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    26 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Thursday March 23, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY share your free newspaper Thursday March 23, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/200E /AejdjaCorp
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    Touching 1996, once more?
    819 1  -  LEECHINGWERN Even better, as rise in luxury home prices is based on more solid footing chingwern@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a statistic that may interest not just property players but even record-keepers. The market is abuzz with talk that units at St Regis Residences, which will be launched
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    Lock icon Resolved: Why bird flu virus is not contagious between humans
    669 1 -AFP PARIS Virologists say they understand why bird influenza in its present form does not spread among humans, and the finding suggests the world may have a precious breathing space to prepare for any flu pandemic. The reason lies in
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      71 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 16 voices 26 business 36 plus 46 cHystyle 58 1v 60 classad 61 sports 63 we set you thinking TODAY SINGAPORE, TOMORROW THE WORLD 3 BACKTO THE PAST Is Afghanistan going back to the days of the Taliban? 24 DBS'KOREAN BID DEAD?
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      Lock icon 'No guarantee' all is well
      465 2  -  VINITARAMANI Though M sia says bird flu is under control, S'pore is keeping tabs vinita@newstoday.com.sg THEY are meant to be "diseasefree" zones and until earlier this week, there was ample assurance that poultry imported from Perak, Johor, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan was safe for consumption.
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      TEMASEK PUSHES AHEAD WITH ITS LOFTY MISSION
      1098 3  -  Mano Sabnani It is building world-class businesses for Singapore; more needs to be done TEMASEK Holdings, the giant Singapore investment company, seems to have a lot up its sleeves, in terms of mega acquisitions as well as divestments. Its declared strategy is to
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      Low: SM may swing votes but...
      388 4  -  VALCHUA Workers' Party chief confident of retaining his seat ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR va l@newstoday.com.sg HE admits that the presence of the Senior Minister will help his opponent, but the incumbent MP for Hougang, Mr Low Thia Khiang, says he is neither intimidated nor distracted
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      Lock icon What the hell's wrong with this ad?
      272 4 -AGENCIES SYDNEY- First it was "bloody", then it was "hell" and now it's "beer" itself that's tripping up an Australian tourism advertising campaign. The recently launched and now controversial advertisement which concludes with the tagline "Where the bloody hell are you?" has now
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      232 4 MDIS UniCampus Open House 25 March 2006 (Saturday) 10am 6pm MDIS UniCampus, 501 Stirling Road www.mdis.edu.sg/cdmpusfiestd Performances: Catch the Teenage Icon winners finalists as they sing their hearts out for fans like you! Catch your breath as the MDIS Talents take it away with their engaging live performances e5% Ogle
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      16 4 TOSHIBA $599 Toshiba portable DVD player up tor grabs! Log on to www.todayonline.com for more details.
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      Slow, bloody death for woman
      579 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG Forensic evidence shows victim struggled to ward off 'brutal' attacks in her flat cheekong@newstoday.com.sg NOT A single wound was enough, by itself, to kill her. But there were 110 of them almost 50 around her head and neck alone and together, they allowed life
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      Over 1,000 will vote overseas
      181 6 THE number of overseas Singaporeans who have registered to vote in the upcoming General Election (GE) has gone up to 1,017. The Elections Department says the figure has increased by 160 since Feb 17, when the number of overseas voters was last counted. This GE
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        Lock icon COE PRICES INCREASE
        86 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA COE prices across all categories have gone up in the latest round of bidding.The biggest increase was in Category B, for cars above 1600CC. At $13,556, COE price rose by $1,001. For the Open Category, the COE increased by $992 to $13,689. The rise in
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        Lock icon 160 NABBED IN DRUG RAIDS
        116 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Central Narcotics Bureau arrested 160 suspected drug offenders, including three traffickers, in an islandwide operation. A total of 44 Ecstasy tablets, 86 Erimin-5 tablets and 454 other tablets suspected to be controlled drugs were also seized in the raids on Tuesday. Of
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        Lock icon 3 INJURED IN BISHAN CRASH
        106 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA An accident involving a casket van and a taxi at the junction of Bishan Street 22 and Bishan Road left three people injured yesterday. The two vehicles are believed to have collided and the hearse overturned in the middle of the road. Civil
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      Foreign firms eye green waterfront project
      316 8  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S iconic Gardens by the Bay project may bear the design influence of landscape architects from cities as far away as Dubai, Paris, Madrid, New York, Tokyo and Sydney. Three months since an international design competition was launched for the gardens,
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      Lock icon Coming soon: More upgrading carrots
