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    22 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp mica(P) 112/07/2005 incorporating iMTCiItS Friday November 25, 2005 todayonline.com TODAY /AediaCorp incorporating i^ITCiltS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Friday November 25, 2005 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Man U legend Best past point of no return
    387 1 AGENCIES LONDON A legend who lived life on his own terms sometimes recklessly so has come to "the long road of his ill-health" said the doctor treating him. Manchester United icon George Best's (picture) hours are numbered. "I think it's the
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    Lock icon Poison river comes to Harbin, secretly
    623 1 AGENCIES Huge benzene spill is China's Hurricane Katrina, says expert HARBIN (China) A secret that China tried to hush up for more than a week finally reached the doorstep of this frozen city killing fish, threatening cancer and contaminating water supplies for 4 million
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      Lock icon Nicoll case: Ng fined $8,000
      407 2  -  ANSLEY NG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg A DISTRICT court yesterday fined former Land Transport Authority (LTA) project director Ng Seng Yoong $8,000 for failing to exercise due diligence that played a part in the Nicoll Highway collapse, which killed four in April last year. Ng, 48, was
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      HITCHING A RIDE ON THE CHINA EXPRESS
      743 3  -  VINCENT CHIA As Chinese companies go global, cosmopolitan Singapore can be a catalyst SINGAPOREANS have always been keen to invest in China, as have most countries. Indeed, China overtook the United States as the top foreign direct investment destination two years ago. Singapore
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        Lock icon ROAST GEESE LAND CEO IN TROUBLE
        128 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE A 51-YEAR-OLD CEO of a pharmaceutical company was fined $3,000 for trying to bring in two roast geese from China, and refusing to hand them over to the authorities. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority said Tan Chai Peng was stopped
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        SIATO FLY TO KARACHI, LAHORE AGAIN
        45 4 SINGAPORE Airlines will re-start flights to two Pakistani cities from February. The thriceweekly flights are to Karachi and Lahore. The service will support further growth in the bilateral trade relationship by facilitating more commercial and tourism traffic, said SIA.
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        Lock icon INFORMATION MINISTER TO VISIT PENANG
        63 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MINISTER for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang is on a three-day visit to Penang from today, at the invitation of Malaysian Information Minister Sheikh Abdul Kadirto attend "Muzika Ekstravaganza". The event, a collaboration between Singapore's MediaCorp and Radio Television Malaysia,
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        4 M-CYCLES DESTROYED IN TAMPINES FIRE
        45 4 A FIRE broke out early this morning at a multi-storey carpark at Block 723 A Tampines Street 72. No one was hurt but four motorcycles were destroyed and seven damaged. SCDF said the fire started on the first floor.
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      Lock icon Thai stocks fall as political rumours fly
      391 4 AGENCIES Army chief forced to quash talk of imminent coup BANGKOK- The ongoing battle between Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) and media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul grew even more shrill yesterday and this time even the stock market was spooked. It plunged as
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      Lock icon MP scores coup for S'pore HR
      224 6  -  LEE U WEN A MEMBER of Parliament is the first Singaporean to become president of a prestigious international group of human resource bodies. Mdm Ho Geok Choo, an MP for West Coast GRC, was formally revealed yesterday as president of the Asia Pacific Federation
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      Lock icon Another clemency bid for Nguyen fails
      499 6  -  ANSLEYNG Victoria attorney-general meets minister with plea a nsley@newstoday.com.sg A TOP Australian legal official, who flew to Singapore on Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted drug smuggler Nguyen Tuong Van from execution, said he attended "one of the most difficult meetings" yesterday.
