Today, 19 December 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    11 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp incorporating tMTCJJCS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Monday December 19, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Iraq war is not lost: Bush
      827 1 Pleads for patience; acknowledges worries WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush on Sunday pleaded for patience with his Iraq strategy, saying last week's elections show the war is not lost and rejecting calls for a US withdrawal "before our work is done". "We
      —AGENCIES; AFP  -  827 words
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      Lock icon WTO ministers agree on compromise trade accord
      703 1 —AFP HONG KONG Trade ministers reached a compromise yesterday on key hurdles to achieving substantial global trade reform in 2006, attempting to break the deadlock with a deal to eliminate farm trade export subsidies and provide special breaks for poor nations. The World
      —AFP; APP; AFP  -  703 words
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  • hot news
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      Not surviving on blind faith alone
      522 2  -  LEE U-WEN SOMC to be granted funding for programmes for the visually-handicapped u-wen@newstoday.com.sg SINCE the start of October, the task of taking care of the blind has fallen on the shoulders of the Society of Moral Charities (SOMC), the welfare arm of Thye Hwa
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      AVOID ANOTHER ASIAN VALUES DEBATE
      829 3  -  Simon Tay The world has moved on, and so has Singapore THERE is a sense of deja vu about recent criticisms levelled against Singapore. Anguish by Australians over the death penalty. Poor ratings by nongovernmental organisations about media freedom and the treatment of foreign domestic
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      Lock icon Bhutan king to abdicate, hold elections
      377 4 -AFP TRASHIYANGTSE (Bhutan) The king of the remote Himalayan country of Bhutan has announced that he will abdicate in 2008, when the country is scheduled to hold elections under its first constitution. King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 50, told a crowd of 8,000 yak-herders, monks,
      -AFP; AFP  -  377 words
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      Lock icon New PAP faces likely in Marine Parade race
      397 4  -  JOSE RAYMOND SM Goh doesn't name newcomers, but predicts tougher opposition in upcoming elections jose@newstoday.com.sg THE People's Action Party (PAP) is likely to field a couple of new candidates in the Marine Parade GRC in the upcoming General Election. This was revealed
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon 2 arrested for Punggol murder
      227 6 Chinese nationals to be charged; hunt for 2 more TWO men, both Chinese nationals, have been arrested yesterday in connection to a murder early this month in Edgedale Plains in Punggol. The victim, 24-year-old Chinese national Chen Decai, was stabbed to death on Dec 8
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      Lock icon $2m in, charity show hopes for another $1m
      216 6  -  EUSACHIA DESPITE head-turning performances by MediaCorp artistes and foreign stars, the Affairs of the Heart Charity Show hosted by the Singapore Heart Foundation yesterday fell far short of its $3 million target At the end of a three-and-a-half-hour extravaganza aired live on
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon NSMAN COLLAPSES, DIES DURING REMEDIAL FITNESS TRAINING
        155 6 Channel News Asia A national serviceman collapsed and died after remedial fitness training at Maju Camp. The Defence Ministry says 35-year-old Lance-Corporal Ho Wah Yeng was immediately evacuated to the National University Hospital when he collapsed after 11am on Sunday. He died about
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        Lock icon WOMAN ISOLATED AT CDC CLEARED OF AVIAN FLU
        100 6 Channel News Asia A 38-year-old woman who had recently returned from Vietnam and complained of fever has tested negative for the HSNI virus, which causes avian flu. The woman had earlier been isolated at the Communicable Disease Centre as a precautionary measure
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        Lock icon CHINESE EMPEROR'S ROBES IN $15-MILLION COSTUME SHOW
        118 6 Channel News Asia The first South-east Asian display of Chinese costumes and textiles worth a staggering US$9 million ($l5 million) is here. The public will be able to feast their eyes on rare treasures ranging from dragon robes to festive badges at the
        — Channel News Asia  -  118 words
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      Lock icon Workers' Party eyeing East Coast?
      538 8  -  CHRISTIE LOH Walkabouts in Bedok North, but party chief says election focus areas still undecided christi e@newstoday.com.sg ELECTION fever is hotting up as much ado has been made recently about where the Workers' Party (WP) one of Singapore's biggest and oldest political affiliations has cast
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    • Article
      Harrah's boosts IR bid with mall developers
      352 8  -  ANSLEYNG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg FANS of Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie Fitch may soon shop for their favourite American brands in Singapore. These big-name retailers not yet available in Singapore may soon make their way here if the Harrah's Entertainment/Keppel Land consortium bags the integrated
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      Lock icon The Falungong eyesore?
