Today, 31 March 2006, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY Frew share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Friday March 31, 2006 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon New to the fray but up for the fight
      771 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG No 'armchair critics', PAP's three new candidates are here to stand up and be counted cheekong@newstoday.com.sg A FORMER model, a lawyer and a high-flying businesswoman got together yesterday to talk politics. Described as "typical Singaporeans" of the post-independence
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    • Article
      SembCorp settles case for $687m
      153 1 SEMBCORP Industries said yesterday its subsidiary, Sembawang Corp, and Switzer-land-based Allseas had concluded an agreement for the full and final amicable settlement of their dispute relating to the conversion of the pipe-laying vessel Solitaire. The case had been under arbitration in London since 1995. Under
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    • Article
      Lock icon 48 die when ferry sinks off Bahrain
      93 1 —AGENCIES MANAMA A tourist ferry sank off the coast of Bahrain, killing at least 48 of the passengers, the government of the Persian Gulf country announced. Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa announced the death toll and said at least
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Blooding potential
      337 2 Potential minister to helmTanjong Pagar GRC, says MM Lee RIYADH As Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan moves to anchor the ruling party's Sembawang GRC team, his place in the Tanjong Pagar GRC will be taken over by another potential minister. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew disclosed this
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    • Article
      Lock icon US stocks close mixed, oil ends higher
      130 2 —AFP NEW YORK US shares ended mostly lower yesterday as investors worried about a spike in long-term interest rates but the tech-heavy Nasdaq index eked out a modest gain to notch a fresh five-year high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 63.72 points
      —AFP  -  130 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Mafia murders: Retired FBI agent charged
      236 2 —AFP NEW YORK A retired FBI agent was indicted in New York yesterday on charges of providing operational information to the Mafia that resulted in the murders of four people. "This is the most stunning example of official corruption that I have ever seen,"
      —AFP  -  236 words
    • Article
      SUDDENLY, IT IS NOT EASY BEING RICH IN ASIA
      808 3  -  WILLIAM PESEKJR Rising prices in first-world cities are a sign of strength, but could also prove to bean Achilles'heel ANYONE doubting Japan's revival should check with a real-estate agent in the country. It's there you will find evidence the nation is
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      The accidental politician
      422 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com.sg POLITICS knocked on Mr Teo Ser Luck's door at a most unlikely place in a bathroom queue at the airport lounge of Frankfurt Airport The 37-year-old recounted thatfateful day in 2001: "I was queuing up for the shower and it was all ang
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      Lock icon YOUTHFOCUS
      199 4 Channel News Asia MORE than half of the new candidates from the People's Action Party (PAP) will come from the post-independence generation those born after 1965 said the party's Second Assistant Secretary-General Teo Chee Hean. Six out of the nine new faces introduced so far belong to that group.
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      Politics? Not her cup of tea ... at first
      365 4  - Politics? Not her cup of tea at first TANHUILENG POLITICS was never her cup of tea, or so thought 39-year-old Jessica Tan. So when she was first approached by the ruling party, she was unsure about her "suitability". After all, politics never figured in her life before that. "I come
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      The heartland's close to his heart
      394 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg BORN and bred as an only child in a bungalow in Bukit Timah, commercial litigator Michael Palmer was, by his own admission, born with a privileged background. "I've never lived in a HDB flat," said Mr Palmer, the first Eurasian
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Smaller bills, shorter stay
      527 6  -  TAN HUI LENG Wards at A&E unit have longer observation period; ease overcrowding at regular wards huileng@newstoday.com.sg EMERGENCY departments in some hospitals here are getting their own wards, which admit patients who are not well enough to go home but not serious enough to be admitted
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      Sands and sensibility
      657 8  -  VALCHUA US casino player puts up a bid of $5.8 billion, 100 per cent of facilities to be ready by 2009 ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR va l@newstoday.com.sg ONE day after all four casino bidders submitted their proposals, a United States player has upped the ante by trumpeting the
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      SDP eyes Sembawang GRC
      259 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) wants to take on Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan in Sembawang at the upcoming polls, and it wants to use the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) scandal as a plank. The move may cast some doubt over expectations
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      Preserving undersea treasures
      157 8  -  CHEOWXINYI. SINGAPORE is well established in the world as the "little red dot" with many firsts. Unknown to most Singaporeans, however, is the fact that the waters off the island also sustain some of the most biologically-diverse natural reefs in the world. But Singapore's coral reefs are
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      HFMD cases prompt childcare centres to make alternative arrangements
      406 10  -  VINITARAMANI vmita@newstoday.com.sg FOR the past nine years, she's been filling the children's stomach with the Milo drinks, sandwiches and red bean soup that she makes. But Madam Hay Chee Keng never really got to know the kids at the Presbyterian Community
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      Lock icon Go for a health check after your city tour
