Today, 18 March 2005, Afternoon Edition

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      47 1 WORLD 20 US MAY REDUCE FORCES IN IRAQ RICE ON PAKISTAN DEMOCRACY ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS TO EXTEND TRUCE 26 'NEVERLAND A PLEASURE ISLAND' BRITAIN ADDS TO TSUNAMI AID 28 EU REASSURES CHINA SYRIA STEPS UP LEBANON PULLOUT BORO OUT /SPORTS 63 Page 26: Opec to hike output but
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      The lure of ezyCash
      735 1  -  Chow Perm Nee Sing Post's unsecured credit lines proving to be a hit pennnee@newstoday.com.sg IT IS not unusual to find the post office at Bedok Central crowded on a weekday morning, but what is surprising is that not everyone is there to send letters or pay
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      Lock icon Wall St wobbles to a mixed finish
      130 1 -AFP NEW YORK United States stocks wobbled to a mixed close yesterday as oil prices flirted with record highs, taking the spotlight away from big corporate deals and strong earnings in the brokerage sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a loss
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      162 2 w IA fantastic weekend of worid-class rugby, fun and excitement awaits you at the Standard Chartered Sevens Singapore 2005! Feel the adrenalin, catch all the action! Watch as 16 of the world's finest rugby teams battle for top honours at the IRB Sevens Series. ENJOY THE EARLY BIRD PROMOTION GET
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        Can the world bank on Wolfowitz?
        1059 2  -  Jim Lobe IF SENDING arch-unilateralist Mr John Bolton to the United Nations (UN) sent a message of contempt for multilateralism, what does United States President George Bush mean by sending that ardent advocate of "hard power", Mr Paul Wolfowitz, to the planet's single biggest
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      Lock icon Marina Bayfront is preferred casino venue
      195 2 Channel News Asia THE world's major casino operators, which have submitted concept proposals for Singapore's first integrated resort, appear to favour the site at Marina Bayfront over Sentosa. United States entertainment group Harrah's and Australia's Tabcorp told Channel News Asia that if they had
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      Lock icon Strait pirates escaped in disguise
      329 4 They elude maritime police by dressing like fishermen and using a M'sia-registered boat KUALA LUMPUR The group of pirates who kidnapped three crew members of a Japanese tug boat on Monday escaped by hoodwinking local authorities into thinking they were locals. They were dressed like
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      Lock icon Australian appeals to President for his life
      277 4 Agencies SYDNEY An Australian of Vietnamese descent convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death by a Singapore court has made a last-ditch attempt to have his life spared. Nguyen Tuong Van's lawyer has filed an appeal to President S R Nathan for
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        Lock icon Bangladeshi PM to visit S'pore
        67 4 Newsßadio 93.8 The Prime Minister of Bangladesh will be in Singapore on Sunday for a three-day visit at the invitation of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. During her visit, Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia will meet Mr Lee, President S R Nathan and Minister Mentor
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        Lock icon Woman caught with drug in bra
        78 4 Channel News Asia A zJ-year-old unemployed woman was arrested for drug trafficking early yesterday morning after she was caught with 1 gram of Ketamine in her bra. The raid at a pub along Mohamed Sultan Road also saw nine other patrons arrested for suspected
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      Lock icon Call to open up S'pores gas industry
      351 4 A HIGH-LEVEL committee appointed by the Government has come up with recommendations to enhance the reliability and security of Singapore's gas and electricity supply. The move follows the massive blackout on June 29 last year which plunged 300,000 homes from Ang Mo Kio
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      Lock icon The sorry state of business at Bukit Merah
      874 6  -  Ansley Ng With the HDB's move to Toa Payoh, its former headquarters is deserted ansley@newstoday.com.sg STRUGGLING retailers in some Housing and Development Board (HDB) shopping areas will under a scheme announced in Parliament recently be offered a helping hand to relocate and
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      Indon gas company sues Swiss bank
      456 8  -  Wong Fei Wan feiwan@newstoday.com.sg A SUBSIDIARY of Indonesian state- owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina is suing Swiss bank Credit Suisse for the return of a US$9 million ($14.76 million) fixed deposit, which the bank had used to offset a loan taken by
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      Uniquely Singapore is named
      166 8  -  Jasmine Zhao THE yacht that will carry Singapore's budding sailors and ambassadors around the world finally has her name officially after Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong christened her Uniquely Singapore. At a ceremony at London's St Katharine Docks on Wednesday, SM Goh officially named the 21m
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      One year's jail for Marx Oh
      191 8 MARX Oh, one of the alleged ringleaders of the high-profile cocaine syndicate that was busted last October, was jailed for one year yesterday for possession of cocaine and cannabis. The 32-year-old, who pleaded guilty to two drug possession charges, could have been jailed for
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        Lock icon More than 17,000 graves will be exhumed at Choa Chu Kana cemetery
        100 10 Newsßadio 93.8 More than 17,000 graves at Choa Chu Kang cemetery will exhumed in June next year. The move is in line with the Government's policy to limit the burial limit for all graves to 15 years. The
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        Lock icon Singapore Petroleum raises pump prices
        63 10 Channel News Asia The Singapore Petroleum Company has joined other petrol companies in raising pump prices. It raised its petrol prices by 8 cents a litre and its diesel by 6 cents a litre. The latest round of price hikes started when ExxonMobil raised its
