The Straits Times, 6 August 2006

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  • 22 1 the sunday times AUGUST 6 2006 84 pages m three parts MICA (P) 220/03/2006 •9 A Singapore Press Holdings publication OvJ Irnts
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  • 488 1 TOP OF THE NEWS PARIS Beirut the ghost city SEEPAGE 12 Jihadis 'ready to fight Israel' SEE PAGE 13 FRANCE and the United States have agreed on a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel
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    • 256 2 INDEX mainsection news 3-19 invest 20-25 think 28-31 sweat 32-36 gizmos 38 click 39 stomp 40 geny 41 talk 42 lifestyle iot L2-L9 pulse LlO go Lll reflect Ll2 read L22-L23 taste L24-L2B movies L2O-L2l tv listings... Ll4-Ll5 comics Ll6-LlB horoscopes LI 9 CALL STOMP 1800-777-55-57 ST WEBSITE Phone 6319-5095
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    • 737 2 BBHHHHRfSffil Chilli crab queues Soccer's pitched battle A dad'S 4f\ lifestyle home Hundreds of Britons queue to taste Sir Trevor Brooking is tasked with |r_w_i ;f ftk m_^_m__ «p r one of Singapore's favourite dishes raising England's game, but is he I0V6 UrS T3C6 TOUgh tlfTieS in the inaugural Tiger
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    • 1007 3  -  Melissa Sim The Sunday Times blind test Contrary to popular belief, four out of five volunteers m a taste test find carrot cake fried m vegetable oil is tastier Mr Aylwin Chee, 25, works for an investment bank First choice, regular vegetable oil; second, lard; third,
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    • 1028 4  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi GPs blame rise m number of clinics and competition from the polyclinics It's a consumer's world now and no one owes these doctors a living. They may have studied for many years but that doesn't automatically guarantee an easy life or a
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      690 6  -  Sarah Ng Two partners behind a gourmet burger joint have filed suits against the parent company and a shareholder BARELY tour mouths after its signature $101 wagyu foie gr;us-truf fie burger made its debut, the partners of I berbwrger are cinbroiled m a legal battle. I'berburger. which opened
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    • 468 6  -  Chong Chee Kin 'He said he did not take drugs. He told me someone could have spiked his food or drinks and he had no idea what happened.' WIFE OF PART-TIME ACTOR ZHONG YAONAN (left) 'He's a very professional compere. He's very
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    • 98 6 Body found in Boon Lay Way THE body of a man, believed to be an Indian national, was found m Boon Lay Way m the early hours of yesterday moming. The police were alerted shortly after 3ain yesterday and arrived at the scene to find the man lying by the
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    • 1536 8  - WAN SOON How it all came tunbling down for big-time construction firm Teh Joo Lin Tracy Sua Ben Nadarajan At its peak, Wan Soon had a $238 m turnover but is now so broke, even its founder has lost his home Good times then Mr Alan Koh Koo Yong (below)
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    • 594 9  -  Jermyn Chow Jessica Lim The Straits Times starts its countdown to National Day today. Over the next three days, meet some of the people who will play key supporting roles to make the parade a success on Aug 9 IN HIS 17
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    • 110 9 LAU FOOK KONG PHOTO IT WAS A LOUD, DYNAMIC AND PASSIONATE DISPLAY when the Singapore Fireworks Festival 2006 opened with a bang at the Marina Bay yesterday. Trie theme of the show put up by Team Italy, led by choreographer Francesco Ambrico, was Dynamic City. President
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  • N-DAY DINNERS
    • 579 10 Global competition and sharply declining birth rate mean doors must stay open to migrants Peh Shing Huei 'We should encourage those who can contribute to settle down here. This is the way to enlarge the economic pie. There will then be more for
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    • 526 10 LABOUR chief Lim Boon Heng wants more employers to give older workers a chance m the workplace, arguing that older workers can be as fit and able as younger ones. In the last few years, more Singaporeans above the age
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    • 493 11  - NTU's new school to be named after Rajaratnam Liaw Wy-Cin Security think-tank a lifting tribute' to first foreign minister: Jaya THE Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will have a new school named after one of Singapore's founding fathers, Mr S. Rajaratnam, as a tribute to him. The move will see the
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    • 234 11 N. Korea turns to small bank in S'pore after US freezes funds SEOUL NORTH Korea has turned to a bank m Singapore for financial transactions after its money m Macau was frozen by United States sanctions, South Korea's Donga Ilbo newspaper reported yesterday, citing a source m Washington. Washington threatened
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    • 121 11 77;e following are extracts of article by courtesy of SPH The Sunday Times, 12 Mar 2006 When it comes to ensuring her eifcht-year-old daughter Hui Ling does not become short-sighted, Mrs l.ynn Kliu is one far-sighted mother. The housewife bought an Eyeßelax device last
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    • 682 12  - BOMB-BATTERED BEIRUT Paul Cochrane BEIRUT Few people are left m the once-bustling southern suburbs, where strangers risk being taken for Israeli spies TIIR usually teeming streets of Beirut's southern suburbs are deserted Block after residential block, metal shutters have been pulled down on shopfronts. Only few cars could be seen.
