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  • 20 1 weekendTODAY August 16 -17, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking weekendTODAY August 16 -17, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 882 1  -  LEONARDTHOMAS IN BEIJING LOW LIN FHOONG FIRST MEDAL SINCE i960 sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg FOUR years ago in Athens, she cried when her loss cost Singapore a bronze medal. On Friday, redemption came and with it, the tears again. They flowed for Li Jiawei, as she embraced
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 142 1 IN YOUR WEEKEND XTRA SHAN-SPEAK "I am not passionate by nature nor can I stimulate passion, but... I would like to think that I believe in what I am saying." His views have sometimes deviated from the party line. So, what can one expect from Mr X Shanmugam, Singapore's only
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  • NEWS
    • 1864 2 NO FANCIFUL SPEECHES HE SAYS WH XTRA LAW AND ORDER His views have sometimes deviated from the party line. So, what can we expect from our new Law Minister? MICHAEL HOR WHEN Mr X Shanmugam assumed the office of Minister of Law on May Day, he had served almost 20
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    • 154 3 Part of the team SOPHIA HUANG FIRST MEDAL SINCE i960 Eleven-year-old Ethan Gay and mum geared up for his Olympic debut by shouting 'Singapore jiayoul.' along with the 200-strong crowd at Bishan Junction 8, as they urged the women's table tennis team on to victory against South Korea. One of
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    • 363 4 ONGDAILIN DON'T have access to television or radio for MediaCorp's live coverage of this Sunday's National Day Rally? Log on to Channel News Asia's website for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's speech in English, from Bpm to 10pm. This is the first time that
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    • 887 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT EXAM STRESS Calls to helpline meant for primary school kids are at a three-year high weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SHE scored "very high marks" for her midyear exams in May, but her parents wondered why she did not do better. Sobbing over
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    • 432 6  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg LIMITED resources may be a daunting hurdle for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to surmount when it comes to implementing work-life initiatives, but one construction company with only 150 employees has done so. This, in spite of the fact
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    • 457 6  -  ANSLEYNG TRANSPORTTREATS SMRT offer food discounts to early commuters ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN SMRT first introduced the discount, it was roundly dismissed by commuters. A decade later, many have simply forgotten that those who reach their destinations in the city before 7.30 am pay 10 cents less in
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    • 219 6 001 BOON KEONG CHANNEL NEWSASIA The National Water Safety Council has "strongly" advised non-swimmers to either not take part in water sports or acquire swimming and water survival skills before doing so. To equip students with these skills, the council has engaged the Royal
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    • 420 8 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S retail sales fell in June, the first time in four months, as vehicles sales slumped and consumers bought fewer luxury goods, mobile phones and computers. The retail sales index fell 3.2 per cent from a year earlier, after climbing 4.8 per
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    • 915 8  -  CHITRA RAJ ARAM XTRA NATIONAL IDENTITY Expose the young to our heritage as the sense of who and what we are takes root at an early age Deputy Editorial Director chitrarajaram@mediacorp.com.sg A RECENT local survey revealed that a third of Singaporeans are willing to
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  • WORLD
    • 387 10 AP, CHANNEL NEWSASIA MALAYSIA BY-ELECTION Islamic party stays mum on whether it will support him to be Prime Minister PERAK Malaysia's opposition Islamic party said yesterday that it will back opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in the Aug 26 by-election, but refused to say if it will
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    • 206 10 AGENCIES The man who has accused Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy said on Friday that he had visited a mosque to swear he was telling the truth and challenged MrAnwartodothesame. The move came one day before Mr Anwar was due to
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    • 244 10 KUALA LUMPUR A state director of Malaysia's Anti-Corruption-Agency (ACA) has received a live bullet with a threatening note warning him to halt investigations into several high-profile cases that he is handling, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. The newspaper said that the director, whom
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    • 385 10 AGENCIES JAKARTA Indonesia's President warned on Friday that terrorism is still a threat to the world's most populous Muslim country, which has not suffered a major attack in nearly three years following a crackdown on Islamic militants. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said
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    • 188 10 AP Economic growth in South-east Asia's largest economy is expected to hold steady at just over 6 per cent in 2009, Indonesian's President said on Friday in his State of the Union address. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said gross domestic product is forecast to
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    • 169 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's state censors have banned two books on Islam, saying they gave a misleading view of the religion a move slammed on Friday by a group of Muslim women activists which published one of them. The Home Ministry banned the books
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    • Article, Illustration
      15 11 AFP A track official watching athletes run during the women's Boom qualification heats on Friday.
