Today, 11 October 2007

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    13 1 TODAY /A=ryJj-\COFIP MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday October 11, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon HK moves to fend off S'pore, Shanghai
    562 1 HONG KONG With a swelling budget surplus in hand, Chief Executive Donald Tsang yesterday announced a slew of measures aimed attending off competition from financial centres Singapore and Shanghai, including the much-anticipated tax cuts. Taxes on salaries will be cut from 16 per
    —AGENCIES; AFP  -  562 words
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    Lock icon S'pore to let dollar strengthen
    738 1  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN MAS moves to stem inflation as economy grows 9.4% in Q3 hedirman@media corp. com. sg Gross Domestic Product at 2000 prices (Percentage change over corresponding period of previous year) ADVANCE GDP ESTIMATES FOR Q3 '07 AMID fears of rising inflation on the back
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      38 1 FANCY MOTH SOUP? AUSTRALIA PUTS THE PEST ON MENU WORLD PAGE 20 FUN AT THE SUN AFTER NAPA, FEST COMES TO STORE PLUS PAGE 42 CLEAR THE AIR AIRLINE PASSENGERS CAN NOW GO GREEN TRAVELLER PAGE 50 SI
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Active ageing: It's all about living
      561 2  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg GROWING old is inevitable, but the process can be a positive experience if one remains physically active and continues to participate in community activities. The Council for Third Age, or C3A, set up in May this year, is challenging the widely-held
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      MM: S'pore 'happy' to go back to M'sia if...
      563 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg SOME 10 years after he publicly broached the idea of a Singapore-Malaysia reunion to raised eyebrows all around Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has spoken about the topic once again. In a recent interview with American
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon This Pandora's Box threatens to stay open
      337 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE spectre of mounting legal costs is looming once again for primary school teacher Jonathan Lock (picture), who is suing his former lawyer, Mr Andrew Hanam, for inadequate professional services. But this time, a wiser Mr Lock is
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      Lock icon A doctorate for the PM
      437 4  -  LEE U-WEN uwen@media corp.com.sg AS PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong received his first honorary doctorate on Tuesday, a former tutor recalled how Mr Lee never fulfilled his expectations. Professor Bela Bollabas, 64, had taught mathematics to an "extremely diligent, hardworking, very imaginative" Mr Lee at
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      Lock icon SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      280 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA LOCAL FARMERS WANT PM LEE TO REVERSE GRANITE STORAGE DECISION Local farmers have sent a petition, with 1,000 signatures, to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, calling for an end to storing granite in their backyard. The stockpile covers an area of 20 football fields and the farmers
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  280 words
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      IT'S CLEAR BLUE SKIES AHEAD FOR SIA
      811 6  -  LIANG DINGZI Airline's perseverance in UK has paid off; is open skies pact with Australia in sight? THE recent announcement by Singapore and Britain of a new open skies deal giving national carriers free access to each other's markets must be the best
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      MM on the Web's gems and rubbish
      752 8 You need a filter, otherwise it is a waste of time, he says Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew says that the print media is stagnating against the Internet. His advice to newspapers: Be the first with the analysis. He made this point during
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      Top law firms in pact to serve Asean business needs
      213 10  -  —JASMINE YIN TWO top law firms have joined forces to cater to the demand for legal advice on the setting up of business ventures across the diverse Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) market. Such a move will see homegrown
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      Lock icon Silly stuff that hurts the image
      527 10  -  ZULOTHMAN US expert on how Spore can enhance its global reputation zul@media corp.com.sg DESPITE its many technological and scientific accomplishments, Singapore still suffers from a major image problem, said Mr Peter Schwartz, co-founder and chairman of the Global Business Network. "People in the industrialised