      382 10  -  TORCHING LI Many complaints have been lodged against the group's activities in public areas chingli@newstoday.com.sg WITH throngs of holiday revellers taking to the streets, the festive season is also a peak period for restive Falungong members proclaiming their message here. From the heartland bus interchange of Toa
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    • Article
      Note to retailers: Think out of the box
      321 10  -  -SERENE CHUA EVEN as the cash registers are ringing this Christmas, retailers should constantly review their strategies if they want to grab shoppers' attention. So say experts, and even students, from the Singapore Management University (SMU). Some 30 groups of SMU students,
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Sydney beaches deserted over fears of race riots
      493 12 —AFP 'Un-Australian turn-up of 2,000 people instead of the usual 20,000 at Bondi beach SYDNEY The sun was out, the surf was up, but Sydney's famous beaches were eerily deserted yesterday amid fears of a new eruption of racial violence. About 2,000
      —AFP; AFP  -  493 words
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      Lock icon Missing Malaysian womens' families to seek N Korean help
      297 12 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR The families of four Malaysian women missing since 1978, will seek help from North Korea after United States army deserter Charles Jenkins said he had seen one of them there, a Malaysian politician said. Mr Michael Chong said
      —AFP  -  297 words
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MAJOR BIRD FLU DRILL IN HO CHI MINH CITY
        116 12 -AFP A factory worker falls ill, tests for bird flu, and comes back positive. The company installs emergency measures, quarantining her co-workers, distributing masks and disinfecting the area. Doctors clad head-to-toe in protection gear race to the area to evacuate the
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        Lock icon CHINA INSPECTS TOXIC SPILL AFTERMATH
        100 12 -AFP Chinese authorities are inspecting riverside factories in Jilin province -where a toxic spill which has now reached Russia cut off water to several cities last month. Any factories found to be polluting the Songhua, Liaohe, Hunjiang or Nenjiang rivers will have their operations suspended
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        Lock icon INDONESIAN POLICE UPS SECURITY FOR YEAR-END
        132 12 —AFP Indonesian police are planning a huge security operation to safeguard the year-end festive season, police said yesterday following warnings that extremists may be planning terrorist attacks over the Christmas-New Year period. In the capital Jakarta, some 16,000 police personnel would be deployed from
        —AFP  -  132 words
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      Lock icon S Korean cloning pioneer investigated
      362 13 -AGENCIES Probe follows allegations of faked stem cell research SEOUL Investigators yesterday began questioning South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk about whether he faked his landmark stem cell research, officials said. An investigation committee, launched two days ago by Seoul National University where he teaches,
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      Lock icon John Paul I was murdered: Author
      272 13 -AFP LISBON Pope John Paul I, who died from an apparent heart attack just 33 days after becoming pontiff in 1978, was in fact assassinated over his plans to radically reform the Catholic Church, a novel to be published worldwide next year charges. Portuguese
      -AFP; AFP  -  272 words
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      'Santas' run amok in Auckland
      170 13 AUCKLAND A 40-member gang of "Santas" ran amok in New Zealand's biggest city in a protest against commercialism, reported the BBC. About 40 men in ill-fitting Santa costumes ran around Auckland throwing bottles and vandalising and stealing property. The BBC reported the police as describing
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      Lock icon M'sia floods: 5,000 evacuated
      246 15 -AFP Flood waters hit Kelantan, Terengganu and Perlis; expect more bouts of bad weather, warn officials KUALA LUMPUR Severe flooding in Malaysia's north has forced the evacuation of more than 5,000 people. Yesterday, officials warned more bad weather is on its way. The Meteorological Services department
      -AFP  -  246 words
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      Lock icon M'sian minister for 'citizen veto' on war
      113 15 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Defence Minister Najib Razak has called for democratic countries to give their citizens the right to decide whether they should go to war, reports said yesterday. "Perhaps, it is high time to allow intelligent voters in democratic countries to
      -AFP  -  113 words
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      Lock icon 'Food coupon stampede' kills 45 in India
      243 15 —AFP NEW DELHI At least 45 people, mostly women, were killed and more than 50 were injured in a stampede for food coupons at a flood relief camp in the southern Indian city of Chennai yesterday. Police said more than 3,000 people affected
