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  • 843 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Age, merit and retrenchment anomalies by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg ORDINARILY, 39 years is not the length of your service. It is a lifetime. After working 39 years for PSA, and amid talk of how generous the retrenchment package was, an ageing container equipment specialist
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  • 550 1  -  David Ngiau David Ngiau by da vid@newsto day. com. sg BLAME it on that well-rounded face with baby-fat, that very real body with bumps in both the right and wrong places. The hint of Indianness in Norah Jones' features immediately reminds you of her father Ravi Shankar
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  • NEWS
    • 650 2  -  Francis Kan Derrick A Paulo Analysts expected more as DPM warns of another deficit 1 by and news@newstodav.com.sg HAMPERED by a projected $1.2 billion deficit, the Budget contained few "goodies" for individuals or businesses. The expected one percentage point cut in personal and corporate income tax rates
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    • 203 2 No cuts in corporate and personal income tax rates from 22 per cent currently; no income-tax rebates. •Foreign income to be tax-exempt from June onwards. Domestic interest income exceeding the first $100,000 to be tax exempt from next year, exemption on the full amount from 2006. Mr Raymond
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    • 671 3  -  Norman Mailer by weekend@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a subtext to what the "Bushites" are doing as they prepare for war in Iraq. My hypothesis is that President Bush and many conservatives have come to the conclusion that the only way they can save America and get
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      483 4  -  Lee Ching Wern More elite students avoid JC path to university By chingwern@newstoday.com.sg WITH eight O-level distinctions under his belt, Irwin Luo Weijie (picture) could easily have his pick of any of the top junior colleges in the country. Yet for the past three months, while his
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    • 257 4 -Joy Frances GREEN commuters who have been dropping their unwanted paper into recycling bins in MRT stations will now have to walk a little further to do their bit for the environment The recycling bins inside the Raffles Place, City Hall, Tanjong Pagar and Outram
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    • 691 6  -  Neil Humphreys A measly $20 fine is not enough, the police should... by neil@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Police Force has publicly put its foot down. In response to a spate of shocking stories and letters recently, the police have boldly declared that inconsiderate cyclists found cycling on
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    • 71 6 -Jose Raymond A 12-YEAR-OLD boy was knocked unconscious when a lamppost fell on his head on Friday evening. He was playing basketball on a court in Tampines St 42, near Block 449, when the accident occurred. He was rushed to Changi General Hospital, where extensive
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    • 183 6 Derrick A Paulo THERE was a rare occurrence in Parliament yesterday. Backbenchers, usually known to plead for more financial help for Singaporeans, criticised the Citizens Consultative Committee (CCC) Assistance Scheme, which is aimed at helping citizens cope with the GST increase. The reason: Out of 14,161 applications
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    • 184 6 PROGRAMMES from all five MediaCorp channels MediaCorp TV Channels 5 and 8, MediaCorp TVI2 Central and Suria, and Channel News Asia were praised by the Programme Advisory Committee (PAC). It mentioned Channel 5 productions such as the local version of Wheel Of Fortune, First Touch and Blueprint
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  • LETTERS
    • 400 8  -  Ben Gan We might well end up a bunch of apathetic people I REFER to Mr Sonny Goh's commentary, "When losing sleep is worth it" (Today, Feb 27). Even if Mr Paul Jacob and Mr Goh may be "over-zealous" in their writing, I believe the Prime Minister's
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    • 288 8  -  Yak Chin Hua I REFER to Mr Leong Sze Hian's letter "How to use levy", (Today, Feb 13) and the joint reply, "Higher levy but greater productivity" (Today Feb 27), from the Manpower Ministry (MOM) and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA). In implementing the
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    • 323 8  -  Daniel Goh Shou Xian THE impending US-led war on Iraq has, to a large extent, brought about uncertainties in the US economy and influenced other economies in the world as well. Oil prices have risen and companies around the world are cutting their production due
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  • BUSINESS
    • 359 10 Bloomberg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB), Singapore's second-biggest bank, said profit in the six months to Dec 31 was little changed at $473 million after provisions for the full year rose almost threefold. Second-half profit was 0.7 per cent higher than the $470 million a year earlier,
