Today, 24 May 2008

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    26 1 weekendTODAY MICA(P) 134/10/2007 /AzezaCorp we set you thinking May 24 25. 2008 todayonline.com weekendTOD4Y MICA(P) 134/10/2007 /AzdiaCorp we set you thinking May 24 25, 2008 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon WHEN FAMILIES GO GLOBAL
    48 1 TRENDS, TRAUMA AND TIES CHRISTIE LOH 21 THE WIRED FAMILY PAULINE D LOH 10 A BRAVE NEW SINGAPORE? RAVI VELOO 12^^^^™ CONNECTED NOT JUST BY BLOOD PETER H L LIM 14 WHAT ABOUT FAMILY ASSETS? RICHARD HARTUNG 36 IN YOUR WEEKEND XTRA w FAIZAL
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    Lock icon S'pore gets Pedra Branca
    851 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO Rocky outcrops for Malaysia, ICJ rules ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR derrick@media corp.com.sg AS THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered on Friday a near two-hour verdict to end a three-decade dispute over Pedra Branca, it seemed for a time the decision would go to
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  • Article
    An exclusive club to help the needy
    665 1  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@media corp. com. sg TO BELONG to this club, you pay $100 a month. Recruitment is by invitation and word of mouth. But the privileges are not what you might expect instead of golf or dining discounts, you become part of a
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon TRENDS, TRAUMA AND TIES
      1165 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH S'porean families ponder the sacrifices they make in the quest for globalisation christie@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S hard being apart Three months in Mongolia without his wife and little son, Mr Lester Tan was feeling the pangs of absence. The managing director of Asia Pacific Breweries' Mongolian
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    • Article
      Tweaking the CPI to make it relevant
      487 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Singaporeans'lifestyles, spending patterns and expenses have undergone rapid changes nazry@media corp. com. sg THIS indicator has become an important one for Singaporeans in recent months as inflation climbs and some parliamentarians think it is time to make it "more current and relevant".
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      REMAKING KALLANG
      729 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG THE BUSINESS OF PAYA LEBAR CENTRAL The growth of Paya Lebar Central as a suburban commercial zone would be the latest step to ease congestion in the Central Business District (CBD), as urban planners address the imbalance in the ratio of jobs to homes in
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      building a sound foundation
      555 5 The opportunity to study for a Bachelor of Engineering at one of the top 10 technology universities in the world wastoo good a dealfor NewZealander Michael Perryto pass up. So in 1999, the Asia New Zealand Foundation scholar headed for the National University of Singapore (NUS)
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      beyond the classroom
      210 5  -  LYNETTE KOH At the NUS Faculty of Engineering, student projects can lead to exciting results. For the NUS Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) project, an undergraduate team designed and fabricated Southeast Asia's first Formula Istyle racing car. While it initially started as a "fun" project, the
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  • Singapore news
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      GLOBAL BRAND, GLOBAL FAMILY
      761 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH How APB deals with expatriate family issues christie@mediacorp.com.sg FOR all the pride and prestige that comes with being a company with a worldwide reach, globalisation has raised a fresh set of challenges for the human resource department How to deal with family issues when
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  • news
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      Pump prices up again
      251 10  -  NEO CHAI CHIN PETROL retailers in Singapore have raised pump prices again, barely a week after the last round of hikes. Shell raised its prices at spm on Thursday by 5 cents for its Formula 92, 95, 98 and V-Power grades, and Caltex and ExxonMobil followed
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      Eye error hits baby
      305 10  -  SHERALYN TAY Doctor who failed to refer child for eye screening suspended sheralyn@media corp. com. sg THE doctor said it was an oversight, but a five-month lapse in diagnosis and treatment cost a young child its vision in the left eye. For his failure to refer
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      THE SURFER, MY 72-YEAR-OLD UNCLE
      779 10  -  PAULINE D LOH Even the older folk are getting into the act to keep in touch FOREIGN EDITOR paulined@mediacorp.com.sg THE dialog box on my screen flashes orange red and shudders. I know it's my 72-year-old uncle in Beijing who is impatient to talk about his
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      The question of disciplinary action
      386 12 DPM Wong to give update on Mas Selamat case; MPs ask about Myanmar aid holdup IT HAS been a month since the blow-by-blow account of Mas Selamat Kastari's escape from detention was given to Parliament, and on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng will
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      Lock icon A BRAVE NEW SINGAPORE?
