Today, 28 September 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    • 914 1  -  TEO HWEE NAK, Laws and regulator being put in place to ensure 'safe' casinos >DAYEXCLUSIVE DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR nweenak<Snewstoday.com.sg WELL before the first casino opens for business, a simple rule with enforcers to back it will already be in place: No criminal shadows
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    • 106 1 —AP NEW YORK US stocks ended mixed yesterday after news of an unexpectedly sharp drop in consumer confidence, which could signal further economic weakness ahead, and a surprisingly sharp drop in new home sales. After a choppy session for the market, the Dow Jones
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  • hot news
    • 147 2  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE dreaded Aedes mosquito menace has outdone itself. A new record total of 157 dengue cases were reported for the 24-hour period from 3pm on Monday to 3pm yesterday. It is the highest figure since the Ministry of Health began daily dengue notifications on
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    • 856 3  -  SIEWKUMHONG Harsher penalties not the only way to deter obnoxious conduct DO SINGAPOREANS change their antisocial ways only when threatened with criminal punishment? That seems to be the conventional belief. Historically, criminal sanctions have been used to fight social problems such as littering, spitting,
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  • Singapore news
    • 114 4  -  CHRISTIE LOH AS competitors chomp away at Citiraya Industries' business at home, cracks are also starting to show in the electronic waste recycler's overseas empire. The debt-laden company's subsidiary in Britain went into receivership on July 14, according to the unit's website. Citiraya's 12,000-square
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    • 407 4  -  VALERIE LAW Lowered entry cost, more efficient funds in the works: Dr Ng valerie@newstoday.com.sg s^vpHnjj AS THE Government looks at ways to help Singaporeans retire comfortably, Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen said changes to the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS) will be announced within the next
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    • 193 4 IT HAS been almost two weeks since the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) asked the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) for help to fix its governance and financial-management issues. But negotiations to send a task force to the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 137 6 Channel News Asia The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is launching a new housing project in Sengkang under the Build-To-Order System. Called Fernvale Court, the project will be located at the corner of Sengkang West Avenue and Fernvale Link and will comprise 128 units of three-room and
        — Channel News Asia  -  137 words
      • 127 6 Channel News Asia Singapore schools are making their presence felt in China. The Shanghai-Singapore International School is spending US$lO million ($l7 million) to build a third campus in Shanghai. This is the biggest private investment by a foreign school in the city. The school's newest campus
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      • 77 6 -938 Live Asean ministers will meet tomorrow to discuss progress in cooperation in food, agriculture and forestry. A taskforce to coordinate efforts to fight bird flu in the region will report on its progress. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan will represent Singapore
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      • 66 6 Singapore has appointed retired Justice MPH Rubin as its High Commissioner to South Africa and Mr Lim Thuan Kuan as the next Ambassador to Vietnam. Mr Rubin, who retired from the judiciary in February, will assume his post on Oct 18. Mr Lim, who
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    • 659 6  -  ANSLEYNG Forsixyears, girl was forced to perform oral sex on family friend a nsley@newstoday.com.sg HE WAS a close family friend. So close that he and his wife were trusted with the care of his friend's two young children. But yesterday,
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    • 583 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG Marina Bay attraction will be world's largest moving and man-made land object cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE first time Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan heard the proposal for the Singapore Flyer, he thought to himself: "What's so great about it? It's just
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    • 179 8 TWO men accused of making racist remarks on the Internet will plead guilty in court on Friday. Benjamin Koh Song Huat, 27, faces three charges under the Sedition Act for making disparaging comments about Muslims and Malays on the Internet between June 12 and June
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    • 216 9  - IR guide November it is -LOHCHEEKONG THERE will be no more delays in the bidding process for the integrated resorts (IR). This assurance came from Singapore Tourism Board (STB) chief Lim Neo Chian yesterday. On Monday, STB announced a delay the second in three months in releasing the request for
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    • 300 9  -  DAWN QUEK Poly students create the perfect anti-binge snack da wn@newstoday.com.sg THESE chocolates look like your usual pra-line-filled confectionery and taste just as good, but they have something more the I-factor, inulin. The chocolates were developed by three Singapore Polytechnic students in the Diploma
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    • 181 9  -  VINITARAMANI WANT to straighten your crooked teeth, without having to wear abrasive and unattractive braces? A team of research students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has come up with the technology to make this possible. Not only has the team just incorporated their
