Today, 15 August 2008

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    21 1 TODAY I Friday August 15, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday August 15, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    28 1 PHINWONG What's wrong with a little nip/tuck, asks the Plus Editor. He celebrated his birthday last month and all he wanted was a little Botox. Page 46
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    COMMENT
    37 1 MALAYSIA GRAFT The Prime Minister has an AntiCorruption Agency chief who is as committed to fighting corruption as he is. With the recent arrests, the question along the corridors of Putrajaya is: Who's next? Page 19
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    WORLD
    43 1 ONLINE DATING As violence makes going on a date too dangerous in Baghdad, young Iraqis are turning to less traditional forms of socialising and falling in love. They are surfing the Internet to search for partners to tie the knot. Page 34
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    41 1 HOUSE PARTY Singaporeans love painting the town red but if you're feeling all clubbed out, join the growing number of people here hosting house parties. Staying in is the new going out, and Today has the ultimate guide. Page 42
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    SPORTS
    53 1 FEEDING PHELPS Three fried-egg sandwiches, with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and, mayonnaise. A five-egg omelette, a bowl of cereal, three slices of French toast, and three chocolate chip pancakes. And two cups of coffee. That's what Michael Phelps has for breakfast. Wondering what he has for lunch and
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    Lock icon Great expectations
    1059 1  -  LINYANQIN SINGAPORE EDUCATION Dr Ng sets directions to meet aspirations, impart values yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THE message, loud and clear from Education Minister Ng Eng Hen, is that top grades alone are not enough anymore. The mission ahead is about imparting values by engaging a more questioning young generation, while
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    Lock icon NMPs table by-election debate in Parliament
    702 1  -  ANSLEYNG MP Charles Chong ansley@mediacorp.com.sg A MONTH after the death of a Member of Parliament (MP) sparked debate on the issue, two Nominated MPs have filed a motion for by-elections to be discussed in depth, when Parliament sits on Aug 25. Law professor Thio
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      Q&A WITH THE EDUCATION MINISTER
      212 2  -  LINYANQIN WHAT DOES THE POPULARITYOF PRIVATE TUITION INDICATE? If Singapore has done well in the global academic rankings, it's because such results are "underpinned by a substantial private education sector in Singapore: The private tutors", observed a former teacher. "Why can't our public education policy
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      Lock icon From corn plates to worm farms...
      651 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN LINYANQIN GREEN PRODUCTS More businesses paving way for consumers to make eco-friendly choices and chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE next time you hold a barbecue or party, try going styrofoam and plastic-free. Look out for a new range of disposable plates, cups and cutlery made from
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      Lock icon SENSITIVITY STARTS WITH ENGAGEMENT
      690 4  -  DROWCHEE CHUNG NEWS COMMENT RECENTLY, Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo commented about making sensitivity "part of our culture, part of our value system in Singapore" at an event involving the disabled community. I could not agree with him more. The key is to act and do
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      Lock icon Clearer skies ahead for carbon trading
      612 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN CHANNEL NEWSASIA INCENTIVES Implementation less costly for companies with Government grant chaichin@mediacorp. com.sg ONE man's waste is another man's pot of gold. Two companies in Singapore found their pot of gold in the leaves and branches and other horticultural waste from roadside trees
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      Lock icon Signs of assurance for cyclists in Singapore
      358 6  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp. com.sg COME Monday, signs to alert motorists to the presence of cyclists (picture) will spring up along roads such as Upper Thomson, Mandai, West Coast and Tuas. The 119 signs including some already installed already in a pilot project
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      Lock icon THE KALLANG ROAR HITS CINEMAS
      104 8 GENEVIEVE LOH Local football legends Quah Kirn Song and Dollah Kassim flank director Cheng Ding An (centre, with football) and the cast of Kallang Roar The Movie at the film's gala premiere at Shaw Lido Cineplex last night. The movie is the director's passionate retelling
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      Lock icon A medical dream realised
      602 8  -  ONG DAI LIN EDUCATION The only diploma holder accepted to study medicine at NUS this year dailin@mediacorp.com.sg HIS time in school has been like a study in contrast. In polytechnic, which he recently completed, Darren Chua studied and read his notes even when pushing supermarket trolleys
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      Lock icon Of a bomoh and black magic...
