Today, 25 April 2006, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 235 1 -AFP KATHMANDU Thousands of jubilant Nepalis poured onto the streets of Kathmandu early today proclaiming a "people's victory" after King Gyanendra restored Parliament following weeks of violent protests. Excited flag-waving crowds converged on the heavily-protected palace in the centre of the capital
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    • 770 1  -  JOSE RAYMOND TEO HWEE NAK PM welcomes Opposition decision to contest his ward AND jose@newstoday.com.sg FIRST, Workers' Party (WP) members started showing up at Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's constituency. Then the fact that the Opposition party has already introduced about 20 candidates and counting
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    • 175 1 IT APPEARS that for the first time since 1988, the People's Action Party will not be returned to power on Nomination Day. As the 6pm deadline for submitting the political donations forms passed yesterday evening, a total of 139 political donations
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    • 548 2  -  ANSLEYNG Newsletter causes discomfort in party a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE case involving the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) members who face legal action for alleged defamatory remarks in a party newsletter has taken strange twists. Claiming to represent 10 of the 11 SDP central executive committee
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    • 329 2  -  -LOHCHEEKONG MONTHS after his salary and bonuses became the stuff of headlines and less than a week after he was hauled to court for his role in the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) saga the charity's former chief executive T T Durai has been told to hand back
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    • 730 3  -  JOSEPH TAY Yes-men are dangerous, but dissenters must mean well IN A recent company meeting, Intel's former president, chairman and CEO Andy Grove pounded his protege, Mr Patrick Gelsinger who runs its largest division- desktop and server chips for being too agreeable. Mr Grove
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    • 413 4  -  LEECHINGWERN SDP chief publishes speech on web even after letters of demand from PM and MM chingwern@newstoday.com.sg JUST two days after Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) members were issued lawyers' letters for alleging that the Government was complicit in the National Kidney Foundation scandal, SDP
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    • 208 4 -938UVE AS POLITICIANS troop down to nine schools designated as nomination centres on Thursday, students from the schools will get the day off. Principals, such as those from Pei Chun Public School, confirmed that there would be no school for their students on Thursdays. And
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    • 83 4 PREPAID SIM CARDS: 1 WEEK LEFT Owners of pre-paid SIM cards have one week left to register it before the card is deactivated next Tuesday. The Home Affairs Ministry estimates that about half a million pre-paid SIM cards sold before November last year have yet to be re-registered.
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    • 299 4  -  CHEOWXINYI THE late President Wee Kirn Wee (picture) started out as a journalist, and remembering him as one is Singapore's only journalism school in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which is being renamed in his honour. The renaming to The Wee Kirn Wee School
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    • 182 4 A DOCTOR has been suspended, fined and censured for "failure to exercise an acceptable standard of care" in the prescription of sleeping pills. In a press statement yesterday, the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) said they found Dr Liew Cheng guilty of nine out of the 11
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    • 419 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO But workers with low academic qualifications are vulnerable when it comes to re-hiring derrick@newstoday.com.sg FOR THE second year running, private sector layoffs have kept to levels last seen before the Asian financial crisis in 1998. Data released yesterday by the Ministry of
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    • ELECTIONBRIEFS
      • 125 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said the People's Action Party is planning to do more to engage the youth. He was responding to a question on whether Singapore's education system is actively addressing the issue of political apathy. Mr Tharman said developing a
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      • 142 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Unfazed by the looming threeway fight in his Single Member Constituency, Joo Chiat's MP Chan Soo Sen said he is confident of being reelected in the coming election. His confidence stems from the work he has done on the ground for the last decade.