      755 12  -  RAVI VELOO Today's cosmopolitan family may just make this happen sooner, rather than later news@newstoday.com .sg IN THE low ribbon of stone that runs up the side of Fort Canning Hill, there is a gravestone that is particularly heartbreaking, remembering a British child who died here
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      THE MOTHER OF ALL BABIES
      1042 14  -  PETER H L LIM Sichuan cop shows the wider family is alive and well SHE is a cop. She was photographed in the Sichuan earthquake zone earlier this month breastfeeding two babies simultaneously. Breastfeeding two infants at the same time is not unusual for mothers
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      Fight for survival
      406 16  -  JINNY KOH Family clung together as currents threatened to pull them apart jinny-_mediacorp.com.sg IN the midst of panic as their boat sank off Marina South Pier, one man kept his family together by directing them to hold onto each other even as the choppy waters and currents
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      Was $50k a fair sum or blackmail?
      354 16  -  ZU LOTH MAN zul ©media corp.com.sg IF EARLIER stages of the High-Court hearing were filled with tales of semen-stained mattresses, late-night rendezvous and spy cameras, the civil suit brought by Dr Tarn Tak Chuen against his former business partner ended on a more
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      Lock icon PM likely to take stand in Chee case
      298 16  -  TEOXUANWEI JUSTICE Belinda Ang will decide on Monday morning if the affidavits filed by Dr Chee Soon Juan and Ms Chee Siok Chin should be struck out Regardless of the result, the assessment of damages hearing is likely to start immediately after,
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Getting S'pore shipshape
      452 18  -  NGJINGYNG Exercise Northstar VI was'quite well done' jingyng__mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS the perfect sunny, breezy holiday cruise at sea that vacationers pray for but even as activities on the board the SuperStar Aquarius were in full swing, smoke began billowing out from the kitchen. Anxious passengers, with their
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      MediaCorp raises $200,000 for Sichuan earthquake victims
      254 18 MEDIACORP and its staff will be donating $200,000 to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. The money will be channelled through various agencies, in particular to those that help the more than 4,000 children who have been orphaned or made homeless by the
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      Barking mad about animal welfare
      299 18  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn__mediacorp.com.sg THEY'RE all barking mad about animals that is and on Saturday, more than 300 animal lovers and activists will gather for the first Singapore Animal Welfare Symposium. It's an "encouraging" response, said Mr Louis Ng, president and founder of the Animal Concerns
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      Lock icon MYANMAR BREAKTHROUGH
      476 20 —AFP Announcement follows UN boss' talks with junta chief NAYPYIDAW Myanmar's junta leader on Friday agreed to allow access to all foreign aid workers to help with the relief operation after Cyclone Nargis, United Nations Secretary-Gen-eral Ban Xi Moon said. Mr Ban made the announcement after more than
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      Lock icon Where's the money, asks Selangor Menteri Besar
      193 20 KUALA LUMPUR The Chief Minister of Selangor has revealed that representatives of the ruling coalition spent 90.6 per cent of the total state allocations within the first two months of this year, Malaysiakini reported. Responding to a question posed by an opposition member
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      Lock icon HFMD spreading in Vietnam
      231 20 -AP HANOI Vietnam has warned health officials nationwide to be on the lookout for an infectious disease that has killed 12 children in the country this year, a health official said on Friday. So far, Vietnam has reported about 2,800 cases of hand, foot and mouth
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    • shoptalk
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        AN EYE FOR GREAT DEALS
        104 22 Here s one more reason to look and feel good this coming sale season: Your next purchase of FreshKon Colors Fusion coloured contact lenses during the Great Singapore Sale season,from June 6 to July 28, will entitle you to a limited edition tote bag.Shoppers who
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        STYLE ON THE GO
        101 22 If you think that laptops are more function than form, Toshiba's new Satellite M3OO and A3OO Notebook PCs will make you think twice.This new range of notebooks come in the new Toshiba Fusion Finish that boasts a sleek industrial-style exterior, a tactile keyboard and chrome mouse
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        SLEEP EASY
        106 22 Newly-weds looking for a mattress that can offer a night of restful sleep without burning holes in their pockets can seek comfort in the new Simmons Beautyrest Eternity mattress. Made from high-tensile strength steel, the barrel-shaped coil is pre-compressed for resilience and spring effect. It also uses the
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        DO THE TWIST
        85 22 Fight the flab while watching your favourite television programme with OSIM's ußobic simply sit on the exerciser and twist your body in the opposite direction of the ußobic's movement. It provides a low impact cardiovascular exercise, which is gentle on the joints, aimed at reducing your waistline
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    • Article
      Lock icon M'sia to review ISA
      308 22 -AFP But the Internal Security Act, or any other'harsh' laws, will not be repealed KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will review its tough colonial-era security law, which allows for indefinite detention without trial, a top minister said in reports on Friday. Mr Zaid Ibrahim, a minister in the
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      Lock icon Cuffed suspect drives off in police car
      207 22 —AP KUALA LUMPUR A suspect in a drug case escaped custody in Malaysia by driving off in a police car with his handcuffs still on. The 24-year-old man got away on Thursday when police transporting him to court stopped for a toilet break
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    • Article
      Lock icon Malaysian men just wanna have fun?
