Today, 29 September 2005

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    21 1 TODAY /A=DIJ^CORP incorporating iMTCBtS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Thursday September 29, 2005 todayonline.com TODAY ft\=DIACORP incorporating Thursday September 29, 2005 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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    Bring on Changi, says Bangkok
    804 1  -  TORCHING LI Dogged by delays, still to prove itself, new airport may still offer formidable competition chingli@newstoday.com.sg IN the tussle to be acknowledged as the region's air hub, Sept 29 is a date pencilled firmly in the diaries of Singapore and Thailand. Today, Changi International
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    Lock icon Boxing lives as boxers die
    1032 1  -  ROHIT BRIJNATH news@newstoday.com.sg Who killed Davey Moore, Why an' what's the reason for? "Not I," says the referee, "Don't point your finger at me. I could've stopped it in the eighth An' maybe kept him from his fate, But the crowd would've booed, I'm sure,
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  • hot news
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      Dengue cure's long wait
      438 2  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com. sg ALTHOUGH dengue has been around for centuries, most health authorities only allocate resources to it when there are epidemics. Due to this neglect, it would be some time before the world gets a vaccine for dengue, said Professor Paul Herrling, head
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      A FOUR-STEP 'GREY FIX'
      784 3  -  WAYNE PEAT Companies with an ageing workforce should take steps to tackle the problem early THE Asia-Pacific region is facing the crunch of a maturing workforce combined with a flat or falling birthrate. In Australia, this trend is colliding with the relative unwillingness of older workers
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  • singapore news
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      Fish versus Fish
      552 4  -  ANSLEYNG Local seafood chain wants rival to stop 'copying' concepts a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE two restaurants serve similar Westernstyle seafood in shallow metal pans. They also both use seafood-related slogans while one said it had "Something Fishy", the other used "Nothing Fishy About It". But last Tuesday, OB
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      A broader window of time to install steel rivets
      610 6  -  TORCHING LI Building and Construction Authority gives 1,000 households an extension chingli@newstoday.com.sg AS THE rush to comply with the Building and Construction Authority's window retrofitting order reaches fever pitch, about 1,000 households can heave a sigh of relief. The authority told
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        Lock icon ASEAN MUST INTEGRATE OR FALL OFF GLOBAL RADAR
        112 6 938 Live Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations must make greater efforts at integration or risk falling off the international radar screen. At the Asean 100 Leadership Forum last night, Mr Lee highlighted four ways for
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        Lock icon OPEN-FIRE TESTS IN EAST COAST AREA NEAR FORT RD
        91 6 Channel News Asia The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be conducting a series of mock open-fire tests in the East Coast area near Fort Road on two consecutive Fridays, starting tomorrow. The tests, part of the Kallang/Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) project,
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        Lock icon JURONG ISLAND TO HAVE CHEMICAL SPILL EXERCISE
        80 6 938 Live The Maritime and Port Authority will conduct its first full-scale chemical spill exercise on Jurong Island tomorrow. The exercise focuses on deploying equipment and personnel on land and at sea. The deployment of equipment and resources will showcase the specialised roles
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      Lock icon Orchard Rd ERP rates will be different
      251 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rates for Orchard Road will be set separately from those for the rest of the Central Business District from Monday. This is to better reflect and manage the traffic patterns in the shopping belt. The Land
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  251 words
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      Cord blood bank to save lives
      322 8  -  —VINITARAMANI SINGAPORE'S only public cord blood bank was officially opened yesterday by the Minister for Health, Mr Khaw Boon Wan, in a move that marked new efforts to treat patients with lethal blood disorders such as leukaemia and bone marrow failure. Umbilical cord blood
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      Lock icon Reclaiming Islam from extremists
      630 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG Moderates must speak out, says Dr Tan; We are, says Muis cheekong@newstoday.com. sg AS GLOBALISATION sweeps the world, the trend of religious revivalism is becoming a "potent force" in many countries, said Dr Tony Tan, chairman of National Research Foundation, former Deputy Prime
