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  • 22 1 fresfsf TODAY MICA(P) 112/07/2005 incorporating iMTCBtS Tuesday December 6, 2005 todayonline.com /A=diaCorp TODAY MICA(P) 112/07/2005 incorporating JMTCfttS Tuesday December 6, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 793 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH Easier to get around, but town ship's still waiting for the buzz christi e@newstoday.com.sg THE streets of Punggol reveal nothing of its pig-farm past Clean and modern, the township boasts HDB blocks with hues and architectural details distinct from most public
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  • 591 1  -  OONYEOH newsanalysis MALAYSIAN by-elections are usually yawninducing affairs, but the one coming up in Kelantan today is clearly the exception. The death of Pan-Islamic Malaysian Party (PAS) assemblyman Wan Abdul Aziz Jaafar in late October triggered the poll in Pengkalan Pasir and the stakes
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 36 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 12 voices 18 business 27 wealth 32 impact 34 infotech 36 plus 40 health 44 1v 50 classad 52 sports 54 we set you thinking I tSntSSKff^U^^^/KySmff^^m^^wt^ HEM
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  • hot news
    • 311 2 —938 LIVE Accounting body wants bigger charities to be more transparent THE dust hasn't settled on the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) saga yet, but an accounting body has already come up with stricter guidelines for charities in how they are to report the use of
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    • 729 3  -  Charles Tan Human rights and the death penalty do not go hand in hand news@newstoday.com.sg EMOTIONS ran high in Australia in the days leading up to the hanging of drug trafficker, Nguyen Tuong Van and that is not surprising. When it comes to
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  • Singapore news
    • 303 4 THE local world of electronic games, digital animation and special effects will get a boost of $1 billion over the next 10 years as the Government attempts to put Singapore on the cyber map. The Economic Development Board (EDB) is making this investment to develop
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    • 633 4  -  VIVITA RAMANI Ministry to step up efforts to address Aids testing, education, funding for victims: Dr Sadasivan vinita@newstoday.com.sg IN THE first such move, the Ministry of Health (MOH) will set up a fund early next year to help support HIV-positive women and children affected by Aids. The
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    • 177 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MEDIACORP Pte Ltd has appointed Mr Lucas Chow to its board of directors, which took effect from Decl. Mr Chow, 52, is concurrently MediaCorp's group chief executive officer (GCEO). Before joining MediaCorp, Mr Chow was executive vice-president of corporate business at Sing Tel
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    • 743 6  -  ANSLEYNG Sharp rise in 9-month period; al a nsley@newstoday.com.sg TEN members of a pickpocket syndicate were charged in court yesterday after police caught two of them in the act of stealing in Bugis on Saturday. A raid at their rented four-room Bedok Reservoir flat,
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    • 619 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG New system, developed over 11 months, will be tested over the next 2 years cheekong@newstoday.com WITH the shadow of terror lurking, how do you keep your hotels safe? Singapore now has an answer. It has come up with a national
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 83 10 938 LIVb A 12-YEAR-OLD girl was caught at the Woodlands customs checkpoint helping her father, 58, to smuggle 33 packets of cigarettes into Singapore. A bulge in her trousers led officers to empty her pockets, where 11 packets were found in the two pairs of trousers
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      • 76 10 A 20-year-old woman who lived the high life 938 LIVE on stolen credit cards with her ex-boyfriend has been sentenced to 33 months' jail. Clarissa Lim wore designer labels and ate at exclusive restaurants with Loo Chee Hoong for one-and-a-half years. Lim, who faced 177
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      • 80 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 38-year-old woman, who had been seriously hurt in a domestic dispute last Friday, died in hospital on Sunday. Police have reclassified the case as murder. That Friday, police received a call about a dispute in a Block 1 flat in Dover Road.