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    • 585 10  -  TORCHING LI 17 public sculptures wait for philanthropists or corporate bodies to reach out to them chingli@newstoday.com. sg SCULPTING the public and corporate consciousness on the value of art may prove harder than anticipated. The idea, when the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) launched the Public
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    • 261 10 -938 LIVE DELEGATES from the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) are in Singapore to tackle what they see as a rising problem in all countries synthetic drug abuse and trafficking. This year's United Nations World Drug Report estimates
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  • world news
    • 318 12 —AFP Health minister calls for efforts to eradicate mosquitoes as cases of disease rise sharply KUALA LUMPUR Dengue fever is on the rise in Malaysia and the country faces an outbreak unless efforts to eradicate virus-carrying mosquitoes are stepped up, Health Minister Chua Soi Lek said
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    • 295 12 -AFP NAM DINH (Vietnam) Typhoon Damrey yesterday brought widespread damage to Vietnam's northern and central coast, where officials evacuated 300,000 people after the storm battered parts of China. At least one person was killed in a house collapse in northern Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province, south of
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    • 269 12 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The European Commission (EC) and Malaysia called for compensation for poultry farmers affected by bird flu, saying it was a vital part of preventing the spread of the deadly virus. The head of the EC delegation to Malaysia,
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 52 12 —AFP Iraq said that Abu Azzam, Al Qaeda's No 2 man in the country, was killed in a military operation. Abu Azzam, believed to be a Palestinian, infiltrated Iraq in April and is believed to have killed 1,200 people in Baghdad, mostly in
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      • 64 12 -AFP China's military yesterday began its biggest war exercises open to foreign observers with 16,000 soldiers carrying out manoeuvres in the country's Inner Mongolia region. About 40 military officers from 24 countries, including the United States, North Korea, Russia and major European and Nato
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      • 38 12 -AFP A US military panel found private Lynndie England guilty of six counts of mistreating Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
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      • 79 12 Eating certain fruit and vegetables could boost the memory, particularly broccoli, according to British research yesterday. The research provides scientific backing to the theory and has major implications for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said. Extracts from in broccoli, potatoes,
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    • 453 14 —AGENCIES Blair in no hurry to step down, Brown gets restless BRIGHTON (England) The ongoing annual conference of the Labour Party in Britain has seen the onset of a tug-of-war for the country's leadership, with Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown making clear his intentions of
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    • 224 14 -AGENCIES LONDON The private life of British Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett has again given the English media ammunition to attack him. "Me and my blonde, aged 29," screamed a headline in the Daily Mirror on Monday. Not for the first time,
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    • 453 16 —AP Crews struggle to deliver generators, water to people stranded by Rita PORT ARTHUR (Texas) Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm's sweltering victims along the Texas Gulf Coast were still waiting for electricity, petrol, water and other relief yesterday, prompting
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    • this quirky world
      • 53 16 AFP Chinese and American scientists will use Global Positioning System sensors to unveil the darkest secrets of the giant panda's sex life. Giant pandas are unusually discreet animals. A Chinese academy has tied up with the Zoological Society of San Diego for the three-year, U*****,000 ($l.l billion)
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      • 55 16 —AP A British hospital has banned visitors from cooing at newborn babies overfears of their human rights being breached and to reduce infection. A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice session to highlight the need for
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      • 57 16 AFP Animal rights activists will go naked outside Australian embassies in Washington, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Sao Paulo in a bid to force Australian sheep farmers to stop mulesing. Mulesing is the act of cutting slices of flesh from the rear ends of lambs to prevent
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    • 192 16 —AFP LOS ANGELES A top US organ transplant hospital said yesterday that it had suspended its liver programme amid claims that doctors helped a man, alleged to be a Saudi, jump the queue and take an organ intended for a higher priority patient. The St
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    • 173 17 -AGENCIES Billions of US dollars of reconstruction contracts awarded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are being investigated amid concerns of cronyism and abuse. More than 80 per cent of the US$l.5 billion ($2.5 billion) deals signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) were
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    • 199 17 —AFP WASHINGTON The rollicking tale of Playboy playmate and former stripper Anna Nicole Smith snatched top billing in the staid and sober US Supreme Court yesterday, after justices said they would hear the outrageous reality star's multi-mil-lion-dollar inheritance claim. The
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    • 200 18 -AFP WASHINGTON General Richard Myers (picture) warned yesterday that a US defeat in Iraq would invite another Sept 11-type attack and called for national resolve as he prepared to step down as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after four tumultuous years.