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    • 177 12 MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has rejected an Israeli call for a dialogue aimed at resolving the Middle East crisis, a report said yesterday. "Our refusal to enter into dialogue (with Israel) has nothing to do with race or religion," Datuk Seri Syed
      AFP; Bernama  -  177 words
    • 510 12 HIZBOLLAH'S sophisticated antitank missiles are perhaps the group's deadliest weapon m Lebanon fighting, able to pierce Israel's most advanced tanks. Experts say this shows Israel is facing a well-equipped army m this war, not a ragtag militia. Hizbollah has fired Russianmade Metis-M anti-tank missiles
      AP; AFP  -  510 words
    • 532 13  -  Salim Osman INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA 160 Indonesians all set for bombing missions abroad, but police doubt they are going anywhere It's all to show that our fighters are ready to fight the Israelis, after being trained m martial arts skills that also incorporate magic and
      AFP  -  532 words
    • 226 13 Thousands rally in London to demand ceasefire ACTIVISTS, claiming a ground swell of anti-war sentiment not seen since the US-led invasion of Iraq, staged a mass protest yesterday against the conflict m Lebanon and demanded a ceasefire. The rally, organised by the Stop The War Coalition, started at midday at
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    • 464 14  -  Roger Mitton VIETNAM CORRESPONDENT HANOI US delay m passing trade Bill dents Vietnam's hope of WTO entry by the time it hosts November summit VIETNAM'S big bash, a November summit of world leaders m Hanoi, is under threat. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
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    • 187 14  -  Roger Mitton ALTHOUGH Hanoi's major worry is that it may not get into the World Trade Organisation m time for the Apec summit, there are other concerns. The November bash will be the biggest that Vietnam has ever hosted. It is estimated that 10,000 rooms
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    • 186 14  -  JOHOR BARU A WEBSITE set up to discuss the creature known as Bigfoot, which has allegedly been spotted m Johor's rainforest, was shut down following a row over photographs posted on it The development came about on Friday after www.jo- horhominid.org posted
      The Star; Asia News Network  -  186 words
    • 155 14 A MEDIUM-SPEED magnetic levitation (Maglev) monorail system will be introduced m Johor Bam soon. Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said the project, based on a Chinese monorail design, will cover Tebrau ity. Johor Baru Central, Lido Beach and Danga Bay. A team
      The Star; Asia News Network  -  155 words
    • 135 14 Malaysian police mounting a massive mop-up operation for drug suspects on Pulau Gaya a stilt-house settlement of fishermen and low-income earners off Kota Kinabalu's coast following a clash that left three marine policemen critically injured. A suspected drug pusher m his 30s was
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    • 401 16  -  Alastair Mclndoe PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA THE Philippine military is once again m hot pursuit of the country's most-wanted Muslim terrorists, who are believed to have links with Al-Qaeda. Operation Ultimatum was launched six days ago after Khadaffy Janjalani, commander of the Abu
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    • 141 16 MALAYSIA'S Transport Ministry has set up a committee to study the opening of the Kuala Lum-pur-Singapore air route to budm>t airlines of the two countries. Minister Chan Kong Choy said the committee was set up last week under Secretary-Gen-eral
      Bernama  -  141 words
    • 429 16  - Abdullah and Khairy take on Mahathir Reme Ahmad MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian PM and son-in-law no longer willing to turn the other cheek THE gloves have come off. Both Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and his son-in-law yesterday defended themselves against allegations by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad m what
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    • 343 16 PHOTO: THE grapevine has it that popular Malay actress Maya Karin is married to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's son-in-law but she vehemently denied it and said she was surprised that such stories gained currency. Ms Maya said she is busy with her latest movie
      Bernama; THE STAR; ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  343 words
    • 307 16 COLOMBO TAMIL Tiger rebels massacred at least 100 refugees m north-east-ern Sri Lanka, raising to 426 the death toll after 1 1 days of violence, the Defence Ministry said yesterday. It said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam blocked civilians, mainly Muslims, from fleeing the
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    • 113 17 IN A SMALL FISHING VILLAGE m southern China, 99-year-old Huang Anpu does her share of everyday chores around the house. Madam Huang is one of many healthy elderly folks living m Jintu Village m southern China's Guangdong province. About 1 50 residents m the village, which has
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    • 208 17 BANGKOK A 27-YEAR-OLD Thai man has died of bird flu. He is the country's second victim this year. A 17-year-old Thai died late last month following an eight-month lull. The man died on Thursday m the northern province of Uthai Thani
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    • 463 17 ASO'S TOKYO He wants the shrine under state control and war criminals taken off list of those honoured JAPAN'S Foreign Minister Taro Aso plans to ask a war shrine to surrender its religious status so that the government can end the deification of war criminals there and resolve
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      • 117 18 T< )KYO Japan plans to lodge a protest with Beijing after China's largest offshore oil development company said it has entered full production at a disputed undersea oilfield m (tie East China Sea, a major newspaper reported yesterday. .Japanese officials are currently verifying
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      • 98 18 SHANGHAI A second Chinese local government has launched a controversial mass cull of dogs to curb a rabies outbreak. )fficials m Jining city m eastern Shandong province plan to kill all dogs within skm of areas where rabies has been found, the official Xinhua
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      • 81 18 TEHERAN Iran's hardline government banned a rights group led by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi yesterday, eoitu idtntally the 100 th anniversary of the event that led to the country's first elected Parliament. The Iranian Interior Ministry said it had banned the Centre for Protecting
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      • 108 18 NEW DELHI India has expelled a Pakistani diplomat hours after one of its own officials based m Islamabad was asked to leave the country for involvement m spying activities, a Foreign Ministry official said yesterday. "Yes, we are also sending one diplomat hack," the official said.
