Today, 5 April 2006, Afternoon Edition

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    28 1 TODAY J zz share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday April 5, 2006 todayonline.com I TODAY share your free newspaper /A=DJJ-\CORP MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday April 5, 2006 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Thaksin sobs, will step aside
      719 1 -AGENCIES But opposition fears PM could merely be regrouping as he deflects political storm BANGKOK In a move that left open the question of whether his political career was really over, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) said yesterday that he would step down when
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      Lock icon Maxtor has wider Ql loss, will lay off 900 workers
      153 1 -BLOOMBERG MAXTOR Corp, the disk-drive maker being purchased by Seagate Technology, lost twice as much in the first quarter as it had forecast and said it will cut 900 jobs in Singapore. The loss was as much as US$lO4 million
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      Lock icon Stocks higher amid upbeat outlook and lower oil price
      109 1 —AFP NEW YORK Wall Street shares swung higher yesterday, with the Nasdaq Composite Index hitting a fresh five-year high, amid increasing optimism over the coming first-quarter earnings season. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 58.91 points to 11,203.85, while the Nasdaq
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      35 1 umpire hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 10 voices 16 business 22 growth 28 plus 30 tv radio listings 36 classad 37 sports 39 we set you thinking HuillElMinTEllSslJ llusK^l ILLH 8 "*****6"*****9"
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  • hot news
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      What's all the podding fuss about?
      740 2  -  Mr Miyagi CHIP OFF THE BLOG news@newstoday.com.sg Itsoomsyou con blog or podcast about the polls if it's not'explicitly political' WHEN you see a headline that goes "Podcasting is not allowed during elections", it's as good a time as any for this column to explain
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      Lock icon 3 killed as shipyard crane snaps
      464 3  -  ANSLEYNG TEOXUANWEI a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THREE workers one of them a Singaporean were killed in a freak accident at SembCorp Marine's PPL Shipyard, when a part of a crane and its 185-tonne load came crashing down yesterday morning. All three men were at different locations
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      Bahrain tragedy bodies, survivors return to Singapore
      291 3 TWO Singaporeans who survived the Bahrain ferry accident that killed 58 last Thursday have returned to Singapore. The bodies of their four colleagues who died have also been flown back. Members of an International SOS crisis management team accompanied some 10 family members
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  • singapore news
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      Kwek's bet on IR horse
      473 4  -  JASMINE YIN Sands' passion, track record will win the bid, says CDL chairman jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg PASSIONATE entrepreneurs, not salaried professional managers, will determine the success of the Marina Bay integrated resort (IR), said one of Singapore's richest self-made men. City Developments Limited (CDL) chairman and advocate
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      Gan up for a 'fairly good fight' against Chia in Choa Chu Kang
      269 4  -  -CHEOWXINYI ENTHUSIASM is good, but the General Election (GE) is not just about that That was Minister of State of Education and Manpower Gan Kirn Yong's assessment of National Solidarity Party's (NSP) Steve Chia, his likely opponent
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      Lock icon Misuse of Community Chest logo
      78 4 -938LIVE THE National Council of Social Service (NCSS) has drawn the public's attention to the misuse of the Community Chest logo on donation draw tickets for the "Great Concepts Crack the Safe National Lucky Draw". NCSS president Gerard Ec said the Community Chest has not
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      Lock icon Number of teachers up
      442 6  -  CHEOWXINYI Resignation rate steady over last few years: MOE xinyic@newstoday.com.sg THE resignation rate of teachers has kept steady at between 2 and 3 per cent over the last few years, said the Ministry of Education. On the other hand, numbers in the teaching force have been
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      Wife killer gets 10 years' jail
      294 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg AN ELDERLY man who killed his wife for refusing to give him money for his pregnant Indonesian mistress was sentenced to 10 years in jail yesterday. In July last year, 64-year-old Balakrishnan Doraisamy stabbed his wife of 18 years in
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    • Article
      Teen hotline draws parents
      207 6 THE help hotline for Malay teenagers launched last December is proving to be a useful avenue, not just for youngsters with problems, but also their parents. In the past four months, more than 400 calls and SMSes have been made to the Young Women Muslim Association
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    • Article
      When too much fibre may not be good for the bowels