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      Lock icon Practising what they preach
      459 8  -  LEE U-WEN Green agencies get award for creating environmentallyfriendly workplaces u-wen@newstoday.com.sg FOUR organisations were lauded yesterday for their stellar efforts in creating a workplace that is environmentally friendly. Each of them earned the Green Office Label, a new certification introduced this year by the Singapore Environment
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      Lock icon GEP student, EM2 dropout top scorers
      552 10  -  LOH CHEE KONG Of the 51,087 students who satforPSLE, 97.8% are eligible for secondary school cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THERE were smiles and a few tears all around the island as the PSLE results were released yesterday. But for this year's overall top pupil and the top
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      Have you been helped? I'll check
      370 12  -  JASMINE YIN MCYS database will help social workers assess needs better jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg WHAT would usually take social workers six weeks to gather is now available online in just a few minutes, thanks to a new centralised database set up by the Ministry of Community
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      Lock icon Where children feel at home
      304 12  -  JASMINE YIN IT is a home away from home for children from lowincome households who lack adult supervision. Some 53 children aged between seven and 13 years from the Bukit Merah neighbourhood have their meals, shower, revise schoolwork, play sports and do chores at a
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      Lock icon Secret weapon
      502 14  -  DERRICK A PAULO Bikini babes are the big draw at Big BoyzToyz derrick@newstoday.com.sg THEY may not be Crazy Horse dancers, but these girls made enough of an impact at their first public outing that there were calls for an encore. So, at this weekend's Big Boyz Toyz, an
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      Chilling out at SP
      212 14  -  VINITARAMANI TWO days to meet Superstars Kelly Poon or Silver Ang, try your hand at gaming, a little rock-climbing and wrapping up the day by grooving to hip hop? That's what Singapore Polytechnic (SP) has to offer starting from today in an event called !Chill@SP. The
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      Lock icon $7m boost for F&B sector
      367 16  -  TORCHING LI Industry to receive grant for training courses to improve service standards chingli@newstoday.com.sg EAT, drink and be merry for Singapore's F&B scene is set for a multi-mil-lion dollar makeover. At the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Restaurant Association of Singapore (Ras) yesterday, Minister of
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      Lock icon Upgrading for marine workers
      224 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA TO ATTRACT younger Singaporeans, the growing marine industry has launched "Asmi Super V scheme" a two-year trainee programme to groom locals for supervisory positions. The programme, under the Government's Job Re-creation Programme, will not only improve career prospects but also bring the worker's salary
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      The jet trainers' dogfight
      602 18  -  ANSLEYNGINVARESEJTALY Italian company hopes to shake off three competitors in multimillion dollar RSAF deal a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE contest to supply Singapore with its next generation of fighter jets may have ended, but another one is taking shape. Four companies are vying for the multi-million dollar contract
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      Lock icon Foreign workers to take test to lessen culture shock
      278 20 -AP KUALA LUMPUR New foreign workers to Malaysia will be required to attend an induction course on local cultural norms and taboos so that they suffer minimum culture shock, a news report said yesterday. The course, which would run between three
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      Lock icon Cloning pioneer quits
      350 20 AGENCIES Apologises about human egg scandal SEOUL It took him years to achieve worldwide recognition for his work but all that came crashing down overnight when South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk admitted yesterday he had violated ethical practices in his landmark research last year to create
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      Lock icon Charity workers in China nabbed for trafficking babies
      197 20 -AFP BEIJING Chinese police arrested 27 people, mostly charity workers, for buying and selling babies through state-run orphanages in the central province of Hunan, state media reported yesterday. Police arrested on Monday the head of Hengyang county orphanage and six other members
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      Lock icon HEALTHY TENSION BOON FOR EUROPE
      743 23  -  KEN DILANIAN KRT As Western neighbours squabble, Eastern Europe is turning into a hot spot for manufacturing KOLIN (Czech Republic) Mr Ludek Preucil studied engineering in college, but spent the years after the fall of communism scraping by as a bank security guard. These days,
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      Beauty queen sparks ugly debate
      165 24 SHENZHEN A victorious beauty queen has whipped up a storm of controversy in Shenzhen. Miss Kitty Wang (picture), 20, a Harbin native was granted permanent residency at Shenzhen upon clinching the title of Miss Asia 2005. Officials are now facing the heat from thousands of
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      Lock icon KL plans index to measure racial harmony
      316 24 -AFP Economists and sociologists working on developing the index, says Minister KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to develop an index to measure the level of racial harmony as part of efforts to boost integration among its multicultural population. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department
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        Lock icon JAPAN PANEL BACKS WOMEN ASCENDING THRONE
