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    13 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Friday March 10, 2006 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Infamous Abu Ghraib prison to close
    188 1 -AFP BAGHDAD The US military will soon close Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison and transfer its 4,500 detainees to another detention facility, a US military spokesman said yesterday. Abu Ghraib, on the western outskirts of Baghdad, already dreaded under Saddam Hussein's regime, gained further
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    Lock icon Stocks lower, oil ends higher
    96 1 -BLOOMBERG US stocks fell back yesterday into their slump for the week and oil prices climbed for the first time in four days. The Standard Poor's 500 Index lost 5.77 points to 1,272.70, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 34.42 points to 10,971.32 and the
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    Lock icon Dubai pulls out of US ports
    232 1 BLOOMBERG DP World acts 'to salvage relations' after Congress makes it clear it will blockthe deal A DUBAI-BASED company yesterday abandoned its effort to take over some operations in six major US ports after the US Congress made it clear that it would block
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      36 1 Vk\%m hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 14 voices 28 business 46 classad 60 traveltoday 62 sports 64 plus pullout 1 tv& radio pullout 22 we set you thinking I ijLmWm 31 8 "*****6"*****9"
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      62 1 AFTERNOON EDITION Mml v K'mm—i NTUC ■E^^^^ Singapore^ very own u^A REPOKI' mt t mhk 41 OFFERS. ■fitftfftifcwffi^lSfflftW Your FREE copy inside Boro ruin V^ unbeaten flV^ ''*l^fc I mw *r > CARTOONS: YEMENI EDrrOR FACES DEATH 2 ENOUGH WITH FOREIGN TALENT BASHING 3 MOB RULE WONT PREVAIL THAKSIN 3
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      6 1 PORT DEAL TORPEDOED 62-2 PAGE 16
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      Opposition should aim for a GRC win: Chiam
      332 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a birthday wish Mr Chiam See Tong might happily make: Wresting a Group Representation Constituency (GRC) from the ruling party's grip in the upcoming General Election (GE). Asked if the Opposition was confident of making history,
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      Lock icon Yemeni editor faces death over cartoons
      354 2 BLOOMBERG SANAA (Yemen) A newspaper editor in Yemen, who re-published Danish cartoons depicting Islam's founding Prophet Mohammed, has said that as many as 21 Yemeni prosecutors are calling for his execution. "I am afraid but I am also hopeful," Mr Muhammad Al Asadi of
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      More scope for *scape
      654 2  -  JASMINE YIN Site to be expanded based on suggestions provided by youth: Dr Balakrishnan jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg DON'T be surprised if youth in Singapore start saying that they want to hang out at a playground. They won't be thinking of the seesaws and the monkey bars. Rather, they
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      Lock icon Design firm hit with first local criminal suit for IP infringement
      539 3  -  ANSLEYNG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg IN A landmark case, a local design company with operations in Shanghai, Sydney and Kuala Lumpur was hauled to court for installing pirated versions of software such as Microsoft XP on its office computers. At the
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        Enough already with foreign talent bashing
        521 3  -  LEONARD THOMAS Leonard Thomas SPORTS EDITOR leona rd@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS a controversial policy when launched in 1993 and 13 years on, it remains so. In Parliament yesterday, Singapore's Foreign Sports Talent (FST) scheme once again came under scrutiny. Opposition Member of Parliament Low Thia
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      Lock icon Mob rule won't prevail: Thaksin
      457 3 —AGENCIES BANGKOK A small bomb that exploded outside the home of a top royal adviser yesterday could "incite" Thailand's already tense political situation, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra admitted amid growing uncertainty over snap elections he has called. "There may be someone wanting to incite the
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      Lock icon Fund gets $100m top-up to aid poor
      485 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Com Care will use $30mtohelp poor work from home THE Government's $100 million top-up to Com Care will help 17,000 families a year, over the next two years. Already, the Com Care Endowment Fund has spent $23.4 million and helped 51,000
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      Lock icon GO! Silver economy
      343 4 OLDER Singaporeans can fuel a "silver" economy, if the calculations of the Government prove correct. To promote active ageing, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth Sports (MCYS) is doubling the Golden Opportunity (GO!) Fund to $20 million over the next five years. This fund will help senior
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      US notes some 'significant' rights problems in Singapore
      293 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com. sg THE Buangkok White Elephant issue has found its way into the latest human rights report issued by the US State Department. Other concerns include Martyn See's Singapore Rebel film and the A*Star scholar and blogger who had
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      People's Association ana PAP – linked or not?