      398 8  -  TORCHING LI 40 per cent of precincts yet to be announced by MPs chingli@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU think you're hearing the word "upgrading" more often these days, you haven't heard all. While National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan had announced in November last year that a
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      Lock icon Bagging jobs even before they're out
      612 10  -  JASMINE YIN 945 vacancies at Admiralty prison job fair for inmates jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a dream training session for job applicants. Over two weeks this month, career consultant Annie Wong from the North West Community Development Council (CDC) made presentations on the latest labour
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      A marathon, not a sprint
      479 12  -  LEE U-WEN Tampines GRC MPs point to long track record, explain Progress Package to the elderly u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE People's Action Party's incumbent team in Tampines GRC showed up in full force last night and went on a door-to-door visit But it was no last-minute election
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      National Solidarity Party to go on publicity blitz
      273 12  -  LEONGWEEKEAT TO boost its chances at the upcoming polls, the National Solidarity Party (NSP) is going on a publicity blitz. Next month, it will launch a new book, in Chinese, to kick off its campaign for the next General Election. Consisting of
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      Lock icon Education the key to Asean cohesion, says Prof Jayakumar
      305 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA DEPUTY Prime Minister S Jayakumar yesterday stressed the importance of harnessing education as a tool in promoting an Asean socio-cultural community to more than 150 education ministers and officers from Southeast Asia. Having seen how, in other parts of
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      Lock icon 1 minute less in the shower is 9 litres of water saved
      424 13  -  LEE U-WEN Singaporeans can help reduce wastage as part of national effort to sustain water supply u-wen@newstoday.com.sg NOT CONTENT with just being a top secondary school, Dunman High School is also stamping its mark as being one of
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      Lock icon Thai polls to go ahead unless PM seeks postponement
      272 16 -AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand's snap elections will go ahead on April 2 unless Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra asks the king to delay them, the Election Commission head said yesterday. Only Mr Thaksin has the power to seek a decree from King Bhumibol
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      Lock icon M'sian women cops told to wear tudung
      197 16 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian policewomen have been directed to wear tudung (headscarves) for all official functions, a police spokesman said yesterday. He said it was not compulsory for nonMuslim personnel but said they should do so voluntarily. "We advise all of them to
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      Lock icon Defiant Estrada faces court
      557 16 —AGENCIES Hesaysthesl3om plunder charges against him are 'trumped up' MANILA Deposed Philippine president Joseph Estrada struck a defiant note in opening testimony at his plunder trial on Wednesday, dismissing accusations he amassed US$BO million ($l3O million) from state coffers and bribes while in power. The film
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        VIAGRA BRINGS OUT A STALLION'S REAL WORTH
        100 16 A German court ordered viagra to be given to a stallion after his new owner claimed he was impotent and refused to pay the full asking price, Reuters reported. The buyer paid just a 10th of the price of over 4,000 euros ($7,800),
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        JUST 16 AND ALREADY AN UNDERTAKER
        60 16 Daniel Taylor's ambition was spurred when he saw a TV documentary on undertakers at age 13. He passed the necessary exams and is now on the way to getting a diploma The 16-year-old -the youngest undertaker in Britain has already dressed corpses, led funeral
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        MALE STRIPPERS FOR WOMEN'S DAY
        68 16 A Romanian mayor spent £10,000 ($28,200) on staging a party with male strippers to mark Women's Day, ananova.com reported. Mr Lucian Iliescu, the mayor of Giurgiu, decided to spend public money laying on a treat for his female employees on March 8. He organised a
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        Lock icon RISE IN MALAYSIAN HOUSEWIVES INFECTED WITH HIV/AIDS
        83 18 -AFP The number of women infected with HIV/Aids is on the rise in Malaysia and the majority of them are housewives, a report said yesterday. In 1994, women made up about 0.9 per cent living with Aids, but by the end of 2004
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        Lock icon MORE FOREIGNERS HELD FOR VICE IN MALAYSIA
        74 18 -AFP The number of foreign prostitutes arrested in Malaysia rose sharply last year, in a development police say is a cause for concern, Bernama reported yesterday. A total of 6,446 people were arrested lastyear, an increase of 12 per cent over the previous
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        MALAYSIA TO PHASE OUT LICENCES FOR CAR IMPORTS
        76 18 Malaysia's politically sensitive Approved Permit (AP) scheme will be phased out by Dec 31, 2010, Bernama reported. APs are licences issued by the government, mostly to Malay-owned companies, which allow these firms to import foreign cars and sell them in the country.
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      Lock icon Rain hampers relief efforts
      281 18 -AGENCIES Floods reported; second cyclone expected off Queensland coast later this week SYDNEY Heavy rain hampered relief efforts in northeastern Australia yesterday, two days after the region was battered by Cyclone Larry, a Category 5 storm that left thousands homeless and destroyed buildings and crops. There
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      Lock icon Indonesians ask: Will I be in trouble?
