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    15 1 weekendTODAY December 10 11, 2005 mica<p» 114/07/2005 we set you thinking todayonline.com /A=ryjj-\CoRP incorporating dlrctllS
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    BUSTED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
    837 1  -  CUBBY LEONG AND ANSLEY NG A tale of prostitutes, drugs and deals in an Oxley Garden apartment cubby@newstoday.com.sg IN THE middle of town, near an expensive neighbourhood and just 400 metres from a po- lice station, the condominium at Oxley Garden is surely
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      THE OXLEY DRUG BUST
      536 2 On Tuesday, CNB smashed a drug ring that was operating in an apartment in Oxley Garden condominium, near Orchard Road. An islandwide scoop, a result of a month of surveillance, saw 14 suspects arrested. Officers recovered a haul of drugs including cocaine, ketamine, Ice, cannabis and
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    • Article
      Secluded Orchard Road condo a perfect cover for drug syndicate
      410 2 IT WAS a 24-hour drug den, said Today's source, who declined to be named. At any time of the day, drugs such as cocaine, ketamine, Ice, cannabis and Esctasy were always available, and more often than not, just a phone
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      Thaksin 'testing' possible successor for next GE
      286 4 BANGKOK Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, buffeted by the political onslaught from media firebrand Sondhi Limthongkul, said he is looking for a potential successor to lead his political party at the next general election in 2009. "I'm ready to put down my hand
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      WHO'SIN WHO'SNOT
      64 4 STILL IN THE RUNNING FOR THE MARINA BAY IR: MGM Mirage/CapitaLand, Harrah's/Keppel, Genting/Star Cruises, Las Vegas Sands, PBL-Melco STILL IN THE RUNNING FOR THE SENTOSA IR: Kerzner/Ca pita Land, Harrah's/Keppel, Genting/Universal, Bth Wonder, Sun International DROPPED OUT FROM THE RACE TOTALLY: Argosy Gaming, Peermont, Tabcorp, Wynn Resorts DROPPED
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      Tabcorp, Wynn quit casino race
      344 4  -  JASMINE YIN Rising costs, risk, timelines reasons behind Tabcorp's exit from Marina Bay site jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS a decision that any seasoned gambler would have probably made. After working out the math, Australian gaming giant Tabcorp decided that the stakes have gotten too high and
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      Lock icon Devan laid basis for unions as govt partners: MM Lee
      622 4 AS ONE of the founders of the People's Action Party, and as one of the main movers behind the trade unions in newly independent Singapore, former President Devan Nair played a critical role in the shaping of Singapore's history. His
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon We'll be ready for flu fight
      524 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE Pandemic preparedness exercise scheduled SINGAPORE will conduct an exercise simulating a bird flu outbreak in a few months to test the Government agencies' flu pandemic contingency plans. The Ministry of Health's (MOH) deputy director of public health policies, Dr Jeffrey
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      Lock icon Preparing grassroots to deal with bombing aftermath
      404 6  -  -DERRICKA PAULO THE Government unveiled on Friday its latest measure to prepare for the "eventuality" of a bomb explosion in Singapore. This time, it matters less what the authorities do as compared to the group it is reaching out to community leaders does.
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      Indian community to come together in Singapore
      262 6  -  -JASMINE YIN CLOSE to 600 local and overseas delegates are expected to attend the Bth Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (Gopio) international conference, which will be held in Singapore the first Southeast Asian city to host the event next weekend. The
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      Doctor fined $5,000 for misconduct
      354 8 GPalso censured for statements about fellow doctors A GENERAL practitioner has been fined $5,000 for breaching the Singapore Medical Council's (SMC) ethical code, for statements she made about fellow practitioners. According to the SMC, Dr Patrina Wong Lai Lin, a general practitioner specialising in aesthetic
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        CHECKPOINT OFFICER SMOKED OUT
        93 8  -  Ansley Ng THE Police Coast Guard on Thursday morning arrested three men one of them an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer for smuggling 4,540 cartons of contraband cigarettes. At about 1.45 am, a Coast Guard boat spotted a boat approaching Singapore Territorial Waters and transferring
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        MAN DIES OF STAB WOUNDS
        77 8 A man died of stab wounds in hospital on Thursday night. Police found him lying along a footpath at Edgedale Plains in Punggol, after being alerted to a fight along the fourth or fifth floor corridor of Block 1718. The man is a Chinese National
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        Lock icon SUBUTEX TO BE CONTROLLED?