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    • 333 10 STRATECH Systems, which provides software-related services, said yesterday that the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) decision to terminate its transitsmart bus monitoring system would not have a major impact on its 2003 financial performance. The SGX-listed company requested a suspension of trading of its shares
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    • 172 10 Bloomberg VENTURE Corp, the biggest electronics manufacturer listed on the Singapore Exchange, said full-year 2002 profit rose 34 per cent on increased sales. Net income rose to $181.1 million in the 12 months ended Dec 31, from $134.7 million in 2001, Venture said. Sales
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    • Market Watch
      • 125 10 SINGAPORE'S key stock index gained for the first day in five after Iraq agreed to destroy missiles that violate UN resolutions and after a US durable goods report suggested companies are spending. Singapore Press Holdings and Singapore Airlines, two of the six largest stocks on the STI, led the
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      • 49 10 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 8363.04 3.66 0.04 HANG SENG 9122.66 -11.58 -0.13 ILL ORDINARIES 2778.40 3.70 0.13 IAIWAN WEIGHTED 4432.46 -24.23 -0.54 KOREA COMP SET 75.43 361.32 -7.03 2.43 -1.21 0.68 JAKARTA COMP 399.22 0.27 0.07 PHILIPPINES COMP 1019.33 13.70 1.36 SHENZHEN B 206.73 -0.38 -0.19
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      • 36 10 JS$ JK£ fen 1K$ (M iuro (upiah iaht 0.5755 0.3643 67.8490 4.4880 2.1863 0.5346 5119.26 24.5807 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 31.3681 0.9505 27.4361 686.894 0.8588 4.7633 1.0269 20.0127
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      • 16 10 SGX Sold us$/oi iilver us$/oi 147.5 4.59 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne 1621 07 n
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      • 53 10 )y volume :eb28 Close Change '000 iinwa KS JniFood >ingTel Soldtron (epCorp chartered 'Food :H Offshore rrint jtiraya 0.225 0.420 1.300 0.010 4.140 0.710 0.895 0.210 0.435 0.510 +0.005 +0.140 -0.010 -0.005 -0.005 +0.015 +1.2 +3.5 -1.4 -0.6 -1.1 +3.0 22,696 20,160 12,328 10,995 8,857 7,187 6,709
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      • 78 10 Feb 28 [&C Close Change 3.620 +0.160 By percentage Feb 28 Close Change BBR 0.015 +0.005 KepCorp Noble 4.140 +0.140 1.780 +0.140 Twinwood 0.040 +0.010 Penguin W*****0 0.040 +0.010 >PH 18.200 +0.100 Falmac 0.030 +0.005 ip Land fenture 3.220 +0.100 13.400 +0.100 Shining 0.060 +0.010 WeePoh 0.030
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      • 87 10 Bloomberg By$ Feb 28 SPH 100 Close Change 18.100 -0.100 By percentage Feb 28 ChewEH Close Change 0.005 -0.005 UOB Creative 50 10.400 -0.100 11.000 -0.100 IRE Corp Media!. 0.035 -0.015 0.015 -0.005 GreatEast SC Global 8.500 -0.100 0.850 -0.090 LCDev Nobel Des 0.080 -0.020 0.100 -0.020
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    • WEALTH MANGEMENT
      • 447 11  - The art of planning Lee Yew Meng Learn to manage your finances wisely, now that the iron rice bowl has been broken yewmeng@newstoday.com. sg THERE was a time when the good times just rolled on. You get a job after leaving school or graduating from university and worked hard for
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    • 446 11  -  Lee Yew Meng Minority shareholders vote against OWWS remuneration cap yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg THE high drama of the two top directors of the listed but financially bleeding Craft Print International robustly and, at times, emotionally defending their remuneration at the company's annual general meeting on Friday could have come straight
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    • 162 11 NParks: Jobs stay but Channel News Asia THE National Parks Board (NParks) has given the assurance that no jobs will be lost in its restructuring process. However, some jobs will go to the private sector. Channel News Asia reported that the board was forced to call a media briefing after
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    • 75 11 Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings, United Overseas Bank and other lenders in Singapore wrote off 55 per cent more in credit card debt in January than in the year-before period, the highest one-month total since 1991. Banks wrote off $12.1 million in January compared with $7.8 million
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        • Article, Illustration
          1315 12  -  Mano Sabnani ■byl ■mano@newstoday.com.sg A weekly column that focuses on investment opportunities arising from market trends and corporate developments Let a hundred thousand entrepreneurial flowers bloom ONE of the tenets of the Government's manifesto in the last General Elections in late 2001 was jobs, jobs and jobs. That
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        • 181 13 A SMALLER Government allows for lower public sector costs which, in turn, provides space for further cuts in taxes and charges imposed on businesses, notwithstanding a slower economic growth and constrained revenue collection. Small businesses should be able to operate on low overheads,
