Today, 2 February 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    28 1 TODAY /A=DJ+\CORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 share your free newspaper Friday February 2, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=ryjy-\CORP share your free newspaper Friday February 2, 2007 todayonline.com MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      TO GET A FOOT IN THE DOOR...
      882 1  -  TORCHING LI Coveted property launches and what it takes to secure that key chingli@media corp.com.sg THEY are queuing up again, either to make a quick buck or a long-term investment. But as the luxury segment of the property market heats up, buyers and
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      Lock icon Sea level rising more quickly than predicted: Scientists
      299 1 -BLOOMBERG WORLD sea levels are rising faster than had been projected, underscoring the threat posed by climate change, scientists from the US, Europe and Australia said yesterday. Satellite data since 1993 show sea levels have been rising at 3.3 mm (0.13 inch)
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      Lock icon Was he 'unfit' to decide Durai's pay?
      476 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG Former NKF chairman admits wives had business dealings cheekong@media corp.com.sg HE said he had done nothing wrong and nothing to answer for. But during his cross-exam-ination yesterday, the man who had chaired the committees that lavished a pay package of around $600,000
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      Lock icon Urgent British probe into how extremists found details about soldiers
      292 2 -AFP LONDON Britain's Defence Ministry is urgently investigating how suspected Islamic extremists alleged to have been drawing up an "Iraq-style" plot to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier got the names and addresses for serving troops, The Times newspaper reported
      -AFP  -  292 words
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      Lock icon Proceed with caution
      473 3  -  NG HUN WEI Safety of Spore fans can't be guaranteed: Thai Minister hunwei@mediacorp.com.sg THAILAND cannot guarantee the safety of Singapore football fans travelling to Bangkok this Sunday for the second leg of the Asean Football Championship Final, said its tourism and sports minister, Dr Suvit Yodmani, yesterday.
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      138 2 Don't me in the Yea The New Year is almost here! There's no time to lose in It doesn't have to be a dog-tired routine though. Simply choose and style. At prices that are sure to save you a tidy sum. So go on, And bring home your purchases with
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      123 3 ss around r of the Pig sorting out the clutter and setting about beautifying your home, from our wide range of shelving units that come in every shape, size just trot down to the IKEA 8 store nearest to you today chop chop! m AGERUM bookcase $119 §M B Solid
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  • Singapore news
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      Early warning system to watch for threats out of the blue
      434 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg WELL before Sars became a full-fledged crisis, there were tell-tale signs that something serious was brewing, but the alarm bells did not ring. Singapore, in those days, was fixated with the terrorist threat and
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    • Article
      450,000 more qualify for credit
      583 4  -  LEECHINGWERN Minimum annual income lowered to $20,000 chingwern@media corp.com.sg SOON, Singaporeans with lower incomes may no longer have to turn to loansharks for the cash they desperately need. In a move which opens up a market of 450,000 new customers for banks, the Monetary Authority
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      Lock icon All's quiet on the RM2O levy front
      510 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Malaysian immigration officials at Causeway in the dark over when to start charging Singapore cars weekeat@media corp.com.sg THIS car's almost ready to go but no one seems quite sure who should turn the key in the ignition, and when. Confusion
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon RISE IN CIGARETTE SMUGGLING
        154 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The lure of cheaper cigarettes from across the Causeway has led to a big jump in the number of smuggling cases involving cigarette and tobacco products In its 2006 report card, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said the number of cigarette packs seized
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        Lock icon $22,000 WORTH OF SUBUTEX SEIZED
        49 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau arrested 11 suspected drug offenders and seized 127 Subutex tablets worth over $22,000 on Wednesday. The suspected traffickers, a 42-year-old Singaporean man and his 37-year-old accomplice, were arrested near Vivo City. Nine suspected abusers were arrested.
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      S'pore firm's lessons in talent retention
      355 8  -  JASMINE YIN GRACIA CHIANG YIN AND jasmine@media corp.com.sg IT DOES not set targets for its staff. Neither does it like shopping around much for talent, preferring instead to hire only for junior positions and to move its existing staff half of whom have less
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      Women, watch your heart ...