      500 10  -  TEOXUANWEI STIRLING ROAD MURDERTRIAL Lawyer of accused claims sister-in-law used a witch doctor to break up marriage xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg THE man accused of murdering his wife was a victim of black magic, his defence lawyers claimed yesterday. Madam Hametah Abdul Aziz, the accused's estranged
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      Lock icon Identify endangered species-friendly shops
      233 10 ABOUT one in four Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) companies in Singapore have pledged not to sell products derived from endangered species, according to the Animal Research and Education Society (Acres). Atotal of 274 shops from 189TCM companies, including Singapore Exchange-listed firm Eu Van Sang, now display
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      47 12 MINISTRYOF MANPOWER (L-R) Ms Lim Soo Hoon Permanent Secretary, Public Service Division; MrCathal Divilly, managing director, Great Place to Work Insitute Ireland; Ms Claire Chiang, chair, Employer Alliance; Mr Piyush Gupta, Citi Country Officer and Ms Toh HweeTian, alignment director, Family Development Unit, NTUC PHOTO COURTESY I
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      Trust is the key to balance...
      574 12  -  ESTHERNG WORK LIFE HARMONY But this can take years to nurture estherng@mediacorp.com.sg DO I trust the people I work for? Do I have pride in what I do? Do I enjoy the people I work with? If the answer to all three questions is
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      TIMETOSHED MANAGEMENT'S CLOCK-IN, CLOCK-OUT MINDSET
      202 12 SINGAPORE may have won the highest honour the Work-life Innovative Excellence Award given by the United States-based Alliance for Work-life Progress, but some human resource practitioners such as MsVenenza Subramaniam, who spent four years working in the US, question whether employers here have truly embraced
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      Quota for foreign law firm licences cmay vary a little5
      300 12 Quota for foreign law firm licences cmay vary a little 5 The Ministry of Law (MinLaw) has opened the door slightly for more foreign law firms to get licences under a new scheme. Under its plans to liberalise Singapore's legal services sector, MinLaw said it expects to award five licences
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      56 8 HH OLYMPICS SHOT OF THE DAY Nikon Best Caption Contest is to 24 August2ooB] Look out for the A& Olympics moments on page 19. 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
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      Lock icon Indonesia wont can Hezbollah TV
      330 14 AGENCIES SATELLITE BROADCAST INo reason' to stop broadcasts by Islamic militant group: Indonesia JAKARTA Indonesia has rejected pressure from the United States to stop a Lebanese Hezbollah militia television channel airing its programmes in the country. Information and Communications Minister Muhammad Nuh said Indonesia saw
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      Lock icon If I were to defeat Anwar ...
      510 14 If I were to defeat Anwar PENANG He's widely seen as having little chance of defeating Permatang Pauh's favourite son in the Aug 26 by-election, but that hasn't stopped Mr Arif Shah Omar Shah from thinking big. Mr Arif Shah, the ruling Barisan Nasional's candidate-designate, said should he win the
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      Lock icon M'sian blogger ordered to reveal sources
      225 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian high court has ordered a prominent political blogger to reveal his sources used in articles that alleged sodomy accusations against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim were fabricated. News portal Malaysia Today's editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin had in three articles
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      Lock icon EYE ON ASIA
      143 16 AFP CAMBODIA THAI, CAMBODIAN TROOPSTOPULL BACK FROM TEMPLE Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to sharply reduce troop numbers around a disputed temple before a new round of border talks open on Monday. The agreement was reached on Wednesday during a meeting of military officials from the two
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      Lock icon ETHNIC-INDIAN STUDENTSTO SUE THEIRTEACHER
      126 16 AP MALAYSIA Three ethnic-Indian teenagers plan to sue their schoolteacher after she taunted them with racial insults in a case that has outraged the minority Indian community. The Malay female history teacher has been transferred out of the school after she reportedly acknowledged making racial remarks
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      Lock icon Taking a bite out of corruption
      358 16 AP MALAYSIAN POLITICS Activists say graft campaign falls short despite indictment of a senior official KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian tourism official has been charged with corruption, the third senior bureaucrat in a month to face graft allegations, but a watchdog group said yesterday the
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      18 19 AFP A Brazilian athlete receiving treatment after a collision with a Polish player during their handball match yesterday,
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      Lock icon SNARED IN THE GRAFT NET: WHO'S NEXT?
      715 19 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The director-general of Immigration is on the verge of being charged in court. The head of Kelantan Fisheries Department has been nabbed. The di-rector-general of the Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board was charged in court on Wednesday. The question
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      Lock icon Exile in Turkey?