      407 10  -  UNYANQIN Travel company is promoting healthcare tours to foreigners yanqinl@newstoday.com.sg IT WOULD be like any holiday, except apart from deciding what sights to see, one also chooses whether to have dental scaling and polishing done on top of a general health
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      New education union formed to foster skills upgrading, lifelong learning
      260 10  -  JASMINE YIN THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has set up a new union called the Education Services Union (ESU) to cater to the fast-expanding educational services sector in Singapore. The formation of this new union is significant in light
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon BIRD FLU VACCINE DEVELOPED, BUT EFFICACY IN QUESTION
        65 12 -AFP Researchers have developed a prototype vaccine that could protect healthy adults against the feared HSNI virus, but experts highlighted on Wednesday that large amounts were required for it to be effective. Researchers said a dose 11 times greater than that for
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        FAKE APS: M'SIAN OFFICIALS GRILLED
        79 12 Government officials are being questioned in a case involving six Malaysian customs officers who allegedly allowed luxury cars to be brought into the country using fake car-import licences known as "Approved Permits" (APs), the New Straits Times {NSTj reported. The officials based in Port Klang
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        Lock icon HUNDREDS FLEE CYCLONE GLENDA
        78 12 -AFP A severe tropical cyclone packing winds of up to 235 km an hour battered a major oil and mining region of western Australia yesterday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and key industries to lock down, officials said. Officials said torrential rains and a storm
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      Lock icon Asean pins blame on India, China
      515 12 -AFP Bloc chief urges the nations to be more persuasive on Myanmar KUALA LUMPUR Asean chided dialogue partners China and India yesterday for not pushing Myanmar to move towards democracy, with the bloc's chief, Mr Ong Keng Yong, questioning their commitment to the grouping.
      -AFP; AFP  -  515 words
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      Lock icon US open to Israel's unilateral move to demarcate final borders, says Rice
      338 12 ■AFP BERLIN The United States, departing from its insistence on a negotiated settlement to the Is-raeli-Palestinian conflict, expressed openness yesterday to the possibility of unilateral moves by Israel to fix its final borders by 2010. Meanwhile, US President
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      Lock icon Japan textbook revision irks neighbours
      222 14 -AFP TOKYO Japan triggered fresh outrage from its neighbours yesterday after it ordered revisions to school textbooks to reflect its views on wartime history and disputed territories. With tensions already high over interpretations of history, South Korea summoned the Japanese ambassador to protest the textbooks
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        THE CHEEK... OF A VASE SMASHER
        69 14 Nick Flynn, 42, who smashed three 17th century Qing dynasty vases when he tripped and stumbled down the stairs in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, has been barred from seeing experts' attempts to fix them. The experts have so far managed to partially reassemble
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        NO ROLLERBLADING ON THE GRASS
        46 14 The Royal Parks Police in London have scrapped a squad of rollerblading cops. after discovering they can't chase criminals across grass, reported The Sun. Many police fell and hurt themselves while chasing criminals. The force has now reverted back to bicycles.
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        Lock icon IT'S HARD TO SAY SORRY... NO MORE
        62 14 -AFP Saying sorry will no longer be so hard in Canada's British Columbia province if a proposed law is passed that allows people and organisations to apologise for their bad behaviour without fear of legal liability The province introduced the law this week
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      Lock icon Old rabble-rousers join Thai protests
      545 14  -  THAM CHEN FYE -AFP Veterans from 1973 unrest return for democracy and nostalgia news@newstoday.com.sg CHIANG MAI Former Thai student activists, who were in the thick of the infamous 1973 Thammasat University crackdown, have resurfaced to lend a hand to the rallies against Prime Minister Thaksin
      -AFP; THAM CHEN FYE  -  545 words
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      Lock icon Jobless numbers surge in Asia-Pacific
      275 16 ■AFP UNITED NATIONS The number of unemployed in Asia and the Pacific has more than doubled despite the economic growth in the region, where poverty eradication remains the biggest challenge, a United Nations report released yesterday said. In East Asia, jobless numbers rose from four
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      Lock icon Advice to Blair: Keep away from Bush
      464 16 -AFP Indonesian Muslim leaders also urge PM to turn UK into nation that respects Muslims JAKARTA Faced with longstanding recriminations at home over his loyalty to the United States as a key ally in the war in Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair
      -AFP; AFF  -  464 words
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      Lock icon UN puts on united front against Iran
      363 18 —AFP Gives Tehran 30 days to comply on nuclear programme BERLIN After weeks of debate the 15-member United Nations Security Council finally issued a unanimous statement calling on Iran to freeze its uranium enrichment programme. The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon AUSSIE PM BRUSHES OFF INDONESIAN DINGO SEX CARTOON
        86 18 -AFP Prime Minister John Howard yesterday brushed off an Indonesian newspaper cartoon portraying the Australian leader and his Foreign Minister Alexander Downer as dingoes having sex. The front-page cartoon in Monday's Rakyat Merdeka newspaper reflected anger at an Australian decision to grant
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        Lock icon M'SIA TO BETTER PROTECT MAIDS
        48 18 -AFP Malaysia would give Indonesian maids better protection from abuse and might offer education for children of Indonesian workers in their native language under proposed agreements between the countries. The accord on maids' rights could be signed by the middle of the year.
