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    11 1 TODAY FheaK incorporating utrCHIS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Tuesday June 7,2005 todayonline.com
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    A calculated risk for a new lease on life
    984 1  -  Sheralyn Tay Some get healthy organs removed to beat cancer threat sheralyn@newstoday.com.sg WOULD YOU remove your entire colon to reduce the risk of contracting colon cancer? A few Singaporeans have done so, on the advice of their doctors, because they would
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    Even the President must prove his eligibility again
    461 1  -  Derrick A Paulo derrick@newstoday.com.sg HE HAS occupied Singapore's highest office for the past six years. And he has done such a good job at it that even Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong recently expressed his personal wish for President S R Nathan
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      39 1 NEWSX\YIEWS BValue the key Choosing between airlines isn't just down to price/3 I Say Let Mother Nature select/14 aMano Sabnani SGX gets tough, but will it work?/21 W 11 Pages 23-24 impact Pages 26-27 11 illil|O Health Pages 35-38
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      Lock icon A steady hand and heaps of patience
      549 2  -  Wong Fei Wan Former Chief Justice's death a loss to all, says PM feiwan@newstoday.com.sg POLITICIANS, judges, lawyers, and friends turned up yesterday in droves to pay their last respects to former Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his
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      Lock icon Ching Cheong under house arrest
      207 2 -AFP HONG KONG Chinese security officials have told the wife of detained Hong Kong reporter Ching Cheong that he is being held under house arrest in Beijing, activists campaigning for his release said yesterday. Ms Mary Lav was given the latest news of her husband
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        It's about value, not just price
        705 3  -  Liang Dingzi Consumers choose between airlines based not on cost of tickets, but what they get for each dollar IT HAS become somewhat of a farce to draw a clearly divisible line between socalled full service airlines and budget or low-cost carriers. Eventually, whether
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      Lock icon Qantas shadow over SIA again
      379 4 AFP Airline wants access to Australia-US route, but decision may have to be put off SYDNEY Australian government ministers are expected not to take a final decision on Singapore Airlines' (SIA) demand for access to the lucrative Australia-United States route when they meet to consider
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      Lock icon A 'tall' tribute to a true gentleman
      289 4  -  Loh Chee Kong WHAT first strikes you about the book is not the charming caricature of Singapore's ex-Prime Minister, relaxed and smiling, on its cover, but its height it's a curious 43.8cm tall, with a breadth of 18.4cm. Inside, the pictorial hardback is
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      LIVE update for NewsRadio 93.8FM
      256 6 FROM Monday, Singapore's news and talk radio station MediaCorp's Newsßadio 93.8FM will get a new brand identity entitled 938LNE Gets You Talking. Its expanded interactive talk programmes will give listeners more chances to air their views and chat with newsmakers and experts. For example, Talkback
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      A swimmingly good fundraising project
      310 6  -  Lee U-Wen Youth initiative aims to raise $500,000 for needy u-wen@newstoday.com.sg FOUR young men from the Boys' Brigade are trying to rally 100 swimmers to set a new world record for the most numbers of laps swum in 24 hours. In doing so, they hope
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      Lock icon Probation for teen who dumped baby
      314 8 Channel NewsAsia 2 years' supervision; infanticide charge dropped A TEENAGER, who tossed her day-old baby from a window of her Woodlands flat last November, has been sentenced to 24 months' probation. Hafshah Ansari, 17, was originally charged with infanticide but the charge was reduced
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        Lock icon Thousands apply for National Day tickets
        57 8 Newsßadio 93.8 About 270,000 applications have been received for this year's National Day Parade tickets or funpack coupons. The majority of applications was for tickets to the parade on the Padang on Aug 9. Balloting will be completed by next Wednesday and successful applicants
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        Closer tabs on Hazmat vehicles
        94 8  -  Ansley Ng Vehicles carrying hazardous materials will be intercepted and checked in case they stray off course and approach any government building or other sensitive places. The Singapore Civil Defence Force has set up a new motorcycle unit just for this purpose, its commissioner, Mr
