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  • 28 1 weekendTODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /A-DJACORP we set you thinking September 1 2, 2007 todayonline.com WEEKENDTODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /Aeb>Jj\Corp we set you thinking September 1 2, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 674 1 AGENCIES Fed chief promises to act, but also voices concerns WYOMING For those who had been disappointed with United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's apparent reluctance to intervene in financial markets spooked by the subprime loan crisis, his much-await-ed speech on Friday offered some words of comfort
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    • 62 1 1 in 2 adult Singaporeans with diabetes does not know that they have the disease*. Are YOU one of them? Get tested. Take charge of your health. Find out more about diabetes and other chronic diseases on 'Lifewise', a docu-drama programme brought to you by the National Healthcare Group. Source
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  • hot news
    • 1164 2  -  PAULINE D LOH XTRA THE AVIATION INDUSTRY MY SON has sworn never to fly a Chinese airline again, not after what he went through on a recent trip back from Beijing. As the long-delayed flight sweltered on the runway waiting for clearance, his immediate neighbour
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    • 486 3  -  SHERALYN TAY Temasek CEO jumps 33 places on ForbesWst sheralyn@media corp.com.sg SHE'S rarely in the media limelight, but Ms Ho Ching's stewardship of Temasek Holdings has turned her into a "force to be reckoned with" so much so that she has moved from
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    • 506 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg HE CLAIMED he was provoked by his stepdaughter's constant cries and had dipped her in a pail of water to silence her. But Mohammed Ali Johari's defence of "sudden provocation" failed to save him from the gallows. On
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    • 518 4 —AFP Grand celebrations mark 50 years of Malaysia's independence from Britain KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia went into party mode on Friday to celebrate its 50 years as a nation, staging an extravagant and multicultural display of pomp and ceremony, while appealing for racial unity. Fighter jets performed aerial acrobatics
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  • singapore news
    • 118 6 1 HtMHMMA-IB I^B^^^^^^^H HK1 TEE OFF TO CHARITY: Sing Tel group chief executive Chua Sock Koong sounding off at its Touching Lives Fund (TLF) Charity Golf event, which raised more than $680,000, at the Laguna National Golf and Country Club on Friday. Now into its sixth year, the Tl_F is
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    • 675 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG Less than two months after last rise, rate for prime areas up by two-fold cheekong@media corp.com.sg IT WAS hardly the best of weeks for the property market First came the contagion of the United States sub-prime crisis. Then, sweeping changes to the collective sale legislation
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    • 336 6  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp.com.sg DOCTORS, scientists and alternative health enthusiasts have injected another dose of confidence into the rosy tourism industry, pumping up hotel revenues to an all-time high. They were among some 951,000 visitors who arrived in Singapore in July the highest figure ever
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    • 203 6 Even though the cost of building materials have gone up, players in the construction industry should not simply assume that this situation will persist and push up their tender prices. Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang cautioned. "We don't want to
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    • 1128 8  -  JASMINE YIN XTRA LAST CALL He got into it by chance, but has now devoted his life to studying suicide jasmine@mediacorp.com.sg DURING his 39 years in private practice, psychiatrist Chia Boon Hock tells me, 90 of his patients have committed suicide. That little
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    • 395 8  - THE PROBLEM WITH HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS JASMINE YIN WHAT FACTORS CAN INFLUENCE A SUICIDE ATTEMPT? Different age groups have different life stressors or problems. For instance, when you're young, you think about studies or have boyfriend/girlfriend problems. When you are married, you think about financial problems. Once you get older, you
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    • 573 10  -  TAN HUI LENG Further initiatives in place so pre-school teachers can upgrade skills huileng@media corp.com.sg THEIRS is an under-appreciated calling, but kindergarten teachers can now take heart in a slew of efforts to upgrade their profession including, for some, better pay. Those with NTUC
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    • 493 10  -  DAPHNE CHUAH daphne@mediacorp.com.sg FROM Japanese square watermelons with a price tag of $268 (picture), to a walk-in wine cellar and even a porter service to deliver your purchases to your vehicle, it sounds like a retail paradise only accessible to the well-heeled. But
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    • 301 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg IN the latest development in the criminal case against former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chairman Richard Yong, the prosecution could withdraw two of the 10 charges against him. There is a catch, however Yong must plead guilty to three