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    • 631 18  - Chilli crabs pull in the crowd in London Neo Hui Min STRAITSTIMES EUROPE BUREAU LONDON Dish sold out fast as Britons queue to get a taste of Singaporean food at festival THE portions of chilli crabs were meant to last from noon to 6pm, but within two hours, all that
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    • 105 18 PHOTO A floating bed may be the next must-have lifestyle toy, if Dutch architect Janjaap Rui jssenaars has his way. In his design, the bed hovers above the ground, supported by magnets m the bed and the floor, and held m place by thin
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    • 332 18 BANGKOK THAILAND'S caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra promised yesterday to add more air-conditioned buses m Bangkok and extend the capital's elevated train network to outlying areas as he gears up for a tough election campaign later this year. Mr Thaksin, who has won two
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    • 320 18 SHANGHAI TYPHOON Prapiroon killed at least 48 people and left 15 others missing m southern China, state media reported yesterday, as flash floods and torrential rain hit the region. Prapiroon weakened as it moved inland from Guangdong province where it made
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    • 489 19  - N ow showing on Indian TV P. Jayaram INDIACORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Corrupt surgeons and sex abuse on TV news as channels try to outdo one another ARMED with hidden cameras and concealed microphones, India's proliferating news television channels are on a prowl to unearth endemic corruption m society. Doctors willing
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    • 147 19 WASHINGTON NEW findings from an Ohio State University team of astronomers are raising the possibility that the universe is larger than previously thought. Using new measurement methods, the team found that the Triangulum Galaxy is three million light years away, not
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    • 1464 20  - Son who got only $1 when millionair father die Leong Chan Teik Here's how you can make your will water-tight and avoid ugly disputes among family members BUSINESSMAN Victor Lee had expected to one day inherit his father's share of a plot of prime land off Newton Road. This eventual
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    • 174 20 IF YOU do not make a will, the law will decide who receives your assets. The Intestate Succession Act says your spouse gets everything if you do not have any children and your parents have died. If you do not have any children but one or both
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      • 329 20  -  John Neff Retired fund manager MY INCLINATION to buy out-of-favour stocks comes naturally, but that by itself does not account for beating the market. Success also requires lots of perseverance. You have to be willing to hang m there when prevailing wisdom says you
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      • 350 20 NEW YORK WALL Street's major indexes were little changed over the past week as investors steeled themselves for a Federal Reserve policy meeting this week. Market opinion is unusually divided on whether the US central bank will continue to raise interest rates
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    • 482 22 PROPERTY Property prices relatively low but rents are good due to proximity to downtown area GEYLANG may not be the first place that comes to mind for home buyers looking to settle down m a quiet area. But its infamous reputation has ironically helped
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    • 325 22 MY SPACE "THE apartments m this area have a circular design. So, we brought the same theme into our living room by building a circular platform. My husband and I also felt that a typical L-shaped sofa would have been too common.
