Today, 28 November 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    11 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp incorporating IMT6HIS Monday November 28, 2005 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon White House 'has Iraq pullout plan'
      633 1 -AFP Blueprint remarkably similar to that unveiled by senator WASHINGTON The White House for the first time has claimed possession of an Iraq withdrawal plan, arguing that a troop pullout blueprint unveiled this past week by a Democratic senator was "remarkably similar" to its
      -AFP  -  633 words
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      Lock icon Small, but S'pore's a player in WTO talks, says PM Lee
      422 1 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Commonwealth meeting in Malta rounded off yesterday with a push for the successful conclusion of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha Round by the end of next year, even as leaders urged nations to be mindful
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  422 words
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Anger and indifference
      396 2  -  LEE U-WEN LOH CHEE KONG With Australian PM's final plea turned down, Nguyen's execution evokes mixed reactions AND u-wen@newstoday.com.sg IN LESS than four days, convicted drug runner Australian Nguyen Tuong Van (picture) will be executed. And the media reports emanating from Australia have suggested that the country
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      Lock icon FOR GREYING POPULACE, A BIT OF GREEN
      802 3  -  MIKE SEBASTIAN Job-creating ventures such as social enterprises would give livelihoods to elderly AS THE Singapore economy clicks back into high gear, it remains haunted by a problem that concerns its senior citizens. For a relatively young nation, Singapore has slightly more than
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      Lock icon Floods cripple Koh Samui
      391 4 AGENCIES 11 dead, 4,000 homeless as waters swamp Thai resort island, other areas BANGKOK Powerful floods slammed the resort island of Koh Samui, with hundreds of beachside shops and restaurants under a strong current of water yesterday as heavy rain continued to plague the nation's south,
      AGENCIES; COURTESY OFTHE NATION  -  391 words
    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon 2 DEAD BODIES FOUND IN CHOA CHU KANG CARPARK
        140 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A couple was found dead in a car at a multi-storey carpark in Choa Chu Kang on Saturday night. Police received a call at about 9.45pm and found two bodies one on top of the other in the front
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        Lock icon TRANSPORT, TRADE MINISTERS ON CHINA VISITS
        171 4 -938 LIVE Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong is in China today for a fiveday visit to strengthen bilateral relations in economic and transport matters. As part of Mr Yeos trip, both sides will sign the confidential memorandum of understanding on Air Services. Mr Yeo
        -938 LIVE  -  171 words
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        Lock icon STORE RE-ELECTED TO COUNCIL OF MARITIME GROUP
        86 4 938 LIVE Singapore has been re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organisation for a seventh term. The Transport Ministry said membership has enabled the nation to further the international maritime community's efforts to boost navigation safety, promote efficient and sustainable shipping
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      144 4 Be a Pioneer In The IR Industry! The new IR Industry will generate thousands of jobs and billions in investments. This new sunrise industry promised great opportunities. 11 /TT> A GET READY FOR IT! (Tourism Hospitality Management) with a major project on 51 88 Study trip to Australia and visit
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Islandwide upgrading in the works
      745 6  -  LEEU-WENAND LOHCHEEKONG $600 m lifts scheme aimed at'lifts on every floor'ideal u-wen@newstoday.com.sg DISHING out yet another piece of good news that is inevitably seen as an election sweetener, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday said the pace of HDB upgrading has been stepped up
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      Lock icon US videogame mag EGM goes local
