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  • 12 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp fresfsf incorporating otrC^tS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Thursday November 10, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 744 1 —AGENCIES Top Jl bomb-maker Azahari believed to have blown himself up to avoid capture JAKARTA Top terror suspect Azahari Husin, 48, blew himself up yesterday after being cornered by Indonesian police at his hide-out in East Java, a journalist at the site told an Indonesian TV
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  • 300 1 Today is five and we're celebrating our birthday with a bumper 128-page issue. We may still be young in some people's eyes, but we believe there's plenty of reason to cheer. The past five years have not been easy on the media industry in Singapore.
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    • 54 1 Iliffllßlliill h^* INTHEFOOTSTEPSOF t \JT^jmm^ VIJAY 13- iS H^^ LAWRENCE OF ARABIA f. M ADMITS luguUiif|t|i£i|Ml fc^_ $,^k w he'got t traveller r d lazy- malm we're in style. K^^H Wm Within the pages of this a nnwarsarv special. (i sia tasifr of whit ihit nsws- I INSIDE: YOUR 22-PAGE
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    • 488 2  -  LEE U-WEN Number studying the language at A level has doubled this year u-wen@newstoday.com.sg MORE students in Singapore are choosing to study the Chinese language, according to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Education (MOE). This year, the number of students taking
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    • 783 3  - MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL SIEWKUMHONG A Today reader and contributor says this newspaper has given S'poreans a fair shot at having their voices heard Today is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Simply surviving this long, let alone turning a profit last year, shows how far the newspaper has come since
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    • 372 3  -  LEECHINGWERN IN TOKYO chingwern@newstoday.com. sg LAYING the ground for continued excellent bilateral relations between Singapore and Japan in the future, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday met with all the three main contenders to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi: Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, Foreign
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    • 375 4 -AGENCIES Two Islamic terror cells were competing to be the first to carry out attacks, say Australian police SYDNEY As Australian police combed through the evidence seized in a string of raids that thwarted major terror attacks in Melbourne and Sydney, investigations revealed that a competition
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    • 199 4 -AP A former bit actor and a halal butcher were among the 17 terror suspects arrested in Australia's largest terror raid. Some have roots in Algeria, Lebanon and Bangladesh, but at least six are born or naturalised Australian citizens. Some are young fathers who lived
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    • 305 4 —AFP LONDON China's President Hu Jintao was set to discuss trade, global security and climate change with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on day two of a state visit to Britain full of pomp and demonstrators. Mr Hu and Mr Blair were scheduled
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    • 496 4  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg TO USHER in Christmas festivities this year, up to 6km of the road stretching from Tanglin to Marina Bay will be lit up in a sea of multi-coloured, musical and festive icons. This will make it the most brightly
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    • 141 6 FIVE HIV-positive blood donors have been charged with making false declarations in their Donor Health Assessment Questionnaire when they donated blood. The five tested HIV positive when they donated blood last year. But their blood was not used in any transfusion, said the Health
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    • 597 6  -  ANSLEY NG New campaign, exhibition aim to inspire Singaporeans to fight terrorism together a nsley@newstoday.com.sg YOU have probably seen the series of terrorism awareness advertisements on local television channels. A female SQII7 passenger recounts her experience on the hijacked flight, while an ice-cream seller speaks about
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    • 348 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE SINGAPORE has stressed the need to establish common security and biometric standards quickly. Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has said such a project will help restrict the space for terrorists by tightening passport controls and
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    • 573 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO Former MIT president on focus, competition and role of academic freedom in building world-class local universities derrick@newstoday.com.sg ON his first day on the job, the former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr Charles Vest, had a hard time entering his
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    • 310 8  -  LEE U WEN AS TURKEY looks to enter the European Union (EU) by 2010, it first has to beef up its environmental infrastructure to meet the strict EU standards. Which is why a high-level 38-man delegation is now in Singapore to
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    • 504 10  -  VINITARAMANI Three-way tie-up will boost implant dentistry skills here vinita@newstoday.com.sg THE University of Warwick will make something of its presence felt in Singapore starting from January, despite the institution's hesitation to set up a stand-alone campus in Singapore. It signed a Memorandum of
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    • 208 10  -  -TANHUILENG THE Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*Star) Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) has discovered an additional cancer-causing function in a family of proteins they discovered in 1994. The family of proteins, called the p2l--activated kinases (PAKs) were discovered
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    • 224 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE authorities are expected to revise the current the National Growth Chart height figures in 2008, when the next review comes around. It is done once every 10 years. When that happens, companies such as transport operators and cinemas may need to