      947 20  -  MARIANNE KEARNEY Draft anti-porn Bill has everyone worried, but some are fighting back IN JAKARTA PORN aficionados have a wide variety of choices in Jakarta. In Glodok, the city's Chinatown, thousands of local, Western and Indonesian x-rated VCDs such as Bandung Sea of
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      Lock icon US troops to stay in Iraq after Bush era
      336 22 -AGENCIES US leader says withdrawal to be decided by'future presidents' WASHINGTON President George W Bush said yesterday that United States troops would remain in Iraq beyond his presidency, a message that could complicate his efforts to reassure an increasingly skittish public
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      Lock icon Iraq faces brain drain as violence spreads
      251 22 -AGENCIES BAGHDAD Iraqi academics have been the target of kidnaps and attacks, so much so that there is now a brain drain in the country. Observers also note that the education system is feeling the impact, as the situation is worsened with many
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      Lock icon Return to the days of the Taliban?
      424 24 —AGENCIES Afghan could be sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity WASHINGTON In the days of the Taliban, those promoting Christianity in Afghanistan could be arrested and those converting from Islam could be tortured and executed. That was supposed to change
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        Lock icon UK POLICE PROBES LABOUR LOANS
        74 24 -AP Police have opened an investigation into allegations that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party had sold seats in the House of Lords in exchange for secret loans. He says he has not made such nominations for peerages in the House of Lords in
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        Lock icon NO JILBAB FOR MUSLIM GIRL
        68 24 -AFP Britain's highest court yesterday upheld a school's decision to require a Muslim pupil to change out of her Islamic gown into the school uniform, reversing a lower court decision. The Court of Appeal ruled in March last year that Miss Shabina Begum was unlawfully
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      Thousands of children abused in UK madrasahs
      374 25 Report finds evidence of physical, sexual abuse by Islamic teachers LONDON Thousands of Muslim schoolchildren are being physically and sexually abused by their religious teachers every year in the United Kingdom, according to a study investigating the Islamic education system in the country,
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      Lock icon A woman may become S Korea's PM very soon
      226 25 AFP SEOUL A feminist lawmaker could become South Korea's first woman prime minister within the next few days, the president's office announced yesterday. Ms Han Myung Sook, a lawmaker in the ruling Uri Party, has survived a selection process that has
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      721 26  -  PAULTOLTON THEY have just installed televisions in the elevators in the building where I work. I admit, as my office is on the 58th floor, I spend a longer time in the elevators than I do on the bus getting to the office. And the elevator
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      265 28  -  JAMES DOBSON BYDR DEFUSING THE TEENAGE TIMEBOMB The mother of a preschooler asked me the other day how she could raise her little girl so as to minimise the chances of adolescent rebellion down the road. She had seen teenagers in otherfamilies get into drug abuse
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        Use model of job placement agencies to recruit maids
        294 28  -  YEAP LENG Letter from I REFER to the debate about the $5,000 employment bond. In all fairness, maids should be given rest days. But it is unfair for employers of foreign domestic workers to bear the financial brunt of an individual's
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        287 28  -  BALJEETKAUR Letter from I REFER to the letter by Mr John Gee, "That $5k bond" (March 20). I would like to point out that as it is, many families in Singapore have a hard time educating their own teenage children
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      381 29  -  VIVIEN TAN Students bound to be influenced by teacher callous to the elderly Letter from I WITNESSED an ugly incident recently. While a group of teenage probationers were performing their community service accompanying some elderly folk to a cinema show, another group
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      284 29  - Traumatised by animal cruelty even after 18 years RITAGONSALVEZ Letter from I REFER to the article "Catch the human rats" (March 20) and recall a horrific incident that traumatises me to this day. It was all of 18 years ago when I was walking along a lane opposite Golden Landmark
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      Lack of incubators, so KKH turned away mum-to-be
      258 29  -  WONG KHENG FATT Letter from MY WIFE, who is about six months pregnant, was bleeding heavily on Sunday. I called for an ambulance to send her to the KK Women's Children's Hospital (KKH), thinking that their facilities are among the best in
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      Understanding halal
      120 29  -  AMINAH MUHAMMAD Letter from I READ with interest the article "The halal edge" (March 22). It's time Singaporeans played a greater role in welcoming investors, tourists and students from the Middle East Currently, our hospitality sector lacks the understanding of halal certification and the importance attached to it
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      Go ahead with law against sexual predators of minors
      224 29  -  JERRY ONG Letter from Focus on the Family Singapore I APPLAUD the Government for looking into legislation to criminalise the sexual exploitation of minors, both at home and overseas. While there may be legal and practical difficulties in detecting and prosecuting
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      Once burned, now it's DIY
      240 31  -  UMABALJI Letter from MEMORIES of my tussles with relationship managers came tumbling back when I read the article "Customer sues Citibank" (March 21). I can empathise with the plight of Mrs Catherine Wenas, having gone through a number of encounters with various relationship managers in
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      Help them, don't penalise
      322 31  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Change HDB housing policy for divorcees, separated singles Letter from I REFER to the Housing and Development Board's policy for divorcees and separated singles. Divorced singles who are 35 years or older, but have not met the five-year minimum occupation period (MOP) for
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      HOUGANG OR NOT, SM GOH IS STILL A'HEAVYWEIGHT'
      114 31  -  TAN ENG SOON Letter from' I DON'T understand Mr Lim Boon Hee's inference that Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's heavyweight status in the Cabinet will be affected should Hougang or Potong Pasir fail to convert to PAP's control in the coming General
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      Pollution not only outdoors
      268 31  -  LIONEL DESOUZA Letter from I REFER to the report "S'poreans concerned about public hygiene and air pollution" (March 21). The report stated that, according to a survey conducted last December by the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, respondents listed air pollution as one of
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      What about mother tongues?