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      • 72 10 938 LIVE The National Arts Council has chosen a new adjudicator for this year's National Piano and Violin Competition. Replacing Mr Melvyn Tan will be Ms Caroline Almonte. Mr Tan stepped down last week, following public discontent over what was deemed light pun- ishment for
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      • 61 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore has been voted Time magazine's top business city in Asia for the fifth year running. Its readers rated the country's meetings, incentive travel, conventions and exhibitions (Mice) facilities as the best in Asia for a second year. Changi Airport was ranked
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    • 515 10  -  TORCHING LI 4,000 rentals to go on resale market slowly chingli@newstoday.com. sg JTC Corporation's divestment sales catalogue just grew bigger. About 4,000 of the public flats that it currently owns and rents to foreigners will be sold. As with the recently announced sale of
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  • world news
    • 326 12 I —AGENCIES Venezuelan leader's coalition sweeps polls as 75% of voters stay away CARACAS He has been called a lunatic and a dictator. Still, Venezuela's poor are said to love Mr Hugo Chavez (picture), a former paratrooper, who tightened his grip on power after his party swept
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 72 12 -DPA Malaysian police have detailed 105 teenagers, including four girls, at a raid of a concert believed to have been organised by members of an alleged Satanic heavy metal cult, reports said yesterday. The group, aged between 20 and 30, had been dancing
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      • 52 12 A 53-year-old grandmother in Kedah faces a possible death sentence for allegedly possessing 3,434 psychotropic pills, the New Straits Times reported. Pills of the party drug Ecstasy and Eramin-5 were allegedly found in newspaper vendor Lee Goo Chin's flat and inside three vehicles belonging
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      • 136 12 —AGENCIES JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday announced a cabinet reshuffle, dismissing three ministers, shifting three others including his top economy minister and bringing in three new faces. Former finance minister Budiono was installed as coordinating minister for the economy, replacing Mr Aburizal Bakrie, who has
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    • 459 14 —AGENCIES Defence returns to court after walk-out, rails against the lack of protection BAGHDAD The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed yesterday after the presiding judge agreed to allow defence lawyers, former US AttorneyGeneral Ramsey Clark and former Qatari justice minister Najib Al Naimi, to address the
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    • 229 14 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is going all out to remove any misconception that its police officers are targeting and mistreating Chinese tourists, and will invite 100 journalists from China to see for themselves that the country is safe and welcoming. Deputy Tourism
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 78 14 Australia's Commonwealth Bank has apologised to staff for official guidelines that recommend employees wear flesh-coloured knickers, trim nose hair and get regular haircuts, reported Australian newspapers. The Grooming Handbook issued to the bank's cus-tomer-serving staff- advises female workers not to pull on a pair of shiny stockings
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      • 70 14 British supermarket chain Tesco is launching what it claims is the world's first musical sandwich, reported ananova.com. The packaging of a traditional turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich plays a medley of Christmas tunes when it is opened. It features the same technology used in talking greeting cards. The
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      • 40 14 Four thousand, six hundred Father Christmases have taken part in the fifth annual 7.2-km Santa Run in the British town of Newton, said the BBC. The town currently holds the record for the world's biggest Santa gathering.
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    • 279 14 AGENCIES LAHORE Pakistani officials yesterday confirmed the recent death of Al Qaeda operations chief Abu Hamza Rabia. According to US officials quoted by CNN, Rabia, an Egyptian in his 30s, was No 3 in the Al Qaeda hierarchy, behind Osama bin Laden and Ayman
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    • 196 16 LONDON Hundreds of gay couples are preparing to form civil partnerships in the coming weeks as the law in Britain changes after decades of campaigning, the BBC reported. At least 1,200 ceremonies are confirmed as being scheduled already and gay
