Today, 27 June 2007

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    14 1 TODAY /Apd/AiCopp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday June 27, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Chris Benoit, wife, son found dead
    457 1 marriage. AGENCIES GEORGIA Some 10 days before he was due in Singapore for a promotional tour, professional wrestler Chris Benoit has been found dead along with his wife and son in an apparent murder-suicide. I Investigators believe that Benoit, 40, Bailed his wife, Nancy,
    marriage. — AGENCIES  -  457 words
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    Lock icon It's a no-go for defence pact
    592 1 -AGENCIES Indonesian parliamentary commission wants changes to agreement with Singapore before it can be ratified JAKARTA From the moment it was signed in April, Indonesian lawmakers had openly expressed their reservations about the defence treaty with Singapore. Yesterday, the influential Parliamentary Commission for Defence
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    Lock icon Temasek's Thai investment was 'just business'
    563 1 BANGKOK Five months after he raised eyebrows by alleging that Singapore could use Temasek-owned telco assets to spy on the Thai military, coup leader General Sonthi Boonyarataklin appears ready to adopt a more conciliatory approach towards the Republic. Apart from backing away from the
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      45 1 ACQUITTED OF GRAFT: Former head of M'sia's national steel company 14 BLACK SHEEP AND MISSING FUNDS: A SOLUTION? 24 STAY ATATUNE HOTEL FORASONG a I SUNSHINE BABY Beatrice Chia embraces motherhood 34 SAUDIS EYE BIG PRIZE Gulf giants determined to reach Asian Cup Finals 46
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      9 1 IN MEMORIAM: THE FALL OF A TITAN PAGE 36
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      STILLPENDING...
      77 2 THE defence and extradition treaties with Singapore are not the only ones waiting to receive the green light from the Indonesian Parliament. As many as 20 bilateral accords and 7 multilateral agreements that the Indonesian government had signed with other countries are also awaiting ratification from the House, said
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      Lock icon Seletar's new (old) face
      516 3  -  VALARIE TAN AND LIN YANQIN CHANNEL NEWSASIA Masterplan for new aerospace park will preserve some 200 bungalows, rare trees valarie@mediacorp.com.sg THE JTC Corporation has finalised its masterplan for the new Seletar Aerospace Park and it will preserve some of the old-world heritage charm Seletar is known
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      Some Johor gang bosses are Singaporeans: M'sian police chief
      368 4 JOHOR BARU Criminal gangs which have been terrorising Johor include those headed by Singaporeans, said Malaysian Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan. Police have also identified seven gangster chiefs who are believed to have links with influential people and are in the
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      Lock icon Better pay for military
      452 4 Higher starting salary for new entrants toMindef and SAF OFFICERS and specialists joining the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) and the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) can look forward to higher starting salaries with effect from this month. Among non-uniform officers, the salaries of accountants with good honours
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      THAI ELECTION WILL NOT REDUCE RISK FOR INVESTORS
      954 6  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE What is needed is a leader willing to accommodate dispossessed interest groups and win their trust INVESTOR expectations in Thailand are pinned on an election that will probably occur toward the end of this year, after the country's new Constitution the
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      Lock icon Couple ignored 'warning signs'
      506 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THERE were many "red flags" along the way, yet American businessman George Raymond Zage 111 (picture) only raised the alarm on June 6 last year- after rogue lawyer David Rasif had left the country and allegedly pocketed the $10.7 million he was
      TREVOR TAN  -  506 words
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      Lock icon ROGUE LAWYER'S FRIEND SAYS HE'S INNOCENT
      363 8 -LEONGWEEKEAT IN HIS first statement in the lawsuit brought against him, Mr Lim Soon Kiang, a long-time friend of lawyer David Rasif, pleaded for the suit to be dropped. Mr Lim, 45, who owns a pub at Clarke Quay, is accused by Mr George
      -LEONGWEEKEAT; TREVOR TAN  -  363 words
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      Lock icon Consumers get a GST hike break at Metro, Courts
      226 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA RETAILERS are getting set for the hike in the Goods and Services Tax (GST), but not everything in stores will cost more, come Sunday. Metro department store, which has been re-tagging products to be put up on shelves after
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      Accounting by charitable rules
      534 10  -  JASMINE YIN New standards in September likely to be tailored to the needs of charities jasmine@media corp.com.sg THOSE keeping the books for charities may play by rules that are different from their corporate counterparts, when the new Accounting Standards Council (ASC) gets up and running in
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      Lock icon NKF looks for more volunteers
      151 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has launched its first volunteer programme since the new board of directors took over the running of the charity. The NKF Circle of Hearts aims to recruit about 200 volunteers by year's end, and all the charity's various
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        Lock icon PM LEE VISITS BRUNEI