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    • 1102 24  - Retiree reaps rewards early planning and lifetime of saving's Leong Chan Teik ME MY MONEY Former banker, 64, can afford $1 Ok holidays, with planning which began m her late 40s AT 64, Ms Yong Siow Ying can now sit back and reap the rewards of the savings and investments
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    • 543 25  - How to get back salary owed to me since 2003? Doris Chia YOUR PERSONAL ADVISER Partner Harry Elias Partnership Q WORKED with Company A for two years and was then employed by Company B. The major sh a reholder-cum -director oj Company A is also a sha reholder-cu m-di rector
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    • 614 26 The biggest event ever The IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings will draw on efforts from the Government, the private sector and individual Singaporeans. Lynn Seah reports MORE than 16,000 visitors will descend on Singapore next month for the 2006 Annual Meetings of the boards of governors of the International Monetary Fund
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    • 413 26 THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank were both conceived m 1944 at an international conference held m Bretton Woods, m the state of New Hampshire m the United States. That is why they are sometimes referred to as the
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    • 652 27  -  AHMAD OSMAN By The IMF-World Bank meetings will bring m millions of dollars for the country, besides creating other indirect benefits Meetings past The last time the IMF-World Bank annual meetings were held m Asia, it was m 1997 and the region had just been jolted
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      • 71 28 Fidel Castro Cuban President THE communist leader handed power over to his brother Raul temporarily on Monday after undergoing surgery to stem intestinal bleeding. This is the first time m 47 years that he has ceded power. Mr Castro acknowledged the operation was serious but reassured Cubans that his health
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      • 56 28 Mel Gibson Hollywood star THE actor and director of the movie The Passion Of The Christ made anti-Semitic remarks during a drink-driving arrest m Malibu. He asked the officer making the arrest if he was a Jew and blamed Jews for being responsible for all the wars m the world.
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      • 68 28 Ross Tay Taekwondo instructor MRTAY,31,died on Monday of complications from lap-band surgery meant to restrict his stomach size. It was his second go at the procedure after the first one in March failed. The newlywed, who weighed 176kg, had wanted to lose weight for his wife and to be healthy.
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      • 168 28 Justice Woo Bid Li High Court judge IN A move lauded by lawyers, Justice Woo disqualified himself from a case involving Singapore Democratic Party leader Chee Soon Juan and his sister Chee Siok Chin. Justice Woo said he did so to avoid giving any impression that he may be biased
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      • 113 28 Mavis Hee Singer THE 32-year-old, once dubbed Singapore's Faye Wong, is recovering at home after being discharged from the Institute of Mental Health. She is on medication and will have to go to the hospital for follow-up consultations, her 69-year-old father said. Ms Hee grabbed headlines here and m China,
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    • 2621 28  - What it we re understood only in S' pore, Malaysia and Batam? Felix Soh Speaking good English is necessary if we are to be understood and not lose out, says Minister of State for Education Lvi Tuck Yew On the value of literature 'We all hated to be Shylock. But
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    • 907 29  -  Janadas Devan ON WORDS WANT to read Tom Friedman's The World Is Flat, but too pressed for time to do so? How about a dozen or so of the best business books, the kind that promise to transform you into a Bill Gates
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    • 398 29 What books catch the fancy of the man who's behind the review of the teaching of the English language m Singapore? He tells The Sunday Times what are some of the books and authors that engage him and bring him pleasure. Our Iceberg Is Melting
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    • 329 30 THE latest survey, from 2004, on Singaporeans' eating habits shows that far more people are consuming a healthy portion of fruit and vegetable. Unfortunately, more are also overeating and overloading on fat. Because half the population apparently eat out at hawker centres at least six times
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    • 1120 30 Onward, upward, forward. why Vietnam is on a roll Roger Mitton was The Straits Times' Washington bureau chief before he was reassigned to Vietnam to open the newspaper's newest bureau. He anticipated a hardship posting, switching from a First World nation to the Third. Boy, was he wrong! Newcomer Mitton's
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    • 1497 31  - 'No-TV man' too busy with his one passion Lorna Tan THE LUNCH INTERVIEW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT Stanley Jeremiah has only one mistress insurance. He eats, sleeps and dreams insurance. The 46-year-old got rid of his two TV sets a few years ago because he has better things to do What' s
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    • 651 32  - For the sake of the young, root out drugs Tay Cheng Khoon THE SPORTS EDITOR A LAW which cannot be enforced is a bad law. Not many people believe that the relevant authorities have the necessary financial, moral and punitive powers to sniff out all drug cheats from sports. Each
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    • 1097 32 PHOTO: Landis likely to be stripped of Tour de France title after his back-up urine sample tests positive PARIS Fan offers Landis US$lOO,OOO to 'clear the air' AMERICAN Floyd Landis is set to be the first Tour de France champion to lose his title. The 30-year-old,
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    • 294 32 SAN FRANCISCO AN ILLINOIS chemist, responsible for a steroid m the heart of one of the largest doping scandals m sport, has been sentenced to three months m prison. United States' federal judge Susan Illston accepted a plea deal agreement of three months' prison
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        376 33 Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan to Chelsea, £30.8 million) The Ukrainian forward netted 127 goals m 207 appearances for AC Milan. He also won the Champions League, Italian Cup and Serie A m six seasons with the Rossoneri. Despite his lack of pace and height, Shevchenko's keen eye for goal
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        362 33 John Obi Mikel (Chelsea, 19) The midfielder gained global recognition last year, when he starred at the Fifa World Youth Championship, where Nigeria were beaten 1-2 m the final by Argentina. After a protracted transfer saga involving Chelsea, Manchester United and his club Lyn Oslo, Mikel finally moved to
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      • 368 33 Chelsea implosion? Didier Drogba, Heman Crespo, Joe Cole and Arjen Robben are among those who have publicly expressed unhappiness at Mourinho's rotation policy m the past year. How many other superstars are quietly boiling inside? With Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack being the new big arrivals over the
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        395 33 He has a fuse as short as his frame. Reputed to be able to start a fight m an empty dressing-room, the striker famously accused then-New-castle manager Graeme Souness of being a liar two seasons ago. Souness had claimed Bellamy, frustrated at being the thirdchoice striker behind Alan Shearer
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      • 380 33 Chris Coleman (Fulham) Coleman has been at the helm since April 2003. Since then, the Cottagers finished ninth m 2004, 13th m 2005 and 12th last season. His problems have already started star midfielder Steed Malbranque is itching for a transfer, while defender Simon Elliot could miss the
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    • 1148 34  -  Rob Hughes HEART OF FOOTBALL The bosses seem more focused on clubs' interests than developing national talents IT SAYS much about the turmoil m English football that on Friday Wayne Rooney and Paul Scholes got themselves sent off m a friendly against Porto m Amsterdam.
