Today, 14 September 2005

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    11 1 TODAY /A=ryjj\Coßp incorporating dtr63tS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday September 14, 2005 todayonline.com
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    Law firms' small new voice
    519 1  -  TORCHING LI An independent association out of Law Society's shadow chingli@newstoday.com.sg TIRED of just grousing about being at the bottom of the pecking order in the law fraternity, a sizeable group of small law firms and sole proprietors are now banding together to protect their
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    Lock icon Firebrand Marina's lesson from China
    623 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the World Health Organization concluded in June that Malaysia was at the initial stage of an HIV epidemic, the news, in a strange way, made one woman happy. The eldest child of former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad has been leading
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      94 1 A YELLOW RIBBON PROJECT HELP UNLOCK THE I l:t PRISON Wear a Yellow Ribbon, Support the Yellow Ribbon Project (3-17SepO5) Answer the questions below and fax your completed Name form to 6534 1822 by 30 November 2005. Visit NRIC www.aia.com.sg/healthshieldgoldforterms and conditions. Dateof Birth dd mm yyyy DMaie Female How
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon They liked Orchard Towers' tea dances
      568 2  -  CLEMENT MESENAS ANSLEYNG Husband of Filipino maid in murder case says victim was her best friend AND clement@newstoday.com.sg HE had heard of his wife's best friend but never knew that their names would be linked in such a gruesome manner. Mr Edwin Aguilar, the
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      JUST WOMAN TO WOMAN, A SEARCH FOR PEACE
      646 3  -  Dr Kanwaljit Soin news@newstoday.com.sg THERE is an endless flow of news about the many troubled areas in the world where conflict, war and human casualties are the order of the day. Innumerable attempts have been made to resolve these problems but, more
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • Article
        Lock icon JOINT AIR PATROLS LAUNCHED
        103 4 -938LIVE THE three littoral states, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia together with Thailand have launched joint air patrols, over the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. To coordinate the flight schedules, an Eyes in the Sky operation centre will be set up in each of the participating states.
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        Lock icon ATTRACT INDIAN STUDENTS, SAYS THARMAN
        134 4 -938LIVE EDUCATION Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said he would like to see Singapore's education services providers bring Indian students to Singapore. This could be on exchange and study programmes. Such exchanges, he said, helped build invaluable friendships and understanding between the countries, from the ground up.
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        CIVIL DEFENCE DAY TOMORROW
        79 4 TOMORROW is Civil Defence Day, and as part of continuous public education efforts, the Public Warning System sirens will be sounded at 12.05pm. The public is advised not to be alarmed by this islandwide exercise which lasts one minute. When you hear the sirens, tune in
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        Lock icon HOTLINE FOR WORRIED STUDENTS
        111 4 -938LIVE A HOTLINE set up to help stressed out children taking their primary school leaving examinations or PSLE will soon be up and running again. Students Care Service will run one every weekday from next Tuesday till Oct 12 from from 3pm to 9pm. It is
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      Lock icon Let's drink to that
      379 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG How a weakness provided Singapore with an opportunity cheekong@newstoday.com. sg SINGAPORE has managed to turn its water challenge from a vulnerability into a strength, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. "We have come this far in tackling the water challenge because of
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      Lock icon Indonesian bomber gets death
      203 4 -AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian militant vowed revenge after he was sentenced to death yesterday for plotting the September 2004 bombing at the Australian embassy. Iwan Darmawan Mutho, alias Rois, had been proven guilty of terrorism and hiding the terror perpetrators, said chief judge Rocky Panjaitan at
      -AFP  -  203 words
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Dial up dengue help
      431 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA NEA sets up hotline, email account to give advice to public THE National Environment Agency (NEA) has set up a hotline and an email account dedicated to handling feedback on the dengue menace, as the number of hospital beds taken up because of dengue