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      Lock icon $5 million so patients won't have to lie on hospital floor
      288 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA NINE months after the tsunami hit Meulaboh, much of its hospital infrastructure is still in a state of disrepair. To bring it much-needed relief, Singapore will be spending $5 million to help rebuild the Indonesian town's general
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; AFP  -  288 words
    • Article
      Job jitters, too
      507 10  -  LEECHINGWERN Even the young share employment worries chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THEY are well-educated, enthusiastic and young. But ironically, they share the same worry as older Singaporeans employment. That seemed to be the topic of interest among many of the 13 young professionals who turned up for the Feedback Unit's
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      They talk of it in the US
      505 12  -  DERRICK A PAULO Research by Biopolis and NUS is making Singapore a major player in biosciences industry derrick@newstoday.com.sg IT is turning just two years old officially next month. But Singapore's biomedical baby is beginning to grow in reputation. The $500 million Biopolis is
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      Lock icon 'Uniquely S'pore' yacht reaches 4th spot in race
      209 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A SINGAPORE team has taken the fourth spot in the first leg of the prestigious Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in the cold English Channel. Called "Uniquely Singapore", the yacht will proceed to jostle for top positions with nine
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      Lock icon Senior general testifies against President Arroyo
      477 14 —AGENCIES Says that when he tried to stop vote-rigging, he was told to play golf MANILA A senior Philippine general defied a ban yesterday by President Gloria Arroyo and appeared before a Senate hearing on electoral fraud to make damaging charges against Mrs Arroyo.
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      Lock icon 57 treated for bird flu as Indonesia crisis worsens
      181 14 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR The bird flu crisis in Indonesia appeared to worsen yesterday with reports of up to 57 people being treated for suspected bird flu. Of the total, 20 patients were under observation at Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso hospital for infectious
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      Lock icon Woman suicide bomber kills 5 in Iraq
      216 14 —AFP MOSUL A woman suicide bomber killed at least five people in an attack yesterday at a police recruitment centre in the former insurgent stronghold of Tal Afar in northern Iraq, police said. Speaking from his hospital bed in Tal Afar, Mr Jumaa
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      The way to go – in powder form
      180 14 The way to go in powder form BERLIN A Swedish town plans to become the first place in the world where corpses will be disposed of by freeze-dry-ing, as an environmentally-friendly alternative to cremation or burial, the Telegraph newspaper reported. The method involves dipping the body in liquid nitrogen and
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      Lock icon Give up politics, Schroder's brother tells German chancellor
      265 16 BERLIN Even before German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder could meet his contender Angela Merkel in an attempt to break the stalemated general election, his brother joined in the chorus calling on the German premier to abandon his campaign to lead the country. Mr
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      Lock icon Samurai lessons for PM
      483 16 AGENCIES Koizumi learns from actions of lowly soldier who rose to dominate Japan LONDON When Japanese Premier Junichiro Koizumi has time to himself, he seeks refuge in the past, reading about a bloody era of Japanese history known as the Momoyama Period and the rise of
      — AGENCIES; AFP  -  483 words
    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon SLEEP TO SLIM
        71 16 DPA Sounds too good to be true, but the latest diet book to hit the shelves says that the more you sleep, the more you lose weight. The book, called the Doona Diet Sleep Yourself Slim, says that sleep deprived people tend to eat more junk food.
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        Lock icon MOUSE GROUNDS PLANE
        75 16 —AP Passengers of a plane had buckled up when a crew member spotted a mouse darting across an aisle, triggering a chase that grounded the airplane at Manila airport for more than 12 hours. The plane's passengers, 243 in all, had to disembark and the airline unloaded
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        Lock icon HE CANT SWIM CUFFED
        44 16 —AP An Arizona convict who jumped into a river to get away from the police, swam back to his captors after he realised that his hands were handcuffed behind his back. The police waited for him by the river bank.
