The Straits Times, 24 April 2006

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    Lock icon PAP questions quality of opposition
    918 1  -  Tee Hun Ching Laurel Teo Some of new candidates look good on paper, but it's their policies and programmes that count, say party leaders By" cV WHAT ARE OPPOSITION'S PLANS? "The general running theme seems to be that they are in the opposition because they
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    Lock icon Thai polls still blighted by acrimony, violence
    524 1  -  Nirmal Ghosh By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THAIS went to polls again in 40 constituencies yesterday mostly in the south but political acrimony continued and raised the prospect of yet another round of elections before a new government can be formed, and with
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    Lock icon Pioneers in a new push for Singapore
    1082 1  - Pioneers in a new push for Singapore Lynn Lee UPFRONT 1 By ON A business trip to Algeria and Tunisia earlier this month, Mr Jimmy Leong tucked 72 bottles of Axe Brand Universal Oil into his suitcase, together with his crisplyironed shirts and patterned ties. Over a week, the business
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        12 2 Prime 3-4 Asia 5-10 World 12-16 Review 17-19 FYI 20
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        24 2 Offer too late SM Goh says opposition MP Chiam See Tong should have offered lift upgrading in Potong Pasir years ago. PAGE HI
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        17 2 Home Hl-H8 Forum H9 Sports HlO-Hl3 Obituaries Hl4 Money Hl5-H2O LIFE! People L2-L7 Events&TV LB-L9
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        24 2 Gaffes could mar visit The White House's embarrassing gaffes during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit could overshadow small but significant achievements. PAGE 6
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        22 2 A top leader of India's opposition nationalist Hindu party was shot and critically wounded by his brother. PAGE 8
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        Lock icon Keen it clean
        22 2 Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan hopes for a serious debate on real issues, not mudslinging, in election campaign. PAGEH2
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        Lock icon Zoo's new ape habitat
        21 2 Orang utans are getting into the swing of things at the Singapore Zoo's new free-ranging facility. PAGEH7
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        22 2 PAP's domination Reader says the PAP's grip over local politics may not be a bad thing for a small nation. PAGEH9
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        Lock icon Not citizen-centred
        25 2 Reader ask why foreign students are taking up some of the places at NUS and paying almost the same rates as citizens PAGEH9
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        22 2 Blues for Chelsea Liverpool's 2-1 win against Chelsea in FA Cup semi-finals shattered Jose Mourinho's hopes of claiming a double. PAGEHIO
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        24 2 Ifpas poll mayhem Insurance and Financial Practitioners' Association of Singapore has received more than 20 complaints about its recent election fiasco. PAGE Hl7
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        Lock icon EZ-Link sale talks
        23 2 The Land Transport Authority is in talks with several parties on the sale of the transit farecard issuer. PAGE H2O
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        19 2 US-China ties There are onion-like layers to the relationship that binds the world's two major powers. PAGE 17
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        21 2 US troops' new role The US has approved plans to significantly expand the military's role in fighting terrorism. PAGE 12
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        25 2 Storm brewing With Iran and the West increasingly at odds, the region is bracing for a possible attack on Teheran's nuclear facilities. PAGE 18
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      600 2 "Singapore's Leadership Crisis" The single biggest challenge facing Singapore what this requires, neither do they have the skills, attitude in 2006 and beyond is the unprecedented lack of or support to make the transition. These skills, education personal leadership within our public and private sector and support are now available
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon SGX may let more investors lend shares
      596 3  -  Goh Eng Yeow It is studying ways to let those with shares in Central Depositary make some money By GOOD news may be in store for the 1.2 million Singaporeans whose shares are kept in the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) unit. Central Depositary (CDP).
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      Lock icon EX-MALAYSIAN DPM GHAFAR BABA DIES
      82 3 Former Malaysian deputy prime minister Ghafar Baba (left), 81, died yesterday in Kuala Lumpur of heart, lung and kidney ailments. He rose from humble beginnings as a golf caddy in British Malaya to serve as prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's deputy between 1986 and 1993. Malaysia's
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono wants to declare war on haze
      377 3 Jakarta SINGAPOREANS can keep their fingers crossed for a hazefree season, after Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was "ashamed" that his country exported the menace to its neighbours and ordered officials to take preemptive action. "Let us declare a war against
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      Lock icon Cybergaming gets official nod of approval as a national sport
      418 4  -  Leung Wai-Leng Association is set up to select and train team players for international events under the Team Singapore banner By TRAINING Singaporeans to kill ores and other online monsters for the country will be the responsibility of a new
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      Lock icon Envoy Ridzwan heads May Day awards list
      439 4  -  Art i Mulchand By AMBASSADOR- AT-LARGE Ridzwan Dzafir will head this year's list of 75 May Day Award winners people who have made life better faf workers. Mr Ridzwan. 79, will receive the Distinguished Service (Star) Award, his fourth May Day award. He
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      Lock icon HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROME
      78 4 Ancient Roman legionnaire impersonators march past the Colosseum in Rome yesterday, part of celebrations marking the birth of Rome. Legend says the city was founded on April 21 in 753 BC by the twin descendants of the Trojan prince Aeneas, Romulus and Remus. Romulus killed his brother
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Nepal Maoists may get to share power
      664 5  -  Ravi Velloor Analysts say involving rebels in the new government may break political deadlock By India Bureau Chief In Kathmandu NEPAL'S Maoists could get to share power in Kathmandu as a means to get political parties to accept King Gyanendra's offer of power,
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    • CHINA
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        Lock icon CONTROLLED CHAOS
        78 6 This scene of mayhem and violence is fortunately just a mock-riot drill at police headquarters in Shenyang in China's north-eastern Liaoning province. China last year experienced a 6.6 per cent increase in the number of "public order disturbances" to 87,000 incidents. Many riots involved peasants protesting over issues
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        Lock icon Hu's US trip: Good vibes despite hiccups
        659 6  -  Clarissa Oon NEWS ANALYSIS Chinese President leaves positive marks on trade, political fronts By China Correspondent In Beijing THE US and Chinese presidents spoke the same language of cooperation during Mr Hu Jintao's visit to the White House last week, but embarrassing gaffes
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        Lock icon Hu signs strategic pacts with Saudi Arabia
        429 6 Riyadh OIL-RICH Saudi Arabia and energy-starved China signed defence, security and trade agreements on the first day of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit, a trip both sides expect will enhance burgeoning relations. King Abdullah and Mr Hu, who arrived early on Saturday from
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    • EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Ruling LDP loses polls in Chiba
        444 7 By-election win a boost for the main opposition Democratic Party to launch its comeback Tokyo THE beleaguered main opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) got a much-needed boost after it won a closely-fought by-election yesterday in central Japan. Ms Kazumi Ota. 26, running on DPJ's ticket,
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        Lock icon Tokyo, Seoul recall ships from islets
        308 7 Seoul JAPAN and South Korea recalled ships from disputed waters around a remote set of islets yesterday after the countries struck a deal to defuse a high-seas standoff over rival territorial claims. Negotiators brokered a last-minute compromise on Saturday, ending a row that started
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        Lock icon POISE OF A MODEL ROBOT
        85 7 POISE OF A MODEL ROBOT Here is one robot which can strut and pose on the catwalk. Its svelte body, made of carbon fibre and plastic, is implanted with 23 actuators and two gyro sensors to give it the poise of a fashion model. Just don't bother to ask for
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon Opposition BJP leader shot by brother
        611 8  -  P. Jayaram Pramod Mahajan on life-support in hospital as party faces bleak future By India Correspondent In New Delhi "I am the poor brother of a rich man. I was humiliated by him on several occasions. He treated me like dirt..." PRAVINMAHAJAN.onhis brother Pramod
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        Lock icon Indian PM seeks German backing for nuclear deal
        325 8 I lanoyer (Germany) INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his first official visit to Germany, championing robust bilateral trade and seeking support for a nuclear deal with Washington that Berlin has criticised. Dr Singh will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the
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        Lock icon The India-US nuclear deal
        41 8 >> New Delhi will gain access to previously forbidden technology for development of power stations. >> In return, India has promised in return to separate its military and civilian facilities and open most of the latter to international inspections.