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      Lock icon Greeted by gruesome sight
      262 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA ON THE second day of the trial of the murder of Singapore students Tay Chow Lyang and Tony Tan Poh Chuan, an Australian court heard that the first police officers on the scene had been surprised by the gory scene that greeted them in
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      Lock icon Arts patrons awarded for contributions
      216 6  -  -DAVID CHEW 001 BOONKEONG ALMOST 250 individual and corporate sponsors were honoured last night for their contributions to the arts in a special ceremony held at the Esplanade. Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, gave out the 2005 Patron of
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      Lock icon Appeal fails, extradition awaits McCrea
      293 6 -AP MELBOURNE Australia's highest court yesterday upheld a lower court's decision to extradite a British businessman to Singapore, where he is wanted for allegedly killing his chauffeur and his chauffeur's girlfriend, an attorney for the defendant said. Lawyers for Michael McCrea, who is in custody
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    • Article
      Too steep, too fast for the elderly
      590 8  -  TORCHING LI Singapore is not friendly to the old, say experts who call for a survey of their needs chingli@newstoday.com. sg JUST as an island-wide consultation on youths was conducted last year, a similar survey should be done to understand the needs of
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      Lock icon This is your captain speaking in a strangely pleasant voice
      260 8  -  DAWNQUEK PASSENGERS on board Jetstar Asia flight 3K513 heading to Bangkok last evening got a pleasant surprise when the Captain on Command addressed them. The clear female voice belongs to Ms Anastasia Gan, 47. Yesterday, she led the first all-female
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      New group formed to save RTC
      565 8  -  LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com. sg THE long-drawn Raffles Town Club (RTC) saga took another turn yesterday, as a group of members brought together by their desire to keep the club afloat emerged to champion for its survival. "We want the club to go on," said Mr
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      Man enough to take this test?
      525 10  -  VINITARAMANI No more blaming the woman, new self-test male fertility kit to dispel misconceptions vinita@newstoday.com.sg IF A married couple can't conceive, the onus to "correct" the problem usually tends to fall on the woman. Men, almost as a rule, refuse to believe that they
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      Steamed food please, we're Singaporean
      222 10  -  TAN HUI LENG THEY have fried rice, char kway teow, oyster omelette and a whole array of local delights to choose from. But Singaporeans prefer to eat healthily. When given a choice, most of them choose to eat steamed food instead of fried food. This
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      Fair-priced, fresh groceries 24/7 at more ExxonMobil stations
      346 10  -  —VINITA RAMANI THANKS to a successful pilot programme, more service stations around Singapore will be selling fresh seasonal fruits, chilled meat and vegetables around the clock. NTUC FairPrice and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific yesterday announced their decision to extend the ExxonMobil-FairPrice retail alliance
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Rice chastens Myanmar minister at Asean talks
      205 12 —AFP NEW YORK Myanmar's Foreign Minister Nyan Win had a bad day at the start of a dialogue held between South-east Asia leaders and United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. She lashed out at him for political repression in the military-ruled state,
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      Lock icon A door opens in Brunei
      362 12 -AP Former rebel leader gets go-ahead to launch a new political party BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Brunei's ruler has allowed a new political party to be set up, led by a former rebel leader who was jailed without trial for 14 years until he pledge loyalty
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      Lock icon Disgruntled visitor sues Hong Kong Disneyland
      199 12 HONG KONG A day after opening its US$3.5 billion ($6 billion) theme park, Hong Kong Disneyland is already facing a law suit from a disgruntled visitor. Mr Hung Wah-fung, 45, said the queues were so long when he visited with his wife and two
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      HOT SINGAPOREANS TAKE TO COOL DISNEYLAND
      133 12  -  CHRISTIE LOH The first thing Singaporeans headed for in Hong Kong Disneyland were the Disney shops and it was not because of their shopping instinct. "It's hot! That's why we're staying indoors at the shop," said Mr Jimmy Chan, 29, an events organiser and
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      Lock icon Did Fema buy votes for Bush?