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    • 298 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@newstoday.com.sg MEMBERS of Parliament who enjoy a walkover in the General Election have to work even harder to serve their residents, said Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, whose five-member HollandBukitTimah constituency looks unlikely to be contested. "It's wrong to say that if you're not contested, you
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    • 414 8  -  TORCHING LI Carrot-and-stick politics not reflective of international standards, says WP chief chingli@newstoday.com.sg RETURNING the criticism levelled at Singapore's Opposition over the weekend, Workers' Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang charged yesterday the People's Action Party (PAP) is also not a First World government The
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    • 186 8  -  TORCHING LI THOUGH his maternal grandparents hail from France and England, 30-year-old Brandon Siow sees himself as a true blue Singaporean. A key account manager in Singapore Airlines Cargo, the National University of Singapore political science graduate has been an activist since his varsity
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    • 190 8  -  LEE U WEN HIS is one family where the Workers' Party (WP) features prominently in their genes —three generations'worth, in fact. Sales executive Melvin Tan, 31, first met his wife, administrative officer Ng Swee Bee, 25, when they were both involved in the party's now-defunct
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    • 182 8  -  LEE U WEN FED UP with the social stigma attached to joining an Opposition party, business manager Lian Chin Way wants to play a part, no matter how small, in eradicating it. The 36-year-old, however, remained realistic and said it would "take a
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    • 195 8  -  LEE U WEN HE'S the youngest candidate introduced by any political party so far, but 24-year-old Abdul Salim bin Harun does not think that his age will handicap him. "Age is not important. The main thing is to have commitment, passion and dedication to serve people
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    • 317 10  -  LINYANQIN ya nqinl@newstoday.com.sg YEARS of preparation for the coming General Election (GE) might have been ruined for some members of the Opposition because of a near-miss with form submissions. Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) candidate Steve Chia had arrived at about 4.30pm at the
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    • 481 10  -  JASMINE YIN Former rivals in SDP, Chiam, Cheo now sport SDA colours jasmine.yin@newstoday.coms.g FORMER political colleagues who fell out bitterly, their paths will cross again this coming General Election (GE). At a press conference yesterday, businessman Cheo Chai Chen (picture) was unveiled as the
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    • 306 12 Malaysian government reveals this to silence critics PUTRAJAYA The Malaysian government revealed yesterday that the AttorneyGeneral's chambers had recommended to officials that the plan to build a bridge to replace the Johor Causeway be scrapped. The A-G's chambers said that the project would result in
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    • 319 12 -AFP HANOI Vietnam's Communist Party chief Nong Due Manh was re-elected to another five-year term late yesterday, tasked with pushing ahead economic reforms and battling endemic corruption. Mr Manh, 65, will stay at the helm of the powerful Politburo that is the governing nerve centre
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    • 518 13 AGENCIES Reportedly mobbed in northern Thailand by hundreds of supporters of outgoing PM BANGKOK Two leaders of the street protests that forced Mr Thaksin Shinawatra to resign as Thailand's premier said yesterday that they were attacked when they tried to take their message upcountry at the weekend.
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    • 196 13 -AFP CAIRO Three bombs ripped through the busiest area of Egypt's Red Sea resort of Dahab yesterday during a peak holiday season, killing 22 people, including foreigners, and wounding scores more, medical sources said. Officials said a Russian and a Swiss national were
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    • 375 14 AGENCIES Her journalist contact wins Pulitzer for prisons expose WASHINGTON A top Central Intelligence Agency analyst has been sacked for leaking classified material to the American media. The sacking came just days after a Pulitzer Prize, the United States' highest journalism honour, was awarded
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 56 14 -AP A Malaysian opposition party, the People's Justice Party (PJP), called for the suspension of the country's two-year-old national service programme after Mr Hafiz Jaafar, 17, was killed in a brawl at a training camp. PJP said that the incident showed neglect and
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      • 50 14 Malaysia's eastern state of Sarawak has dissolved its state assembly, paving the way for elections. The Election Commission announced yesterday that nomination day for the ninth Sarawak State Legislative Assembly elections is on May 9, while polling day is on May 20, Bernama reported.
