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  • 8 1 TODAY ]y[Olld3.y •September 16, 2002 i MITA(P) 063/11/2001
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  • 336 1  -  Chan Chao Peh THE academics may be gung-ho. The manufacturing sector is stirring back to life. But the Government, which prefers to be cautious in such matters, refuses to raise its growth forecast for the year, which stands officially at three to four per
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  • 731 1  -  Tan Hui Leng Chung Lyn-yi. Clinical trials and the shadow of money UNDERGRADUATES are obsessed with a new wave of tests these days and they come with the promise of money and a health warning. As the Republic plunges into the brave, new world of life sciences
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    • 141 1 USA Football GS •v UK Football __P _r AUSTRALIA Football Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge. To truly understand a country and its culture, you have to be part of it. That's why, at HSBC, all our offices around the world are staffed by local people. In fact you'll
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 274 2  -  Jose Raymond New M'sian system to nail errant Singapore drivers IRRITATED with Singapore drivers who flout the rules and then slip away, Malaysia is strengthening its defences. It is setting up a RM2.9 milkon ($1,3 million) computerised system to keep track of offences committed by Singaporean drivers in
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    • 140 3 MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has backtracked on her offer to let the United States use its territory and air space for its planned strikes on Iraq. Mrs Arroyo said that US war planes would be allowed into the Philippine air space "for humanitarian purposes", but
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    • 434 3 Arab leaders urge Saddam to accept UN demands CAIRO The Arab world is urging Iraq to accept the return of United Nations weapons inspectors in order to avoid a military strike even as some of them believe that an attack is inevitable. The plea to President Saddam Hussein
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    • Article, Illustration
      76 3 Agencies TO SHOW her fun side, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo posed with her Cabinet secretaries in society magazine Philippine Taller. The photo, mimicking Men in Black posters and shot at Malacanang Palace in August, caused copies to fly off the stands, the magazine said. Tatter editor Anton
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      44 4 WONG KHING CHONG Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong teeing off after officially opening Raffles Country Club's Lake course yesterday. The course was renovated at a cost of $13 million. Apart from the scenic layout, it boasts state-of-the-art drainage systems.- Today photo by
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    • 405 4  -  Joy Frances Aerial gardens 'help to lower temperatures' ROOFTOP gardens may prove to be tranquil sanctuaries for office workers weary of the urban jungle. But, these green strips also serve a more practical purpose for building managers and architects. Research has shown that rooftop surface temperatures, which
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 420 5  -  Toh Boon Ngee DPM Lee: Do you want second-class hospital treatment? ABOUT 27 per cent of Singaporeans have opted out of the hody-debated Elder Shield scheme, according to Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang. The figure is expected to top off at 30 to 35 per cent of
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    • 461 6 AFP Study loads and the precious child syndrome THE long hours Singapore children spend at their books isn't necessarily raising their IQs, but tt is boosting their stress levels, said a psychiatrist. "We don't produce smarter children but they are conditioned to a culture of hard
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    • 65 6 SINGTEL Yellow Pages had a lot of help marking its 35th anniversary, attracting 5,000 people to its Yell! Carnival at NTUC Downtown East on Sept 8. Highlights of the event included an acrobatic display, during which acrobats wowed audiences with their agility and gravitydefying stunts
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  • LETTERS
    • 222 8  -  Daniel Lim Yew Mao We are not putting US on a pedestal I AM writing in response to the letter, "The 911 overload" from Mr Wang Yixing (Today, Sept 12). I disagree with the writer's view that we are "putting Americans on a pedestal". One should remember that
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    • 451 8 WE refer to the letter, "All costs seem covered, so why the hikes?" by Yak Chin Hua (Today, Sept 13). A hospital's ability to break even is a function of the costs of all the services it provides and the revenue it
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    • 120 8  -  Lim Boon Hee WHY are "small, regular increases" the answer to the problems faced by hospitals that cannot remain viable even with government subsidies? I have read the report, "Hospital bleeding" (Weekend Today, Sept 14-15), and wonder if a win-win situation can be achieved for the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 410 10 Reuters Why were Asean trade talks in Brunei a hit? BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN South-east Asian trade ministers can leave Brunei smiling after some fruitful days spent bolstering Asean's political sway. Amdety around east and south-east Asia about sluggish economic growth in the United States, helped focus ministerial minds.
