Today, 4 March 2005

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    22 1 /A=d/aCorp TODAY incorporating utT6£itS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Friday March 4,2005 todayonline.com TODAY /ti=DIACORP incorporating oITC&tS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Friday March 4,2005 todayonline.com
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    Light sentence for Bashir draws fire
    736 1  -  Sharon Vasoo Indon slammed over cleric's 30-month prison term sharon@newstoday.com.sg THE international community expressed disappointment at the 30-month jail sentence for Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (picture), saying the punishment was not severe enough. But analysts said the outcome was not surprising as the
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    Lock icon Spectre of corruption lurks within Aceh camps
    895 1  -  Neil Humphreys WHILE the world reacts to the horrifying possibility that foreign aid for tsunami victims may have fallen into the wrong hands, the people of Aceh have responded with silence. But the devastated region is unquestionably haunted by the spectre of corruption.
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        We can make a difference
        631 2  -  Constance Singam "IT is not my business. He can do what he wants; that's his problem". So said a neighbour of Ng Hua Chye, the employer of the maid who died after months of being beaten by him. Events force people to take action. For
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      Cutting edge ad has commuters seeing green
      355 4  -  Jasmine Yin It's Matrix revolution at City Hall MRT station j asmine.yin@newstoday.com. sg COMMUTERS at one of Singapore's busiest MRT stations must have felt that they had stepped into a scene from sci-ence-fiction thriller The Matrix when they emerged from their trains yesterday.
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      Lock icon Fare hike misconception
      551 5  -  Tor Ching Li Channel News Asia Not true that public transport fares keep escalating: Yeo chingli@newstoday.com.sg CONTRARY to popular belief, public transport fares in Singapore have not been continually on the rise. In fact, fares have increased in only three of the last seven years. "There is
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      Stricter control on self-petitioned bankruptcies
      296 5  -  Wong Fei Wan THE Government is moving to tackle the rise in the number of bankruptcy and insolvency cases. Deputy Prime Minister Jayakumar, who is also the Minister of Law, said the Official Assignee (OA) was monitoring self-peti-tioned bankruptcies, as the number has grown sharply
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        Biometric passports in Oct
        70 5 Singaporeans will get new biometric passports in October and the document will contain facial and fingerprint information to ensure security. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said passport numbers would also be changed and they will no longer be the same as one's identity card number.
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        Controls on pre-paid cards?
        56 5 The sale of pre-paid mobile phone cards here may come under regulatory control. Mr Wong said the measure is being studied after the Internal Security Department found that Sri Lankan separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Jemaah Islamiyah had used mobile phones with pre-paid
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      70% of S'poreans back smoking ban in night spots
      234 7 MOST Singaporeans surveyed support a ban on smoking at entertainment outlets, hawker centres and coffee shops, according to two separate studies by the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Health Promotion Board (HPB). The HPB surveyed about 1,300 smokers and non-smokers
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      Lock icon Government plans gas market liberalisation
      345 7 Channel News Asia Planned market opening aims to lower prices, boost reliability THE Government will liberalise the gas market to allow open access and to support new entrants, said Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Dr Vivian Balakrishnan at yesterday's opening of the
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      Lock icon Varsities adopt marketing approach to recruitment
      291 7 Channel News Asia THE A-level results are due out today, but the three local universities have already spent tens of thousands on advertising campaigns to draw students. In stark contrast to former nofrills application proceedings, this year, marketing strategies include talks at five-star hotels,
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      Top-rated Indian school may offer part-time MBA in November
      218 8  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla TOP-RATED business school the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) (IIMB) officially launched its campus here yesterday. The school hopes to launch its parttime MBA programme in November, with fees of around $28,000 to $30,000 for the course, which
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      MOE extends JAE deadline
      404 8  -  Tan Hui Leng Students unable to access busy server huileng@newstoaay.com.sg PLAGUED with complaints that students have not been able to submit their applications in the Joint Admissions Exercise OAE) because of heavy traffic on its server, the Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday extended its deadline to
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      MAS initiatives to address issues facing Internet industry
      164 10  -  Seah Slew Hua THE Internet Industry Association of Singapore (HAS) announced two nationwide initiatives at its inauguration yesterday. The first initiative involves a fund to offer help and counselling to children exposed to inappropriate material online and education campaigns to raise awareness
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      Lock icon 6 Singaporeans die in Muar crash