      546 6  - People's Association ana PAP linked or not? JASMINE YIN Minister refutes NCMP Steve Chia's claims jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg THE relationship between grassroots organisations under the People's Association (PA) and the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) came under heated debate again in Parliament yesterday. Have these grassroots organisations been politicised to support the
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      LIVELIER DEBATES ... PLUS SOME HINT OF THE COMING GE
      222 6  - LIVELIER DEBATES PLUS SOME HINT OF THE COMING GE -JASMINE YIN EVEN though there were MPs who asked questions that sounded suspiciously like speeches, most seemed to have mastered the art of speaking within their time limits this year. Speaker of Parliament Abdullah Tarmugi observed wryly at the close of
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      Help for disabled to get employed
      375 6  -  —JASMINE YIN JOB-SEEKERS with disabilities could soon find it easier to get employment when a new job and workplace re-design scheme kicks off in July. This $520,000 pilot scheme aims to encourage more employers to hire the disabled by providing financial assistance up to
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      Finally, a day of rest for foreign domestic workers ...
      318 8  - Finally, a day of rest for foreign domestic workers TEOXUANWEI xua nweit@newstoday.com.sg THE new employment contract that will give maids at least one rest day a month will be finalised by the end of the month, and it could be implemented as soon as in June. And although the Ministry
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      ... and a feedback survey
      466 8  - and a feedback survey LINYANQIN Feedback Unit survey will find out how they feel about employers, working conditions ya nqinl@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Government has embarked on its first study on foreign domestic workers here. The Feedback Unit has commissioned the study to see how the workers view their employers and
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      Nonoi died of 'cardio-respiratory failure', says mother
      157 8 NONOI, the two-year-old girl whose decomposing body was found under an Aljunied flyover, had died of cardio-respiratory failure, her mother Mastura Kamsir told Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao yesterday. Madam Mastura added that her daughter's death certificate did not specify what caused the
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      Lock icon Budget Terminal's 13 shops taken up
      183 10 938 LIVE ALTHOUGH Singapore's new Budget Terminal will serve just one nofrills airline, all 13 retail shops in it have been snapped up. The outlets at the terminal will sell products such as liquor and tobacco, books, magazines and sporting goods. There will also
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      Lock icon Car dealers see red over LTA teething blues
      624 10  -  CHEOWXINYI xinyic@newstoday.com.sg A $36 MILLION project to revamp Singapore's online vehicle transaction system has met with a series of hiccups since its launch about two weeks ago, resulting in an apology to angry car dealers. On Tuesday, the Land Transport Authority (LTA)
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      Lock icon Briton in Oxley drug bust gets 11 months
      311 12  -  VINITA RAMAN I vinita@newstoday.com.sg THE Briton who was rounded up during the Oxley drug bust in December was sentenced to 11 months in prison, after he pleaded guilty to charges of possessing 3.45g of cocaine and 1.66g of ketamine. Lionel Rudolf Zupancich
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      Lock icon NTUC Totalcare
      381 12  -  TAN HUI LENG Group ventures into Chinese medicine, 1-stop health clinics huileng@newstoday.com. sg THINK NTUC Healthcare and its 39 Unity pharmacies come to mind. Come Saturday, however, it will change that perception with a new Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) clinic in Toa Payoh Centre. The TCM set-up, a
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        Lock icon FUEL PRICE HIKE AT ESSO, MOBIL
        43 12 938 LIVE The prices for petrol and diesel at Esso and Mobil service stations have increased by 6 cents a litre. The companies said the price hike was primarily due to the high cost of crude oil.
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        Lock icon MEDAN FIRE DELAYS SILKAIR FLIGHTS
        46 12 938 LIVE Two Silkair flights were affected by a fire at Medan's Polonia Airport yesterday morning. The airport, which was closed temporarily because of the blaze, has since reopened for international flights The flights arrived in Singapore three hours behind schedule.
