Today, 20 December 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    23 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp Frew incorporating MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Tuesday December 20, 2005 todayonline.com TODAY J^AediaCorp Frew incorporating JMTCJJIS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Tuesday December 20, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • Article
      Lock icon US stocks fall for a third day
      112 1 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Stocks in the United States fell for a third day as initial enthusiasm about a court ruling in Pfizer Inc's favour was overwhelmed by concerns that a yearend rally has gone far enough given the profit outlook for other industries.
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      The web they wove
      1018 1  -  VALCHUA NKF's bonus culture, study trips to Vegas, the drug question and one man at the heart of it val@newstoday.com.sg IN A report that went beyond gold taps and firstclass travel, independent auditor KPMG yesterday laid bare the inner workings of a charity that got too
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  • hot news
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      The watchdogs that did not bark?
      597 2  -  JASMINE YIN Report asks if the MOH and the NCSS could have done more to prevent NKF saga jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg WHILE the former management of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has been put under the microscope, one question begs to be answered: Who should have
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      Lock icon Back to basics
      742 3  -  LEE U-WEN NKF caps CEO pay, plans to raise expenses on patients from 35% to 70% u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE days of $25,000 monthly salaries and astronomical bonuses are over, as far as the new-look National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is concerned. Chairman Gerard Ee revealed yesterday that when the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon THREE NEW COURSES AT ITE
        67 4 938Live The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will be offering three new courses in January: The National ITE Certificate (NITEC) in Beauty Therapy, Digital Animation and Mechatronics with a specialisation in Medical Technology. In total, ITE will offer 57 courses next year. GCE N-level school
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        Lock icon FIJI'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER VISITS
        54 4 Channel NewsAsia The Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Republic of the Fiji Islands Kaliopate Tavola is in Singapore on a working trip. His visit involves the signing of an Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation. The agreement will also facilitate
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        Lock icon MORE CLUES TO MAN'S DEATH
        61 4 Channel NewsAsia Police are looking for two odd-job labourers, one aged 39 and the other 53, in connection with the death of a 41-year-old man at Jalan Sultan Textile Centre last month. It is believed the two men punched the victim, Mr Puan Tian Seng,
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        Lock icon TWO CHARGED FOR MURDER
        73 4 Ansley Ng Chinese nationals Li Wen Yan, 35, an odd-job labourer, and Li Qi Hua, 33, an illegal VCD hawker, were chargec yesterday for the Dec 8 murder of another Chinese national, Mr Chen Decai, 24, at Edgedale Plains in Punggol. Both men, who were arrested
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      Lock icon Durai's retorts to the KPMG report
      693 4  -  TORCHING LI But auditing firm calls former NKF CEO's expenditure, salary justification 'disingenuous' chingli@newstoday.com.sg AFTER being pilloried in the press and slammed by the KPMG report, former NKF chief executive T T Durai gave a point-by-point rebuttal to the various issues raised about him.
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      Two women on the fast lane
      351 6  -  TORCHING LI Former employees deemed to have business ties with NKF chingli@newstoday.com. sg A NEW name emerged in yesterday's KPMG report as a key figure in the controversial "old" National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Ms Ong Su Ying. In fact, her career path in the
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    • Article
      No say about pay: Mrs Goh
      111 6 IN RESPONSE to media queries on former NKF chairman Mr Richard Yong's statement in KPMG's report that Mrs Goh Chok Tong, as former Patron of NKF, had "known and endorsed" the salary of former CEO, Mr T T Durai, Mrs Goh made the following
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  • singapore news
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      Courting customers the right way, with service
      305 8  -  —TANHUILENG SERVICE does count toward the bottom line as furniture and electronics retailer Courts found out, after a standards revamp saw a 30.1--per-cent growth in the store's year-on-year profits from April to September this year. A rebranding exercise in 2003 proved to be
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      Lock icon One sweet success
      402 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG Diabetes sufferer comes out tops in N levels cheekong@newstoday.com. sg THREE years ago, at the tender age of 13, Tan Yi Yin was diagnosed with diabetes. For two weeks, she was bedridden, confronted by an illness she knew hardly anything about. Two months after
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      Lock icon TSUNAMI... TSUNAMI NOT...