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        PRISON PAGEANT IN COLOMBIA
        45 16 Female prisoners at Colombia's biggest prison took part in a beauty pageant to vie for the top prize of Miss Congeniality. The winner was a drug trafficker who tried to smuggle half a kilogram of heroin in her stomach, reported Ananova.com.
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      Lock icon Disgraced Aussie leader quits
      179 18 —AP SYDNEY Former New South Wales Liberal leader John Brogden, who admitted last month to describing former state premier Bob Carr's wife, Helena, as a "mail-order bride", has resigned from State Parliament. Mr Brogden quit the Opposition leadership last month after he admitted to also making
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      Lock icon Indonesia takes the plunge on fuel prices
      554 18 -AGENCIES Hike could bruise but not cripple government, say analysts JAKARTA Indonesian lawmakers have cleared the way for an unpopular fuel price hike this weekend, voting to cut back government subsidies despite growing public anger over the move. With analysts seeing no immediate
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      Lock icon Daily killings at border of fear
      500 22 -AGENCIES Secession, drugs and power struggles are part of life in Southern Thai towns SUNGAI KOLOK- On the surface, life seems normal enough in Narathiwatand Pattani, two towns some 100 km apart in southern Thailand. Shops and hawker stalls are open and people go
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        PAXIL PROBLEM
        65 22 Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is alerting doctors to a study suggesting their antidepressant Paxil may be more likely to be linked to birth defects than similar drugs, US regulators said today. Glaxo said that it was difficult to tell if Paxil caused the defects, most of which were cardiovascular,
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        Lock icon LET'S KISS AND MAKE UP
        42 22 -AFP The Indonesian military has apologised to angry Acehnese for an incident last week, when a Javanese soldier kissed his Acehnese girlfriend on the lips, minutes before boarding a ship set to leave Aceh. Many were outraged.
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        Lock icon BOSS, HAVE YOU READ THIS?
        71 22 -DPA Office workers in Asia are suffering from aches and pains as long hours at the desk take their toll, according to a survey. 26 per cent of people in Hong Kong -which is reckoned to have the longest working hours in the developed world
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      Lock icon No need for card or PIN, just your finger
      223 24 LONDON Cheats are getting more and more ingenuous these days and there is always a fear of that breach of banking security leading to heavy losses for the banking customer. Password, thumbprints, even iris scanners could be cracked. However, Japanese technology
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      Lock icon Katrina violence reports 'cooked up'
      497 24 —AGENCIES New Orleans officials partly to blame for stories of murder and mayhem NEW ORLEANS As US Congress members started grilling the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) for his handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, investigative reports emerged that most stories
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      Lock icon India 'for sale' during Cold War
      233 24 —AP NEW DELHI Newspapers bankrolled by the KGB to plant thousands of articles. Agents delivering suitcases full of cash to the prime minister's house. During the Cold War era, when India had strong relationship with the Soviet Union, "the entire country was for sale",
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      Lock icon MRT security's blind spot?