      390 6 LOHCHEEKONG HOT ON the heels of the World Cyber Games and the Cyberathletes Professional League, which came to town in the past two months, videogame enthusiasts can now get their hands on a popular United States gaming magazine from local newsstands. MediaCorp's publishing arm,
      — LOHCHEEKONG  -  390 words
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      Training Minds clients to take commercial jobs
      479 8  -  JASMINE YIN Job coaches, site supervisors to help integrate them jasmine.yi n@newstoday.com.sg A PILOT project is underway to boost the skills training of the intel-lectually-disabled working in sheltered employment, to increase their employability and integrate them into the open job market The Enhanced
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      Lock icon SHANG-BRED GARDENERS
      92 8 Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort recently paid for two of its disabled employees to train under the National Skills Recognition System. On seeing that Mohd Shaharino, 24, (left) and Muhammad Syah Rezal, 21, had green thumbs, the management took them out of the kitchen to learn gardening. The duo
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  • world news
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon HARBIN WATER SUPPLY RESUMES
        135 10 -AP Running water was restored in Harbin on Sunday, five days after a shutdown caused by a chemical spill, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Water supplies resumed at 6pm, Xinhua said in a short dispatch. It did not give any more details. Resumption of service
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        Lock icon FOUR KILLED IN TOWER CRANE COLLAPSE IN MALAYSIA
        70 10 DPA Four Indonesian workers were killed when a tower crane collapsed at the site of a 23-storey apartment under construction near Kuala Lumpur, police said on Sunday. The crane, which was secured to the building by three steel beams, tumbled during a
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        Lock icon MCCARTNEYS TO BOYCOTT CHINA
        116 10 -THE OBSERVER Sir Paul McCartney has angrily denounced China and vowed never to perform there after seeing "horrific" scenes on film, shot undercover for the People for the Ethical treatment of Animals, of dogs and cats being brutalised and then killed for their fur. The former
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      Lock icon In the wake of the quake
      483 10 AGENCIES 5.7-magnitude temblor in eastern China kills dozens, leaves thousands homeless BEIJING China woke up yesterday to a serious humanitarian problem as thousands of people were left out in the open or in tents after an earthquake destroyed thousands of homes in the eastern
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      Lock icon FIVE KILLED IN IRAN EARTHQUAKE
      171 10 -AGENCIES An earthquake in southern Iran killed five people and left dozens injured yesterday, a provincial official said. The US Geological Survey measured the quake at 6.1 magnitude. Mr Heidar Alishvandi, the governor of Qeshm, was quoted by state-run television as saying that rescue teams
      -AGENCIES; AP  -  171 words
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      Lock icon An eye for an errant eye: Thais support capital punishment
      185 11 DPA BANGKOK Nearly three out of four Thai people surveyed believe rapists who kill their victims should be executed, The Nation newspaper reported yesterday. About 45 per cent supported capital punishment for drug traffickers, with nearly 8 per cent condoning
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      Lock icon Televised interviews show Bali bombers defiant, unremorseful
      254 11 -AP JAKARTA Three militants on death row for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings defended the blasts in a government-backed TV documentary aimed at blunting support for extremist Islam in Indonesia. The bombers were only given a few minutes of camera time
      -AP  -  254 words
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      Pressure mounts on M'sian police chief
      236 12 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian government and opposition politicians have called for the country's deputy police chief to quit, the BBC reported yesterday. Mr Musa Hassan the country's deputy inspector-general of police defended a police officer who was filmed forcing a female detainee to strip naked
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      Lock icon A fair-weather politician?