      421 22 AFP PAKISTAN PRESIDENT'S WOES Western envoys reportedly trying to find exit for embattled leader ISLAMABAD Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf could go into exile in Turkey as British and American diplomats try to find an exit for him before he is dragged through a humiliating impeachment process, The
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      Lock icon New violence in Kashmir on eve of India's Independence Day
      325 22 AFP SRINAGAR (India) Police yesterday shot dead another protester in Indian Kashmir, bringing the death toll from days of rioting to 22 as the authorities stepped up security on the eve of Independence Day festivities. Police opened fire on dozens
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      Chens confession
      372 24 CORRUPTION CHARGES Former Taiwan President admits breaking law; says wife sent money overseas TAIPEI Taiwan's former President yesterday admitted that he broke the law by not truthfully declaring campaign donations he received and said that his wife sent an unspecified amount of money abroad. Mr Chen Shui-bian's statement
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      268 24 AP LAOS ON FLOOD ALERT AS MEKONG RISES Soldiers and ordinary citizens in the Lao capital of Vientiane yesterday raced to build barriers along the Mekong River as water levels rose past the flood danger level, the authorities said. "The water is still rising we're working on building
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      Lock icon Copper demand soars, thefts galore in Australia
      292 24 AP SYDNEY The Australian authorities yesterday announced a campaign against a burgeoning black market in scrap copper that has seen thieves steal power lines and even school taps and is costing the nation millions of dollars. Surging demand for copper in China and
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      Lock icon UK wants powers to spy on citizens' Web activities
      247 26 CONTROVERSIAL government powers to access millions of people's private phone records are set to be extended to email accounts and website records, ministers in the United Kingdom said. This means that councils or quangos could access private email accounts or examine
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      Lock icon Russia begins handover of Georgia
      394 26 AGENCIES CONFLICT IN EURASIA WASHINGTON Russian troops have begun handing over control of the area around the town of Gori to Georgian security forces, reported the BBC. The troops would remain for days to remove weaponry and help restore law and order in Gori, before
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      Lock icon Meet the couch potato army of China
      576 28 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BEIJING OLYMPICS Hardly any money spent on public sporting facilities BEIJING Their sporting elite may plan to dominate the medals board, but for most of China's 1.3 billion citizens, Olympic fever has inspired only one form of exercise: Reaching for the
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      Lock icon IOC raps Chinese security
      179 28 AP BEIJING The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday said it frowned on the actions of Chinese security officials who allegedly manhandled a British journalist as he tried to report on a pro-Tibet protest in a Beijing park. lOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said journalists should not be
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      Lock icon Chicago in off-arena battle to snare 2016 gold
      369 28 1 AP TICKETTOUTS BEIJING Behind the scenes at the Beijing Games, a furious competition is being waged for an Olympic prize with billions of dollars and global prestige at stake. For Chicago and its three rivals, Beijing is providing the stage to
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      Lock icon Spies being brought out of the closet
      466 30 AP WORLD WAR II SPIES WASHINGTON Before Julia Child became known as a leading chef, she admitted at least one failing when applying for a job as a spy impulsiveness. Details about Ms Child's background as a government agent came into the public
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      Lock icon Anti-Obama tome set to top bestseller list
      283 30 AFP WASHINGTON A book by a conservative author that claims to dish the dirt on Democrat Barack Obama is set to hit the top of the New York Times bestseller lists this weekend. The Obama Nation is by Jerome Corsi, who made his
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        Lock icon ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC LEADER SHOT DEAD
        79 30 AFP The chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas was killed on Wednesday by a gunman who barged into the party's state headquarters and opened fire. Mr Bill Gwatney "was shot multiple times" in the upper body and died in hospital some four hours later,
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        76 30 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Mrs Alex Patrick, 35, has a two-year-old son, Charlie, who was conceived from an egg donated by her twin Charlotte Pestell. The egg was fertilised by Mrs Patrick's husband, Shaun, and carried by her other sister Helen Ritchie, a surrogate. Mrs Patrick was left infertile after
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      Lock icon Facebook is online social networking king
      248 32 AFP SAN FRANCISCO Facebook has dethroned MySpace to become the world's most popular social networking website with the help of its non-English tailored versions, industry figures made available on Wednesday show. Slightly more than 132 million people visited Facebook in June compared to the
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      Lock icon CLEARAND PRESENT DANGER
