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    17 1 TODAY /AS£J]J-\COR.P March 11 12, 2006 mica<p» 114/07/2005 share your free newspaper we set you thinking todayonline.com
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    THE APOLITICAL SINGAPOREAN
    1291 1  -  LEE U WEN He doesn't know much, won't get involved and can't accept that he's part of the process u-wern»newstoaay.com.sg WITH a General Election on the horizon, Faye Tan says she almost can't wait to vote, if she gets the chance of course. But ask her to
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      57 2 12th Mar 2006, Sunday 10am Singapore Conference Hall Level 3, Main Concert Hall English Service with Mandarin Interpretation via headset 13th Mar 2006, Monday 7.30pm Marketplace Christian Fellowship Venue: DBS Auditorium [Opp. Singapore Conference Hall] (Light refreshments will be served from 6.30pm to 7.20pm) JSK, LIVING FAITH CHURCH xjl www.thelivingfaith.org
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  • hot news
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      Of costlier cuppas
      526 3  -  ANSLEYNG Coffee up by 20 cents at some stalls; customers urged to report profiteering a nsley@newstoday.com.sg WITH the price of a cup of kopi-0 looking set to rise at coffee shops around the island, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has urged coffee lovers to report operators
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      'Half-bridge' to S'pore by 2009: Reports
      325 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to push ahead and complete building a "halfbridge" to Singapore by 2009. During a visit to Johor, Deputy Minister of Works Mohamed Zin Mohamed revealed that 5 per cent of the preliminary work had been completed and that all the
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      Lock icon The tale of two bus stops
      490 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg POTONG Pasir residents are somewhat used to getting double of everything with their incumbent Member of Parliament Chiam See Tong and his People's Action Party challenger, Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, both serving their needs. But two bus stops within 3m of each
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      Schools alerted to rising HFMD after outbreak in Brunei and Sarawak
      251 4  -  TAN HUI LENG THE recent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) outbreak in Sarawak and Brunei, which has killed six children, has got the attention of the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH). In Singapore, 1,461 HFMD cases were recorded
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      Lock icon Opposition could field up to 52 candidates
      574 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG ANSLEYNG, JASMINE YIN Half-hour meeting irons out most issues, only one 3-cornered fight cheekong@newstoday.com. sg BEFORE Friday night, the word on the street was that the Opposition was not united, with potential three-cor-nered fights in several constituencies including the newly-carved outwards of
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      450 5 fc?SMU SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY More than an Open House A celebration of ideas Claire Chiang J| I Senior Vice President lHj^'r £*-"j SMU °Pen House w KMsW 11 &12 March 2006 Ak i" (Sat sun]i 10am -6pm ft id'- SMU Administration Building, 81 Victoria Street 100% employment for our graduates,
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      Sleep in and still catch your flight
      314 6  -  VALERIE LAW Spores Ist airport hotel, linked to T3, opens in 2008 valeri e@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S first hotel airport, parked next to Changi Airport, is expected to be ready by mid-2008, boasting 350 rooms with full facilities, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Caas)
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      Lock icon Maxtor axes 1,100
      165 6 -938 LIVE DISK drive maker Maxtor has retrenched about 1,100 workers, about half of whom are Singaporeans. Even old-timers who had worked for 20 years were not spared. National Trades Union Congress' (NTUC) assistant secretarygeneral Halimah Yacob said the number was part of the 5,500 jobs the
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      Petrol prices and the 6¢ see-saw ride
      152 6 PETROL companies played a see-saw game on Friday, with petrol prices rising and falling within hours. Caltex, for instance, cut pump prices by 6 cents a litre at 4pm, after increasing prices by the same amount at 10am earlier in the day. It
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon MGM-CAPITALAND ROPE IN MEDIA ASIA FOR MARINA BAY IR BID
        90 6 Dow Jones United States casino operator MGM Mirage and Singapore developer Capita Land announced a tie-up with Media Asia Associates in their joint bid to build a casino resort in Marina Bay. MGM-CapitaLand hoped to tap Media Asia's wide network
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        WONG KAN SENG TO VISIT LONDON
        68 6 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng will visit London from Monday to Thursday at the invitation of the British Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Mr Wong will meet with Mr Clarke and other key British officials to discuss issues of
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        Lock icon RENU SOLUTIONS'VOUCHER EXCHANGE
        84 6 938 Live Bausch Lomb is holding a two-week voluntary product exchange programme for its ReNu solutions at its centre at Millenia Walk, Level 1, from Wedneday. It said there was no scientific evidence to conclude ReNu caused the fungal eye infections here, and the move was to
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        Lock icon SUSPECT REVISITS TODDLER KILLING
        60 6 Channel News Asia The police tookthe alleged murderer of two-year-old Nurasyura Mohamed Fauzi back to the crime scene on Friday. Mohd Ali Johari, 29, clad in a T-shirt, shorts and slippers, retraced for officers the steps he had taken to the Aljunied flyover, where the toddler's