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
      • 87 10 Channel NawsAsia COE prices continued to climb for the second time in two consecutive bidding exercises. Prices rose slightly across the board, with smaller cars 1600 cc and below registering an increase of $199 to $14,700. Cars above 1600 cc saw a rise
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      • 62 10 -938 Live A 42-year-old policeman died in a road accident at Dairy Farm Road in Bukit Timah on Tuesday night. He was leading a team of officers to conduct a roadblock at about 9.50pm when a tipper lorry missed the road block sign and
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    • 575 12  -  TAN HUI LENG 3 in 4 NUH patients are 13 to 20 years old; early help assists recovery huileng@newstoday.com.sg THE spike in anorexic patients has prompted the National University Hospital (NUH) to do a retrospective study on all patients it saw from 1992
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    • 250 12  -  —JASMINE YIN YOUNG women in Singapore who want a hand in shaping the country's future can do so in a national essay competition organised by the Young People's Action Party Women (YPW). Based on the theme "Writing our Future: Singapore 2020", the competition which is open
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    • 196 12 -938 LIVE The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Health Promotion Board (HPB) have taken the lead to spearhead Aids education programmes at the workplace. This comes hot on the heels of the formation of the Aids Business Alliance, which aims to encourage businesses
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    • 495 14 -AGENCIES Police focusing on Internet to monitor inciting of violence through blogs PARIS The French government has formally decreed a state of emergency in most of the major cities as youths torched 617 vehicles across the country on the 13th day of
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    • 243 14 KUALA LUMPUR The law may soon be used to ensure that Malaysian ex-husbands feel the pinch if they don't make alimony payments. A spate of proposals has been submitted to the government urging officials not to renew the driving licences, road tax
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    • 226 14 -AGENCIES JAKARTA Police have uncovered a recently-aban-doned jungle training camp where militants taught bomb-making skills to scores of extremists, Indonesian security officials said yesterday. Instructors at the camp in Maluku province the scene of bloody fighting between Muslim and Christians from 1999 to 2002
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    • 492 16  -  CLEMENT MESENAS More straightforward foreign policy will help, says former top official FOREIGN EDITOR clement@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE the apparent hawkish nature of the new Japanese Cabinet, there is hope for a warming up of the frosty political relations between Tokyo and Beijing, a former
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
    • 807 18  -  Oon Yeoh Will memories of his wife inspire the PMto fight corruption and improve transparency more aggressively? LAST week, Mr Abdullah Ahmad Badawi began his third year as Malaysia's Prime Minister. Dubbed "Mr Clean" by the media, Mr Abdullah was expected to bring about a
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    • 295 20 WASHINGTON United States Vice-Pres-ident Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Mr Lewis Libby (picture), has set up a fund to help pay for his legal defence in the ClAleak case, reported the New York Times. The newspaper said that Mr Libby's associates
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    • 417 20 Outbreak in province notyet under control, admits minister BEIJING China warned yesterday a bird flu outbreak in its northeastern province of Liaoning had not yet been controlled and could become a "disaster", mainly due to the use of fake or sub-standard poultry vaccines. "In
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    • 675 22  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI National Reconciliation Commission remains only hope for solving the southern Thai insurgency THE Islamic month of Syawal, which began last week, is usually a joyous occasion for Muslims to begin the year ahead on a clean slate after surviving a gruelling month of fasting.
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    • 339 22  -  -VINITARAMANI MADAM Salha Saaban, 45, decided to purchase a dining table with chairs in time for Hari Raya. She knew it had to be made of solid wood and match her buffet hutch. What she didn't know was that she would win
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    • 424 24 —AGENCIES Agency alleged to be running secret prisons overseas WASHINGTON The United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has taken the first step to beginning a criminal inquiry into the media leak that it runs secret jails abroad, reports said. The investigation will examine possible
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    • this quirky world
      • 79 24 One of Italy's most popular and wholesome magazines, the Famiglia Cristiana weekly, will apologise to its readers for running an advertisement that featured a woman's naked bottom, Reuters reported. It was the first time the Catholic magazine, whose title means Christian Family, had shown nudity. The
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      • 72 24 -AP They rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of an elderly home had to deal with both when a pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises. The moose a cow and her calf had eaten the fermented apples outside the home
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      • 72 24 French investigators carried out a four-hour reconstruction of a murder scene involving the death of a bear in the Pyrenees, The Independent reported. On Nov 1 last year, the country was shocked when the last female brown bear of pure Pyrenean stock was shot dead
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    • 154 26  -  LIM BOON HEE But school trips to China not cancelled; are kids at risk? Letter from AS a general practitioner, I receive many calls from concerned parents whose kids are scheduled to go overseas next week on school trips to Yunnan, Nanjing and Beijing. They
