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  • 13 1 TODAY /A=DIJ\CORP share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday March 1, 2006 todayonline.com
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  • 615 1 Thailand five days from chaos, analysts fear BANGKOK The Thai Prime Minister indicated he would do everything to accommodate the opposition's demands except step down. The opposition refused to meet him, refused to call off its plans to boycott the upcoming elections and instead set a deadline
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  • 658 1  - When depression hits you in the wallet CHEOWXINYI xinyic@newstoday.com.sg SHE is a professional holding down a wellpaying job with a public-listed company here and a scholar to boot But when Julie (not her real name) applied last June for the Home Protection Scheme the compulsory mortgage insurance for HDB flats
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    • 30 1 |NS|D| hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 10 voices 20 business 28 growth 37 plus 38 1v radio listings 45 classad 46 sports 57 we set you thinking
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  • hot news
    • 462 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH SPP, NSP leaders acknowledge tough fight ahead christie@newstoday.com.sg WOWED by the magnitude of goodies in the Government's Budget, Opposition leaders have labelled the spending plans an "election budget" and even conceded the upcoming fight would be a tough one. However, their peers
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    • 65 2 AFP BERLIN A dead cat in Germany has tested positive for the HSNI type of bird flu in the first case in the country of the virus spreading from birds to mammals, the national veterinary laboratory said yesterday. Meanwhile, a "highly pathogenic" H5 bird
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    • 833 3  -  ANTHONY LAGOURANIS NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE No slope is more slippery than the one that leads to torture I HAVE never met Sgt Santos Cardona or Sgt Michael Smith, but we share similar experiences. In late 2003 and early 2004, both men used
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    • 366 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MP takes Australia to task for denying SIA access to trans-Pacific route VETERAN parliamentarian Tan Soo Khoon (right) has lambasted the Australian government for its decision to deny trans-Pacific routes to SIA. Noting that the Singapore brand was strong and it struck fear in
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    • 226 4  -  UNYANQING THE largest hotel college in the United States, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), is setting up its first international campus in Singapore on the 10th and 11th storeys of the National Library Building. The campus here will offer undergraduate and
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    • 147 4  -  UNYANQING TEN-year-old Daren Kwang Poh Chun's parents were overjoyed when finally he returned home after he went missing for nine days. Daren stayed with his friends or at void decks, relying on his friends to buy him meals. However, bruises were found on Daren's back. The boy
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    • 338 4  - And in the MGM corner JASMINE YIN WITH exactly four weeks to go before the proposal deadline for Singapore's first Integrated Resort (IR), and in clear view of the Marina Bay site, Las Vegas gaming operator MGM Mirage served up another hors d'oeuvre of information about its bid to the
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    • 243 5 CHANNEL NEWSASIA UNDER a new Act that takes effect today, all workplaces will have to report work-related accidents and diseases to the Manpower Ministry, or face fines and even jail terms. The Act, which applies to em- ployers, occupiers of sites as well as
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    • 227 5 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) is reviewing the need for school buses to have seat belts, following a recent accident involving a school bus. Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong told Parliament yesterday that this review would be done together with the
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
      • 57 5 938 LIVE Some 767,000 tourists visited Singapore in January, a 14.8 per cent increase over the same period a year ago. That figure however, is lower than December's 828,000 visitors. Indonesia, China, Australia, the UK and Japan were Singapore's top visi-tor-generating markets in January, accounting
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      • 105 5 938 LIVE A 47-year-old Singaporean has been caught trying to smuggle contraband cigarettes into Singapore. The man, driving a Mercedes Benz, was stopped for a routine check at the checkpoint on Monday. Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers found 41 cartons of cigarettes wrapped in newspapers and concealed
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  • singapore news
    • 460 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG Review addresses concerns of unhappy students cheekong@newstoday.com. sg MANY hostelites from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) breathed a sigh of relief last Friday when the university told them their hostel fees would be lower by up to $100 than what was proposed in December. According
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    • 210 6  -  VINITARAMANI A SITE near the Tanah Merah MRT station will be put up for tender in two weeks, after the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) received an acceptable bid from a developer. The 2.19 ha site at Kechil Avenue is expected to be used for
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    • 167 6  -  -VALERIE LAW THE Paya Lebar Crescent bungalow of former Citiraya chief Ng Teck Lee has been auctioned off for a higher-than-expected $3.08 million. The buyer, an unidentified Singaporean, beat two other parties, who put in bids starting from $2.3 million. The valuation for properties
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    • 375 6  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanweit@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE Singapore being free from bird flu, the spread of the HSNI virus from region to region has unnerved some. Over the past week, the MediaCorp News Hotline has received at least nine calls related to sightings of dead birds or
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    • 519 8  -  CHEOWXINYI Online system jams, crowds throng LTA offices nationwide xinyic@newstoday.com.sg AS THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) tried its hand at providing a one-stop online service platform for vehicle owners, it ended up causing inconvenience and attracting complaints on its first day of launch instead.