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    • 609 18  -  JIM LOBE -IPS Imminence of a civil war intensifies debate news@newstoday.com.sg WASHINGTON The growing spectre of a full-scale civil war in Iraq and the likelihood that such a conflict will draw in neighbouring states has intensified a summer-long debate here over whether and how
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  • Voices
    • 379 20  -  MICHAEL CHUA Thatiswhatthe disabled really want Letter from Executive director Handicaps Welfare Association WE APPLAUD Mr Jerry Siah Eng Kiat, honorary executive director of Spaces Counselling and Community, for his touching and heart-warming article, "The Disability of Pity" (Sept 23). Mr Siah has very succinctly and
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    • S'pore drivers: A few bad apples or nation of callous motorists?
      • 197 20  -  JOHN CHYE Letter from, I REFER to the letter, "Death for killer drivers?" (Sept 2 7). I'm strongly against this idea of the death penalty for traffic offenders or any kind of offences. Why do people who lived overseas at one time
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      • 204 20  -  ELAINE GROTEFELD Letter from EVERY morning I drive my kids to school along the PIE heading West towards Clementi. Our exit is off the right-hand lane, and well before reaching the turn, I always signal my intention to cut across
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    • 234 22  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME Though the world has largely forgotten it, July 1 is the anniversary of one of the worst military catastrophes in human history. It was called The Battle of the Somme, and it took place in France during
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    • 750 22  -  Mr Miyagi CHIP OFF THE BLOG news@newstoday.com.sg Seven days before her wedding, blogger caught in the Houston frenzy SOME bloggers find themselves in harm's way; crazier ones put themselves there. CALLING HOUSTON: THE UNINVITED WEDDING GUEST Singaporegrrl, (singaporegrrl.blogspot.com) a blogger living in Houston, was scheduled to
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    • Don't have a ticket to ride?
      • 156 23  -  CHANCHEEKHEONG Letter from I AM puzzled and disturbed by the proposed new legislation to jail bus-fare cheats. The bus companies are public-listed profit-making organisations. That was how they positioned themselves when they argued for the recent hike in bus fares. Being commercial organisations, there
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      • 134 23  -  YEO LAY HWEE Letter from I WAS glad to read the tongue-in-cheek article by mr brown ("The New Singapore Criminal", Sept 23) in Today commenting on the new Bill that proposes jailing commuters who cheat on buses. With regard to the proposals made
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      • 111 23  -  DAVID SOH POH HUAT Letter from DO FINES really help deter commuters who want free rides? I thought that when the ez-link system was implemented, with everyone having to tap their cards upon boarding, the problems of commuters looking for a free ride was
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    • 240 23  - I'm 69, hope to live past 80 but how will I afford it? CHONGTHYEHIN Letter from MR NELSON QUAH spoke about retirees continuing to work because they do not have the money to allow them to retire ("Money not enough, so retirees still work", Sept 27). This is something about
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    • 668 24  -  Kenny Toh news@newstoday.com.sg THIS piece is inspired by a recent programme on Channel News Asia, What Men Want Really, featuring interviews with men on their desires in the context of the seven deadly sins. When the producer asked me: "What does sloth mean
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    • 585 28  -  THENGWAIMUN Like that proverbial glass of water, it is all a matter of one's perspective Letter from I REFER to Mr Patrick Ng's letter, "Best seats were empty" (Sept 21). Mr Ng appears to be asking why YIPs are not filling the comfortable plastic seats
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    • 216 30 BLOOMBERG MORGAN Stanley has distanced itself from a letter by its South-east Asian economist praising Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's "fighting spirit" and criticising his Democratic Party opponent It said the letter written by Singaporebased economist Daniel Lian and published in part by a
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      • 71 30 DOW JONES SHARE prices fell as investors took profit on property stocks on news that bidding for Singapore's casino project will be delayed. It's "a serious short-term dampener for the market as recent rallies have been led by property shares", said a trader. The ST index fell 11.08 points,
