Today, 5 October 2005, Afternoon Edition

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      36 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 12 voices 20 business 30 growth 38 plus 40 tv radio listings 46 classad 47 sports 50 we set you thinking efifljffg MMW '-P ■wSfSmm M ■1m lw^"'fVi?^^BS
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      123 1 iOM\ .Jn__ Singapore is preoccupied with the nation's pioneers, veterans P^w the question: What is our and heroes. Every Wednesday WB'Sf". 3*L2" national icon? from today, the PLUS section M^^k*^ From the Merlion and the will feature such ICONS in a Kucinta cat to HDB flats, all new interview series
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      6 1 '*m\W MORE BALI REPORTS PAGES 2,12AND22
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Answers sought in pellets, heads
      835 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO IN BALI —WITH AGENCY REPORTS Talk of M'sian masterminds and more attacks as Spore team in Bali gets to work derrick@newstoday.com.sg RUMMAGING through the bomb scraps for clues and searching homes in villages, the Indonesian authorities seem determined to get to the
      —WITH AGENCY REPORTS; PHOTOS AB EPA; DON WONG  -  835 words
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      Lock icon US stocks slip on Fed rate fears
      171 1 -AFP NEW YORK Wall Street shares shed earlier gains to close lower yesterday on new fears of higher Federal Reserve interest rates and after a clutch of corporate profit warnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 94.37 points at 10,441.11, the Nasdaq
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      Lock icon Blasts condemned
      95 1 -AFP UNITED NATIONS The UN Security Council yesterday strongly condemned the latest bombings in Bali and urged all states to cooperate with Indonesia to bring those responsible to justice. In a statement, it urged all states to help Indonesia "bring the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of these
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      Lock icon US inflation 'close to danger zone'
      198 2 -AFP WASHINGTON US inflation is running close to the Federal Reserve's danger zone, Dallas Fed president Robert Fisher said yesterday in comments that suggest the central bank will keep hiking interest rates. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, price pressures are mounting as energy gets
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      Lock icon Aussie couple recovering here
      426 2  -  ANSLEYNG Man's condition still serious; wife's improves a nsley@newstoday.com.sg PAUL Anicich, an Australian lawyer wounded by the Bali bomb blasts, remained in a "seriously stable" condition at Mount Elizabeth hospital, his brother Richard Anicich told reporters yesterday. Paul's wife, Penelope a high school teacher who was
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      Lock icon Hurricanes 'wrecked 109 oil platforms'
      180 2 -AFP WASHINGTON Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico but only a small portion of production will be lost for good, the US government said yesterday. Rita accounted for most of the damage in a
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      Time to review budget airline plan
      730 3  -  Prithpal Singh as Singapore's high-flown plans for low cost carriers prove to be unworkable MAYBE it is time for Singapore to rethink its involvement in the low cost airline business. It seems to me the odds are stacked against success in the near future.
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      Angry Star Idol posters and a police report
      289 4  -  JEANINETAN jeanine@newstoday.com.sg EVEN before the MediaCorp TV Channel 8 talent search Star Idol hits the screens, you can hear some screams. Presumably the handiwork of disgruntled contestants who did not make the grade, several handwritten posters have sprung up at bus stops
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      Lock icon Less queuing with self-service kiosks
      542 4  -  TORCHING LI Initiative part of Changi's effort to better check-in efficiency chingli@newstoday.com.sg COME early next year, passengers at Changi Airport can shorten their check-in queuing time by using the Common Use Self Service (CUSS) kiosk. Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong announced this initiative to improve
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    • SINGAPORE
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        LATEST DENGUE DEATH, TOLL NOW 13
        58 6 There has been another dengue related death in Singapore. The latest victim is a 55-year-old male Chinese. He died at the National University Hospital on Sunday. This brings the death toll this year to 13. Meanwhile, 112 dengue cases were reported between 3pm on
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        S'PORE-MALDIVES TSUNAMI WORK
        120 6 The Singapore Government has signed an agreement with the Maldivian government to implement Singapore's $7.3 million posttsunami reconstruction projects for the Maldives in its capital, Male. After the signing on Monday, Mr Chan Soo Sen, the Minister of State for Education, and for Trade and Industry, also
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        Lock icon INDIAN DELEGATES CALL ON SM GOH
        58 6 Channel News Asia A delegation of Indian parliamentarians of the India-Singapore Parliamentary Forum called on Senior Minister Goh ChokTong at the Istana yesterday. The six-member delegation was accompanied by a small delegation from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. They discussed
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      Lock icon Same spot, but another crash
      477 6  -  DAWN QUEK The string of accidents at downtown junction continues da wn@newstoday.com.sg IT IS becoming a daily routine. Yesterday, for the third consecutive working day, two more accidents happened at the Robinson Road-Cecil Street junction. At 9.50 am, a Nissan Latio ran into a taxi