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    • 127 26  - Dr M and S'pore-M'sia ties again DAVID LAM YANCHOON Letter from I ALWAYS feel uneasy every time former Malaysian premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad (picture) speaks off tangent. If he wants history to remember him kindly, he should disengage from politics, which he had once famously said he would once he
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    • 206 26  -  HENGCHOCHOON Letter from I REFER to your article "Mandarin is hip, relevant and essential" (Nov 9). The Chinese press has, over the last few years, lamented the deteriorating standard of Singaporeans' command of Mandarin when compared to that of the
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    • 179 26  -  BENJAMIN GAN Letter from JERRY Siah Eng Kiat's news comment, "Don't jet away during every holiday" (Nov 9), reflects the love-hate relationship most Singaporeans have for Singapore. We love Singapore for its safety, law and order, cleanliness and the convenience of its compact size. These facets that
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    • 659 28  -  Jeremy Lim IF YOU think that some parents of children with disabilities are making life difficult for them, think again. By pushing them hard and forcing them to do things which they do not like but are good for them,
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    • 191 28  -  AU WAI PANG Letter from I REFER to the story "Polling for station names" (Nov 8) which states that the Land Transport Authority had accepted the suggestion of "Botanic Gardens" for one of the Circle Line stations. The station concerned is located near the
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    • 223 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY DEALING WITH A PREGNANT DAUGHTER What should parents do when a teenage daughter comes to them and speaks those painful words, "Mum and Dad, I'm pregnant." Responding to a teenage pregnancy is one of the most difficult trials a parent can face.
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    • 367 30  -  HOANQI If dressing less means more, doesn't that turn women into sex objects? Lstter from I REFER to the letter "Want free drinks on Ladies' Night? Then play by pub's rules" (Nov 7). I appreciate Janice Lee bringing up this point: Pubs organise ladies'
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    • 161 30  -  BOON CHIN AUN Letter from I WOULD like to congratulate the winners of the Subaru Impreza Challenge. I know that I would not be able to match their 64-hour feat However, I must say I felt a little disappointed that the teams
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    • 85 30  -  LEE KIP LEE Letter from I REFER to Heng Cho Choon's bewilderment ("Art of naming", Nov 8) at the manner in which certain schools are named. Here are a few examples of irrelevant names of primary schools: Xinghua (in Parry Avenue, Yio Chu Kang), Xingnan (in Jurong West),
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    • 199 35  -  EDDYTAN Traffic Police should give at least a day's prior notice to public Letter from I REFER to the explanation given by the Traffic Police and Singapore Tourism Board for permitting the partial closure of the road from Raffles Quay to Boon Tat
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    • 335 35  -  SANDIE LEE BETTY TSUI Letter from Senior Vice-President, Cable TV Services, Star Hub WE REFER to the letter by Mr Muhd Hudzaiman (Nov 4) and thank him for his feedback. He had requested for Star Hub to introduce English subtitles for the programmes
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    • 1459 36  -  ERNEST WONG P N BALJI FRANCIS KAN coffee with In his late 50s, member of the Temasek Advisory Panel and former MediaCorp Group CEO HE JOINED MediaCorp in October 2000, a month before Today was born and at the onset of liberalised media competition. When
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    • 187 40  -  VALERIE LAW THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that its president Ang Swee Tian will retire at the end of the year. However, Mr Ang will continue to serve as senior adviser to the bourse, said SGX in a statement. "With his extensive experience, he will assist
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    • 434 40 AGENCIES Plans to sell assets such as properties to convert them to core investments OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp plans to continue divesting some of its properties although the sale of its headquarters is not a priority. "We continue to look at various properties to sell when
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    • 257 40  -  CHRISTIE LOH ENRAGED by years of human rights abuse by the government of Myanmar, a Western trade union movement is calling on companies worldwide, including those of Singapore, to terminate their businesses in the Southeast Asian country. On Tuesday, the International Confederation of Free
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    • 421 40  -  CHOW PENN NEE DOW JONES -DOW JONES -DOW JONES Mapletree Logistics Trust will sell up to 49.3 million new units to investors at $1 to $1.02 for each unit. DBS Bank and ÜBS have been appointed joint lead managers for the share placement and will conduct a bookbuilding to
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      • 310 42 But not all affected airlines will be paid for late Airbus A3Bos: WSJA AIRBUS, the world's biggest aircraft maker, will compensate some airlines for late delivery of its A3BO aircraft, the Wall Street Journal Asia reported yesterday, citing a top official from its parent company. Mr
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      • 178 42 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Temasek Holdings has sold 40 million shares in Malaysian lender Southern Bank, cutting its stake in the takeover target The Singapore investment company sold the stake in off-market transactions at RM3.90 a share, or around RMIS6 million ($70.3 million) in
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      • 336 42 BLOOMBERG TIGER Airways, which is partly owned by Singapore Airlines (SIA), said it will start four weekly flights to the city of Darwin next month, becoming the sole Southeast Asian budget carrier to fly to Australia. The airline will fly between Singapore and Darwin
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      • 114 42  -  —VALERIE LAW BUDGET flights to Australia are finally here but travellers should note that Australia's airport taxes are one of the world's highest. For instance, a trip to Sydney from Singapore would set travellers back by $315, just on airport taxes, noise levy and fuel surcharges on full-fledged carriers.
