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  • 11 1 TODAY Frew incorporating iMTCJJCS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday November 9, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 385 1  -  JOSE RAYMOND <i]i7lVJ:»:€mifclk'J:| jose@newstoday.com.sg A FORMER employee of the Singapore Rugby Union (SRU) is facing a police probe for allegedly siphoning off more than $300,000 from the association's coffers. Yesterday, SRU general manager Ridzal Saat told Today that a police report
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  • 827 1  -  VENESSALEE Lead suspect, radical cleric Abu Bakr, charged in Melbourne court yesterday venessa@newstoday.com.sg AUSTRALIAN police said they had thwarted a "catastrophic act of terrorism" by suspects reportedly "committed to jihad" after a pre-dawn swoop yesterday resulted in at least 17 people being nabbed in surprise raids
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    • 33 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 12 voices 20 business 26 growth 34 him supplement 35 plus 54 tv radio listings 59 classed 60 sports 63 we set you thinking H
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    • 639 2  -  LEE CHINGWERN IN TOKYO Japan, China should put aside differences, move towards future together: SM chingwern@newstoday.com.sg SINO-JAPANESE tensions, if unresolved, could become a major risk to Asia's stability and development in the long run, said Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. Pointing to this as
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    • 694 3  -  Jerry Siah Eng Kiat Let's spend time at home learning to appreciate different cultures within our own neighbourhood RACIAL conflicts happen throughout history even, as we saw recently, in supposedly the most mature societies in the 21st century. We expected globalisation to lead to
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    • 154 2 MIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA HOT NEWS: If you have a close relative residing in Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, Canberra or Darwin, current legislation DOES NOT require you to live in the same state as your relative, pass the points test or reside for 2 years in Australia to obtain your permanent residency
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  • Singapore news
    • 366 4  -  VINITARAMANI Spore second last in poll of 41 countries vinita@newstoday.com.sg IT MAY be one of the most competitive economies in the world, but when it comes to sex, it seems Singaporeans are not doing enough. The country fell several notches to a dismal 40th out of
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 228 4 938 LIVE Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad was quoted in Utusan Malaysia on Sunday as saying that "Singapore is getting bolder now that they could even threaten us". In response to media queries, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesman said Foreign Minister George Yeo
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      • 76 4 938 LIVE A 52-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to eight months' jail for running an illegal medical practice in Singapore. Natarajan Nambirajan was here on a socialvisit pass when he set up a clinic at Veerasamy Road, where he provided medical treatment to patients who
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      • 99 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 38-year-old man fell eight floors to his death in Marsiling Drive while fleeing from the police yesterday. The incident happened at 5.50 am as the man and two police officers were leaving his flat. The officers had visited him to
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    • 521 6  -  LEE U-WEN NTUC hopes to repeat success with $2,500-band jobs u-wen@newstoday.com.sg BUOYED by the success of its Job Re-creation Programme (JRP), the labour movement wants to step things up by targeting jobs that can pay workers even more. Since its launch in March this
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    • 152 6  -  Lee U-Wen At the end of his last Ordinary Delegates conference as NTUC secretary-general Lim Boon Heng hailed the labour movement as one that is "vibrant, active and participative". "All our workshops and sessions were fully packed, and many people spoke up," remarked the
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    • 423 9  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA Collyer Quay site up for sale, space for retail, lifestyle use shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE Government is planning to put up for sale a site at Collyer Quay that will encompass the existing Clifford Pier and former Customs Harbour Branch buildings. The buildings on
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    • 249 9  -  ■DERRICKA PAULO FROM next year, St Michael's School may be renamed St Joseph's Institution (SJI) Junior (Essex Road Campus), if the Ministry of Education approves. The 51-year-old primary school and the 153-year-old SJI have long been in the same extended family, under the Lasallian
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    • 358 10 IT USED to be that junior college students who wanted to learn at a higher level had a choice of only a few subjects. Not any more. Next year, they can pick from 26 subjects and counting,
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    • 482 10  -  TAN HUI LENG Committee of 14 will assist MOM in goal to halve occupational fatality rate huileng@newstoday.com.sg A COMMITTEE made up of industry leaders from various sectors has been set up to advise the Government on how to improve workplace safety in Singapore. The 14-member Workplace