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        Lock icon FEW POLICE LETTERS SENT TO PARENTS
        64 6 Channel NawsAsia So far, the police have sent out fewer than 10 letters to the parents of youths found in public after 11 pm. They said the initiative may be reviewed. Senior assistant commissioner Tan Puay Kern said: "Although we have sent out a
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        Lock icon SAVH TASK FORCE COMPLETES WORK
        77 6 938 Live On Friday, the three-member task force from the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) completed its work to help the Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) rectify weaknesses in its governance and management. Since last October, it has helped design practices, policies
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        Lock icon 4 SUSPECTS HELD FOR TRAFFICKING
        47 6 -938 Live Four Chinese men have been caught for alleged drug trafficking in the Yishun area. Close to $30,000 worth of synthetic drugs, including about 1,500 Erimin-5 tablets, were seized. The suspects comprised a TV repairman, two unemployed men and a hawker.-
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      Lock icon Suicide rate here one of the lowest in Asia
      649 8  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com.sg MORE people in Singapore die committing suicide than from road traffic accidents. That's an average of one suicide a day, accounting for one of the top three causes of death among those aged 15 to 35. Even
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      Lock icon AlJazeera MARCHES ON
      936 10 THE GUARDIAN The controversial broadcaster has a new English channel, big stars and centres at Doha, XL, London and Washington PRESIDENTIAL Room 5, Sheraton Hotel, Doha. The doyen of chatshow hosts has just flown in to Qatar and for once it is his turn to face the
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      Headscarves not compulsory in schools
      218 10 KUALA LUMPUR Muslim girls should not be forced to wear headscarves in schools, Malaysia's education minister said on Friday after children were punished for going bare-headed during sports. Education authorities are investigating the actions of a school principal in Penang, who withdrew two netball teams
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      Lock icon Why close pig farms owned by Chinese?
      227 10 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Ethnic Chinese pig breeders in Malaysia are protesting an order in Malacca state to close their farms, claiming the move was politically motivated, activists said on Friday. The Veterinary Services Department in Malacca has sent notices to 82 hog-rear-ing farms
      -AP  -  227 words
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      Lock icon Black magic opposition
      478 12 AGENCIES They are using all means to try to destroy me: Thaksin BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a firm believer in astrology and the supernatural, conceded on Friday that the stars have not been in his favour lately, but said his enemies were taking it a
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      Lock icon Dubai to sell P&O's US port operations
      217 12 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The White House on Thursday said the decision by DP World to sell its port operations in the United States should end the rift between President George W Bush and the Republican majority in Congress. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said
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      Lock icon Dad who drugged his children's tennis rivals jailed for eight years
      325 14 -THE GUARDIAN MONT-DE-MARSAN (France) An obsessive French father accused of drugging his children's tennis rivals six boys and 21 girl and killing one of them unintentionally has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment Christophe Fauviau, 46, was found guilty
      -THE GUARDIAN; AFF  -  325 words
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      Lock icon Torture blues stalk the US
      431 14 -AGENCIES Abu Ghraibto be abandoned,but what about Guantanamo Bay? WASHINGTON The United States government on Thursday tried to end the chapter on Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison that will be linked forever with images of detainees stripped naked and humiliated by American jailors, but a
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  431 words
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      Graduated cut-off for aid?
      145 16  -  CHANG WEI MENG Letter from THE Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sports is to be lauded for the $100 m Com Care package to help out the lower income group. However, the cutoff income of $1,500 seems a tad inflexible and absolute for those who
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      A sad tale, maid in Singapore
      855 16  -  Neil Humphreys Denying maids mandatory rest days is a crying shame THE toilet had to be cleaned last week. According to our ad hoc roster, it was supposed to be my wife's turn. But my stomach's appalling reaction to an overcooked pizza the previous
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    • Matter of a few bad apples
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        Failure no reason to buck global trend of welcoming foreign talent
        461 17  -  HAKIKATRAI Letter from I REFER to Leonard Thomas' commentary, "Enough already with foreign talent bashing" (March 10). Singaporeans should realise the sooner the better that the Foreign Talent Scheme (FTS) is the way to go. There should be no
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        It's not the scheme, it's the players
        161 17  -  SIMON ZEE Letter from I THINK Leonard Thomas missed the point raised by many on the Agu case. Most are not against the FST scheme. What we are against is foreign talent with unprofessional behaviour who fail to uphold the Singaporean image. There
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        Why don't we have good sportspeople?
