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  • 22 1 TODAY /V\=LjJP,CORP MICA (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating utT6£itS Wednesday June 29,2005 todayonline.com TODAY /AeojaCorp incorporating iMTCfttS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Wednesday June 29,2005 todayonline.com
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  • 727 1  -  Ansley Ng Along with lOC glamour comes security burden ansley@newstoday.com.sg THE smiles have been perfected. But as Singapore prepares to hold the 117 th International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting to choose the host country of the 2012 Summer Olympics, one group has its guard up. For eight months,
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  • 617 1  -  Jasmine Yin jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg SHE pulled a face and then shook her head in resignation. "He talks too much," said Madam Ng Ah Kuy, 85, in Cantonese. "But since he likes to talk, I just let him be." Upon hearing this, Mr
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  • hot news
    • 612 2  -  Jasmine Yin Govt schemes will help needy help themselves jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg RECOGNISING that the income gap between the rich and the poor is growing, the Government has set up a ministerial committee to help low-income workers. The Ministerial Committee on Low Wage Workers,
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    • 330 4 Agencies World's 11th richest man was piloting aircraft BENTONVILLE (Arkansas) Mr John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and a member of the company's board, died in a plane crash in Wyoming, United States. Mr Walton, 58, of Jackson, Wyoming, was piloting
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 86 4 -AFP Indian forest guards fighting timber thieves in the eastern state of Jharkhand are being frightened off by women who start stripping and yelling for help when their male accomplices are arrested, media reports said yesterday. "We end up releasing the culprits to avoid trouble," said Mr
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      • 90 4 AP The head of a Malaysia's Kedah state has ordered his coalition's legislators to learn how to catch snakes so that they can help people in distress, a newspaper reported yesterday. "Elected representatives must be able to help people in distress, including knowing how to catch
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      • 640 3  -  Liang Dingzi Rejecting Qantas' overtures could prove costly for Singapore if Emirates comes into the frame IN THE aftermath of the failed negotiations to allow Singapore Airlines (SIA) access to the trans-Pacific route out of Sydney, Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile proposed
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      • 136 3 A SINGAPORE-owned tanker and its crew, suspected of spilling oil off the coast of Johor, has been detained in the state's Pasir Gudang Port, a state official said yesterday. "The chemistry department is doing a test to find out if the oil in the water
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  • singapore news
    • 461 6  -  Dawn Quek dawn@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Mumbai Se opened at Palais Renaissance last year, it redefined shopping for Singaporeans and visitors. Walk into the 5,0005q ft store and pick out the latest designer outfit from top contemporary Indian designers. On the spot, choose a piece from the
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    • 460 6  -  Loh Chee Kong S'porean parents don't understand their kids: Survey cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE tables have been turned. Parents, who fix their child with a disapproving gaze when the teenager brings an indifferent report card home, suddenly find themselves being graded by their children. In a
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    • 493 8  -  Lee U-Wen UNSW Asia's green campus set to open in 2009 u-wen@newstoday.com.sg GREEN will be the colour of choice at Singapore's first private research and teaching university when it opens in 2009. In announcing design plans for its new 22-hectare Changi campus, Australia's
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      • 89 10 Channel News Asia The Public Utilities Board (PUB) has assured the people that its reservoirs are safe. Responding to queries on the drowning of a 15-year-old boy, Ang Zijian, last Saturday, it said PUB operations were not a reason behind the boy's drowning. It
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      • 61 10 Channel News Asia A non-practising doctor convicted of hurting her maid has been suspended for six months by the Singapore Medical Council. Lim May Ling, a homemaker who had not practised since 1 999, was convicted of injuring her maid by scalding her with a
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      • 61 10 Channel News Asia The popular Raffles Marketplace in the basement of Raffles City will be extended by almost two-fold, to 80,000 sq ft of retail and dining space. It will connect shoppers to the new Circle Line Convention Centre MRT station, due to be ready by
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    • 442 10  -  Derrick A Paulo Katong Convent teacher among top education award winners derrick@newstoday.com.s.g THE saying goes that life is a canvas waiting to be painted. In Ms Felicia Low's art classroom at CHIJ Katong Convent (Secondary), it is the painted canvas that is often a student's life.
