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    26 1 /A=diaCorp TODAY share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Thursday March 30, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY /AejdjaCorp share your free newspaper Thursday March 30, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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    Genting's striking trump card
    665 1  -  VALCHUA Spectacular design, $5b input signal M'sian IR bidder's intent ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR val@newstoday.com.sg D-DAY came with all four players in the race for the Marina Bay integrated resort (IR) officially filing their bids yesterday, but it was the dark horse that caught the eye. Somewhat
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    BIDDERROUNDUP
    214 1 LAS VEGAS SANDS (OVER $4.98): Fronted by Sheldon Adelson, the 14th richest American, Sands'trump card is the conventions experience its CEO has. But it has only two casinos and while its "Asian footprint" of high-rollers in Macau is admirable, there is a concern that the project here will play
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      LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES, CAO RISES
      850 2  -  Mano Sabnani Editor-in-Chief/CEO mano@newstoday.com.sg Temasek benefits from faith in restructured company THE market's attention yesterday turned to China Aviation Oil (CAO), with the stock ramped up sharply above expectations. The company has risen like a phoenix from its ashes, after the massive
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      Lock icon After the victory, the 'sacrifices'
      522 3 -AGENCIES Interim PM Olmert's party wins elections, is ready to define Israel's borders JERUSALEM The results were less than stellar but it did not stop interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from rolling up his sleeves and swinging into action to build a coalition yesterday
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      Outstanding young persons feted
      195 3  -  -JASMINE YIN A RECORD number of five people have emerged as honorary winners of The Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) of Singapore award this year. Walking away with the awards last night were emergency medicine specialist Dr Fatimah Lateef, Nominated MPs Eunice Olsen and Assoc Prof Ong
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Cutting through the hill to Orchard
      345 4  -  LINYANQIN PHOTO COURTESY OF" With the $34 million Fort Canning Tunnel, drivers can bypass traffic lights to get from Marina Centre to the Orchard area ya nqinl@newstoday.com.sg COME year-end, you could drive right through the heart of Fort Canning Hill to get to the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • Article
        Lock icon CHEAPER POWER UNTIL JUNE
        105 4 -CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singaporeans will enjoy lower electricity prices until June 30. this is because SP Services has adjusted its electricity tariff by an average of 2.54 per cent, or a little over half a cent per kilowatt per hour. Even though the price of fuel oil
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        Lock icon PORCELAIN PLATES UP FOR AUCTION
        99 4 A pair of porcelain stoneware plates signed by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Lee will be up for a silent auction on April 27. Organised by the National Neuroscience Institute, the auction will raise money for the Health Endowment Fund. It is a
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      Sneak peek into GE?
      488 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO Election issues debated hotly at NUS students' forum derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE General Election (GE) may not have been called yet, but there was a sneak preview, last night, of the issues that might be raised. A forum on the upcoming polls organised by political
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      Lock icon Yatiman a hard man to replace: Mah
      172 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA NATIONAL Development Minister and MP for Tampines GRC Mah Bow Tan said Mr Yatiman Yusof, a member of his GRC team, was someone who would be hard to replace. A few days ago, Mr Yatiman had expressed a desire to step
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      Compare apples with apples: WP's Low
      339 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG IF MY rival can do it, then so can I, indicated Opposition MP Low Thia Khiang in response to reports that PAP's Eric Low had promised to help Hougang residents privatise their HUDC estates. He said that if his constituents wanted
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      Lock icon US, S'pore to test port monitoring system
      290 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE and the United States will embark on a pilot initiative to have monitors in major ports with the aim of preventing radioactive materials, used in making bombs, from falling into the wrong hands. This was revealed by the US Secretary
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      Lock icon A centre championing homeland security
      114 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA IN LINE with the Government's strategic framework for national security, a new Centre of Excellence for National Security (Cens) will be set up on the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus. Cens, which is part of NTU's Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS),
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      Code drawn up for Chinese physicians