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    • 594 11  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg YOU have turned 62. Short of funds for your golden years, you want to cash in on the value currently $170,000 on the market of the three-room flat you have been staying in all your life. Soon, a new scheme
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 99 11 More than 200 organisations including production houses and broadcasters took part in a new media conference that explored challenges and opportunities for traditional media in the new media era. The conference, which lasted from Aug 23 to 25 was organised by the Singapore Media Academy
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      • 36 11 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Group CEO of Singapore Post, Mr Lav Boon Tuan, has resigned to pursue other opportunities. Sing Post's chief operating officer. Logistics eßusiness, Mr Dennis Quek, will be the acting CEO.-
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      • 76 11  -  ANSLEYNG The rapist who preyed on prostitutes was sentenced to 22 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane by a High Court on Friday. Mohamed Fadzli Abdul Rahim, 28, wept after Justice Tay Yong Kwang passed sentence. Prostitutes are "entitled to be protected by
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    • 1294 12  -  JASMINE YIN XTRA HEADHUNTING This headhunter looks for people who are happy in their jobs jasmine@mediacorp.com.sg THESE two sure take their jobs seriously as the chiefs of security. My photographer colleague and I were scrutinised, sniffed all over and after we got their lick of approval were
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    • 208 9 SONY. like.no.other Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. iitjt^ mm Much pride goes into beautifying a home, MilEnsuring every piece of furniture blends perfectly. .'Nil So shouldn't you also have a say in the design of your TV? /IIH It's the centrepiece of your living room,
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    • 783 11 September Giveaways with SingTel's Sweet Treats! "iioveit!" t v leant wait! Ml h yen in n h MR WOODCOCK nSy*.H Je* 9 H&^sJi^ II l:i^.*^: jE 3 ways to register for your Sweet Treats from 31 August to 4 September 2007 Each Sing Tel customer can choose to register for
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  • world news
    • 803 16  -  JASON LEE XTRA KOREAN HOSTAGE CRISIS jasonlee@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the Chinese go abroad, they establish restaurants, the Japanese a factory, but South Koreans establish churches, a South Korean pastor once said. A bit of an oversimplification, perhaps, but it captures well the fervent missionary spirit among
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    • 133 16 -AP Afghanistan Taliban militants vowea to abduct more foreigners after ending a six-week hostage drama by releasing the last seven of a group of kidnapped South Koreans under a deal with the Seoul government. "We will do the same thing with the other allies in
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    • 352 16 S KOREA DENIES PAYING RANSOM SEOUL -AGENCIES The South Korean government on rriday dismissed speculation that it had paid ransom to Taliban rebels to secure the release of 19 hostages. Aside from conditions for the release that were made public, there had been no "secret agreement" with the Taliban, a
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    • THIS. quirky WORLD
      • 79 18 -AFP An enterprising 45-year-old truck driver has been arrested and charged with stealing a small bridge spanning a river southeast of Moscow, police said. It was "the bulkiest theft of the year", police in the Ryazan region said in a statement on their
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      • 137 18 -DPA A Hong Kong prison clerk dated the girlfriends of inmates after hacking into a computer for their phone numbers and details. In May and June last year Ng King-tong, 30, a clerical officer in charge of prisoners' visits, hacked the computer system
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      • 98 18 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A 17th-century medical handbook advises men to put chicken manure on their scalps as a cure for baldness and offers other bizarre remedies for infertility, "stinking breath", head lice and aching breasts. The Path-Way to Health written by Peter Levens
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      • 84 18 A thief stole a briefcase and threw it away without noticing the 10,000 euros ($20,800) inside, German authorities said on Thursday. "I think they'll be annoyed when they find out," a police spokesman in the western city of Duesseldorf told Reuters. The
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    • 333 18 -AFP As US reminds Musharraf of his vow to quit army ISLAMABAD Pakistani I President Pervez Mushar- raf held talks with top aides I on Friday to weigh up his options after Nawaz Sharif (picture) to reBturn from Mess than two Ito General
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    • 133 18 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have set up a special police task force to investigate mobile phone text messages amid fears they could incite racial violence, Malaysia's Star newspaper reported Friday. It reported that police had arrested two more men for sending
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    • 111 18 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand lifted its ban on the videosharing site You Tube, after filters were installed to stop viewers here from seeing clips deemed offensive to the Thai king. The ban was imposed five months ago after an anonymous user posted a clip showing