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        Lock icon Police battle activists in Bangladesh strike
        237 8 Dhaka NEARLY 150 people were injured in Bangladesh yesterday when police used batons and fired teargas shells to disperse activists during an opposition-spon-sored strike, witnesses said. The strike shut most transport, offices, schools and business across the country. Sunday is a working day in
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      • ASIA QUICKLY
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          Lock icon TRUCKLOAD OF PALM OIL TAINTS RIVER
          101 8 KUALA LUMPUR: A truck full of palm oil has overturned and emptied its load into a river near the Malaysian capital, threatening to disrupt the water supply to thousands of residents. The tanker was hit by another lorry on Friday and fell on its
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          Lock icon COPTERS RESCUE LOST PRIEST
          111 8 MANILA: Philippine helicopters rescued a Roman Catholic priest and his three companions after they lost their way while climbing a mountain, the air force said yesterday. The Reverend Ernie Pesimo and his friends had been wandering in the wilderness for days, weakened by a lack of
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          Lock icon THIRD CHINESE SPACE FLIGHT IN 2008
          85 8 BEIJING: China will launch its third manned space flight in September 2008, immediately after the Beijing Olympic Games, with astronauts attempting a space walk, state press reported yesterday. "The launch of the Shenzhou VII has been set for after the Beijing Olympics in September
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          Lock icon BEIJING WONT REVISE ONE-CHILD POLICY
          129 8 BEIJING: China's male-dominated gender imbalance will not prompt the government to change its stringent family planning policy, state press reported yesterday. "The major reason for China's rising sex ratio is the entrenched concept that boys are better than girls," said Mr Zhang Weiqing, director of
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          Lock icon LAST JAPANESE STORE TO LEAVE HK
          105 8 TOKYO: The last Japanese department store in Hong Kong, owned by operator Mitsukoshi, will close in September, a newspaper said yesterday. That will spell the complete pullout of Japanese department store operators from Hong Kong, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. Mitsukoshi Hong Kong, which
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          Lock icon TB WON'T KEEP TENG-HUI FROM JAPAN
          106 8 TAIPEI: Taiwan's former president Lee Teng-hui has contracted tuberculosis, but his party said yesterday that his condition should not affect his trip to Japan. The Veterans General Hospital confirmed at the weekend that the Mr Lee, 83, had come down with the contagious disease,
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        Lock icon Jakarta fires tax, Customs chiefs
        427 9 The sacking is a move to fight corruption, which is said to be rife in the two agencies Jakarta PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration has fired the chiefs of the tax and Customs offices in a bid to root out graft and raise investor confidence.
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        Lock icon Suharto 'looks well at wedding'
        119 9 Jakarta FORMER Indonesian president Suharto, who escaped trial for corruption on health grounds, appeared healthy last Monday as he attended the wedding of one of his granddaughters. The 84-year-old former president, in a black suit and tie, arrived at the At-Tien mosque early for the
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        Lock icon ALL THEY WANT IS TO SEE BILL GATES
        84 9 Thousands of Vietnamese students climbed trees or pushed against barricades to give Microsoft founder Bill Gates a pop star's welcome in Hanoi. The world's richest man was in the country on Saturday to sign an agreement with the Ministry of Finance to
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        Lock icon Fresh blood for Hanoi's leadership
        313 9 Hanoi VIETNAM'S ruling communist party yesterday elected officials to choose new leaders to run one of the world's last communist states and also South-east Asia's fastest growing economy. Results will not be announced until tomorrow, but Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, 72, is widely expected
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon Malaysians pay tribute to 'people's man'
        668 10  -  Leslie Lau Ghafar Baba was a respected Statesman and man of the people By Malaysia Correspondent In KOALA I umpur TRUE PIONEER "Today, Umno members are mourning the passing af a great party leader who struggled for the nation and the people since the
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        Lock icon August target date for Aceh elections: Jusuf
        369 10 Jakarta INDONESIA'S vice-presi-dent has set an August target date for elections in Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province, a key part of a peace agreement reached last year to end a 29-year civil war. Mr Jusuf Kalla said he would ask the European Union to
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        Lock icon Malaysian NS trainee killed in camp brawl
        353 10 Kluang (Johor) SOME said he died because he objected to the TV channel being changed. Others said he received a fatal blow in a clash over a cigarette. Although there are conflicting accounts of what happened, what is clear is that because of
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        Lock icon Teacher 'punished students with porn'
        198 10 Kuala Lumpur THE authorities in mainly Muslim Malaysia will investigate allegations that a teacher forced a group of 13-year-old students to watch porn as punishment for not doing their homework. Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said several parents had lodged complaints after their children, who are
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Ambitious new plans for US war on terror
      606 12 Ambitious new plans for US war on terror Bigger role for military and more decisive action against attacks Washington DEFENCE Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has approved the military's most ambitious plan" yet to fight terrorism around the world and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the event of another major terrorist
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      Lock icon Expanded Special Operations Command at the helm
      149 12 THE 53,000-strong Special Operations Command (Socom) led by General Doug Brown is the lead command for the war on terrorism. Socom will direct and coordinate actions by the military's regional combatant commands. If directed, it can also carry out its own counter-terrorist operations,
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      Lock icon CIA chief all out to plug information leaks by staff
      305 12 Washington CIA officials are bracing themselves for a crackdown on leaks following the sacking of a veteran analyst for disclosing classified information. They say the dismissal of Ms Mary McCarthy last Thur- sday is only the opening salvo of a
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      Lock icon New Iraqi PM faces daunting challenges
      517 13 Jawad al-Maliki must try to mend a nation shattered by war and rivalry Baghdad FOUR months of political paralysis in Iraq ended as its newly convened Parliament chose the men to run the country's first long-term government since the fall of Saddam Hussein three
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon AL-JAZEERA AIRS OSAMA AUDIOTAPE
        58 13 DUBAI: Al-Jazeera broadcast a new audiotape from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden yesterday, the first attributed to the Western world's most wanted man in three months. In the recording, Osama speaks about the "situation in Iraq, Palestine and Sudan" and what he describes as a "crusade
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        Lock icon RUN-OFF VOTE FOR ORLEANS MAYOR
        107 13 NEW ORLEANS: Mr Ray Nagin will defend his job as New Orleans mayor against Louisiana LieutenantGovernor Mitch Landrieu in a run-off after residents and evacuees voted on Saturday in the ravaged city's first post-Katrina election. Mr Nagin, who many pundits wrote off early due to
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        Lock icon CORSICAN SEPARATISTS DESTROY VILLA
        103 13 AJACCIO, France: A dozen Corsican separatists havt blown up a vacation villa owned by a man from mam land France, the latest in a series of attacks against out siders buying property on the unruly Mediterranean island. The masked men, dressed in black overalls with some
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        Lock icon SONS ABDUCT MAN FROM HIS WEDDING
        74 13 HARARE: Three Zimbabwean men prevented their father from committing bigamy by abducting him from his own wedding. The three men, who accused their father of negleg ing their mother, brandished axes and knives at weflding guests before bundling their father into a car and
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      Lock icon Hamas-Fatah tensions flare again in Gaza
      392 13 Gaza TENSIONS between the Ha-mas-led government and the formei ruling Fatah faction flared into a shootout at the Palestinian Health Ministry yesterday, despite pledges to calm an eruption of internal fighting. At least four people were wounded after dozens of gunmen from Fatah's al-Aqsa
