Today, 21 January 2005

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    11 1 Today fV\=LjJ^CORP mica (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating utrCHIS Friday January 21,2005 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Phuket revisited
    1373 1  -  David Ngiau in Phuket Thai authorities struggle to get the tourists back david@newstoday.com.sg THE slate has been wiped clean. On approach into Phuket International Airport, from 1,000 feet up, the sea was gorgeous, deep blue, with hardly any wind whipping up white foam. The sea was dead calm.
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    Lock icon Bush pledges global drive to eradicate tyranny
    226 1 AFP WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush launched his second term yesterday with a pledge to use US diplomacy and might to spread democracy around the world and ultimately eradicate tyranny. Mr Bush, sworn in for a second term in office as
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      Fee hike queried, 'family' redefined
      550 2  -  Tor Ching Li Parliamentary debate on President's Address ends after four days chingli@newsto day, com. sg THE question of whether the latest round of fee hikes imposed by the three local varsities are justified arose on the fourth and final day of debate on the
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      Lock icon Indonesian toll skyrockets to 166,000 as flooding hampers relief efforts
      410 2 Agencies BANDA ACEH Indonesia's official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster skyrocketed from more than 50,000 to 166,320 after many people listed as missing were confirmed dead. The country's health ministry said 166,080 people had died in Aceh,
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      China hotels to offer CNA to guests
      286 4 SIX months after Channel News Asia (CNA) was granted rights to broadcast in China, several five-star hotels there have signed up to offer the channel to their guests. Chinese hoteliers told reporters yesterday that CNA's Asian focus had been a big draw. Swissotel
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      No significant drop in number of maids
      498 4  -  Ansley Ng despite stricter entry criteria, says MOM ansley@newstoday.com.sg THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has countered recent news reports suggesting that Singapore is suffering from a 50 to 90 per cent shortage of Indonesian, Indian and Sri Lankan maids due to tightened entry
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      Telcos launch higher-speed broadband
      233 4  -  Ansley Ng SINGNET and rival telecommunications company Star Hub have come up within three days of each other with higher speed broadband Internet services for the residential market. On Wednesday, Sing Net introduced its Broadband 3,sookbps Unlimited Plan, which comes with free music downloads, video-on-demand and
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      Lock icon Red Cross invites proposals for aid
      347 6  -  Tan Hui Leng VWOs, NGOs can apply for $50m tsunami fund huileng@newstoday, com. sg THE Singapore Red Cross is asking volunteer welfare organisations (VWOs) and non-government organisations (NGOs) to submit proposals for a slice of the $50 million Tidal Waves Asia fund to finance
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    • SINGAPORE snippets
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        Smoke-free fun tonight
        120 6  -  Tan Hui Leng About 200 people have signed a petition to lobby for more stringent smoking regulations at nightspots. The petition, which takes the form of a scroll, will make an "appearance" tonight at a smoke-free party at Cocco Latte. Organised by the Fresh Air for Women
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        Lock icon Another reprieve for drug suspects
        124 6 Channel News Asia, Newsßadio 93.8 A difference of 1.67 grams of cocaine will determine if suspected drug syndicate leader Marx Oh faces a minimum jail term of 20 years or five years. The 31 -year-old has been slapped with seven drug charges, including trafficking 21.67
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        Lock icon Bond-free scholarships
        51 6 Channel News Asia The American Chamber of Commerce has announced bond-free scholarships for undergraduates at the Singapore Management University, which recently raised tuition fees. Costing the chamber $400,000, it is the first tertiary scholarship programme here undertaken by AmCham, which sees it as an investment in Singapore's human
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        Lock icon George Yeo to visit Japan, China
        46 6 Newsßadio 93.8 Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo will make a trip to Japan and China as part of his introductory visit to the two countries. He will be in Japan from this Sunday for six days before going to China.