        117 17  -  AZHAR KHAMIS Letter from FOREIGN talent such as Li Jiawei spent their whole life playing the sport in their home country. It is not that Singaporeans do not want to do the same; we cannot afford to. The Government is not doing enough to
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        MINIMUM STANDARDS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
        87 18  -  HENRY LEE I REFER to your article, "Shattered confidence in flat windows" (March 9). To take the easy way out of a situation, the standard excuse often given by government agencies is it complies with industry standards, or ISO standards, or world standards, etc. Published
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        HIS GOOD MANNERS GOING TO WASTE
        120 18  -  CHRISTOPHER LIM I WOULD to highlight a rare individual's passion for his work. This bus captain has never failed to greet his passengers and flash a pleasant smile a great way to start my working day. He's unlike the usual grouchy bus captains I
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    • Hear us out
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        How to speak up when youth are shut out from decisions?
        213 18  -  AARON NG Yl KAI Letter from I REFER to the report "Better engage the shapers of tomorrow' (March 9). On behalf of fellow undergraduates, I thank Nominated MP Eunice Olsen for voicing out in Parliament the main cause of
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        How the students see 'justifications'
        241 18  -  THOMAS CHAN HEAN BOON Letter from I AGREE with East Coast GRC MP Tan Soo Khoon that NUS' announcement to raise its tuition fees was untimely and poor PR. While the Government is giving out Budget surpluses to Singaporeans and helping students so that they
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    • Article
      Why no Medisave for Lasik
      162 18  -  KAREN TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Ministry of Health IN THE letter "Medisave for Lasik surgery" (March 8), Mr Wong Teck Tian asked for Medisave to be used for Lasik operations. The basic objective of the Medisave scheme is to ensure that Singaporeans have
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Shin deal on course
      304 20 -AGENCIES Telecoms firm says it is unaware of any change in plans by Temasek BANGKOK- Thailand's Shin Corp said on Friday that it was unaware of any change in plans by Singapore's Temasek Holdings over the latter's tender offer for the shares of the telecommunications giant
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      Lock icon NTUC offers 3.99% fixed rate home loan
      183 20 CHANNEL NEWSASIA INSURANCE co-operative NTUC Income has fired the latest salvo in the housing loans market, offering a fixed rate of 3.99 per cent for private properties. It hopes this will appeal to potential homeowners who would like to have better visibility. Housing
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      Lock icon MAS, Air Asia share domestic routes: NST
      133 20 DOW JONES MALAYSIA has decided to split the country's domestic air routes between national carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and budget carrier Air Asia as part of a rationalisation plan, the New Straits Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources. MAS will concentrate on
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    • marketwatch
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        ST Index — 2,496.73 -7.52
        4 20 ST Index 2,496.73 -7.52
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        Lock icon Singapore
        58 20 -AFP SHARES closed lower on Friday, in line with Wall Street's losses overnight and on fresh concerns oil prices could head higher once again, dealers said. The ST Index fell 7.52 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 2,496.73. In the broad market, losers beat gainers 328 to 217. Traded
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        World markets
        58 20 Nikkei 225 HK Hang Seng Australia ASX200 Korea Comp Thailand SET 16,115.63 +78.72 15,445.05 -65.08 4,888.10 -6.30 1,320.07 +8.86 728.18 -0.81 +0.49 -0.42 -0.13 +0.68 -0.11 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,247.42 +7.85 2,103.37 -6.40 242.86 +3.64 +0.63 -0.30 +1.52 Mumbai Sensex Malaysia KLCI 10,765.16 +191.62 921.96
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        Lock icon Commodities
        29 20 SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 544.90 Silver US$/oz 9.87 Platinum US$/oz 1,013.00 Rubber cents/kg 331.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,445.00 Brant crude USS/barrel 61.18 Information provided by and
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 20 US$ 0.6141 UK£ 0.3536 Yen 72.665 HK$ 4.7684 RM 2.2835 Euro 0.5151 Rupiah 5,676.5 Baht 23.999 Peso 31.485 AS 0.8359 Indian Rs 27.334 Won 602.15 C$ 0.7141 Yuan 4.9457 NZS 0.9562 NT$ 19.973
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  • business news
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      Lock icon Ex-Brilliant chairman to be sentenced on March 31
      169 22 CHOW PENN NEE THE sentencing of the former executive chairman and managing director of Brilliant Manufacturing, Harry Koh Soe Khon, has been adjourned to March 31 as the court wanted to consider further submissions on a particular charge relating to Koh's concealment
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      Lock icon India is Forbes' 'rising star'