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        Lock icon CALLING DEAD MAN'S NEXT-OF-KIN
        54 12 938 LIVE Police are appealing for the next-of-kin of Ramdas s/o Sengoden. The 45-year-old Indian man was found lying on the roadside along Sim's Place on Feb 22 and was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he died. The next-of-kin can call the police hotline
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      Lock icon Exxon Mobil to appeal Aceh atrocities ruling
      535 14 -AGENCIES Oil giant could held liable for abuses by troops in Indonesian province JAKARTA- Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp said yesterday it would appeal the ruling by a United States judge to allow villagers to sue the firm for alleged abuses by Indonesian
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      Lock icon Won't be bullied, says Iran
      264 14 —AFP TEHRAN Iran yesterday voiced gritty determination to pursue its controversial nuclear programme, with the Islamic regime unfazed by looming United Nations Security Council action and warning the West of a "heavy price". "The time for bullying is over," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in
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      Lock icon 5th HFMD death in Malaysia
      163 14 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR An epidemic of hand, foot-and-mouth disease in Malaysia's eastern state of Sarawak has killed a fifth person, officials said yesterday, as the government urged parents to keep children at home. The Health Ministry's director for disease control Ramlee Rahmat said the latest
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      Lock icon 25 Philippine soldiers detained, accused of involvement in coup plot
      258 16 —AFP MANILA Eight army officers and 17 enlisted men have been detained, accused of involvement in last month's alleged coup attempt against President Gloria Arroyo, senior military sources said yesterday. Among those being questioned are two lieutenant-colonels. All but one
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      Port deal torpedoed 62-2
      456 16 US House panel votes against bid by DP World WASHINGTON A powerful committee of the United States House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to block a Bush administration deal to give a Dubai firm control over six US ports, the BBC reported yesterday. The House Appropriations
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        Lock icon LAW SUIT OVER FEARLESS
        84 16 —AP The grandson of a late Chinese kung fu master is waging a legal battle against the producers and distributors of a new Jet Li film, claiming the movie misrepresents and dishonours its real-life subject, Xinhua news reported. Mr Huo Shoujin, the grandson of Mr Huo
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        DNA TEST ON 'BIGFOOT' FOOTPRINT
        73 16 A DNA test will be carried out on the cast of a giant footprint found in a Johor forest to determine its existence once and for all of a reported "Bigfoot" animal. The Star newspaper reported yesterday. "We did not find any droppings or fur.
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        Lock icon 33 IRAQI SECURITY COMPANY EMPLOYEES ABDUCTED
        66 16 —AFP Iraqi officials said yesterday that they were investigating the abduction of 33 employees from a local security firm in Baghdad, taken at gun point by men in military uniforms. The raid came against a background of increasing sectarian violence as the United States
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      Lock icon China's parliament erasing its rubber stamp image
      228 18 -AFP BEIJING China's National People's Congress (NPC) has frequently been ridiculed as a stooge in the hands of the Communist Party, but it is slowly shaking off its image as a rubber stamp parliament, observers say. From the essential task of lawmaking to
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      TAIWAN ROCKS THE BOAT
      552 18  -  DRERICTEOCHUCHEOW Cross-strait tussle may pose a danger to regional stability news@newstoday.com.sg TAIWANESE President Chen Shui-bian's bold announcement on Feb 27 on the National Unification Council (NUC) "ceasing to function" and the National Unification Guidelines (NUG) "ceasing to apply" has raised the stakes across the Taiwan Strait.
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      Lock icon In tit-for-tat move, China accuses US of 'serious violations' of human rights
      353 20 -AFP BEIJING In response to a United States report that branded Beijing one of the world's "most systematic" rights offenders, China accused the US yesterday of "serious violations" of human rights. A report issued by China's Cabinet, the
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      Lock icon Don't call Taiwan a 'country': China
      407 20 AGENCIES Mainland protests against Japanese minister's remarks BEIJING China expressed shock yesterday after Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called Taiwan a "country" and accused him of intervening in its internal affairs. Mr Aso had earlier yesterday said Taiwan was a "law-gov-erned country" in the
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      Lock icon Low-tech budget terminal worries KL air traffic controllers
      326 23 —AGENCIES Navigation, communication equipment described as a step backwards, archaic KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian capital's new low-cost airport terminal is scheduled to open on March 23 three days before the opening of its counterpart in Singapore but air traffic controllers posted there
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      Lock icon Race is the new sex ... on the goggle box, at least
      497 23 Race is the new sex on the goggle box, at least -THE GUARDIAN LOS ANGELES In Hollywood, race is the new sex. Days after Crash beat Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars, reality television is taking a rest from engineering onscreen couplings to experiment with racial role-swapping. Black. White, made by
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        Lock icon THEY CAN PARTY TOGETHER BUT OTHERWISE HE'S RESTRAINED
        77 23 —AP A United States court has approved an unusual restraining order against Paris Hilton, ordering her to stay at least 90m away from an event producer who claimed she threatened him unless they are at a party together. Mr Brian Quintana claimed
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        Lock icon MOP AND PLUNGER BRAWL OVER BOG ROLL
        60 23 —AP An argument over toilet paper overflowed into a fight, sending one motel maid to the hospital and another to jail. The maids at the Siesta Motor Lodge in North Charleston armed themselves with a plunger and mop after accusing each other of
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      Lock icon Australia to consider de-programming terrorists
      262 24 —AFP SYDNEY Australia said yesterday it would consider a plan to "de-programme" Islamic militants held in prison despite criticism by a rights group that it amounted to brainwashing. Police Commissioner Mick Keelty proposed the idea, saying the technique involved using respected imams, or people previously
