Today, 14 April 2006

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    13 1 /A=diaCorp TODAY share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Friday April 14, 2006 todayonline.com
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    In a list of 24, a future leader?
    802 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG PAP's new faces have age and credentials on their side cheekong@newstoday.com.sg AS THE People's Action Party rolled out its final batch of new candidates yesterday, political watchers sat back to study the list with unusual interest. Somewhere in these
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  • Article
    Vote secret, so Low banks on 'judgment'
    488 1  -  ANSLEY NG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the 700 or so residents of Realty Park queue up at Polling Station 6 on Election Day, they can rest assured that no one will know how they voted. The issue of voting secrecy has come in for
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      Lock icon After the forum, the feeling
      586 2 Majority of S'poreans want MM Lee to continue and say there is no fear factor TODAY NEWS TEAM news@newstoday.com.sg AS MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew predicted, the majority of Singaporeans don't want him out of politics. In fact, most Singaporeans Today talked to in a
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      Lock icon Arms deals: Another S'porean arrested in the US
      418 2 —AGENCIES ANOTHER Singaporean has been arrested in the United States for attempting to buy weapons, allegedly for export to Indonesia. A day after Singaporean businessman Ibrahim Amran was arrested for trying to buy missiles and military equipment, reports have emerged on the
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    • Article
      isay CAN YOU SEE WHERE I'M COMING FROM, MR LEE?
      692 3  -  LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com.sg WHEN I walked away from the recording of the television forum with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Monday night, I couldn't help thinking that a lot of what he said was true. As we bombarded him non-stop
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      266 3 k c=x^ k State Bank of India bfej India's Largest Bank Comes To M AWeM Little India IlEiE|| m State Bank of India -w-( _J i^n A announces the opening of its ft M REMITTANCE CENTRE m m\ I I M I b^ aVSSSJS ft H H.E. MR ALOK PRASAD
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Schools set more teachers
      532 4  -  LEE U-WEN Each can hire up to 20 new ones; it's also easier to become master teachers u-wen@newstoday.com.sg PRIMARY and secondary schools can soon take in up to 20 more new teachers twice the number announced earlier. Already, the Ministry of Education (MOE) is committed to
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      Lock icon Singapore accedes to Kyoto Protocol
      197 4 -AGENCIES SINGAPORE has acceded to the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Ministry of Environment and Water Resources said that Singapore deposited its instruments of accession with the Secre-tary-General of the UN in New York yesterday. The protocol will
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      FULL STEAM AHEAD: PAP
      291 6  -  JASMINE YIN Party to reveal slogan, manifesto tomorrow jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg IT IS all hands on deck, as the People's Action Party (PAP) election ship sails ahead at full steam. The party introduced its last batch of candidates yesterday, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the party's secretary-general,
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      Lock icon MPSSTEPPINGDOWN
      220 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA DEPUTY Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng has confirmee that Mr Leong Horn Kee and Mr Davinder Singh will be stepping down as Members of Parliament (MPs) in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. Standing in their place in the coming General Election will be new PAP candidates Hri Kumar and
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    • Article
      He's an 'honest bet' for this election
      257 6  -  -UNYANQIN AT 30, he may be the youngest of the new PAP candidates, but Mr Christopher de Souza is hardly a lightweight. The former Magistrate at the Subordinate Courts who joined law firm Lee Lee this month impressed PAP chairman and labour chief
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      Lock icon Ready for battle: RAdm Lui Tuck Yew
      344 6  -  -UNYANQIN ONE day after resigning as CEO of the Housing and Development Board (HDB), Rear Admiral Lvi Tuck Yew jumped right back into the thick of things as one of the People's Action Party's (PAP) new candidates. The 44-year-old father of two may
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      All for racial harmony
      261 6  -  -UNYANQIN MR TAN Chin Siong's loyalty to the party stood out at the final round of introductions of new PAP candidates yesterday. Asked if he would like to stand for election in a Single-Member Constituency, the executive director of the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) responded
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      Lock icon Pay off the bills – go shopping
      446 8  - Pay off the bills go shopping JASMINE YIN -938 LIVE Potong Pasir introduces cashless system to cut arrears and boost business jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg GOING cashless to lower residents' arrears and boost neighbourhood retail business that is what the Opposition Potong Pasir town council plans to roll out soon. A pilot electronic
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon SAUDI PRINCE DONATES $2.4 MILLION
        70 8 938 LIVE Singapore has received a gift of US$l.5 million ($2.4 million) from Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan Abdul Aziz Al Saud, who donated the money to support community and education services here. The prince made the contribution during his recent visit to Singapore. The
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        Lock icon KETAMINE USER JAILED AND CANED
        93 8 -938UVE A sales executive has become the first synthetic drug abuserto be dealt with under tougher penalties. Tan Tho Eng has been sentenced to five years in jail and three strokes of the cane. He could have been slapped with the maximum seven years' imprisonment
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      Lock icon S'poreans find martial arts master
      178 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THREE Singaporeans in search of a karate master in northern Japan are believed to have located him. Shoen Fukuda, 61, lives in Aomori's Hiranai city. But it turns out that instead of karate, he teaches Chinese-style martial arts. The search began when a