      508 14 -AGENCIES Former agency chief may have helped deliver Florida to Republicans during last elections NEW YORK As Michael Brown resigned as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) on Monday, after being flogged by the press for his mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina relief
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      Lock icon AFTER KATRINA, OPHELIA THREATENS
      101 14 -AFP Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the US Gulf coast, another storm, Ophelia, has inched toward the US east coast, prompting authorities to post storm warnings, ready troops and urge residents to leave isolated islands. The National Hurricane Centre issued a warning for a 440km
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      Lock icon It's Koizumi for a change
      562 15 -AGENCIES Party dissidents and ministers alike support the returning Japan PM's reform agenda TOKYO Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi set out yesterday to chart a new course for Japan after voters gave him an overwhelming mandate for economic and social change. Fresh from his record landslide
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    • this quirkq world
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        Lock icon HORNBLOWER, FAITHFUL COCK, EVIL... WHAT'S IN A NAME?
        53 15 -AFP Haratio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus. The Cornwall Record Office have complied a list of 1,000 unsual names. Some quirky ones include Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane, Faithful Cock, Susan Booze
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        Lock icon RATS! WHAT A LETDOWN
        66 15 —AFP The provincial government of New Delhi in India has a rat catching department with 97 rat catchers on a pay- roll of US$77 a month, but no rat has been caught in the past 10 years. Officials said they set up traps whenever they received
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        DEAD CATS CAN MAKE CHEAP FUEL
        58 15 Dead cats can make cheap fuel, says a German scientist, reported ananova.com. His method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers, and they are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter. He
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      Lock icon Germany's tortoise and hare?
      331 16 -AGENCIES Challenger Merkel's huge lead over the chancellor is dwindling days before the vote BERLIN A late surge in support for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder forced his conservative challengers into a radical campaign shift yesterday, mere days before Germany's election. With its commanding lead fading before Sunday's
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      SISTERHOOD PLOTS SCHROEDER'S END
      154 16 German opposition leader Angela Merkel is summoning her "sisters" to plot a strategy on how to outmanoeuvre Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the run-up to the polls on Sunday. She is seeking the advice of three women: Ms Beate Baumann, 41, her chief-of-staff; Ms Eva Christiansen, 35,
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      Lock icon NZ election too close to call as Brash hopes surge
      255 16 -AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark probably thought that the inexperienced Don Brash, leader of the National Party, would be a pushover in the election this Saturday. But, the latest figures show that Ms Clark's Labour Party and
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      Lock icon Churches under seige, a land divided
      834 18  -  MARIANNE KEARNEY Anti-Christian sentiments raise questions about the future of Islam in Indonesia IN JAKARTA news@newstoday.com.sg SHOCKED by Muslim militants' forced closure of more than a dozen churches, moderate Islamic leaders protested recently, calling on the Indonesian government to protect Christians. Fifteen hundred people
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    • Article
      Lock icon What's the big deal?
      411 20 -THE GUARDIAN Company harvests executed convicts' skin for research and wonders what the fuss is all about LONDON A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by The Guardian newspaper
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      Lock icon Yahoo hires star war reporter
      173 20 SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo has hired a veteran war correspondent to single-hand-edly report on every armed conflict on the planet Video, audio and daily blog entries will be combined to "bring some of the world's most important, yet under-reported" stories to a website called "Kevin Sites
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  • Voices
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      Just whose mistake?