        113 8 Channel News Asia The drug Subutex, which is used to treat heroin addition, may be listed as a controlled substance. The Health Ministry is discussing with the Health Sciences Authority and Central Narcotics Bureau to make it a criminal offence for anyone to possess the drug
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      Lock icon TODAY and tomorrow's journalists
      503 10  -  DERRICK A PAULO First Student Reporter Programme to give 12 JC students a taste of the trade derrick@newstoday.com.sg AT AGE 15, she could well be Singapore's youngest reporter at a national daily. But that will not stop Melody Koh from setting her sights high. After reading
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      FIRST BATCH OF STUDENT REPORTERS
      42 10 •Audrey Lim, CJC Heather Chi, RJC •Jeremy Lua, MJC JoAnn Melina Lopez, VJC •Joshua Hiew,ACJC Lin Youquan, ACJC Magdalene Gloria Lie, ACJC Melody Koh,TJC Natasha M Sabnani, VJC •Rennie Whang, ACJC Sampoorna Dasgupta, ACJC •Sulaiman Daud, TPJC
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      365 11 a. "1% m m mm The movement to "Go the Extra Mile for Service" heartiest congratulations to our young chefs who brought honour to Singapore. They H^H /pcmo\ c m have enhanced the pride and prestige of their profession, and are an inspiration to other X m^ Wf^aWW^W (GEMS) congratulates
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  • world news
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      Lock icon 'The mountain was split in two'
      1206 12  -  FARHEEN MUKRI What is it like after an earthquake? One volunteer tells all news@newstoday.com.sg Farheen Mukri spent several weeks helping quake victims in Pakistan. This article is based on events she noted down in her diary. WHEN we reached the base camp Chela Bandi,
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    • this quirky world
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        ONE FOR ONE EXCHANGE?
        86 12 A Turkish man ran away with his friend's wife and offered his own wife in exchange, Reuters reported. Mr Cengiz Esme, a farm labourer, said his wife had disappeared for about a month after she went shopping. Mr Esme said his friend Mehmet Yaksi called him
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        'HAIRY ICE'ISNT A GOOD IDEA
        72 12 An Australian consumer magazine has issued a list of "useless" presents to warn shoppers what not to buy this festive season, reported Reuters. Choice magazine's survey of nearly 12,000 people said the worst present to give was an electric ice shaver. The survey concluded that
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        MAN AND WIFE, NOW A GAY COUPLE
        68 12 A British husband and wife have "remarried" as a gay couple after the man had a sex change operation. Mr and Mrs Bernard and Joyce Rogers were married in 1967. Bernard underwent gender surgery in 1991 and she's now known as Bernadette. The
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        HORSES CANT WEAR NAPPIES: COURT
        71 12 Regulations to control horse dung in the streets by forcing horse owners to tie bags under horses constituted cruelty to the animals, a Maltese court has ruled, according to Reuters. The bags, popularly known as nappies, were ordered in 2002. A magistrate found that the
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      Lock icon Bird flu kills Thai boy, new cases reported in Asia
      259 14 —AGENCIES BANGKOK A 5-year-old boy became Thailand's second bird flu fatality in two months, while Vietnam announced two new outbreaks and China its fifth human case. The Thai health authorities said on Friday that lab tests showed the boy died
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      Lock icon Japan, India cosy up to Southeast Asia
      479 14 —AGENCIES New Delhi set to sign economic deal with Asean, Japan to clinch free trade agreement with Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR Japan and India are heading for closer trade ties with Southeast Asia, but South Korea's efforts appear stalled because of disagreements over rice
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      Lock icon Are there secret CIA prisons or not?
      246 14 GENEVA Just as United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seemed to have assuaged European ministers on the question of secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons, the admission from a top state department official that the United States had not given the Red Cross
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon TEEN LOVERS'SUICIDE PACT
        79 16 DPA A pregnant 17-year-old schoolgirl and her 16-year-old boyfriend leapt hand in hand to their deaths wearing their school uniforms. Hong Kong police said. Yu See-ka and her boyfriend, Yik Chun-wing, leapt yesterday from the 22nd floor of a housing estate in Hong Kong's Tai Po district.