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    • Article
      SMS English creeps into the classroom
      336 8  -  Sheralyn Tay sheralyn@newsto day, com. sg IF YOU find yourself substituting "2" for "to", dropping vowels and adding a "z" to your words, chances are you are between the ages of 15 and 29 and part of a growing generation of SMS-sawy youth. A
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      Lock icon S'pore, S Korea media groups to collaborate
      292 8  -  Lee U-Wen JUST 24 hours after a landmark Broadcast Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Singapore and South Korea, talks are underway to take things to the next level. The deal between Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) and its regulatory counterpart, the
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      Lock icon Re-employment plan for 'old economy' staff
      289 8 Channel News Asia THE new Re-employment Assistance Programme (Reap) announced on Wednesday by the Prime Minister will target 12 sectors, said National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) deputy secretary-general Lim Swee Say. In an exclusive interview, he told Channel News Asia that the labour movement
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Bird flu fears rising
      336 12 Agencies Pattern of outbreaks in Vietnam similar to what it was last year HANOI Health experts are bracing for a repeat of last year's bird flu outbreak after the deaths of six people in Vietnam in the last three weeks. Outbreaks among poultry have been reported
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      Lock icon All-out fight to beat dengue epidemic
      174 12 Agencies PUTRAJAYA The Malaysian government ordered an all-out fight against dengue fever after being told that the explosion of cases around the country was likely to get worse. The relevant ministries were told to send their enforcement teams nationwide and come down hard on
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      Lock icon Rushing home for the celebration
      43 12 People struggling to get on a train to leave for their homes to celebrate Eid Al Adha at Tongi station on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday. Muslims celebrate Eid Al Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, today AP
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      Lock icon Single-mother households at a record high in Japan
      151 12 -AFP TOKYO The number of sin-gle-mother households in Japan has surged to a record high of over a million as more women divorce their husbands at childrearing age, according to a government report Single-mother households with a child or children aged under
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      Lock icon Ukraine gets new leader at last
      142 12 AP KIEV Liberal opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as Ukrainian president on Sunday after weeks of political turmoil. The date was set by Ukraine's parliament soon after the Supreme Court confirmed Mr Yushchenko's victory. The court dismissed a final appeal by
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Thieves prefer wine to cash
        73 12 Burglars who broke into a luxury apartment at a Bulgarian ski resort drank the homeowner's wine instead of pocketing thousands of dollars worth of cash and valuables. Ananova.com reported that the thieves deactivated a complicated alarm system, broke through two doors and locked a guard
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        Libido meter invented
        77 12 Scientists from Rambam Hospital in Israel have invented a machine that can measure how randy you are feeling, reported The Sun. The gadget, dubbed the "homometer", calculates whether a person feels sexy by studying electrical activity in the brain. Patients are asked to watch both erotic and
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        China considers setting up post office in Antarctica
        58 12 China is considering setting up a post office in Antarctica after several trial deliveries to the world's southernmost continent. Xinhua news agency reported that if the government decides to go ahead with the service, it will soon be possible to send mail
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      Lock icon Forbidding condom use is to fight fornication: Vatican
      314 14 AFP ROME The Vatican laid down the law on condoms to Roman Catholic bishops across the world yesterday, saying the ultimate aim of forbidding the use of condoms was to discourage fornication. "The use of prophylactics is unacceptable even as a solution
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      Lock icon China to hold Zhao funeral
      466 14 Agencies But it has yet to release an official assessment of the late leader BEIJING The China government has finally agreed to hold a funeral for deposed leader Zhao Ziyang, who died on Monday at the age of 85. "In recent years, we have reformed
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      Exodus: Jews flee France for Israel
      218 14 PARIS Forget Paris. "Making Aliya", or moving up to Israel in Hebrew, has become a buzzword for the 600,000 Jews living in France, with many packing their bags because they are tired of racist attacks. France has the third largest Jewish community in the
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      Lock icon Olive branch for Aceh rebels
      342 15 Agencies Jakarta calls for talks, says amnesty is possible JAKARTA The Indonesian Government plans to resume peace talks with Free Aceh Movement (GAM) leaders later this month, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Hassan Wirayuda. However, the minister declined to speculate on what