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    • 286 10  -  LEE U WEN IT'S uncool, unsophisticated and difficult to learn these are some of the misconceptions that young Singaporeans have about speaking Mandarin. Hence, the post-1965 generation is the target audience of this year's Speak Mandarin Campaign. Specifically, the campaign hopes to reach out
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  • world news
    • 360 12 —AFP Emergency steps won't change anything: Suburban youth PARIS The French government yesterday approved giving curfew powers to regional authorities to stem urban violence that has raged for 12 nights, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said after a Cabinet meeting. The decision was taken at
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    • 251 12 AGENCIES They wear hoods, baggy jeans and brand-name sneakers and American rappers such as 50 Cent (picture) are their heroes. Their antagonists are "white", they hate the police and when they are fighting they say they're "dancing with the wolves". Meet the young rioters
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    • 542 12  -  SIEGFRIED MORTKOWITZ -DPA PARIS It took French President Jacques Chirac 11 days to comment on the ongoing rioting in the country. When he did, late on Sunday, he was clearly out of his depth. "The republic is determined to be stronger than those
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    • 359 14 AGENCIES Thai PM accuses militants of holding anti-government meeting in Malaysia YALA (Thailand) Even as insurgents fired two bombs and launched 14 attacks on provincial government buildings in the restive south following deadly gun attacks, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said militants had changed their
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 27 14 Lawyer Adel Mohammed Abbas,working for one of the co-defendants of ousted president Saddam Hussein on trial, was shot dead in Baghdad yesterday.
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      • 55 14 AFP Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested yesterday in Chile, five years after fleeing South America. Mr Fujimori, who escaped to Japan and resigned via fax in 2000, was detained at the start of what he hoped would be a political comeback. He faces 21
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    • 219 14 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's military chief General Endriartono Sutarto has officially ordered the revival of a much-crit-icised communitybased intelligence system to be used to fight terrorism, a report said. Known by local acronym 'Koter', the system was scrapped after the fall of former President Suharto
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    • 191 16 -AFP THE United States will remain the world's sole military superpower for the forseeable future despite China's rapid rise, former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten said yesterday. While China is spending more money to strengthen its military, Beijing's defence expenditure "is about one-eighth
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    • 336 16 -AGENCIES. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is on high alert for any sign of bird flu, following the deaths of more pigeons. The authorities were testing seven dead pigeons found in the northern town of Sungei Petani, 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur, while in the northern
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 83 16 -AP A steamy novel by Mr Lewis "Scooter" Libby has become a hot item now that VicePresident Dick Cheney's chief of staff is under indictment. An inscribed copy of The Apprentice: A Novel, which Mr Libby wrote in 1996 when he was a relative unknown outside Washington,
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      • 68 16 An Argentinian woman has been living in a nest for a full year. Ms Roxana Pons, from Mendoza, built her nest, using branches and cushions, in a tree near San Rafael train station, reported Ananova.com. She said: "I'm not homeless and I have a house that
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      • 61 16 AND NOW FOR THE PORN Indian viewers tuning in for the evening news were shocked when they were shown porn, media reports said. Officials said technicians at the relay station in Kailaras had transmitted porn from a Russian channel instead of the news from Indian channel DD7. Angry residents have
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 85 17 AFP A narrow majority of Japanese voters feel Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should make way for a new leader next year despite his overwhelming popularity. A poll, by the Sankei Shimbun newspaper and Fuji News Network, said 53 per cent wanted Mr Koizumi to step
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      • 72 17 -AFP Sri Lankan officials have found an explosives-filled jacket usually worn by suicide bombers raising fears of an assassination bid ahead of next week's presidential elections. Police said an anonymous caller alerted police to the "complete suicide jacket" abandoned along a lane in Colombo's residential and
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      • 44 17 DPA Chinese President Hu Jintao left Beijing yesterday to visit the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, Xinhua news reported. Sources said deals worth 1.4 billion euros ($2.8 billion) were expected to be signed during Mr Hu's visit to Germany.
