Today, 22 April 2005

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    Death knell for third NUS campus?
    850 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Today Exclusive Prohibitive costs may scuttle Buona Vista facility plans derrick@newstoday.com.sg AS THE ink dries on the agreement that paves the way for a second National University of Singapore (NUS) campus to be launched in 2007 its third proposed campus is
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  • hot news
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      'Don't blame Govt for addiction'
      187 2 ADDICTED gamblers should not pin blame on the Government even as it gives the green light for two integrated resorts-and-casinos, said Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports. "If you become an addict, you are at fault And you should recognise that
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      Time to close ranks, make move a success
      449 2  -  Val Chua PM Lee said it had been hard to change a policy that was working val@newstoday.com.sg NOW that a decision has been made, Singaporeans should close ranks and work together to make the integrated resort-and-casinos (IR) succeed for the country, said
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      Lone voice in last-ditch appeal to reverse decision
      518 2  -  Val Chua HIS lone plea stood out amid the sea of People's Action Party backbenchers who gave their resounding support to the two proposed integrated resorts (IR) with casinos. During the final hours of yesterday's parliamentary debate, Mr Loh Meng See (picture),
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        Can S'pore emulate the Bangalore buzz?
        761 3  -  Andy Mukheriee One lesson is a lively urban landscape needn't be a planned outcome MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew described Singapore in Parliament this week as "a neat and tidy place with no chewing gum, no smoking in air-condi-tioned places, no this, no that
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Job issue: Young or old, foreign or local?
      369 4  -  Val Chua Channel News Asia Backbenchers ask who will get 35,000 IR jobs val@newstoday.com.sg ABOUT 35,000 jobs will be created when the two integrated resorts (IR) and casinos come to life in 2009, it has been promised. But when it boils down
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      Lock icon $1m fund to educate vulnerable groups
      205 4 Channel News Asia THE Government is putting $1 million into public education programmes that will target vulnerable groups in anticipation of problems arising from having casinos at the two integrated resorts. The National Council on Gambling will be up by August, but responsibility lies
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      Lock icon More professionalism to nurses via Bill
      171 4 Newsßadio 93.8 PARLIAMENT has passed a Bill to enhance the professionalism of nurses in Singapore. An amendment to the Nurses and Midwives Bill will allow for the development of advanced practice nurses (APNs), referred to currently as nurse specialists. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan
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      Lock icon Fighting Aids, the Mbeki way
      432 6  -  Clement Mesenas South Africa's president's controversial remarks backed by WHO Foreign and Commentary Editor clement@newstoday.com.sg SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki's declaration that Aids, the scourge of the Third World, could be effectively combated through healthy eating raised a storm of controversy recently. But experts at
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      Pay-As-You-Use power for some bill defaulters
      331 8  -  Sheralyn Tay New scheme for those with at least two lapses in instalments sheralyn@newsto day, com. sg SOME 3,000 households will benefit from a Pay-As-You-Use electricity metering scheme from May 16. At a press conference yesterday, SP Services, the billing and payment subsidiary of
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      Lock icon No Typhoon aircraft for RSAF
      138 8 Newsßadio 93.8 THE Ministry of Defence (Mindef) confirmed it dropped the Eurofighter Typhoon from its shortlist of new-generation combat aircraft. While it was a very capable aircraft, Mindef said the committed schedule for delivery of the plane and its systems did not meet the Republic
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        PM Lee in Jakarta
        72 8 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will attend the AsianAfrican Summit in Jakarta today and tomorrow and participate in the Commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of the 1 955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung on Sunday. While he is there, he will also hold bilateral meetings with Asian
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        DPM Tan to attend pope's inauguration
        45 8 Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan will represent the Singapore Government at the inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday at the Vatican City. Dr Tan will be accompanied by Singapore's Ambassador to the Holy See, Professor Walter Woon.