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    • Article, Illustration
      All for a good sleep
      220 8  -  CHEOWXINYI FEELING tired in the morning? That is because we are not sleeping enough, according to a sleep survey commissioned by Ikea to understand our sleeping habits. Singaporeans sleep an average of 6 hours 52 minutes per night, which is 15 minutes less than the
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      323 7 The all-time singles doubles champion Bedroom Weeks 14 April 28 May The world rankings say it all. A global survey of people's sleeping habits by IKEA' has revealed that our 'home team' or Singaporeans have peculiar bedroom habits. They sleep less. They read and watch TV more in bed. And
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  • world news
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      Lock icon New violence hits Sri Lanka: Toll rises to 43
      176 10 -AP COLOMBO Gunmen fatally shot three Tamil men in northern Sri Lanka, while two others were killed by land mines, police and rebels said yesterday, as the government eased a curfew in a town hit by fatal bombings and ethnic violence.
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      Lock icon Johor CIQ won't be wasted
      674 10  -  VINITARAMANI New complex at Bukit Chagar will start operating from January: Abdullah vinita@newstoday.com.sg MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi gave his reassurance yesterday that the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) Complex in Bukit Chagar, Johor will not become a "white elephant" following the government's decision
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      Lock icon Aussie asylum policy to be toughened in sop to Indonesia
      146 10 -AGENCIES CANBERRA (Australia) The Australian government will send all asylum seekers arriving by boat on Australia's mainland to island detention camps, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone announced yesterday. Jakarta is demanding the re- turn of a four-year-old girl, Anike Wanggai among
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      Lock icon I never saw Iraq bribe warnings: Howard
      183 10 -AFP SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday he had no idea that a government-backed firm was bribing Saddam Hussein's regime when he sent troops into Iraq to help oust the dictator. He said he had never learned national wheat exporter AWB
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    • Article
      Lock icon 6 HK women lose breasts after enhancement shots
      130 10 -AGENCIES HONG KONG Hong Kong health officials yesterday warned women to avoid breast enlargement gel injections after the operations for six women went horrifically wrong. Fifty-three women have complained about complications such an infections and abscesses after having polyacrylamide gel injected into
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      Lock icon A kiss is just a kiss: Protesters
      211 12 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian activists protested at the capital's city hall yesterday against laws that make kissing and hugging in public a crime, saying it showed the "Islamisation" of the multicultural nation. A dozen demonstrators led by the opposition Democratic Action Party's (DAP) youth
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      Lock icon Iran shuns international calls to freeze nuclear drive
      305 12 -AFP UN nuclear agency chief flies to Tehran in bid to head off escalation of crisis TEHRAN Iran's hardline president yesterday shunned international demands to freeze his country's controversial nuclear drive, even as the head of the United Nations atomic agency flew
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      Lock icon NORTH KOREA THREATENS MILITARY BUILD-UP
      163 12 -AFP North Korea yesterday vowed not to compromise on its conditions for returning to stalled nuclear disarmament talks and said it would use the delay to strengthen its military arsenal. "There is no room for us to be flexible," North Korean ViceForeign Minister Kirn Kye-Gwan
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      Lock icon Suspect grins as tape of 911 plane's final moments replayed
      320 12 -AFP ALEXANDRIA (Virginia) In a climax to the case for the execution of Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, prosecutors aired an audio tape of a life-and-death passenger revolt on a doomed 911 jet. "I don't want to die," a woman
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon FOUND: EVOLUTION'S MISSING LINK
        81 12 AGENCIES Four-million-year-old teeth and bones unearthed in Ethiopia have provided the first hard proof of the "missing link" between a primitive ape-like creature and a later ape-man who became our own ancestor, scientists said. "For the first time, we found fossils that allow us to connect
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        MALAYSIA'S LOW-COST AIRPORT TERMINAL RUNNING OUT OF SPACE
        78 12 Launched about three weeks ago, Malaysia's Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang is running out of space for its increasing number of travellers, the New Straits Times newspaper reported. Many travellers were seen resting or napping outside the LCCT on Wednesday. Malaysia
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        INDONESIAN POLICE ASK PLAYBOY TO SUSPEND MAGAZINE PUBLICATION
        56 12 Indonesian police have asked Playboyto suspend its just-launched local edition because of protests against the magazine in the world's most populous Muslim country. "We have met with P/aj/jbo/ officials and advised them to put off their publication because it has caused public
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      Lock icon Failing donor heart removed; she now uses original heart
      281 12 AGENCIES LONDON In a pioneering operation in London, a 12-year-old girl's failing donor heart was removed and her own dormant heart brought back to life. Hannah Clark of Mountain Ash, south Wales, is believed to be the first patient in Britain
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  • Voices
    • Enlightening exchange of views
      • Letter
        Watching gloves-off forum was most liberating
        269 14  -  MOHDROSLEAHMAD Letter from DURING the programme "Up Close With the Prime Minister" last year, I recalled that only two directly political questions were raised by the participants: The Government's treatment of dissenting views from the Opposition, and the need for more political parties. The
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        Lock icon Will we get greater individual autonomy?