      55 32 Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing parade and are being trained in the Gaza Strip to fire home-made rockets. Hamas, the Islamic movement which maintains a ceasefire with Israel, said on Wednesday there will be no regret if Israel decided to end the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire
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      Lock icon Miracle jab on the way
      386 32 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MEDICAL MARVEL One injection Vaccine' cure for arthritis in 5 years LONDON A single injection that could cure rheumatoid arthritis is being developed by British scientists. The treatment works like a vaccine and could be available within five years. Cells would be taken
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      Lock icon Iraq's new, but scorned, matchmaker
      637 34 AFP LOOKING FOR LOVE ONLINE BAGHDAD Young Iraqis in Baghdad are surfing the Internet to search for partners (picture) to tie the knot as violence and sectarian tension take their toll on more traditional forms of socialising. Dating has fallen victim to the insecurity that
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      804 36  -  DAVE BARRY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES DAVE BARRY AT THE OLYMPICS IN BEIJING news@newstoday.com.sg Shopping at the Silk Market is a contact sport IF YOU'RE the kind of person who enjoys shopping and lying, you would love the Beijing Silk Market. It's a jam-packed sevenstorey building, very popular
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      181 38  -  DR BILL MAIER BY SECRETS TO STAYING MARRIED There's no such thing as a perfect marriage, but that doesn't mean your marriage can't be fulfilling and happy. Building a strong marriage takes hard work and commitment. It takes two people who are willing to say to
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      79 38 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Give your full name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. Pails and containers lie underneath
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      158 38  -  Sandra Lee Letter from MY FAMILY and I were disturbed when we saw scenes of the clean up after the National Day Parade (NDP) on TV. Trash bags were provided in the goodie-bags and the idea to have a lucky draw to encourage spectators to clean up
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      99 38  -  David Soh Jin Hoe Letter from I WAS at Serangoon Stadium on Sunday morning, when I passed by the male toilet and noticed that the male changing room door had been left open, with the air conditioner still on. There was no one in it. My immediate
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      315 38  -  Tang Fu Qing PLASTIC BAGS Reader told to donate to get bags on BYOB Day Letter from FOR SOME cashiers at the supermarket I frequent in the Bukit Timah area, BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) Day has become No-Bag Day. On a recent Wednesday, a cashier
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      390 40  - EINSTEIN MANJA* CATS, TOO DrTanChekWee I SAY Compassion toward all animals is the enlightened way to live, he argued SINCE my involvement in "cat management" in my neighbourhood, I help trap cats in the estate, send them to the vet for neutering, then release them back into the area, and
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      221 40  -  Jill Hum Letter from I REFER to "Microchipping helps AVA in management of strays" (Aug 11). The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) said that it culls stray dogs "to manage the population which poses a risk to transmission of rabies should this
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      247 38 a /^i Specialist Diploma in Teaching Supporting Counsellors Children with Special Needs .Jl.ll. 1J.,11.1.11.ni_. ~,l_,l__*_*_l [Fraa Talk: 13Aug08, Wed7pm] www.certifiedcounsellors.org xIOUIUG Itlijijy 9411 All courses are conducted by ACC School of Counselling and Psychology (MOE Reg. N0.2233), the training division of Academy of Certified Counsellors. ANYBODY CAN EARN (10,000 EASILY
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      346 39 "^__—--""MTI IO l___JPj_S_B Wha1 7s New 15 -28 Aug 2008 VPPnB New improved SofScrub eliminates wwmW #0 of bacteria*, making it the ideal cream scourer for all types of /^|S^ ii=^ v\ household surfaces. fiPLPI JwJ t _?_K UMi SofScrub cleans and polishes without jLI \^~U j jtl scratching. It's
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      83 40 Weekly Airflown from Australia js& «|HBMH^^^|B__________________________L W "*^________B f «OPEN BEST BEFORE ***^^^rC WmW^lS^^&jZl Ml WEEfI p/pCJ^y kpTz^^ mS I ____r *_a>9l -^__H________l___s^'fl •*^*______^****__________________P!!?K V. _H ?"^-^fl_______» JaW "*1 »fr____i ______f______r^___L. _h _______P^__i________ H&MsH mw^ri k7_.U ~.,>i_,p.'"._— _____m_il f.r fc V*S^___L SS A«^*fb llfcU J^____K______T 4_fl lifl FAM I ifl^ffil
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        1359 42  -  MAY SEAH HOWTO Because staying in is the new going out may@mediacorp.com.sg GOING out and painting the town red can be overrated. For one thing, graffiti is frowned upon in this country. We love our nights out, but sometimes, just sometimes, there's a point beyond
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      777 46  -  PHINWONG MALADJUSTED plus editor phin@mediacorp.com.sg What's wrong with having a little nip/tuck? MY FRIENDS suck. Sure, they're good people, they love me and they've held my hand through hell, death of pet cats and high water, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. Because when it comes to
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      348 46  -  Lawyer Le Thanh Kinh THE GUARDIAN GARY Glitter, the former rock star and convicted child molester, will be deported to Britain after his release from a Vietnamese prison next week but may move back to Asia, his lawyer said yesterday. Glitter,
