Streats, 25 June 2004

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    10 1 Streats FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 196/03/2^4*
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    658 1  -  &y_ Chua Kong Ho Malaysia won’t declassify air pollution figures; S’pore continues releasing them SINGAPORE has no plans to make air pollution figures a state secret, unlike Malaysia which yesterday announced it would continue to keep them classified. Malaysia said distorted foreign media reports on air
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      42 1 mr auto gam Race Queens, who earn $1,400 a day, add glamour to Dreamcars motorshow page6B troublin Volunteer discovers many youths among Aids patients here page 3 goal-shy ermans 2006 World Cup host must sort out shooting problem, says PETER SIOW pageB4
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      3 1 SHARE YOUR PAPER
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      121 1 GOLDHEAFT Sale Now On V» a An Indulgence You Deserve PRINCESS* <56 OOLDHCAKT|EWBLHY MAIN SHOWROOM: 360 Orchard Road #Ol-18 International Building Singapore *****9 Tel: 6735 0689 SINGAPORE Causeway Point Centrepoint Changi Airport Terminal 1 City Link Mall Compass Point Eastpoint Great World City Junction 8 Jurong Point Lot 1 Shoppers'
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      Lock icon Dad waited 2 years to find out how sons died
      400 2  -  Driver involved in fatal crash at Changi has fled S’pore, say police By Khushwant Singh MR Man Mohan Singh only found out yesterday the circumstances under which his two sons died in a car accident two years ago. State Coroner
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      Lock icon Relive the charm of Glutton Square
      235 2  -  By. Lester Chiew THIRTY years ago, Mr Lau Thye Chua was a sprightly young hawker who made a living by selling fried oyster omelette from a pushcart stall in the then popular Orchard Road carpark. Next month, the 67-year-old will return to his old
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      Lock icon 65 project entries, but no winners
      468 3  -  URA plans two bridges to link parks in Mt Faber area By Yeo Ghim Lay THE challenge was to design two bridges one of which would be Singapore’s longest pedestrian bridge in the southern part of the island. The requirement: It must be so
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      Lock icon Citigroup suspends kin of ex-China PM
      187 3 Bloomberg SHANGHAI Citigroup Inc yesterday suspended its vice-chairman in China, Ms Margaret Ren, and a second China banker, alleging that they presented false information to the bank and its regulators. “We immediately informed the appropriate government authorities of the suspension and will cooperate fully
      – Bloomberg  -  187 words
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      Lock icon More youngsters getting Aids, says charity worker
      403 3  -  By Liza Lin IN his nine years helping Aids patients, Mr Benedict Jacob-Thambiah has been troubled by the young age of some of the sufferers. “It’s scary because they are the ones who are supposed to be the most educated,” said the executive
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      Lock icon Crooked execs led to China giant’s fall
      338 4 State Power Corp lost s2b through fraud, mismanagement -AFP BEIJING Former executives at China’s now defunct State Power Corp hid billions of yuan in profit and caused more than 11 billion yuan (552.3 billion) of losses through fraud and mismanagement, said the nation’s
      -AFP  -  338 words
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      Lock icon $27m of China Olympics cash misused by officials
      188 4 -ap BEIJING Sports officials misused more than $22 million meant for the 2008 Beijing Olympics to build apartments for their staff, state media said yesterday. The disclosure was an embarrassment for organisers who have pledged repeatedly that the Games will be free
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      Lock icon Gus Dur finally backs Wiranto
      315 6 ‘Ex-military chief and running mate are honest’ -AFP JAKARTA Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid has finally thrown his support behind former military chief Wiranto, who is running in next month’s presidential election, reports said yesterday. Mr Abdurrahman, former chairman of the nation’s largest Islamic movement,
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      Lock icon 4 dengue cases over 2 weeks in Seletar Hills
      339 6  -  By Ho Lian-Yi FOUR residents in the Seletar Hills estate contracted the mosquito-borne dengue fever in the last two weeks, and all live in the Saraca View area. Families living there are worried as some remember that nearby Saraca Hill was
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      Lock icon Poor response, so no Comdex
      205 6 SAN FRANCISCO Comdex, once the largest trade show in the US, has been cancelled this year. Media Live International, the company that owns the computer show and other trade shows, called it off as the industry’s largest companies failed to participate, the New York Times