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      Lock icon ALL RUBBISH
      53 13 Trash filled the front of the cathedral in the German city of Cologne at the weekend, but there was nothing unsightly about it. The 1,000 life-sized sculptures, named Trash People, are the work of German artist HA Schult and have been exhibited in China, Egypt, France, Russia and
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      Lock icon 12 nails removed from man's skull
      196 13 Portland (Oregon) AN OREGON man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say. Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill,
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      Lock icon More Chinese flee Solomons amid unrest
      621 14 Canberra flying in more troops ahead of opening of new Parliament Honiara MORE Chinese nationals fled the Solomon Islands yesterday as Australia prepared to send in more troops amid rising tensions ahead of the convening of the new Parliament today. The election of Prime
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      Lock icon Row over Polish plan to change name of Auschwitz
      241 14 Row over Polish plan to change name of Auschwitz Warsaw A BIL oy Poland to change the Auschwitz death camp's official name has sparked an international row involving historians and Jewish groups over how the world should remember one of the biggest atrocities of the 20th century. The Polish Culture
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      Lock icon Bush under growing party pressure to drop Cheney
      496 14 Washington IITTLRY Republicans are pressing US President George U Bush to drop Mr Dick Cheney as vice-president. More must be done to convince Americans that the U hite House is serious about die need for a fresh start, they say. The concern
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      Lock icon Reliving a Greek myth
      166 14 Volos (Greece) SHIPBUILDERS in this Greek port are struggling with handmade tools and ancient methods to recreate the Argo, the legendary vessel of Jason and the Argonauts. Authenticity is of essence in this attempt at ancient shipbuilding. The Naudomos Institute, a group of shipbuilders and historians,
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      Lock icon Plans to 'cap' Chernobyl fallout stalled
      567 15 Twenty years after world's worst nuclear disaster, fears of radiation leak remain Chernobyl (Ukraine) PLANS to build an international engineering wonder a gigantic hangar to prevent a second disaster at Chernobyl have been stalled even as the world marks this week the 20th anniversary
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      Lock icon Animal species thrive in no-go disaster zone
      176 15 Chernobyl (Ukraine) ALL that's missing are all-terrain vehicles and souvenir stands. With lynx, wolves, eagles and wild horses, the radioactive no-go zone around Chernobyl has become a rich natural reserve in the 20 years since the accident at the nuclear power plant. With
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Harvard student earns top dollar for first novel
        199 15 WHEN Miss Kaavya Viswanathan left Britain seven years ago, she was a 12-year-old who dreamt of writing a prize-winning novel. Next week, the second-year Harvard student will return to Britain to promote How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a
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        88 15 DUTCH Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has admitted he may be "a bit boring" but added that this was not necessarily a bad thing. He rejected a suggestion to campaign in discos and nightclubs before next year's elections, the BBC said. It was
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        213 15 HONG Kong leader Donald Tsang is urging residents to take up bird watching, suggesting that it can teach patience and help people achieve peace of mind. "From watching birds, you can leam restraint, endurance and focus these are qualities a leader must
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        145 15 MR LAKSHMI Mittal, the In-dia-born, London-based industrialist, is Britain's alltime richest person, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, released yesterday. Mr Mittal, 55, has amassed a fortune of £14.88 billion (Ss42 billion), the newspaper estimated. In second place was Russian entrepreneur and Chelsea
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        337 16 WORLD WHAT IT IS MEMBERS of the World Trade Organisation are set to miss an end-of- April deadline to take a major step forward in liberalising world trade. The deadline of April 30 was part of a loose accord, when representatives of member countries came
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        143 16 SOUTH-EAST ASIA WHAT IT IS PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is slated to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan early next month when he travels to the Middle East. The eight-day trip which begins tomorrow will take him to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab
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        154 16 SOUTH-EAST ASIA WHAT IT IS MR THAKSIN Shinawatra is to make a one-week private trip to several European and Asian states to brief them on the constitutional crisis in Thailand. He plans to make short stops in Britain, France, Russia, Japan, China and the Philippines from
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        149 16 WORLD WHAT IT IS MR MOHAMED ElBaradei, head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is to file a report to the UN Security Council ahead of an April 28 deadline for Iran to halt uranium enrichment. Iran was asked last month to honour,
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      2647 17 SPEECH BY NEW CHIEF JUSTICE CHAN SEK KEONG Two tales from Washington NOTHING TO FEAR I assure the Bar that young lawyers who appear before me and my fellow judges should not feel stressed and should have no fear of being stressed. PERHAPS it should
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      1487 18  -  John R. Bradley Nuclear stand-off between Iran and international community threatens to boil over into a military showdown By Senior Writer NOBODY doubts that the United States is resolute in its determination to stop Iran from becoming nuclear-armed. To judge from the latest rhetoric emanating
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      1240 19  -  K. C. Vijayan By Crime Correspondent RECENTLY I made a long-distance call to Mr Joseph Tybor, spokesman for the Supreme Court of Illinois in the US. I wanted to ask him if a wire agency story was true: A doctor was suing a female colleague for
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      266 20 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY IView Singapore's largest visual arts exhibition showcasing graduation works by Nafa students. Nafa Campus 1, 80 Bencoolen Street. 10am-Bpm. Free. Tel: 6512-4085. 2 View Art Of Our Time, the world's largest public collection of 20th-century South-east Asian art. Singapore Art Museum, 71 Bras Basah
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      4 1 HOME THESTRAITSTIMES MONDAY APR1L24.2006
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    • ELECTION 06
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        Lock icon 'SDP defamed the whole Government'
        264 1 LEGAL ACTION AGAINST SINGAPORE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) has defamed the whole Government, but Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong decided that only he and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will take legal action against it. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong told reporters
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        Lock icon A bit too late for Chiam to offer lift upgrading: SM
        510 1  -  Audrey Tan He should have offered it a long time ago, not after Sitoh's survey By WHEN Mr Chiam See Tong starts promising lift upgrading for Potong Pasir, what does it say about politics? That, at the end of
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        109 1 CHEE, BACKERS STILL SELLING PAPER SDP supporter Yap Keng Ho, a close associate of party chief Chee Soon Juan (right), holding up a copy of party newsletter, The New Democrat, while addressing people eating at coffee shops along Woodlands Avenue 1 yesterday morning Dr Chee, who also spoke to the
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        Lock icon Ministers back move, say party had no choice
        849 2  -  Laurel Teo Salma Khalik Legal action against SDP SDP's allegations are seen as attack on PAP's integrity ti\ &5 HONEST GOVT MUST RESPOND "The PAP Government has a fundamental core value and that value is integrity, honesty. If the PAP is corrupt,
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        Lock icon SDP not saying sorry, will still contest election
        923 3 VERY FOCUSED "We know what our message is, we're very focused and we want to come and talk to Sembawang GRC voters." SDPCHIEFCHEE SOON JUAN Not saying much "I don't want to comment now. It'll be quite futile for you to wait