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      • 58 14 -AFP A hugely destructive cyclone described as a "perfect" storm bore down yesterday on the isolated northern Australian city of Darwin, devastated by a killer cyclone in 1974. Packing winds of up to 350 km per hour, tropical Cyclone Monica was hurtling towards Darwin as it
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    • 149 14 -AFP BEIJING A woman has been arrested for murdering eight people in China's central Henan province and selling their children, state media reported yesterday. Jia Dezhi, 55, confessed to the killings after six bodies were found buried in the courtyard of her home
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    • 389 15  -  CHEOWXINYI She says nuclear energy is Tehran's basic right xinyic@newstoday.com.sg IRAN'S former vice-president openly defended Iran's controversial nuclear drive during a visit to Singapore, even as world powers remained in deadlock over what to do with Tehran. Reputed as the first female vice-president in Iranian
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    • 156 15 -AFP NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) The race to lead hurricanedevastated New Orleans' multibillion dollar reconstruction was forced into a second round after Mayor Ray Nagin failed to secure automatic reelection. Refugees from Hurricane Katrina returned by car or special buses from other cities, to take part
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    • 319 16 Many makers say they no longer produce A-cup bras BEIJING Chinese women's breasts are becoming bigger and have become a hot topic in China following media attention. But bra-makers said that they noticed the growth last year and started making bigger sizes to cope with the
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    • this QUIRKS world
      • 91 16 —AFP The good news for lazy British men is that women find domestic chores "mentally therapeutic"-the bad news is that many prefer house cleaning to making love, according to a new survey by the Discovery Home and Health website. The Independent noted that "even in
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      • 59 16 -AP Heavy snorers, those with tattoos on their bodies, and drug users are not welcome. China's military is tightening its standards for recruiting potential officers and these are some of the new criteria, reported the Xinhua news agency. The government says tattoos tarnish the army's image,
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      • 81 16 $60,000 DOWN THE DRAIN LITERALLY A German pensioner flushed bundles of old banknotes worth 30,000 euros ($60,000) down the toilet because he thought they were now worthless, police in the northern city of Kiel said yesterday. He dumped the deutsche marks, thinking that they were worthless, after the euro replaced
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    • 241 16 LONDON Most people would have heard of home-deliveries for pizza and curry. Now, a British cosmetic chain is offering treatments such as Botox to clients in their own home, reported The Independent. Dubbed "Botox-on-a-bike", a range of therapies is being offered by Botonics, the London-based chain, to
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    • 660 18  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN LAST Tuesday, I had to prepare a lecture to be presented at 1.30pm. As usual, I had to skip lunch, after having just a cup of tea and some biscuits for breakfast After the lecture, I had to attend a
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    • 236 20  -  NOOR MOHAMED NTUC Fair Price membership shares refunded at 30-year-old price Letter from ABOUT 30 years ago, as a member of the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees, I bought some NTUC Fair Price membership shares. I believe I was also given a
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    • 232 20  -  DIANE WONG Letter from IN YOUR article, "Oh baby, you are so dear" (April 21), Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman was quoted as saying: "There's no stopping the father from taking the time off if he so chooses, but circumstances (are
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    • 156 20  -  ERIC LEE JOOCHOON Letter from IN A few months, I will be joining the ranks of senior citizens. Every year, about 30,000 Singaporeans qualify as senior citizens on reaching 55. As Election Day draws near, I would vote for the candidate who is able to champion the
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    • 179 20  -  MOHAMAD NOOR ABDULLAH Letter from I REFER to the joint reply from HDB and URA, "No need to introduce shorter parking coupons" (April 5). The reply is to be expected. My letter to Today published months back had a similar suggestion and received a
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    • 223 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY PRESSURES ON MOMS OF PRESCHOOLERS When there are small children in the house, a wife needs her husband's understanding more than ever. No one works harder than a mother who stays home to care for multiple preschool children. Not only does she
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    • 782 22  - She made the switch now there's no turning back TAN HUILENG For love, she moved to the US, where she's had to cope with gender and racial bias in the crowd PENNYCHUA 43, Airport marketing director chief of staff huileng@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Penny Chua's boyfriend asked her to join him in
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    • 338 23  -  NGYAKEN Letter from I REFER to Miss Amy Fong's letter, "IRs can be Spores Taj Mahal" (April 24). In my letter "Risky side to IR beauty" (April 21), I suggested a more balanced approach be adopted in the
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      50 24 A MOVIE AND SOME POPCORN TOO: More than 200 movie passes and popcorn vouchers were given last Saturday to our readers who were spotted with a copy of Weekend Today along Orchard Road. We will be there again this Saturday to give more cinema passes to our lucky readers.
