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  • 17 1 weekendToday share your free newspaper March 25 26, 2006 mica(p> 114/07/2005 we set you thinking todayonline.com Fre&f
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  • 1258 1  -  JASMINE YIN It's tough for a disabled person to find a job but help could soon be on its way jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg HE WILL take on any shift, willingly work overtime, and not quibble about the pay. With such qualities, one would think that Mr Ng Chong Hoo
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  • hot news
    • 215 3 FORMER Opposition Member of Parliament J B Jeyaretnam has failed to meet a court deadline to pay the costs of his previous discharge hearings, in order for his application for bankruptcy annulment to proceed. Last week, the High Court ordered the 81-year-old to pay
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    • 459 3  -  LEE U-WEN PM Lee calls for more students to pursue post-secondary education to secure their future u-wen@newstoday.com.sg TOO many Singaporeans are entering the workforce without a post-secondary education, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has issued a call to action to decrease the numbers.
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  • singapore news
    • 450 4  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg ON THURSDAY, the People's Action Party (PAP) unveiled its first three new General Election candidates. On Friday, the identities of those making way for the fresh faces also became clearer. Five-term
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    • 1013 4  -  VALCHUA PAP'sEric Low unveils 10-year plan for Hougang ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR va l@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Eric Low was a newbie politician in Hougang six years ago, he tried to catch up with incumbent MP Low Thia Khiang in the funeral circuit As the Workers' Party
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    • 495 6  -  TORCHING LI URA rolls out incentives for buildings to light up chingli@newstoday.com. sg SINGAPORE'S urban planners have come up with another bright idea to enhance the city skyline literally. To get more buildings to light up their facades at night like the Fullerton Hotel, Capital Tower
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    • 499 6  -  VALCHUA va l@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS unveiled only three partnerships in its Marina Bay integrated resort (IR) bid so far and one of them flopped before it could even take off. But Las Vegas Sands is not perturbed by its rivals trumpeting star-studded partnerships week after
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    • 232 6 -ANSLEYNG SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) chief Dr Chee Soon Juan, who cannot contest the upcoming elections because he is bankrupt, denied speculation that there was a rift in his party. Last week, SDP chairman Ling How Doong, who filled Dr Chee's shoes when the latter was
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    • 351 8  -  CHEOWXINYI Ng lucks in when he is awarded NTU's biggest bursary xinyic@newstoday.com.sg FOR most university students, staying in a hostel is either for fun or convenience. But for 23-year-old Ng Yong Hao, his room at the Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Hall
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    • 333 8  -  CHEOWXINYI HOT on the heels of a mass email sent by a student to his fellow students at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), another group has started a petition, asking for a dialogue with the administration. Earlier this week, aerospace engineering student Gary Goh sent out
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 105 8  -  Tan Hui Leng A day after being revealed as one of the People's Action Party's (PAP) new election candidates, eye surgeon Dr Lim Wee Kiak, 37, attended the launch of a lift upgrading programme at Marsiling Rise with MP for Sembawang GRC
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      • 62 8 Channel News Asia The body of a woman was found in Kallang River on Friday. Police say the Chinese woman in her early 50s was pronounced dead at about 7pm. She was found wearing a light blue T-shirt, long dark pants and white
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      • 82 8 Channel News Asia The Republic of Singapore Air Force has a new chief. BG Ng Chee Khern has taken over the post from Maj-Gen Lim Kirn Choon. BG Ng, 40, was instrumental in driving the transformation efforts for a 3G Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and played
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    • 289 8  -  LIN YANQIN yanqinl@newstoday.com.sg A SCHOOL with rooftop garden designed for science lessons. Performing arts facilities for students taking drama as an O-level subject An art gallery that doubles up as an art room. Clearly, upgrading schools is no longer confined to simply expanding the
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  • World news
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      868 10  -  TOM SULLIVAN IN NEW DELHI The containing of a bird flu outbreak in western India raised more questions than it answered INDIAN health authorities breathed a sigh of relief earlier this week when tests for the deadly HSNI bird flu virus in humans proved negative. In the western