      615 10  -  ANSLEYNG Not all geologists agree with tsunami prophet's warning for Singapore a nsley@newstoday.com.sg IN RECENT interviews, Thai tsunami prophet Dr Smith Dharmasaroja said the epicentre of the next earthquake in the region could move further north from last year's temblors, which puts Malaysia and Singapore at risk
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      254 10 [read it. watch it. Now EXPERIENCE IT LIVE IN SINGAPOREM I FOCUS ON THE FAMILY SINGAPORE PRESENTS |^fPB^pBj&«&Sgg Btjj^^jl: W^f^< AT ORCHARD TURN I I MAIN TENTj B^^ LyiLLAGE J*4^t STEP THROUGH THE WARDROBE... O( f /I CARNIVAL Witness Jycrs first encounter with the faun, S -I— Archery I xxr
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Netanyahu wins in Israel's Likud contest
      236 12 —AFP JERUSALEM Former premier and arch hawk Benjamin Netanyahu (picture) swept to victory this morning in the contest to succeed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as leader of Israel's beleaguered right-wing Likud party. His closest challenger, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, conceded defeat in a speech
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      Lock icon World 'losing' bird flu battle
      427 12 BLOOMBERG UN official says deadly strain is spreading; detecting and culling still key JAKARTA The world is "losing the battle" against avian flu in poultry, increasing the risk the gradually mutating virus will become more infectious to people and trigger an influenza pandemic, a United
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      Lock icon UN agency probes S Korea on plutonium plans
      294 12 —AFP VIENNA The United Nations' atomic agency has launched an investigation into whether South Korea plans to produce weapons-grade plutonium at a facility it is building, a diplomat told AFP Monday. The pilot facility uses "pyro-met-allurgical processing" to make spent fuel into
      —AFP; AP  -  294 words
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      Lock icon Half of tsunami survivors back at work, more to be done: Oxfam
      359 12 —AFP JAKARTA At least half of the tsunami survivors who lost jobs after last year's disaster have returned to work but much more must be done to restore livelihoods, aid group Oxfam said in a report released Tuesday.
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      Lock icon LACK OF POLITICAL WILL HITS WTO
      784 14  -  WILLIAM PESEKJR -BLOOMBERG Global trade will hobble until developed economies put their houses in order KOREAN farmers jumping into the murky waters of Hong Kong Victoria Harbour in defence of their rice may be my most lasting image from the 2005 World Trade Organization
      -BLOOMBERG; AFP  -  784 words
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      Lock icon vlogging taking the world by storm
      399 16 -AFP Cheap cameras, simple software fuel new phenomenon WASHINGTON From the Internet count-er-culture which spawned blogs and podcasts comes the newest thing in new media: vlogging. In short video diaries and homemade reality shows, vloggers are using the power of cheap online technology to
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      Lock icon 19 killed in seaplane crash off Miami Beach
      218 18 —AFP MIAMI The death toll from a seaplane crash off Miami Beach in Florida rose to 19 as rescue divers recovered more bodies from the ocean floor, local officials said. The officials said there were no survivors among the 19 people on
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      Lock icon Saddam: 'I was betrayed'
      307 18 —AGENCIES Former Iraqi strongman talks about his capture LONDON Saddam Hussein, who was nabbed from a cramped underground hideout in Tikrit two years ago, had hoped to emerge unnoticed in nearby bushes before staging a Steve McQueen-type great escape riding a motorcycle. For the first time,
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      Lock icon Italian central bank chief quits under corruption cloud
      201 18 —AFP ROME The governor of the Bank of Italy, Mr Antonio Fazio (picture), resigned yesterday, ending a 12-year stint as head of the central bank under a cloud of corruption allegations. On the eve of an extraordinary cabinet meeting to reform the
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  • Voices
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      Lock icon isay A NATION SPEAKING OUT
      725 20  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN PEACEFUL rallies seized almost every capital city in the world in February 2003, staged in protest of the approaching Iraqi war. Yet Singapore remained a sanctuary of silence. We are not a nation used to holding rallies; we are not allowed
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    • Letter
      Tanjong Pagar MRT lift ready by mid-2006
      180 21  -  HAN LIANG YUAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications Land Transport Authority I REFER to Mr David Kwok Ng Kan's letter about the lift at Tanjong Pagar MRT Station (Dec 16). We agree with Mr Kwok that it is important for MRT stations to
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    • Not to be swept away
      • Letter
        Questions, should a tsunami hit S'pore
        171 21  -  SUHAILI MUSA Letter from I REFER to your front-page report, "Is disaster moving northwards?" (Dec 19). A few weeks ago, my colleague and I were discussing another newspaper article. We were speculating on the possibility of Singapore being hit by a tsunami and I
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      • Letter
        Alarmism, or a sign to be ready?