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      24-hour poison info is a phone call away
      519 10  -  Sheralyn Tay Healthcare professionals and the public are welcome to seek advice sheralyn@newstoday.com.sg MADAM Baey Geok Chum takes as many as 10 pills a day for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. So when her friends recommended that she start taking traditional Chinese medicines such
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      NUS all out to improve alumni ties
      682 14  -  Jasmine Yin It is especially targeting those living and working abroad jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg WITH an estimated 10 per cent of its 150,000-strong alumni working and living outside of Singapore, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is working hard to ensure that it is not
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      Schools mull lessons on homosexuality
      334 18 Students should be taught tolerance at early age, says Thai gay-rights group BANGKOK Authorities in Bangkok will consider allowing lessons on homosexuality drafted by a gay-rights group to be taught in primary schools. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration received a request from the Bangkok Rainbow Group
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      Lock icon Indulge in the spirit of decadence
      66 18 This rare Louis XIII cognac magnum from French distillers Remy Martin was created in 1874 and stored in Baccarat crystal studded with 4.75-carat diamonds. Those who want to have a sip would have to fork out U5554,000 ($87,600). It is on sale at three
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      Lock icon KFC pulls tainted chicken from menu
      251 18 Agencies SHANGHAI KFC outlets in China have apologised to customers and stopped selling their New-Orleans flavour roast chicken wings and chicken burgers after finding that the seasoning contains an industrial dye linked to cancer. "We feel deeply sorry for this food safety accident and
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      Dozens dead after bus collides with truck carrying fireworks
      240 18 BEIJING Up to 30 people were killed and seven injured yesterday when a dou-ble-decker bus was destroyed after a nearby truck packed with explosives and fireworks blew up. Initial investigations showed that the bus "was blown up by the explosion of
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Robber tripped by banana
        82 18 A robber who thought he could hold up shopkeepers in a suburb in East London with a banana was jailed after his second attempt ended in farce. Robert Downey's harmless weapon was so badly disguised in a plastic bag, which revealed both its colour and tell-tale
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        This sex doll is a 'bombshell'
        102 18 A blow-up sex doll sparked a bomb alert in a German post office after it started to vibrate inside a package awaiting delivery. "Workers were unsettled when it began vibrating and making strange noises. They were worried the pack- age might be a bomb,"
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        Lock icon Toast to world's largest mosaic
        78 18 -AFP A group of people with 400 loaves of bread in north-west England broke a world record by creating the largest mosaic of toast ever. The team assembled 7,000 slices of bread toasted to varying degrees from slightly golden to black and covered an area
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      84 hospitalised after eating bad spaghetti
      122 18 MANILA At least 84 children and parents were hospitalised in northern Philippines after they ate contaminated spaghetti. Health officials said the victims, aged between one and 44 years, were under observation at two hospitals in the provincial capital of Tarlac. They suffered abdominal pains,
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      Lock icon US may reduce forces in Iraq
      520 20 Agencies US Army's No 2 hints at reduction later this year; Berlusconi under fire WASHINGTON The United States Army expects to reduce the size of its force in Iraq later this year and early next because of gains from successful elections and a campaign
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      Lock icon Israel, Palestinians to extend truce
      199 20 AFP JERUSALEM Israel and the Palestinians pledged yesterday to observe an informal truce until the year-end, although militants stopped short of declaring the full ceasefire the world had hoped for. All 13 major factions agreed on the conditional period of calm at crunch talks presided
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      Lock icon Rice urges democracy for ally Pakistan, end to nuke network
      196 20 -AFP ISLAMABAD United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday urged key ally Pakistan to follow the path of democracy and said the US wanted to crush a black market run by a disgraced nuclear hero. But she took a
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        Lock icon Russians arrest man who threatened to blow up plane
        57 20 -AFP A man who tried to enter the cockpit of an Aeroflot Boeing-777 airliner flying from Tokyo to Moscow and threatened to blow up the plane was arrested as he disembarked in Moscow, Russian news agencies reported yesterday. Itar-Tass news agency
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        Pope appears in video link
        74 20 A silent Pope John Paul II greeted a congregation of Catholic youth at a basilica in Rome by a video link from his Vatican apartment yesterday evening, the Ansa news agency reported. The pope blessed and waved to the congregation gathered for a ceremony at
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        Lock icon Canada faces the heat
        98 20 AFP Demands for justice besieged Canada's government yesterday, after two Sikhs were cleared of killing 329 people in a 1985 Air India jet bombing. Loved ones of victims, the press and foes of Prime Minister Paul Martin's government demanded to know why there were no murder
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        Lock icon French say 'no' to EU constitution
        105 20 AFP A majority of French say they plan to vote "no" in the national referendum on the European Union constitution to be held in May, according to a poll to be published today in the daily Le Parisien. According to the poll, 51 per
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      Lock icon Love conquers all...