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        • 146 42 DOW JONES SHARE prices closed flat on a lack of strong new leads. Concerns over rising oil prices have already been factored into share prices and are unlikely to pull the ST Index out of its trading band between 2,220 and 2,280, traders added. The ST Index fell 1.66
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        • 4 42 ST Index 2,270.33 -1.66
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        • 55 42 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.20 +35.47 +0.25 Hang Seng ASX *****.55 +194.35 4526.10 -20.40 +1.35 -0.62 Taiwan Wtd 5971.06 +121.43 +2.00 Korea Comp 1227.59 +0.00 +0.07 KLCI 906.55 -2.55 -0.20 SET Index 696.05 +1.25 +0.10 Jakarta Comp 1052.02 -12.13 -1.14 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2097.30
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        • 36 42 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5876 0.3368 68.918 4.5565 2.2199 0.4988 5936.4 24.174 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 32.113 0.8 26.863 614.64 0.696 4.7519 0.86 19.811
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      • 269 44 BLOOMBERG Extra 42% share ats4sl m will boost stake in Indonesian bankto 99% KHAZANAH Nasional, Malaysia's stateowned investment company, has offered to buy 42.1 per cent of PT Bank Lippo for 2.66 trillion rupiah ($451 million), seeking to boost its stake in Indonesia's ninth-largest
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      • 205 44 -BLOOMBERG UNITED STATES President George W Bush said he would tell China's leaders next week they must continue advancing toward a market-based currency valuation for the benefit of all its trading partners, not just the United States. China's decision to let the yuan strengthen
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      • 128 44 -AFP BEIJING China welcomed the signing of a textile import deal with the United States yesterday, but criticised "restrictive" US actions that regularly destabilise the balance of trade. The Ministry of Commerce said since the end of global textile quotas on Jan 1, the
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      • 457 48 Time to bring out the party hats DOW JONES Despite a hard October, the year-end cheer remains likely for emerging markets NEW YORK So far, November feels like a breath of fresh air for investors who endured a harsh October in emerging market equities, and bets are on whether the
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      • 373 48 DOW JONES BEAUTY CHINA HOLDINGS (67 cents) —OUTPERFORM CIMB-GK keeps Beauty China as "Outperform", but cuts the target price to 93 cents from $1.02, as 3Q05 earnings is below its estimate. This is due to an unexpected 69-per-cent surge in operating costs as well as depreciation. But it notes
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      • 224 49 -DOW JONES TOKYO -Japan and Singapore have signed a second bilateral currency swap arrangement that enables the two nations' monetary authorities to swap their local currencies for US dollars, Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said yesterday. Under the agreement, Singapore can ask Japan
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      • 877 49  -  LIM CHUNG CHUN Higher dividend yields from property trusts imply lower share prices news@newstoday.com.sg THE United States Federal Reserve has raised interest rates 12 times in the last 18 months, from 1 per cent in June 2004 to the current 4 per cent, and
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    • 536 66 YoORIIOROSCOPBroBi^T^ugem ARIES (March 21 -April 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) HA culture shock might be just what you need You can make some changes in the way you to get you thinking and moving in a new di- pt^l earn your living. You will discover you can end rection.