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    • 253 11 AFP BEIJING 2008 Children from dominant Han group represented minority ones BEIJING Children from China's dominant Han population represented Tibetan and other ethnic groups in a key part of the Olympics opening ceremony, an official said on Friday. If confirmed, it would be the third faking incident
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 117 11 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH You mightthinkthe Chinese are consumed bytubthumping patriotism because of the Olympic Games, and that they are massing in the street, painted red and yellow, screaming "Zhongguo JiayouV (Go China!) Not in Shanghai, where locals dismiss the fanatics as "tomato scrambled eggs",
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      • 124 11 DPA Nepal's constituent assembly on Friday voted the former rebel chief Pushpa Kamal Dhahal, alias Prachanda, as the country's new Prime Minister. The vote ended nearly four months of political deadlock, paving the way for the formation of a new government led
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    • 640 13  -  MAUREEN DOWD NEWYORKTIMES SERVICE XTRA US SCANDALS Former presidential hopeful John Edwards' stunning fall from grace news@newstoday.com .sg WASHINGTON John Edwards' confession was a little bit breathtaking. Not the sex stuff. That happens in the United States all the time. The stunning admission
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    • 302 14 AFP WARSAW On Friday, Washington and Warsaw signed a preliminary deal on basing part of a United States' missile shield in Poland, in the face of Moscow's vehement opposition and mounting East-West tensions over Georgia. While Washington insists the shield is not aimed at
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    • 849 14  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA MILITARY ALLIANCES Conflict in Georgia may have unexpected consequences in Asia news@newstoday.com .sg THE current conflict in Georgia may have surprisingly more impact on the military situation in Asia than one would expect at first glance. Until this month, few in
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    • 83 16 A Shinto priest leads Japanese lawmakers (left) as they visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Fridayto mark the 63rd anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War 11. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (right) bows before the altar during a memorial service at the Budokan martial
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    • 369 16 AFP ECONOMIC GROWTH Lee unveils vgreen growth' plan as Seoul marks anniversary SEOUL On Friday, President Lee MyungBak unveiled a "green growth" strategy to drive South Korea's economy in future decades as the nation celebrated its 60th anniversary marked by dramatic economic growth and democratisation. "Green
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    • THIS quirky WORLD
      • 100 16 A desperate Romanian sports fan Cornel Hobai, 42, took a high jump from his second storey apartment when his wife banned him from watching the Olympics on television, Ananova.com reported. Mr Hobai leapt from the balcony of his apartment when his wife pulled the plug
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      • 118 16 AP Petrol prices seemed to have fallen in San Antonio, Texas. A problem with a pump cost a convenience store dear when premium petrol accidentally sold for 38 US cents (50 cents) a gallon instead of $3.89. Dill Food Market manager Jim Duke said that the "pump
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      • 109 16 Engineers in Warsaw, Poland have been left red faced after building a railway tunnel that's too small for trains to fit through, Ananova.com reported. The costly mistake was only discovered when inspectors measured the finished tunnel in the Polish capital and realised the roof was so low that
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 154 16 AFP Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh used his Independence Day speech on Friday to warn Pakistan to rein in terrorism, as peace talks between the two countries falter 61 years after they were divided. The annual address marks the end of
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      • 161 16 AP An engine access panel fell off a Qantas Airways jumbo jet en route to Singapore from Melbourne, Australia, on Friday, the latest in a string of incidents forthe airline. Inspectors conducting a routine check in Singapore on the Boeing 747-400 noticed
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    • 919 18  -  INDRIASAMEGO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Self-promotion and public awareness will be the key to the President's office sindo@mediacorp.com.sg NOW that the Grand Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) has been officially sanctioned by the country's election committee to field candidates in the 2009 election the advertisements finally make
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 87 18 A Canadian arrested in Thailand after a massive manhunt was sentenced to more than three years'jail on Friday for sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy. Christopher Paul Neil was arrested last October following a campaign by Interpol, which reconstructed digitally "swirled" images of a man
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      • 46 18 The BBC quoted the International Maritime Bureau (1MB) as saying aThai cargo ship was seized in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday with 28 people on board. Last month, a Japanese-owned ship carrying 20 Philippine sailors was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden.