        105 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will make a two-day official visit to Brunei from today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Singapore-Brunei Currency Interchangeability Agreement. He will be there at the invitation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. In Brunei, the leaders will launch two
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        NTUC CLUB, HEALTHCARE TO ABSORB GST FOR SIX MONTHS
        143 10 Two more social enterprises under the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) will help to cushion the impact of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike on workers. NTUC Club and NTUC Healthcare will absorb the 2-percentage-point increase for six months from
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        MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED
        95 10 The Shaw Foundation has contributed $5 million to establish the Shaw Foundation Scholars Programme at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. This will go to supporting exceptional local and international students pursuing the Doctor of Medicine degree at the school. The scholarships each valued at $50,000 a
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      Lock icon S'poreans 'not engaging' in political dialogue on Web
      441 12  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg THE virtual world may offer opportunities for open political discussion but most Singaporeans are not participating. This is according to the preliminary findings of a yet-to-be-completed study, conducted by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), on the behaviour of
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      Lock icon STORM DAMAGE:
      52 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The early morning rain and thunderstorm created havoc in some parts of Singapore yesterday. Two trees were uprooted in Duxton Plain Park, at the junction of Craig Road and Neil Road. One of the trees fell on a shophouse, damaging its roof. No one was injured.
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  52 words
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      Lock icon Look before you leave the cab
      511 12  -  LEONG WEE KEAT One cabby took as 'windfall' $11,661 of goods left behind weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU forget and leave your belongings behind in a taxi, you had best pray the cabby is not of the same ilk as the ones recently encountered by two
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      Making season parking a breeze
      690 13 With new RFID tags, motorists no longer need to replace their paper parking discs Renewing his season parking disc used to mean queuing up in person and paying for it with cash at his HDB branch office. Now, accountant Low Guan Sing, 38, is only
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      455 5 Early preparation is key to ensuring financial independence for your retirement. How confident are you about your retirement dreams? For a Relying on family and self growing number of Singaporeans, the idea of full retirement The survey also showed that Singaporeans rank self-reliance is being met with some apprehension. and
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      Lock icon 'Truth has prevailed'
      395 14 -AFP Some see Eric Chia's acquittal assetbackto PM's fight against graft KUALA LUMPUR The former head of Malaysia's national steel company was yesterday acquitted of embezzling RM76.4 million ($33.8 million). Singapore-born Eric Chia (picture), 74, was the first prominent person charged with corruption after Prime Minister Abdullah
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        INDONESIAN CLERIC SAYS BOMBERS ARE ROLE MODELS
        150 14 Hardline Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir said that extremists blamed for Indonesian bombings were role models for other Muslims and feted them as "counter-terrorists". "The aims and sacrifices of the bombers, in their efforts to defend Islam and Muslims in making war against
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        Lock icon 9 INDON AIRLINES GROUNDED FOR POOR SAFETY
        102 14 -AFP Indonesian authorities have grounded nine airlines which have failed to improve their safety record. Four airlines had their operating licenses revoked and five other small airlines were suspended. The biggest airline to lose its licence was Jatayu Gelang Sejahtera. The others were
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      Lock icon FIRE, FLOODS AND CYCLONE WREAK HAVOC
      144 16 PHOTOS Horses are rescued from fields near Derby, northern England after the river Derwent burst Us banks following heavy rain. Yesterday three people died and more than 1,000 fled their homes due to the floods. Pakistani policemen evacuated tourists from a beach on the
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      Lock icon Longer jail term for the Chaos
      221 16 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's High Court yesterday rejected an appeal by President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law against his insider trading conviction, and increased his sentence to seven years imprisonment The judges rejected Chao Chien-ming's appeal against a six-year jail term handed down in December and upheld
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      Lock icon GLOBALROUNDUP
      126 16 -AGENCIES ALL ON BOARD CAMBODIAN PLANE CRASH FEARED DEAD More than 1,000 rescuers yesterday scoured dense forests in southern Cambodia for a chartered tourist plane believed to have crashed the day before, but heavy rains hindered the search. All 22 people on the aircraft 13 South Koreans, three Czechs
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      Lock icon A THANKLESS TASK WITH FOUR BOSSES AND NO OFFICE
      682 18  -  JULIAN BORGER —THE GUARDIAN news@newstoday.com.sg OUTGOING British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be offered a new job when he leaves office today, to become the international community's envoy to the Middle East. His role, will be largely to work with the
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      Lock icon WILL MIDDLE-EAST SEE REPEAT OF THE N IRELAND PEACE PROCESS?