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      Grab the F1 chance before it zooms away
      387 22  -  NG MUI LAN JESSICA Take up F1 supremo's offer to have Spore host Grand Prix Letter from SOME regrets had been expressed earlier about Singapore missing the opportunity to host the Formula 1 Grand Prix in the 80s. Now, Fl supremo Bernie
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      Where's my MP?
      179 22  -  EPHRAIM LOY Letter from THE BATTLE lines have been drawn. New candidates have been introduced and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has been given the task of winning back the Opposition wards. The Opposition parties are working in areas that they may contest in, distributing flyers and
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    • Letter
      Opposition's role
      149 22  -  JETH LEE Letter from I REFER to Ms Tan Sai Siong's News Comment, "What if it is a clean PAP sweep?" (March 29). The PAP holds 82 out of 84 seats in Parliament This overwhelming majority grants it powers that the Opposition's two MPs and one Non-Constituency MP
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      244 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON E AREBY OVERNIGHT MAIL SYNDROME There's a new disease that's quickly spreading through the work place. Its symptoms are stress, mental lapses and lack of focus. The name of this disease is OMS Overnight Mail Syndrome. Modern technology and free enterprise have brought
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    • Letter
      Building a sense of ownership
      312 24  -  LIM CHI-SHARN Why didn't NParks engage the public from concept stages of East Coast Park upgrading? Letter from I REFER to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy dean Kishore Mahbubani's quote: "I fear the upgrading of the East Coast Park may result in more
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    • Letter
      Of ill children, desperate parents and a lack of childcare options
      229 24  -  PEHBEECHOON Letter from I REFER to your article "HFMD: Parents' lax attitude worrying" (March 28). I started taking my 19-month-old daughter to a childcare centre two months ago. A couple of weeks ago, she had a fever and we
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      Lock icon I AM A GADGET SLUT
      1090 26  -  mr brown FRIDAY WITH iews@newstoday.com.sg As long as they meet my needs, doesn't really matter where they come from AS MOST people will tell you, I love my gadgets and toys. It is so bad that when I tell my wife I am in the
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      isay TIME TO GO GREEN AT THE DINING TABLE
      636 30  -  GOHBOONCHOO WHO would have thought that the humble chopsticks would be in the news? China has announced that from April 1, a tax of 5 per cent will be imposed on wooden chopsticks in a bid to "curb the plundering of
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      Lock icon Crossing with care
      617 31  -  LYNN ONG Due to weather, cost and maintenance factors, escalators can only be built at selected overhead bridge locations Letter from Deputy Manager, Media Relations Land Transport Authority I THANK Cheong Chee Mun for his letter, "A bridge we shouldn't wait to cross" (March 24) and the
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    • Letter
      Enact law to prevent improper parking
      194 32  -  MICHAELCHUA KHENG HWEE Letter from MR MIYAGI'S column "Vigilante justice, blogger style" (March 29) talks about the blog, Parking Idiots in Singapore. As drivers, we encounter improper parking every now and then. Examples include: one car occupying two lots at the same time; car
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      Keep up stream of suggestions
      434 32  -  YAP KHENG GUAN PUB looking for tips to reduce water use Letter from Director, 3PN Public Utilities Board (PUB) PUB, the national water agency, thanks Today readers Colin Ong Tau Shien, David Soh, Tow Joon Eng, Glenn MJothy and columnist Tan Sai Siong for their
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      Lessons from the bottom
      185 32  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I REFER to Liang Dingzi's News Comment, "Japanese lessons for S'poreans" (March 24). One thing we often hear is that a manager in a large company in Japan is hard working and trained to be people oriented. There is no fast entry
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      6 22 See TODAY'S EPL coverage by WUOkm
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      440 34  -  CHRISTIE LOH Plans to merge two units, M-Flexand MFS,to create world's No 2 flexible printed circuit maker christie@newstoday.com.sg MAINBOARD-listed WBL Corp, a company with technology and automotive businesses, is merging two subsidiaries to create what it claims to be the world's second largest flexible printed circuit
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      327 34  -  —VALERIE LAW A NEWLY restructured China Aviation Oil (Singapore), or CAO, yesterday said it could take up to a year to find a new chief executive officer to replace Chen Jiulin, who was sentenced to more than 4 years