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    • 262 10 -AFP LONDON A dearth of high grade wheat in international markets has sent prices to five-year highs as millers scramble to bag enough grain to make bread. Unfavourable weather in producer regions in the United States, Canada and Australia has pushed prices up 50 per
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    • 273 11 -AFP TOKYO It is doubtful the Bank of Japan (BoJ) will adopt new monetary easing measures orthodox or otherwise to boost the economy at a meeting this week despite growing political pressure to act, analysts said. The central bank will not want to
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    • 98 11 Bloomberg LONDON Premier Oil Pic, a UK-based oil and gas producer, plans to spend £400 million ($1.65 billion) to buy the stakes of its major shareholders, Petroliam Nasional Bhd of Malaysia and Amerada Hess Corp of the US, the Sunday Telegraph reported. The deal,
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    • 146 11 Bloomberg BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Malaysia rejected Thailand's request for compensation for its decision to delay tariff cuts on imported cars, the Bangkok Post said on its website, citing Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, Malaysia's Trade Minister. Malaysia wants to exempt its automobile industry temporarily from an agreement to cut
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    • Market Watch
      • 168 11 THE Singapore market was range-bound in very thin trading last week with the STI hovering between the 1400 and 1450 level. Other than the preferential offer of SFI shares to SCI shareholders, the market did not have much to work on in the corporate scene. Overall, the uncertainty saw
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      • 55 11 Index Value (hang. Pts Nikkei 225 9241.93 173.30 -1.84 Hang Seng 9650.97 245.36 2.48 All Ordinaries 3080.00 1090 -0.35 TafwanWtd 4580.17 67 20 -1.45 Korea Ctmp 718.17 -21.05 -2.85 SET Index 357.15 -4.34 -1.20 MnrloComp 421.00 -7.18 -1.68 Phils Comp 1155.49 +10.06 +0.88 Shenien 8 234.87 -1.05 -0
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      • 35 11 US$ 0.***** Peso 29.4638 UK_ 0.***** A$ 1.***** Yen 68.625! yianfe ".3147 HK$ 4.***** Won -78.837 m 2.***** C$ 0.891 Euro 0.***** Yuan 4.6667 Rupiah 5060.89 N7s 1.***** Baht 24.1767 NTS 19.3949
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      • 26 11 Bloomberg Golduss/E 318.100 Rufafaer _em_A_: 158.75 Silver u.s/o. 4.575 Palm oil Mt/nm. 1425 Platinum (._s./.: 554.900 Brertl crude usl/har-c 28.57 Weekly stockMo was not amiable
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    • 174 11 Bloomberg TOKYO Toshiba Corp, the world's No 2 chip-maker, and rival NEC Corp have agreed to form an alliance to develop semiconductors designed to reduce power consumption in personal computers and mobile phones, Nikkei English News reported. The companies plan to begin massproducing magnetic random access
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    • 453 12  -  Carmen Lee Shipping group's stock boosted by strong growth in earnings TWO months ago, Jaya Holding was featured as a good medium-term investment for its good growth and attractive dividend yield. Since then, the stock price has moved up six per cent. In comparison, the overall market as
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    • 317 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's No 1 mobile phone company, Maxis Communications, has embarked on a strategic plan to acquire cellular assets of Time dot Com Bhd, which experts say is crucial for Maxis to maintain its domination. "That has been our advice to them
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    • 652 12 Starting today, we will carry a table of dividends declared by companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The list, compiled with the assistance oF Telekurs Financial, will appear every Monday on our business and finance pages. The new service is in line with the efforts of the editorial team
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 343 13 AFP Jiang's theories face opposition BEIJING President Jiang Zemin's quest to bolster his political legacy among the party greats looks set to be thwarted amid mounting opposition from cadres. China analysts said anti-Jiang elements in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are trying to waylay his attempts to have
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    • 183 13 Agencies PANMUNJOM (Korea) A crucial agreement has been reached between North and South Korea to begin clearing mines along their border and reconnect cross-border railway and road links. The two sides confirmed that work would begin this week to tear down barbed-wire fences and remove
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    • 105 13 -AFP WASHINGTON The recent stock market slump has made America's rich leaner but they can still afford to dine on caviar and champagne, according to Forbes magazine. The publication's annual list of 400 wealthiest Americans reveals that the group shed a total of US$74 billion
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    • 153 14 LONDON Britain's university admissions system could be facing chaos if landmark legal challenges are launched to overturn thousands of A Level results. The top independent schools are unhappy about major discrepancies in this year's results, which have seen bright pupils gaining near-perfect scores in