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    • 262 17 LONDON The "underground" mobile phone industry is so lucrative that British police have set up a department recently to clamp down on the problem. Mobile phones stolen in Britain are being re-sold in more than 40 countries in a trade worth millions
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    • 279 17 -AFP LOS ANGELES Two of the best-known and wealthiest United States politicians Arnold Schwarzenegger (picture) and Michael Bloomberg staged last-minute campaign blitzes ahead of crucial referendums and elections. Hollywood hero turned California governor, Mr Schwarzenegger, was at risk of suffering a bloody nose
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    • 79 17 -AP Two women, members of a group called Breasts Not Bombs, were arrested after they stripped off their tops in public to protest measures backed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the referendum. Sheryl Glaser, 45, and Renee Love, 40, were arrested and charged with indecent
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    • 290 18 -AFP WASHINGTON Young teens are more likely to start smoking after being exposed to second-hand smoke of a virtual kind that seen in movies, according to a United States study. More than one third of adolescents between the ages 10 and 14 who tried smoking
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    • 284 18 —AP TOKYO Doonesbury and Peanuts, make way for manga. Come January, the Sunday funnies of several major North American newspapers will have doe-eyed women in frilly outfits, effeminate long-haired heroes and other trademark images of the Japanese comic style. The reason? Newspaper editors want to attract
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  • Voices
    • 655 20  -  I MUST confess that I never imagined I would write for a tabloid. Coming from a British public school, I grew up with the notion that "serious" people read broadsheets like The Times. Nobody with an education worth talking about would
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    • 174 20  -  PROF FENG PAOHSII Letter from Chairman, National Arthritis Foundation I REFER to your article, "Cardiologist honoured" (Nov 4) and wish to add my congratulations to Professor Chia Boon Lock (picture) who is the recipient of this year's Lee Foundation-National Healthcare Lifetime Achievement Award. Twenty-two years
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    • 421 21  -  AUDREY ANG MUHD ROSTAM BIN UMAR Decision to partially close CBD roads was taken only after exhausting all other options Letter from Director, Communications Singapore Tourism Board Assistant director. Media Relations Singapore Police Force WE REFER to Mr Hariharan Ghangadharan's letter, "The traffic-stopping run" (Oct 25). On
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    • 254 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY DEVELOPING COMMON INTERESTS If you drew a circle around a list of your spouse's interests and another circle around your own, would those circles overlap? The more those circles do overlap, the more areas of interest you share with your mate; the
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    • 273 22  -  NELSON QUAH Offer elderly and disabled peddlers outside MRT stations a proper place to earn a living Letter from I HAVE often seen old men and women accompanied by young children selling gorengpisang (fried bananas), otakotak (fish paste cooked in coconut leaves), curry puffs
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 107 22  -  CHIAMTOONLOKE I am a frequent user of toilets for the disabled. The habit was formed the day I started work, as the only gender-friendly toilet immediately outside my office entrance was a disabled toilet. (The toilet next to it was only for the ladies; the
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      • 153 22  -  MURALISHARMA Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's exhortations to Singaporeans to help preserve the environment are timely. But our leaders should not need to repeat this message over and over again! It should all be common sense. America, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden are so
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    • 330 22  -  JANE CHENG Letter from I REFER to the letter from Chen Kuo Wei (Nov 8) and previous letters complaining about animal intolerance, noisy dogs and selfish neighbours. On my way to work on some mornings, I have to step over dog
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    • 24 24 VEIL OF VALES: Whaf s behind the many 'vales' in Sengkang: Compassvale, Rivervale and Anchorvale? TODAY FILE PHOTO
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    • 258 24  -  DAVID LIM Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Art of naming" (Nov 8) from Mr Heng Cho Choon. While he put forward some potent points, I was confused as to what his take on the naming issue really was. Mr Heng said fanciful
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    • 111 24  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I AGREE with Mr Heng Cho Choon. The names of some new HDB estates have caused much confusion to many taxi drivers and commuters. It seems we have a lot of "vales" in north-eastern Singapore, such as Compassvale,
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    • 184 24  -  LEEAIKGOH Letter from WE ARE reminded by our leaders that we must remember the past, but our bureaucrats are doing the opposite to eliminate history. One example is the relocation of Thomson Secondary School from Thomson Road to Sengkang and renaming it as "North