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 41 16 -AFP Oil-rich Kazakhstan's veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayevwon a landslide re-election to a new sevenyear term. Mr Nazarbayev, 65, won 91.01 per cent of ballots cast in Sunday's poll. The opposition has alleged "multiple violations" in the poll process
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      • 79 16 AFP A former bodyguard and relative of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is living freely in Australia along with more than 30 people suspected of committing crimes against humanity. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported yesterday. Immigration officials found reasons, six years ago, to believe
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      • 35 16 AFP Sri Lankan troops and police stepped up security yesterday following a spate of attacks blamed on the Tamil Tigers that killed 12 people over the weekend, a military official said.-
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    • 441 16 AGENCIES Jiamusi in north-east China cuts water supply; slick moves towards Russia BEIJING A city of more than half a million people was forced to cut off its water supply as a toxic slick slowly moved down river towards the border with Russia, state media
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  • Voices
    • 215 18  -  LIM BOON HEE Melvyn Tan showed no remorse, didn't say sorry Letterfrom I READ Melvyn Tan's open letter regarding the furore over his National Service (NS) evasion. Nowhere in his letter did he mention how he felt about dodging conscription. It would have been more palatable
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    • 140 18  -  JIMMY CHAN Letter from I WAS saddened to read of Melvyn Tan cancelling his own concert Due to the criticism of a few close-minded people, we have lost the contribution of a very talented, internation-ally-accomplished musician born in Singapore. Melvyn's decision, in fact, shows his maturity and
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    • 115 18  -  MARIE TEO Letter from I REFER to David Chew's commentary, "Why not find more creative ways for artists to serve NS?" (Dec 5). The only part I agree with is that we should think of more creative ways for our citizens to serve national service. However,
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    • 189 18  -  RAYMUND KOH Letter from I REFER to Mr Daud H A Wahid's letter "Handbook on CDA Useful" (Nov 19-20) and read with interest on the issues raised. I agree there are a lot of restrictions imposed on the
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    • Article, Illustration
      172 18 beauty in nature photo contest Patchwork of carpets in Marrakech, Morocco. (N3l°3F W8"037, aerial photograph by renowned French photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand, is one of 119 works on display atthe Earth from Above exhibition. The three-month-long free outdoor exhibition, along the pedestrian stretch from Liat Towers
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    • 256 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENCE Some teenagers can't wait to get out of the house and on their own. Others don't go quite as willingly. How do you get your grown child to establish his own home when the time has come? Sometimes independence
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    • 295 20  -  KAVITA GUPTA Household income criterion for ministry's bursary scheme excludes some deserving recipients Letter from CURRENTLY, the Ministry of Education (MOE) offers the Edusave Merit Bursary Awards for students who are in the top 25 per cent in terms of academic performance. However, the gross monthly household
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    • 208 20  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AHMAD Letter from I GOING by the skeletons that have been gradually let out from the closets of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), one wouldn't be wrong in expecting the worst when the complete report from independent auditor KPMG is finally released.
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    • 285 20  -  DRLEONGCHEECHIEW Letter from Chief Operating Officer, National Parks Board WE REFER to the forum letters, "I love it just the way it is" (Nov 26), "No need for East Coast makeover" (Nov 28) and "A pet haven for East Coast Park?" (Dec 5). Attracting over
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    • 641 23  -  TAY BOON SUN HDB is serious about getting S'poreans to grow roots, and more than 95% of residents own their own homes Letter from Senior Public Relations Officer, for Director (Corporate Development), Housing Development Board IN THE commentary, "Transparency and those Redhill flats" by
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    • 729 25  -  Jeremy Lim news@newstoday.com.sg LAST year, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced key changes to the GCE O-level Chinese Language Examination. Among the changes were the reduction of character list, the reduced burden of character memorisation and the increased weightage given to the speaking and listening component.