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      388 48  -  GENEVIEVE LOH HOMEGROWN TALENT Royston Tan reveals why he never wants to have coffee with 22 Lotus star Mindee Ong again genevieveloh@mediacorp. com.sg ROYSTON Tan is heartless. But before you hit us for making such accusations about one of Time Magazine's 20 Asian heroes
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      176 50 JR, BOBBY, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a Dallas reunion party. Cast members of the popular prime-time soap opera that ran from 1978 to 1991 will return to the Southfork Ranch north of Dallas on Nov 8 to
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      Now showing (on DVD and a sinema)
      344 50  -  MAYO MARTIN INDIECINEMA Movie screenings local film-makers have a Plan B mayo@mediacorp. com.sg WHILE some of Singapore's film-makers are enjoying a regular run in the big cinemas this month, others are moving on to Plan B. That means (a) releasing DVDs and (b)
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      88 42 Put Your FOOT DOWN °n M I PAIN {k Do you have: PAIN in your Knees and Legs? Joint Stiffness? Cold feet due to Poor Circulation? Muscle Aches? Inflammation of the Joints? Arthritic Joint Pains? I Stiff Shoulders? Back Aches? Deep Penetrating. Anti-Inflammatory Properties. Long Lasting and Extremely Soothing. [L
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      166 43 ';'|^fl Jl* mm H Wi mW In a twist on the traditional board game, we'll be transforming Harbour Front Centre into a giant Snakes and Ladders board where you and your family will race to be JQHV the first to reach Level 3. Entries close 9pm on 20 August 2008.
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      173 44 "I was working in the engineering field for more than 15 years before I chanced upon the C2O System way of trading. I've been compounding my initial small capital into a good amount to generate a regular income stream to support my family's expenses and so I call it quit
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      434 47 QH^£ll_?Sil^ilil&[^^ Offers valid from 15 -28 August 2008. The top 3 drawings will stand a chance to win shopping vouchers. Closing date is 24 Aug 2008. While stocks last! No traders allowed. Simply attach your drawing to an entry form with a receipt of any purchase to participate. See stores
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      1007 48 Ir Japanese _r__i Chinese and English S-j a tittle tl nn /Jf_t CP Sc_ual Sc dices Tdy: 11.00 am, 1.00, 3.00, 5.00, 7.00, 9.00, 11.00pm THE WARRIOR tiMUtifbt Japanese with Eng/Chin Subtitles R2l Tdy: 1.00, 5.00, 9.00pm CONFESSION OF A LAP DANCER S_? .Sft English with Chin Subtitles -R2l Tdy:
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      1287 51 TV LISTINGS BUSINESS CONCIERGE DOCUMENTARY XC THE MOVIES DARLING AKU BENCITAPI RINDU Guangzhou/Shenzhen Seconds from Disaster: Superstore Collapse Dinotopia Suria, 9.30pm Channel News Asia, 8.31pm, 11.31pm Arts Central, 10pm Kids Central, spm I^H___________l&__!ifi_K___i_____________-l Sabri is a China-new economic ■*HWS_ J B ""^II I*|_"~ Seoul, 29 June Dinotopia: The Quest for
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      1231 52  -  LEONARD THOMAS LOW LIN FHOONG BEIJING BUZZ Wang Nan not thinking of Singapore, as Li and Co take on Koreans in the last four sports editor in beijing leonard@mediacorp.com.sg I SPOKE with her once in Singapore, a couple of months before the 2004 Athens Olympics, when
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      514 53 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ATHLETICS Sprint warriors Bolt, Powell and Gay in quest for fastest man tag BEIJING It is no wonder that the 100 m is known as the blue riband event. On paper at least, the meeting of Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay in the
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      324 53  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg UNTIL last year, the national women's 800 m freestyle record of Bmin 59.465 ec, set by Junie Sng, stood unsurpassed for 24 years. But in the last 15 months, it has been rewritten four times, and each time by
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      226 54 THE GUARDIAN US swimmer Michael Phelps revealed the secret behind his training regime: An extraordinary i2,000-calorie daily diet, six times the intake of a normal adult male. This is a typical diet for the US champion: He starts the day with three fried-egg sandwiches, with cheese, lettuce,
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      304 54 BEIJING Stephanie Rice won her third gold as Australia ended the United States' unbeaten Olympic run in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay and smashed the world record by almost 6sec at the Beijing Games yesterday. The pin-up girl of Australian swimming set
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      198 54 AFP SWIMMING Unheralded swimmers finish 1-2 on the way to a world record BEIJING Liv Zige and Jiao Liuyang produced stunning swims yesterday to win gold and silver in the Olympic women's 200 m butterfly, as shooter Dv Li bounced back to gain redemption. It was
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      389 55 AGENCIES SWIMMING Kitajima thrills the world, and there's no one bigger in his homeland right now BEIJING Kosuke Kitajima is about half the size of Michael Phelps, but there is no one bigger in Japan at this precise moment. No modern swimmer had ever retained an Olympic
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      331 55 AFP BEIJING Frenchman Alain Bernard put aside the demons of an agonising relay defeat to vanquish Australian rival Eamon Sullivan for the men's 100 m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Games yesterday. Bernard became the first Frenchman since Jean
