Today, 11 October 2005, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • Article
      Lock icon US rejects tradition on UN chief
      424 1 -DPA Does this mean Asian will not take over from Annan? NEW YORK The United States yesterday rejected the tradition of choosing UN Sec-retary-Generals, jeopardising the widely-accepted notion an Asian would replace the outgoing chief, Mr Kofi Annan. "It's always been the US position
      -DPA  -  424 words
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      Lock icon Stocks close lower, oil slips slightly
      130 1 AFP NEW YORK US stocks closed lower yesterday, as inflation concerns and car parts maker Delphi's bankruptcy filing weighed heavily on sentiment, chipping 10 per cent off the value of General Motors stock. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 53.55 points at 10,238.76,
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      Lock icon Irish author lands Booker Prize
      166 1 -AFP LONDON Irish author John Banville (picture) beat higher profile favourites Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith to become the surprise winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for fiction yesterday. The 59-year-old was handed the £50,000 ($147,782) award and the massive rise in sales
      -AFP  -  166 words
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      199 2 S University of Southern Queensland Achieved accreditation with the Distance Awarded the "Institutional Prize of Excellence" Education Training Council (DETC), in 2005. by International Council for Open Distance Education (ICDE) Won the Commonwealth of Learning Award of Excellence for Institutional Achievement in Australia's Top University in Distance July 2004 Education,
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Chinese activist 'back home'
      356 2 DPA BEIJING A legal and local democracy activist has returned to his home city after he was reportedly severely beaten in an attack by men guarding a village in southern China's Guangdong province, a source close to the activist said late yesterday. Britain's The Guardian newspaper
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      Newcastle comes to NTU with a new energy centre
      424 2 Plans for research and degrees at one-of-a-kind new institution LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg HE WAS in town in July to help London clinch its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. But British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Singapore apparently produced
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      GO 'CAESAR' FOR MORE GREEN CARS
      733 3  -  P RAVEENTHERAN Set up research centre to help form clear energy policies ON THE surface, the move was meant to encourage more Singaporean drivers to go green. It was announced last week that the rebates for environmentally-friendly vehicles would be extended and even doubled
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      Lock icon Schroeder finally gives way to Merkel
      556 4 -AGENCIES Germany looks to its first woman leader to breathe life into sluggish economy BERLIN German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder relinquished his seven-year grip on power yesterday to open the way for his conservative arch-rival Angela Merkel to become the first female leader of Europe's
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  556 words
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  • Singapore news
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      Thrown? Or just made to fall?
      711 6  -  ANSLEY NG Prosecutors amend charge against Constance Chee, defence is unhappy a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE trial of Constance Chee Cheong Hin, the former flight attendant accused of throwing a four-year-old girl down a block of flats last year, has taken a twist after prosecutors rephrased
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      For a handphone, he killed
      272 6  -  LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com.sg AN UNEMPLOYED man who robbed a woman of her handphone also ended up killing her. Around 3am on Feb 15, Mohamad Yazid Gani, 29, spotted 44-year-old Helena Lee getting out of a taxi at Block 535, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5. She sat
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      Lock icon Window falls, glass rains on man
      205 6  -  -DAWNQUEK IN a freak accident yesterday, a window fell from an office building along Robinson Road and ended up inflicting mild injuries on a passer-by below. The fifth floor of City House, opposite Lav Pa Sat, is undergoing renovation, said a spokesperson for City
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      Lock icon $6m boost in fight against deadly children's disease
      223 8 938 LIVE THE National Cancer Centre has received a much-needed boost in its research on a little-known childhood disease. The Children's Cancer Foundation has pumped in $3 million to fund the centre's study of rhabdomyosarcoma the fourth most common children's illness in
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      Lock icon No second-class talents here
      542 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG Narrow academic yardstick cannot apply in today's Singapore: Dr Balakrishnan cheekong@newstoday.com.sg IN A country where academic snobbery has long been the way of things, Singapore can no longer afford to dismiss any sort of talent as "second class". Yesterday, as students at the
      WEETECK HIAN  -  542 words
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      Lock icon 15 jobless citizens enlisted in the mozzie inspectors' brigade
      338 8 938 LIVE THE Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council has recruited 15 unemployed residents as mozzie inspectors. Their responsibilities are to carry out daily checks in HDB blocks and to help destroy mosquito breeding sites. After completing training with the National Environment Agency,
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon STORE TO HOST TOP DESIGN EVENTS
        76 8 -938 LIVE Singapore is one step closer to becoming an international design hub. It won the bid to host two prestigious international design events in 2009, when some 4,000 design leaders are expected to converge here. Other contending cities were Paris and Beijing. The
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        NEW PROBLEM GAMBLING WEBSITE
        60 8 The National Council on Problem Gambling will launch its public education efforts with a new website, www.ncpg.org.sg, containing information on problem or addictive gambling. From how to identify the warning signs, where to seek help to the latest events, the website will also feature true stories
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        Lock icon ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FOUND HIDING UNDER SBS BUS
        72 8 938 LIVE On Sunday, a man was caught trying to sneak into Singapore by hiding underneath an SBS bus. Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers at Woodlands found the 31-year-old Myanmar suspect clinging to the bus chassis. He had used three metal bars near
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      15 10 small Pnrptitiriir Out from October 13 TX^I at selected clinics and child care centres. IOO'Gf
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  • world news
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      Lock icon A generation lost
      377 10 -AFP Quake survivors losing patience as they face hunger and cold weather ISLAMABAD A Pakistani military spokesman said yesterday that a whole generation had been wiped out in Saturday's devastating earthquake. The worst affected were schoolchildren, he said. "It is a whole generation that has been lost
      -AFP; AP  -  377 words
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      Lock icon Good work, keep it up Viagra!
