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  • 837 1  -  Chow Perm Nee Bigger than Titanic and even the DVD storm can't sink it Ijgjljj IHHiiiliß IHbS SBiHfliiHipEMijMMUiH |ilj|ij|^|j|iii3ii|jft^i^^ IT depends on whom you speak to. The industry players will have you believe that the magic of movies has come alive again, dragging Singaporeans back to the big
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  • hot news
    • 476 2 -AFP, ChannelNewsAsia AFTER an operation lasting slightly over an hour on Thursday night, Singapore doctors removed three bullet fragments from Ms Eva Yeung, the Hong Kong Red Cross worker who was rushed here for treatment after being shot in Aceh. The
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    • 319 3  -  -Jasmine Yin IT was a simple concept that struck gold: Two faces, a girl's and a boy's, in a print advertisement for a variety show featuring the best-looking people in local tertiary institutions. What grabbed instant attention was the fact that
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    • 722 3  -  Wong Fei Wan I just want to advise my client about his rights, he tells court feiwan@newstoday.com.sg WHEN should an accused person be allowed access to his lawyer? And is he presumed innocent until proven guilty? These fundamental questions were hotly debated in
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    • 370 3  -  Derrick A Paulo SINGAPORE opposes giving the veto to the four countries aspiring for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. Japan, Germany, India and Brazil are lobbying the global community, including Singapore, to increase the number of permanent members in
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    • 554 4  -  Ansley Ng Singapore responds to Malaysia's recent hike, big lorry users hardest hit ansley@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Ban Hong Poultry closes its accounts at the end of next month, it will find its operational expenditure for the month balloon by as much as
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    • 441 4  -  Clement Mesenas, MANILA A massive anti-government protest to demand the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday failed to take off as police blocked key sections of the metropolis. But the embattled President took another blow when an outspoken Roman Catholic archbishop said she
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    • 621 6  -  Derrick A Paulo They will get 1.5-month bonus soon, announces MM Lee, highlighting rising wages over the years derrick@newstoday.com.sg UNION workers at PSA will be getting additional wage incentives soon. The port is on course to achieve its cost reduction targets by month's end, and
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    • 384 6  -  Loh Chee Kong SINGAPORE and Indonesia have decided to join hands to teach each other a thing or two. They will exchange students and faculty. They will do research together. But to start with, some 80 Singaporeans mostly professionals with business links in Indonesia have signed
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  • world news
    • 718 8  -  Today Foreign Desk HGHG news@newstoday.com.sg THE United States porn industry has been caught in a bind with US federal regulations on porn record-keeping taking effect on Thursday. The regulations introduced by US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales to crack down on child pornography have caused fits of apoplexy among
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    • 231 8 IPS NEW DELHI Thousands of women in Maharashtra will continue to sing and dance again in bars after the governor of the western Indian state refused to sign a law banning them from their livelihood. For now, "dance bar girls"
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 87 8 -AFP The northern Malaysian state of Kelantan, ruled by the conservative Parti Islam Semalaysia, will impose the maximum fine on women who fail to wear headscarves as part of a crackdown on local dress codes, the New Straits Times reported. The municipal council
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      • 70 8 AFP Malaysian businessman Gan Chun Loong has been sentenced to 20 years' jail for beating his Indonesian maid to death after an argument about household chores, The Star reported on Friday. The 40-year-old man was found guilty of the manslaughter of 28-year-old
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      • 72 8 Zff AP Hong Kong s new leader Donald Tsang was sworn in today at a ceremony in Beijing, completing the first leadership change in the former British colony since it returned to Chinese rule eight years ago. Mr Tsang replaced Mr Tung Cheehwa, who
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      • 73 8 AP The United Nations (UN) and other aid agencies have suspended road travel in parts of tsunami-ravaged Aceh province amid heightened security concerns following the shooting of a Hong Kong-based Red Cross worker Eva Yeung. Rebels and government troops blamed each other
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      • 90 8 AFP Sri Lanka's government and Tiger rebels entered a landmark tsunami aid-sharing deal on Friday, raising hopes of salvaging a Norwegian-led peace process. Meanwhile hardline Marxists stepped up protests. Under the deal, the Colombo government and the Tigers will jointly handle billions of
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • Article, Illustration
        73 10 AFP A man has sold for almost US$2,OOO ($3,345) a water-stained piece of plaster from his bathroom wall that bears a resemblance to the image of Jesus Christ, its purchaser Golden Palace.com said. The image appeared to Jeffrey Rigo, 30, of Pennsylvania as he stepped out of the
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      • 69 10 Two Russian soldiers are in trouble after they drove an armoured personnel carrier 40km to buy vodka. They were caught after crashing into a used car showroom, demolishing several vehicles, on the way back. The soldiers took the armoured vehicle from their military base, near Yekaterinburg in
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      • 58 10 A village in Russia has been evacuated after it was taken over by millions of flies, ananova.com reported. The problem started after a local farmer arranged for tonnes of chicken manure to be dumped near Polevoy in the Sverdlovsk region one of Russia's most beautiful regions.
