Today, 6 February 2008

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    13 1 TODAY //\=DJACORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday February 6, 2008 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon TODAY WISHES OUR READERS A HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
    54 1 LOOK OUT FOR OUR SPECIAL SUPER TUESDAY AFTERNOON WON. OUR MORNING EDITION WILL BE BACK ON MONDAY WEETECK HIAN BURST OF PROSPERITY: Fireworks exploding around a God of Fortune statue last night at the opening of the Singapore River Hong Bao
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    Lock icon For the elderly, a less lonely time
    795 1  -  UNYANQIN ALICIA WONG Welfare groups ensure that these Singaporeans are not left out of festive celebrations AND yanqin@media corp.com.sg IN A roomful of people tucking into the traditional Chinese New Year dish of yu sheng, an elderly woman leans over to a girl
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    Bringing up more babies in Year of the Rat, S'pore-style
    326 1 IT WAS a fruitful and productive Year of the Pig for Singapore, economy-wise. But it was only barely so, births-wise. And it will take time to up the baby-friendly quotient further. But this is one of the challenges Singapore will
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      40 1 HUGE HEROIN BUST DRUGS WORTH $1.5M SEIZED LOCAL PAGE 6 CHING CHEONG OUT VETERAN REPORTER RELEASED ON PAROLE WORLD PAGE 10 CONHDENT LIONS ON BRINK OF HISTORY MAKE US BELIEVERS: LEONARD THOMAS SPORTS PAGE 34 17il *****P Wk KmH m
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      Lock icon SUPER TUESDAY TOO CLOSE TO CALL
      559 2  -  TOBYHARNDEN —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Will clear frontrunners emerge after today's polls? GET ready for one of the biggest days in United States political history 24 states and American Samoa voting across five US time zones. On the Republican side, we may see a nominee
      —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; PHOTOS BLOOMBERG  -  559 words
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      Lock icon Clinton-Obama: Dream ticket or fantasy ticket?
      610 3 -AFP WASHINGTON As Democratic rivals Ms Hillary Clinton and Mr Barack Obama chase the nomination to run for United States President, observers have raised the prospect of a "dream ticket" uniting them in November's election. Ms Clinton, aiming to be the first woman com-mander-in-chief,
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      94 3  - ■NGJINGYNG BACK TO THE WILD: A white-bellied sea eagle was released at Yishun Dam yesterday by Jurong BirdPark executive director Wong Hon Mun (left), curator Minerva Nugui (centre) and hawk show manager Clarence Saw. It has recovered from injuries suffered in a fight three weeks ago with another eagle and
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      Lock icon NEA fines 8 shop owners
      467 3  -  JINNY KOH They did not remove roof gutters, a prime mosquito habitat jmny@media corp.com.sg IN THE first such enforcement action taken since the chikungunya outbreak at Clive Street, eight shop owners in Little India have been fined by the National Environment Agency (NEA) for refusing
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      315 2 MDIS: A Great Chapter in My Life ~W W THINK SUCCESS. THlNiTmdi^*' —m^^,,,,,^ MDIS. TRUSTED BY MORE THAN 12,000 J^> I °y ERALL E^ll^] UNIV!L RSITY RATINGSIN 2007 4 star rating tor Overall educational experience STUDENTS FROM 55 COUNTRIES. AWm it* t"l"£ VESl"l" y 4 star rating tor Entry Flexibility
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      Lock icon WARM HEART, COOL HEAD
      676 4  -  SHERALYNTAY First top local woman official at UN lets emotions sharpen her focus sheralyn@media corp.com.sg DURING a visit to war-ravaged Rwanda in 2002, Ms Noeleen Heyzer, who was executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) then, met a group of outcast and
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      Ghanaian on drugs charge claims trial
      214 6  -  ■LEONGWEEKEAT A Ghanaian man at the centre of the largest cannabis haul in a decade claimed trial to four charges of drug trafficking in the High Court yesterday. Chijioke Stephen Obioha, 29, was found with 6kg of cannabis on April 9 last year at
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      Lock icon Largest heroin bust in 5 years
      435 6  -  ANSLEYNG Drugs with street value of $1.5 million seized: CNB ansley@media corp.com.sg THE 38-year-old executive had been under covert surveillance for weeks. On Monday, the man was spotted getting out of a black Nissan Sunny at Park Crescent He entered a shop and came
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      Lock icon Charged: 2 who allegedly abused positions