      484 8  - Women, watch your heart SHERALYN TAY Most are unaware artery hardening is No 1 killer of women sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT feels like indigestion, neck or back pain could be the onset of a heart attack if you're a woman. About four in five women are not aware that the symptoms of
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        FOR U.S. VISA, GO ONLINE FIRST
        103 10 If you are applying for a United States visa, the first step is to go online. From March 5, the US Embassy here is starting a new online visa appointment service that will replace its walk-in services. Those who do not meet the visa
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        Lock icon IKEA RECALLS GLASS VASE
        190 10 938 LIVE Home furnishing giant Ikea is recalling about 800,000 of its Parodi glass vases worldwide after seven customers sustained cuts from handling them. None is from Singapore. In the seven cases, the base of the vase had broken for no apparent reason. Investigations show the
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        OLD MAN WITH BRUISES DIES
        99 10  -  JASMINE YIN A 96-year-old man suspected to have been physically abused died early yesterday morning. Mr Goh Joo Song died at about 4am at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he had been admitted since Sunday, after his family discovered bruises on his face and arm,
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      Limited reach of bioethics laws here
      380 10  -  TAN HUI LENG MOH worries about current loopholes in biomedical research huileng@media corp.com.sg THERE is nothing to stop a scientist working in Singapore from importing human eggs and embryos less than 14 days old for his research and that's a loophole the Ministry of
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      TAKING OVER PRIVATE TURF FOR PUBLIC'S GOOD
      1252 12  -  NGIAM TONG DOW The State is right to acquire land if it is clear the purpose is to benefit the majority IN MY 40 years of service, I conclude that what works is what counts. The embedded rhetorical question is works for whom
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      177 12 I Healthy Participants Needed The Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) is inviting healthy participants for a scientific study involving an investigational a marketed medicine. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of multiple doses of the marketed medicine on the single dose of the investigational medicine. In
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Al Gore could win this year's Nobel Peace Prize
      192 14 AFP OSLO Former United States Vice-Pres-ident Al Gore is seen as a possible winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to save the planet from global warming, the head of the Oslo Peace Research Institute said yesterday. "The
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      Lock icon HK bars pregnant mainland Chinese
      209 14 -AFP HONG KONG New rules aimed at stopping heavily-pregnant women travelling to Hong Kong from mainland China came into effect yesterday. The restrictions got off to a low-key start at the border, where immigration officers were under orders to bar any woman more than seven
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      Lock icon China ready for space pact
      400 14 AGENCIES Says it's keen to cooperate with other nations BEIJING China has announced it is ready to work with other countries on an agreement to prevent an arms race in space, one day after Japan's Premier said its satellite-de-stroying test had violated international law. "Since
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      Lock icon Iraqi-style kidnap plot in UK thickens
      535 16 —AGENCIES Extremistgang had an extra 25 British Muslims on its hit-list, say the police LONDON As investigations into a grisly plan to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier got underway, detectives now say that up to 25 more British Muslim men had been
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      Lock icon Publicity stunt sparks terror alert in Boston
      303 16 AP I —AGENCIES BOSTON A publicity stunt for a cartoon show threw security services in Boston into a panic yesterday because of fears that the city faced a series of bomb explosions. The devices in question were magnetic lights that were part of
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      Lock icon INDONESIA LAUNCHES WAR AGAINST BIRD FLU
      255 19 AGENCIES Indonesian authorities began a campaign yesterday to rid the capital Jakarta of bird flu, which has killed 63 people in the country since July 2005. Veterinary and local government officers were seen moving in groups across the city, enforcing a law banning the
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      Lock icon Less lethal but more risky?