      382 22 Briton and Thai couple survived the tsunami as did their passion BANGKOK The pairing of Thai islander Pratheep Janthamanee and Miss Naomi Bowman, the 21-year-old Oxford University student he helped care for after the disaster, is as unlikely as her having survived the killer waves. Yet the
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      Lock icon Linking tsunami aid to projects
      165 22 -AFP TOKYO Nearly three months after the Indian Ocean tsunamis, the main challenges are how to link aid pledges to concrete projects and keep up world attention, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) vice-president Geert Van der Linden said ahead of a conference on the disaster
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      Lock icon Drought threatens fresh water supplies in south-western Thailand
      152 22 -AP BANGKOK Areas of south-west-ern Thailand swamped during the Indian Ocean tsunami are now suffering shortages of fresh water. Officials said the main cause of the problem is contamination of traditional fresh water sources by salt water swept inland by the giant
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      Lock icon Opec to hike output, but warns of bottlenecks
      222 26 -AFP VIENNA The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) pledged in a report yesterday to continue to increase production to meet demand, but warned that shortage of refining capacity was also to blame for high oil prices. "Higher Opec output is needed
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      Lock icon Neverland a pleasure island: Housekeeper
      361 26 Agencies Children ran amok, appeared to be drunk, says former caretaker SANTA MARIA (California) Neverland Ranch was a "pleasure island", where children ran amok, appeared to be drunk and slept in Michael Jackson's private quarters, the star's former housekeeper said yesterday. In her testimony, Ms
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      Lock icon Britain adds another $437m to Asian tsunami assistance
      158 26 AFP LONDON Britain substantially increased its donations for relief efforts in the areas devastated by last year's tsunami to £140 million ($437.5 million). International Development Secretary Hilary Benn pledged an extra £65 million to help fund long-term reconstruction efforts. The money comes
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      Lock icon EU reassures China on plans to lift ban
      390 28 AFP Arms embargo will go despite anti-secession law BRUSSELS The European Union reassured China yesterday it was pressing ahead with plans to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo on Beijing despite a storm sparked by its anti-secession law targeting Taiwan. EU foreign policy
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      Lock icon Obesity could shorten US life expectancy
      169 28 -AFP WASHINGTON The explosion in obesity in the United States, especially in children, will likely cut life expectancy, reversing two centuries of uninterrupted progress, the New England Journal of Medicine reported in a study. The excess weight problems and obesity now affecting almost twothirds
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      Lock icon Syria steps up Lebanon troop pullout
      170 28 AFP BEIRUT The Syrian army yesterday completed the first stage of a planned pullback from Lebanon ahead of schedule, with some 4,000 troops having returned home, as more symbols of its near-30-year presence in the country were hauled down. United Nations Secretary General Kofi
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      Focus On The Family
      260 30  -  Dr James Dobson TXMTs by j FINDING STRENGTH THROUGH ADVERSITY Someone once said if you remove the rocks from a brook, it would lose its song. Well, that holds true for you and me, as well. Author Scott Walker tells of the time he was asked
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      Drawing the line on discipline
      322 30  -  BENJAMIN GAN DR DAVID PEAT School punishment should be educational, just, consistent, agree readers Letter from I Jeremy Lim's article, "Discipline students, but in a productive way" (March 17), reminded me of some of the punishments I had received when I was a student Some
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      READERS' SHORT TAKES ON EXTENSION OF SMOKING BAN
      286 30 Lim Boon Hee: Smoking is not allowed when queuing at the ATMs. But recently, I encountered this young couple at Tiong Bahru Plaza DBS ATM who were puffing away while using the machine. There were people in the queue but this young
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      Poor planning for IT show at Suntec
      306 32  -  ABDUL ISLAM Letter from t THE recent IT Show held at Suntec City was done with poor floor-planning and co-ordination with external agencies. The Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre car parks were jammed. Shoppers, cinema-goers and IT show visitors had no
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      How she loves to sing
      752 32  -  DR WONG SUN SUN coffee with 43, opera singer, voice therapist WHEN she was a little girl in kindergarten, Dr Wong Sun Sun sang so loudly that her mother could hear her from their home across the road. Today, Dr Wong has put those vocal
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      Lock icon Bangkok Rocks!