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      Lock icon Traffic police bikes to have speed radar guns
      126 8 BUZZSTOP POLICE motorcycles in Singapore will be equipped with radar guns to catch speeding motorists by early next year, reports The Straits Times today. Traffic Police commander, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Teo Kian Teck, said yesterday that this move should make Singapore’s roads
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      Lock icon HOUSE ON WHEELS
      39 8 Home is a ‘car’ for architect Manfred Voglreiter, whose creation is a hit in Langwied in Austria’s Salzburg province. Locals and visitors often stop by to photograph the house, built for a family of four AP
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      Lock icon 2,603 stones in gall bladder
      128 8 Surgeon finds stones in Sichuan man A SURGEON in Sichuan extracted 2,603 gold-coloured gallstones from a 47-year-old man two days ago. The patient was diagnosed with cholelithiasis five years ago. But he ignored it until recently, when he felt excruciating pain in his gall-bladder, Lianhe
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      Lock icon Macau to open third casino
      137 8 Construction begins soon on No 4 -AP GALAXY Resort Casino said on Wednesday that it will open its new Macau casino next month the second to be launched in the Chinese territory since it ended a four-decade gambling monopoly. The Galaxy Waldo will offer 38
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      Lock icon Microsoft XP for novices
      132 8 Cheaper version for Thailand, M sia -AP MICROSOFT plans to offer a version of its Windows operating system geared towards computer novices in Thailand and Malaysia starting this September. The system, which is dubbed Windows XP Starter Edition, will be offered as part of governmentsponsored programmes
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      Lock icon PM to Dhaka: Open up
      85 8 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong advised Bangladesh to open up its economy if it wants more foreign investments in the country. In particular, he cited the shipping and air transport sectors which are key to boosting trade and investments. PM Goh assured Dhaka’s leading businessmen:
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      Lock icon It’s official for Arroyo
      92 8 -ap THE Philippine Congress yesterday formally proclaimed incumbent Gloria Mapacagal Arroyo the winner of last month’s presidential election, ending a six-week ballot count that underscored the country’s bitter divisions. The Congress, which monitors ballotcounting and declares the winner, voted to proclaim Mrs Arroyo the winner after
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      85 8 -AFP THE British Broadcasting Corporation plans to launch an Arabic-language television channel broadcasting to the Middle East in direct competition to Al-Jazeera. The plan has been devised by Britain’s Foreign Office, which would also help finance the venture, the Financial Times said yesterday. The new station would
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      Lock icon Tourist falls into canyon
      101 8 -AP AN American tourist in Australia was in critical condition yesterday after falling 70m into a canyon, officials said. The 21 -year-old man from Texas fell on Wednesday afternoon from a lookout in Morton National Park, in New South Wales’ southern highlands, south of Sydney. He
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      127 2 BIBLICAL SUCCESS SEMINAR Speaker: Rev. Dr John Shepherd Lim You Can Be Super Blessed To Be A Super Blessing! Ist1 st July 2004 (Thursday) 7: 30pm Pan Pacific Hotel, Level 1, Pacific Ballroom 3 FREE ADMISSION www.thelivingfaith.org Organised by Living Faith Church ALL ARE WELCOME COFFEE TEA WILL BE SERVED
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      465 12  -  Even non-Muslims can tap into such ‘ethical’ financial services B y Choong Choon Yee ALTHOUGH there is little familiarity with Islamic banking in Singapore and the range of products is limited, HSBC believes that it has excellent potential for growth here. And, contrary to popular belief,
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      Lock icon ABN Amro plans aggressive expansion
      416 12  -  By. ChuaKongHo ABN Amro, Singapore’s youngest retail bank, opened its sixth branch yesterday and announced aggressive expansion plans, which include Internet banking and a credit card. ABN Amro may be Singapore’s oldest bank, having set up operations in 1858, but it is a newcomer to
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      Lock icon Fuel oil stocks fall
      75 12 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore’s fuel oil stocks sank for a second straight week, helping to relieve the Asian oil trading hub from a five-year inventory peak, but traders said yesterday that the drop did not yet reflect a rise in demand. Singapore’s onshore stocks of lowand high-sulphur
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      87 12 Bloomberg HONG KONG Big spenders who bought Bulgari, Brooks Brothers and Polo Ralph Lauren goods in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China and the Philippines have boosted full-year profit to almost double for Dickson Concepts (International) Ltd. Sales rose 6.7 per cent for Hong Kong’s biggest listed