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      St Andrew's to be reunited in Potons Pasir
      705 8  -  LEE U-WEN From pre-school to JC in $80-million village u-wen@newstoday.com.sg A LINE in its school hymn goes: "One family unbroken, we join in one acclaim." For 28 years, however, the St Andrew's family of schools has been broken up physically the primary
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      Lock icon They thought there was still time
      563 10  -  LOHCHEEKONG Ng was pulled up for late reports and warned about adverse readings cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE building regulator who worked with former Land Transport Authority (LTA) project director Ng Seng Yoong on the Nicoll Highway site told the court yesterday that his professional conduct had
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      286 8 DINNER FUNDS A gala dinner will be held at the ShangriLa Hotel on Nov 4 to raise funds for the St Andrew's Village building fund. Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be the guest-of-honour. Still available are $5,000, $10,000 and $20,000 tables. To purchase tickets, call 6285 1944. Copies of the
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    • TERRORINBALI
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        Lock icon GLOOMY START TO RAMADAN
        83 12 -AFP Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, will begin the fasting month of Ramadan today, under the spectre of another bomb attack in Bali and fuel price increases that have caused widespread hardship. The country's worries do not stop there it is also battling outbreaks
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        Lock icon PEACE PROCESSION
        75 12 -AFP Hundreds of Balinese and others of many faiths recited prayers, banged drums and cast flowers into the sea on Monday, in a peace procession to the sites of Saturday's three bomb blasts. Muslims and Hindus stood side by side to say that they rejected the violence of
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        Lock icon JI LEADER CONDEMNS BOMBINGS
        77 12 —AFP The alleged spiritual leader of South-east Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Bakar Bashir who is currently serving a 30-month sentence for conspiring to organise the 2002 Bali attacks that killed 202 people condemned the latest Bali bombings yesterday. The Al Qaeda-linked terror group is
        —AFP  -  77 words
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        BOGUS MESSAGES CAUSE PANIC
        71 12 Bogus cell-phone messages of fresh terrorist attacks in Bali and others designed to encourage religious violence spread quickly through the island, causing panic in some areas and angering law enforcement agencies, reported the Jakarta Post yesterday. At least three such messages were widely circulated through the
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      Lock icon Poised to spring
      446 12 -AGENCIES Security on high alert across the region after Bali blasts KUALA LUMPUR Security forces were on high alert across the South-east Asian region because of fears that foreign embassies and tourist destinations might be attacked in the immediate aftermath of the weekend suicide bombings in Bali.
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      Lock icon Turkish delight over European embrace
      626 14 THE GUARDIAN EU buries differences, invites Ankara to join formal membership talks LUXEMBOURG Europe finally buried its differences Monday night and agreed to take one of the most momentous steps in its 50-year history and invite Turkey to join formal European Union (EU) membership talks.
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      Lock icon Rafidah comes under fire
      229 14 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian international trade minister Rafidah Aziz yesterday stoutly defended her policies against accusations that she allowed select businesses to import cars at cheap prices, as she fought for her political survival in a scandal that has isolated her even within her party. The
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      Lock icon Thailand slams Malaysia
      200 14 -DPA BANGKOK The Thai government yesterday lashed out at Malaysia and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for moving 131 Thai Muslim refugees deeper into Malaysian territory away from their common border. "We have already warned the UNHCR not to become the tool of the
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      Lock icon Bush backs own lawyer for judge's job
      333 15 —THE GUARDIAN Low-key corporate lawyer latest in list of controversial picks WASHINGTON In yet another controversial appointment, US President George W Bush yesterday nominated his former personal lawyer, Ms Harriet Miers, to take the Supreme Court seat, which until now held the balance
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      Lock icon French commuters hit hard by one-day strike
      160 15 -AP PARIS Their collective early morning breath misting the windows, commuters herded cheek-by-jowl aboard those trains left running on Paris' strike-hit rail network yesterday, caught by a oneday nationwide union protest against government economic and labour policies. The strike disrupted air links, with
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      Lock icon Top Bush ally DeLay faces another charge
      396 16 -AFP Lawmaker accused of money laundering in growing corruption scandal WASHINGTON Representative Tom DeLay (picture), a powerful ally of President George W Bush, was indicted on a new charge of money laundering as his lawyers moved to dismiss a previous conspiracy indictment filed
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    • GLOBAL
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        Lock icon ASIAN ENERGY GRID?