      438 26  -  YVETTE ONG CCTV cameras without film trained only on the tracks at Kembangan station Letter from COMMUTERS have been encouraged to report suspicious unaccompanied packages or bags. But a recent experience has left me frustrated and troubled. My brother caught a train at the Kembangan MRT
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      Missing in doctors: The human touch
      215 26  -  CHERYL NG Letter from I USED to visit a particular GP for treatment for flu and a cough. I found her quite good until she started offering aesthetic/cosmetic treatments in her clinic. I have stopped going to her for the following reasons: There is
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      Roadcraft will ensure us a smooth drive
      173 26  -  QUAHTJENGNIEN Letter from HAVING driven extensively overseas, my observation is that drivers in Canada and the United States are very disciplined in general. Yes, there are poor drivers overseas, but I don't think I am wrong to say that there is a higher
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      Union fee hike unfair to those in the middle-income group
      269 28  -  CHRISTOPHERTEO KIAN LAM Letter from YOUR article "NTUC: More take and give" (Sept 23) brought much disappointment to union members from the middle-income group. The assurance that the fee hike comes with benefits for lower-income members is of little consolation
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      117 28 THE WAY FORWARD With construction work on the Circle Line in progress, not only are motorists being forced by detours to find alternate routes to their destinations, pedestrians are also finding their walkways affected. This image of signs on a fence surrounding a Circle Line construction site, as captured
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      Lock icon isay CORPORATE DEVILS MADE ME DO IT
      726 28  -  Tang Li news@newstoday.com.sg NOBODY likes corporations and the bigger the corporation is, the more we dislike it Corporations exist merely to pursue profits, often at the expense of the environment and social fabric, so the stereotype goes. We secretly loathe corporations, even if
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      266 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY................... A FORGOTTEN MONUMENT Last summer I was in a picturesque little village called Garmish in southern Germany, and I happened to notice a small monument erected in memory of the young men who died in the First World War. It caught my
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      Clear selection criteria needed
      359 30  -  PEDRO ACUNA It is not about Singapore athletes being ill-disciplined Letter from Personal coach to national runner Firdaus Juhari I READ your commentary, "It's a sprint farce, SAAA" (Sept 27), and I believe you can help the Singapore Athletic Association, athletes and coaches to put things
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      Are we wasting money and effort?
      160 30  -  AZHARI DASIMIN Letter from I WAS disappointed when I read your commentary, "It's a sprint farce, SAAA" (Sept 27). On what grounds did our National coach Walter Ulrich select the relay team? Two of the members are running the 100 m at 11.1 seconds
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      Lock icon Balloon Man ... with a healing touch
      668 31  - Balloon Man with a healing touch Richard Seah in the crowd SIM SEOW KHAI 73, balloon artist BALLOONS and needles don't mix unless you are Sim Scow Khai, better known as "The Balloon Man" and who happens to be an acupuncturist and practitioner of various other healing arts. Mr Sim
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      Possible solution to persistent CTE traffic tie-ups
      200 32  -  JOHN BAY Letter from THE recent implementation of ERP charges during evening peak hours along the north-bound CTE seems to have failed to improve the traffic situation. Since the main reason for this is the short distance between the entry viaduct from the
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      Lock icon Employers fit to judge
      403 32  -  WENDELL CHUA whether ex-offenders are suited for jobs Letter from President, Association of Certified Security Specialists SINCE the launch of the Yellow Ribbon Project on Oct 2 last year, the movement has made great strides in educating the public on its three-fold goals of awareness, acceptance
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      Tired? Do some soul-searching
      148 32  -  TEO KUEH LIANG Letter from I REFER to Kenny Toh's commentary, "Be a sloth, nourish your soul" (Sept 28). Once a person loses willpower and drive, becoming slothful equates to self-destruction. However, if one can really use the "down time" to relax the mind and rejuvenate
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      Lock icon Annuities last longer
      465 34  -  JASON SADLER The right plan will outlast CPF funds Letter from President Life Insurance Association of Singapore I REFER to Mr Lim Boon Hee's queries on annuities (Sept 27). Please allow me to respond to these queries, on behalf of the Life Insurance Association of Singapore, with
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      No price, hours change for supplementary licences
      266 34  -  HAN LIANG YUAN (MS) Letter from Director, Corporate Communications Land Transport Authority I REFER to Mr Abdul Rahim Darman's letter, "Review weekend car coupons" (Sept 20). Mr Abdul Rahim suggested that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) review the pricing and hours of the
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      370 35  - Ensure you have enough to live well to a ripe old age TAN KIN LI AN LETTER FROM Chief executive officer NTUC Income I REFER to the letter, "Annuity conumdrum if I die early" by Lim Boon Hee (Sept 27). Under the CPF Minimum Sum Scheme, a retiree is allowed
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      239 35  -  TNG WEN HAO ISAAC Letter from I FEEL that fining a racist blogger up to $5,000 is an extreme measure, even though I understand that the Singapore Government is trying hard to prevent the surfacing of racist actions and remarks.