      196 18 THE GUARDIAN Outgoing British Premier Tony Blair is understood to have lobbied for his new job as the international community's Middle East envoy in a conversation with United States President George W Bush, who then suggested it to the United
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      Lock icon THAKSIN'S FREE KICKS
      595 19  -  WILLIAM PESEK -BLOOMBERG news@media corp.com.sg WHEN the going gets tough, the tough get buying soccer teams. With apologies to one of the English language's better-known adages, this phrase aptly describes Mr Thaksin Shinawatra. Last week, the ousted Thai Prime Minister took time out from his busy schedule
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      Lock icon FORMER THAI PM TO RETURN TO THAILAND ONLY AFTER POLLS: LAWYER
      225 19 BLOOMBERG Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will not return to face charges until after elections later this year because he is concerned about his safety and does not think he will receive a fair trial, his lawyer said
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      Lock icon North Korea parades woman who claimed she was 'abducted' by Japan
      341 20 ■AFP BEIJING In a bizarre public relations foray, North Korea paraded a 57-year-old woman, Madam To Chu-ji (picture), who claimed she had been kidnapped and taken to Japan but returned home after she went half-mad with longing for her
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      UN inspectors back in N Korea
      457 20 lAEA team optimistic about nuclear disarm SEOUL United Nations inspectors arrived in North Korea yesterday for the first time in nearly five years, signaling a dramatic upturn in the pace of international efforts to halt the communist state's nuclear programmes. Before leaving Beijing for
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      Lock icon HK's democracy at a standstill under China: Patten
      230 22 -AP HONG KONG The former English colony has become less democratic since it returned to Chinese rule 10 years ago, the city's last British Governor said yesterday. In an interview on the BBC's Hard Talk programme, former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten
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      Lock icon Hong Kong eclipsed by rising China?
      450 22 -AFP 10 years on, foreign firms look past HKto booming Chinese cities like Shanghai SHANGHAI Mr Frank Christiaens, a managing director of Belgian engineering firm Barco, has never looked back since relocating his company's main China operations from Hong Kong to Shanghai in 2002.
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      isay 'BLACK SHEEP AND MISSING FUNDS: HERE'S A SOLUTION
      582 24  -  ADRIAN TAN I REFER to the News Comment, "Don't wait for another black sheep" (June 25), by Jasmine Yin. I think it is unfair to put the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and St John's Home for Elderly Persons incidents in the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      260 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON B............Y EMPTY NEST The empty nest is painful, but it gives you a great perspective on parenting. When our youngest child, Ryan, went off to Chicago for his freshmen year in university, his final day at home was filled with the hustle and
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      Lock icon Where were the first aid staff?
      387 26  -  EDWARD NEO FENG RUI KENDRICKONGYIQIAN Qualified medics should have been at hand to save Thaddeus Letter by and THE tragic death ofThaddeus Cheong (picture), a Raffles Junior College athlete who collapsed during a South-east Asian Games selection race, is cause for some serious reflection.