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        CORRUPTION IS THE NORM'
        64 16 Former Thai prime minister Anand Panyarachun said that corruption in Thailand has been so rampant that it has become a social norm, reported The Nation. "Money politics has become social norm Several things, which were unacceptable when I was young, have become acceptable now," said Mr
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        Lock icon PRAY WHILE YOU SHOP
        69 16 -AFP Thailand plans to open "solace corners" in Bangkok malls in a bid to bring Buddhism closer to young people absorbed with shopping and materialism, newspapers reported on Friday. "This will just be a 200-sq-meter space with a room in which to pray and practice meditation,
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      Lock icon Iran: Move Israel to Europe
      438 16 —AGENCIES Ahmadinejad says Jewish state was set up in Middle East due to guilt over Holocaust MECCA In October, he sparked international outrage by calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map". Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was at it again on Thursday, this time
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      Lock icon US cast as villain once again in climate talks
      224 18 -AGENCIES MONTREAL Negotiations on charting the next steps on combating climate change were going down to the wire on Friday, with the United States cast once more in the villain's role. A core group of diplomats were haggling over a proposal,
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      Lock icon Plane skids off runway, kills six-year-old
      429 18 AGENCIES Passenger jet was landing in a snowstorm CHICAGO An airliner skidded off a runway at Chicago's Midway Airport as it landed in a snowstorm late on Thursday, killing a six-year-old boy who was a passenger in one of two cars it struck. A
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      MOM: Report errant bosses
      198 20  -  JEAN TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Manpower IN "WILL serving the nation get us served a pink slip?" (Dec 7), Mr Michael Chua Kheng Hwee related how men defer their reservist in-camp training (ICT) for fear of losing their jobs.
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      Lock icon $15 for a 5-min taxi ride
      346 20  -  RAYMONDTAN Do residents of the East have to pay this much just to get good service from the airport? Letter from THERE has been a lot of talk about improving the services of our transport system, especially the taxi service. I would like to
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      CPF lost through HDB loan
      459 20  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from I REFER to the letter from the Housing and Development Board, "We build homes, not just houses" (Dec 6). My friend applied for an HDB executive flat under the Joint Selection Scheme (JES), with his mother and sibling applying for
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      Give passengers options first
      124 20  -  i HARRY CHI A Letter from SMRT's money-back guarantee to provide quality customer service speaks well of it. This is part of the national effort of creating a culture of good service that Singapore badly needs and SMRT is contributing to that goal. However, one of
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      Kudos to a doctor of diligence
      228 20  -  DRHENRYTEO NELSON QUAH Letter from I REFER to the article, "The colour of a post-grad degree" (Dec 9). I applaud Dr Wee Lee King for proving that at 74, he is still capable of completing his post-graduate studies. Even though the universities at which
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      Lock icon A hero of youthful days, of memorable speeches
      362 22  -  MICHAEL FERNANDEZ A letter to Mr Devan Nair's family from a former unionist Letter from DEAR Janadas Devan, sister and brothers, We are sad to read about your father's passing away, though I learnt that he was going slowly but definitely, and
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      Lock icon A dream unrealised
      249 22  -  ROSHAN RATNAM Letter from I REFER to Mr Michael Hynes' letter "Dr Mahathir, it's time to move on" (Dec 9) and your article "Australia going to be bossy in East Asian summit" (Dec 8). Dr Mahathir Mohamad is dead right in what he said about the Australians
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      Lock icon Don't go Crazy over this Horse
      831 24  -  Neil Humphreys Dancers show off their charms, but they won't bring about the end of the world MY RECENT antics with a pole dancer have left me limping for three days. Last Monday marked my birthday and office colleagues made their usual demands. "Neil,
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  • Businesstoday
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      As interest takes the high road
      832 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH Rates to rise next year but not as aggressively: Analysts christie@newstoday.com.sg OWNING a home has become a heavier burden as interest rates have been climbing north relentlessly over recent months. However, although analysts are foreseeing further hikes into the new year, they
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        Lock icon Service for Filipinos
        308 28 BLOOMBERG Ml, PLDT service targets those nationals working in Spore PHILIPPINE Long Distance Telephone Co, the nation's largest phone operator, will start a prepaid mobile service in Singapore with Mobile One and expects to have a 25-per-cent market share among Filipinos working in the Republic within the
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          ST Index— 2,321.10 +15.39
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          60 28 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed higher on Friday. The ST index closed 15.39 points, or 0.7 per cent, higher at 2,321.10. Tech stocks gained from Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, which raised its fourth-quarter guidance on strong demand for its chips used in the Xbox36o, traders said. Gainers led losers 311