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    • 446 24 -BLOOMBERG Funds will be used to finance its $7b purchase of Hutchison Port stake PSA International said that it planned to sell bonds and borrow from banks to finance its US$4.4-billion ($7-billion) cash acquisition of a 20-per-cent stake in tycoon Li Kashing's port unit.
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    • 296 24  -  CHOW PENN NEE THE man in the centre of the Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) scandal revealed yesterday that he had been admitted into hospital last year due to stress resulting from a police probe into the company that he once headed. Victor
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    • 228 24 Xpress Holdings is raising $21.5 million through a placement of new shares to various parties to fund its business expansion, acquisitions and working capital requirements. It is issuing 98 million new shares at 22 cents each. The issue price represents a discount of 9.1 per cent from the weighted
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    • 195 25 -DOW JONES OSIM International, which designs and markets massage chairs and other lifestyle products, earned $430,000 in the three months ended March 31, or 0.1 cent per share, a 94.7-per-cent slump from $8.1 million, or 1.8 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
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      • 138 25 Dow Jones 'SGX, ,Dow Jones, Bloomberg SHARES fell yesterday on profit-taking after the main index hit record highs last week, with high oil prices undermining sentiment across the region. The ST Index ended down 10.95 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 2,592.50, retreating from a six-year closing high of
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      • 21 25 Gold US$/oz 637.10 Silver US$/oz 13.10 Platinum US$/oz 1,136.00 Rubber cents/kg 348.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,422.00 Brent crude US$/barrel 74.14
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      • 296 28  -  CHRISTIE LOH Group, which has 100 million subscribers, will promote voice, video and data roaming christie@newstoday.com.sg STARHUB, the second largest mobile phone operator in Singapore, has teamed up with six other Asian telcos to promote each other's international roaming and corporate mobile services, according to
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      • 154 28 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S largest industrial landlord, JTC Corp, allocated more land and factory space in the first three months this year, due to continued strength in the manufacturing and logistics sectors. In a statement yesterday, JTC said it allocated a net
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      • 266 28 -BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S consumer prices rose in March at the same pace as the previous month as accelerating economic growth created jobs and spurred higher spending. The consumer price index (CPI) increased 1.2 per cent from the same month a year earlier, matching February's gain,
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      • 397 29 DOW JONES Move safeguards security of supplies and protects against price increases CHINA'S oil companies are expected to double imports of crude oil they produce overseas by the year 2010, as they increasingly invest in foreign oil assets, an official from
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      • 215 29 BLOOMBERG US stocks declined as revenue at American Express and Xerox missed the estimates of analysts and the US dollar slumped, outweighing oil's retreat from a record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from a six-year high. Energy shares, the market's top performers
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      • 361 32  -  JANECHIAPOCO ja nec@newstoday.com.sg EXPECT a stronger local presence at the 15th Food&HotelAsia2oo6 (FHA) international food and hospitality trade show, starting today at the Singapore Expo. The Singapore Pavilion will feature 60 companies, an increase of 40 per cent from 2004. The total number of Singapore companies
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      • 263 32  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA NOT only are they assured of never having to walk alone, Liverpool Football Club fans can be assured that their heroes will probably never be thirsty either. Not with club sponsors Carlsberg pitching in $2million for a massive advertisement campaign sealing its commitment
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      • 799 33  -  SHOBHA TSERING BHALLA Self-taught entrepreneur comes up with business plans and recipes to market products shobha@newstoday.com.sg ALTHOUGH she may not have a highfalutin management school degree, when former corporate secretary Lilian Chiang started her magnum opus Lilian's Gourmet (LG) she was better armed than
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      • 164 33  -  JANE CHIAPOCO ja nec@newstoday.com.sg SHE pioneered the idea of innovative, top quality Asian cuisine by educating students from more than 22 countries in herbs and spices, and traditional-to-modern dishes. It was only fitting, therefore, that Mrs Kwan Lvi, founder of at-sunrice, the Singapore Culinary