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      144 34  -  CHRISTIE LOH IN THE second half of the year, broadband users can surf the Internet at up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps), as Star Hub upgrades its cable network. Most households are now experiencing download speeds of 2 Mbps, although 6.sMbps and 30Mbps are
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      169 34 Allco Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns commercial property in Singapore and Australia, made a lacklustre debut on the Singapore Exchange yesterday, falling 2 cents, or 2 per cent, to 98 cents, from its initial public offering price of $1.00. Fraser Neave has proposed dividing each existing
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        251 36  -  CHRISTIE LOH DBS Group Holdings' top two executives will have to pay for the banking group's dismal performance. The salaries of chief executive Jackson Tai and Mr Frank Wong, who is group chief operating officer and chairman of DBS
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        410 36  -  CHRISTIE LOH Banking group's new chairman presides over AGM with aplomb christie@newstoday.com.sg RESPECTED in high-flying circles as a corporate visionary, Mr Koh Boon Hwee (picture) showed yesterday that he was also able to win over small investors, including the more difficult ones. At his first annual
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        346 37 —AGENCIES World Bank unit will invest up to $32.5 million in a firm partly owned by the Spore water treatment specialist SHARES of Hyflux, Singapore's biggest publicly traded water treatment company, made their biggest one-day gain in more than four years
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        642 38 -DOW JONES Asian governments mull issue of debt in regional currencies to help keep savings in the region BANGKOK As part of a long-term plan to develop bond markets in the region, Asian governments will complete by the end of this year a study
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        341 40 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Operations begin in May, will employ 400 ROCKWELL Automation, one of the world's leading automation solutions providers, has made Singapore the world headquarters for part of its global operations. The Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Business Center will begin operations in May
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          125 40 Agencies BLUE chips gave up early gains to end flat yesterday as profit taking emerged to dampen bullish sentiment triggered by the overnight rally on Wall Street. The ST Index ended up 0.29 point at 2,521.04. In the broader market, advancers led decliners 323 to 248. Trading volume amounted
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          36 40 US$ 0.6172 UK£ 0.3551 Yen 72.455 HK$ 4.7911 RM 2.2785 Euro 0.5114 Rupiah 5,639.7 Baht 23.982 Peso 31.616 A$ 0.8657 Indian Rs 27.596 Won 602.62 C$ 0.7201 Yuan 4.9555 NZ$ 1.0135 NT$ 20.085
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          56 40 Nikkei 225 17,045.34 +106.93 +0.63 HK Hang Seng 15.880.69 +135.58 +0.86 Australia ASX200 5,115.00 +24.50 +0.48 Korea Comp 1,338.14 +5.42 +0.41 Thailand SET 730.99 +6.12 +0.84 Jakarta Comp Closed Phils Comp 2,180.64 -0.94 -0.04 Shenzhen B 261.91 -2.07 -0.78 Mumbai Sensex 11,307.04 +123.56 +1.10 Malaysia KLCI 926.97 -6.01
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          27 40 Dow Jones, Bloomberg SGX, Information provided by ■old US$/oz 579.60 iilvar US$/oz 11.18 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne 347.00 1/434.00 'laiinum US$/oz 1,081.00 Brent US$/barrel 66.03
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          51 40 Gen Int 0.390 +0.020 +5.4 55,056 ChinaAOil 1.450 -0.190 -11.6 49,530 GlabalVaice 0.100 31,962 SingTel AllcoReit 2.660 0.900 +0.030 +1.1 31,947 31,409 Japan Land 0.120 +0.010 +9.1 30,617 Chartered 1.520 +0.040 +2.7 29,271 MediaRing 0.365 +0.015 +4.3 20,602 CDW 0.220 +0.010 +4.0 27,752 Hyflux 2.700 +0.290 +12.0
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          66 40 Jardine CSC 10.800 +0.300 Hyflux MBL8CW*****8 0.020 +100.0 ShangAaa2kHK$ 12.600 +0.300 Jade 0.020 +100.0 Hyflux 2.700 +0.290 OUE 11.800 +0.200 Hyflux MBL8CW*****1 0.145 +93.3 HyfluxDBeCW*****2 0.085 +88.9 Nikkei225DBeCW*****0 2.130 +0.180 HyfluxBNP8CW*****8 0.050 +66.7 SpLand 6.800 +0.150 NobleGipMBLeCW*****8 0.055 +57.1 U0LCA8CW*****9 0.690 +0.125 ChaiGredMBL8CW***** 0.190 +52.0 EkUS$ 2.550
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        563 42 —AFP World Bank cites high oil prices, forecasts Singapore economy to grow 6% this year EAST Asia's economies excluding Japan are expected to grow at a slower 6.6 per cent this year after expanding 6.8 per cent last year because of the continuing impact of
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        205 42  -  CHRISTIE LOH A-SONIC Aerospace has agreed to acquire Eagle Will International Enterprise, a China company owning part of a cargo airline, the Singapore firm said yesterday. Eagle Will owns the right to subscribe to a quarter of a joint venture that has received regulatory