      431 19 —AGENCIES Less virulent bird flu strains could spark pandemic: Experts HONG KONG Experts have called for closer study of less lethal strains of the HSNI bird flu virus because they might be more likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic. Scientists have identified at least
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon OVER 20 UNKED TO CHINA SCANDAL
        86 20 —AFP At least 20 officials and businessmen were involved in Shanghai's pension fund scandal, the government said yesterday, giving its fullest account yet of the scandal that rocked the city last year. Eleven party officials and more than 10 others had been implicated, said
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        Lock icon TSANG TO SEEK ANOTHER TERM
        73 20 —AP Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang yesterday said he will seek another term amid growing pressure for full democracy and better air quality in the former British colony that returned to Chinese rule 10 years ago. Mr Tsang is widely expected to win because Hong
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        Lock icon JAPANESE OPERATOR ADMITS TO FALSIFYING NUKE PLANT DATA
        77 20 -AP Japan's largest utility operator Tokyo Electric Power Co has admitted that it falsified data at its nuclear power plants for three decades in an attempt to pass compulsory government inspections. The falsifications of technical data on almost 200 occasions have since
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      Lock icon Biden makes a 'dean' slip-up
      481 20 —ap Racially-suggestive remark gets presidential hopeful in hot water WASHINGTON Joseph Biden launched his 2008 White House bid and sparked a media storm, after describing fellow United States Democrat Senator Mr Barack Obama, who hopes to become America's first black president, as "clean". Mr Biden,
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      Lock icon Lawmakers want US to suspend trade talks with Malaysia
      336 22 AGENCIES WASHINGTON A key United States lawmaker has called on the administration of President George W Bush to suspend free trade talks with Malaysia in protest against its mega energy deal with nuclear renegade Iran. Mr Tom Lantos, the head of
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      Lock icon US says suspicions of Pyongyang's money laundering activities strengthened
      340 24 —AP BEIJING A United States Treasury envoy said his agency's suspicions of illegal financial activity involving North Ko-rean-linked bank accounts were confirmed by two days of talks with Pyongyang officials. Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Daniel Glaser said he went over the
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      Lock icon N Korea's war on the 'exotic'
      398 24 —AFP The spreading influence of South Korea's culture has the North worried SEOUL North Korea is cracking down on South Korean pop culture, which is spreading fast in the hard-line communist state, a news report said. "This year, North Korean authorities waged what they
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      Lock icon Boys grow temporary breasts after using shampoo
      231 26 -AP BOSTON Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases, apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study suggests. While advising parents to consider the possible risk, several
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      Lock icon I was poisoned, says top judge
      405 26 THE GUARDIAN He fell violently ill three days before Litvinenko MOSCOW The former president of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday claimed he was poisoned during a visit to Russia in late October three days before former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was fatally
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      Lock icon First the tsunami, now the fighting
      740 29  -  PEARL FORSS Hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans displaced by one calamity after another IN BATTICALOA, SRI LANKA pea rlmaria@media corp.com.sg WITH fighting between Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels intensifying in recent months, tourism numbers in this Indian Ocean island have
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  • Voices
    • Ungentlemanly behaviour?
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        Beautiful game turned ugly
        237 30  -  JESSICA CHAN Letter from I WOULD like to point out that what the Thais did on Wednesday night- walking out during a match was wrong. After several replays of the controversial pull in the penalty box, I have come to the conclusion that the Thais were
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        An 'unfair' account
        343 30  -  WARUT PROMBOON Letter from I AM very disappointed with Mr Leonard Thomas' unfair article on what happened on Wednesday night at the National Stadi- urn. The ugly events of history should not be used to describe what happened. We know the penalty was wrong. We know the
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      Why not raise M'sia entrance levy to RMSO?
      253 30  -  RICKY TAN Letter from I READ with great interest your report, "XL wants S'porean vehicles to pay more to enter M'sia, but JB fears loss of business" (Jan 31). I think it's about time that the Malaysian government imposed this levy. I
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    • Fare unfair ?