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        Lock icon Maids' trial postponed
        106 10 Channel News Asia The trial of two Indonesian maids accused of killing their employer has been postponed until next week because one of them was deemed unfit to attend court. Sixteen-year-old Siti Aminah has been given four days of medical leave. Doctors at Changi Prison who examined
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        Lock icon Holland Drive redevelopment
        114 10 Channel News Asia Six blocks of flats in Holland Drive and Holland Avenue have been slated for redevelopment under the Government's Selective Enbloc Redevelopment Scheme. The six blocks Blocks 14 to 17 and 22 and 23 are about 31 years old. Residents will be re-housed in new
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        Lock icon No go for road rage appeal
        120 10 Channel News Asia Premier Taxi chief Timothy Chua, who was fined $1,000 two months ago for hurting a man in a case of road rage, was let off again yesterday at the Appeal Court. The prosecution had appealed for enhanced punishment, but Appeal Court
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        Lock icon Challenge for shopaholics
        69 10 Newsßadio 93.8 The call for participants for the Great Singapore Shopping Challenge begins today. To qualify, shoppers need to charge $20 to their MasterCard within the next month at any of the five participating malls: Centrepoint, Wisma Atria, Millenia Walk, Harbourfront Centre and Paragon. Five shoppers will
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      Women's issues brought to fore
      358 10  -  Sharon Vasoo Former NMP Mathi leads new Iseas programme sharon@newstoday.com.sg FORMER Nominated Member of Parliament Braema Mathi will spearhead a new programme that focuses on gender issues in the region at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Iseas). The institute's director X Kesavapany told Today
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      Lock icon Croc bit zookeeper, S'pore Zoo reports
      256 10 Channel News Asia THE Singapore Zoo has been having some trouble of late. Yesterday, it reported that a crocodile attacked one of its zookeepers two Sundays ago. This news was made public following two recent incidents on its premises a jaguar escape and a
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      830 9 HEALTH FOCUS Norwegian Expert Reveals Effective Carbohydrates Study Results Indicate More Weight Loss By Blocking Carbohydrates The results of a clinical trial in Norway, showed the group published in the International Journal of on the Xando Medical Research has found people using Tablets lost three Xando Tablets lose three times
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Breakthrough talks with rebels
      368 12 Philippines hopes for peace with Muslim militants by year end MANILA The Philippines hopes to bag a peace deal with Muslim rebels by the end of the year after breakthrough talks on the Islamic minority's ancestral land rights in the Mindanao region, a government negotiator said
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      Myanmar, accused of using chemical weapons, maintains right to Asean chair
      219 12 JAKARTA Myanmar yesterday maintained defiance in the face of international calls to give up the chairmanship of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) because of its poor democracy and rights record. Speaking in Jakarta ahead of this weekend's
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      Lock icon Did Mary appear in an underpass?
      63 12 Candles, flowers and other gifts have been left at a highway underpass in Chicago, Illinois, where some believe an apparition of the Virgin Mary has appeared on the wall. Police were posted in the area to keep the traffic flowing as hundreds of people
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon 5,000 sexual images found in police email system
        88 12 -AFP New Zealand police said yesterday they are investigating 330 officers after thousands of "inappropriate images of a sexual nature" were found during an audit of their email system. About 5,000 images were found and these took up 20 per cent of
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        Lock icon Drink beer as you bury your dead
        60 12 AFP An Australian undertaker is offering a beer-as-you-bury service to take some of the sting out of bereavement, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday. The company in Melbourne is introducing a minibus complete with a mini-bar and DVD player in which up to
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        Lock icon Juror fined for yawning
        70 12 AFP An angry judge fined a US juror US$l,OOO ($1,650) for letting out a loud yawn during an attempted murder trial, the Los Angeles Times reported. "I'm sorry, but I'm really bored," the juror pleaded to Judge Craig Veals, who dismissed his attitude as "lousy". The
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      Schwarzenegger loses sheen after a series of gaffes
      226 12 LOS ANGELES Hollywood star turned California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to be losing his sheen among the very people who voted for him nurses, firefighters, teachers, parents and recent immigrants, reported The Independent. A series of gaffes, gratuitously-insult-ing remarks and overly-provocative policy
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      Hong Kong study shatters penis myth
      167 12 HONG KONG A new Hong Kong study has shattered a myth that Chinese men have smaller penises than their Western counterparts, reported Reuters. "There has always been the myth that Westerners have bigger penises and their (sexual) ability is better," said Mr Chan Lung-wai,
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      Lock icon Violent turn to UK election
      438 14 London riot squads on alert at campaign stops LONDON Next month's British elections are taking a nasty turn after police were deployed to protect two rival candidates in London's tough East End area after scuffles broke out amid incidents of egg pelting and slashed tires.
