The Straits Times, 9 August 2008

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  • 15 1 MICA (P) 115/12/2007 SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 2008 «jp* AN SPH PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 290 1  -  Marc Lim By SPORTS CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: At precisely 8 last night, the dreams of 1.3 billion Chinese became a reality. The 29th Olympic Games were declared open in a dazzling spectacle, showcasing both the richness of Chinese culture, and the elaborate lengths the host has gone through
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    • 53 1 NEW-LOOK PAPER: YOUR ST ON SATURDAY WHAT dfe PART A: PRIME, REVIEW, INSIGHT, FORUM nrA ni7pC PARTB:HOME iv_/_L/rjixo part c: world, money, sports SAY T PART D: SATURDAY SPECIAL, SCIENCE S^H .STRAITS T/MJ PARTFTTFF, pb~" FAK1 jL.L1*jL! H y < A^^. 256 PAGES TODAY STs Olympics extravaganza SATURDAY PAGES Dl-7
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  • prime commentary
    • 1004 2  -  Chua Lee Hoong Western detractors are getting the jitters as others copy our model I By I POLITICAL EDITOR SINGAPORE is small enough to be a suburb in Beijing, but it has something in common with the mammoth People's Republic. The little red dot and Red
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    • 194 2 VIEWPOINTS WE SAY Tighter times, not bleak times There is no reason for Singaporeans to begin despairing about vanishing jobs and shrinking purchasing power. Singapore has inner strength. But the people must help themselves and not be passively swept along by events. EDITORIAL PAGE A 26 COLUMNS Too much e-mail?
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    • 4 2 V -J 4lj/ ECONOMY
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  • prime national day
    • 695 3  - Growth forecast for year revised down to 4-5 Lee Siew Hua PM Lee calls for S'poreans to prepare for bumpy year ahead I By SINGAPORE has revised its full-year growth forecast, narrowing the range to between 4 and 5 per cent. This reflects a less-rosy outlook from the Government's earlier
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    • 198 3 THE fourth university here will very probably rise on a plot of land in Changi South that was to house the aborted Asian campus of the University of New South Wales, education sources told The Straits Times. They identified the 20ha site as the logical
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    • 156 4  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH POLICE officer Rajantra Mathavar (left), 47, pleaded guilty on Thursday to exacting a "fee" to help a robbery victim get his belongings back. That fee: $1,000 and two bottles of whisky from Mr Prathiya Raj Doraisamy, 50, who was robbed by
      WONG KWAI CHOW/THE STRAITS TIMES  -  156 words
    • 555 4  -  Chong Chee Kin CPIB's message to foreigners: Non-citizens form a rising proportion of cases taken to court By CRIME CORRESPONDENT THE influx of foreigners, especially those used to a culture of buying favours, is worrying Singapore's anti-graft body. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau wants
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    • 108 4 IN OUR report yesterday "Rivals snap up Changi Airport staff", we said in the sub-heading that about 120 join airports in China, India and the Middle East each year. This is wrong. They leave for various reasons, including better offers; to pursue studies full time;
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    • 529 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Additional reporting by Jessica Jaganathan Clomid fails to improve odds of getting pregnant, say researchers LONDON: A drug taken by millions of women worldwide, including in Singapore, to improve the chances of conceiving a child yields the same results as no
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Additional reporting by Jessica Jaganathan; FILE PHOTO/THE STRAITS TIMES  -  529 words
    • 532 11  -  Leslie Lopez ANWAR'S SODOMY CASE Only secret talks with politicians held there, he says By SOUTH-EAST ASIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: The sodomy trial of Anwar Ibrahim is likely to centre on a condominium apartment where he is alleged to have sexually attacked a
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    • 407 14  -  Judith Tan I By SINGAPORE'S first interactive Web TV service went live yesterday morning, promising racy, edgy and largely uncut news and opinion. The Straits Times RazorTV (ST RazorTV) will offer eight hours of content daily aimed at 18- to 40-year-olds who
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    • 803 14  -  sumathi v. selvaretnam Tan Wei Zhao Readers find revamped paper more user-friendly, vibrant I By READERS woke up yesterday to a revamped Straits Times packed with new offerings both in print and online. A new masthead, bigger headlines and easi-er-to-read text fonts were among
      ALPHONSUS CHERN/THE STRAITS TIMES; DESMOND WEE/THE STRAITS TIMES; FRANCIS ONG/THE STRAITS TIMES  -  803 words
    • 71 14 "With this revamp, the Straits Times experience has now broadened beyond a newspaper. The physical newspaper is now a link in a chain of accessible options available to the reader, 24/7, irrespective of physical locale. This new multi-platform experience will have greater appeal across wider lifestyles and drive
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    • 41 14 "The change in the format of the paper is a constant reminder that in our fast-changing environment, we too must readily accept challenges and be receptive to bold and new ideas to stay relevant." Mr Bennie Cheok, 60, librarian
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    • 33 14 "You can see everything at a glance. It's very clear, the news is prominently displayed, and the colours are now very vibrant." Ms Helen Li, 26, auditor (translated from Mandarin)
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    • 46 14 "It's good that there's more colour. The paper is also easier to follow with home news becoming a bigger part of the expanded Prime section. On the whole, it's very nice! Congratulations!" Mr Kahar Hassan, 39, managing director of an organic fertiliser company
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    • 32 14 "The strength of newspapers is in analyses and commentaries, and The Straits Times does this well." Mr Vikram Bansal, 37, general manager of Zenith Optimedia, a media planning agency
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    • 784 7  -  Lee Tee Jong Seoul plastic surgeon who counts celebrities and S'poreans as clients to set up clinic here By SOUTH KOREA CORRESPONDENT SEOUL: Singaporeans keen to make themselves over to look like Korean beauties in their favourite TV dramas could soon consult a
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    • 490 9  -  Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja Sumatra police question bookseller for 10 hours before releasing him By INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA: A bookseller with wavy hair and dark skin was returning to a school where he had made a pitch previously only to be arrested by police.
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  • prime special report
    • 1082 18  -  Arti Mulchand Taoism is losing believers as Chinese turn away from their parents' faith. Christianity is growing its flock and Buddhism is also seeing a revival I By CHINESE religions here, specifically Taoism, have been trying to stem the bleed of believers from their ranks, but
      Source: RESEARCH, ANALYSIS & PLANNING DEPARTMENT; ALPHONSUS CHERN/THE STRAITS TIMES  -  1,082 words
    • 516 18  -  ARTI MULCHAND A SINGLE text message from her staunchly Buddhist mother said it all: "You cannot be baptised until I die." Ms Cindy Ng had been a closet Christian for five years, but wanted to "come out" and be baptised with
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    • 492 18  -  ARTI MULCHAND FIVE years ago, when Madam Tan, a devout Buddhist, first heard that her eldest daughter Cindy Ng, then 23, was planning to be baptised, she had one concern that the young woman would not be able to perform the funeral rites at
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    • 908 20  -  Yen Feng It is losing the most followers, especially among youth under 24 I By IN 1988, Taoist devotees scurried to meet their elders when a government survey found that half their clan had defected to other religions. Plans were made to stem the
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    • 462 20  -  Grace Chua I By YOUNG Christian converts here are finding an extended family at church where they also find hip music, fellowship with other youth, opportunities to socialise and, perhaps, even find a life partner. Financial consultant Jace Lee, 29, was drawn to
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    • 686 20  -  April Chong I By BUDDHISM, at 2,500 years old, is still the top choice among those in search of spirituality in this urban nation. Census figures in 1980 and 2000 indicate that Buddhists are growing fastest in number as well. Buddhism may have lost some
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    • 123 20 THE three major schools of Buddhism in Singapore are: Mahayana Buddhism Brought here by early Chinese immigrants and is the main practice of the Chinese. Followers strive towards the attainment of enlightenment or Buddhahood and place emphasis in the cultivation of compassion and wisdom. Tibetan
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  • REVIEW & FORUM
    • 466 22 SINGAPOREANS' mood is not quite clouding over as they see in the nation's 43rd year of independence in less cheery circumstances. In his message last night, the Prime Minister said the nation should prepare for a bumpy year ahead. The people are not as ebullient,
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    • 1234 22 The following is Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day message WE CELEBRATE National Day this year in a somewhat guarded mood. The last 12 months have been a period of economic uncertainty worldwide. Considering the external challenges, Singapore's economic results are good. For the first
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    • 701 22  -  Tommy Koh I By IN LAW school, you will have a very heavy reading load. In every course you take, you will have to learn and remember the major principles, statutes, case law and the views of learned scholars. There is no escaping
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    • review
      • 753 24  -  Chan Wai Teik By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES WHAT constitutes the identity of a typical Singaporean? Do we have one to begin with? Some of its elements are intangible. As a photographer, I find it difficult to represent them visually. But they exist nevertheless. I have
