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    27 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Friday March 24, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY MEDIA CORP share your free newspaper Friday March 24, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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    Lock icon Ready to disagree, ready to serve
    888 1  -  ANSLEYNG AND JASMINE YIN PAP's new candidates believe in causes, not conformity a nsley@newstoday.com.sg AS THE People's Action Party (PAP) trotted out the first batch of new candidates that it will field in the coming General Election, it took pains to underline the one
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    Five-year storm over, the blues skies now beckon
    676 1  -  LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com. sg THE global airline industry, currently under a mountain of losses, is expected to claw its way back into the black next year, led by a recovery by carriers in the United States, according to the International Air Transport Association
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      Grading their teachers
      406 2  -  TEOXUANWEI NTU student's email starts debate on teaching quality xuanweit@newstoday.com.sg FOREIGN lecturers who speak broken or heavily-accented English are not their main concern, say undergraduates. Instead, many students have spoken out not against lecturers who cannot speak clearly, but those who cannot teach. Students from the National
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      Lock icon AIMING FOR A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE
      675 3  -  CHUACHONGJIN The 2006 Commonwealth Games offers inspiring examples for our athletes IN MELBOURNE THE pressure to deliver is great And rightly so as athletes taking part in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne aren't here for a holiday. Having said that, I sure hope Team
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      11 2 Red hot action. Cool blue solutions. By NIVEAForMen HIVE A B
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      She's one for the underdogs
      389 4  -  DENISE PHUA LAY PENG -JASMINE YIN 4b, president of the Autism Resource Centre MS DENISE Phua Lay Peng, 46, is the first female new candidate to be introduced by the PAP for the upcoming General Election. Referring to a recent commentary in Today by Tan
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      The heartland's still close to his heart
      249 4  -  DRUM WEE KIAK, -ANSLEYNG 57, consultant eye surgeon WHEN Worker's Party released its manifesto in January, two of the ideas raised irked Dr Lim Wee Kiak, 37. First, the proposed abolishment of grassroots networks. "I enjoy grassroots work," declared Dr Lim, who has
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      Championing the overlooked
      323 4  -  ZAQY MOHAMAD, JASMINE YIN 31, regional director THE youngest and first Malay PAP candidate unveiled so far, Mr Zaqy Mohamad, 31, had run-ins with the authorities during his two-term tenure as student union president at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This incident occurred when the university raised
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      Lock icon Not afraid to speak his mind
      863 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO Yaw Shin Leong wants to do 'something' for Spore and believes that political competition is the way to go derrick@newstoday.com.sg BARELY six months after joining the Workers' Party, an ambitious Yaw Shin Leong got into a heated argument with party chief
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    • Article
      Progress Package? How do we get it?
      497 8  -  LEE U-WEN MPs discover that some don't even know about the bonus u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WITH just a week before Singaporeans start signing up for their share of the Progress Package, many still seem to be in the dark about exactly what they have to
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      Tommy Koh is a Champion of the Earth
      218 8 SINGAPORE'S Ambassador at Large Tommy Koh was named as one of seven Champions of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday. The awards, presented for the second time, recognise prominent and inspirational environmental leaders from each region of the
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      Quake early-warning system in place
      258 10  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE now has the capability to exchange real-time earthquake data with neighbouring countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. This has been made possible with the completion of Phase One of the Tsunami Early Warning System that the Meteorological Services Division (MSD)
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      Award winner to run for election?
