Today, 24 August 2005

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    22 1 /A=diaCorp incorporating IMTCiITS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday August 24, 2005 todayonline.com TODAY TODAY incorporating dlr6£ilS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday August 24, 2005 todayonline.com /AejdjaCorp
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    Lock icon Not a job for just anyone
    999 1  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Stressing demanding nature of Presidency, Nathan says only a select few have what it takes FOREIGN EDITOR clement@newstoday.com.sg NOT every Tom, Dick and Harry, however well-intentioned, can assume the position of the Presidency, said President S R Nathan yesterday, dismissing the notion
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    Lock icon For newlywed Brunei Sultan, it was a TV3 love affair
    524 1 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR It was love at first sight for Brunei's ruler Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah when he spotted the young Malaysian broadcast journalist who has reportedly become his second wife. The 58-year-old head of the oilrich state, who was once
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon UN issues polio warning
      149 2 —AGENCIES JAKARTA Indonesia's polio outbreak could develop into an epidemic with the onset of the wet season, a United Nations official said yesterday, one week before the start of a campaign to vaccinate 24 million children nationwide. Indonesia is the 16th country to be re-infected by
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      Foiled by the seat of their pants
      148 2 A MALAYSIAN motorcyclist was caught on Monday with four packets of duty-unpaid cigarette packs hidden under his vehicle seat But what really surprised customs officials were the other items that the man had tried to hide almost literally in the seat of his
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      A love less ordinary?
      655 2  -  ANSLEYNG How did high-flying Chee, accused of hurling a girl to her death, come to be with karung guni man Neo? a nsley@newstoday.com.sg TO THOSE who have wondered how Constance Chee, who collected branded goods as a hobby, could have fallen in love with a karung
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      'I REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW SHE FELL,' CLAIMS SOBBING CHEE
      288 2 SHE had been prepped for it. But when the time came yesterday for Constance Chee to demonstrate to the court what happened in the wee hours of Oct 7 last year, she could not hide her reluctance. She had to
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      Lock icon Games gone, it's time for a rethink
      940 3  -  Gerard Ec Givers must appreciate their good fortune while charities, without the gaming element, must win back public confidence CHARITY fund-raising has been much in the news of late, but even before the recent highprofile discussions there had been growing talk about donor
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      Lock icon A meeting of common minds
      354 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, AFP S'porean and Australian officials see eye to eye on key points at security talks in Perth SINGAPORE'S security talks with Australian ministers was a "meeting of the minds", said Foreign Minister George Yeo. "(It was) quite remarkable how on the most important
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      Lock icon Raffles Town Club class-action suit ends with $15m award
      193 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Raffles Town Club saga has ended on a high note for some 5,000 members with the Court of Appeal awarding $15 million to them. This works out to $3,000 per member. They were initially awarded $5 million or
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  • Singapore news
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      Towards a paperless Income
      296 6  -  DAWN QUEK da wn@newstoday.com.sg NTUC Income is shredding the documents of its clients in a bid to improve its business processes. The documents, consisting of 40 million pages, have been converted into digital format The exercise could save the company $10 million every year, besides the
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    • Article
      First Tiger Airways profit 'after 3 years'
      262 6 Target extended amid competition and rising fuel prices TIGER Airways will take up to three years to break even, said its CEO, Mr Tony Davis, in an interview with Channel News Asia. And it is some two years later than initially targeted. When
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon 'KILLER' SURRENDERS TO POLICE
        61 6 Channel News Asia A man claiming to have murdered his roommate has surrendered to the police. The police said the 48-year-old Chinese walked into the Kallang neighbourhood police post yesterday afternoon and handed in a kitchen knife believed to be the murder weapon. When police visited
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        Lock icon SHARE YOUR VIEWS ON PM'S SPEECH
        60 6 938Uve The Feedback Unit is inviting Singaporeans to share their views on the Prime Minister's National Day Rally speech. There will be seven dialogue sessions starting tomorrow, involving people from all walks of life, including overseas Singaporeans via the Internet. For more information, log
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      Chandra Das bids Fair-well
      746 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO Ng Ser Miang to take over as new chairman of NTUC Fair Price derrick@newstoday.com.sg NTUC Fair Price will have someone new at the helm when its longest-serving chairman steps down next month. After 12 years of leading Singapore's largest supermarket chain, Mr S
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Big quota for Indian women MPs?