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      • 924 26  -  Janice Tay LETTER FROM KYOTO I By CORRESPONDENT ITAKE a picture of a vending machine (almost) every day. Sorry. Well, I don't. But a man living on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido does. Calling himself Motomachi Nijuuyon Ken, he puts up the snapshots on a
        COURTESY OF MOTOMACHI NIJUUYON KEN  -  924 words
      • 707 26  -  Joanne Lee THE DIGERATI DIARIES By STRAITSTIMES.COM EDITOR EARLIER this week, as I was mailing a cheque, I realised, literally ex-post, that I'd forgotten to stick a stamp on the envelope. In my defence, I should say the only snail mail I send
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      • 1261 27  -  John Mcßeth By SENIOR WRITER FOR 23 years, Mr Timothy Rieser has served variously as legislative aide to Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy and majority staff clerk on the Senate Appropriations Committee's foreign operations sub-committee, overseeing all foreign aid and State Department spending. During that time,
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      • 677 28  -  Andy Ho DAEDALUS: TECHNOLOGICAL TRIUMPHS AND CHALLENGES By SENIOR WRITER BEFORE last week, there had been 51 chikungunya cases detected here since January. But just this week alone, a further 18 cases have popped up. First identified in 1952 in an outbreak along the border between Tanganyika
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      • 272 28 involve three different strains...The authorities think the local cases are not linked to one another. Instead, they must have come from different, presumably imported, index cases. That is, the virus is not endemic yet. Here is the good news: Chikungunya may well remain non-endemic. to spreads this
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    • review insight
      • 1261 30  -  Li XUEYING I will always be 'Made in Singapore' I By POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT All three are Singaporeans, holding the red passport but living their lives out differently. In their respective ways, they represent the diversity among Singaporeans today.They share their thoughts with Insight on what
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      • 608 30 Singapore has been wooing immigrants to boost its population. One of them is Mrs Kriti Shroff, formerly from New Delhi, who took up Singapore citizenship seven years ago. THE first time I visited Singapore was when I was very young. It left
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      • 1062 31 We own Singapore what fan Mr Adrian Tan is a director at law firm Drew and Napier. One of his most recent cases involved representing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in a hearing to assess damages, after winning a defamation suit against the Singapore
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      • 463 31 Last week, Insight looked at how the introduction of group representation constituencies (GRCs) 20 years ago has changed the electoral landscape. We asked for suggestions to ensure a multiracial Parliament, and if the size and number of GRCs should be trimmed. Some 20 readers responded. Some views "Mr Chandra
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    • forum
      • 320 32  -  Clinton Lim SINGAPORE 43: NATIONAL DAY LETTERS EVERY National Day, filled with pride and gratitude, I count the nation's blessings. Ravaged by Sars five years ago, Singapore now continues to enjoy a robust remaking. Our education system continues to be transformed. Our present institutes
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      • 143 32  -  Kelvin Lee SINGAPORE celebrates its 43rd birthday today and looking back at my years here, I can't help but feel an immense sense of belonging in my adopted country. I am sure many permanent residents feel the same and, though I cannot speak for all,
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      • 221 32  -  Vivien Tan (Mrs) IF I had a magic wand, I would wave it and make the following happen: Present a special National Day award to Mrs Lee Kuan Yew for being the woman behind the man who will always be remembered as founder, leader
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      • 307 32 You got us where we are "Thank you, MM and team. Majulah Singapura." MR ISWER MENON: "When we join in the celebration for our 43rd National Day today, my family and I wish to offer a big thank you to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and his team
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      • 214 33  -  Kan Kin Mun PROFESSOR Wang Gungwu made an intriguing comment in his article on Wednesday, "Chinese nationalism: Pride and pitfalls", that the international media were astonished by the strong reactions of better-educated Chinese youth in support of China during recent events.
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      • 492 33  -  Agnes Meurzec (Ms) THE NEW-LOOK STRAITS TIMES: READERS WRITE IN "Simply superb. Your paper makes Singaporeans proud." MR JEFFREY LAW: "Your revamped ST is simply superb. I could not find any fault in its new look in design and content. The World section impressed me as it
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      • 83 33 LETTERS should be sent only to The Straits Times. They should be no longer than 400 words and include the writer's full name, address and phone numbers. The Forum editor reserves the right to edit a letter. For women, please indicate Miss, Ms, Mrs or Madam. Please email your
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    • 856 35  -  Salma Khalik I BOY'S DEATH FROM HFMD By HEALTH CORRESPONDENT THEY had just lost their son to hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), when their daughter started getting the same tell-tale spots. Now the daughter of Mr Marta Adi and Madam Umi has
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    • 604 36  -  Lim Wei Chean Iras aims to roll out hassle-free scheme by 2010 I By THE Government is considering a new system that would make it easier for tourists to shop and get tax refunds. The electronic database would do away with the paper forms
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    • 546 36  -  Karamjit Kaur I By AVIATION CORRESPONDENT MORE Singaporeans are travelling and more are returning home unhappy, ready to take their frustrations to court. This year, the Small Claims Tribunal has heard 80 travel-re-lated cases in just the first six months, compared with 71
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    • 284 36  -  KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN By IF THE number eight augurs well for a marriage, then Mr Steve Ngiam is off to a good start. Yesterday, the 26-year-old sales executive underwent an elaborate wedding ceremony featuring a heavy dose of the digit, which is considered auspicious by the
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    • 520 36  -  Karamjit Kaur Serene Luo I By RISING fuel prices, a sluggish global economy and inflation are slowing the stride of globetrotters. A June dip in the number of visitors to Singapore the first slide in 51 months mirrors the woes of the
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    • 553 37  -  Lee Hui Chieh Chikungunya hits 28 in area; health officers destroy sites found to be breeding mosquitoes I By IT WOULD have been a 10-minute walk from his Kranji workplace to a nearby clinic in normal conditions. But Mr T. Shankar took 45 minutes to
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    • 371 37 LEE HUI CHIEH TEN more people have caught chikungunya here, the Health Ministry said yesterday. They include eight workers from Kranji Way (see other report), a foreign worker living and working at a factory in Sungei Kadut Street 1, and a housewife in Woodlands Street 81.
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    • 713 40  -  Amelia Tan Eusoff College's first residents mark 50th anniversary I By MORE than four decades after they left, the original residents of Singapore's first and only all-fe-male university hostel returned to its grounds yesterday. The shrieks and giggles that filtered out of the former
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    • 349 40  - No haze in S'pore for now Tania Tan I By HERE is some good news on the haze front: Prevailing winds are currently blowing smoke in a southeast or southerly direction away from Singapore for now, says the National Environment Agency (NEA). Air quality in Singapore yesterday was a low
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    • 651 42  -  Ang Yiying Meet Robin Lee, the "official" trapper of stray reptiles I By MEET Singapore's crocodile hunter, Mr Robin Lee, 33. On normal days, he manages Long Kuan Hung Crocodile Farm in Kranji, which was started by his father. But when the alert for a wild
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    • 334 42  -  ANG WING THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has seized three illegally kept crocodiles in the last two years, including two from HDB flats. The two high-rise-living crocodiles were kept in aquarium tanks. One was i caiman crocodile seized in 2006, and the
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    • 542 42  -  ANG YIYING SINGAPORE has at least two "permanent resident" crocodiles, which make their home in the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. The National Parks Board (NParks) has confirmed identifying these crocodiles, which are usually spotted in the water or mudflats, out of
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    • 372 42  -  Khushwant Singh I By A CONSTRUCTION firm has been fined $132,000 for safety violations, a total that officials called the highest ever for lapses that did not involve a fatality. Greatearth Construction admitted on Thursday to breaking 11 safety rules at a
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    • QUICKNEWS
      • 60 42 SUICIDE-PREVENTION group Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) will hold a public forum on the impact of suicide on survivors. A book titled Why?, about a survivor who lost her parents to suicide, will also be launched at the event at the York Hotel on
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      • 49 42 COMMONWEALTH Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday. Mr Sharma briefed PM Lee on his plans for the Commonwealth, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr Sharma was also hosted to lunch by Foreign Minister George Yeo.
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      • 35 42 MORE than 6,000 National University of Singapore (NUS) students have raised over $500,000 for charity through the school's flag day this year. The proceeds will go to 20 beneficiaries.