      395 6  -  -ZULOTHMAN SHE ALLEGEDLY FORGED STUDENT'S PSLE SCRIPTS THE teacher caught cheating for her students was in court yesterday to answer to eight counts of forgery. Shanti Krishnasamy (picture), 39, a Tamil language teacher from Canberra Primary School, was charged with amending the Primary School
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      Lock icon Deadly punch to tackle maritime threats
      324 8  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@media corp.com.sg WHEN it opens next year, the Changi Command and Control Centre will give our efforts to keep our maritime security watertight a boost. Pooling elements from the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), the Police Coast Guard and the Maritime Port Authority
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      Nurturing the next finance whizzes
      277 8  -  ZULOTHMAN Seven years after opening its Graduate School of Business in Penang Road, the University of Chicago is kicking off a new graduate course that aims to develop the world's top financial talents here. At a press conference yesterday, the school and the Stevanovich Research
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      Hip-hop and hope
      537 8  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Social workers to reinvent ways to help dysfunctional Ma I ay-Muslim youths here nazry@mediacorp.com.sg IT USED to be workshops galore but now hip-hop and gardening may figure more in programmes to help Singapore's troubled Malay-Muslim youth. These are what Clubilya president Muzaiyannah Hamzah is planning to
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      93 4 HURRY BEFORE WE SCURRY j Excuse us for closing the IKEA store early at spm today. j We're running off to spend some time with our family and friends. But we'll be back at 10am tomorrow to serve you as usual. Enjoy your feast! HOME FOR THE CELEBRATIONS 317 ALEXANDRA
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      386 5 B^^ Prosper in the Carlsberg V Ang Pow Chase w *khd Hosted by Michelle Chia, Mark Lee, Tay Pinghui and Irene Ang, the show promises fun and /rr\ Vhk excitement with celebrities like Fann Wong, Chew Chor Meng, Edmund Chen, Aileen Tan, >Uf j W1 Pan Lingling, Chen Hanwei, Adrian
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      163 6 j^^B BrilllSnt! Every class ends with an amazing 'wow". tijfc I 't has nei/er occurred to me that Excel can be used this way w! I H^B I and so powerfully. Materials are precise and relevant, very I friendly and capturing with all diagrams and colors. Course I content is
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      55 10 AFP THROWN TO SAFETY: This baby is thrown by a desperate father to waiting members of the fire brigade during a fire in an apartment building on Sunday in the western German town of Ludwigshafen. The baby was caught by a fireman and is doing well. More than 60 people
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      Lock icon First Asian in World Bank hot seat
      337 10 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON The World Bank has named Justin Lin Yifu (picture), who defected from Taiwan and rose to become a top economic strategist for communist China, its chief economist the first time the post has gone to a candidate outside Europe and the
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      Lock icon Ching Cheong out on parole
      620 10 AGENCIES AGENCIES S7"journalist had been in Chinese jail since April 2005 HONG KONG Veteran Hong Kong reporter Mr Ching Cheong (picture), jailed in China on charges of spying for Taiwan, has been freed on parole, officials in Hong Kong said yesterday. Mr Ching, a Hong
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      We'll sink illegal fishing boats: Indonesia
      163 10 JAKARTA—The Indonesian government will decisively deal with foreign fishermen poaching in Indonesian waters and scuttle their boats when caught, local press reported. "Any foreign ship entering or operating in Indonesian waters illegally will be sunk," Maritime and Fisheries Minister Freddy Numberi was quoted by
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      Lock icon Wrong to seize Bibles, says official
      115 11 ■AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian government official said yesterday customs officers were wrong to seize 32 Bibles from a Christian traveller, after church groups decried it as another sign of religious intolerance in the Muslim-majority country. Ms Juliana Nicholas, the Malaysian national from whom
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      Lock icon Dumplings were poisoned
      446 11 -AGENCIES Attempted murder, say Japanese police of pesticide-laced food TOKYO The pesticide-laced Chinese dumplings that made at least 10 people in Japan ill and triggered a nationwide scare were probably poisoned deliberately, Japan's Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe said yesterday. The frozen dumplings, produced by China's Tianyang Food