      227 10 -AFP NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday he was confident that Parliament would pass a Bill to set aside a third of federal and state legislature seats for women. His comments came a day after MPs fought tooth and nail in
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    • this quirky world
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        THIEVES STEAL 700 KG OF MUD
        92 10 SECURITY guards protecting what is left of Serbia's Bor mining and smelting complex are being overrun by thieves stealing mud that contains traces of gold, silver and platinum, a Belgrade newspaper reported. Bor police have filed charges against persons unknown for the theft of
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        QUEEN'S PLANS TO CUT ENERGY BILLS
        90 10 QUEEN Elizabeth II is planning to create an underground network to extract heat from the earth's warmth and cut energy bills at Buckingham Palace, The Australian said. The Buckingham Palace system will provide a secure, free and inexhaustible energy supply from beneath the surface
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      Lock icon Koizumi sticks to his guns about resigning
      356 10 AGENCIES Japanese PM's decision comes at peak of approval ratings TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he was not thinking of staying in office beyond September next year, when his term as ruling party leader ends, even as opinion polls continued to
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    • Updates on their war on graft
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        Lock icon GOOD JOB, ABDULLAH
        160 10 -AFP A GLOBAL corruption watchdog has hailed Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's war against graft, after a senior politician was sentenced to jail for bribery. Azman Mahalan, 63, is a former Perak state executive councillor from the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno). He is the
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        Lock icon LITTLE PROGRESS, SAYS SBY
        166 10 -AFP INDONESIA has made scant progress in changing the outlook of government officials, who continue to engage in corruption, the president said yesterday. Despite seven years of reform, which began after the fall of former leader Suharto, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said little had been achieved.
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      Lock icon Quadriplegic to cross Channel
      221 12 —AFP LONDON A British woman who can only move her head, eyes and mouth was aiming yesterday to cross the English Channel and claim the record for the world's longest solo sailing trip by a quadriplegic. Ms Hilary Lister, 33, set sail from Dover, south-east England,
      —AFP; AFP  -  221 words
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      Lock icon Charter for civil war?
      520 12 —AGENCIES Iraq's minority Sunnis feel sidelined, reject crucial political process BAGHDAD A deal on a draft Iraqi constitution, agreed by the coalition government, has excluded the minority Sunni community and is threatening to drag the country into civil war. The Iraqi National Assembly gave itself three
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        BOGUS COPS PREY ON TOURISTS IN XL
        105 12 A group of Middle Eastern men with fake police authority cards have been extorting money from tourists in Kuala Lumpur. At least nine tourists, mostly from the Middle East, have lost more than RM15,000 ($6,600) to the bogus policemen, who move in twos
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        Lock icon 197 DENGUE DEATHS IN PHILIPPINES
        57 12 —AFP The Philippines has reported 197 deaths and 14,738 cases of dengue fever this year, said Dr Eric Tayag of the Heath Department. He said the number of reported cases was a 20 per cent rise on the previous year and that the death toll
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        BANGLADESH REBELS WARN OF MORE ATTACKS
        35 12 Banned Islamic militant group Jamaat-ul Mujahideen, blamed for hundreds of bombings across Bangladesh last week, has warned it will strike again unless the country introduces Islamic rule, reported Reuters.