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      • 26 30 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 467.70 Silvar US$/oz 7.36 Platinum US$/oz 917.00 Rubber cents/kg 286.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1436.50 Brent crude US$/barrel 63.88 Information provided by
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      • 230 32 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE received 8.6 per cent more visitors last month than August a year ago, as growth eased from a 9.2-per-cent rise in July, when it hosted the 117 th International Olympic Committee session, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said yesterday. Singapore has
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      • 429 32  -  CHOW PENN NEE SM Goh says creativity needed for Spore to remain competitive pennnee@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS the call to challenge traditional ideas that led to Singapore's fire-fighters developing a small water mist gun, with a backpack, that sprays fine water droplets onto fires.
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      • 170 32 938 LIVE The Economic Development Board (EDB) is stepping up its support for innovators in commercialising their ideas and technologies. The EDB is launching a programme to help innovators co-fund proof-of-concept activities. Under the scheme, $5 million will be set aside to co-fund
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      • 383 33 BLOOMBERG $300 million deal to supply 6 million low-cost handsets around Asia MOTOROLA, the world's secondlargest mobile-phone maker after Nokia, has been awarded a US$lBO million ($3OO million) contract by the GSM Association to supply 6 million low-cost handsets to users in developing countries in Asia, including
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      • 179 33 -BLOOMBERG VENTURE Corp, Singapore's biggest publicly traded electronics maker, had its biggest one-day drop in seven months, after Morgan Stanley cut its target for the shares on concerns that earnings growth in the near term will weaken. Venture, whose customers include Hewlett-Packard and Ford Motor, lost
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      • 100 33 -DOWJONES SINGAPORE Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) an affiliate of Singapore Airlines said yesterday it would lease three new Boeing 737-800 planes to Kenya Airways. The aircraft are the first of 20 "Next Generation" 737s recently ordered by SALE from Boeing. The planes will
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      • 274 34 AGENCIES HONG KONG China Construction Bank could raise as much as US$7.7 billion ($l3 billion) in its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong planned for next month, reports The Standard. An initial price range of HK$l.42 to HK52.27 a share,
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      • 388 34 Mickey Mouse heads for Seoul BLOOMBERG Disney eyes growth in Asia as incomes rise WALT Disney is considering a theme park just outside South Korea's capital, extending its reach in the world's most populous continent, Seoul Mayor Lee Myung Bak said yesterday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government is in talks with
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      • 687 37  -  DAWN QUEK Former Polytechnic lecturer is'blessed' to open yoga studio dawn@newstoday.com.sg MS THEA Goh has often had people asking her if she could fly, eat glass and levitate, things that people commonly associate with those who practise yoga. "People believe that yoga is religious and
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      • 140 37  -  -VALERIE LAW THE newly-established Wealth Management Association (WMA) will launch the Certified International Wealth Manager (CIWM) designation to qualified professionals. The association, which was launched yesterday at Global Entropolis, seeks to address the increasing market demand for wealth management professionals. "In the past few
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      1196 38  -  David Chew david.chew@newstoday.com.sg Faced with inadequate storage facilities, arts groups throw away props worth thousands everyyear THE sets of the Singapore Lyric Opera (SLO)'s Madama Butterfly were intricate, big and rather expensive. From a Japanese house with 3m-high paper screens to a smlong bridge that spewed fire onto the
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      • 151 39 Oliver Stone's feature film about the 911 terror attacks will reportedly premiere in August next year, one month ahead of the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. The triple Oscar-winning director is making the first major Hollywood film about the attacks, which will tell the
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      • 152 39 US talk show host Oprah Winfrey (above) will produce a Broadway musical based on acclaimed novel The Color Purple. Winfrey told the New York Times she will invest more than US$l million ($1.7 million) in the show, and that it was "a secret dream" of