      255 22 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian lawmaker told parliament that there would be fewer marital problems and a lower divorce rate if Muslim women were taught to accept polygamy, news reports said on Friday. Mr Ibrahim Ali, an independent parliamentarian, proposed moves to address the
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    • THIS quirky WORLD
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        MEXICAN DONKEY RELEASED FROM PRISON
        71 24 A MEXICAN donkey, Blacky, was held in the prison for three days for biting and kicking two men near a ranch outside the capital of Chiapas state, reported Ananova.com. He was freed after his owner, Mauro Gutierrez, paid a fine and hospital bill for the
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        Lock icon DEAD FLIES IN WATER NOT WORTH *****,000
        154 24 -AFP A CANADIAN who found a dead fly in his bottled water and claimed it ruined his sex life, hair salon business and even made it hard for him to shower, lost his legal bid for redress on Thursday. Waddah Mustapha had said
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        KANGA-RUSE TO CATCH ZOO RUNAWAY
        102 24 ANANOVA. COM also reported that a kangaroo that went on the run from a wildlife park in Germany was finally lured back using sandwiches covered in his favourite peanut butter. Toto went on a 15-day walkabout after escaping from the Serengeti Wildlife Park in Hanover,
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      Lock icon I FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
      657 24  -  INUKY VII lA_.nl Insanity is all relative, especially in my clan YOU think the Middle-East conflict is a tough problem to resolve? You should try the Vittachi family reunion. Admittedly, slightly fewer rocket-pow-ered grenades are involved. But in terms of the complexity of issues,
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      Lock icon Another big blow to Labour Party
      364 28 -AFP -AFP LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has suffered another severe blow to his authority as his Labour Party saw the Conservatives seize a seat it has held for two decades in a by-election. Just three weeks after trouncing Labour in local elections,
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      Lock icon 'Pressure Cooker' led to sub crash
      466 28 $14m damages suffered because of messy charts and inattentive officers A NUCLEAR submarine suffered £5 million ($13.5 million) in damages after it crashed into the seabed because officers used tracing paper to plot her course, an official inquiry has found. In November 2002, three
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      HEARTBREAKS ABROAD
      752 28  -  TIFFANY TAN Love and loss for the migrant worker tiffany@mediacorp.com.sg IF ALL wishes came true, Faith would now be on her honeymoon. Instead, she spends her nights crying, wondering how things went so wrong that her former fiance is now on a honeymoon with someone else. Faith who
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      Lock icon Banking on youth
      602 29  -  M MARTY M NATALEGAWA Indonesia's youth now have more opportunities than ever to shape their country PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIAATTHE UNITED NATIONS IN NEWYORK INDONESIA commemorates "100 Years of National Awakening" this year. Its national awakening began with the founding of the Boedi Oetomo
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      668 21 _p^__________________p____________________ J^^ Dramatic Weight M mM fl Bridget Khoo, 51 B _i F&B Controller _L 1— 4 fl Suffered from middle- V fl fIV aged weight gain m^AJ m p^ ridget noticed her weight started The ageing body causes muscles to After V l_J to escalate at 45. Even though
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      553 23 _BS Am Ir* -T fly Fair Lady After J Treatment" fl \y*^. w uliana always wanted to look the ravaging effects of time decreased naturally attractive. But as the her skin cell renewal. years went by, her freckles became too prominent for her The skincare professional at New York liking.