      274 10 -AFP SYDNEY The advent of male impotency drugs has brought unexpected benefits to the animal kingdom, which no longer needs to sacrifice seals, deer and turtles to make traditional cures for erectile dysfunction, according to new research. A survey of 256 men who used
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      Lock icon Bird flu vaccine production hit by scandal
      338 10 -AGENCIES JAKARTA Indonesia will test its stock of bird flu vaccine after a corruption scandal involving production of sub-standard doses was unearthed, an official said yesterday. Government auditors suspect that local companies assigned to make the vaccine produced doses of inferior quality to
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon AUSTRALIA DEMANDS JI BAN
        64 11 -DPA Australia will ask Indonesia to ban regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl) and push for a stronger response to militant Muslims, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday. Speaking on the eve of a visit to Jakarta, Mr Downer said he would also commend Jakarta on
        -DPA  -  64 words
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        THIS GUY LOVES A PIG, LITERALLY
        112 11 A Thai man accused by villagers of having sex with a neighbour's pig agreed yesterday to pay 500 baht in compensation, reported The Nation. Ms Sa-ngad Hapanna, 39, a resident of Baan Tonnoi in Muang district, yesterday said she saw the man, identified only
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        Lock icon PRINCE WILLIAM TO JOIN BANK
        103 11 -DPA Britain's Prince William will join banking giant HSBC for a three-week work experience early next month, the royal palace in London said yesterday. The prince, who is 23, will spend much of his time in the bank's charity services division, in line with his
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        Lock icon GAME THEORISTS WIN NOBEL PRIZE
        79 11 -AFP Mr Robert J Aumann, an Israeli-US citizen, and American Thomas C Schelling yesterday won the 2005 Nobel Economics Prize for using game theory to explain conflict resolution, the Nobel jury said. Using game theory interactive decision scenarios-the laureates focused on why some people and
        -AFP  -  79 words
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        Lock icon QUAKE RATTLES JAKARTA
        74 11 -AFP An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale rattled the Indonesian capital Jakarta yesterday but no damage or casualties were reported, the meteorology agency said. The earthquake was centred under the Sunda Strait, between Sumatra and Java islands, it said. The agency said the temblor was
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        Lock icon ... AND ANOTHER HITS PHILIPPINES
        44 11 AND ANOTHER HITS PHILIPPINES -AFP An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred in waters off the Philippines yesterday, the Hong Kong Observatory said. The quake was recorded at 7.12pm (local time) about 140 km east-northeast of the town of Legaspi, it said.
