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    20 1 weekendTODAY August 9 io, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking weekentTODAY August g io, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon Bumpy year ahead, says PM
    779 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG AFP NATIONAL DAY MESSAGE cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg AS EXPECTED, the Prime Minister's National Day message reflected, as he said in his very opening line, a somewhat guarded mood. Mr Lee Hsien Loong gave a set of statistics which showed that Singapore, although it managed to hold
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      176 1 SINGAPORE JOB CAUTION The lower economic growth forecast will probably affect the re-employment of older workers and job creation, said Mr Lim Boon Heng. Page 2 WORLD NEWS COMMENT Bosnia. Rwanda. Darfur. The link in these tragedies: Failure on the UN's part to act. If it is to remain a
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      Lock icon Just like Chinese New Year
      430 2 AGENCIES BEIJING 2008 While China puts on a glittering show, rest of Beijing put lives on hold BEIJING China's colourful 5,000-year history came alive on Friday night at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics, which included themes from Zhang Yimou's signature movies Hero and
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      Lock icon Job creation likely affected, but on the brighter side ...
      223 2  - Job creation likely affected, but on the brighter side NEOCHAICHIN CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE lower economic growth forecast, "unfortunately", will "probably" affect the reemployment of older workers and job creation, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Mr Lim Boon Heng. "But fortunately for us, we have done well in the
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      STORE SOCIETY
      484 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO XTRA derrick® mediacorp. com. sg IT POSSIBLY has been one of the most-used words in our national lexicon for many years, a result, ironically, of a seeming shortage of it on the streets of Singapore. These days, the Republic is not the only one whistling
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      TIME TO CELEBRATE OUR TALENT
      1092 3 what he sees lacking is "soul". "We can't paint everyone with the same brush, but today the mark of success is all the 'Cs (car, cash, condo, credit card, country card) more than in the 905," he said. Several respondents also subscribed to the view
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      WHERE WE NEED THE MOST BRAINS
      932 4  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI XTRA THE TALENT PUSH Is R&D really where we should be focusing our best and brightest stars? nazry@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE an intense push by the Government to get the best and the brightest into research and development, it is still the sector where
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      Lock icon MR CHIN, MS LIM AND MANY OTHERS
      1146 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG XTRA THE BRAIN DRAIN How to stop them from leaving their home country cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg HE HAD the pick of some of Singapore's most prestigious science and technology scholarships. But Mr Chin Chun Ming, 21, rejected them and opted to enrol
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      Lock icon YOUNG S'POREANS MADE GOOD
      1209 8  -  I tU XUANWtI XTRA SUCCESS STORIES Singapore short on local talent in areas such as Business and Enterprise? Listen to these three Singaporeans speak and you may wonder what the fuss is all about. And they should know what they are talking about after all, they
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      Lock icon OUR TALENT BLINDSPOT
      783 10  -  RAVI VELOO XTRA HIDDEN INSIDE US It's all in your mind, and in your namecard news@newstoday.com .sg WHEN you are 43 years old like Singapore today you'd like to think of yourself as having more than one dimension like the way we added to our port economy,
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      Lock icon $8m bounty shared by eight winners
      249 12  -  NEO CHAI CHIN DONWONG IT WAS touted as Toto's Triple Eight draw, and so, it seemed apt that eight people found themselves richer by $1,003,113 on Friday night. Anticipation was thick in the air at Singapore Pools' Draw Hall at Paradiz Centre, when the
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      Friends are life-savers
      439 12  -  ESTHER NG NEOCHAICHIN ELDERLYSUICIDES Social interest groups key to fighting loneliness estherng@mediacorp.com.sg WITH suicide rates rising among those 65 years and above, depression is the main enemy the community must help the elderly tackle and the antidote is as simple a thing as friendship. Said Mr Lim
