashion Award pearlyn@newstoday.com.si AS IF to show how Singapore is a global village, Japan-born Ueno Hiroko and Taiwan-born Baylene won the Singapore leg of the annual MercedesBenz Asia Fashion Award competition on
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      Lock icon Spa therapy at Aromatic House
      223 18 Pearlyn Tham WHILE budget airlines now make it easier to fly to Bali or Bangkok for a spa treat, sometimes, nothing beats the convenience and immediate gratification of heading for a spa at home. Fans of the eight-year-old Aromatic House spa chain will welcome the
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  • makan
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      Lock icon Of pandan and peanuts
      752 19  -  Amy Van Lip-smacking nasi lemak and snowy ice kacang at the heart ofTanjong Pagar food@newstoday.com.sg AFTER 12 years of selling nasi lemak at Tanjong Pagar Plaza and Food Centre, Pandan Leaf Nasi Lemak still maintains its $2 price tag for the popular dish. For $2, you
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    • FOOD notes
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        Lock icon KFC's salad days
        152 19 Elisa Yang days KFC encourages diners to have balanced meals with their new permanent item the nutritious Oriental Chicken Salad. The dish is full of fresh vegetables including romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, red cabbages, tomatoes and sweet corn kernels, topped with crispy noodle and spicy chicken fillet.
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  • gadget
    • SHOPPING GUIDE
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        Pioneer DVR-A09XL Dual-format DVD Writer
        115 20 EQUIPPED with a 6x write speed on doublelayer media, Pioneer's DVR-AO9XL dual-format DVD writer can shorten write time by more than half on a 8.5G8 dual-layer disc. The device reads CDs at 40x and writes DVD-R and DVD+R at 16x, DVD+RW at Bx, DVD+R DL
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        Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop
        120 20 LOVE the mobility of your notebook but wish you had a larger keyboard? Logitech's diNovo Cordless Desktop might just be the thing for you. The full-sized keyboard, with keys measuring a standard 3.2 mm, can be packed away easily as it has a separate cordless numeric
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        Compex Wireless Remote Monitoring Solution
        106 20 COMPEX Systems has developed a wireless remote monitoring solu tion that comprises its 802.1 Ig multimedia gateway Net Passage 28G and a VGA CCD camera with motion-tracking and pan-tilt features. Net Passage 28G sports four USB 2.0 ports and can be linked to a webcam
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        Brother HL-2040 Monochrome Laser Printer
        123 20 DESIGNED to house all the features of a quality laser printer in a stylish compact unit, Brother's HL-2040 monochrome laser printer offers you print speeds of up to 20 pages per minute and a resolution of 2,400x600 dpi. Great for home office users, it has
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      Nokia's trendy trio
      417 20  -  Ariel Tarn Swanky smart phones or a camera clamshell, anyone? ariel@newstoday.com.sg THE mobile phone market is exploding with handsets of various shapes and sizes. Finnish giant Nokia, under flak the past year for its lack of innovative designs, is making a comeback with a trio of handsets
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      Bluetooth Oakleys
      193 20  -  Ariel Tarn YOU know Bluetooth is hot when fashion houses start incorporating this short-range wireless technology into their accessories. In a move that is expected to generate more copycats, Motorola and Oakley are collaborating to bring you a line of premium Bluetooth-enabled eyewear. Yes, you read that right
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      What drives you?
      222 20 SEAGATE Technology has launched a range of external storage products to help you manage your digital data. The Seagate Pocket Hard Drive (picture) is a SGB drive encased in a cool-looking round shell with a USB 2.0 interface. With this $359 device, you can carry music (up
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  • car
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      Scaled-down luxury car
      594 21  -  by Colin Yong Big-car luxuries in a compact size arrives in the form of Nissan's Latio FOR all intents and purposes, the Nissan Latio replaces the Sunny YIP a car so dull that you could drive one for years and have no recollection of what it was
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      Fancy wedding photos with a Mercedes-Benz?
      242 21  -  Colin Yong NEWLY-married couples will be able to add a retro touch to their wedding photographs next week, when a selection of classic Mercedes-Benz cars goes on display outside The Fullerton Singapore. 17 vintage and five modern models will be on show at the
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  • property
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      Lock icon Three major launches ahead
      393 22 Ted Chen DEVELOPERS are taking advantage of the feel-good factor to launch their projects on the back of the Government's family-friendly budget And real-estate consultancy DTZ Debenham Tie Leung is helping fuel that charge as it markets three major projects, which boast extensive facilities, starting this
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      Costa's 'innovative' offer
      1171 22  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Developers planning to offer an industry-first payment programme shobha@newstoday.com.sg IN WHAT is believed to be a first for a private residential project here, Cheung Kong Holdings' Costa Del Sol (picture) is planning to launch what it calls an "innovative" payment programme. It believes this
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      772 23 STYLISH STORAGE Gurmeet Singh shows how you can stow your knick-knacks with glamorous flair. Choosing storage furniture for the home can be a tough decision these days. Conventional boxy designs are making way for stylish pieces in a variety of shapes and sizes. From do-it-yourself bookcases to elegant
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      822 24 pundits weigh in THE 77th Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Sunday night (Monday morning, Singapore time). Hollywood's big night, which will be broadcast live on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 at 9am, with an encore telecast at 10pm, brings out the prognosticator in everyone. Today chose
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          27 26  -  Ross Wallace The best film this Oscar season, it charts the road trip of two lovable losers in California's wine country. A film of rare vintage.