        55 16 DPA A group of seven South Asian and Southeast Asian countries yesterday agreed to look into setting up a regional power grid and gas pipeline at a meeting in New Delhi. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation comprises India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal,
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        Lock icon WEAR A CONDOM OR BE FINED
        80 16 -DPA Male customers in red light districts, bars and hotels in Indonesia's eastern Merauke regency in Papua province could be fined up to US$5OO ($845) for refusing to wear a condom. The penalty is based on a 2003 by-law and officials recently announced that
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      Lock icon Want to police online speech? Good luck
      822 18  -  Oon Yeoh Meanwhile, Malaysian bloggers are getting the jitters news@newstoday.com.sg BLOGGING was hot a couple of years back. Then, moblogging and vlogging (mobile and video blogging respectively) came along to make blogging seem so old fashioned. Now, podcasting a method of publishing audio
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      100 20 m____ MediaCorp Press Ltd IIITIAA/ 24 Raffles Place#2B-01/06 iW-l/rYX Clifford Centre *****21 Editor-in-chief CEO Mano Sabnani Executive director Philip Koh EDITORIAL Associate editor Margaret Thomas Day/news editor S Murali Associate/night editor Rahul Pathak Chief sub-editor Richard J Valladares Section editors Local Teo Hwaa Nak Foreign Clement Mesenas Voices commentary Yvonne
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      Lock icon Crash and learn
      363 20  -  LIM BOON HEE LEONGKUMCHUEN YEO SIAH MENG DONALD TEO PHOTOS: Accidents tell the tale... Letter from WHEN three accidents happen in four days at the problem junction of Cecil-Robinson Road after changes were made there, the source of the problem must be found and rectified. It is
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      The science and art of providing a rounded education
      355 20  -  BEATRICE LIU SHIYING Letter from I WITH regards to the news comment, "Time to think" by Mr Wayne Soon (Oct 4), I would like to say that the inclusion of subjects such as sociology, religious studies and international relations at the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      254 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY sdhb ON THE LOOKOUT Author Linda Webertells about a big dinner party she had planned. She had stretched the dining-room table to its fullest length, setting all the leaves in place before hurrying on to other preparations. Before long, she heard a
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      Lock icon To Bali, says blog, to win a war
      696 22 Within 24 hrs of last week's bombings, 1,200 blog sites begin discussions on it THE free online community encyclopedia, Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) started a page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Bali_ bombings) within a few hours of last Saturday's Bali bombings. Within 24 hours of the bombs exploding,
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      isay BREASTFEEDING COMES OF AGE
      559 25  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN I GAVE birth to my sixth child, Anicius Conrad, in August. While expressing breast milk during my lunch break, I reflected on how things have changed. Sixteen years ago, when I chose to breastfeed my eldest son Angus, I met with
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      Identity crisis? It's the price of being too Westernised
      223 25  -  WONG HOONG HOOI Letter from WHENEVER race relations becomes topical, a section of the Englishspeaking Chinese community takes the opportunity to attack the Speak Mandarin Campaign and Special Assistance Plan Schools for driving a wedge between the ethnic majority and minorities
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      Helping disabled shouldn't be a calculated endeavour
      252 28  -  TENG HAW KIAD Letter from MR KHOO Lih-Han's letter, "Why spend all the money on a minority?" (Oct 1-2), raised the issue of cost-effectiveness. In the hope of making Singapore an efficient society, we have become too calculated in our decision-mak-ing. However, helping
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      isay A SPECIAL DAY FOR SPECIAL KIDS
      595 28  -  LYDEAGNWEIEN OCT 1, more fondly known as Children's Day, is a day to remember the children in our midst who represent our future, our hope. Parents worldwide all share the same dream for their children: For them to be healthy and happy. Unfortunately,
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      398 30  -  CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@newstoday.com.sg A HOME-GROWN company made up of former Arthur Andersen staff is set to take on the big boys in auditing, accounting and other corporate advisory services. Singapore-based First Trust, a professional-services company officially launched yesterday, offers