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        • 150 33  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Mr Martin Symes has been appointed the chief executive of travel meta search engine Bezurk.com. Mr Symes has 15 years of experience in the travel industry. He was the executive director ofZuji.com, and used to hold positions in British Airways and American Airlines. He
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        • 114 33  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Mileage Communications India (MCI) has been appointed the Economic Development Board's (EDB) public relations consultant in India. It is the India branch of Singapore-based Mileage Communications Singapore, a fullservice strategic marketing communications and public relations consultancy. The Mileage Communications Group was
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        • 101 33  -  -JANE CHIAPOCO THE new executive committee of the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Singapore (4As) is made up by a list of familiar faces. Unanimously re-elected at the annual general meeting were president Anthony Kang and first vicepresident Eric Teng. Ms Julie Tilley of
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        • 85 34 Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft will be designing and building an integrated broadcast system to support MediaCorp, Singapore's largest broadcaster. Accenture and Avanade will deploy a scalable, open and standards-based solution featuring Microsoft Connected Services Framework, a solution that enables broadcast companies and film
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        • 129 34 Oracle has launched its Business Intelligence Suite, an open, standards-based software package with three versions: Oracle Bl Standard Edition One, Oracle Bl Standard Edition and Oracle Bl Enterprise Edition. Standard Edition One is designed for small and medi-um-sized enterprises and will include Oracle Database
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        • 65 34 To help industrial enterprises align their plant operations and maintenance departments with business objectives, Invensys has launched the InFusion enterprise control system. With InFusion technology, most plant floor and enterprise systems regardless of vendor or protocol can be integrated into a common system. The InFusion system delivers
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        675 34  -  ARIEL TAM Palm shifts focus from PDAs to smartphones and partners software vendors to offer more choices a riel@newstoday.com.sg I TALK about personal digital I assistants (PDAs) and one of the first brands that comes to mind is Palm. Since 1996, Palm has sold more than 30 million
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      • 169 34 CHALLENGER Technologies I has unveiled an auction site that promises to bring the hottest digital gadgets to its members at low prices. As part of its aim to drive membership, eAuction.sg will give Challenger's members immediate access to the latest gadgets at prices
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      • 895 35  -  ADRIAAN PELZER Will Fire Fox and Opera knock Microsoft's Internet Explorer off its throne? infotech@newstoday.com.sg I IN THE days before the World Wide Web, the Internet I was the playing field of academics, computer technicians and the military. To get information, you needed to
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        473 35  -  JFChoo In a fix over IT matters? Bugged by software glitches? Send your questions to infotech@newstoday.com.sg HARD DRIVE NOT RECOGNISED Q: My PC is built on Abit AB-BH6 motherboard with Intel 4408 X chipset and Award Bios V4.SIPG. Recently, the 10GB hard drive crashed and I bought a 40GB
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    • 1020 36  -  Zul Othman These days, performing other musicians' songs is more than just doing decent covers it's a mighty feat of reinvention according to The Boss, at least TODAY, a rock V roll icon releases his latest album. But rather than come out with a record loaded with
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      • 78 37 Only kooky pianist Tori Amos could turn the idea of a covers selection into a concept album. Here, she gives 11 macho anthems a female point of view. With a back story penned by cult author Neil Gaiman, the record features Amos adopting 13 female personas
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      • 68 37 Despite denouncing rock music as satanic in 1985, lightweight crooner Boone attempted a career resurgence in 1997 with this collection of covers of believe it or not Metallica, Dio and Judas Priest standards. Not only were the results cringe-inducing, they also cost Boone
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      • 47 37 Garage Days Re-visited was famous for introducing former bassist Jason Newstead and for creating a new legion of followers of underground outfits The Misfits, Budgie and Killing Joke. In the years since its release, it has become universally recognised as a rock classic.