      131 22  -  LEE SIANG LENG First, get your facts right Letter from WITH amusement, I read the news comment "An icon or a costly mistake?" by your reader and contributor Charles Tan Meah Yang (Sept 13). It contained factual mistakes. Phua Chu Rang (PCK) The Musical is a local
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      ... then, double checkthem
      134 22  - then, double checkthem DAMON TAN Letter from I WOULD like to point out that PCK The Musical was staged at the Singapore Indoor Stadium and not at the Esplanade. There are always tight deadlines, but I'm sure there is more than one person going through an article before publication. There
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      What's done is done, now let's make the most of it
      106 22  -  JOSEPH FPEREIRA Letter from IT IS always easy to criticise a situation in hindsight To say the Esplanade has been an expensive mistake might be premature. But at least Mr Tan agreed that the Esplanade can be considered an
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      ... after all, this could be our Sydney Opera House
      87 22  - after all, this could be our Sydney Opera House HARRY CHIA Letter from WHETHER the Esplanade is an icon or a costly mistake is water under the bridge. It is there whether we like it or not. Instead of mulling over the need of such a performing arts centre, we
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    • Letter
      VoIP telephony means cheaper overseas calls
      309 22  -  NGSOOKFUN Letter from Director, Corporate Marketing Communication, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) I REFER to the article, "Drive to offer low cost calls overseas encounters a snag" (Sept 9). It is misleading to suggest that Internet protocol (IP) telephony in Singapore has hit
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    • Letter
      S'pore climate not suitable for riding to work
      142 23  -  MICHAEL CHUAKHENG HWEE Letter from I REFER to Lim Thiam Poh's letter, "Let's start campaign to ride to work" (Sep 13). Most Singaporeans would prefer driving a car to riding a motorbike for the simple reason that a car protects its driver
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      TO GET AHEAD IN A JAM
      142 23  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from Mr Lim Thiam Poh's suggestion is practical and worth considering. Also I would en- courage bicycles as another mode of transportation. I notice that heartland commuters have to wait 10 to 15 minutes for the feeder service. Riding
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      The horror of movie trailers
      411 23  -  PAULROBSON What is the sense in cinemas previewing horror films right before kid-safe movies? Letter from I LOVE films of all genres and have sat through films like Irreversible (NC-21), but as a responsible parent I like to make informed choices as to what my
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      269 24  -  JAMES DOBSON BYDR SCREAMING AT TREES AND CHILDREN Many parents, perhaps the majority, admit to losing their tempers and screaming at their kids from time to time. Usually we shrug it off assuming that not much harm was done. But is that really the case? Deep
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      Ban driving once a week
      497 24  -  JOHN LUCAS Rotating enforced rest days can help reduce number of vehicles on road Letter by IN a large number of cases, aggressive driving behaviour is premeditated. Most cars involved in aggressive driving behaviour have after-market modifications, designed to increase horsepower and high-speed performance. The
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    • Letter
      Slip road serves public buses better
      413 24  -  HAN LIANG YUAN Letter by DIRECTOR, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY I REFER to Ms Li Huifen's letter about the slip road from Braddell Road to Lorong Chuan (Sept 7). I believe she was referring to the short stretch of one-way service road under
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      isay IN LOVE WITH A SCHIZOPHRENIC
      518 25  -  RAYMOND A FERNANDO news@newstoday.com.sg I HAVE been seeing newscasters on national television wearing yellow ribbons in support of the yellow ribbon project This is helping to create more awareness of the need to give ex-prisoners a second chance in life. Perhaps the Government and
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        CENTRALISE GOVT CALL CENTRES
        109 25  -  DAVID SOH POH HUAT: I agree with Ms June Sean Siew Ping ("Spare us the runaround". Sept 12). I have encountered a lot of such "fa/c/?/"from agencies in the time they take to act. Maybe the public service should look into consolidating its call centres into
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        WHY WAIT FOR GOVT? JUST DO IT
        106 25  -  BERNARD LOKE: Ms June Sean had gone to a number of authorities to clear some rubbish. Perhaps talking to the school headmaster might be a better idea as the source of the rubbish around the school fence is likely the students. Her efforts
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      'What's sedition?' debate goes online
      741 26  -  Mr Miyagi Bloggers react to news of charge against 2 for 'racist rants' TWO bloggers were charged on Monday under the Sedition Act for allegedly racist comments made in an online forum and on a website. Naturally, this has sent ripples through the blogging community.