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      Local heroes, indie-style
      629 16  -  ALICIA WONG NATIONAL DAYVIDEO A birthday music video with a quirky side, courtesy of a British composer alicia@mediacorp.com.sg HAWKERS are whipping up dishes, customers calling out orders, the coffee aunty shouting "sioh ah" (hot) as she wends her way among tables at Katong Village. In the midst
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      Contingency plans for radiation leaks
      222 16  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg AN AVERAGE of six nuclear-powered warships (NPW) from countries like France, the United States and the United Kingdom call at Changi Naval Base every year, and the radioactive leakage that happened two years ago is believed to be the first such incident, said
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      10 new Chikungunya cases surface
      199 16 ANOTHER eight cases of chikungunya fever have surfaced in Kranji Way, bringing the total count in the largest cluster to 28. The latest cases involve two Bangladeshis, three Indians, a Malaysian and two Singaporeans. Five of the foreign workers work and reside at the site,
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      845 9 LiiiifJrWffS 5# 9lh~iO.h August 08 (Sat-Sun)^ IB M L fc^X IrijjApßHat^fnX l^irigßr' 1' We keep you _^^^t ;VMH IkN co#'^ p well-entertained whiuTM™ 1.30pm 1 .40pm Bealfaax To Hw Groove I \\._t, [<\ ',','',''<-'J^jJ| .^BMlH^^^l 1.30pm -2.30pm Human Statue I '.-'^j^H^^^^ _^^^F 4.30pm 4.45pm Danny the Illusionist Iff Mmft^^aß^afl 4.45pm
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      56 10 |H§ OLYMPICS SHOT OF THE DAY Nikon Best Caption Contest is to 24 August2ooB] Look out for the Send us your Captions now! The best 10 captions will be showcased and the top 3 entries will stand to win Nikon cameras worth up to $2,100! Email your entries to nikonolympics@newstoday.com.sg
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      378 11 ■^MediaCorp Easyßeaderv^iO^TODAYDigitalEdition HOT NEWS SINGAPORE WORLD VOICES BUSINESS SPORTS PLUS 11 Today I •< home > world s^rch I I in^ inav ini'an9 E^H Deacny attack On police Station Rescuers airlifted two frost- I jlJ eea l Monday, stam media reported P^H f^^™l^^ Rome -An Italian city SS" fcbiiyßltali^ra^^aTice'ail I
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      372 13 HOT NEWS SINGAPORE WORLD VOICES BUSINESS SPORTS PLUS I SocGen trader's assistant Oil prices fall below 120 "I*l^^^^ 1 charged with complicity: Uar* oilpricespiunged %^^kfc^^ «fe> I OlTlCial briefly below 119 dollars a N^£ I I The 24-year-old assistant of French rogue trader i—'"Sfcutfl barrel on Monday for the >
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      96 14 A nation celebrates TODAY photographers capture National Day Parade highlights that you should look out for if you're at the Marina Day area celebrating the nation's 43rd birthday ''lJBMi'\ L tub**" 'vSbkl SONY. a2OO a3oo* r T a350 (X Camera Basic Series j[i^y,i° L |\j OC Camera Live View Series
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      112 17 SONY, like.no.other" I am an artist. JaWttta^ Embark on a new creative journey Ja with the easy-to-use (X Camera. fiaF* A powerful tool for expressing TV /At -\^r^ s^H Pictures taken by Joi Chua, a Brand Ambassador, with DSLR-A3OO (Limited Gold Edition). J^^4«bPHP'^^^s\ (X Brand Ambassador Warner Music Artiste Begin
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      Lock icon Protests before Games begin
      231 18 AFP KATHMANDU The opening of the Olympic Games was greeted on Friday with scattered protests across Asia and fresh criticism of China from United States President George W Bush. In the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, at least 1,400 Tibetans, including monks and nuns, were arrested during a
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      Lock icon OLYMPICS SHOT OF THE DAY
      42 21 Brought to you by fiikoA Send us your captions for the Nikon Olympics Best Caption Contest now! Email your entries to nikonolympics@newstoday.com.sg Policemen inside Beijing's 'Bird's Nest' Stadium during the fireworks display at Friday's Olympics Ceremony. AFP
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      Lock icon KL goes on a PR blitz
      464 21 AGENCIES MALAYSIAN POLITICS Malaysia's Foreign Ministry organises overseas sessions on Anwar's alleged sodomy case KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Foreign Ministry will be organising information sessions overseas on the sodomy case against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. "This will give the true picture so there will be
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      Plan needed to develop Pulau Pisang: Rais Yatim
