Today, 10 January 2008

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    27 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Thursday January 10, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /A=£jP\Copp MICA (P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Thursday January 10, 2008 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Dilemma over Suharto's health
    608 1 —AGENCIES Seriously ill former President too weak for crucial surgery JAKARTA One moment his health was described as deteriorating; the next it was reported to have improved slightly even though he remains dependent on a battery of machines, and said to be in a critical condition.
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    WHY ONLY A FOOTNOTE, F&N?
    604 1  -  P N BALJI THAT HSIEN YANG APPOINTMENT EDITORIAL DIRECTOR balji@media corp.com.sg TUCKED away on Page 60 of Fraser and Neave's 200-page annual report and stated in a matter of fact of way is the announcement that one of the most talked about corporate agreements with
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Which terminal? For arriving SIA flights, you'll only know two hours in advance
      401 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT WITH its operations split over two terminals, T2 and T3, passengers flying on Singapore Airlines (SIA) will know for sure where they are departing from. Information about the arrival terminal, however, will only be available two
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      Lock icon T3, a new frontier
      812 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT LEONGWEEKEAT Terminal will help Changi retain status as regional air hub weekeat@media corp.com.sg FOR some 350 passengers of SQOOI, the fanfare of lion dances, confetti and gift bags that greeted their arrival at noon was an unexpected but welcome end to a 20-hour
      — LEONGWEEKEAT; PHOTOS WEETECK HIAN  -  812 words
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      Lock icon IT'S ANYBODY'S GAME NOW
      760 3 -AGENCIES Clinton and McCain wins in New Hampshire throw race for White House wide open NEW HAMPSHIRE Hillary Clinton resurrected her campaign for the White House with a win in New Hampshire on Tuesday night that defied the pollsters and halted Senator Barack Obama's march towards
      -AGENCIES; 1 I AFP|; KOH MUI FONG  -  760 words
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  • singapore news
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      Busted by tell-tale emails
      453 6  -  ANSLEYNG 6 bid-rigging pest control firms fined in competition watchdog's first catch ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE pally tone of the emails between three business rivals was baffling. Thanking each other for "support" with wishes of "all the best", the emails written by senior managers from three pest control
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      Was it 'backbone' or just flavouring?
      263 6  -  TEOXUANWEI ITS worker drove a van around the island collecting GPS (global positioning system) data to produce its own skeleton map. And even if there were 58 "fingerprints" of copying in Virtual Map's final product, this did not constitute substantial reproduction. This was the
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    • SINGAPRESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon NEW PRESIDENTIAL ADVISERS
        122 8 -CNA President S R Nathan has appointed new members to the Council of Presidential Advisers. Retired High Court judge Goh Joon Seng was appointed for a term of six years. Also appointed, as alternate members for a four-year term, were Keppel Corp chairman Lim Chee Onn, and
        -CNA  -  122 words
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        Lock icon COE PRICES GO UP
        85 8 -938UVE In the year's first open bidding. Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) prices have gone up for all vehicle categories, except in the Open category where COEs dropped by nearly $400 to $15,601. Commercial vehicles saw the biggest increase by some $1,150 to $13,000, while COEs for
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        Lock icon CNY GOODIES ARE DEARER, TOO
        56 8 -CNA Prices of Chinese New Year goodies are rising, largely due to the 45 per cent price increase in flour from Malaysia. Sheng Siong supermarket is upping the prices of Malaysiaimported goodies by 10 to 20 per cent, while prices will go up by 20
        -CNA  -  56 words
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      Lock icon Few court the silver dollar
      514 8  -  SHERALYN TAY Travel industry not wooing older tourists sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg IT MAY have gleaming potential, but even as the first Silver Industry Convention and Exhibition here kicks off today, Singapore's travel and tourism sector has yet to be excited about the silver dollar. Some travel and
      BLOOMBERG  -  514 words
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      UN maritime law faces challenges from climate change, terrorism
      350 10  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg IT WAS meant to replace a loose 17th century concept where nations held the rights over three nautical miles of coastal waters the distance cannon balls could fly in those days. But the 1982 United Nations
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      Lock icon Ring, ring – got a buck to spare?
      444 10  - Ring, ring got a buck to spare? NAZRYBAHRAWI Many call hotline because of financial woes nazry@media corp.com.sg FINANCIAL aid, employment woes and the destitute. Such were the topics that callers to the ComCare Call social aid hotline wanted to talk about, during a trial over the last two months. Launched
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Did her tears do the trick?