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      • 65 42 RACE down the streets surrounding the Marina Bay area, even before the Formula One (Fl) race drivers come to town for the Fl race. A three-dimensional flash-based application allows Internet users to zoom down virtual "streets", past virtual landmarks like the Esplanade and
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    • 856 43  -  Carolyn Quek Selina Lum OBITUARY: TAN TEOW YEOW The ex-DPP is known for his pursuit of justice and love for Chinese literary works I By AS A teenager growing up in Chin Swee Road, Mr Tan Teow Yeow saw his older cousin knifed
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        511 44 Singapore turns 43 today, and if you're lucky enough to have tickets to the big birthday bash, or plan to catch it in the Marina Bay area, here's our guide to ensuring a fun-filled day. HIGHLIGHTS Get your cameras ready for some of these key moments. IF YOU
        DESMOND WEE, LIM CHIN PING, ALAN LIM & MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN GRAPHICS: LIM YONG  -  511 words
      • 518 44  -  Jeremy Au Yong Minister laments the focus on incentives and says raising kids is worth the trouble By GETTING married and having kids was something people used to just do naturally, without thinking about what incentives came with it. Acting Manpower Minister Gan
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      • 363 44  -  Michelle Tay I By HUNDREDS of households in Commonwealth Drive will be offered new flats as part of the Housing Board's latest redevelopment exercise. The 669 households in the 44-year-old precinct near Tanglin Halt can opt to move to a new
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      • 514 45  -  Tan Weizhen Internet opens up avenue for many Singaporeans to champion causes I By THE Internet has made activists of Singaporeans. Many see social networking sites, forums, blogs and online videos as ways to champion their causes. The Straits Times has found more than 30
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      • 288 45  -  YEN FENG, DARYL TAN, TAN WEIZHEN YOUTHS raised more than $44,000 yesterday to help their less fortunate peers. Catholic High School (Primary) donated $13,200 to The School Pocket Money Fund (SPMF), and a group of tertiary students added another $31,000. The primary school
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      • 265 45 International Year Of The Reef At least one new species of sea star has been found on the little-explored Cyrene Reef since last March, and more than 8,000 species of plants and animals have been recorded for Singapore's southern islands alone. Anyone who wants to get
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    • 86 35 M WHAT'S ONLINE TOP READS, HAVE YOUR SAY AND MORE www.straitstimes.com www.stomp.com.sg TOP ONLINE STORIES SINGAPORE SEEN PM Lee's National Day message. Elderly hawkers bullied by two stall All change at The Straits Times. hel Pers who are Chinese PRs. Three-year-old boy dies of HFMD. mm razof YOUR SAY VIEW
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  • WORLD
    • 692 47  -  Jonathan Eyal Russia: War has started in breakaway region Georgia: It's a well-planned invasion By ST EUROPE BUREAU LONDON: US and European governments were yesterday desperately trying to stop an all-out war between Russia and Georgia, after military clashes between the two neighbours left
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      • 989 48  -  Lee Seok Hwai Ferris-wheel fever sweeps China, but critics stay firmly grounded I By SHANGHAI has one. So do Harbin, Changsha and Nanchang. Soon, Bejing, Tianjin, Nanjing you name it will enter the fray. One by one, Chinese cities are erecting ferris wheels, the 19th-century invention that not
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      • 657 51 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Flights delayed in Riau, Kalimantan; lack of rain may worsen conditions JAKARTA: Choking smoke from forest fires hung over parts of Indonesia yesterday, forcing delays in flights and prompting fears that conditions could worsen because of a
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      • 222 51 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA: Religious police and public security officers came to blows in Indonesia during a cultural event that was meant to celebrate the anniversaries of their respective units. The Islamic syariah police operations chief and the public order force commander clashed violently over a
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      • 456 52  -  Nirmal Ghosh Hun Sen's 'expand friendship' remark amid row sits well with Bangkok By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK: Thailand yesterday welcomed Cambodian premier Hun Sen's conciliatory remarks this week on the contentious Preah Vihear temple issue. It marked a distinct change of mood from the belligerent tone
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        195 52 July 8: Unesco awards World Heritage status to Preah Vihear temple, angering Thai nationalists. July 15: Thai troops enter the border area to retrieve three trespassers arrested by Cambodian troops for trying to raise a flag over the temple. In the following days, both sides raise their troop
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      • 221 52 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PHNOM PENH: The Phnom Penh Post, one of Cambodia's leading papers, launched its first daily edition yesterday, stepping up competition in the country's burgeoning media market. "From today, this paper will never be the same again," Post Media, the company behind the
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      • 195 53 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK It costs US$434 million (Ss6o7 million) and is the second-largest in the world, after its heavily fortified compound in Baghdad. The 40,470 sq m five-building complex wrapped in concrete and bomb-proof glass is sited
        ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  195 words
      • 499 53 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Bush opens new US Embassy in Beijing, calling it solid foundation for years to come BEIJING: United States President George W. Bush opened a massive new US$434 million (Ss6o7 million) American Embassy in Beijing yesterday, calling it a symbol of
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      • 555 54 Bar Council wants open talks but Muslim groups fear such meetings may disparage Islam KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Bar Council plans to go ahead with a forum today to discuss the sensitive issue of religious conversions despite misgivings sounded by Muslim leaders, including top government
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      • 344 54 FOUR lawyers who met in a Malaysian court on Thursday must have had a sense of having been there before. They had appeared at the 1999 and 2000 corruption and sodomy trials of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Two days ago, they again met in
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      • 430 54 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police are investigating the sworn testimony made by Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid, who treated the man who has accused opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomising him. Police say there are several contradictions and errors in the doctor's
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      • 497 55 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Military yet to indicate stand on moves to impeach Musharraf ISLAMABAD: A day after Pakistan's coalition government announced plans to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, all eyes are now on the man to whom Mr Musharraf passed command of the army when he
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      • 50 55 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Monkeys sitting in a metal cage in the Indian city of Hyderabad yesterday after being rounded up by the authorities. In response to complaints from residents, the city's municipal corporation has captured some 350 monkeys and handed them over to the forestry department for repatriation.
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      • 127 55 TANJUNG PINANG (Riau Islands): Two Singaporeans have been arrested for allegedly taking shabu-shabu (crystalamphetamine) in a hotel room here recently, reported Antara News. The two men, identified only by their initials JK and SP, were arrested together with an Indonesian, a police chief said here
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      • 53 56 REUTERS This road was flooded after heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on Thursday. But the deluge is welcomed by farmers across the country. The June to September rains are vital for farm output because only 40 per cent of India's
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      • 629 56  -  Ravi Velloor Growth affected by fate of its biggest client: US financial services industry By INDIA BUREAU CHIEF NEW DELHI: The double-digit pay hikes handed out across the board to code writers are a fading dream. Staff turnover is easing, as software companies become more
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      • 374 56 THE DAILY YOMIURI/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK TOKYO: A baby girl born to an Indian surrogate mother cannot gain entry to Japan unless her intended father obtains custody. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mofa) has told the baby's father, Mr Ikufumi Yamada, 45, that
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      • 562 57 Rubbish sorted into 34 categories in zero-waste quest KAMIKATSU (Japan): Not long ago, life in Kamikatsu revolved around the rice crop and tourists arriving to soak in the restorative waters of the local hot spring. Now, the tiny village in southwestern Japan has a new obsession:
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        43 57 ASSOCIATED PRESS Confectionery shop clerk Akiko Nishida shows off an ice-cream dessert designed to look like a panda. It was not the only panda-themed food whipped up in a Tokyo department store on Thursday; panda-shaped sweet buns lined a bakery's trays.
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      • 691 58 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS No protests as junta beefs up security, but activists stage rallies across Asia YANGON: Myanmar's military junta was on high alert yesterday the 20th anniversary of an uprising which left some 3,000 dead. Riot police guarded the country's main city
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      • 266 58 AUGUST 8, 1988 or 8-8-88 marked the beginning of a student-led uprising that drew hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets of cities and villages across Myanmar. 8-8-88 is also believed to have auspicious connotations for most people of Myanmar and was
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      • 508 59 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE 15m Ecstasy pills seized had street value of $550 m CANBERRA: Australian police yesterday said they have busted a global drug ring and seized what they describe as the largest single haul of the drug Ecstasy. The 4.4 tonne shipment 15
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      • 322 59  -  WONG MEI LING EAST and South-east Asia are home to some of the world's largest Ice factories, according to the 2008 World Drug Report. One of these "mega-labs" is said to be able to produce I,oookg or more of methamphetamine better known by
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      • 530 60 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG Terrorism may be more likely threat but flu's impact would be far greater, says govt report LONDON: Pandemic flu, not terrorism, is the most serious risk to the British public, as it could claim up to 750,000 lives, says the
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      • 276 60 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: Clean-up efforts have slowed and garbage continues to pile up in a remote chain of Pacific islands that United States President George W. Bush two years ago made the biggest and most environmentally protected area of ocean in the world. He declared the
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      • 346 60 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK: Harvard scientists say they have created stem cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a laboratory dish. This early step, using a new technique, could help speed up efforts to find treatments
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      • 583 62 LONDON: Is Bernann McKinney, the woman who had her pet dog cloned by South Korean scientists, a bail abscondee accused of sexually assaulting a male Mormon missionary more than 30 years ago? She has flatly denied a Times of London report that she's
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      • 284 62 ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS: He's a tiny torero, a bullfighter with a baby face. He has fought dozens of bulls to the death and has the scars to prove it. But Michelito Lagravere, a 10-year-old celebrity bullfighter from Mexico, has been forced to cut short his
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      • 272 62 ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLINGTON: A "wanted" poster featuring Robbie Coltrane is being used by police in New Zealand to try to catch a teenage burglar who resembles the Scottish actor. Detectives stressed that Coltrane (right), who portrays the giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies,
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      • 540 63 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Sentence seen as 'slap in face' for US govt; Pentagon says it doesn't intend to free him GUANTANAMO BAY (Cuba): Osama bin Laden's driver was yesterday sentenced to just 5V2 years in prison but he may not be freed. As soon
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      • 57 63 ASSOCIATED PRESS Float-in movies take the drive-in theatre experience to new heights or rather, amphibious levels. For a mixture of the aquatic and the cinematic, movie-goers splashed about while they enjoyed the screening of surfer drama North Shore in the Centennial
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      • 284 63 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BORDEAUX (France): The authorities in south-western France have banned the harvest and sale of oysters from one of the country's most famous shellfish producing regions following a series of public health scares. The ban on oysters from the Bay of
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      • 806 64  -  Jonathan Eyal Caught between high inflation and low growth, govts face political battles as well I By ST EUROPE BUREAU LONDON: August is usually the month when Europeans pack their holiday bags, and leave their troubles at home. Not this year, however, for the spectre of
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      • 328 64 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG MIAMI: A man who the authorities said was keeping weapons and militarystyle gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court on charges that he threatened to assassinate United States presidential candidate Barack Obama. Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22,
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      • 100 65 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: A British newspaper has retracted a story that claimed Prince Philip (left) has prostate cancer. London's Evening Standard says it apologises unreservedly for making "this distressing allegation" and for breaching his privacy. The newspaper reported on Wednesday that the 87-year-old husband of Queen
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      • 90 65 ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS: The European Union has imposed new sanctions against Iran in protest at its nuclear programme. France, the current EU president, said EU nations would show restraint in giving public loans that help companies trading with Iran and would carefully watch financial groups doing
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      • 137 65 REUTERS NEW YORK: Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride, fearing it could "incite acts of violence" or pose a security risk to its author. The Jewel of Medina, a debut novel by journalist Sherry Jones, 46, traces the life of
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      • 126 65 ASSOCIATED PRESS BLACKWOOD: Fat, happy and no longer homeless. That describes life for the 20kg New Jersey cat who became an overnight sensation. A vet has found "Prince Chunk" (right) healthy, aside from its weight. The vet also has prescribed a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet for the
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      • 108 65 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUALA LUMPUR: A Singapore-flagged vessel was attacked off the Somali coast yesterday by pirates who fired a rocket-propelled grenade that landed on the ship but did not explode, a maritime watchdog said. Coalition forces operating in the region sent a helicopter to the bulk
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      • 63 65 REUTERS A candy shop owner from the northern Spanish town of Avile showing yesterday an official Spanish one-euro coin imprinted with the image of Spanish King Juan Carlos (left) and a similar coin with the image altered to look like cartoon character Homer Simpson.