      —AFP; AP  -  243 words
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      Lock icon Sharon suffers mild stroke
      422 17 BLOOMBERG NEWS Israeli PM said to be improving, will be discharged soon JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a mild stroke and was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital where his condition is improving, hospital officials said. Mr Sharon, 77, was taken from his office in
      — BLOOMBERG NEWS; AFP  -  422 words
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      Lock icon London bomb warning – two years ago
      179 17 London bomb warning two years ago —AFP LONDON British intelligence agencies had warned of a "high priority" terrorist attack on London's Underground subway network more than two years before the July 7 bombings this year, the Sunday Times of London reported. It claimed the warning seen in leaked documents from
      —AFP; AFF  -  179 words
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon DEADLY VIOLENCE RETURNS TO IRAQ
        89 17 —AFP At least 13 Iraqis were killed as violence picked up yesterday while Sunni and Shia politicians appealed for unity in government following a landmark election conducted in relative peace. Eight security force personnel were among those shot dead or blown up in a string
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        Lock icon BLACK BELT FELLED BY STUDENT, 10
        95 17 DPA A black belt martial arts instructor died in a sparring session with a 10-year-old girl student, it was reported yesterday. Mr Tony Caldwell, 47, a store security guard in Hastings, suffered a heart attack, but the girl was deeply traumatised by the death
        — DPA  -  95 words
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        Lock icon BRITAIN'S WARTIME TORTURE PRISON
        66 17 —AFP Hundreds of people were tortured at a Britishrun secret prison in Germany after the end of the Second World War, The Guardian reported on Saturday, citing previously secret documents. A total of 372 men and 44 women allegedly suffered brutal treatment, including starvation and severe
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      Lock icon 'Brother' countries bond in face of rebel plot
      362 19 —AFP Colombian, Venezuelan heads declare solidarity against terrorists SANTA MARTA (Colombia) Former Venezuelan soldiers plotted against President Hugo Chavez's government at a Colombian military building, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said. Mr Uribe made the stunning disclosure on Saturday at this Caribbean resort
      —AFP; AFF  -  362 words
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      this quirky world
      304 19 STRANGE STORIES OF 2005 Alongside tragedies, wars and natural disasters, the year coming to a close brought its share of unusual, outrageous, tragi-comic and just downright silly news items. Here's a selection from AFP: A German inventor had the idea of placing a specially-adapted mobile phone in
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      Swiss hospital okays euthanasia
      184 19 LAUSANNE (Switzerland) A Swiss hospital has decided to allow assisted suicide for termi-nally-ill patients on its premises, the BBC reported. A spokesman for the university hospital in Lausanne said the decision was taken after three years of reflection and that the conditions for permitting an assisted
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      Lock icon Taking a peek into Ahmadinejad's mind
      714 20  -  TOD ROBBERSON -KRT 'Wipe-lsrael-off-the-map' comments designed for wielding power domestically LONDON If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meant what he said about wiping Israel off the map and debunking the "myth" of the Holocaust, the world is heading for turbulent times with the recently-installed president of Iran.
      -KRT; AFP  -  714 words
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      428 14 Brought to you by SINGAPORE MUSEUMS Get ready to rumble at Singapore's 30-over museums! Over the next three years, the National Heritage Board (NHB) will roll out plans to draw new audiences, raise museum standards and improve their access to resources. Luring Heritages, Dynamic Cultures TGetting you more involved 2
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      147 16 I i j Singapore Mumbai: Dep: 19:10* Arr: 21:55* Daily Singapore Chennai: Dep: 1 1:30* Arr: 13:10* Daily Mumbai Singapore: Dep: 23:30* Arr: 07:35* Daily Chennai Singapore: Dep: 10:55* Arr: 1 7:40* Daily Vl^^|^K4V||>g For more details, contact your nearest travel agent or the Jet Airways office at: 108 Robinson
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      675 18 Jin Yin Ji manages to lose weight I I I content, raspberry juice eradicates fats no matter how busy she is! BcT^^^JTV^KfEJ^EcOITTfITS?W^^ I^fWim^l^^^^^^^ffTß^^^^^B1 No time to s''m d°wn? Not many can claim to be busier than r^P^3^^^^B Jin Yin Ji. What's more, at her age, it's ■■■■■■■■■■MSMaallLlßilHßßJufl extremely difficult to
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      Lock icon isay WE MEN ARE JUST SUCKERS!