      713 12 —AFP Tears were humanising, gush women voters who propelled her victory in New Hampshire MANCHESTER (New Hampshire) Women voters flocked back to Ms Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire to rescue her White House bid, many of them seduced by a display of damp-eyed emotion
      —AFP; AFF  -  713 words
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      Lock icon Whoops in Kenya for fave son Obama
      347 12 -AP KOGELO (Kenya) Seated on plastic chairs surrounded by chickens and barefoot children, Mr Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives listened to the radio for news of how their favourite son was doing in the New Hampshire primary. The early results on Tuesday were encouraging,
      -AP  -  347 words
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      Lock icon Obama draws record number of under-25 voters through Facebook
      398 12 -BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Mr Barack Obama has a powerful ally as he pulls what may be a record turnout of young voters into this year's elections: Facebook. The Illinois senator has energised students across the country who are using Internet-based social networking
      -BLOOMBERG; AFP  -  398 words
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      Lock icon For tourists, a strictly Malaysian welcome
      211 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will ban foreign workers from serving customers at all its airports in a bid to reduce migrant labour in the country. The move comes following calls by unions to halt the hiring of foreign workers at airports, saying they could
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      Beep – you're on candid camera
      215 14 Beep you're on candid camera Scandal sparks demand for anti-spy devices KUALA LUMPUR First, it was a shortage of cooking oil. Then, it was flour. Now, Malaysia may run out of anti-spy devices. This is because politicians and other people in power are snapping up such devices following a recent
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      Lock icon No ban on Indian workers
      281 14 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has denied that it has frozen the recruitment of workers from India after media reports said a ban was in place as the government cracked down on dissent by ethnic Indians. "Let me categorically state that the ministry of home affairs
      —AFP; AFP  -  281 words
    • GLORALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon M'SIAN TEENS CHARGED WITH SELLING SEX VIDEO OF FORMER MINISTER
        98 16 ■AP Two Malaysian teenagers were hauled to court for possessing and selling DVDs that showed former Health Minister Chua Soi Lek engaging in extramarital sex- a scandal that led to his resignation last week. Both teenagers, who were charged with
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        24 HELD IN CHINA AFTER CITY OFFICIALS BEAT MAN TO DEATH
        132 16 Twenty-four people have been detained over the killing of a man in central China, which has re-ignited calls to abolish a citylevel agency whose inspectors were allegedly involved in the death. Mr Wei Wenhua was beaten to death on
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        Lock icon GENETICALLY-MODIFIED PIG GIVES BIRTH TO FLUORESCENT PIGLETS
        94 16 -AFP -AGENCIES A pig genetically modified in China to make it glow has given birth to fluorescent piglets, proving that such changes can be inherited, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The sow was one of three pigs who had fluorescent green protein injected
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        Lock icon ACCUSED OF COOKING HIS GIRLFRIEND
        119 16 ■AFP A Texan accused of cooking pieces of his murdered girlfriend said he did it on orders from God, according to investigators. Christopher McCuin, 25, is being held on capital murder charges in the slaying of his 21-year-old girlfriend, Ms Jana Shearer. "He said God
        ■AFP  -  119 words
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      Lock icon Pirate attacks up 10% last year: Watchdog
      256 16 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Global pirate attacks rose by 10 per cent last year, marking the first increase in three years as sea robbers made a strong comeback in Nigeria and Somalia, said an international maritime watchdog yesterday. Last year, there were 269 attacks
      -AP  -  256 words
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      Lock icon Fanal quest for peace
      526 16 -AGENCIES But there's widespread scepticism in Arab world despite Israeli optimism BEN GURION AIRPORT (Israel) United States President George W Bush arrived in Israel yesterday saying he saw a new opportunity for Middle East peace, at the start of a tour marked by new tensions with
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      Lock icon WHEN SLEEPING CATS AWAKE...