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        82 55 So patriotic were bosses on Paris' underground metro rail system they decided passengers could not wait to get to their destinations before hearing of France's first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, following Steeve Guenot's triumph in the 66kg grecoroman wrestling. "The Metro informs passengers that France has
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        121 55 Some 150 inhabitants of swimmer Alain Bernard's home village of Chateauvieux, where the population is only 450, in the Alps had gathered in his parents home to watch the final of the 100 m freestyle on TV. All was well until the starter fired his gun, whereupon the
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        112 55 Albanian Erkland Querimaj's comical antics during the 77kg weightlifting have amused fans in Beijing no end. The 20-year-old turned to one side and nodded and then did the same on the other side with both hands extended upwards with the loaded bar. "I do it in training. When I
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        103 55 SWIMMINGLY FOR BRITAIN Britain's Rebecca Adlington, already the 400 m freestyle swimming champion in Beijing and a leading contender for the 800 m, was denied the chance to win three golds at the Games after a 4x200m freestyle relay quartet without her and Caitlin McClatchey, the team's
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        78 55 AFP When Australian tennis star Casey Dellacqua asked if she could go off courtto change a dripping shirt, she was refused permission by the chair umpire. Her request to go behind a fence was, according to the China Daily, also turned down. So she eventually changed on court.
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      369 56 AFP BEIJING China's Yang Wei thanked his coach yesterday for "pushing and kicking" him away from thoughts of retirement after being crowned the best male gymnast at the Beijing Olympics. Yang swaggered through the six men's apparatus to win the individual
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      49 56 GETTY IMAGES As it the raging torrent wasn t enough ot a challenge, Slovakia s Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner also had to contend with a thunderstorm during the canoe/kayak slalom at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park yesterday. The duo qualified for the final,
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      415 56 AFP UNIQUE NAMES BEIJING There's an Old and a Young, a Fischer and an Octopus. There's even Brad Pitt. When it comes to the Beijing Olympics, most of the 10,000 athletes taking part won't win medals but their exotic names mean they certainly won't go unnoticed.
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      263 56 AFP BEIJING The United States overwhelmed Greece 92-69 last night at the Olympics, routing the only team that had beaten the US National Basketball Association stars since the 2004 Athens Olympics. Kobe Bryant and Chris Bosh each scored 18 points to lead the US,
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      326 57 AGENCIES TENNIS Former world No 1 beaten in straight sets by US No 1 Blake BEIJING Top seed Roger Federer's horror season continued last night as he was sent crashing out of the Olympics by American James Blake, with the US No 1 pulling off
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      316 57 TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S 470 sailors had an unexpected rest day yesterday, after poor winds forced a postponement of races at the Olympic venue in Oingdao. Erratic winds and speeds hovering at just four knots forced the orgnaisers to suspend the races at 4pm. Singapore are
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      394 57  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SWIMMING superstar Michael Phelps may be the top billed name at the Beijing Olympics, but another American is quietly kicking up a revolution. Modern pentathlete Sheila Taormina, 39, will be the first woman athlete in 112 years
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      200 57 AFP BEIJING South Korea's Lee Hyun II dumped Chinese third seed Bao Chunlai from the Olympic badminton men's singles yesterday in a heated and bitter quarter-final marred by a controversial umpiring decision. Lee, ranked 10 in the world, downed Bao 23-21, 21-11 in front
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      156 58 A NEW look, new name, new sponsors and a new website. Sixty years after it was founded, the Singapore Rugby Union is making all these changes in its bid to take the sport to the next level. Dropping "union" from its name, Singapore Rugby
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      80 58 THIS year's Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore race on Sept 7 is set to overtake last year's total figure of 1,300. With registration closing next Friday, 1,245 participants have signed up for the US$5O,OOO ($70,280) race as of Monday, and organisers Hi-Tri Pte Ltd are expecting this
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      749 58  -  PAUL WILSON THEOBSERVER PREMIERSHIP PREVIEW The odds don't lie when the Big Four shrink to a top two sports@newstoday.com. sg THERE are people who see the glass as half full rather than half empty, and then there are paid optimists. Into the last category
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      532 59  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Oh #s goal spree has fired up title-chasing Super Reds NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Dalian Shide v Super Reds Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm sports@newstoday.com.sg IT TOOK Super Reds midfield general Oh Ddog Vi three months to get his first S-League goal.