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        SIA and the surcharge, fuel reduction divide
        281 33  -  LAMWEIGUANG Letter from SINCE the issue of non-transparent fuel surcharges was raised by Today on Jan 18, and further by my letter, "Airlines, justify fuel charges" (Jan 22), airlines and the International Air Transport Association (lata) have been silent. Then, Singapore Airlines (SIA)
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        Tiger Airways should itemise its unexplained charges and levies
        257 33  -  ANITA PEREIRA Letter from, THE article, "SIA to cut fuel levy for the second time" (Jan 30) outlines the various fuel surcharges set by airlines. Interestingly, it states that Tiger Airways sets no fuel surcharge on its flights. I'm perplexed. If
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      Lock icon Bound by a common intere$t
      546 34  -  Serene Huang ONE is part of the management team at a local IT retailer. Challenger Technologies.The other is a partner of Philip Liew Company, an accounting firm. Despite their huge work responsibilities,TanWee Ko and Lisa Liew still manage to find time for each other and
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      Spread the word beyond our shores
      521 35  -  LAWRENCE CHONG Share what multiculturalism can bring, partner neutral faith body Letter from Special Representative for World Conference of Religions for Peace (Asian Affairs Spore) I WAS heartened by the News Comment written by Nazry Bahrawi ("Faith beyond words", Jan 31) and the many
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      3-day clause for health club contracts?
      165 35  -  LEE CHENG WEI Letter from THE Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act (CPFTA) protects consumers from time-share and direct sales contracts with a three-day cooling off period. However, for transactions and contracts that do not fall under time-share and direct sales, it seems consumers do
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      241 36  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I LOVE WITH RESPECT When a child is convinced that he is greatly loved and respected by his parents, he is inclined to accept his own worth as a person. However, I've observed that many children know they are loved by their
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      Outdated laws?
      227 36  -  LILIAN LIM Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Deconstructing noise" (Jan 31). There have been many complaints regarding noise levels at construction sites. I live in an estate called Amber Park and am surrounded by three construction sites, one barely 20 metres away. We have heard about
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      Lock icon Kampung gourmet
      772 36  -  Tabitha Wang Why chase western food fads when we have snob appeal at our doorstep? I WAS so amazed to find unripe jackfruit at Tekka Market the other day that I called a friend to tell her. A fellow foodie, I thought she would be ecstatic. Instead, she
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      A class apart on the seven seas
      1161 40  -  KATE KNIGHT For the 48 students in the Class Afloat programme, the world is literally their classroom coffee with 31, head of West Island College International Class Afloat IMAGINE taking a biology class in Australia one week, then studying sociology in Fiji the
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      513 42  -  CHOW PENN NEE Shares close 26 cents down after firm issues profit warning pennnee@mediacorp.com.sg THE company best known for its uZap belts and other massage equipment saw its share price battered to an 18-month low, one day after it issued a warning that its profit would
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      182 42 CHANNEL NEWSASIA UNITED States medical technology firm Fluidigm is accelerating its research and development (R&D) and manufacturing activities in Singapore with the launch of its new Biomedical Product Development Centre. Researchers at the centre will work on developing life sciences instruments, targeted at a $l-billion
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      475 44 —AGENCIES It is one of seven airlines named in Aussie class-action suit MELBOURNE Singapore Airlines (SIA) is among seven international airlines that have been accused of operating a freight price-fixing cartel in a As2oo million ($238 million) class-action lawsuit in Australia, lawyers said yesterday. Apart
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      292 44  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT used to be a popular ghost-hunter haunt is poised to give way to a proposed spa and resort development as the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has awarded the former Changi General Hospital site to Premium Pacific for a $20-million makeover.