      202 18 ■AFP HANOI Vietnamese police came face-to-face with two live tigers in a passenger car in central Hanoi when they busted an illegal wildlife trafficking gang this week, media reports said yesterday. The wild cats had been sedated by the animal smugglers but awoke after the police
      ■AFP; AFP  -  202 words
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      Lock icon Recovery seen with KMT win
      463 18 -AFP Successor to Chen could change the way business is done with China HSINTIEN (Taiwan) Staff entering the sleek headquarters of leading Taiwanese IT firm Gigabyte Technology seem unimpressed by the election billboards nearby and the van parked outside blaring campaign songs. But their jobs,
      -AFP  -  463 words
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      Lock icon Move to install Tony Blair as European Union's first fully-fledged president
      327 20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH PARIS Mr Tony Blair (picture) is to return to the front line of European politics in Paris this weekend amid growing signs of a campaign to install him as the European Union's first fully-fledged president Mr
      THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; EPA  -  327 words
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      Lock icon Bilawal wooed to join rival party
      392 20 —AFP THE ROYAL FAMILY py«[os Co-chairman of Pakistan People's Party Head of Pakistan People's Party-Shaheed unutto LAEKANA (Pakistan) After years of discord in Pakistan's top political dynasty, Ms Benazir Bhutto's sister-in-law has stoked the family feud by saying she wants the opposition leader's son
      —AFP; AFP  -  392 words
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  • Voices
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      Why only kopitiam critics?
      436 22 All Singaporeans have the right to speak up Letter from JONATHAN LIM WEN ZHI I REFER to the article, "Why Ngiam the critic is tolerated" (Jan 8) by Mr Loh Chee Kong. While political consciousness and greater liberty to express criticism has grown rapidly in recent
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      It's the 'what' that matters
      60 22  -  TAN MENG LEE Letter from The article, "Why Ngiam the critic is tolerated", reflects the general sentiment that our Government only listens depending on "who" is making the point, "how" it is being said and "when" it is being said, rather than "what" is being
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      Policymakers alone may not have all the answers
      105 22  -  JASON CHIAM Letter from I REFER to your article, "Why Ngiam the critic is tolerated". I agree that if you are a player in the establishment, your views would tend to be more readily accepted, as seen in the cases of Mr
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      RETIREES, $100 AND A FADING DREAM
      210 24  -  ZHANG LIANGUO Can Spore maintain first-world status? That's the big question Letter from WHEN I read Tuesday's edition of Today, I couldn't help thinking of Singapore's tomorrow. In the report "Rosy outlook for Spore" (Jan 8), Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was quoted as
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      Why compare to Italy and Austria?
      144 24  -  GUIDOBRUNNER Letter from I REFER to the report "Rosy outlook for Spore" (Jan 8) and the reference to Italy and Austria by MM Lee. Why should we compare Singapore with these two European countries? The prospects for Italy and Austria are far from rosy
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      Toothpaste's mysterious origin
      116 24  -  MURALI SHARMA Letter from RECENTLY, I received a sample tube of Cool Mint Fresh and White toothpaste. On both the tube and box, it read "Under Licence from Lion Corporation, Japan" and "imported by: Lion Corporation (S) Pte Ltd". But the product's country of manufacture was nowhere
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      230 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE MIDDLE CHILD Let's talk today about the middle child who may experience more problems with selfesteem than other members of the family. He or she may find it more difficult to establish an identity within the family because that youngster neither
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      Lock icon isay BREAK BARRIERS ...WITH A BURGER
      675 26  -  MANEESH KURUVILLA WE MAY not understand it, care about it or want to be a part of it, but we cannot escape its clutches. And while it has become prominent over the past decade, Theodore Levitt first coined the term "globalisation" in 1983 in
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      Lock icon How Khaw can win over minds
      183 28  -  CHARLES TAN Show how savings through means testing will be passed to those in lower income group Letter from I BELIEVE the majority of Singaporeans understand and support the principles of means testing at public hospitals (picture). However, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan's job
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      Rude shock: ERP on doorstep
      166 28  -  OSCAR LEE Letter from I HAD a rude shock yesterday morning while driving to work when I saw a new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry installed across Toa Payoh Lorong 6. Motorists like me have been dutifully avoiding the perpetual congestion on the citybound Central
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      Odours and commuters' blues
      115 28  -  LAWYUELI Letter from AS THE majority of Singaporeans use public transport to work, may I suggest that our fellow commuters be more sensitive to one another. Passengers carrying breakfast or lunch should pack their food properly. Otherwise, it's like walking into a multi-national kitchen serving curry