      340 8  -  CHEOWXINYI Registered practitioners of TCM must comply with ethical guidelines xinyi c@newstoday.com.sg IN THE push to professionalise the industry, the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practitioners Board has come up with a set of guidelines for all registered Chinese physicians and acupuncturists. This comes two
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  • world news
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon FACE RECONSTRUCTION: INITIAL OPERATION SUCCESSFUL
        61 10 -AFP Doctors have successfully carried out the initial operation in Indonesia's first so-called "free-flap" facial reconstruction procedure. They lifted the entire skin off the face of the female patient, 22-year-old Siti Nur Jazilah, whose face was disfigured in an acid attack, and replaced it with
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        Lock icon AFGHAN CHRISTIAN CONVERT LEAVES FOR ITALY
        105 10 —AFP An Afghan Christian, who avoided the death penalty after converting from Islam, left Afghanistan yesterday for Italy where he has been granted asylum, the Italian embassy said. "He has left and he is expected in Italy by tonight," an embassy official told AFP
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        Lock icon CHARLES TAYLOR ARRESTED, SENT HOME TO LIBERIA
        84 10 -AFP A Nigerian presidential jet took off yesterday carrying former Liberian leader Charles Taylor home to Monrovia, officials said. The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution allowing peacekeepers in Liberia to detain Taylor once he arrives and to transport him to
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      Sex selection case: Indian doctor jailed
      378 10 He told patient that'female foetus would betaken care of HARYANA (India) An Indian doctor and his assistant have been jailed for two years for revealing the sex of a female foetus and then agreeing to abort it, reported the BBC. In India, ultrasound tests
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      Lock icon Australia braces for second storm
      142 10 -AFP PERTH Australia braced for its second powerful cyclone in two weeks as a "very dangerous" storm bore down on the country's mineral-rich west coast, forcing a halt to some mining and oilfield operations. Cyclone Glenda was upgraded to the highest category five tropical storm
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      Lock icon Infant dies after surgery to remove foetuses from her abdomen
      217 10 —AP ISLAMABAD A two-month-old Pakistani girl died following surgery to remove two foetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb. The infant, identified only as Nazia, died on Tuesday night after a two-hour operation
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      Lock icon Economic focus shifts under new M'sia plan
      443 12 —AFP Abdullah's first economic blueprint will seekto take development to rural areas KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is set to unveil a five-year development blueprint aimed at reducing rural poverty as it struggles to achieve its goal of becoming the world's first developed Muslim nation
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      Lock icon Key Bangkok retail district paralysed
      254 12 —AFP BANGKOK Tens of thousands of protesters trying to oust Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra shut down one of Bangkok's key commercial centres yesterday, causing massive traffic jams, as they stepped up their campaign four days before troubled elections. Police diverted traffic around one block
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    • this quirky world
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        M'SIAN ARMY DOCTORS USE KARAOKE TO BAIT ORANG ASLI
        97 12 To encourage orang as//villagers to go for free medical check-ups, Malaysian army medical officers have taken to organising karaoke sessions and live concerts, the New Straits Times reported. Such sessions are popular and can last all night, up to 4am. Up
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        Lock icon MAN TO SON: DIVORCE WIFE, OR ATONE WITH ELEPHANT
        107 12 DPA his wife after doctors said she could no longer bear children, after giving birth to three children by caesarian section. Mr Kamanu insisted that only an elephant would appease his thwarted dreams for more grandchildren. "My father has rejected a
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        CAMEL MILK CHOCOLATE, ANYONE?
        99 12 A new product will hit the shelves of the Arabic world this autumn low fat camel's milk chocolate. An Austrian chocolate maker has joined forces with a camel farm in Abu Dhabi to develop the sweet treats, ananova.com reported. The Abu Dhabi royal family has funded
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      Lock icon A million protesters hit French streets
      188 14 -AGENCIES PARIS As a million people took part on Tuesday in the largest nationwide protests yet against a youth labour law, local media called on President Jacques Chirac to take a firm lead to deal with the growing social unrest. Riot police used water
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      Lock icon Hispanics to boycott 'American life'
      193 14 -AFP LOS ANGELES Hispanic groups in the United States, buoyed by massive weekend protests against a proposed immigration crackdown, are planning a major boycott of American life dubbed a "day without Latinos", said leaders. Organisers of the "A day without Latinos or a day without
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      Lock icon A big shake up at the White House?