      238 31  -  YEOCHOWKHOON Letter from I READ the article, "Beng is cool, Singlish a signal", by Terence Chong (March 20). In it, he speculated why the English-educated middle class is the strongest backer of Singlish to the point of ignoring the economic consequences. This, I gather, is due
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        R&D on cooling technology? We're on to it
        156 33  -  HO HIANG KWEE Letter from ASSOCIATE-PROFESSOR I REFER to the interesting contribution from your reader, Mr Edwin Yeo Tee Yeok, who challenged Singapore to put more effort into research and development on cooling technologies and systems. As an energy researcher, let me
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        Mistress of dollar has killed both design and function
        238 33  -  THOMAS TYRONE BEIRON TAY Letter from NO DOUBT the prospect of making money may be the driving force for enterprise, but the ethos of many great inventors and their innovations were for the betterment of mankind. I won't quibble about the
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        Centralised piping of chilled water cools a whole district
        178 33  -  LAWRENCE POON LAN THANG Letter from FOR over 20 years, my business has been in distributing equipment/systems that help conserve energy by maintaining the operating efficiency of air-conditioning equipment in large commercial and industrial buildings. Recently, I distributed thermal energy storage/off-peak
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      Offence to leave engine idling
      156 33  -  JOSEPH HUI Letter from Head, Pollution Control Department National Environment Agency (NEA) WE REFER to the letters by Jundy Caldito and Derrick D'Souza ("Lessons learnt from tragedy", March 20) and thank them for their feedback. Drivers should turn off their engines when their vehicles are
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      Bum rests on MRT train to be removed
      97 33  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter, "Do away with MRT bum rests" by Chiam Toon Loke (March 10). Currently, there is only one train with the bum rests. We would
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      85 33 IT'S A THORNY JOB BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT Designer and avid photographer Cecilia Glandberger snapped a shot of these brave men risking life and limb to keep the Esplanade roof in good, clean shape. The price of beauty, especially on such a large building, seems high, indeed.
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      Kids get scorched in name of sport
      240 34  -  SEELAYKENG Letter from IT'S THE time of the year when schools are in the midst of national sports competitions. Many of the competitions are held at 2pm under the merciless hot sun. My son is in his primary school's basketball team. As the
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      Make music for your neighbour's cars
      224 34  -  BENJAMIN GAN If they make you croak in despair instead, try reverse psychology Letter from ONE of the greatest tragedies of modern society is that we often rely on laws, guidelines and punishments to make our neighbours "behave" ("A smile for the ugly, March
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      SPD much heartened by disabled-friendly moves
      288 34  -  DROWCHEE CHUNG Letter from Executive Director Society for the Physically Disabled THE Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) is heartened to see many improvements made for the benefit of physically disabled people over the last few years. Of particular significance are the changes to
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      Rethink stairs, road crossings
      179 34  -  CHUAKIMCHOO Letter from I REFER to the letter, "LTA looking at more road-level crossings for the elderly" (March 22), in which it says it has reduced the height of each step (on pedestrian overhead bridges) by 25mm to 150mm, widened each step by 12 mm to
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      Punishments should fit the crimes better
      151 35  -  TANYEONGHENG Letter from I REFER to Mr Denis Distant's letter, "The punishments just don't add up" (March 22) and am in complete agreement with him that some sentences passed in the courts don't seem to be equitable. Recently, it was revealed that a "drunk"
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      Lock icon Do S'pore teens know they have it much better?
      156 35  -  HARRY CHIA I Letter from MR NICK Danziger's selection of the photos, "So, who stole their smiles?" is a poignant reminder of the harsh and stark realities of life. As I read the narratives of each photo, I wonder how our
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      Lock icon Has DBS bid for Korean bank failed?