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    • 102 10 In-service training for teachers now includes courses that can be accredited to a master's programme, in subjects such as English and areas like Early Childhood, said Mr Tharman. About 1 00 teachers in mainstream primary schools are being trained for a certificate in
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    • 717 11 REPLACING the aluminium window rivets in his Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat is now something Mr Lim Kirn Chuan can happily strike off from his list of To-Dos. "I found a contractor with the help of my HDB Branch Office.They have a list of approved window
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  • world news
    • 424 12 Agencies After her stunning confession, opposition seeks her ouster MANILA Philippines President Gloria Arroyo came under intense pressure yesterday to quit after she sensationally owned up to improperly calling an election official during last year's presidential vote count Even her supporters said she must regain the
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    • 87 12 Dennis Rader, 60, turns from the defence table in Wichita, Kansas, after admitting guilt on Monday to 10 charges of first degree murder.. The one-time president of the Christ Lutheran Church council and Boy Scout leader, admitted killing 10 people in the Wichita
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    • 167 12 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have arrested a serial rapist who targeted foreigners by disguising himself as a hotel staff member, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. So far, the 38-year-old former convict is suspected of raping three victims at various hotels in Kuala Lumpur and Jalan
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    • 295 14 AP HONG KONG The crowded newspaper market in Hong Kong is set for another round of fierce competition with the arrival of a second free daily newspaper. Mr Shih Wing Ching, chairman of the city's biggest unlisted real estate agencies,
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    • 153 14 VIRGINIA A pregnant woman declared brain-dead from terminal cancer has been placed on a life-sup-port machine in the hope of saving her unborn child. However, time is running out for Ms Susan Torres, 26. The doctors in the Arlington hospital where she is being kept
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    • 187 14 LONDON Research has found that Vitamin C will do nothing to stop you catching a cold. A review of 55 studies has shown that even large, regular doses of the vitamin do not reduce the risk of contracting the common cold, The Times reported.
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    • 587 15  -  Sanjay Kapoor But even they gain with this India-Singapore agreement news@newstoday.com.sg NEW DELHI When Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signs the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) treaty with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today, he will be hoping that this path-breaking accord will not
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    • 117 16 TEHRAN An Iranian court has sentenced a man to having his eyes surgically removed for a crime he had committed as a teenager 12 years ago, London's Independent newspaper reported, quoting the Iranian daily Etemaad. Amnesty International has condemned the sentence,
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    • NEWSanalysis
      • 731 16  -  Anil Netto -IPS M'sian civil society groups worry that the government may go back on its word news(gnewstoday.com.sg PENANG Malaysian civil society groups scored a stunning victory recently when the government announced it was scrapping plans to federalise and privatise the management of water, but
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    • 443 17 The Guardian US Supreme Court ruling holds peer-to-peer software makers liable for illegal sharing of music WASHINGTON The entertainment industry has scored a landmark victory in its effort to crack down on the illegal file-sharing of music and films. In a ruling on
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    • 132 17 -AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday ordered the re-arrest of 13 men linked to the interna-tionally-condemned gang rape of a woman, including members of a village council who sanctioned the assault. Victim Ms Mukhtaran Mai who has become an icon for her pursuit of justice and
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 67 17 United Malays National Organisation (Umno) vicepresident Mohd Isa Abdul Samad should quit all party posts, party president and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has said. However, he said Mr Isa could remain in the Cabinet, pending his appeal over his six-year suspension from the party,
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      • 110 17 -AFP Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yester- day sent a short text message to millions of mobile phone users calling on them to help fight the alarming rise in drug abuse. "Halt drug abuse ana drug crimes right now. Let us save and build our nation