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      Lock icon S Korea doesn't want UN in talks with North
      99 14 AFP SEOUL South Korea stepped up its opposition yesterday to any attempt to refer North Korea to the United Nations. Nuclear negotiator Song Min-Soon said the UN should not be involved and that six-way talks were the only viable option. Washington's
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      Lock icon Moussaoui to plead guilty in terror case
      193 14 -AFP WASHINGTON The lengthy legal saga of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person facing charges in the United States related to the 911 attacks, is set to end today with a guilty plea after a federal judge agreed to accept his admission. After a
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        Lock icon Older dads a factor in miscarriaae risks
        108 14 AFP The father's age, like the age of the mother, plays a major factor in the risk of miscarriage, according to a study which suggests that the danger increases by nearly a third among men aged older than 35. "Among men who are
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        Lock icon HK warns of danger of a whitening cream
        84 14 AFP The Hong Kong government is warning the public about the poisoning hazard of a beauty cream sold in China that contains more than 30,000 times as much mercury as allowed under regulatory limits. A 39-year-old woman suffered from mercury poisoning after
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        Lock icon Cambodian monarch's health is declining
        71 14 AFP The health of Cambodia's revered former King Norodom Sihanouk, who is in Beijing seeking medical treatment, is deteriorating, his son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said. The 82-year-old Sihanouk, who surprised his kingdom by abdicating last October, departed for China in January for regular medical checks.
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        Taiwan's independence lobby losing steam
        618 16  -  Dr Eric Tea BEIJING seems to have gained the tactical upper hand against Taipei as cross-straits manoeuvres intensify, following the vote of the Anti-Secession Law (ASL) in China's National People's Congress last month. A number of factors suggest that the independence lobby in Taiwan has
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      Gambling tycoon's son eyes low-rollers
      302 19 Stanley Ho's son plans $1.65b casino in Macau HONG KONG The son of gambling tycoon Stanley Ho believes there is big money to be made from small-time gamblers. He plans to rake in the cash with a US$l billion ($1.65 billion) casino project in Macau
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      Lock icon Typhoid outbreak leaves two dead in Malaysia
      169 19 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Two people have died and 203 people have been hospitalised following a typhoid outbreak in Malaysia's north-east Kelantan state, which has sparked a public health scare. A health official said the department had taken steps to control the disease, including
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      US moves to block WHO endorsement of abortion pills
      214 19 LONDON The United States government is trying to block the World Health Organization (WHO) from endorsing two abortion pills which could save the lives of some of the 68,000 women who die from unsafe practices in poor countries every year. The
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        Lock icon Yao Ming's 'Model Worker' tag in dispute
        83 19 AFP NBA superstar Yao Ming has been nominated as a "Model Worker" by the ruling Communist party, but a prominent Chinese academic said the basketball player does not qualify for the title usually bestowed on ordinary labourers. "According to past criteria, the title
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        Man robbed and left naked in plantation
        47 19 Motorists in Malaysia are on the alert after the second abduction-cum-robbery in a week, where a businessman was left naked in an oil palm estate in Shah Alam by five armed men. Both victims were driving BMWs, reported The Star.
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      Focus On The Family
      300 22  -  Dr James Dobson i TbiMTs H by. OF BIRDS AND NESTS One of the most difficult passages in life occurs when a child grows up and leaves home. As parents, we should look for opportunities to prepare our kids, and ourselves, for this important transition. I
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    • Letter
      Foreign students over local?
      332 22  -  RICK LIM SAY KIONG Give some of the 20% places allotted to polytechnic students instead I Letter from IT IS difficult to accept the Ministry of Education's (MOE) explanation for the heavy subsidies given to foreign students studying at our local universities ("Tuition grants attract overseas
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    • Letter
      Subsidise all students willing to learn
      218 22  -  LEE SOON 810 Letter from IMAGINE the agony of Singaporean parents who have to struggle and borrow money to send their children overseas for higher education, while knowing our Government is subsidising foreign students to a tune of $12,830 and guaranteeing them employment for
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    • Letter
      Why does extended HDB warranty only benefit flats built from this year?
      171 22  -  JANICA CHAN Letter from I AM saddened by the recent review of the Housing Development Board's (HDB) rules that extended the warranty period on three types of major defects for all new HDB flats built from this year.
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    • Letter
      Give new pope time to prove his mettle
      232 22  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I REFER to the front-page report, "Ultraconservative or man of change" (April 21). As a Catholic, I rejoiced when I heard of the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new Pope Benedict XVI. As a conservative pope,
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      Don't sell shareholders short
      370 24  -  DENIS DISTANT] Orchard properties are opportunities Letter from I REFER to the report, "Suntec offers $87 million for Ngee Ann City stake" (April 20). Suntec's offer is to Metro for its holdings of preference shares and junior bonds in the company which owns Ngee Ann City.