      508 10  -  DERRICK A PAULO Outstanding Young Person nominee may be a candidate derrick@newstoday.com.sg PAST winners of this award include the Singaporean Prime Minister, one of his Cabinet colleagues and a current Minister of State. This year, one of the finalists for The Outstanding Young Persons
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      Driveway 'safe' despite cracks
      398 12  -  UNYANQIN PSA has put up struts at Keppel Distripark; probe to find out possible causes yanqinl@newstoday.com.sg FOR THE past few months, he had watched with growing concern the cracks that had appeared on the walls and ceilings of the driveway whenever he enters the Keppel Distripark
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      Lock icon Fifth man charged with kidnap
      187 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A SINGAPOREAN man has been charged with kidnapping two Indonesian men over a money dispute. Ishak Abdul Muis, 46, is alleged to be one of six men involved in the kidnapping. Four others, including logistics company director Muhamad Hafidz Adam, 43, and his
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      A starry partnership
      434 14  -  TORCHING LI Expect a Channel [V] club, Star's popular content in Harrah's latest tie-up chingli@newstoday.com.sg WATCH live recordings of your favourite TV shows or groove to the music of your favourite veejays at the world's first Channel [V] club that is the latest "Star" offering Caesars Singapore
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon ANG MO KIO HOSPITAL GETS NEW NAME
        177 14 Channel News Asia The Ang Mo Kio Hospital will now be called the Ang Mo Kio-Thye Hua Kwan Hospital. As the name Thye Hua Kwan is associated with a voluntary welfare organisation, the hospital hopes that with the change of name, it will
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        Lock icon MAN ARRESTED FOR KNIFE ATTACK AT BUKIT PANJANG
        93 14 Channel News Asia A man in his 40s was arrested yesterday after he attacked a 60-year-old man with a knife at Bukit Panjang. Police received a call at around noon and found the victim lying on the ground of Block 123 Pending
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      • Article
        Lock icon TOBACCO SMUGGLERS NABBED
        62 14 ■938 Live Immigration officers have foiled an attempt to smuggle some 1,200 car tons of contraband cigarettes and tobacco products into Singapore. The items were stashed inside barge towed by a tugboat. Preliminary investigations revealed that two Indonesian seamen, aged 29 and 34, were promised half of
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      317 13 fc?SMU SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY More than thinkers Movers and shakers Marco Verweij /> V^^ i Associate Professor of Political Science Qngt/1 lm^ r Ph.D., European University Institute David Chan k Professor of Psychology Ph.D., Michigan State University Cl^^jj. jHjj^k ur Amira Bte Abdul Karim v.. 7«^ B 2nd year Bachelor
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Sonia Gandhi quits as lawmaker
      454 16 -AGENCIES She defuses political row, but vows to contest elections again NEW DELHI India's Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi resigned Thursday from parliament against the backdrop of a snowballing controversy over the issue of "offices of profit". Mrs Gandhi, chairwoman of the ruling United Progressive
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon ASEAN SPECIAL ENVOY IN MYANMAR
        56 16 ■AFP Asean special envoy Syed Hamid Albar, who is also Malaysian Foreign Minister, reached Yangon yesterday to press the military junta on democracy and human rights but is expected to be blocked from seeing detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He is expected to
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        Lock icon STORE BAN TO COST PERAK $2.2M A MONTH
        88 16 -AP Perak stands to lose about RMS million ($2.2 million) a month in poultry exports, following the decision by the Singapore Government to ban supplies from the state. Perak Chief Minister Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali said poultry from the state's farms comprised
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      WHY THAKSIN IS STILL GOING STRONG
      655 18  -  THAM CHEN FYE Thai opposition lacks teeth and voter sympathy THIS weekend, all eyes will be on Bangkok where anti-Thaksin protesters aim to stage the biggest demonstration against the Thai premier yet, ahead of the April 2 election. Many observers feel that the opposition
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        Lock icon SMOKING AND IMPOTENCE
        49 20 -AFP Men who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day are 39 per cent likelier to suffer from impotence than non-smokers, says a study published by the Tobacco Confro/journal. Men who smoked up to 20 cigarettes a day were 24 per cent likelier to suffer impotence.-
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        Lock icon CONVERT INSANE?
        44 20 -AP Afghan man Abdul Rahman who is facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam may avoid prosecution because of concerns over his sanity, a prosecutor Sarinwal Zamari said. The 41-year old is now expected to undergo a psychological examination.-
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      Lock icon It's not nymphomania...