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        Lock icon KHMER ROUGE LEADER STILL IN HOSPITAL
        103 11 ■AFP Former Khmer Rouge leader leng Sary, one of five top cadres facing Cambodia's genocide tribunal, remained hospitalised yesterday, court officials said. The 82-year-old former Foreign Minister, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity, was hospitalised on Monday after he began urinating blood,
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        Lock icon 40 TONNES OF FIRECRACKERS SEIZED BEFORE TET
        61 11 -AFP Vietnamese police have seized more than 40 tonnes of illegal firecrackers and arrested almost 500 people smuggling or using them in the month leading up to the Tet Lunar New Year next week, state media said yesterday. Police warned people they face
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      Anwar barred from participating in Lingam inquiry
      208 12 KUALA LUMPUR A Royal Commission of Inquiry into a controversial video clip yesterday ruled that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has forfeited his right to participate in the proceedings, reported the Bernama news agency. This prompted all four of Mr Anwar's lawyers to walk
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      49 12 YOU SCREAM, I SCREAM: A woman posing in front of a snow sculpture depicting Edvard Munch's famed painting. The Scream, in Japan's Sapporo City at the 59th Sapporo Snow Festival. The festival attracts about 2 million people each year with its hundreds of hand-crafted snow and ice sculptures. EPA
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      Lock icon Salary: $141 Bribes: $205m
      322 12 -AFP But Bangladeshi gas worker under probe insists he worked hard for his money DHAKA An employee of Bangladesh's biggest stateowned gas company who earned a mere US$lOO ($141) a month managed to pocket a colossal US$l45 million or $205 million in bribes over 12 years,
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    • Between North and South: Eye on Korean ties
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        Lock icon N KOREAN 'DEFECTOR' RUNNING FOR ELECTIONS IN THE SOUTH
        196 14 -AFP A North Korean who escaped from his communist homeland eight years ago is running for South Korea's Parliament in what he claims is the first such bid, election officials said yesterday. Mr Yoon Seung Gil, 38, who came to South
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        Lock icon LEE MYUNG BAK OFFERS TO BOOST LIVING STANDARDS IN N KOREA
        136 14 -AFP South Korea's President-elect Lee Myung Bakwill offer impoverished North Korea a dramatic rise in living standards if it aban- dons its nuclear programmes. Mr Lee's transition team, announcing policy goals for when he takes office on Feb 25,
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        Lock icon JOINT CHEERING SQUAD FOR OLYMPICS
        117 14 -AP North and South Korea agreed on the formation of a joint cheering squad -with 150 people from each country-for this year's Beijing Olympics, but they continue to disagree on how to field a unified Olympic team. The section would support the North and South
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      Lock icon 'Designer babies' possible within 3 years?
      438 14 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Controversial project can also wipe out genetic diseases NEWCASTLE Ten human embryos each containing the DNA from one man and two women have been created in a project that could lead to the first genetically altered babies being born in the
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      Lock icon Latest Tet Lunar New Year paper offerings a sign of Vietnam's growing wealth
      295 14 -AFP HANOI Luxury villas, flat-screen televisions and mobile phones will all go up in smoke this Tet Lunar New Year as newly affluent Vietnamese burn paper models of the latest consumer goods for dead relatives. In a
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      Lock icon Australia and China ties reach 'new level': Minister
      220 15 -AFP CANBERRA Australia and China took their relationship to a new level yesterday with the launch of a strategic dialogue on global and regional issues, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said. Speaking in Canberra after talks with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi,
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      49 15 ETS ■AN UP JUST BIN IT A clean city is a beautiful city. It's also healthier and provides a better quality of life for all. Singapore is our home. Let's do our bit and keep Singapore clean, green and healthy. National nm Cleaner streets, Healthier environment, Better living standards.