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      Lock icon YTL eyes Indon rail
      94 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE YTL Corp, Malaysia’s biggest construction company, may invest in an Indonesian monorail project as the company expands outside its home market of 25 million people. The Kuala Lumpur-based group, which announced its first major foray into Indonesia last month when it agreed to buy
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      Lock icon Dentsu’s S’pore stake
      81 12 -afp TOKYO Dentsu Inc, Japan’s largest advertising agency, yesterday said that it will take a 30 per cent stake in World Sport Group of Singapore, a leading sports marketing firm in Asia, for an undisclosed amount. Dentsu said that it plans to boost its sport-related business in
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      Lock icon SingTel pricing decision in 3 weeks
      275 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE The Government plans to decide within three weeks whether to enforce a ruling that may force Sing Tel to lower prices for certain services by as much as 50 per cent. Communications Minister Lee Boon Yang is considering an appeal by the
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      Lock icon Rosy future for Japan banks?
      473 14 Economic rebound could mean matching S’pore, HK ratings: S&P Bloomberg TOKYO Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and leading Japanese banks may get a further ratings boost next year to match their Singapore and Hong Kong peers as an economic rebound helps boost income and capital, Standard Poor’s
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      Lock icon PeopleSoft tussle worried Gates
      453 16 Microsoft boss suggested taking stake in software maker to stave off Oracle bid AP SAN FRANCISCO Oracle Corp’s takeover bid for rival business software maker People Soft convinced Microsoft Corp that the market’s competitive landscape had changed permanently, prompting Mr Bill Gates (pictured) to ponder how
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      Lock icon Iraq losing $112m a day in revenue
      421 20 Inadequate security, funds shortage takes toll on oil industry -AP LONDON British oil consultant Paul Bristol has travelled six times to Baghdad since the US-led invasion of Iraq, but the risks of doing business there only hit home last week during his most
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      Lock icon Economists debate quality of new jobs
      410 24 -AFP New jobs may not sustain US economy as overall income growth sluggish, some say WASHINGTON As the US labour market shows signs of revival from its long slump, economists are in a fierce debate over the quality of new jobs being created and
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      23 24 *AS AT JUNE 24 US$: 551.714 S$3.U6 EURO: 552.075 Ss: 62.97 YEN Ss: RM2.217 Ss: HK54.550 Ss: 23.88 BAHTSS: 5,501 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon STI: 1.799.48 ▲ 4.83
      319 24 STI: 1.799.48 4.83 Reuters SHARES closed slightly higher yesterday, in line with most markets in the region, as Wall Street’s strength enticed investors to buy blue chips such as Creative Technology. The Straits Times Index finished up 0.27 per cent, or 4.83 points, at 1,799.48. Gainers outnumbered losers 188 to
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      396 28 Kiddie brands target adults who have grown up with l their products NEW YORK Brand names usually associated with children, such as Barbie and Hello Kitty, are retaining clientele into adulthood by introducing more adult-oriented products into their ranges, according to an online news
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      Lock icon Foreign hubbies spur economy
      323 28 -AFP ROI ET, Thailand Thailand’s impoverished north-east is embracing the economic windfall from more than 15,000 foreign sons-in-law and attempting to end the stigma attached to women who marry men from overseas. Evidence of the newfound wealth is everywhere in this region, known as Isaan, where
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      943 32  -  By PHILIP LEE ONE of the more enjoyable aspects of my work in Streats is to edit the Vocal pages of our newspaper. The other, of course, is to write my weekly Friday column. I take turns to edit the Vocal page with Deputy Editor Godfrey
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      Lock icon How to see if your degree is recognised
      204 36 WE refer to Ms Jasmine Priya’s letter, “Tell us which degree is recognised” (Streats, June 22). The civil service accepts degrees from a university accredited by the home government of the country where the university is located. This applies to full- and
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      Lock icon Quality of life first
      344 36 IT was interesting to read Mr Dudley Au’s letter, “Stem-cell work brings great hope” (Streats, June 16), supporting stem-cell research to cure diseases. There is another aspect that we should look at: old age. It is possible that this stem-cell research may bring hope to cure