        210 14  -  DAVID CAI Letter from MR LEE's lively debate with young Singaporeans was nothing short of captivating. For the first time in recent memory, Mr Lee's continued presence in the Government, the PAP's style of governance and its approach towards civil and political rights were
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      • Letter
        Shallow, ungrateful comments by panelists
        440 14  -  HAZRAOSMANGHANI Letter from HAVING lived through the 1950s and *****, let me say this. First of all, I apologise to our Minister Mentor for all the shallow comments levelled at him. One speaker said some of her peers don't even know who the Minister Mentor
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    • Letter
      Home owners, NEA look out for unusual mozzie traps
      155 14  -  S SATISH APPOO Letter from Head, Environmental Health Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letter, "Mosquitoes breed in fridge trays" (April 11). The mosquito-breeding habitats featured in our "10Minute Mozzie Wipe-Out, 5 Easy Steps" brochure are the most common
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      236 16  -  JAMES DOBSON BYDR CHURCHILL'S LEGACY I confess that if I could spend one afternoon with any famous person who had ever lived during my lifetime, I'd spend it with Winston Churchill. Churchill had a pitiful start in life. He was born premature, and was a weak
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    • Letter
      Start stamping out soccer violence from school itself
      186 16  -  LIMSIEWIMM Letter from I REFER to Robert Foo's letter, "Ban Rafi M for rough play" (April 12). Like him, I believe that a strong message needs to be sent out especially to youth soccer enthusiasts. As it is, some principals do not
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      "Papa ... byebyeseeyou"
      1120 16  - "Papa byebyeseeyou" mr brown news@newstoday.com.sg FRIDAY WITH How do you look upon the faces of your little ones and notfeel guilty about leaving them at home? I HEARD that the proposed "scenic bridge" that Malaysia wanted to build to replace the Causeway has been called off. Gosh, I hope it
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    • OFFICALREPLIES
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        OVERSEAS S'POREANS ENTITLED TO $200
        128 17  -  HAN KOK JUAN Director (Social Programmes), Ministry of Finance WE REFER to the letter on the Progress Package by Mr Ho Choy Fong "Should Singaporeans overseas get payout?" (April 12). The Progress Package shares part of the Government's budget surpluses with all Singapore citizens, including
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        Lock icon NEW CITIZENS CAN BE ASSESSED FOR NS
        145 17  -  COL BENEDICT LIM Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Defence I REFER to the letter "NS options for new citizens" (April 7) by Mr Habib Mohammed. New citizens who volunteer to serve National Service (NS) are assessed for their suitability for operational deployment. The
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      75 14 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES An unkempt man in the audience Said aloud the four-letter word Everyone looked at the speaker And wondered if he had heard. He looked coolly at the lout Then said, in the growing commotion 'Now that you've given your name May I ask what's your question?' MUSES
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  • Businesstoday
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      SGX well positioned for merger or partnership
      913 18  -  CHRISTIE LOH Asian bourses may link with larger peers amid wave of consolidation in the West christie@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS long been mating season for stock exchanges in the West. Over the past decade, bourses in Europe and the United States have courted each
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      Lock icon PSA volumes up
      92 18 DOW JONES PORT operator PSA International moved 30.8 per cent more containers in the first three months of this year than in the corresponding period last year, as it continued to benefit from strong global trade fuelled by China's booming economy, according to data on its website
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    • business news
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        Lippo unit buys 29% of Robinson
        419 20  -  CHRISTIE LOH It will pay OCBC Group $203 m for the stake, expand into Indonesia and China christie@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS touted as the front-runner but few had expected it to pay so much. An affiliate of Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group has agreed to buy