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      • 166 65 BLOOMBERG BRUSSELS: Living With Crazy Buttocks, The Joy Of Chickens and How To Avoid Huge Ships will compete for the Diagram of Diagrams award, designed to celebrate the strangest book title in the last 30 years. The Bookseller of London announced the contest
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    • 91 47 Wm WHAT'S ONLINE TOP READS, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com YOUR SAY TOP ONLINE STORIES Reader on Bush's criticism of China's Olympic Games Rights group SountSe^nd their leaders Reporters Without Borders stages are nQt thfi final arbiterg Qf what g pirate radio broadcast in Beijing. good about china s modern
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  • MONEY
    • 876 67  - Why is the Singapore plunging? Bryan Lee Analysts cite slowdown in growth, low interest rates, falling oil prices By ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT THE value of the Singapore dollar yesterday suffered its largest fall against the US dollar in two years, diving 1.2 per cent to $1.40 to the greenback. The plunge
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    • 443 70 NEW YORK TIMES, BLOOMBERG Citigroup, Merrill, ÜBS to pay USs42b for securities they marketed as 'safe' NEW YORK: More pain is in store for major banks. Merrill Lynch and Citigroup are buying back, at their original prices, more than US$l7 billion (5523.8 billion) of troubled
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    • 194 70 REUTERS They are long-term bonds, first introduced in 1984, with interest rates tied to the short-term market. Rates typically reset every seven, 28 or 35 days at an auction. These bonds allowed issuers to obtain long-term financing at cheaper short-term rates. About half of the US$33O billion
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    • 574 69  -  Christopher Tan It will be the main contractor and aims for Oct 2009 opening By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT ENTREPRENEUR Peter Kwee's Group Exklusiv will assume the role of main contractor for its maiden hotel project here because "all the big contractors are tied up with
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      • 1106 68  -  Gabriel Chen Banks take the long view in wooing junior savers, hoping their loyalty will translate into handsome returns later I By THE small customer has never had it so good. Banks in Singapore are going the extra mile to win over children in the full awareness
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      • 307 68 BABY BONUS SCHEME OCBC Bank pays a promotional rate of 2.05 per cent a year on deposits made in accounts opened under the scheme, which is a little higher than the 2 per cent offered by rival Standard Chartered Bank (Stanchart). But remember, these are only
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      • 109 68 "A lot of my staff remember the Donald Duck piggy banks that they got from Stanchart when they were kids. So Stanchart too has a very strong imagery with the grown-ups." Mr Ajay Kanwal, Standard Chartered Bank consumer banking head "Even after leadership changes within
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      • 603 72  -  Yang Huiwen Any gains in the weeks ahead will be limited: Analysts I By THE stock market's steep decline has left many shares at attractive valuations but analysts warn investors not too jump in too fast. They expect any gains in the Singapore
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      • 399 72 REUTERS, BLOOMBERG LONDON: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) fell to a first-half loss of £691 million (551.86 billion), one of the biggest losses in British corporate history but not as bad as expected, after taking a £5.9 billion writedown on the value
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      • 159 72 RSH Ql Net profit: $7.5 million (+37.4%) Revenue: $184.6 million (+10.1%) EPS: 2.14 cents (+38%) DPS: NAY: 37.58 cents (+4.7%) Profit was driven by the group's strategy of launching new stores in the right locations with appropriate customer demographics. Man Wah Holdings Ql Net profit: HK562.6 million (+65.3%) Revenue:
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      • 606 73  -  Alvin Foo BULLS AND BEARS Index slides 27 points with bank and property stocks leading decline By MARKETS CORRESPONDENT AFTER several days of gloom, Singapore could have been forgiven for expecting a pre-Olympics and National Day relief rally yesterday. But investors here did
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      • INTHEKNOW
        • 53 73 SINGAPORE Post's non-executive independent director Kenneth Tan has bought 100,000 shares of the company on the open market at $1.03 apiece. The $103,000 transaction raises his direct stake to 230,000 shares or 0.0119 per cent of the issued share capital. Last month, he bought 50,000 shares
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        • 77 73 MS CHEW Gek Khim, a director on the board of Capitaßetail China Trust Management, has bought 100,000 units of the trust at $1.15 apiece. Capitaßetail China Trust is a listed trust of the Capita Land Group. The purchase raises her direct stake in Capitaßetail
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        • 65 73 MALAYSIAN property tycoon Quek Leng Chan has raised his deemed stake in his development firm GuocoLand again, this time by 117,000 shares via GuocoLand Assets. The shares were acquired at an average price of $2,165 apiece on the open market, and raise his deemed stake in
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        • 20 73 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 1.04 billion shares worth $1.28 billion UP DOWN Gainers: 197 Losers: 327 Unchanged: 863
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        • 91 73 Mid Cap 673.79 y -1.24 Basic materials 498.62 A 1.79 Utilities 527.92 5.26 Small Cap 568.16 T -3.05 Industrials 649.20 T -3.85 Financials 727.84 T-10.69 All Share 705.43 T -5.50 Consumer goods 618.16 T -118 Technology 649.91 T -0.57 Fledgling 630.44 T -1.69 Health care 668.05 A
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        • 92 73 (0) Asia Pac Brew StraitsAsia Fat Hong ISH DmegaNav Auric Pac DairyFarm Parkway Hldgs SPC Sino-Env Asia Food&Prop Furama 01am Eu Yan Sang FalconEne IndoAgri lardine CSC Spore Land ComfortDelGro Hyflux 1284 251 140 1668 2410 125 540 209 614 144 51 175 225 50 65 140 1722
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        • 96 73 OtNIJJ 7o Sunmoon KXD Digital SingXpress SHC Capital Amplefield VGO Corp Asia Food&Prop Adroit NTI Intl Ntegrator Fat Hong Esmart Innovalues BBR Hldgs Global Voice Oakwell Engg China Haida Eucon Kian Ann EuVan Sang 1 100.0 2.5 25.0 2.5 25.0 8 23.1 3 20.0 3.5 16.7 51 13.3
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        • 101 73 (0) OtNIS GLD 10USS IMH Lyxor China H 10US$ UOB Venture Corp CapitaLand CityDev IS MSCI India 100 Lyxor India Nifty 10 Keppel Corp SI A CIMBAsean40 100US$ HKLand CityDev NCCPS DBS Grp Great Eastern ii a i Lyxor HangSeng 10USS AustlandPG 8534 -218.3 3058 -72.8 1504 -42.0
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        • 90 73 OtNIJJ 7o LHT Hldgs EMS Ener MiddleEastD St James Transview Autron Willas-Array ArianeCorp ITech Grp Rotol Straco NH Ceramics Informatics Hedi-Flex Lion TeckC Plato Memtech AsianMicro L-Jacob SunlightGrp 6.5 -38.1 8 -36.0 4 -27.3 25 -23.1 13 -18.8 2.5 -16.7 16 -15.8 3 -14.3 3 -14.3 6 -14.3
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        • 211 73 ises (0) Aug 8 CENTS DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 ***** CapitalanSGAePW***** 33 CapitalanBNPePW***** 51 SGXMBL iCW*****3 193 STI 3050BNPePW*****9 ...50.5 CapitalanMBLePW***** 33 HSI*****SGAePW*****0 51 SGXMBL iCW*****0 131 STI 3100SGAePW*****9 65.5 STI 2950BNPePW*****8 31 STI 3000SGAePW*****9 50.5 UOB SGAeCW*****1 27 STI 2900BNPePW*****9 ...34.5 STI 3200 BNPePW***** 71
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        • 111 73 (0) lug 8 UtNIb i )BSHBLiCW*****0 472 -33.0 -6. JOB MBL iCW*****0 619 -30.0 -4. ;apitalanMBLiCW***** 93 -18.0 -16. (epCorp MBUCW*****3 360 -11.0 -3. 1CBC Bk 4.5%NCPS 100 ...9990 -10.0 -0. )CBCBkMBLiCW*****0 225 -10.0 -4. >TXP0 DBeCW*****3 4 -10.0 -71. ;apitalandDBeCW***** 4.5 -8.5 -65. 1CBC Bk DB eCW*****9
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        • 176 73 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS By Volume cents Value Dceanus 45.5 2.0 4.6 Solden Agri 57 -0.5 -0.9 Biosensors 65 0.5 0.8 liutianC 13.5 0.0 0.0 UniFiber 11.5 -0.5 -4.2 SingTel 352 2.0 0.6 Vangzijiang 66.5 -0.5 -0.7 Cosco Corp 244 0.0 0.0 StraitsAsia 251 15.0
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      • REGIONAL
        • 26 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 13,168.41 (+43.42) »Japanese shares closed up 0.33 per cent, as investors shrugged off an overnight fall on Wall Street.