      334 20 —AFP PARIS A health journal describes a newly-identified syndrome affecting women non-stop sexual arousal that can last for months and cannot be satisfied regardless of the number of orgasms. The paper, which appears in the International Journal of Sexu-ally-Transmitted Diseases and Aids, tentatively calls it Persistent Sexual
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      Lock icon ONE NATION, BUT NOT ONE PEOPLE
      672 22  -  BARADAN KUPPUSAMY IPS Politicians squarely blamed for racism in Malaysia IN KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S first survey of race relations in 50 years shows that, behind the facade of unity and peace, racism runs deep in this multi-ethnic "melting pot". The poll of about 1,200
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      Lock icon No such thing as a sick building
      237 24 AFP PARIS The sick building syndrome does not exist. A study suggests its cold-like symptoms can be mainly pinned to job stress, dissatisfaction and poor office relationships. Sick building syndrome is a popular yet vague term to describe the condition of having headaches,
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        Lock icon ARREST WARRANT OUT FOR 'MOTHER INDIA'ARTIST
        52 24 AFP A court in central India has issued an arrest warrant for world famous painter M F Husain for allegedly offending Hindus with his nude painting titled "Mother India". The warrant was issued after Mr Husain, a 90-year-old Muslim, failed to appear in court
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        CHINA'S TAX ON CHOPSTICKS
        51 24 China's new-found green consciousness has hit home at the heart of the culture. The Daily Telegraph reported. Beijing has announced a 5-per-cent tax on disposable wooden chopsticks, saying chopstick production used up China's forests at a wasteful rate of 70 million cubic feet of wood a
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        THE PORTLY FORREST GUMP
        51 24 An obese Steve Vaught, 39, decided to lose weight last April by crossing the United States on foot. When he started his walk from California to New York, he weighed 184.5 kg. He is now six weeks from New York and has lost about 52kg so
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      Lock icon Terrorist in doctor's garb
      427 25 He gave high drug doses to kill soldiers and policemen brought to hospital KIRKUK (Iraq) He was known as a hard-working doctor who eagerly volunteered to take on extra duties. But it turned out that the junior doctor, who was identified only as Louay, is a
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      Want to keep job? Pass exam
      173 25 SHANGHAI Civil servants in Shanghai are being forced to go back to school. About 100,000 city employees will have to pass an exam on public administration by June 2008 if they want to continue in their current positions, the Shanghai Daily reported yesterday. Although
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      We cover special needs
      322 26  -  RAJA MOHAN SEAH SENG CHOON Additional courses for domestic workers on caring for the elderly introduced Letter from Director, Sun Love Abode for Intellectually-lnfirmed for President, Foreign Domestic Workers Association for Skills Training (Fast) WE REFER to Heng Cho Choon's letter, "Caring for elderly needs special
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      Train spirit as well as the mind
      191 26  -  CHIANG MING YU Letter from WHAT Vivien Tan described in her letter, "What kind of example was this teacher settting?" (Mar 23), seems to be yet another indicator that the school system here can be improved. We seem to be focused on training
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      Market prices the basis for valuation
      276 29  -  JOAN CHAN MARCUS OH Flat value dropped due to different market conditions Letter from Director (Valuation), CKS Property Consultants and Executive Director, OrangeTee.Com WE REFER to the letter, "Why did flat valuation drop by $35,000 in seven months?" (March 17), from Mr Wong Teck
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      104 29 WEIGHTY CONCERN William Teo took this photo while he was travelling in a friend's car along Serangoon Road. The lorry was carrying a load that is heavier than what it could handle and became a hazard to other motorists. There should be regulations in place to prevent such a
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      isay WHY NOT SPEND NOW TO SAVE LATER?
      469 30  -  JEFFREY HO LOON POH STARTING from October last year when the Aljunied Group Representative Constituency (GRC) announced its $160-mil-lion upgrading plans, we have seen the stakes rising, almost exponentially, with each GRC announcing its own upgrading plans the latest being the $l-billion
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      Do you know who your estate beneficiaries are?
      303 30  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from I REFER to media reports in which the Consumers Association of Singapore, or Case, has raised the problem that those under the Dependents' Protection Scheme (DPS) now have to write a will or renominate beneficiaries by submitting
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    • Water, water everywhere – much of it being wasted
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        Green gardens, but at what cost?