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          55 28 Nikkei 225 *****.05 +220.69 +1.45 Hang Seng ASX *****.51 +31.35 4500.10 +2.10 +0.21 +0.05 Taiwan Wtd 6264.36 +15.17 +0.24 Korea Comp 1317.42 -6.70 -0.51 KtCI 090.30 +2.19 +0.24 SET Index 697.74 +5.16 +0.75 Jakarta Comp 1160.06 +1.74 +0.15 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2100.25 -13.35 109.70 +0.10 -0.63 +0.09
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          26 28 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 527.10 Silver US$/oz 9.05 Platinum US$/oz 1007.00 Rubber cents/kg 287.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1389.50 Brent crude US$/barrel 59.00 Information provided by
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          36 28 US$ 0.594 UK£ 0.339 Yen 71.471 HK$ 4.606 RM 2.2405 Euro 0.5026 Rupiah 5813.6 Baht 24.506 Peso 31.811 A$ 0.7924 Indian Rs 27.466 Won 614.48 CS 0.6883 Yuan 4.7982 NZ$ 0.8466 NT$ 19.898
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          BIG ON FLAVOURS
          54 30 Enjoy more great-tasting desserts at McDonald's.The classic vanilla cone now comes in four flavours chocolate, raspberry, grape and mocha.This new Flavour Burst range uses a brightlycoloured ribbon of flavouring to add to the delicious taste of the classic cone. The McDonald's Flavour Burst is available at all
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          FORMULA FOR GROWTH
          70 30 Help your baby grow and stay healthy with Similac Follow-On.This milk-based formula contains a number of nutrients such as Omega 3 and 6, arachiodonic acid, DHA and taurine to promote mental and physical growth. It also has nucleotides,a nutrient present in breast milk,for overall growth. Similac, available
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          FUN WITH COLOURS
          97 30 For more family fun, delight your loved ones with a game of Blokus.The goal of this strategy game is to increase the number of your colour pieces on the board as you prevent your opponents from growing.This award-winning game is simple yet challenging and is an ideal
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          SHOES FOR EVERY OCCASION
          74 30 This holiday season, children can look their best with the Clarks festive collection. Available for boys and girls, the collection features a series of boots, sandals and casual shoes that are designed to suit all occasions.The girl's range features flowers, butterflies and bows while the boy's
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        Fishing for success
        392 30  -  VALERIE LAW Fish breeder to set up plants here to distribute seafood; listing soon on SGX valerie@newstoday.com.sg A CHINA-based fish breeder is banking on rising consumption of seafood in the region to fuel the company's growth. Dr Lian Jianhua, founder of Oceanus Bio-Tech (Holdings) Limited, expects higher
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        CORPORATEBRIEFS
        168 30 ASCENDAS REIT COMPLETES PURCHASE OF BUILDING FOR $31M Ascendas Reit, Singapore's second-largest property trust, completed the purchase of Hamilton Sundstrand Building for $31 million, said the company's manager Ascendas-MGM Funds Management. The purchase of the Singapore building was funded using available bank debt facilities, the manager said on Friday
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        Lock icon Southern Bank refunds with interest
        156 30 -DOW JONES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Southern Bank said on Friday that its $50 million deposit for the acquisition of Singapore's Asia General Holdings has been refunded with interest "The deposit was fully refundable under a number of situations, including the rejection (of the acquisition) by
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        147 32 -BLOOMBERG TEMASEK Holdings and the National Bank of Pakistan plan to start an asset management company to tap demand in the South Asian nation. National Bank, Pakistan's biggest lender by assets, NIB Bank which is 72.6-per cent owned by Temasek and Temasek unit Alexandra
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        318 32 BLOOMBERG Cites improving demand for its products CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's thirdbiggest made-to-order chipmaker, raised its projection for sales and profit in the fourth quarter following demand for its products. Chartered expects the profit, its first in five quarters, to be US$6 million ($lO
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      Lock icon Breaking the glass(es) barrier
      547 34  -  Pearlyn Tham Yes, you can wear make-up, even when you have glasses on I THINK women who dare to wear their glasses out are a bold and confident lot especially in this day and age of contact lenses and Lasik surgery. And they probably don't give
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        SHE'S A REAL BAG LADY
        597 36  -  LAUREEN TOH S'porean Cheryl Ann Spencer is making waves in London with her creations laureent@newstoday.com.sg CHERYL Ann Spencer has a financial test to thank for spurring her on to do something "fun" such as bag making. The Singaporean former Citibank banker moved to London in
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        TIPSINTHREES
        57 36 Expensive leather demands maintenance. Spray handbags with a leather protectant and remove minor stains immediately with leather cream. Both are available at DIV shops. Always store suede handbags in airtight vacuum packs or place a dehumidifier with them. •Accessorisethose accessories. Give well-loved bags a new lease of life by
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        Magical jewellery that's the stuff of dreams
        241 36  -  PEARLYNTHAM YOU'VE probably seen the new romantic and stylish Soo Kee Jewellery television commercial yes, the one where the guy proposes to his love on a starry night, emerged in water. But did you know that the commercial was produced and shot in
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        Make an impact on your skin
        272 37  -  -PEARLYNTHAM THE lines are showing, your skin looks tired and you appear older than your years. And as if that wasn't bad enough, you have a Christmas party around the corner. Save face with one of the latest antiageing skincare systems around Deep Impact.