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      HDB car parks are for residents, not the public
      175 26  -  TAN YANG SONG, Letter from Head, Pasir Ris Branch Office, Housing Development Board (HDB) I REFER to Mr Tan Chee Meng's letter, "Be flexible when meting out fines" (June 23). HDB car parks are provided primarily to serve the residents' parking
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      Clean up your act, high-rise litterbugs
      131 26  -  ALVINCHAN, Letter from Public Relations Manager, Sembawang Town Council WE REFER to the letter, "Litter by litter, garbage builds up" Gune 23-24), by Ms Goh Hwee Ching. We wish to inform Ms Goh that the litter on the ledge was cleared on June 25
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      Eat at home to avoid paying for rising food prices
      210 28  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from Some people take advantage of the GST hike to make a fast buck as they know it is difficult to pin them down when elements of profiteering are involved. We can avoid falling victim
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      Be pro-active in water safety
      268 28  -  MARTHA LEE Rowers at Bedok Reservoir should exercise more care Letter from I AM a keen watersports enthusiast, and attend weekend dragonboat training sessions at Bedok Reservoir. During one of my training sessions two weeks ago, there were quite a number of students out in
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      Remove age limit in SRS for benefit of workers over 62
      141 28  -  GOPINATH MENON Letter from I REFER to the article "Later retirement is not to lock up CPF kitty" (June 25). The Government's aim is to get Singaporeans to work longer so that they would have enough savings for their
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      379 29  -  JOSEPH YADAO SEAsia no-frills chain set up joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg SINCE they burst into Asian skies, low cost carriers have taken off in a big way. Now get set for their hotel equivalent. Three big names have teamed up to spread the Malaysia-started
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      185 29 AGENCIES TEXAS Pacific Group and Affinity Equity Partners offered to buy United Test Assembly Center (Utac) for about $1.8 billion in the third takeover of a Singapore technology company this year, people involved in the plan said. The buyout firms would pay
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      267 29 HEDIRMAN SUPIAN THE gears are in motion for the first Vietnamese company to get a listing on the Singapore Exchange through an $82-million reverse takeover. The firm eyeing a spot on the mainboard is Amanda Industries, a Vietnambased offshore energy company, which
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        177 30 -BLOOMBERG Talks to buy 30% ofWarid advance SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Sing Tel) is in advanced talks to buy about 30 per cent of Warid, one of Pakistan's leading mobile-phone operators, according to a report in the Financial Times yesterday. Quoting unidentified people familiar with
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          69 30 L'Oreal Singapore, represented by Citrus Fresh from the National University of Singapore, emerged as the International Champion at L'Oreal Brandstorm 2007 International Finals held in Paris on June 14. The team also won the People's Choice award and were rewarded with a trip to the
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        362 30  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg MOBILE phone text messaging could come with advertisements later this year. Affle, a Britain-based mobile technology company, unveiled its Short Message and Search 2.0 (SMS2.O) in Singapore yesterday. In the new application, users can receive the latest news headlines or
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        201 30 BLOOMBERG SHEKHAR Kapur, the director of the Oscarnominated film, Elizabeth, is in talks to raise a US$5OO-million ($769.3-million) fund in Singapore to invest in the entertainment industry including movies and music across Asia. "Singapore's capital markets have the kind of maturity to sit for
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          113 31 -AFP SHARE prices closed 1.54 per cent lower yesterday as players turned cautious a day before the twoday United States Federal Open Market Committee meeting, dealers said. The ST Index closed down 55.23 points at the day's low of 3,525.10 on a volume of 3.89 billion shares worth $2.35
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          53 31 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.11 -21.37 -0.12 HK Hang Seng *****.57 -18.78 -0.00 Australia ASX200 6308.60 -21.20 -0.33 Korea Camp 1740.55 -8.18 -0.47 Thailand SET 766.07 +2.85 +0.37 Jakarta Camp 2153.54 +1.33 +0.06 Shenzhen B 686.76 +14.40 +2.14 Mumbai Sensex *****.08 +13.36 +0.00 Malaysia KLCI
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          26 31 JSS JK£ 'en iuro 0.6499 0.3254 79.824 5.0772 2.2592 0.4833 Rupiah 5397.8 Baht 20.873 Peso 30.127 AS 0.7669 Indian Rs 26.602 Yuan 4.9496
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        313 31 -DOW JONES Shareholders of car distributor WBL Corp have rejected the board's plan to sell shares amounting to a 56-per-cent stake in MFS Technology to another unit, Multi-Fineline Electronix (M-Flex). The no-vote took place yesterday during an extraordinary general meeting. Nasdaq-listed M-Flex's voluntary general offer for MFS expires
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        796 32  -  VASU MENON Investors could get hurt if the currency rises sharply LOOKING at how stock markets have surged this year, it would appear that investors may have thrown caution to the wind. They seem complacent to the risks ahead, especially the likelihood of a
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        364 33 A shift towards skilled services can be expected SEOUL is set to liberalise its financial sector with the passing of a Bill next week a move mirroring London's successful deregulation 20 years ago and aimed at staving off competition from the likes of
