Today, 24 January 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY /A=DJj\CORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 share your free newspaper Wednesday January 24, 2007 todayonline.com
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      34 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 in parliament 6 world news 10 voices 22 business 30 growth 36 plus 38 1v radio listings 46 classad 48 careerstoday 49 sports 51 we set you thinking
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    333 2 on products with low or no trans fat" He added that the move would also help Singaporeans make the right choices about their food. Mr Heng was responding to Jurong MP Mdm Halimah Yacob's question on whether compulsory labelling would be introduced to list trans fat contents in food products.
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      Lock icon Thais mum as Thaksin talks to Japanese media
      500 2 AGENCIES TOKYO For someone who used to detest the media, Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra seems to love the spotlight these days. A week after giving interviews to CNN and The Wall Street Journal while on a personal visit to Singapore,
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      Loan sharks active as ever
      383 3  -  DERRICK A PAULO More than 10,000 cases lastyear as police crackdown on elusive syndicates derrick@media corp.com.sg THE police have geared up against loan sharks in the last two and a half years, but that has not halted their infamous "owe pay calling card from proliferating.
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      Lock icon Great White swallows him – then spits him out
      252 3 Great White swallows him then spits him out -AFP SYDNEY Mr Eric Nerhus, an Australian diver, survived being "swallowed" by a three-metre great white shark yesterday by stabbing at the predator's head and eyes. Marine experts said the shark might have spat him out when it realised he was not
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    422 3 Mr Lam's salary as $39,060 and it claimed that he took home $41,681 in 2004. These figures were also "misleading", said Mr Low. Mr Lam's other perks like a club membership and housing-loan subsidy were also "well above the civil service and charity sector norms". Mr Low said that he
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  • Singapore news
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      'Accident' claim misfires
      609 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG Gunman's plea that he killed victim by fluke falls flat in court cheekong@media corp.com.sg ONE DAY after he tried to convince the court that he was high on alcohol when he pumped five bullets into his victim, Tan Chor Jin yesterday tried to convince the court
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        Lock icon $40M FUND FOR BARRIER-FREE ACCESS
        60 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Government has set aside $40 million to co-fund voluntary upgrading for barrier-free access in private buildings. This is part of the Building and Construction Authority's five-year Barrier-Free Accessibility Upgrading Programme. More details about the fund will be released in the next few
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        TRAIN SERVICES DISRUPTED
        174 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Eastbound trains were disrupted for close to an hour yesterday after a man jumped onto the tracks at Eunos MRT station. The man, a Chinese in his 40s, was semi-conscious and suffered leg injuries after he was hit by a train at 3.01 pm. He was
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        Lock icon $1.058 GRANT FOR RESEARCH CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
        65 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Research Centres of Excellence in Singapore's universities will receive a $1.05 billion grant from the Education Ministry, announced Minister of State for Education Lvi Tuck Yew yesterday. The three local varsities have said they are setting up the centres by the
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      Lock icon GET ON THE FLIGHT TO SELF-PRESERVATION
      714 8  -  LIANG DINGZI CONCERNS about climate change are receiving plenty of attention this week, with United States President George W Bush tackling it in his State of the Union address and European leaders discussing it at the World Economic Forum. The aviation industry has not
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      Longer spans for LCC wings
      533 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT/ LEECHINGWERN AND weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THEY promise to fly you farther and cheaper. Two years after they first took off here, low-cost carriers (LCCs) are starting to truly spread their wings. Jetstar, for example, wants to base as many as 50 aircraft in Asia and is
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      92 4 Some chicks are cute... v ft S but deadly. Protect yourself from bird flu and 13 other infectious diseases like dengue fever, hand foot and mouth disease, malaria and SARS. NTUC Income now offers Personal Accident and Infectious Diseases (PA+ID) cover for less than $10 per month. Enjoy up to
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      227 5 DBS Managed Mortgage The first home loan pegged to the Interbank Market Rate*. y^^Zi^^^^g^ at V A lib. Enjoy greater certainty and assurance on your home loan with DBS Managed Mortgage. Introducing the first home loan in Singapore with interest rates pegged to the Interbank Market Rate* another product innovation
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  • in parliament
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      Lock icon Chiam: Now, about that $80 million ...