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    • 247 8  -  JANE CHIAPOCO A CONFIDENT smile from service staff can outshine a flashy sales sign, according to a survey commissioned by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). A total of 335 stores in three retail formats supermarket, department store, and specialty store and 2,500 customers were
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  • world news
    • 408 10 -AP 911 mastermind helped set up courier system of funding JAKARTA The Al Qaeda terror network helped fund suicide bombings in Indonesia over the past four years through a courier system set up by the reputed mastermind behind the 911 attacks on the United States,
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    • 224 10 ■AFP WASHINGTON The United States said Iran had a one-week "opportunity", before next Monday's meeting of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, to ease fears that it seeks atomic weapons. The warning from Washington came as a senior Russian official said Moscow and
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    • 196 10 -AFP BRUSSELS The European Union struggled to keep the outgoing Palestinian government financially afloat, unblocking a large aid package, without binding itself to further financial assistance when the radical Hamas Party takes office. EU foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, endorsed
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    • 112 10 WASHINGTON United States Senator Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2008 and anyone who believes otherwise is "kidding themselves", according to Mr Karl Rove, US President George W Bush's top adviser, media reports said. "She is the dominant player on
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 70 10 -AFP South Korea's militant Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) yesterday launched a general strike against a Bill which allows employers greater flexibility in using temporary and sub-contracted workers. Assembly lines at the country's biggest car maker Hyundai Motor and sister firm Kia Motors came to
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      • 75 10 AFP The United States Coast Guard warned government officials that "intelligence gaps" barred it from determining potential terrorism risks in a planned takeover of operations at six US ports by United Arab Emirates firm Dubai Ports World, according to a document
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      • 60 10 -AFP Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has called on Iraqis to unite and praised the appeasing role played by top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali Sistani, his lawyer Khalil Al Dulaimi said. Saddam, who is on trial for crimes against humanity, called "for unity at all levels
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    • 754 12  -  Sanjay Kapoor The US President's visit tonight threatens the Manmohan Singh regime A TUMULTUOUS welcome awaits United States President George W Bush when he lands in New Delhi tonight For security reasons, the White House has not formally announced the details of his
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    • this quirky world
      • 61 12 -AP Hoping to get to the bottom of an office prank, a hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has ordered 25 employees to undergo DNA testing or be terminated, since nobody admitted responsibility. The Woman's Hospital officials said a maintenance man returned from several weeks
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      • 61 12 A guidebook sponsored by the British government for England fans at the upcoming World Cup suggests German phrases for insulting the referee, London's The Times newspaper reported. The book explains how to say "Ref, we know where your car is" {Schiri, wirwissen wo dein auto
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      • 78 12 A Sudanese man has been forced to marry a goat after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he caught the man in the act with his goat and took him to a council
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    • 230 14 KUALA LUMPUR The authorities in the Malaysian state of Johor have threatened to jail foreigners who trek into the its jungles looking for the legendary "Big Foot" creature, reported the BBC. State forestry department official warned that "Big Foot" hunters
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    • 452 14 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday increased retail prices of petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas by as much as 23 per cent, but pledged not to raise them further this year, the Prime Minister's Office said. The sudden increases came as a surprise
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    • 722 16  -  CLEMENT MESENAS The average poor Filipino looks the other way as a political drama unfolds in Manila EDITOR-AT-LARGE IN MANILA clement@newstoday.com.sg LAST Friday's protest rally to mark the 20th anniversary of People Power and to force a increasinglyunpopular President Gloria Arroyo to
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    • 242 16 LONDON Britain's Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, who successfully headed London's 2012 Olympic bid in Singapore last year, faces an uncertain political future after more potentially damaging details over her personal finances emerged yesterday. Ms Jowell, a close ally of Prime Minister Tony