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon US, Iran in war of words
        59 15 AFP Iran issued a new warning to the United States yesterday that it would respond to any threat against it, in an escalating war of words between Tehran and Washington, the state news agency Ima reported yesterday. Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi was quoted as
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        Rushdie fatwa revived
        52 15 A fatwa (religious decree) to kill author Salman Rushdie was re-affirmed by Iran's spiritual leader late on Wednesday in a message to Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. AyatolTah Ali Khamenei told Muslims that Mr Rushdie was an apostate whose killing would be authorised by Islam, according to the
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        Death-row reality show axed
        53 15 Thailand's Justice Ministry has halted plans for a TV programme on the last days of inmates facing execution. The Justice Ministry pulled the plug yesterday on the plan to initiate a reality-show programme by installing Web cams in the cells of inmates on death row, The
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      Lock icon Israel security cabinet gives Palestinians 'last chance'
      216 15 DPA JERUSALEM The Israeli security cabinet voted for the resumption of security cooperation with Palestinians, with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet deciding to give the new Palestinian leadership one "last chance" to stop the firing of missiles on Israeli targets. Contacts between the
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      Focus On The Family
      252 16  -  Dr James Dobson TblMTs byi MISTAKEN IDENTITY Sometimes behavior is directly shaped by the opinions of others. I once heard a story about a fellow teacher. During his first year of teaching, two boys, both named Johnny, were in his class. One was a happy child;
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      isay KEEP THE ROAR GOING
      480 16  -  Aaron Ong ON Jan 16, the Singapore national football team did us all proud by winning the Tiger Cup, beating Indonesia in the two-leg final. Even more moving was the fact that the National Stadium was a sea of red a sign that the Kallang
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    • Letter
      Half-hour a day is modest price for 5-day work week: PMO
      249 16  -  JOYCE CHIA Letter from Assistant Director, Public Affairs Public Service Division Prime Minister's Office WE thank Mr Lim Boon Hee for his letter, "No payoff from five-day week" (Jan 10), regarding the implementation of the 5-day work week in
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    • Letter
      Cycling in Singapore getting riskier by the day
      188 18  -  PETER DEAN I Letter from IT WAS great to read an article in a Singapore newspaper that endeavours to promote cycling. In my eight years here in Singapore, cycling has slowly become even more difficult by the day from over-crowded roads, crammed
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    • Letter
      NMP Olsen may not be at fault
      226 18  -  EUGENE TAN No-show at swearing-in may be due to prior commitment to S Korea date I Letter from I REFER to the letter, "NMP Olsen should have changed schedule to attend swearing-in (Jan 19)" by Jason Phoon Wing Oon. He commented that it
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      READERS' SHORT TAKES ON I-CHQS
      226 18 Gary Chia: I was heartened by yesterday's news of Nets' "goodwill" gesture to refund unused i-chqs dining vouchers to those who bought them during a promotion. What dismayed me, however, was that Nets staff at their centre informed me that the i-chqs I had purchased
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      Lock icon Ah Boy fix computer, lah
      744 22  -  mr brown No matter what you tell her, your mum just isn't going to understand what it is you do AFTER working as an Internet project manager for more than five years, my friend still has problems describing what he does for a living to
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  • Business today
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      Lock icon Capita Land partners MGM Mirage, Kerzner
      320 26 Agencies Developer in separate proposals for integrated resort CAPITALAND, Singapore's biggest property developer by assets, plans to tie up with US-based casino operator MGM Mirage and Bahamas-based resort developer Kerzner International to bid for two sites the Singapore Government has set aside for developments
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    • Article
      Lock icon CAO gets more time
      91 26 Dow Jones CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp (CAO) said yesterday it had been granted more time to announce its financial results for the full year ended Dec 31, 2004. The approval from the Singapore Exchange is on the condition that CAO reports its earnings before the
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    • Article
      Lock icon SGX Q2 profit down
      113 26 Bloomberg THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) said its second-quarter profit fell 4.1 per cent as clearing fees for securities dropped because of a decline in trading volume. An average of about 630 million shares were traded daily in the second quarter, down sharply from 1.05 billion a
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      Lock icon Creative's profit falls 72% on one-time costs
      191 26 Bloomberg CREATIVE Technology, whose Zen digital music player competes with Apple Computer's iPod, said fiscal secondquarter profit fell 72 per cent after it wrote off costs from an acquisition. Creative's net profit fell to US$ll.B million ($19.3 million), or 14 US cents a