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 73 10 -AFP Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar, acting as an envoy for the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), has cut short a trip to Myanmar aimed at pressing the junta over human rights reforms. Mr Syed Hamid will leave Myanmar on Friday night, ending
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      • 65 10 -AFP Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej held a rare meeting late on Thursday with the Privy Council, a body of royal advisers. It presented the king with appeals to replace embattled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a council source said. If the king was to appoint a
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      • 70 10 -AFP Malaysia's former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim has denied accusations that he made seditious comments during an election campaign last year. Mr Anwar, who was sacked and jailed in 1998 on corruption and sodomy charges, was interviewed by police over accusations that he made a seditious
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    • 214 10 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia recalled its ambassador to Australia on Friday amid a furore over Canberra's decision to grant temporary visas to 42 asylum seekers from its restive Papua province. Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Yuri Thamrin said its envoy would be called back to Jakarta for
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    • 357 12 —AFP She is a prominent feminist and former dissident SEOUL A feminist and former political dissident was picked on Friday to become South Korea's first woman Prime Minister, officials said. Ms Han Myung-Sook, a lawmaker from the ruling Uri Party, was nominated for
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    • this quirky world
      • 68 12 Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said, according to Reuters. Some 36 bars in a Dallas suburb were recently raided and 30 people were arrested for public intoxication,
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      • 70 12 Ms Sue Storer, the deputy chief of Bedminster Down Secondary School in Bristol, is suing the school for allegedly forcing her to sit in a chair that made farting noises every time she moved, reported The Times of London. Ms Storer, 48, claims her requests
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      • 62 12 One in three Britons regularly make telephone calls in the nude, reported ananova.com. According to a new survey, one in ten admitted to wandering off and leaving the caller talking to themselves, and 62 per cent carry on watching TV. Five per cent said that
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      • 77 12 -AFP Bulgarians were warned by a self-styled Lunar Embassy to hurry to buy real estate on the moon as only a limited number of properties were left for sale although plots on Mars and Jupiter's moon lo were also available. The Plovdiv lunar embassy is
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    • 324 12 -AFP WASHINGTON Polar ice sheets are melting faster than expected and could push sea levels up by as much as six metres by 2100, two new studies warned. Based on current trends, they said, average temperatures could jump "at least" 2.5 degrees centigrade
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    • 226 12 ARA (India) Rani Pandey, who is now 6, has been charged with attacking police in India's northern Bihar state in a bid to help her father escape from police custody. This is despite the fact that under Indian law, children below age seven cannot
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 12 SO LONG, OLD FRIEND: A zookeeper tending to the famed 255-year-old Addwaita, the Aldabra tortoise, at the Alipore Zoological Garden in Calcutta, India. It died of liver failure on Wednesday. It was brought from Seychelles in 1875 during the rule of the East India Company. '""ap
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    • 212 12 LONDON A mixed-race couple have beaten odds of a million to one to give birth to different coloured twin girls. Mum Kylie Hodgson was startled when she spotted baby Remee had blue eyes and blonde hair, while baby Kian had brown skin and black hair. Ms
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  • 224 14  -  AUDREY ANG Letter from Assistant Director (Media relations), Singapore Police Force WE REFER to the letters, "Animal rights vs music copyright?" by Celia Chua (March 21) and "Cat love starts in the cradle" by Deirdre Moss (March 24), as well as the earlier commentary by
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  • Voices
    • 825 14  -  Neil Humphreys Time to mete out harsher penalties to those who abuse small, defenceless animals? WEEKEND WITH news@newstoday.com.sg I USED to sleep with animals. Not farmyard animals, just regular household pets. On rainy nights in England, I once shared my bed with a brown Doberman
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    • 306 16  -  LYNN ONG Letter from Deputy Manager, Media Relations Land Transport Authority PLEASE refer to the report, "CCTV on buses soon?" (March 22). The report states: "In less than five years, all 3,550 buses in Singapore could be equipped with closed-circuit television (CCTV)
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    • 217 16  -  JESSICA NOBES Letter from I FELT disheartened after reading See Lay Keng's request for the amendment of match times for schools so that the young do not have to play under the sun ("Kids get scorched in name of sport", March 23).