      309 21 PUTRAJAYA —Johor needs to draw up a masterplan to develop Pulau Pisang to ensure the island does not follow the fate of the island Malaysians call Batu Puteh, said the country's Foreign Minister on Friday. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in
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      Lock icon Til kill Obama
      346 22 AP ASSASSINATION FEARS Man charged for threatening to kill presidential candidate claims it was all a joke MIAMI A man who the authorities said was keeping weapons and military gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court on Thursday on charges that he threatened to
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        ASEAN, INDIATOSIGN FREETRADE PACT IN DECEMBER
        194 22 South-east Asian nations expect trade with India to soar once Asean signs a just-con-cluded deal with New Delhi at a regional summit in December. Talks in Brunei on Thursday removed the remaining obstacles to the pact, which will liberalise trade in goods between India
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        ASEAN ANTHEM COMPETITION
        146 22 The Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) is inviting members to take part in a region-wide competition to select an Asean Anthem. The Asean National Committee on Culture and Information (Coci) in Singapore said that having an Asean Anthem will help create a sense of an Asean
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        Lock icon MUSHARRAF IMPEACHMENT BID MAY PROMPT ARMY MOVE
        142 22 BLOOMBERG Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf faces the battle of his political life after his political opponents united on Friday to impeach him. The fight may prompt the army he once commanded to intervene to avert a crisis. The two parties that dominate the
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      UN MUST SHOW MORE CREDIBILITY
      887 24  -  TAMAL MUKHERJEE NEWS COMMENT The blue berets are touted as "peacekeepers', not "peace enforcers'. Invisible and powerless enforcers... news@newstoday.com. sg AN OLD man with a flowing grey beard practising alternative medicine doesn't look like being capable of murdering, maiming and tearing asunder the lives of
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      The watchdog versus the corruptors
      667 26  -  DENNY INDRAYANA CORRUPTION IN PARLIAMENT sindo@mediacorp.com.sg THE reputation of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continues to go up its persistent effort having begun to touch and shock some corruption sources. One such source is the centre of political corruption in the Parliament: The House of
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      Lock icon Harry Potter star's photo used to aid police hunt
      182 26 AP WELLINGTON Police hunting a teen burglar in the New Zealand city of Christchurch have circulated a mug shot of 58-year-old British actor Robbie Coltrane who, they say, has a strong resemblance to their young suspect. Posters bearing a photograph of
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    • this quirky world
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        BANANAAND PEACH SURPRISE
        122 26 A pizza restaurant in China has confused customers by using banana and peach signs on the gents and ladies toilet doors, Ananova.com reported. The fruity markings, in the central city of Zhengzhou, were spotted by officials conducting research on the city's public signs. They concluded that more
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        Lock icon 26CHEERLEADERS RESCUED FROM AN ELEVATOR
        131 26 AP How many cheerleaders can cram into an elevator? Apparently not 26. A group of teenage girls attending a cheerleading camp at the University of Texas got stuck and had to be rescued after trying to squeeze into an elevator at a residence hall. One
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        Lock icon BULLETPROOF BRAS ISSUEDTO WOMEN OFFICERS
        120 26 THE GUARDIAN A new bulletproof bra has been issued to women police officers in Germany to offer them a second line of defence. The policewoman who came up with the idea says the bras with the word Polizei (police) emblazoned across the bottom will offer
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      23 26 SEPUTAR INDONESIA roundup Seputar is Indonesia's 3rd largest circulating paper.lt is owned by MNC, which has a strategic and financial partnership with MediaCorp.
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      704 27 *I"fS*^c£ Right after NDP's Live Broadcast WSffifffcZ onChannelS __-_____-^^^mmmh| I v 11^ SStt o, white hair gentle herba, ,—sX^ FACE-TO-FACE When did you start to have How bad was your greying With Yun Mam'c Uoir rw n x greying hair? hair? wim Yun Nam s Hair Care Professional My hair
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      Lock icon IS THIS WALL GREAT, OR WHAT?