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    • 853 78  -  Leonard Thomas Current state of the game in Singapore gives hope that the Lions can emulate Togo WIDE-EYED and faces shining with happiness, the men bounced up and down the street, the women danced jigs of joy and children waving their arms in the
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      • 591 69 —AGENCIES Eriksson to continue experimenting with Spurs defender in Makelele role LONDON It is a match Sven-Goran Eriksson has billed as more than just a friendly. But, the England manager will use this Saturday's clash with Argentina in Geneva to conduct one final experiment- one that could make
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      • 325 69 -AFP EDINBURGH Hearts' new head coach Graham Rix has more than one challenge to overcome if he is to find success with the Scottish Premier League club this season after being appointed as George Burley's successor on Tuesday. But Rix,
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      • 404 69 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL- Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester United may have caused plenty of disruption and discontent within the club, but now Liverpool seem to have realised that the American way could be the way forward. American influence on the Premiership could be about to extend,
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      • 433 70 -AFP PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida World No 3 Andy Roddick called an early end to a disappointing 2005 season yesterday, announcing he was withdrawing from the ATP Masters Cup at Shanghai due to back pain. Australia's fourth-ranked Lleyton Hewitt withdrew from the season-ending showdown of
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      • 537 70  -  Rahul Pathak Vijay admits he became lazy after thumping Woods and is paying the price SHANGHAI This was not a confession, this was an act of penance in full public view. The day before the HSBC Champions Tournament got underway, former world No
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      • 202 70 -AFP RAJKOT, India Teenager Rudra Pratap Singh wrecked Sri Lanka's batting to lead India to a comfortable seven-wicketvictory in the sixth oneday international yesterday. The 19-year-old left-arm seamer grabbed 4-35 in only his third match and spinner Murali Kartik took 2-42 as India
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      • 883 72  -  Rohit Brijnath Forget the waistline, Mr Woods is expanding in all the right areas and we should never have doubted him THERE, amid all the disquieting news of his resurrection, the launching of drives that promise to cross oceans, the No 1
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      • 590 74  -  TANYO-HINN Chef-de-mission Oon and SNOC chief Teolookfor bigger medal haul than in 2003 yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TWO years ago, Singapore returned from the SEA Games in Vietnam with a haul of 30 gold, 33 silver and 50 bronze medals. But a similar cache won't do this time.
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      • 369 74  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE sailing remains on track for a medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, despite major proposals by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) to modernise the sport. The assurance came from Singapore Sailing chief Low Teo Ping
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      • 1115 76 He has been in the job for 18 months and in that time, Radojko "Raddy" Avramovic has guided Singapore to an unforgettable Tiger Cup triumph and made the Lions the top team in South-east Asia for the first time. There is no doubt the Lions' coach
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  • 34 82 The first issue of Weekend Today in April 2002 aimed for a brighter, more magazine-style look. The weekend edition has evolved, with informative graphics dominating the front page.
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  • 621 82 I think what Today has done in a short period of time is really very impressive, almost phenomenal. MediaCorp Group chairman Ho Kwon Pint Ire is scope to grow readership by ducing a bigger, more iprehensive newspaper tis serious but not dull, 'ertisers will enjoy ative
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    594 83 Today is about the best thing that has happened to MediaCorp in terms of offering news to Singaporeans and anyone out there who actually watches, listens or reads our products. Shaun Scow, MediaCorp's deputy group chiel executive officer/group chief editor 10.11.2000 NEW KID ON THE BLOCK On a Friday
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      135 84  -  Not Available 30.11.2000 Singapore's Tiger Cup campaign inThailand had just ended in disaster; the team failed to defend their title and didn't even make the last four. Singapore's coach at the time, Vincent Subramaniam, had been under tremendous pressure throughout the tournament, and calls for his sacking
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    • 218 84  -  Not Available 20.07.2002 In his unmistakably high-brow style, Today columnist Neil Humphreys talks about the article that sparked off his popular weekend column that has become a staple for both the newspaper's local and ang moh readers. "In mid-2002,1 was being badgered to start an 'expat'
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    • 135 84  -  Not Available I he incident involving naval gunboat Hbb Courageous and tanker ANL Indonesia went down as the worst accident in Singapore's modern military history. Four naval servicewomen were killed in the accident, which happened at 11.35pm on January 3, 2003. The newspaper
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    • 143 84  -  Not Available Not Available 07.05.2003 fgfdgfdgfdgfdgfd As the Sars crisis enveloped Singapore, TanTock Seng Hospital became the bat- tleground where the disease was fought. All Sars patients were confined to the hospital which even lost some of its own employees to the virus. But while
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    • 154 84  -  Not Available 24.06.2004 The terrorists had killed two hostages and the deadline for the third had passed. In the newsroom on Wednesday, June 23, we were discussing where to carry the report of the third killing when it struck then Today Associate Editor Margaret Thomas that we