      466 22 India is Forbes 'rising star' -AFP It provides 10 new faces to the world's richest list comprising 793 billionaires NEW YORK A surging stock market has Indians knocking on the door of the global billionaires club like never before and swelling the number of 10-figure personal fortunes in the Asia-Pacific
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      Lock icon S'pore economy to grow 5.9% this year: MAS survey
      295 22 DOW JONES THE Singapore economy will grow at 5.9 per cent this year, at the top end of a Government forecast, but slower than last year's 6.4-per-cent pace, according to a quarterly central bank survey of economists published on Friday. The
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      Lock icon Notes from the red carpet
      757 24  -  PEARLYN THAM Pearlyn Tham What I learned from the Oscars, the biggest fashion event on earth pea rlyn@newstoday.com.sg I'M caught in a time warp for most things. My jeans are circa 1998 a crime if your fashion-policing friends bought their 20th pair just yesterday. I
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    • style
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        It's spot on for spots off
        284 26  -  PEARLYN THAM Corrector pen allows for precision whitening pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a sleek silver-blue tube that could be easily mistaken for a luxurious designer pen, but instead of ink, this pen dispenses a high concentration of skin whitening ingredients. The Cyber White Intensive Laser
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        317 26  -  PEARLYNTHAM WHEN it comes to make-up, there is the adage that you shouldn't wear more than a few colours at any one time. But it can be a different story altogether if you apply natural and subtle colours. Take, for instance, Revlon's look
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          126 26 You can catch the stars in person at Tampines Mall during the school holidays this month. TVB artistes Xenix Kwok, Frankie Lam, Kevin Cheng and Elaine Yiu from Hong Kong will be at the Open Plaza, Level 4, on Saturday at 6pm. Your kids, on the
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          A FORUM FAIRY TALE
          118 26 It's fairytale time at Forum The Shopping Mall. On Saturday and March 17 from 2pm to 4pm, your children can listen to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and also take part in the Make Your Own Teddy Bear workshop. The latter is specially
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        Well into his yoga years
        651 28  -  AMANDA KOH That's how True guru Patrick Wee looks 10 years younger a ma nda@newstoday.com.sg THE chief executive officer of the True chain which runs True Yoga and latest additions True Spa and True 'Est is the archetype of the urban, wellgroomed, confident and fashionable
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        A moisturising solution for all
        255 28  -  LEE HUI SHAN INTENSE THERAPY: The Aqurea moisturising cream contains 10 per cent urea to lock in moisture, providing relief for dehydrated skin. DRY, rough and scaly skin is a turn-off. Not only is it unsightly, it feels uncomfortable. In extreme cases, dehydrated skin can
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          WEAR A MESSAGE OF HOPE ...
          93 28 WEAR A MESSAGE OF HOPE in the form of a fragrance. You can do so with the special edition of DKNY Be Delicious women's and men's fragrances that come in bottles and boxes inscribed with fashion designer Donna Karan's personal message of love, peace and hope. A portion of the
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          PLEASURES GET EXOTIC
          72 28 Estee Lauder's Pleasures fragrance gets a new exotic, tropical twist to it with the introduction of the new Pleasures Exotic. It is made from a cocktail of ingredients such as green leaves, pink grapefruit, orange, bamboo flowers, peony and Indian sandalwood. While the original Pleasures fragrance was
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          A PRISM OF COLOURS AND SCENTS
          72 28 You'll be drawn to the delightful prism of shades in Givenchy's latest fragrance Lovely Prism. The fragrance itself is magen-ta-coloured and its luxurious glass bottle is topped off by a turquoise blue ring. Inside, you will find a heady concoction of ingredients such as
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          PARISIAN ROSES IN SPRING
          63 28 Feel like you are amid a fragrant orchard bursting with the sweet aroma of fruit when you wear the new limited edition YSL Paris 2006 Springtime EDT ($79). Also known by the more romantic moniker of Roses dcs Vergers, this is a fruity-floral scent with notes
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        606 29  -  LOW SHI PING Tuck into delicious salads, spring rolls, noodle and rice dishes at affordable prices f ood@newstoday.com.sg IN RECENT years, Vietnam has witnessed a proliferation of modern cafes serving traditional Vietnamese fare. Inspired, local entrepreneur Scan Lee decided to bring the concept to Singapore
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        MOTOROLA RAZR V3X MOBILE PHONE
        113 30 Everyone's favourite Razr now comes with 3G functionality. The Motorola Razr V3x clamshell features a 2megapixel camera with 8x zoom and macro mode setting, and real-time two-way video calling and video streaming capabilities. Store your multimedia files on the 64M8 internal memory or make use
