Today, 21 February 2007

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    14 1 TODAY /sA=diaCorp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 share your free newspaper Wednesday February 21, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Train blast will not derail peace talks: India, Pakistan
    581 1 -AGENCIES NEW DELHI Peace talks between India and Pakistan will go ahead as scheduled today despite a blast on a cross-border train that left 68 people dead and dozens injured. Sunday night's carnage, dealt on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express as it
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    Lock icon Will Thais sign $460m cheque?
    1048 1 -AGENCIES Thai masses to vote on whether to buy back Temasek's Shin Sat BANGKOK Thais are going to the polls not to elect new leaders, but to vote if the country's military-led government should buy back the nation's satellite operator, now controlled by Singapore's Temasek
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  • hot news
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      Missing diver's body found
      492 2  -  CHOW PENN NEE He was on certification course off Pulau Hantu pennnee@media corp.com.sg SHE did not want her eldest child to go diving during Chinese New Year. So worried was Sue Qing Wen's mother, she called up the dive school to check if it was safe.
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      VALUING THEIR LABOUR
      836 3  -  THOMAS KOSHY Maternity benefits should be paid out of a fund levied from every worker's salary IT WAS recently reported that the Ministry of Manpower received 71 complaints last year relating to unfair dismissal of pregnant female employees. It can be surmised that, of the remaining women
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      65 4 MARY, MEET ELIZABETH: The world's longest, tallest and widest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2 (top), is docked as her legendary sister ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, is escorted by a flotilla of small craft through Sydney Harbour. The 151,400-tonne Queen Mary 2 is on her maiden circumnavigation of the
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      Filipinos here get to vote – online
      545 4  - Filipinos here get to vote online CLEMENT MESENAS Singapore will be pilot site for region's first e-voting system in April elections EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@media corp.com.sg FILIPINO workers and migrants based in Singapore could be casting their votes from the comfort of home in the next Philippines national election in April. The
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  • singapore news
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        PM LEE TO VISIT JAPAN
        64 6 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife, Ms Ho Ching, will pay an official working visit to Japan from March 18 to 21, according to Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Both will be hosted to a luncheon by the Emperor and Empress at the
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        Lock icon CARS' GPS STOLEN
        118 6 938 LIVE Thieves broke into two cars in Choa Chu Kang and made off with the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) valued at around $1,000 each. One carowner had parked at the multistorey car park of Block 686, Choa Chu Kang Crescent on Monday afternoon. A few hours
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        Lock icon PETER PAN PEANUT BUTTER WITHDRAWN
        170 6 938 LIVE Jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter have been pulled off shop shelves here a precautionary measure by importer Nespac in case they contain Salmonella. The Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA), which has taken samples to check for the bacteria's presence, said Nespac's move
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      147 6 THE NEW AGE GREEN CAR PARK: One of the throe car parks at Macßitchie Reservoir Park will be closed from today, to make way for a two-storey "green* car park (artist impression) that will blend in with the lush natural surroundings. The improvement works to car park A will see
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      Spreading peace to the region
      464 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI International religious coalition to set up Asian office here nazry@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE could soon become an interfaith hub for the promotion of peace in the region. A New York-based international coalition of religious organisations is keen to set up an interim office here in the
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      Lock icon Woo youth but don't forget the older tourists
      217 6  -  WONGSIEWYING CHANNEL NEWSASIA siewying@mediacorp.com.sg YOUTH account for about 25 per cent of all international travel and with the influx of budget air carriers, those seeking new experiences are travelling more than ever. But little is known of their needs something the countries
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      Lock icon A school that's serving up bartenders – on the house