      322 10  -  Ansley Ng SIX Singaporeans and a Malaysian were killed after the van they were in collided with a truck outside Muar town yesterday. Three Singaporeans were killed on the spot and three died in hospital. Six more Singaporeans were injured, including two who are
      STARPIX  -  322 words
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      Casino debate gets a public airing on TV
      472 10  -  Lee U-Wen As MediaCorp wraps up multi-platform national debate u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE casino debate was given a concerted public airing yesterday, with Singaporeans seemingly still torn on whether having one would be good for the country. The Government, which has received a total
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        Tung's exit was Beijing's idea
        551 12  -  Simon Parker Did President Hu prematurely push the Hong Kong leader out of office? HONG KONG On the face of it, it is a stunning victory for "people power". In reality, however, the stepping down of Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-Hwa and the likely appointment
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      Lock icon Chilli torture for Indonesian maid
      172 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR An Indonesian domestic helper was raped and tortured by having having chilli powder rubbed over her face and private parts, a report said yesterday. This is the latest alleged case of maid abuse in Malaysia a trend which has been on the
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      Lock icon Lef s talk, Malaysia urges Indonesia
      155 12 -AFP PUTRAJAYA Malaysia yesterday urged Indonesia to use diplomatic channels instead of resorting to military threats to resolve disputes over a maritime area claimed by both countries. Indonesia's navy has dispatched four warships to the disputed area off the coast of Malaysia's Sabah state
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        How to make a pig horny
        92 12 A Belgian vet has produced a CD containing the noise of a grumbling boar to make pigs horny. The music is meant to make pigs excited so that it is easier for vets to insert sperm via artificial insemination, ananova.com reported. According to the
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        Snake eats its own tail
        82 12 A snake on display at the National Taidong Aquarium in Taiwan has eaten its own tail, reported ananova.com. The king snake, that was brought in from America, had not eaten in 24 hours. It mistook its reflection in the glass wall of its tank for
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      Lock icon Put your house in order first, US told
      454 15 Agencies Thailand, China slam US human rights annual report BANGKOK As the United States directed its criticism against nations worldwide for human rights violations, some Asian nations notably China and Thailand are signalling that they will not take it all lying down.
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        Lock icon Thai blood bank shortage
        33 15 AFP Thailand's national blood bank has nearly run dry due to the ongoing violence in the Muslim-majority south and a lack of donations as school students go on holiday.
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        Lock icon Crown thief comes clean
        63 15 AFP A 78-year-old man has confessed to being involved in the robbery of an ancient crown, a report said on Thursday. Li Kasemsang told me Nation newspaper that he and 20 others raided a temple in the former capital of Ayutthaya in central Thailand in 1956,
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        Lock icon Pakistani police net terrorist
        44 15 AFP Pakistani police have arrested a militant who was sentenced to death in his absence for a 2002 bombing. Mohammad Sohail was one of three Sunni Muslim militants sentenced in June 2002 for the car bomb outside Karachi's Sheraton hotel.
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      Lock icon End of the line for blue-eyed Acehnese
      241 15 AFP LAMNO (Indonesia) Hundreds of years after Portuguese settlers landed in Indonesia's Aceh, one of their most enduring legacies has been their contribution to the local gene pool. The people of the coastal villages near Lamno have for generations been famed for their
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      Lock icon Drug trafficking gets huge boost from the Internet
      358 16 IPS 'Illegal pharmacies' are selling heroin, cocaine and potent medicinal drugs LONDON Vast amounts of drugs, including heroin and cocaine, and billions of doses of medicine are being sold illegally over the Internet every year, revealed a report by the International Narcotics
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      Lock icon Court struggles over Ten Commandments
      163 16 Agencies WASHINGTON The United States Supreme Court is struggling over a politically sensitive issue whether displays of the Ten Commandments on government property cross the line separating church and state. The Supreme Court hearing focuses on buildings in Texas and Kentucky. The judges must decide
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      Focus On The Family
      279 20  -  Dr James Dobson jva by Dr James Dobson THE WALLEYED PIKE Let me tell you a story about a walleyed pike, which is a fish, for those of you who aren't fishermen orfisherwomen. Some interesting experiments have been done in laboratories where the walleye is placed
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      Some things are still free
      802 20  -  mr brown If not reading a certain paper online LAST week, I mentioned that a certain broadsheet would be charging for the online version of their newspaper. Well, apparently, they received a fair bit of feedback (I hear some of that feedback came with Hokkien
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      Effectiveness of online admissions exercise being questioned
      246 22  -  CHUA KIM CHOO Letter from SINCE the release of the O-level results, students and parents have gone through much frustration and stress. My child was more fortunate than some as she had a computer, her Sing Pass and a Visa card facility ready.