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    • 213 85 Coined the "wonder herb", Lingzhi has long been renowned for its remarkable health-promoting properties. Today, Eu Van Sang makes X s available the most precious part of Lingzhi by cracking the spores. The 100% cracked spores powder is more readily absorbed by the body, I f\f I and is hence
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  • 455 86 metro magic great s'pore sale wraparound *****001 Metro (Pte) Ltd Equinox Communications M&C Saatchi Our first four-page full cover wrap was born when Metro's advertising agency approached us with the concept of having a full wrap over the front page of Today. Their request was
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  • 346 88 nWhat is the significance of the name Today? Today means here, now, this moment, this hour and this day. Today gives you all the news and views you need; it sets you thinking every day. It's a newspaper in touch with
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  • 443 88  -  CHRISTIE LOH Starting out was hard, say Today's circulation and i printing guys cnnstie@newstoday.com.sg I YOU can call them the unsung m heroes. They brave the bad and the m ugly to get the newspaper to your doorstep every morning. m But unlike reporters with bylines, m public
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    • 561 89 An Advertising Feature Choosing a multiyitamin f» jvthat works JAMA The Journal of "■y' 3? S° what is the best multivitaminAmerica Medical Association #»gg» f mineral formula? recommends that all adults may V W take a multivitamin-mineral ne '^ea' f°rmu'a should be complete and balanced supplement daily to help support
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    106 90 A newspaper is not all about words. Here are some of Today's best pictures, illustrations and supplements TAKING AN ICON TO ITS NEW HOME The Merlion is relocated to its position on the Esplanade (25.04.02) Clockwise from left FINAL RESPECTS: Two policemen salute as the cortege of the
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  • 89 90 WILL MIGHTY MOUSE TRIUMPH? Personalities rule in Germany's 2005 election: Bland Merkel may have won over more voters than sleek Schroeder expected. CHANGING ISTANA Who will next join the presidential hall of fame? The spotlight casts its beams on President Nathan in a Weekend Today interview a few
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  • 204 90 THE FIRST DEGREE One of the first W pull-out supple- V ments published by 1 Today in 2001, The 1 First Degree broke new ground as the first scholarship and v education magazine for A level students published by a main stream media. It is now
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    491 92  -  JANECHIAPOCO 20 kids and Today share a birthday party janec@newstoday.com.sg Today continues to celebrate its fifth anniversary with a bang, or in the case of last Saturday afternoon, with 20 cheering children. Ten boys and 10 girls who were born in the same month as this newspaper
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    355 94 From reporters and sales executives to human resources and finance professionals, every person at Today plays a key role in producing a high quality product. Here are their thoughts on this important milestone: In here, if s a big company, but we have easy access to all the
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  • 332 94 get your free copy I 1. If you do not live in a selected HDB block, condominium or landed estate with free distribution, secure your free copy with a $10 monthly delivery fee. 2. Read us free online atwww.todayonline.com. 3. Download and read it free on
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  • 1138 96  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Readers love Today's pithy, punchy style as it fulfills a vital niche clement@newstoday.com.sg THE SUCCESS of Today in breaching the monopoly of The Straits Times, an unprecedented feat say media watchers, is stoking up expectations that there is room for even more morning newspapers. Such
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    • 338 97 SWish you had an answer when your child is picky or doesn't eat? ln nm Now with FOS and Probiotics. .-tM improved! c For a healthy digestive system. New improved PediaSure Complete contains even healthy digestive system, enhancing the body's more! Aside from being complete and balanced t absorption of
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  • 510 98 In the world of entertainment and sports, it's almost impossible to come up with a definitive top five. So Today's PLUS and Sports teams have come up with their own top five best, and worst, lists. (and some minuses* worst 5 songs JENNIFER LOPEZ JA RULE I'M
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  • 281 98 Today's TOP SPORTING MOMENTS E| A jam-packed National Stadium was rocking as Singapore clinched the 2004 Tiger Cup —the first time the Lions have bagged an international trophy on home soil. n Singapore's top paddler Li Jiawei downs defending champion Wang Nan 11-7,11-7,11--13,11-9, 11-8 to make
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    • 82 98 tnn mnwin nnntno test me. I ate his liver with TOD U mQVIG DUQIGS some fava beans and a nice <^ Chianti." V* The Godfather (1972) "I'm going to make him Apocalypse now (1979) an offer he can't refuse." "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Star Wars
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  • 204 102 B^H Gosh Advertising's NICHOLAS CHAN was one of the few male guests who turned up in a tuxedo. When you have a dress this minimalist all you need are glamorous accessories such as bejewelled shoulder dusters and an embellished handbag. Case in point: TAN SU
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    • 125 103 V/Jj J -jf /I/9 Jj]±h I' It:IU R 1: S l> R1: Sin I > j^ j _WB little ,w. if In Cinemas I December ri^^M m__\\\\w |p jfl V Walt Disney Pictures' Chicken Little J yjk W Bobble Heads iSmWr** W Jfkf Walt Disney Pictures' Chicken Little Plush Toy
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    • 177 104  -  Felix Cheong plus@newstoday.com.sg fdsfdsfdsfdsf WHAT a difference five years makes. Before Nov 10, 2000, Today newspaper didn't exist and the media scene looked vastly different. But changes haven't been consigned to the print industry. In the bell jar of a small country like SinIgapore, these
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    • 329 106 Got to give credit where it's due: It all began with the establishment's change of heart towards the arts. The buzzwords at the turn of this millennium, if you recall, were "hub" and "remaking". Every industry was being remade; every corner was being converted into a hub.