      1034 36  -  mr brown Shopping in the Thai capital is unbeatable: Good service, wide variety and cheap foot-rubs when you're tired news@newstoday.com.sg I JUST got back from holidaying in Bangkok, where I spent a few days with my wife and another couple. This was our first holiday together without our
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      471 38 AFP Electronics shipments fell on weaker orders from the US, EU SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports rose at a slower pace in February as orders for electronics products from the United States and Europe fell, according to Government data released yesterday. Key exports
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      249 38 THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) is making its presence in the United Kingdom property market felt in a big way, and is reportedly poised to announce its third billion-dollar deal this month. UK-based insurance giant Prudential may sell
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      63 38 IN THE report "Ml reveals 3G price plans" published yesterday, we said that "Sing Tel, which unveiled its 3G pricing plans last month, charges as little as 10 cents a minute for video calls between its customers". Sing Tel has clarified that the same charges
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      104 38 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Exchange will pay a net interim dividend of 1.4 cents a share for its third quarter ending March 31, plus a 15-cent special interim dividend, the company said in a statement yesterday. The payment, which is in line with the company's policy
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        26 38 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 443.30 Silver uss/oz 7.425 Platinum uss/oz 889.00 Rubber otsAg 217.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,491.50 Brent crude uss/bami 55.35 Information provided by
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        299 40 Dow Jones THE battle of the money brokers escalated after Prebon Yamane (Singapore) said it would be seeking injunctive relief and damages from 51 staff who recently left to join Cantor Fitzgerald's unit, BGC Partners. Prebon
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        423 40 Dow Jones May have to lease out some planes STYMIED by China and Indonesia's refusal to grant foreign operator's permits, the Singapore-based low-cost offshoot of Australia's Qantas Airways may have to sub-lease half of its Airbus A 320 fleet Since beginning operations last
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        249 42 DIGITAL imaging solutions provider Canon officially opened its newly-branded Canon LiNK customer care centre at Funan the IT Mall on Monday, promising to take customer satisfaction to a higher level with the launch of its "Customer Delight" offerings. The name Canon LiNK was chosen because it embodies the
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        247 42 AFP JAKARTA A senior banking executive confirmed yesterday he had been appointed as the new head of Indonesian flag carrier Garuda after a major reshuffle of the troubled airline's senior management The appointment of Mr Emirsyah Satar, a former Garuda finance
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          640 44  -  Ryan Chong THE institutional tranche of Bursa Malaysia's initial public offering (IPO) has been oversubscribed by a whopping 38 times one of the largest institutional investor response to a Malaysian IPO despite the fact that it is priced at 25 times the bourse's earnings,
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        337 44  -  Valeric Law SINGAPOREANS should consider entrepreneurship as a career option, as 50 per cent of all white collar workers will be retrenched in the next five years, said Mr Andy Ong, chief executive officer of the Entrepreneurship Resource Centre (ERC), which provides training and funding for
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      415 40 Singapore Zoo Enchanting Fairy Tale Romances Presented by Style Weddings Live your dream of a fairy tale wedding with prancing horses in the enchanting Forest Lodge at the Singapore Zoo. Arrive in a magical carriage and let your Prince Charming bow to receive you with his pledge of everlasting love
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      875 46  - Play us a song, you 're the PIANO MAN David Chew But don't mention that soundtrack or Jane Campion's film to composer Michael Nyman; he'll just be peeved COMPOSER and performer Michael Nyman has been to Singapore many times before, but this trip is one he will certainly remember. And
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      222 48 Idol substitute survives for now AP THE American Idol fill-in for dropout Mario Vazquez survived the show's elimination night on Wednesday, but his return may not be for long. Nikko Smith (picture) endured the show's dwindling from 12 contestants to 11 by securing enough votes from television viewers to continue