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        • 637 13 WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Neptune Orient Line Sell Full-year NOL results showed strong indications that the group could finally be emerging from a two-year slump. Net profit, including a US$lO9 million ($lB9 million) exceptional loss, was US$33O million, as compared to a loss of US$56 million in the previous year.The
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    • 308 14 Reuters US telco's attempt to scrap sale of Global Crossings fails NEW YORK A US judge has dismissed telephone service provider IDT Corp's attempt to scuttle the sale of bankrupt Global Crossing Ltd's assets to two Asian investors, one of which is Singapore Technologies Telemedia. IDT, citing a
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    • 168 14 CALTEX and Shell cut their fuel prices yesterday in response to the Budget speech in which Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong made changes to excise duties for petrol. Caltex cut prices for three grades of petrol from 11pm last night, while Shell
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    • 4145 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries:Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com iv.iMk n IPPFP T> 2/27 NTUC Dynamic Guaranteed Fd 1.03 2/27 NTUC Enhanced Fd 0.674 2/27 NTUC Eur Eqty Fd 0.505 2/27 NTUC Global Bond Fd 1.014 2/27 NTUC Global Eqty Fd 1.232 2/27 NTUC Global Technology Fd 0.152 2/27 NTUC Growth Fd
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  • WORLD IN REVIEW
    • 1016 16 CA/A/spin chiefs put out 'balanced' reports ATLANTA Hey, even CNN censors its news reports. The network, which brought the Gulf War into our living rooms in all its unadulterated horror, may be economical with the truth in the next war, said top war correspondent Robert
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    • 78 17 Agencies LONDON Dr Rowan Williams (right), the liberal Welsh cleric who has clashed with the British government over Iraq, was enthroned as the 104 th Archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday. As well as becoming the spiritual leader of the world's 70 mil- lion Anglicans, Dr Williams'
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    • 329 17 Agencies Elite troops moving towards Baghdad, says US WASHINGTON Faced with a massive United States-led military buildup in the region and the spectre of war looming on the horizon, Iraq has started moving its elite troops and equipment towards Baghdad, US defence officials said. "It is a heavy
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    • SHORT TAKES
      • 73 17 -AFP i LOS ANGELES Four people and three companies were charged with trafficking US missile and jet-fighter parts to China, US authorities said on Thursday. The seven were charged at the end of a fiveyear probe into the illegal shipping of sensitive weapons. All the
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      • 59 17 AFP NEW YORK Forensic experts in New York said that they had identified body parts belonging to two of the 10 hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001. Forensic experts have managed to identify the remains belonging to 1,468
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      • 77 17 -AFP BANGKOK In a Thai-style engagement ceremony, two teak trees, Teak and Lamduan, were engaged in the main hall of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Two elderly couples, representing the parents of the pair, negotiated the engagement and presents of rice, peas
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      • 65 17 Reuters LOS ANGELES Playboy magazine has asked women Starbucks employees to pose nude for an issue featuring the "Women of Starbucks". The chain of more than 6,200 coffee shops worldwide has distanced itself from the cattle call. In recent years, Playboy has scored big with
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    • 162 17 -AFP TOKYO A Japanese court sentenced a nurse to 16 years in jail on Friday for strangling her best friend and rival in love, then slicing her corpse apart with a scalpel and throwing the pieces out with the garbage. Tomoko Kaneda,
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    • 105 17 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesian police handed over suspected Jemaah Islamiyah leader Abu Bakar Bashir (picture) to prosecutors on Friday, police said. Mr Abu Bakar will be charged with treason, based on an alleged plot to assassinate Megawati Sukarnoputri when she was still Vice-President, and with immigration
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 877 18  -  Sunny Goh DIALECTS REVIVAL: Policy relaxation may not work as many teens can hardly speak a word of dialect DIALECTS are as dead as a dodo. That was my curt response when a newspaper reporter asked for my views on a recommendation by the Programme Advisory
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    • 40 18 sYĕD SURëSH Crowds gathering around the world Crowds gathering in Singapore Syed is a freelance animator and illustrator. Suresh is the co-creator of Mr Kiasu and other comic strips. He recently authored a book entitled When I was in Uniform.