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  • Businesstoday
    • 772 27  -  VALERIE LAW Dow Jones Jet fuel firm's creditors also given option to buy 10% stake valeri e@newstoday.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings and oil giant BP will form part of a group that will inject funds into China Aviation Oil (Singapore), or CAO, in an effort
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    • business news
      • 276 29  -  CHRISTIE LOH Airocean share price plunges 17.4 per cent to historic low christie@newstoday.com.sg INVESTORS piled out of Airocean Group yesterday after hearing that the white collar crimebusters had moved in on the freight service provider. Airocean shares were the day's top loser by percentage, plunging 17.4 per cent
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      • 238 29 -DOW JONES FIRST Pacific Co said yesterday that it had scrapped its takeover plan of Singaporelisted Del Monte Pacific after the pineapple canner's second-largest shareholder exercised its pre-emptive right Hong Kong-listed First Pacific said last month that it would purchase nearly 40 per cent of
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      • 139 29  -  CHOW PENN NEE ART lovers can now buy masterpieces without having to pay an arm and a leg for them. Local galleries have partnered the three local banks to provide interest-free instalment plans to buyers. "The interest-free instalment plans for the purchase of art
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      • 260 31 -BLOOMBERG Chinese lender'very close'to agreement, regulator says BANK of China, the nation's second-biggest lender, is "close" to an agreement on the sale of a stake to Temasek Holdings, China's banking regulator said yesterday. "From what I understand, Bank of China and
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      • marketwatch
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        • 149 31 Agencies SHARE prices ended little changed amid a lack of cues from Wall Street and as trading interest thinned in the runup to the year-end holidays. "It is the year-end, and most of the European and US funds are closing their books. It should be expected that trading interest
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        • 36 31 US$ 0.5922 UK£ 0.3418 Yen 71.41 HK$ 4.592 RM 2.2378 Euro 0.5054 Rupiah 5918.8 Baht 24.501 Peso 31.995 A$ 0.7917 Indian Rs 27.341 Won 614.67 CS 0.6882 Yuan 4.7851 NZS 0.8308 NT$ 19.854
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        • 24 31 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 509.80 Sim uss/oz 8.71 PUIB USS/OZ 1001.00 I Rittn 277.75 I Palm oil RM/t0nnj386.50 BBntoidiiissii.'iiiiii 57.05 Information provided by
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    • wealth the business of personal finance
      • 719 32  -  VASU MENON Asia, Europe bOUrSeS guine about the outlook for eqlook good, says expert uitymarkets next year. news@newstoday.com.sg MR DANIEL Chan, chief executive officer of Lion Capital, one of Asia's largest fund management companies, is san- INFLATION FEARS ARE OVERSTATED Mr Chan thinks that
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      • 437 34  -  JANE CHIAPOCQ Stylish quality furniture is what Courts Finest hopes to offer S'poreans ja nec@newstoday.com.sg IF COURTS Singapore's intention is to astonish with choices, it does precisely that with the new luxury furniture line, Courts Finest, which offers customers no less than 50 types of upholstery
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      • 352 34  -  JANECHIAPOCO TO HEIGHTEN awareness for Malaysian small and medium size enterprises (SME) food products, Giant Hypermarket and the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA) launched the Taste of Malaysia promotion at the IMM Centre in Jurong
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      • 182 34  -  JANECHIAPOCO There will be the spirit of giving than just free coffee percolating this Thursday in all 34 Starbucks outlets. Supporting the Salvation Army, Starbucks welcomes one and all on Dec 8 for a Christmas Open House, providing all customers a free beverage of choice
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    • Infotech solutions for business
      • 360 36 MBOUNCE Ltd, a Hong Kong and China-based wireless games and applications developer, is targeting Symbian OS (operating system) handset users with the launch of a content download service Mobile Hotdog. This one-stop online distribution service allows users to install content-rich games as well as applications related
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      • 405 36  -  ELAINE NG Asia-Pacific firms catching up with rest of world in adoption of pooled IT resources elaine. ng@newstoday.com. sg I ORGANISATIONS in the I Asia-Pacific are making steady progress in the area of grid computing, but are still lagging behind the global average, according to the
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      • 311 36  -  ELAINE NG TAGIT Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based company, has developed a mobile image recognition technology, called Tagit that allows camera-phone users to obtain digital content from common media channels such as billboards and print or television advertisements. The Tagit system makes use