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      339 35  -  BERTON LIM Letter from SCEPTICS may have always felt that online diary entries are written for an intended audience, but an online diary has always been a medium of expression by an individual to put his or her thoughts into
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      Lock icon A $300b manufacturing sector by 2018
      703 36 DOW JONES Singapore plans to double annual output in the sector despite low-cost competition from China SINGAPORE aims to double its annual manufacturing output by 2018, which analysts said would be a challenging task because of the competitive threat from China. Even if the
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        161 36 DOW JONES SHARES fell yesterday for a second day running on profit taking. The ST Index shed 4.66 points, or 0.2 per cent, to close at 2,301.84. In the broad market, decliners beat gainers 350 to 147, while traded volume amounted to 975.3 million shares worth $861.2 million. Starting
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        61 36 SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Information provided by Mikkei 225 13,435.91 +125.87 +0.95 Hang Seng 15,221.46 +31.58 +0.21 Ml Ordinaries 4,575.20 -1.50 -0.03 FaiwanWtd 5,931.38 -13.67 -0.23 (oreaComp 1,228.57 +18.94 +1.57 <LCI 924.50 -3.21 -0.35 SET Index 723.20 -1.04 -0.14 Jakarta Camp 1,027.88 -9.74 -0.94 3hils Comp 1,976.10 -8.39
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        20 36 Gold US$/oz 465.10 Rubber cents/kg 286.75 Silver US$/oz 7.305 Palm oil RM/tonne 1/445.00 Platinum US$/oz 914.10 Brant US$/barrel 62.65
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      269 37  -  —CHOW PENN NEE PERSISTENTLY high oil prices are pushing industries towards the increased use of alternative energy sources like coal. Many governments and power utilities are now diversifying their fuel sources by using coal, said Mr Hsu Chih-Chien, chairman and cofounder of
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      160 37 DOW JONES SINGAPORE-based integrated marine and mining logistics specialist Sembawang Kimtrans said yesterday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia's Amsteel Mills to form a joint venture for providing marine logistics services in Malaysia. Amsteel a unit of Lion Industries Corp will hold
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      More jailed for Citiraya scam
      552 37  -  CHRISTIE LOH Five convicted so far for bribery involving the electronic waste recycler as more charged christie@newstoday.com.sg FOR profiting illicitly to the detriment of a Singapore Exchange-listed firm and its suppliers, the quartet that admitted to taking bribes from Citiraya Industries has been thrown behind
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      411 37  -  CHOW PENN NEE HOUSING loan customers who want more predictability in the payment of their monthly mortgage instalments can look towards Citibank Singapore's new fixed-rate home loan. The Citibank Home Saver loan, launched today, offers a fixed rate for the five years
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        436 38  -  VALERIE LAW This is after the retailer bought over its rival, Goldheart valeri e@newstoday.com.sg JEWELLERY retailer Aspial Corporation is set be the biggest player in Singapore with the acquisition of its rival Goldheart Jewelry. At a press briefing yesterday, Aspial chief executive Koh Wee Seng, said
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        212 38 DOW JONES STARHUB, Singapore's No 2 mobile phone company by market share, yesterday reiterated it expects full year operating revenue to grow in the low teens compared with a year earlier. "We haven't changed guidance since the last quarter," chief executive Terry Clontz said
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          NANCY COOKS WELL TOO
          202 38 POPULAR Hong Kong actress Nancy Sit cooked up a storm last Sunday to raise funds for Ren Ci Hospital. The spokesperson for OTO Bodycare took 12 hours to prepare the healthy 5 grains porridge. The actress took a Mercedes taxi to a tentage outside Block 501
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          HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PLAZA SINGAPURA
          102 38 IT IS Plaza Singapura's 31st anniversary bash this weekend, and shoppers can expect free goodies! This Sunday, there will be a crazy giveaway of 310 surprise "presents" for shoppers who turn up wearing a blue or green top -the shopping mall's celebratory colours! Shoppers may go
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        Lock icon M1 expects growth from sale to Telekom
        326 38 BLOOMBERG MOBILEONE, one of Singapore's three mobile phone operators, said it expects benefits from its sale of a majority shareholding to Telekom Malaysia and Khazanah Nasional. Telekom, Malaysia's biggest phone operator and the government investment company Khazanah own 24 per cent in Mobile
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        Lock icon We're ahead of Japan and Hong Kong
        450 39 —AFP Spore ranked 6th by World Economic Forum's global competitiveness report GENEVA Singapore is the world's sixth most competitive economy in the World Economic Forum's annual ranking, published yesterday. It gained one place since last year. Finland, which grabbed the top spot from