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      162 6 This is a highly prized premier program, one of the best in Southeast Asia. Learn how you can be a strategist in Management where you will see things in a new light, do things in a new way, and to stay a winner above the rest. Master of Science M
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      Lock icon A mirage in the desert
      474 10  -  Clement Mesenas, US' regime-change policy in region 'will lead to violence' Foreign Editor clement@newstoday.com.sg AMERICAN policy-makers, pleased with the way democracy appears to be breaking out in the Middle East with elections in Palestine, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon, and Israel's planned
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      Lock icon Britain shelves EU referendum
      241 10 AFP LONDON Britain announced yesterday that it was shelving plans for a referendum on the European Union (EU) constitution until its fate became clearer, driving another stake into the heart of the beleaguered treaty. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in a statement to Parliament confirmed the widely-expected
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      Lock icon Amnesty trains guns on US, which fires back
      290 11 Bush rubbishes claim about 'archipelago of prisons' WASHINGTON The United States government is operating an "archipelago" of prisons around the world, many of them secret camps into which people are "being literally disappeared", a top Amnesty International official said. The gulag claim,
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      Red tape forces top builder to stop projects in Penang
      159 11 KUALA LUMPUR Fed up with red tape and numbing bureaucracy in Penang, Malaysian hotelier and property developer Low Yow Chuan is close to pulling out of ever doing any projects on the island. "We spent 50 years investing (in Penang)
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      Lock icon Blast kills 53 in Nepal
      126 11 -AFP KATHMANDU At least 53 people were killed and 40 injured in south-western Nepal when a crowded bus was bombed by suspected Maoist rebels yesterday, state radio and officials said. The powerful blast occurred in the district of Chitwan, about 180km south-west of Kathmandu, early
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      Spying, the Chinese way
      287 12 'A million raindrops flowing into the Amazon/ says expert SYDNEY "A million raindrops flowing into the Amazon," is how one China specialist, Mr David Kelly of Singapore's East Asian Institute, describes the modus operandi of Chinese espionage, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. A Chinese diplomat
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      Lock icon Australia left me out to dry, says defector
      252 12 Agencies A former Chinese diplomat, who tried to defect to Australia, has been told his application for asylum has been rejected. Mr Chen Yonglin (picture) has been distraught after nis meetings with Australian officials last month, said Mr Chin Jin, a spokesman
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      Lock icon Fears mount for child victims of African black magic in UK
      330 12 AFP LONDON Police fear that dozens of children may be victims of black magic in Britain, and that a case last week of three adults found guilty of torturing a young girl whom they believed to be a "witch"
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      Return loot Chelsea boss told
      263 13 Gorbachev's swipe at Abramovich MOSCOW Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has called on wealthy Russians such as British football club Chelsea's boss Roman Abramovich (picture) to return their "plundered" wealth to their homeland, reported The Daily Telegraph. Russian billionaires such as Mr Abramovich allegedly
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Breaks on '4' cabs
        51 13 AFP Taxis with "unlucky" number plates in Shanghai will stop operating during university entrance exams this week, the China Daily said yesterday. All cabs with number plates ending with the number 'four', which shares the same pronunciation as 'failure' in the Shanghai dialect, will not be
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        Workers ordered to party
        54 13 Public workers in the poor Argentine town of 9 de Julio are up in arms after they were ordered to attend mayor Hugo Uzair's birthday party, ananova.com reported citing the Clarins newspaper. To add insult to injury, Mr Uzair has also made them buy tickets for
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        Lock icon Granny bust for prostitution
        31 13 AP New Jersey police made a surprising discovery when they bust the alleged madam of a prostitution ring: The woman running the show was an 80-year-old grandmother.