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    • Being the voices of the people
      • 223 16  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AHMAD Letter from EVEN if there are a few Opposition members in Parliament, the fact remains that all Bills will sail through Parliament after rounds of rigorous debate, of course. To the layman, big or slim PAP's victory vis-a-vis percentage votes
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      • 131 16  -  FRAN KIE CHAN Letter from IT IS heartening to note that the first three new faces fielded in by PAP have a passion for their respective causes. Of particular interest is Ms Denise Phua's passion for the disabled and those with special needs. The problem
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      • 142 16  -  CHEE KIM TECK Letter from I was most impressed with new PAP candidate Dr Lim Wee Kiak from his humble background to his active involvement with grassroots activities, to his political aspirations and views. His promise to place priority on taking care of his
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    • 437 17  -  MURALI SHARMA To beat the heat, plant trees that actually give shade Letter from THE recent letters on keeping cool in Singapore has set readers thinking and talking. I read with interest the two recent letters (March 23) about central cooling technology. We should
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    • 145 17  -  S SATISH APPOO Letter from Head, Environmental Health Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letter" Flimsy covers for lorry not effective" (March 21). All drivers of vehicles transporting construction materials such as granite chip, sand, earth or gravel must ensure that their loads
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    • 131 17  -  DAVID KWOKNG KAN Letter from IT'S NOT uncommon to see NEA (National Environment Agency) contractors placing refuse containers along public walkways to be collected the next working day. Many are placed overnight, filled to the brim with refuse and partially covered, thus attracting rodents and insects.
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  • Businesstoday
    • 1040 18  -  CHRISTIE LOH Value of Q1 sales already half of 2005's total, but mainly for prime plots christi e@newstoday.com.sg MANY a millionaire has sprung up of late, thanks to the dazzling premiums that homeowners are getting for banding together to sell their private apartments. But before
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    • Article, Illustration
      218 18 8 DAYS COVERS EXHIBITION BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND THE recent exhibition of 8 DAYS covers proved such a resounding success, it's making an encore appearance. This time, it's happening at the Millenia Walk atrium until April 9. If you were not among the 50,000 people who saw the iconic
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    • 415 19  -  JANE CHIAPOCQ Singapore can expect more hiring as a result of the deal ja nec@newstoday.com.sg AS PART of the Government's efforts to divest its non-core businesses, Spring Singapore sold two of its units to a top German technical services provider. A deal
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    • 232 19 Singapore Exchange (SGX) said on Friday that it would offer an over-the-counter clearing facility for oil derivatives and dry bulk forward freight agreements beginning March 30. The SGX also said that it planned to offer a clearing facility for wet/tanker forward freight agreements in two months' time. "The growth
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    • 214 19  -  -LEECHINGWERN SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) interested in tapping into the $10-billion Government procurement market can now offer their goods and services to potential customers through a new online service. To give SMEs greater access to opportunities, the Defence Science and
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    • 78 19 -BLOOMBERG ADVANCED Info Service shareholders almost unanimously rejected an offer by a Temasek Holdings-led investment group for being too low. Temasek and its Thai investor partners acquired just 9,096 shares with their offer of 72.31 baht ($3) apiece for all the shares they did not
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    • marketwatch
      • 4 19 St Index 2,497.31 +5.67
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      • 69 19 SHARE prices closed marginally higher on Friday buoyed by buying in blue chips. The ST Index ended up 5.67 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 2,497.31. Gainers led losers 346 to 201 as 1.53 billion shares worth $1.04 billion were traded. China Paper Holdings was most actively traded. It
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      • 55 19 Nikkei 225 *****.87 +71.50 +0.43 Hang Seng ASX *****.46 -54.71 5040.10 +4.80 -0.35 +0.10 Taiwan Wtd 6376.62 +12.02 +0.19 Korea Comp 1321.23 +8.97 +0.68 KLCI 926.09 +0.98 +0.11 SET Index 730.85 +1.13 +0.15 Jakarta Comp 1311.37 +5.75 +0.44 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2208.13 +15.35 255.06 +0.63 +0.70 +0.25