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          CHIC EYES IN A CLICK
          98 37 It started out with the Click 12 collection a range of innovative eyewear made from lightweight and non-allergenic materials and weighing a mere 2.5g a pair. The Click 12 eyewear comprises 12 components that can be replaced to give the wearer a choice of 21
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          WITH LOTS OF XOXO
          81 37 Billed as a romantic, heady love scent for women, XOXO Eaude Parfum is the fashion brand's first signature scent. Packaged in a sleek bottle with soft, sensuous curves and a sigtm tm m m nature heart, the scent is a bouquet of ingredients such as Lily
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          EYE ON MOISTURE
          87 37 With a powerful blend of rice power extract No 11, soy bean extract and refined green tea extract, Kose's new Moisture Skin Repair Eye Cream ($6O) available next month promises to improve the moisture retention ability around your eye area. Its targeted formula boasts Cluster Emulsification Technology
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          CHEERY STEPS AHEAD
          83 37 Here's something to look forward to in spring: prettyFlT's Spring-Summer 2006 Sandals Collection. This collection comprises floral sandals designed in back-to-basics, earthy fabrics such as raw linen, crochet, wicker and jute, with a nostalgic '50s sentiment. You can expect to step into cheery-looking sandals with bright pom
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        In active service
        496 37  -  PEARLYNTHAM pea rlyn@newstoday.com.sg SAY Victorinox Swiss Army and you would think of the famous Victorinox Original Swiss Army Knife. But did you know that in 2001, Victorinox and Swiss Army came together to form the international watch company Victorinox Swiss Army (VSA)? Since then, the company has
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          KFC'S LATEST FLAVA IS GOLDEN AND FIERY
          194 38 It seems that innovation is the way to go in the fast-food industry. Every so often, fast-food restaurants introduce new items. KFC, well loved for its "finger lickin' good" fried chicken, is no exception. The Fiery Flava Chicken is the latest hottie at
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          ALL FINGERS OUT IN NEW FOOD STREET
          154 38 Twenty-three stalls serving finger food of all sorts. What more can a food lover ask for? Called the Finger Food Street, this little food paradise was opened recently at the entrance of Bugis Street, which is known for its variety of retail shops.
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        Lock icon A HAPPY FIND IN A COFFEESHOP
        638 38  -  LOW SHI PING This Western food stall grew out of acclaimed Sydney restaurant food@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Teo S T and Peck Siew Mvi retired from one of Australia's top 10 restaurants to return to Singapore, the husband-and-wife team decided to venture into another food business.
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          OLYMPUS SP-700 DIGITAL CAMERA
          150 40 I YOU no longer have to squint to view the images on your camera. The Olympus SP-700 6-megapixel digital camera boasts a three-inch. Ton nnn i;„,,;,i „-,,,-+ni I £.ou,uuu-piAci iiljuiu uiyoiai display (LCD). Leveraging on the generous screen size, the camera incorporates a Compare Shoot function
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          LGLH-RH9SO9TA HDD DVD RECORDER
          91 40 I BEEF up your home theatre system with LG's LH-RH9SO9TA hard disk drive (HDD) DVD recorder. The 250G8 device with double-layer recording function allows up to 345 hours of recording. It supports multiple memory card formats and is equipped with a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
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          YOUSD SECURE DIGITAL MEMORY CARD
          99 40 THEYouSD is a Secure I Digital (SD) card that functions as a USB flash drive. One end of the card has the connector of a regular USB 2.0 interface while I the other end has the same interface as that of a regular SD card.