      528 36 -AGENCIES Controlling stake may go to South Korea's Kookmin Bank: Sources DBS GROUP Holdings appears to have failed in its bid to acquire a controlling share of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), sources close to the deal said yesterday. Instead, the stake will go
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      Phua named Businessman of the Year
      139 36  -  -VALERIE LAW HTL International Holdings' group managing director, Phua Yong Tat (picture) was named Businessman of the Year at last night's Singapore Business Awards for his role in transforming the homegrown furniture maker into an international brand name that exports to more than 40
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      CAD questions CIMB-GK traders
      236 36  -  CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@newstoday.com.sg TRADERS at stock broking firm CIMB-GK Securities were questioned by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) yesterday in relation to the trading of covered warrants, industry sources told Today. The staff involved specialise in trading on the company's own account and are known
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      Lock icon Maritime Week to be held in Sept
      156 37 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) will hold its very first Maritime Week in September as part of efforts to promote Singapore as a maritime hub. It will be a week of high profile events, including the International Maritime Organisation World
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      Lock icon Shin price fall hits Temasek stake
      450 37 -BLOOMBERG Investment firm suffers a paper loss of $1.4 billion THE recent plunge in the value of Shin Corp shares has left major shareholder Temasek Holdings sitting on a paper loss of around 33.5 billion baht ($1.39 billion). Shares of Shin Corp, which controls
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        Barter with the rest of the world
        350 38  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Singapore's cashless exchange goes global ja nec@newstoday.com.sg AN EXCHANGE that allows local companies to engage in bartering will soon allow its customers to trade online with each other as well as some 15,000 parties worldwide. From next month, Singapore customers of
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        CORPORATEBRIEFS
        195 38 Creditors of Crtiraya Industries will meet next Monday to consider the repayment plans by the electronic waste recycler's judicial manager, Ernst Young. The meeting will be held at 2.30pm at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Industry's auditorium. New York-based Great Wall Acquisition Corp's takeover of ChinaCast Communication Holdings,
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        Lock icon SIA Building may be sold
        422 40 -DOW JONES Expected strong interest in the site could push sale price to $300m: Analysts SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) is considering selling its namesake building, valued at around $270 million, in the central business district and has appointed a property agent to gauge interest. The SIA
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        Lock icon Malaysia's Hong Leong launches Reit to raise $95m
        292 40 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's diversified Hong Leong group yesterday launched an initial public offering (IPO) for a real estate investment trust (Reit), aiming to raise RM2I6 million ($94.5 million). Hong Leong said that some 190.1 million units of the Tower Real Estate
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        Lock icon Temasek sells Olam, LMA shares
        255 41 —DOW JONES Sales raise $154 million for the investment company TEMASEK Holdings confirmed yesterday that it had sold stakes in Singaporelisted companies LMA International and Olam International. "We have sold shares in LMA and Olam. This is part of our ongoing efforts to actively manage
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          122 41 —AGENCIES SHARE prices closed lower in line with a weaker Wall Street and lower regional markets. The ST Index ended down 7.90 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,489.27. Losers led gainers 391 to 157 while 1.4 billion shares worth $1.7 billion were traded. Wastewater treatment company Bio-Treat Technology
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          Lock icon World markets
          61 41 Bloomberg SGX, 1 Information provided by Mikkei 225 *****.48 -129.32 -8.78 Hang Seng nsx *****.81 -279.94 5813.48 +22.18 -1.76 +8.44 faiwan Wtd 6391.26 -66.77 -1.83 <orea Comp 1389.83 -26.82 -2.81 <LCI 921.94 -1.19 -8.13 SET Index 724.41 -8.87 -1.18 Jakarta Comp 1382.32 -24.81 -1.87 Dhils Comp Shenzhen B
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          SGX most active
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          SGX top rises