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      Lock icon Get rid of these strays
      81 36 AS a new resident of Block 2028 Punggol Field, I have noticed an increasing number of stray cats there, and I am concerned about the health and environmental risks that this can pose. These strays destroy residents’ plants, follow people into the lifts and sometimes
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      207 36 I FULLY support our Government’s great efforts to ensure a high level of security and safety at our entry and exit points at sea ports, ferry centres and airports to prevent and deter any security threats. However, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority should also ensure the
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      Lock icon Clinic sold expired sample medicine
      202 40 RECENTLY, my mum went to a clinic in Marsiling Drive to buy a repeat prescription of her blood-pressure medication without consultation. She was given 30 tablets in three foil strips of 10 each. After finishing the second pack of the tablets, she noticed that the
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      Lock icon Ban smoking, not pets
      133 40 I HAVE noticed that many coffee shops display signs saying “no pets are allowed”. Are there any legal rules on this? Do the coffee shop owners have the right to display such signs? I ask this because I take my dog to a coffeeshop stall sometimes
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      148 40 I REFER to Mr Terence Chiew Peet Yeang’s pertinent comments on insensitive public-transport users in the letter “Many deaf ears on trains” (Streats, June 17). There must be just as many commuters who are blind and either cannot read or understand the import of the
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      145 39 *V To each his own ARISTON Its never easy to please everyone. With Ariston’s new multi-function hobs, you'll be able to choose the most suitable type of cooking for each dish. Cooking a wide selection of dishes will be even easier and hassle-free with the 25% extra space. And you’ll
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      603 44 Wire services US official says situation getting better; Iran frees UK troops BAGHDAD Rebels bent on disrupting a handover to Iraqi rule bloodied five cities yesterday with coordinated assaults on local security forces in which about 75 people, including three US soldiers,
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      310 44 Reuters BAGHDAD Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed on Wednesday to hunt down militants threatening to assassinate him, dismissing their bloody campaignbefore a US handover to Iraqi rule in a week’s time. The assassination threat was made by Abu Musab A 1 Zarqawi,
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      217 45 -AP TOKYO A government panel on Wednesday said it will recommend that Japan permit the limited cloning of human embryos for scientific research. Japan banned the cloning of humans in 2001 but has permitted researchers to use human embryos that are not
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      97 45 -AFP SYDNEY Right-to-life campaigners yesterday protested after a Sydney laboratory revealed it had created Australia’s first human embryonic stem cells. The clinic, Sydney IVF, said it had used a surplus embryo supplied by a couple who had undergone in-vitro fertilisation treatment to grow stem cells after
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      364 45 SAN FRANCISCO Software giant Microsoft’s website has topped a list ranking the websites of Fortune 100 companies, reported CBS.MarketWatch.com yesterday. Companies ranked just behind Microsoft are Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Bank of America and Medco Health Solutions. The ranking by The Customer Respect Group (CRG), a
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      152 45 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES An America Online (AOL) employee accused of stealing at least 92 million e-mail addresses and selling them to a spammer for more than US$lOO,OOO (S$ 171,000) was arrested Wednesday at his home in West Virginia. Jason Smathers, 24, was charged with
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      385 47 Koizumi seen riding on finance minister’s popularity -AFP TOKYO With his popularity sagging, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a veteran lawmaker for 32 years, has turned to a campaign novice to help boost his party’s electoral chances. Hit by unpopular pension reforms and
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      319 47 -AFP WASHINGTON The US Air Force got a “wake-up call” in air-to-air training exercises with India earlier this year that showed the US can no longer take air superiority for granted in a conflict, a top US general said on Wednesday. A study