      277 6  - Chiam: Now, about that $80 million DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg MR CHIAM See Tong (picture) kept his word to remind the Government of its $80-million upgrading election carrot last year for Potong Pasir residents. Yesterday, in Parliament, he asked what the Government was going to do with the sum
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      Parliament raises President's pay
      146 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO PARLIAMENT has approved increases to the President's pay and household expenses at the Istana, but lowered the amount budgeted for personal staff and other services. Minister of State (Finance) Lim Hwee Hua told MPs yesterday that the increases were "in view of higher
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      This Bill's a check
      388 6  -  JASMINE YIN Charities Act amended, now accounting standards mooted jasmine@media corp.com.sg EVEN as Parliament yesterday passed a Bill to put in place more checks on the charity sector, the Government reiterated its assurance that it would not over-regulate and promised aid for charities to keep their
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      Wielding a bigger stick to keep air travel safe
      219 6  -  -JASMINE YIN STIFFER penalties will be imposed for offences against aviation safety and security in Singapore, in light of the prevailing global threat as well as to enhance Changi Airport's positioning as a global air hub, Transport Minister Raymond Lim said.
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Destroyed satellite 'no threat to space station'
      423 10 -AGENCIES Nasa chief discounts need for avoidance manoeuvres PARIS Debris from a satellite destroyed by China earlier this month poses no immediate threat to the International Space Station, Nasa administrator Michael Griffin said yesterday. "We are always performing debris analysis and so far
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        Lock icon BANGKOK'S NEW AIRPORT MAY BE FORCED TO CLOSE DUE TO CRACKS
        78 10 -AFP Thailand admitted yesterday it could be forced to close all or part of Bangkok's new international airport to repair cracks in the runway, potentially affecting millions of travellers. Any decision to close down even part of the new
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        Lock icon UN WARNS OF BIRD FLU OUTBREAKS
        90 10 -AGENCIES The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a warning that a bigger demand for poultry over the Lunar New Year holiday across much of Asia in mid-February could lead to further outbreaks of HSNI, which has seen a resurgence in
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        Lock icon ACTIVISTS SLAM MALAYSIA'S BAN ON BOOK ABOUT RACE RIOTS
        70 10 -AFP Malaysian rights activists yesterday slammed the government's decision to ban a book on race riots between Malays and Indians which saw six people killed. March 8, authored by activist X Arumugam, documents the riots which erupted on that date in
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      Lock icon Israel's President to face rape charges
      164 10 -AFP JERUSALEM Israel's Attorney-Gener-al Menachem Mazuz has decided to indict President Moshe Katsav on charges of raping four women, a justice ministry official said yesterday. The indictment will include charges of rape, indecent acts, obstruction of justice and threatening a witness, he said. They
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      Lock icon Abu Sayyaf marches on
      356 12 -AFP Death of group's leaders may prompt remaining militants to move to Jl MANILA The Philippines has scored a major victory in killing two Al Qaeda-linked militant leaders, but "sleeper cells" still pose a major threat to regional peace and security, analysts say. The deaths of
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      Lock icon Overseas court freezes funds of Tommy Suharto: Report
      208 12 AFP LONDON A court in Guernsey has approved an Indonesian application to freeze money allegedly hidden there illegally by the youngest son of former dictator Suharto, the Financial Times (FT) business daily reported yesterday. Jakarta's intervention was granted on Monday in the
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      Lock icon Bush faces opposition from within his own party
      227 14 AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush faced growing opposition to his Iraq strategy from within his own Republican Party yesterday, hours before he was due to defend the planned troop increase in his State of the Union address. Several Republicans
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      Lock icon 'Send entire US army to be killed'
      340 14 AFP Al Qaeda No 2 mocks troop surge in Iraq DUBAI Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman Al Zawahiri yesterday mocked United States President George W Bush's plan to send extra troops to Iraq, saying he should send his entire army to their
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      Lock icon No more glaciers on the Alps by 2050
      202 16 AGENCIES VIENNA Glaciers will all but disappear from the Alps by 2050, scientists warned yesterday, basing their bleak outlook on mounting evidence of the slow but steady melting of continental ice sheets. In western Austria's Alpine province of Tyrol, glaciers have been
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      Lock icon Iraq war may claim Howard's supporters
      320 16 AGENCIES Australian ruling party faces tough re-election fight SYDNEY-Australia's conservative government faces a tough fight to win re-election this year against a resurgent Labor Party, a poll showed yesterday as campaigning kicked off with a Cabinet reshuffle. Discontent over Prime Minister John Howard's support