      336 8  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com. sg FOR almost three weeks last year, Ms Evangeline Tan lived in limbo between sedated sleep and an agonising stomachache at a public hospital. There, despite the numerous tests, her condition remained a mystery. Eventually,
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      'Guinea pigs' still lining up
      427 8  -  TAN HUI LENG London slip-up has not shaken faith in drugs trials here huileng@newstoday.com.sg HUMAN "guinea pigs" in Singapore have not disappeared into the woods, despite the news of some cases gone wrong in other parts of the world. Last month, it was reported that
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Britain's Sinn Fein spy found shot dead
      116 10 -AFP BELFAST A former key member of the Irish Republican Army's political wing, who had admitted spying for the British government, has been found shot dead, Irish police sources said yesterday. Mr Denis Donaldson, 55, who had been expelled from the Sinn Fein
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      Lock icon Water won't be used as a bargaining chip
      403 10 AGENCIES New Causeway bridge won't be linked to water exports: Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said his country would not use the water it exports to Singapore as a bargaining chip to pressure the Republic into building a
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      Lock icon US, Indonesia agree on customs data, patents
      227 10 BLOOMBERG THE US and Indonesia agreed to share more customs data, improve the protection of patents and set new investment rules, as the two sides lay the groundwork for a free-trade agreement Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Pangestu and US Trade Representative Rob Portman
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon 'MILKSHAKE MURDER'VICTIM'S BROTHER FOUND DEAD
        72 10 AP The brother of an investment banker killed in Hong Kong in what became known as the "milkshake murder" was found dead in his Connecticut home. Andrew Kissel, brother of Robert Kissel —the banker who was murdered by Nancy, his wife, by feeding him a
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        Lock icon SADDAM TO FACE GENOCIDE TRIAL
        62 10 -AFP The Iraqi tribunal announced yesterday that Saddam Hussein would be tried on genocide charges over the Anfal campaign against Kurds that left an estimated 180,000 people dead. "The investigation has been completed for the Anfal campaign and the seven accused have been referred to
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        Lock icon SOCCER BETTING SCANDAL: VIETNAM MINISTER TO RESIGN
        62 10 AFP Vietnam Transport Minister Dao Dinh Binh submitted his resignation to Vietnam's leadership yesterday amid a widening investigation into a major soccer-betting scandal involving his ministry. Mr Pham Xuan Kha, the ministry's deputy administrative head, said he sent his letter of resignation to
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        Lock icon KISSING, HUGGING'INDECENT'
        90 10 AFP Malaysia's highest court ruled yesterday that two young people accused of kissing and hugging in a public park can be charged with indecent behaviour. Ooi Kean Thong, 24, and Siow Ai Wei, 22, were allegedly caught embracing and kissing by officials in August 2003 in a park
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      Lock icon Canada to apologise to Chinese immigrants
      136 10 -AFP OTTAWA Canada's new Conservative government yesterday promised in a keynote speech to apologise in Parliament for a discriminatory head tax charged to Chinese immigrants nearly a century ago. "The government will act in Parliament to offer an apology for the Chinese head tax,"
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      Malaysia to boost inter-racial relations
      368 12 Mixed marriages and education to be addressed PUTRAJAYA Malaysia plans to take steps to boost race relations in the coming months, and it will start by tackling the issue on two fronts: Education and personal rights in mixed marriages. The move is a bid to
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon IF ONLY IT WERE SCOTCH ...
        45 12 IF ONLY IT WERE SCOTCH -AFP Astronomers say they have spotted a cloud of alcohol in deep space that measures 463 billion kilometres across. The vast bridge-shaped cloud of methyl alcohol, also called methanol, was spotted in a region of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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        Lock icon PUNY 'WRESTLER' SEEKS ASYLUM
        71 12 AFP Iran has arrested seven men posing as the national wrestling team in a bid to flee the country for Hungary. The men obtained visas by pretending to be on Iran's wrestling team, which is due to compete in Hungary in April. According to the government
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        Lock icon NO LAUGHING MATTER
        53 12 -AP An April Fool's prankster, who delayed an Air Asia flight by claiming a bomb was on board the plane, could now face life imprisonment. A person found guilty of intentionally communicating false information that could jeopardise aircraft safety can be jailed for life in Malaysia, The
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      Lock icon China to try ping-pong diplomacy again
      290 12 AFP BEIJING China is hoping that "pingpong diplomacy", which helped ease relations with the United States in the *****, will improve strained Sino-Japanese ties. Meanwhile, the front-runner to be Japan's next Prime Minister has accused China of destabilising Asia with its military spending. "I
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      Lock icon Would-be Al Qaeda pilot to be executed?