          66 41 IntRoller 1.696 +6.196 HSI158B6SGAB***** 8.655 +6.115 Bukit Sem 15.166 +6.166 KepCorp 13.268 +6.186 UOB 15.568 +6.186 WBLCom 7.686 +6.186 HSI*****SGA*****6 6.885 +6.696 HPL 1.816 +6.676 Sarin 1.646 +6.676 HSI*****SGA*****9 6.415 +6.655 Serial W*****6 6.635 +75.6 Econ 6.615 +56.6 Compact El-Nets 6.626 6.626 +33.3 +33.3 Easycall 466 CMTel
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          SGX top falls
          70 41 lardine C8C IMH 400USS 16.466 -6.466 18.566 -6.386 5IA Creative 56 ISH 566US$ 14.666 -6.366 11.866 -6.286 11.966 -6.266 5IA 266 14.666 -6.266 5TIETF166 25.156 -6.266 )atacrftMBL*****8 6.366 -6.186 [elekomMsBB***** 6.145 -6.145 HSI1566BBB*****1 6.656 -6.146 Hyflux MBL eCW*****4 6.665 N0LMBLeCW*****1 6.615 -56.6 -56.6 TelekomMsDBeCW***** 6.145 -56.6 WeePdi
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 41 US$ 0.6183 UK£ 0.3538 Yen 72.504 HK$ 4.7976 RM 2.2852 Euro 0.5112 Rupiah 5635.8 Baht 24.049 Peso 31.564 AS 0.8627 Indian Rs 27.474 Won 598.69 CS 0.7200 Yuan 4.9635 NZS 0.9920 NT$ 20.094
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          Commodities
          20 41 Gold US$/oz 553.20 Silver US$/oz 10.57 Platinum US$/oz 1,035.70 Rubber cents/kg 334.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1/407.00 Brent US$/barrel 62.13
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        Lock icon Singapore is cheap, it says right here
        254 42 -AFP Ranked least expensive industrialised nation SINGAPORE is the cheapest place to do business among industrialised countries in the world, according to a new study by consultants KPMG. The firm ranked countries after measuring 27 cost components, including labour, benefits, business facilities, taxes
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        Lock icon Windows Vista release delayed
        116 42 -BLOOMBERG MICROSOFT delayed the general release of the next version of Windows until January, potentially wiping out holiday sales for PC makers and crimping revenue for the largest software maker. The Vista version of Windows is already two years late and chief executive officer Steve Ballmer
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          Lock icon THE GLITZ AND GLAMOUR OF THE 2006 TOURISM AWARDS
          350 44 IT WAS not only the award winners who stole the spotlight at the recent 2006 Tourism Awards held at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Eyes were also focussed on some glamorous guests whose sartorial sense would have done a Hollywood "Red Carpet"
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          FIND OUT MORE AT THE MDIS UNICAMPUS OPEN HOUSE
          103 44 THE MDIS UniCampus Open House will take place this Saturday. Campus Fiesta MDIS from 10am to 6pm atthe MDIS UniCampus at Stirling Road is slated to be a day full of fun with an array of activities lined-up for visitors. There
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          GO TO AN ART EXHIBITION THIS WEEKEND
          105 44 ARTIST KC Seah and his students will present Second Movements, an art exhibition featuring watercolour paintings, which are the combined effort of the artist/teacher and his pupils. The event will be open to the public over the week- end atthe Gallery Hotel from
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        Lock icon Battle of the search engines hots up
        324 44 BLOOMBERG Yahoo starts Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam websites YAHOO!, the world's mostvisited website, started local home pages in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam in a bid to tap the increasing number of Internet users in Southeast Asia. The company expects its users across
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      1275 46  -  Lorraine Lim Four productions headed your way, but can they steer clear of cultural minefields? FROM Japanese servants and geishas to South Asian migrant workers and Chinese royalty, theatregoers will soon have the chance to sample the cultures of foreign lands in Asia without ever leaving the
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        THE MAGIC FUNDOSHI
        53 48 April 4-23, Bpm, Drama Centre, Tickets through Sistic This loose take on The Emperor's New Clothes sees Taro-Kaja tricking a passing samurai into giving up his fundoshi (loincloth) in exchange for a magic one, visible only to female eyes. This new production stars Hossan Leong, Jonathan Lim
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        GEISHA
        54 48 June 9-10, Bpm, Victoria Theatre, Tickets through Sistic This new piece, conceived and directed by Ong Keng Sen, brings together stories involving geishas, maikos and anthropologists among others. Famed kabuki dancer Gojo Masanosuke joins Kineya Katsumatsu and New York-based performer Karen Kandel to create a visual and aural landscape
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        44 48 June 17-18, Bpm, Drama Centre, Tickets through Sistic Men affected by labour migration, women who are sex workers, materialistic domestic maids-theii stories come together in this international collaboration that promises to challenge conventional ideas about nationhood and stereotypes. The performance will be subtitled.