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    • Market WATCH
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        ST Index — 2,085.39-12.00
        3 26 ST Index 2,085.39-12.00
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        Lock icon Singapore
        186 26 Dow Jones SGX, Bloomberg SHARES closed lower yesterday ahead of the Hari Raya long weekend as Wall Street's poor overnight performance hurt bourses across Asia. The ST Index ended 12 points, or 0.6 per cent, lower at 2,085.39. On the broader market, decliners outnumbered advancers 285 to 156, while
        — Dow Jones; SGX, Bloomberg  -  186 words
      • Article
        SGX most active
        53 26 By volume Close L&M 0.005 China Sun 0.480 SingTel 2.430 BeautyChina 0.955 Bio-Treat 0.725 Broadway 0.535 Junma 0.615 UniFiber 0.260 SembLogDBSeCW*****2 0.290 SembCorp 1.850 Change -0.005 +0.005 +0.010 +0.050 +0.045 +0.015 +0.050 -50.0 +1.1 +0.4 +5.5 +9.2 +2.5 +2.8 'OOO 93,829 59,950 19,874 18,482 16,815 15,769 13,528
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        SGX top rises
        74 26 By Close Change BMT100 85.000 +28.900 F&N 16.600 +0.200 5TIETF100 21.200 +0.200 Iselan(S) 2.830 +0.060 iembCorpDBSeCW*****5 0.420 +0.060 it Trdg 2.470 +0.060 BeaulyChina 0.955 +0.050 ISH500USS 8.350 +0.050 Robinson 6.400 +0.050 SembCorp 1.850 +0.050 By percentage Close BMT100 85.000 PNEIndW*****8 0.015 Change +51.5 +50.0 Eco Water 0.165
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        SGX top falls
        74 26 By Close jealive50 25.700 Change -1.500 IMH 400USS 16.300 -0.400 HSI*****SGAeCW*****0 1.800 -0.160 :realfveDBeCW*****3 0.750 -0.140 :realfveSGAeCW*****0 0.725 :realfveDBeCW*****2 0.520 -0.140 -0.135 DBS 15.700 lardineC&C 10.100 -0.100 -0.100 XBC 13.700 -0.100 XBC4.55SNCPS100 102.100 -0.100 By percentage Close 0.005 Change -50.0 Senefun 20k 0.010 -33.3 :realfveSGAeCW*****6 WediaS Morth
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        Temasek eyes stake in China gas retailer
        336 28  -  Chan Kwai Seng City Gas in talks to form joint ventures in China kwaiseng@newstoday.com.sg CITY GAS, a wholly-owned unit of Temasek Holdings, is in preliminary talks to buy a stake in China gas distributor China Gas Holdings. "We are constantly looking for attractive
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        SPH invests $6.3 million in Thai publisher
        184 28  -  Chan Kwai Seng SPH Magazines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings, has tied up with Thai media company Traffic Corner Holdings in a 148.3-million baht ($6.3 million) deal that will allow the Singapore company to publish magazines in Thailand. Under the agreement,
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        Changi handles record cargo, passengers
        126 28 CHANGI Airport handled 30.35 million passengers and 1.78 million tonnes of cargo last year, its busiest single year, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said yesterday. Passenger traffic through Changi last year was 23.1 per cent higher than in 2003, when regional aviation was hit
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        222 30 Dow Jones OCEAN International Holdings aims to raise about $9 million in net proceeds from its initial public offering (IPO) launched yesterday. The company is offering investors 58.35 million new shares at 21 cents each, it said in a prospectus registered
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        Lock icon China Netcom to take 20% stake in PCCW
        305 30 Bloomberg $1.6b purchase may burnish China's telecoms credentials: Analyst CHINA Network Communications Group Corp (China Netcom), the nation's second-biggest fixed-line phone company, has agreed to pay HK$7.9 billion ($1.65 billion) for 20 per cent of Hong Kong's dominant operator PCCW, gaining a
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        SembCorp unit wins design contract for $613m UK project
        172 30 SEMBCORP Simon-Carves, the process engineering arm of SembCorp Engineers Constructors, has been awarded a contract by leading global chemical producer Huntsman to design the world's largest singlestream low density polyethylene (LDPE) facility. LDPE is used for bulk packaging. The LDPE plant,
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      757 32  -  Jeanine Tan They're out to protect the old and fragile Meet the folks behind Asian Film Archive j eanine@newstoday.com. sg FILM preservation is a race against time. That's how The Film Foundation a film preservation organisation founded by Martin Scorsese and supported by Steven Spielberg,
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      173 32 PEOPLE don't know him but that hasn't deterred Tan Bee Thiam from spearheading the effort to set up a dedicated Singapore film archive. The 26-year-old NUS graduate who spent his final year at Silicon Valley under a scholarship programme for young entrepreneurs said his experience
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      301 32  -  Yong Shu Chiang IF HOLLYWOOD ever decided to film her life story, Canadian singer k d lang has the perfect actor in mind. "They could cast Keanu Reeves to play me," laughed the performer, known for her song Constant Craving. Speaking to Today on the
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        274 34  -  Mervin Tav She will perform at Frances Yip's concert in Feb mervin@newstoday.com.sg FRESH from a holiday in Shanghai, Singapore Idol finalist Olinda Cho is back in action. She will be the special guest at Hong Kong singer Frances Yip's concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Feb