        193 21  -  ANN DEVADAS Letter from DEC 26 is almost upon us and memories of that dreadful day last year are still with us all. It has been bothering me for some time now that, despite a newspaper article a few months ago warning us
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      225 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I EAR EAWAE AWE THE TEST OFTIME If you want to know whether or not you're really in love, give it the test of time. Infatuation is the name we give to that first bright burst of attraction between two people. It
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      Lock icon Viewing life through a lens
      607 22  -  LAN LLOYD with I 52, Photographer FRESH out of university with a photography degree, a young Canadian was travelling in Asia when he ran out of money and got stranded in Singapore. He decided to work here for a few months. That was 25 years
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    • Letter
      Stop walkovers so all can vote
      156 23  -  JAMES CHI Letter from I WAS not able to vote in two General Elections due to walkovers and it was really frustrating. I wanted to give my vote to the political party that I supported, but I was denied that chance. We have the
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  • Businesstoday
    • Article
      Lock icon Citiraya unit seeks judicial management
      180 24 -DOW JONES CITIRAYA Industries said yesterday its unit Citiraya (Singapore) Pte Ltd, or CSPL, had applied to be placed under judicial management. In a statement filed with the Singapore Exchange, the electronic waste recycler said its unit filed a petition with the High Court on
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      Lock icon Malaysia woos Gulf investors
      416 24 DOW JONES Positions itself not just as a tourist destination but also an Islamic investment hub MALAYSIAN bankers are moving aggressively to entice wealthy Arabs to put money into their Islamic investment products. Led by Maybank group, bankers from Malaysia have made frequent trips to the
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    • Article
      Lock icon CBOT, SGX to form derivatives market that will begin trading in Q3 next year
      214 25 BLOOMBERG THE Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will set up a commodity derivatives market with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in Asia, aiding Singapore's quest to become a regional futures trading hub. The Joint Asian Derivatives Exchange
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    • marketwatch
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        World markets
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
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        151 25 —AFP SHARES ended mixed yesterday as investors wound down ahead of the Christmas holidays, dealers said. TheST Index rose 1.02 points to 2,326.55. In the broad market, losers beat gainers 256 to 233 with traded volume amounting to 538 million shares worth $519 million. Among blue chips, SingTel rose
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        289 26 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE is a potential site for a US$6-billion ($lO-billion) 55-nanometre NAND flash memory chip foundry, a joint venture between Toshiba and SanDisk. An industry watcher told Channel News Asia that the makers of the memory chip are choosing between
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        402 27  -  CHOW PENN NEE Citigroup Private Bank looks for diversity as it plans to increase headcount pennnee@newstoday.com.sg THE new head of Citigroup's private banking arm in Singapore plans to hire people with diverse talents, opening the industry's door to candidates without a finance background. "I want to
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        140 27 -BLOOMBERG SP AUSNET, an Australian power and gas distributor controlled by Singapore Power, has secured Assoo million ($620 million) in bank loans, partly to repay debt due next year. The loans, arranged by Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Banking Corp, consist of two
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        155 27 CATHAY Organisation Holdings is seeking to delist its shares from the Singapore Exchange's junior board, the Sesdaq. It said trading in its shares had been thin despite there being a free float of 20 million shares representing 21.85 per cent of the company. Furthermore, the company
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        742 28  -  VALERIE LAW A trust lets you give them your assets during your lifetime va lerie@newstoday.com.sg A TRUST is often mistaken as an instrument that is similar to a will, which is employed to manage after-death matters. However, unlike a will, a trust can