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    • 198 25  -  JACQUELINE TAN Allow couriers chance to give up drugs, kingpins Letter from THE story of Nguyen Tuong Van should not be just one more tragic episode that Singaporeans talk about and then relegate to the back of their minds as yet another unfortunate
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    • 156 25  -  SIMCHOONCHYE GRiiHNkiDGEI Letter from I READ with interest the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) reply on guideline for advertisements on public buses. It would seem odd if LTA has not spotted the public buses which flout its guidelines, since I have often seen buses with advertisements
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    • 205 25  -  ALEXANG CHUNG CHUNG Letter from I REFER to the recent riots in France, which hold a good lesson for all of us. According to news reports, the riots were caused mainly by dissatisfied youth complaining of "economic misery and social discrimination". This has happened not only
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  • Businesstoday
    • 445 26 -AGENCIES Four potential investors in final stage of talks NEARLY a year after China Aviation Oil Singapore (CAO) nearly collapsed under a trading scandal, the jet-fuel trading firm is now closer to sealing deals with its white knights. Up to four potential investors, including
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    • 234 26 DOW JONES CITIBANK will pay an annual interest rate of 2.68 per cent on fixed deposits of more than $50,000 as competition for funds heats up here. The bank's unfixed deposit scheme also does not charge a penalty for early or partial withdrawal,
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    • 273 26 More lawyers are being roped in to defend Crimson Logic's three senior executives charged with corruption, and who were originally represented collectively by Mr Wendell Wong of Drew Napier. Financial controller Thiagayson Sundaram Pillai has engaged Mr Sant Singh. Vice-president Tan Geok Hoon is also expected to get her
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    • marketwatch
      • 132 26 DOWJONES SHARE prices closed higher on lower oil prices and Wall Street gains overnight. Lower oil prices help the earnings of companies by decreasing the cost of transporting goods. And the domestic stock market often tracks Wall Street as the US is a major export market for trade-dependent Singapore.
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    • 385 28  -  LEE CHINGWERN IN TOKYO SM Gohsays Republic does not aim to overtake Malaysia in Islamic finance chingwern@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as Singapore tries to establish itself as an Islamic financial centre, it does not aim to overtake Malaysia as the bigger player in the region, said Senior Minister
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    • 284 30  -  VALERIE LAW BULLISH about the healthcare market in India, local healthcare provider Pacific Healthcare Holdings will set aside some of its listing proceeds to expand its presence in India's major cities, its CEO said yesterday. The mainboard-bound firm also plans to use its
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    • 335 30  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@newstoday.com.sg EVEN if an avian flu pandemic were to erupt here, Singapore will not see one of its largest trading partners the United States bolt, pledged the US-Asean Business Council yesterday. The group's president, Mr Matthew Daley, said this
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    • 332 32  -  TORCHING LI Teams up with Starwood to develop resort with casino on 405-ha site in the Bahamas chingli@newstoday.com. sg HARRAH'S Entertainment is taking its Caesars brand resort and casino to the Caribbean in a joint venture with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide with an initial investment of
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    • 149 32 DOWJONES MALAYSIAN casino operator Genting International, whose shares are already listed in London and Kuala Lumpur, said yesterday the Singapore Exchange (SGX) had approved its listing application. Genting International 64 per cent owned by Malaysia's Genting group applied to
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    • 152 32  -  CHRISTIE LOH AFTER winning the lion's share of new mobile phone customers in the quarter ended September, Sing Tel is waving more freebies in the prepaid market The telco on Monday started offering 10 free minutes of local outgoing prepaid talktime daily for every
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    • 301 33 AFP SHANGHAI An apartment block billed as Shanghai's "best location" with a record price tag has failed to sell a single unit a week after hitting the market, state press reported yesterday. At an average cost of 100,000 yuan ($21,016) per square metre,
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    • 293 33 BLOOMBERG Progress at HK summit likely to be stalled by continued disagreement over EU farm policy THE World Trade Organization (WTO) may have to lower its expectations at a summit next month aimed at paving the way for a global trade accord next year,
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    • 188 33 BLOOMBERG A JAPANESE government panel is expected to announce a plan today to slash public employee costs to help stem the highest national debt in the industrialised world, said Mr Kaoru Yosano, Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy. The government plans to cut payroll
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    • 526 34  -  CHOW PENN NEE Two winners named at this year's Entrepreneur of the Year Award pennnee@newstoday.com.sg ONE made his fortune dabbling in the chemical compounds that go into shoes and handphone sets, while another saw big bucks in his bomb containment units. The two local entrepreneurs