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      • 57 18 Pakistan's army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani owes his post to President Pervez Musharraf and may be the only person who can save the embattled President. But Gen Kayani has opted to stay out of the fight, leaving his patron to choose between resigning or facing impeachment
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      • 81 18 Scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a portable testing machine that will detect cases of bird flu in two hours, the BBC reported on Friday. It now takes about a weekto identify the different flu strains because laboratory tests are needed. Nottingham Trent University developers said
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    • 36 18 AFP 'NilsOlav' the king penguin receives his knighthood from the Norwegian King's Guard at the Edinburgh zoo in Scotland on Friday. The Norwegian King's Guard were in Edinburgh for the annual Military Tattoo.
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  • voices
    • 729 20  -  DAVE BARRY IN BEIJING TRIBUNE MEDIASERVICES DAVE BARRY AT THE OLYMPICS news@newstoday.com.sg The local rock music is just like any other deafening with undecipherable lyrics I WAS in the mood to have blood spurt from my ears, so, I decided to take in the Beijing rock scene.
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    • 447 22  -  Letter from Lee Kirn Hua Director, Family Services Division Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports I REFER to "Raising standards" (Aug 11). Ms Tan Chor Hoon has highlighted concerns over the qualifications of preschool teachers, availability of enrichment programmes such as music
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    • 736 22  -  TENLEY PETERSON XTRA WOMEN MISUNDERSTOOD Women who expect equality should not be afraid to use the term A CERTAIN image comes to mind when you hear someone is a feminist. Usually, that image involves a man-hating woman who's burning her bra. You might think
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  • business
    • 543 24  -  ESTHER FUNG PROPERTY But sector's outlook still cloudy on slower growth esther@mediacorp.com.sg DEVELOPERS sold 897 private homes out of the 1,322 launched last month, the highest number since last August, according to monthly data released on Friday by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (LIRA). This
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    • 494 24  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT has China's turbulent history in the last 150 years got to do with selling soft drinks in the world's largest youth market? Everything it seems, according to Mr Harry Hui, the brains behind Pepsi's most successful interactive marketing campaign to date,
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    • 712 26  -  JACKY TAI XTRA MARKETING POWER Tap well the power of branding, for it can make or break the best business idea news@newstoday.com .sg WHEN Tekka Mall became The Verge, several people asked me if that is a good name. It is a valid
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  • weekend plus
    • 836 28  -  EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg MAKAN MAKEOVERS Things are looking up for 12 hawker stalls after appearing on reality TV show Buzzing Cashier In fact, the enterprising hawker, who readily admitted that he has been raking in about $40,000 monthly since the show aired three months ago, is
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    • 532 38  - MEDIACORP'S TWIN WINS NEOCHAICHIN ASIAN PUBLISHING AWARDS for Excellence in Customised Publishing and Multimedia Advertising chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg HE WROTE a novel at the age of 20, and then one on science-fiction at age 24 and if MediaCorp chairman Ho Kwon Ping has his way, they would soon see the light of
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    • 328 38  -  MALCOLM OEI plus@newstoday.com.sg AMSTERDAM'S famed supperclub opened its doors in Singapore on Thursday with its official launch at Odeon Towers its first Asian outlet. As with its luminous cousins in Amsterdam, San Francisco and Istanbul, the Singapore nightspot plans to paint the town its trademark
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    • 411 40  -  MAYO MARTIN OCBC STORE THEATRE FEST Am Queen serves up a history lesson with little scandal mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THE prospect of seeing the "glittering world of prostitutes, porn stars and playboy models" clash with puritanical Singapore in the mid-sos was a delicious one. But in Am Queen, the
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    • weekendmakan
      • 898 30  -  SHERMAINE WONG FUN FINE DINING Food and cocktails are coupled perfectly at Tippling Club shermainew@mediacorp.com.sg THERE'S a rather quaint marriage happening at Dempsey Hill involving plenty of cocktails, food presented in a curious way and a whole lot of fun. And it takes place in a
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      • 669 31  -  ANNETTE TAN I HAVE to admit, I was pretty sceptical before even setting foot in Yen Dining. Just about every online review was negative and the few friends I knew who'd dined there weren't particularly impressed either. The general consensus