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        • 25 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 1,120.31 (-9.25) Malaysian share prices closed 0.8 per cent lower in thin volume after foreign investors sold stocks.
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        • 29 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 21,885.21 (-218.99) Hong Kong share prices closed down 0.99 per cent, as worries over the US sub-prime crisis hit banking stocks.
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        • 27 73 AGENCY FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 1,568.72 (+4.72) South Korean shares closed 0.3 per cent higher, as investors hunted for blue-chip bargains following a recent bear run.
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        • 21 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 2,605.72 (-121.86) Chinese shares closed down 4.47 per cent, as investors dumped Olympics-themed stocks.
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        • 24 73 AGENCY FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 15,167.82 (+50.57) Indian shares closed 0.33 per cent higher in range-bound trade, as investors stayed on the sidelines.
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        • 23 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 4,986.2 (+2.9) Australian shares closed flat, as key mining and banking stocks weighed on the market.
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        • 31 73 AGENCY FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 690.7 (-14.65) Thai share prices closed 2.08 per cent lower due mainly to profit-taking, after a sharp rise in the market the previous day.
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      • 101 73 Source: HSBC Bank USA, Spore Branch (*M'sian ringgit: Interbank rate by OCBC) runi.mii uunnLiiLii iiuil nniLo: vcmm;: S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2520 1.2660 Can dollar 1.3190 1.3350 Euro 2.1170 2.1420 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4234 0.4241 NZ dollar 0.9800 1.0010 Sterling pound 2.6930 2.7250
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      • 368 73 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR'OOO HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 850 I- 820 2300 615 81.5 525 353.3 2020 498 482 396 690 422 324 28 2290 572 287 485 5606 CapitaLand 250 5417 CapitaMall 940 5611 CityDev 233 5142 CoscoCorp 1640 5301 DBSGrp
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      • 618 73 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +0R'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 199 278 238 258 291 438 116 145 274 314 184 I" 376 388 135 595 i, 398 i, 233 515 372 317 205 590 222 281 112 130 130.6 396.1 175 62.5
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    • OBITUARIES
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        169 74 HOAHNIEW Age: 89 passed away peacefully on 8 Aug 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Low Jin San (Deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Loy Teck Kwee Ong Mai Liam Low Tai San, Joseph Cheong Poh Chee, Helen PBM~ Daughters: Sons-in-law: Loy Ah Lan Loh Kia Meng Loh Kwee Hiong Han Tuang Juan
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        60 74 Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever Psalm 23 In Loving Memory of EDWIN CHAN CHIN TAN Called Home on 9 August 1994 Someday, the joy we had in him will be renewed.
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        53 74 NADARAJAH SIVANASAN Age: 68 passed away peacefully on 8 August 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by: Wife: Paramasvari (Kuttiya) Daughters: Son-in-law: Shamala Vimalesvari Selvakumar sisters, relatives loved ones. Body is resting at 45 Ceylon Road. Tel: 6447-2588 Cortege will leave on 10 Aug 2008 (Sun) at 4pm for Mandai
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        118 74 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" 2 Timothy 4:7 CAROLINA KOH GEK HIANG Age: 41 Resting safely in the arms of Jesus 8 August 2008. Forever missed by: Father: Koh Hock Thiam Eddie Mother: Tan Siew Chin Mary Sisters: Brother-in-law:
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        71 74 3rd Anniversary In Loving Memory of JASMEL SINGH S/O LATE SARDARA SINGH BUCHKAR Departed 9 August 2005 Softly within the shadows, God gave a gentle call, With farewell left unspoken, You silently left us all, Our heart still ache with sadness. Silent Tears still flow For what it means to
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        38 74 IST ANNIVERSARY T (BARSI) In Loving Memory Of RANJEET SINGH RIKHRAJ PATHDABHOG Prayers will be held on 10 Aug 2008 (Sun) from 4-6pm at Central Sikh Temple. Pis treat this as a personal invitation Tel: 6459 1487 k
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        14 74 *Jt4:7 iW**##BjjlOß (Ho)ttBSj£ f Bethesda HaU 601AMK Aye 4 (Beside Blkl7#ff Hp: 9759 7578
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        68 74 Muruga Muruga Muruga MALAIAPPAN (PALANIAPPAN) Age: 90 passed away peacefully on 8/8/2008. Dearly missed fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Palaniammal Daughters: Sons-in-law: Selyi Dharmalingam Anbalagi Suppiah Saraswathi Thanabaal Thogai Karuppiah Grandsons: Sunder, Gopi, Sanjay, Sankar, Diviyan Granddaughters: Bhavani, Pritha Body is resting at Blk 445 Sin Ming Aye #06-473.
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        82 74 r* 1 Jesus said to him, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies." John 11:25 LIM SOON GUAN was called home to be with the Lord on 7th August 2008. Dearly missed and forever cherished by Ivy, May, Grace,
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        59 74 BOEYKOKLAP Age: 72 passed away peacefully on 8 August 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Yau King Ing Daughter: Christine Boey Son-in-law: Joe Foo Grandchildren: Ivan Foo, Vernissa Foo Body is resting at Blk 98ALor3,ToaPayoh. Tel: *****685 Cortege will leave on 11 August 2008 (Monday) at
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        42 74 SUBHALAKSHMI Age: 77 passed away peacefully on 7.8.08, leaving behind Husband: Rajagopal Daughters: Uma, Shanti Thilagavathi Son: Muthukannu Son-in-law:Sivalingam Daughter-in-law: Trina Shanti grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, relatives friends. Cortege leaves Blk 28, #03-40 Hoy Fatt Rd, 5U*****) on 9/8/08, 3.30pm for Mandai Crematorium. *****944/*****151
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        77 74 SIMMBMI I I SEGANATHAN s/o TINA KUMARSAMY (SOVEH) Age: 51 passed away peacefully on 8 August 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife:Tolisee(Santha) Son: Rajendran (Tikus) Daughter Paramesvari Sisters: Kamaladevi (Papa) Baby Seglla (Sumathi) Brothers: Tharumaraj K. Sagadevan And all relatives friends. Body is resting at Blk
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        58 74 sth Anniversary In Loving Memory of ASSOGAN S/O T.S. VILLASAMY Departed 9 Aug 2003 Rest in peace, dear loving father, five long years have passed away; You are gone, but still are living in the hearts of those who stay. Dearly missed and always remembered by: Wife: Saroja D/O Iyer
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        55 74 EKTUHI NIRANKAR In loving memory SUNIL BAJAJ Age: 49 was called home to be with Nirankar on 7/8/2008 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Susheel Son: Mandhir Daughter: Rachna family and friends Prayers will be held on 10/8/08 (Sun) from 10.30 am to 12.00pm at void deck of Blk 586, Pasir
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  • sport
    • 325 74 REUTERS Spinner claims five wickets for loss of 56 runs to help Sri Lanka bowl visitors out COLOMBO: Spinner Ajantha Mendis claimed 5-56 to help Sri Lanka bowl India out for 249 on the first day of the third cricket Test yesterday. India hit back with an
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    • 210 74 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London: Kevin Pietersen revelled in his first innings as England Test captain yesterday to strengthen his team's position in the final match of the cricket series against South Africa. Pietersen, who oversaw England's dismissal of the Proteas for 194 at The Oval, was
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  210 words
    • 378 75  -  Jeanette Wang Don't just clock up the miles, build your core muscles too I By WHEN it comes to running fast, it is what is inside that counts literally. While most runners will clock up miles conscientiously to improve their times, they tend to forget the importance of
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      299 75 THE bridge is the basic building block of core strength and stability work, says Ogden. It develops horizontal stability a prerequisite before one moves on to vertical stability. Start off holding each pose for 30 seconds and build up to two minutes a target that should take about
      A. B. RICHARD FOR THE STRAITS TIMES  -  299 words
    • 113 75 SIT with your knees bent and lean back so that your back makes a 60-degree angle with the ground. Your lower abdomen should be drawn in, shoulder blades drawn down, and arms kept across the chest. Ensure that your back is kept straight, not rounded, and your
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    • 343 75  -  Valeric Chia I By DAVID Lim, former national swimmer and coach, will not commit to coaching at the soon-to-be reinstated Centre of Excellence (COE) unless his concerns are addressed. In an e-mail to the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA), he explained that he could
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    • 111 75 THERE are two positions for this pose. In the high position, the thigh and calf of your grounded leg should form a 120-degree angle. In the tougher medium position, the angle should be 90 degrees. Your head should be up, chest up, back straight and butt out.
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    • 416 76 THE TIMES, LONDON Real's unhappy Brazilian star is now Scolari's top transfer target LONDON: Chelsea stepped up their pursuit of Robinho on Thursday by offering Real Madrid £19.75 million (5553.18 million) for the Brazil forward. Robinho became Chelsea's top transfer target when Luiz Felipe Scolari replaced
      THE TIMES, LONDON; REUTERS  -  416 words
    • 559 76 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON: It would be exaggerating to suggest that Liverpool's Champions League triumph in 2005 has hung like a noose around Rafael Benitez's neck. But the manager admits that, in one respect, he could have done without the problems that the
      THE TIMES, LONDON  -  559 words
    • INSHORT
      • 95 76 ASSOCIATED PRESS MANCHESTER: Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United yesterday, as club manager Alex Ferguson said he wanted to extend the Portugal winger's contract and warned Real Madrid to stay away from his players. After extracting a pledge of loyalty from Ronaldo for the
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      • 83 76 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Mark Clattenburg (above), the English Premier League's youngest referee and an official respected by all except Everton fans who have not forgiven him for last season's Goodison Park derby defeat, has been suspended. The Football Association is investigating reports that he has
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      • 66 76 LONDON: Zenit St Petersburg striker Andrei Arshavin has revealed his frustration at the delay over his proposed move to Tottenham Hotspur and hopes that his "whining" will convince bosses to let him leave. The Uefa Cup holders have rejected bids from Barcelona and Spurs
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      211 76 CRICKET 4th and final Test, Day 2 in London after lunch: South Africa 194 (G. Smith 46; J.M. Anderson 3-42, M. Panesar 2-4). England 176-3 (K.P. Pietersen 66 n.0.). 3rd Test, Day 1 in Colombo: India 249 (G. Gambhir 72; D. Prasad 3-82, A. Mendis 5-56). Sri Lanka 14-1.