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      • 454 38  -  ELAINE NG Survey shows not many are aware of the risks they face elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg IT IS common for an average IT personnel to handle about 100GB of emails at any point during a work day, but only six in 10 IT managers think that
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      • SHORTCUTS
        • 79 38 Business Objects has launched Crystal Xcelsius, a solution that allows users to turn Excel spreadsheets into interactive visual analytics that display business information in a variety of styles. For example, sales managers can represent their quarterly results in an interactive presentation and share
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        • 127 38 Blue Coat Systems has introduced a new version of software for its Spyware Interceptor anti-spyware appliance for small to mediumsized networks of up to 1,000 users. The upgrade is the first major update to the appliance since the product was released in June. Built
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      • 316 39  -  TREVOR TAN Singapore launch fixed for March 2 trevor@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL gaming fans longing for the next-genera-tion Xbox 360 gaming console would need to wait a little bit longer. In a media launch at Orchard Cineleisure yesterday, Microsoft announced that the highly-anticipated gaming console would only
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        145 39 EPSON ACULASER 2600N/C2600N PRINTERS Epson has launched the AcuLaser 2600N/C2600N office printers said to deliver a wider range of print applications at a lower cost-per-print. The AcuLaser 2600N monochrome printer and the C2600N colour printer (picture) offer users the flexibility of switching from monochrome to colour printing, and vice
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      737 40  -  -EUSACHIA THE name Zhou Xun may not ring a bell with movie-goers here the way Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi do. But make no mistake about it: Zhou is one of China's top actresses. In fact, she ranked No 7 on Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100 list of stars born
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    • 969 40  -  Jeanine Tan Actor-cum-hunk Takeshi Kaneshiro isn't interested in the spotlight anymore SO young and so handsome, yet he cooped himself up in his hotel room like a recluse when he wasn't needed for the day's filming. That was how director Peter Chan described Takeshi Kaneshiro,
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    • 352 41  -  ZULOTHMAN FOR the first time, MediaCorp TV 12 Suria is getting four Idols to do their bit for charity this Sunday. The winners of the four talent competitions Anugerah 2005 winner Kairul Anuar, Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah, Project Superstar's Kelvin Tan and
      DON WONG  -  352 words
    • INADDITION
      • 62 42 U2's Bono and American singer Alicia Keys have teamed up to record a song for a charity providing medicine to children affected by HIV and Aids in Africa. The pair have covered Peter Gabriel's hit Don't Give Up to raise money for Keep a Child
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      • 104 42 After the death of one of pro wrestling's biggest stars. World Wrestling Entertainment said it is starting random drug testing to detect illicit drugs, steroids and prescription drug abuse among its performers. Eddie Guerrero, 38, had struggled with drug abuse for years before he was
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    • 496 42  -  MERVINTAY Subtlety is the theme of the night at the Star Awards plus@newstoday.com.sg IT was the biggest Star Awards fashion clash ever nearly 20 male artistes had donned sombre black suits for the affair on Sunday night While some, like Adrian Pang and Jack
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    • CDREVIEWS
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        96 43 Oral Fixation Volume 2 COLOMBIAN sex bomb Shakira's second English-language album (Volume 7 was a Spanish album released earlierthisyear) is nothing groundbreaking, but her peculiar brand of South American pop rock still has its moments. As albums go. Oral Fixation Volume 2 is miles away from the squeaky-clean pop
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        76 43 Switch SO, is new INXS singer J D Fortune better than former frontman Michael Hutchence? Not really, but, thankfully, you can't ignore the power of this last-ditch effort to kickstart the group's career, which has stalled since Hutchence died in 1997. Filled with furiously anthemic radio-friendly rock. Switch tries
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        111 43 Sliver-The Best of the Box KURT Cobain is in danger of becoming rock's version of Tupac Shakur a talent whose legacy is sullied by a series of increasingly worthless compilations. The umpteenth anthology released since Cobain's death in 1994, Sliver is a condensed version of last year's careerspanning box
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    • 132 43  -  GURMIT SINGH We ask MediaCorp actor Gurmit Singh (picture) who can be seen playing a fireman on Channel s's Lifeline, which is on every Thursday at 8.30pm what record never fails to excite him: UN LINKIN PARK'S MblbUHA: I've had to keep up with the times since
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    • Health today