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      431 14 EjßJMl^y SPRING Singapore CAN YOU BRING FOOD INTO A SINGAPORE? Many travellers may wish to bring home food after their holidays, especially during the festive season, but do you know that there are restrictions on what you can bring in from overseas? The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) is responsible
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      UZBEKISTAN BECKONS
      4392 18 Uzbekistan, an ancient centre of world civilisation, is seeking Singapore's cooperation to bolster its drive to develop a modem market economy. Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who arrives here today on a three-day state visit, said his people were impressed with the way a small country like Singapore was
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      Young-old gap in the heartlands
      207 22  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I REFER to Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu's interview with 938 Live, stressing the need to improve the community spirit and bonding in the heartlands. This is a gargantuan challenge. Take the situation in new HDB blocks
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      Limit borrowers to one or two banks
      310 22  -  MURALI SHARMA Such safeguards save lower-income group from debt accumulation Letter from THE proposals by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) ("Soon, plastic for the people", Jan 23) is another welcome step to help the lower-income group. But it will not be easy
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    • Letter
      Better park toilets
      88 24  -  KONG YIT SAN Letter from Director, Parks, National Parks Board (NPB) WE REFER to the letter, "Great concert, poor facilities (Jan 18)" and thank Samantha Lake for her feedback. We are sorry to learn about her unpleasant experience at Fort Canning Park. We assure Ms Lake that
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      Net mooching is theft
      277 24  -  NG KIAT HAN Lack of ill intent does not exonerate the act itself Letter from I REFER to the News Comment, "Punish mooching only if there is evil intent" (Jan 23). Mr Thomas Koshy is right in saying that mooching, or unauthorised use of wireless Internet
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    • Letter
      Forced to put on the coat of Dr Death
      653 26  -  DEIRDREMOSS As sole welfare body, rigid Government policies give SPCA no choice but to euthanase strays Letter from Executive Officer Society for the Prevention of to Animals (SPCA) I REFER to the letter "Killing strays is not an act of kindness
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      283 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY..... HELPING A SINGLE MUM Many years ago, my wife, Shirley, was working around the house one morning when a knock came at the front door. When she opened it, there stood a young woman in her late teens, who called herself Sally.
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      Lock icon For one last Roar
      312 28  -  SILVESTER PHUA Will you be there this Saturday when the Lions meet an old foe at Kallang? Letter from BACK in the heady days of the 1970s and '80s, I remember the ear-splitting Kallang Roar when Singapore fans packed the National Stadium and cheered on our
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    • Letter
      Residents losing sleep over noise from construction site
      202 28  -  TAY HOCK SOON Letter from General Manager Treetops Executive Residences I AM writing on behalf of many residents living in a serviced apartment situated along Orange Grove Road. We have on several occasions spoken to National Environment Agency (NEA) officers to draw
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  • Businesstoday
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      Pyramid-like investment scam hits S'pore
      395 30  -  CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@media corp.com.sg AN INVESTMENT scam that has been making the rounds in Malaysia has hit Singapore, too. Known as Swiss Cash or Swiss Mutual Fund, it promises huge returns for a minimum investment of US$l,OOO ($1,500). Marketed through the Internet, the SwissCash
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      Lock icon Economy on track
      301 30 DOWJONES 4-6% growth target for 2007 likely to be met, says MAS THE Singapore economy will likely meet the Government's growth target this year despite lingering weakness in the electronics industry, a Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) official said yesterday. "At this stage, we are quite comfortable
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    • marketbuzz
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        SAVE UP TO 30% ON ELECTRICITY
        207 30 BUILDING owners, tenants and developers can soon look forward to saving up to one-third of their power bills, thanks to the revised Singapore Standard, or SS 530, launched by Spring Singapore on Jan 18. The standard includes key revisions to improve the minimum energy
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        LUNAR NEW YEAR FUN AT FRASERS CENTREPOINT MALLS
        244 30 THE Kids Dragon Dance team from Dazhong Primary School will perform in public for the first time at Causeway Point from Feb 4 to 11 at Ipm. This weekend and on Feb 3,4,10 and 11, it will be a colourful affair as
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    • business news
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        SGX eyes second India bourse?