      535 14 Top aide's exit could be a sign of more to come, say experts WASHINGTON The resignation of White House chief of staff Andrew Card has sent tremors across Washington with some observers suggesting that beleaguered President George W Bush might be heading
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  • Voices
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      Lock icon Apparently, size does matter
      289 16  -  TERENCE TEO NParks policy means low-rise estates get fewer shade trees Letter from I REFER to the letter by Murali Sharma regarding the planting of trees to provide shade for relief from the heat ("Chill out, do what comes naturally", March 25-26). I have been writing
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      Opposition needs to field good candidates
      252 16  -  ANTHONY OEI Letter from MR ONG Tiong Ling was right to say a political party can win a General Election without a track record. He cited the People's Action Party (PAP) as an example ("Voters' mandate gave the opportunity", March 29). But Mr Ong
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      Where do they find the time, these Super-MPs?
      158 16  -  KENNETH CHEW Letter from SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong says being an MP is a full-time job ("That $13,000-a-month salary", March 27). From what we see, many MPs also have another full-time job holding positions of responsibility. They must then be clocking
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      Graded 'D' before he retired, teacher now a highly-valued tutor
      267 18  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I REFER to the letters "Grading down the good?" (March 28) by Ho Kong Loon and Wong Siong Van on the Enhanced Performance Management System (EPMS). I have a friend who retired five years ago after
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    • Article
      sayagain
      51 18  -  Chiang Ming Yu After a decade of aggressive recruiting, with hundreds of teacher-trainees in every intake, class sizes in schools have still not been reduced, averaging around 40 or the high 30s. Where have all the teachers gone? Surely they can't all be reaching retirement age at the same
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      KKH transfers patients in their best interests
      453 18  -  STEVEN SOBAK But move done only when condition is stable Letter from Chief Operating Officer XX Women's Children's Hospital WE REFER to the letter "Lack of incubators, so KKH turned away mum-to-be" by Mr Wong Kheng Fatt (March 23). With 24 beds, the
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      234 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY EOF NKLAS VIOLENT TELEVISION Suppose a complete stranger came to your door carrying a shopping bag full of story books. He tells you, "You looktired, why don't you just leave the children with me and I'll read to them on the couch."
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      Lock icon isay WHAT PRICE A FRIENDLY FACE NEXT DOOR?
      485 20  -  LIM KIM LARK A FEW weeks ago I received a letter addressed to "The Occupant". It mentioned the en-bloc potential of the estate. Without a second thought I threw the letter away. However, at dinner time, I thought about it and wanted
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    • Letter
      Better info on subject combinations: MOE
      262 20  -  LIMHUAYCHIH Letter from Director, School Planning and Placement Ministry of Education MR KENNETH Gomes ("More transparent information, please make clear pre-req-uisites", March 16) asked for more transparency on the subject combinations offered by our junior colleges OCs). Students are posted to junior colleges under
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      Chased by cops ... for a good cause
      143 20  - Chased by cops for a good cause SOOWENGLOONG ACCOLADE Letter from I AM impressed by the professionalism and honesty of Woodlands Checkpoint officers PC Shafit and SICS Mohamed Yusof. On Feb 19, at about sam, I forgot to retrieve my waist pouch after having placed it on the X-ray conveyor
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    • Letter
      Fair share?