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      You can add to WW II exhibits
      331 22  -  MRS KWEK-CHEW KIM GEK Archives asks public for war-time contributions I Letter from Deputy director, Records and Archives National Archives of Singapore WE REFER to Mr Lee Kip Lee's letter, "Recognise unsung heroes of WW II" (Feb 25). We thank Mr Lee for
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      Lock icon ENVOY'S WIFE IS THEATRE'S ENVOY, TOO
      710 24  -  MYRIAM WOKER coffee willi 50, ambassador's wife and producer HER name card says "Wife of the Swiss Ambassador" on one side and "Producer, TNT Theatre Britain" on the other. It perfectly sums up Mrs Myriam Woker, who balances the nomadic life of an Ambassador's
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      TIME TO TIGHTEN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
      1123 26  -  Mano Sabnani THE Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) have been busy looking into various companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in recent months. First there was Informatics Holdings, then China Aviation Oil (CAO). Right now, electronics waste recycler
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        Skea files petition against CAO
        111 29 SK Energy Asia (Skea), a subsidiary of SK Corp, filed a petition yesterday in the High Court requesting that China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp (CAO) be placed under judicial management. Skea is one of many creditors seeking to recover money from CAO. Skea said it
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        Lock icon NOL shares hit record high
        121 29 Bloomberg SHARES of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) rose to a record yesterday as investors bet that demand to ship products by sea will outpace supply because of port congestion. The shares gained 3.7 per cent, or 14 cents, to close at an all-time intraday high
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        Lock icon Dues waived for double-hulled tankers
        70 29 Bloomberg SINGAPORE will waive port dues to help cut costs for double-hulled oil tankers, Minister of State for Finance and Transport Lim Hwee Hua said in Parliament yesterday. "The Maritime and Port Authority will waive port dues for new double-hulled tankers that are licensed from
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      • Market WATCH
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          World markets
          60 29 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 11,856.46 +42.75 +0.36 Hang Seng 13,892.37 +41.59 +0.30 Ml Ordinaries 4,185.80 +13.60 +0.33 laiwan Wtd 6,202.38 -22.87 -0.37 Korea Comp 1,010.92 +3.44 +0.34 KLCI 889.44 -2.46 -0.28 SET Index 720.39 -0.53 -0.07 Jakarta Comp 1,094.59 +11.84 +1.09 Phils Comp 2,093.27 +24.85 +1.20
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          SGX most active
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          SGX top rises
          72 29 By Close Change By percentage Close Change DBS65SNCPS1O 108.000 +0.400 WeePoh 0.010 +100.0 MOLeCW*****0 1.070 +0.160 DBSeCW*****7 0.040 +33.3 HOL 3.900 +0.140 BBR 0.025 +25.0 MOLeCW*****5 0.675 +0.135 NOLeCW*****5 0.675 +25.0 MOLeCW*****1 1.350 +0.130 KepUeCW*****2 0.275 +22.2 MOLeCW*****0 0.900 +0.110 KepCorpePW*****10.030 +20.0 BeaulyChina 0.975 +0.105 MAE Engg
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          SGX top falls
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          81 29 Dow Jones SHARES closed slightly higher yesterday on bargain hunting in the absence of fresh leads. The ST Index rose 3.17 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 2,147.53. in the broad market, advancers outnumbered decliners2l3 to 194. Traded volume amounted to 668 million shares valued at $657.9 million. Sentiment