        52 24 ■AFP A 10-member government panel has formally recommended that women be allowed to ascend Japan's imperial throne, saying the nation should break with over two centuries of male-only rule to avert a succession crisis. The panel submitted its final report to Prime Minister Junichiro
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        Lock icon CHINA-JAPAN SUMMIT'POSSIBLE': CHINESE ENVOY
        93 24 ■AFP Chinas ambassador to Japan said yesterday that a summit between President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was possible but it would need to be a serious discussion of political differences and not just for show. Beijing ruled out a bilateral meeting between
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        MODERATE EARTHQUAKE HITS PAPUA
        52 24 A moderate earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua yesterday. The quake struck at 5:35 am with an epicentre 33km under the bed of the Pacific Ocean some 843 km north of the town of Manokwari, a meteorology official said
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        Lock icon 3 CHILDREN KILLED IN MALAYSIA FLOODS
        52 24 -AFP AFP Floods in Malaysia's northeastern states of Kelantan and Terengganu this week have killed at least three children and forced more than one thousand residents to flee the area, reports said yesterday. Heavy rains have been lashing the east coast of Malaysia's peninsula
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      Lock icon 'Peace mum' publishes book
      244 26 -AFP WASHINGTON Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, released her first book on Wednesday entitled Not One More Mother's Child as part of her campaign demanding US troops withdraw from Iraq. The book is a collection of diary entries, letters
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      Lock icon India's HIV patients can't afford drugs
      481 26 IPS Half the world buys Indian generic drugs but their use in the country is very low MUMBAI India may be one of the world's biggest manufacturers of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for HIV/Aids treatment, but barely 30,000 people out of its five million HIV
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      Lock icon New bird flu strain scare in Cambodia
      423 28 —AGENCIES China to carry out clinical tests of cheap vaccines against bird flu 'within weeks' PHNOM PENH In a development that could possibly have implications for the dreaded human-to-human transmission of the avian flu virus, a mutated strain of bird flu has been
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      Lock icon Selling alcohol and sex
      422 30 IPS 20 per cent of beer promotion girls in Cambodia infected with HIV each year KUALA LUMPUR The panel discussions and debates at a regional conference here on sexual health, on the weekend, were a world away from Ms Channa and Ms Sophea's daily environment the
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      Lock icon Iran Parliament again rejects president's pick for oil minister
      273 30 —AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran's Parliament on Wednesday rejected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's third pick for oil minister, a major defeat for the president, The New York Times reported. The nominee, Mr Seyed Mohsen Tassaloti, 51, a director of petrochemical development in southern Iran,
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      Lock icon Leslie sacked by model agency
      137 30 SYDNEY Australian model Michelle Leslie, who was found guilty of drug possession by an Indonesian court recently, has been dumped by her agency, reported AAP. Chic Management announced it terminated the relationship on Wednesday, a day after the 24-year-old returned to Australia after spending three
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      Lock icon Drunken consent is consent, rules court
      357 32 -AFP British judgment in intoxicated woman's rape case comes as nation begins 24-hour drinking in pubs and bars LONDON As Britain toasted the beginning of 24-hour drinking in pubs and bars yesterday, a legal ruling on the eve of the new licensing laws suggested
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      Lock icon DELHI RELAXING DRINKING AGE?
      176 32 -AP You can vote at 18 and marry at 21, but must wait till 25 to buy alcohol in India's capital of New Delhi. Forthose who have resented the city's outdated, restrictive liquor policy for decades, there may be news to cheer. The state government plans
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      Lock icon Chavez strikes a defiant note ...
      241 32 Chavez strikes a defiant note -DPA WASHINGTON Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who rarely misses an opportunity to taunt United States President George W Bush, is supplying millions of gallons of cheap oil to poor US citizens this winter. Citgo, the Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company launched on Tuesday
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      China's No 1 'dance babe'
      196 32 SHANGHAI A new wave of blogging free-spoken, satirical and challenging the country's ever-vigilant online censors has taken off in China and one of its pioneers is a "dance babe"-cum-Communist Party member, the New York Times reported. In July, the anonymous blogger introduced herself, saying: "I
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        MAKING AN ASS OF THE POLICE
        88 33 Four Greek police cars took over an hourto catch a gang of teenage thieves who had escaped on a cart pulled by a donkey, reported ananova.com. Police in Patras said they were unable to keep up with the donkey which the boys aged between
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        HUSBAND FACES DIVORCE FOR "VIRTUAL ADULTERY'
        72 33 Romanian Geta M wants to divorce her husband for virtual adultery after she caught him surfing the Internet for porn, reported Ananova.com. The 45-year-old from Galati, has been married to her husband lon for 23 years but told the court she couldn't go on
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        EATATURKEYINI2MINS?
        48 33 Virginia woman Sonya Thomas has grabbed the world turkeyeating title by gobbling down a whole roast bird in 12 minutes, reported Reuters. The 37-year-old, who weighs just 47.5 kg, beat seven men in the race to eat a 4.5 kg turkey. Her trophy was a roasting pan.