      845 28  -  DAVE BARRY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES DAVE BARRY ATTHE OLYMPICS IN BEIJING news@newstoday.com.sg BADALING (China) -1 came here to see the Great Wall of China. To make the trip, you get a taxi in Beijing, then take the Great Wall Freeway to the Great Wall
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      Lock icon A TALENT CALLED JACK
      820 30  -  KENNETH TAN XTRA MOVIE MAKER Neo's indomitable and creative spirit should spur him to hit a home run internationally I VIVIDLY recall, with deep affection and high admiration, the first time Jack Neo walked into the Golden Village conference room to discuss potential Singapore distribution of
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      553 31 ~r£? l.'3fci HUM alwNDP's LW BraadcaM ftetMl *p Face ittoe tMwte* J Redeem your looks. Bid goodbye to pimples soars. You were a 'hat woman'. Were Do you think skincare is important? Definitely! How you look determines people's With Mom V/-»i-U> Ol Hats were a must for me as I
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      Lock icon THE GREAT OIL BUBBLE HAS BURST
      650 32  -  MARTIN VANDERWEYER THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BUSINESS COMMENT Spike of past year would be erased if rate of descent continues into September BAD news from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline: An explosion sparked a fire earlier this week, temporarily cutting the flow through it. The installation on a
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      Staying in the game
      398 34  -  BUSINESS COSTS Managing costs vital to staying afloat during downturn: Business leaders CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg WITH commodity prices sky high, even seemingly useless scraps of leftover waste metal can cost more than the labour used to make a product, said Mr Renny Yeo, chairman of Singapore Cables
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      Lock icon TOUGH TIMES AHEAD
      376 34  -  SONG SENG WUN BUSINESS COMMENT Global economic difficulties persist, so prepare for a bumpy year ahead LAST year, the Prime Minister delivered a very upbeat National Day Message as Singapore celebrated four good years of growth. For its 43rd birthday, the mood of an average Singapore family
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      Lock icon ÜBS to settle securities case for $27 billion
      120 34 AGENCIES BOSTON ÜBS, Switzerland's biggest bank, has reached a US$l9.4-billion ($27-billion) agreement to buy back bonds to settle claims that it fraudulently sold the high-risk auc-tion-rate securities. The deal was reached between ÜBS and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as
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      A jolly good fellow – the first Singaporean hired by Google
      419 36  - A jolly good fellow the first Singaporean hired by Google HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg TALENT comes in all guises and MrTan Chade-Meng (picture), the first Singaporean to be hired by Google, is testament to this fact. The title on his name card reads "Jolly Good Fellow (Which nobody can deny)". Really.
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      Lock icon IT'S TALENT FUSION AT WORK
      753 36  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA THE SMALL POOL We have them, but only just enough to keep the economy humming along news@newstoday.com .sg FORMER head of DBS consumer banking Edmund Koh was poached in March and headed to Taiwan as president of Ta Chong Bank just one
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      Energetic about the future
      593 47  -  Lynette Koh Mitsubishi Electric Asia Managing Director Yoshifumi Beppu lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg When it was first established in Singapore in 1977, it had only 10 employees and two product divisions.Today, Mitsubishi ElectricAsia has become a sales, marketing and corporate hub in SoutheastAsia, with multiple product divisions and several
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      Lock icon Jewel on the hill
      562 48  -  Lynette Koh Mount Faber Leisure Group CEO Susan Teh lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg For thirty years, Singapore Cable Car Pte Ltd's sole focus was the provision of cable car services. In 2004, the arrival of its CEO, Ms Susan Teh, marked the beginning of its diversification and transformation into
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      Banking on success
      627 49  -  Lynette Koh Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Chief Executive Lim Cheng Teck lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg With a 150-year-old history, and 5,000 staff serving more than 450,000 retail and corporate customers, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore, is one of the largest full-service banks in the country. Since chief executive Lim Cheng Teck
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      Nourishing the nation
      610 50  -  Lynette Koh Abbott Laboratories (Singapore) Pte Ltd General Manager Hui Hwa Koh-Minjoot lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg In 1964 a year before Singapore gained its independence Abbott Singapore established its presence locally, working with a local distributorto provide basic antibiotics and vitamins. Today, it is one of the market leaders for
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      Lock icon No easy path to beauty
      595 51  -  Lynette Koh Mary Chia Founder and CEO Mary Chia lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg As the founder of a successful chain of namesake beauty and slimming studios with more than a hundred staff, Mary Chia is a household name in Singapore today. It was, however, no easy path. When
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      95 47 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC WISHES SINGAPORE A HAPPY 43rd BIRTHDAY r "M/■"itsubishi A > I T ll^lectric W Extending our hand in caring for Earth Quality lifestyle should not cost us the Earth. See how Mitsubishi Electric is working to provide solutions for a greener and more sustainable tomorrow. Energy Solutions Air
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      188 50 TOPTALK CONVERSATIONS WITH HEAD HONCHOS Established over a hundred years, Abbott is a global, broad-based healthcare company that's devoted to discovering new medicines, T|§ I new technologies and new ways of managing health. We have been in Singapore since 1964, just a year before the country gained I I independence.