      193 21  -  NARAYANANARAYANA CAO small investors should have been invited to buy shares at 'rescue' prices Letter from THE advantage that hindsight enjoys over "educated guesses" is how widely off the mark the latter can sometimes be. I wonder how many informed market observers expected the restructured China Aviation Oil
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      Fair support for all sports
      368 21  -  CHIAEUFOONG KHOO LIH-HAN Letter from WHEN Mr On Shaw Ming won his gold medal for shooting, I watched Channel 5 the whole Saturday afternoon but did not see any congratulatory message for him. But I saw repeated congratulations for our table-ten-nis team. There seems to
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        SMRT, FIX BICYCLE PARKING ISSUE
        117 21  -  KARYLEE: I take the train to work every day at Tanah Merah station. There are so many bicycles parked indiscriminately along the taxi stand and narrow pedestrian walkway that there is hardly any space to walk. I have written to SMRT a few times over
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        FREE PARKING FOR PARK USERS?
        110 21  -  STEPHENIELEONG: My family has been a regular user of Marina City Park. This park is deserted with only a few visitors during weekends and only comes alive when there are organised activities. It is a lovely park where people can cycle, jog, fly kites or
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Not seeking management role in StanChart: Temasek
      405 22 -BLOOMBERG Board member Simon Israel says investment company is a financial investor in British bank SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings is not seeking a management role in Standard Chartered (StanChart) or other banks it has bought stakes in, said Mr Simon Israel, a
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    • marketwatch
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        Singapore
        60 22 BLUE chips continued to rise, spurring the market benchmark to a new sixyear closing high yesterday, but sentiment in the broad market was mixed. The ST Index ended up 7.18 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,520.75. In the broad market, losers outpaced gainers 301 to 265. Trading volume
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        Lock icon ST Index—2,520.75+7.18
        34 22 of the Request for Proposal for Singapore's first integrated resort with casino sustained the bullish sentiment in property stocks. Capita Land shares rose 8 cents, or 1.7 per cent, to $4.80. Agencies
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      • Article
        Your S$1 buys
        36 22 US$ 0.6162 UK£ 0.3549 Yen 72.707 HK$ 4.7841 RM 2.2783 Euro 0.5135 Rupiah 5,640.3 Baht 24.026 Peso 31.611 A$ 0.8763 Indian Rs 27.562 Won 601.16 C$ 0.7238 Yuan 4.9478 NZ$ 1.0243 NT$ 20.093
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        409 24  -  LEECHINGWERN Hits high of $1.85 before closing atsl.64, brokers cite small free float and renewed confidence in jet fuel trader chingwern@newstoday.com.sg LIKE a phoenix rising from the ashes, shares of China Aviation Oil (Singapore), or CAO, surged beyond all expectations on
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        151 24 -DOW JONES ALLCO Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust (Allco Reit), which owns commercial property in Singapore and Australia, yesterday said the retail tranche of its initial public offering (IPO) was 3.94 times subscribed at the close of the offer on Tuesday. Allco
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        245 24 Philippine tycoon John Gokongwei Jr bought 10 million shares in United Industrial Corp (UIC) for $1.26 each on Tuesday in a married deal with CIMB-GK Securities. The businessman's investment vehicle. Telegraph Developments, now holds 30.7 per cent of UIC, up from 30 per cent. Ong Beng Seng's Hotel Properties
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          83 26 Think you shake your booty like Ciara and Kylie? Do your mates think you're a better dancer than Justin Timberlake and Usher? Prove it. Enter the Levi's Free To Move Dance Competition which will be held on April 16, 22 and 29. You stand to
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          218 26 Have the look-good and feel-good factor going for you? If so, step up to the plate and enter the Osim uZap Superstar contest. The contest is open to females aged 18 years and above. What's more is that participants will not be required to sing,