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      428 46 DOW JONES Slight drop in business expectations among manufacturers MANUFACTURERS here are less confident about business conditions over the next six months, reflecting a weaker outlook for the Republic's mainstay electronics sector, according to a quarterly survey by the Economic Development Board. A weighted net 7 per cent
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      182 46  -  —JOSEPH YADAO SINGAPORE'S manufacturing industry expanded for the tenth consecutive month. However, the Singapore Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the month of January dropped by 0.8 point to 52.6 points. The PMI is an indicator of Singapore's overall manufacturing economy. A reading greater than
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      203 46 BLOOMBERG DOW JONES Singapore may invite bids from investors in the third quarter of this year to build a liquefied natural gas terminal, the International Oil Daily said, citing a Singapore Government official. The Government may take a decision on a 3-million-tonne-a- year terminal in the first quarter of
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      373 48  - Game, or not HEDIRMANSUPIAN Spore to host Ist Games Convention event outside Europe Convention Asia 2007, which heads here in September. It's the first time that the convention which has traditionally been held in Europe since it started in 2002 is coming to Asia. While previous gaming events centre solely
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      337 51 ■AFP NEW YORK Wall Street's share price indexes pushed to new highs yesterday as the market extended its rally a day after a reassuring outlook on the US economy from the Federal Reserve. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 51.99
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      465 51 BLOOMBERG But he faces challenges remaking his PC firm MICHAEL Dell, who created one of the world's biggest PC companies out of his college dorm room, may find it just as tough to rebuild his business. Dell Inc's founder and chairman took the reins as chief executive
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      1066 52  -  Jeanine Tan Jackie Earle Haley: 1970s IT'S one of the more dramatic Hollywood stories in recent memory: Former child star makes a comeback in acting by taking on a highly controversial role as a paedophile and snags a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the upcoming Oscars
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        39 54 A favourite at Sundance, this documentary had stark, revealing interviews with the Friedmans, an otherwise ordinary Jewish family whose patriarch and youngest son were arrested for sexual crimes against children in the neighbourhood during the 1980s.
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        57 54 It wasn't the paedophile that was the focus of this unforgettable film, but how two victims Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet cope as they grow older. But actor Bill Sage put in a memorable performance as the buff Coach, who was so charming, he made one of
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        42 54 In a sombre, affecting performance, Kevin Bacon is a paedophile just released from jail that moves into an apartment building across from a playground and tries to fight the urges he knows are wrong, but finds hard to control.
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        51 54 Little Children's Patrick Wilson plays a handsome photographer who tries to seduce a pre-teen, only to have the tables turned on him when the girl turns out to be a twisted little minx. She attempts to castrate him in the infamous scene that made male audiences everywhere
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      531 56  -  mfrCfr&AJG t>t«i~l{*k, y I READ with interest your comment in a recent episode of BBC's Extras. Obviously, you were poking fun at the film industry when you asserted: "You notice how 'mentals' always win Oscars I'd add 'appearing in a musical." With Oscar season
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        263 58  -  David Chew THEATREREVIEW Tr by I TAKING a leaf out of popular Reality TV shows, Haresh Sharma's latest play Survivor Singapore the anchor event of the Ml Singapore Fringe Festival organised by The Necessary Stage is a hilarious and insightful look at Singapore society. Teacher Mr Low (played
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        378 58  -  WINSONTEO Are they or aren't they? Elvin Ng and Joanne Peh could bethenextFann and Christopher winson@media corp.com.sg JOANNE Peh has been tipped as the next Farm Wong, but will Elvin Ng be her Christopher Lee? After all, Caldecott's Brangelina Christofann? were rumoured to be romantically linked after
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        318 60  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Child actors work magic on Hong Kong actress juliana.rasul@media corp.com.sg COULD Jessica Hester Hsuan have been so moved by her role in Parental Guidance that she now wants to have kids? "I used to detest babies and kids because they cry and tend to make
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          85 60 PRISON FOR PRISON BREAK ACTOR? —AFP US television actor Lane Garrison (picture) could face manslaughter charges over a car crash last year that left a 17-year-old dead, Beverly Hills police said on Wednesday. They recommended the 26-year-old actor -who plays Tweener in Prison Break be charged with gross vehicular manslaughter