        316 32  -  CHRISTIE LOH It wants to buy stake in Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India: Report christie@media corp.com.sg INDIA may be all that the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) executives are dreaming of these days. The bourse, which is planning to bid for a stake in the Bombay Stock
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        128 32 DOW JONES -DOW JONES Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation posted a net profit of $43.3 million last year, up 11 per cent from 2005. Revenue fell 14 per cent to $93 million. Singapore Technologies Engineering subsidiary ST Aerospace Engines got a US$l6O-million ($245-million) contract from China's Xiamen Airlines. The deal
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        250 32 BLOOMBERG AFTER suffering more than two years of sales declines, Gap is giving its chief Paul Pressler (picture) a golden handshake of possibly as much as US$l4 million ($21.5 million). He is the fifth executive to leave the United States' largest clothing chain this year.
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        202 32 -AFP NEW YORK Pfizer has announced that it is cutting 10,000 jobs as part of a costcutting drive designed to restore innovation at the United States pharmaceutical giant whose pipeline of new drugs is running dry. The world's biggest drug maker will shed
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        355 34 -AFP Capital controls are helping exporters: Finance Minister BANGKOK Thailand's Finance Minister surprised markets yesterday by announcing that new capital controls would remain in effect, insisting that the measures have helped exporters and steadied the baht "Based on our analysis, the 30-per-cent reserve requirement has helped the
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          20 34 NOVENA 0.420 +04.7 Digiland 0.015 +50.0 StarCrusUSS 0.575 +40.4 ST Engg DBSO7DBII 0.300 +30.5 BengKuang 0.520 +30.0
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          58 34 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.57 -15.01 -0.09 HK Hang Seng *****.70 -2.52 -0.01 Australia ASX200 5735.00 +8.40 +0.15 Korea Comp 1303.09 -0.32 -0.02 Thailand SET 050.70 -4.30 -0.07 Jakarta Comp 1808.57 -8.83 -0.49 Phils Comp 3199.34 +58.00 +1.85 Shenzhen B 521.20 -5.92 -1.12 Mumbai Sensex
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          118 34 DOW JONES SHARE prices closed modestly lower, taking a breather from the previous session's record-breaking rally. The ST Index fell 12.30 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 3,132.90. Losers led gainers 410 to 321 while 2.6 billion shares worth $2 billion were traded. Market participants said that investor sentiment
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          20 34 Gold US$/oz Silver US$/oz Platinum US$/oz 634.10 13.00 1,165.10 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent US$/barrel 332.50 1,891.00 53.11
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        467 36  -  MIRAKASHINATH AFF Singapore's THT Logistics opens Dubai office to 'matchmake' Asean firms mira@mediacorp.com.sg DUBAI'S position as a gateway to the Middle East has led one local enterprise to set up a regional distribution centre there. Singapore-owned THT Logistics, which specialises in lifestyle and fast-moving
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        251 36  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@mediacorp.com.sg TO DRAW more small businesses into managing their intellectual property, the Government is offering $9 million of targeted funds for an estimated 200 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) over two years. The Intellectual Property (IP) Management scheme will
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      175 37 The Defence Merit Scholarship (DMS) testifies to a truism that You will play a pivotal role in Singapore's defence while realising minds once expanded, can never retain their original confines. professional and personal ambition. Whether it be in policy making or resource management, your input will have a significant impact
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      1573 38  -  Juliana June Rasul The producers of music festival Baybeats, known for being free, are gunning to charge for admission. They tell Plus why. THIS year, the Baybeats music festival at the Esplanade turns six. Pegged as Singapore's biggest alternative music gathering, it's been the place to check
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      470 40 AP BEVERLY HILLS There will certainly be plenty to sing about if Dreamgirls emerges the big winner at the 79th Academy Awards this year. The musical scooped a leading eight nods at the Oscar nominations, which were announced yesterday. The show's Jennifer Hudson stands to pick