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          181 26 Come and catch gorgeous felines strutting their stuff at the Pro Plan Cat Show on April 9. Organised by the Singapore Cat Club, the show will offer cat lovers a visual feast of exotic cat breeds such as the American Curl, Sphynx (hairless cat),
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        129 26 -DOW JONES TECHNOLOGY services company Ellipsiz said yesterday it bought the remaining shares it did not already own in unit SV Probe, raising its stake to 100 per cent Singapore-listed Ellipsiz, which distributes, installs and maintains semi-con-ductor equipment, bought the additional 50-per-cent stake
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        353 26 BLOOMBERG Deal removes potential rival to secure British airports operator GRUPO Ferrovial, the Spanish construction firm preparing a joint bid with the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) for British airports operator BAA, has hired Macquarie Bank as an adviser and agreed to sell
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        168 26  -  —VALERIE LAW MONEYSENSE, a national financial education programme spearheaded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), will be holding its first roadshow from March 31 to April 2. Held at the HDB Hub Auditorium in Toa Payoh, the roadshow will run from 10am to Bpm
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        162 26 -DOW JONES THE Japanese stock market rose sharply yesterday as demand for blue-chip technology stocks from investment trusts catapulted the benchmark Nikkei-225 Index to a fresh five-and-a-half-year high. The Nikkei shrugged off Wall Street's negative lead after the United States Federal Reserve
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        568 28 -BLOOMBERG First FOMC meeting under new chairman maintains rate outlook, hints at 'further policy firming' FACES have changed at the United States Federal Reserve. The central bank's interest rate outlook hasn't New Fed chairman Ben S Bernanke picked up on Tuesday where his predecessor Alan Greenspan left
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        225 28 KEB sees profit above 1.66b this year BLOOMBERG KOREA Exchange Bank (KEB), controlled by Lone Star Funds of the United States, has forecast a profit of more than 1 trillion won ($1.66 billion) for this year, according to a document distributed to shareholders ahead of a meeting of the company's
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        108 28 BLOOMBERG CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, which makes chips for Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console and Infineon Technologies, will sell US$3OO million ($485 million) of bonds to pre-pay bank loans and lower interest costs. Chartered, the world's third-largest made-to-order chipmaker, expects to save US$2 million
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      692 25 ELECTRICITY TARIFF REDUCTION Electricity tariffs will be reduced by an average of 2.54% or 0.53 cent per kWh for the quarter, 1 April to 30 June 2006. The reduction is due to lower cost of electricity. The revised tariffs are given in the table below. Usage Charge EXISTING REVISED EXISTING
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      1022 30 -AGENCIES NEW YORK She conquered Hollywood as a high- fl class call girl in 1990's Pretty Woman, then won over km Oscar voters 10 years later with her performance in fl Erin Brockovich. LA Now, with her career seemingly on the wane At thanks to a
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      535 32  -  LEONARD THOMAS With 7 movies in the pipeline, rising star of Failure to Launch is working hard, loving it IN NEW YORK leona rd@newstoday.com.sg ZOOEY Deschanel is hardly a household name. And as eccentric as it may be, the name certainly doesn't stand out on a list that
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      124 32 KIDS' TV favourites, Kathleen, Nathan, Charli, Tim and Kellie of Hi-5 return to Singapore with their new production Live Action Heroes, which runs from May 27 to June 4 at the Singapore Expo. As children embark on a "superhero" journey with the Australian quintet through
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      372 34  -  DAVID CHEW david.chew@newstoday.com.sg THE Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore does a lot for its students and the public but it is its public concerts the latest of which will be held next Thursday that have been drawing the most