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      81 22 VOICES ON RADIO The Ministry of Education has announced an enhanced pay I rl'ff and career package for teach- Fl pljj ers. Grow 2.0, which starts in April, aims to make teaching Ll if E more attractive and encourage teachers to stay in the profession. Will this be enough to
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      674 27 Advertorial HENTREPREN EURSHIP In this third of a five-part series on the Singapore Youth Award (SYA), the highest national youth accolade, Chang Su-Fern speaks to restaurateur Ivan Lee, recipient of last year's SYA for Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship *^^^^^1 I Xj^^^^^k. I^^^--Roll of honour W m Individual B^ 5--211H7 Mi Ivan Lee
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      495 30  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg LESS than three weeks after disgruntled minority shareholders demanded an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to remove three of Craft Print International's independent directors, the printing firm announced that two of them would be stepping down. In a notice posted
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      274 30  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp. com. sg A FORENSICS report on the business activity of JEL Corporation was yesterday released. The company has been under investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) since September last year. A KPMG Forensics team has uncovered irregularities in the earnings
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      316 32  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg THE World Bank forecasts a slight slowdown for the Singapore economy this year. Speaking to Today during the launch of the World Bank's 2008 Global Economic Prospects Report yesterday, Mr Hans Timmer (picture), lead economist and manager of the Global Trends
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        157 32  -  -ESTHER FUNG Construction firm Lian Beng Group is making a joint purchase of a residential site at Emerald Hill Road in District 9 worth $148 million. Lian Beng, through its subsidiary, LB Land, has entered a strategic partnership with LaSalle Investment Management to purchase and redevelop
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      325 33 -AGENCIES Singapore Airlines may seem to have lost Part 1 of the high-stakes deal to buy into China Eastern Airlines (CEA) and a piece of the world's fastest-growing aviation market, but it may well turn out a winner in the final analysis. Shares of the Singapore
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      369 33  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg HEADLINE inflation may breach 6 per cent this month, but the figure which includes a significant upward revision to annual house values may be an over-estimation of inflationary pressures for house owners in Singapore, said United Overseas Bank's economist Ho Woei Chen. While
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      238 33 DOWJONES SINGAPORE shares closed marginally up, tracking rebounds made by major Asian bourses as bargain hunting outweighed the effects of Wall Street's poor showing. "Bargain hunters and proprietary traders are swinging in," said a local trader. The Straits Times Index rose 0.19
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        242 34 GLOOM FOR MARKS SPENCER -AFP British retailer Marks Spencer (M&S) said yesterday it faced flagging sales in the run-up to Christmas and issued a gloomy outlook for the year, sending its share price plunging by a fifth in value. Its shares dived 19.36 per cent to 406 pence in morning
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        131 34 BLOOMBERG Natural rubber futures in Tokyo, the global benchmark, declined after crude oil in New York retreated from yesterday's peak, weakening speculation that prices of competing synthetic rubber may increase. Crude oil for February delivery traded at U5596.59 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York
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        56 34 BLOOMBERG Airbus SAS, the world's largest maker of commercial aircraft, has won an order from leasing company Awas for 75 single-aisle planes valued at $5.5 billion at list prices. The contract for the A320-series airliners brings the total number of planes that Dublin-based Awas has
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      295 35  -  ESTHER FUNG Biosensors buys JW Medical in bid to boost market share esther@medicorp.com.sg IN A bid to gain a stronger market share in China, Biosensors International, a maker of medical devices, has agreed to buy the 50 per cent it does not already own of
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      224 35 CHEMOIL Energy Limited's board of directors will meet at the end of this week to decide who will take over the company's top post. Chemoil's chief financial officer, Jerry Lorenzo said: "The board of directors have had multiple telephone conferences discussing succession
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      274 32 www.itshow.com.sg nSuntec City Exhibition Centre Entire Levels©, O&0 LARGEST I.T DIGITAL MOBILE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS EXHIBITION IN SINGAPORE WORTH WAITING FOR dim^ i %js\ ill 0§ W^iF* flfc SS34Metres 780 300,000 of comfortable walkway Leading Manufacturers sq ft of IT, Digital Entertainment in each of the Halls and Suppliers and Consumer
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      206 32 DAILY GOLD UPDATE Last Business Day: Jan 9, 2008 SPOT GOLD OPEN (9am): US$BB2.OO/OZ SPOT GOLD CLOSE (spm): US$BB3.BO/OZ CHANGE: +0.20% Gold nvestors are truly witnessng a historic moment as gold smashed last weeks record high to hit a new all-time high of U*****.40/oz. Gold has begun to perform akin