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        280 3  -  BEN NADARAJAN THE man who owns the firm which printed the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) newsletter may well be working in Malaysia now. Mr Sum Kwai Lum, owner of Melodies Press Company, has been served with a letter of demand for his role in
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        542 3  -  BENJAMIN NADARAJAN SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) chairman Ling How Doong appears to be in two minds on the question of an apology to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew over alleged defamatory comments published in the party's newsletter. During a
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        Lock icon Legal action against SDP
        422 3  -  Lim Wei Chean Members of the Singapore Democratic Party's central executive committee were not giving much away when asked about the letters of demand served by lawyers for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. Others were not contactable yesterday or had
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        Lock icon SM to voters: Decide who can best lead S'pore
        493 4  -  Audrey Tan Quality of leadership key to sustaining growth and eradicating poverty, he says By FRESH from a high-level meeting in Washington which probed what made a country succeed, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday summed up the critical factor as
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        Lock icon PAP aiming for 'strong mandate, not a clean sweep'
        297 4 THE People's Action Party (PAP) is aiming for a strong mandate, not a clean sweep in the upcoming elections, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. If the ruling party loses "one or two" singleseat wards but still wins a large
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        Lock icon No First World Parliament? It's PAP's fault: Opposition
        740 4  -  Ken Kwek By JUST ONE BAD APPLE "I think opposition members in Singapore are, on the whole, an honest lot. We are responsible and we care for the nation. It's not fair to condemn the whole barrel of apples just because one
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        Lock icon Three-quarter tank rule to stay, despite Malaysia's new levy
        384 4 SORRY motorists, but the three-quarter tank rule is here to stay. That is because the rule, implemented in 1991, is part of a "holistic" transport policy aimed at keeping traffic flow here smooth, said Mr Raymond Lim, Minister in the Prime
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        Lock icon PAP team out in force in Aljunied
        207 4 THE People's Action Party (PAP) team in Aljunied GRC was out in full force last night, meeting residents in Hougang Street 21. Dressed in crisp party whites and led by Foreign Minister George Yeo, the team of five toured a Family Day carnival
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        Lock icon IR issue well debated: Ministers
        131 4 THE casino issue has been thrashed out and stringent safeguards put in place to minimise any social fallout from gambling, two ministers leading the implementation of the integrated resorts said yesterday. In fact, some of the casino operators who are vying to build the Mari-
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        Lock icon Chee's style does disservice to opposition cause
        1136 5  -  Chua Lee Hoong NEWS ANALYSIS By JUST when this election seemed headed in the direction oi sugar and spice and all things nice, the lawyers showed up. Ripples are still spreading from news of the legal action taken by Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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        Lock icon Youngest new face so far: 26-year-old businesswoman
        740 5  -  Peh Shing Huei One of five WP candidates introduced yesterday, she sees her age as a non-issue By Lee Wai Leng, 26 Occupation: Businesswoman. She runs her own translation firm. Family: Husband Ong Wee Teck, 29, businessman with website maintenance and designing firm.
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        Lock icon 'Time bombs' attack on manifesto unfair, says WP
        780 5 Gopal Krishnan, 54 Occupation: Senior housing maintenance inspector with Hougang Town Council. Family: Wife Veni, 46, is a principal at a privately-run preschool for children. They have two daughters aged 25 and 15, and two sons aged 22 and 19. Home: Four-room
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        Lock icon Too quiet on the western front
        486 6  -  Leslie Koh "The opposition is apparently targeting the GRCs in the eastern and north-east sectors. We keep enticing them to come to the western front. Otherwise, it is all too quiet on the western front." MR LIM HNG KIANG, team leader in West Coast
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        Lock icon Lunch-time rallies in CBD may make return
        235 6 LUNCH-TIME rallies in the city may be allowed this year, bringing the excitement of elections back to the Central Business District (CBD). Banned in 2001 because of concerns about security after the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, they could be back on the
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        Lock icon BREADANDKAYA ISSUES
        158 6 ANDKAYA ISSUES It was not enough for Bukit Batok residents to have a simple Sunday breakfast ofkaya toast yesterday morning. No, they had to insert slice by slice 1,800 loaves into 150 toasters, slap on 500kg of kaya, slot them into plastic bags and line them up on a row
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        Lock icon Malay PAP candidates ready to take on counterparts
        337 6 MALAY People's Action Party (PAP) candidates are ready to take on the Malay candidates introduced by the opposition parties in their line-ups. Madam Halimah Yacob, who became an MP in Jurong GRC after the last General Election in 2001, said: "We have
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      • ELECTION TAKES
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          Lock icon PUSHING UPGRADING BUTTON
          201 6 MACPHERSON incumbent Matthias Yao is pushing for all remaining Housing Board precincts in his single-seat ward to be upgraded in two to three years' time. This pledge comes as the People's Action Party candidate prepares for what is shaping up to be a one-on-one contest with Singapore
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          227 6 BUKIT Panjang residents who have long lamented the loss of feeder bus services when the LRT started operating in the town in 1999 finally have something to cheer about. A new feeder service launched yesterday takes care of areas previously left out of the loop. There were
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          155 6 BY THE end of next year, pedestrians will be able to get from Alexandra Road to Telok Blangah Hill Park by a 1.68km walkway leading from the park to an 80m-long steel bridge across Alexandra Road. Besides providing a scenic vantage point, the $13 million Alexandra
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      Lock icon Home away from home — a wooded retreat for orang utans
      567 7  - Home away from home a wooded retreat for orang utans Radha Basu By ORANG UTANS are getting a taste of forest life at the Singapore Zoo in the first such facility of its kind. Rather than clamber atop artificial wooden jungle gyms in their enclosure, they are now free to
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      Lock icon Multi-level tests to boost skills of tourism workers
      407 7  -  Krist Boo New certification scheme to raise professionalism By SINGAPORE Discovery Centre senior operations supervisor Ronnie Koh has spent a decade working in the attractions business. Much of his learning has been done on the job, with many problems not solved in
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      353 7 BOOSTING STANDARDS "If you have the right skills, it will naturally lead to the right mindset. With the right mindset it will attract motivated people to the industry." MS JENNIE CHUA, president of Raff les Holdings and chairman of the Tourism Industry Skills and Training Council A
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      Lock icon Last Week @ Home
      109 7 Last Week Home THE column Last Week Home has been held over because of pressure on space the agency's invitation to attend a tourism career roadshow this week, Mr Ong said a member of the school staff wrote back saying: "I don't think my students will be in the tourism
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      Lock icon Ex-CNA reporter, 29, dies — found slumped at desk
      262 7  - Ex-CNA reporter, 29, dies found slumped at desk David Boey By FORMER Channel News Asia (CNA) journalist Derek Cher died suddenly on Saturday. His family told The Straits Times he died of heart failure. The 29-year-old investment analyst was at work when colleagues found him slumped at his desk at
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      Lock icon Teen beats up and robs 9-year-old
      361 7 Teen beats up and robs 9-year-old A NINE- YEAR-OLD pupil was beaten up and robbed in Choa Chu Kang while on his way to school on Friday. As a result, he had swollen eyes and bruised cheeks and lost his collection of Pokemon magnets. The teenage robber also forced him
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    • YOUTHink
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        Lock icon New trend: Have you skinned a blog lately?