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      246 26 ■;v_tHSr W r •*_&(3oy J"T 1 Join Singapore's top entertainment weeklies 8 DAY* and '"Weekly at The Big Idea this weekend, I a two-day carnival packed with activities right in the I heart of Orchard Road! Presents! CPOCOdNe Ru event deta i| s jp week s g DAYS Bjg fc^
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  • Voices
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      Lock icon ERP system flaws must be dealt with
      270 30  -  HO KONG LOON To do this, an independent body should be set up to get motoring public's input Letter from I I REFER to the article, "One stop, to deal with ERP payment woes" (May 23). Letters to the press complaining about the
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    • Letter
      Bravo, for Ch 8 charity show
      174 30  -  GILBERT GOH KEOWWAH Letter from I APPLAUD MediaCorp and other sponsors for putting up the Sichuan Earthquake Charity Show, which will air this Sunday (7pm to 10pm on Channel 8) to solicit donations for victims of the 7.9 magnitude quake, which struck the province
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    • The long road ahead
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        Rude cabby admonished
        68 30  -  YVONNE TANG Letter from Manager, Group Corporate Communications ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited WE REFER to, "Cabbie challenged me to a fight" (May 20) by Mr Zav Husref. We would like to apologise to Mr Husref for the unpleasant encounter he had. ComfortDelGro cabbies have been told to drive
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        Trend sparks flash of anger
        145 30  -  SEOW CHUEN CAIN Letter from LATELY, I have been seeing customised brake lights from cars on the roads, such as rapidly-flashing brake and hazard lights, in addition to the normal brake lights. Customised brake lights like those, are certainly eye-catching, but they shock the drivers
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        Contact us, please
        74 30  -  KARYN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications Group Marketing Communications Certis Cisco Security Pte Ltd WE REFER to the letter, "Driver ordered to move even though he was parking car" (May 7) by Mr Michael Chiang. Based on our initial findings, we did not deploy any
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  • Business
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      Lock icon A poke from public enemy no. 1
      457 31  -  CHEOWXINYI Inflation hits new record high, prompting Govt to raise target cheowxinyi__mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S economy is growing slower than expected, with inflation overtaking the United States sub-prime crisis as public enemy number one. Inflation hit a new 26-year high of 7.5 per cent last
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    • Article
      Govt cuts export growth target
      182 31 Exports are slipping, as the Singapore dollar surges and world economy slows down. Non-oil domestic exports, a key barometer of the economy's health, rose an annual 0.6 per cent in the three months to end-March, lower than the 2.3 per cent expansion in the same
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    • Article
      Lock icon New office space will be snapped up: Mah
      312 31 -BLOOMBERG DON'T worry. The looming flood of new office space will be snapped up so Singapore won't suffer from over-supply, says National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan. "We take a medium-to-long term view of projections," said Mr Mah. "All the supply will
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      Lock icon For SMEs, a crucial edge
      114 31 HELP is on hand for precision engineering companies eager to grow. A new $15-million Precision Engineering Centre was opened on Friday by Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Vi Shyan at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (Simtech). Here, small and medium enterprises
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      Lock icon Billionaire fails to block ouster vote
      247 32 BLOOMBERG A BILLIONAIRE Hong Kong developer may face a vote to oust him as chief executive of his own firm on "mental health" grounds. Sun Hung Kai Properties' (SHKP) chief executive officer, Mr Walter Kwok, has failed in a court bid to block the
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      DERIVATIVES WARRANT CONCERN
      771 32  -  BARNABY MATTHEWS, XTRA HOT STUFF Amid the current volatility in financial markets, derivatives such as warrants and options may help investors sleep better. LIN XUELING asks the experts about these sophisticated instruments in this week's Channel News Asia's programme, When the Bears are Out, Invest Wise. HEAD
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Yahoo and Google could strike ad pact
        460 34 -AGENCIES Yahoo postpones annual meeting until end-July YAHOO and Google could announce a search-advertising agreement as soon as early next week, a source familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires. The two Internet companies have been in talks to reach an agreementunder
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        Lock icon IN GOOGLE WE TRUST – BUT SHOULD WE?
        697 34  - IN GOOGLE WE TRUST BUT SHOULD WE? VICTOR KEEGAN THE GUARDIAN A QUESTION increasingly asked is whether Google is becoming a dangerous monopoly. If we end up with one company controlling the search engine on the Internet the gateway to information it could be catastrophic if it abuses its position.