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        189 39 —AFP WASHINGTON US Airways emerged from bankruptcy protection on Tuesday and completed a merger with low-cost carrier America West that creates the fifth largest US airline, the companies announced. The reborn US Airways came out of creditor protection for the second time
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        688 40  -  VASU MENON OCBC's Wealth Management Unit polled 16 fund managers for their views on the global economic and investment climate for the fourth quarter of this year and beyond. While fund managers were generally sanguine, they expressed concerns about higher oil prices and its
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        716 41  -  JOSEPH TAY Leaders must show the way and re-energise their people to become creative RECENT speeches by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and other ministers have put innovation back into the spotlight While the research and development emphasis is understandable, innovation cannot be confined to the
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      ON BEAUTY AND BARRIERS
      1226 42  -  DAVID CHEW Amid the racial tension, Man Booker Prize nominee Zadie Smith is proud to be a young, black woman living in London david.chew@newstoday.com.sg RACISM has reared its ugly head several times recently, making local and international headlines. Three Singaporean bloggers, aged between 17 and 2
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      Lock icon BLAME TERRORISM, NOT RACISM, FOR BOMBINGS
      244 43 MAN Booker Prize nominee Zadie Smith has a white father and a black mother and has lived in London her entire life. Her novels tackle the subjects of race and class. Yet, she does not believe the July 7 bombings in England can be
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      THEATREREVIEW
      328 44  -  Neil Humphreys py.................... THE prospect of watching eight bodies jumping around in hobnailed boots, banging their tools on all things metallic didn't initially appeal. Such incidents occur every day on a building site, albeit with considerably less rhythm. So it's rather difficult to visualise how a percussion performance like
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      Extraordinary story to tell
      517 44  -  DAVID CHEW Author Vikram Seth writes about his one-armed dentist uncle and his German Jew aunt david. chew@newstoday.com. sg WITH the global fame he currently enjoys, author Vikram Seth could very well write an autobiography. His critically-acclaimed debut prose novel A Suitable Boy sold over 1
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      489 45  -  JOYCE LIN Hairstylist David Gan loves making catty comments onChsshow Villa Wellness joyce@newstoday.com.sg CELEBRITY hairstylist David Gan has always been surrounded by beautiful people like Farm Wong, Zoe Tay and Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi and is famous for his catty comments. But he's never been this
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      240 45  -  -JOYCE UN ELEVEN-year-old Siti Nasuha Ramlee seems soft-spoken, but put her in front of the camera and she's a natural. Perhaps she was just excited at becoming one of the first people in the world to visit the new House of Mouse. The Parkview Primary
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      Four males to croon it out in Anugerah finals
      250 46  -  —JEANINETAN FIRST, Singapore Idol, then Project Super Star. Now it's the Malay community's turn to crown their singing idol tonight Four contestants, all male, are left to battle it out in the grand finals of MediaCorp TV 12 Suria's talent show
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      Call off the Search
      357 46  -  ZULOTHMAN Why is the Malaysian rock band cancelling Saturday night's giqj zul@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS to be the biggest event in the Malay music calendar in Singapore. Malaysian quintet Search, easily one of the region's biggest rock acts, was due to play at Fort Canning Park on
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      281 47 —AGENCIES That would be the 59-year-old Trump, with his fifth down in the delivery room NEW YORK Every week, Donald Trump fires someone on his reality TV show. The Apprentice, which is currently showing every Sunday on MediaCorp TV Channel 5, takes up much of Trump's
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      195 47 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON You've seen him in the films Good Will Hunting, Pearl Harbor and Daredevil. Could Ben Affleck's next role be as an elected official? The Washington Post reported that the Virginia Democrats are tossing around Affleck's name as a potential challenger to Senator
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        80 47 A SCREENPLAY play written by murdered rapper Tupac Shakur is being produced as a feature film. Live 2 Tell, a script Shakur wrote in 1995 about an inner-city black youth who becomes a drug kingpin and later goes straight, was acquired by Insomnia Media Group,
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        OCEAN TO REVEAL HIS IDENTITY
        45 47 OCEAN Ou De Yang is finally making his first appearance in a music showcase on Nov 3, spm, at the Padang. The mysterious singer, who has released two chart-topping Mandarin albums, has so far been only represented by a caricature.