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    • Article
      Britain seeks to ban 15 'terror groups'
      257 12 London blasts show need to maintain 'vigorous approach against terrorists' LONDON The British government yesterday published a list of 15 Muslim "terror" groups it has asked Parliament to ban as part of a crackdown following the July bombings in London. Home Secretary Charles
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      Lock icon Japan successfully tests replacement for Concorde
      235 12 -AFP SYDNEY Japan yesterday successfully tested a revolutionary design for a supersonic airliner to replace the Concorde, three years after the first attempt ended in a fiery crash in the Australian desert, officials said. A scale model of an airliner that would carry 300
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      Lock icon Bali calls for execution of 2002 bombing culprits
      204 13 -AFP DENPASAR (Indonesia) More than 100 Balinese, including students, staged a protest in the Indonesian resort island yesterday calling for the immediate execution of ringleaders of the 2002 bombings. They also condemned the latest blasts. "He did it in Bali and he
      -AFP; AFP  -  204 words
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      Lock icon A son is set to rise in N Korea
      433 13 -AGENCIES TOKYO As North Korea's all-powerful Workers Party marked its 60th birthday yesterday, speculation is rife that dictator Kirn Jong-Il may anoint his successor by picking one of his three sons to preserve his dynasty. The leader of the Stalinist state
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  433 words
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      Lock icon Malaysia to launch maritime security force
      199 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will launch an agency next month to boost security in the piracy-prone Straits of Malacca, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency will "focus on the Straits of Malacca as part of its first phase," he
      -AFP; AP  -  199 words
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      Lock icon That $83,000 deposit...
      223 14 Foreigners marrying Indonesian women may have to pay up first JAKARTA Foreigners who want to marry Indonesian women may have to pay a deposit of 500 million rupiah ($83,600). The Supreme Court is mulling this new clause, following a recommendation made by top judges across the country.
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      King Fahd fathered secret daughter?
      445 15 If proven she could claim part of $148 billion Saudi fortune LONDON A woman wants a paternity test to discover whether her eldest daughter is the secret child of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (picture), reported The Times of London yesterday. Ms Janan
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    • this QUIRKS world
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        Lock icon THE HEIGHT OF BAD TASTE...
        111 15 -DPA A man who went to a bad-taste party dressed as a suicide bomber has been let off with a warning after he caused the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand, to be shut down for six hours at the weekend, police said yesterday. The
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      • Article
        DISCOUNT FOR 100-YEAR-OLD DRIVER
        115 15 A 100-year-old motorist has been given an insurance discount because he hadn't had an accident in more than 80 years of driving, reported ananova.com. Belgian Cyriel Delacauw still drives his car every day to the shops, the billiard hall or a local river to go fishing.
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      116 12 Careers wlay Get the Right Resourceful Motivated Informed Innovative Proactive Creative Candidate! That's the kind of employee in demand these days. And that's the kind of applicants you will get when you advertise your job vacancies in Careerstoday. Because that's what TODAY'S readers are like. Each day, we reach more
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      303 16 m____ MediaCorp Press Ltd IIITIAA/ 24 Raffles Place#2B-01/06 iWI/rVX Clifford Centre *****21 Editor-in-chief CEO Mano Sabnani Executive director Philip Koh EDITORIAL Day/news editor S Murali Associate/night editor Rahul Pathak Chief sub-editor Richard J Valladares Section editors Local Teo Hwee Nak Foreign Clement Masanas Voices commentary Yvonne Lim Business Francis Kan
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      Why no new notes for this period?
      91 16  -  _M_ ISHWAR MAHTANI Letter from RECENTLY, I tried to ask a bank for new notes for the coming festive season. I was informed by the bank that new notes were not available and that it had no plans to have them during this
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    • Article
      isay HONESTY'S A LONELY WORD IN S'PORE
      477 16  -  LEONG SZE HIAN WHILE the bus operators' estimated $9-million figure in annual revenue loss due to fare evasion is questionable, it still highlights the issue of honesty and ethical conduct among commuters. In a poll in April, when asked "which of the following
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    • Parking storm rages on
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        Lock icon What efficiency?