        759 8  -  Yen Feng YOUNG AND RESTLESS Young people in Singapore are rapidly becoming 'skinners'. Not of human skin but the electronic template for their online diaries or blogs. Thousands are picking up the intricate coding language, and one 1 7-year-old, Ben Low, has
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        Lock icon Impossible to grade one against the other
        252 8  -  Farah Aziz By THE ancient feud between polytechnics and junior colleges will not end as long as our egos get the better of us. We all want to be the best, brightest and most intellectual students on the face of the earth. So
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        Lock icon Sum of intelligence more than grades in school
        276 8  -  Ooi Jian Yuan By EDUCATIONAL stratification based on grades has been reinforced by a generation of parents who, understandably, gravitate towards institutions that are perceived to offer a brighter future. I feel, however, that an elitist mentality is somewhat unfair to polytechnic
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        366 8  - GROWING PAINS Let's talk about THE POLY V JC ISSUE Berton Lim Weeks ago, a war of words broke out on the Internet. The issue: Are polytechnic students second-rate when compared with their junior college mates? Youthlnk writers respond and say why it keeps creeping up time and time again
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        Lock icon Bridge divide with project
        150 8  -  Chen Wei Li By I BELIEVE that the row erupted because JC students do not understand what students at the tertiary level do. I have a suggestion to bridge this gap: Why not let both college and tertiary students work together on a project gradable for
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        Lock icon Different skills, varied roles
        200 8  -  Marcus Chia By AS A nursing student, I have learnt that a hospital operates on a system of co-exis-tence between people having different roles. Doctors treat patients, nurses assist doctors, cleaners ensure the place is hygienic. None of the three can be done away with, and
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        150 8  -  Adeline Koh By I HATE to be blunt, but JC students are better than polytechnic students, period. Politically incorrect I may sound, but here are the facts. Entry requirements at JCs are far more stringent than those at polys. As a result, large numbers of
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        571 9 MUCH has been written in The Straits Times Forum on the domination of local politics by the People's Action Party, its method of candidate selection and MPs' path to ministership. While some criticisms are no doubt relevant, there is much to
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        406 9 GRC walkovers too many voters sidelined TRUE, under the ruling People's Action Party, postcoionial Singapore "has won many accolades in the past 40 years. It is today a pristine metropolis, with a First World economy, the world's highest per capita foreign reserves, a per capita gross domestic product higher than
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        242 9 I REFER to the letter, "Contests should be judged solely on talent" by Mr Leong Sze Hian (ST, April 13) and thank him for his feedback. SMS and telephone voting is part of an emerging global trend in pop culture embraced by broadcasters from the
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        105 9 I REFER to the letter by Dr Richard Martorano, "Why were wives not charged with abetting husband?" (ST, April 20). After completing investigations into the case, police, in consultation with the At-torney-General's Chambers, decided to prosecute the main culprit in court first, as the
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        398 9 I WAS dismayed to read the letters by Mr Choo Thim Heng, "Questions over Saudis bound for S'pore varsities" (ST, April 6) and "Why is S'pore giving scholarships to students from a wealthy country?" (ST Online Forum, April 20). It shocks me that in
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        239 9 Varsities: Talent- centred or citizen-centred? I READ a most thought-pro-voking article in The Straits Times on April 7 "How to win alumni and donors". It was a speech by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the 800th Cambridge University celebration in Hong Kong. It was about his enduring sense of
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        254 9 I APPLAUD the Ministry of Education for promoting philosophy in primary and secondary schools. In this fastchanging and competitive world, it is never too early to teach critical thinking. Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said the programme "aims to instil in students the ability
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        357 9 DURING the last direct admissions exercise for entrance to polytechnics last month, I applied to Singapore Polytechnic (SP) and Temasek Polytechnic (TP). I was a TP student before I dropped out. I admit I did so because I was not mature then and constantly skipped
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        1090 10  -  Rob Hughes »FA CUP SEMI FINAL: CHELSEA 1 LIVERPOOL 2 Chelsea pay the price for their negative tactics as Liverpool advance to the FA Cup final By Investors for Liverpool? AFTER claiming that Chelsea have bought their success, Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez could have a
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        374 10 Birmingham A SUPERB strike by Marlon Harewood in the second half gave West Ham a 1-0 win over Middlesbrough in their FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park yesterday. The England Under-21 striker sealed a tense clash and clinched West Ham's first Cup
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        627 10 SORE LOSER NO. 1: JOSE MOURINHO London BEST TEAM LOST "Did the best team win today? I don't think so. I cannot wish Liverpool luck in the final." JOSE MOURINHO, Chelsea manager NO CHANCE "Over 40 matches, no chance." MOURINHO, on
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        Lock icon Makelele mocks Fergie and calls him a loser
        277 10 London CHELSEA midfielder Claude Makelele, a normally reserved man, has launched a scathing attack on Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson. United visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday with Chelsea needing just a point to win their second successive Premiership title. To help heat
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        810 11 SORE LOSER NO. 2: ARSENE WENGER SOCCER Arsenal manager angry that Jol said he had not seen incident in which Eboue went down London WENGER'S VIEW OF THE "UNSPORTING" INCIDENT "Michael Carrick had a hesitation after the incident, to kick the ball out
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        Lock icon Injured Senderos set to miss Villarreal game
        202 11 MORE bad news for Arsenal. Defender Philippe Senderos is expected to miss tomorrow's Champions League semi-final clash with Villarreal. The Swiss picked up a knee injury during the 1-1 Premiership draw with Tottenham on Saturday. He was forced off with the problem midway
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        Lock icon Milan win to trim Juve's lead but victory comes at hefty price
        709 11 Rome AC MILAN managed to cut Juventus' lead at the top of the Italian Serie A to three points, with three games remaining, but their 3-1 win over Messina came at a heavy price. Kaka, Alessandro Nesta and
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        Lock icon Becks' not best man for England captaincy
        229 11 London FORMER England captain Bryan Robson had a damning message for David Beckham, the current skipper of the national squad. Robson, now the manager of West Bromwich Albion, believes that 30-year-old Beckham is not a natural leader and that Chelsea's John Terry or
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        520 11 LONDON Remaining fixtures BIRMINGHAM Saturday: v Newcastle (h) May 7: v Bolton (a) PORTSMOUTH Saturday: v Wigan (a) May 7: v Liverpool (h) WEST BROM May 1: v West Ham (h) May 7: v Everton (a) HARRY Redknapp took another step towards
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        228 12 Race results 1 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari lhr 31min 6.4865ec 2 Fernando Alonso (Esp) Renault +00:02.096 3 Juan Pablo Montoya (Col) McLaren 00:15.868 4 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 00:17.096 5 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) McLaren 00:17.524 6 Mark Webber (Aus) Williams 00:37.739 7 Jenson Button (Gbr) Honda