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      392 8 Thanks To Adam Khoo f y Achbi/ed Straight As In My GCE Wjjvels! To: adamk@akltg.com Subject: Thank You Adam! Dear Adam, 'v My name is Samantha Loh Ting Hui, and I was a participant in your I Am Gifted, So Are You™! programme held in Malaysia. I had a truly
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Taiwan shows China it's no pushover
      446 12 —AGENCIES President Chen says Beijing's use of military intimidation is threatening world peace TAIPEI Taiwan President Chen Shuibian warned in a national address yesterday that China's military build-up was threatening world peace and urged it to halt military exercises targeting the island. In a
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      M'sia is racist, says Indon party leader
      231 12 JAKARTA Tension between Malaysia and Indonesia could escalate after an Indonesian political party urging its government yesterday to take stern action against Kuala Lumpur, either by issuing a travel warning or even severing its diplomatic relations, if Malaysia fails to stop treating Indonesians
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      Indonesia passes free trade zone regulation
      313 12 JAKARTA Plans for the development of the Batam, Bintan and Karimun islands as Free Trade Zones (FTZs) can now proceed as scheduled after Indonesia's House of Representatives passed a government regulation on the FTZ into law, according to the Jakarta Post. The decision to
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      Umno move won't draw PAS supporters: Opposition leader
      412 14 KOTA BARU Malaysia's opposition Islamic party said the ruling party's move to entice supporters in Kelantan to switch camps through the use of schemes for the poor and needy will not work. Parti Islam SeMalaysia's (PAS) leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat
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      Lock icon Breaking fast a more meagre affair
      421 14 —AFP M'sian households upset over hike in prices of staple foods KUALA LUMPUR It's Ramadan and nights during the Muslim fasting month usually mean fairy lights, dinner tables groaning with dishes and an upbeat mood. However, many Malaysian households are upset and frustrated as
      —AFP; AFF  -  421 words
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      Lock icon Iskandar now has more to offer
      329 14 —AGENCIES PUTRAJAYA A detailed package of incentives has been offered to a wider range of investors in the Iskandar Development Region's (IDR) first integrated city development, known as Node 1. The follow-up to earlier incentives announced on March 22 has been extended to approved
      —AGENCIES  -  329 words
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      Lock icon Indonesia's slow process fighting graft
      389 15 —AGENCIES It takes two-and-a-half years on average to probe a case JAKARTA Indonesian Corruption Watch said that law enforcement had been slow to tackle corruption in government agencies in the first half of this year. ICW researcher Febri Hendri said the time the investigators had
      —AGENCIES  -  389 words
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      Lock icon CUTE CARS!
      149 16 Cute, communicative and cubic seem to be the buzzwords among Japan's car manufacturers, based on the concept models they will debut at this month's Tokyo auto show... NISSAN MOTOR COS PIVO 2, which can rotate about its wheelbase to face the opposite direction, is so cute you'll wantto
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      Lock icon Suu Kyi 'not credible alternative'
      720 16 —AGENCIES Power struggle if democracy rushed in Myanmar, says Indonesia minister JAKARTA Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition movement is not a credible alternative to Myanmar's junta, Indonesia's Defence Minister said, warning that a rush to democracy could create "another Iraq". Mr Juwono Sudarsono said
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      Lock icon Indonesia to boost military role in disaster relief
      134 16 -AFP JAKARTA In a land hit by one natural disaster after another, Indonesia's armed forces must shift its focus from the battlefield to emergency and relief efforts, said its Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono yesterday. He said most of Indonesia's defence spending in
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      Safe sex video turns the heat up for BBC
      380 17 LONDON The BBC is in more hot water with parent and media groups who have brand its HIV awareness video disgusting and degrading, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported. Created by BBC Learning with the help of sexual health charity Terrence
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      Lock icon No storm over broken coffee cups