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          ALTEC LANSING INMOTION IM5 AUDIO DOCK
          110 40 GOOD for travelling iPod lovers, Altec Lansing's inMotion iMS is a mobile audio dock that works with most third- and fourth-generation iPods. The speakers contain four full-range micro drivers powered by a Class D amplifier and patented Maxxßass technology, which enhances the low frequencies
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        Doppelganger #1: This ain't an Apple iBook
        452 40  -  NAZHARADNAN NOTEBOOK PCREVIEW HP Compaq Presario ***** White finish, smooth curves... Wintel platform infotech@newstoday.com.sg COOL design is all the rage these days. It is well known that stylistic superiority is the driving reason behind Apple's popularity. It's no wonder other manufacturers are scrambling
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        Doppelganger #2: This ain't an Apple iPod
        295 40  -  ARIEL TAM APPLE'S iconic iPod might just have found its match. The smart folks at Creative Technology have shrunk the Zen Vision portable multimedia player and packed it with power features and a new easy-to-use vertical touchpad and navigation buttons. Called the Zen
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        The LCD that turns to your viewing position
        227 41 BANG Olufsen has launched a liquid crystal display (LCD) television set and loudspeaker guaranteed to add a touch of class to your home entertainment system. The BeoVision 7-40 is a 40-inch LCD widescreen set with an integrated DVD player and a digital
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        Pretty Qool, slick PDA
        475 41  -  TERRY LAU Phone responds satisfactorily but just don't drop it PDA-PHONEREVIEW QDA Oh! inf otech@newstoday.com.sg QOOL's last foray into the world of converged devices is the QDA 700, a Palm OS 5.4.1 smartphone. Its latest development, the QDA Oh!, is a tri-band PDAphone running the Windows
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        POWER TRIP
        600 42  -  SHELDON TROLLOPE The 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX gets new styling and a punchy 2.5-litre engine news@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Lord Acton, a British historian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, proclaimed that "power tends to corrupt" and therefore "absolute power corrupts absolutely", little did he know that this
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        What more money can't buy: 7 Series privileges to remain exclusive, says BMW
        521 42  -  COLIN YONG BMW may be in the midst of launching some of its most expensive cars ever. But local dealer Performance Motors is adamant that the highly-acclaimed 7 Series Privileges Programme, or 7PP, will be made available
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        Playing the waiting game
        698 44  -  COLIN YONG Terry Chan You have the cash, but do car dealers have the model you want? colin@newstoday.com.sg THE category-wide fall in COE prices on Wednesday indicates that the demand for new cars is cooling off. But this still doesn't mean you can stroll into a
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          B1-FUEL CARS SET TO HIT THE ROAD
          208 44 Motorists will enjoy executive car performance and benefit from substantial savings while refuelling if plans to sell the Mercedes-Benz E 200 NGT here next year go tnrougn. NGT stands for Natural Gas Technology and the bi-fuel car can run on normal petrol or
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          SUPERSTARS GRACE PIRELLI CALENDER
          142 44 The 2006 Pirelli Calendarwas recently premiered in Paris. While it has no direct bearing on the company's main businesses, its unveiling is one of the biggest events in the glamour industry. For next year's calendar, world-renowned photographers Mart Alas and Marcus Piggott worked with a bevy
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          UPDATES FOR MEGANE RANGE
          88 44 Renault has released the first photographs of its facelifted Megane models that will hit local showrooms in March. The exterior styling chang lamps in the front and rear, a more aggressive front grille and reshaped bumpers. New generation flat blade wipers are used for better visibility
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        First HUDC flats to go en-bloc
        529 45  -  JANECHIAPOCO Amberville in the East Coast expected to fetch $226.6 million janec@newstoday.com.sg DEVELOPERS desiring a nautical turn might want to take note of the sea-facing Amberville at Marine Parade Road, placed on sale though a tender by property consultants Knight Frank earlier this week.