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    • 453 10 The Guardian LONDON The United States is raising the pressure on Syria with its Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging punitive action against the country and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld alleging that foreign fighters were being funnelled into Iraq through Syria, with Damascus' knowledge. Ms
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    • 320 10 AFP HIS VICTIMS LONDON A confidence trickster who told his mostly female victims that he was a British spy is facing life imprisonment after he was convicted of pocketing a six-digit fortune during an "unbelievable odyssey of deceit". Robert Hendy-Freegard, 34, spent a decade commandeering
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    • 140 10 The Guardian PHILADELPHIA White-supremist Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for orchestrating the killing of three young civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. Killen, 80, showed no emotion as he was
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    • 754 12  -  Neil Humphreys Singapore needs a nudist colony to survive bloke here." Coming towards us was a man pushing a bicycle, wearing nothing but a cycling helmet and a thong. Have you ever seen a scrawny gentleman walk towards you, wearing nothing but a cycling helmet and a
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    • 162 12  -  I MICHAEL CHUA KHENG HWEE I Letter from I REFER to the letter "NRIC not enough to verify person's identity" (June 23). I lost my NRIC in 1999. Someone picked it up and used it to register a mobile phone account Ml sent the
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    • 234 14  -  ALICE SIM Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Hospitals, scrutinise A&E systems" (June 24) by reader Lim Wei Yi. I had the unfortunate experience of having to wait about seven or eight hours at the National University Hospital's
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    • 234 14  -  VICTOR KEONG I Letter from Assistant Director, Media Relations (Covering) [Singapore Police Force WE REFER to the letter "One slip too many" by Mr Prem Singh (June 13). The police and other enforcement agencies view the safe and secure custody of accused persons, and
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    • 111 14  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from RECENTLY I patronised the peanut (kacang puteh) vendor at the Singapore Expo. He told me, to my surprise, that he pays $250 a day to rent a cart and space. At $1 for a packet of peanuts, the vendor would have to sell
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    • 229 15  -  TAMMY TAN I Letter from I Group Corporate Communications Officer, ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited I REFER to the letter, "Terminal crashes' that could be fatal", by Mr Faisal Saeed (June 21) and thank him for his feedback. We wish to assure Mr Saeed and others that
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    • 141 15  -  LIM BOON HEE I Letter from I AM shocked by the lack of integrity of the company issuing a recall of a defective model of pace-maker. It seems business considerations take priority over patient safety where some pharmaceutical or biomedical companies are concerned. This is criminal.