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      Lock icon Group halts nuke work
      306 33 -AFP US-led consortium stops work on Pyongyang's reactors NEW YORK A United States-led international consortium has agreed to completely halt the construction of two nuclear reactors in North Korea, officials said. A meeting of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (Kedo) reached consensus on Tuesday on
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      Lock icon Confusion over Glitter case
      254 33 apf VUNG TAU (Vietnam) A British diplomat met detained glam rocker Gary Glitter yesterday, who is accused of having sex with underage girls, as a Vietnamese official admitted "confusion" over handling of the case. The diplomat from the consulate general in Ho Chi Minh City visited
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      Lock icon Heist fears close diamond show
      189 33 -THE GUARDIAN LONDON Security fears over one of the largest diamond exhibitions in the world have forced a London museum to close the display three months early. This week London's Metropolitan police learnt criminals planned to steal gems on show at the Natural History Museum
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      Issue still smoking
      101 34  -  RICKY LEE Letter from THE National Environment Agency stated in a letter ("Shopping centre to relocate smoking zone", Oct 29) that the management of Causeway Point Shopping Centre had, on its advice, agreed to relocate its smoking area away from the taxi stand. We have been to
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      Joy, oh joy, it's out! brown v3.0
      879 34  -  mr brown What important news of the day can compete with a new arrival in the family? FOR the last three days, I have been reading the news headlines with a certain amount of indifference. In fact, I have been reading the newspapers
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      Management firms subject to annual audits: BCA
      208 36  -  DING HOCK HUI Letter from Commissioner of Buildings Building and Construction Authority WE refer to the letter by Mr Jeffrey Ho, "Enforce mandatory audits" (Nov 16). The Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act requires the books and accounts of management corporations (MC) to
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      Give funds to constituencies
      276 36  -  JEFFREY HO LOON POH Let parties contesting elections propose ways to use money for urban renewal Letter from HOT on the heels of the recent $160 million renewal plan announced by the Aljunied Town Council, we now learn that $500 million has been allocated to give
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      Wet weather to blame for escalator malfunctions
      158 36  -  WONG YIN MEI Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing Communications United Premas Limited I REFER to Cai Mingyu's letter, "What's the use of an escalator if it's always 'under service'?" (Nov 12). Due to the design of the Springleaf Tower, the escalator in
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      Speech did not target family-run businesses
      290 40  -  DAVINDER SINGH Point was that Spore would benefit if issues were addressed Letter from CEO, Drew and Napier I REFER to Christie Loh's article entitled "Don't let blood ties come before good business governance", which appeared on the front page of yesterday's edition of
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      sayagain
      87 40 It would be more prudent to advocate discretion in the use of handcuffs, lest it encourages indiscriminate use and abuse by law enforcers. As we are a democratic country, it would be a mockery of the laws of the land if our law enforcers were to behave as Mr
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      Officer handcuffed by procedure?
      255 40  -  CHIANG MING YU Letter from I REFER to the letter by Mr Lionel De Souza, "Empathising with the position of law enforcement officers" (Nov 22). He has missed the point of my letter "Why handcuff when there are other options?" (Nov 21) is it necessary to
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      244 42  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... LETTING CHILDREN EXPRESS ANGER The chances are, at leastonce ortwice during your career as a parent, you're going to do something or say something that will make your child angry with you. Should he or she be allowed to express that emotion?
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      Lock icon When not to ask questions
      626 42  -  DR DIANATEO Pains taken to clarify doubts of potential blood donors, to elicit truthful info Letter from Director, Centre for Transfusion Medicine Health Sciences Authority IN THEIR letters "Donor Dilemmas" (Nov 15), Mr Ishwar Mahtani and Mr Brian Angwin underscore the need for blood donors
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      My pet peeve: Neglectful owners
      164 42  -  JESSICA CHAN Letter from IS IT cruel to leave your dog at home for more than 12 hours everyday? Why buy a dog when you don't have the time for it? Are people who do so truly "animal lovers"? I live in a condominium. Every
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      Moneychangers should issue transaction receipts
      170 44  -  TEO KUEH LIANG STEVEN LEE Letter from I WAS saddened to read Lee U-Wen's report, "Lesson from fake money" (Nov 24). I hope that the authorities can implement some practical measures to address this "fake money" problem. The relevant authorities should consider making it mandatory
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        Why badmouth S'pore overseas?
        107 44  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I CANT agree more with reader Anthony Prakasam (Nov 24). It appears Dr Chee has the habit of badmouthing Singapore when he is overseas. As Singaporeans, we bear the brunt of his usually unfounded criticism. His calling on Australia to
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        Disappointed with SDP and Think Tank
        114 44  -  CHIN KOON SENG Letter from THOUGH I am not a fan of the People's Action Party government, I am very disappointed with the Singapore Democratic Party and the Think Tank for encouraging Australia to put international pressure on Singapore to grant special privilege to
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        Chee's just trying to improve our laws
        159 44  -  CLEMENTWEEHONGEN Letter from I AM amused by Mr Siow Jia Rui's letter (Nov 24). While Dr Chee's actions may be unnecessary and I do not support them saying they undermine our sovereignty is going a step too far. I wish Mr Siow would
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        TEST INFANT FORMULA FOR CONTAMINANTS
        81 44  -  ALDERUNEWONG: I write in response to the report, "Nestle withdraws baby milk in several EU countries" (Nov 23) on www.today online.com, about infant formula being withdrawn from sale in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, amid fears of chemical contamination. Are the Singapore authorities conducting any
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        OIL PRICE FALLS BUT SP TARIFFS STAY THE SAME
        72 44  -  MOHAMAD NOOR ABDULLAH: SP Services increased the electrical tariff on July 1 from 16.06 cents to 18.26 cents and further increased it to 19.57 cents on Oct 1. The reason given was the increase in crude oil prices. The price of
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      isay HELPFUL S'POREANS? YES, THEY DO EXIST
      567 46  -  CHARLES TAN BY AND large, Singaporeans are courteous to each other although motorists seem to be an exception. They like to honk for the slightest reason. No wonder road rage is becoming a common phenomenon. Honking by motorists, except in emergencies, should be
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      Lock icon Why Beijing youth score over locals in terms of courtesy
      155 46  -  CHOOCHOKYEW Letter from AS A 68-year-old retiree, I have travelled to Beijing at least five times in the past two years. On the subway system there, nine out of 10 times, local youth would spontaneously give up their seats to
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      Lock icon Incredible landscapes and stunning harbour city only 4 hours away
      340 47 Darwin is a lively harbourside city perched on the tip of Australia's Northern Territory. Australia's northern most capital city has a population of 100 000 made up of more than 50 nationalities, including its traditional landowners, the Larrakia Aboriginal people.