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        83 48 American a cappella rock/funk band The House Jacks is set to raise the roof when it makes its Singapore debut at a concert at 7.30pm, March 26, at the Fort Canning Park. Hailing from San Francisco, the five-man group uses their voices as instruments. They have
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      353 50 THERE is a first time for everything, as the old saying goes, and the 18th Singapore International Film Festival (Siff) will be offering many "firsts" from April 14 to 30. The three-week event, including the free Fringe Festival that starts on April 8
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      401 50  -  Mervin Tay The programme seller for Disney on Ice is a star in his own right mervin@newstoday.com.sg IF THE performances are the top draw at the annual Disney on Ice, then coming in at a close second has to be programme seller Joe Seitz. The feisty 75-year-old mans
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      369 52  -  YONG SHU CHIANG if you are a kid, that is FILM REVIEWby" The Spongeßob Square Pants Movie IF YOU know the answer to the question, "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?", you're likely to thoroughly enjoy this movie, essentially an extended episode of Stephen Hillenburg's phenomenally
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      180 52  -  MERVIN TAY FILM REVIEWby THIS movie is not a prequel to Jim Carrey's 1994 hit, The Mask. Under its, well, mask, lies just another bad spin-off. Jamie Kennedy plays Tim, a down-and-out cartoonist who gets his wife pregnant while wearing the "mask" that his dog Otis
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      605 53  -  Zul Othman Singer Leslie Feist won't let fame rush her into making mistakes by.... news(ffnews today, com, sg T WAS in Singapore last November. A We were on a stop over for twelve hours, so we went to Arab Street and had the most amazing coffee
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        290 54  -  YONG SHU CHIANG This creepy Canadian horror movie plays on the psyche for its scares FILM REVIEWb7 La Peau Blanche (White Skin) THANKS to two unsettling movies with French titles last year's Dans Ma Peau (In My Skin) and now this French-Canadian horror movie I've learned
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        198 54  -  DAVID CHEW FILM REVIEWb7 SURELY there are only so many times Bruce Willis can come back with a vengeance. And by the looks of it, the limit's been reached. His latest movie, Hostage, is a typical Hollywood action flick in which unrelated events somehow lead up to a hostage
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      Lock icon Benitez feels the heat
      632 68 Agencies ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool 0 Blackburn 0 LIVERPOOL Rafa Benitez continues to be linked to the Real Madrid hot seat and he still hasn't dismissed the speculation. The Liverpool manager has been tipped as a potential candidate to replace Wanderley Luxemburgo in the summer but, on
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      Lock icon Real chief still keen on Vieira, but local hero Raul could leave
      569 68 MADRID Real Madrid president Florentine) Perez has dropped a new hint that the Spanish giants could make a renewed bid for Arsenal's Patrick Vieira. Real came close to snaring the Gunners skipper last summer before the Senegal-born France
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      Lock icon A marathon, not a sprint
      509 69 Agencies Defiant Schumacher claims one poor race means almost nothing FORMULA 1 Malaysian Grand Prix SEPANG Michael Schumacher has been there, raced it and bought the logoemblazoned T-shirt After seven world titles in Formula 1, the German will need more than one poor performance before
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      Lock icon Raikkonen ready to race from the front
      265 69 -AFP SEPANG McLaren-Mercedes driver Kimi Raikkonen said that he is confident his team can fight at the front in Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix. The Finn suffered a disappointing start to the season in Australia two weeks ago when he qualified down on the
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      Lock icon Alonso eyes world title for Renault
      307 69 -AFP SEPANG Fernando Alonso has set his sights on his Renault team winning the world championship this year and is aiming for a podium finish in this Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix. The Spaniard's team-mate, Giancarlo Fisichella, opened his account with victory in the season-opening
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        535 62 Agencies Fergie suggests winger Ronaldo could soon become best player on the planet LISBON Manchester United's Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo is already among the 10 best footballers in the world and with more experience will become the globe's top player, his manager, Alex Ferguson, said yesterday.