      214 8  - A school that's serving up bartenders on the house FARAH ABDUL RAHIM CHANNEL NEWSASIA farah@mediacorp.com.sg MORE than 2,000 new bartending jobs are expected to open up with the coming of the two integrated resorts (IRs), and in the meantime, a new training academy is offering to bump up the service
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      Lock icon A hand in need
      589 8  -  SHERALYN TAY And it's a familiar hand, too, as elderly people reach out to their peers in need sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg EACH evening, 87-year-old Madam Teh Choon Fah and her intellectually-disabled daughter Chai Moi, 58, sit together in their rented one-room flat under the faint glow of a
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      283 8 m~3m **>lf^^ My doll can say "Mama". I wish I could, too. A For someone suffering from speech impairment, saying ggß WfW Bvk a simple word may not be as straightforward as it seems. f^E H As a speech therapist, you will rehabilitate patients with F 7 difficulties in speech,
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      95 9 ...for making us No.l in Customer Service A recent Corporate Reputation Survey conducted by j^ e b es t an independant research company rated us tops in the Singapore companies with the best reputations insurance industry for our customer service. Sing Tel Our excellent customer service commitment; our open and
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Anti-Thaksin group wants ex-ally out
      297 10 -AFP BANGKOK The political pressure group behind last year's protests in Bangkok yesterday criticised the military-installed government for hiring a key aide to deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The so-called People Alliance for Democracy (PAD) urged the government to reconsider the appointment of Mr
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      Lock icon Masako more popular than Harry Potter
      279 10 -AFP SYDNEY The Australian author of a controversial book about Japan's royal family said yesterday that Tokyo's attempts to censor his work had backfired spectacularly and made it more popular than Harry Potter. Mr Ben Hills, one of Australia's most respected investigative journalists, said
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      Lock icon First arrests for Thai south violence
      520 10 -AGENCIES Suspects were Islamic school students and were drugged at time of attacks YALA (Thailand) Three suspected Islamic separatists have been detained and have confessed to being involved with the synchronised weekend attacks that killed nine people across restive southern Thailand, the army said
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      Lock icon M'sia's air force looks into torture claim
      269 10 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's air force is questioning 100 trainees at a flight college after a recruit claimed he was beaten with sticks, dunked in sewage and made to drink his vomit by older students, news reports said yesterday. The alleged harassment at
      -AP  -  269 words
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      Lock icon TIME TO GET TOUGH WITH INSURGENTS
      751 11 The govt can no longer 'spin' its way out of the glaring failure to suppress the insurgency in the South SUNDAY night's coordinated attacks in Thailand's Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla provinces by Islamic militants or Malay separatists killed six people and injured scores
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        SEND SINGAPORE ENVOY HOME, SAYS INDONESIAN LEGISLATOR
        60 12 Indonesia legislator Dedy Djamaluddin Malik has called for his government to send Singapore's ambassador home in protest against Singapore's land reclamation activities, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported. Land reclamation has been a touchy issue for Indonesia-Singapore relations because it has been alleged that
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        FINGERPRINT EMPLOYERS SO THEY KEEP WORKERS IN CHECK
        85 12 In an attempt to counter crimes committed by foreign workers, the Malaysian government has announced plans to collect the thumbprints of employers and hold them accountable for their employees' behaviour, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. Listed as one of the requirements
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        Lock icon JAKARTA FLOOD LOSSES RISE TO NEARLY US$1 BILLION
        70 12 -AFP Devastating floods in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta earlier this month caused nearly US$l billion ($1.53 billion) worth of damage and losses, reports said yesterday, citing revised government estimates. National Development Planning Minister Paskah Suzetta said direct losses from infrastructure damage
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        Lock icon CABINET OKS REBIRTH OF BANGKOK'S OLD AIRPORT
        40 12 AFP The Thai Cabinet yesterday approved the re-opening of Bangkok's Don Muang Airport on March 25 to handle domestic flights while the capital's new but problemplagued Suvarnabhumi Airport will handle mainly international travel.