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        357 43 DOW JONES Takaful has growth potential because of Republic's strong insurance industry SINGAPORE wants to play a bigger role in Islamic banking by offering services in wealth management, capital markets and reinsurance, a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) executive said yesterday. "We have
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        216 43 BLOOMBERG ASSOCIATED British Ports Holdings (AB Ports) was correct to reject as too low a £2.2-billion ($6.2-billion) approach from a Goldman Sachs-led group including the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) and Canada's Borealis Infrastructure Management, one of the company's largest
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      168 39 1. Palmer Hopper Hollow Milk Chocolate soz $2.95 6. Palmer Soft Caramel Big Bunny Bites 4s 4oz $2.75 ll.MilkyWay Magic Stars Small Egg 82g $4.95 2. Palmer Peter Cottontail Hollow Milk Chocolate 3oz $4.95 7. Palmer Easter Super Mix Soz $3.30 12.PalmerSoftCaramelBunnyBites5oz$3.95 3. Nestle KitKat Milk Chocolate Egg 3 KitKat
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      278 40 SIM University Singapore's 4th University is the premier university dedicated to working professionals and adult learners. Approved by the Ministry of Education, it is the only university that offers a unique learning system that empowers you to balance your studies with work, family and social commitments. You'll have an open
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      53 40 Selected the pure natural herbs and j adopt the latest modem technology I to extract and produce. Helps to recover from abdominal discomfort, Indigestion, lack of appetite, bloated, irregular in passing of motion, irregular bowel I movement. Supports the digestive system. STOMACH CARE _J MAHP*****65 M| Imported by: VmMMHHL./ REN
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      145 44 HELPLINE EMERGENCY LINES City Gas (to report gas supply 1800-752-1800 interruption, low pressure and leakage) Civil Defence 995 (Fire and Emergency Ambulance) Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Police 999 Police hotline 1800-255-0000 SPPowerGrid 1800-778-8888/ (to report power failure) 6778-8888 Traffic Police 6547-1818 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 HELPLINES —GENERAL Samaritans of Singapore 1800-221-4444 Society
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      225 45 CIaSS ready buyers, ready sellers. isßbLlllffiMlirf J I*l*l COMMERCIAL H COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL TRAVEL/TOURS VEHICLE (SALE) VEHICLE (SALE) VEHICLE (SALE) ■Tour packages ■^■■■"^^■■■"^■■■"l H7SITRAVELI EJ W NATAS Specials W MW M Last Day of Promotions f 15% off I f WeW Topdeck Eurape Tours StOC/fS 9 Bangkok 160 iT/^ |J^ 3
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      165 45 PERSONAL PERSONAL NEEDS Chatline/ NEEDS Chatline/ ringtone downloads ringtone downloads TRAVEL/TOURS TRAVEL/TOURS Tour packages ■■Tour packages Redang Reef Be,jaya Lang Resortl^^j |I*JL ll'* Hi i' Mutiara Resort Island Reel •J^ygßesorti^^^j,'X'JnA X~-^l K?ffE H3l]lChina ■V 01 Way 3D Hong Kong F&E i,5419 I M|R| *»7 5D Hong Kong Shenzhen n5469 1
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      253 45 TRAVEL/TOURS TRAVEL/TOURS Tour packages Tour packages aUtfefc 3D2N frs47B 3D2N w5OB M|J SD4N fts66B SD4N ftj6BB BSuOjOPK Special" Introductory < I GAS I HOLIDAYS FASCINATING HOLIDAYS 6355 0016 6735 5511 IGoUhlllPlazani^lnnrNownaHKn #03-45 Mandarin Gallery i 6733 2228 a 6820 2222 #03-20 Mandarin Gallery #02-31 Katong Mall ms&B&JSSIk KUALA LUMPUR' [Ldifee
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      532 46 MIX AND MATCH KRT How to hang your paintings and photos to create an impact THE museum-quality painting looks like it's floating too far above the chest of drawers; and the beautifully-framed trio of lithographs are dwarfed by the sofa and cease to make an impact on your room decor.
      – KRT; PHOTOS KRT  -  532 words
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      227 46 Presented by KNQ Associates Don't renovate, rejuvenate! Qenovation can be unsettling I fxand stressful. That was why I upcoming wedding, she was J 1^3=41 determined to do away with a 1 Vri I major overhaul. "I saw a lot of potential in making my home a cosier one with less
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      203 48 WEATHERTODAY Amsterdam 7/13 C rainy Los Angeles 10/19 C fair o Auckland 14/22 C partly cloudy Manila 2&31 C thunderstorm OingapOre Bali 25/32 C rainy Melbourne 13/21 C showers 24/34 C BS Begawan 25/32 C thunderstorm New Delhi 18/32 C hazy Bangkok 25/34 C thunderstorm New York ***** fair Aff
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      567 49 -AP NBAs brightest young star lifts Cavaliers to first playoffs since 1998 NBA Cleveland 107 Dallas 94 CLEVELAND Leßron James was in seventh grade the last time the Cleveland Cavaliers played in the postseason. And he wasn't even a Cavaliers fan. "I was a Bulls fan
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      341 49 -AFP LONDON Players who dive to win penalties or simulate injury in a bid to get opponents booked could soon face disciplinary action based on video reviews of their actions. England's Football Association (FA), pressed into action by a string of flagrant
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      Lock icon Shevchenko bound for Chelsea?