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      Lock icon Palestinians starve as Israelis get cash
      572 14  -  SANJAYSURI -IPS Historic pullout still leaves one side lagging far behind •^hot spot news@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as Israeli security forces faced down opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's evacuation plan in West Bank settlements yesterday, the successful pullout of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip
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      After the model, it's the teacher's turn
      389 16 Another Australian is nabbed with drugs in Indonesia DENPASAR (Indonesia) Another Australian has been arrested in Indonesia as underwear model Michelle Leslie reportedly admitted to police that the two Ecstasy pills found in her handbag at an open-air dance party in the resort
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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    • Curbing the impulse to stray
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        Man or beast? You can choose
        302 18  -  BOON CHIN AUN Letter from I REFER to Mr Wong's letter, "Time to replace marriage with a cohabitation contact?" and Mrs Lam's letter, "Don't blame the other woman if he strays", (Aug22). Mrs Lam seems to suggest that women should blame themselves when a
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        Cohabitation is not necessarily better
        228 18  -  TERENCE LEONG Letter from I AM sure Mr Wong meant well but I would like to point out firstly that cohabitation is not as rosy as one might think. In the most progressive countries, where cohabitation is the norm, countless studies have shown how cohabitation
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        Hubby's job to get her'in the mood'
        223 18  -  WILSON WONG UEISHEN Letter from MY NAMESAKE gave a lot of reasons why men stray, but under scrutiny, his reasons just point to the self-serving mentality that society should guard against. He noted that women lose their sex drive after a while and
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      Leaders close to people's heart
      341 20  -  LESTER JUAYKANGHNG PM'S NATIONAL DAY RALLY SPEECH Letter from EVERY year around this time, ,my family and I would gather in tthe living room for the live [broadcast of the National Day bally. My father shows the most (interest in the Prime Minister's speech. He
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      A second chance for us?
      196 20  -  VALERIE CHEONG SOKE VAN Letter from IN HIS National Day Rally speech on Sunday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said "Singapore wants many different models and paths to success". He then talked about creating opportunities for ITE and polytechnic students to attend university. The ITEs
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      Plea from sandwiched generation
      187 20  -  EILEEN LEE HWEE LIN Letter from I WAS overwhelmed and grateful at first about Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's plan to "help every Singaporean complete a post-secondary education", but I was disappointed when I learned that it only helps families with kids entering Primary 1 in
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      244 24  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON THE WORDS OF A CHILD I want to share with you today a letter written by a 14-year-old girl that needs no explanation. She wrote: "When I was 10, my parents got a divorce. Naturally, my fathertold me about it, 'cause he
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      Leave Victoria alone: Ex-VJC girl
      225 24  -  KAREN TAN Letter from I GRADUATED from Victoria Junior College (VJC) in 1997. In my first three months of orientation in VJC, I experienced the Victorian spirit first hand and my friends from the girls' schools all wished out loud that if they admitted girls
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      When a company met angry blogger
      840 24  -  Mr Miyagi In the age of the Internet grapevine, know your stuff before tackling customer complaints on the Web IT HAS been said, and quite often by bloggers, that businesses ignore blogs and online discussion forums at their peril. (Try a Google search with
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      Why not have real-time LED maps on our train network?