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        Lock icon SECONDS BEFORE JFK DIED
        83 12 BLOOMBERG A film showing United States President John F Kennedy riding in a motorcade 90 seconds before his assassination in Dallas was released to the public yesterday, after more than four decades in private hands. Amateur photographer George Jefferies shot the silent, 40-second film on Nov
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        Lock icon TINY BABY GOES HOME
        60 13 -AP A premature baby that doctors say spent less time in the womb than any other surviving infant has been released from a South Florida hospital. Amillia Sonja Taylor was delivered after just under 22 weeks of pregnancy. She was 24.13 cm long and weighed less
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        Lock icon MORE KHALWAT SPIES
        67 13 AP Religious police in Malaysia's Terengganu state plan to deploy spies working as waiters or janitors in hotels to call a halt to activities that the authorities consider immoral, including sex between unmarried people. The Sfarnewspaper reported yesterday. The authorities said the spies would largely look for
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      Lock icon Explore the world of science
      485 12  -  Neo Chai Chin WHAT happens to bears when they hibernate? When her children posed this question to Mdm Ng Lee Li, she turned to the library and the Singapore Science Centre (SSC) for answers. "They asked questions like this when they were younger. And I'd
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda has
      707 12 -AFP Militants with European passports on the move LONDON France is being targeted by the Al Qaeda terror network, according to the Londonbased Arabic-language newspaper Al Bay at. The newspaper cited a French intelligence report that warned the authorities of a series of scenarios, including a terror
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      Lock icon Pakistani woman minister killed for not wearing Muslim clothing
      221 12 AFP ISLAMABAD A suspected Islamic militant yesterday shot dead a Pakistani minister for not wearing Muslim clothing, officials said. Ms Zilla Huma Usman, 35, the Punjab province minister for social welfare, was known as a women's rights activist She previously promoted
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      Lock icon Watered-down anti-terror Bill slammed
      293 13 AFP MANILA The Philippine Congress has passed anti-terrorism legislation which the government says is needed to help combat Al Qaeda-linked militants, but critics say the new law will have little impact The House of Representatives late on Monday approved a watered-down version of the Human Security
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      Lock icon How many lightbulbs does it take to combat the greenhouse effect?
      296 14 -AP SYDNEY Australia is switching off the lights to help the environment. The federal government yesterday announced a plan to phase out incandescent lightbulbs and replace them with more en-ergy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country, a move that
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      Lock icon Nukes hidden away in a nook?
      297 14 -AFP S Korean spy agency says N Korea has secret uranium enrichment programme SEOUL South Korea's intelligence chief has said he believes North Korea has a secret uranium enrichment programme, in addition to its plutonium-based nuclear weapons project "We believe (the programme) exists," Mr
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      Lock icon Measles epidemic kills 4 in North Korea, 3,000 infected
      142 14 —AGENCIES SEOUL A measles epidemic which has hit isolated North Korea has killed four people and infected around 3,000, according to the Red Cross. The North has asked for five million doses of vaccine to fight the epidemic, said a statement
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      Lock icon N Korea on Cheney's mind during visit to Asia
      250 16 -AFP TOKYO United States Vice-Presi-dent Dick Cheney arrived in Japan yesterday at the start of an Asia visit amid worries about violence in Iraq and Afghanistan and the international deal over North Korea's nuclear crisis. He will rally US troops during
      -AFP  -  250 words
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      Lock icon PUTIN'S PLAN FOR POWER
      592 16  -  FREDERICK KEMPE BLOOMBERG Speech that bashed US hints at bigger ambitions WHAT most non-Russian pundits missed while dissecting President Vladimir Putin's antiAmerican broadside in Munich earlier this month was that his real audience was back home. That was made clear enough by the phalanx of Russian
      — BLOOMBERG; EPA  -  592 words
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      War cries and mixed signals
      344 18  -  LIM BOON HEE Thailand's beating of the nationalist drum over Shin Sat is no way to win investors or benefit ties Letter from AMID the coordinated bombings of four Southern Thailand provinces during the Chinese New Year, another war-drum was being beaten by General Sonthi
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      Ideas for better future Budgets
      463 18  -  TANKOKTIM Letter from IT IS truly a "Wow Budget 2007" as it sets a new direction for the future. It shows that the Government has listened and has taken steps to address the widening income gap and the rising costs of living affecting the poor