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      398 59  -  MILTON TAN JEON Kyeongjoon (picture) has been smiling all week. On Tuesday, the Super Reds coach was at Choa Chu Kang Stadium watching NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 leaders SAFFC come from behind twice to secure a 2-2 draw against Geylang. The following night,
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        722 60  -  DAVE LEE THE GUARDIAN CYBER LIVES Most networking sites only remove profiles if requested by the dead owner's family MILLIONS of people log on to social networking sites every day, all sharing one thing in common: We're all going to die. What will become of our
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        623 60  - For $155, you can skip flight school and fly a plane sort of JOSEPHYADAO REVIEW FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FLIGHT SIMULATOR joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg I FIRST flew when I was four, and it was a special memory. My grandfather, a flight engineer, took me into the cockpit of a commercial flight from Manila to
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        714 62  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN HEDIRMANSUPIAN GAME BRANDING Creator of vgod' games talks about brands and gaming hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg HIS next title just might be the next big thing in gaming a massive multi-genre game that lets you determine the evolution of a species from a cell, all the way to its
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        502 62  -  SHARON LYNN CHU PAULYANG YOU'VE just blasted through three levels of your favourite game, and you're thinking: "This is such a simple and fun game! It probably was an easy game to develop." You couldn't be more wrong. Game development is never an
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      536 53 OLYMPICS: SELECTED RESULTS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS Men's individual all round: lYang Wei (Chn) 94.575, 2 Kohei Uchimura (Jpn) 91.975, 3 Benoit Caranobe (Fra) 91.925 FENCING Women's team sabre: 1 Ukraine, 2 China, 3 US JUDO Women's 78kg: 1 Yang Xiuli (Chn), 2Yalennis Castillo (Cub), 3 Jeong Gyeong Mi (Kor), Stephanie Possamai
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        130 64 Clarke Quay will be hosting the CQ River Party 2008 during the F1 Grand Prix Season, as part of the Singapore River Festival. From Sept 19 to 21, Singapore River will be transformed into a concert venue, with acts such as Japan's Quasimode, Singapore's Jive Talking,
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        81 64 The Jobs Central Career Fair 2008 brings together more than 90 premium exhibitors and 50,000 visitors atone single event. Exhibitors come from over 30 industry sectors such as aviation, engineering, finance, media and retail. Employers and higher education providers atthe event include ABB, Accenture Technology Solutions,
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      CLEAR UP YOUR DANDRUFF
      122 64 Men have oilier scalp than women and are more prone to dandruff and hair loss. With this in mind, hair experts at the CLEAR technology centre have created CLEAR men -an anti-dandruff shampoo range for men. It contains active dandruff ingredient Vita ace 2.0 which removes
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      989 64  -  DAVID S HOLLOWAY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA FED BAILOUT Former Fed chairman suggests expanding quotas for skilled immigrants to absorb unsold houses WASHINGTON Mr Alan Greenspan usually surrounds his opinions with caveats and convoluted clauses. But ask his view of the United States government's response
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      400 66  -  CONRAD RAJ SERVICED APARTMENTS 23-storey Fraser Suites opens in Beijing IN BEIJING editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE almost everybody else in China was glued to news about the Olympics, Singaporebased Frasers Hospitality yesterday opened its swankiest digs to date in the country, the 357-unit Fraser Suites CBD in
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      191 66 FRASERS Centrepoint has completed its acquisition of an 18-per-cent stake in Allco Reit and all of Allco Singapore, which manages the property trust. Allco Reit will now be renamed Frasers Commercial Trust following the $180-million deal. Frasers Centrepoint has now dropped plans to list its
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      45 66 ERNESTCHUA Tan Chong Motors in Singapore launched the new Nissan Qashqai SUV at Raffles Place yesterday. The two-litre, five-seat crossover, whose sturdy looks echo those of its larger Murano sibling, comes with a CVT gearbox in both standard and premium models.