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    • Letter
      Make public aware of blogging law
      140 26  -  KHOO LIH-HAN Letter from I REFER to the report, "Net closes in on blogs of hate" (Sept 13). I have some concerns. A blog is a personal online diary to express oneself freely. If somebody is going to get charged for comments on their
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      Lock icon Not so green, this Garden City
      926 28  -  HOWARD SHAW Though Govt's doing its part in supporting environmental groups and policies, S'poreans need to do more to conserve 35, Executive director of the _u__ IN A country where rubbish disappears conveniently down the chute and is whisked off to a distant incinerator
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      455 30 DOW JONES $138.5m purchase part of plans to make Singapore healthcare provider a major regional player PARKWAY Holdings said yesterday it bought a 31-per-cent stake in Malaysian hospital operator Pantai Holdings for $138.5 million, in line with its plans to become a major regional
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      237 30 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S Changi Airport Managers and Partners (Champs) yesterday said a bid to upgrade and manage Delhi Airport did not materialise because of a disagreement with its Indian partners. In a statement, Champs, which is owned by the
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      180 30 -AGENCIES TEMASEK Holdings, Singapore's investment company, has set the target yield on US$l billion ($1.68 billion) of its 10-year bonds, attracting strong demand for the first top-rated global debt offer from Asia outside Japan. Temasek is seeking to price the US dollar bonds
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      294 31  -  CHOW PENN NEE WHILE Malaysia's Advance Modules Group manufactures memory modules and flash memory products for global players like Germany's chip giant Infineon, it is its own proprietary brands that company founder Mr Vincent Tan is most proud of. Mr Tan, 33, said
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        344 32 DOW JONES Shares priced at 98 cents each in offer that closes Friday PRIME Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit), which owns stakes in two properties along Orchard Road shopping belt, has fixed the price for its forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) at 98 cents a unit.
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        242 32 BLOOMBERG COMFORTDELGRO Corp, operator of the world's sec-ond-largest fleet of buses and taxis, said that it had sold a stake in its Scottish coach unit to Stagecoach Group and will jointly run services with the United Kingdom company. Stagecoach, the UK's third-largest bus and rail
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        446 34 -AFP Costs of alternative energy sources hamper moves by Asian countries to cut oil dependence, say experts THE high cost of alternative energy sources and tough environmental standards are among the key hurdles to Asian efforts to diversify away from dependence on imported oil,
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        128 34 -DOW JONES NEW YORK The World Bank, in a study released yesterday, has concluded that New Zealand is the most business-friendly nation, the New York Times reported. According to the study that ranked 155 nations, New Zealand and Singapore were the easiest countries
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          88 34 GUITARIST Stefano Cardi (picture) will lead a "pilgrimage" of guitar music on Saturday at 7pm at the Ngee Ann Auditorium of the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) at Empress Place. Playing pieces from the very early to the very modern, this world-class musician will showcase the
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          146 34 NTUC Income recently embarked on an exercise to accredit motor workshops in its panel, based on benchmarks that comprise "Quality Repairs", "Warranty, Hassle-Free Service", "Professionalism" and "Cost-effectiveness." Forty workshops that have successfully met the benchmarks have been presented with the Income
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        673 35  -  MARK GILBERT -BLOOMBERG Apple out of sync by outsourcing production of iTunes phone news@newstoday.com.sg APPLE Computer is missing a beat by outsourcing the production of its first mobile phone able to parley with iTunes, the übiquitous software that powers 21 million iPods and dominates
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      620 38  -  DAVID CHEW National Geographic series attempts to discover what makes a truly vibrant city david.chew@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS almost been a month since Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his National Day Rally speech called for Singaporeans to create a city that "people will gravitate to, for work,
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      225 39 National Geograhic producer Mickey Stern provided three criteria of what constituted a megacity in the series. Does Singapore meet the standard? Iconic as an organism As a living organism that evolves over time, Singapore gets two thumbs up for its superb public
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      527 39  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@newstoday.com.sg ONCE a Spice Girl, always a Spice Girl? When you were a member of the biggest music phenomenon of the mid-90s, it's difficult to shake off the tag. Melanie Jayne Chisholm easily had the best voice among the Spice Girls