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      isay TO GRANDMA, WITH LOVE
      652 48  -  PETER LIM THIS Sunday is Grandparents' Day, and I wish Grandma were here to celebrate with us. Grandma left China as a young widow in the 1930s with Dad, who was then six years old, and his sister. She found work as a nanny to
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      Lock icon Will Ascendas get listed?
      389 50 CHANNEL NEWSASIA It could happen when parent JTC Corp hives out the unit, says one industry expert JTC Corp's recently unveiled divestment plan could include the listing of industrial land developer Ascendas, property consultants said. Apart from the sale of its own industrial properties, JTC also
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    • marketwatch
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        Singapore
        72 50 SHARE prices closed slightly higher in thin trade, following an overnight rally on Wall Street and a decline in crude oil prices. "The optimism on Wall Street is too hard to ignore, although the local market doesn't have many positives to stand upon," a trader said, referring to the
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 50 US$ 0.5911 UK£ 0.3429 Yen 70.185 HK$ 4.5825 RM 2.2285 Euro 0.5 Rupiah 5939.1 Baht 24.329 Peso 32.097 A$ 0.8011 Indian Rs 27.055 Won 612.09 C$ 0.6929 Yuan 4.7771 NZ$ 0.8517 NT$ 19.792
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        Lock icon ST Index — 2,306.31 +9.79
        45 50 ST Index 2,306.31 +9.79 Dow Jones ers 248 to 196 as 679.5 million shares worth $629.6 million were traded. Darco Water Technologies rose 3 cents, or 14.3 per cent, to 24 cents on its Taiwan joint venture clinching a wastewater project worth around $84 million.-
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        World markets
        55 50 Nikkei 225 *****.58 +34.26 +0.23 Hang Seng ASX *****.39 4652.30 +22.04 +35.70 +0.15 +0.77 Taiwan Wtd 6111.89 -11.63 -0.19 Korea Comp 1291.71 +9.69 +0.76 KLCI 903.65 +0.75 +0.08 SET Index 669.76 +0.58 +0.09 Jakarta Comp 1078.17 +17.09 +1.61 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2119.65 198.25 +15.90 +0.02 +0.76 +0.01
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        Lock icon Commodities
        27 50 SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 497.00 Silver US$/oz 8.14 Platinum US$/oz 984.30 Rubber cents/kg 277.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1408.50 Brent US$/barrel 56.23 Information provided by
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        SGX most active
        49 50 ISDN UTAC SingTel GlobalVoice Delong GeneMedix GlabalTest Ascendasreit STXPO Biosensors 0.300 0.670 2.410 0.195 0.110 0.105 0.245 1.990 0.040 1.140 +0.025 +0.010 -0.005 +0.010 +0.010 +0.060 +0.020 -0.030 +3.9 +0.4 -2.5 +10.5 +4.3 +3.1 +2.4 -2.6 21,479 10,321 16,073 15,900 15,400 15,373 14,140 12,173 11,664 11,030
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        SGX top rises
        73 50 0CBCBk4.5%NCPS100 103.600 +0.200 HKLand US$ 3.200 +0.140 Peari Eneigy 1.520 +0.140 KSEnajy 2.050 +0.110 Asc8ndasCA*****4 0.240 +0.100 Cneative 50 13.700 +0.100 Fffll 17.000 +0.100 Jaidine CSC 10.200 +0.100 ShangAsia2kHK$ 11.300 +0.100 UOB 14.600 +0.100 AscendasCA*****4 0.240 +71.4 HKLandMBL*****6 0.240 +65.5 SHC Cap Digiland 0.005 0.015 +54.5 +50.0
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        SGX top falls
        66 50 DBS Bk6"/oNCPS10 107.300 -0.200 BukitSem 12.100 -0.100 DBS 16.200 -0.100 SIA 11.700 -0.100 Venture 13.300 -0.100 WBLCorp 3.060 StaiHubDBeCW*****6 0.560 -0.100 -0.065 SPC 4.000 -0.060 CITYDEVW*****0 5.950 -0.050 StaiHub 1.050 -0.040 STATSChPSGA*****5 0.010 -50.0 SwinpdiaW*****3 0.005 -50.0 Hitehins 0.045 40.0 Hos8iisnflNP8CW***** 0.050 -37.5 QiaiteiedSGAeCW***** 0.010 -33.3 DBS
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        Lock icon Darco wins $85 million Taiwan wastewater deal
        204 52 DOW JONES SINGAPORE-listed Darco Water Technologies said yesterday that it had, together with a unit of Taiwan's Lealea Group, secured a municipal wastewater contract in Taiwan worth NT$l.66 billion ($B5 million). The turnkey design-and-build project involves the construction of a recovery system, with
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      • Article
        Lock icon Purchase off?