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        171 28 BELOW are some reasons why people set up trusts: a. Preservation of wealth within families b. Protection and provision for infants, handicapped persons, elderly and persons of unsound mind c. For tax planning purposes, as setting up trusts may reduce tax liabilities d. To prevent squandering,
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        343 28  -  -SERENE CHUA FOR Ms Ong Yew Kiow, one of the three winners of the weekly Shop-to-Win Today draws, her $500 prize money came just in time for Christmas and her trip to Bangkok. She was at Changi Airport, about to board the plane,
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        480 30  -  JANE CHIAPOCQ Centrepoint ties up with chocolate giant M&M's for its Xmas campaign ja nec@newstoday.com.sg FOR the Malls of Centrepoint, which manages seven shopping centres including Centrepoint at Orchard Road, this Christmas comes as chocolate confetti of orange, blue, yellow, green and red. To captivate
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        313 30  -  —JANECHIAPOCO SHOPPERS walking along the Orchard/Scotts Road underpass are likely to feel tickled this holiday season as they saunter past Swatch's feathery Christmas campaign posters. The "Fluff Up for White Christmas" campaign greets passers-by with a blizzard of white feathers bordering
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          197 30 Renowned tea company, Twinings of London, celebrates its 300 th annual anniversary next year. Founded by Mr Thomas Twining in 1706, the company has since introduced a total of 198 blends of tea to the world. Twinings also holds the world's oldest
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          156 30  -  JANECHIAPOCO On Dec 5, advertising agency BBH Asia Pacific launched a new television commercial for Scotch whisky brand, Johnnie Walker, featuring golf icons Adam Scott and Paul Casey. Mr Scott and Mr Casey are both scheduled to play in February next year at
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        475 31  -  ELAINE NG Vibrasoft aims to be the first name in application development elaine. ng@newstoday.com. sg GEARING up for a share of I the Web application development market, home-grown company Vibrasoft has developed a proprietary scripting language called Candle (Common Application Development LanguagE) for developing applications
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        416 31  -  ELAINE NG SEAGATE Technology is aligning its storage solutions to suit five market segments: Enterprise, personal systems, notebook, consumer, and new and emerging markets. "Traditionally, the disk drive was mainly used in the compute space," said Mr James Chirico Jr, senior vice-president and general manager
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        1041 32  -  ARIELTAM a riel@newstoday.com.sg I THERE was a time when webcasts were considered I an advanced mode of workplace communication. Not any more. Companies are slowly turning to podcasting as a cheap, convenient way to disseminate information to their intended audience. Podcasting is based on RSS technology
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        310 32 -AP ON APRIL 25, 2009, a man I named Greg is supposed to get an email reminding Greg that he is his best friend and worst enemy; that he once dated a woman named Michelle; and that he planned to major in computer science.
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      28 28 Canon Singapore Pte Ud ll'llflirJnff v <lP ONE FOR THE BABY: Mr Paul Jay attributed his good luck in the drawto his unborn child. 4RF chartered MATTHEW TEO
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      924 34  -  Zul Othman MINUSES: 2005 IN REVIEW 2005 marked the comeback of charity shows, dance divas and ageing rockers ALL HAIL THE COMEBACK STARS zul@newstoday.com.sg APART from the return of the stadium charity concert, 2005 has also been the year of the comeback kids. Madonna led the
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        78 35 EA QL I Bloc Party Essex-based foursome Bloc Party have thrilled audiences the world over with their mix of jerky art rock and otherworldly beauty. The band's trump card is front man Kele Okereke a powerhouse who engages audiences with his calls to arms, even if most of
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        74 35 EA WEAm I The Observatory Their 2004 debut Time of Rebirth-with its layered atmospherics and heart-wrench-ing melodies rewrote the rules and proved that Singapore bands don't have to drown out the music with fuzz to stand out. With Blank Walls, The Observatory have upped the ante by bringing
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        56 35 SF WEALA I Antony The Johnsons Antony Hegarty's second full-length album brought him instant fame, and rightfully so. Am A Bird Now is soul music at its most poignant made even better by Hegarty's voice-which channels Nina Simone and Bryan Ferry at their most moving.