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      • 85 39 Don Adams (left), the comedian with the wry voice who starred as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies. Get Smart, has died. He was 82. Adams died of a lung infection on Sunday. The actor broke his
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      • 88 39 Vincent Pastore (above), who played gangster Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has agreed to plead guilty to a charge that he attempted to assault a former girlfriend last spring. The plea bargain calls for Pastore to perform 10 days of community service and
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      • 71 39 Bridging Minds 2005 now in its ninth year is an annual English debate that celebrates and brings togetheryoung minds from two Asian countries. Modelled on the world debates format where opposing members are allowed to interrupt and challenge the speaker on the floor, this instalment will
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      • 130 39 DesignEDGE will kick off the Singapore Design Festival with renowned designers such as Maharashi and the BMW Group. Some of the designers will give talks at a two-day conference on Nov 10 and 11, as well as an expo component that will last for three days
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      • 89 39 The European Union Cultural Committee and the Singapore Film Society have come up with yet another line-up of films from Oct 8 to 16. Among the highlights of the festival will be the British film A Good Woman, which stars British actors Tom Wilkinson,
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    • 634 40  -  DAVID CHEW Singapore is ready for island-wide visual arts showcase, say experts david. chew@newstoday.com. sg IT'S unanimous. The visual arts scene is fully equipped and more than capable of supporting events such as the Singapore Art Show, which was opened last night by Dr Lee Boon
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    • 312 41  -  DAVID CHEW WHEN discussing the Singapore Art Show 2005, artist Chua Ek Kay suggested there should be a prize awarded for the best works on display. A nation-wide showcase, the show was officially opened last night and will display sculptures, paintings and installations around the
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      • 370 42  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Foster, Chan top the box office charts this week DEPUTY PLUS EDITOR neil@newstoday.com.sg WHEN actor Ashton Kutcher takes a quick glance at the North American box-office this week, he'll be disappointed to see that the documentary about his love life didn't go straight in
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      493 52  -  ERIC DING Sponsors want China-based club to remain in S-League sports@newstoday.com.sg LESS than a week after Sinchi Football Club revealed they intended to pull out of the S-League, the China-based club now want to stay. Last Thursday, Today reported that Sinchi were on the brink of pulling
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    • 447 52  -  Jose Raymond you II beserious LAST week, Sinchi FC had made up their mind to quit the S-League. Seven days on, the S-League's first foreign side had a change of heart, with club vice-chairman Wang Jinhui yesterday saying they want to
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    • 231 52  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg KUWAIT'S Nouri Alamiri (right) became the first bowler to register a perfect game at the 38th Singapore Open yesterday. The 48-year-old stands to pocket the $10,000 cash prize on offer, if no other bowler can match his feat in the final day of
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    • 582 53  -  TANYO-HINN Shyamalso in, but SAA chief Tang insists turnaround is not a slight on Kunst yohinn@newstoday.com.sg POH Seng Song is back in the 4xloom squad for the SEA Games. Five days after he quit the squad because he was unhappy that national sprints coach Uli
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    • 363 53  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg IF RESULTS of last week's Nomura Cup are anything to go, then things are not looking bright for the Singapore golf team ahead of November's SEA Games. Out of the 16 countries competing at Tokyo's Narita Golf Club, Singapore finished
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    • 163 53 —AFP MUMBAI India's cricket chiefs brokered an uneasy truce between captain Sourav Ganguly and coach Greg Chappell yesterday, sternly warning both to mend their differences for the sake of the team. Ganguly and Chappell agreed to "work together", after appearing separately before a panel of the Board
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    • 193 53  -  CUBBYLEONG AFTER spending a big chunk of the season on the sidelines, Agu Casmir looks to be coming into form and that's great news for the SEA Games-bound Young Lions. The striker grabbed a brace at Bedok Stadium in an S-League clash last night to steer the