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 29 US$ 0.6143 UK£ 0.3218 Yen 64.505 HK$ 4.7934 RM 2.3353 Euro 0.4676 Rupiah 5,713.7 Baht 23.625 Peso 33.759 A$ 0.7843 Indian Rs 26.864 Won 618.35 C$ 0.7633 Yuan 5.0875 NZ$ 0.8469 NTS 18.963
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        337 32 Dow Jones Firm in advanced discussions with CLP for $2.5b sale SINGAPORE Power plans to sell some of its Australian assets to Hong Kong's CLP Holdings for about As 2 billion ($2.5 billion), less than a year after it made its most
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        209 32 Channel News Asia THE high turnover of finance staff at TMC International in the fourth quarter led to a backlog of work that caused the company to report its financial results late, it said. The matter was also aggravated by late submissions of
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        241 32 Dow Jones THE Government will place two prime sites along the Orchard Road shopping district on its "reserve list" later this month, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said yesterday. Putting the sites on the list means that they will be offered for
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    646 34 Jobs available in the Retail Industry If interested, please call 6883 5885. Only Singaporeans ana Singapore PRs need apply. Lee U-Wen u-wen newstoday.com.sg IN RECENT years, the changing economic landscape in Singapore has brought into sharper focus the relevance of lifelong learning for employability. This
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    617 35 HEALTHCARE MR ANDREW Soo's first encounter with nursing was not in a hospital, but in an army camp. While serving his National Service as a medic in the Republic of Singapore Air Force, he was put in charge of duties such as medical screening
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    60 35 For more information on the courses mentioned and for other queries, please refer to the jobseekers guides found on the WDA website. http://app. wda. gov. sg/jobseekers. asp Alternatively, you can call the WDA hotline at 6883 5885. Operating hours are from B:3oam to s:3opm (Mon-Fri) and
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      231 36  -  Elisa Chia NEWS presenter Tung Soo Hua, a familiar face on MediaCorp TV Channel 8, will join Channel U news next month. Tung takes with her eight years of experience in news reporting and will arguably be the most senior presenter in the team,
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      466 36  -  Yong Shu Chiang Woodsman director's impressive debut tackles grim theme of paedophilia shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg FILM-MAKING wasn't an obvious career choice for Nicole Kassell. The 32-year-old, whose debut film The Woodsman features husband-and-wife actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, had studied art history in college while maintaining
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      314 38  -  Meryin Tay Sparks will fly when Fish Leong performs with Wakin and Jaycee Chan tomorrow mervin@newstoday.com.sg ONE is an endearing veteran singer from Taiwan, the other the son of a Hong Kong superstar performing in Singapore for the first time. With Wakin and Jaycee Chan as special guests
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      148 38  -  David Chew GET ready to go back to the world of old Italian movies when Aterballetto performs this week at the Esplanade. Presented by the Esplanade, the ballet company will stage a doublebill. The first piece, named Omaggio A Bach, marks composer Johann Sebastian Bach's 250 th death
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      211 38  -  David Chew THE Necessary Stage's latest play will bring new meaning to the age-old tale of Red Riding Hood. Staged as part of the inaugural Ml Singapore Fringe Festival, What Big Bombs You Have cheekily addresses the increasing fear we live with in the post-911 world.