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        HP PAVILION A1300 SERIES HOME PC
        109 30 The HP Pavilion al3OO series home PC offers one central command interface for all audio-video media DVD, TV, music, video and images and easy-to-use tools for content creation and enjoyment. Built on Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and the latest Intel processor, the al3OO
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        PHILIPS 768 MOBILE PHONE
        92 30 Immerse yourself in music and multimedia when you're not chatting away with the Philips 768 mobile phone. You can snap pictures using the integrated 1.3-megapixel camera and record video clips at 30 frames per second. There's also a built-in audio player that lets you listen to
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        ALTEC LANSING VS4221 STEREO SPEAKER SYSTEM
        88 30 The V ***** stereo speaker system from Altec Lansing boasts a full-featured wireless remote control and down-firing three-inch midrange drivers to deliver topnotch surround sound. Whether it is music that you are playing from your PC, television set, DVD player, game console or MP3
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      Samsung surprises
      782 30  -  ARIEL TAM Korean firm spares no effort to impress with new offerings IN HANOVER,GERMANY ariel@newstoday.com.sg SAMSUNG Electronics has always been a heavy hitter in the area of consumer electronics. And at the Ceßit 2006 IT trade fair held in Hanover, Germany this week, it was no surprise that
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      Sony takes first place in Singapore LCD market
      158 30 SONY leapt to first place in the Singapore liquid crystal display (LCD) television market from November last year, after its launch of the Bravia displays in October. Based on the GfK Singapore Retail Audit Report, Sony attained 22 per cent market share
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        Lenovo has landed
        291 31 THE first Lenovo-branded PCs are finally here. The Lenovo 3000 product line, targeted at small businesses and individuals, includes the Lenovo C Series notebooks and the Lenovo J Series desktop computers. The C Series notebooks are equipped with Intel 915 GM chipset. You can choose from Pentium
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        Two 'eyes' are better than one
        440 31  -  TREVOR TAN DIGITAL CAMERAREVIEW Kodak Easyshare V 570 World's first dual-lens digital camera released trevor@newstoday.com.sg INSTEAD of pumping up megapixels or other features into new cameras like some manufacturers, Kodak has decided that two lens are better than one! It has released the world's
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        Pure muscle
        738 32  -  COLIN YONG colin@newstoday.com.sg HOW you take to the new BMW Z4 M Roadster depends on how strong a dose of motoring excitement you like. If being behind the wheel of a car that cocoons its occupants and flatters the driver's mistakes is your thing, you can stop reading
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        Now Z's much better: Revised styling and new engines boost BMW's Z4 range
        383 32  -  COLIN YONG ITS unusual styling could be one of the reasons why the Z4 hasn't gone down with customers as well as BMW had hoped. The car's curvy predecessor, the Z3, averaged around 42,000 sales annually over
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        Command and conquer
        677 34  -  SHELDON TROLLOPE The imposing Jeep Commander will dominate anyroad you drive it on news@newstoday.com.sg THE Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) scene is now more varied than ever, with models in every size to suit just about every need. However, many SUVs are ditching off-road ability in favour of
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          VOLVO PREVIEWS NEW C7O
          78 34 Local Volvo distributor SM Motors has managed to get its hands on the first C7O to arrive in South-east Asia. The 2.5-litre coupe-cabriolet, which features a unique three-piece folding hardtop, will be available for viewing until April 8 at the Volvo showroom along Alexandra Road. Exact
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          NEW SERVICE CENTRE FOR HYUNDAI OWNERS
          89 34 Komoco Motors, which handles the Hyundai brand in Singapore, has opened a new service centre at Übi Road 3. The company invested $500,000 in this facility, which caters mainly to Hyundai owners living in the northern and eastern parts of the island. The building
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          SPIDER IS CABRIOLET OF THE YEAR
          86 34 Alfa Romeo's new Spider convertible has won what is arguably the most prestigious award there is for opentop cars. A jury of international automotive journalists voted unanimously for the car as the Cabriolet of the Year 2006. The award is given out at the
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        A flat-out test of your patience
        895 35  -  JANECHIAPOCO Frustration builds among property buyers due to delayed strata titles in M'sia janec@newstoday.com.sg AS PROPERTY prices rebound, some Singaporeans may find landed or private property here beyond their budget and turn covetous eyes towards more affordable Malaysia. But one should be aware of
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        The Vermont sale a testament to race within industry to launch tenders quickly