      173 49 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Roman Abramovich's persistence in trying to add Milan's Andriy Shevchenko to Chelsea's payroll seems to have paid off, with reports suggesting that the Ukraine striker will sign for the Stamford Bridge club this summer. Chelsea's owner has been courting Shevchenko for three years
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      609 50  -  LAN DE COTTA FIA president cites strong fan base here as a plus point TODAYEXCLUSIVI ia n@newstoday.com.sg A SINGAPORE leg of the Formula 1 world championships has received the support of no less than the boss of the sport's world governing body, Max Mosley. The
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      439 50  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg JOHN Hoeflich has made clubs for the likes of Jim Furyk, Nick Faldo, Michelle Wie and Pak Se Ri. Millions of golfers, including about 150 of the PGA Tour's players, swear by his clubs. And the golf club design
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      179 50 -AFP NEW YORK Major League Baseball will hire former US Senator George Mitchell to lead an investigation into past doping in the sport, including accusations against star Barry Bonds, ESPN reported on Wednesday. Four days before the season starts, America's pastime is set for
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      Lock icon Sevens can stay here
      546 51  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Excellent logistics, track record strong points in Singapore's favour weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Rugby Union's three-year agreement with the International Rugby Board (IRB) to host one leg of the IRB Sevens Series ends after next weekend's Standard Chartered Sevens Singapore 2006 (April 8-9). While
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      208 51 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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      392 51  -  CUBBYLEONG SPORTS fff?wi cubby@newstoday.com.sg HER previous two outings in the women's 1,500 m freestyle were at last year's Singapore Open in June and at last December's Asia Indoor Games. Both swims were largely unmemorable affairs but on her third competitive swim, at last month's 7th
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      584 52  -  LEONGWEEKEAT NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 Geylang 1 Home Utd 3 weekeat@newstoday.co.sg HOME United replaced reigning champions Tampines Rovers at the top of the NTUC Income -Yeo's S-League, after beating Geylang United 3-1 at the Bedok Stadium last night The Protectors' third consecutive win moves them to nine
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      614 52  -  LIZAISHI Despite flying start to the season, new SAFFC coach Butler not thinking about winning championships yet sports@newstoday.com.sg AT CHOA Chu Kang Stadium, the C word hangs heavy in the air. Photographs of teams posed in celebration line the walls, silverware though none achieved in
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      29 49 MIAII m (h i'A 11 Hr-11' 141 mI In ('UIIIIII l-W^J^U^ Jte? TOSHIBA IS THE BROADCAST SPONSOR OF ESPN STAR SPORTS' Hfe^gl COVERAGE OF THE BARCLAYS ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE.
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        449 54 —AFP Middlesbrough left staring at exit after double Swiss-roll from Basel in first leg PARIS Middlesbrough's dreams of European glory were ripped to shreds after a twogoal burst by Swiss side Basel left Steve McLaren's men staring down the barrel of a Uefa Cup exit last
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        298 54 AGENCIES RANCHO MIRAGE, California Mexico's Lorena Ochoa (inset picture) matched the best round in women's major golf history here yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), firing a 10--under 62 to grab the early clubhouse lead at the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Classic. Overshadowing the sixunder
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          PLAYERS BANNED FROM BETTING
          129 54 FOOTBALL'S governing body Fifa has decided to introduce a strict betting ban for all players at this summer's World Cup finals in Germany. Fifa president Sepp Blatter revealed on Wednesday that players for the 32 competing nations must sign a statement before the finals saying that
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          NO SEX BAN FOR BRAZILIANS
          115 54 BRAZIL coach Carlos Alberto Parreira wants his team to play with a smile on their faces at this year's World Cup so he has ruled out imposing a sex ban. While Parreira's predecessor, Luis Felipe Scolari, ran a famously strict regime during the 2002 finals,
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          WENGER BACKS PIRES
          110 54 ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger believes rejuvenated midfielder Robert Pires ought to be in France's World Cup squad. The 32-year-old Pires has not played for France since October 2004 after falling out with coach Raymond Domenech. Although Pires extended an olive branch to Domenech in December, the French
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          MEXICO EDGE PARAGUAY IN FRIENDLY
          69 54 OMAR Bravo's brace gave Mexico a 2-1 victory over Paraguay this morning [Singapore time) in an international football friendly that will boost Mexico's confidence for the World Cup. Paraguay seized the lead on Nelson Cuevas' goal in the third minute but Bravo converted a penally
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      547 55 -AFP Van Nistelrooy scores on his return, leaving manager with selection headache ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United 1 West Ham 0 MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson hailed Ruud van Nistelrooy "the best in Europe" and admitted the Holland striker had presented him with a major dilemma, after marking his
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      25 54 SPORTONTV ■HESEHHEHH^^^^H 9am NBA Suns v Pacers, Ch24 10pm Golf Algarve Open de Portugal, Ch22 4am Tennis Nasdaq-100 Open, 9am NBA Grizzlies v Hornets, Ch23
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      43 58 IMMBJ BEE MOVIE (2D07) nra ri ua te bee, is disillusioned Barry B Benson, a f rest .ly-mmte d 9 aduateb^ with his lone career choice. Mawng develop g s Renee Zellweger. testy cat. IN THE WORKS: Puss (top) and Bee.