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      Lock icon Special operations teams posted in US embassies
      155 24 -AFP WASHINGTON The US military has been posting special operations personnel at select US embassies for about two years to provide military commanders with "situational awareness". The unusual arrangement was disclosed by the New York Times, which said the so-called Military Liaison Elements
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      Lock icon Divisive politics rears its ugly head in India
      702 26  -  SANJAYKAPOOR Islamic militant group claims responsibility forVaranasi blasts news@newstoday.com.sg VARANASI Even as Indian political parties of different hues sought to derive political mileage out of the blasts in this holiest Hindu city that killed 23 people, an unknown Islamic militant group yesterday
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      924 28 Coffee stalls across the island raise prices at the same time -now, that's cooperation! SINGAPOREANS are such a lucky bunch. When the prices of things go up, they go up together, so we need not feel it so much, since every shop is selling it at the same
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      239 32  -  DR JAMES DOBSON /////BY PROMISE KEEPER So many men I meet have such good intentions. That's why they say yes to their wives and children so often. Unfortunately those yeses soon become nos and plans change and other pressures take priority. And this turns many men
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      488 32  -  LIM ENG HWEE URA plans to retain area's'village'feel while addressing commercial, infrastructure needs Letter from Director (Physical Planning) Urban Redevelopment Authority I REFER to the letter "Big plans but it's still a sleepy town" (March 6). Letter writer Haslinda Shamsudin wanted to know the status
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      394 34  -  ALFRED LIM It feels like we bear a disproportionate share of the tax burden Letter from IT'S is often joked that in Singapore, you had better be rich, in which case you do not require financial assistance, or poor, in which case the Government will lend
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      188 34  -  COL BENEDICT LIM Letter from Director Public Affairs, Ministry of Defence I REFER to Mr Michael Tay's letter, "Why not just raise parents' guarantee amount?" (March 9). As the Second Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen had explained during the Committee
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      194 34  -  CHIN YEN YEN Letter from Senior Assistant Director (Corporate Communications) Competition Commission of Singapore I REFER to Professor Ivan Png's letter "Of rising coffee prices and bus fees" (March 8). We thank Prof Png for his views. He has referred to paragraph 3.5 of the
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      JBJ and PJ on opposite sides?
      179 34  -  TANKOKTIM Letter from IT COULD be providence or the slick hand of the editor that placed the two articles, "Will JBJ be back?" and "Law Society rejects request by Chee" on the same page (March 8). One might wonder if Chee was trying to
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      Workfare bonus for disabled trainees too?
      356 38  -  TOMMY TNG They are employees as they work every day in a training centre and receive an allowance Letter from Deputy General Manager SPD Ability Enterprise The Society for the Physically Disabled THE Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) has a special group of
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      Do away with MRT bum rests
      157 38  -  CHIAM TOON LOKE Letter from THIS morning, I saw a frail man wobbling along with the help of his cane as he entered the MRT. On his left were seats that were occupied, while to his right, there were bum rests. No one vacated
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      Apologies for rude awakenings
      101 38  -  COL BENEDICT LIM Letter from Director, Public Affairs Ministry of Defence I REFER to Ms Tan Lay Van's letter, "Awakened thrice at night by recruits' singing" (March 7). We apologise for the disturbance caused to Ms Tan and other residents. Route marches improve the fitness and
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      Grow enterprises where needy, elderly can contribute
      229 38  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I READ with interest the report, "Encourage social enterprise, say MPs" (March 9). Giving handouts to needy individuals and welfare institutions cannot do much, except to alleviate their financial woes temporarily. What is more important is to
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      Lock icon For peace of mind, go ezyCash
      1077 39  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Two very satisfied customers recommend GE Money-Sing Post personal loan scheme janec@newstoclay.com.sg SHE was burdened with credit card bills for months. However, a loan did not seem like a feasible option until she saw an article on ezyCash, the personal loan scheme
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      210 40  -  UMBOONHEE Letter from I THINK the political fallout of Temasek buying Shin Corp from Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family should not be underestimated. We are not talking about small change here but billions of Singapore's hardearned dollars. The tide has turned
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        We're honest, faithful
        249 40  -  TIMOTHY LIU Letter from CHOONG Yoke Leng appears to be disgruntled and disillusioned with men, judging from her commentary, "The (sad) truth about men". That is really sad. For every man she can find who advocates extra-marital affairs, I can show her 10 who adore their wives,
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        Men give as much
        201 40  -  ADITYSHARMA Letter from KUDOS to Today for Frances Ong's commentary "Ask not what you can get from your man..." (March 8) which, for a change, goads us to reflect on the role of our husbands, brothers, fathers and sons namely the men in our lives. It
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      Reusable bag plan that did not last
      313 42  -  MARY-ANNE MAES Supermarkets are giving out plastic bags freely again Letter from IT HAS been about a month since the National Environment Agency (NEA) launched the "Why Waste Plastic Bags? Choose Reusable Bags" campaign. It was heartening to see supermarkets displaying signs at
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      399 42  -  GOH SHIHYONG Letter from Assistant Director Corporate Communications for Chief Executive Officer Agri-Food Veterinary Authority, Ministry of National Development WE REFER to the letters "Odd to move smaller sharks but not bigger one" and "Prohibitions should apply to buyers, farms" by Ms
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        406 44  -  TOMMY PETTERSSON Letter from IT IS with interest I read the commentary "Upcoming Gems show? Mind the gap, please" (March 8). I think the problem with the gap between suppliers and customers is bigger and more important than the article states.