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        70 36 For a first look at the upcoming Mission: Impossible 3, tune in to MediaCorp TV Channel 5 tonight at 11.50pm after the Season Two of Lost debuts, when the film trailer has its TV premiere. Tom Cruise returns as special agent Ethan Hunt in the
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        56 36 The Singapore leg of British jazz-pop sensation Jamie Cullum's tour will not be heldthis Tuesday at the Max Pavilion, Singapore Expo. Due to unforeseen logistical reasons, it has been rescheduled to June 15 at the Suntec Convention Centre. Tickets sold for the Tuesday concert will
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      546 36  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR Author Felix Cheong dwells on terrorism in adventure story ashraf@newstoday.com.sg AWARD-winning poet and Today columnist Felix Cheong took the road less travelled when he settled on terrorism as the theme for a work of children's fiction. His book The Call from Crying House is
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        213 38  -  TANJUNLEI Nicholas Evans Divorce, as Ben Cooper tries to explain to his enraged daughter Abbie, happens to other families as well. Abbie, however, refuses to listen. Fuelled by her grief at her father's transgression, she pours her heart and soul into environmental protests. Together with her boyfriend Rolf,
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        148 38  -  -TANYOHINN John Carlin It may be centered around football superstar David Beckham, but White Angels is also about another football superpower: Real Madrid Clube de Futbol, one of the biggest and most popular football clubs in Spain and the world. Using
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      104 38 One year after she picked up the Miss Body Beautiful and Miss Beautiful Skin tides at Miss Singapore Universe 2005, Ling Lee is now a MediaCorp artiste and host of the infotainment programme On the Beat which airs on Tuesdays at Bpm on Channel 8. She tells Today whafs
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        695 40  -  EVELINE GAN Pamper yourself today, you have earned it eveline@newstoday.com.sg EACH month, 39-year-old bank officer Angie Koh forks out $100 to pamper herself with a body scrub and massage. "There's nothing wrong with spending what I earn to de-stress. Work can be tough and spa treatments relax me," she
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        364 43  -  LEE HUI SHAN It's now acceptable for men to go for spa treatments. After all, we want to preserve our looks too. huishanl@newstoday.com.sg RUSTIC Nirvana's new offerings-the Jewel in the Palace body and face therapies sound like treatments fit for royalty, and for a day, I felt like
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        348 44  -  AMANDA KOH news@newstoday.com.sg IMAGINE having a massage in a lush, tropical forest. That's whatyou get at Spa Botanica. The spa sits on a sprawling 6,000--sq m site and was built to resemble a botanical garden. It has six outdoor pavilions and 15 rooms indoors. Coupled with facilities
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        363 46  -  LAUREEN TOH TOP NOTCH: The posh spa at Paragon is understated, with a hydro pool in the private lounge area. Its two-hour Penthouse Heaven treatment, at $280, is worth every cent. la ureent@newstoday.com.sg PENTHOUSE Aesthetiques's address is a dead giveaway. Located on the top floor of
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        342 48  -  EVELINE GAN eveline@newstoday.com.sg AROMATIC House Therapeutic Spa, located in Orchard Hotel Shopping Arcade, is a tranquil haven from the hustle and bustle of the city. Despite being frazzled when I arrived, I was instantly soothed by the contemporary Balinese ambience, soft lulling music and pleasant therapists. My stress
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        574 48  -  Eveline Gan CONSIDERthis: The next time you indulge your child by letting her curl her hair or leave it long, you might be spending hundreds of dollars to undo the damage months later. Hair care centres Today spoke to say they are seeing an
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          448 50  -  EVELINE GAN Supermodel prefers study to the catwalk eveline@newstoday.com.sg HOURS before the opening of Singapore Fashion Festival's (SFF) JPG/L'Oreal collaboration show last Friday, Britain's hottest supermodel and the official face of SFF 2006 Lily Cole arrived 20 minutes late for her interview, looking flustered and dishevelled.