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    • 290 14 Agencies TOKYO Japan and North Korea will attempt to banish their hostile past for better ties at their unprecedented summit this week, in a gambit analysts say has ruffled US feathers. Washington does not seem entirely pleased with the prospect of Tokyo focusing
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    • 369 15 WASHINGTON The recent arrests in New York and Karachi of Al Qaeda operatives, all of Yemeni origin, highlight the state's increasing profile as a hotspot in the war on terrorism. US officials said on Saturday they had disrupted a "terrorist cell" on American soil, arresting five US
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    • 137 15 Agencies TANGSHAN (China) Bureaucratic reticence has plunged a food poisoning case in China into controversy. The official Xinhua news agency on Saturday reported a death toll of 41, with 400 people poisoned, and quoted doctors saying the death toll was likely to rise. But it later
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    • 127 15 -AFP LONDON Britain's longawaited black book on Iraq will contain the first definitive evidence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime has trained some of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda lieutenants, said The Sunday Telegraph. The dossier, due to be released on Sept 24, will include fresh intelligence
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    • 136 15 Agencies SATTAHIP (Thailand) Tigers do change their stripes. Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers are a true testament to that statement as they attempt to transform themselves from a military outfit to a political organisation, said Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The rebel Liberation Tigers of
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 845 16  -  Andrew Lynch HK's attempts at accountability fall flat after penny stock fiasco A FEW days ago, one of our subway trains went missing. Well, not quite missing. It went into the sidings as planned. The trouble was that, for some inconceivable reason, it decided to pick
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    • 901 18 MUSICA ANTIQUA SSO GALA CONCERT f *r *_r <_*"' f° k6ln kirite kanawa hjf i/ ,j _f\ cial/ftl For more than 25 years, World-renowned soprano AM%a\m\ I Musica Antigua Koln, led by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 5$ > _I i Reinhard Goebel, has been returns to Singapore for a i^^Jw**
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    • 1059 21 REVERIE BY NUS PIANO MUSIC DEPARTMENT they present an unforgettable Date: July 11 Sept 28 ENSEMBLE STUDENT RECITAL evening of Indian music. (Fri and Sat only) A MUSICAL LUNCH Relish the musical liberation Take a classical music break Date: Sept 29 Time: 7pm lam TREAT as young, talented pianists during
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    • 1130 22 FIREFACE R(A) glimpse of the eccentric and painting. rely on harmony and context. Presented by Toy Factory, madcap world oniy kids Date: Sept 18 28 His works reflect a cultural Fireface is a black comedy A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S know about. Time: 1 lam 6pm [Mon symbiosis of a Westernwhich explores
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    • 1212 23 VISION FOR LIFE memories of her homeland SINGAPORE 700 YEARS Price: Members of EUROPEAN UNION FILM In this exhibition, artist in Germany. They include This exhibition tells the Singapore Film Society only FESTIVAL Simon Lim presents a series those inspired by, for history of Singapore from (Membership available at This
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    • 1136 24 Sathyaligam of Apsaras Time: 7.30pm 9pm Bpm 9pm (Dancing) *tß_ Arts. Venue: Stamford Arts Venue: Singapore- Art n SECOND ANNUAL SBA Date: Every Wed and Sat Centre Museum Auditorium H^ NATIONAL Time: spm Bpm (Wed); Price: $50 (Students), $60 Price: $5 (Dancing only), SCRIPTWRITING Ipm 6pm (Sat) (Non-students) $10 (Lesson
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  • UPFRONT
    • 809 25  -  Shan oo Maharaj US movie-makers are flocking to the world's biggest film production centre in Hyderabad SEVERAL thousand kilometres from Hollywood, an American crew is filming a giant, life-like rubber centipede leaping out of a waterfall. The insect lunges at the heroine. The director shouts: "Cut!". More
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  • PORTFOLIO
    • 549 26  -  Jeffrey Tan Spread unit trust investments across countries and sectors WHEN he read about the Thai government's plans to reform the banking sector in 1999, Mr C M Wee, 46, saw it as a golden opportunity. "I expected the reforms to stimulate the economy," he said. "But
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    • 572 26 Dear PRU Adviser, I am 34 and have a monthly income of $20,000. After deducting expenses, I can save about $5,000 per month. I have no outstanding loans. My house was worth about $1.1 million during the peak. I have: Bank deposits: U*****,000 Equities: U*****,000 Life
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 358 27  -  Janice Lee Gala ceremony marks statue's unveiling in new home A TOUCH of jazz, soulful poetry, candy-coloured balloons and magnificent fireworks set the mood for a great evening last night. Yesterday marked the official inauguration of Merlion Park at its new home in the ritzy One Fullerton
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    • 48 27 Capital Radio i 95.SFM held a charity car wash yesterday to raise funds for Care Corner. Among the participants were MediaCorp artistes Terence Cao, Jeff Wang, Jaime Teo and Vincent Ng, and Taiwanese singers, Hou Xiangting and Today photo by WONG KHING CHONG Jiang Meiqi.