      338 25  -  KAREN GOH Letter from MY FRIEND came back from a trip to Hong Kong recently and showed me some pictures he took while aboard the MTR Hong Kong's equivalent of our MRT system. What impressed me was a photo of
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Telekom Malaysia buys more of M1
      157 26 BLOOMBERG TELEKOM Malaysia, the nation's biggest telephone operator, and its parent Khazanah Nasional have raised their combined stake in Singapore telecommunications operator Mobile One to 18.45 per cent from 17.7 per cent The shares were bought on the open market last Thursday and Friday,
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      W Bengal woos Singapore firms
      436 26  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA They may soon be allowed to completely own the infrastructure that they build in the state shobha@newstoday.com.sg IN WHAT could be a first for an Indian state, the strategic West Bengal region in India is ready to allow 100-per-cent ownership to Singapore companies
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      CORPORATEBRIEFS
      175 27 Vantage Corporation chief executive officer Kea Kah Kirn has gained control of 71.6 per cent of the company with his investment firm, Eastunited Holdings, having garnered 38.1 per cent in acceptances for its 24-cent-per-share offer. This is on top of the 33.5 per cent that he already controls. Elec
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      Lock icon DC William told to stop business
      262 27 BLOOMBERG Insurance broker breached rules: MAS THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has directed an insurance broker here to stop business because it was found to have breached rules, including failing to keep a record of its transactions. DC William Insurance Brokers, which offers
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      Lock icon $10m profit for Star Cruises
      200 27 BLOOMBERG STAR Cruises posted a profit in the second quarter, as demand for ocean-bound trips by Asian tourists increased. Net profit was US$6.2 million ($10.3 million), or 0.12 US cent per share, in the three months ended June 30, compared with a loss of US$9
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  • business news
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      SGX eyes oil futures in tie-up with CBOT
      401 28  -  CHRISTIE LOH AFTER failing in its attempt to team up with the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) the world's largest energy futures market the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is looking to another American partner, with an eye to starting oil futures trading here
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        4 28 ST Index 2,289.66 -11.29
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        48 28 STXPO UniFiber UTAC STATSChP Bio-Treat STX8CW*****4 1.060 0.300 0.675 1.100 0.915 0.205 -0.010 -0.060 +0.025 +0.050 -0.9 -16.7 +3.0 +4.0 50,330 51,524 37,144 30,594 30,414 29,935 MediaRing 0.170 +0.010 +6.3 29,325 K1 Ventur 0.320 -0.005 -1.5 25,704 GlabalVoice 0.005 24,300 SingTel 2.640 -0.060 -2.2 20,150
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        73 28 AFP SHARES fell on profit-taking yesterday in the absence of fresh factors. The ST Index fell 11.29 points, or 0.49 per cent, to 2,289.66. In the broad market, losers outnumbered gainers 266 to 244, with traded volume amounting to 998 million shares valued at $982 million. Among blue chips,
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        69 28 Venture 15.600 +0.500 SIA eCW*****0 1.100 +0.230 SIA 12.000 +0.200 HSI*****8PW*****6 0.910 +0.125 HL Asia 1.030 +0.110 SIA 200 11.900 +0.100 NOL 3.320 +0.000 IAC8CW*****7 0.540 +0.075 IAC8CW*****4 0.560 +0.070 N0L8CW*****0 0.105 +0.065 iOL eCW*****6 0.015 +200.1 !TATSChP8CW*****9 0.005 +112.! ;TATSChPeCW*****6 0.130 +73.: lua Kok 0.025 +66.;
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        56 28 Mikkei 225 12,472.93 +20.42 +0.16 Hang Seng 14,973.89 -244.74 -1.61 Ml Ordinaries 4,451.60 -11.10 -0.25 Faiwan Wtd 6,195.18 -11.47 -0.18 (orea Comp 1,115.84 -0.84 -0.08 <LCI 923.79 -0.18 -0.02 SET Index 690.39 -0.38 -0.06 Jakarta Comp 1,066.09 -10.26 -0.95 Dhils Comp 1,943.76 -19.61 -1.00 Shenzhen B 225.97 -6.01
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        26 28 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by ■old US$/oz 445.00 iilver US$/oz 'latinum US$/oz lubber cents/kg 'aim oil RM/tonne 7.065 898.00 261.25 1,376.50 (rent crude US$/barrel 64.61
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      458 29  -  CHOW PENN NEE Asia Enterprises Holding launches IPO to raise funds to expand market share, product range pennnee@newstoday.com.sg IT IS surprising to hear Ms Yvonne Lee speak so passionately and knowledgeably about the traditionally male-dominated steel industry. After all, many young females