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      • FOODNOTES
        • 164 31 If you have put off buying organic food because of its hefty price tag, take heart. A fortnight ago, NTUC Fair Price launched a new housebrand range of Pasar Organic produce that can be up to 40 per cent cheaper than imported organic
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        • 144 31 Extend your National Day celebrations this year at Swissotel Merchant Court with a dose of nostalgia. The hotel's Ellenborough Market Cafe is rolling out a buffet of heritage delights that include traditional hawker fare. Yummy treats such as the evergreen Singapore rojak and Hainanese chicken rice will
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    • weekendstyle
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        982 32  -  MARION HUME THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SPORTS FASHION As the world watches the Olympics, a new V&A exhibition looks at the links between sports and fashion style@newstoday.com .sg 44T"^ HERE'S no excuse for poor shapes and bad colours. They X don't make you run faster," Stella McCartney who has
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      • 165 33  -  PEARLYN THAM What does an Olympic athlete smell like? It's not the whiff of perspiration, going by adidas' olfactory tribute to the Games. To celebrate the sporting season, adidas has launched limited edition colour-coded fragrances for men and women, which are inspired by the Olympians and
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      • Article, Illustration
        467 34  -  PEARLYN THAM PEARLYN THAM MAKE-UP BY MAKE-UP ARTISTS Make-up artist Rumiko comes up with RMK line that captures style, whimsy of Big Apple pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to a beauty fan's dictionary, forget ERP, COE or HDB. The hottest acronym would be RMK the make-up and skincare
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      • Article, Illustration
        232 34 These beauty brands were also created by industry folks who know all about the make-up trade make-up artists BECCA As a teenager, make-up artist Rebecca Morrice Williams had already started her search for the perfect foundation. When she became a make-up artist, she realised that even models
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      • 258 34 PEARLYN THAM WHEN you're hungry, you can get fast food delivered to your home. And when it's your skin that needs nourishment, the home delivery concept applies, too. The Bioxil Two Weeks Miracle range is delivered to your home every two weeks because the products are free
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      • ATAGLANCE
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          79 35 Prices may be on the rise everywhere else but the reverse is true at clothing chain River Island. It will be lowering its prices storewide by 15 per cent permanently. This should come as good news to shopaholics who can now buy more of their favourite River
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        • 87 35 If you love Gap's signature easy-to-wear clothing, chances are you will want to strut around in the Pierre Hardy Gap Design Editions collection of shoes, too. For the Fall season, accessories designer Pierre Hardy has captured the effortless Gap spirit in a range of five shoe
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        • Article, Illustration
          81 35 In most cases, the fabric is usually the means to the endproduct: The apparel. But in Lanvin's Autumn-Winter menswear collection, the fabrics and their accompanying details are just as important. Shirts are made of exclusive pinstriped fabrics, pockets and seams are piped with satin ribbon and peacoats feature
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        • 107 35 Your rave denim blues could just be those green ones. Guess by Marciano has launched its Guess Green collection of organic cotton jeans for men and women that will make you look and feel good in them. Priced at $369 a pair, the jeans will come in
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      • Article, Illustration
        589 35  -  PEARLYN THAM DESIGNER ABLE Those Tangs Studio or Martina Pink shoes could be one of Christina Kuan's numerous creations pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg AT THE Tangs footwear section, there's a pair of Martina Pink sandals decorated with three wooden discs. To anyone else, they probably look like innocuous wooden embellishments,
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        299 35  -  PEARLYN THAM TAIWANESE pop princess John Tsai has a little help in enhancing a certain part of her anatomy. We mean her nails, of course. The nail art devotee now has her own nail polish brand with the unsettling name of Oops! Jealous. Apparently, if you use
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    • weekendspeed
      • 658 36  -  COLIN YONG FASCINATING COMBO There's more to the Qashqai than first meets the eye colin@mediacorp.com.sg AS FAR as crossover vehicles go, the Qashqai is a brilliant combination mainly because Nissan didn't try to be too clever and make it the Swiss Army knife of the car world.