      632 22  -  TANG LI THE telecast of the Miss World 2005 pageant gave men a chance to engage in one of their favourite hobbies ogling well-proportioned girls on television. Men! There's something in our genetic code that goes haywire whenever we see a well-shaped woman with
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    • Letter
      Safeguard S'poreans in JB, as more become victims of crime
      226 22  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I WAS saddened to learn of the ruthless attack by a stranger on Mr Rosdee Ismail in Johor Bahru recently ("Helpful S'porean stung in JB", Dec 15). To make matters worse, the next day, three Singaporean
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      Singapore Expo's Max Pavilion too noisy
      212 23  -  DANIEL LOW WEI MENG Letter from I AM a frequent visitor to the Singapore Expo. As a resident of the nearby Simei Green Condominium, I love going there for the various computer, boat, and car exhibitions. For the past few weeks, however, my family
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      M1 didn't inform customer of abrupt maintainence disruption
      118 23  -  NAZURAH OMAR Letter from I HAD problems receiving and sending SMS on Dec 16 from lam to 3am. I called Mi's customer service hotline and was informed by the operator that this was due to a maintenance service and that all SMS
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    • Do away with $1 deposit, SMRT
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        $1 deposit portrays S'pore as a 'moneyhoarding'city
        126 23  -  TAN CHENG KOK Letter from I AGREE with Mr Mastura Mamat's letter, "Single-trip fare hassle" (Dec 16 about the need to pay an additional $1 for a single trip fare in MRT. Singapore is fast becoming a popular international holiday destination for many
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        Go back to former system of single-trip ticketing system
        139 23  -  TIMOTHY KWAN Letter from MR MAMAT'S view of the current MRT system for single trip passengers is not a new issue. Yet, till now, it has not been resolved. Not so long ago, I visited Shanghai and they have recently switched
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      Lock icon Robbed of her memory, not her lust for life
      1151 24 coffee with DR MYRNA BLAKE 70, social worker and NUS senior fellow HER namecard proudly proclaims: "Celebrating life after retirement". But less than two years ago, Dr Myrna Blake, a social work veteran of47years and senior fellow at the National University
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      Racism doesn't happen overnight
      185 26  -  WONGHOONGHOOI Sydney riots reveal chasm between hype and reality Letter from THE recent Sydney riots give occasion to recall the numerous letters from westernised Singaporeans that have lauded western societies for being open, civic-conscious, cosmopolitan, globalised and tolerant of diversity while panning Asian Singaporeans for being
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      Deserving students get MOE aid
      419 26  -  LIMHUAYCHIH Letter from Director, Corporate Services, Ministry of Education MISS Chan Xi Wen, in her letter "That one mark I so sorely miss" on Dec 8, suggested that instead of the Edusave Entrance Scholarships for Independent Schools (EESIS), students should be awarded annual scholarships based
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      Bras Basah ERP gantry necessary
      266 26  -  HAN LIANG YUAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Land Transport Authority I REFER to Mr Mo Jiamin's letter about the location of the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry before Bras Basah Road (Dec 16). The ERP scheme for the Central Business District (CBD) was refined
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      268 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I CAT'S CRADLE One of the most poignant songs ever written is "Cat's in the Cradle" by the late Harry Chapin. The lyrics of that sad song tell the story of a father who has good intentions toward his young son, but
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    • Should Mum stay at home?
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        Educated mums learn precious lessons
        490 28  -  CINDY SIM Letter from FOR the past few days, I have been reading with great interest the string of letters started by Ms Frances Ong Hock Lin ("Giving Mums a Second Chance", Dec 12), followed by subsequent replies and views from other Today readers on
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        Who is able to bring home the fattest bacon?