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        To seize opportunities in China is top challenge of CEOs here
        284 20  -  CHOW PENN NEE MAKING money and sustaining profit may rank as the top challenge facing top business executives the world over, but it is China that is uppermost on the minds of Singapore's chief executive officers. Seizing opportunities for
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        Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
        325 20 DOWJONES -DOW JONES Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) had a 22.2-per-cent rise in distribution per unit for its 2006 fiscal year ended March 31, helped by rent from recently acquired properties. It will distribute 11.68 cents a unit for the fiscal year, compared with 9.56 cents a unit
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      • marketwatch
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          Lock icon Singapore
          125 20 DOW JONES SHARE prices closed flat as investors stayed cautious ahead of the quarterly earnings reporting season next week. "Investors are on the sidelines as they want to get a sample of how firstquarter earnings will play out before buying," said a local trader. The ST Index ended down
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          ST Index — 2,544.38 -1.87
          4 20 ST Index 2,544.38 -1.87
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          Lock icon World markets
          58 20 SGX, Bloomberg Index Value Change Pis Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.15 +36.60 +0.21 Hang Seng ASX *****.45 +118.69 5175.70 -8.00 +0.73 -0.15 Taiwan Wtd 6855.74 +47.24 +0.69 Korea Comp 1405.72 +22.13 +1.60 KLCI 936.24 -5.64 -0.60 SET Index Jakarta Comp 1382.12 +9.72 +0.71 Phils Comp Shenzhen B
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          SGX most active
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 20 US$ 0.6204 UK£ 0.3547 Yen 73.558 HK$ 4.8125 RM 2.2787 Euro 0.5126 Rupiah 5580.5 Baht 23.622 Peso 31.852 A$ 0.8469 Indian Rs 28.036 Won 595.84 C$ 0.7115 Yuan 4.9707 NZ$ 1.0064 NT$ 20.101
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          Commodities
          19 20 GoldUSs/oz 601.30 Silver US$/oz 12.66 Platinum US$/oz 1,094.60 Rubber cents/kg 345.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,414.00 Brant USS/barrel 69-83
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          SGX top rises
          85 20 I Bys Close Change |By percentage Close Change F8N 20.400 +0.700 SembMar SGA060G05 0.010 +100.0 Bukit Sem 15.300 +0.200 SPH BNP8PW*****0 0.040 +60.0 Creative 50 10.200 +0.200 Jardine CSC 11.200 +0.200 ST Engg DB0B0731 0.340 +50.1 SPC SGA8CW*****4 0.440 +54.4 KepCorp 14.400 +0.200 SPC 5.650 +0.200 Fit
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          SGX top falls
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      FORD'S FIREWALL
      1186 24  -  Neil Humphreys From Han Solo to Indiana Jones, movie icon delivers onscreen but gives nothing away in person HARRISON Ford is an intimidating man. From the moment he strolls in wearing a simple grey shirt and black trousers, the atmosphere in the room is uneasy. It's not just
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      365 25 He might be a recluse off camera, but on screen you can't take your eyes off Harrison Ford. From American Graffiti {W3) to Firewall{2o%), no actor in history has put more bums in seats. NEIL HUMPHREYS picks out hi: five favourite Ford moments. 1) STAR WARS (1977)
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      the GHOSTS of Nutsha's past
      580 26  -  Felix Cheong Black Nights Thai starlet sees dead people but has learned to respect them SHE may be sweetfaced, doe-eyed and all ready to turn on the charm. But Thai starlet Nutsha Bootsri would have you know there's a dark side to hen She sees
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      400 26  -  -AMELYNN LIONG FEED our actors. This is the call from the Association of Singapore Actors (ASA), which will hold a fund-raising auction at The Actors' Gallery tomorrow night Aptly named the "Starving Artistes Auction", the event is unusual in that members
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      399 27  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Austin Carty bears no grudge against Terry Deitz who could have given him immunity Julia nar@newstoday.com.sg NICE guy Austin Carty is so nice, he isn't upset that tribe mate Terry Deitz did not try to save him from being voted off in