      367 18 BLOOMBERG Starbucks to go on sourcing China products BEIJING Starbucks Corp, the world's largest coffee-shop chain, will not stop sourcing products from China, even after recalling 250,000 children's plastic cups with animal faces from United States and Canada stores, some of which broke and
      — BLOOMBERG  -  367 words
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      Lock icon Saved by vodka drip
      238 19 —AFP SYDNEY Australian doctors revealed yesterday that they drip-fed an Italian tourist a steady dose of vodka over three days to save his life after he poisoned himself. The 24-year-old man was taken to a north Queensland hospital two months ago after he swallowed a large
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      Lock icon Tribesmen killed in air strikes buried
      209 19 —AFP MIRANSHAH (Pakistan) Thousands of Pakistani tribesmen offered funeral prayers yesterday as they buried 50 people killed in military air strikes after days of heavy clashes near the Afghan border, officials said. The army said it had only killed proTaliban militants in the attacks
      —AFP  -  209 words
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      Lock icon 'Waiter, there's a moth in my soup
      283 20 —AFP Australian restaurants' unique way of dealing with pest invasion SYDNEY Australian restaurants have found a radical solution to an unusually large seasonal invasion of moths they have put the pests on the menu. Millions of bogong moths (picture) have descended on Canberra
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      Lock icon US Embassy in Baghdad delayed by problems
      332 20 WASHINGTON Completion of the new US embassy complex in Baghdad has been delayed. Its construction has been mired in a deluge of problems including shoddy work, safety lapses, kickbacks, internal disputes and ballooning costs. Three months after the State Department told Congress that
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      Lock icon Politics for the kids
      423 21 —AFP Partisan authors sell their views to children WASHINGTON A slew of children's political books has crowded United States book shops as authors peddle their opposing views to an audience that is too young to vote. "I think it's good for parents to talk to their
      —AFP; AFP  -  423 words
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MORE DOMESTIC HELP FOR M'SIA
        71 21 Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak told the Bernama news agency that domestic workers from India, Laos, Nepal and Vietnam would be permitted to work in Malaysia once the government signs agreements with their respective countries. Malaysia is seeking to counter a shortage of domestic
        —AFP  -  71 words
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        Lock icon BULLS GET PAID TO FIGHT
        61 21 —AFP South Korea's rare fighting bulls are to get a "salary" to prevent them from sustaining serious injuries if they are forced to fight too often for prize money. About 100 bulls compete in the league at Jinju. Each bull will get 5 million ($8,000)
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        Lock icon JAPANESE FIRMS PAY UP
        52 21 —AFP A record number of Japanese firms have been ordered to compensate their workers for unpaid overtime. Japan's labour ministry said it had ordered about 1,679 companies to pay a total of ¥22.7 billion ($283 million) in unpaid overtime to 182,561 workers in the year ended
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  • Voices
    • More on tough PSLE maths exam...
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      Lock icon WHEN BEING FLEXIBLE IS THE BEST POLICY
      533 25  -  LIANG DINGZI serve right A COLLEAGUE wanted to apply for a credit card and called the bank that offered the card. An officer told him to download the application form from the bank's website. When my colleague asked if the bank could mail
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      238 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY A FATHER'S INFLUENCE ON LOVE Long before a teenage girl finds her first real boyfriend or even falls in love, her attitude towards men is quietly being shaped by her father. I'm one of many psychologists who believe that the dad-and-daughter relationship
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      Eco-friendly coffins the way to go
      214 26  -  MURALI SHARMA Alternative could benefit both the poor and the environment Letter from I SUPPORT Dr Tan Chek Wee's call for the use of eco-friendly cardboard coffins in his letter "Coffins really needed?" (Oct 9). Around in the West for quite some time, the
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      More ERP gantries not the best solution
      201 26  -  KHOO LIH-HAN WILFRED ONGCHIEWLENG Letter from TO GET a feel of how frustrating the heavy traffic is despite the ERP system, I urge the officials concerned to travel on the expressways during peak hour on any given day. Increasing ERP charges and the
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  • Business