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      1287 52  -  JASON HO PEARLYN THAM SINGAPORE'S LITTLE HELPERS These unsung heroes have unique but little-known skills that are a blessing to Singapore's fashion industry PHOTOGRAPHY PLEATS, PLEASE There's nothing glamorous about Paul Tan's nondescript of-fice-cum-workshop. It's located in a rundown factory near the Geylang area not exactly the
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        603 54  -  PEARLYN THAM BEAUTY KING Singapore-born make-up guru lives up to his name by starting a school and aiming to better the reputation of the industry pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg YOU know that you are a somebody when everyone else knows you by a single name: Bono, Prince or Madonna. And Zing.
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        428 54  -  PEARLYN THAM BRIGHT IDEAS How do you incorporate the national colours of red and white into jewellery? SK Jewellery has the answer in its Floral Gem pendant, made up of a red coral stone and diamonds. There's also the option of accessorising
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        1286 56  -  LYNETTE KOH PHOTOGRAPHY JASON HO UNIQUE. EOODIES Food -V never fails to geft Singaporean&going. We^s® flight three individfeirwho haviP'gone to unusual lengths in the njs of our national obsession PHOON LEEHIANG FLAVOURS FROM THE LAB The next time you're loading up your supermarket basket with beef bouillon cubes
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        678 58 ALL IN THE FAMILY Expect food made with love at this family-run restaurant SHERMAINE WONG shermainew@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Chef Osvaldo Forlino says he spares no effort in finding the best ingredients to stock his kitchen with, he really means it. He gets fresh produce such as fruits
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        811 60  -  COLIN YONG SPEED RACER Singaporean Melvin Choo has been lighting up race tracks around the region colin@mediacorp.com.sg A HUGE Singapore flag spans the roof of his Porsche race car but the irony is that Melvin Choo is probably known by more people outside of Singapore than in
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        608 61  -  COLIN YONG DIESEL VS HYBRID Can a diesel car be more environmentally friendly than a hybrid? colin@mediacorp.com.sg BLUE is the new green, at least in Volkswagen's book. It recently launched three diesel models in Singapore, one of which is the Polo BlueMotion. The supplementary tax for diesel passenger
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        476 61  -  COLIN YONG RENAULT has always produced safe and refined cars that handle well (plus a crack line-up of sporty models) but it has never quite earned a reputation for high quality. That's something the brand consciously set out to change with the new Laguna.