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        581 12 BASKETBALL Cleveland LEBRON James had a National Basketball Association play-off debut that was simply ''Magical". Showcasing his spectacular skills as a professional in the post-season for the first time, he recorded a tri-ple-double and brought the Cleveland Cavaliers back to the play-offs in style with a 97-86
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        653 12 MOTOR RACING German wins San Marino GP to give team first "real" win in 18 months Imola (Italy) MICHAEL Schumacher trig gered jubilant scenes at the San Marino Grand Prix yesterday by securing a first win in 13 races for Formula One's glamour team. The Ferrari
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          92 12 SAM Cassell had 19 points and seven assists, while Elton Brand had 21 points as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Denver Nuggets in Game One of their series. "This is big. This is not the Clipper teams of the past," Cassell said, after his side
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          87 12 DWYANE Wade scored 30 points, 14 in the fourth quarter, as the Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls in Game One of their Eastern Conference series. Wade added 11 assists before hobbling into the locker room with 8.6 seconds left, succumbing to a severe cramp in
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          79 12 THE Sacramento Kings were already thinking about Game Two at half-time in this humiliation their worst loss in play-off history. Tony Parker scored 25 points and Nick Van Exel added 11 in a 41-15 run in the decisive second quarter as the San Antonio Spurs got
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        412 13  -  Chan Yi Shen "SOCCER They will have their title credentials examined by SAFFC and Malaysia's Perlis By UNBEATEN in the S-League and into the last four of the Malaysian FA Cup, the Young Lions are on a roll. But coach Fandi Ahmad is a
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        135 13 Today Baiestier v Sengkang (Toa Payoh Stadium, 7.30pm) Wednesday Young Lions v SAFFC (Jalan Besar, 7.30pm) Thursday Geylang v Baiestier (Bedok, 7.30pm) Gombak v Niigata (Queenstown, 7.30pm) Friday Home v Woodlands (Jalan Besar, 7pm) Live, CNA, 7pm Sunday Sporting Afrique v Sengkang (Yishun, 7pm) P W D L F
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        466 13  - Over- eager Michelle fails to break national mark Chan Yi Shen ATHLETICS By HIGH jumper Michelle Sng won the girls' Under-20 title and set a new meet record at the National Junior Athletics Championships at the Bukit Gombak Stadium yesterday. But that was not enough to put a smile on
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        72 13 Vipers goal attack Li Ling (in yellow) prepares to receive the ball from a teammate in their Netball Super League opener against the Bangkok Arowanas. The Vipers won Saturday's match 64-25. In other matches over the weekend, the Mannas beat the Sharks 38-34, the Stingrays eked out.
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          69 13 SHANGHAI: Illegal gambling on soccer in China is a blot on Asian football and must be reined in by the government, Asian Football Confederation president Mohammed Hammam warned yesterday. He said it was imperative that Beijing intervenes. "The illegal betting and gambling in
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          94 13 SHEFFIELD: Hong Kong's Marco Fu reached the snooker world championship quarter-finals on Saturday with a 13-4 win over fourth seed Stephen Maguire but was accused of cheating. The incident happened in a frame when he fouled the blue ball with his cue but
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        471 13 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the House of the LORD forever." Psalm 23:6 DEREK CHER KENG WEE Age: 29 was called home to be with the Lord on 22 April 2006 leaving behind loved ones Grandma: Tan
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        741 14 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Managing Director Mr Donald Tay on the demise of his beloved mother MDM TAN CHIAN YING From: The Directors, Management Staff of DPEX Worldwide Express Pte Ltd LAM BAN LAI Age: 79 passed away peacefully on 23 April 2006. Dearly missed and fondly
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        511 15  -  Goh Eng Yeow TAKING STOCK Many index stocks on firm ground; China plays, penny stocks may be getting pricey By "As the June World Cup approaches, we will witness a gradual tapering off in interest in penny stocks, even as the STI
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          76 15 UOB Kay Hian feels that contract manufacturer Hi-P International is "oversold", after falling a steep 23 per cent over the week to close at $1.10 on Friday, following a revised downward guidance for the first quarter of this year. It blames component shortages for
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          91 15 DBS Vickers notes the offshore sector has stayed buoyant, with orders won by Keppel Corp and SembCorp Marine (SembMarine) so far this year already exceeding half of the value of all contracts won last year. "We would not be surprised if order wins
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          58 15 OCBC Securities Research notes that Chartered Semiconductor is getting more chip orders, including one from Microsoft for its Xbox 360 game consoles. It has raised its call on Chartered from a "hold" to a "buy", and upped its target price from $1.38 to
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        531 16 It has new framework to hold group consultations and is looking into reallocating voting rights Washington SCRAMBLING to maintain its influence in a rapidly changing world economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) won new powers over the weekend from its 184 member
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        397 16 Doha THE world's oil producers and consumers agreed yesterday that oil prices which shot past the US$75 per banrel level for the first time ever on Friday were a danger to everyone, but appeared further apart than ever in their quest to
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        281 17  - Firm to transmit digital films via S'pore By Alfred Siew TENS of thousands of Hollywood and Bollywood movies will soon be delivered digitally to Internet users around the world through a new distribution service launched in Singapore on Friday. Called NexMedia, it is run by 1-Net Singapore, which also manages
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        58 17 IFPAS" past presidents were invited to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the nutter. Ten out o£ 15 attended, and their "unanimous" decision was that the election process had been properly conducted in accordance with the constitution and that the results stood. And there are no grounds to
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        537 17  -  Loria Tan This follows controversy over the last-minute withdrawal by 9 nominees at recent AGM By Finance Correspondent A FINANCE industry body has refused to allow a re-election after a storm of controversy erupted over a recent annual general meeting (AGM) where nine
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        634 18  -  Joyce Teo No applications so far this year as office market recovery takes root By Propertx Correspondent PROPERTY hunters aspiring to live in the city can look forward to several new launches in the Central Business District (CBD) this year. But
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        299 18 A CERTIFICATION programme ['or credit managers has been launched in Singapore, following the lead of countries such as the United States, where such schemes are widely available. The programme consists of training courses on credit management theory as well as hands-on practice, all aimed
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          62 18 AMY LEUNG: Appointed managing director of human resources for the South Pacific region at transportation company FedEx Express. Ms Leung, who was previously senior manager of human resources for China, will now be based in Singapore. She will be responsible for the development of
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          53 18 JEFFREY STASZAK: Reappointed independent director to the board of semiconductor manufacturing services provider Ellipsiz with effect from last Monday. Mr Staszak, 53, previously served as an independent director from March 23, 2001 to November 26, 2003. He is currently the president and chief executive of Nasdaq-listed
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          49 18 NG LAI WAH: Appointed chief operating officer (COO) of oil and gas firm Federal International (2000). Mr Ng, 55, will assist in driving and expanding the company's Asia-Pacific business and managing its daily operations. Previously, he was general manager of Indonesia's Technics Offshore Jaya.