      939 12  -  TONY JUNIPER -THE GUARDIAN Blair is under pressure to end the UK's fickle stance on the Kyoto Protocol THIS week, 10,000 people will gather in Montreal for what are expected to be the most important negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference since the agreement of
      -THE GUARDIAN; AFP .■_ r»i _ ■_.* j* ■ i j_i_ _  -  939 words
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      Lock icon Screen Santas, says kids charity
      148 13 DPA SYDNEY People applying to work as Santas in Australian shopping centres at Christmas should be screened so paedophiles cannot take advantage of the position, a child-protec-tion charity said yesterday. "We understand people who have a sexual predilection toward children will seek out work with
      — DPA  -  148 words
    • this quirky world
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        IRON CROTCH GRANDMASTER PULLS TRUCK
        88 13 A 50-year-old Californian man pulled a truck with his penis for a British film crew, ananova.com reported. Martial arts grandmaster Tv Jin-sheng attached himself to the truck and pulled it several yards across a car park in Fremont. About 20 people, most of whom study
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        THE SIMPSONS' RUSSIAN ROW TO GO TO EURO COURT
        75 13 A Russian lawyer plans to take his case against The Simpsons to the European Court of Human Rights. It comes after a Moscow Court rejected Mr Igor Smykov's appeal to have the show banned from Russian television. Mr Smykov wanted to
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      Lock icon Thaksin changes tack
      443 13 Thai PM swears loyalty to King in the face of park offensive BANGKOK With the crowds continuing to grow at Lumpini Park for the talk shows against Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra by media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul and getting increasingly vociferous against the government, Mr Thaksin seems
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      Lock icon EU close to anti-terror pact with Muslim neighbours
      374 15 -AFP Last-minute haggling over definition of terrorism BARCELONA The European Union voiced confidence that it would shortly agree on an anti-terror code of conduct with its southern neighbours, amid lastminute haggling at a landmark summit here. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana
      -AFP  -  374 words
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      Lock icon Vietnam army, policemen stage bird flu rehearsal
      242 15 AGENCIES HANOI Sirens blared and battalions of response teams in protective gear marched into a suburban Hanoi neighbourhood yesterday as Vietnam staged its first exercise in responding to a possible avian influenza pandemic. The 800 participants, including soldiers, health workers and police, sealed
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon INMATES FLEE USING BEDSHEETS
        90 15 -AP Two jail inmates remained at large yesterday, two days after escaping with seven others from a maximum security area of a county jail by using bedsheets, which they tied into ropes, officials said. The seven were captured by authorities including a murder suspect who was
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        Lock icon CHECHNYA PICKS A PARLIAMENT
        58 15 -AP Chechnya, the Caucasus republic that has plagued Kremlin politicians since the Soviet collapse, held the latest in a series of elections yesterday, as part of a continuing effort to bring stability and peace. Threats of violence loomed over the vote with about 350 candidates running
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        US CONDEMNS POLL VIOLENCE
        76 15 The United States has censured the use of force in Azerbaijani capital Baku on Saturday to disperse crowds who were protesting over the conduct of the recent parliamentary elections, the BBC reported. Many people were reported to have been injured by police using truncheons, tear gas
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        Lock icon CONSPIRATOR IN GANDHI'S ASSASINATION DIES
        91 15 AP Gopal Vinayak Godse, 86, the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Indian independence leader and pacifist icon Mohandas Gandhi, has died. He died at his home in the city of Pune late Saturday. No cause of death was given. Godse, whose brother Nathuram
        — AP  -  91 words
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      286 11 Wi The University of MK§ Western Australia Achieving International Excellence Professor Barry J. Marshall B?B UWA Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences Nobel Prizewinner in Medicine 2005 Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Science) Bachelor of Science (Genetics) World Top 100 University Bachelor of Science (Molecular
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      214 12 [Children learn new words (rfgssM and good communication skills by listening to people around them. They are also capable of learning more than one language. The richer the language they hear daily, the more well developed their own will be. In addition to normal conversation, you can have dozens of
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  • Voices
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      A yen for Japanese work style
      356 16  -  ERIC LEE JOOCHOON Getting the deal is the objective and adhered to with military precision Letter from IN RESPONSE to the Minister Mentor's call to Singaporeans to change their work style to take more risks (Nov 24), I would like to share my personal
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      No need for East Coast makeover
      255 16  -  SUCHEN CHRISTINE LIM Letter from I FULLY agree with Murali Sharma's sentiments in his letter, "I love it just the way it is" (Nov 26-27). What is wrong with being 30? East Coast Park does not need a facelift Like a woman, it has
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      How not to ask for help and understanding
      135 16  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from FORMER Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, in calling Singapore a "rogue Chinese port city", betrays his ignorance and innate racism. We are not part of China, and what has a majority of ethnic Chinese have to do
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      Lock icon Let women do what they want
      458 17  -  TANG LI Remove stigmas about sex-let women enjoy their sexuality Letter from VINITA Ramani's article, "He strays, wife ends up HIV+" (Nov 24) upset me. It made me realise that the problem with Singapore is not pre-marital sex, but marital sex. Why are we
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      The disabled are valuable assets
      164 17  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I READ with interest the report, "Bosses want carrot to hire the disabled" (Nov 26). It is heartening to know some organisations, both public and private, are providing steady employment for the disabled without any kind of subsidy. However,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      230 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... SECURITY IN DEFINED LIMITS Children feel more secure, and therefore tend to flourish, when they know where the boundaries are. Imagine you're driving a car over Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado. The bridge is suspended hundreds of feet above the canyon floor.