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        342 42  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Malay singer Norazela Rosli refuses to be just another copycat Juliana.rasul@mediacorp.com.sg ALTHOUGH the new crop of Malay singers is obsessed with styling themselves after Siti Nurhaliza and other established songstresses, Norazela Rosli (picture) seems determined to chart her own path. That would
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        372 42  -  EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg BUCKING the trend of new and fancy culinary developments, Singapore-born chef Martin Aw Yong is championing a back-to-basics approach when it comes to food. Aw Yong, 40, is one of the noted names making an appearance at the fifth Madrid Fusion gastronomic
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        116 44 WHAT do Royston Tan's 4:50 and Goh Boon Teck's upcoming Titoudao have in common? While these may be vastly different films, directors of both films have benefited from the Singapore Film Commission's Script Development Grant. Launched in December 2003, the programme aims to help potential film-makers from Singapore develop
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        493 44  -  WINSONTEO HK actor Louis Koo says he's not the taciturn man portrayed by the media winson@media corp.com.sg HONG KONG actor Louis Koo may have a reputation for being a reticent cool cat, but it was a different Koo that faced the media when he was in town
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      161 51 AFTER making a successful debut in October 2006, the Asia Pacific Masters Swim Meet is back this year, with organisers Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) planning a series of three events. The first will be held at the Singapore Sports School from Feb 9-11, while
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      471 51 -AFP World No 1 to meet Roddick in semi-finals TENNIS Australian Open MELBOURNE Swiss world No 1 Roger Federer reached his 11th successive Grand Slam semi-final with a straight sets win over Spain's seventh seed Tommy Robredo at the Australian Open yesterday. Federer, bidding for his
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      393 52 -AGENCIES LONDON It will be to Chelsea's detriment if they were to lose Jose Mourinho. So says former Blues manager Ruud Gullit (picture), who reckons that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will have trouble finding another "Special One". Gullit told The Mirror: "I like Mourinho
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      612 52 -AFP Striker granted chance to play against Wycombe despite not scoring since Dec 5 LONDON Andriy Shevchenko got back in Jose Mourinho's good books as his double strike sent Chelsea through to the League Cup final with a 4-0 win against Wycombe Wanderers at
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      349 52 -AFP WATFORD (England) Jay DeMerit's header 20 minutes from time secured only Watford's second Premiership win of the season as the league's basement club beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in Vicarage Road here yesterday (early today, Singapore time). Australia international Brett Emerton's 12th
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      277 54  -  -JOSE RAYMOND HE WENT down clutching his right leg in the 85th minute, signalled for help and was then carried off for treatment. But upon reaching the touchline, Singapore skipper Aide Iskandar (picture) got up, poured some water on his
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      546 54  -  Jose Raymond Everything still to play for as Singapore hold Malaysia in a night of drama 2007 ASEAN FOOTBALL C'SHIP, IST LEG SEMI-FINAL Malaysia 1 Singapore 1 IF TOP strikers Indra Sahdan and Khairul Amri were as clinical as fellow marksman Noh Alam
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      531 55  -  TANYO-HINN Sailors head list of potential Olympic medallists who will receive Government support yohinn@media corp.com.sg TODAY, details of Project 0812, the blueprint to help Singapore's top athletes win medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, will be unveiled. Although the list is not finalised,
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      371 55  -  CHERYLNG cheryl. ng@mediacorp. com. sg THEY were unable to deliver the goods in front of this season's largest home crowd of 5,000 last week. Despite their valiant efforts, the Singapore Slingers went down to reigning champions the Melbourne Tigers 89-96 last Wednesday in their Philips National
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      41 55 W mm Vrur online trivrl purLL^rf IV V j7J"j]j "JJJ.E Q. Wtio is the Head Coach of the Singapore Slingers? Please e-mail your answer along wifh your name, IC and mobile number to media@singaporeslingers.com by no later than Friday 26 January.
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