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      How cabbies can improve earnings
      209 16  -  LEONG KUM CHUEN Letter from I REFER to the recent debate on whether taxi drivers are seeing an increase in their earnings after the hike in cab fares. I would like to suggest that taxi operators make cabbies shareholders of their companies by giving them
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      Retire? I take greater pleasure from work
      250 16  -  TEO CHENG PEOW Letter from RECENTLY, a friend emailed me, advising me to retire and "enjoy life". My friend stopped working at 58 and is waiting for the proceeds from an en bloc sale. So, technically, he is financially sound. Perhaps for him,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      211 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY GRANDMA'S OFF HER ROCKER There was a time when uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters were available to give parents a helping hand with childrearing. Now, even grandparents are sometimes unavailable because they are just as busy as their children. Let me share
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      Lock icon serveusright HONGBAO GIFT: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
      505 18  -  LIANG DINGZI I HAD wanted to close my account with a certain bank for a very long time because of its consistently poor service. The problem was more than just having to queue for an inordinately long time before being served. The service
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      Lock icon Real-time data won't solve all traffic ills
      194 19  -  LAI YEW CHAN Letter from I REFER to the I Say commentary "Real-time data better than ERP" (Feb 4). Touting real-time information as the panacea to our traffic problems is a tad too simplistic. Currently, the Expressway Monitoring Advisory Systems on our expressways
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      Why junior had to pay full fare
      243 19  -  KATHRYN LAU To enjoy concessions, eligibility must be proven Letter from Assistant Corporate Communications Manager TransitLink WE REFER to the letter, "An Adult ticket for my 7-year-old?" by Darren Lee Siak Fei (Jan 29). We understand Mr Lee's concern and appreciate the opportunity
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      Staff tried to help: SMRT
      216 19  -  KUEKCHORLING Letter from Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications, SMRT I refer to the letter, "Ms Wong's MRT ordeal", by Leo Chen lan (Jan 29). We are sorry to hear of Ms Wong's experience at Newton MRT Station. SMRT staff offered immediate assistance at Newton MRT
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      371 18 A /T 1 Specialist Diploma in >Aertified Teaching Supporting VSF^to^ CMdrenwithSpedalNeeds :6339 5411 All courses are conducted by ACC School of Counselling and Psychology (MOE Reg. N0.2233), the training division of Academy of Certified Counsellors. OLYMPUS mi o.rf^-T A A (5) S&& WINN: w^gy g'as" *BgffßMifij> rooowyi nui rive Awarded
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      84 19 It's easy to mistake this for yet another credit card advertisement. Just like it's easy to believe that education, money or a successful career can •fiS protect you from AIDS. Truth is, HIV doesn't discriminate: lin 6 persons HI fly} Promotion infected with HIV is a professional aged between 25
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      MBK offers $357m to buy AsiaPharm
      184 20  -  -DOW JONES MBK Partners made a $357-million offer for Singapore-listed AsiaPharm Group, launching the first bid of the year by a buyout fund to privatise a listed Asian firm. MBK is offering $0,725 for each share of the China-based pharmaceutical developer and has already
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      GOOD TIME TO EXPAND
      454 20  -  ESTHER FUNG SingTel explores buying opportunities in shaky market esther@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE Telecommunications (SingTel), South-east Asia's largest telephone company, continues to look for acquisitions as it reports three quarters of strong earnings bolstered by contributions from overseas units. Indeed, the current market turbulence poses buying opportunities
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      Lock icon Keppel gets $3b Exxon Mobil contract
      111 20 -BLOOMBERG KEPPEL Corp will supply natural gas to Exxon Mobil's plants in Singapore in a "long-term contract" worth more than $3 billion at current prices. The gas supply agreement will begin next year, Keppel said. The duration of the contract was not disclosed. Exxon
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      St James gears up for listing through RTO