        370 35  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA shobha@newstoday.com.sg BUKIT Sembawang View has paid $75 million for the 30-unit The Vermont in Peck Hay Road in a sale that took only two months to materialise, attesting to the race within the industry to
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      Lock icon Dishing out novel cuisine
      1885 36  -  DAVID CHEW AND DON WONG david. chew@newstoday.com. sg ONCE upon a time, there was a bookshop that had been around for generations, whose owner and staff read all the books, knew all the customers and offered good, old-fash-ioned personalised service. One day, a book megastore set
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      206 38  -  —ASHRAFSAFDAR WHAT could a celebrity auction, a hair show, and high tea possibly have in common? Collectively called A Journey of Love, these events will be held to raise money for the Very Special Arts (VSA) at the Meritus Mandarin Ballroom this Saturday afternoon. Portraits
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      JEFF BARES ALL
      456 38  -  AMELYNN LIONG MediaCorp artiste reveals artistic side in pictorial book a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg MEDIACORP artiste Jeff Wang thinks he has what it takes and he is not afraid to bare all. Launching his pictorial book Bare on Thursday evening, Jeff has surely managed to shock-and-awe if that was
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        A real icon...
        88 39  -  ANNEYEO WRI+ES: I READ with interest this week's Plus Icons series on David Gan. I have always admired his guts and how he is not afraid to say what he thinks. David, you're no doubt one of Singapore's icons. I am 60 years old and much as
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        ... a brave man
        56 39  - a brave man RUSLI UMAR WRI+ES: I'VE always admired David Gan and followed his stories in newspapers and magazines. Like him, strangers would call me names because of my ap- pearance. But I would always remind myself that people who love to talk bad about others lack confidence in themselves.
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        ... and he's handsome too
        70 39  - and he's handsome too ROSALIND YAP i WRI+ES: THE first time I saw David Gan was in the 80s at his Lucky Plaza salon when he was not botak (bald). I saw him recently, praying at the Waterloo Street temple and he looked handsome. The thing I admire most about
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        But he can't do Fann's hair!
        68 39  -  ERIC HO WRI+ES: I AM an ardent fan of Farm Wong. One thing I cannot stand is that he often does "ugly" hairstyles for Farm. He always combs her hair upwards or makes it curly. Farm, whose forehead is very high, should have her
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      Lock icon And then there were twelve ...
      338 40 And then there were twelve -AP Final dozen of American Idol emerge as show continues to dominate US ratings LOS ANGELES Twelve down, 12 to go. Four more contestants Kinnik Sky, Ayla Brown, Will Makar and Gedeon McKinney were cut loose during American Idol's third elimination round of its fifth
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      Lock icon Jesusdecoded takes on the Da Vinci code
      372 40 -AFP LOS ANGELES US Catholic bishops launched a stinging Internet counter-attack on the best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, ahead of the release of Ron Howard's film version in May. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a website refuting key claims
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        Double the story and fun
        326 42  -  Jeanine Tan DVDREVIEW by ToyStory2 FILM: The sequel to Toy Story is every bit as whimsical and exuberant as the first but this time it has double the fun with the introduction of all-new characters. Vintage cowboy doll toy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is
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        Le Grand Voyage
        199 42  -  Jeanine Tan DVDREVIEW by THIS beautiful film about the relationship between a traditional French-Mo-roccan father and his modern teenage son goes beyond the standard treatment for parent-child films. A reluctant teenager, Reda (Nicholas Cazale) is forced by his father (Mohamed Majd) to drive cross-country from France to
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        327 42 -AFP LOS ANGELES Hollywood movie ticket sales around the world dropped by 7.9 per cent last year to US$23 billion ($37.4 billion), with the United States box office accounting for nearly 40 per cent of the haul, a study showed. Movie ticket receipts in
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        BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
        31 43  -  Jeanine Tan With much skill, Ang Lee crafts a heartbreaking film about two cowboys in a doomed affair that says plenty about repressed love with great subtlety and nuance.
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        CAPOTE
        29 43  -  Felix Cheong This biopic of celebrated novelist Truman Capote is a tad slow-moving but Philip Seymour Hoffman has the portrayal of the showy yet vulnerable author down pat.
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        34 43 An inspiring documentary that follows three groups of 11-year-olds in New York schools who are taught ballroom dancing as part of their curriculum and gain confidence and self-respect in the process.