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      223 40  -  -JOYCE UN ART house movie buffs will rejoice when the Picturehouse makes a comeback in January. It will be one of eight cinema halls with 1,900 seats in total located in The Cathay, a new 17-storey retail and residential development at Handy Road. And
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      637 40  -  DAVID CHEW Separation 40 tries to answer that age-old Causeway question david. chew@newstoday.com. sg IT'S THE weekend, you turn on the TV and settle down together with your family and friends, to watch Singapore play in the Malaysia Cup. All the ethnic groups are
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        74 40 LOOKS like there's just no separating Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. Scorsese will direct DiCaprio in the film adaptation of the biography of the 26th US president. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris. This marks the fourth collaboration between DiCaprio and Scorsese, after
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        91 40 MARTIAL arts legend Bruce Lee is to be honoured with a life-sized bronze statue in the southern Bosnian city of Mostar, as a symbolic protest against ethnic division, local authorities said yesterday. Lee was chosen as a hero that all ethnic groups could relate to, in the
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        58 40 THE first music compilation by Singapore Idol finalists will be released this Friday. Shooting Stars Original Soundtrack features the theme song from Shooting Stars, which airs on Tuesdays at 8.30pm on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. It includes five new singles from Taufik Batisah, Sylvester
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        257 42 -AFP MJ aims to repeat his We Are the l/l/br/dsuccessfor Katrina victims JUST a couple of months ago, he stood in court facing child molestation charges. But you can't keep an ec- centric pop star down. Michael Jackson, who was recently acquitted on child molestation charges,
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        407 44  - Much to our horror NEIL HUMPHREYS The Cave is No 1 in Singapore? It's enough to make you scream DEPUTY PLUS EDITOR neil@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREAN cinema-goers appear to love the movie according to this week's box office top 10. It's scary, it's spooky and at times downright terrifying. One or two
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        542 48 —AP Atlanta gain revenge over Philly for last season's NFC title loss NFL Falcons 14 Eagles 10 ATLANTA Less than eight months after facing off in the National Football Conference (NFC) championship game, the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles couldn't wait to meet again on Monday night
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        103 48 —AFP SAN FRANCISCO Embattled San Francisco outfielder Barry Bonds batted one-for-four in his season debut here on Monday, as the Giants rallied to post a 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres. The seven-time MVP has 703 home runs and trails Babe Ruth by 11
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        461 49 -AGENCIES Fans go ga-ga after Vaughan and Co end Ashes drought ASHES CRICKET England vAustralia LONDON- England's cricket fans erupted with giddy cheers and patriotic chants as they popped champagne corks, after their heroes won the Ashes from Australia for the first time in 18 years here on
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        268 49 -AFP LONDON England selector Geoff Miller (picture) said the cricket team had to be wary of avoiding the fate of the nation's rugby team, who have slumped since winning the 2003 World Cup. To prove the team have reached the top, they have to
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        517 49  -  TANYO-HINN TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race is one of the world's oldest sporting rivalries, and possibly the most famous duel between two academic institutions. In Singapore, the rugby rivalry between St Andrew's Secondary School and Raffles Institution,
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        396 51 SINGAPORE Idol Taufik Batisah and 10 of the S-League's hottest players will be the main attraction at Rouge Club in Peranakan Place on Saturday, when the biggest and wildest party ever seen in Singapore football the H-TWO-0 S-League Hunk 2005
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      289 52 —AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUPB Arsenal vThun LONDON At Highbury it never rains, it pours. Fresh from their 2-1 defeat to Middlesbrough on Saturday, Arsenal's ace striker Thierry revealed yesterday that his groin injury will rule him out for up to four weeks. However,
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      450 53 -AGENCIES Barcelona and Bremen are out to exorcise last season's European demons CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP C Werder Bremen v Barcelona BREMEN The Champions League provides moments players never want to forget, but it can also leave painful memories. Just ask Barcelona and Werder Bremen, who will begin their
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