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      DRAWN TO ANIMALS
      941 58  -  FELIX CHEONG From (rnictygj) mouse no mammoth, hoirywood studios canrt seem to eeb bhein ciaws out op animai animation plus@newstoday.com.sg IT'S a jungle out there. Brace yourself for a Noah's Ark roll-out of wild animals on the big screen over the next few months. The first to
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      532 60  -  JEANINETAN S Korean heartthrob Jang Dong Gun seems to have a flair for languages, judging by his new movie Typhoon jea nine@newstoday.com.sg POLITICS and pop culture may be an incongruous mix, but a pet topic of the South Korean film industry nonetheless seems to be movies about
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      From a face-saver to a film-maker
      550 62  -  JEANINETAN Plastic surgeon Woffles Wu injects his money and ideas into Spore Dreaming jeanine@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Woffles Wu was five, he had a tiny role in The Inn of Sixth Happiness, a film that starred screen legend Ingrid Bergman. In London at that time, he
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      310 62  -  DAVID CHEW david. chew@newstoday.com. sg VISITORS may well recognise many of the buildings in Michael Lee's latest project, City Planned: Tracing Monuments, at the Singapore Art Museum. In fact, he hopes people draw on their memories to fill in the details. An
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      337 64  -  DAVID CHEW THE latest show to open at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) features the work of American artist Keith Haring, whose colourful pop culture images have been seen around the world. His work appears on everything from T-shirts, pencil cases and
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      457 64  -  ZULOTHMAN Drum 'n' bass DJ LTJ Bukem to perform here EA REA g IT IS safe to say that acclaimed drum V bass DJ LTJ Bukem is dance music's last living romantic. For the past two decades, Bukem (real name Danny Williamson) has been championing a more melodic
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      357 66  -  ELISACHIA Top criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan signs on as legal consultant for fourth season elisa@newstoday.com.sg ALMOST four years after it took place, the "Bukit Merah double murder" is still fresh in many people's minds (picture). Indonesian maid Sundarti Supriyant killed her employer Angie Ng and her three-year-old
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      600 68  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Jerry Hall, ex-wife of Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, talks sex and her new career SHANGHAI clement@newstoday.com.sg SIX feet tall and blessed with lustrous golden tresses, model and actress Jerry Hall is a cynosure for any flagging male spirit Never mind if good
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        MOVIE MAGIC
        676 72 NOT EVEN WWII COULD STOPTHE CATHAY FROM BECOMINGTHE EPITOME OF CLASS A "CRUSH HALL" CINEMA THAT COULD SEAT UOO. Frescoed walls and gold ceilings. Dapper gents and dazzling ladies gliding down the hallway. Those were the glamour days of the '50s when stars and cinema patrons flocked to
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        THE HOUSE THAT DATUK LOKe BUILT
        379 74 I THE ASTUTE BUSINESSMAN'S LEGACY CONTINUES INTHE RESURRECTION OFTHE CATHAY CINEPLEX [milestones 1937 Commencement of construction of the Cathay Building. 1939 October 3 Opening of Cathay cinema with the romping coward-turns-hero movie. The Four Feathers as its premiere film screening. 1940 Opening of the
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        WELCOME TO THE ARTHOUSE
        593 76 OFFERING FOREIGN FLICKS AND EXPERIMENTAL TREATSJHE PICTUREHOUSE RETURNS IN STYLE "NOT EVERYONE WILL ENJOY EACH FILM screened at The Picturehouse, but there is a place in cinema to be challenged," said Choo Meileen, Cathay's executive director. Distanced from the big budgets and machinery of Hollywood, independent
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        GRANDOPENING
        489 78 THE 590-SEATER IS DRESSEDTOTHE NINES FORYOUR PLEASURE DIRECTOR ROMAN POLANSKI ONCE SAID: "Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre". Yet, stepping into The Grand Cathay does nothing to subtract from the spectacle of light and sound on screen. Instead, there is a nod towards creating
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        BIGONTHISSCREEN
        506 80 THE NEW WORLD Director: Terrence Malick Cast: Christopher Plummet Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale Now showing THE NEW WORLD, directed by visionary filmmaker Terrence Malick, chronicles the epic saga of England's first expedition to America. The year is 1607 and a shipload of English adventurers has landed on