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        MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS
        35 43  -  Neil Humphreys You won't be able to take your eyes off Judi Dench as a wealthy but eccentric liberal fascinated by "tits and bums", who introduces a nude revue in wartime London.
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        36 43 -FC As an espionage thriller, Steven Spielberg's latest work is up there with the best of them but as a political statement about Palestinian and Israeli rela- tions, it comes across as a little naive.
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE GAGA
        28 43 -JT (above) A smart little documentary that is as much a paean to the peculiarities of Singapore as a gentle mockery of this country's strange ways.
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        RUMOR HAS IT
        38 43  -  Zul Othman Thank goodness it's Jennifer Aniston who plays a woman who suspects her grandmother's life inspired the classic film. The Graduate, because she's the only reason this silly mush of a film passes muster.
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        Lock icon AN UNFINISHED LIFE
        33 43 ff Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman are a delight to watch, easy in their banter and emoting vulnerability without slipping into sentimentality in this drama about life after emotional healing.
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        Lock icon GUBRA
        34 43 -JT The sequel to the Malaysian interracial romance Sepetls a more polished attempt, although its strength lies more in the spot-on observations of cross-cultural differences than any real light shed on human emotions.
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        Lock icon MY GIRL AND I
        38 43 -JT The South Korean remake of the Japanese romantic hit Crying Out for Love in the Centre of the World is charming as first love is, but the director occasionally substitutes banality for innocence.-
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        37 43 NH This could go down as the most horrific horror movie of the year, only it's a factbased story on the real-life disappearances of hitchhikers in Australia, which is why it's all the more terrifying.-
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        34 43 -X (Above) As a transgender female. Felicity Huffman is a textbook example of an actress taking risks in transforming her body for the part, although the film eventually comes across as too calculated.-
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        29 43 JT Martin Lawrence goes in drag again as the sassy old biddy known as Big Momma in the utterly uninspired sequel to Big Momma's House.
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        Lock icon NANNY MCPHEE
        23 43 -FC Emma Thompson wastes her talent playing the titular character in Nanny McPhee, in which she wears prosthetics and godawful makeup.
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        33 43 -JT To make up for a lack of a plot. Underworld: Evolution, in which Kate Beckinsale returns as the vampire warrior Selene, offers audiences plenty of blood, gore and pseudo-Gothic sensibilities.
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        Lock icon DATE MOVIE
        19 43 -FC Another grossed out, politi-cally-incorrect movie spoof. But the pointless lampooning of everything is way so dated.-
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        26 43 JT Comedian Tim Allen's career's gone to the dogs. It's painful to watch him fetch a stick, for heaven's sake, on all fours.
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        TAKESHIS'
        21 43  -  Ross Wallace (Below) Random, repetitive, nonsensical, irritating, surreal and shamelessly selfindulgent. Cult actor-direc-tor Takeshi Kitano's new movie is exactly that.
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      147 46 HELPLINE EMERGENCY LINES City Gas (to report gas supply 1800-752-1800 interruption, low pressure and leakage) Civil Defence 995 (Fire and Emergency Ambulance) Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Police 999 Police hotline 1800-255-0000 SP Power Grid 1800-778-8888/ (to report power failure) 6778-8888 Traffic Police 6547-1818 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 HELPLINES —GENERAL Samaritans of Singapore
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      575 47 Good communication skills are crucial to help achieve targets at the workplace COMMUNICATION is a key driving force in every organisation. Everything you do in the workplace involves communication.Therefore good reading, writing, speaking and listening skills are essential if tasks are to be completed and
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      Lock icon HOPING FOR A BIG SPLASH IN 2008
      678 48  -  OUYANG KUNPENG theWEEKENPinterview WITH CHINA SWIM STAR HE OWNS the Asian record in the 100 m backstroke (54.095) and arrived in Singapore for the 7th Milo Asia Swimming Championships as one of the big names in the China contingent. Ouyang Kunpeng lived up
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      143 48 -AFP BERLIN German football was rocked by fresh allegations of a betting scandal on Friday after investigators confirmed they were probing a possible match-fixing ring. In November, the country's worst betting scandal in 40 years ended when referee Robert Hoyzer was sentenced to two years
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      757 49 —AFP English giants resume domestic fight in a possibly pivotal weekend FOOTBALL English Premiership LONDON Given the spirited way they deposed of Real Madrid in midweek, Arsenal are picking up more and more believers as they continue to pursue their ambition of returning to next season's
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      182 49 —AFP LONDON Chelsea's Ghana midfield star Michael Essien on Friday urged his team-mates to forget about their European heartbreak and focus on securing the club's first league and FA Cup double. With Essien suspended, the Blues crashed out of the Champions League at the
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        48 49 ITALY coach Marcello Lippi believes world champions Brazil will again be in the World Cup final this summer in Germany (June 9-July 9). But he insisted Italy are one of a half a dozen teams who could face them in the final on July 9.