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      139 30 DOW JONES MAINBOARD-listed United Test and Assembly Center (Utac) and South Korea's Nepes Corp will form a joint venture to build a US$3O million ($5l million) semiconductor wafer bumping facility in Singapore. The venture will comprise US$lO million in equity investment
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      123 30 BUOYED by a surge in new orders from the electronics segment, Singapore's manufacturing industry expanded for the fifth straight month last month. The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) released yesterday showed a reading of 53.1 last month, up 0.9 point from August As a
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        321 32  -  CHOW PENN NEE OCBC unit raises savings rate to 1.9 per cent per annum for Oct-Dec quarter pennnee@newstoday.com.sg FOR the second time in four months, e-bank finatiQ has raised its savings rates again, intensifying the fight for depositors. The subsidiary of OCBC
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        161 32 -DOWJONES LOGISTICS firm CWT Distribution has sold two properties to Cambridge Real Estate Investment Management (Creim) for $145 million ahead of the latter's plan to list an industrial real estate investment trust (Reit) in Singapore. In an announcement on Monday
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        119 32 PROPERTY investment company Hong Fok Corp is in discussions with an unnamed party "to explore the possibility of generating income to facilitate the payment of dividends that will assist the company in utilising its Section 44 credits," the company said yesterday. Section 44 credits
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        158 32 -Dow Jones Brilliant Manufacturing's founder Harry Koh Soe Khon, 55, continues to fight allegations of insider trading as he remains executive chairman and managing director of the disk drive parts maker. Scheduled to appear in court on Nov 8, he will be represented by Mr Subhas Anandan of Harry
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          71 32 SHARES rose yesterday, led by property stocks on a quarterly rise in home prices, traders said. The Urban Redevelopment Authority said on Monday private home prices in the third quarter chalked up the biggest quarter-on-quarter jump in since 2000. The ST Index rose 22.28 points, or 1 per cent,
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          36 32 US$ 0.5903 UK£ 0.3359 Yen 67.435 HK$ 4.5777 RM 2.2252 Euro 0.4953 Rupiah 6,043.4 Baht 24.267 Peso 33.045 A$ 0.7736 Indian Rs 26.078 Won 615.27 C$ 0.6891 Yuan 4.7751 NZ$ 0.8510 NT$ 19.647
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          61 32 DOW JONES Among property stocks. City Developments rose 3.2 per cent to $9.60, Keppel Land gained 3.3 per cent to $3.76 and Capita Land added 2.5 per cent to $3.24. Singapore Airlines rose 0.9 per cent to $11.60 after its chief executive said that the impact
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          56 32 Nikkei 225 13,738.84 +213.56 +1.58 Hang Seng 15,382.21 -12.18 -8.88 Australia ASX 4,643.68 +1.28 +8.83 Taiwan Wtd 6,142.12 +18.28 +8.38 Korea Comp 1,242.78 +21.77 +1.78 KLCI 924.76 -8.57 -8.86 SET Index 714.98 -2.52 -8.35 Jakarta Comp 1,181.16 +17.75 +1.64 Phils Comp 1,938.35 -7.47 -8.38 Shenzhen B 223.55 +3.18
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        295 34 -BLOOMBERG SHARES of Beijing Media Corp, which counts the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) as one of its shareholders, plunged as much as 27 per cent yesterday on the Hong Kong stock exchange after the Chinese company said six employees were taken
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        176 34 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's trade surplus rose 64.8 per cent in August to RM9.82 billion ($4.4 billion) from the RM5.96 billion achieved in July, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said yesterday. This marks the 94th consecutive month of trade surpluses
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        378 35 BLOOMBERG Second overseas debt sale this year aims to raise $2.12 billion INDONESIA will sell US$l.25 billion ($2.12 billion) of bonds, its biggest overseas debt offering, betting fuel price increases will ease concern the government will miss a budget deficit target Indonesia's second overseas debt
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        283 35 BLOOMBERG MACQUARIE Bank, Australia's biggest investment bank, plans to raise up to A 5966 million ($1.25 billion) in an initial public offering of its radio stations to fund media acquisitions. Macquarie Media Group, which owns 85 commercial radio stations in Australian cities,
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        381 36  -  DAWN QUEK da wn@newstoday.com.sg FOUR Singapore organisations were recognised for their contributions in the pursuit of attaining world-class business standards at the Presentation of Business Excellence Awards 2005, held yesterday at Suntec Convention Centre's ballrooms. Awarded with the Singapore Quality Award were the Institute of Technical Education,