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      289 50 CEO Belinda Stronach injecting glamour into election campaign -AFP AURORA, Canada She’s rich, blonde, dubbed one of the world’s most powerful business women, and has been dragged into US gossip columns over a friendship with former US president Bill Clinton. Now Canadian businesswoman Belinda Stronach,
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      151 50 -AFP WELLINGTON Mr Bill Clinton’s autobiography My Life has been raising eyebrows in New Zealand amid rumblings that the former US president has not been entirely accurate about the mountainous origins of his wife’s name. Mr Clinton claims that his wife, Hillary, was named
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      196 50 Wire services CHICAGO Allegations that a top Republican politician took his actress wife to kinky clubs and pressured her to have sex in public have scandalised America and are threatening to rob US President George W Bush of his senate majority. But Mr Jack
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      329 54 -AP TRENTON, New Jersey Somewhere in Germany is a baby “Superman”, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles (pictured). Not yet five years old, he can hold 3.15 kg weights with arms extended, something many adults can’t do. He has muscles
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      162 54 Reuters WASHINGTON Acrylamides, a family of chemicals recently found in cooked foods that is known to cause cancer in rats, pose little threat to the US population, an expert panel reported on Wednesday. People do not eat enough of the chemicals in their
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      670 58  -  By Christopher Lim Liza Lin Singaporeans are increasingly opting for walls of glass over traditional materials to separate their homes from the neighbours’ MRS Alice Lee’s house has something rather unusual: a clear glass fence. She spent $20,000 to put it up so that her Epidendium orchids can
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      410 62  -  By Janice Wong Of late, property developers have been coming up with novel marketing ideas SINGER Claressa Monteiro (pictured) usually enthrals jazz lovers in the cool and dusky ambience of the Bar and Billiard Room in Raffles Hotel. But her performance venue last Friday was, for
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    635 59 A businessman was one of the first in Singapore to install a Daikin inverter system in his home, thanks to his friend. A LIFESTYLE FEATURE BROUGHT TO YOU BY DAIKIN Mr Manohar Nanwani had a Daikin inverter system installed in his apartment in eastern Singapore four years ago,
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      104 59 Win a Pichonkun Gift Pack from Daikin Name: 1C no: Address: E-mail: Tel: HP: Do you own an air con? Yes/No Daikin Inverter saves energy. True/False Yes, I am interested to know more about Daikin Inverter. The first 30 lucky winners will each win a Pichonkun gift set. Judges' decision
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      694 66 An ageing audience, ongoing politics and an ever critical press. Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown tells YVONNE KWOK of some of the problems hefaces working on the big bad stage that is Broadway IF Jason Robert Brown were in his teens or early 20s, he may not
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      239 68  -  Znhuiduh Narsrrr II DOUSIN' 1 I in ill ter dial flu* highlight of the Dn anu ai s Asia Motorsliow is a yellow Mitsubishi Evo dial starred in die Hollywood movie 2 l ast 2 f urious. W hen the race queens entered Singapore Expo
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      156 68  -  By. Ashleigh Sim EMMA Shapplin is captivating. At a press conference yesterday, it was hard to look away from the doeeyed French soprano, who sings to contemporary pop/rock percussion. Shapplin, 30, will perform at the Esplanade on Sunday in her first-ever Asian concert, which is presented by Streats.
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      317 68  -  By_ Yvonne Kwok ROARING through the choppy waters of Wild Wild Wet’s tsunami wave pool on their jet-skis, professional daredevils Tom Meany, Pierre Maixent and Allen Westersund command instant attention with their flips and impressive tricks on the powerful machines. If their stunts aren’t enough,
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        379 70 Vera Wang, better known for dreamy wedding gowns, is now set to expand her horizons, beginning with her firstfragrance, says JASMINEMILLER SHE’S the unseen but felt presence at weddings all over the world. Vera Wang’s (inset) elegant, delicious wedding dresses have made thousands of women (who can afford
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        74 70 “When I created the fragrance, I thought of the man in a woman’s life, and how he would experience it. I wore the fragrance and asked men if the fragrance appealed to them. “I wanted my fragrance to conjure up emotions and a connection with the woman
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        35 70 Provocative Woman by Elizabeth Arden An intense fusion of Oriental ingredients like quince, water lotus, ginger lily, midnight orchid, papaya blossom and Hinoki wood, combined with the fresh floral scent of ffeesia.