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    • 236 18  -  Dr James Dobson Tbnsrs by j RAISE YOUR CHILD'S IQ According to Dr. Burton White at Harvard University, there are six factors that contribute to the intellectual capacity of the child, and we discussed the first three helpful environmental factors yesterday. They were: 1) The most
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    • 51 18 A wife who gives in to her spouse makes him a more responsible husband, and gives the children a role model to follow. So educator and mum Frances Ong Hock Lin argued, in her commentary yesterday, "To love ...is to obey". Here's what some readers had to
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    • 290 18  -  CINDY TAN WE DON'T AGREE Letter from I TRULY admire Ms Ong's unconditional love for her husband, learning to submit to him even though she is someone who, "at work (does) not believe in the glass ceiling for women". However, I disagree
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    • 242 18  -  GAURAV MISRA I Letter from I AM an adult male from the Indian subcontinent, where men still look upon women as objects. I grew up in a society where women have been repeatedly tortured, within match-made marriages, by their husbands
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    • 196 19  -  CELIA HAN I Letter from I WAS born in the late 1970s and was brought up believing in equality of the sexes. Yet, this has not caused me any confusion as to how to treat my husband. I recognise the difference between "obey" and
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    • 141 19  -  JOHN HO I WE AGREE I Letter from EXCELLENT article. In today's politically correct world, it would be suicidal for many women, and men more so, to agree with this article. I praise Ms Ong for seeing the wisdom of her beliefs, her commitment
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    • 218 19  -  KATHINE LAU I Letter from I GOT married recently and found it indeed difficult to play the "submissive" wife. Several months into a marriage with a man I love wholeheartedly and whom I have known for almost a decade, we have encountered problems regarding
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    • 176 19  -  CHUA SWEE KIAT Letter from§ General Manager Corporate Communications, M 1 I REFER to Michael Chua Kheng Hwee's letter "Cell-phone account fraud with stolen IC" (June 25). We wish to assure Mr Chua that the letter he received from Ml recently was not
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    • 735 20  -  Mr Miyagi A quiet dinner meeting with top M'sian blogger turns riotous LAST WEEK, it seemed as if Kenny Sia (www.kennysia.com) was the most popular Malaysian in town. The winner of the Malaysian bloggers' Blog of the Year Award (www.petalingstreet.org) arrived here on Saturday, informing only a
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    • 191 21  -  TAN KOK KIM Letter from I REFER to Lav Wah Yuen's letter, "Give rebates not low fares" (June 28) Operating budget airlines is one way to encourage more tourists to visit Singapore and bring in "invisible earnings". But how can we increase our GDP
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    • 213 21  -  JOHN MURRAY To Aussies, questioning courts is a tradition I Letter from I REFER to Charles Tan's news comment, "When strangeness breeds hostility" (June 28). He said that "when the Bali bombers got their due, no one said the legal system was flawed". Nothing could be
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    • 143 21  -  HAN LIANG YUAN Letter from I Senior Manage^^^^^ Corporate Communications Land Transport Authority I REFER to Ms Wee Su Mien's comments about poles near the bus stop on the sidewalk along Dunearn Road (June 23). The poles are safety bollards that were
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    • READERS' SHORT TAKES
      • 72 21 With the announcement of a comprehensive development plan for Orchard, it would be opportune for the Land Transport Authority and the Singapore Tourism Board to explore a covered pedestrian mover system.This could comprise travelators and/or a monorail between malls and hotels and linking
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      • 73 21 Recently, we saw an SCDF crew in action. A woman was threatening to jump from a 10th floor window ledge. The SCDF crew laid out an air bag and were in position within minutes. The nerve-wracking part was watching the Disaster Assistance
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  • Businesstoday
    • 234 22 Bloomberg SUNTEC Reit, which owns Suntec City, Singapore's biggest complex of downtown office buildings and shopping mall, will expand its assets by between 40 per cent and 50 per cent this year, said Mr Justin Chiu, chairman of the
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    • 160 22 Dow Jones SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said yesterday it was monitoring the rise in oil prices and its impact on operating costs. "Continuing high oil and jet fuel prices are a concern and we are tracking the trends closely," an SIA spokesman said, but did