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          29 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang Diehard romantics will find this brutal drama about modern love, warts and all, tough to swallow. Natalie Portman and Clive Owen are in scintillating form.
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          32 26 YSC From the creator of Spirited Away comes this delightful tale of a young girl trapped in an old woman's body who befriends a wizard who can save her.
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          24 26 YSC Beautifully-shot movie about a young woman who is determined to find her long-lost lover. Audrey Tautou [Amelie] is luminous.
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          27 26 YSC Back tor a second run, this is a teel-good story ot a failed musician-turned-teacher who reforms his class of delinquents through music.
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          30 26 YSC Sure, it includes vulgar, intantile and distastetul low-brow humour, but this marionette comedy by the creators of South Park is also a razor-sharp political lampoon.
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          26 26 YSC A sweet story by actress-director Xv Jinglei about a young lady who is reacquainted with her father after her mother dies.
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          29 26 YSC Michael Keaton plays a grieving man who discovers his dead wife is trying to contact him via messages contained in the static noise of electronic devices.
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        47 26 I Do I D o... hope for 'Two' Director Jack Neo and Sharon Au celebrate the box office success of his latest comedy, I Do I Do. With the film set to earn $1.5 million this weekend, Neo wants to hit the $2 million mark. MERVIN TAY
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        423 27  -  Mervin Tav For local singerTanya Chua, love is about troubled men mervin@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL singer-songwriter Tanya Chua likes them bad. "It seems like I am asking for trouble, but I tend to like guys with a streak of badness," she said yesterday at a press conference. "But
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        60 27 After 1 1 hours of labour, Queen of Caldecott Hill Zoe Tay gave birth to a healthy 3.6 kg baby boy at about 7pm on Thursday at the Thomson Medical Centre. In an earlier interview with TODAY, Zoe said her baby would have an English
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      97 29 '—E^ S"b^ —"B —l lUMi-^BBi F Ji^=^i^i^i^.. I_.1 I^_-.-,l.^L?aTßTßTßTßTßTßTßTßTßaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM T)l>\>onliriU.COlll BBE-E-aHBaKBM-MBBaamrAßjßH—Bßaal J I 1 jg^Hßaa^rttßTSS9Sßißaißaaa^HHaflEHßV c= i Another way to turn the pages of TODAY. You could be in Singapore or Sierra Leone, Thailand or Timbaktu. Now, all you need is an Internet connection and you will get the hottest
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      484 33  -  JOSE RAYMOND 'Overage' Thai skipper could escape further punishment jose@newstoday.com.sg THERDSAK Chaiman could well be breathing a little easier. On Friday, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) fined Thailand's international skipper $3,500, after the player admitted he had "misstated" his year of birth in his passport. There
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      232 33  -  JASMINE ZHAO jasmine. zhao@newstoday. com. sg THIS Saturday, teenager Muhammad Ramadhan Selamat will become a part of local history, when he represents Singapore in the 2005 World Winter Special Olympics Games in the floor hockey event Nagano, Japan. The 14-year-old has difficulty
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      309 33 GOLF Match Play Championship CARLSBAD, California The Match Play Championship finally got under way on a golf course still under water. Two-time defending champion Tiger Woods won his 13th consecutive match, but not without wiping mud from his eyes after hitting out of the mucky
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      245 33 League Home Team Away Team Match KjckOff I (Singapore date/time) E Premier Southampton Arsenal Sat, 26/02/05 8.45pm E Premier Tottenham Fulham Sat, 26/02/05 11.00pm E Premier Aston Villa Everton Sat, 26/02/05 11.00pm E Premier Crystal Palace Birmingham Sat, 26/02/05 11.00pm E Premier Manchester Utd Portsmouth Sun, 27/02/05 1.15 am Spanish
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      400 34  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg FINDING a suitable candidate to succeed her as president of Netball Singapore (NS) has been a long and frustrating affair. But after two years, Ivy Singh-Lim could well have found the right candidate. Speaking after the Asian Federation of Netball Associations (AFNA)
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      700 34 Agencies After Chelsea's two defeats, Gerrard and Co primed for the kill LONDON With his usual impeccable timing, Sven-Goran Eriksson sent his congratulations to Jose Mourinho for a remarkable first season, just a day after the Chelsea boss lost his second match in four
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      272 34 -AFP LONDON Chelsea can't win the quadruple, the Treble looks highly unlikely and, after Sunday, they could be left with just the English Premiership. And Wayne Rooney believes that trophy could still end up at Old Trafford. The Manchester United striker insists
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      646 35 theweekendinterview with Young Lions midtielder Shi Jiayi TWO years ago, a 20-year-old young man left Shanghai armed with only a pair of football boots and an undying ambition to become a top professional footballer, to seek fame and fortune in Singapore. Two years on, Shi
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