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        59 70 Since Elizabeth Arden launched its first Green Tea fragrance five years ago, the scent has remained a constant favourite with women the world over, this summer, it introduces three refreshing body coolers to complement this feel-good fragrance Green Tea Cooling Body Spray, Green
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        46 70 Chanel’s newest fragrance for men is fresh and sensual. The burst of mandarin and Sicilian orange ripens into the scents of tonka bean, white musk and amber, before maturing into the dry, woody notes of Atlas cedar spiced with black pepper.
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        35 70 This limited edition fragrance is a modem, crisper interpretation of the signature cK one fragrance with an interplay of lush, green notes and fruity citrus tones that invokes the smells of summer.
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        563 72 NADINE GOH checks out the latest in sportswear that can take you from gym to mall EXERCISE is a growing lifestyle trend among Singaporeans be they energetic teens or young-at-heart senior citizens. And active, health-conscious people are becoming so much more style-sawy that the gym,
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      455 74  -  Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? These recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals that are easy do and cost $10 or less for four servings, will see you through these tough times FROZEN fish fingers I used
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      123 76 Rain washed out Wimbledon matches on Wednesday, so instead of live tennis coverage, the BBC aired a rerun of its special Wimbledon edition of The Weakest Link, taped last week. Contestants included the second-seeded Andy Roddick; his coach, Brad Gilbert and Hall of Famer Boris Becker.
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        42 76 ROBOCOP RESURRECTION 10pm, Channel i Fugitives on the run, RoboCop and former partner Cable are separated during a pitched battle with Robohunters. They fall into the hands of two opposing mercenary groups who restore and re-programme them for their own dark purposes.
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        57 76 10pm, Central Debut of a series on one of France’s legendary leaders, Napoleon is based on the best-selling historical novel by Max Gallo. Shot in over 100 different locations in six countries, the US$4O million production used 3,000 costumes, 150 wigs and nearly 20,000 extras. It stars Christian Clavier,
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        55 76 TROPHY PAINTINGS Today till July 23 Taksu (Block 43, WorkloJt@Chip Bee, #O2-74) Free Yugoslavian-born Milenko Prvacki is the director of Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts’ division of fine art. His series of Trophy Paintings signify, both metaphorically and symbolically, his re-invention of the visual language of painting in his
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        45 76 CHEERS BADMINTON AGE GROUP FINALS Sunday, 10 am Singapore Badminton Hall Free Besides hard-hitting badminton action on court, Singapore’s Athens-bound trio of badminton stars Ronald Susilo, Jiang Yanmei and Li Li will be there to autograph Yonex posters and mingle with enthusiasts and fans.
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        Lock icon ‘It will be a very tight game, so I think it will be a draw after 90 minutes. France has big names, but that counts for nothing when it walks onto the pitch. Greece is a very hardworking and organised team. It will probably need a silver goal or a penalty shoot-out to settle the outcome, but my heart says France because it will be more exciting if it goes through.’
        80 78 ‘It will be a very tight game, so I think it will be a draw after 90 minutes France has big names, but that counts for nothing when it walks onto the pitch. Greece is a very hardworking and organised team. It will probably need a silver goal or a
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        Lock icon Injured Vieira and Gallas worry France
        219 78 -AFP SANTO TIRSO, Portugal France midfielder Patrick Vieira and defender William Gallas did not train with their team-mates on Wednesday, and both must wait to see if they recover from injuries in time for the quarter-final. Both players were injured in the 3-1 victory
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        420 78 After coming so far, Greece fancies its chances jraepit WCP 1/ rfifiivvia if mUCCvC QUARTER-FINAL LIVE CH2I (TOMORROW 2.45 AM) Wire services PORTO France v Greece looks like the biggest mismatch of the quarter-finals. Defending champion France has won three major international trophies; the Greeks just a
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        Lock icon Saez caves in to pressure, quits as coach
        184 80 Reuters MADRID Spain coach Inaki Saez has tendered his resignation a day after saying he would not quit over his team’s first-stage exit from Euro 2004, Spanish media reported yesterday. Saez caved in to intense pressure, several newspapers said, after the media