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      No referee to go bleating to
      354 24  -  l^y£l^l^y£l^l EfIIBHM WHILE I sympathise with Mr Ho Kwok Hoong in his comments "Heed call for 'circuit breaker' in stock market" (April 21), perhaps he and others like him should grow up and realise that they all trade under rules set by SGX. This
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      Hotline is needed to report road bullies
      172 25  -  LIM YENG YEOW Letter from I CAN relate to Loh Heng Loong's letter "What can be done about road bullies?" (April 21), as I was caught in similar bind last month. When I horned at a road bully to warn him of my
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    • Letter
      Library lockers are now a service not a requirement
      183 25  -  JASNA DHANSUKHLAL I Letter from Manager, Corpomt^ommumcations^^^ National Library Board WE THANK Mr David Kwok for his feedback ("Limit what library users bring in", April 19) and take this opportunity to clarify our policy with regard to locker use. Previously, customers
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      ICA's priority is checkpoint security
      622 26  -  HL 133 Authority is making efforts to clear travellers as quickly as possible Letter fromß Senior Public Internal Communications Executive, Corporate Communications Division for Commissioner, Immigration Checkpoints Authority I REFER to the news article (April 9) and letters (April 11) on the traffic situation at
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      Cflll AFTER THE CASINO, A ,oa* GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT?
      717 28  - Cflll AFTER THE CASINO, A ,oa GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT? Cheng Khim Seng MATTHEW Lee, Singapore Motor Sports Association president, recently stirred up speculation of a possible bid for a Singapore Grand Prix in 2007 to bring back the motor racing buzz of the 1960s and early 1970s when sections of
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    • Letter
      City that's truly 24 hrs in everything
      305 28  -  SIM JUEKWAH, JACK MY VISION FOR SPORE Letter from TODAY'S roads, offices, factories, government departments, banks and schools are busy only about eight to 10 hours a day. People refuse to work the night shift when everything else is closed. This is a
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      Lock icon To IR is human
      833 30  -  mr brown So, an Integrated Resort cannot be evil I AM looking forward to the coming casinos. They say that the casinos will make Singapore a truly Global City with a buzz. And I would like to visit these casinos to experience global-ness, being the unhip
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    • Letter
      Showcase the 19 IR proposals in exhibition
      224 30  -  EDWIN YEO TEE YEOK Letter from WHAT was interesting to note is how some MPs and ministers who were initially against the casino said they were persuaded after looking at the various proposals submitted by the international bidders, which must have been impressive
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        113 34 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed slightly higher as expectations of strong local earnings offset the negative impact from Wall Street's decline and higher oil prices. The ST Index rose 8.48 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close at 2,137.73. Although the index marked red ink in early trading, weighed
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      294 34  -  Christie Loh WBL to pay $1.35 a share, a premium of 20.15% christie@newstoday.com.sg SHAREHOLDERS of Wearnes International can now cash out of the illiquid stock at a premium as the distributor of luxury cars plans to delist from Sesdaq. Wearnes' parent, WBL Corp, is offering to buy
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      176 34 Bloomberg CHANGI Airport Managers and Partners (Singapore) the investment arm of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) may invest in Lukou Airport in China as it expands operations overseas to benefit from rising travel demand. Changi will buy as much as
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        131 36 Dow Jones CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust (CCT) is issuing 57.15 million new units at $1.38 each to raise $78.9 million to help fund its purchase of HSBC Building. "Unitholders can expect a higher distribution per unit (DPU) of 4.21 cents (for the period April 29 to
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        512 36  -  Valeric Law Majority owner Osim says the gift stores will focus on lifestyle gadgets valerie@newstoday.com.sg MOVIE-GOERS who watched The Terminal starring Tom Hanks and spotted United States-based specialty retailer Brookstone in the film can expect to see one in Singapore or Hong Kong soon, now that
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        156 38 Dow Jones SIA Engineering a unit of Singapore Airlines said yesterday that it was tying up with Cebu Pacific Air to offer aircraft maintenance services in the Philippines. The joint venture, called Aviation Partnership Philippines Corp, is SIA Engineering's third line maintenance
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        316 38 Dow Jones Many expect sales to grow from Q2 A MAJORITY of local manufacturers expect business conditions to improve in the next three to six months as exports and domestic sales pick up, but rising costs could hurt earnings, according to a survey of Singapore manufacturers. The
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        794 40  -  Mano Sabnani THERE are half-a-dozen listed companies being investigated by the authorities for various corporate wrongdoings. Several months back, investors were shocked by the scandal at education services provider Informatics Holdings. More recently, there has been much publicity about the problems at Citiraya Industries,
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      489 42  -  Yong Shu Chiang Sahara's Breck Eisner wants to be known for his work behind the camera and not for his famous surname shuchiang(gnewstoday.com.sg IF CELEBRITY couple Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz first got involved on the set of Sahara, they sure had director Breck Eisner fooled.