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    • 274 15  -  SUSAN TANN I Letter from General Manager, Swensen's WE refer to the letter by Mr Nicholas Tan Wen-Yu, "Fire! But they were told to pay first before leaving" (June 24). We have taken a very serious view of this matter and would like to assure Mr
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    • 827 16  -  Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg Talent flow expected after the signing of economic accord next week will benefit both countries news(g>newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE and India have agreed to start recognising each other's educational qualifications in architecture, accountancy and medicine. Not many Singapore-trained doctors may want to rough
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    • Market WATCH
      • 60 16 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 11,537.03 14,230.29 4,203.80 6,340.69 1,002.43 898.08 690.25 1,135.66 1,947.21 220.64 7,148.62 Pis -39.72 -0.34 +39.85 +0.28 -21.80 -0.52 -33.17 -0.52 -8.37 -0.83 -4.23 -0.47
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      • 36 16 US$ 0.5973 UK£ 0.3283 Yen 65.295 HK$ 4.6426 RM 2.2699 Euro 0.4950 Rupiah 5,764.5 Baht 24.512 Peso 33.224 A$ 0.7721 Indian Rs 25.996 Won 605.35 C$ 0.7357 Yuan 4.9435 NZ$ 0.8418 NTS 18.731
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      • 21 16 Gold uss/oz 445.10 Silver uss/oz 7.31 Platinum uss/oi 895.50 Rubber centsAg 248.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,428.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 58.45
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      • 133 16 SHARES ended flat on Friday, as late bargain-hunting reversed losses chalked up in the earlier part of the day. The ST Index rose 0.27 point, or 0.01 per cent, to close at 2,223.72, off its intra-day low of 2,21 0.25. In the broad market, gainers beat losers 230 to
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      • 4 16 ST Index 2,223.72 +0.27
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      • 56 16 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by By volume Close Change 'OOO UniFiber SingTel ManWah 0.400 2.700 0.270 +0.010 +0.020 +0.4 +8.0 26,010 17,050 15,783 Capitaland ChinaEntSp SingPost NOL Noble Grp SembMar N0LMBLeCW*****0 2.360 0.020 1.020 3.780 1.450 2.550 0.135 +0.040 +0.180 -0.010 +0.035 +4.1 +5.0 -0.4 +35.0 12,042
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      • 75 16 By Close Change F&N 15.700 +0.300 By percentage LiangHuat Close Change 0.010 +100.0 GrealEast 14.200 +0.200 Robinson 6.100 +0.200 PSL NOL DB eCW*****6 0.055 +83.3 0.310 +55.0 HyfluxDB eCW*****7 1.070 +0.190 NOL 3.780 +0.180 HSI*****DBeCW*****0 1.110 +0.175 NOLMBLeCW*****0 Digilanil NOLCAeCW*****5 0.135 +35.0 0.020 +33.3 0.700 +33.3 NOLCAeCW*****5
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    • 538 17 Bloomberg SINGAPORE plans to build new convention centres to help lure business travellers to the city. The Government said that it wanted to double tourist arrivals to 17 million and triple visitor spending to $30 billion in the next decade. Key to
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    • 141 17 ONE of Greatronic's substantial shareholders, Greatlink Electronics Co, sold its entire shareholding in the company to Mr James Hong Gee Ho. The stake, comprising 64.9 million shares, or 47.25 per cent of Greatronic, was sold at $974,000, or 1.5 cents per share,
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    • 478 18  -  Pearlyn Tham Meet the mirls metrosexuals gone ultra-feminine FIRST, there was the sensitive new age guy who would notice your new earrings, share cooking tips with you and lend you his shoulder to cry on. Then came along the metrosexual who would have you notice his new
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    • style
      • 211 19  -  Pearlvn Tham Some of Mother Nature's best ingredients in one skincare range pearlyn@newstoday.com.Sj IT'S amazing how some of the best beauty ingredients come from Mother Nature. Take green tea, for instance. Green tea once seen as nothing more than a beverage is now hailed as one of
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      • AT A GLANCE
        • 76 19 Use trie new Complete Aquavision monthly disposable soft contact lenses together with the Complete Moisture Plus multi-purpose solution for a completely clear experience. The lenses have five times more water-binding properties than normal lenses and the solution contains Taurine, an anti-oxidant found in tears to protect
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          62 19 During this Great Singapore Sale, check out the 20-per-cent storewide discounts on all regular-priced items at Goldheart Jewelry. Be dazzled by the Twinkle collection of items set in white gold that includes earrings with floral or loop designs and pendants with butterfly, linear or interlocking heart designs. The
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          64 19 crop A favourite for decades, Kiehl's Creme de Corps body cream now comes with two new formulas, including the Light-Weight Body Lotion ($45, right). Ideal for normal to dry skin types, this is enriched with ingredients such as jojoba butter, olive fruit oil and sweet almond oil
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      • 324 19  -  Pearlyn Tham WHAT must be most fascinating for both horology experts and amateurs, is how something so small and delicate as a watch can be packed with so many functions and complicated mechanisms. One such example is Jaeger-LeCoultre's Master Compressor Extreme World Chronograph. Its name
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      • 160 20  -  fPearlyn Tham y^T^OTHING is what it seepj^mese /delays. The Aquatic Shine li-pstick from Biotherm's Skin Loving Coloks range may look like a lipstick but/it works more like a lip gloss. Sheathed in a slim, futuristic-looking silver case, Aquatic Shine is formulated with high-gloss oil and a transparent polymer
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      • 372 20  -  Brenda Chew LOCATED at 22 Ann Siang Road, The Asylum sits inconspicuously among restaurants, spas and quaint bars. The interior of the store is visually refreshing, with its simple artwork, ornately-painted walls and soft light from chandeliers. With alternative music playing in the background and