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    • 209 106 To up the hip quotient and break the myth we're a 21st-century city with 19th-century morality values, the Censorship Review Committee was convened in 2002. While the first panel in 1992 set into motion broad guidelines leading to film classification, the latest review set about fine-tuning them. In
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    • 247 106 Of course, importing talent alone is never enough. Such a policy may work for other sectors, say the biomedical sciences, but it won't ring true for the arts. The stories that engage and matter must come from us, not simply couriered from far-flung corners. Towards this end,
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    • 144 106 I Another source of imbalance is, of I course, the nation's arts awards, which had always eschewed pop culture in favour of more high-brow art forms. m Five years ago, it would've been unthinkable that popular and populist figures such as movie director Jack Neo and musician Dick
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    • 158 106 The subject of infrastructure is by far the most overt demonstration of the Government putting its money where its mouth is: The call was made to develop hardware and it's happening. And we're not just talking about the multi-million-dollar Esplanade and the new Drama Centre, which was opened last
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    • 814 108 Former MediaCorp Radio Gold 90FMDJ STEVEN SHALOWITZ is on a round-the-world journey after leaving Singapore. Having fallen off a camel last week, the Chicago resident completes his tour of Libya THE road from Ghadames to Nalut is dull. Apart from the odd nondescript village or
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    • 15 110 Tangs department store Bee Cheng Hiang bakkwa Osim i gallop massage chair
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    • 565 110  -  DAVID CHEW Singapore's first design festival aims to show off its most iconic work david. chew@newstoday.com. sg EVERYONE takes it for granted. The Yeo's packet drink is rectangular not round. The little glass bottle filled with medicated Tiger Balm could be longer, but it isn't. Design dominates
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    • 203 110 DESIGN M IN THE STREETS Temasek design students will take to the streets with their work. They will ask people for their opinions to get an immediate public response to their creations. WHEN: TODAYTILL SATURDAY WHERE: CITY AREA BRIT DESIGN Catch part of the London Design
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    • 714 112  -  JEANINETAN Proud Armenians set to toast Singapore's oldest church jeanine@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREANS have probably passed the small white chapel countless times in the busy City Hall area and thought nothing of it. But the oldest church in Singapore is about to celebrate its 170 th birthday. For a
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    • 184 112 The Armenians came to Singapore in the 1800s as merchants and traders. In a census dated January 1824, there were 74 Armenians in Singapore. At its peak, the Armenian community here numbered about 150. There are about 40 Armenians in Singapore now, a mix of expatriates and individuals of
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    • 489 114  -  JEANINETAN Using dialect name to be judged fairly, actor directs awardwinning short film jea nine@newstoday.com.sg SIM Chin Sun's face is familiar to most Singaporeans. You've probably seen him many times on various Chinese programmes on MediaCorp TV Channel 8. But no one's heard of Sim Chin
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    • 567 116 -AGENCIES Young wizard, giant ape called in to rescue floundering box office LOS ANGELES Harry Potter doesn't just have the fate of the magical world on his shoulders. This time, the teen wizard's trying to save Hollywood, too. In a year of mediocre studio flicks,
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    • 204 116 AGENCIES OSLO Singaporeans stand for hours to win a car. Norwegians, it seems, sit for hours to break a movie record. Four Norwegian movie geeks entered a cinema early last Friday and emerged on Monday 38 movies, 70 hours and 33 minutes later, with
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    • 532 118  - Bossa nova nostalgia Lisa Ono Lisa Ono's seductive voice makes the heart ache with memories and possibilities CONCERTREVIEW Singapore Expo CLEMENTMESENAS clement@newstoday.com.sg HER voice is silky smooth, sultry with a sexy sheen some might consider it lacking in range to fill a concert hall but the 3,000 fans of Lisa
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    • 419 120  - Bad boys? Er, well ZUL OTHMAN British band The Rakes have a reputation, but they can play a bit too zul@newstoday.com.sg THE Rakes sure love a good party. Lanky singer Alan Donohue claims the quartet is easily pleased but laughs nervously when asked to comment on the tales of excess
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      • 285 122 AGENCIES Fallen supermodel resumes career but may leave London LONDON Her career might be on the rocks, but Kate Moss' first modelling job since checking out of drug rehabilitation was a photo shoot for Italian designer Roberto Cavalli on the Spanish island of Ibiza last
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      • 358 122 -AP NEW YORK After stupendous sales for her tales of vampires, witches and lust, novelist Anne Rice has turned to Jesus personally and literarily. Her innovative new novel, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, depicts Jesus as a 7-year-old boy speaking in his own words