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        280 62 AFP I WASHINGTON American lawmakers ripped into Major League Baseball's (MLB) new drug testing plan yesterday, describing it as shamefully inadequate on the eve of a Congressional hearing into rampant steroid-taking by stars. The option of imposing fines rather than mandatory bans for
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        Lock icon Ageing Agassi gives opponent 12 years and still wins
        356 62 AP TENNIS ATP Masters Series INDIAN WELLS, California Nearing 35, Andre Agassi still has plenty of bounce in his step and his game. The American rolled to a 6-4, 6-1 win over Guillermo Coria in the Pacific Life Open and ATP
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          440 63 AFP Injury-hit Middlesbrough bow out of Uefa Cup UEFA CUP, 4TH ROUND, 2ND LEG Sporting Lisbon 1 Middlesbrough 0 (Sporting win 4-2 on aggregate) PARIS Middlesbrough's Uefa Cup adventure is finally over for this season. The English Premiership side failed to take their chances before losing
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          Lock icon Davenport defeats Dechy to reach Indian Wells semis
          306 63 -AFP INDIAN WELLS, California Top seed Lindsay Davenport (picture) continued her domination over Nathalie Dechy with a 7-6 (7/2), 6-0 win to reach the semi-finals of the Indian Wells WTA/ATP Masters Series event this morning. It was their seventh career meeting with
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        302 64  -  Eric Ding NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2005 SAFFC v Woodlands Wellington Choa Chu Kang Stadium, live on Channel News Asia, 7pm WOODLANDS WELLINGTON coach Matt Brown finds his team joint-top of the S-League standings just two games into his fledgling career
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        Lock icon Albirex humbled
        472 64 Nervous Japanese strikers pay the price for poor finishing NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2005 Albirex Niigata 1 Young Lions 3 ERIC DING sports@newstoday.com.sg JUST two points from their opening three games, Albirex Niigata have made a forgettable start to the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League season. The Japanese side now languish
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        Lock icon President Putin champions Russia's 'athletic power'
        264 64 -AFP MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin made his pitch to visiting Olympics officials to choose Moscow as host of the 2012 Games, arguing that Russia had drastically changed since hosting the 1980 Olympics, but was still a world sports power. In a meeting with the
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        Lock icon Double trouble for India
        535 66 AFP Pakistan's centurionsYousuf and Younis destroy hosts' bowlers CRICKET India v Pakistan, 2nd Test CALCUTTA Pakistan's century-makers Younis Khan and Yousuf Youhana vowed to keep India under pressure in the second Test here, saying their task was not finished yet "We would like to continue on
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        Shu Yong makes it a SEA Games first for the Sports School
        299 66  -  Jasmine Zhao TWO years ago, national swimmer Ho Shu Yong left the Vietnam South-east Asia (SEA) Games with her self-confidence in tatters. Although she favours the sprint races, she took part in the 800 m freestyle to gain
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          Fisichella reveals hospital dash
          114 66 KUALA LUMPUR Renault driver Giancarlo Fisichella has revealed that his victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix was far from smooth, after his son had been taken into hospital with an infection on the morning of the race. "I knew the problem just before second qualifying,"
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          Bellamy wants to stay at Celtic
          94 66 GLASGOW Craig Bellamy (picture) has revealed that he wants to turn his loan stay at Scottish champions Celtic into a permanent move. The Wales striker, offloaded by Newcastle after a spectacular bust-up with manager Graeme Souness, has quickly established himself as a key figure
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          Kaiser wants top Uefa job
          102 66 BERLIN West Germany's 1974 World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer admits he is willing to step up his bid to become the next Uefa president after the German Football Federation (DFB) gave him their backing. Swede Lennart Johannson is set to step down in 2006 and
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          Bucks bounce back in style
          51 66 MILWAUKEE The Milwaukee Bucks, beaten by the Miami Heat on Monday, bounced back with a 96-88 National Basketball Association victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers yesterday (Singapore time). Michael Redd scored 21 of his 32 points in the second-half as the Bucks snapped a three-game losing
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          43 66 Indiana 103 Utah 84 Washington 122 Atlanta 93 Detroit 102 Seattle 95 New Jersey 100 Chicago 84 Memphis 88 New Orleans 82 Houston 108 Portland 77 Denver 120 Charlotte 101 San Antonio 89 Minnesota 73 LA Clippers 110 Orlando 102
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      40 69 6am Tennis Pacific Life Open, quarter-finals, Ch24 9am NBA Los Angeles Lakers v Miami Heat, Ch24 12.30pmTennis Pacific Life Open, quarter-finals, Ch24 3.30pm Golf TCL Classic, day 2, Ch22 8.30pm Rugby Super 12: Chiefs v Queensland Reds, round 4, Ch23
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