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    • 284 34  -  CHRISTIE LOH DESPITE a high awareness among small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) of Singapore's numerous Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), only a handful of SMEs are taking advantage of these tax-free deals, according to a survey conducted by DP Information Group. Of the 1,004 SMEs
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      1065 40  -  EVELINE GAN A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do these three men qjjib their Jobs to follow their dreams WORDS: (eveline@newstoday.com.sg) PHOTOS: WEE TECK HIAN the nurse For many, material wealth may be a powerful driving motivation but not for ANDREW SOO. In a bid to "do
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    • 973 42  -  ARIEL TAM Koep up with the latest trends in IT with these nifby gadgets... you know you can't resist them, guys WORDS: (ariel@newstoday.com. sg) WHAT IS IT WITH MEN AND gadgets? The relationship some men have with shiny, metallic tech toys is as deep as Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
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      723 46  -  S MURALI Pack uour bags and head for the water ad these driving ranges in Hanoi and Macau WORDS: (m urali@newstoday.com.sg) GOLF magazines have gone on overdrive to find solutions. Top psychiatrists have been roped in to discover a cure to the problem. But to this day, there
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      184 47 IMAGINE walking off the top floor of your hotel and onto a golf course. I mean, how lazy can you get? But that level of absolute pampering is exactly what the guests of the Westin Resort in Macau are treated to, once they check into this hotel. Press
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      629 48  -  PEARLYN THAM Less invasive procedures, shorter downtime make plastic surgery more attractive WORDS: (pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg) PHOTO: WEE TECK HIAN ARTWORK: SOH ENG KONG .^fita SOME YEARS AGO, I CAME ACROSS an article on a looks-obsessive man who wanted so badly to look like Hollywood star Tom Cruise that he underwent
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    • 696 50  -  REETA RAMAN Lifestyle changes and early treatment are key to living a healthy life WORDS: (reeta@newstoday.com. sg) ARTWORK: SOH ENG KONG THERE ARE SOME CONDITIONS that are more commonly associated with men. Find out how you can treat and prevent gout, hair loss and sports injuries for starters.
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    • 267 51 WE'VE ALL HEARD OF HOW WE should not smoke, and drink too much. Yet all too often, we deal with the increasing pressure of life by turning to alcohol and smoking. So without beating around the bush, let's get to the facts. SMOKING Smoking is the
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      818 52  -  ROSS WALLACE I Sure! lake over bhe world, girls! Let's see if you can handle it... I WORDS: (ross@newstoday.com.sg) PHOTOS: WEE TECK HIAN Let's face it, men, we're not perfect. However hard it might be to accept, the thousands of years we've spent as the masters of the
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    • 1355 54  -  David Chew Gurmit created a national icon, but he remains humble and eagerto escape PCX's shadow GURMT SINGH is tired of being the funnyman. Playing the part of the contractor with the yellow boots has turned the comedy actor into Singapore's most recognisable celebrity even kindergarten kids watch
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    • 276 54 1965: Gurmit would have been born at the back of Bank Negara Indonesia in Chulia Street but they managed to rush his mother to the hospital in time 1978: Involved in performing arts at Outram Secondary, but still dreamt of becoming a pilot or a zookeeper 1980: Entered Outram
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      214 55  -  Humphreys, Neil PLUS asked Today readers the question: Does Singapore have a national icon? From the Merlion and the Kucinta cat to HDB flats and rojak, various monuments, buildings, symbols and culinary delights were dissected. Several PLUS readers wrote in to suggest that Singapore already has an
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      • 89 56 LOS ANGELES Superstar and devout Scientologist Tom Cruise, 43, has dropped his sister Lee Anne DeVette as his movie publicist after coming under media fire for publicly mixing his religious views with his movie-making. Moreover, Cruise's closely-protected image took a beating this summer when the
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      • 136 56 The Singapore Film Society will present Animation Nation the festival that showcases the best in animation worldwide from Nov 17 to Nov 23. Now in its second year. Animation Nation opens with the Singapore premiere of the British box-office smash, Wallace Gromit in The Curse of the
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      • 107 56 Organised by the Yang Zheng (Yeung Ching) Alumni, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) presents the Yellow River Extravaganza concert on Nov 11 and 12 at Bpm at the Singapore Conference Hall. This is part of Yeung Ching School lOOth Anniversary celebrations, as well as the
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      • 44 56 German violinist Isabelle Faust will make her Singapore debut playing Alban Berg's Violin Concerto with her 1704 "Sleeping Beauty" Stradivarius violin. DaimlerChrysler Great Classics: The German Tradition is on Friday, 7.30pm, at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Tickets from Sistic.