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          42 18 THARMARATNAM SUTHARSHAN: Appointed chief financial officer and company secretary of commodities trading company Abterra. Mr Sutharshan, 42, was previously a consultant at Dragon International Property and, before that, regional financial controller for the Asia-Pacific at APV Asia.
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        1858 19 DBS Group Holdings chairman Koh Boon Hwee shares his views with Ignatius Low and Azrin Asmani from The Straits Times Money Desk on the bank's future strategies LOCAL CONSOLIDATION "Is it something that you should...worry about as opposed to the fact that
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        674 20  -  Christopher Tan Regulator says it is still studying feasibility of sale; top contender is e-payment firm QB By Senior Correspondent Moving along NON-TRANSIT applications employing ez-link cards could bring in billions in fresh revenue. For example, card usage is expected to
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        338 20 POSSIBLE FALLOUT FROM DEAL STANDARD Poor's (S&P) has placed PSA Corp's triple-A credit rating on a watch list of possible negative fallouts after its parent company, PSA International, announced that it will buy a one-fifth stake in a global network of ports
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      205 8 HIP AND HAPPENING Place: Daybed Bar Crowd: Central district workers Where it's at: 15 Mohamed Sultan Road Word on the street: Coffee bar by day and chill-out joint by night. The recently opened Daybed Bar is open 24 hours dishing out espressos, eggs and toast for the hungry office-goers in
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      305 13 TV Times SOCCER: English Premiership: Fulham v Wigan (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 2.55am) Event SOCCER: S-league: Balestier v Sengkang (7.30pm, Toa Payoh) Results BASEBALL National League: Milwaukee 11 Cincinnati 0, St Louis 4 Chicago Cubs 1, Houston 3 Pittsburgh 0, San Francisco 6 Colorado 4, NY Mets 8 San Diego 1,
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      37 14 Memory wanders as shadows fall baclc to the datjs of happiness, Days beyond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so Aear, so sweet, f her lips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep.
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      32 1 life! THE STRAITS TIMES Monday April 24 2006 mondaypeople tuesday tra ve I wednesd ay mid-life m o vies thursday books a rts fridaymusic Saturday motoring +tv home entertainment Sunday lifesty le
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      19 1 My body is mine Actress Fann Wong on not having to tell boyfriend Christopher Lee about shooting intimate scenes
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        465 2  -  Lee Sze Yong Michelle Chong teams up with newcomer William fsang in a hew travelogue to sample the sights, ids and food of South Korea j. FrTEP REMEMBER VlediaCorp artiste Michelle Cheng's hilarious spoof of a Japanese geisha to promote the movie Memoirs Of The Geisha a
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        201 2 NEW YORK Tom Cruise has not toned down his enthusiasm at all now that fiancee Katie Holmes has given birth to their daughter. The actor, 43, who once hopped up and down on a couch to profess his love for her, called the baby "beautiful" and said
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        291 2 LONDON British pop star George Michael has re-ignited his feud with Elton John, saying recent harsh media treatment of his personal life started when John made adverse comments about his state of mind. Britain's Daily Mirror printed the headline: "Drugs Could Kill George Michael" after he was
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        145 2 WASHINGTON Actor Charlie Sheen on Saturday denied charges from his estranged wife, actress Denise Richards (right), that he had been abusive towards her and their daughters, and had threatened to kill her. "I maintain my integrity... and focus on my children," he said in an interview
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        121 2 MAPUTO Leonardo DiCaprio (above) was flown from location in Mozambique to neighbouring South Africa for medical treatment. A Johannesburg newspaper said he had been injured while filming his latest movie The Blood Diamond. An official at the Nelspruit Med-Clinic hospital said DiCaprio. 31. had X-rays. He
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        974 3 Lights, camera, action at home Hong Kong stars are infuriated as the paparazzi train teiephoto lenses on their privacy at home ACTORS and their girlfriends caught unawares in compromising positions; artistes spotted at their most untelegenic in their om abodes. Whatever has happened to the paparazzo's good of practice of
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        2099 4  -  Tan Dawn Wei Bad-boy film-maker Royston Tan may be brilliant behind the camera, but he has a problem with words mondayinterview 'My calling is to speak up for all these people: Ah Lian, Ah Beng, Ah Seng, Ah Huay' Tm a 100 per cent slacker. I can
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        570 5 Huang Shu-jun and Kelvin Tan prove you don't need flashy stage gimmicks to hold your audience in thrall CONCERTS HUANG SHU-JUN SING-AND-TELL CONCERT 2006/Huang Shu-jun NTUC Auditorium/Last Friday WEI LIAN DEBUT CONCERT 2006/Kelvin Tan Max Pavilion Singapore Expo/Last Saturday Lee Sze Yong
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        70 6 Tm 54 years old and feel every minute of it. But I'm stiil smoking and my attention span's still real short, so I guess not much has changed' Singer John Mellencamp (above) 1 was always the new kid with the wrong shoes, the wrong accent 5 Actor Tom Cruise
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        913 6  -  Teo Cheng Wee I don't understand why wanting a girl who can make me laugh is such a, urn, funny thing straight talk PSSST... want to hear a joke? Once there was a guy who mentioned in a newspaper column that he was looking for a girl
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      14 1 .-V THE STRAITS TIMES IN MONDAY JW04/01 FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THINKING IS IN
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      331 2 NONE OF THE THREE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS WHO TOOK PART IN THE MISS SINGAPORE UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT ON APRIL 9 FIGURED AMONG THE WINNERS. BUT DOES THAT REALLY MATTER? SHOULD THE GIRLS BE GRADED ON BEAUTY ALONE, AND FORGET ABOUT BRAINS? HERE IS WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY. "Girls don't
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        563 2 HAVE YOUR SAY WRITE IN Last week, The Straits j Times reported how a second-year junior college student, just 1 8, had committed suicide. He jumped from a HDB flat in Bedok, convinced that his penis was too small, even though his doctor and family had told him otherwise. State
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        178 3 THE DEPRESSANTS These drugs reduce the activity of the central nervous system. They will cause your heartbeat to slow down, blood pressure to decrease and make your body more relaxed. Some examples of depressants are heroin, alcohol and solvents such as glue. THE STIMULANTS Stimulants are the opposite of depressants.