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    • 293 34 MAINZ (Germany) ENGLAND striker Wayne Rooney could miss the first three games of the English Premier League season, after receiving a red card m Manchester United's 3-1 win over FC Porto on Friday. He will face the ban, should referee Ruud Boosen include the incident
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    • 405 35 ENGLAND LYTHAM ST ANNE'S, AMERICAN Juli Inkster remained m control at the women's British Open on Friday, as teen prodigy Michelle Wie suffered a two-shot penalty for a bunker error. Inkster carded an even-par 72 to move to six-un-der 138 at the halfway
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    • 587 35 Stray 16th tee shot from World No 1 gives Quigley lead TIGER Woods had 11 hours to think about a tee shot. It might have been too much time. Woods resumed the rain-de-layed second round of the Buick Open yesterday at the par-five 16th
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    • 317 35 SYDNEY FROM Thorpedo to Porkpedo, the headline read. A Sydney newspaper on Friday published a front-page photograph of five-time Olympic champion lan Thorpe slurping on a soft drink, under the headline "The good life catches up with Thorpedo". The story claimed the swimmer is busy
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    • 304 35 Text and pictures by Lim Sin Thai Ann Moey, 22 Singapore Sports School manager Height: 1.69 m Weight: 52kg Exercise regimen: I like to play different sports. I played competitive tennis and was a national age-group netball player.
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    • 442 36  - S'pore shuttlers in all five NZ Open finals Alvin Foo A first for the Republic since the Grand Prix circuit started m 1980s THERE was a time when Singapore were minnows on badminton's professional Grand Prix circuit. But today, their shuttlers will feature m all five finals at the two-star,
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      • 75 36 MCLAREN'S Kimi Raikkonen snatched pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday, as title contenders Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher were pushed out of the top 10. Brazilian Felipe Massa was second, while Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was third for Honda. Ferrari's seven-time champion Schumacher will start 1
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      • 53 36 AUSTRALIA denied South Africa a dramatic comeback with a late converted Mat Rogers try, winning 20-18 m their Tri-Nations rugby match at the Olympic stadium yesterday. The Springboks, humiliated 0-49 by the Australians m Brisbane three weeks ago, were leading 18-13 before Rogers' game-stealing try four minutes
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      • 90 36 LONG-DISTANCE swimmer Grant Hackett has been cleared to return to competition at the Australian short-course championships this month. The multiple world and Olympic champion has not competed since last year's world championships m Montreal, undergoing surgery to repair torn cartilage m his right shoulder. He missed this
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    • 349 36 BASEBALL MLB: Pittsburgh 6 Chicago Cubs 0, New York Yankees 5 Baltimore 4, Detroit 7 Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 6 Toronto 4, Cincinnati 5 Atlanta 4, Philadelphia 5 New York Mets 3, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 2, LA Dodgers 6 Florida 2, Minnesota 8 Kansas City 5 (10
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    • 74 36 BASEBALL MLB: Boston vs Tampa Bay (Live, Ch23, 7am). CRICKET Pakistan Tour of England: 3rd Test. Day 3 (Live. Ch9s. 6pm) Bangladesh Tour of Zimbabwe: sth ODI (Delayed. Ch9s. tomorrow, lam) 60LF EPGA Entercard Scandinavian Masters: Final day (Live, Ch22. Bpm). LPGA Weetabix British Open: Final day (Live.
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    • 48 36 HOCKEY Singapore International Challenge, Women: Japan v India (3.30pm). Men: Singapore v Malaysia (5.30pm), Pakistan v India (7.30pm) Delta Stadium. SOCCER S-LeaguP: Sporting Afnque v Home United (Yishun. 7pm). FAS Women's Premier League: Young Women v Paya Lebar Punggol (spm), Sporting Westlake v Police (7pm) Clementi Stadium.