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      • BOOK REVIEWS
        • 123 123  -  DAVID CHEW Mick Jackson If you re a fan of the macabre a la Tim Burton, run to the store and buy this book. Written by Mick Jackson, whose previous books were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, Ten Sorry Tales features
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        • 178 123  -  ELIZA TEOH Cordelia Fine Cordelia Fine's book promises to "tell you everything you always wanted to know about the brain" in a witty and lucid way. It does accomplish this feat, but you can't help but compare the bookto another that also provides fascinating insight
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        • 93 123  - Hardboiled Hardluck JOYCE LIN Banana Yoshimoto Banana Yoshimoto s latest instalment is another demonstration other clean, simple style. The novel consists of two stories with a female narrative revolving around the theme of love and loss. The first, Hardboiled, tells the journey of a woman trekking through the mountains, stopping
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      • 206 123 Singapore fashion photographer David Tan will giving a talk at the Singapore History Museum's auditorium tonight on the art of fashion photography, as part of a month of fashion photography talks. Call Objectifs at 6339 3068 for more details, or log on to www.objectifs.com.sg/special.htm Tan told Today what he
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      • 321 124 —AGENCIES Hollywood star agrees to be ridiculed on hit British show Extras HOLLYWOOD Tom Cruise needs some good publicity and he might have found the solution. The American superstar has agreed to be ridiculed on a hit British comedy show that makes fun of pampered Hollywood
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    • plus city style
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        646 50  -  GET SHIRTY What updated basics should a woman have in her wardrobe this season? Pearlyn Tham (pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg) picks her top five. Once considered a perennial mainstay in a man's working wardrobe, the crisp white shirt has been claimed by women as their own. But the new white
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      • 377 52  -  AMYVAN I food@newstoday.com.sg COD fish is well-liked for its delicate flavour and snowy-white, lean, smooth and firm flesh. Available all year round and usually sold in large pieces of fillets or steaks, it is a popular choice of ingredient with both home and professional cooks. Cod is
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      • 170 52 Serves 2 Ingredients 4OOg cod steaks 2 potatoes, peeled and sliced thinly 1 cup canned tomatoes, diced 1/2 cup white wine 4 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp dried Herbs de Provence 2 tbsp breadcrumbs Salt and pepper, to taste Method 1. Season
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      • plus traveller
        • 744 54  -  CLEMENT MESENAS A trip to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria is like going back some 6,000 years IN AMMAN FOREIGN EDITOR clement@newstoday.com.sg HOW many people can say they have swum in two seas in one afternoon, after having skied down snow-clad
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        • 402 56 New, bigger plane provides value-added innovations for a more enjoyable flight EXTRA comfort and more pas-senger-friendly features await China Airlines' passengers on the Singapore-Taipei route. Since Oct 31, the airline has been using its brand new A 330-300 passenger jet on the route.
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        • 440 58  -  LOW SHI PING Yangon gleams with gemstones and stupas AS THE commercial, administrative and transportation hub of Myanmar, Yangon is a tapestry of shining stupas, picturesque lakes and unspoiled mountain scenery. One of the capital's most recognisable landmarks is the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon Pagoda, which sits
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          612 60  -  NAZIR KESHVANI Relax on the beautiful beaches, enjoy the night-life here traveller@newstoday.com.sg GOA is in India but not quite "Indian". For centuries it was a Portuguese colony which explains why Goa is more Catholic and more European than India itself. Goa is a place that surrenders to all
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          260 62 -AP EMIRATES' NEW LUXURY PROJECT TAKES WING Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, is expanding its presence in the hospitality sector. It recently announced the launch of its latest project Emirates Marina Serviced Apartments &Spa. Located at the Dubai Marina development, the project will cater to leisure travellers and
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        • 61 62 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, visit wwwzuji.com.sgitoday or SMS the word today to 8 100 1234 for more
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        • 386 64  -  JANICE GOH Be surprised at Sentosa's Imbiah Lookout ja nice@newstoday.com.sg WHETHER you are a nature lover, history buff or just out for some family adventure, Imbiah Lookout, Sentosa's newest attraction cluster, has them all. Imbiah Lookout boasts nine attractions, including the Cable Car, Carlsberg
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    • 804 107 From Misunderstanding to Understanding Sharing byKumon parent, Phyllis Lee, her son's learning journey Ik A with Kumon I,; JfuMi When I first enrolled Alex in Kumon, I had the same thoughts as many parents, Just pay fees, go shopping, and my son will ov AW excel. If I don't see
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