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    • 720 19  -  Dave Barry I DECIDED to take up a sport I'm 55 years old and it's time I did something good for my body, other than burp it occasionally. But, which sport? A lot of men my age play golf but as far as I can
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  • weekend WATZUP?
    • 1114 20  -  Ross Wallace Comic book characters are storming the big screen and earning big bucks for their stints by ross@newstoday.com.sg THEY'RE taking over. You may have thought you were safe from the forces of evil but you're not. A host of villains with names such as the Kingpin,
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      239 21 -Reuters Massive Attack star arrested A MEMBER of dance group Massive Attack Robert Del Naja was arrested on suspicion of Internet pornography offences, British police said. Del Naja denied the claims and was later released on bail. Greek comedy for pear~ LOCAL actors, musicians, designers and arts administrators
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    • FAMILY
      • 565 22  -  Bachan Singh by bachan@newstoday.com.sg IN school recently, the teacher forgot what the next lesson was. One boy told her it was PE. "Yes, PE," she remembered suddenly. "Yay," the children shouted in excitement. Their happiness would, however, last only a few seconds. No, there
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    • IN TUNE
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        120 23  -  Janice Lee Pet Shop Boys: Disco 3 (EMI) THIS album is the third offering in a long string of dance albums by the Pet Shop Boys. And there are both good and bad moments. Starting with "Time On My M^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hands", Disco 3 sets the party mood with other
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      • 105 23  -  Tor Ching Li I HAD never heard of Fish Leong J ing Ru before but now I must say, I'm hooked. Her fifth Mandarin album, Beautiful, radiates charm and her smooth, spunky girlish vocals bring out the full flavour of each of the easy-listening tracks.
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        585 23  -  Janice Lee Humble diva spreads her message of love through jazz I I by janice@newstoday.com.sg SHE'S a diva in her own right, but she certainly doesn't act like one. Though tired and officially on a "vocal rest", [critically acclaimed Dee Dee Bridgewater (picIture) took time off her
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      • 114 23 TICKETS for The Rolling Stones' massive Lz'cfo World Tour are being bought at a rapid pace after they went on sale last week, said tour promoter CPI BY and local promoter, Live Ltd. The legendary band has confirmed two stage performances for March 24 and
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 226 24 -Agencies LONDON Jennifer Lopez (picture) used six limousines to travel from one exclusive London hotel to another equally upscale hotel a distance of about 100 metres, British newspapers reported yesterday. The Daily Mail said onlookers were dumbstruck as the singer and her 30-strong entourage
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      • 484 24 Reuters/Variety Chicago producers pursue rights to remake 1955 hit HOLLYWOOD After resuscitating the big-screen musical with Chicago, Harvey Weinstein is ready for an encore. Miramax Films is negotiating a Guys and Dolls rights package for a remake that will be produced by Storyline Entertainment
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      • 147 24 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Robert Downey Jr and Alan Arkin have been drafted by director Steven Soderbergh to star in a segment of Eros, a movie consisting of short films by Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni and Wong Kar Wai. The actors are shooting the Soderbergh-scripted leg of the
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      • INCINEMAS ROUND-UP
        • 211 26 David Ngiau -YSC -DN -DN About Schmidt: Warren Schmidts life is falling apart with retirement, his wife's death, and his daughter's impending marriage to a loser.An incredibly moving and humourous portrait of Middle America, with Jack Nicholson showing us the meaning of life and why he is going
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        • 337 26 You might also like to try -DN -YSC YSC l_ -YSC Serene Foo r >._ i_ _i SF Catch Me If You Can: Based on :on man Frank Abagnalejr's autobiography, Catch Me is an amazing true >tory of audacity. But as the "hero" s a criminal, Steven Spielberg has :urned
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        • 49 26 -YSC The Hot Chick: A self-cen-tred babe (Rachel McAdams) wakes up one morning to find that she's in the greasy, hairy body of Rob Schneider (picture). She is horrified.You'll be horrified watching a two-bit comedian prance about in this lowbrow comedy
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    • INSIDE OUT
      • 701 28  -  Cindy Tong Functionality, innovation and ergonomics play equal roles in furniture design news@newstoday.com.sg IDENTIFYING the current furniture fads is as easy as looking at today's lifestyle trends. As Mr Syddal Wee, general manager of Space Furniture puts it, designers are not the ones behind new furniture fashions.