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          152 51 There is hope if you want to look as fairylike as Lily Cole. To create a romantic doll-like look, make-up artist Wilson Eng advises a touch of shimmer on the inner corner of the eyes and (picture 2) plenty of mascara to open up the eyes. "For that flushed
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          536 52  -  LAUREEN TOH SFF opening show was a bracing walk in the countryside with JPG's collaboration with L'Oreal Paris la ureent@newstoday.com.sg THE enfant terrible of French fashion with a penchant for drama traded in his hard-edged tailoring for a whimsical Spring/Summer collection that was all sweetness and light Jean-Paul
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          476 52  -  LEE HUI SHAN WITH such a theme as "Feel the Brazilian Heat", it is only apt that the Fox Show for the Singapore Fashion Festival is all about light and breezy pieces in lots of cheery colours all fresh from the latest Summer 06 collection
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          466 53  -  PEARLYN THAM Mercedes-Benz Awards wasn't just a show, it was a performance pea rlyn@newstoday.com.sg There was much activity on the makeshift stage at Zouk on Tuesday night during the MercedesBenz Asia Fashion Award (MBAFA) regional finals. And it wasn't just from the electrifying performances by dance group
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          272 53 BOLDBEAUTIFUL BORING ABOVE: Indonesian Yudhi Mulyawan Adhimiharja's collection was safe and probably commercially viable but not as eye-catching as those of his competitors. Striped tunics were belted with jewel-toned sashes and there was a lone floral-print shirt that came out of nowhere. ABOVE: Taiwanese Lin Chin Hung was inspired by
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          250 53  -  LEE HUI SHAN huishanl@newstoday.com.sg WEAR gold to dazzle, apply it to dazzle naturally. The Merino Gold Collagen Gel with Aloe Vera ($79) contains 23-carat gold flakes that separate into particles that can be absorbed by the skin. Gold is said to have
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      451 54  -  AMY VAN A simple, colourful--not to rq^ healthy meal to rk up your food@newstoday.com.sg I'VE found, on many occasions, that the salads I bought from some supermarkets here are not very fresh. As a result, they wilt after a day or two. Recently, though, I tried the Agrotech
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        625 56  - Busan more than a beach city PRISCILLAKRISHNAN Experience the splendour of nature and history in this scenic South Korean city traveller@newstoday.com.sg WALKING around the second most populated city in South Korea in frosty cold weather and trying to find a hotel room was no easy task. Eventually, I found a
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        734 57  -  TORCHING Ll Highland resort offers a huge array of activities for all chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT'S puzzling how far Singaporeans will go and pay just to enjoy the crisp, cool climate of temperate countries and yet not occur to them that perennial spring can be
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        233 58  -  LEE HUI SHAN Tropical Queensland spared Cyclone Larry's wrath huishanl@newstoday.com.sg SOME good news for those planning a holiday to Queensland, parts of which were hit by a cyclone recently. According to the tourism authorities, tropical North Queensland, which includes Cairns, Brisbane and Gold Coast, has been
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        216 58 —AP MEMPHIS (Tennessee) The home of the King of Rock 'n' Roll has joined the homes of past and present presidents in becoming a National Historic Landmark in the United States. Graceland, where Elvis Presley died in 1977, joins the White House, Mount
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        656 60  -  JENNY KONG Goon a cruise or a quad bike adventure to discover the sights of Auckland jenny@newstoday.com.sg THANKS to the Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, visitors are flocking to New Zealand for its picturesque scenery and natural landscape. But on my
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          116 61 Apart from London and Frankfurt, Royal Brunei Airlines now brings travellers to more cities in Europe and beyond. The airline, together with partners such as Alitalia, bmi. Emirates, KLM, Lot Polish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and the Eurostar train, now connects travellers to some 47 Middle Eastern,
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          91 61 Jet Airways' passengers can now trace their missing or delayed baggage online via the airline's website www.jetairways.com under "Product Services". Passengers need to report their missing baggage or delay in getting their baggage at Jet Airways' airport offices. They will then be given
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          87 61 The gum says: Discover the meaning of life. Go on a holiday. Bangkok $120 $56 Jakarta $130 $57 Bali $168 $39 Hong Kong $210 $234 Tokyo $400 $172 London $690 $144 Paris $848 $123 Milan $850 $135 Los Angeles $860 $79 San Francisco $860 $95 Log on to
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      Lock icon Finals rehearsal?