      • 730 44  -  REETA RAMAN HPB Practicing good hygiene can reduce risk of flu infection reeta@newstoday.com.sg THERE is cause for some chills this year. One of the peak seasons for the common flu is here. The other peak season is from May to July. However, this year, in addition
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      • Article, Illustration
        338 45 Celest Chong is a self-confessed adrenaline junkie, indulging in extreme sports such as rock climbing and wakeboarding. But when the 1.71 m tall former model is not battling with the elements of nature, she practices yoga and writes poetry on scraps of paper. These, she tells JANICE GOH
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      • 194 45  -  —JANICE GOH IF YOU can get past the fishy smell, eating fish can trawl in bountiful health benefits. Fish is an excellent source of minerals such as iron, zinc, potassium and magnesium and several of the B vitamins, especially vitamin 812, B6 and 83, said Ms Anna
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      • 207 45 —AFP COUNTRIES across the globe marked World AIDS Day on Dec 1 as the United Nations warned that drastic action was needed to counter a global epidemic that was infecting record levels of people with HIV. "The world faces a choice in the global response to
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        656 46 1 ILMENT3APPROACHES 3 health practitioners share their approaches to treating vertigo VERTIGO is a type of dizziness. It is best described as an illusion of motion, usually of a rotatory nature. If you have vertigo, you may feel like you are moving or spinning even if you are
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      • HEALTHLISTINGS
        • 84 47 Have you always complained about suffering from pain that just never went away? If you have, this forum will not only dispel some common myths about pain, but it can just provide you with some clues and maybe even solutions to your pain problems. Date: Dec 10
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        • 94 47 This first Malay public forum aims to address issues surrounding the health of the mother at pre-, during and post-preg-nancy and the health of the newborn. The speakers will cover topics such as how to ensure a healthy pregnancy, caring for the health of the newborn
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        • 38 47 Get more facts and queries answered about AIDS and STDs from the doctor-on-call. Call the Health Promotion Board's Health Line at 1800 223 1313 (English and Malay only) Date: Dec 7 Time: 2.30pm to 4.30pm
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      • 510 47 About a month ago, I was hit by a golf club when my four-year-old nephew was practising his golf swing. The iron club head landed somewhere below my right nipple. Since then, I have been suffering from acute pain whenever I cough or sneeze. I cannot run
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      • 1268 48  -  LAUREENTOH The weekend event showed that health can be fun with quizzes, shows and health talks la ureent@newstoday.com.sg MRS Alice Foong, 41, was a happy woman at last weekend's Health and Wellness Today exhibition. Toting bags full of goodies such as food products and supplements,
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    • 555 52 V6UR ISCOPEFObAV by Eugenia Last ARIES (March 21 -April 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) HYou will blow everyone away with the pow- Take on whatever you want. You will master erful way you take charge. You will have the WtW whatever you try and prove how capable you chance
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    • 142 52 EMERGENCY LINES City Gas (to report gas supply 1800-752-1800 interruption, low pressure and leakage) Civil Defence 995 [Fjre and Emergency Ambulance) Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Police 999 Police hotline 1800-255-0000 SPPowerGrid 1800-788-8888/ (to report power failure) 6778-8888 Traffic Police 6547-1818 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 HELPLINES —GENERAL Samaritans of Singapore 1800-221-4444 Society for
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    • 633 53  -  DARREN LAI Qataris built world-class academy, with an eye on the World Cup da rren@newstoday.com.sg THEY have claimed the scalps of some of the world's biggest academy teams like Ajax Amsterdam, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen and Glasgow Celtic. Now the boys from Qatar's Aspire Sports Academy
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    • 609 54 —AP Miami's perfect record in Colts' sights after another rout NFL Indianapolis 35 Tennessee 3 INDIANAPOLIS The Indianapolis Colts are making perfection look easier every week. Now they'll have a chance to keep their historic quest going in the playoffs, too. With the "Triplets" in sync
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    • 540 56 -AGENCIES Just 14years after gaining independence, country rules men's team tennis DAVIS CUP FINAL Slovakia 2 Craotia 3 BRATISLAVA, Slovakia Despite leading Germany to three Davis Cup titles over the last two decades, the 3-2 result over Slovakia for his native Croatia was the
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    • 356 56 DPA NBA Phoenix 112 Atlanta 94 Los Angeles Former prodigal Sun Joe Johnson was given a rude homecoming, as his Atlanta Hawks were given a sound spanking. Shawn Marion and reserve James Jones scored 20 points apiece as the surging Phoenix Suns rolled