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        475 37  -  DAWN QUEK Best practices will allow SMEs to bridge resources divide da wn@newstoday.com.sg SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) should not steer clear of business frameworks that will help shorten their learning curve, said Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang. Speaking at an awards presentation
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        634 38  -  LIEWGUANG-HUAN Advertising support, strong brand and a distinctive business model are some factors FRANCHISES these days have extended beyond the fast-food outlets from which they originally derived their popularity to those of schools, spas and technology. There are more than 380 franchise concepts in Singapore,
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      1636 40  -  Zul Othman Raised by loving Malay family, Richmond went on to become a DJ, presenter, actor and a 'secret agent... GENUINE broadcasting legends can probably be counted on one hand. Brian Richmond is one of them. After 34 years in a business famed for its fickleness,
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      503 42  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Kuno Becker can't sing, but women sure love him in Goal! IN LONDON Deputy Plus Editor neil@newstoday.com.sg BRITISH actress Anna Friel has worked with renowned Scottish actor Ewan McGregor. In Rogue Trader (1999), which was filmed in Singapore, she played Lisa Leeson, the wife
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        87 42 British TV comedy actor Ronnie Barker, who starred in the classics Porridge and The Two Ronnies, has died aged 76. One of the most loved and respected comedy performers of his generation, he was best known as one half of a double act with Ronnie Corbett. He
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        75 42 Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage is a new father. His wife of 14 months, Alice Kirn, gave birth in New York City on Monday to the couple's first child together, a son they named Kal-el the birth name of Superman. Cage is known as an avid comic book
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        37 42 Michael Bolton, who won a Grammy in 1990 for best male pop vocal for How Am I Supposed To Live Without You, performs at the Singapore Expo on Nov 27. Tickets are available from Sistic.
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        42 42 Experience Finland's Ensemble TemperaTur at Bpm tomorrow at the Singapore Chinese Orchestra Concert Hall. Finnish pianist TuomasTurriago and musicians from Finnish ensemble Tempera Quartet will perform works of classical composers Jean Sibelius and Robert Schumann. Tickets are available from Sistic.
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      443 43  -  DAVID CHEW Noise Spore youth arts test nets 3,500 works david. chew@newstoday.com. sg WHEN a 1.2-ha plot of land was designated a youth dreamscape titled *scape in August, Today reported that only a few young people volunteered suggestions on how to develop the area. A
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      253 43  -  -JOYCE LIN My mother would forbid me to sing in public, and told me to stick with my dancing. Yulia Townsend, whose debutalbum wentplatinum RUSSIAN-BORN singer-song-writer Yulia Townsend might have had the voice of a "Russian bear" when she was younger but that didn't
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        323 44  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Burton's animated tale performs well in Singapore and in North America Deputy Plus Editor neil@newstoday.com.sg DEATH and violence seem to be popular this week. A story about a dead bride proved a hit in both Singapore and North America, with Tim Burton's dark animated
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        334 51 -AFP MANCHESTER England striker Michael Owen revealed yesterday that he would not play club football abroad again. The 25-year-old signed for Newcastle United for a club record £17 million (5550.6 million), after spending just one season with Spanish giants Real Madrid. And
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        312 51 -AFP Injury forces star to miss England's W-Cup ties against Austria, Poland MANCHESTER Ashley Cole has been ruled out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Austria and Poland after suffering a stress fracture to his foot. The 24-year-old Arsenal full-back will likely be replaced by Liverpool
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        349 51 -AFP LONDON Welsh seamer Simon Jones (picture) has been ruled out of England's coming tour of Pakistan with an ankle injury. The Glamorgan paceman has failed to recover from the ankle spurs that sidelined him for the final Ashes Test at The
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        197 51 -AFP PARIS France confirmed yesterday that striker David Trezeguet (picture) will miss the World Cup qualifiers against Switzerland on Saturday and Cyprus on Oct 12 because of a thigh injury. The country's top scorer sustained the injury while playing in Juventus' 2-0 win
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