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        Shops lack sofas, smiles and basic courtesy
        127 44  -  LAWRENCE KOH Letter from IT IS about time the Go-the-Extra-Mile-for-service (Gems) movement is introduced. Retailers in Singapore lack product knowledge on what they have and what their specialities are. They also lack customer service skills in terms of how to entice customers to
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      817 29 111 Good news for lower-income families With immediate effect, you can use these new assistance measures to buy your own HDB homes 0 ADDITIONAL CPF HOUSING GRANT OF $5,000 TO $20,000 fi(g Hfi mw™< Lower-income citizen families will be Average monthly household income HjS_ —-W *W given an Additional CPF
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      Lock icon A tangled web of bribery
      616 46  -  LEECHINGWERN Former GM of Gridnode sought to disguise bribe as part of contract chingwern@newstoday.com. sg TAKING the stand as the prosecution witness for the fourth day yesterday, the man who referred the Carrefour project to Crimson Logic after his own company failed to secure the
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      Lock icon Shin shares below Temasek's offer
      308 46 —AGENCIES THE price of Shin Corp shares remained flat at 44 baht ($1.83) yesterday, well below the 49.25 baht offered in a tender for the telecommunications giant by two firms controlled by Singapore's Temasek Holdings, reflecting concerns among investors that the deal might be scuttled
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        Lock icon Keppel enters oil rig market in India
        214 48 —AGENCIES KEPPEL Corp marked its entry into the Indian market, saying yesterday one of its units won a US$l7l million ($279 million) rig contract from Discovery Hydrocarbons, an India-based drilling contractor that is part of the Jindal Group. The jack-up rig, to be
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          Lock icon Singapore
          152 48 Dow Jones SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg SHARES closed little changed yesterday, as gains in China-linked stocks were offset by profit-taking in blue chips like Singapore Airlines, traders said. The ST Index closed up 1.65 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 2,504.25. In the broad market, advancers led decliners 280
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          World markets
          58 48 Mikkei 225 16,036.91 +409.42 +2.62 -IK Hang Seng 15,510.13 +17.04 +0.11 Australia ASX200 4,094.40 +21.40 +0.43 <orea Comp 1,311.21 -2.04 -0.22 fhailand SET 720.99 +5.13 +0.71 Jakarta Comp 1,239.50 +5.90 +0.40 Dhils Comp 2,109.77 +10.51 +0.50 Shenzhen B 239.22 -0.00 -0.03 Vlumbai Sensex 10,573.54 +64.69 +0.62 Malaysia KLCI
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          SGX most active
          52 48 Wee Poh SingTel 0.005 25,010 2.690 +0.020 +0.7 24,730 Reyoung Feirochina Hongguo GlobalTest ChinaLife C80 Pharm 0.445 +0.005 +1.1 15,390 0.715 +0.040 +5.9 14,133 0.375 -0.005 -1.3 14,024 0.300 +0.010 +3.4 13,950 0.250 +0.005 +2.0 13,615 0.430 +0.010 +2.4 13,592 CG Tech 0.350 +0.005 +1.4 13,239 MFSTech
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          Commodities
          21 48 Gold US$/oz 548.00 Silver US$/oz 9.90 Platinum US$/oz 1,018.00 Rubber cents/kg 335.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,445.00 Brent crude US$/barrel 60.55
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          SGX top falls
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          36 48 US$ 0.6137 UK£ 0.3535 Yen 72.086 HK$ 4.7719 RM 2.2878 Euro 0.5148 Rupiah 5,770.4 Baht 24.019 Peso 31.585 AS 0.8345 Indian Rs 27.347 Won 604.03 C$ 0.7095 Yuan 4.9489 NZ$ 0.9434 NT$ 19.995
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        775 51  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Western opposition to PSA, CNOOC and Mittal belies a deep-rooted xenophobia JUST as the West's monopoly on advanced military technologies is ending, so is its monopoly on commerce. But more than the weakening of its military might, it is this erosion of
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        Moneylender ready for change in govt policy
        358 53  -  CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@newstoday.com.sg GE MONEYS ezyCash loans have been brought up in the debate on whether credit cards should be granted to those earning less than the Monetary Authority Of Singapore (MAS)-stipulated annual income guideline of $30,000. The chief executive of GE
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        Entrepreneurs extraordinaire
        371 53  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Ernst Young recognises top businessmen ja nec@newstoday.com.sg MR VIKAS Goel, chairman and group managing director of eSys Technologies, walked away with the top honour at the fourth Ernst Young's annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards gala dinner last night at the Ritz-Carlton Millenia. Mr Goel won
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        Lock icon Optus mum on Vodafone buy