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      • 27 19 SGX, I Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 550.80 Silver US$/oz 10.69 Platinum US$/oz 1,046.40 Rubber cents/kg 335.50 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,395.50 Brant crude US$/barrel 63.24 Information provided by
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      • 58 19 China Paper CG Tech GuangzhaolFB ChinaLife Hongwei SKY Petrol Asia Env Magnus Gen Int Luzhou 0.465 0.400 0.205 0.205 0.275 0.550 0.355 0.065 0.370 0.600 +0.050 +0.045 +0.050 +0.030 +0.035 +0.020 +0.040 +0.005 +0.005 +0.015 +12.0 +12.7 +32.3 +11.0 +14.6 +3.0 +12.7 +0.3 +1.4 +2.6 94.960 59,937
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      • 69 19 JSH 500US$ 11.400 -0.200 Uridux 0.050 -41.2 DBS 16.100 -0.100 N0LBNP8CW*****2 0.040 -38.5 Haw Par 5.750 -0.100 Bio-TieaiMBLeCW***** 0.055 -35.3 Shang Asia 2kHK$ SIAEngg Thai Prime200US$ Else US$ 12.300 -0.100 3.140 -0.100 5.450 -0.100 2.360 -0.090 UangHuat 0.010 Capi1aComBNPeCW***** 0.105 istSoftoare 0.015 HyfluxMBLeCWQGQG2S 0.015 -33.3 -32.3 -25.0
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      • 35 19 UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6171 0.3557 72.727 4.7881 2.2775 0.5156 5608.0 24.114 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 31.590 0.8630 27.489 601.99 0.7188 4.9540 0.9894 20.106
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  • wh?ch
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      485 20  -  Pearlyn Tham Jean-Paul Gaultier, Ferragamo, Missoni... Singapore Fashion Festival's not to be missed CITYSTYLE with I pea rly n®newstoaa^on^cn IT SEEMS that there isn't a better time to be in fashion than now. As you read this, the Singapore Fashion Festival 2006 (SFF) now in its sixth year
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    • style
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        235 22  -  LEE HUI SHAN huisha nl@newstoday.com. sg AN HERB that can improve the elasticity of skin, keep it hydrated and reduce wrinkles now that's a plant every woman can appreciate. Milk thistle, which can be found in southern Europe, is the secret behind Fancl's new product, the Fancl
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      • 171 22  -  LEE HUI SHAN FASHION shows, make-up demonstrations and a lucky draw It's Fashion Festival time at Millenia Walk. To take part in the It's Fashion Festival lucky draw, simply spend $50 in a single or accumulated same-day receipts. The grand prize includes two
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      • 277 22  -  LEE HUI SHAN BOTHERED by lines or spots on your face? Erase them. It's easy with Elizabeth Arden's Ceramide Plump Perfect Targeted Line Concentrate a treatment "pen" that features a narrow tip applicator. Just trace over those unwanted lines
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      • 247 22  -  LEE HUI SHAN SIMPLE this is how men like things, according to psychologist and therapist Daniel Koh. My cousin would agree with this. He thinks that taking care of one's skin is a troublesome ritual. I don't blame him he has seen the females
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      • Article, Illustration
        376 23  -  LEE HUI SHAN New Puma store offers limited-edition ranges and edgy styles from renowned designers huisha nl@newstoday.com. sg from shopping on the weekends to holidaying at a beach resort. "Puma has successfully fused influences from sports, lifestyle and fashion to position itself as the most sought after
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    • makan
      • 417 24  -  AMYVAN Asia Grand Restaurant's delicacies are sure to tantalise your taste buds food@newstoday.com.sg AFTER its refurbishment, Hotel Asia (next to Sheraton Towers) now boasts a newly-revamped Cantonese restaurant all decked out in plush new decor and furnishing. Taking over the former Tsui Hang Village spot is Asia
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      • 619 25  -  LOW SHI PING Tong Shui Cafe boasts tasty Hong Kong cuisine, too f ood@newstoday.com.sg TONG Shui Cafe, if you ask me, is a misnomer. Tong shui is a Cantonese term for desserts. But what this cafe serves up is more than desserts. According to Raymond Khoo, the
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      • 150 25  -  LEE HUI SHAN MEDITERRANEAN MANIA AT PIZZA HUT Are you looking for some exotic cuisine to intrigue your taste buds? Look no further than the new Mediterranean Feast which is now on Pizza Hut's menu. For starters, try the new Spanish tortilla chips ($3.50). Seafood lovers will relish the
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    • car buyer's guide
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        410 26  -  COLIN YONG If you are set to take the plunge and buy a new car, here is some invaluable advice to help you make the right decision colin@newstoday.com.sg SHOPPING for a car can be good fun for the whole family. Before signing on the dotted line though, it