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      548 36 gr- Jesus said: 7am the resurrection and the life: he that "i >r believeth m me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. John 11:25 Our dearest mother, grandmother and great-grandmother MDM CHIA KIM SOH Age: 88 was called home to be with our LORD JESUS CHRIST On the
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      348 37 CHNGSIANGTEW Age: 89 passed away peacefully on 5 August 2006. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. (Husband: Pek Guan Whay, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Daughters: Sons-in-law: Peh Thiam Hock Lav Geok Kwan Peh Nee Pin (Chua Lai Hee, deceased) Peh Peng Kan, Johnny Ng Lay Lin, Jenny Peh Peng
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      565 37 YEOSIEWKIM Age: 41 passed away peacefully on 5 August 2006 Dearly missed and family renwmlh'red hy loved ones. (Father: too I .ye San. deceased) Mother: Chan Ah J.an Brothers: Sisters-in-law: MM Soon Yong Joseph NeoChMM EOf MM Soon heoflg Lammoc Ng Meow Yean Angie Sisters: Brothers-in-law: Yeo Sicu ihoo l'riscilla
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      221 37 The Family of the Late LEE XI AT TEE Departed on 31 July 2006 Wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues, clan associations members and Gleneagles Hospital staff for their kind concern, prayers, attendance, condolences, wreaths and Kg .donations during their recent bereavementyfl J>
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    • 738 38  -  Nur Amira Abdul Karim More young people are willing to pay good money for timepieces that look great and work with clockwork precision 'I buy expensive watches for the same reason other people buy paintings. I appreciate the effort and craftsmanship that went into it.
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    • 987 39  -  Reema Jagtiani Niche networking websites link together people with specific interests, unlike one-size-fits-all sites such as Friendster Check these out Last.fm MUSIC lovers and music makers can get together on this site to create their own music profiles. Its main draw is a "scrobble" feature.
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    • 344 39  -  Loh Wei Loong GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Game Review (eM)eNCHANTarM BEFORE animated battles, side quests and built-in mini games, Japanese RPGs (role-playing games) were largely experiments m gathering parties of fighters to take on hordes of monsters, m the hope that one team was stronger
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      • 97 39 EVER since Cuban President Fidel Castro announced he was handing over power temporarily to his brother Raul after undergoing intestinal surgery, online wagering operations have been taking bets on his fate. BetUS.com allows bettors to pick the month, or the day of the week,
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      • 72 39 PLASMA TVs and digital video cameras have replaced diamonds and shoes as a girl's best friend, a study has found. Out of 1,400 women surveyed, 77 per cent prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond solitaire necklace, Reuters reported. The study commissioned by American
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      • 65 39 CYBERSPACE just became funnier with the launch of Daily Comedy.com. Instead of dimply offering videos of comedians performing m front of an audience, the site aims to share original content by comedians through text and video created specifically for the Internet platform. It features 30-
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      • 76 39 WHETHER you prefer jeans snug at the waist or the thighs, a new website claims it can find the perfect pair for you. Launched last week, Zafu.com asks women shoppers 1 1 questions about how they like their jeans to fit, to get their desired body
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      334 40  -  Tania Tan by The Stomp gods must be crazy to have started the Getai Awards when no other Singapore websites would bat an eyelid at the annual show circuit Getai and the Stompers don't mix. "We are taking a gamble," said Straits Times deputy editor Felix Soh. "We
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    • 203 41 ENGLISH AS IT IS BROKEN Not sure what is good English and what is not? Write to The Sunday Times and we will get language experts to answer your queries. This is the start of a new series m support of the Speak Good English Movement. Drink or drinks? THE
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      725 41  -  Nur Amira Abdul Karim Instant messaging is the 'in 9 way to communicate for teens, who find e-mail too formal and slow. Many are logged on all day on services like Yahoo Chat or Microsoft Messenger and use e-mail only occasionally to stay m touch with teachers
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    • 987 42  - Who says art is boring? Wong Kim Hoh THE first time Debbie Wong stood m front of TV cameras with Kumar, she was intimidated by Singapore's most famous drag queen. "I was really nervous. What if he said something and I couldn't give a comeback? But it was okay, he
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      • 111 42 THE 33-year-old National Stadium m Kallang will stage the National Day Parade for the last time this year and close later this year. It will be missed. Palm of Thoughts writes: "The National Stadium is synonymous with Singapore soccer m my eyes... The memory of how the
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      • 78 42 SOME Singaporeans are wondering whether more can be done to help the hearing-impaired. Cliff thinks that schools for the deaf can benefit from more support from the Government. He writes: "Interpreters, like myself, are mostly volunteers, untrained. Television programmes, including news broadcasts, are not captioned."