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    • 159 76 REUTERS MIKE Mussina was not at his best but he still threw seven scoreless innings to shut down the highest-scoring offence in Major League Baseball on Thursday. He helped the New York Yankees become just the second team this season to blank hosts Texas
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    • 127 77 ASSOCIATED PRESS First round (USA unless stated, 18 players yet to finish): 68 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Robert Karlsson (Swe). 69 Sergio Garcia (Esp), Ken Duke, Billy Mayfair, Sean O'Hair. Other selected: 70 Anthony Kim, Phil Mickelson, Charlie Wi (Kor), Angel Cabrera (Arg). 71 Jim Furyk, Padraig Harrington
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    • 683 77 ASSOCIATED PRESS India's Jeev shares PGA C'ship lead on 68, while Fiji's Vijay has a 76 BLOOMFIELD (Michigan): Jeev Milkha Singh is often mistaken as a relative of Vijay Singh, or even the Fijian himself. In his own family, he is overshadowed by his father Milkha "The
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; REUTERS  -  683 words
    • sport olympics
      • 754 78  -  Rob Hughes Did British boxer Gavin pull out because of weight or money? INGOOD CONSCIENCE I By IF THE Olympic dream has any meaning, it is in the men and women who strived for four years for one moment in Beijing. There should have been 11,128
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      • 513 78 REUTERS LONDON: Reflecting the rebellious side of a sport nurtured in the Californian coun-ter-culture of the *****, BMX rider Shanaze Reade is a self-described "badass chick who kicks guys". The phrase disappeared along with her original website, now under reconstruction. By the time it is
        REUTERS; ** ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■" ■ REUTERS  -  513 words
      • 240 78 REUTERS BEIJING: Itte Detenamu never doubted which sport he would pursue growing up on the Pacific island of Nauru. "Weightlifting is bigger in Nauru than soccer in Brazil," said the 21-year-old, who will represent the 21 sq km nation of 10,000 at the Olympics. Nauru,
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      • 415 79 REUTERS BEIJING: If the sparks flying during the run-in to the Olympics are anything to go by, the women's basketball tournament has the potential to turn really nasty. Australia's Lauren Jackson warned there could be "broken bones" after the competition gets under way today,
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        567 79 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Only 1.46 m tall, but super-mum Tani leads Japan's charge in judo BEIJING: Celebrity, su-per-mum and one of the most feared judo champions of her time. Ryoko Tani has put family matters on hold to not only run for a record third consecutive Olympic gold
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      • 165 79 REUTERS BEIJING: For anybody moaning that beach volleyball is all about beach babes in bikinis, American Todd Rogers has an answer: Get the men to play bare-chest-ed. "You guys should get up a petition to get us just in shorts. I'll sign. It's more comfortable anyway
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      • OLYMPICFLASH
        • 73 79 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE RUSSIA'S 3,000 m steeplechaser Roman Usov has been kicked out of the national team after failing a drugs test, Russian press reported yesterday. The 30-year-old tested positive for the banned substance carphedon at last month's national championships at Kazan where he finished second. Russian
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        • 92 79 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AMERICAN bantamweight boxer Gary Russell Jr (above) will miss the Olympics after being taken ill with dehydration on Thursday night and missing yesterday's weigh-in. American coach Dan Campbell said, following yesterday's official draw, that Russell was so dehydrated during the middle of the
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        • 88 79 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE FORMER Olympic tennis champion Lindsay Davenport pulled out of the singles tournament yesterday with a knee injury, a United States official said. The 1996 gold medallist has been struggling with the problem since it forced her to withdraw from Wimbledon. A
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        • 73 79 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AMERICAN gymnast Morgan Hamm (below) on Thursday withdrew from the men's team event after a nagging ankle injury flared up, declaring his career over. In a major blow to a US team already missing Hamm's twin brother, defending all-around champion Paul, the dejected
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      • 57 80 Badminton King Aiying (women's singles rd of 64, v Belarussian Olga Konon). Shooting Lee Wung Yew (men's trap, qualifying). Lee feels he needs a score of 122 or 123 to reach the final. Swimming Tao Li (women's 100 m butterfly, heats) Quah Ting Wen (women's 400 m individual
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      • 588 80  -  Marc Lim Testing done, swimmer hopes outfit will help her reach 100 m fly s-finals By SPORTS CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: It was the eve of the biggest sporting event some of them will ever take part in. So, aptly, Singapore's five swimmers spent time yesterday making
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      • Article, Illustration
        203 81 Michael Phelps begins his bid to win eight golds today. By next Saturday, should he remain unbeaten, he would have matched Mark Spitz's record of seven golds in one Games and earned himself a £1 million (Ss2.7m) bonus from Speedo. Tomorrow 400 m IM His best: World
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      • 761 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS World champion begins eight-gold quest with tough 400 m IM battle BEIJING: Michael Phelps' quest for Olympic immortality will begin this evening when he plunges into the pool at the Water Cube at 6.51pm. The American will be in Lane
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      • 319 81 Libby Trickett (below) If the name sounds unfamiliar, it is because Trickett used to be known as Libby Lenton before she married fellow-swimmer Luke last year. The Australian will swim the 50m and 100 m freestyle and the 100 m butterfly. She has to fend
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      • OLYMPICFLASH
        • 77 82 BLOOMBERG TRACK and field and other high-profile events at the Olympics risk losing public confidence and sponsorship because of drug cheats, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said. John Fahey, who took over as Wada's president in January, said violations by former 100
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        • 66 82 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE FRANCE'S Jeannie Longo (below), 49, will write another considerable chapter in cycling's history books tomorrow, when she becomes only the third woman to compete in seven Olympic Games. Longo, the 1996 Olympic champion who has 13 world titles, is set
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        • 78 82 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GERMAN Matthias Steiner, 25, has a special incentive to be crowned the world's strongest man he will be dedicating it to his wife who died a year ago. The 1.83 m, 140 kg Hercules, the top-ranked over-105kg lifter in the world,
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        • 29 82 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AZERBAIJAN'S last-ditch attempt to take part in the women's hockey competition was yesterday thrown out by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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      • Article, Illustration
        790 82  -  Rohit Brijnath The training and waiting is over and the warriors are all set to clash By pics seem like forever. I can't wait for my event to start." He was speaking for his species which is mostly not given to sitting still. Time can be
        XINHUA  -  790 words
      • 400 83 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Getting the first Games gold would mean the world to the hosts BEIJING: The first gold of the Beijing Games is expected to come from the women's 10m air rifle, and Dv Li, China's defending Olympic champion, is the favourite. But the line
        REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  400 words
      • 808 83 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Beijing: Take one lap around this vast country, and you will sense the immense expectations. In public squares from border to border, large TV screens have been set up for citizens to watch the Olympic Games. At the airport in Xi'an, a massive
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      • 308 83 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: If the hopes of a nation can ever really be said to weigh on the shoulders of a single athlete, then 110 m hurdler Liv Xiang will be carrying a hefty burden on his slender frame at the Beijing Olympics. But what
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      • 306 83 GUO JINGJING (left) (Diving, world and Olympic champion) The world's most dominant and glamorous diver is expected to lead the Chinese team to a sweep of the diving medals. "I don't feel too much pressure. I will only have to compete with myself." LIU XIANG (110
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      220 84 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: At about 10.50 am today, the first gold of the Beijing Olympics will be won. And 1.3 billion Chinese expect one of their own to claim it. Dv Li (10m air rifle) and Chen Xiexia (weightlifting) carry that burden: To begin China's bid for sporting
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  220 words
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    • 353 76 Next 72 hours TODAY TOMORROW AUSTRALIAN RULES BASEBALL AFL: Kangaroos v Western Bulldogs (Live, MLB. Los Angeles Dodgers v San Francisco CM7O, 1 30pm). Giants <Llve- Cn23 9am>BASEBALL CRICKET MLB: New York Yankees v Los Angeles 5^ 3: ri Lanka v India (Live' AnPpk (Ti'vp Ph73 10am) Chill, 12.50pm). Angeis
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    • 2235 77 > HORSE RACING ri rj Draw No. 2351/2008 Fri, 8 Aug 2008 iUJUJ ii.ii.ni'juim'im iiirriYi-Tii in ihiri ii ii:ii'ii:i:iii> ii eß:Hifflß^^ mfTT rT7 mmm IM mKSL 1 RACE 1: RESTRICTED MAIDEN (9) (3 YO'S ONLY) RACE 6: CLASS 4 (6) 1600 M TIME: 16:15 RM***** RACE 1: WESTSPEED STAYERS'BONUS HANDICAP
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    • 406 78 I Noon MO II II Gymnastics Bs ll II I Men's artistic E'V 1^1 qualification round: Vl«4 vl Two-time individual all-around fe^JI j^Jg™ world champion Yang Wei will I lead China out at the National I .-ij. Indoor Stadium, as the hosts seek to reclaim the team title I they
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    • 79 84 1 BIG BID Chelsea have offered £20m for Real Madrid's Brazilian star Robinho. C3O Chi WHAT'S ONLINE MOST VIEWED, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE www.straitstimes.com TOP ONLINE STORIES Curtains up on the Beijing Games. Olympic torch relay enters final leg under hazy skies. Ferguson wants to extend Ronaldo's United contract. MOST
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  • SATURDAY
    • 900 85  -  Marc Lim Peh Shing Huei Additional reporting by Chua Chin Hon Chinese culture the highlight of Games' opening ceremony By SPORTS CORRESPONDENT SENIOR CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: Its build-up had been more about politics and human rights than about sports and the celebration of the
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    • Saturday Olympic games opening