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      • 416 26  -  -LEOWJULEN THE market for new cars has been picking up lately and, as a result, prices for Certificates Of Entitlement have been climbing since early February. After hovering around the $10,000 mark for the first two months of the year, the COE for
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      • 238 26  -  SHELDON TROLLOPE DISPLAYS of supercars including Ferraris (picture), Lamborghinis and Porsches are among the highlights of the inaugural Nanyang Technological University Motor Fest The event is being held this weekend at NTU's campus from 10am to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. In addition to viewing the exotic
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      • 1632 28  -  Colin Yong's Now's a good time to buy a new car but which one should you get? Here's (colin@newstoday.com.sg) roundup of the choicest deals on wheels in the market now BUDGET CARS Saloons and hatchbacks costing less than $50,000. They must be both cheap and cheerful. Best
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    • car
      • Article, Illustration
        552 31  -  NICKSYN Facelift takes Chevrolet's budget-priced Aveo upmarket news@newstoday.com.sg RIGHT now, Chevrolet is to General Motors (GM) pretty much what spinach is to Popeye a sort of secret weapon. The American carmaker has been beset by a crippling litany of problems but if you look at how quickly Chevrolet
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      • 440 31  -  COLIN YONG YOU have to hand it to the Japanese for their attention to detail. Walk towards a Lexus IS with its keyless transponder in your pocket and when you come within a metre of the car, small lamps beneath the exterior mirrors light
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    • gadget
      • SHOPPINGGUIDE
        • 102 32 The D-Link DCS-950G (right) is a surveillance system that provides remote audio and video monitoring over the Internet. MPEG-4 codec support delivers full motion video and audio capabilities, while the motion detection capability allows for recording functions to be triggered upon detection of subject movement.
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        • 128 32 The 3G-enabled Nokia 6280 (right) is a compact slide phone equipped with two integrated digital cameras one with a 2-megapixel lens and the other with a VGA lens. Allowing you to take advantage of 3G services, such as real-time video sharing and two-way video calls,
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        • 122 33 Designed specially for the Apple iPod Nano, Motorola Rokr as well as iMate smart phones and handhelds, Qool Labs' series of Xensaxion mobile speakers (left) help to enhance audio bass to create a deeper, more natural sounding tone. With a sound pressure level of 150dB,
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        • 130 33 Lenovo has launched two ThinkPad models the X6O (right) and the T6O series powered by Intel dual-core processors. The starting weight for the X6O is I.2kg while the T6O weighs about 2.2 kg. Select models of the X6O and T6O series have integrated fingerprint readers
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      • 704 32  -  ELAINE NG elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg The mobile professional will like this Blackßerry for phone, email and browsing the Web RESEARCH in Motion is reinforcing its presence in the push-email device domain with the Blackßerry 8700 series. True to tradition, the Blackßerry 8700g makes a perfect companion for the
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    • property
      • 565 34  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA Rise popularity of real estate near CBD help cut price difference with those in prime districts 9,10,11 shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE PRICE difference between apartments in prime districts 9,10 and 11 and those in districts 1 to 4 could be narrowing going by
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      • 590 34  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE LAUNCH of what could be Singapore's largest collective sale by land size could be coming closer to realisation with more than 83 per cent of Waterfront View owners fully or partially agreeing to the sale. According to
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    • 1301 37  -  Jeanine Tan H 539 HHKfI jeanine@newstoday.com.sg SEVERAL pints of beer into an interview with Today, famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle started being very Christopher Doyle. As famous as he is for creating gorgeous, enigmatic images for the films he works on he crafted the look and feel
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      • 38 37 The frenetic camerawork and shifting colours in this Wong Kar Wai classic reflect the meaningless lives of several quirky characters played by Takeshi Kaneshiro, Lin Ching Hsia and Faye Wong living in modern-day Hong Kong.