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    • EAT OUT
      • 415 30  -  Katrina Karim Expect a bigger, better World Gourmet Summit this year by eatout@newstoday.com.sg THIS year, more than 800 invited guests will attend the World Gourmet Summit Awards of Excellence ceremony a dramatic increase from 655 in 2001 and 750 last year. The surge in attendance is attributed to
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      • 464 30 THIS year's World Gourmet Summit promises to dazzle as some of the world's acclaimed chefs make their way to Singapore and guest cook for a week each in select hotels and restaurants. The line-up of culinary luminaries read like a
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      • 413 30  -  Karman Tse by karman@newstoday.com.sg LAST year, the Central Singapore CDC's Food and Heritage Trail garnered an Ifea (International Festivals and Events Association) award for the Best Community Outreach Programme. This year, the food trail returns with a more meaningful theme the theme of
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    • EPICURE
      • 671 31  -  Katrina Karim From Johor Baru to Hong Kong on Sin Ming Road by eatout@newstoday.com.sg YOU don't have to travel across the Causeway to Johor Baru's Jalan Kuning to eat that famous kway teow mcc soup. Instead, just hop on to a bus and make your way to
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      • 396 31  -  Jeffrey Yang eatout@newstoday.com.sg by AUSTRALIAN Shirazes are easy for first-time drinkers to like and the top Shirazes have qualities that endear them to collectors. Value-laden Shirazes sold at supermarkets include Wolf Blass' President Selection, Penfold's Bin 128 and Bin 28, Peter Lehmann's The Barossa Shiraz and
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    • DRiVE
      • 543 32  -  Colin Yong A larger engine breathes new life into Mercedes-Benz's S-class by colin@newsto day. com. sg DON'T blink or you will miss the updated Mercedes S-class (picture) that has wafted into town quietly. You can be forgiven for not noticing this though, because the new model
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      • 65 32 UPS Higher-quality interior Superb ride comfort Styling still looks good DOWNS Engine lacks aVB'S refinement Button overload on dashboard AGENT Cycle Carriage Industries (1986) PteLtd Price: $338,888 with COE ENGINE Type: 3,724 cc, IBVV6 Maximum power: 245bhp at 5,700rpm Maximum torque: 35ONm at 3,000 to 4,500rpm GEARBOX Five-speed
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      • 160 32 LOCAL motorists who have always loved the Audi TT's style, but found manual gear-changing too much of a chore, can finally get their hands on an automatic version of the car. Available as a coupe or a roadster (picture), the TT Tiptronic is unusual because it
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      • 122 32 IF YOU are planning to take a break over the Good Friday weekend but don't know where go, joining the Automobile Association of Singapore for a driving holiday to Bukit Merah Laketown Resort in Perak from April 18 to 20 might be a good solution.
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      • 182 33 THE BMW Group, which owns the BMW and Mini brands, sold a record number of cars in Asia last year but it wants an even bigger share of the market. At a press conference on Thursday, Dr Michael Ganal, a member of the board of management
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      • 40 33 February 2003 Ist bidding 2nd bidding Cat A 1600 cc below $3 1,003 $29,999 Cat B 1601 cc above $33,657 $30,699 Cat C Goods vehicles/buses 12,586 I 1,201 Cat D Motorcycles I I Cat E Open $33,901 $30,100
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      • 466 33 EdricPan MITSUBISHI probably has Subaru's designers to thank for the resounding success of its Lancer Evolution VII. The controversial fish-faced replacement for the hugely-popular first-generation Impreza WRX sent buyers scurrying from Subaru showrooms, straight into the arms of its deadly rival, the Lancer Evo. Determined to claw
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      • 196 33 WHAT'S new and hot in car showrooms this month: Daewoo Kalos 1.5: Good-looking budget Korean car from a revitalised Daewoo, which is now under General Motors' control. Available as a fourdoor saloon and a five-door hatchback, with prices starting from $69,888. Honda Civic VTi-L: Gone are
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    • THE LIGHTER SIDE
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        427 35 GEORGE W Bush: Condoleeza! Nice to see you. What's happening? Condoleeza Rice: Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China. George: Great Lay it on me. Condoleeza: Hu is the new leader of China. George: That's what I want to know. Condoleeza: That's what
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