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        FORBIDDEN CITY
        53 48  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR SeptB-Oct 1, Bpm, Esplanade Theatres, Tickets through Sistic In the 19th century, American painter Kate Carl is commissioned to produce a portrait of China's Empress Dowager. While speaking with this member of the royal family, she discovers a vulnerable woman beneath the Empress's powerful exterior. The production
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      357 50  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Julia nar@newstoday.com.sg THE freshest topic in blogging right now is, surprisingly, the past. The National Heritage Board recently launched Yesterday.sg, a portal for blog posts related to Singapore's history. The idea came about during a discussion by the Museum Roundtable of the National
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      601 50  -  JEANINETAN Director Silver adds to mystery, saying V was played by 8 or 9 people jea nine@newstoday.com.sg JUST who is the man behind the mask in V for Vendetta? In the film, now showing in cinemas here, Australian actor Hugo
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        86 52 Media industry veteran Man Shu Sum has been appointed as the chairman of judges for the Asian Television Awards 2006. Currently the programme director of the Media Development Authority of Singapore, he will sit on regional juries to ensure a continuity of standards in all
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        79 52 The first winner of talent-search TV contest SuperHost, Charlyn Lim, has inked a two-year contract with MediaCorp after a five-month nationwide search for the next hosting sensation. "When I first took part in this competition, it was to realise a dream," said Charlyn, whose hosting debut
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        68 52 Theatre students from the National University of Singapore present HipHopera, a futuristic-retro musical comedy set in the *****. Co-directed by established theatre directors Jeremiah Choy and Loretta Chen, the shows are staged at the Drama Centre Black Box at the National Library from
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        218 54 —AGENCIES LOS ANGELES Music superstar Prince is being sued by American basketball player Carlos Boozer for making alterations to Boozer's US$ll.9 million ($19.2 million) Hollywood home after renting it last May. Boozer, a star with the Utah Jazz basketball team, leased his home
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        107 54 Former at-risk youth Md Adam Ahmad, 21, sharing his experiences and advice with 300 Malay students from Bedok Town Secondary School yesterday as part of the Sekolan Gerek [Schoolis Fun) roadshow. Cast members of socially-con-scious teenage drama Hanyut, which ends its
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        Chyi's Rap-sody
        344 54  -  AMELYNN LIONG Veteran rocker plans to get into R&B with his next album am elynnl@newstoday.com.sg TAIWANESE rock balladeer Chyi Chin said he is ready to move on after his drummer Huang Chien Fu's tragic death in Beijing two months ago. The 36-year-old musician died after falling off a
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        441 56  -  DAVID CHEW Dishwasher-turned-author Harris writes about characters living on the margins IN LONDON david. chew@newstoday.com. sg IF ONLY we were all as lucky as Jane Harris. The Belfast-born author had her first story published in true J K Rowl-ing-fashion when she was as poor as a
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          174 57  -  Sharon Creech ASHRAFSAFDAR Sharon Creech has followed her Newbury Prizewinning novel Walk Two Moons with Love That Dog, a moving book that looks at the difficulty a little boy has in putting his thoughts into words. It begins when Jack's teacher. Miss Stretchberry, decides to introduce poetry
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          165 57  -  James Patterson SHANTHI RAMAKRISHNAN The fifth book in his Women's Murder Club series, James Patterson's The sth Horseman (co-authored with Maxine Paetro) is a fairly entertaining read but as his earlier novels prove, Patterson can do better. Horseman is set at San Francisco Municipal Hospital at a
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          180 57  -  Amelie Nothomb LIN YANQIN The seven-year-old protagonist of Loving Sabotage will either irritate or endear herself to the reader. If it is the former, don't let that distract from the otherwise engaging story. It is based on the experiences of the author, who spent part of her childhood
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        98 57 "I've just read The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (inset). This book was recommended to me by a friend. "Although the story reads more like a fantasy, it actually explores the meaning of life and lets you know that things happen for a reason. I
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      526 58  -  AMY VAN Glutinous rice, gula melaka, coconut cream, mangoes and strawberries the key ingredients to this sweet treat food@newstoday.com.sg I DID not think the classic sticky rice was an easy dessert to whip up until I read Thai Food, a cookbook by Chef David Thompson, who is
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          EVELINE GAN
          68 59 I'm keen to interview flame-haired beauty Lily Cole, the face of SFF 2006. It's not every day that you get to meet one of UK's hottest supermodels. I'll also get a sneak peek at Triumph's latest collections. Psst... I heard that the brand will showcase its Cinderella glass
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          LAUREENTOH
          54 59 The real action takes place on the runway and I'm excited about Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring-Summer collection on opening night. Lancome's Summer Freedom show will see four homegrown designers interpreting its make-up collection. When you have Frederick Lee's flamboyance and Posse's tailored style on one runway, it'll be a
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          LEE HUI SHAN
          66 59 I'm looking at a possible style revamp, as Topshop's style advisers from the UK are going to give me a makeover! I've always loved Topshop but was afraid that my petite stature couldn't carry off their style. We shall see what can be done. I'll also meet
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          PEARLYN THAM
          59 59 I've heard that it's an all-men cohort in this year's Mercedes Benz Asian Fashion Awards regional finals and of course, I will be rooting for our boys Sekino Keisuke and Aloysius Liew-to do us proud! Plus, I'll get to speakto hairstyling guru Benni Tognini of the Matrix Global