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    • 200 18 -AFP JAKARTA Malaysia has formally apologised to Indonesia over the alleged assault of an Indonesian karate referee by police during a trip there last week, a presidential spokesman said on Friday. Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi called Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday
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    • 1206 20  -  ROSS WALLACE XTRA OBITUARY Both donated millions but one of the Queens of New York will be fondly remembered ross@mediacorp.com.sg ONE was the "People's Aristocrat", the other: The "Queen of Mean". Each of these Big Apple high rollers donated tens of millions to various
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    • 720 22 ■DPA After Japan accident, Jakarta's nuclear plan has Java residents most afraid BALONG (Indonesia) Like the majority of villagers in Indonesia's densely populated Central Java province, 40-year-old Suhadi opposes the government's plan to build its first nuclear power plant near his home. It
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    • 326 22 —AFP NEW YORK Specialised blogs are abuzz this week with rumours that Internet giant Google will soon launch the "Google Phone" or "Gphone", a cheap mobile phone equipped with Google's operating system. High-tech product specialist Engadgetblog said a Google announcement will
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    • 842 24 QIAN'AN (China) Small-town businessman Yang Zhongchen wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father. But Peking duck and liquor were not enough. One night a couple of weeks before she was due to give birth Mr Yang's wife was dragged from
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    • 266 24 —AP YANGON Prominent Myanmar dissidents said on Friday that they fled into hiding because of the military government's crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Having detained more than 100 activists, the government has also hired gangs to patrol city streets to snuff out an unusually persistent
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    • 83 24 —AFP China's quality watchdog introduced "landmark" systems on Friday that will allow dangerous food and toys to be recalled, amid efforts to improve products safety, reported Xinhua news agency. The systems follow a similar procedure introduced for defective cars in 2005, it said. An
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    • 147 24 -AFP President George W Bush (picture) said that he is optimistic he can settle the North Korean nuclear issue before he leaves the White House in January 2009. The issue of North Korea's denuclearisation will likely be prominent in Mr Bush's meetings
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    • 67 24 -AFP Former Beijing mayor Meng Xuenong, who was fired over the 2003 Sars crisis, has been appointed to a senior government position, state media said on Friday, signalling his political comeback. Mr Meng, a protege of President Hu Jintao, was named deputy party secretary of
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    • 579 25  -  JASON LEE jasonlee@mediacorp.com.sg ONE of Channel News Asia's (CNA) former correspondents is set to take over one of the hottest seats in Asia's media industry from Sept 10. Mr Young Ming (picture), who spent some seven years as the
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    • 257 26 MCT NEW YORK The United Nations (UN) has finally found a potential Iraqi weapon of mass destruction in its own building on Manhattan's East Side. Parts of the UN building were evacuated after officials found a chemical weapon. It had been mistakenly sent to the
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    • 124 26 LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy made their case for resolving the crisis in Darfur in a comment piece released on Friday. They said resolving the crisis required a combination of "a ceasefire, a peacekeeping force, economic reconstruction and the threat
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    • 656 26 NYT NEWS SERVICES Financial incentives offered to fix staff shortage caused by high turnover rate NORTH CAROLINA United States school districts are spending substantial amounts of money in their scramble to attract new teachers for the new term. The retirement of thousands of older teachers
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  • Voices
    • 704 28  -  Neil Humphreys WEEKEND WITH iews@newstoday.com.sg What is it with people who talk endlessly on their handphonesinthecar? FOR the youthful readers among us, mobile phones did not always fit into the palm of your hand. When I was a kid, mobile phones were just about right
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    • 306 28  -  FAN TOW KOON Letter from Deputy Director, School Placementand Scholarships Ministry of Education (MOE) WEREFERtothereport, "Expats want the rightschool, too" (Aug 31). The report quoted parent Andy Cheng as saying that he had queued atTanjong Katong Primary School because he
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    • 177 29  -  MAJOR ALROYTAN Letter from Asst Director, Media Relations Publicity Branch (Covering), Public Affairs Department, Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and Mr Tori Boon Ngee, Assistant Director Media Relations (Covering), Singapore Police Force WE REFER to the letter, "My 45-minute wait for an ambulance" by Ms Sharifah Fazdlin
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    • Article, Illustration