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        MEET THOSE SINGAPORE IDOLS
        43 47 FANS can catch up with Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah (picture) and his Shooting Stars co-stars Sylvester Sim, Olinda Cho, Daphne Khoo and Jeassea Thyidor-atthe autograph session for the Shooting Stars Original Soundtrack on Saturday 4pm at Bishan's Junction 8.
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        GREAT BRUSH STROKES
        66 47 Strokecity_2oos is a journey towards calligraphic architecture, showcasing Kent Neo's ideas of a city that has less edges and more soft strokes. He combines calligraphy with modern digital art to produce mesmerising images, sculptures and architecture that is traditional yet innovative. Strokecity_2oos runs until Oct 1 at
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        ADMIRE WILD AFRICA
        32 47 MY Africa, a solo exhibition by Singapore wildlife artist Chew Choon, runs till Oct 31 at Takashimaya, #04-20. The exhibition opens daily from 11am to Bpm. Admission is free.
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      Lock icon Stars in her eyes
      351 48  -  Sonia Singh Raeta Raman BOOKREVIEW Bollywood Confidential It is hardly surprising that author Sonia Singh decided to write about Bollywood. After all, her life could be fodder for a script of a masala movie. Instead, IndoAmerican Singh leveraged on her experiences as a frustrated, lowlypaid, aspiring
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      Lock icon The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
      191 48  -  Umberto Eco Cheng Puay Koon Sixty-year-old Giambattista wakes from a coma and can't remember his name. Worse, he can't remember anything else about himself. With the exception of 'the mysterious flames' flickers of recognition for familiar objects from his past Yambo's (Giambattista's forgotten nickname)
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      169 48  -  Tan Teck Howe Dawn Quek The blurb of the book reads: "It's not easy being a foreign student in Britain." But it seems the protagonist in the book, Singaporean Tong Jin Wei, has all the luck in the world while studying at Oxford University.
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      223 49 "I am concurrently reading two books: Idiot Nation by Michael Moore who made the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 and Al-Qaeda by Jason Burke. "The first is an extract from Moore's book Stupid White Men published in 2001. It was originally banned in the United States. "It is a humourous, candid
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        470 50  -  PEARLYN THAM pea rlyn@newstoday.com.sg FROM today, the brightest will congregate outside Ngee Ann City. No, it's not a gathering of high-flying scholars or Mensa members but the best in the jewellery industry as the annual Singapore JewelFest 2005 kicks off at the Jewel Pavilion. Singapore JewelFest 2005,
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          ADIDAS STEPS FORWARD IN STYLE
          71 50 Adidas' newest store is a treat to the eyes with its minimalist decor, black walls and furniture, and sports-inspired fixtures. Clothes are hung on racks that resemble weight-lifting bars and shoes are displayed on starting blocks instead of traditional shelves. The store offers Sport Performance
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          DOO YOU HAVE TIME, SCOOBY?