        147 18  -  IMRAN LAG ORE Letter from I I REFER to the report, "Storm over car misparked" (Oct 10) and I am appalled on so many levels. Firstly, why did the errant driver get away only with a $70 fine after causing such a major hold-up? I know of drivers
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        Lock icon Haul driver to courts
        209 18  -  LEONG KUM CHUEN Letter from THE driver of the Mercedes is an example of many driver here who do not adhere to traffic regulations. Nor do they bother to think about the consequences. Is a fine enough for obstructing traffic? My friend and I once witnessed
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        $70 not a deterrent
        82 18  -  JOYCE LOW Letter from, SEVENTY dollars is not a hefty fine for drivers who can afford to drive a Mercedes Benz SLR. And since he drives such an expensive, luxury car, why is it that he cannot afford to park in a car park? The Traffic
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      Remove mental barrier first
      168 18  -  DAVID JOHN PENNEY Letter from I REFER to Gary Sect Ann Hup's comments "Disabled too demanding" (Oct 10). I found his views appalling and self-cen-tred. He agrees that the disabled should be integrated into the community as long as it doesn't hold him up for a
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      Traffic on CTE has improved
      396 18  -  HAN LIANG YUAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Land Transport Authority I REFER to Mr John Bay and Mr Jason Tan's letters suggesting changes to the design of the Central Expressway (CTE). We have studied the proposals to improve traffic conditions along the CTE. As
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      254 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY... DATES WITH DAD I'm sure you've heard the old storyaboutthe father who said that giving his daughter to the man she loved was like giving a beautiful hand-made violin to a gorilla. I think all dads feel that way about their little
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      Lock icon Once a stranger to his family, this man now spreads hope
      1014 20  -  HARRIS NG LEE U WEN Home tutor chronicles his story in his book Recovered Grace: Schizophrenia face :i Mie crowd 58, Home tutor WHEN private home tutor Harris Ng first appeared on national television two years ago to tell
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      28 18 MAKING SENSE OF MOTOR INSURANCE There is no shortage of deals out there. Car owner needs to know what the policy covers and what his responsibilities are 28
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon GDP grew 6% in Q3: MTI
      597 22 -AFP Singapore poised to exceed 2005 economic growth target after strong third quarter, say analysts SINGAPORE'S economy accelerated by 6 per cent in the third quarter from the same period a year ago, according to a preliminary estimate issued by the Ministry of Trade
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      Lock icon SIA lobbies hard for Sydney-LA route
      286 22 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has intensified its lobbying for access to the lucrative Sydney-Los Angeles route and hopes to get the green light from Canberra by the end of the year. SIA is trying to keep the subject of access "warm" among Australian
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      CORPORATEBRIEFS
      158 23 ÜBS (Asia) vice-chairman Robert Tomlin and Phish Communications director Shirlene Noordin have joined MadiaCorp's board of directors. Mr Tomlin, 60, has 36 years of experience in banking and financial services, while Ms Noordin, 36, provides public relations consultancy services. The appointments have been effective since Sept 19. MediaCorp yesterday
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      Wee faces off with Gokongwei
      485 23  -  CHRISTIE LOH Veteran banker raises stake in UIC to 25.28 per cent christie@newstoday.com.sg A HIGH-PROFILE wrestle for diversified conglomerate United Industrial Corp (UIC) is on the cards after banking tycoon Wee Cho Yaw jumped into the ring right after Philippine tycoon John Gokongwei made a
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Great sale @ Marina
        310 24 Great sale Marina DOW JONES Nearly all units of Sail Tower 2 offered over weekend sold CLOSE to 400 of the 430 units of Sail@Marina Bay Tower 2 were sold between Friday and Sunday, a City Developments (CityDev) spokesman said yesterday. CityDev and joint venture partner AIG Global Real Estate
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      • marketwatch
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          ST Index— 2,343.39 +38.15
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          Lock icon Singapore
          117 24 DOW JONES THE ST Index (STI) rose to a twomonth high as strong thirdquarter economic data bolstered market sentiment and led to across-the-board buying. The STI closed 38.15 points, or 1.7 per cent, higher at 2,343.39. Advancers led decliners 381 to 190 as 1.29 billion shares worth $1.3 billion
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        446 25 BLOOMBERG Analysts see Japanese stocks as best performing in Asia JAPANESE stocks are catching up with this year's gains elsewhere in Asia. The experience of Mr Steven Leung, UOB-Kay Hian's director of institutional sales in Hong Kong, suggests that they may perform better for the first
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        246 31  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA IT MAY not have been a Greek bacchanal, but it was enough of a wine fest for the Singaporean media to get a taste of the biggest wine show in Asia that is set to hit these shores next month. Last week, as
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      123 24 MANAGEMENT A INSTITUTE M CRICOS Code *****G fffij The University of Western Australia INFORMATION PREVIEW 4^year programme on a part-time basis Date, Time and Venue: 4 Thesis-preparation units and a Doctoral Thesis: 27 October 2DDS [Thur], 7 pm 3rd Hoar, Star Hub Centre Advanced Research Methods in Education Advanced Studies