        210 54 DOW JONES SYDNEY Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel) 's Australian unit Optus declined to comment yesterday on a report that it was interested in buying Vodafone Group's Australian network assets. "We are not commenting," an Optus spokesperson said, responding to a report in The Australian newspaper
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        444 54 -AGENCIES BOJ sends signals of end of deflation era TOKYO Japanese share prices ended sharply higher yesterday after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) the country's central bank determined the world's second-largest economy was finally strong enough for it to abandon a five-year policy of fighting deflation. The
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        Lock icon Fund takes $2b stake in BOC
        156 54 —AFP BEIJING China's national social security fund has agreed to buy a 3.9-per-cent stake in Bank of China (BOC) for 10 billion yuan ($2 billion), a spokesperson for the lender said yesterday. "We signed the agreement on Wednesday," said Mr Wang Zhaowen. The social
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        Lock icon Qantas cuts jobs, warns of moving work offshore
        205 54 -AFP SYDNEY Qantas Airways said yesterday it would axe about 480 engineering jobs in Australia and warned of possibly moving more maintenance work overseas in a cost-cutting drive. The jobs will be lost at Qantas' heavy maintenance operations in Sydney, which will
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        Lock icon Exxon to up capital spending to $32b
        457 56 BLOOMBERG Focus on large projects with long-term benefits EXXON Mobil Corp, the world's largest company by market capitalisation, plans a 13-per-cent increase in capital spending this year to lift reserves and help meet a target of 23-per-cent output growth by 2010. Spending will
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        Lock icon Google settles 'click fraud' suit
        463 58 -BLOOMBERG Net search engine agrees to pay $146.9 million GOOGLE, the world's most-used Internet search engine, said it agreed to pay as much as US$9O million ($146.9 million) to settle a "click-fraud" lawsuit with companies claiming they paid for clicks on advertisements that had no
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        Lock icon Lay knew of Enron's problems, says Fastow
        286 58 -AP ENRON Corp chief executive Kenneth Lay was aware of the company's withering finances in late 2001 even as he gave glowing reports to employees and the media, the admitted architect of schemes that helped sink the company testified on Wednesday. Andrew Fastow,
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      546 64 —AFP 'M^M PHOENIX Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced here Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) he will launch a review into the latest doping revelations surrounding scandalladen slugger Barry Bonds. One day after claims surfaced alleging a systematic doping programme by Bonds since
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      566 65 —AGENCIES Defending champion seeks winning start in Bahrain MOTOR RACING Formula 1 MANAMA World champion Fernando Alonso has targeted nothing less than a victory to kick-start his title defence as the Formula 1 World Championship begins this weekend with the Bahrain Grand Prix. The 24-year-old Renault driver
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      267 65 —AFP NBA LA Lakers 113 New Orleans 107 NEW ORLEANS, Professional sport returned to New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and not even Kobe Bryant's overpowering effort could dampen the spirit of spectators. The National Basketball Association scoring
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      498 65  -  DARREN LAI ehubclass da rren@newstoday.com.sg CEDAR Girls' Secondary School has always had a proud tradition in schools' track and field, churning out national sprinters with regularity in the 60s and 70s when the likes of Chan Wai Lin and Jenny Lim Tian Gui
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        249 66 AFP English Premiership side triumph from penalty goal PARIS Middlesbrough dashed Roma's 16-game unbeaten run in the Uefa Cup yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), an Aiyegbeni Yakubu penalty sealing the English Premiership side's 1-0 win at a rainsoaked Riverside. In pouring rain and heavy conditions
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        186 66 —AFP CHICAGO Major League Baseball slugger Barry Bonds could face suspension if new claims detailing a doping history are proven true, the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Citing unnamed sources within the sport, the newspaper reported major league commissioner Bud
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        184 66 BLOOMBERG LONDON Manchester City said manager Stuart Pearce, who replaced Kevin Keegan late last season, will sign a twoyear rolling contract in the next week. Pearce, a former England left-back, has worked without a written agreement since taking over from Keegan last March.