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    • 462 22 Bloomberg Lower forecasts by maker of Soundßlaster and Zen spook investors SHARES of Creative Technology, whose MP3 music players compete with Apple Computer's iPod, yesterday fell to their lowest level in more than two years after the company cut its sales forecast and said
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    • 105 22 Bloomberg Singapore-listed Cosco Corp, a unit of China's biggest shipping firm, China Ocean Shipping Company, said yesterday it won four orders from Greek and Middle Eastern shipowners worth a total of USS2O.S million ($34 million) to convert single-hulled oil tankers into double-hulled ones at its Chinese shipyards. G X
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    • 248 23  -  Valeric Law STX Pan Ocean, the first South Korean company to list on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), aims to raise as much as $762 million from its initial public offering (IPO). The leader in dry bulk shipping in South Korea will sell
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    • 239 23  -  Chow Perm Nee THE first fully-residential 99-year leasehold site to be put up for collective sale has been sold, but a final hurdle needs to be cleared before the deal is finalised. Mainboard-listed Ho Bee Group has bought Evian Condominium for $21
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    • Market WATCH
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      • 89 23 BLUE chips ended lower yesterday on continued concerns over high oil prices and as Creative plummeted on news of a cut in its fourth-quarter forecasts. The ST Index fell 9.1 points, or 0.41 per cent, to 2,197.61. In the broad market, however, gainers beat losers 242 to 1 72,
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      • 53 23 Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Pis 11,513.83 +99.55 14,287.44 +111.40 +0.87 +0.79 All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 4,222.00 +30.80 6,316.84 +13.85 +0.73 +0.22 Korea Comp 994.74 +3.63 +0.37 KLCI 894.67 +3.44 +0.39 SET Index Closed Jakarta Comp Closed Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,955.20 -8.30 222.29 -3.51 -0.42 -1.55 Mumbai Sensex
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      • 26 23 SGI i Bloomberg Information provided by jom us$/oi iilver us$/oi 'latinum us$/oz 7.215 888.00 iubber centsAg 'aim oil RM/tonne irent crude US$/barrel 256.50 1,409 58.82
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      • 75 23 By Close Change CrealiveMBLePW*****6 1.270 +0.290 By percentage Close KPlas 0.085 Change +54.5 SingamasC 2kHKS 5.700 +0.200 ChinaEnlSp 0.020 +33.3 HSI *****DBeCW*****9 1.400 +0.150 CrealiveMBLePW*****6 1.270 +29.6 STIETF100 22.750 +0.110 JurTechDBeCW*****0 0.240 +26.3 F&N 15.700 +0.100 BBR 0.025 +25.0 OUE 9.100 +0.100 China Dairy W*****4 0.050 +25.0
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      • 77 23 By$ Close Change By percentage Close Change Creative 50 11.300 -1.200 DBSMBLeCW*****8 0.005 -66.7 Jariline C&C 13.000 -0.300 OCBC SGAeCW*****4 0.125 -34.2 DBS 14.100 -0.200 Creative DBeCW*****6 0.075 -28.6 DBS Bk6% NCPS10 107.800 -0.200 LANKomElec 0.130 -25.7 KepCorp 12.400 -0.200 Acma 0.030 -25.0 OCBC 11.300 -0.200 CrealiveMBLeCW*****2
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      • 36 23 us$ UK£ 0.5953 0.3268 Peso A$ 33.175 0.7745 Yen HK$ RM 65.405 4.6263 2.2624 Indian Rs Won C$ 25.921 607.88 0.7340 Euro Rupiah Baht 0.4919 5,775.2 24.541 Yuan NZ$ NTS 4.9285 0.8444 18.724
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    • 747 24  -  Francis Kan Business Editor francis@newstoday.com.sg THE stock market is an unforgiving place for companies that don't keep their promises. Mr Sim Wong Hoo is learning this lesson in the starkest way as investors punish his company, Creative Technology, for failing to deliver on some bold promises
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    • 323 24 -AFP BEIJING China said yesterday that it opposed any political interference in state-run energy firm CNOOC Ltd's US$lB.5-billion ($3l-billion) bid to buy US oil major Unocal. "The economic cooperation between China and the US serves the interests of both sides. The bid by
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    • 169 24 -AFP WORLD oil prices eased yesterday, but remained within striking distance of US$6l per barrel amid doubts that global refining capacity can meet ferocious global demand from China and the United States. New York's light sweet crude dipped 45 US cents
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    • the business of enterprise
      • 710 25  -  Val Chua It has taken Viki Chang's Procems Asia Pacific just 15 months to take a regional lead val@newstoday.com.sg VOCAL businesswomen are hard to come by in Singapore, especially one who wants to supplant Hyflux boss Olivia Lum as the poster
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      • 213 25 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE'S logistics firms can take advantage of the flow of goods passing between smaller Chinese ports and Japan through South Korea, analysts at a trade symposium said yesterday. But they warned that the South Korean business environment is a challenging one.