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    • 186 18 LONDON Police have questioned a former British judo champion and searched his kick boxer friend's house in attempts to solve last week's armed robbery of a record £53 million ($l5O million), reported The Times of London. But police refused to confirm if Mr Chris Bowles, who
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    • 443 18 -AGENCIES JAKARTA Tapping on his laptop computer, wearing a white polo shirt and Rolex, Mr Nasir Abas (picture) looks like an ordinary Asian businessman until he begins to talk about his days as a terrorist. The 36-year-old Malaysian admits he was a leader of
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 79 18 -AP An estimated 300,000 Malaysian couples between the ages of 20 and 40 suffer from infertility, a news report quoting Health Minister Chua Soi Lek said yesterday. The birth rate for 2005 dropped to 19.6 per 1,000 persons compared to 20 births per 1,000
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      • 58 18 -AFP At least eight villagers were wounded when a bomb went off at a food market early yesterday in Thailand's restive south, police said. The small bomb exploded at the market in Narathiwat, one of three Muslim-majority southern provinces. None of the
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    • 244 18 —AP WASHINGTON Former Playboy playmate turned weight-loss promoter Anna Nicole Smith (picture) faced the scales of justice yesterday, a Supreme Court showdown with millions of dollars on the line. Justices have been drawn into a nasty family feud over the
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    • 190 18 -AFP SYDNEY Already banned from pubs and clubs, Australian smokers may soon no longer be able to light up in their own cars if a new law is passed by the New South Wales state parliament. A private member's Bill proposing a
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    • 702 19 Medisave MediShield Medifund Feeling secure with Medisave Self-employed Singaporean shares on the importance of regular Medisave contributions TANHUILENG huileng@newstoday.com.sg I WHENMsTeoSokLianwas hit by the economic M downturn in 2000 and 2001, 1& one of her worst i& nightmares was to be saddled with a big hospital bill. m L/^ Thatwas
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  • Voices
    • 236 20  -  HERBERTTEO Where's the media support? Letter from GREAT piece ("So exhilarating, this belief", Feb 24) and good on Today for supporting Singapore football with such in-depth coverage. I can't say the same for other newspapers that dish out nothing but foreign football, with little
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    • 200 20  -  BOON CHIN AUN Letter from THE morning after the Lions' win against Iraq, I heard some DJs on the radio claim that the track record of the Lions meant the win would be followed inevitably by defeat. A caller then went on to say
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    • 326 20  -  NARAYANA NARAYANA Letter from A RECENT discussion in your columns focused on why Singaporeans with deep local roots have tended to leave their homeland, with many choosing not to return. The report "A $50,000 handshake but still they ran" (Feb 24) has a slightly different twist
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    • 245 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY n* n PARENTAL INSENSITIVITY If there's one lesson that parents need to learn most urgently, it's to guard what they say in the presence of their children. Many times following speaking engagements, I've been approached by a mother about a particular problem
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    • 237 22  -  LIMWEIYI To breed goodwill, NUSS must work more closely with NUSto address welfare issues Letter from I READ with interest the report "NUSS throws new bait" (Feb 28). As a fresh graduate of the National University of Singapore (NUS), I believe the only way for
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    • 314 22  -  HENG CHO CHOON Letter from I AM always impressed by the man who delivers Today to my doorstep every morning at sam sharp. I can't say the same about the rest of Singapore's adherence to punctuality. I always dread traditional Chinese wedding dinners. The invitation
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    • 692 24  -  Mr Miyagi CHIP OFF THE BLOG news@newstoday.com.sg A flood of tributes for Sri Lanka born-Raja who gave Singapore its Pledge THE blog "Singapore Life Times" (singaporelifetimes.blogspot.com)has this to say about last week's passing of former Second Deputy Prime Minister S Rajaratnam: "He was absent
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    • 176 26  -  THOMAS SEOW Letter from Deputy Director (Upgrading) for Director (Development Procurement) Housing Development Board I REFER to Chow Jan Man's letter "Field of dreams turned pile of trash" (Feb 24). The football field is adjacent to the Bedok Reservoir precinct which has
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    • 322 26  -  EUNICE OLSEN Change should help S'poreans, regardless of race Letter from I WRITE about the comment attributed to me in the sidebar accompanying the report "Doors open, will youth step through?" (Feb 27). The article attributed a quote to me as: "It's important for us to be