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      The alley, it is a-changing
      643 18  -  JANECHIAPOCO Facing dwindling business, tailor recounts Change Alley's good old days in the crowd PARKASH BUDHRANI 48, Tailor THE oldest thing in the shop is not the row of fabric bolts lining the walls or the glass counter displaying souvenir keychains nor even one of
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      Certify pet 'lovers'
      438 19  -  JESSICA CHAN Offer compulsory petcare workshops for new owners to reduce ill treatment or abandonment of pets Letter from THERE are many animal lovers who truly love their pets, but there are a great deal more ignorant pet owners who only think they love animals. I have
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      S'porean over-qualified in Australia, too
      376 19  -  CHOO KIM-KWANG RAYMOND Letter from I ECHO Clement Chan's comments in the story "Sorry, you are over-qualified..." (Nov 26). But being unemployed and over-quali-fied is certainly not isolated to Singapore. I am a Singaporean student in Australia, and I expect to submit my PhD thesis
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      Lock icon Be courteous to all, not just tourists
      215 20  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I REFER to the report, "Nine-month deadline to raise service standards on Orchard" (Nov 26 27). It is true that we need to improve our service standards by August next year to benefit from two international meetings Singapore will
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      Racing safely
      512 20  -  CHARMAINETAN FRANCESCA Build proper racetracks to nurture talent Letterfrom ON NOV 20, hundreds of bikers and bike enthusiasts crammed into the Kallang carpark, famous among Singaporeans as the place to be for edge-of-your-seat bike and car races. However, although these legitimate races organised by the Singapore Motorsports Association
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon It's your loss, Singapore
      752 22 ■AFP Air Asia boss looks elsewhere with his fast expanding fleet AFTER a long campaign to secure landing rights in Singapore, Malaysian budget carrier Air Asia has said it is no longer interested in the lucrative short-haul route. "I am not interested in that route. We
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    • marketwatch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        99 22 -AFP SHARE prices are likely to trend lower in this week or next on a lack of fresh leads, dealers said. DBS Vickers Securities said the ST Index (STI) was forecast to decline to a support level of 2,187 in the next one or two weeks before heading towards
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 22 USS 0.5906 UK£ 0.3445 Yen 70.6553 HK$ 4.5795 RM 2.2325 Euro 0.5037 Rupiah 5941.5882 Baht 24.357 Peso 31.9818 A$ 0.8027 Indian Rs 27.0649 Won 615.1257 CS 0.691 Yuan 4.7731 NZS 0.8449 NT$ 19.8151
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 22 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 496.40 Silver US$/oz 8.23 Platinum US$/oz 984.30 Rubber cents/kg 278.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1/410 Brent crude US$/barrel 55.29 Information provided by
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      New design for SiMSCI futures – What does it mean for stock prices?
      1411 23  - New design for SiMSCI futures What does it mean for stock prices? Charlie Charoenwong and David K. Ding SGX Education Feature By.... Anyone who has an interest in the Singapore stock market should take note of what is happening in the SGX SiMSCI futures market. SiMSCI stands for the MSCI
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Oil's well – for now
        383 24 Oil's well for now -AFP Inventories at'very comfortable' levels, says Saudi Arabia, but it remains tight-lipped on Opec meet RIYADH Oil giant Saudi Arabia has said that global oil inventories were at "very comfortable" levels with supply exceeding demand, but was non-committal on what the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
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        Lock icon Gurria set for top job at OECD
        188 24 -AFP FORMER Mexican finance minister Angel Gurria (picture) was set to be named chief of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) after winning the backing of most of the OECD's 30 member countries. Mr Gurria, 55, was one of two candidates
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        Lock icon Anti-monopoly order on Japanese bank?