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        149 66 BLOOMBERG LONDON Newcastle said England striker Michael Owen's recovery from a broken bone in his foot is going as planned, the same day the Sun reported he cut short a training session and may miss an FA Cup quarter-final against Chelsea on March 22. Owen, 26, who
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      510 67 —AGENCIES Cosmopolitan Gunners only English club left in Europe CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Round of 16,2 nd leg Arsenal 0 Real Madrid 0 (Arsenal win 1-0 on aggregate) LONDON Nobody expected Arsenal to be the only English representatives in the European Champions League quarter-fi-nals. Not even manager Arsene
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      317 67 FOR the first time, Singapore kids will be player escorts at the World Cup, thanks to McDonald's exclusive promotional rights to the McDonald's Player Escort Programme. From today through March 22, those between the ages of six and 10 can vie for the opportunity to be a McDonald's
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      247 67 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Round of 16,2 nd leg AC Milan 4 Bayern Munich 1 (Milan win 5-2 on aggregate) MUNICH German football was left in a state of mourning yesterday after AC Milan thrashed Bayern Munich 4-1 to send the German champions crashing out
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      496 68  -  DARREN LAI Hotly-disputed penalty hands Eagles full points NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Geylang 1 Sengkang 0 darren@newstoday.com.sg SOME of the 2,751 fans at the Bedok Stadium were already heading for the exit, thinking that the match between Geylang United and Sengkang Punggol was headed for a
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        114 68 SPORTS management company ESPZEN will be arranging a charity match to raise money for National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCR) on the March 12 at the National Stadium. The charity match between ESPZEN Football League teams, Barclays Capital FC and Orchard Rovers FC, which kicksoff at
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        88 68 AFTER investing more than $35,000 renovating their home ground Yishun Stadium, S-League new boys Sporting Afrique will be officially launching the revamped stadium on March 14. They have also invited former Singapore national coach Barry Whitbread, currently coaching at the Liverpool FC Academy, to grace the event.
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        69 68 ELECTRONICS giant Toshiba have selected Sporting Afrique's Nigerian striker Fortune Udo to star in a television commercial scheduled to air just before June's Fifa World Cup. His exotic good looks are bound to earn him lots of female fans this season. Coupled with the club's
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      870 69  -  DARREN LAI Limping Protectors not in the best shape for clash of the titans da rren@newstoday.com.sg IN 1999, a certain Hungarian midfield maestro inspired Home United to their first ever S-League title and at the same time denied SAFFC a historic hat-trick of consecutive titles.
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      320 69  -  DARREN LAI HOME United coach Zsolt Bucs must be a relieved man on Wednesday. After suffering a series of blows in his team's build-up to the new S-League season, he finally received some good news when his new Brazilian signing Carlos Alberto breezed through the Beep
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      629 70  -  TANYO-HINN Singapore's No 1 fires a blistering 65 for a share of the leaderboard \s yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IT APPEARS Mardan Mamat is acquiring a taste for the Laguna National Golf and Country Club's 7,207-yard Masters Course. After winning January's U5534,000 ($55,000) Accenture Champion of Champions on the
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      367 70  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE missing Nicolette Teo, a makeshift Singapore women's 4xloo medley relay team was still good enough for bronze at last night's 7th Milo Asia Swimming Championships. With breaststroke specialist Teo opting to stay in the United States
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      488 71  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Dr Balakrishnan predicts great things ahead for Singapore sport weekeat@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S sporting landscape is set to reach new heights. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS), presented an upbeat report on the country's sports
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      293 71  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SWIMMER SngJu Wei was all set to call it quits last July. After completing national service, he found it hard to reclaim the form that won him two gold medals at the 2001 SEA Games. He was also under pressure to get a "normal" job.