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      Lock icon Sowing soup seeds
      96 13 For people who find cracking open a can of Campbell's Soup too easy a meal option, Japanese company World Flower Service is offering a back-to-basics version: The vegetable seeds themselves. The seeds come in a tin which looks just like the red-and-white Campbell's can immortalised by artist
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      142 12 CoLLecje of Singapore (Affiliated to the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka) Intake is now open for Diploma in Buddhism Closing Date 20 June 2005 SUBJECTS: 1. Early Buddhism 2. Buddhist Social Dimensions 3. Geographical Expansion of Buddhism 4. Early History of Buddhism 5. Pali (Elementary) DURATION OF THE
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    Focus On The Family
    232 14  -  Dr James Dobson TbiMrs by, HOW TOUGH IT IS TO BE A PARENT Just how tough is it to be a good parent today? A couple of years ago, I asked one thousand mothers and fathers to describe their greatest frustrations in raising kids. I heard
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      isay LET MOTHER NATURE SELECT
      653 14  -  Frances Ong Hock Lin IN THE early 1980s when I took my Eurasian boyfriend home to meet my parents and grandparents, they were civil to him. Over the months when he was courting me, my family made it known that he was not a suitable
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      Unfair to take so much commission
      125 16  -  ISHWAR MAHTANI Letter from I REFER to your report, "Agencies want 4 days off a month for maids" (June 6). It seems rather unfair that domestic maids are made to pay the agency eight months' salary in order to secure their work commitments in
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      ez-link at libraries?
      117 16  -  SEAHCHENfHiwEE^^ I Letter from I REFER to the letter "No CashCard, so child misses fun" (June 6). Many agencies have included ez-link as a mode of payment. It is unfortunate that ez-link payment is only available in a few community libraries. As a non-driver, I do not
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      Change, not charge, the solution
      303 16  -  ESTHER CHUAAI LIN Supermarts, customers need mindset change Letter from I REFER to the article "Lead the way, FairPrice: Charge for the plastics" (June 6). "Charge!" seems to be the cry of Singaporeans when it comes to solving any social problems. Take the ERP as
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      sayagain?
      49 16 Would it not be nice if Singapore becomes a leader in tackling this challenge? To me, this is even more important and meaningful than climbing any mountain or sailing any ocean, or for that matter, being an idol. Dr Ng Swee Ching, on reducing usage of plastic bags
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      Lame excuses reflect the uphill task of changing habits
      264 16  -  EILEEN LEOW I Letter from I AM very glad to read your report on the use of plastic bags usage. I have been carrying my own plastic bags to supermarkets and the reactions I get are: One or two of the
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  • Businesstoday
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      Vantage gets second offer
      479 18  -  Christie Loh Global Advisory Group's 25 cents-a-share bid values firm at $65 million christie@newstoday.com.sg BUSINESSMAN and property developer Simon Cheong Sae Peng is getting a run for his money. Just under two months after he put in an offer for Vantage Corp the former magazine publisher
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      Lock icon Vietnam's Pacific Airlines to sell 30% stake to Temasek
      168 18 Dow Jones HANOI Vietnam's Pacific Airlines will sell a 30-per-cent stake to Temasek Holdings in the second half of this year, the airline's director said yesterday. Pacific Airlines is Vietnam's secondbiggest carrier after Vietnam Airlines. "We have agreed to sell the
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        Lock icon Malaysia's Commerce Asset-Holding to merge investment, commercial banking units
        318 20 Bloomberg COMMERCE Asset-Holding, Malaysia's second-largest lender, said yesterday it would combine its commercial and investment banking units to create a bank with RM9B billion ($43 billion) of assets as it plans acquisitions to expand overseas. The state-controlled lender will sell its
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      • Market WATCH
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          World markets
          57 20 ndex Value hange Pis Nikkei 225 11,270.62 -29.43 -0.26 Hang Seng 13,860.55 +42.10 +0.30 Ordinaries 4,154.60 +5.40 +0.13 laiwan Wtd 6,137.57 +29.62 +0.48 Korea Comp Closed KLCI 871.97 +6.09 +0.70 SET Index 682.30 +5.60 +0.83 lakarta Comp 1,096.83 +4.33 +0.40 Phils Comp 2,051.04 +28.55 +1.41 Shenzhen B 220.72
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          SGX most active