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        Freehold Cairnhill site 'a rare opportunity'
        327 45  -  —JANECHIAPOCO A FREEHOLD residential redevelopment site along Anthony Road and Cairnhill Road was placed on sale by tender until Jan 12. Sole marketing agent Jones Lang LaSalle OLL) reports that the 25,083-sq-ft Cairnhill Gardens site in District 9 is zoned "residential" and has a
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        Balmeg Court in West Coast sold for $79.2m
        262 45  -  JANECHIAPOCO MAXGROWTH, a whol-ly-owned subsidiary of MCL Land (MCL), outbid seven developers to acquire Balmeg Court for $79.2 million on Tuesday. Credo Real Estate placed the property on collective sale by tender, which closed on Dec 2. The 65-unit low-rise development sits
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      153 38 Ginga River Palace Japanese Restaurant Chinese Restaurant TEPPANYAKI UNLIMITED A-LA-CARTE* "A-LA-CARTE" BUFFET PROMOTION ■^fSitatmV Jm Besides a wide selection of 3B^^y\ Sichuan creations from Chef i 'jSy' Chua's menu, guesis can also Seasoned Scallop/Seaweed T^ l^ist\ Salmon/Tuna/Swordflsh/ IJV \\aw *Vf*| Snapper Sashimi I California MakiAJra Maki ja\ wajL fIWiTT^J Tempura
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      237 39 Cantonese Cuisine Dinner Buffet ti gAAii A A4 m mm Adi JM m jA^ i^ a^L^_ -3***at£ rAkaaa^^SamA s /m> x i fi r^^\ fewgftiriorbour City Restaurant y.-.V Handicap-teSMW&ri fKlHflfriiWl friendly 460 Alexandra Road |[vVjff9jU*Ml building. #03-01 PSA Building. Singapore *****3 |^3Kcu^J| ~W otori l HRfIPM o^, JAPANESE RESTAURANT ABO
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      MUSICAL OASIS
      1378 46  -  Neil Humphreys i Boasting an award-winning album, Noel Gallagher returns to bash hip-hop, Live 8 and baldness TODAYEXCLUSIVE OASIS' singer-songwriter Noel Gallagher knows the secret to a band's longevity. Baldness. His reasoning is simple. The band's lead singer, his younger brother Liam Gallagher, has kept his hair, but
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      132 47 In October 2002, Oasis were supposed to play their first gigs in Singapore and the Philippines. But the gigs were cancelled after terrorist bombings in Indonesia and the Philippines. With 90 per cent of the tickets for the concert at the 12,000-seat Singapore Indoor Stadium sold,
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        DEFINITELY MAYBE (1994)
        78 46 The Seattle Sound had destroyed British guitar music, with greasy-haired students still mourning Kurt Cobain's death. There was a vacuum and it was gloriously filled by a working class band singing about Cigarettes and Alcohol and being a Rock and Roll Star. Songs like Supersonic, Live Foreverand
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        (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY (1995)
        84 46 The world-conquering album. American garage bands learnt the chords to Some Might Say, primary school kids knew the lyrics to Wonderwall, housewives hummed Champagne Supernova and Don't Look Back in Angerwas used in documentaries. For the first time since U2, the world's biggest band
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        THE MASTERPLAN (1998)
        84 47 Extraordinary album. Although a collection of B-sides, it was better than just about anything other bands were offering at the time. Even Oasis have strug gled to sustain such qualitative consistency since. From the soulful, acoustic Talk TonightXo the gentle Half The World Away and the title
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        HEATHEN CHEMISTRY (2002)
        80 47 After the disappointing album. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, this was a return to more familiar territory. The opening track The Hindu Times is Oasis by numbers and typical pub rock, but Stop Crying Your Heart Out\s a searing anthem that easily stands alongside Noel's finest
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        DON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH (2005)
        87 47 Handing drumming duties to Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr's son, was a masterstroke, giving the band a raw, hungry quality they've lacked since Definitely Maybe. Lead singer Liam surprised critics with songs like The Meaning of Soul, which is now Sky Sports' official theme tune for
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      387 48  -  DAVID CHEW THE day she skipped work, Aminah Mohd Saat started on an artwork which ended up winning her a trophy and a $8,000 cash prize. Aminah's painting The day I skived off work... was named one of the five Singapore Art
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      84 48 Catch Israeli photographer Shai Ginott's exhibition From the Beginning, a showcase of classic works depicting the earth's creation and her country, in which photos portraying imaginary landscapes are created by superimposing two images on one another. Taken from her book Reflections, the exhibition organised
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      462 49  -  LIM KUAN CHIANG Eastern babes set to do well in Miss World 2005 EAST IS BEST: Strong contenders for Miss World 2005 include (from left) Miss Sri Lanka, Miss China and Miss Philippines. kua nchiang@newstoday.com. sg WILL Asian beauties finally reign at the Miss World
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      212 49  -  ZULOTHMAN IT'S official Ministry of Sound (MOS), possibly the biggest attraction at the newly refurbished Clarke Quay, will open on Wednesday. To be located at The Cannery, MOS will occupy a 40,000-sq-ft area, making it roughly twice the size of its main competitor Zouk at Jiak Kirn Street
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      320 49  -  JEANINETAN IF YOU'RE going to get kicked off Survivor, you might as well go out in style by wishing death on your tribe-mates. As a parting shot when he was voted off Survivor Guatemala last Friday, Judd Sergeant (picture), 34, told the rest
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        254 50  -  Zul Othman DVDREVIEW byi FILM: Who would have thought that a superhero movie could be this boring? At first, Fantastic Four looked set to rival the success of the triumphant X-Men franchise. Alas, one of the major problems with this movie can be summed up in two words:
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        184 50  -  David Chew DVDREVIEW by//// FILM: What happens when a world-class conductor returns to his tiny hometown and causes a ruckus in an otherwise peaceful community? In Daniel Dareus's (Michael Nyqvist) case, everybody he meets finds their life spiralling into a personal crisis. Exhausted and lonely
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          115 50  -  JANET TAN WRI+ES I REFER to Elisa Chia's report "A ribbing that didn't tickle" (Dec 9). I watched Zoe Tay's behaviour on last Sunday's Star Awards show with great disappointment. If Zoe had wanted to live up to her titles as the Queen of
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          187 50  -  JIMMY CHAN1 /VRI+ES: I WAS saddened to read that Melvyn Tan had cancelled his concert and withdrawn his adjudicating seat in one of Singapore's foremost music competitions ("Why not find more creative ways for artists to serve NS?", Dec 5). Owing to the criticism of
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          151 50  -  MARIE TEO l WRI+ES: THE only part of David Chew's report I agree with is that we should think of more creative ways for our citizens to do national service. Your reporter seemed to imply that talented people should be allowed to escape punishment just because
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          80 52  -  FELIX CHEONG A meditation on violence and its self-destructive trail in a world gone mad with rage, Canadian film-maker David Cronenberg's latest offering is one of the best films of the year. Viggo Mortensen stars, but look for William Hurt (who plays a small but crucial
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          33 52 -FC This big screen adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel muses about how genteel manners often hide beastly behaviour, with the talented Keira Knightlev leading a cast of veteran thespians.
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          49 52  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Disney's first solo 3D animation movie without Pixar lacks the irreverence and visual magic of Finding Nemo or Toy Story. Although it incorporates many of the elements of those films, it ends up like a movie cobbled together from a "Dummies Guide to 3D Animation".
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      631 57 Clear goals, taking charge and positive thinking help when you feel life is in limbo ARE there times when you feel jaded aboutyour life and career? These are the moments when you wonder about your future goals, directions and how to go about
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      530 62  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg BUBBLY and lots of fun off the fairways, the Song twins of Naree and Aree are proving thatthey can be a handful on the golf course as well. On Friday, they thrashed the much-fancied International team's pairing of Americans Natalie Gulbis
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      381 62  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg HE SAID he would act against players who did not perform up to expectations at the SEA Games. On Friday, Lions head coach Radojko Avramovic carried out his threat. The Serbo-Montenegrin has axed Singapore's Tiger Cup top scorer,
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        445 58 -AP Campbell's on a roll, just like at Pinehurst GOLf Target World Challenge THOUSAND OAKS, California Michael Campbell (picture) has been waiting for a feeling like this, when the fairways appear twice as wide, the hole looks like a bucket and golf seems like the easiest
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        322 58 -AFP GOLF Volvo Masters of Asia BANGKOK India's Shiv Kapur pulled one stroke clear at the halfway stage of the USS6OO,OOO ($1 million) Volvo Masters of Asia on Friday, with title holder Jyoti Randhawa looming ominously. Kapur, the overnight co-leader, battled to a five-under-par 67 in
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        612 59 -AGENCIES How will fans react after Champions League debacle? ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United v Everton MANCHESTER The "business as usual" signs went up on both sides of the Atlantic, as the impact of Manchester United's stunning Champions League exit began to sink in. At Old
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        233 59 -AFP LIVERPOOL Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina (above) will be just 90 minutes away from equalling the club's record of 10 consecutive clean sheets when Middlesbrough arrive at Anfield on Saturday. If the Spanish international has another shut-out, it will equal the record of 10
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        356 59 -AFP SERIEA Inter Milan v AC Milan ROME Sunday's Milan derby could not have come at a worse time for the city's two Serie A title hopefuls as they look to make some ground on runaway leaders Juventus. AC Milan are eight
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      436 69  -  LISA 001 COMMENTARY REMEMBER Far East Plaza? Remember the days when it was the place to go if you wanted exclusive fashion accessories and bohemian clothes? It seems a long time ago. Over the years, it has occupied the same niche while competitors
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      536 72  -  DAWNQUEK& USA 001 *.u~:- mum wonTiirps More teenagers are starting men uw news@newstoday.com.sg AT first glance, 18-year-old Michelle J Tan looks like another teenager on Orchard Road who spends her parents money frivolously. But that's just a facade. Michelle s hands
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      429 74 TO THE enterprising youth audacitY spoke to, the word "entrepreneurship" means more than a way of making pocket money. Said Sabrina Sit, 19, a National University of Singapore undergraduate who sells her handmade accessories, artwork and photography services online: "Entrepreneurship
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