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      328 62  -  MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU think radio is a dying art, Daniel Ong is going to make you think again. The radio DJ and host is all set to recharge and revitalise 987FM by taking on the role of the station's programme
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      405 62  -  MAYO MARTIN THE SWORDFISH, THEN THE CONCUBINE The Swordfish, then the Concubine dishes out a refreshingly good laugh mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IN A span of two hours, I was transported to a literally haze-filled and swordfish-infested world of inane witch doctors, rajahs who speak with an American twang
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        72 63 As Singapore celebrates National Day, Eu Yan Sang will be spreading cheer among its customers through its special National Day promotion. Customers who shop at any of the 34 Eu Yan Sang outlets located islandwide are entitled to a 20 per cent store-wide discount,except on prescriptions,
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        86 63 Need a snack on the go? The Soyjoy bar is a healthy and nutritious snack for busy executives who need a pick-me-up in the middle of a hectic day. Made from soy and fruits, such as hawthorn berry, apple and orange, it is a good source of
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        80 63 Keep your blood lipids level healthy with the Beiklin Red Yeast Rice capsules. Made from pure red yeast rice, which is said to be an ancient Chinese remedy for maintaining heart health.it is believed to help promote healthy blood circulation. The Beiklin Red Yeast Rice capsules, which
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        114 63 Here's another reason to toast to your favourite HL milk: You stand a chance to win a Toyota Vios in this lucky draw celebrating the milk's 20th anniversary. To participate, simply complete the entry form found on Marigold HL Milk's 20th anniversary pack. All entries must be
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      749 64  -  STUART JEFFRIES THE GUARDIAN WEST LOOKS EAST Kungfu Panda and a Chinese Mummy? Why is Hollywood so besotted with the East? plus@newstod ay.com.sg IN 1995, Jackie Chan finally conquered Hollywood. The Chinese star was already the world's second most bankable movie star (after Arnold
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        74 64 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The pub owned by Madonna and Guy Ritchie is to be investigated over claims that it is charging tourists and locals different prices. Should The Punchbowl, in Mayfair, London, be found to have done so, it could lose its licence only six
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        87 64 AP A bar worker at a popular Times Squares karaoke club in New York was arrested Thursday after confessing to beating a woman to death with a pipe on the club's roof during an argument, police said. Rapper Lil' Kim's birthday party was held Saturday
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        113 65 -AP The Police ended one of rock V roll's most successful reunions in Madison Square Garden on Thursday. The 150th and final show of a comeback tour that stretched past 1 4 months was a benefit for two New York public television stations. Sting, guitarist
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      367 62 MS With over 20 destinations to explore, the options for having fun are plenty. mj j Ferroomper Perroomper Ibailana night with break&st IllClta night with breakfist Chiang Mai-- -frSJ 85 Jaipur- -frSs 79 Cha-Am/HuaHinarea frSs 89 Ooty--- -frSs 95 BangkokSilom-- frSs 99 Manali— ---frSj! 95 Bangkok G«- -frSsl49 Chidlom-Ploenchit frSsll9
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      86 63 Our tough-level weekend treat for the die-hard Sudoku junkie izzxyyzZiL _7_2__B_ J_ 6_ 2_s_J JL J 6__ _J_^j4_ 3_ A_ _s__J_2__ 8_ 9__6_J friday's solution: 912 6|B 3 4|5 17| howtoplay: "o""j~"T""q""^""^""g""o""«" The rules are easy. Fill in the grid kt%co i Q A a so that every row, every
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      478 65 bY 2^ T W 'l 1-J.;- jiSrtS wm«ur.nwMiE»9i.ni«acni™.aj«o« nIUVV H UWI IWI BV C 6*?I"'^'..A SONG AND DANCE DEDICATION AFTER 88 1 A ROYSTON TAN FILM m BM M J SNEAKS 13AUGUST• OPENS 14AUGUST [PGJ 'i. 28 I TV. IS"' -i- .i^T IKll^llJ (©**********4 Q www.gv.com.sg "J^J I ——^J MONEYNOENOUGHfiun
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      1088 66 TV LISTINGS weekendwatch WHATTO DOTHIS WEEKEND lowdown on the fashion scenes in each city. ,L-.':-'', R-^/I Catch gaming fever with the Asian cyber games, see the stars of High School Musical don skates, or go back in time to 80's Singapore. For an educational experience, take in a revolutionary art
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      39 67 For song title, key in 924 and SMS to *****. For TrafficWatch service, key in 924tw and SMS to *****. C 1 Each SMS costs 30 cents. Service provided by MediaCorp Pte Ltd 6877 7132. JV fUWfIO JIV www.symphony.sg