          56 20 By volume Close Change '000 \CCS 0.140 -0.010 -6.7 35,151 iembMar 2.090 +0.030 +1.5 32,395 JniFiber 0.350 +0.020 +6.1 28,100 Chartered 1.270 +0.050 +4.1 26,177 Capitaland 2.320 +0.050 +2.2 19,812 'Food 0.925 +0.015 +1.6 17,924 .&M 0.005 17,119 3lobalVaice 0.060 +0.005 +9.1 15,014 SingTel 2.620 -0.010 -0.4
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          SGX top rises
          67 20 /enture 15.800 +0.301 F&N 15.300 +0.201 IMH400USS 17.900 +0.201 KepCorp 12.100 +0.201 Robinson 6.100 +0.201 SPCSGAeCW*****2 0.535 +0.15! MOL DB eCW*****0 0.780 +0.13! >PCCAeCW*****8 0.920 +0.13: KepLand 2.480 +0.131 iPC 4.500 +0.121 By percentage A-SonicW*****0 0.015 +200.1 Digiland 0.015 +50.1 Goldlron 0.015 +50.1 !ACSGAeCW*****0 0.060 +50.1 SPC
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          SGX top falls
          71 20 By$ OCBC4.55SNCPS100 101.600 -2.100 Creative 50 12.800 -0.200 CaptalandDBeCW***** 0.430 -0.140 SIA 11.400 -0.100 SIA200 11.400 -0.100 SpLand 5.450 -0.100 ST Engg DB eCW*****0 0.425 -0.075 Hyflux 3.960 -0.060 HyfluxCAeCW*****5 1.060 -0.060 By percentage STIDB ePW*****5 0.010 -50.1 telon 0.050 -37.. jealiveeCW*****2 0.030 -33.: FJBen W*****6 0.010
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          Lock icon Singapore
          77 20 Dow Jones SHARES rose yesterday, boosted by late buying in index-linked stocks. The ST Index rose 8.71 points, or 0.4 per cent, to a four-year high of 2,201.38. In the broad market, gainers outnumbered losers 256 to 1 75, with traded volume amounting to 708.1 million shares worth $708.9
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 20 us$ 0.6009 UK£ 0.3299 Yen 64.335 HK$ 4.6770 RM 2.2808 Euro 0.4899 Rupiah Baht 5,765.5 24.381 Peso 32.785 A$ 0.7883 Indian Rs Won 26.178 606.11 C$ 0.7493 Yuan 4.9743 NZ$ NTS 0.8505 18.765
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          Lock icon Commodities
          21 20 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Sold US$/oz iilver us$/m 7.53. 'latinum us$/m 874.51 iubber ansAg 240.51 'aim Oil RM/tonne 1,39.
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          Beware the debt trap
          522 21 OFTEN people run into financial trouble because they borrow too much and have difficulties repaying their debts. If you do not want debt to rule your future, it is important to put a lid on your borrowings. There are a couple of ratios you can calculate
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          SGX GETS TOUGH, BUT WILL IT WORK?
          675 21  -  Mano Sabnani THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) recently announced several initiatives to enhance standards of corporate governance among listed companies. One of the key changes relates to independent directors. Each listed company has to have two such directors on a continuous basis. For foreign
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        Two firsts for a Singaporean
        369 22  -  Chow Penn Nee The new Citibank China consumer banking head targets expansion there pennnee@newstoday.com.sg CITIBANK veteran Lee Ah Boon is about to achieve his second "first" at the US bank. Mr Lee, the outgoing head of Citibank's consumer business in Singapore, was appointed last week
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        QAF takes 55% of China Food
        226 22 FOOD firm QAF has succeeded in its bid to take a 55-per-cent stake in pork specialist China Food Industries (CFI). At the close of its voluntary conditional cash partial offer yesterday, QAF received valid acceptances in respect of about 142.47 million shares, or 81.1
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    • the business of marketing
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        Lock icon Gift-giving pays off for these winners
        320 26  -  Dawn Quek BUYING presents for their loved ones turned out to be rewarding indeed for three lucky contestants who won $500 each in the first of eight weekly Shop To Win Today draws. Mr Justin Huang, a sales executive stationed in Shanghai, China, bought
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        Lock icon The Besta way to good business
        463 26  -  Lyn Chan Persistence and the ability to see potential pays for this marketer news@newstoday.com.sg THE success story of Besta International Trading (Besta) is a tale of perseverance. Incorporated in 1990 to distribute computerised dictionary devices as its core business, Besta faced countless rejections from
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          Cathay Pacific named airline of the year
          67 26  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Cathay Pacific has just been named the Airline of the Year 2005 by Skytrax. It was also named airline with the Best Intercontinental First Class. The survey of the world's top 1 0 airlines, nominated by over 12 million passengers,
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          Learn to market smart
          65 26 The Chicago Graduate School Of Business and the Singapore Management University are launching their first marketing programme in Asia. Strategic Marketing: Creating Your Competitive Advantage will run from July 1 1 to 1 3 and aims to equip participants with the skills to solve marketing challenges.