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        CHANGE NEW NOTE EXCHANGE RULES
        118 18  -  JANICACHAN: I was queuing at an OCBC bank branch recently and an old lady in front of me was trying to change $50 into five new $10 notes. But the staff told her that the minimum to change is $100. The old lady told the
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        SINGPOST SHOULD MAKE 2-CENT STAMPS AVAILABLE FOR NETS USERS
        137 18  -  KANGWEEKHIANG: I have some local postage labels (23 cents) bought prior to the rate increase to 25 cents last December. Last week, when I wanted to send some Chinese New Year cards to my friends, I thought I could buy some
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      Admail is not new, but readers can call SingPost to be taken off the mailing list
      237 19  -  TAYPOHCHOO Letter from Vice President (Corporate Communications/Customer Service) Singapore Post Limited I REFER to Mr Van Dawei's letter "It's junk in any guise" (Feb 14). We would like to share with Mr Van and
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      Amend organ donation law
      498 19  -  DR PATRICK KEE CHIN WAH DR WONG WEE NAM Relatives of the deceased should be allowed to object Letter from WE REFER to the letter, "Opting in is the way to go" (Feb 14) on the scuffle between the relatives of a brain-dead man and the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      254 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON afasBY DOG POEM Someone sent me a little poem the other day that I want to share with you. I don't know who wrote this poem, because it wasn't signed, but I enjoyed it and I think you'll like it too. It begins
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      Lock icon Thinking out of the box, in S'pore
      908 20 Dr Edward de Bono's World Council for New Thinking to solve global problems could be based here coffee with EDWARD DE BONO 77, Creative thinker I CREATIVE thinker Edward de Bono (picture) wants to launch a World Council for New Thinking and is
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      183 21 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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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Indonesia to halve number of state-owned firms by 2009
      224 22 —AFP JAKARTA Indonesia will reduce the number of state-owned companies from 139 to 69 by 2009 through privatisation or liquidation, said Vice-President Jusuf Kalla. "The target in 2009 is set at 69 state-owned companies. Some of them should be merged, privatised
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      Lock icon iTV seeks court's help
      625 22 BLOOMBERG Injunction sought by Thai television network on $4.3 billion in fines and fees ITV, a Thai television network controlled by Temasek Holdings, sought a court injunction on about 100 billion baht ($4.3 billion) in fines, fees and interest that it has been ordered to pay
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      Lock icon Mobile phones to fuel Internet growth: Web evangelist
      303 22 -AFP BANGALORE Google vice-pres-ident and chief Internet evangelist Vinton G Cerf predicted that mobile phones, not personal computers, will fuel growth of the worldwide web as countries such as India snap up millions of handsets monthly. From 50 million in 1997, the
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      Lock icon SK Telecom may acquire stake in Bakrie Telecom as part of overseas expansion
      196 23 BLOOMBERG SK TELECOM CO, South Korea's largest mobile-phone operator, said that it was considering buying a stake in Bakrie Telecom to expand in the Indonesian market Buying a stake is among various options being considered, Ms Cindy
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      Lock icon No sweetened bid
      263 23 BLOOMBERG Buyout group won't raise offer for Qantas ALLCO Equity Partners, part of a buyout group offering Asll.l billion ($13.3 billion) for Qantas Airways, said that the consortium would not increase its bid. "The offer price cannot, as a matter of law, and will not be increased,
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      Lock icon Virgin Blue raises forecast
      242 23 -BLOOMBERG VIRGIN Blue Holdings, Australia's second-biggest airline, raised its full-year profit forecast after increasing airfares and filling more seats on its flights. Net income will rise at least 60 per cent to more than Asl79 million ($215 million) in the 12 months ending June 30, from
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        Lock icon Expect more good news in the Year of the Pig
        570 24  -  VASU MENON news@newstoday.com.sg TO SOME investors, the pig may seem like a fat and lazy animal, implying a listless outlook for stock markets in the new lunar year. But fengshui expert Ong Thiam Peng of I-Ching Geomancy Centre, thinks it's
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      • marketwatch
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          Lock icon SINGAPORE
          70 24 -AFP SHARES here are expected to resume their momentum this week. Despite Friday's retreat, dealers expect investors to return to the market after the long holiday weekend. Forthe weekto Feb 16, the ST Index closed at 3,236.93, up 16.04 points, or 0.5 per cent, over the previous week. Average
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          Your S$1 buys