        255 28  -  VALERIE CHEONGSOKEYAN Letter from AFTER reading Mr Sim Kah Choon and Ms Susan Fong's letters on parenting, allow me as a single female to express my views. I feel they hold relatively archaic views about parenting. Mr Sim seems to think
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      Lock icon Don't penalise foreign wives
      303 28  -  LEONGSZEHIAN Letter from I REFER to Ms Margaret Han's letter, "Right move that will force bosses to care" (Dec 16) in response to my letter, "Rising costs for Singaporeans who marry or employ foreigners" (Dec 15). According to the latest marriage statistics just released by the
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      368 30 -AGENCIES The Spore and Geneva-based container port operators will jointly operate three berths at PasirPanjang Terminal PSA International and Mediterranean Shipping Co, the world's second-biggest container port operator and container line, said that they would jointly operate a shipping terminal in Singapore. The two
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      250 30 DOW JONES BANGKOK -Thai telecommunications conglomerate Shin Corp denied, on Friday, a report by a local newspaper that its major shareholders would sell their stake in the company to Sing Tel. Shin issued the denial in a filing to the Stock
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      218 31 —AFP Takes responsibility for botched trade: Report TOKYO The president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) will resign as early as tomorrow to take responsibility for a massive loss on the markets stemming from a trader making a simple error in an order, according to
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      231 31 BLOOMBERG DP World chief executive officer Mohammad Sharaf said that he might change the structure of the offer for Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O) so that it only needed approval from investors with 50 per cent of the stock.
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      142 31 BLOOMBERG EGYPT is planning to build an oil refinery with a capacity to process 500,000 barrels a day (bpd) of crudeoil, boosting its exports of fuels as energy prices remain near record levels, the country's oil minister said. The plant will be
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        523 32 —AFP Asian travel set for record 9 per cent growth this year, due in part to budget carriers ASIA'S travel industry is enjoying an early Christmas with strong ticket sales as Asians take off for year-end holidays in the region, unruffled by fuel surcharges and warnings
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        154 32 -BLOOMBERG INDONESIA, South-east Asia's biggest oil producer, drilled 62 oil and gas wells this year, below the government target, because of the higher costs of oil rigs. Indonesia had wanted companies such as Pertamina, BP and ConocoPhillips and Total to
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        363 34 —AFP First nationwide economic census may reveal another $500b of output BEIJING China will leapfrog Italy, France and Britain to be officially recognised as the world's fourthbiggest economy if, as expected, it revises its 2004 gross domestic product (GDP) upwards by nearly US$3OO billion ($5OO
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        259 34 Google to pay 1.67b for 5% stake in AOL -BLOOMBERG GOOGLE agreed to pay US$l billion ($1.67 billion) for 5 per cent of Time Warner's America Online (AOL) unit, shutting out rival bidder Microsoft Corp, said a person familiar with the discussions. An agreement between AOL and Google is a
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        441 37  -  JOHN BITTLESTOIM Management, Motivation and You Part 8: What is the future for unions? SINGAPORE is streets ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to workers' unions. That doesn't mean everything runs smoothly, nor that unions are compliant with "capital". The history, size,
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      340 40 LOS ANGELES-Actor John Spencer who played the role of Leo McGarry in The West Wing mirrored his character in several ways: Both were recovering alcoholics, both were driven and both had heart attacks. "Like Leo, I've always been a workaholic, too," he
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      634 40  -  ZULOTHMAN The queues for Ministry of Sound's opening night were serpentine understandably so zul@newstoday.com.sg LAST Friday's grand opening of Singapore's biggest club, Ministry of Sound (MOS), certainly did live up to the hype. According to MOS estimates, more than 7,000 clubbers made their way down to what could
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        128 40 On Friday, Jessica Simpson filed for divorce from former 98 Degrees boy band star Nick Lachey (picture). The couple jointly announced their separation in November, following months of rumours that their tabloid-friendly relationship had soured. Simpson cited irreconcilable differences in a divorce petition. The couple
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        118 41 Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has accepted libel damages from a tabloid that claimed she regularly had sex with men in a van outside her home. The Daily Sport, which printed the story in July and repeated it in August, agreed to pay "very substantial damages",
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      304 42  -  Tan Hui Leng DANCEREVIEW by.................... The Nutcracker A PRODUCTION is worth its salt when children are so mesmerised that they can sit quietly through the entire show without embarrassing their parents and annoying the rest of the audience. So parents, here's a tip