      92 29 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Giveyourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3Mjpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. SORRY, YOU CANT SIT HERE...: Seats at the front row of a getai show marked
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      619 29  -  JOCELYN TEO XTRA FUTURE TECH Microchips that contain medical data could save your life one day AS I watched my 77-year-old grandfather sitting across me in the living room, silently registering images of wrestlers fighting tooth and nail on the television, a thought struck me. What is going
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  • Business
    • 419 30  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER months of disagreement between non-independent directors and independent directors on how best to take Yellow Pages Singapore (VPS) forward, the dust in the boardroom of the largest publisher of directories and provider of classified directory
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    • 377 30  -  CHEOWXINYI MOU between Singapore and South American trade grouping expected by end of this year cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg A MEMORANDUM of Understanding (MoU) is expected to be signed between Singapore and a South American trading bloc by the end of this year, said Brazilian Ambassador Paulo
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    • 180 30 BLOOMBERG DBS Group Holdings Ltd's Singapore banking unit is unlikely to have its credit ratings downgraded because of investments in collateralised debt obligations, Standard Poor's said yesterday. On Monday, DBS Bank Ltd, Singapore's biggest, said it had $2.4 billion at risk from collateralised
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    • 1276 31  -  KEN BELSON -THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE XTRA WORKING IT OUT IT IS every worker's dream take as much vacation time as you want, on short notice, and don't worry about your boss calling you on it. Cut out early, make it a long weekend,
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    • business news
      • 364 32 -AGENCIES They await clarity on interest-rate direction SINGAPORE shares rose 2.2 per cent yesterday but trading was subdued and cautious. Traders said investors looked for bargains but most were holding back in anticipation of what United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke would say
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      • 472 32  -  CHEOWXINYI -DOW JONES DOW JONES -DOW JONES BLOOMBERG Australian transport firm Toll Holdings, through its Singapore-based wholly-owned subsidiary Toll Express (Asia), has extended its general offer to acquire all the issued shares in Sembawang Kimtransto Sept 11. It has received 87.38 per cent of acceptance of offered shares as
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      • 535 32 DOW JONES ASIAN food companies and consumers may have little choice but to shell out more for their wheat flour used in bread, cakes and noodles among other products as international wheat prices continue to rise amid slowing production and limited stocks. Wheat
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      • 651 33  -  DR MANOJ THULASIDAS XTRA OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS Email is a boon at work, but aggressive staff may use it to inflict humiliation EMAIL has revolutionised corporate communication in the last decade. Most of its impact has been positive. An email from the big boss to all@yourcompany, for
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      • marketbuzz
        • 142 33 For the first time in Singapore, a comprehensive TV programme featuring chronic diseases with a strong call-to-action message for Singaporeans to take charge of their health, premieres on Saturday on Channel Sat 9.30pm. Presented by the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and sponsored by The
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        • 225 33 The annual Ngee Ann City National Lion Dance Championships will be back for the 13th consecutive year. In July, during the preliminary rounds, 24 lion dance teams from Singapore were chosen to go on to the semi-finals and finals
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      • 221 33 -BLOOMBERG HERMES International, the maker of Kelly and Birkin handbags, said first-half profit rose 9 per cent after shoppers bought more perfumes and silk scarves. Net income climbed to 128.1 million euros ($266 million) from 117.5 million euros a year earlier,
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  • weekend plus
    • 1028 34  -  J^^gHiMM FASHION ISLAND pea rlyn@ med iaco rp. com. sg THE FASHION INDUSTRY AND THE HEALTH PROMOTION BOARD FORM AN UNLIKELY ALLIANCE AT THIS YEAR'S SINGAPORE FASHION WEEK HE IS only seven but Ollie Wellington Wu already has a part to play in this year's Singapore
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    • 219 35 In previous years, the SFW was held at Raffles City Shopping Centre but this year, fashion will go to Vivo City as the mall hopes to play its role in grooming budding designers. Besides being the venue sponsor, Vivo City is also one of the main prize
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    • weekends style
      • 565 36  -  PEARLYN THAM BUNG IT ON Crystal earphones and thumb-drive pendants girls, it's time to get in toucr with that thing called IT pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg I DON'T have a digital camera. I've just recently discovered how to use the Bluetooth function on my handphone. I listen to the radio while