          28 24 USS 0.6525 UK£ 0.3342 Yen 78.267 HKS 5.0990 RM 2.2794 Euro 0.4957 Rupiah 5913.7 Baht 21.893 Peso 31.356 AS 0.8304 Indian Rs 28.828 Yuan 5.0533
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          Lock icon World markets
          48 24 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.12 -9.97 -9.91 HK Hang Seng Australia ASX299 5989.79 -9.49 -9.91 Korea Comp 1452.96 +4.15 +9.29 Thailand SET 699.67 +5.29 +9.77 Jakarta Comp 1896.48 +7.18 +9.49 Phils Comp 3375.31 +46.28 +1.39 Shenzhen B MumbaiSensex *****.38 -149.52 -1.94 Malaysia KLCI
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          Commodities
          21 24 Gold US$/oz 672.80 Silver US$/oz 13.99 Platinum US$/oz 1,210.40 Rubber cents/kg 355.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,928.00 Brent crude US$/barrel 59.39
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      • growth the business of enterprise
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          Message on the bottle
          604 26  -  MIRAKASHINATH Branding is vital to success, even for small enterprises mira@media corp.com.sg STARTING your own business can be exciting but some entrepreneurs get so caught up in ensuring the financial success of their fledgling companies that sometimes they neglect an important aspect of running a business
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      135 23 Singapore's First Comprehensive International University Established by Special Invitation of the Singapore Government, UNSW Asia The University of New South Wales, will be commencing its first intake in March 2007 in Singapore. UNSW: Ranked Ist1 st Accounting School in Asia and Australia Ranked Ist Engineering School in Asia and Australia
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      545 36 -AFP GOLF WGC Match-Play Championship MARANA, Arizona World No 1 Tiger Woods tries for his eighth consecutive victory in a US PGA Tour-sanctioned event when he tees off here today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) in the World Golf Championships MatchPlay Championship. The run is the
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      151 37  -  -DARREN LAI SINGTEL LEAGUE CUP SEMI-FINAL Sengkang Punggol 0 Gombak United 0 (Sengkang win on 4-2 penalties) LAST season's S-League wooden spoonists Sengkang Punggol reached their first cup final last night, after defeating Gombak United on penalties in the Sing Tel League Cup semi-final
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      579 38 -AGENCIES Barca and Liverpool hope to put incidents involving Eto'o and Bellamy behind them CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Barcelona v Liverpool MADRID They are both players with an ability to influence proceedings on the pitch, who can win matches with one inspired strike. What Barcelona and Liverpool would
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      333 38 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Inter Milan v Valencia MILAN Inter Milan's Ivan Cordoba (picture) believes his side's excellent record against Valencia will count for nothing when they face the Spaniards in the last 16 of the Champions League. The Italians host today's (tomorrow morning, Singapore time)
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        65 38 Thailand coach Chanvit Phalajivin (picture) will be signing a oneyear deal with Vietnamese team Dong Thap on Saturday. The contract starts March 1, just three days before the V-League's first match. Thailand were reprimanded but escaped punishment for storming off the pitch in protest at
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        79 38 Swedish striker Henrik Larsson (picture) has ruled out any extension to his loan period at Manchester United. The 35-year-old will return to Swedish parent club Helsingborgs on March 12 as originally planned, a week after United's second leg Champions League clash against Lille. "I am not
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        80 38 New Zealand chased down more than 330 runs for the second time in three days to condemn Australia to a fifth straight loss in one-day cricket for the first time in a decade. The home team made the secondhighest successful run chase to pass the world
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        83 38 Hong Kong's lucrative horse racing season faces shutdown after a highly contagious virus was found in one of the city's top stables. Four horses from trainer John Moore's stable have been pulled from yesterday evening's races and put into isolation after they began showing symptoms of
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      585 39 —AFP Red-hot Porto threaten to halt Blues' recovery CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Porto v Chelsea PORTO, Portugal The strength of Chelsea's recent revival faces its first real test when the English champions take on their Portuguese counterparts, FC Porto, today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Jose Mourinho returns to
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      417 39 -AFP PARIS They may not have Chelsea's millions, but newly-promoted Reading are making big noises this season in the Premiership. Steve Coppell, a former Manchester United and England winger, has quietly propelled his team to the verge of the game's elite, lying sixth in the table
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