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      164 42 David Chew SINGAPORE SEASON, the $1.83 million excursion that took local arts practitioners to London, ended on April 5. The report card, released yesterday at a Singapore Season "welcome home" reception, revealed that about 10,000 people attended the ticketed events, with an average 78--per-cent
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      205 42 AP NEW YORK After Tuesday's 70s disco-themed episode of American Idol, Anwar Robinson failed to stay alive on Wednesday night's results show. Despite being hailed by judge Paula Abdul as being technically this season's best singer, the dreadlocked Robinson received the fewest votes and was
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      272 42 AFP LOS ANGELES Oscar-win-ning Hollywood heart-throb Ben Affleck and his girlfriend of nine months, Jennifer Garner, are engaged to be married, People magazine reported on Wednesday. Affleck, 32, popped the question at the weekend, the weekly publication said, setting the stage for a second round of
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      623 44  -  David Chew British playwright's works incite social debates david.chew@newstoday.com.sg A RECENT play by British playwright David Hare stirred up so much controversy about railway privatisation in London that he himself didn't want a part of it In 1990, his play Racing Demon about the Church of England had
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      243 46  -  Felix Cheong Icelandic director wants people to stop and think about life and death news@newstoday.com.sg FRIDRIK Thor Fridriksson loves funerals. The 51-year-old Icelandic director likes introducing set pieces to his films, in which the characters have to mourn. "It's the only time that people have time
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      180 46 David Chew DID you know that there are only three types of dance where a man and a woman perform facing each other? The first was the Viennese Waltz in 1830, which was followed by the Polka soon after. Then the Tango started appearing on stages
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        439 48  -  JEANINE TAN Thriller skims through politics to focus on the human drama I FILM REVIEW by IN HOLLYWOOD, you can romanticise everything even politics. Sydney Pollack's latest film is less concerned with the political machinations of a troubled African state than with the aspirations of Silvia Broome
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        140 48  -  MERVIN TAY FILM REVIEWby" ROUGHLY along the lines of Resident Evil and 28 Days Later, films where people get infected with deadly contagious diseases, comes the Japanese horror flick, Infection. Set in an isolated hospital that looks more like a haunted mansion, an overworked night crew tries to cope
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        359 48  -  YONG SHU CHIANG I FILM REVIEWby A LOWLY samurai, in a changing society where men of his ilk are increasingly anachronistic, is bound by a code of honour that demands he serve heartless and corrupt bureaucrats. He yearns for the simple life and to be with his
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        114 49 7pm Stray Dogs (NCI 6, Iran), 93min, Prince 1 An Afghan brother and sister rescue a dog from kids bent on killing it. Save and Burn (PG, Canada), 80min, Singapore History Museum World premiere of documentary that speculates on how civilisation might have advanced had the tide
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        314 49  -  YONG SHU CHIANG That's Millions'take on how children see the world FILM REVIEWby HE S most famous for making a movie about a group of poorly-behaved Edinburgh heroin addicts, while his most recent offer- ing had bad-tempered zombies roaming a devastated England, trying to eat the
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      670 62 Agencies Lampard believes Blues will dominate football in England ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea 0 Arsenal 0 LONDON Mathematically speaking, the English Premiership trophy is not yet bound for Stamford Bridge. But Frank Lampard has no time for such formalities. The Chelsea midfielder believes his team-mates can
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      156 62 AFP BLACKBURN Robbie Savage and Blackburn Rovers were again embroiled in controversy after a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Allegations surfaced that the midfielder was involved in a fight with young Palace striker Wayne Routledge in the Ewood Park
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      436 62 AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Portsmouth 1 Liverpool 2 PORTSMOUTH Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez admits his side cannot afford to slip up in the hunt for a top-four finish and a place in next season's Champions League, after a 2-1 win at Portsmouth on Wednesday (yesterday
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      612 63 Agencies Defender's passion clouded by the red mist ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton 1 Manchester United 0 LIVERPOOL The Old Trafford faithful revere him. Alex Ferguson calls him a model professional to whom younger players like Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo should look up to. In the England
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        647 57 Cleveland superstar's triple-double not enough to save playoff dream NBA Toronto 95 Cleveland 104 TORONTO Before the tipoff in the National Basketball Association (NBA) game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors, Leßron James admitted that he would play the dual role of scorer and