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      All the familiar Ford ingredients
      498 28  -  Neil Humphreys But F//"ei/i/a//treads on safe ground, offering whatyou'd expect and nothing more FILMREVIEW hi by I Firewall FIREWALL director Richard Longcraine told Today that this movie promises to deliver what it says on the box: It's a Harrison Ford movie. The all-American everyman finds
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      Black Night
      222 28  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by BLACK Night is an amateurish and utterly dismal anthology of three horror short films by three different directors that scores zero points on the fright scale, but a high score on redundancy. The first is a Hong Kong effort called Next Door. Dylan Kuo
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      Death's MASTERPIECE
      389 29  -  Felix Cheong Invisible Waves excels in its use of metaphors and depicting what is not said FILMREVIEW by Invisible Waves IN THE slip-sliding world of Invisible Waves, nothing much happens. Characters talk in truncated sentences about nothing in particular and walk down long corridors chasing... we 11... nothing,
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      Through the lens of an eye surgeon
      81 29 An ophthalmologist with an eye for detail that's Dr Mandeep Singh, who is holding his first solo photographic exhibition inspired by a trip to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India. With his trusty 15-year-old SLR, Singh uses pictures to fashion human stories about
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      308 29  -  JeanineTan F by FILMREVIEW Formulaic, yes to a fault Boring not quite. Take the Lead is the bigscreen adaptation of the life of Pierre Dulaine, a professional dancer who teaches ballroom dancing at some of New York City's toughest public schools. In the film, Antonio Banderas is
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        264 30  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by Eight Below THIS sleeper hit about 10 sled dogs abandoned in bitterly cold Antarctica is a family-friendly adventure for all. Be advised, however, that you should really, really love our four-legged friends because human actors Paul Walker and Jason Biggs are
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          68 30  -  -JEANINETAN Despite its suggestive title. The Art of Seduction has very little in the way of erotic allure. Instead, it is a silly romantic comedy that pits two expert flirts against each other but produces few sparks (only forced laughs). Starring Son Ye-jin {April Snow) as
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          89 30  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR Japanese horror master Takashi Shimizu [The Grudge) uses just the right sort of intangible elements to make the skin crawl and create a sense of dread. Budding actress Nagisa Sugiura (Yuka) plays the daughter of a professor who, in 1970, filmed himself killing 11 people in a hotel.
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      Lock icon A CAPTAIN'S INNINGS
      456 35 ■AP Ponting's 31st Test century helps visitors avoid embarrassment TEST CRICKET Bangladesh v Australia FATULLAH, Bangladesh Ricky Ponting struck an unbeaten century yesterday as Australia stumbled to a three-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the first Test. Top-ranked Australia had to sweat for the win after losing three
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      Lock icon More charged for match-fixing
      177 35 -AFP BRUSSELS Three former Belgian first division players and an ex-coach were charged with corruption yesterday, the latest indictments in an Asia-linked matchfixing scam. Marius Mitu, Laurent Fassotte and Cliff Mardulier from first division Lierse and ex-La Louviere coach Gilbert Bodart were sacked by their clubs
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      Lock icon Lucky Young Lions fans off to Sarawak
      491 36 LUCKY Young Lions fans Abdul Rahim Salim (without glasses) and Hamzah Bachtiar are over the moon. In the first leg of the Malaysia FA Cup quarter-final tie on Wednesday night, both names were drawn from among the 4,801 entries for the all-expenses paid
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      520 36  -  LI ZAI SHI Agu fires, Laakad's in good form and Bencherifa's hungry NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 Albirex Niigata v Woodlands Wellington sports@newstoday.com.sg A WEEK ago, the vultures were circling over Woodlands Wellington coach Karim Bencherifa. The Moroccan was one loss away from the axe and the predators sniffed blood.