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          71 60 —AP British band Beautiful South have decided to split up after nearly two decades, citing "musical similarities", the group said in an upbeat statement. "The band would like to thank everyone for their 19 wonderful years in music." The group, formed in the late 1980s
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        410 62  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW i i by. RYAN Gosling has some serious talent up his sleeve, and nowhere is it more obvious than in Half-Nelson. The drama itself is uneven, but with the versatile Gosling as its centrepiece, it becomes a moving statement on the healing power of the human
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        315 64  -  Felix Cheong Zellweger miscast as author Beatrix Potter FILMREVIEW Fl by I IT I Miss Potter CALL it reverse colonialism. But the Yanks are pulling a fast one on the Brits. First, they got all-American gal Renee Zellweger to put on weight and play
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      589 71 —AFP GOLF Dubai Desert Classic DUBAI Ernie Els edged first round honours over Tiger Woods at the Dubai Desert Classic yesterday, but they were both upstaged by joint leaders Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland and Ross Fisher of England. Woods defeated Els in a dramatic playoff
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      400 71  -  CHERYLNG 2006/07 PHILIPS NBL CHAMPIONSHIP Wollongong Hawks v Singapore Slingers cheryl.ng@mediacorp.com.sg WITH less than two weeks to go in their regular season and with playoff hopes hanging in the balance, the Singapore Slingers' clash against the Adelaide 36ers on Wednesday
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      357 72 CARLING CUP, 2ND LEG SEMI-FINAL Arsenal 3 Tottenham 1 (5-3onagg) LONDON Arsene Wenger has promised to keep faith with his Arsenal youngsters for their Carling Cup Final showdown with Chelsea. Wenger's young guns booked a place in the Cardiff showpiece on Feb
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      217 72 -AFP Club have beaten other finalists Roma in the past 2 seasons ROME Inter Milan set up a mouth-watering Italian Cup final meeting with Roma after drawing 0-0 with Sampdoria yesterday (early today, Singapore time). A stalemate at the San Siro completed a 3-0 semifinal aggregate
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      215 72 -AFP LONDON Chelsea said they "expected" Ashley Cole to play again this season after a scan yesterday indicated the England left-back did not need a knee operation. Cole was taken off on a stretcher earlier after twisting his left knee during the 3-0 Premiership
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      241 72 -AFP KISSIMMEE (Florida) Neither Tomasz Adamek of Poland nor US southpaw Chad Dawson has ever lost a pro fight but they cannot both win here tomorrow when they meet in a light heavyweight championship showdown. Adamek, 31-0 with 21 knockouts, defends his World Boxing Council
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      441 74 LONDON—Javier Mascherano has spoken of his relief after being given the green light to join Liverpool. Fifa have given Liverpool special dispensation to sign Mascherano from West Ham United, even though he has already played for two clubs in the last 12 months. The
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      128 72 MUNICH'S TITLE RACE AT STAKE! Must win to keep pace Italian League Catania Palermo Sat, 03/02/07 I.ooam German League Nberg Munich Sat, 03/02/07 3.30 am E League Champ Cardiff Barnsley Sat, 03/02/07 3.45 am E League Champ Sheffield Wed Preston Sat, 03/02/07 11.00pm E League Champ Southampton Derby Sat, 03/02/07
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      554 76  -  DARREN LAI darren@mediacorp.com.sg THE Multi-Million Dollar Award Programme (MAP), which rewards athletes for bringing sporting glory to Singapore, will stick to the current format and only recognise medal winners at the Olympic Games, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and SEA Games. This means athletes who win
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      634 76  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@media corp.com.sg SHE became a Singapore citizen in August 2005, and it has been a whirlwind ride for Tao Li ever since. Her first swimming meet in Singapore colours was at the 2005 SEA Games in the Philippines, where she won four gold medals
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      740 77  -  JOSE RAYMOND Avramovic busy drumming into his charges the need for poise in Bangkok on Sunday 2007 ASEAN FOOTBALL C'SHIP FINAL,2ND LEG Thailand v Singapore (1-2 after Ist leg) jose@media corp.com.sg HE WAS so incensed that he dismissed tradition and sportsmanship and refused to shake
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      468 77  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@mediacorp.com.sg THE Asean Football Federation (AFF) council will meet on Sunday in Bangkok, hours before Thailand take to the field to try to overturn the one-goal deficit against Singapore in the second leg Final of the 2007 Asean Football Championship. Last
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