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        256 80 AFP LISBON The similarities are striking. Both were highly respected coaches who won league titles in their domestic leagues before taking over national teams in other countries with apparently little chance of success. And both led those teams to sensational victories over bigger names in
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        561 80 Bench-warmer Saha eager for championship action QUARTER-FINAL FRANCE v GREECE LIVE CH2I TOMORROW 2.45 AM) AFP SANTO TIRSO, Portugal Manchester United striker Louis Saha (above) admits that he has found it hard to fill the substitute’s role at Euro 2004, and is desperate to play a part in
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        211 82 Reuters SINTRA, Portugal Less than 12 hours after watching from the substitutes’ bench as his team secured a third successive victory, Pavel Nedved returned to training with his usual relish yesterday. As he joined in the exercises with nine other senior players in front
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        288 82 Wire services LISBON Freddie Ljungberg admits that Sweden has learnt from its mistakes in the World Cup two years ago and will be a match for anyone at Euro 2004. Sweden qualified for the quarterfinals in dramatic circumstances following its last-minute equaliser against Denmark on
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        386 82 Women are filling football stadiums in droves -AP LISBON From Miss Bulgaria to flagwaving Portuguese grandmothers, from Croatian bankers draped in red and white to bikini-clad French teenagers, Euro 2004 has shown that Europe’s football stadiums are no longer just for the guys. “A few
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        189 84 Reuters PORTIMAO, Portugal Denmark striker Ebbe Sand is “very doubtful” for Sunday’s Euro 2004 quarter-final against the Czech Republic because of a muscle injury, Danish coach Morten Olsen told reporters yesterday. Olsen said that a scan had shown up a damaged muscle in Sand’s hamstring
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        284 84 Reuters ALMANCIL, Portugal Germany coach Rudi Voller (right) resigned yesterday after the three-time world and European champion was knocked out of Euro 2004. Germany drew its first two group matches, including a 0-0 result against debutant Latvia, before going down to the Czech Republic 1-2
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        469 84  -  GROUP D GERMANY i CZECH REPUBLIC 2 Comment By PETER SIOW GERD Muller, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Pierre Littbarski and, not too long ago, Jurgen Klinsmann and fellow striker Rudi Voller. What do they have in common? Easy. They were all former German marksmen who could shoot
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      255 86 AP ATHENS The US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) plans to seek a lifetime, ban against 100 m world record holder Tim Montgomery and 2003 world indoor 200 m champion Michelle Collins for alleged doping violations. Montgomery was notified on Wednesday of the charges against him and
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      432 86  -  Liverpool left-back started football career at Dover Court Preparatory School By Tan Kim Han TO the boys at Dover Court Preparatory School who played football with Kali Whitbread (below), the Liverpool FC left-back says: “Thank you”. The 17-year-old stayed in Singapore from 1994 to 1998, while her
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      217 86 TENNIS -AFP LONDON Second seeded American Andy Roddick fired 18 aces as he stormed into the second round at Wimbledon yesterday with a 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 win over Taiwan qualifier Wang Yen-Tzuo. Roddick, a semi-finalist last year and the reigning US Open champion, took just 92 minutes to
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      110 86 RUNNING THE annual Nike Real Run is back. Sponsored by Nike Singapore and organised by the Singapore Police Association for National Servicemen, this year’s run will be held in Sentosa on Aug 15. Runners can choose between the 5.5 km and 10km routes. Those who are serious
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      608 81 Advertisement Reengineering knowledge based supply chain CifiCf logistics management Article contributed by the Singapore Institute of Materials Management Introduction Within the last tew years, the topic of knowledge management has gathered a lot of interest in industries. Although there is no commonly agreed upon definition of knowledge management, companies, governments,
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      291 83 SSSShbI Central Singapore CDC y presents FOOD Jlito vjtlll Mi)4 Sunday, 18 July 2004, 8.30 pm Toa Payoh Stadium Fee: S$ IS nett per person Pamper your tastebuds, rediscover your heritage roots and win great prizes on this exciting Central Singapore Food Heritage Trail! Bring along your family and friends
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      30 86 IN THE LIVING ROOM FOOTBALL: Euro 2004 quarter-final: France v Greece (Ch21, tomorrow, 2.45am) TENNIS: Wimbledon Championships Day Five (Ch24, 7pm) GOLF: EPGA: Open de France Day Two (Ch22, 9pm)
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