        158 24 -AFP 1 TOKYO The Japanese anti-monopoly watchdog may order Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) to stop its "unfair" business practice of allegedly forcing borrowers to buy financial products, reports said. SMBC, one of Japan's three major banks, made the purchase of high-risk financial products such
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        Lock icon Asia demand set to drive up gold prices
        534 25 -BLOOMBERG US$l,OOO level may be within reach in the next 5 to 7 years NEWMONT Mining Corp, the world's largest producer of gold, says the price of the precious metal may rise to more than US$l,OOO ($1,700) an ounce in the next
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      171 28 SOW SEED DAY 'Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigour of mind' Albert Einstein Knowledge and personal interest go hand in hand for most people and it is easy to understand why given people are more
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      1169 30 THE Star Awards, which honours the top television artistes and programmes of MediaCorp's Chinese productions, is now into its 11th year. On Sunday night, household names such as Farm Wong will come together for the annual bash. Farm is up for the Best Actress Award, but her career
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      322 30  -  Mervin Tay CONCERTREVIEW by.... David Tao Love Can World Tour WHEN the show began on Saturday night, the campy stage props suggested David Tao's concert would be a pretentious affair. The Singapore Indoor Stadium stage was peppered with/am granite blocks and draped with
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      350 32  -  David Chew Agroundbreaker 10 years ago, Broadway musical now seems dated MB SB by... I Rent, Kallang Theatre till Dec 4 Rent was one of the great musicals of the late century. Written by I Jonathan Larson in the BBroadway hit defined the key issues of
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      166 32  -  David Chew THEATREREVIEW by... The Road, In Source Theatre POETRY has been adapted successfully for the stage before. Decent adaptations have been made of the work of both Kirpal Singh and PLUS columnist Felix Cheong. But in using Cyril Wong's poetry as the basis
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      345 33  -  JEANINETAN jea nine@newstoday.com.sg PLAY a part in developing a new TV series for Singapore TV. The five pilot episodes developed by the finalists of MediaCorp TV 12 Arts Central Project Pilot Pro category will air tonight in a marathon programme that begins at 9pm. Viewers have
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        204 34 WHERE ARE TAKE THAT, SANS ROBBIE WILLIAMS, NOW? MARK OWEN, 31 The first to release a solo record, his first two singles were top three hits. His 1996 Green Man album sold 1 million copies before his career tailed off. Won Celebrity Big Brother in 2002 and
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        272 34 —THE GUARDIAN Take That reunite, but without Robbie Williams LONDON When Take That last appeared on stage together a decade ago, they had to fight through a throng of weeping teenage fans. But as they announced their return at the weekend, just three diehards welcomed them back
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        143 34 NEW YORK Actor Pat Morita, Oscar-nominated for his role as Ralph Macchio's mentor Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid, is dead. The 73-year-old died at home in Las Vegas on Thursday of natural causes, his wife Evelyn said on Sunday, reported the BBC. Born in
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        793 35  -  FLORENCE EE Carlton Hotel's new eatery wows with authentic congee and noodle dishes f ood@newstoday.com.sg CANTONESE cuisine ranks high on my list of all-time favourite food. Though it's Peranakan blood that courses through my veins, the sight of stacks of dim sum baskets with their irresistible
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      218 39 WEATH ERTODAY Amsterdam -2/2C rainy London 1/7 C cloudy Auckland 12/20 C fair Los Angeles 922 C fair OingapOre Bali 24/31 C cloudy Manila 25/30 C thunderstorm 24/32 C B.S. Begawan 24/30 C thunderstorm Melbourne 11/21 C showers Bangkok 23/32 C partly cloudy New Delhi 9/27 C hazy snowers Bangalore
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      642 40  -  LEONGWEEKEAT GETTY IMAGES New face of women's golf in America will come to Singapore after a breakthrough season weekeat@newstoday.com.sg YOU may have seen the Natalie Gulbis calendar, with images of the young golfer lying on a beach wearing nothing but a bikini,