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        316 57 NBA Portland 106 LA Lakers 103 PORTLAND If you wanted the perfect juxtaposition of a franchise gone askew, it was right here on the Rose Garden court on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). As the seconds ticked down in the final
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        THE NBA PLAYOFFS
        394 57 Schedule for the first round of playoffs (all series best-of-seven): Phoenix v Memphis Mon, April 25: Phoenixv Memphis Thu, April 28: Phoenixv Memphis Sat, April 30: Memphis v Phoenix Mon, May 2: Memphis v Phoenix Wed, May 4: Phoenix v Memphis* Fri, May 6: Memphis v Phoenix*
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        505 58 AP German ace in talks to extend contract, confident of challenging for a win this weekend 1 FORMULA 1 San Marino Grand Prix ROME Michael Schumacher has revealed he is in talks with Ferrari team boss Jean Todt about staying on with the Italian Formula 1
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        301 58 AFP GOLF Johnnie Walker Classic BEIJING Seasonal high winds blew the Johnnie Walker Classic golf tournament off course yesterday, when strong gusts forced the first day's play to be abandoned. Adam Scott was leading at 3-under-par after nine holes, when play was suspended early in the
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          Holmes' golden swansong
          65 58 LONDON Britain's double Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes (right) announced yesterday that this will be her last full season of competition. The 35-year-old, winner of the 800 m and 1500 m at the Athens Games, will make her last track appearance in Britain at the Aug 21
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          Local talent get reprieve
          79 58 TALLINN, Estonia A rule designed to increase the number of locally trained football players was unanimously approved by Uefa's 52 member federations yesterday. Starting next season, clubs have to field a first-team roster of 15 players containing at least two players trained at their own academy.
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          Kitajima's poor show
          73 58 YOKOHAMA Athens Olympic dual gold medallist Kosuke Kitajima surprisingly finished third in the men's 200 m breaststroke at the national championships yesterday, missing out on the world swimming championships. Kitajima, who was the 1 00m and 200 m breaststroke world champion at Barcelona in 2003, finished behind
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          Lay down that bat
          62 58 SYDNEY The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) want to ban Australian captain Ricky Ponting's revolutionary cricket bat anead of this year's Ashes series in England, reports said here yesterday. The MCC, cricket's lawmaker, are concerned that Ponting's bat has been strengthened by a thin strip of carbon
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          Some sushi for Red Devils
          87 58 TOKYO Manchester United will play two matches with J-League clubs in Japan as part of their Far East tour in July, organisers said yesterday. The English Premiership club will face Kashima Antlers, the current J-League leaders, at Tokyo's National Stadium on July 28 and Urawa
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        420 59 Capello remains confident, but Milan now have the edge SERIE A Juventus 0 Inter Milan 1 ROME Juventus' season could be falling apart Stunned by Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-finals last week, the Turin giants have now thrown away precious points in the race
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        Inline hockey tournament takes off and goes international
        261 59  -  DINESH KUMAR dinesh@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a relatively new sport in Singapore, but inline hockey officials hope to raise awareness of it with the Asia Pacific Cup (APC) Inline Hockey Challenge Singapore 2005, which starts today. The tournament, held for the second time
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        245 59 Jasmine Zhao AS PART of a national initiative to promote sports among schools, as well as the community at large, Team Singapore and the Singapore Schools Sports Council (CoCurricular Branch) have come together to form the Young Team Singapore Ambassador (YTSA) programme. The new initiative
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        Lions end 25-year wait
        305 60  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THEY were crowned the best football team in Southeast Asia, when skipper Aide Iskandar lifted the Tiger Cup trophy at the National Stadium in January. So it came as no surprise that the Singapore Lions were named Team of the Year (Team), when the
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        521 60  -  TAN YO-HINN Zheng, Susilo land coach and sportsman of the year titles yohinn@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE badminton made history last night when the sport picked up the coach and the sportsman of the year awards for the first time. Ronald Susilo and Zheng Qingjin were rewarded for their
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        Easy for Young Lions as Paya Lebar dumped again
        230 60  -  Eric Ding IT IS definitely looking ominous for Paya Lebar Punggol FC and their former Malaysia Cup winning coach Chow Kwai Lam. The Seahorses' miserable start to their maiden NTUC IncomeYeo's S-League season continued last night, as they slumped to their
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