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      Lock icon GOOD NEWS FOR THE COMMON MAN
      710 28  -  SELENA LING businesscomment THE Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) data released yesterday sprung two surprises. First, the Singapore economy grew by 9.4 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter, with all sectors putting in a strong performance. The manufacturing sector picked up speed in
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      Lock icon Rising S'pore dollar could reach new highs, boosting economy
      551 28 DOW JONES A SURPRISE monetary tightening by Singapore's central bank pushed the Singapore dollar up sharply and put it on track to match its all-time high set in 1995. The stronger Singapore dollar will help cap mounting price pressures in the
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    • business news
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        Lock icon A good harvest for Deutsche Bank's China partner
        238 30 BLOOMBERG HARVEST Fund Management, Deutsche Bank AG's partner in China, raised US$4 billion ($5.9 billion) in one day for its first equity fund that is investing overseas, as local investors hunt for cheaper stocks abroad. Harvest will stop selling the product after
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        A run at 3,900
        434 30  -  CHEOWXINYI But after a good start, market ends down on afternoon selling cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg AN OVERNIGHT rally in United States shares and a strong third-quarter report of the economy failed to keep Singapore shares above their early start, with the market ending down on a bout
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        Lock icon S'pore Exchange shares hotly traded
        304 35 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE SHARES in Singapore Exchange saw heavy trading yesterday after a jump in profit prompted analysts at Credit Suisse Group and ÜBS AG to raise their target prices. ÜBS analyst Jaj Singh forecast the stock may rise to $20 33 per cent higher than
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      • Article
        New alliance in insurance studies
        170 35  -  ESTHER FUNG Courses by Spore, UK institutions aim to raise standards esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore College of Insurance (SCI) and United King-dom-based Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) announced an educational alliance yesterday to raise professional standards of insurance here. "This alliance with SCI is part of the
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        Lock icon New certification to give edge to management consultants
        236 35 —JOHNSON CHOO MANAGEMENT consultants seeking to advise firms, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), may be able to enjoy a competitive edge by getting certified under a new scheme that will be launched next year. Called the Practising Management Consultants (PMC) Scheme,
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        Lock icon Korean tonics to tackle US beef imports
        742 36 '—BLOOMBERG Cheaper American cuts force Korean farmers to find new ways to stay in business FOR Mr Lee Jong Chul, a consumer-prod-ucts importer in Seoul, United States beef is a bargain, being about 40 per cent cheaper than South Korean cuts. "I'm concerned
        '—BLOOMBERG; BLOOMBERG  -  742 words
      • marketbuzz
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          CREDIT AT A PROMOTIONAL RATE
          153 36 Maybank is offering a promotional interest rate of 12 per cent per annum -the lowest rollover interest rate in the market as the prevailing interest rate offered by banks is 24 per cent per annum. A separate funds transfer account is created so that repayment
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          HDTV FEAST FOR THE EYES AND EARS
          152 36 Audio House's longest HDTV (high-defini-tion television) wall lets customers enjoy the full HD experience as they watch Live HDS piped in. By placing the top HDTVs next to each other, the retailer lets its customers compare these television sets. As HDTV in Singapore
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          'LIFE IS SIMPLE'- CANON'S 70TH ANNIVERSARY BUSINESS CAN BE SIMPLE SHOW
          84 36 Discover how you can manage documents, simplify workflows and streamline processes in the office with Canon's business solutions. With the latest Canon offerings on show at Marina Mandarin Hotel today and tomorrow from 9am to spm, find out how
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      • BUSINESSBRIEFS
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          Lock icon MENLO TO INVEST $4.4M IN S'PORE
          131 38 ESTHER FUNG Global logistics provider Menlo Worldwide is establishing two new facilities in Singapore to accommodate customers in the computer manufacturing, high-tech and consumer products industries. The firm will invest US$3 million ($4.4 million) to build a 93,000-sq-ft multi-client distribution centre in Jurong and