      369 14 —AFP ALEXANDRIA (Virginia) A United States jury has ruled that would-be Al Qaeda suicide pilot Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for execution, deciding his lies cost lives in the Sept 11 attacks. "You will never get my blood, God curse you all," Moussaoui, the
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      Costly divorces keeping couples together
      231 14 LONDON Unless it is a marriage that involves abuse or a relationship that has become irreconcilable, more couples may decide to weather the storm rather than begin divorce proceedings. But it isn't the hope of reconciliation that keeps couples together. The main reason is the
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    • GLOBALRONDUP
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        Lock icon SCANDAL-HIT TOP REPUBLICAN QUITS
        76 14 -AFP Scandal-tainted United States Republican Representative Tom Delay will withdraw from his race for re-election to the House of Representatives and quit the body within months, media reports said. Mr Delay, who helped build the Republican Party's dominance in Congress in the *****, told Time magazine
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        Lock icon HAMAS MINISTER TO VISIT CHINA
        90 14 i -AFP Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmud Al Zahar yesterday announced plans to visit China as Beijing became the latest power to reach out to Hamas despite a Western boycott. "We are going to visit China and we have let the ambassador know," Mr Al Zahar
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        Lock icon MIRACLE ESCAPE IN AIR CRASH
        87 14 ■AP A United States air force C-5B Galaxy, the military's largest plane, faltered after take-off and belly-landed in Dover, breaking apart and drenching some of the 17 people aboard with fuel but causing no fire or life-threatening injuries. "It is a miracle. Absolutely a miracle,"
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  • Voices
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      isay TOO LOW A PRICE ON DUTY
      745 16  -  TERENCE TEO I REFER to the report, "Stiffer penalties for NS dodgers" (April 4). I am glad that Parliament is treating this issue seriously and is considering various measures, including changes to the statutes. As an NSman, I am very keen to see
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      Progress Package forms can be downloaded online
      137 16  -  TEOH SEE LEONG Letter from Director, (Collections and Recovery), Central Provident Fund Board WE REFER to Mr Rashid Osman's letter "Why isn't the option or necessary forms available online?" (April 4). Sign-up forms can be downloaded from the Progress Package website www.progress.gov.sg (click
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      Is S'pore ready for online movie distribution wave?
      212 16  -  COLIN ONGTAUSHIEN Letter from IT HAS been reported in AP that Hollywood studios will start selling digital versions of films such as Brokeback Mountain and King Kong on the Internet through a website, Movielink, which is owned by a number of large
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      236 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON af eaa WHY BULLIES BULLY Why do boys harass and intimidate each other in school or on the playground? The Journal of Developmental Psychology recently conducted a study of 452 boys in upper primary, and it revealed thatthose who taunt weaker peers and
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      Helpful if told why PR request rejected
      363 18  -  MALCOLM LOH Was it due to insufficient income or mistakes on form? Letter from IN LESS than a week, my wife and I will be celebrating our first wedding anniversary in Singapore. I met her while studying in the United States and we
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      Relax CPF rules on withdrawals
      135 18  -  STEPHEN TEO Letter from I REFER to the front-page report, "A crutch for the ill and dying" (April 4). The article began by stating: "In a humane gesture aimed at making the final days of terminally-ill CPF members easier..." This change in the Central Provident
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      Reit steps taken for a pleasant shopping experience
      495 20  -  RICHARD NG Letter from Asset Manager Capita Mall Trust Management Limited WE REFER to the letter "Not the Reit way?" (March 21) from Mr Gary Lee. We thank Mr Lee for sharing his experience at Tampines Mall, but assure him that the
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      Cut corners and risk lives
      233 20  -  UMBOONHEE How could a felon be employed as a security guard? Letter from I AM really horrified to learn that a recalcitrant criminal who had a long history of convictions for armed robbery and burglary was employed as a security guard by a local security
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Trek 2000 pays $75,000 penalty
      156 22 -DOW JONES THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday that it had imposed a civil penalty of $75,000 on thumb-drive maker Trek 2000 International for contravening the disclosure provision under securities laws. The MAS said that the civil penalty relates to the company's failure
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      Airocean's Tay to be charged in court
      263 22 AIROCEAN Group's executive director Thomas Tay will be charged in court today for corruption, the company said in a statement last night. Mr Tay will remain as the company's executive director pending the outcome of the case, it added. According to a report