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    • Wealth your personal finance special
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        A financial adviser's value add
        519 23  -  Valerie Law Advice given by such professionals should also cover estate planning: Expert valerie@newstoday.com.sg WHAT makes you go to a financial adviser for help? Certainly not by the products they push, Mr Guy Baker, the author of Why People Buy and Investment Alchemy told Today
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        Have oil prices peaked?
        631 24  -  Bharathi Raj an news@newstoday.com.sg IN THE last two years, there has been a surge in interest in commodities, largely the result of a substantial increase in commodity prices, notably oil, gold and metals such as copper, aluminium, zinc and tin. Of these, oil is the most
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    • Impact
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        Lock icon Spinning the right image
        765 27  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Local companies too focused on sales and short-term gains shobha@newstoday.com.sg FOR a successful European brand manager who had just arrived in Singapore, it was an eye-opener to see a Government-linked company like Singapore Airlines (SIA) leading the country, if not the region, in
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        Want to create a unique brand? Bend the rules and break the norms, says expert
        319 27  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla SINGAPORE is such a small and complex market that marketers here need to find ways of surprising consumers and refreshing their brands, said European marketing maven Lars Wallentin at a recent workshop
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    • Infotech solutions for business
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        Lock icon Demystifying the romance of Linux
        815 28  -  Ariel Tam Don't just rely on a 'gut feel', look at facts, says Microsoft man anel@newstoday.com.se THE battle between Linux and Windows is an age-old one. Linux advocates laud the freedom and flexibility of the open source platform while the Windows camp promises stronger support
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        Madagascar- Furry dancing animals, courtesy of Hewlett-Packard workstations
        434 28  -  Ariel Tam YOU'VE seen the frenetic dancing lemurs and the cute wobbling penguins in Dreamworks' latest animation movie, Madagascar. And you probably guessed that producing such sophisticated computer-generated (CG) animation would take an enormous amount of computing resources. To ensure that it
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        546 43 -AFP Clay king Nadal says he still has too much to learn to conquer London's hallowed grasscourts PARIS Newly-crowned French Open champion Rafael Nadal has played down a repeat Grand Slam success at Wimbledon, with the 19-year-old insisting his career is still a work in progress.
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        449 44 Agencies With Real striker out, rising young Santos star shines alongside Ronaldinho WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Brazil 4 Paraguay 1 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil There was a concern that the boys from Brazil might struggle against South American rivals Argentina without Ronaldo. The two teams at the top
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        315 44 AP GOLF PGA Memorial DUBLIN, Ohio Bart Bryant (picture) hit some dramatic shots at the PGA Memorial, even if no one seemed to notice until an unlikely par on the final hole gave him a one-shot victory over Fred Couples. Bryant stole the
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        744 45  -  ERIC DING Under-18s must now overcome traditional rivals to retain trophy LION CITY CUP, UNDER-18 Singapore Team A 1 Singapore Team B 0 sports@newstoday.com.sg FOR the second consecutive year, V Sundrammoorthy has guided his boys to the Lion City Cup Final. His Singapore Team A
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        347 45  -  CUBBYLEONG LION CITY CUP, UNDER-16 S'pore Team A 1 S'pore Team B 1 cubby@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S Team A and Team B did each other no favours last night, when they battled to a 1-1 draw in their under--16 Lion City Cup clash at
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