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      265 42  -  Ashraf Safdar PERFORMANCEREVIEW by 4:48 Psychosis BUDS Youth Theatre's performance of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis is a sobering reminder that the intoxicating cheer of the festive season can be tempered by a sense of isolation and loneliness. Hailed as a semi-autobiographical masterpiece at
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      401 42  -  DAVID CHEW Top judges concerned that talented teenage musicians lose focus david. chew@newstoday.com. sg AT THE National Piano and Violin Competition 2005 at the Victoria Concert Hall on Saturday night, one man was conspicuous by his absence. The country's most prestigious music competition has been shadowed
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      370 43 -AP Famous Henry Moore sculpture weighing two tons is carted off LONDON It's heavy, it's huge, it's famous and it's gone. Thieves using a flatbed truck and a crane snatched a two-ton bronze reclining figure by Henry Moore from the grounds of the late sculptor's
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      128 43 -AGENCIES SHANGHAI Despite lukewarm reviews, Chinese director Chen Kaige remained hopeful that The Promise would get a best foreign film Oscar nod. Chen's Academy Award campaign is off to a promising start The Promise, a love story cum kung fu fantasy film, has already
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      488 44  -  LAUREN PEH Try home-style Russian cuisine on Arab Street food@newstoday.com.sg IN A little comer of Arab Street, a small eatery sits so unobtrusively that most people would not even notice it-unless they had come after hearing good word of mouth. Nadezhda is a restaurant set up
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      277 46  -  -TSECHIMENG CARLTON COOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Celebrate Christmas over a hearty spread of delights. Begin your Christmas Eve dinner at Carlton's Cafe Vie with an assortment of appetisers such as smoked salmon and cream roulade; oriental roasted turkey with salad; and oven-baked duck with fresh mango Salad. Proceed to the
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      537 50 -AP Defending Super Bowl champs are playoff-bound and looking dangerous NFL New England 28 Tampa Bay 0 FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts The grey division championship T-shirt hung in the locker behind Tedy Bruschi. The Patriots' linebacker preferred to look ahead. "I just don't want one T-shirt," he said. "I
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      252 50 NBA Cleveland 115 Miami 107 CLEVELAND Pat Riley, meet Leßron James. James helped spoil an otherwise perfect week for the returning Miami coach, scoring 41 points and taking over late to give the Cleveland Cavaliers a 115-107 victory over Riley and the Heat on
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      300 50 -AFP HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING Nikolay Valuev bt John Ruiz BERLIN Nikolay Valuev beat John Ruiz to win the WBA heavyweight title here on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), but the fight ended in controversy when the points decision was jeered and members of the
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      625 51  - The aim's fine, but the mind TANYO-HINN Chng says shooters need to improve their mental strength to hit new heights yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Sports Council (SSC) targeted two gold medals, but the team went one better at the re-cently-concluded SEA Games in the Philippines. Nevertheless, Singapore Shooting Association (SSA) president
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      354 51  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg THE inaugural two-day Brazilian Beach Soccer 2005 tournament ended yesterday and former international R Sasikumar, the brains behind the event, feels that it could lead to bigger things pretty soon. He pointed to the overwhelming turnout for the
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      478 52 —AFP TOKYO Japan's 15-year-old Mao Asada (picture) jumped to the top of the figureskating world at the weekend, stirring debate over why she cannot compete in the Turin Olympics two months from now. She upset two-time world champion Irina Slutskaya of Russia by 8.14 points to win
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      229 52 BLOOMBERG TOKYO Fifa president Sepp Blatter said the Asian Player of the Year award should be renamed if it's restricted to footballers who compete in the continent Asian Football Confederation rules only allow those attending the awards ceremony to be eligible,
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      390 52 ZURICH Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho is the overwhelming favourite to lift the World Footballer of the Year award today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) for a second successive season. If he does lift the prize, it will be the seventh time a Brazilian
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        334 53 —AFP PRIMERAUGA Villarreal 2 Getafe 1 MADRID Villarreal continued their good run of form by coming from behind to beat Getafe 2-1 on Sunday (this morning, Singapore time). They have now lost only one league game in their last 13
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        352 53 —AFP Reserve striker scores equaliser for Spanish giants to scrape through with draw MADRID Real Madrid reserve striker Roberto Soldado came to the Spanish giants' rescue for the second time this season with the equaliser seven minutes from time in their 1-1 draw with 10-man Osasuna
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        243 53 —AFP SERIEA Reggina 0 Inter Milan 4 AC Milan 4 Messina 0 ROME Inter and AC Milan raised hopes of catching Serie A leaders Juventus with emphatic 4-0 victories on Sunday (this morning, Singapore time). Inter thrashed Reggina in Calabria while
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