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          69 38 DOW JONES Local firm K-Reit Asia will distribute 2.23 cents a unit for the July to September quarter. The commercial property investor said its distributable income for the quarter totalled $5.4 million, up 31.3 per cent from a year earlier, due to higher occupancy
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          173 38 lUI Ml v v^ t^ I vs V 4 Vf I I I DOW JONES Malaysian conglomerate DRB-Hicom has received Bank Negara Malaysia's approval to begin talks to buy a 70-per-cent stake in Bank Muamalat from Bukhary Capital. DRB-Hicom also said the central bank has given
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        309 38 —ap Ford, Mazda to pump $730 m into Thai car production plant FORD Motor and Mazda Motor said their Thai joint venture will invest more than US$5OO million ($730 million) in a new small car production plant in the Rayong province, southeast of Bangkok the
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      263 41 > f 'i. .7 tft*♦ H EJ3OSCHEDULE tor ■B^ Saturday, 13 October 11:35 MediaCorp Artistes Appearance Sweets For My Sweet (Jade Seah Michelle Chong) 11:55 Lucky Draw 1 HEg*p% 12:30 Performance by Taufik Batisah, Singapore Idol Winner Season 1 Hgf 13:15 Performance by Daren Tan, Project SuperStar Winner Season 2
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      978 42  -  YVONNELIM IN NAPAVALLEY, From art to music, gastronomy to fine wine, this year's Sun Festival at Napa Valley was a bacchanalian delight. Its next stop: Singapore CALIFORNIA yvonne@media corp.com.sg WHEN the concert programme features Rachmaninov being played by the Russian National Orchestra, visual special effects are
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      408 42 Fancy cooking classes by celebrity chefs or a dinner prepared by Iron Chef Cat Cora as you watch a screening of Sideways? How about hobnobbing with Under the Tuscan Sun author Frances Mayes or maybe you prefer to fiesta with Latin band phenomenon Tiempo Libre? Welcome
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      438 44 —THEDAILYTEL£GRAPH SOME of the music industry's biggest names are considering offering their tracks for free online, following the success of Radiohead's experiment to let fans download their new album without charge. Radiohead's website topped a music websites chart with an 11-fold increase in hits after the announcement,
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        142 46 MAGGIE Q is the latest celebrity to join the ranks of stars that bare all for animal rights group Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The sexy Pan-Asian actress, 28, who has been making inroads into Hollywood of late with films like
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        376 46  -  —THE GUARDIAN A possible strike next month may paralyse film-making STUDIOS are going into panic mode amid fears a strike that could paralyse film productions may start as early as next month and not next summer as was widely expected. Talks between Tinseltown producers and the Writers
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        616 48  -  MAYO MARTIN Going beyond hip-hop and ballet at this year's Da:ns Festival is contemporary dance programme Shift mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WITH big names like Justin Timberlake's choreographer Marty Kudelka, Riverdance's Maria Pages and an all-star line-up of ballerinas from Russia, the spotlight for this year's Dams Festival 2007, which
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      787 50  -  SERENE HUANG serene@media corp.com.sg AIRLINES ALLOW TRAVELLERS TO GO ECO WITH A CLICK OF THE MOUSE AS IF it's not warm enough in Singapore, global warming will cause temperatures to rise between I°C and 4°C by the end of the century. In a bid to reduce carbon
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      97 50 AIRLINE: Qantas HOW TO OFFSET: Log on to www.qantas.com.au, where an online carbon calculator determines the amount of carbon to offset and its cost. Payment by credit card. Money will be used to plant trees in Australia. SAMPLE COST: $21 for a return trip to
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        149 51 Maximise the school holiday by taking Chan Brothers Travel's chartered flight packages to Taiwan, which offer early morning departures and late evening returns. Shop to your heart's content in the capital at the Taipei 101 Shopping Mall and Ximenting district, as well
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        104 51 November marks festival season in Germany and Lufthansa is giving travellers a good reason to hop onto a plane to enjoy the revelry first hand. The airline is offering flights to Germanydestinations include Cologne, Munich and Berlin for as low as $850 for travel in November and