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      1423 36  -  Christopher Toh christophertoh_Prnediacorp.com.sg MUSIC enthusiasts are already gearing up for next week, when a triumvirate of gigs kick start this year's series of high profile concerts, beginning with American heavy rock group Dream Theater next Thursday, followed two days later by singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega and Australian rocker
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        166 38  -  Christopher Toh by U2 _l I L In 1987, U2 were rock's "hottest ticket" after the release of the monumental The Joshua Tree, which spawned unforgettable hits like With Or Without You and Where The Streets Have No Name, and went on to win Album Of The
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        138 38 Various Hollywood actors pretend to be singers in this movie adaptation. There are slight differences in these songs from Stephen Sondheim's original musical: God, That's Good, for example, doesn't have the titular refrain (because there is none in the film). But even though stars like Johnny Depp and
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        Blessed
        121 39 Joi Chua Joi Chua has always seemed —to me, anyway to be a bit of a cross between Kit Chan and Stefanie Sun. And I'm not talking alphabetically. She does ballads with the commanding grace of Chan, but still has a spark of spunk like Sun, which is what
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        Daxaar
        117 39 Steve Reid Drummer Steve Reid's album was recorded in Africa (as it states proudly on the album cover), so you know what you're in for. And if not, you're given a big hint on the first track. Welcome, which features the melodic vocals of Isa Kouyate. The rest of
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        Audio Daydream
        126 39 Blake Lewis The beat-boxing American Idol run-ner-up may look like a lost member of Scissors Sister, but his looks belie his R&B influence, of which there is plenty on this album. Know My Name featuring Lupe Fiasco, for instance, contains not only his usual over-the-top vocalising, the pre-requisite
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        This Is The New
        123 39 I Am David Sparkle This review, admittedly, is a little late in coming, but that's only because it took me so long to extract the disc from the clever but confounding casing. The seven-track local offering kicks off with the almost-too-brash-to-be-slick (or was it the other
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        59 38 Featuring 14 songs from the mid 1950s when he was signed to the Pacific Jazz label, Chet Baker's good looks, unique singing voice and irrepressible hornplaying style made him one of the first poster boys for jazz music. Top tracks in this collection include But Not
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        IMRAN AJMAIN DENGAN SECARA KEBETULAN
        54 38 Following his success writing songs and working with other artistes, Imran Ajmain's successful debut album which was released in 2006 and features songs like Compromise and Kata Orang, has been repackaged and augmented with a bonus disc with remixes and alternate versions o Seribu Tahun
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        THE ROYAL WE THE ROYAL WE
        68 38 Think the brashness of The White Stripes meets the uppity of The Go-Gos, and you'll get The Royal We, a musical collective whose lifespan may have already ended even as you read this —this was apparently meant to be a one-off event. Great sonic
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        KOBUKURO ALL SINGLES BEST
        54 38 If you want to sample Japanese pop rock that doesn't resemble those of Ayumi or Leah who sound like they sing through their nose, you should pickthis up. This compilation gives you 20 very good pop-rock songs by the award-winning male duo such as Forever With
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        301 40 -AFP Posh Spice succeeds Britney Spears as 'worst dressed' woman SPICE Girl and new Hollywood personality Victoria Beckham (picture), and troubled singer Amy Winehouse topped Blackwell's 2007 Ten Worst Dressed Women list, the "fashion critic" Mr Blackwell announced on Tuesday. Last year's winner Britney Spears won a
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        391 41  -  ANNETTE TAN LOCOS WITH NUOCCHAM SERVES 4-6 1 can Golden Chef Locos 2 red chillies, roughly chopped 1 garlic clove, peeled 1 tbsp shaved palm sugar 2 tbsp lime juice 3 tbsp fish sauce 1 tbsp rice vinegar 3 tbsp water 1. Reserve about a teaspoon
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      146 37 I 3lth velln presented by supported by 25 27 January 2008 10am Bpm m m Dr Singapore Expo Hall 6B Parkway Health™ CSss <^S tion Dp Onrt Of tHO .^^fl jfc Billy Wang Tay Ping Hui J^ Ng Health Wellness exhibition! r^lr rVr; S^f Organised by TODAY join us in
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      721 40 US BOX OFFICE TOP ROMANTIC COMEDY! Hr Tay Yek Keak, SPH The Straits Times Life! P^"" *^S I STEVE CARELL Dan finally found the girl of his dreams smart, funny and sexy. Unfortunately, she has a boyfriend... his brother! V DAN iff n"mr IN REAL LIFE L^r_ OPENS TODAY m
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        84 42 Intrepid travellers who roughed it out in undeveloped Cambodia and Vietnam can look to Laos as their next challenge. The reward for braving basic facilities and infrastructure, of course, is a more genuine experience. The country is primarily Buddhist, so there are plenty of temples and stupas to