      446 64 —AFP Pistons top Mavericks in battle of NBA's elite NBA Detroit 97 Dallas 90 AUBURN HILLS, Michigan Chauncey Billups scored 31 points and added 11 assists on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) as Detroit defeated Dallas 97-90 in a possible preview of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals
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      Lock icon Michelle ready for first Major as a pro
      316 64 -AFP RANCHO MIRAGE, California Michelle Wie (picture) plays her first major golf tournament as a professional starting here today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) when the 16-year-old Hawaiian prodigy tees off at the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship. Michelle already has two top-10 finishes
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      Lock icon Cheats should be sent off: Ferguson
      332 65 -THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson (picture) entered the debate about diving yesterday when he called for referees to be given the power to show red cards to the worst culprits. The Manchester United manager said he would like to see a change in
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      Lock icon John Koh set to retire
      675 66  -  DARREN LAI Assoc Prof Ho says no stone will be left unturned in bid to find replacement da rren@newstoday.com.sg AFTER serving the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) for the last 14 years, FAS general secretary John Koh looks set to call it a day. Yesterday,
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      Lock icon Young Lions through to last eight
      226 66  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg THE Young Lions advanced to the quarterfinals of the Malaysia FA Cup, after defeating Johor FA 3-1 at the Larkin Stadium in Johor Bahru last night The Young Lions went through 5-3 on aggregate and will now join Malaysia's elite teams
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      169 66 THE American International Assurance Company Limited (AIA) Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) Charity Golf tournament is offering $1 million for its hole-in-one prize, making it the highest cash prize ever offered for a hole-in-one challenge in Singapore. To be held at the Tanah Merah Country Club on
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      210 66 EVER wanted to rub shoulders with top sevens stars, attend dinner with John Eales and Martin Johnson as guests and hold grandstand tickets to Singapore's hottest international sports event-the Standard Chartered Sevens Singapore? Members of the public now have the opportunity to bid for
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      234 67 S-LEAGUE fans will now have more reasons to turn up at the stadiums. Fans will now have a chance to be entertained by another artistic, erotic and sophisticated form of legwork those of the dancers at the Crazy Horse Paris revue. NTUC Income is sponsoring a
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      343 68 -THE GUARDIAN MADRID Sven-Goran Eriksson took a step closer to becoming the Real Madrid coach last night, and with David Beckham's backing. With candidate after candidate turning Real down, Eriksson's position has grown stronger if only because he could be the last man standing.
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      489 68 -AFP But Rijkaard concerned about Spanish giants' inability to score CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, QUARTER-FINAL IST LEG Benfica 0 Barcelona 0 LISBON Barcelona's mini goal drought will surely be worrying coach Frank Rijkaard in the run-up to next week's Champions League quarter-final, second leg against Benfica at the Nou Camp.
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      Lock icon Liverpool confirm talks with investors
      192 68 -AFP LONDON Liverpool have confirmed they are in discussions with potential investors which may lead to the sale of the club. Spanish multi-millionaire Juan Villalonga this week became the latest to be linked with a major investment in the Anfield club. However, a statement from
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      Lock icon Wenger was right
      735 69 -AFP Fabregas masterclass vindicates manager's gamble to sell Vieira CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, QUARTER-FINAL IST LEG Arsenal 2 JuventusO LONDON Arsene Wenger resisted the temptation to say "I told you so", but there was no doubting the Arsenal manager's delight at the way his young side outclassed Juventus. Patrick
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        WE MUST BEAT AUSTRALIA: ZICO
        132 69 JAPAN coach Zico admits the Asian champions are under huge pressure to defeat Australia in their first World Cup match, in a tough group that also includes Brazil and Croatia. "Victory would give us more tranquillity for the remaining group matches. You just cannot afford
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        KAISER BACK FROM MARATHON TOUR
        117 69 GERMANY icon Franz Beckenbauer concluded his marathon Fifa World Cup welcome tour yesterday when he arrived at Frankfurt airport following a 24-hour return flight from Australia. The 60-year-old, head of the 2006 World Cup Organising Committee, clocked 75,000 air miles on his visit to all
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        VIERI STILL HAS GERMANY HOPES
        103 69 CHRISTIAN Vieri is optimistic that he can recover from his knee injury in time to make Italy's World Cup squad. The Monaco striker is now a major doubt for the tournament, after picking up a knock in Sunday's 1-1 draw with Paris Saint-Germain. Vieri has
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        ECONOMISTS WANT ITALIAN WIN
        122 69 ANALYSTS at investment bank ABN AMRO have put aside tedious research on global trade imbalances and G7 broad money growth to concentrate on the hot subject of the summer: soccernomics and the victory that would most boost the global economy. They justify this research on the
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