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      • 131 42 I WAS shopping at Metro Sengkang recently and saw an advertising panel with the words: "I'm m a 'I want one because everyone at school has one' kind of mood." What values are we trying to impart to the younger generation? The value we should
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      • 210 42 READING the report, "Bay buzz" (ST, July 28), I was impressed with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) plans for the development of Marina Bay. As someone who visits Singapore every three months or so on business, I have to say it will entice me
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      • 151 42 DURING my recent travels to China, many new Chinese friends I made had this remark: "Singapore is such a wonderful place!" I was pleased to hear that, but when I asked them why they thought so, most replied: "Because it's so clean." When I prompted
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      • 214 42 AS A frequent user of East Coast Park, I am like letter writer Klin Xiaoyi ("Beach marred by garbage"; TTie Sunday Times, July 30) bothered by waste along the beach. The problem of beach waste is not new. In fact, last year's International Coastal Clean-up saw
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      • 154 42 Train service adequate I REFER to the letter, "Up frequency of trains, buses" by Miss Hoe Hock Lian (The Sunday Times, July 23). SMRT monitors and fine-tunes train frequency to ensure service levels meet commuters' needs. For example, we have recently improved the northbound train frequency from six minutes to
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      • 151 42 I REFER to Miss Stephanie Gwee's letter, "Why use sex to sell product?" (The Sunday Times, July 23). As Miss Gwee rightly pointed out, the objective of the advertisement is to convey the importance of getting enough calcium through drinking milk. Consumer research
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      • 889 2  - IDOL: Sizzle fizzle Sujin Thomas The Idol hopefuls are singing their hearts out every week, but fewer people are tuning m 'People have already seen what Singapore Idol had to offer with the first season' Viewer Sara Tan 'Towards the end of the season, the hype will definitely build up'
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      • 530 3  -  Sujin Thomas Poor Jacintha her advice to Idol hopefuls has been more hilarious than helpful Don't Ja wish you knew what she's saying... 'Gayle, you're a doll' On ousted finalist Gayle Nerva's rendition of American pop singer JoJo's Leave 'You are quite moving 9 On finalist Joakim Gomez's
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        516 4  -  Mak Mun San New campaign coaxes Singaporeans to welcome IMF delegates with a grin, but will it succeed? SMILING is easy even babies know how to do it. Don't laugh, but here m pragmatic Singapore, it is a serious undertaking. It is so serious that yet another public campaign
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        520 4 Mr Charles Chong, an MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, offers a possible explanation: "Singaporeans appear to smile less compared to our neighbours because it is m our culture to take everything we do more seriously. Even when it comes to smiling, we mount a serious campaign to urge
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      • 279 4 HE STARTED a Four Million Frowns project to poke fun at the government-led Four Million Smiles campaign, but Mr Matthew Teo (right, next to a smiles campaign poster) wants it to be known that he is not anti-establishment. "I think 'cheeky' would be more appropriate," he
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        406 4 'I like to meet people and the more people I meet, the more I tend to smile. A smile is a connection and a reflection of our hearts that we care for each other... As Singaporeans, we have much to be happy about. We have worked hard to
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      • 618 5  -  Hazel Yong The show-stopping costumes of the late Hokkien singer Chen Jinlang have started to appear at getai shows QUICK CHANGE: Getai compere Zhong Yaonan slipped into jackets belonging to the late Chen Jinlang at a getai m Ang Mo Kio last Thursday, including one
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      • 896 6 The young aren't interested m the rituals of the annual Hungry Ghost Festival, but diehard supporters believe it's a tradition that will live on > The Legacy Hong Xinyi 'You definitely won't see Singapore Idol and Project Superstar contestants doing getai shows' Getai performer and host Jack Ye
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        945 6 Hong Xinyi WITH her fair skin, slim build and a preference for bright red lipstick, 35-year-old Karen Lin Xiaoting could be mistaken for a Singapore Airlines stewardess. But this getai singer has a far more formidable title than the Singapore Girl. Hosts welcome the petite Lin onto
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        • 305 8 ZHONG YAONAN, 45 Looks familiar because you saw him m: Jack Neo movies like I Do, I Do and The Best Bet Better known as Ah Nan, he has been a stuntman, shot karaoke videos and rigged up explosives for action scenes m movies. He is
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        428 23  -  Stephanie Yap READER: Eleanor Wong, 44, a playwright and an associate professor of law at the National University of Singapore. She has written 10 staged plays. Her latest work, The Campaign To Confer The Public Service Star On JBJ, opens this week at the inaugural Singapore Theatre Festival. What
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      • 825 24  - DURIAN KING Top seeds Teo Pau Lin FOOD CORRESPONDENT PHOTOS: ALAN LIM A SPIKE IN SALES: 717 Trading's owner Goh Kwee Leng (right), 55, and his son, Goh Ming Hong, 31, are enjoying brisk business even though the prices of durians are rising. How much do Singaporeans love their dunan?