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      701 67 SUNDAY T'^7imm^ L HIGHLIGHTS |3^H SUNDAY PRIME MOVIE x He helps men to land dates. Sara is a gossip I columnistfor a New York City tabloid. Both are very guarded around the opposite sex. /$f M=DJJICORP J ?v /^TT A i^ri^rTJT Lj 10.30 Whacked Out Sports 7.4sBeijing Olympic Games JDJLi
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      349 67 arts xplosion YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS (AUG 9-15) SSO CLASSICS such as performances, poetry IN THE PARK readings, video screenings and This Sunday, relax to the workshops. Participating artists soothing sounds of the Singapore include choreographers KuikSwee Symphony Orchestra as it Boon and Jeffrey Tan, and artist performs
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    626 68  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Sengkang's stand-in head coach relishing the chance to revive his club's fortunes NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2008 Sengkang Punggol v Albirex Niigata Hougang Stadium, Sunday 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg IF THIS were an audition, Mirko Grabovac would have made a strong claim for the leading man's
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    217 68  -  MILTON TAN BRAZILIAN Reginaldo Estevao has not had the easiest of introductions to the S-League. Less than two weeks after the striker joined Sengkang Punggol on July 17, his elder brother, Renato, was killed in a road accident back home in Brazil. Reginaldo
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    683 69  -  KENNETH GOH CHARITY SHIELD Redknapp's men looking to repeat their March conquest of the Red Devils SUNDAY'S Community Shield match-up between Manchester United and Portsmouth could be more intriguing than previous season's curtainraisers, if only because a club outside the Big Four will be contesting the
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    371 69 ■AP MANCHESTER Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson (picture) has warned that a knee-jerk implementation of restrictions on foreign players risked harming the English Premier League. The Scot said the England team's failure to qualify for June's European Championship must not be
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    376 70 THE GUARDIAN BEIJING The superstars of American basketball, gathered in Beijing for the Olympics, spoke with one voice on Friday and what they had to say will have caused great consternation at the headquarters of the National Basketball Association (NBA), long
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    516 70 AFP RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Jeev ignores ankle injury to take joint first-round lead at PGA Championships GOLF PGA Championship BLOOMFIELD HILLS (Michigan) India's Jeev Milkha Singh (picture) shrugged off a nagging injury to take the joint lead in the first round of the PGA Championship. Both
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      86 70 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER International Football West Ham Villarreal Sat, 09/08/08 10.00pm International Football Newcastle Valencia Sat, 09/08/08 10.00pm International Football West Bromwich Mallorca Sat, 09/08/08 10.00pm International Football Everton PSV Sun, 10/08/08 12.15am International Football Manchester City Milan Sun, 10/08/08 12.15am International Football Arsenal Sevilla Sun,
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      203 70 SPORTS ON TV SATURDAY loam MLB Yankees v Angels, Ch 23 12.30pm AFL Carlton v Port Adelaide, Ch 170 12.35pm Cricket Idea Cup: Sri Lanka v India, Ch 111 5.55pm Cricket England v South Africa, Ch 110 6pm AFL Sydney v Fremantle, Ch 170 6.30pm J-League Urawa Red Diamonds v
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    151 72 OVERHEARD THE OLYMPICS In Athens I was 19 years old, an immature snot and grumpy. My head was spinning around. I wasn't a great guy to be around, so it's exciting to be back now. Australian basketball player Andrew Bogut explains how the passage of time has made him a
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    90 72 Cornel Marculuescu, the executive director of world swimming governing body FINA, on the air quality inside the Water Cube A gold medal would be the icing on the cake. I've got the base, the icing, and all I need now is
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    357 72 AFP OLYMPIC BASKETBALL Rivals loaded with NBA stars could derail Team USA's quest for gold BEIJING Sixteen years after Michael Jordan sparked the America's original "Dream Team" to Olympic gold, obliterating all in their path, the basketball court is a much more level playing
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    296 72 BEIJING American tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams aren't the only siblings on an Olympic Games collision course. Agnes and Erzsebet Valkai also face the same dilemma, but for different reasons. Just four years ago, the water polo-playing Hungarian sisters helping their side to a