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        240 33 BLOOMBERG RUPERT Murdoch's News Corp and Dow Jones Co are closer to an agreement on a structure to protect editorial independence in a sale of the Wall Street Journal's owner, said two people briefed on the negotiations. Talks on News Corp's
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      387 35  -  DAPHNECHUAH daphne@media corp. com. sg ONE day after regaining his freedom, it was a tired-looking Christopher Lee who faced the press after his release from Queenstown Remand Prison on Monday morning. It was evident that the MediaCorp actor, who was dressed in
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      622 36 Wrestler Chris Benoitwas a hero to fans, mentor to peers, says Lee U-Wen (u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg) memorial!! CHRIS BENOIT I WOKE up yesterday morning to find two missed calls and a text message on my phone from a colleague. I was stunned as I read the contents:
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      213 36 ■AP SHANGHAI Christina Aguilera (picture) says she's reading scripts in search of the right role to launch an acting career. "I am looking forward to moving into another form of what I feel is another creative outlet for me and that would be acting," she
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      480 37 —AGENCIES LYNWOOD (California) Smiling and waving for a scrum of cameras, Paris Hilton (picture) returned to the celebrity socialite limelight yesterday after completing a three-week jail term for drink-driving violations. Wearing a pony tail and short-sleeved blouse, the blonde heiress smiled for the pack of
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      494 38  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Avant garde or not, Spore Arts Fest has proven to be a bigger hit this year Julia na.rasul@media corp.com.sg IN ITS 30th year, how do we define the Singapore Arts Festival? According to festival director Goh Ching Lee, we can't and maybe we shouldn't
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        137 38 -AP Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is a wizard when it comes to kissing, one of his co-stars revealed yesterday at a press conference in London to publicise the latest movie in the franchise. Speaking before Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix premieres in the
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        118 38 -AGENCIES A biopic about the life of Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner is to go ahead after he gave his final approval to the project, according to a report. Brett Ratner, who directed the final instalment of the XMen series, will direct the biopic,
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        130 38 Calling all teachers: The story of legendary radio broadcaster and storyteller Lei Dai Soh will be given an apt tribute by Toy Factory in Big Fool Lee. To help pass on Lei's story to the young. Toy Factory is inviting teachers to watch the play
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        388 40  -  MAYO MARTIN Take a leaf out of established local, Singapore-based scribes' books mayo@mediacorp.com.sg LOCAL writers keen on learning from the masters will be spoilt for choice in the weeks ahead. The National Arts Council (NAC) will re-launch the Mentor Access Project (MAP) this Saturday at the National
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      88 43 The National Stadium moved thousands of Singaporeans, including Vasanthan Govindasamy. As an 11 -year-old, he represented his school-the now defunct Balestier Boys School-in the 4xloom at the National Stadium. Cheered on by schoolmates, he helped clinch a medal. Rosli Abdul Rahman also had many memorable
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      300 43  -  VASANTHAN GOVINDASAMY Letter from THE year was 1979 and I was 11 years old. The heat was scorching that afternoon, but I hardly felt it, standing at the 300 m mark of the National Stadium track. It was the National Inter
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      118 43  -  ROSLI ABDUL RAHMAN Letter from I WAS only 12 years old when I first visited the National Stadium. My late father brought me along to watch the match between Singapore and Burma at the 1973 SEAP Games here. The atmosphere was fantastic,
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      884 44  -  JOSE RAYMOND In 1979 a chance was taken on a young Fandi, the gamble paid off and mesmerised a nation for 18years jose@media corp.com.sg HIS was truly a fairytale. When he was nine years old, Fandi Ahmad used to wander around the grounds of the Woodbridge
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    389 45 —AGENCIES FOOTBALL Copa America CARACAS, Venezuela Dunga faces his first competitive matches as Brazil coach, while playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme returns for Argentina as the Copa America kicks off. The 42nd edition of international football's oldest competition, which Brazil last won in
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    199 45 -AFP SEOUL South Korean striker Lee Chun Soo is in talks with up to five English Premier League clubs, with a deal imminent, according to his agent. The Ulsan Tigers frontman has previously been linked with FA Cup holders Chelsea and their west London
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    428 45  -  CUBBY LEONG 450 employees from 12 regional offices get together for a massive football tournament cubby@mediacorp.com.sg THERE are staff gatherings and team-building exercises. And there is the DHL Asia Cup 2007. In what was easily one of the largest region-wide team-building exercises seen in this part of
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    612 46  -  DARREN LAI With new coach atthe helm, Gulf giants determined to reach Asian Cup final SINGAPORE INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT 2007 Singapore v Saudi Arabia National Stadium, Bpm darren@mediacorp.com.sg AUSTRALIA may be considered favourites for the AFC Asian Cup ouly 7-29), but the Socceroos and coach Graham
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    151 46 DARREN LAI SINGAPORE'S World Cup referee Shamsul Maidin will not be officiating at the upcoming AFC Asian Cup after all. The 41-year-old has been forced to pull out of next month's tournament after sustaining a severe tear to the meniscus on his left knee,
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