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        218 34 -AP LOS ANGELES TV viewers couldn't wait for their American Idol fix, turning out 33.5 million strong for its season debut No other show this season has attracted so large an audience, and it represented the third-highest ratings night of entertainment programming
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        576 36  -  ROSS WALLACE Harrowing tale of man who saved 1,268 lives FILM REVIEWby" Hotel Rwanda AMID a human tragedy of barely imaginable proportions, how much is a single life worth? That's the timely question at the heart of this fact-based film set during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which tells
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        270 36  -  YONG SHU CHIANG I FILM REVIEW by JENNIFER Gamer plays a cold, hard assassin with an attitude on the TV series Alias. She reprises her Daredevil role as a cold, hard assassin in Elektra. Sooner or later, for her career's sake, she's gotta get out of this type of
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        158 38 AFP SEOUL South Korea's entertainment industry was left reeling yesterday after a confidential document delving into the drug and sex habits of the nation's A-list stars was released on the Internet. The survey by South Korean advertising agency Cheil Communications disclosing
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        267 38  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW^ Shall We Dance THE Ring and The Grudge were well-done crossover hits, but Hollywood hasn't quite got the hang of remaking movies. This long-in-development version of the delightful 1996 Japanese hit, Shall We Dansu?, is a mushy contrivance of a movie, with
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      511 44  -  FA CUP, 3RD ROUND Fergie not impressed as Premiership giants struggle through Exeter 0 Man United 2 MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson's men survived their FA Cup scare, but the Manchester United manager did not express relief. He was far too angry for that In the end, it
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      367 44 AFP LONDON Shaun Wright-Phillips, the terrier snapping at David Beckham's heels in the England squad, will be given his chance to impress in next month's friendly against Holland, head coach Sven-Goran Eriksson confirmed yesterday. But that does not necessarily mean that
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      218 44 LONDON Even the British Government have got involved in the farce. British sports minister Richard Caborn has joined a growing chorus of critics in warning Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger to end their feud, ahead of a potentially explosive clash between the Premiership rivals at Highbury
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      579 45 AFP Indian young hope takes on the mighty Serena TENNIS Australian Open, day 4 MELBOURNE One billion people will be hoping for a minor miracle today. India have discovered a new sporting star other than a cricketer, as petite teenager Sania Mirza (picture) hit the
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      332 45 NBA Portland 101 Cleveland 107 PORTLAND Leßron James turned 15 on Dec 30,1999 the same day Lamar Odom became the youngest player in National Basketball Association (NBA) history to record a triple-double. James bettered him by 34 days on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). He
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      249 44 League I Home Team I Away Team I Match Kick Off M (Singapore date/time) E Premier Southampton Liverpool Sat, 22/01/05 8.45pm E Premier Crystal Palace Tottenham Sat, 22/01/05 11.00pm E Premier Chelsea Portsmouth Sat, 22/01/05 11.00pm E Premier Norwich Middlesbrough Sat, 22/01/05 11.00pm E Premier Birmingham Fulham Sat, 22/01/05 11.00pm
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      26 45 A mm* m I Jan 14-16, 22-23 Feb 5 Singapore Badminton Hall, 100 Guillemard Road 1 Organiser: Title Sponsor: Co-Sponsors: Official Equipment Supported By: Affiliated To:
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      429 46  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE sport is better known for training army units to fight in built-up areas. Now, it could become another medal source for Singapore at this year's XXIII South-east Asia (SEA) Games. Practical shooting, where competitors draw weapons from cowboy-like holsters
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      569 46  -  JOSE RAYMOND Tiger Cup trio approached by Malaysian clubs, but reject move jose@newstoday.com.sg LESS than a week after Singapore lifted the Tiger Cup to be crowned South-east Asian champions, three Lions have been approached by Malaysian clubs. Skipper Aide Iskandar, and strikers Indra Sahdan Daud and Agu Casmir have
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      686 47  -  JASMINE ZHAO After parade, Tiger Cup heroes will present trophy to guest of honour jasmine. zhao@newstoday. com. sg A WEEK ago, Shahril Ishak was a 20-year-old footballer barely known outside of the S-League. Today, the Young Lions midfielder proudly owns a Tiger Cup winners medal,
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      249 47  -  Jasmine Zhao ONE of The region's premier golfing events, the Caltex Masters presented by Carlsberg 2005, will tee off next Thursday at the Laguna National Golf and Country Club. Defending champion Colin Montgomerie will try for back-to-back wins in the US$l million ($1.6 million)
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