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    • 102 26  -  SEETOWEIPENGI Letter from (MS) Head, Corporate Communications Centre for Research, e-Nnovation and Statistics (CReST) WE REFER to the letters from Ms Sabrina Choo ("Standardise training of mediators", Feb 24) and Mr Steve Ngo ("Community Mediation cannot be taught", Feb 27). With regard to Ms Choo's letter,
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    • 221 27  - It takes all kinds JANICACHAN There's the g00d... Letter from THERE are a lot of articles complaining that Singapore is not a gracious society. And that our fellow Singaporeans are selfish and self-centred. I think we should not judge all Singaporeans based on a few bad encounters we've had. At
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    • 155 27  - and there's the ugly IRENECHEONG Letter from I'M disappointed to witness Singaporeans smoking in coffee shops, despite posters reminding them of the smoking ban. It seems even coffee shop operators and their helpers cannot be bothered to tell these people off. The way things are going, it seems this "law"
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    • 112 27  -  LYNETTETAN Letter from I READ with interest the letter, "I say Ang Mo Kio, you say tomato" (Feb 24). Road names in Singapore are indeed interesting. Years ago, my Malaysian Chinese friends came to Singapore and we were talking about meeting at Bukit Merah. The
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    • 146 27  -  FRANKIE CHAN Letter from I REFER to the complaints about rats running around Housing Development Board estates, and HDB's reply on the issue. For me, the menace is cats. The problem has been going on for almost a year. Every day, I am irked to
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    • 549 28 DOW JONES Vantage buys more shares of Web-telephony provider to fend off Mediaßing VANTAGE Corp said yesterday that it planned to continue buying shares in Nasdaq-listed Pacific Internet (PacNet), opening a new front in a battle for control with Mediaßing. "It will not take us
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    • 353 28 -DOW JONES OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) posted a net profit of $1.3 billion for last year, compared with $1.15 billion in 2004 when the bank booked $97 million in gains from divestments. Net interest income rose 35.5 per cent to $3.47 billion. Singapore's and South-east Asia's
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      • 135 28 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed at a new six-year high as investors took a positive cue from modest gains on Wall Street. The ST Index closed up 4.59 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 2,481.96. Gainers narrowly led losers 281 to 258 while 1.22 billion shares worth $1.24 billion
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      • 322 30 AGENCIES Operating loss of $14 million on sales of just $20.7 million CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore), or CAO, which is reorganising after a US$55O-million ($893-million) trading loss, said that it posted a profit last year, helped by contributions from investments by associates such as China's
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      • 143 30 DOWJONES NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) reported a 15-per-centfall in net profit for last year from 2004 as fuel costs rose sharply. It posted a net profit of US$BO4 million ($1.31 billion), or 55.35 US cents a share, compared to U*****.7 million, or 65.47 US cents,
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      • 191 30 DOW JONES SINGAPORE marine and utilities conglomerate SembCorp Industries yesterday said that 2005 net profitfell 22.5 per cent from a year earlier when earnings were inflated by one-time gains. The company reported a net profit of $303.3 million, or 16.96 cents per
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      • 134 30 SESDAQ-listed food and beverage chain Bread Talk Group yesterday reported a fullyear net profit of $1.2 million for the year ended Dec 31, 2005, reversing a net loss of $31,000 in 2004. This was due to an 89.9-per-cent rise in group revenue to $95.3
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      • 286 31 -DOW JONES But in 2005, firm's profit fell 11.8% to $200 m PROPERTY group City Developments (CityDev) yesterday said that its full-year net profit fell 11.8 per cent from a year earlier when earnings were boosted by one-time gains. CityDev earned $200.4 million, or
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      • 357 31 OAF had a net profit of $23.9 million, or 5.4 cents per share, for the 12 months ended Dec 31, more than double the previous year's earnings of $10 million, or 2.8 cents a share. Its sales rose 42.9 per cent to $885.9 million, up from $620 million a
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      • 862 34  -  WILLIAM PESEK BLOOMBERG news@newstoday.com.sg ANYONE mulling the outlook for Asia can disregard the pile of data published by governments. Forget analysts' predictions. Ignore stock prices and bond yields. More luck will be had looking out the window. It's there, on the streets below, where
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      • 619 36 BLOOMBERG Government to spend more on power and roads to spur GDP growth to 10 per cent INDIA'S government will increase spending on power plants, roads and ports to help boost annual economic growth to 10 per cent and challenge China as the world's fastest-growing major economy.