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      Lock icon A boost for Ceca
      476 22  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA India wants progress in every aspect of the trade pact shobha@newstoday.com.sg INDIA wants to put more "mass" into the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) before August, including recognising more goods that can enjoy preferential treatment under the trade pact "In the next six weeks
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    • business news
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        Manufacturing sector shrinks for the first time in 10 months
        277 24  -  CHRISTIE LOH FEWER new orders for non-electronics sent Singapore's manufacturing output shrinking last month after 10 straight months of expansion, although the electronics sector continued shining brightly. According to the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which is a key barometer of
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        Simpler choices
        445 24  -  LEECHINGWERN Portal helps people picktheir credit cards chingwern@newstoday.com.sg CONSUMERS who wish to compare the features and privileges of the different credit cards in the market can now do so at Qotion.com Singapore's first comprehensive credit facilities portal. A new website set up by a group of young entrepreneurs
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        Lock icon Shangri-La Asia earns $244 million
        268 26 -BLOOMBERG Profit of luxury hotels operator up by one-third lastyear SINGAPORE-listed Shangri-La Asia, the region's biggest luxury hotel operator, said that profit last year increased 33 per cent as sales climbed. The company's profit rose to US$l5l million ($244 million), or 6.13 US cents a
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      • marketwatch
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          World markets
          55 26 Nikkei 225 *****.91 -40.40 -0.23 Hang Seng ASX *****.09 5162.50 +36.34 -10.00 +0.23 -0.35 Taiwan Wtd 6665.60 +4.04 +0.07 Korea Comp 1305.64 +5.09 +0.43 KLCI 931.17 +2.94 +0.32 SET Index 745.33 +6.66 +0.90 Jakarta Comp 1326.44 -2.06 -0.22 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2194.20 270.16 +4.43 +2.96 +0.20 +1.11
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          SGX most active
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          SGX top rises
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          132 26 -DOW JONES SHARE prices closed lower on selling triggered by higher oil prices and profit-taking among property issues, traders said. The ST Index (STI) ended down 16.09 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 2,532.59. Decliners led advancers 370 to 192 as 1.38 billion shares worth $1.14 billion were traded.
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        306 28 Singapore's five Qualifying Full Banks (QFBs) ABNAmro, Citibank, HSBC, Maybank and Standard Chartered have waived the ATM transaction fee of 30 cents levied for each successful cash withdrawal at ATMs of the QFB partner banks under their joint network. With immediate effect, customers of the five QFBs can use
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      975 30  -  Lee U-Wen in Chicatio TODAY Violence, comedy, drama and sex- men had their own soap opera on Monday as Wrestlemania rolled into Chicago v* v* a w v* v* m v* u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THEY brawl not just with their fists and feet. They do so with steel folding chairs,
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      308 30 UNDERTAKER Mark Calaway, 40, has so many stage names it can be hard to decide what to call him. There is, of course, the Undertaker-whose catchphrase is "Rest in peace" -then there's Texas Red, The Punisher, The Commando and the outrageously tacky Master of Pain. It is Calaway's Undertaker
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      224 31 WRESTLING isn't all about brawn. There's also plenty of beauty. And hot-blooded fans were treated to two of the most entertaining women's matches in recent memory. First up, the Women's title was up for grabs as the reigning champion and former fitness model Trish Stratus (below) squared off against
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      630 32  -  ZULOTHMAN Despite the chrome dome and menacing image, UKsinger is as pleasant as they come zul@newstoday.com.sg SKIN, best known as the former lead singer of UK noise pop act Skunk Anansie, is anything but conventional. "My first solo album, Fleshwounds, was recorded when things in my life were
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      240 32  -  Ashraf Safdar e rasrby A Language of Their Own In A Language of Their Own, playwright Chay Yew has fashioned an intimate piece about Oscar (Koey Foo) and Ming (Phin Wong), two lovers reminiscing about their failed four-year relationship. Checkpoint Theatre conveys this story of lovers creating their own
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      527 33  -  -AMELYNNUONG WHILE actors like Heath Ledger have made it tough for pretty boys to be taken seriously in films, having model-like good looks hasn't stood in the way of Taiwanese actor Chang Chen's efforts to clinch good roles. Taiwan's answer to Tony Leung Chiu
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        272 34 -AGENCIES THERE was no meltdown at the box office for Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, as the sequel to the 2002 animated hit grossed $1.1 million from Thursday to Sunday to post the biggest opening weekend for an animated film in Singapore history.