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      • 583 20  -  Pearlyn Tham Exhibition lets you in on the creative processes of the Sydney-based designer pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg HIS creations are usually presented on the catwalk but you can see part of Akira Isogawa's Spring-Summer 2005 collection at The Arts House from now till July 5. The Kyoto-born
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      • 601 21  -  Pearlyn Tham L'Oreal's enhanced skin whitener is twice as effective pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg TWO heads are definitely better than one, as L'Oreal's White Perfect Deep Whitening Double Essence from its Dermo-Expertise line shows. When this was first launched last year, its packaging intrigued me. The innovative bottle is
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      • 667 22  -  Tor Ching Li This classy takeaway service offers gourmet fare chingli@newsto day, com. sg SO you can dial a number to get fried chicken and pan pizzas but why stop at that? Busy professionals or party hosts who want fuss-free food but not fast food
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        159 22  -  Brenda Chew Art made edible Szechuan Court at Raffles The Plaza has made a name for itself at this year's Singapore Food Festival (SFF). In the festival's New Dish Creation competition, the restaurant's master chef Tan Yong Hua emerged as the second runner-up in the Healthy Cuisine category with
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    • makan
      • 464 23  -  Eveline Gan Here are some winners in the quest to find contenders for the title of Spores signature dish eveline@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S signature dishes such as the chilli crab and Hainanese chicken rice may soon be joined, or even replaced, by new and more creative
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        224 23  -  Brenda Chew How to have your burger and eat another What do people really mean when they say you can enjoy the best of both worlds? At Burger King, it means you can have your Mushroom Swiss and eat your Whopper. This is because the fast food chain
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    • gadget
      • SHOPPING GUIDE
        • 129 24 YOU won't have to miss out on taking great photos while shooting a movie with Canon's Power Shot S2. Just a click of the shutter button lets you capture still images while recording a video on this five-megapixel camera. The adjustable LCD can be
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        • 98 24 BENQ'S latest 17-inch liquid crystal display monitor, the FP72V, features wide viewing angles, an automatic brightness adjustment sensor and a detachable Web camera for flexible placement. The light sensor automatically tweaks the brightness of the monitor based on lighting conditions and comes with a timer
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        • 130 24 IF YOU have been pining for the arrival of the Sony Ericsson K7soi since it was first unveiled here in March, the wait is finally over. The two-megapixel camera phone comes with cool features such as auto focus, red-eye reduction and an intuitive user interface.
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        • 102 24 BUNDLED with Global Village's Internet phone service, Aztech's V3OOATA voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) broadband router lets you make low-cost phone calls anytime and anywhere in the world. Users can continue surfing the Internet while making Internet voice calls on a regular telephone. Priced at
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      • 628 24  -  Ariel Tarn Mobile Phone Reviews: Motorola E6BOI Philips Xenium 9(a)9c Moto E6Boi HTB2O Bluetooth headset rolling good times ariel@newstoday.com.sg THE Motorola E6Boi is one impressive-looking phone with sterling multimedia capabilities. At 53x109x20mm and weighing 133g, it is bigger and heavier than one of those cutesy, pager-sized handsets that
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      • 292 24  -  Seah Slew Hua IF YOU are stranded on a deserted island after a shipwreck and have miraculously managed to hang on to your Philips Xenium 9@9c mobile phone, you can take a four-week holiday on the island before ringing home for some help. The
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      • 513 25  - If you don't mind a bulge Terry Lav Big 4GB drive lets you carry lots of data iniotectngnewstoaay.com.sg THERE is not a lot that the Life Drive from palm One cannot do. Though noticeably heavier than others at just under 200g, it measures a reasonable 12.1x7.3x1.9cm. It is slightly thicker
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      • 140 25 HOT BUY GET 60 days of Max Online FlexiSurf 2000 broadband service and a cable modem (DCM-202) free when you buy the D-Link bundle of the DI-624+ HighSpeed 2.4 GHz 88Mbps router and DWL-G122 wireless USB adapter at $169. The D-Link DI-624+ wireless router employs hardware-based compression technologies such as
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    • car
      • 677 26  -  Colin Yong Audi's best-seller receives some styling and mechanical improvements colin@newstoday.com.sg THINGS were a lot simpler a few years ago if you were looking for a compact executive car in the market You would buy a BMW 3 Series for its fantastic driving dynamics or
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      • 325 26  -  Colin Yong THE new Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which goes on sale in Europe later this year, looks set be the most technologically-advanced production car ever built Although the first official photographs reveal a dramaticallystyled saloon (especially, around the rear end) that's significantly larger
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      • 493 27  -  Sheldon Trollope There's just one way to drive the Fiat Punto HGT: With Italian attitude newstgnewstoaay.com.sg I'M PROBABLY going to get into trouble for saying this: But there's no way to drive the Fiat Punto HGT slowly. It hails from the land where every motorist thinks
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      • 176 27 I drive a five-year-old Jaguar XJ. When the roads are wet and I try to steer the car left, something seems to be 'jamming' the steering wheel. After a few minutes, it gets back to normal. The interesting thing is that this doesn't happen if I steer to
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      • 553 27  -  Colin Yong IT IS sleek, sexy and has even been mistaken for a Porsche. It has a lightweight carbon fibre body, goes from 0-100kmh in under five seconds and has a potential range of more than 300 km.