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      • 36 37 Doyle's first attempt at a major Hollywood studio picture was a shot-by-shot remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic directed by Gus Van Sant that was panned by film critics, who called the remake unnecessary.
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      • 51 37 Another Wong film, this bittersweet romance about two cuckolded people played by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai in love with each other but reluctant to start an affair juxtaposes moody lighting and grotty alleyways with the gorgeous colours of the cheongsams Cheung
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      • 40 37 This film, the first of Chinese director Zhang Yimou's efforts to make flashy wuxia blockbusters in the vein of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is breathtakingly beautiful, especially in the focused use of a dominant colour in key scenes.
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      • 43 37 Doyle's first collaboration with Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang -the story of a suicidal library assistant, played by Tadanobu Asano, who begins an unlikely friendship with a Thai girl is memorable for its dream-like cinematography and contemplative mood.
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      98 38 HELLO NEIGHBOUR: Esnor'aine (centre), the winner of MediaCorp Publish ing's FHM Girl Next Door 2006 contest with first runner-up Klowyn Ng (left) and second runnerup Tan Sue Ann, after accepting the grand prize of a Fiat Punto, $5,000 cash and $2,000 worth of gifts on Thursday night at MOS at
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    • 500 38  -  JEANINETAN JULIANA JUNE RASUL Nostalgia in the air at Cathay building opening jea nine@newstoday.com.sg THE night was a celebration of the modern, but the past was not forgotten. At Thursday's official opening of the new Cathay building at Handy Road, which includes The Picturehouse, the guests of
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      • 112 40  -  QUENTEN SMITH WRI+ES IT WAS a tremendous pleasure to read your feature ("The filth the fury", Mar 21) outlining the roots of punk and some of its key artists. This was the last thing I would have expected to see in Singapore. I am an Australian
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      • 91 40  -  MIKETEO WRI+ES IT WAS interesting to see Today devote two pages to the 30th anniversary of punk. In 1976,1 was one of a handful of punk fans in Singapore and I recall how tough it was to even hear a punk tune on local radio.
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      • 90 40  -  SUFIAN BIN SUDERMAN WRI+ES I AM 16 years old and proud to say that I am a punk rock fan. Some of my friends aspire to be the next Tom Delonge of Blink 182, but they don't even know bands such as Minor
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        • 48 42 To mark the opening of its Fashion Institute of Singapore, LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts is holding an exhibition -which runs from Thursday until April 6 at the Red Dot Traffic Building at Maxwell Road on Singapore street style, as seen by its design students.
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        • 47 42 Join Asian art curators and scholars in a discussion about Cubism, a style that is not restricted to the West. The talk takes place this Saturday and Sunday at 9.30 am at the Singapore Art Museum Auditorium. The registration fee is $50 for both days.
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        223 42  -  Ashraf Safdar A SOUND OF THUNDER by FILM: In the hands of screenwriter Thomas Dean Donnelly and director Peter Hyams, Ray Bradbury's bleak sciencefiction novella about time travel is bludgeoned into a cheesy feel-good romp replete with dinosaurs and C-grade special effects. In 2055, people have the option of
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        • 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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        • 35 43 -JT 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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          41 43 -JT 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. REVOLUTIONARY: A trans formed Natalie Portman contemplates a life of insurgency in Vfor Vendetta.
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        • 18 43 JT The Matrix film-makers' adaptation of Alan Moore's cult classic graphic novel is near perfect.