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      567 32  -  ELAINE NG It's cheap and softens your company's image, too. But how long will the trend last? elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg COMPANIES that do not have budgets for elaborate marketing efforts could consider corporate blogging. Setting up a corporate blog costs next to nothing, while the biggest expense
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      131 37  -  MARK RICHMOND This week we ask MediaCorp Radio 987FM's assistant programme director Mark Richmond to pick out his all-time favourite disc. UN PHINULS SIUN 'O'THETIMES I remember getting it as c double album record bad in 1987 and was fascinated by its sound and meshing of horns,
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      92 38 Watch the new season of The Sopranos on MediaCorp TV 12 Arts Central every Tuesday to win attractive premiums. This week, there is one The Sopranos premium set consisting of season four DVD series, original soundtrack, T-shirt, family history book and coaster set up for grabs, which
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      402 38  -  JOYCE LIN M'sian interactive channel to broadcast up to 200 hours of MediaCorp TVI2 shows joyce@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL TV programmes got a major boost overseas as MediaCorp TVI2 inked a collaboration with Malaysia's first interactive video-on-de-mand channel, Fine TV. To be launched next month, Fine TV will
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      365 39  -  JOYCE LIN Fancy the sight of the Taiwanese rockers in skirts? It just might happen in December joyce@newstoday.com.sg GREATER than the King of Pop, Michael Jackson that's what fans would say about Taiwanese poprock band Mayday. When the quintet played at the Taipei Municipal Stadium in
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      214 38 MediaCorp Press Limited, the publisher of TODAY, the second most read English daily, invites tenders for: The Provision of Newspaper Distribution Services To MRT Stations Malls COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS Tender documents can be obtained from 11 October 2005 onwards during office hours between 9.30am to 5.00pm (Mondays to Fridays
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      592 40  -  BRENDACHEW Celebrity health watch Host-comedian-actor Gurmit Singh is described by some as Singapore's own Jim Carrey. A personality well-known and well-liked by Singaporeans from all walks of life, his versatile talents extend to a variety of dance moves too. Gurmit does jazz ballet,
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      206 43  -  -BRENDACHEW THE kangkong is an übiquitous vegetable that is used in almost all types of South-east Asian cuisines. In Singapore, one of the most popular ways to prepare the vegetable is to fry it with smoking hot, spicy sambal belacan. The
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      252 44 FITNESS ©WORK For one hour every Wednesday, join the instructors at California Fitness for an energising workout (picture). Participation is free. Date: From Oct 12 to Mar 29, 2006 Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm Venue: Singapore River Promenade (beside UOB Plaza) SEEING IS LIVING Topics addressed in this forum include
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        203 50 -AFP AUBURN, California Chile's Nicole Perrot (picture) shook off early jitters and held off South Korean HeeWon Han Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), to win the US$l million ($1.9 million) LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge. With her one-shotvictory, the 21--year-old won her first title
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          110 51 THAI champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam continued his excellent unbeaten record with a unanimous decision over Japan's Daisuke Naito, to defend his World Boxing Council (WBC) flyweight title yesterday. The bout was stopped by the referee two minutes and 38 seconds into the seventh round due to bleeding from a
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      401 52 AFP SUZUKA Michelin motorsport director Pierre Dupasquier has criticised plans to reintroduce tyre changes to Formula 1 next year but confirmed the company will back the proposal if it gets the go-ahead. The sport's governing body, the FIA, released a raft of proposals for
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      694 52  -  Lan De Cotta After unprecedented success, German ace is still hungry for more TODAYEXCLUSIVI HIS record seven world drivers' titles will probably never be broken and at 36, Michael Schumacher has little else to achieve in his sport Inevitably, after an ignominious season with Ferrari that
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        189 53 PARIS France, the 1998 champions, and Spain are among those traditional footballing heavyweights scrambling to climb aboard the World Cup bandwagon in the final batch of qualifiers tomorrow. Already swotting up on their German with their World Cup tickets safely in the
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        210 53 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado US Olympic Committee President Peter Ueberroth wants stronger government support for any candidate city before launching a 2016 Olympic bid, he said here yesterday. Having learned bitter lessons from New York's failed 2012 bid, he said officials who want to bid
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        625 53 -AFP England's star striker now has full control of his tempestuous behaviour LONDON England striker Wayne Rooney said yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) the ill-tempered behaviour which has got him into trouble will be long gone by the time he arrives in Germany for next
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        240 53 DUBLIN Chelsea winger Damien Duff will miss the Republic of Ireland's crucial World Cup qualifier against Switzerland tomorrow with a knee injury, Bloomberg reported. Duff, 26 (picture), damaged a cartilage as Ireland beat Cyprus 1-0 away last Saturday, and he returned to the
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