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      Lock icon SAFFC charge to the summit
      254 38  -  DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 Gombak United OSAFFC 3 darren@newstoday.com.sg FORMER kingpins SAFFC underlined their title credentials last night by posting a comfortable 3-0 win over Gombak United at the Queenstown Stadium in an NTUC Income-Yeo's 2006 S-League clash. The Warriors, now unbeaten after five
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      Lock icon Stefan's on a tear
      713 38  -  DARREN LAI |sports3EE3 Coach Obidko claims national record a formality, eyes world prize da rren@newstoday.com.sg FRANCIS Nathan set the mark in 1987. Nineteen years after the former national champion broke Tan Eng Yoon's 32-year-old triple jump mark (15.12 m) with a leap of 15.24 m, the
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      Cherie lets gold slip from her clutches
      171 38  -  DARREN LAI TOP-SEEDED Cherie Tan of Singapore had one hand on the gold medal, but a poor final game in the Girls' Masters stepladder final saw the colour change to silver, as she was pipped by Chinese Taipei's Wang Ting Wen by a
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      495 40 -AFP City rivals under strain and Kaka wants Milan to look for a boost, ahead of Barca visit SERIEA AC Milan v Inter Milan ROME As derbies go they don't come much bigger than AC Milan and Inter, but tonight's (tomorrow morning, Singapore time)
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      Lock icon Brazilian player rapped for racist insults
      280 40 ■AP SAO PAULO Prosecutors here have charged a Brazilian soccer player with racism for insulting an opponent in a match last month. Prosecutors in the southern Rio Grande do Sul state on Wednesday charged Juventude defender Antonio Carlos after TV images showed him shouting
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        GET READY TO SAMBA
        133 40 World Cup holders Brazil will plan their campaign for a record sixth title from an exclusive hotel nestled in wooded hills near Frankfurt. Brazilian flags have been flying over Koenigstein in Taunus ever since the most instantly recognisable team in world sport chose the small town
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        SHAKIRATO PIPE UP
        62 40 Colombian pop star Shakira will close the 2006 World Cup at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, with a show before the final match on July 9. She will sing "Hips Don't Lie", from her "Oral Fixation Vol 2" album, alongside Haitian hip hop artist Wyclef Jean. The
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        IT'S GETTING HOT FOR NELLY
        102 40 Frenchwoman Nelly Viennot could become the first female official at the World Cup, if she passes "World Cup worthiness" tests later this month. Fifa said Viennot would be among 82 assistant referees who will be tested in Frankfurt from April 18-21. A final 60 will
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        HOPING TO CASH IN ON CUP FEVER
        87 40 A 57-year-old postal official from Frankfurt has put his car registration number "F-WM 2006" for sale on an internet auction site, hoping to attract a World Cup fan collector with a deep pocket. The number plate loosely stands for Football World Cup 2006
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        DETROIT'S ENGINE PURRING
        97 42 THE Detroit Pistons matched a club record with their 63rd victory of the National Basketball Association season yesterday morning (Singapore time), routing the Cleveland Cavaliers 96-83 and sending Leßron James off injured. Rasheed Wallace scored 16 points while Richard Hamilton and Tayshaun Prince each added 14 as
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        FRENCH FLAIR IN CHINA
        83 42 FRENCHMAN Christian Cevaer shot an opening six-under-par 66 to take a oneshot lead over a chasing six-man pack at the US$l.B-million ($2.9 million) Volvo China Open yesterday. Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Sweden's Peter Hanson, Jose-Filipe Lima of Portugal, and Englishmen Ross Fisher, Simon Wakefield and Simon Dyson
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        WORLD NO 1 WOODS IS SORRY
        93 42 TIGER Woods apologised for using the term "spaz" to describe his putting during last week's Masters, a remark that was criticised as insensitive. Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, said in a statement posted on the world No I's web site that the golfer was "poking
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      Lock icon McClaren rising
      534 42 -AFP FA CUP, QUARTER-FINAL REPLAY Middlesbrough 4 Charlton 2 MIDDLESBROUGH He is now the bookmakers' joint-favourite for the England job, challenging Irishman Martin O'Neill as the one who will replace SvenGoran Eriksson after the World Cup finals in Germany in the summer. Just two months ago, Middlesbrough were
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      Lock icon Campbell battered, Gunners frustrated
      231 42 -AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Portsmouth 1 Arsenal 1 PORTSMOUTH Arsene Wenger has told Sven-Goran Eriksson Arsenal defender Sol Campbell (picture) will be fit for the World Cup despite a bloodied return to action at Fratton Park. Campbell was recalled to the Arsenal side for the first since
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      Lock icon Saha blow for Devils ?
      635 43 Saha blow for Devils —AGENCIES Injury fears once again hit French striker as Ferguson's men enter crucial title run-in ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Manchester United v Sunderland MANCHESTER Fears have cropped up over the fitness of in-form striker Louis Saha, just as Manchester United look to turn the screws on English Premiership
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      162 43 LONDON Alex Ferguson is ready to blow his £25 million ($7O million) summer transfer budget on midfield duo Mahamadou Diarra and Jean Makoun, reported the Mirror yesterday. The Manchester United boss has identified Lyon playmaker Diarra as his top target and believes he will be able to land
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