        304 52 BLOOMBERG Sing Tel is not likely to buy AAPT unit of Telecom NZ: Deutsche Bank SINGTEL, South-east Asia's largest telephone company, is not likely to buy Telecom Corp of New Zealand's AAPT unit in Australia as the brand is "not strong", Deutsche Bank said in a report. An
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          GOOD NEWS FOR HARRY PORTER FANS
          128 52 MOVIE-goers can experience, till the end of February, the magic and excitement of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Imax Experience at Singapore's only dome-shaped theatre, surrounded by 20,000 watts of digital sound. This family film has been digitally re-mastered into a
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          GOOD NEWS FOR CYBERGAMERS
          87 52 THE largest e-gaming hub here E2Max Cine-L9 at Cathay Cineleisure Orchard has opened It is Cathay Organisation's one-stop, non-stop, state-of-the-art entertainment venue that is designed to promote a healthy yet competitive cyber gaming environment. It houses more than 200 PCs and console stations including the Xbox.
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        Lock icon General insurance boom
        368 54 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Underwriting profit rises 10% in first nine months, gross premiums up 2.2% SINGAPORE'S general insurance industry is experiencing good growth, with a steady increase in both gross premiums and underwriting profit in the first nine months of this year. Figures released by the General Insurance
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        Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
        161 54 Dow Jones Singapore Exchange (SGX) plans to outsource its data centre and IT infrastructure services to Hewlett-Packard Singapore in a five-year contract worth $95 million. The agreement is expected to be finalised by the end of the year. Singapore Shipping Corp's (SSC) main shareholder Ow Chio Kiat has failed
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        Lock icon Heshe, Chip Lian inks MOU with Onyx Asia over Citiraya
        120 54 CHANNEL NEWSASIA HESHE Holdings and Chip Lian Investments have signed a memorandum of understanding with waste management firm Onyx Asia over how to manage Citiraya's operations. Onyx will take a 75-per-cent stake in a new firm set up to manage
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        Lock icon M1 targets savings from Telekom
        536 56 DOW JONES Singapore's No3telco stands to gain from large international capacity of Malaysian shareholder MOBILEONE (Ml) hopes a strategic relationship with new key shareholder Telekom Malaysia will allow it to reap savings on international roaming and handset and infrastructure purchasing. Singapore's No 3 mobile phone
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        Lock icon Optus shifts 800 call centre jobs to Mumbai
        220 56 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE Telecommunications' (Sing Tel) Australian unit Optus is quadrupling the number of call centre jobs in India to cut costs as it struggles with stiff competition and falling profits. Optus will move up to 800 call centre jobs almost a
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        Lock icon SOME TIME BEFORE REITS REGAIN FAVOUR
        786 58  -  Mano Sabnani REAL estate investment trusts (Reits) have taken a beating recently in the market, with some down as much as 20 per cent from their peak prices just two months ago. What is troubling them? Reits were introduced here a few years ago,
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        241 59 BLOOMBERG MALAYSIA will allow a stronger ringgit next year because interest rates need to rise to reflect the pace of inflation and economic growth, Standard Chartered's head of currency strategy Callum Henderson said. StanChart recommends that investors buy ringgit as one of its top
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        199 60 BLOOMBERG MALAYSIA will issue Islamic insurance licences by January, central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said, as the government seeks to expand its financial industry and attract investors. Bank Negara Malaysia "is targeting to issue the new licences to the successful applicants by
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        462 60 BLOOMBERG HK Disneyland attendance goal on track HONG Kong Disneyland, which is Walt Disney Co's first theme park in China, attracted more than 1 million visitors in its first 100 days of operation, putting it on track to achieve attendance goals, the company said. Disney expects
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        255 62 -BLOOMBERG Manufacturers are importing more equipment to meet demand, beat fuel hike TOKYO Japan's trade surplus narrowed in October as rising domestic demand spurred imports of electronics and machinery in the world's second-largest economy. The surplus shrank 29 per cent to 822.1 billion yen
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        537 64 BLOOMBERG Hedge funds are promising unrealistic returns, says investment banker for rich HEDGE funds, which had their worst month in five years in October, are promising unrealistic returns and will face pressure on fees unless they meet the expectations of clients, said Banque Syz Co's