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      • 377 37  -  VALERIE LAW Takes its 'life-long learning' motto overseas valerie@newstoday.com.sg A 50-year old homegrown education services provider is going regional to take advantage of the growing demand for corporate consultancy services. The 10-year-old consultancy arm of the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) started offering services in
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      • 195 37 THE head of the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Asme) has called for the establishment of a high-level committee to help Singapore's SMEs venture abroad. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Mr Lawrence Leow, who is also a Nominated MP, urged the
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    • 299 39 1960 Born to a musically inclined Eurasian family. He has two younger sisters. Sheila and Claressa,who is a singer in her own right. 1976 Completed secondary education at St Joseph's Institution and embarked on a music career. 1977 After leading a middle-aged band, he signed on with EMI to
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      • 145 40  -  AUDREY BENEDICT WRI+ES: I AGREE that the security was too strict at the Oasis concert. Every 15 minutes or so, the security staff came and shone a torch on our faces. The girl behind me was so angry and shouted: "Get that thing out of my
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      • 83 40  -  OLIVIER DELAMARRE WRI+ES THE Oasis concert was my first concert in Singapore, and it will be my last one. I was angry, sad and astonished. I've never heard such a poor sound system before. The lighting was also quite poor, and I was disappointed that there
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      • 122 40  -  JAMES HOVE WRI+ES I WAS standing about four rows from the stage. As the intensity of the atmosphere increased, the crowd surged from side to side and a few girls fell. This was due to a few drunken youth barging into the crowd. The man next
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      • 191 40  -  OLLY MICHAELS WRI+ES ONE has to think that the security personnel at the concert were almost instructed to make life miserable for the audience. For goodness sake, let patrons who have paid good money to see a popular band have some fun. The house lights came
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      • 122 40  - Elsewhere in HK DARREN CHEN WRI+ES I WAS at the earlier gigs by Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters in Singapore and the security staff were aggressive. But these are rock gigs and I would presume that most of the people who paid good money would want to enjoy themselves,
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    • 261 40  -  UNDER fire again for overzealous security and an inferior sound system at the recent Oasis and Franz Ferdinand concerts, the Singapore Indoor Stadium has responded by stressing that the public tends to have misconceptions when it comes to its sound system and
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    • 294 41  -  AMELYNN LIONG JOCIE Guo can finally show her face. Previously known as a cartoon character, the Singapore songbird Jocie revealed her identity in her recently released third album, No More Panic! The 24-year-old said with a laugh: "Each time I ask when I can show
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    • 757 42  -  FELIX CHEONG Bangkok International Film Festival gunned for tourism rather than promotion of Thai films plus@newstoday.com.sg IF PLATITUDES are anything to go by, then the 4th Bangkok International Film Festival, which ended on Monday, certainly achieved its main aim: Promoting tourism in the kingdom. Almost to
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    • 301 42  -  —AMELYNN LIONG HONG Kong Cantopop celebrity Alan Tarn does an Eddie Murphy in his latest movie, 1318. Like the Hollywood actor who portrayed numerous roles in The Nutty Professor, Tarn took up six roles in the romantic comedy that co-stars fellow Hong Kong
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    • 180 43  -  AMELYNN LIONG THE latest twin singing sensations from Taiwan, 2moro, were eager to share their differences. Well, at least that was what younger twin Angus Guo (picture, left) did. In town to promote their debut album Twins' First Disc, the boys' meeting with the media last Friday
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    • 146 43 -AP LONDON It's the latest twist for the mega-selling conspiracy thriller The Da Vinci Code: A lawsuit against the book's publisher for breach of copyright that could taint the novel and delay the much-antici-pated movie version. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of the
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    • 254 43 AGENCIES George Michael sheepish about his drug arrest in London LONDON George Michael admitted on Monday that his arrest for suspected drug possession in London was "my own stupid fault, as usual". The 42-year-old British pop singer was arrested on Saturday after he was found slumped