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      12 34 »._____i CONTENDERS EEL AUGUSTA World's best get taste of lengthened course 39
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      543 37 IYOURH EtODay by Eugenia Last ARIES (Mar 21 -Apr 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) HYou may feel as if everyone is out to get you BP^fll Opportunities to learn are looking good. There today. Stay busy and don't dwell on little in- tjW will be lots of action going
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      205 38 WEATHERTOPAY Amsterdam 0/8 C partly cloudy London 4/10 C partly cloudy Auckland W24C showers Los Angeles 9/17 C fair OlligapOre Bali 24/31 C rainy Manila 26/33 C partly cloudy 24/34 C BS Begawan 25/32 C showers Melbourne 14/18 C showers <~ Bangkok 26/36 C showers New Delhi 18/38 C hazy
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      564 39 -NEW YORK TIMES World's best get taste of lengthened course GOLF Masters AUGUSTA On a simple white board with Masters-green letters, just an easy stroll from the Augusta National Golf Club entrance, the names of champions and contenders began to appear. Tiger Woods and Mark O'Meara, the
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      298 40 THE biggest and most memorable match Shamsul has taken charge of to date is the Confederations Cup clash last June between Australia and Argentina, which ended 4-2 in favour of the South Americans. The four-time S-League Referee of The Year (1997-99, 2001) has also officiated in the
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      763 40  -  DARREN LAI Eager for the action to begin in Germany, Spores top referee just wants the game to flow darren@newstoday.com.sg HE IS one of a select band of 23 referees given the honour of officiating in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Crowned Asia's
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      385 41  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN recent months, the Singapore Rugby Union (SRU) and Cuesports Singapore have been hit by financial irregularities. Now, another National Sports Association (NSA) has hit similar strife. Last night, the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) filed a police report after financial irregularities
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      528 41  -  TANYO-HINN Touted as the next Serevi, Fiji's newest star is ready to set the Spore Sevens alight yohinn@newstoday.com.sg ONE cannot talk about sevens rugby without mentioning Fiji's Waisale Serevi, the greatest exponent of the game. Now set to succeed the wizard is compatriot William Ryder. Barely a year
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      341 41  -  CUBBYLEONG NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 SAFFC 2 Balestier Khalsa 1 cubby@newstoday.com.sg THE Choa Chu Kang Stadium is turning out to be a fortress for Singapore Armed Forces FC. Last night, Balestier Khalsa were the victims as Ashrin Shariff's (picture) double gave the Warriors their third
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      96 40 PHONE YOUR BETS! Call 6786 6688 I UE Champions Barcelona Benfica Thu, 06/04/06 2.45 am UE Champions Jtus Arsenal Thu, 06/04/06 2.45 am S.League Sport Afrique Gombak Thu, 06/04/06 7.30pm UECup St Petersburg Sevilla Fri, 07/04/06 12.00 am UECup Steaua Rapid Bucharest Fri, 07/04/06 1.30 am UECup Schlk 04 Levski
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        613 42 —AFP Spanish debutants Villarreal score upset win over mighty Inter Milan to make dream entry into semi-finals of Champions League VILLARREAL, Spain Villarreal continued their European fairy-tale here yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), defeating Inter Milan 1-0 to clinch a place in the semi-finals of the Champions
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        306 42 —AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, Q-FINAL 2ND LEG Juventus v Arsenal (0-2) TURIN Alessandro del Piero will be missing from the Juventus squad that will attempt to overturn a 2-0 deficit against Arsenal in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final here today (tomorrow
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        517 43 —AFP Striker Inzaghi's double sparks Milan win and heralds entry to semi-finals MILAN, Italy A double by Filippo Inzaghi inspired last year's finalists AC Milan to a 3-1 second-leg quarter-final victory over Lyon and a place in the last four of the Champions League here yesterday
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        368 43 —AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Birmingham 1 Bolton 0 BIRMINGHAM, England Jiri Jarosik scored the decisive goal as Birmingham City moved out of the bottom three of the Premiership for the first time since October with a 1-0 win over Bolton Wanderers last night (this
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          147 43 ONLY 5 per cent of German football fans expect the national team to win this year's World Cup, a survey by Sport Bild found. The hosts, who have won the tournament three times since its inception in 1930, will be eliminated in the group phase according to
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          NO EXCUSES IF WEDONTWIN: BECKHAM
          108 43 ENGLAND captain David Beckham (picture) warned yesterday that there can be no excuses for SvenGoran Eriksson's side failing to win the World Cup this summer. Beckham is confident England have their best team to lift their first trophy in 40 years in Germany. "We can't
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          BRAZIL PRESIDENT BACKS 2014 BID
          128 43 BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has given his backing to a bid by his country to host the 2014 World Cup, Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) chief Ricardo Teixeira announced yesterday. After a meeting with the president, Teixeira said that Lula had agreed "that
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