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      • 252 36  -  LYNETTE KOH WHEN it comes to soothing frazzled nerves, most spas offer a variety of massage treatments meant to knead the stress out of every sinew. In addition to such orthodox remedies, DRx Medispa (#O3-52/54, Suntec City Mall) offers its clients more
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      • ATAGLANCE
        • 101 36 As if one version of La Mer's famous Original Miracle Broth essence isn't enough, the luxury skincare brand has concocted two other versions of this the Concentrated Miracle Broth and the Encapsulated Miracle Broth for its new The Eye Concentrate. Together with the iron-rich mineral
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        • 107 36 Bet you never imagined that you could apply honey to your hair. The new Extreme A Honey Crystalising Fixing Nectar from L'Oreal Professionnel's tecni.art Play Ball range is made with a honey-like texture to give short hair a stronger hold and a mor distinct shine. And unlike
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        • 93 36 There's a lot going on in the Laneige Water Bank Hydro Gel, a light and refreshing aqua-blue gel moisturiser best used in our weather after it has been refrigerated. Expect the signature Water Science system in this gel-moisturiser, which prevents dehydration on your skin's surface and deep within
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        • 101 36 If being red in the face is more than a case of looking embarrassed or intoxicated for you, calm your red skin with Dermalogica's new Sheer Tint Redness Relief SPFIS. This moisturising treatment soothes inflammation, rashes, itch or stings. It has Oat Kernel Extract to combat
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      • 254 37  -  PEARLYN THAM IF SUSANNA Annetta Lee (picture) had a winning number, it would be 16. The senior research assistant lost 16 inches in all after using Osim's popular uZap, which targets common problem areas such as the tummy, bottom and thighs. As a result
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      • 292 37  -  PEARLYN THAM I WOKE up one morning, looking as if I had plastered swatches of masking tape on my forehead the night before. I was really test-driving a non-invasive wrinkle-busting product known affectionately as Frownies. After I had applied these plaster-like facial pads, I looked such a
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      • 521 37  -  PEARLYN THAM The new Dorothy Perkins flagship store promises everything For the every-woman pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg PRIMARY-COLOURED skinny jeans, high-waist pencil skirts and sequin T-shirt dresses may look picture-perfect on statuesque supermodels. But, won't they look less than flattering on real women, who come in all shapes and
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    • weekendmakan
      • 1149 38  -  KARMAN TSE karma n@mediacorp. com. sg SUNDAY DELIGHT SUMPTUOUS FOOD AND CHAMPAGNE SERVED IN AN ELEGANT AMBIENCE FROM MORNING TO MID-AFTERNOON WAKE up and smell the... champagne. And take your pick from luxe labels such as Moet Chandon, Krug, Bollinger and Veuve Clicquot yours to swill or
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      • 568 40  -  ANNETTE TAN INDIAN CUISINE Zurna offers a myriad of cuisines spanning the northern reaches of India food@newstod ay.com.sg DESPITE a signage far more modest than that of its upstairs neighbour, the barely two-month-old Zurna along East Coast Road is already attracting a healthy crowd. The draw:
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      • Article, Illustration
        24 41 -**^m. h^h PHOTOS BY JASON HO BEHIND THE SCENES: General manager, Kenta Kuribayashi (left) and director, Tomoko Takahashi of udon restaurant, Wakashachiya.
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      • 546 41  -  SERENE HUANG serene@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU think the Japanese dining scene here is getting a little tired, think again a Nagoya chain has introduced a fresh concept. Wakashachiya is a restaurant that specialises in surprise not ramen, but udon and is well-known for its curried versions of
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      • FOODNOTES
        • 139 41 The next time you think you've bagged an extra-large papaya from Fair Price, don't be surprised if it turns out to be a watermelon. The supermarket chain has imported an unusual variet of the fruit from Taiwan that is now exclusively available at its
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        • 121 41 There's a new form of art at all The Coffee Connoisseur (TCC) art boutique outlets the coffee chain has introduced a new menu with more than 50 items ranging from coffee creations to modern Western delights. The pairings may sound odd, but the results are surprisingly
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        • 144 41 Harry Potter may have led you to believe that you need a wand to do magic, but that's not quite true: All you need is a pizza. Until October, dine at or call for deliveries from Pizza Hut and you could "Turn Your Pizza Into A Car". Just spend
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    • weekendspeed
      • Article, Illustration
        608 42  -  COLIN YONG WIND IN YOUR HAIR THE TURBOCHARGED VOLKSWAGEN EOS DRIVES AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS colin@mediacorp.com.sg FANS of convertibles like to talk about the romance of wind-in-the-hair motoring only an open-top car can provide. The thing is, modern convertibles with their folding metal roofs can weigh up
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