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      • 481 48 -AP Inspirational Smith sets new receiving record as visitors' much-hyped offence is shut down NFL Denver 30 Kansas City 10 DENVER It was a milestone game for Rod Smith and a pretty memorable night for the rest of the Denver Broncos, too. Mike Anderson ran for a
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      • 273 48 -AP LEXINGTON, Kentucky A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a thoroughbred race horse owner who sued to name one of his fillies after Sally Hemings, a colonial era slave who was reputed to be a mistress of Thomas Jefferson, the
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      • 503 49 —AFP American golfers live up to their talent after convincing Presidents Cup victory GAINESVILLE, Virginia Tiger Woods and his fellow American golfers proved they have passion for playing as a team, winning the Presidents Cup in dramatic fashion to boost the event's status compared to the Ryder Cup.
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      • 318 49 —AP NEW YORK Yankees star Derek Jeter received a threatening letter that reportedly warned he'd be "shot or set on fire", if he didn't stop dating white women. The FBI is investigating "racially threatening letters to Jeter and others across the country", special agent Scott
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      • 557 50 AGENCIES Haunted by Reds' win last season, Blues seek revenge CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPG Liverpool v Chelsea LONDON Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claims the word "revenge" is not in his football vocabulary, but his Argentine striker Hernan Crespo is likely to introduce him to the principle
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      • 247 50 —AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPH Inter Milan v Rangers ROME Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini (picture) believes the spectator ban at the San Siro will work in Glasgow Rangers' favour, in tonight's (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) behind-closed-doors Group H Champions League clash. The match will
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      • 414 50 AGENCIES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPF Real Madrid v Olympiakos MADRID Any victory is important these days for Real Madrid. After a shaky start to the season which included slumping to three successive defeats (two in La Liga and one in Europe), the Spanish giants
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        • 514 51 —AFP Dutchman's late strike in panicky Benfica defence earns Red Devils victory I CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Man United 2 Benfica 1 MANCHESTER Ruud van Nistelrooy's scrambled 85th minute goal earned Manchester United a much-need-ed 2-1 victory over Portugal's Benfica at Old Trafford here yesterday
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        • 232 51 —AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Barcelona 4 Udinese 1 BARCELONA A hat-trick from Brazilian star Ronaldinho helped Barcelona to a 4-1 win over Italian side Udinese in their Champions League Group C clash yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). The Italians were not helped by leaving their international
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        • 286 51 —AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Ajax 1 Arsenal 2 AMSTERDAM Arsenal moved closer to the Champions League knockout stages with a 2-1 win over Ajax here yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Freddie Ljungberg and Robert Pires did the damage, with goals in either half. Substitute Markus Rosenberg
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      1399 58 Industry insiders speak to Pearlyn Tham (pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg) on whether Singapore ticks as a watch market IF THE men in Singapore would be a little more daring and take to men's jewellery timepieces, Michael Tay would be pleased. It's a little wish of the executive director of homegrown watch
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      • 429 62  -  Eveline Gan WHILE other women hanker after the latest jewellery designs, Sulian Tan-Wijaya has her eyes on watches. The Singapore Tourism Board's Service Quality Division director talks about her soft spot for classic wristwatches and her out of the blue interest for watches. What is your most beloved
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        325 62  -  Eveline Gan When it comes to buying watches, executive director and owner of MTM skincare franchise Simon Keak would rather focus on the aesthetics. MTM, which stands for Made To Measure, specialises in custom-made skincare products to meet the needs of its customers. Unlike other men who go
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