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    • property
      • 335 28 WATERFRONT living continues to beckon with Wheelock Properties' latest offering, The Sea View. Except this one is easier to reach. Home buyers at the East Coast condo- minium's soft launch this weekend will find that each square foot averages $750.
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      • 747 28  -  Valeric Law The purchase of excess land parcels could turn into valerie@newstoday.com.sg MR DONALD Trump and comedian Bob Hope are tycoons who earned their riches from land. And closer to home, Mr Li Ka Shing and Hong Leong Group founder Kwek Hong Png were known to
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    • 499 29  -  David Chew and Lorraine Lim Despite assessable line-up, the arts fest lacked good publicity to draw the crowds david.chew@newstoday.com.sg THIS Sunday marks the last day of the Singapore Arts Festival 2005, A Season of Brilliance. Looking back at the past month, one wonders if the festival did its
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    • 339 29 THERE were plenty of "brilliance" as well as "strange" and "bizarre" and enough on-stage and off-stage theatrics to leave a deep impression of the Singapore Arts Festival. How could we sum up the event in one page? Why, through our own irreverent arts fest awards Most
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    • 313 30  -  Mervin Tay news(g>newstoday.com.sg SEEMS like Thursdays nights will be teary affairs on MediaCorp TV Channel U because the first Project SuperStar results show brought tears to the eyes of not only the four who were eliminated, but also to those who remained. "It was very
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    • 265 30  - Diverse sounds at Womad 2005 Zul Othman THIS year's Womad (World of Music, Arts and Dance), festival, which runs from Aug 26 to 28 at the Fort Canning Park, will showcase a decidedly traditional and fusion affair with music from Israel, Mali, Syria, Cuba, Sri Lanka and India. "It wasn't
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    • 203 30  - and local beats, too Zul Othman ONE of the few homegrown acts to be showcased at this year's Womad festival is electronic musician r-H (aka Rajesh Harwani). And he isn't taking his festival debut very lightly. "One of the tracks got picked up by UK record label Virgin, and from
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      • 32 31  -  Excellent exploration of the Dark Knight's origins, with a stellar turn by star Christian Bale, is gritty and intelligent. Exorcises the demons of the previous Batman franchise. Yong Shu Chiang
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      • 31 31 -YSC A "Will they/won't they?" story about friends considering romance. Amanda Peet is charming, Ashton Kutcher isn't annoying, even if it's not quite When Harry Met Sally.
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      • 34 31 YSC A tender wish-fulfilment fantasy about a magical rainy season when a man's dead wife returns, seemingly alive and well. Her amnesia allows the pair to relive their love once again.
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      • 31 31 YSC Need-for-speed adventure stars Jay Chou as a car genius. Delivers all it promises on the visceral level. Pity that it hits a few bumps with its love story.
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      • 23 31 YSC Intense and involving slowburner about a war photographer returning home to become implicated in n missing person's case.
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      • 25 31  - MR MRS SMITH Tor Ching Li A married couple discover that they're both assassins working for opposite sides Hits the target more than it misses.
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      • 34 31 -YSC A woman (Joan Allen) whose husband leaves her gets mad, drunk and unexpectedly wooed by a fellow alco- holic (Kevin Costner). Witty drama is lilted by Allen's fine performance.