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        80 35 E WAAAR P4 I Oasis Oasis started the year as loud mouths promising that yet another great album was on the cards. The shocker was that they actually delivered. Their eighth album. Don't Believe The Truth, is full of joyful exuberance and contains some of their
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        48 35 P 5 I Depeche Mode With their best set of songs since 1993's Songs Of Faith And Devotion, Depeche Mode regroup and reclaim their status as electronic music's premier "miserablists", who are still capable to eking out a batch of stirring anthems. Key Track: Precious
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      385 36  -  EUSACHIA Tongue-tied no more, /do/host confirms he'll be back elisa@newstoday.com.sg THINGS are shaping up for the second season of Singapore Idol it has been confirmed that Gurmit Singh (picture) will return as the reality talent show's host. "Yes, I'll be back. And I'm going to brush
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      220 36 THE stomach-churning stunt by Tay Ping Hui, Terence Cao, Adam Chen, Ix Shen and Elvin Ng drew a considerable number of donation calls about 22,500 at the Affairs of the Heart Charity Show on Sunday night In the live show on MediaCorp TV
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      894 38 PRATTLE HO-HUM -AGENCIES U2 frontman Bono is among Time's 'Persons of the Year'; so why is he still so annoying? NEW YORK Two things happened to Bono this week. One is extremely significant, the other far less so, but they both neatly encapsulate the paradox that is the U2 front
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        96 38 -AFP Ever the pessimist. Woody Allen said on Sunday he is a "mediocre" director of "miserable work". "I've disappointed myself most of the time," the US legend told BBCtelevision, rejecting claims he is a film artist. In London for the world premiere of his
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        115 38 -GUARDIAN Steven Spielberg has hired the public relations consultant who is spearheading Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's re-election campaign to promote his film Munich, about the hunt for the Palestinians responsible for the hostage crisis that led to the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes
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        59 38 Don't worry fans, Dongfang Billy is coming back. The popular DJ was scheduled to return to the airwaves on MediaCorp Radio Love 97.2FM two weeks ago, but has been kept busy with a string of charity projects. The popular DJ will
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        41 38 It's smashed expectations at the box office, now see how it was made. The making of Peter Jackson's King Kong TV special will air today on MediaCorp TV 12 Kids Central at 4.15pm.