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        BUSINESS OF LIVING OVERSEAS
        863 36  -  RICHARD HARTUNG Living in a foreign land with a family presents its own financial challenges news@newstoday.com .sg THE day the university bill for more than US$2O,OOO ($27,200) arrived was when the difference in finances for a global family really hit home. Our 17-year-old daughter was about
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        Lock icon China telcos in competitive reshuffle
        190 36 BLOOMBERG CHINA began reorganising its telecommunications industry, allowing the world's largest mobile phone company to start fixed-line services in a series of changes aimed at spurring competition. China Mobile will take control of fixed-line operator China Tietong Telecommunications. There will also be a reshuffle of
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      1197 38  -  jkytjd FAIZAL EAT AS YOU SHOP audrey@n_ediacorp.com.sg Here's your guide to pulling through the Great Spore Sale with your stomach fed and your sanity intact OVER the next two months, the liberal use of a four-letter word all around Singapore will cause something to snap within
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        931 42  -  J-..:....!....!.'- MEN'S SKINCARE pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg With skincare becoming part of a man's daily routine, it's natural that sales of male beauty products are rising OUR newsroom pantry is a cosy corner where odd things happen. A colleague once spotted another doing a secret pirouette beside the fridge. And
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        46 44 WINNER OF THE AGEDEFYING SEGMENT IN THE FACIAL CARE CATEGORY "Using this is similar to using seven different skincare products as it helps to repair the seven signs of ageing," said Ranjeet Oak, country sales manager of Procter Gamble Singapore.
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        62 44 WINNER OF THE FACE LIFTING SEGMENT IN THE FACIAL CARE CATEGORY "This has been proven to firm up the face. Anyone in his or her 30s and above can use this product although we do have younger customers who want to enjoy the
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        68 44 WINNER OF THE HAIR CARE CATEGORY "We have a wide range of eight shampoo formulas to meet the various hair needs of our customers. In the past, there were only shampoos for normal and oily hair or for hair with dandruff but Sunsilk shampoos deal with more specific
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        175 44  -  PEARLYN THAM WINNING PRODUCTS L'Oreal, Dove and Brand's come out tops at Guardian Health Beauty Awards pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg YOU could say that it was a tough fight to the finishing line. Out of more than 3,000 products sold at the Guardian chain, only 137 were shortlisted for the
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        264 44  -  PEARLYN THAM HE ADMITTED that it was a "quite painful" decision. But veteran fashion designer Thomas Wee will sell his collection of about 30 outfits from his comeback show at the Singapore Fashion Festival (SFF) in March. "Why bother to design and make clothes when
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        349 44  -  PEARLYN THAN! THEY may bare their feelings, shed their inhibitions and take their clothes off in the popular Sex The City series. But the fashionable quartet of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte would never have imagined that their escapades would inspire a new take on
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        362 46  -  COLIN YONG SMALL is the new big, at least when it comes to cars. Record high pump prices are driving more buyers into compact, more fuel-efficient cars compared to a year ago, according to figures from the Motor Traders Association of Singapore
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          109 47 Peugeot's new entrant into the midsized hatchback market, the 308, goes on sale in Singapore next weekend. It replaces the five-door 307 model, although the 307 CC convertible continues on sale. Sporting the French brand's now-trademark "grinning" grille, the 308 is larger all-round than its predecessor and
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          106 47 The wraps have come off Citroen's new C 5 Tourer, the station wagon version of the latest C 5 four-door saloon. It's a far more elegant looking car than the current C 5 wagon, which is still available for sale in Singapore. Despite having a stylishly raked
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      147 49 LOOKS like the Wynners will have to perform without drummer Anthony Chan for its July concert in Singapore it's their first in eight years. According to a press release issued by concert organiser Unusual Entertainments, Chan now a chief executive officer of a listed company in China
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      262 54  -  TAN YO-HINN TO MARK 100 years of hockey as an Olympic sport, over 600 children from 95 local and international schools took part in the World Hockey Youth Challenge Day, held last Saturday at the Singapore Recreation Club's half of the Padang. Hockey has featured
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      284 57 -AFP BOSTON So much for home advantage. The Detroit Pistons dealt the Boston Celtics their first defeat on their own famed parquet home court on Thursday (Friday morning, Singapore time), beating them 103-97 in the NBA playoffs. The win evens the Eastern Conference
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