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      • NEWSTRACKS
        • 103 36 Alfa Romeo has become the latest car manufacturer to enter the diesel fray here by launching the 159 1.9 JTDm. At $117,800 with COE, it costs $2,000 more than the existing 2.2-litre petrol model but is over 32 per cent more economical. Apart from having
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        • 105 36 Audi has released the first photographs of the facelifted A 6, which will arrive in Singapore in early 2009. Improving efficiency was a major goal and Audi says it has managed to cut fuel consumption by around 1 5 per cent across the range. A
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        • 98 36  -  COLIN YONG Chinese automaker Chery has supplied 50 prototype hybrid vehicles for use during tne ongoing Olympic Games in Beijing. The A 5 hybrid saloons are known as the "Olympics Green Messengers". The car will go into full production by the end of this year for
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    • 133 41 NO ONE gets the gossip mill churning like Fasha Sandha. The Malaysian actress, who is the cover girl on the latest issue of Manja, sarcastically thanked the gossip mongers who have been whispering recently that the controversial film star was the cause of fellow
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      • 71 41 AGENCIES Madonna will be 50 years old on Saturday but the queen of pop shows no signs of relinquishing her crown as she prepares for her Sticky and Sweet world tour. According to the Guinness World Records, Madonna is the most successful female solo artist. Her spokeswoman
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      • 99 41 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, recorded straight As in her A levels. The 1 8-year-old had to combine her studies at Headington School, Oxford, with filming the series in which she plays a pupil at Hogwarts School
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      • 83 41 AFP Hollywood actor Christian Bale, star of the new Batman film The Dark Knight, will not face charges over an alleged attack on his mother and sister, British prosecutors said on Thursday. The 34-year-old was arrested last month, a day after appearing at the film's West
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      • 497 44  -  MILTON TAN CUP FOOTBALL Home United striker ready to prove he has not lost the goal-scoring touch RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2008 Home United v Tampines Rovers Bishan Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg HE MAY be going through a lean spell, but Tampines Rovers have been put on notice that
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      • 378 44  -  NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2008 MILTON TAN Dalian Shide 0 Super Reds 3 THE Super Reds went to the top of the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 table on Friday night, and they didn't even have to move out of first gear to despatch Dalian Shide
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        607 46  -  DAVID NGIAU THE SMART MONEYS ON Go easy with the betting at the big kick-off david@mediacorp.com.sg I WAS passing by a Singapore Pools outlet that I sometimes visit when I ran into a familiar face a couple of weeks ago. I first met this chap a few
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      • 116 46 A mammoth mismatch? Think again. West Brom scored 88 goals in the Championship last season, more than any other club in England's four professional divisions. The Gunners are also prolific scorers with 74 goals last season, trailing only Man United's 80. So expect to see
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      • 112 46 It won't be so easy for the Reds at the Stadium of Light. Liverpool may have won 2-0 there last season, in late August, but Sunderland improved quickly after and won 1 1 of their 1 9 home games there last season, on par with Tottenham
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      • 121 46 With Luiz Felipe Scolari at the helm, and reportedly trying out a 4-4-2 to ensure goals, it's best to just watch this match. At least until we know what effect the World Cup-winning coach is having at Stamford Bridge. Going by last season's stats, the odds
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      • 112 46 No Wayne Rooney? No Cristiano Ronaldo? No problem. Trust in Alex Ferguson to find a way out of United's striking problem. Didn't he get Rooney to play out of position in the service of Ronaldo? United have enough talent to overcome Newcastle. Last season, they
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      • 445 47  -  DAVID NGIAU SPORTS COMMENT Deputy Sports Editor david@mediacorp.com.sg THE start of the 2008-09 Premiership season this Saturday couldn't have come at a worse time. After a summer transfer season marred by the 77-day running battle between Manchester United and Real Madrid over Cristiano Ronaldo,