      215 20 ST JAMES, the operator of St James Power Station Singapore's largest night entertainment venue is poised to become the first company to list on the new Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange via a reverse takeover (RTO). JK Technology Group yesterday said
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      115 21  - -ESTHER FUNG ITALIAN JOB: GIC Real Estate, the properly investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), is buying a shopping centre in Italy with ING Real Estate for 400 million euros ($832.6 million). Both parties will have equal stakes in the new Roma Est Shopping Centre in
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      BETTING ON BAD WEATHER
      470 21  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE THE estimated US$7.5-billion ($10.6-billion) economic loss from China's devastating snowstorms not to mention the loss of at least 60 lives underscores the need for weather derivatives in China. Encouragement of (or, for that matter, tolerance for) financial innovation may have fallen to a new low
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      26 22 Good Luck Chuck: ©Sony 2CXI7 CPT Holdings. Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright©2ooB Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (CRN: *****1624D] and SingNet Pte Ltd (CRN: *****2130W). All rights reserved.
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      Lock icon FANN-CY TALK
      1411 23  -  Karman Tse DON WONG Love does crazy little things even to Caldecott royalty Fann Wong, who quips about kissing her boyfriend at the next Star Awards and 'stealing' a $400,000 'rose' that has set her heart aflutter OH YES, Fann Wong is definitely in the mood for love.
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      A TREASURE-HUNTING MISSION
      363 25  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@media corp.com.sg WHY settle for seven wonders of the world, when you can see 80? For the BBC documentary series Around the World in 80 Treasures, British architecture historian Dan Cruikshank said he spent five months on the road, travelling by plane, train, and the
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      Lock icon ARRESTING CONCERT
      607 27  -  Christopher Toh The Police, reunited at last, rock like they never missed a beat CONCERTREVIEW by THE POLICE came and went and many 10,000 in all, including and hotel tycoon Ong Beng Seng turned up to see their show at the Singapore Indoor Stadium Monday night Not only
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      GUARD WENT AGAINST SPIRIT OFTHE POLICE, SAYS FAN
      251 27 Possibly an even hotter talking point than The Police's performance on Monday night involved a fan, an overzealous security guard and a drumstick. Dave Tan (picture), lead singer of local rock band Electrico, was one of the lucky audience members who caught
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        FUN COMPANY
        373 28  -  Alison Chau Ah Long Pte Ltd is a fluffy movie trying to pass off as a morality tale FILMREVIEW by Ah Long Pte Ltd I'M NOT going to pan Jack Neo's latest confection. Not when I haven't had the honour of feasting on his awardwinning I Not Stupid
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        Lame Dunk misses the mark by a mile
        217 28  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by Kung Fu Dunk AFTER taking on soccer, table-ten-nis and mahjong, it was a matter of time before gongfu pushed its qi onto the basketball court in Kung Fu Dunk. Jay Chou reprises his "duh, I'm so bored, it's
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        A sci-fi comedy gone to the dogs – literally
        339 29  - A sci-fi comedy gone to the dogs literally Karman Tse FILMREVIEW by I CJ7 STEPHEN Chow's sense of humour has gone to the dogs from outer space. And it's not funny. Four years after his hugely-successful Kungfu Hustle, Chow returns with CJ7, a sci-fi comedy that's supposed to be inspired
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      31 23 ■IB^VjvOJJ^i KCIE YOU I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry: 2007 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. Copyright ©2008 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd [CRN: *****1624D) and SingNetPte Ltd (CRN: *****2130W). All rights reserved.
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      32 24 I s aw? s I 30 Days of Night: 2007 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. CopyrightB2ooB Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (CRN: *****1624D] and SingNet Pte Ltd (CRN: *****2130W). All rights reserved.
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