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      545 57 —AFP Florence side pay the ultimate price for missed chances SERIE A Fiorentina 1 Juventus 2 ROME Juventus coach Fabio Capello admitted his team were very fortunate to escape with a 2-1 victory at Fiorentina on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), which stretched their lead at the top
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    • 344 57 —AFP NEW DELHI Former India player and deposed national selector Yashpal Sharma yesterday blasted coach Greg Chappell for targeting players he did not like. "Chappell wants (Sourav) Ganguly out while (Virender) Sehwag, Harbhajan (Singh) and Zaheer (Khan) are the other targets in his mind," said Yashpal,
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    • 536 58 -AGENCIES PARIS With a place in the Champions League last 16 assured and with Ronaldo back in action and back on the scoresheet, Wanderley Luxemburgo might have thought he had weathered the storm. But Real Madrid, the world's richest and most impatient club, are six points
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    • 386 58 —AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Charlton 2 Man City 5 LONDON Two goals from Andy Cole topped and tailed Manchester City's 5-2 win over Charlton at The Valley on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Victory strengthened the visitors' grip on eighth place in the Premiership, but Charlton's
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    • DATELINE
      • 52 58 CHRISTIAN groups in South Korea will hold a forum this week to encourage the national football team's fans to change their Red Devils nickname. The two groups said they will discuss alternative titles for the supporters, whose fervour helped push South Korea to the 2002 World
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      • 118 58 BALESTIER Khalsa Football Club will be conducting a grassroots football clinic from Dec 16-18 (8.30am-10.30am), at the Singapore Khalsa Association, 2 Tessensohn Road. The clinic is open to all boys and girls aged from 4-15 and they will be coached by Balestier's S-League players and coaches.
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      • 96 58 JONAH Lomu (right) is on track to make his long-await-ed Cardiff Blues debut on Saturday, after coming through his first week of tough contact training in six months. Barring any unexpected setbacks this week, the 30-year-old former All Black, battling back from a rare kidney
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      • 77 58 JAPAN'S Ai Miyazato completed a 12-stroke win at the LPGA Tour qualifying tournament, the largest margin of victory in the event's 33-year history. Miyazato, 20, shot an even-par 72 in the fifth round of the LPGA's Q School in Florida to finish 17-under overall. She was one
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      • 84 58 FOOTBALL Association officials are hopeful England will be among the top eight seeds for the 2006 World Cup, to be announced by Fifa today. Sven-Goran Eriksson's side are up two places to ninth in the latest world rankings and Fifa have confirmed them as the sixth best
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    • 733 59 -AFP With qualification secured, Chelsea and Liverpool battle for bragging rights CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPG Chelsea v Liverpool LONDON Reigning champions Liverpool and Chelsea may have already qualified for the second phase of the Champions League, but the immense pride in both teams should ensure that there
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    • 387 59 -AFP FOOTBALL Champions League PARIS Six-time champions AC Milan and faltering Scottish giants Rangers face Champions League elimination today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), a fate which could open the exit door for coaches Carlo Ancelotti and Alex McLeish. Despite leading Group E
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    • Sporttoday
      • 745 60  -  Cubby Leong Swim coach Dempsey just wants to take it one step at a time in Los Banos cubby@newstoday.com.sg TEN rookies, 22 swimmers, 13 gold medals, six SEA Games records. Slightly more than a year after the disaster at the Olympic Games, Singapore swimming bounced
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      • 387 60  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN PASAY CITY, MANILA jose@newstoday.com.sg AFTER just a little more than a year on the job, Myanmar's Bulgarian coach Ivan Kolev (picture) has decided to throw in the towel. His decision comes barely a week after he returned to Yangon following
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      • 497 61  -  TAN YO-HINN IN LUNETA PARK, MANILA yohinn@newstoday.com.sg BETTER and fairer officiating and not as much travel for athletes, the press and fans. That was the promise made by Thana Chaiprasit, treasurer of the Olympic Committee of Thailand, as his country prepares to host the
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      • 412 61  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Philippines close 23rd SEA Games celebrating first overall title in Luneta Park, Manila yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE 23rd SEA Games ended here yesterday, with the Philippines celebrating their success at hosting the biennial sports extravaganza of the region and joyfully hailing their first time
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