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        427 47 AGENCIES RELEGATION CONTENDERS Premiership's three new clubs are set to go right back down ENGLISH football these days rewards miracle-working with nothing but nine months of increasing humiliation and, possibly, a sacking. That reality awaits Hull City, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion, the three clubs joining the
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      • 277 48 AGENCIES ENGINE ROOM COULD BECOME A REAL PROBLEM The Premiership and Champions League trophies are locked away in Manchester United's museum: Out of sight and out of mind. It's time to forget that feat and move on. But there's still an unusual an air of work-in-progress about the
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        315 48 THE GUARDIAN BLUES CAN EXPECT AT LEAST ONE TROPHY UNDER SCOLARI He might not think he's all that special, but Chelsea fans are confident that life under World Cup-winning manager Luiz Felipe Scolari will be more than just so-so. Last season, the Blues came within two points of the
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      • 773 48  -  I STEVE MCMAHON sports® newstoday. com. sg Ronaldo's injury and that transfer tattle will hurt defending champs IT'S a new season, old story. I have to speak the truth, even if it means making the Barclays Premier League title race sound predictable, but the
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        291 49 AGENCIES IT'S THAT FUNNY, FAMILIAR FEELING AGAIN Experience lost and trust placed in a young, largely unproven squad. The start of this Premiership season looks a lot like the start of the last one at Arsenal. This time last year, many fans feared manager Arsene Wenger had committed a
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        296 49 AGENCIES LOOKING TO FINALLY 'SCORE' WITH TORRES AND KEANE Everyone has one: A mate who spends ages in front of the mirror before heading out on Friday evening, dousing himself in deodorant and preening like a Casanova despite the fact that it's obvious to all he's not going to
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      • 244 50 AGENCIES BEIJING Brazil will have to shake off the memory of Sydney 2000 as they go into Saturday's Olympic football quarter-final against an old nemesis Cameroon. The African team were the ones who sent the Brazilians packing eight years ago at the same
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      • 596 50 AGENCIES OVERHEARD@THE OLYMPICS It still hasn't hit me yet but when it does, it will be euphoric. I might crawl out of my skin. US shot-putter Adam Nelson on competing in Beijing What's wrong? Alex Thomson, Britain's Channel Four News journalist, puts the question after International Olympic
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      • 632 51 -MCT BLAZING A TRAIL No time for rest as American superstar closes in on Spitz' magical 7 mark BEIJING He had no time. Michael Phelps had just won his sixth gold medal in six tries, but he couldn't relax on Friday morning. Next was the medal ceremony,
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        • 152 51  -  GETTY IMAGES As Chen Ying (picture) stood on the platform receiving the gold medal she won in the women's 25m pistol shooting this week, she had no idea her mother was keeping a secret from her. Chen found out later when her parents called her
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        • 101 51 Grumpy Greco-Roman wrestler Ara Abrahamian will face disciplinary action after refusing to accept a bronze medal, which he dumped on the floor, before storming away from his presentation ceremony. The Swede, who won silver in the Athens Olympics four years ago, grudgingly climbed the podium after finishing third
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        • 115 51 North Korea's Kirn Jong Su, who won silver and bronze medals in the Olympics shooting, has failed a doping test, International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokeswoman Giselle Davies said on Friday. Kirn, who won silver in the men's 50m pistol and bronze in the 10m pistol,
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        • 43 51 AGENCIES Slovakian brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner won the C-2 canoe doubles gold medal at the Olympics on Friday. The silver medal went to Czechs Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek, with the bronze going to Russians Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov.
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      • 930 52  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEIJING BUZZ SPORTS EDITOR IN BEIJING leonard@mediacorp.com.sg THEY make little dancing steps, before suddenly lunging like a king cobra. Sometimes one player just attacks, the other patiently "chops" the shots back, defence the calling card. They can rally slowly, before lightning reflexes
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      • 665 53  -  LOW LIN FHOONG A MOMENT TO SAVOUR Fans turned up in numbers at Junction 8 to witness women paddlers' triumph linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg THEY came, they saw, and how they roared. For more than three hours on Friday, about 200 fans cheered, whooped and groaned at
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