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      319 40 Funk the king of skins in a skirt -AP LA QUINTA, California In a first for Skins game, Fred Funk played a hole worth U5575,000 ($127,000) while wearing a pink flowered skirt, his penalty for being out-driv-en by Annika Sorenstam. But the 49-year-old Funk got the last laugh on a
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      294 40 -AP ADELAIDE, Australia Mike Hussey scored an unbeaten 133 and shared a 93-run ninthwicket partnership with Stuart Mac Gill, as Australia took a 23-run first innings lead yesterday to shift the momentum away from West Indies in the third cricket Test After resuming at 229
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        303 41 -AFP Absence of Thuram, Vieira doesn't stop Juventus victory SERIEA Juventus 3 Treviso 1 ROME Juventus restored their five-point lead at the top of Italy's Serie A with a 3-1 home win over Treviso yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Milan had cut Juve's advantage
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        192 41  -  PRIMERA LIGA ■AFP Osasuna 3 Alaves 2 MADRID Osasuna's remarkable season continued with their seventh successive home win yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), a 3-2 victory over Alaves. The win maintains the Pamplona-based side's 100 per cent record in their intimidating El Sadar stadium
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        440 41  -  DARREN LAI darren@newstoday.com.sg JUST one point separated Maris Stella High Team 2 and Catholic High Team 1 in the Delfi Secondary Schools Bowling League Ist Division going into the final day of the second round competition on Saturday. But with the
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      410 42  -  JOSE RAYMOND THEY were supposed to be one of the favourites for the SEA Games men's football gold medal, but became the first team in Group B to be knocked out. With stars like Van Paing and inspirational national skipper Soe Myat
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      549 42  -  Jose Raymond Under-performers in danger of the axe, but Avramovic wants to focus on Myanmar clash FOOTBALL Singapore vMyanmar ALL those who have become familiar with his style would have expected it. Singapore national coach Rado j k o Avramovic does not buy into the concept
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      489 43  -  Tan Yo-Hinn in Sprinters will feature in 100 m final, Dv and Zhang also in action IF SINGAPORE Athletic Association (SAA) president Tang Weng Fei's crystal ball is any good, then Singapore can expect four medals in track and field at the SEA Games today. At
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      356 43 CUBBY LEONG IN PASIG CITY cubby@newstoday.com.sg ON THE eve of the Singapore-Viet-nam clash in the men's badminton team event, both camps became engaged in psychological warfare at the Philsports Multi Sports Complex in Pasig City. First it was Vietnam, whose coaches went to great lengths
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        42 43 THE football match between Malaysia and Thailand was stopped for 15 minutes yesterday when lights at the Paglaum Sports Complex in Bacolod City suddenly went out. Thankfully, there were no suggestions of foul play and the Thais eventually won 2-1.
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        83 43 STILL on lighting, Philsports Multi Sports Complex in Pasig City, the venue for badminton, came under scrutiny yesterday after teams training at the hall complained about the excessive number of lights on the ceiling. With the shuttlecock hard to spot in the air, Singapore women's star
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        82 43 WHISPERS made the rounds yesterday at the Makati Coliseum over the eligibility of Filipino pool star Alex Pagulayan. Currently playing on the professional 9-ball circuit, the youngster nicknamed "The Lion" is known around the world as a Canadian, but returned to his motherland to represent Philippines in
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        571 44  -  Leonard Thomas Four flops so far, are the rest of the foreign talent graduates going to measure up? DIFFERENT SEA Games, same story. The opening ceremony is not even 24 hours old and the most coveted gold medal of them all is almost certainly lost as
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        138 44 Athletics Dv Xianhui (24) -women's shot put and discus Zhang Guirong (27)-women's javelin, shot put and discus Badminton Hendri Kurniawan Saputra (24) men's individual and team Ronald Susilo (26) men's individual and team Jiang Yanmei (24) women's individual and
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