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        725 40  -  JANICE GOH This festive season, choose your food wisely and healthily ja nice@newstoday.com.sg IF SANTA Claus came to town and offered you a gift this holiday season, chances are many of us would ask for our weight to remain constant while we stuff our
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        255 40  -  —JANICE GOH WHOLE grains such as brown rice, toasted wheat cereals and oatmeal pack a powerhouse of beneficial nutrients. A whole grain refers to the edible part of a grain or seed. Whole grains consist of three parts: The bran, germ and endosperm, all
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        454 41 Elvin Ng is nothing like the brash, foul-mouthed hooligan, Liangyi, whom he played in his first drama serial A Life of Hope. In real life, he says, he is an introvert who got into modelling in order to gain more confidence. But as he shares
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        258 41 -AFP PARIS A woman whose infant dies from cot death is more than twice as likely to have problems in further pregnancies, reported a study by The Lancet. Little is known about the causes of sudden infant death syndrome (Sids), known as
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        803 42 IAILMENT3APPROACHES Most nosebleeds can be stopped easily, but some may indicate bigger problems BLEEDING from the nose, known as epistaxis, is common in both young and old. Epistaxis can be very mild, with just enough bleeding to leave spots on a piece of tissue paper, or
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        236 42 —AFP WASHINGTON The tiny zebrafish has yielded a gene that determines human hair, skin and eye colour, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who started out studying cancer. The scientists made the link when they looked up the gene responsible
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        516 43  -  REETA RAMAN With a balanced diet, supplements, exercise and rest reeta@newstoday.com.sg WHEN it comes to a child's immunity against germs and infections, few are more concerned than the parents. A child's immunity is usually at its lowest level after the first few months of infancy, when the
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        79 43 SOURCE KKH NUTRITION FOR YOUR CHILD Vitamins A, E, X, Dark green leafy/ red or and folic acid orange vegetables fruits eaten at least every other day Vitamin B Some meat, fish, egg, milk or cheese daily Vitamin C Fresh fruit or pure fruit juice daily Vitamin E Allow some
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        213 52 BLOOMBERG LONDON West Ham signed Israel striker Yaniv Katan from Maccabi Haifa, subject to the 24-year-old passing a medical examination and obtaining a work permit, the London club's website reported yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Katan, whose contract was due to expire at the season's
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        284 52 —AFP PARIS Zinedine Zidane (picture) admitted yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) that he was right to come out of international retirement and that the decision was crucial to France securing a place in the 2006 World Cup Finals. The former World Footballer
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      500 53  -  TANYO-HINN Fresh from lOC Session success, country bidding for 2009 lOC Congress yohinn@newstoday.com.sg FIVE months ago, the movers and shakers of the sporting world were in Singapore for the 117th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session. And in four years' time, the Olympic movement could
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      419 53 —AFP YORK, England Chinese teenager Ding Junhui confirmed his status as a superstar in the making when he beat six-time world champion Steve Davis 10-6 to win the UK Championship on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Ding, just 18 and 30 years Davis' junior, held
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        390 49 —AP NBA Houston 76 LA Lakers 74 LOS ANGELES Tracy McGrady followed a bad play with a very good one, giving the Houston Rockets an improbable victory. McGrady's driving left-handed lay-up with 0.3 seconds left lifted the short-hand-ed Rockets to a 76-74 win over
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        628 49 —AP Chargers knock off Colts, end chance for perfect season NFL Indianapolis 17 San Diego 26 INDIANAPOLIS Maybe the Indianapolis Colts will end up thanking San Diego for ending their perfect season on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Colts' bid for an unbeaten National Football League
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        Lock icon Hodge shines as Aussies dominate
        255 50 AGENCIES CRICKET Australia v South Africa PERTH Brad Hodge scored a double century as Australia took control of the first cricket Test in Perth, declaring their second innings on 528-8 and reducing South Africa to 85-2 after four days. The home side lead by 405
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        478 50 -AFP McLaren sign world champ Alonso for 2007, leave Raikkonen and Montoya guessing LONDON World champion Fernando Alonso will quit Renault once he has defended his Formula 1 title next season after accepting a "too good to miss" offer to drive for McLaren from 2007. The British-based team's
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        243 50 -AFP CRICKET India v Sri Lanka AHMEDABAD, India Harbhajan Singh took four wickets in five overs as Sri Lanka struggled to match India's 398 on day two of the third Test in Ahmedabad. Harbhajan's haul included the wickets of Marvan Atapattu (40) and Mahela Jayawardene
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        561 51 —AGENCIES PRIMERAUGA Real Madrid 1 Osasuna 1 MADRID The odds on Juan Ramon Lopez Caro (picture) finishing the season as coach of Real Madrid will have lengthened considerably after the Spanish giant's tepid 1-1 draw against Osasuna on Sunday (Monday morning, Singapore time). Lopez Caro, formerly
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        314 51 -AFP ROME Inter and AC Milan raised their hopes of catching Serie A leaders Juventus with emphatic 4-0 victories on Sunday. Inter thrashed Reggina in Calabria while Andriy Shevchenko scored twice as AC Milan trounced Messina at the San Siro. Juventus, held to
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