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    • 827 26  -  Zul Othman ENG KONG Slipknot's coming, but there's no need to lock up your children: The news@newstoday.com.sg SLIPKNOT is accustomed to disgusting its audiences. Judging by its morbid, creepy image, it's even safe to say that the heavy metal band revels in doing that. The nine-piece outfit
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      • 59 26 Stages will present Poetic License, a "vividly dramatised collection of poems of love, desire, despair and Dettol in our urban lives". The cast will bring to life poetry by Alfian Sa'at, Paul Tan, Felix Cheong and other local poets. Poetic License will be held at the Singapore
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      • 60 26 Theatre Works' 24-Hour Playwriting Competition returns for the eighth year and will be held on July 16 and 17attheSPH News Centre. Five "stimuli" will be introduced by the Gamemaster at various intervals to inspire contestants. Registration closes on July 1 and the contest is limited to 1 00
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      • 67 26 Hype Gallery is calling for artists and art students to submit original digital artworks that will be displayed at the Arts House from July 9 to August 3. Launched in London and Paris last year, Singapore is the third city to host the gallery. All artworks
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      • 62 26 After representing Singapore at the Venice Biennale, Lim TzayChuen will showcase his new work, simply titled A Work By lim Tzay-Chuen, until July 31 at LaSalle-SIA College of the Art's Earl Lv Gallery, me installation will epitomise Lim's unique engagement with art. The gallery, at 90 Goodman
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      • 59 26 This Saturday, let your hair down at Liberation Wonderland Remix, a large-scale overnight dance party at the Sentosa Fountain Garden. Local DJs such as KoFlow, Titus and Feng will spin electronica, techno, R&B and breakbeats at two dance arenas from 9pm until 6am. Tickets are available through
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    • 316 27  -  Meryin Tay Get ready to vote for your favourite Project SuperStar contestant mervin@newstoday.com.sg cute, the good-looking and J. the soulful perform in the second male quarter-finals of Project SuperStar tonight at 8.30 on MediaCorp TV Channel U. Will the judges' scores and comments continue to influence viewers as
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    • 331 27  -  David Chew SINCE 2001, the Singapore Arts Festival has been growing in strength. Especially, if you consider the festival's total attendance for ticketed and non-ticketed events. Last year's record-breaking attendance figures of 916,700 was much celebrated by the National Arts Council (NAC).
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      • 258 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang Hong Kong film makes more than $1m at the box office ON its first lap in cinemas, Hong Kong blockbuster Initial D raced to the top spot at the local box office and sped past the $lmillion mark in the process.