        206 31  -  DAVID SOH Letter from MARCH 22 was World Water Day. But while some of us are trying to limit the water we use, other irresponsible organisations are wasting water while washing car parks and watering gardens. A few weeks ago, when I was at
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        Car-washing the culprit
        57 31  -  COLIN ONG TAU SHIEN Letter from I AM heartened to read that Dunman High School has been named a Friend Of Water. The school's efforts will have positive effects that will be felt by future generations. However, will the Government bring the same water conservation message to
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      A bridge we shouldn't wait to cross
      464 31  -  CHEONGCHEEMUN Let's set the standard and install escalators on overhead bridges Letter from The Land Transport Authority's (LTA) Lynn Ong ("The high road or the low?", March 22) has said that pedestrian overhead bridges have been made more userfriendly by reducing the height
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      I want, I want, I just want my CCTV
      760 32  -  mr brown FRIDAY WITH news@newstoday.com.sg What is sacrificing a little privacy in buses in the name of safety and protection! FIRST they gave you TV Mobile, so that you can watch TV on the bus. So, why is anybody surprised that
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      isay JAPANESE LESSONS FOR S'POREANS
      633 35  -  Liang Dingzi news@newstoday.com.sg A NEW word has crept into the English lexicon: Affluenza. It is an affliction of rich folk, who worry not only about maintaining their opulent lifestyle but also that their progeny may become less motivated because of family wealth. Canadians with a
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      233 36  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY SERVANT MANAGEMENT We've heard a lot recently about the excesses of executive salaries and perks. But there are some businesses that puttheir employees first and the results are very favorable to the bottom line. Jack Eckerd, founder and CEO of Eckerd Drug
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      Lock icon Cat love starts in the cradle: SPCA
      423 36  -  DEIRDREMOSS Caring for animals as living beings is something that must be taught from young Letter frorr Executive Officer, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) I REFER to the recent letters and comments in Today which were precipitated by the
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      259 40  -  UMBOONHEE Letter from THERE have been numerous complaints about the long waiting times in XX Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH). Its CEO, Mr Steven Sobak, cannot always brush aside this chronic problem of long waiting times of three hours by saying that those children not considered seriously ill
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      504 42  -  CHRISTIE LOH Did the bank's links to Temasekfoil its chances? christie@newstoday.com.sg A "DISAPPOINTED" DBS Group Holdings has failed to win a controlling stake in mid-size Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), re-igniting questions of whether perceived Government links are partly responsible for foiling Singapore companies' overseas acquisitions. Lone
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      140 42 ALL telcos and vendors interested in being involved in Singapore's new national broadband network project have until June 15 to submit their proposals to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA). The IDA said yesterday that it was seeking proposals from interested parties on the design, financing, construction and
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        179 44 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S industrial output likely grew at a faster pace in February from a year earlier due to more working days and increased production in the electronics and biomedical sectors. A Dow Jones Newswires poll of seven economists shows industrial
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        139 44 -DOWJONES BANGKOK -Shin Corp said yesterday its board had appointed Surin Upatkoon as its new director to replace Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisarn, who resigned on March 16. The appointment was expected, as Singapore's Temasek Holdings has reportedly trimmed its stake in Shin by selling a 68 per
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        413 44 -DOW JONES 'Put-up or shut-up' ruling by UK merger regulator sets April 24 date A CONSORTIUM that includes the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) must make its intentions known by mid-day on April 24 regarding a possible takeover bid for airport company BAA, the
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        263 46 —AP MALAYSIA opened Asia's first purposebuilt budget airline terminal yesterday, as part of the government's efforts to turn the country into a regional aviation hub amid competition from neighbours Singapore and Thailand. "This is a new industry that we must make a success, especially
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        430 46 BLOOMBERG The investment firm has been selling off shares in various companies recently TEMASEK Holdings' recent spate of share sales shows no sign of slowing down, with the investment company selling its entire stake in Australia's Qantas Airways. "We have divested our stakes in Qantas," Temasek
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        435 48  -  VALERIE LAW Property trust projects distribution yield of 5.77 per cent for this year valeri e@newstoday.com.sg PAN-ASIAN property trust Allco Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust yesterday announced that it is raising $490.6 million from its initial public offer (IPO) on the Singapore Exchange. Offered