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        80 42 It's western Europe and it's affordable. Portugal, long an under-rated European destination, offers old world culture with modern-day sensibilities. The people are welcoming and the weather perpetually mild. Early February is Carnival time in Lisbon, where, like the celebration in Rio de Janeiro, floats, parades and parties
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        119 42 Malaysia never fails as a holiday destination for Singapore residents and March is an excellent time to visit Malaysia is host to the second round of the Formula 1 championship and it falls during the school holidays. World champion Kimi Raikkonen and a posse of challengers, led
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        Lock icon APRIL MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
        92 42 It's unabashedly touristy but a thumping delight nevertheless. The atmosphere in the city's medina is carnival-like, the sights exotic and medieval. The labyrinth of souks, or markets, will test any traveller's navigational skills and at night, a multi-ringed show of acrobats, musicians and food vendors takes over
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        134 43 It's a long journey from Singapore to South America a solid day on the plane, in fact but if any country warrants a stab at the continent, Argentina is it. The major cities, capital Buenos Aires in particular, sport a sophisticated European vibe while the countryside is blessed
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        Lock icon JUNE KANGAROO ISLAND
        122 43 Roughly two thirds the size of Singapore, Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia is small enough for visitors to feel at home, yet has activities diverse enough to keep them gleefully occupied. For the gourmet, there's wine-tasting opportunities at the island's vineyards and degustation menus
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        133 43 Don't wait until the 2010 Winter Olympics to set your sights on this latte-sipping, bubble-tea slurping laidback city in western Canada. For while cosmopolitan Vancouver is increasingly known for its winter sports one of the world's best ski resorts, Whistler, is only an hour plus drive away
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        138 43 The Chinese capital puts its best face forward to welcome the world to the Olympic Games on Aug 8. No mean feat considering this is Beijing, where air pollution and congested traffic are endemic. Will the government succeed in its attempt to clear the skies? Will the
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        132 43 Beyond Hanoi and Halong Bay, there's the old hill station of Sapa. A cross between Bali with its green rice terraces and Chiangmai in terms of its hill tribes, Sapa is fast becoming a hot tourist destination. The town can be reached via overnight train from Hanoi.
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        Lock icon OCTOBER HOKKAIDO, JAPAN
        125 44 Suddenly they are everywhere Hokkaido ice cream stands, Hokkaido seafood, Hokkaido food fairs, Hokkaido cuisine at Japanese restaurants. So, if you haven't been to this people-scarce island in northern Japan, it's time to find out what the fuss is about. Food obviously. And plenty of land and
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        112 44 For centuries, monarchy-ruled Bhutan has largely rejected the outside world, encouraging its people to live simple lives according to Buddhist tenets rather than pursue profits and the latest episode of CSI: Las Vegas. Last week, the country took a step towards modernity by voting in its first democratic
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        Lock icon DECEMBER NORTHERN LIGHTS, ARCTIC CIRCLE
        136 44 Until author Philip Pullman fired up the public's imagination with his theory of the Northern Lights in The Golden Compass, the aurora borealis, no matter how beautiful, was simply a phenomenon of nature. Now, everyone knows it's a portal to a parallel universe. Okay, that's
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      1090 45  -  ANSLEY NG Five-star luxury hotels are the new tourism icons in Vietnam, serving as gateways to its rich cultural heritage ansley@mediacorp.com.sg ONCE upon a time Hue was a royal city, chosen by the kings of the Nguyen dynasty as its capital. Recently this central Vietnamese city
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      93 42 1^ Hot Spring Fine Cuisine Carnival in Taiwan i&V. BP^t^^nh From now to 31 January, come and enjoy Taiwan's unique hot-spring cuisine with your family and Mends! Hy^ Taiwan Lantern Festival in Tainan! From 21 Febraary to 2 March, come to Tainan to experience a wonderland of giant and dazzling
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      313 43 Fulfil your travel resolutions J|i^ early this year for a flying start. ;qq l7«Qssr J'XIQ FiM *k^^H« Langkawi 1L Phnom Penh ILXI IO Wk J I and Phuket 4> I and Siem Reap Yangon From A From +^^f\ From A W\ f W 218"— 1298 368 F J 4 1
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      551 47 -AFP Ponting and Co get a lashing, but Aussie cricket chief insists they play within the boundaries SYDNEY Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland defended the national team yesterday against accusations of bad sportsmanship, saying Ricky Ponting's men were playing Test cricket, "not tiddlywinks". Despite a
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      Lock icon Anelka-chaser Grant sees red
      522 48 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LEAGUE CUP SEMI-FINAL, IST LEG Chelsea 2 Everton 1 LONDON Chelsea manager Avram Grant criticised the inconsistency of referee Peter Walton over John Obi-Mikel's fourth sending-off in only 16 months, after the team's dramatic 2-1 win over Everton in Tuesday's (yesterday morning, Singapore
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      Lock icon Hewitt an Indian cricketer?