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    • 610 33 Agencies CONFEDERATIONS CUP FINAL Brazil v Argentina FRANKFURT To those old enough to remember, the European football season traditionally was played in winter and used to enjoy a three-month break in the summer. More than anyone, Manchester United's Argentine defender Gabriel Heinze knows now the game never
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    • 355 33 Agencies LONDON Once, the biggest names in football were inescapably linked to Stamford Bridge. Now it seems no one wants to join them. Chelsea are running out of options in their search for a top quality hitman, after Atletico Madrid fended off an inquiry
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    • 260 33 LONDON Portsmouth midfielder Laurent Robert (right) has launched a stinging attack on Graeme Souness, warning his former boss that he is on track to be fired. The Frenchman believes the Magpies would have lifted the 2005 Uefa Cup but for the manager. The 30-year-old winger moved to
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      609 34  -  CUBBYLEONG Women's golf does not get better than this and best of all, they will do battle in Singapore cubby@newstoday.com.sg THE US take on the Europeans in the biennial Ryder Cup and it is possibly the most storied team golf competition in the world. While the Solheim
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    • 479 34  -  Cubby Leong IN FRANKFURT today, Fifa are expected to confirm Australia's entry into the Asia Football Confederation (AFC). Australia will then become the 46th AFC national association, but while it is geographically closest to the Asean region, Today understands that the green and
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    • 709 35  -  TAN YO-HINN 'Bad boy' Olympic champTaufik hits out at critics BADMINTON Aviva Open Singapore 2005 yohinn@newstoday.com.sg ALL SPORTS have their great characters. Diego Maradona and Eric Cantona (football) and John McEnroe (tennis) have excited, angered and unnerved, sometimes all at the same time.
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    • 141 35 Men's singles, round of 64 9am: Ronald Susilo (Sin) v Andrew Dabeka (Can) 1.30pm: Chen Yu (Chn) v Sony Dwi Kuncoro (Ina); Xia Xuanze (Chn) v Sato Shoji xl 4 (Jpn) 2.15pm: Muhd Hashim Roslin (Mas) v Kendrick Lee (Sin); Kenneth Jonassen x 2 (Den)
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    • 209 35  -  ERIC DING NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2005 Albirex Niigata 0 Woodlands 0 sports@newstoday.com.sg ANY lingering title hopes Albirex Niigata harboured flickered out last night, after a 0-0 stalemate against nine-man Woodlands Wellington in their NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2005 clash at Jurong East Stadium. Now 14 points
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    • 491 36 Agencies London 2012 bid chief bullish, claims race is wide open LEADERS of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games arrived in Singapore yesterday, the first high-profile delegation to do so of any of the five competing cities in one of the closest host
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    • 221 36 FAST FACTS Population: 7.3 million Previous Olympics: 1908,1948 Previous bid: 1944 Bid Leader: Lord Sebastian Coe Tagline: Back The Bid Games Budget: US$4.5 billion ($7.56 billion) lOC Evaluation: Very High quality Race Position: Second, odds 7/2 Positives: Legacy offered by regeneration of pro posed Olympic site in run-down
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    • 282 36 AFP TENNIS Wimbledon LONDON Defending champion Maria Sharapova overcame her first serious test here to clinch a 22nd successive win on grass and make the semi-finals yesterday, with a 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 victory over Russian compatriot Nadia Petrova. Sharapova now takes on former
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    • 437 37  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Tan and Low will strive to ensure the Raffles City Convention Centre will be fit for a smooth lOC Session weekeat@newstoday.com.sg TAN Bee Lian will not be home for the next week or so. Home for her will be Swissotel the Stamford, from
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    • 77 37 All vehicles entering basement car parks of Raffles City (from July 1-9) and Esplanade (on July 5) will be subjected to security checks. Heavy vehicles requiring access to Raffles City and Esplanade will be directed to Tan Quee Lan Street for checks. Security checks for those
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    • 296 37 -AFP MOSCOW Moscow deputy mayor Valery Shantsev has brushed aside official Olympic criticism of the Russian capital's bid to host the 2012 Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission appeared to have sunk Moscow's chances in March when it reported a
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    • 127 37 The hotels stand to benefit most. The delegates are expected to patronise food and beverage establishments, shopping, visit various attractions and so on. Elaine Ang, assistant director of Business Travel MICE at the Singapore Tourism Board, on the economic spin-offs of the lOC Session The longer term effect
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