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        198 48 BLOOMBERG AN EIGHT-YEAR ban on shortselling of securities will be lifted and rules for foreign companies to trade on the nation's stock exchange will be eased, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday. "The environment is now conducive," Mr Abdullah said in a speech read
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        278 50 -DOW JONES OFFICE rents in Singapore increased an average of 5.3 per cent in the first quarter of this year from that of the previous quarter, helped by a strong local economy and a lack of new supply, real estate consultants
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        474 50 -BLOOMBERG Move will let Tiger Airways halve its ground-handling costs and offer lower fares TIGER Airways, a discount carrier 49 per-cent-owned by Singapore Airlines, said Singapore's new budget terminal will help it halve ground-handling costs and fend off rising competition. The $45 million budget terminal,
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        220 52 BLOOMBERG STOCK exchange operator Bursa Malaysia said that it expected to introduce singlestock futures, a derivative product, in the second quarter to help lure individual investors. The move will help "pull greater interest in our market, especially on the retail front," Bursa chief executive
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        303 52 -BLOOMBERG Consumer price index in February up 1.2% year-on-year SINGAPORE'S inflation rate slowed last month for the first month in three as consumer spending eased after January's festive season and a stronger currency helped make imported goods cheaper. The consumer price index
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        349 54 BLOOMBERG COMMERCIAL land prices rose in all of Japan's three largest cities for the first time in 15 years, adding to evidence that the property market is rebounding in the world's second-largest economy. The average price of commercial land in
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        399 54 BLOOMBERG In turn, trade surplus narrows 11.8 per cent JAPANESE imports gained the most in almost a decade, narrowing the trade surplus, as demand from consumers and companies fuels the economy's longest postwar expansion. Imports jumped 30 per cent last month from a
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        398 55 -DOW JONES Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) plans to buy two properties from Sembawang Kimtrans for $78 million. A-Reit said that the pro forma financial effect of the acquisitions on its distributable income per unit for the financial year ended March 31 would be an additional 0.07 cent
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          149 55 -DOW JONES SHARE prices closed flat as buying interest remained mild, despite a higher Wall Street. The ST Index ended up 2.37 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 2,491.64. Gainers led losers 362 to 154 as 1.19 billion shares worth $1.16 billion were traded. Index heavyweight DBS Group Holdings
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          22 55 SGX Bloomberg GiM uss/oz 551.70 Silw uss/oz 10.50 PMnia uss/oz 1,046.00 MtH cents/kg 333.75 PltalilßM/tonnUos.so Bmtoila usS/banti 61.55 Information provided by
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      978 56  -  Leonard Thomas in New York leonard@newstoday.com.sg Failure to Launch star Matthew McConaughey, the Sexiest Man Alive 2005, is jovial and easy-going so much so that anti-perspirant is optional A RECORD-BREAKING blizzard was about a day away from howling into New York. But with temperatures at a high
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      922 58  -  Felix Cheong FRIDAY WITH FELIX plus@newstoday.com.sg Timed with the arrival of Vfor Vendetta, here's a primer on movie terror QIS FOR Arlington Road (1999), about the husband (Jeff Bridges) of an FBI agent picking up the pieces after she's killed in
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      135 60  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR PLAYWRIGHT Elangovan's P was granted an arts entertainment licence yesterday by the Media Development Authority (MDA) after the licence was delayed over concerns about religious sensitivities. According to Elangovan, P part of a double bill called Projek Suitcase 2006: Police Thiefby Malay theatre group
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      379 60  -  MERVIN TAY plus@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Li Nanxing (picture) said that Star Idol winner Bryan Wong reminded him of his younger days while judging Sunday's grand finals, fellow judges Zoe Tay and Farm Wong teasingly told him he used to have a hunky body like Bryan's. While Nanxing
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          318 62  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by AS BREATHTAKINGLY beautiful to watch as it is meandering and vague, Terence Malick's fourth film is the most layered retelling of the Pocahontas tale by far. In the 17th century, a group of English explorers including Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell) travel to
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          207 62  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by THE hills are alive. Not with the sound of music but the sickening thud of a hatchet burying itself in flesh and bone. And the sound of one hand clapping to another redundant remake. Based on Wes Craven's 1977 cult horror classic,
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        47 64 Good Decent nofrills entertainment You simply cannotmiss this movie "veri Could end up disappointed Very good A fine way to spend an Don't waste evening your money HOLLYWOOD, WE HAVE A PROBLEM...: There's no spark between Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker, let alone heat.