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    • 82 27 Rating Viewers ('000) Ch 1 Who... Millionaire 19 731 8 2 The Wing of Desire 17 650 8 3 I Not Stupid 14 546 8 4 News 8 at Ten 14 525 8 5 A Kindred Spirit 13 511 U 6 Snap 12 437
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    • 77 27 Rating Viewers ('000) Ch 1 Monday Mega Movie Batman Robin (R) 9 359 5 2 Sunday Prime Movie George of the Jungle (R) 7 257 5 3 Oh Carol! 7 246 5 4 Pokemon 6 231 XC 5 Heartlanders 6 217 5 6 Fear
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  • LIVINGLEARNING
    • 300 28  -  Rosalyn Lim Want to apply for music degree programme? THE search for the top musical talent in the region has begun. Applications are now being accepted for the National University of Singapore's (NUS) first music degree programme which will commence in July next year. The inaugural class
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    • 147 28 Channel News Asia ABOUT 14,000 people visited the new library@esplanade in its first three days of operation. The library hopes to attract one minion visitors in its first year and the feedback it has received so far shows that people are particularly impressed with its
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    • 198 28 LA Trobe University, one of Australia's leading international educational institutions, awarded prizes for academic achievement recently to its business and nursing graduates. The prize winners were among 200 graduates who were awarded their degrees by the university last week in a ceremony at the
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  • EATOUT
    • Celebrating Mid-Autumn
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        161 29 A household name for nearly 60 years, 1 Kee Wah celebrates this year's MidAutumn festival with a Few surprises. One of them Is known as "Eight Star Prosperity" ($4O) which includes a golden mooncake with double yolks ana eight mini mooncakes with different flavours, namely red date paste
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      • 115 29 The Shang Palace introduces several new mooncake flavours this year. Making their debut are healthy green tea paste with half yolk and zesty kiwi paste in snowskin or pandan. Both sell for $27 per box. Three-tier imperial sets are available for $138 and contain four large mooncakes, six
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      • 134 29 Man Fu Yuan Chinese restaurant's chefs present their select brand of mooncakes again this year. This season's special creation is the mini snow skin with custard and bird's nest mooncake priced at $48 per box of eight. Also on offer is the mini snow skin with white lotus
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      • 85 29 SingTel Bee Cheng Hiang Sing Tel aims to inject more cheer into the MidAutumn Festival by giving its customers a sweet deal. All Sing Tel subscribers and Sing Tel UOB credit card holders will enjoy a 25 per cent discount off their purchase of the lotus paste mooncake with single
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      • 157 29 There is no better way to celebrate the Mid-autumn festival than with your nearest and dearest, as you nibble your Favourite mooncakes and sip Chinese tea. While the Mandarin Singapore's traditional mooncakes, such as golden ingots with egg yolk ($2B for a dox of eight} and white lotus
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        • 114 30 The auest for innovation heats up as the Mid-Autumn festival draws near. And Marina Mandarin looks set to impress with creations like the savoury Teochew mooncake, which is baked with green beans and pork floss and deep-fried mooncake with yam and egg yolk. Traditional mooncakes red bean
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        • 83 30 Talk about innovation and PrimaDeli will come to mind. Three flavours banana, oreo chocolate and orange are among PrimaDeli's "Eight Treasures box ($24.80), The other flavours are durian, green tea, pandan, strawberry and yam. The "Beijing-style Crispy Four Treasures" ($36 for a box of four) includes green tea, yam,
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        • 78 30 The mezzo 0 will pamper guests to oldfashioned darlings such as red bean ($32) and lotus seed paste ($34 for plain, $37 for single and double yolk) mooncakes and creations such as the ice-cream mooncake ($32), sesame, green tea, mandarin orange and deep-fried yam paste mooncake ($36),
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        • 59 30 This year, the Swensen's range of ice cream mooncakes includes durian and mango flavours There are also chocolate and strawberry ice cream mooncakes in four-piece boxes ($14.80). Traditional mooncakes are given a twist with the snowskin wheat grass mooncake ($26 per box of four). These are available at Swensen's
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        • 89 30 Chef Chan Chan Hei, having established himself at Safra Toa Payoh with nis famous signature dishes, is now wowing his peers with mooncakes that are beautifully packaged. His jasmine-scented lotus paste mooncakes with double egg yolks ($3B) are the last word in decadence. They come packaged
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        • 83 32 Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant introduces its latest creation the "Yin Yang" mooncake ($7 per piece or $36 per box of six) with a delicate blend of yam and lotus paste fillings. This and other mooncakes are available until Saturday. Prices range from $5.50 to $7 per piece or