      • 421 88 DOUBLE BONANZA "I got the ticket a year ago at only 200 yuan (S$41), and then I found myself pregnant. The pregnancy and the chance to come to the ceremony were a double bonanza for me." Ms Liu Xiaoyan, a young woman from
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  421 words
      • 561 89  -  Sim Chi Yin Glitzy opening ceremony symbolises how much villagers' lives have improved in recent times By CHINA CORRESPONDENT YANGLIU VILLAGE (Yunnan): In this busy harvest season, farmer Zhao Jingyou's evenings are almost entirely taken up by the monotonous task of stringing tobacco leaves
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      • 754 90  -  Tracy Quek At home and abroad Still living in tents or huts, quake survivors are determined to catch the festivities By CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEICHUAN (Sichuan): Under a darkening sky, encircled by misty mountains, a lone television sheltered in a prefabricated hut flickered with images of the Beijing
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      • OLYMPICBRIEFS
        • 130 91 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: Hospitals across China added extra beds yesterday as maternity wards were crammed with expectant mothers wanting to give birth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for parents to have their baby born on Aug 8, 2008, an auspicious date and the
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        • 107 91 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Thousands of people in Asia and Europe took part in human rights protests yesterday as China launched the Beijing Olympics with a dazzling, three-hour opening ceremony. Demonstrators took to the streets of various cities including London, Brussels, Berlin,
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        • 124 91 ASSOCIATED PRESS URUMQI: China yesterday stepped up controls in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang amid threats of attacks by Islamic separatists during the Games. The bustling International Bazaar in Urumqi, the region's capital, was sealed off amid threats from an Islamic group
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    • 719 92  -  Zakir Hussain Pedra Branca team receives special National Day awards for helping in nation's successful case at The Hague I By THEY spent months preparing Singapore's case for Pedra Branca, and successfully argued the nation's claim at The Hague last November. For their efforts, the team
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    • 2798 92 THE ORDER OF TEMASEK (SECOND CLASS) Chan Sek Keong, Chief Justice, Supreme Court THE ORDER OF NILA UTAMA (FIRST CLASS) Prof Tommy Koh Thong Bee, Ambassador-at-large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER Justice Chao Hick Tin, Judge of Appeal,
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    • science.
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        212 94 A handful of local researchers, riding high on the biomedical wave, have formed companies so successful that their "made-in-Singapore" labels now span the globe. In our new Science series, which will run over the coming weeks, they speak to Chang Ai-Lien about their secrets of success. Look out for... Professor
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      • 778 94  -  Chang Ai-Lien DR ROSEMARY TAN Scientist set up biotech firm that launched handy diagnostic kits for killer diseases such as bird flu By SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT DR ROSEMARY Tan's childhood dream was to be a Singapore Airlines stewardess and she looks the part. But behind the long
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      • 61 94 "One key challenge is to continuously out-innovate competitors in leading-edge technology. To address the complex technology challenges, we require multidisciplinary expertise working in synergy, and partnering other organisations such as academia, industry, health organisations, hospitals and so on. This would require a major shift in mindset and
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      • 70 94 "There is still a tendency here to think that foreigners may be better. We are now seeing some very, very bright Singaporean researchers. We need to be able to nurture our own people, to guide them at every stage of their careers. The key thing is retaining
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      • 147 94 Dr Rosemary Tan, 39 Dr Tan, a PhD-holder in molecular immunology, is the chief executive officer of home-grown medical diagnostics company Veredus Laboratories, which specialises in disease diagnostic solutions. Achievements Veredus, which broke even in 2005, two years after it was set up,
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      • 973 95  -  Chang Ai-Lien SCIENCE TALK By SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT IT HAS been nine years since Singapore began prospecting for biomedical winners and some early pioneers have already struck gold. While blockbuster drugs are still years in the making, the Republic's $3 billion gamble in the sector
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      • 75 95 "The key challenges moving ahead are to keep from being too bureaucratic; bureaucrats should realise that they cannot control science they can manage science and they can nurture science. We in Singapore have a tendency to over-plan which, in the case of scientific research
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      • 259 95  -  SHOBANA KESAVA WHAT looked like a bean sprout in the sea here has been identified as a new species of sponge found nowhere else. The sponge, named Tethycometes radicosa (which translates to sea comet with roots), is only the seventh sponge species described from
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    • 79 97 Singapore Flyer Hawker poll Mailbag Direction changed Nominate Not all for good feng shui the best and parents win vouchers encourage E2 f^h E3^iE4&s 4 JBRIffiHT^333t££^! In the first of a series on architects and their homes, IT 1^^^^^*^ TAY SUAN CHIANG visits Chan Wai Kin's conservation flat in IldK^*
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    • 544 98  -  frankie chee The Flyer is spinning in a new direction after geomancers pointed out that it was 'taking fortune away from Singapore' The Singapore Flyer has had feng shui experts in a spin. The big revolving wheel at Marina Bay has been turning the wrong way,
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    • 297 99 Tell us your choice of Singapore's best 20 hawker food Vote for your favourite hawker stall and win up to $1,000 in shopping vouchers in a lucky draw. That is the treat The Straits Times has in store for readers in the newspaper's first ever poll of
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      • 1156 100  -  Justina Soewarso Sundstrom We received 33 letters on A Stroller Or Battering Ram? (LifeStyle, Aug 3). Here is a selection Have a view on a story in Life!? E-mail us at stlife@sph.com.sg We reserve the right to edit all letters. More letters on facing page
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      • 80 100  -  Wee Yeun Ling I thought SingFest was well organised and the line-up diverse yet crowd-pleas-ing. Part of the enjoyment was being in the crowd in Fort Canning Park enjoying the music. While the tickets were not cheap, they were great value for money. I hope
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      • 122 100  -  Amy Chua We refer to the letter Hokkien Double Standard? by Eu Kok Hsian (Life!, Aug 2). To support the Speak Mandarin Campaign and to ensure that Singaporean Chinese are proficient in Mandarin, film distributors are encouraged to screen Mandarin versions of Chinese films. Films
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      • 68 101  -  Mervyn Song Chee Khin Maybe John Lvi should have been at the cinema with me when I was watching Money No Enough 2. The audience laughed at the jokes and clearly enjoyed themselves. The movie depicts life in Singapore accurately. A movie is successful when
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      • 81 101  -  Kamal Naresh I disagree with Boon Chan's review of The Love Guru. My friends and I found the movie hilarious. Why can't reviewers grade a movie based on its entertainment value? I mean how could you have given 4.5 stars to No Country For Old
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      • 342 101  -  chang tou liang BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS Lim Tshui Fang Patsy Toh Nafa Auditorium, Tuesday The first-ever cycle of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas to be performed in Singapore, kicked off two weeks ago, is spread over a series of 10 concerts and shared by 12 local and internationally
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    • 536 102  -  Adeline chia OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival Play touched on paranoia and persecution of those who speak their minds BWEWtheatre THE SWORDFISH, THEN THE CONCUBINE Wild Rice Drama Centre Theatre Thursday This play opened the OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival and featured swordfish attacking from all
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    • 398 102  -  tara tan review theatre TREE/HOUSE Spell#7/ Ho Tzu Nyen Drama Centre Black Box National Library Thursday Stories intertwined to form a canopy of memories in the double-bill Tree/House, offering a respite, however brief, in our city of forgetting. Tree Duet, by theatre group Spell#7, was an intimate
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    • 423 103  -  tara tan Multilingual play invites audience to ponder the complexities of faith 'Wffßtheatre ANGEL-ISM OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival Drama Box/Panggung Arts Drama Centre Black Box National Library Last Wednesday Angel-ism takes flight as a sprawling tapestry of stories and languages. Staged by Mandarin group Drama Box and
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    • 959 104  -  jeremy au yong quote me 'What does he mean to me? He means sex' Welsh singer Duffy on Welsh icon Tom Jones They showed me some footage, but I don't have a feel for the movie. I didn't see enough. I wasn't sure who
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      • 650 105  -  Christopher tan The new Renault Laguna is pleasing in every way senior correspondent If you were lookinH for a mid-rangej mid-size se-1 dan, what are I the chances of you thinking of a Renault? Remote? Actually, more like zero, zilch, zip. Simply because I Renault
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      • 128 105 This is Torque's last issue in its current format. Next month, an all-new Torque debuts, incorporating Carma, SPH Magazines' other car publication. The August issue is thus a collectible. It is also chock-full of news, views and reviews. The cover story zooms in on Porsche
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      • 71 105 Every time I drive over a bump, I hear banging and knocking sounds from my car's front suspension. Why is this so? This is most likely caused by the rubber bushes at the top of the front suspension mounts. When they are worn out, the top of the
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      • 549 106  -  andre lam The Carrera 4 and 4S' new electronic all-wheel-drive system offers better traction and more in berlin, germany Porsche has unveiled its latest all-wheel-drive Carrera 4 (C 4) just two months after pulling the covers off its heavily revised 911 Carrera. The C 4
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        506 107  -  lee nian tjoe Buckle up, boys. The Ford Focus is going to be a familiar sight in camp, at least Pledge as we may our love for the country, there will always be some heartache when it comes time to send our precious 18-year-old to have his head