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        339 59  -  AMANDA KOH a manda@newstoday.com.sg DESIGNER Robert Cary-Williams produced his current collection by laying wet garments on his roof, and dropping dye powder onto them. Inspired by abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock, famous for his "drip and splash" style, Robert literally made his collection a fashionable work of
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        292 59 HOW many ways can your eyes light up? With coloured contact lens that come in groovy green, perky brown and romantic violet many. The winner of the Ms FreshKon competition, Feliza Ong, said that since she became FreshKon's ambassador, she has shown her friends how
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      475 63  -  TANYO-HINN SSC will unveil new regulations for sports associations to ensure accountability yohinn@newstoday.com.sg FOR the years 2001 to 2005, $500 million was set aside for sports in Singapore and the government pledged a further $300 million from 2006 to 2010. To ensure the money is used to
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      Fandi's boys roar to the top
      170 63  -  DARREN LAI THE Young Lions went top of the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League table yesterday after a comprehensive 5-0 victory over Geylang at the Jalan Besar Stadium. A goal each from Khairul Amri and Shahril Ishak, and a brilliant hat-trick by Qiu Li (picture) after
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      1058 64  -  LI ZAI SHI Mardani's career comes full circle as he reunites with coach Karim NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE Gombakv Balestier Queenstown Stadium, 7.30pm sports@newstoday.com.sg EVERY match Mohamed Mardani plays this season is an instalment on a new lease of life in his football career. Enjoying the fruits of an
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      537 65 —AGENCIES Come-from-behind win sees champions close in on title PRIMERAUGA Barcelona 3 Getafe 1 MADRID Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard hailed his side's fighting spirit, after their 3--1 triumph against Getafe at the Nou Camp. The Spanish league leaders had to come from behind to
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      Lock icon Bafana Bafana chase Eriksson
      357 65 -AFP LONDON South Africa have launched an ambitious bid to hire England's outgoing coach SvenGoran Eriksson. The Rainbow nation will become the first African country to host the World Cup in 2010 and believe Eriksson, who will step down from his current job after this summer's
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      155 65 -AFP LONDON Michael Ballack has his heart set on a move to the Premiership and reckons he can emulate Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane. The 29-year-old Bayern Munich midfielder will be a free agent in the summer and is being strongly linked with a move to Chelsea,
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      589 66 -AGENCIES Liverpool in seventh heaven, Blues sink to depths of hell FA CUP, QUARTER-FINAL Birmingham 0 Liverpool 7 LONDON Birmingham's hex on Rafael Benitez had always looked like a figment of the imagination. Not that anyone could have imagined the Spaniard would inflict a first victory over
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      329 66 -AFP BIRMINGHAM Steve Bruce insisted he was still the right man to lead Birmingham City in their fight against relegation, after his club crashed out of the FA Cup in a 7-0 thrashing by Liverpool. To make matters worse, the humbling defeat took place in front of
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        135 66 PORTUGAL coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has denied holding talks with the Football Association (FA)forthe England manager's job. Scolari was widely reported to have been approached by FA officials last weekend after taking part in a conference in London. "If I had to deny everything that
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        KAHN'S SURE HE'S NO 1
        130 66 BAYERN Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn is confident of being selected as Germany's No 1 for the World Cup finals. "Before the match against Italy, Jurgen Klinsmann told me that I was the No 1. I'm taking him at his word," Kahn told the daily Bild.
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        148 66 JAPAN coach Zico says his team will learn notto rely on their Europe-based stars when they warm up next week against South Americans Ecuador, ahead of the World Cup in June. "Those who play in Europe are excellent, but we are not relying on them alone," the
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        108 66 THE World Cup in Germany is set to become a battleground between facists and Muslims, an Italian member of a new European neoNazi movement had warned. In a statement published by Italian daily Repubblica,tbe member of AS Roma's notorious ultras hooligan group claims neo-Nazis across
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      931 67  -  Rohit Brijnath Who knows, but magic does not choose sprinting as its sole companion THINK of a dump truck with a Ferrari engine that is fuelled by a prayer and you've got Asafa Powell. It's almost sacrilegious that a man so large can sprint
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      1006 68 -AFP Brilliant Aussie smashes his personal best, Indian guns for a record MELBOURNE Australia uncovered a new track and field poster boy yesterday, as Indian shooter Samaresh Jung edged closer to a seven-gold Commonwealth Games record. While the night's athletics golds were shared out, Jung was
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      309 68 -AFP MELBOURNE Australian police said yesterday that they are increasingly concerned for the safety of two Commonwealth Games competitors who went missing from the athletes village. Bangladesh 400m sprinter Tawhidul Mohammad Islam and Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri disappeared on Monday and have not
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      Lock icon ZHANG FLOPS
      634 69  -  TANYO-HINN Medal hopes fizzle out as Singapore shot put star has a nightmare outing yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IT WOULD have been one Singapore's most cherished medals of the 18th Commonwealth Games, perhaps even the most important one of all. But it failed to materialise, as national thrower Zhang Guirong came
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      283 69  -  CUBBYLEONG SINGAPORE'S badminton players made light work of their opponents yesterday, with all 10 moving into the round of 16. While expected, the Singapore coaches will be encouraged with the good form of their charges, as not a single set was dropped in
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