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      275 29  -  DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S consumer prices rose last month, easing fears the city-state would face deflation. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.1 per cent from July last year and 1.1 per cent from June because of higher house maintenance charges and food and public transport
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      567 31  -  VALERIE LAW Pico is the first Asian firm to win both Summer and Winter games contracts consecutively va lerie@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE has never won an Olympics gold medal, but a homegrown exhibitions company has won a 22-million-euro ($45-mil-lion) contract at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. Beating
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      455 31  -  —VALCHUA WHEN the Singapore Management University (SMU) launched its first CEO programme tailored for small and medium enterprises (SME) about a fortnight ago, it did not expect that to find its first student from among the audience at its launch
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      922 32  -  Vinita Ramani SHE'S said to be rather easy to spot. Clad in a flowing dress, she has long, curved fingernails and hair streaming down her back. She is a bloodsucker, wreaking havoc on those who have wronged her, or to lament a tragedy she has suffered usually death
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      97 34 Born Liesbet Dotulong, in 1932, she took on the screen name Maria Menado as a tribute to the town in which she was born, Menado in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Film facts: Pontianak/The Vampire by B Narayan Rao (1957); Dendam Pontianak/Revenge of the Vampire by Rao (1957); and Sumpah Pontianak/Blood of
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      417 34  -  EUSACHIA Ousted contestants to reunite for two-hour September gig elisa@newstoday.com.sg FANS still mourning the ouster of their favourite Project SuperStar contestants (picture) can now celebrate. Former contenders such as Hong Jun Yang, Chew Sin Huey, Derrick Hoh and Chia Wai Choong will reunite with the male and female
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      477 35  - Can these kids be turned into geniuses NEIL HUMPHREYS Brave new documentary tackles nature-nurture issue neil@newstoday.com.sg PARENTS have long been preoccupied with the unanswerable question: Are geniuses born or made? Can a baby Einstein turn into Forrest Gump? Can a Gandhi be transformed into a horrifying Hitler? In other words,
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      512 36  -  ZULOTHMAN HHiJiVJiMHllfcikTJ:! Rouge to ditch its DJ nights for live rock acts zul@newstoday.com.sg ROUGE had major plans when it moved in to its famous Orchard Road premises at Peranakan Place two years ago. Once a popular live music club when it was called Papa Joe's, the
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      155 36 -AFP WASHINGTON He was responsible for some of the most ground-breaking music of the late *****. Dr Robert Moog (picture) pioneer of the Moog synthesiser used on classic tracks by artists including The Beatles, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea has died, aged 71. Moog passed
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      355 37  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS It's not often that 40-year-old love-seekers are able to hit the right spot neil@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU'RE a virgin and you're over 40 and you've managed to retain your eyesight, then there is still hope for you. Middle-aged male virgins can find relief in the
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        57 37 Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are now officially divorced, and neither will marry again, for a few weeks anyway, legal documents showed on Monday. Judge Jill Robbins of Los Angeles Superior Court signed the divorce papers on Friday, but they don't take effect until Oct 2
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        50 37 The Los Angeles Coast Guard is investigating the disappearance of Olivia NewtonJohn's longtime boyfriend, who failed to return from a sport-fishing trip off the California coast seven weeks ago. Patrick Kirn McDermott, 48, was listed as missing after he left on June 30 for the overnight trip.
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        39 37 Teochew Porridge, a play directed by Casey Lim, explores the relationships between father and son and is currently being shown at The Arts House until Sept 2. Tickets available from The Arts House box office.