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        51 3 DON'T DO DRUGS ft NCI MODEL BEHAVIOUR Australian model Michelle Leslie, 25, won international recognition fora non-catwalk event: being caught for possessing drugs in Bali. Last August, she was arrested by police in Kuta, Bali, with two Ecstasy tablets. A court sentenced her to three months in prison. (ST, April
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        53 3 Vl i Tr YOU'LL KEEP ON TAKING IT AND THIS WILL I HOLD IT! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! EVENTUAOY LEAD TO ADDICTION. J ;p DONT BE SUCH A PARTY 900?^. I'M JUST TRYING I HEY! AT LEAST I HAVE AN ANTIDOTE, OKAY? DRUGS OUT OF CURIOSITY, I WON'T GET HOOKED!
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      332 4 Straits Times journalist Wong Kim Hoh is among the National Library Board's ambassadors for its "Celebrating Libraries" campaign. He talks about his love affair with reading and recommends the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Not even a lack of light could keep the young Wong Kim Hoh
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        84 4 YOUR BOURHOOD TOP PUYERS ADDICTED TO BETTING Reports that England's striker Wayne Rooney has a massive gambling debt is only the tip of the iceberg. The Sunday Mirror claims that 60 Premiership players are addicted to gambling. And eight of them are being treated for their fixation. Rooney made headlines
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        161 6 TALES FROM NEAR AND FAR A TEENAGE MAIDS iN THEIR OWN LAND The Philippines is known as a supplier of foreign domestic help in this part of the world. What is less well known is the existence of a thriving market for teenage maids within the country itself. The irony
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        357 7 THESE DESIGNERS OF WEBLOG TEMPLATES OR "BLOG SKINNERS" AS THEY CALL THEMSELVES HAVE SUBMITTED, FOR FREE, ALMOST 200 DIFFERENT SKINS (TEMPLATES) AMONG THEM. BEFORE YOU FLIP OVER TO THE NEXT PAGE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN, HERE IS A LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR DESIGNS
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        174 7 <18LQGI I r £Hi'i" r LE'$ <«mmM», «j«n. trm,imsj^ PROP \W 1 h IS "THE*. 1 A Name of design: Return to Innocence Its designer, Benjamin Low Kai Wen, 1 7, first-year Singapore Poly student, says: "Other skinners always say my skins are too dark, too depressing, so I thought:
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        60 8 DON'T. COM. IN Anti-socia-lising sites are popping up. These sites set themselves out to be a counterfoil against the "pretentious" nature of networking platforms. Sites like Isolatr (www.isola tr.com) and, more recently, Snubster (www. snub ster.com), focus on shared hatreds and pet peeves among Netizens, and offer users avenues to
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        246 8 The other is a forum site that lets members discuss new ideas and chat about what is going on in their lives. The founder of both sites is 17-year-old Ben Low Kai Wen, a first-year student at Singapore Polytechnic who has designed over 1 00 skins in the past year.
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        228 8 A good blog skin is not just about eye-grabbing images, or fancy colours, says Anne Xue Pei Yin, 1 4, a Sec 2 student from CHIJ Toa Payoh. 'What makes a blog stand out is not only its content or images, but how information is organised and displayed through blog
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        317 9 SOURCES: SCREEN SHOTS PROVIDED BY BEN LOW PHOTOS: LAU FOOK KONG AND WANG HUI FEN HOW TO SKIN A BLOG A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO DESIGN YOUR OWN BLOG SKIN. Thtnk of a theme. Think about colours, I" pictures, how you want the general feeling, Jj or Mof the
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        87 9 THE BIG STORY THIS WEEK WEBSITES WITH POLITICAL CONTENT CAN REST EASY Individuals and groups with websites that dabble in political content and fearful that they will be hit by election rules can t 1 rest easy for now. They do not need to register their sites with the authorities.
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        493 10 TU |CIA/CCI/%A# CT/%/\kil I M/\III layout: taychernhui afi^T-Tur I nijTYttIvVYCAiUUrIUNJUri... text; andrew puffy IgJJßll^^^^^^^^^^Bgg Some said the manifesto was boring. But that is a good thing, 1 said Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan. It means Singapore is J peaceful and prosperous. "It's back to the same old message: J lL
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        46 11 RACK YOUR BRAINS i i i O YOUNG SWANS Then there are the entrepre-neur-social- ites and r young "swans": Welleducated, often from good or prominent families, they have A successful careers. Cool to boot and the new order in the socialite empire. (ST, Aprii 16) i
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      983 12 WRITTEN BY RAFE MARTIN A BREAKFAST SERIALS STORY CHAPTER EIGHT: GOOD SIGNS AND BAD "RAIN? RAINERA?" WHISPERED A TENTATIVE VOICE. "WHAT?" RAINERA ANSWERED. "EAGLE MOTHER, IS THAT YOU?" NOTE: STORY CONTAINS AMERICAN USAGE AND SPELLING "Eagle Mother? Rain, it's me! Dalton! What are you talking about? And
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      814 11 THE SUNDAY TIMES, APRIL 1 6 TEXT: ANDREW DUFFY A socialite is different from a celebrity. The latter are usually famous for doing something (like Stefanie Sun), while the former is famous for being something (Paris Hilton). When an A-list celebrity needs a
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        93 12 £vty ETIQUETTE BOOK FOR •UGLY AMERICANS' Loud Americans Oare being given tips on how to W behave A overseas. These tips include speaking quietly, avoiding all forms of boasting and T "thinking a little locally". The US State Department wants to give these Americans an image makeover by issuing tips
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        14 13 Text copyright 2005 by Rafe Martin Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc. www.breakfastserials.com
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        236 13 STORY NOW TRY THIS! H EE S K OTASQAPJ ELHI WRRTUSSKSMU EEEDITJLPES AAVEZDAWFAK MCEGZEWVTRI AHAR I FEAGLL RE LUCTANTLY WRMSAAB I PSW OODI LEASKTE CUSTLWTHTEA TSABYREERAD ATME SAWDER I j Use the clues below to find the W words in the puzzle above. ft (Hint: All the words can be
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      769 14  -  FOONG WOEI WAN BY THE STRAITS TIMES, APRIL 7 It was a casual comment that sparked a passionate discussion among Chinese Singaporeans. After a tour of China in September last year, Li Ao, the famously outspoken Taiwanese politician and author, said at a press conference
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      803 15  -  MARDIANA ABU BAKAR By A) DEFINING AND DENYING STEREOTYPES This article gives us an idea as to how stereotypes are circulated by public personalities. In this case, the person painting this biased image of Singaporeans is a 70-year-old Taiwanese politician, author and television personality. He made a "casual
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        237 16 GREEN MOVE 6) Singapore has signed an important global pact promising to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, such as those released by cars, which trap heat and lead to global warming and climate change. What is the pact called? GETTING READY FOR A BIG BANG 7) Indonesia is preparing for
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