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        • 25 43 JT Sunshine girl Miriam Yeung makes light of the tragedy of breast cancer in this romantic comedy about surviving a radical mastectomy.-
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        • 28 43 JT The exhilarating sport of parkour the same sport featured in the French breakout hit, Yamakasi is used to great effect in this French action flick.-
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        • 17 43  -  Felix Cheong An intelligently thought through piece of ghost story that doesn't simply shock and awe.
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        • 23 43 -JT The doll-like Vivian Hsu charms in this fairy tale, which some may find whimsical while others will dismiss as candyfloss.-
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        • 33 43 -FC 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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        • 21 43 -JT Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo play parents to a whopping 19 children. Let the shenanigans begin.
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        • 23 43 JT The story of Pocahontas is a sweeping tale about human discovery, both of new worlds and of human nature.-
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        • 29 43 JT Martin Lawrence is 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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        • 22 43 ■JT A thriller made with the teenage set in mind that is so mediocre, even its twist fail to impress.
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        • 23 43 -FC Emma Thompson wastes her talent playing the titular character in Nanny McPhee, in which she wears prosthetics and god-awful makeup.-
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        • 18 43 -JT The self-indulgent sequel to The Spanish Apartment has whiny Frenchman Xavier juggling multiple women problems.
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        • 27 43 FC Standard drill of operational gore. The hill may have eyes but they obviously couldn't see the mountain made out of a molehill.-
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        • 20 43  -  Ashraf Safdar This elaborate mating game fails to shine owing to lack of chemistry between its stars.
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        • 18 43 FC Another grossed out, politi-cally-incorrect movie spoof. But the pointless lampooning of everything is so dated.
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        • 27 43 Comedian lim Aliens career has gone to the dogs. It's painful to watch him fetch a stick, for heaven's sake, on all fours. JT
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    • 496 58 —AFP Barcelona counting down the wins as they edge closer to Spanish title PRIMERAUGA Malaga v Barcelona MADRID Barcelona are potentially only three games away from securing their second successive Spanish league title and the Catalan club can move a step closer with
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    • 211 58 -AFP FLORIDA Jim Furyk and fellow American Davis Love made the most of ideal early conditions to seize the lead after the first round of the Players Championship on Thursday (Friday morning, Singapore time). On a day when the morning starters had a
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    • 483 59 -AFP Expect fireworks when Liverpool play Everton ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool v Everton LIVERPOOL With Liverpool and Everton both building up a head of steam in recent weeks, something has to give when the two clubs clash in the 203 rd Merseyside derby at Anfield on Saturday. Having
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    • 238 59 Chelsea v Liverpool Episode V -AGENCIES LONDON Chelsea and Liverpool will meet for the 10th time in two seasons, after being paired in the FA Cup semi-final draw on Friday. West Ham United will play Middlesbrough or Charlton Athletic in the other semi-final as the door opens for one of
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      • 212 59 WAYNE Rooney (picture) kept his distance from the greatest prize in football on Thursday and declined the chance to lift the trophy up as the Fifa World Cup tour arrived in London. The United striker admitted that the excitement is mounting for players and he
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      • 176 59 JENS Lehmann wants German head coach Jurgen Klinsmann to end the debate now on who should be Germany's No 1 goalkeeper at this summer's World Cup. The bitter duel between Lehmann and Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn has divided the host nation for months
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      • 139 59 THE city of Berlin is coming to the rescue of fans unable to get hold of tickets for this year's World Cup finals by constructing its own World Cup venue. A 40,000 square metre area in Republic Square, directly in front of the Reichstag, the
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    • 703 60 the weekend inte rvi c vv His association with the famous Italian sports company Lotto started way back in 1987. Now president of Lotto Sport Italia, Andrea Tomat, is touring Asia to launch Lotto's revolutionary football boots the Zhero Gravity. In Singapore recently to witness the
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    • 342 60  -  DARREN LAI darren@newstoday.com.sg RHB Singapore Cup champions Home United will begin the defence of their crown against Thai Provincial League champions Chonburi FC, who are making their debut, when this year's edition of the competition kicks off on April 15. But the highlight of
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