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        75 66 Yellow Pages has seen net losses widen 18 per cent to $2.4 million for the first quarter ended June. Revenue for the classified directory firm also experienced a slowdown, slipping 7 per cent to $3.8 million.The company said that this was partially the result of an
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        WILMAR'S FOUR-FOLD EXPANSION
        103 66 Palm oil trading firm Wilmar International saw its bottom line expand to US$675 million ($*****.) in the first half of this year, with margins improving across all its business segments, including processing of palm, plantations, edible products and fertilisers. Wilmar says its optimistic that its performance for
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      497 68  -  LOH CHEE KONG GLOBAL BRAND FORUM Firms start to fall apart when they venture into different product lines cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg FOR all companies big and small and no matter what industry marketing guru Al Ries has a single word of advice on building a behemoth brand: Focus.
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      364 68  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg Imagine you are an entrepreneur trying to carve out a niche in a market where products are getting homogeneously competitive. What sets you apart from your competitors? "In such a scenario, the only way most companies can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage is
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      223 68 HEWLETT-PACKARD is offering to do free logo makeovers as early-bird incentives for four companies that sign for the Today-HP Total Care Seminar on "Brand Success and Creative Marketing" on Aug 27 at HortPark in Alexandra Road. Those selected will have their new looks showcased at
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      CDL to raise $ 1 billion
      209 69  - CDL to raise 1 billion ESTHER FUNG Move is milestone in S #pore #s push to develop alternative mode of investment esther@mediacorp.com.sg CITY Developments (CDL) is raising $1 billion in Islamic debt through a pioneering notes programme as a means to diversify its sources of financing. This will be Singapore's
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      This is what I call a war-chest.
      96 69  -  Mr Kwek Leng Beng, CDL executive chairman paid income derived from assets such as rent from property because Islamic law bans lending for interest. Assets like a hotel with a bar or a casino are not allowed. CDL's bond will be backed by
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      178 69 CHANNEL NEWSASIA LUXURY resorts operator Banyan Tree Holdings says its first-half net profit rose 32 per cent to $18.7 million. Revenues increased 27 per cent to about $239 million over the period. The results were driven by its hotel residences business, with
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      51 70 $1.10 Hold DBS Vickers maintains its rating but cuts the price target for the developer to $1.25 from $1.60, based on a 40-per-cent discount from revalued net asset value. "Weak sentiment in the high-end market is likely to dog share price performance in the near term," DBS Vickers
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      72 70 HSBC maintains its "neutral" rating for the shipbuilder and cuts the price target to 65 cents from $1.05, after revising earnings forecasts in the wake of weak first-half results. HSBC cuts FY2OOB and FY2009 earnings estimates by 5 per cent and 21 per cent, respectively,
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      COMFORTDELGRO
      62 70 $1.56 I Underperform Credit Suisse downgrades the transport operator from "neutral" and cuts the price target to $1.55 from $1.80. "Lower oil prices could offer a short-term reprieve for ComfortDelGro, but they will remain volatile in our view and are likely to outpace ridership gains in its Singapore rail/bus
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      120 70 35.5 cents I Outperform CIMB slashes the price target to 55 cents from 96 cents, in line with sector de-rating. It says the sports fashion firm's firsthalf FY2OOB net profit, while 42.8 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period, was below forecast on disappointing gross margins. But
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      83 70 DON WONG Shell's GM of Retail Sales and Operations, Mr Henry Chu (right), and teammate Choo Peng Chee, CEO of Cold Storage, preparing to wheel a shopping cart decorated as an Fi car. Last night, contestants took part in an Fi-themed night race at Centrepoint Cold
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      Time for bargains?
      630 70  -  ESTHER FUNG PROPERTY Some frightened investors selling homes cheap: Developer esther@mediacorp.com.sg AS HIGH-END home prices fall, Mr Kwek Leng Beng says there are now some bargains available for smart investors. "What has gone up very high in a straight line will also come down," said the executive
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      136 70 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE-LISTED commodities trader Noble Group said yesterday its second-quarter net profit more than doubled on increased global demand for grains, coal and iron ore. Noble's net income climbed to U*****.5 million (sl7lm) in the three months to June 30 from U5555.7 million in the
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      133 70 SHOWY International, a Cat-alist-listed sanitary fittings maker and distributor, said yesterday it had received in-principle approval from the Singapore Exchange for the listing of shares to be issued for its $545.4 million reverse takeover (RTO) of Hong Kongbased property firm Fortune Court Holdings The
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