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    • 654 57  -  LEONG WEE KEAT With contract up and after recent lows, SRU eager for April tournament to be a huge success weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Rugby Union's three-year agreement with the International Rugby Board (IRB) to host one leg of the IRB Sevens Series ends this April, after
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    • 346 57  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE 10 Singapore Rugby Union (SRU) staff served with termination letters early last month were reinstated yesterday. "It is in the best interest of the sport that the staff carry on their good work," SRU's newly appointed president Low Teo Ping said
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    • 189 57  -  LEONGWEEKEAT FOUR "international big name" consortiums have submitted bids to build and manage the Singapore Sports Hub, when the deadline for submission of the pre-qualif ication documents closed yesterday. While government tender procedures ensured he could not reveal the names of the consortiums, Singapore
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    • 806 58  -  DARREN LAI New S-League CEO expects excitement levels to go up several notches this season da rren@newstoday.com.sg BIGGER salaries, higher quality foreigners, fitter players and Sporting Afrique: With these four ingredients, S-League's new chief executive officer, Winston Lee, hopes that the new season will turn out to
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    • 297 58  -  DARREN LAI WITH the new S-League season just one week away, Home United have suffered a series of blows that could potentially threaten their title ambitions this year. During the current pre-season, they have had to cope without most of their national team stars
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    • 621 59  -  Jose Raymond in Amman jose@newstoday.com.sg After an unsettling few days, Avramovie confident his Lions are switched on ASIAN CUP QUALIFIER, GRPE Palestine v Singapore THEY may have had to cope with a number of distractions in the build-up to the match, but Lions coach Radojko Avramovic
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    • 318 59  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN AMMAN HE COULD have been the man the Lions looked to for goals today. Instead, on Monday back home, Agu Casmir was busy saying sorry for some errant behaviour that saw the striker hit with a $20,000 fine and a one-year international ban.
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    • 275 60 —AFP LONDON England under-21 coach Peter Taylor declared himself a candidate to succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson as boss of the senior national side after the World Cup in Germany. Taylor has won plaudits for his work with England's emerging talent and for guiding Hull City into
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    • 627 60 THE GUARDIAN With Perez' exit, Real can go about building a football team once more MADRID The emperor with the new clothes finally realised his nakedness. Florentino Perez, the architect of the Galacticos, football's greatest romantic or perhaps its greatest cynic, has departed Real Madrid
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    • 510 62 -AGENCIES Brazil favourites, but WORLD CUP WARM-UP Russia v Brazil SAO PAULO Diego Maradona said that Brazil have the greatest chance to win the World Cup in Germany 2006. However, the Argentine legend added that he wouldn't be surprised if the five-time world champions fall short this
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    • 360 62 ■AFP LONDON Ruud van Nistelrooy has demanded a recall to the Manchester United starting line-up, but attempted to play down reports of a bust-up with Sir Alex Ferguson. The Dutch striker looked miserable after being left out of United's 4-0 League Cup
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    • 325 62 -AFP n Bayern Munich midfielder Michael Ballack has denied reports that he has agreed a four-year deal with Chelsea. According to the Daily Mail yesterday, Germany's skipper a free agent in the summer was offered a contract worth £121,000-a-week ($343,216) during talks in London in January.
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    • 336 63 -AFP WORLD CUP WARM-UP Italy v Germany FLORENCE European superpowers Italy and Germany square up today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) in an ea-gerly-anticipated friendly that will help gauge their World Cup credentials. Both countries are among the favourites in Germany this summer
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    • 637 63 —THE GUARDIAN Public still angry after tabloid revelations, but manager has his players' backing WORLD CUP WARM-UP England v Uruguay LONDON There was a time when SvenGoran Eriksson would be guaranteed a standing ovation simply for decorating English football with his presence. Early in his employment
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