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        381 81  - in cinemas soon JEANINETAN with jeanine@newstoday.com.sg IN THE lull period before summer blockbuster season begins in May, along comes a little joie de vivre in the form of dancing to perk up an otherwise ho-hum movie line-up. In the upcoming Take the Lead, scheduled for release in Singapore cinemas on
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        337 82  -  Felix Cheong Innovative animation, quirky banter, but where's the story? FILMREVIEW by I Ice Age 2: The Meltdown BY THEIR very nature as a novelty, feature-length cartoons tend to self-de-struct when the credits roll. Meaning, they don't last beyond the first film and they don't make for very
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        Rent
        338 83  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW EA RAby WHAT works on stage may not work on the big screen because the two mediums essentially feed off different impulses. This is where Rent has failed. In being too reverential with Jonathan Larson's Tonyand Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, it ends up as a patchwork of
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        Typhoon
        322 83  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW E AEby FOR all its lofty aspirations to make a political statement, Typhoon lets its ambition to be i the biggest blockbuster released from South Korea get the better of it. Jang Dong Gun stars as Sin, a North Korean man who, as a child, witnessed
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        194 84  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW ER ERAR EAby I Ultraviolet IN THE near future, you'll watch a music video that'll pose as a sci-fi movie. It'll take itself so seriously it's not funny. It'll mistake visibly lowbudget, computer-generated effects for style, nonsensical gizmos like "gravity leveller" for geek toys
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          ARTS HOUSE REACTS TO GAGA PUBLIC
          65 84 Due to the overwhelming response to the screening of Tan Pin Pin's documentary Singapore GaGa at The Arts House, an additional nine showings have been added to the schedule. The additional screenings are: April 5 and 12 at 9pm; April 2, 8, 9,15 and
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          THE CAMERA AS A BRUSH
          82 84 Painting with a Camera is a series of five photographic workshops conducted by photographer Stephen Black, who has worked for clients such as the South China Morning Post, Playboy and Epic-Sony. Classes begin on April 8 and 9 and run every Saturday and Sunday from
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          SHUTTERBUG ALERT
          75 84 Award-winning Singaporean photographer Chua Soo Bin presents 14 exquisite portraits of twentieth-century ink masters such as Zhu Qizhan, Liv Haisu and Huang Junbi. The exhibition runs from today until April 4 at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). In conjunction with the event, Chua Soo Bin and other speakers
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          PLAY THE PIPA OR SITAR? YOU'RE IN LUCK
          66 84 The National Chinese Music Competition and National Indian Music Competition are now calling for entries from Singaporeans aged 30 and below. The biennial competitions, which aim to showcase the talents of young musicians adept in traditional Chinese and Indian instruments, will have
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      257 66 i lAvnoi ia\[ CO/V\P3flTlOi I Get ready for the challenge 3 8 6 2 5 9 Logic 9 is the Singapore version of 4 9 8 3 7 2 6 *ne P°Pu'ar Sudoku game. We are I ~7T 7 o"^ organising a National Competition to find the fastest Logic 9
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      52 71 Warner Bros. And Twentieth Century Fox CATHAY CINEPLEXES ON THE RE-OPENING OF THEIR FLAGSHIP CINEPLEX AT THE CATHAY RETURNS V m I I F».iKGmBE«.vi 3 ED www.posei donmovie.com """I&gt;K" "^x^r HIHIL,™-*. nrr^—H-i i™, _..&lt;_„.., M I P^l I IGHTSHYAMALAN j .^HI IN THEATRES 30 MARCH IN THEATRES 20 APRIL IN
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      54 77 PANASONIC SYSTEMS ASIA PACIFIC congratulates Cathay Organization for the Re-Opening of their flagship cineplex at THE CATHAY With over 1,200 Panasonic DLP™ based projectors installed in cinema theatre worldwide, Panasonic now leads in the field of providing DLP driven projectors for cinema application. DLP and Digital Light Processing are trademarks
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      240 81 L^s *&lt;** The Alt rf WMM6IM Seduction**^ at The Cathay Cineplex on 13 April IS. i -^tjL£3^l^. WOW -f-4A t /^-^^yMigTTTTETTiTwFn^iaava^i SHOWING i^-^S HML g UDOSMniI. UDOB(Mni(. PARCOBJGISUNCTION 10l 1 SHOWS Ma »ONU(INfW&lt; BOO(*hOI1iI«M»7I63« MIMMKEiAB UVEL S.SHAW HOUSE LEVEL 5, SHAW HOUSE LEVEL 4 CHOACHUHB6AVET JURONGEASISTI3 (NOSUROURGD (SHAWIUZA) ICE AGE
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