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        191 41 23-B Coleman Street MARCH SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES Take Flight Soaring Faster and Higher through Aviation Discover the history and principles of flight, plus see aircraft materials like titanium and carbon fibre. Try our computer flight simulator and meet a pilot! Date: March 12, 9.30 am 12.00pm Cost:
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        61 41 71 Bras Basah Road Date: Till April 10, 2005 FAITH BEING SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM'S THAI COLLECTION Explore expressions of spirituality, life and identity by contemporary Thai artists. See how they negotiate between tradition and modernity in their interpretation and confrontation of present social conditions. Prasong Luemuang, Mankind,
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        106 41 1 Empress Place ANIME® ACM! FREE Screenings Catch short films by local animators as well as rare anime classics. March 5 2 4pm Ramayana The Legend of Prince Rama 4 spm Mobile Suit Gundam March 6 12 12.30pm Short Films by Nanyang Polytechnic, School of
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        52 41 39 Armenian Street Date: Till May 9, 2005 OVER ONE BILLION SERVED CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Check out works by key photographers who explore China's shifting social and cultural landscape following the impact of Western ideas. Wang Qingsong (2001) Another Battle
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        88 41 30 Merchant Road, #03-09/17 Riverside Point Date: March 19, 2005 2ND SINGAPORE SHORT CUTS Doc Shorts With subjects ranging from the social to the personal, these documentary shorts reflect and question the reality and times that we live in today. Free tickets are available at The Substation
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        11 42 Carrey's zany antics the weak link in moody film
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        246 42  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby" EX-CONVICTS released on parole all walk a tightrope when they return to society. They are damaged goods the justice system has mended, but only to a certain extent One false move, a regression to old bad habits, could mean more jail time. As
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        150 42  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby SINGAPORE'S first sci-fi movie deserves plaudits for daring to aim high. It would have been a great fillip if this $2 million, locally-shot fantasy about identity theft had turned out to be good. Director Kuo Jian Hong assembled a cast of mostly unknown stars,
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        315 42  -  YONG SHU CHIANG I FILM REVIEW by REVERSE psychology is the name of the game here. Daniel Handler who wrote this grimly humorous children's series under the name of Lemony Snicket uses threats and warnings to "discourage" people from reading the books. As
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        236 44  -  DAVID CHEW Hitch is an entertaining romp with no surprises FILM REVIEWby Hitch THE premise of romantic comedy Hitch is nothing new, with Will Smith playing smooth operator Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, a man who always gets his lady. Hitch is a New York City date doctor who
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      94 48 AVID fans of the Formula One (Fl) Grand Prix can now race to Kuala Lumpur and enjoy great last-minute accommodation deals on Wotif.com [www.wotif.com], the global specialist in lastminute accommodation. With savings of up to 70 per cent on hotel stays for the next 14 days, Wotif.com
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      189 48 Great offers from Chan Brothers HERE'S a chance to visit New Zealand at attractive prices. Chan Brothers is offering a 40 per cent discount for every second person who books any of its New Zealand packages. The offer is in conjunction with the Chan Brothers Fabubus 40
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      102 50 TRAVEL products and tour packages worth $1 0 million were sold during SA Tours' one-day travel fair last Sunday. The SA Tours Mega Travel Sale (picture), which was held at Suntec Exhibition Hall 401, attracted about 50,000 visitors. Many chose Asian destinations
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      923 58  -  ROHITBRIJNATH ON SUNDAY his car will be screaming, but right now the only roaring is coming from Narain Karthikeyan's lungs. His shirt is washed with sweat, pain is etched sharply on his face, his arms quiver like branches in a gentle wind as he
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      197 59 Agencies ROME Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson claimed that a lie put him in prison, after he announced yesterday that he will return to the ring this summer. The 38-year-old has been out of action since suffering a
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        591 52 Agencies US Congress award Jackie Robinson their highest honour WASHINGTON While Jackie Robinson was being honoured with the Congressional Gold Medal yesterday, a former team-mate remembered Major League Baseball's opening day on April 15, 1947. "Things weren't that organised back then," recalled Ralph Branca, who had
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        282 52 NBA Celtics 104 Lakers 101 BOSTON Kobe Bryant's problems have moved back to the basketball court. Just 30 minutes after settling a lawsuit filed by the woman who accused him of rape, Bryant scored 17 firstquarter points against the Boston Celtics. But
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        180 54 MADRID Michael Owen revelled in his return to the Real Madrid starting line-up and inspired a 3-1 win over Real Betis on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) by scoring the first goal. Speaking to BBC Sport, he said: "I am happy I could play a game
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        430 54 AFP But English football sage Robson Mourinho is not perfect I and needs to learn how to loseß LONDON English football's senior statesman, Sir Bobby Robson, has told Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho (picture) to learn some humility. Robson, the former Newcastle and England
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