          62 50 Children can indulge in their love of Scooby-Doo with Flik Flak watches that feature the beloved canine. There are two models: Ice Scooby-Doo ($49) and Scooby-Doo Ramps Up ($63). Both have shock-resistant aluminium cases covered by non-scratch mineral glass. The ScoobyDoo Ramps Up model even
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          99 50 Diamonds may be a woman's best Triends but Escada hopes that its eponymous fragrance will also get onto her best friends' list of must haves. The fragrance was designed for the woman who wants it all and who likes a little extravagance and indulgence in her life.
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          EAR, YE ALL
          72 50 Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and other gemstones come together in the form of glamorous earrings at Mumbai Se's Dazzling Jewelled Earrings extravaganza. This showcase features creations by some of India's leading jewellers whose designs have been worn by Bollywood's leading ladies. Dazzling Jewelled Earrings is open to
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        381 52  -  PEARLYN THAM Lancome's Flash Masque is a luscious treatfor your sensitive eye area pea rlyn@newstoday.com.sg I HARDLY pay attention to the chatter of radio deejays, but during one rare occasion when I did, it was because he was discussing skincare for the eye. It was
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        178 52  -  PEARLYNTHAM KNOWN as the specialist of mechanical chronograph watches, Breitling has launched the special Montbrillant Edition, a tribute to its first chronograph factory in the Swiss watch-making city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Part of the Navitimer range, the Montbrillant houses a mechanical hand-wound movement and has a 30-minute totaliser
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      544 53  -  AMYVAN Impress your friends with a quick-and-easy dessert made from sweet Autumn Royal grapes food@newstoday.com.sg THE Autumn Royal is a new seedless grape produced in California. Normally harvested in early October, this grape stores very well, so it's usually available until December. With a deep purple-black skin and
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        722 54  -  JENNY KONG Australia's capital offers great outdoor activities, food and shopping jenny@newstoday.com.sg FOR those who don't care much for winter, Canberra is one of those places which offer plenty of sun at year end. The spring and summer weather, with temperatures ranging between 22 and 27 degrees
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        172 56 —AP New site will have a show on Jewish biblical past JERUSALEM Israel has unveiled an underground archaeological site near a disputed Jerusalem holy shrine, nearly a decade after the opening of an exhibit in the same area sparked widespread Palestinian rioting. The latest discovery included a ritual
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        63 56 ZUJI makes travelling easier by offering customers access to 400 airlines, 60,000 hotels and more than 50 car hire companies. Every week, it will offer flight and hotel deals to the top 10 destinations.To book, 1 visit wwwzuji.com.sg/today or SMS the word today to I 100 1234 for more
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        613 58  -  DANIEL LOVERING —AP traveller@newstoday.com.sg THE Mongol attackers are long gone. But the vast brick-and-stone barrier that helped China repel them still stands. Today, it awaits a new horde of travellers who can explore and even camp out on the centuries-old fortification. Crumbling in some areas
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        495 63 —AFP Kiwi hints that current India coach can't keep team harmony SYDNEY The row between Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and the team's Australian coach Greg Chappell should never have left the dressing room, former Indian coach John Wright (above) said yesterday. Wright declined to
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        442 63 —AFP SAO PAULO McLaren chief Ron Dennis has revealed concerns that this year's constructors' championship run-in could be ruined by the behaviour of backmarkers in the remaining two races. McLaren-Mercedes took over the lead of the championship from Renault with a confident one-two finish in
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        317 67  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg IT APPEARS Jason Belmonte (right) will be the man to beat at the 38th Singapore Open Bowling Championship, after the 22-year-old Australian clinched a Masters berth with a commanding show at Victor's Superbowl yesterday. With 1,018 pinfalls from
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        398 67  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE athletes and coaches involved in the 4x400m fiasco at the Singapore Open Track And Field Championship will face disciplinary action if they are found guilty of misconduct. The Saturday event at Bukit Gombak Stadium was the national men's 4x400m
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