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      948 52  -  JOHN KEILMAN It's easy to go green in Canada's largest city, just make sure you're in sync with the public transport ÜBER-green Toronto Canada's largest city with a multi-cultural stew of 2.5 million people spread along the shores of Lake Ontario is a place
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      609 54  -  KYUM Kuala Lumpur comes alive after the sun sets traveller@newstoday.com.sg NEED a break from the local nightlife scene? Go north to Kuala Lumpur. You will find an extended weekend trip to XL a refreshing change for the party animal in you. The city really comes alive after
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      623 57 —AGENCIES ATP will give players 24 hours to report match-fixing attempts, or face action LONDON As more players speak out about match-fixing in tennis, the sport's leaders are making moves to keep the game clean. From next month, the ATP Tour will give tennis players 48
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      246 57 —AFP VADODARA, India Sachin Tendulkar (picture) is set to make his 4OOth one-day appearance here today against Australia in their seven-game series. The Indian star is ageing and injuries have taken a toll on his body since he made his one-day debut in
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      161 57  -  —TAN YO-HINN SAFFC went back to the top of the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2007 standings last night after beating Geylang United 3-1 at Bedok Stadium. Ashrin Shariff (below, in blue) was the SAFFC hero, firing home twice for the champions as they moved ahead of title rivals
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      749 59  -  TANYO-HINN With foundation in place, Sports School principal will step down on Dec 31 yohinn@media corp.com.sg THE Singapore Sports School admitted its first batch of students on Jan 5, 2004. School principal Moo Soon Chong and his colleagues were pioneers at the time, as they set out
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      244 59  -  —TANYO-HINN RAFFLES Girls' School (RGS) principal Deborah Tan (picture) is looking forward to her new role at the Singapore Sports School. Tan will officially take over from current principal Moo Soon Chong on Jan 1 next year. Yesterday, she said: "The Singapore Sports
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      101 59 World champions: Scan Lee, sailing-2006 IODA Optimist boys' Griselda Khng, sailing *****0 DA Optimist girls' Victoria Chan, sailing 2006 Laser 4.7 World 2006 Asian Games gold: Tao Li (picture), swimming women's 50m butterfly Sherman Cheng, sailing boys' 420 2006 Commonwealth Games gold: Zena Sim, table tennis
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      464 60 If it ain't broke —AFP For England, Laporte sticks with the starting XV that held their own against the All Blacks RUGBY WORLD CUP, SEMI-FINAL England v France MARCOUSSIS France coach Bernard Laporte has kept faith with the team that scored the stunning upset over New Zealand for their Rugby
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      282 60  -  THE GUARDIAN LONDON After their extraordi nary quarter-final triumph over Aus tralia last Saturday, England's confi dence is sky high and they believe they can go all the way and become the first team to successfully defenc the Rugby World Cup. Looking ahead to Saturday's semi-final against hosts
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      406 60 —AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand coach Graham Henry admitted the All Blacks were scarred for life by their agonising World Cup exit, as the team received an unexpectedly warm welcome home yesterday. Around 1,000 fans broke into chants of "All Blacks,
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      270 61 -AGENCIES AFF NEW YORK Germany's focus on two qualifying matches for the 2008 European Championship has been distracted by a growing controversy over the decision of one of their youth players to withdraw from a match in Israel. The player, Ashkan Dejagah (picture),
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      248 61 —AGENCIES ZURICH, Switzerland The usual England suspects have made Fifa's shortlist for their world player of the year award. Wayne Rooney, John Terry, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard were all included in a list of 30 players issued by Fifa's technical committee yesterday. Brazil playmaker Kaka
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      572 61 AGENCIES Benitez reminds critics Liverpool are unbeaten and remain well in the title race LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez has responded to widespread criticism of Liverpool's apparent loss of form, following last week's shock home loss to Marseille in the Champions League and their draw against Tottenham in
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