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          345 25 Thai (season: March to May) Thailand produces more than 20 varieties of mango, about eight of which are exported to Singapore. Thai mangoes are more popular than those from other countries because they are more affordable and plentiful. That's because they are transported over land, rather than being flown
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          95 25 Thai (season: all year) Singapore imports almost all of its longaii from Thailand. They are predominantly the yi door (above) variety, whose natural season is between July and August. But because growers are cultivating them m various parts of the country, they are exported all year round. Vi door
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          200 25 Malaysian (season: July to August) Malaysian rambutans are divided into those with hairy red skins and those with hairy yellow ones. Four varieties of red skins are available m Singapore, among which is Jitlee (right). Favoured by the Chinese because of its vibrant red colour, its flesh is wonderfully
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          197 25 Thai (season: September to October) Singapore imports two main types of Thai pomelos, which come m perfectly spherical shapes. Those with pink flesh, called thong dee (right), are shorter m height, but offer more juice m their sacs, and have many large seeds. Those with white flesh, called khao
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        • 598 25 DURIAN 717 Trading 22 Yio Chu Kang, #01-01 Highland Centre Tel: 9675-1821, 9100-7717 Open: 2pm to lam doily This family-run business sells over 10 varieties at its headquarters every day. Prices start from $3.50 per kg for the lower grades of D 24, Dl
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      • 357 26  -  Christopher Tan ASKTHEFOODIE In this new fortnightly column, writer and food columnist Christopher Tan will answer questions you have on the wonderful world of food QI hear that salmon skin is full of nutrients. Where can I buy it, how do I cook it
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      • 538 26  -  Jenny Tan SUNDAYWINECLUB Arthur's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 (right) $39 SINGAPORE is no Bordeaux since t here is limited land for vineyards, and the weather is too humid and hot for the ideal growth of grapes. But these constraints have not stopped Singaporeans from
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      • 241 26 Q Where does one get bee tai mak these days, and is there a simple way to cook it? A Bee tai mak are stubby, thick white noodles made of rice flour (typically mixed with other starches too, such as tapioca flour), whose tapered ends make
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        269 26 QI want to make my own lemonade for picnics and gatherings. Can you tell me how? A First, choose your lemons. They should be heavy for their size, and fully ripe with no tinges of green these are the juicy ones. Scrub them well. Finely grate the zest of
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      • 456 26  -  Jeremy Oliver CHEERS IN THIS fortnightly column, wine commentator Jeremy Oliver sheds light on the wide world of wine. He is the author of the best-selling Australian Wine Annual, and runs his website www.onwine.com.au Have you seen any movie that had an impact m the
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      • 318 27  - Thumbs down for healthy hawker fare Wong Ah Yoke EATS Don't shoot him, but Lifestyle's resident food critic can't live without lard and coconut milk MY HEAD tells me that it's a good thing the Health Promotion Board (HPB) is trying to get hawkers to switch to more healthy ingredients.
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      • 270 27 FRIED CARROT CAKE Delicious Fried Carrot Cake Wl-33 Redhill Block 85 Food Centre, Redhill Lane Opens: 7am to 3pm Healthier version: Carrot cake with reduced saturated fat Price: $2 Rating: I was glad I didn't give up on this stall after being greeted by closed shutters
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        256 27 PORRIDGE Tiong Bahru Hua Yuen Porridge #02-74 Tiong Bahru Food Centre, Seng Poh Road Opens: 7am to 10.30pm Healthier version: Salt-reduced porridge Price. Ranges from $3 for pork porridge. The mixed pig organ version costs $4 Rating: ♦•**<* This stall uses less salt, according to the HPB.
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        249 27 LAKSA Ha Ha Mci Shi #01-22 Maxwell Food Centre, Maxwell Road Opens: 7am to 3pm, closed on Sundays and public holidays Healthier version: Laksa with reduced coconut milk Price: $2 Rating: **-&i My modus operandi is not to reveal that I'm a food critic until I have tasted
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      • 213 27 I m iss fat bits CHAR KWAY TEOW Sin Kee Delicious Food #01-49 Block 216 Bedok North Food Centre Opens: 10am to 7.30pm, closed on Tuesdays Healthier version: Char kway teow with reduced saturated fat Price: $2.50 Rating: **T>*rt* Mr Loh Kirn Seng was another honest hawker. "I still use
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        876 28  -  Teo Pau Lin FOOD CORRESPONDENT She has not touched meat since she was 16. But Animax's Judy Chow eats chilli with almost everything WHAT WOULD YOUR LAST MEAL BE? "Antipasto with dips, olives, cheese and pita bread. Some vegetarian dumplings, my Mum's steamed fish and, to top it
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      • 341 12 P|k Dl 9-20 SERANGOON/ ijJJ THOMSON W HOUSES -SALE L£Vj Freehold JALAN LATEH 3-STOREY inter terr. 5-bdrm ensuite, 2200/ 3100 sqft. spacious layout, quiet exclusive. Price neg. Tel 9180-7654 SBXXK! F'HOLD. HIGHLAND Rd. 2storey inter terr. 3+1. 100% move m' 1700/ 2400 sqft. Can park 2 cars. 5 mins to
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