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    • 412 56  -  JEANINETAN After 64 hours, she becomes first female to win Subaru jea nine@newstoday.com.sg THE first woman to win the MediaCorp Radio Subaru Car Challenge was so exhausted from palming her car for 64 hours 31 minutes that she was hallucinating by the end of the challenge in the
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    • 222 56  -  JOYCE LIN plus@newstoday.com.sg FROM presenting the news to acting in an after-news docu-drama, Evelyn Tan handles it all. Tonight, the 31-year-old will star in her first major project after giving birth to her daughter in January. She is the host of Tab TV, which
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    • 475 57  -  DAVID CHEW The Little Company produces children's plays with adult production values david. chew@newstoday.com. sg NOTHING so ambitious has been attempted in children's theatre before. The Little Company, the children's division of the Singapore Repertory Theatre, is staging its year-end production Snow Queen at the
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    • 96 57 THE Little Company is staging Snow Queen at the Esplanade Theatre, but what is it about? A tale from Hans Christian Andersen, Snow Queen tells the story of a boy called Kai who is bewitched and imprisoned by the Snow Queen in her palatial ice fortress.
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    • 248 57  -  -DAVID CHEW RUSSIAN ballet has a proud history, going back about 230 years. But it still retains some of that wild irreverence on which it was founded. The Imperial Russian Ballet is the only private dance company in Moscow, for example, without a stage of
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      • 436 58  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS DEPUTY PLUS EDITOR neil@newstoday.com.sg WALT DISNEY Pictures pinned their hopes on the last chicken in the shop, and it appears to have paid off. Chicken Little is not a demeaning reference to a man's assets, but the latest animated production from the House of
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    • 145 63 -AFP NFL Indianapolis 40 New England 21 FOXBORO, Massachusetts Peyton Manning (picture) threw for 321 yards and three touchdowns on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to lead the unbeaten Indianapolis Colts past reigning Super Bowl champions, the New England Patriots, 40-21, ending years of Colts frustration
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    • 747 64  -  DARREN LAI Levi's T-shirt offer for fans is the first DARE to the^oung Lions da rren@newstoday.com.sg YESTERDAY, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) issued a rallying cry for Singaporeans to come out and pledge their support for the national under-23 football team in their
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    • 84 64 •Watering holes can draw crowds down for Young Lions' live matches by offering one-for-one drinks for every goal scored. Nightlife establishments with cover charge can waive it for fans that turn up wearing red. Dare we suggest that the government declare an official public holiday
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    • 267 65 -AGENCIES LONDON Lennart Johansson (picture), the president of Uefa, has warned Europe's biggest clubs their "greed" is endangering grassroots football. Members of Gl4, the grouping of elite European clubs, want Fifa, football's world governing body, and Uefa, the sport's European
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    • 512 65 -AGENCIES Ferguson ready to splash during January transfer window MANCHESTER Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson has revealed he will be strengthening his squad in January as the Red Devils bid to catch Chelsea in the title race. United currently trail the Premiership champions by 10 points,
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