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      • 251 107  -  Christopher Tan Singapore's hottest sports car today is not Italian, German or British. It is Japanese and it is blowing the competition out of the water. It is the GT-R (right) from Nissan, maker of modest models such as the Sunny and Latio. Since its debut
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        302 107  -  Christopher tan SLEEKER VW GOLF Volkswagen has unveiled its sixth-genera-tion Golf (above), which sheds Audi's shield-like grille for a more streamlined face. It boasts a quieter and more ergonomic cabin, as well as more efficient drivetrains. Petrol engines with outputs of 80,102, 122 and 160 horsepower will be
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    • life! design
      • 755 108  -  tay suan chiang [architects We kick off this eight-part series with architect Chan Wai Kin design correspondent From the outside, this 70-some-thing-year-old conservation flat in Tiong Bahru looks its age. The whitewash on the wall looks grey and dull. A single fluorescent tube is the only light
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      • 278 111 The soil of my potted plants is occasionally covered with moss and each time that happens, I have to remove the top layer. How can I prevent it from happening again? The moss appears because the soil surface is constantly wet a condition conducive for moss growth. The
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      • 270 111 Singaporeans love going underwater, judging from the result of the People's Choice Award at the eight-day Singapore Garden Festival (SGF) which ended last Friday. Seeking Shangri-La, an underwater garden by Singaporean Peter Cheok of Far East Flora, was voted the top favourite by visitors. It garnered 49
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      • 625 112 Associated Press Get tips on making your abode environmentfriendly with Chicago's ongoing home exhibit Chicago The bathroom tiles are recycled wine bottles. The floors are sustainable bamboo. And the sprawling garden gets sprinkled with rainwater collected in 1,135-litre barrels. From its recycled plastic deck to its
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        89 113 Less than attractive tissue boxes can spoil the look of a room, but the Stand! tissue holder is pretty enough to show off. The plastic holder comes in six colours, including white and pink, and has a wide bottom so it will stay put when you pull out
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      330 116  -  frankie chee The restaurant bar in Clarke Quay will be taken over by Lunar Barfly has flown the coop. The restaurant bar in Clarke Quay served its last martini last Saturday and has closed for good. In business for less than two years, Barfly which was modelled after
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      • 285 118 Reuters New York British rock trio The Police played their final concert together on Thursday and were joined by the real police the New York City police band. Singer and bassist Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers reunited for a world tour last May,
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      • 177 118 Associated Press Nicasio (California) George Lucas says he has already identified the one person who can keep the Indiana Jones franchise going: Harrison Ford. At the Cannes film festival in May, he had said he was open to more Indy films with Shia Laßeouf, 22
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        131 118 BLACKWELL HOSPITALISED Mr Blackwell, the fashion designer famed for his annual list of worst-dressed women, regained consciousness on Thursday in hospital where he was battling a serious infection. Richard Blackwell, 85, had fainted at his home on Tuesday. SHETTY'S THE BOSS Actress Shilpa Shetty (right) will host Big Boss,
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    • 836 192  -  Hong Xinyi Waterloo Street's GuanYin temple is where believers go to seek divine protection, good health and happiness AS FAR as I know, this is how it happened. A few months after I was born, in 1981, my grandmother went to see a for-tune-teller. She was told that
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    • 187 194  -  KIT CHAN, Don t1 know this familiar retrain, and even having sung it hundreds of times, I still feel a warm wave washing over me when I end my song on that lingering note. To ask me to pin this place down
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    • 120 194  -  JIM ROGERS, "One of my favourite things in Singapore is the cable car ride. They don't have a cable car in New York where we moved from. We lived right over the river in New York, so every time we looked out we saw lots of water, and
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    • 623 194  -  Yen Feng Singapore's oldest water-catchment area is a place to sit and ponder, get close to nature or work up a sweat A FAMOUS Chinese proverb, "When drinking water, consider its source", teaches children to appreciate their parents. Those who take this literally, however, may turn mistakenly
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      636 196  - Stop stare Stephanie Yap Enjoy some of the best views of the city from the Benjamin Sheaves Bridge MAYBE you first saw it as a child during morning car rides from your home in the east to school in the west. Or when you travelled from Changi Airport back home
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    • 232 196 Quiz Take a walk down memory lane and guess these places we would have called home if they still existed 1) In 1957, rubber tycoon Lee Kong Chian (above) laid the foundation stone for this red-brick building, which was roundly criticised initially for its "forbidding" and
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    • 934 198  -  Hong Xinyi HAW Par Villa is replete with the kind of surrealism that Salvador Dali could only dream about. The seminal Spanish artist was famous for melting clocks and lips-shaped sofas. But at this 71-year-old park in Pasir Panjang, there are far bigger realms of weird and wonderful
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      312 199  -  PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG One place I think of as home is the old Kandang Kerbau Hospital (right), which is full of memories for me. My siblings and I were born there. So was my wife, Ho Ching, and my two older children. I was a normal delivery
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    • 871 200  -  Fiona Chan Catholic or not, hundreds of i devotees place their requests at Novena Church's altar weekly and thousands more attend its Saturday services ON SATURDAYS, every hour from 9am to 7pm, a bell rings at Novena Church. Soon after, the petitions start. "My husband is going
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      268 200  -  Your Catholic daughter Petitions Mother, please help my son to be successful in his appeal for a place to study business at the Nanyang Technological University. My work has come to a standstill. I don't have the drive to do well. Please help me to be more motivated
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      245 201 NgYi-Sheng Last night the mane-headed monster destroyed the city rose from the pirate bay then drowned in salty vomit cathedrals of mirror the candy-stone temples the durian brassiere old man rode on an origami tiger rose-milk elephants in his wake radioed his queen in a band-major outfit firing
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    • 751 202  -  Yen Feng TWO tattoos one of a dragon's claw and the other of a robotic wing chase from his wrists to the tips of his elbows. A single stud sits on his left ear. When he moves, there is an unmistakable sense of
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      991 203  -  Yen Feng Diversity is the buzzword for hawker centres these days as European fare is served alongside local dishes and stall owners hail from China, India and even the US IN 1865, standing at the mouth of the Singapore River, what was then known as Commercial Square, an
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    • 920 205  -  Hong Xinyi If Wong Kar Wai were to make a movie at the 24-hour emporium, Mr Son Of The Night and Lovely Lisa would be key characters among a motley crowd that comes out to play past midnight THE lovely, lonely "Lisa, just Lisa" has been nursing her
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      845 206  -  Serene Goh East Coast Park may be awkwardly planned and overcrowded, but it always has something for everyone TRYING to save on taxi fare, my folks used to pitch the idea of a humid walk from our Bedok South flat to the East Coast Park. "It's good exercise",
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    • 818 208  -  Stephanie Yap VICTORIA CONCERT HALL VIOLINIST Chan Yoong-Han can't remember what the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) played at the inauguration of the Victoria Concert Hall but then again, he was only five years old. "As a kid, you try to stay awake in concerts as much as
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      310 208 Words Music Mark Chan New connections My song, Return, was released in Japan in 1994 by Hori Pro on the album Nature Boy, but it was written years earlier in response to all the travelling that has since become my life. It's a heartfelt yearning to return home but
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    • 101 209  -  MICHAEL CORBIDGE, "A dwelling has never really defined it for me. Nor a country. It's an old cliche 'Home is where the heart is. I'd like to add 'and what the heart is doing. It is 'heart connectivity' not reliant on a physical space that is
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    • 150 209  -  LI JIAWEI, "I feel quite at home anywhere in Singapore, but one of my favourite places here is Orchard Road because shopping is one of my favourite pastimes. I don't get tired when I'm shopping. I like to go to Orchard with friends on weekends. I usually go
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      376 210  -  Faith Yong Hui-Cher "Uncle, Block 551, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10. As fast as you can please, I'm in a hurry." As the taxi driver sped down the expressway, tears started gathering in her eyes as she looked out of the window. She had booked herself a seat
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    • 190 210  -  Rebecca Au Tian Mci 4? On the celadon hills, the cheeky lalang affixed themselves blithely on our clothes as we ran we had a picnic with unexpected company, the ants crawling in uninvited on our rattan mat when soda was spilled love was unabashedly declared and
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      307 210  -  Faizah Zakaria My father's side of the family had congregated in this area, While we, the outsiders, make a short commute to my late grandmother Each week, I look out for the cliffs silhouetted against sky. At first, it was in a rickety old Datsun in which the
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      62 211  - Ruth Lee Every sunny Sunday morning, my family and I make it a point to stop by this open field bird park atYishun Avenue 5 to enjoy birds singing. It is a relaxing way to start my Sunday morning with my family. My daughter enjoys looking at the various bird
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    • 365 212  -  Sweet Lily S. Cavan So what is it with Lucky Plaza that intrigued me? I remember setting foot in Singapore for the first time and voila, Lucky Plaza was the first destination. Lucky Plaza may be a simple shopping centre in the midst of Orchard Road in Singapore
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