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    292 73 BLOOMBERG BEIJING India's three Olympic rowers will be paddling upstream in Beijing. The team practice on Hyderabad's Hussain Sagar lake, where dead dogs float in sewage from homes and factories. The secretary-general of India's rowing federation, MV Sriram, can't watch his rowers in China because
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    780 73 AGENCIES BEIJING "The Frog", "Lethal Leisel" and 21 other world-record holders are about to begin an Olympic swimming meet on Saturday that may become the fastest in the sport's history. With Michael Phelps bidding for sporting immortality in his quest for a record eight gold medals
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      49 73 Canadian gymnast Alexandra Orlando (picture), absent Russian tennis queen Maria Sharapova, Hungarian water polo player Rita Dravucz, Ukrainian tennis pro Alona Bondarenko and American swimmer Amanda Beard are the top five sexiest Olympic Games athletes in that order, according to entertainment website www.webtvhub.com. GETTY IMAGES
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      HARD TO STOMACH
      65 73 Canadian archer John Burnes, who suffered a suspected ruptured appendix, is still hoping to take part in the tournament which starts on Saturday. But if the 20-year-old fails to recover, his place will go to Hugh MacDonald who will only arrive on the day of the first
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      73 73 Lopez Lomong, the US opening ceremony flag bearer who spent 1 0 years in a Sudan refugee camp, was stunned to have a chicken sandwich all to himself when he arrived in America as a teen, saving some for another day. "In the camp, we had
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      67 73 Dutch cycling sensation Marianne Vos will be aiming for triple medal glory in Beijing with the close support of her parents and brother, who, normally, follow her exploits in a caravan. After studying an itinerary that would have taken them across Russia and Mongolia and finally,
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      46 73 AGENCIES Brunei was excluded from the Beijing Olympics shortly ahead of Friday's opening ceremony by the International Olympic Committee because it failed to register athletes in time. Two athletes were originally due to represent Brunei, a swimmer and a shot putter.
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    520 74 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BEIJING Former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai was famously asked if he considered the French Revolution to have been a success: He paused briefly before venturing the opinion that it was really much too early to judge. Old China used to take its time
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    168 74  -  LOW LIN FHOONG CANADIAN 400-metre specialist Tyler Christopher (extreme left) and 25 members of the country's Olympic team were the focus of attention during a reception at Sports Buzz, Paradiz Centre, on Friday night. Hosted by the Canadian High Commission and Canadian Olympic Committee, the event
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    551 76 BEIJING Once-reclusive China commandeered the world stage on Friday evening, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pageantry and pyrotechnics to open a Summer Games unrivalled for its mix of problems and promise. Now ascendent as a global
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    Lock icon A HUNT FOR SUPPERS, THEN HISTORY
    893 76  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEIJING BUZZ Stars step up on the big stage, so this could be Tao Li's time to set a new standard WE'VE met a number of times and talked quite a bit, but I never realised Tao Li's shoulders were so broad.
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    FORMER OLYMPIANS SAY ...
    226 76 FORMER OLYMPIANS SAY OONJINGEE (1984 GAMES) TEAM SINGAPORE'S FOUR-MIL-LION STRONG SUPPORTERS WILL BE RALLYING BEHIND TAO LI, WITH THE HOPE THAT SHE DOES AS WELL AS SHE CAN. THAT'S TREMENDOUS PRESSURE FOR A TEENAGER, BUT I HOPE SHE STAYS ABSOLUTELY FOCUSED AND FIRED UP TO DO THE BEST SHE CAN.
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    S'POREANS IN ACTION THIS WEEKEND
    50 77 BADMINTON Women's singles round 0/64; Xing Aiying Doubles round of 16: Jiang Yanmei/ Li Yujia SHOOTING Men's trap: LeeWungYew SWIMMING Women's heats 100m butterfly 100m backstroke: Tao Li; 400m /M.-Quah Ting Wen 100m breaststroke: NicoletteTeo; 400m freestyle: Lynette Lim Men's heats: 200m freestyle Bryan Tay
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      50 77 The Baltimore-born phenomenon lines up in the men's 400m IM heats on Saturday (finals on Sunday) in the first of his eight events in Beijing's "Water Cube", as he attempts to break Mark Spitz' record haul of seven Olympic gold medals at a single games.
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