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      • 24 31 YSC A trio of films about love and desire by Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. Two out of three ain't bad.
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      • 25 31  -  Patricia Yap Subway spook-fest that's typical of South Korean horror that have inundated cinemas in recent years. At times predictable, at times bizarre.
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      • 21 31  -  Mervin Tay Entertaining comedy about a down-and-out gambler's scheme to hit the jackpot through mahiona. A tad too slapstick.
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      • 15 31 YSC Weak storytelling lets down crisp graphics and cute animals in DreamWorks' animated comedy.
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      • 14 31 MT A soon-to-be-bride (Jennifer Lopez) battles vindictive future mother-in-law (Jane Fonda). Super-thin plot.
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      • 23 31 MT Predictable but entertaining comedy about a girl who believes her beau's un^nitnbU due to his blood type.
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      • 40 31 STAR WARS: EP III REVENGE OF THE SITH YSC A vast improvement on the cutesy Ep I and trite Ep 11, and a satisfying conclusion to the saga, although purists will still pine for the maaic of the original trilogy.
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      • 21 31 YSC Story of a smart girl opting for a competitive figure-skat-ing career over a scholarship is predictable and mindnumbing.
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      • 452 37 Agencies On Duncan's back and with a huge Ginobili assist, Spurs are champs NBA FINALS, GAME 7 San Antonio 81 Detroit 74 SAN ANTONIO Spurred by the will and wonder of Tim Duncan, the San Antonio Spurs are NBA champions, again. Duncan shrugged off a stretch
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      • 329 37 AFP SAN ANTONIO Tim Duncan (right) showed once again that the NBA Finals are his personal showcase, picking up his third Most Valuable Player (MVP) award in as many appearances. "I just tried to be aggressive," said Duncan, who scored 17 of his game-high 25 points
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      • 201 38  -  Tan Yo-Hinn JOSCELIN Yeo and Marcus Cheah were crowned best overall male and female performers, at the inaugural five-day Singapore National Swimming Championships, which ended on Friday night at the Singapore Sports School. Yeo, 26, met the SEA Games 'A' qualifying mark in six events. Marcus,
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      • 134 38 TENNIS Wimbledon LONDON Marat Safin's latest attempt to conquer Wimbledon ended in bitter disappointment and frustration on Friday, when he was knocked out in the third round by Spanish serve-and-volleyer Felciano Lopez. The fifth-seeded Russian, bidding to win a third Grand Slam tournament on his leastpreferred
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      • 394 38 ALMERIA, Spain Some 21 International Olympic Committee (IOC) members will congregate here this weekend and they are expected to discuss the 2012 Games bid. It is the last significant gathering of lOC members before they come together in Singapore to vote for the host city at
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      • 310 38  -  Eric Ding AS ONE of the seven finalists in the Tiger Beer FC Million Dollar Signing, Saturday was supposed to be one of the most important days in Fadzil Bin Sultan's life. But his once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a millionaire has vanished. On
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      • 575 39 theweekendinterview with badminton star PETER GAPE CHRISTENSEN HAVING topped the world rankings from 1998-2001, picking up the 1999 All-England title along the way, Peter Gade remains one of badminton's most popular shuttlers. Despite being sidelined with a serious knee injury in 2001, the Dane
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    • 453 40  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN COLOMBO MUCH has been made of the fact the Singapore Reds can make history on Saturday. However, much more is at stake when the team take on Sri Lanka in a Rugby World Cup 2007 Asian Division 3A
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    • 854 40 O'DRISCOLL v UMAGA EYE OF THE TIGER AP IT IS one of the most eagerly anticipated clashes, a meeting that can arguably only be rivalled by the Rugby World Cup. Steeped in history, the British and Irish Lions open their three-Test series of New Zealand on Saturday in Christchurch against
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    • 448 41 AFP CHRISTCHURCH The psychological war intensified ahead of the first rugby Test here Saturday. Although the All Blacks start as clear favourites against the British and Irish Lions, the tourists have pointed to the record books showing that in the big games they can win
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    • 155 41  -  Cubby Leong WOODLANDS Wellington's four-match winning run came to a halt on Friday night, after they were held to a 2-2 draw by Young Lions in an NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2005 clash at the Woodlands Stadium. The third-placed Rams are now two points adrift of SAFFC and
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