      243 48 -AFP TENNIS Sydney International SYDNEY -Australia's Lleyton Hewitt (picture) blasted the standard of tennis umpiring after being bounced out of the Sydney International by big-serving compatriot Chris Guccione yesterday. Hewitt did not concede a break point, but was on the wrong end of a 7-6 (7/4),
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      204 48 —AP MEMPHIS Kobe Bryant glanced at the stat sheet and claimed there was a mistake. Derek Fisher (picture) scored 26 points in the Los Angeles Lakers' 117-101 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), making 10 of 11 shots from the field. Or so
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      Lock icon Liverpool in his blood
      495 49 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Benitez sends a message across the Atlantic, insists he's not going anywhere* LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez has made an impassioned plea to Liverpool's American owners to allow him to continue as manager, despite their reservations about the team's progress. George Gillett Jr and Tom
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      Lock icon Ferguson has his eyes on the biggest prize of them all
      423 49 -AGENCIES LONDON The idea of losing their Barclays Premier League crown to Arsenal is unpalatable, but Manchester United are increasingly enthralled by the challenge on the European front in the second half of the season. While manager Alex Ferguson
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      187 50 -AFP VIENNA Austrian authorities are investigating a Vienna-based laboratory that the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) suspects of supplying "dry blood" to athletes for doping purposes, the health ministry said yesterday. "A request from Wada has been sent to the Interior Ministry and to the various bodies concerned and
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      Lock icon Domenicali in the hot seat
      472 50 AGENCIES MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, Italy Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali must deliver in his first year on the job at the famed Formula 1 team, but that appears to suit him fine. "We always want to win and are very ambitious," the Italian said, at
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      Lock icon Lam will not forget this birthday present
      416 50  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg IT CAME days after he blew out the candles on his 31st birthday, but Lam Chih Bing was not complaining. Yesterday, Lam who turned 31 on Dec 29 became the first winner on the inaugural OAAG Golf Tour 2008 when he
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      685 51  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE bowlers won three golds at the 24th SEA Games in Thailand last month. It erased the bitter memory of the 2005 Games in the Philippines, when the team failed to win even one gold medal. Still, Singapore Bowling Federation (SBF) president
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      294 51  -  LOWUNFHOONG SINGAPORE sailors Sherman Cheng and Justin Liv finished in 17th spot at the 29er World Championships yesterday. An annual event that features some of the world's top young sailors, the competition saw 101 teams from 13 countries battle for honours at the
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      149 51  -  KENNETH GOH SINGAPORE defender Faizal Hamid secured a one-year contract with S-League club Gombak United yesterday. Earlier in the week, the right-back had decided to postpone a career as a Prisons officer to rejoin Radojko Avramovic's team. But the former SAFFC player faced the prospect of being
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      378 52  -  KENNETH GOH kenneth@media corp.com.sg LAST month, Singapore keeper Lionel Lewis (picture) trained with Premiership high-flyers Manchester City. On Sunday, Lewis will return to Europe, this time for a one-week trial with Swiss giants Grasshoppers-Club Zurich. FAS vice-president Lt-Gen (Ret) Ng Jui
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      658 52  -  Leonard Thomas S-League must use Japan-based Albirex as the benchmark for clubs who want to play here Investigation Bureau. Even the news that star goalkeeper Lionel Lewis is about to leave for a trial with Swiss giants Grasshop-pers-Club Zurich cannot purge the sick feeling in
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