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        50 49 WORLD Cup city Nuremberg is seeking around 30 people with foreign language ability to act as hosts during this summer's tournament. The Bavarian city needs hosts who can speakthe languages of the teams playing in the city's Franken-Stadion ground. These include Spanish, Farsi, Japanese, Croatian and English.
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        73 49 EARLY German elimination at the World Cup this summer would be bad for the country's economy, the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce said. Private consumer spending could fall should the host nation fail to go through the group stage at the tournament, DIHK economist Volker
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        64 49 FANS will be allowed to exchange or sell World Cup tickets via an internet website from March 27, a week later than planned. Transfers will be allowed to members of the same family or to other supporters under certain circumstances, the World Cup organisers said. The transfers
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      428 50  -  DARREN LAI Warriors struggle against luckless visitors NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 SAFFC 2 Home United 1 da rren@newstoday.com.sg IT MAY have seemed as if everything was going for the home side, but it was still hard work, as SAFFC eked out a narrow 2-1 win over Home
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      263 50  -  DARREN LAI THE first week of the S-League season has seen healthy crowds show up at football matches all over the island. Including Friday's SAFFC-Home United clash at Choa Chu Kang Stadium, there have been four matches so far and based on a
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      814 51  -  DARREN LAI Comeback club Gombak open their season against the might of Tampines NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Tampines Rovers v Gombak United da rren@newstoday.com.sg ONE captured their second consecutive S-League title last season and added the inaugural Asean Football Federations Club Championship trophy to their haul for
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      360 51  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg AS A player, Salim Mom was a powerful midfielder with a booming long-range shot. Older fans will remember him starring for the Lions alongside the likes of Fandi Ahmad, Terry Pathmanathan and Malek Awab in the 1980s. After
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      573 52  -  TANYO-HINN S'pore'sNo 1 on course to become first local winner of Singapore Masters GOLF, 2ND ROUND Osim Singapore Masters yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN THE past, a start like the one Mardan Mamat had on Friday would have taken him out of contention. Instead of building on his first round
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      280 52 -AGENCIES PARIS Premiership giants Arsenal, the sole English survivors in the Champions League, were drawn on Friday to play Italian outfit Juventus in the quarter-finals of the tournament The draw means Arsenal will go up against former hero Patrick Vieira, who left Highbury for Turin
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      818 53  -  Lan De Cotta Forget the infighting please, the new season promises to be an explosive battle FORMULA 1 Bahrain Grand Prix THERE is the usual hype, as the engines prepare to rev and the drivers ready themselves for a gruelling nine-month season of speed,
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      244 53  -  Colin Yong, I TODAY motoring correspondent 1 F Alonso 2 J Button 3 G Fisichella IT'S always a bit of a lottery picking the podium finishers for the opening race, especially as there have been so many new variables introduced this year. Still, the Renault team looked consistently
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      474 54  -  CUBBYLEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg BASED on her four-gold medal performance at December's SEA Games and the one gold, four bronze showing at the 7th Milo Asia Swimming Championships that ended on Friday at the Singapore Sports School, Singapore fans are looking forward to the continued
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      792 54  -  LEONGWEEKEAT No more 'Core', 'Merit' and 'Others' categories as SSC launch new outcome-based funding weekeat@newstoday.com.sg ON THURSDAY, Dr Vivian Balakrisnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, told Parliament he believed Singapore sport was destined for "exciting times". Less than 24 hours later,
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      438 54  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg SOME likened it to how businesses are run. Others welcomed the new challenge they have been presented. And all the National Sports Association (NSA) presidents Today spoke agreed that the new funding system meant one thing: the
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      218 55 9.30 am NBA Lakers v Spurs, Ch23 2pm Golf Singapore Masters, Chs 24 6.55pm F1 Bahrain Grand Prix Qualifying, Ch24 Bpm EPL Birmingham v West Brom, Ch24 8.40pm EPL Chelsea v Tottenham, Ch23 10.55pm EPL Boltonv West Ham, Ch23 10.55pm EPL Everton vFulham, Ch24 11pm SPL Rangers v Kilmarnock, Chlo7
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