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      496 40 VAURHAM&AKTOIMUr by Eugenia Last ARIES (March 21 -April 19): LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22): ■J^^ Work-related matters will escalate, requir- BWM Talk to superiors or those in a position to ing you to sink or swim. Keep your wits Hb*^ helpyouget ahead and receive favourable re- about you and remain
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      452 41 —AFP With World Cup in sight, fan power ousts the coach SEOUL Embattled Dutchman Jo Bonfrere has quit as coach of South Korea's national team less than a year before the World Cup finals amid a campaign against him by angry fans, the Korea Football Association (KFA) said
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      190 41 —AP UKRAINE, Kiev Former Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld (picture) is in talks to take over at Dynamo Kiev. "We are at the initial stage of talks," Dynamo president Ihor Surkis said, on the team's website yesterday. "He has not yet agreed to head Dynamo." Dynamo,
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      633 42 -AGENCIES United boss will use Englishman midfield anchorman in Hungary CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUALIFIER, 2ND LEG Debrecen v Man United LONDON Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has challenged Alan Smith to prove he can become Roy Keane's longterm successor. The former Leeds striker is being handed
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      241 42 —AP RIGA, Latvia Latvia captain Vitalijs Astafjevs (picture) said players and team officials were offered large amounts of money to throw last week's World Cup qualifier against Russia, which ended in a 1-1 draw. Latvian team officials denied Astafjev's allegations, which were published yesterday in
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      385 42 —AGENCIES LONDON England manager Sven Goran Eriksson must be cursing his luck. A week after suffering his worse defeat as England manager going down 4-1 to Denmark in a friendly at home turbo-charged midfielder Steven Gerrard was declared an injury doubt ahead of the
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      299 43 LIVERPOOL Aston Villa yesterday completed the signing of striker Milan Baros for £6.5 million ($19.5 million). The 23-year-old Czech Republic striker striker was struggling for first-team football at Anfield, but is now expected to partner Kevin Phillips or Juan Pablo Angel up front
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      529 43 —AGENCIES Defender backs Mourinho, asks benched players to roll up their socks ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea vWest Brom LONDON Arjen Robben is set to become the latest high-profile Chelsea player to be dropped by Jose Mourinho, when the English Premiership champions take on West Brom
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      227 43 —AP LOS ANGELES Free-agent guard Aaron McKie (picture), waived by the Philadelphia 76ers earlier this month, has agreed to terms on a two-year, US$5 million ($8.3 million) contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. McKie has averaged 7.6 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 11
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        475 44  -  LEONG WEE KEAT BAS in talks to bring back trio, as national team prepare for SEA Games weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THINGS were looking bleak for the Singapore women's national basketball team as the Manila SEA Games approached. The team made history in the Vietnam Games in
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        334 44  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg THE Made In Anfield Four Nations hockey tournament may just be a friendly quadrangular, but Hong Kong men's coach Kevin Knapp has promised to take no prisoners. While the newly-appointed coach admits he knows little of Singapore, Knapp is confident
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        203 44  -  DARREN LAI HOT on the heels of the overwhelming success of the 7-Eleven Futsal Challenge 2004, the 24-hour convenience store chain and Football Association of Singapore (FAS) yesterday announced the launch of the 7-Eleven Inter-School Championship 2005. 7-Eleven will be pumping in an undisclosed six-fig-ure sum
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        509 45 —AFP French daily sensationally claims his maiden Tour de France win was boosted by EPO PARIS In a sensational report yesterday, the French sporting daily L'Equipe claimed seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong used a banned, enduranceboosting hormone during his first triumph in 1999. With
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        324 45  -  -DARREN LAI THE title race in the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2005 was blown wide open last night, as the Young Lions defeated a depleted Tampines Rovers 3-1 in front of 3,200 fans at the Yishun Stadium. Second-placed SAFFC are now just two points behind the league
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        195 45  -  DARREN LAI GEYLANG United installed technical director Seak Poh Leong as coach of the S-League squad when Scott O'Donnell quit earlier this season, with Darren Stewart (below) assisting him on the sidelines. The arrangement was designed for Stewart to assume full responsibility of the team once
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        73 45 —AFP LAUSANNE, Switzerland The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced yesterday the appointment of Denis Oswald as chairman of their Coordination Commission for the 2012 Games in London. Singapore lOC member Ng Ser Miang, who the English press had previously reported was in the running for the post, was
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