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      • 73 37 Recorded for the 2004 Wes Anderson flick The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, this album is an offbeat reworking of David Bowie's best-known hits in Portuguese by Brazilian pop star Seu Jorge, who also appeared in the movie as explorer Pele dos Santos. Using
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      • 72 37 The last album by Cash before his death in 2003, this record revisits some of pop's best moments notably Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus and Nine Inch Nails' Hurtall performed in the country music legend's warm and rumbling baritone. With minimal production by rock
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    • 521 38  -  YONG SHU CHIANG IN CANNES Director Egoyan was mystified by his own movie plus@newstoday.com.sg ROUGHLY six months had passed since director Atom Egoyan had completed his latest film. After seeing Where the Truth Lies the film noir he adapted from a Rupert Holmes novel on the
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    • 101 38 Check out these films tonight at the ongoing Singapore International Film Festival. Tickets are priced at $8.40 and are available from Ticket Charge. Call 6296 2929. DUA KALI LIMA 7pm, National Museum Part of the tribute to Malaysian director M Amin, this 1966 social critique on business rivalry stars
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    • 184 39 TELEVISION content now comes to you like fast food on your mobile phone. Riding on the success of the 3G drama series PSILuv You starring Roy Chiu and Joanne Peh, mobile phone services provider Ml has again joined forces with MediaCorp Studios to launch a
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      467 39  -  AMELYNN LIONG Canada? Hong Kong? Western? Eastern? William Tsang finds his roots as the host of a new travel series amelynnl@newstoday.com.sg WILLIAM Tsang, co-host of the new TV travelogue Seoul Far Seoul Good, is not too worried about being pigeonholed as yet another ang wo/z-sounding Chinese face on
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      270 40  -  MamMMEW THEATREREVIEW I by Death and the Maiden AFTER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime collapsed in 1990, international stagings of Chilean expatriate Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden were all the rage. Set in (what Dorfman slyly calls) an "unnamed country" experiencing democracy after years of totalitarian rule.
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      • 128 40 For Good! IT'S disheartening that, despite there being so many talented performers here, Singapore music tends to get saddled with the "not quite good enough" label. These 14 tracks, however, might just change that perception. At the risk of resorting to the kind of hyperbole used by some
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      • 95 40 Teddy Geiger UNDERAGE Thinking is the aptly titled debut of 17-year-old Geiger, apt because it is an adolescent take on adult-ori- ented rock: Slick, sweet and enhanced by Geiger's puppy dog charms. While the big-budget production values and near workmanlike precision of the ballads border on the hard-sell,
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        106 40 Morningwood JOAN Jett has a lotto answer for. Just when you thought the world had had enough of crappy garage rock bands with equally awful monikers, along comes Morningwood. Clearly modelling themselves after Jett and the Runaways, Morningwood's brand of lightweight rock 'n' roll verges on selfparody. If they're
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    • 98 40 This week we ask Fadz Lee, guitarist and producer of Phorous -one of the many highlights on the For Good! compilation about his all-time favourite disc. FADZ LEE ON DAVID SYLVIAN'S BLEMISH: EVEN though Sylvian started outdoing Duran Duran-like teen pop with his band, Japan back in
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      • 1273 41  -  REETA RAMAN With Body Dysmorphic Disorder, sufferers continually find something wrong with the way they look reeta@newstoday.com.sg FOR the past four years, Mr Albert L has been in a predicament His eldest child, Dan (name changed), now 19, is convinced his facial features are defective,
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      • 720 42  -  REETA RAMAN healthlist emm^j More children in Spore are suffering from eating disorders reeta@newstoday.com.sg OVER the past year, Dr Geraldine Goh, an associate consultant with the Department of Psychological Medicine at the National University Hospital, has seen an increasing number of young patients with eating
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      • 590 44  -  JANICE GOH Such diets are often high in fat, which might cause heart disease in the long-term ja nice@newstoday.com.sg FAD diets have always been popular for their fast and visible results. But low-carbohydrate, highprotein diets, such as the Atkins diet, have been found to affect
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