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          61 64 LMA INTERNATIONAL (79.5 CENTS) BUY DBS Vickers keeps a "Buy" on LMA with a $1.13 target as the company's recent move to raise its stake in Australian/New Zealand distributor LMA Pacific Medical is in line with its aim to increase market penetration and improve margins. But it warns that it
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          90 64 WBL CORP ($3.86) OUTPERFORM WBL posted an 84-per-cent fall in FYOS net profit, but CIMB-GK said that if the one-off charge of $63 million was excluded, net profit would actually be +4 per cent year-on-year, in line with its expectations. But the research house trims its FYO6 earnings forecast by
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          73 64 AQUA-TERRA SUPPLY CO (65 CENTS) BUY Dow Jones Phillip Securities keeps a "Buy" on electrical equipment supplier Aqua-Terra with an 84-cent fair value. It said that the company's breakthrough into the Middle East market via a joint venture with FAL International was a "significant milestone" as the region has strong
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      479 65 ARIES (March 21 -April 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) HDo the work yourself if you want things to e^'ect on wnat nas taken place and make get done. You will have a hard time ap- la decision based on what you've learned, peasing friends and family You can get
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      456 76  -  Cubby Leong First medal of the Games goes to Singapore,^ as team continue their incredible run WATERPOLO Singapore 12 Thailand 3 THE atmosphere in the camp was one of relief, mixed of course with a sense of achievement. And why not, after the Singapore waterpolo team defeated
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      539 76  -  Tan Yo-Hinn MANY think it's over-ly-ambitious, some even say the target set is crazy. But the Philippines Olympic Committee (POC) insist not A day after POC chairman Robert Aventajado boldly said the hosts are aiming for around 120 gold medals in a
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      402 77 HE WAS granted Singapore citizenship in September 2003, the Vietnam SEA Games that year his first call to duty for his adopted country. Unfortunately, a groin injury put paid to Agu Casmir's (picture) hopes of helping the Young Lions in that campaign. This year, many
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      609 77  -  Jose Raymond Young Lions huff and puff, but they are now on the brink of elimination FOOTBALL, GRPB Young Lions 0 Indonesia 0 IT WAS an afternoon of near misses for the Young Lions as they ground out a 0-0 draw with Indonesia, a result that could
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        568 70 -AFP Ferdinand confident of progress in Europe because of strike duo MANCHESTER They may be misfiring in Europe and stand on the brink of disastrous elimination from the lucrative knockout stages of the Champions League, but Rio Ferdinand has shrugged off concerns over Manchester United's recent
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        335 70 -AFP SYDNEY Former Wallaby prop forward Ewen McKenzie said yesterday he was interested in the national coaching job when it became available, amid speculation over the future of incumbent rugby coach Eddie Jones. Jones is under media pressure and facing an Australian Rugby
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        272 70 —AP NBA Golden State 89 San Antonio 113 OAKLAND Gregg Popovich had an easy time sizing up the San Antonio Spurs' latest victory as his team's best performance yet. No one could argue with the coach after the Spurs scored a season-best 36 points in the
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        322 72 BRUSSELS Jose Mourinho insisted he will not be concerned if Chelsea finish second behind Liverpool in their Champions League group, reported BBC Sport. Chelsea and Liverpool both qualified for the knockout stages after Wednesday night's (yesterday morning, Singapore time) round of matches and meet
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        567 72 -AP Speculation mounts that Luxemburgo could be fired this weekend CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPF Real Madrid 1 Lyon 1 MADRID Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo will be fired unless his under-performing team stages an immediate improvement, news reports here said yesterday. Real president Florentino Perez is said
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        155 72 BLOOMBERG LONDON Alain Perrin (picture) became the first English Premiership soccer manager to lose his job this season when he was fired by Portsmouth yesterday. France's Perrin, 49, steered Portsmouth away from the relegation zone after he was hired last April, but Pompey are just
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        404 73 Jersey deals suggest the Blues'world domination possible LONDON Chelsea's jersey sponsorship accord with Samsung Electronics Co is the third most lucrative in football and has widened the financial gap between the English Premiership's rich and poor teams, a study said yesterday. In their seventh annual report on
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        288 74 -AFP GOLF Casio World Open KOCHI, Japan US wonder girl Michelle Wie (below) made a scrappy professional debut in men's golf, hitting back with a couple of late birdies to offset three bogeys in the US$l.2 million ($2.03 million) Casio World Open here