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      396 71  -  -LEONGWEEKEAT The Football Association of Singapore's (FAS) Foreign Sports Talent Scheme was among the subjects debated in Parliament yesterday. Referring to the recent controversy surrounding Singapore stars Agu Casmir and Itimi Dickson, Hougang MP Low Thia Khiang questioned FAS' handling of the two
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      1063 74  -  FELIX CHEONG Stories overlap, characters collide: The fragmented film narrative comes of aae plus@newstoday.com.sg IT'S no coincidence that Crash walked away with the Academy Award for Best Picture on the same night that American maverick director Robert Altaian was given an honorary Oscar. With its multiple narratives
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      FIGHTING FIRE WTTH WATER
      698 76  -  Felix Cheong Deepa Mehta, unfazed by strong reactions to her films, continues to push the limits FIVE years in the making. Set razed to the ground by fanatics. Threats made against the director's life. For a film innocently titled Water, it certainly underwent a baptism of
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      1069 78  -  ROSS WALLACE What inspires Japanese auteur 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano when he makes his famously warped films? Beats him, really DEPUTY PLUS EDITOR ross@newstoday.com.sg WITH his bottle-blonde hair, weather-beat-en face and half-open eyes, you'd think Takeshi Kitano would be hard to miss. And yet, that's exactly what a band
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      365 80  -  —lULIANA JUNE RASUL AS PART of the Singapore stop on The Magical World of Disney On Ice tour, skaters from the current Disney On Ice cast conducted a master class on Wednesday for young skaters from the Singapore Ice Skating Association. Skaters
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      598 80  -  ZULOTHMAN Forget the fame game, Rumor Has It star Suvari is happy being herself N LOS ANGELES zul@newstoday.com.sg IT'S a rare thing to hear an actress claim that she's not terribly fussed by the Hollywood star-making game. "I don't pay any attention to the Hollywood process because
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      429 82 -THE GUARDIAN The Japanese puzzle game Sudoku is about to get serious EVER since the Japanese number puzzle first entered the public consciousness in late 2004 gaining a large following in Singapore thanks to its inclusion in the pages of PLUS it has been
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      448 86  -  DAVID CHEW There's no such thing as bad acoustics declares New York Philharmonic maestro Lorin Maazel david. chew@newstoday.com. sg FOR anyone who has ever attended a classical music concert and been disappointed with what they heard, don't blame the acoustics. "There really is no such thing as
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      286 86  -  Ashraf Safdar THEATREREVIEW ////by The Sound Collector CAUGHT up in a city's whir of activity, it is easy to stop noticing the little things that make up the aural landscape of our day-to-day existence. Thankfully, The Sound Collector- staged by the Singapore
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      257 88 Step aside Booker Prize, the Blooker is here -AGENCIES THE founders of the Booker Prize maintained a cautious silence after a rival, the Blooker Prize, emerged on Wednesday to reward books born on the World Wide Web. Bob Young, the American multi-millionaire behind the prize, said: "In five years' time
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      422 88  - in cinemas soon JEANINETAN with jeanine@newstoday.com.sg AFTER the embarrassing The Promise, Jang Dong Gun's next blockbuster effort is the 15 billion won ($25 million) thriller Typhoon. South Korea's biggest star, best known for his heroic roles, will transform himself into a vengeful North Korean pirate who plots to destroy both
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      Flat farce
      197 90  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW ///by Date Movie HERE we go again: Another grossed-out, politi-cally-incorrect movie spoof in the tradition of Airplane!, Naked Gun and Hot Shots. Alyson Hannigan dons a fat suit to play Julia Jones, a Bridget Jones big momma on the fast track to spinsterhood. She meets
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      291 90  -  Ross Wallace FILMREVIEW ////by THERE are movies that must be seen to be believed. Takeshis' is one of them. Sadly, believing might not be much of a consolation for those moviegoers and there may be many who emerge from the cinema after a screening of cult actor-director Takeshi Kitano's
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        288 92  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW NannyMcPhee HAVE you seen Emma Thompson lately? Tall and strikingly handsome. English, about 46 years old. Famous once for playing the ingenue in period dramas. Recognisable by her two Oscars: One for best actress in Howards End (1992), the other
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        289 92  -  by Jeanme Tan FILMREVIEW Singapore GaGa SINGAPORE GaGa is a smart little documentary it's only 55 minutes long that is as much a paean to the peculiarities of Singapore as a gentle mockery of this country's strange ways. Homegrown filmmaker Tan Pin Pin's effort is enjoying a
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        261 93  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by, I Mad Hot Ballroom UNINHIBITED kids learning the strait-laced art of ballroom dancing is entertaining enough. But what makes Mad Hot Ballroom different from other kidfriendly films is that these children aren't smart-aleck showbiz types, but inner-city children
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        240 93  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by. The Shaggy Dog THE problem with comedian Tim Allen's latest film isn't that he shares equal screen time with a dog, as James Belushi and Tom Hanks did in K--9 and Turner and Hooch, respectively. It's that, in The Shaggy Dog,
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