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        259 64  - The title says it all Ashraf Safdar FILMREVIEW Failure to Launch WHILE its story of a thirtysomething man still living with his parents is sure to resonate with many Singaporeans, Failure to Launch fails to linger in the memory owing to lacklustre performances from its leads. At 35, boat broker
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        363 66  -  Neil Humphreys Running Scared is all style, no substance FILMREVIEW by I Running Scared QUENTIN Tarantino, Bryan Singer and even Guy _^^> Ritchie have a lot to answer for when you think about it. Their witty, twisty, multilayered gangster flicks re-en-ergised a genre that had grown stale in
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          49 66 BY Breast cancer is supposed to be depressing stuff, but not when sunshine girl Miriam Yeung is afflicted with it, in this comedy about living with the disease. Ritchie Ren is the doctor who helps her find happiness while she faces the prospect of a mastectomy.
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          47 66 The sequel to the exuberant The Spanish Apartment (2002) finds the apartment-dwellers all grown up a bad thing because Frenchman Xavier (Romain Duris), like the film, is self-indulgent and feckless. Now a struggling writer, he juggles problems with women of all shapes, sizes and nationalities.
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          71 66 This French action flick exploits the underground sport of park-our-the urban freewalking first featured in Varna/cas/(2001)--for its stunning stunt work. Par/cowfounder David Belle plays Leito, a young thug from Paris' troubled 13th district who is languishing in jail for a crime he did not commit. He gets an
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      480 71 It could mean a surprise triumph at the'fifth Major' FLORIDA Vijay Singh was on the far comer of the range at Bay Hill with a large bucket of balls and a swing that didn't appear as though it belonged to a three-time Major champion. That was by
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      95 71 -AP FLORIDA Tiger Woods missed the final practice round at the Players Championship because he wanted to check on his father in California, a PGA Tour official said. Earl Woods, who lives in Cypress, Calif, where he raised his son, has battled cancer the last two
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      1130 72 —AFP Drug scandal dampens team's continued golden performance MELBOURNE Two Indian Commonwealth Games weightlifters brought new doping shame on their country yesterday and shattered the celebrations which had accompanied a three-gold shooting sweep. As Anuja Jung, Rajyavardhan Rathore and Vijay Kumar were taking India's gold medal
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      280 72 -AFP MELBOURNE A search is underway for seven members of the Sierra Leone Commonwealth Games team who disappeared on Wednesday, bringing to nine the number of athletes missing here at the 18th Commonwealth Games. The four male and three female athletes, aged between 18 and
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      501 73  -  TANYO-HINN Defending women's champ upset by little known Indian 18TH COMMONWEALTH KT| GAMES IN MELBOURNE W U'\ yohinn@newstoday.com.sg FOUR years ago, Li Li pulled off a stunning upset over English favourite Tracey Hallam to clinch the women's singles badminton crown at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
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      306 73  -  LEONG WEE KEAT 18TH COMMONWEALTH WZJ?% GAMES IN MELBOURNE LVM Table Tennis weekeat@newstoday.com.sg The Singapore table tennis team have assured themselves of at least a silver medal in the mixed doubles event, after three pairs made it safely through to today's semifinals. Cai Xiao Li
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      298 73  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THEY may have been Asia's best, but Singapore had no chance of any sort of upset against world No 2 Australia, when they clashed in a Pool B encounter at the 18th Commonwealth Games yesterday. But the 107-19 slaughter by the hosts at Melbourne's
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      570 76 -AFP Blues' FA Cup win marred by more controversy FA CUP, QUARTER-FINAL Chelsea 1 Newcastle 0 LONDON Chelsea's magnetic attraction for controversy was evident once more on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), after skipper John Terry's goal sent the Premiership champions into the last four of the
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      244 76 —AFP DORTMUND -World Cup hosts Germany crushed the United States 4-1 on Wednesday {yesterday morning, Singapore time) for a much-needed morale boost ahead of this summer's footballing extravaganza. Germany coach Jurgen Klinsmann (picture) was hammered in the press after a 4-1 drubbing by Italy
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