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        595 74 -AP Woods burns up the course to end season with a flourish GOLF PGA Grand Slam POIPU BEACH, Hawaii Tiger Woods returned to his old form and dominance in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Woods, who battled a stomach virus in the opening round, won
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        211 74 -AFP KOLKATA Police said they have tightened security for possible protests during today's one-dayer between India and South Africa at Eden Gardens, in the home city of deposed Indian captain Sourav Ganguly. The cricket-mad eastern metropolis had been gripped by protests over the last
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        572 75  -  DARREN LAI National 100 m recordholder looks to have got his wish for one final hurrah da rren@newstoday.com.sg ON WEDNESDAY, he said he hoped for one last shot at glory in the blue riband event of the SEA Games. Now, it looks as if national
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        343 75  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE National Olympic Council (SNOC) president and Minister for Defence, Teo Chee Hean, is hoping that Team Singapore can better the Republic's bestever away showing in the biennial South-east Asian (SEA) Games. In the 1975 competition in Bangkok, at that time
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        165 75 BLOOMBERG FAISALABAD, Pakistan Andrew Flintoff and Geraint Jones helped England salvage a draw against Pakistan in the second cricket Test, as the home team failed to take the tourists' remaining four wickets. England, chasing 285 to win, slumped to 20-4 before Flintoff's 56 lifted the visitors to
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        1397 80 justwanna haveiun Selena Tan and Beatrice Chia show how they live life in a huge way. Justin Cheong (justin@newstoday.com.sg) finds out how. Only U2 undoubtedly the biggest band in the world could get away with a song about how Big Girls Are Best. At the bridge, Bono whispers seductively
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        843 84 Janice Goh (janice@newstoday.com.sg) speaks to individuals who leave their comfort zone to help those in need GROUND ZERO IN BANDAACEH FAMILY WOMAN GOES IT ALONE DANGER WON'T KEEP HIM AWAY FOR several mornings at around 3am in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Pauline Ang would be jolted out of
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        862 88 For those who have small families, Christmas is probably a cosy affair. But what happens when you have six kids or more than 200 relatives? Two super-sized families tell Eveline Gan (eveline@newstoday.com.sg) how they spend their Christmas and shop for presents without going broke. THE CHUNGS, ALL
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        832 90 Pearlyn Tham (pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg) unwraps the Christmas coffrets that are great to give and great to get BIG OR SMALL, IT'S YOUR CALL We love the idea behind Lancome's Christmas coffret collection, where you can downsize or upsize depending on your budget and preferences. For example, you can
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        458 94  -  Christopher Tan Give bland eggs big-time flavour with some zesty relish food@newstoday.com.sg NOT your pedestrian omelette, this economical and eye-catching dish is vigorously flavoured. Quick to put together once the sauce is made, it's an excellent meal extender or buffettable addition. The sight of many little yolks in
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      1339 102  -  Yong Shu Chiang in LosAnqeles Animation giants, minus Pixar, enters a brave new CG world with Chicken Little THEY had stayed together for the kids long enough. The marriage was over, and animation giants Disney and Pixar have split up as business partners. The latter
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      438 105  -  DAVID CHEW Rodin's statue on display with other masterpieces of the century david. chew@newstoday.com. sg THE Opera Gallery atTakashimaya Shopping Centre has a distinguished visitor at the moment. He's semi-naked, sports a remarkably chiselled torso and, with his chin perched on his hand, is always deep in
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      395 106  -  -MERVINTAY POOR Ella Chen. The 24-year-old from Taiwanese girl group S.H.E got her hair and ear slightly burnt while filming a scene in Reaching for the Stars, which debuted on MediaCorp TV Channel U last night She had to be hospitalised for a day. "It
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        42 108 Rome (picture, actor Ray Stevenson), a new epic series produced by//SO and SBC, cost US$lOO million ($l7O million) to produce and is the most highly anticipated show in recent times. It premieres on HBOthis Sunday at 10pm.
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        64 108 The first in a series of sound explorations by electronic musicians Evan Tan and Zul Mahmood, False Securities attempts to create evocative and involving listening so that the audience can interact, discover and experience new places. The gig starts at 8 tonight and will be held at
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        72 108 Drum 'n' bass night Subversive debuts at DXO at the Esplanade Mall tonight with DJs Dimbob (picture), Ajay, Aresha, MC Kane and Vortex promising pulsating beats and killer bass lines all the elements for a grand night out. The event is on from 10pm
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