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          119 32 Golden Kin mooncakes from the Kin Chinese restaurant are handmade and lopped with an edible gold leaf to symbolise wealth, happiness, longevity and good health. Flavours include the double yolk white lotus paste mooncake priced at $34.80 per box of four, the double red lotus paste mooncake priced
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        • 115 32 Health seems to be a big issue on The Regent's agenda this festive season. Offering something refreshing and nutritious, the snow skin kiwi paste and mango paste moon cake ($34.80 for a box of seven) nave been created, thanks to master chef of Summer Palace, Cheng Hon
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    • 412 29 FOR six days starting Oct 6, a group of Singaporeans will be wining and dining in Australia from Sydney to the Blue Mountains to Hunter Valley. That's the itinerary for the Executive Gourmet Retreat, jointly-organised by the Tourism New South Wales and SA (UIC)
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    • 368 33 Reuters Flattering, and not so flattering, titles for Hollywood royalty THEY are rich, beautiful and adored by millions. And if that's not enough for Julia Roberts, Halle Berry and other members of the Hollywood royalty, People magazine has crowned them the best dressers this year. In
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      348 35 -AFP LAS VEGAS Oscar De La Hoya retained his World Boxing Council title with a technical knockout of Fernando Vargas in the 11th round of a double-title fight here on Saturday. "It feels great. All the talk he was doing, I just got fed up with it," said
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    • 144 35 COLOMBO Australia launched its Champions Trophy campaign in devastating fashion yesterday when it thrashed pool one rival New Zealand by 164 runs. Glenn McGrath ripped through the New Zealand batting order with a haul of five for 37 as the Kiwis slumped to 132 all out in 26.2
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    • 74 35 AFP SHANGHAI Tennis glamour girl Anna Kournikova was foiled again yesterday in her quest to claim her first ever WTA singles title, losing to top seed Anna Smashnova of Israel 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the US$l4O,OOO ($248,000) Shanghai Open. For the 21-year-old Russian, it was an
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    • 155 35 MADRID Spanish champion Valencia maintained its perfect start to the season with a 3-0 win over Recreativo Huelva on Saturday, while title rivals Barcelona and Deportivo Coruna notched their first victories of the campaign. Real Madrid was losing at Real Betis 1-0, thanks to Capi's long-range strike, but
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    • 436 36 PARIS Since one of the darkest days in Olympic history, the official world men's 100 metres record has been held by Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell, Donovan Bailey and Maurice Greene. But the 9.79 seconds clocked by a drugs-fuelled Ben Johnson in the 1988 Seoul Olympic final, subsequently struck
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    • 185 36 Reuters MONZA Brazilian Rubens Barrichello led Michael Schumacher to a runaway one-two win before a red sea of Ferrari fans in their home Italian Grand Prix yesterday. The afternoon turned into another day of Ferrari domination as Barrichello crossed the line 0.2 of a second ahead of Schumacher
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      516 37  -  Stanley Ho THERE was just no stopping the man dubbed "The Magician". As expected, four-time world pool champion Efren Reyes (picture) pulled another rabbit out of his hat, defeating Filipino compatriot Antonio Lining 8-6 in the Asian 8-Ball Championships 2002 final yesterday. The 1995 International Player of the
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    • 315 37 Reuters LONDON The English football league is considering selling a Premier League promotion place to stave off the chronic financial problems threatening the future of many of its clubs, the Sunday Express reported. The proposal would effectively mean Premiership clubs paying for a reduced risk of
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    • 783 38  -  Neil Humphreys Part II of Singapore's EPL mania FORGET Hollywood blockbusters and Chinese drama serials when it comes to entertaining television, nothing comes close to the English Premier League (EPL). That is the view of many of Singapore's 1.1 million cable viewers. According to research carried out
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    • 599 39 Agencies English Premier League Tottenham 3 West Ham 2 I Hammers battle back in vain as Spurs go second LONDON Young defender Anthony Gardner piled on the misery for West Ham with a late goal to give Tottenham a 3-2 win that returned it to second
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    • 236 39 LEEDS Leeds boss Terry Venables is refusing to write off the Premiership title chances of Manchester United, reported Football 365.c0m. United suffered its first defeat in five years to its hated rival 1-0 on Saturday, and after a shock loss to Bolton at Old Trafford
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