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    27 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Friday May 5, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper Friday May 5, 2006 todayonline.com I MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Back to the future
      711 1  -  VALCHUA CHRISTIE LOH Bear in mind big issues are at stake in this election: PM AND val@newstoday.com.sg THE James Gomez sideshow was put aside as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reminded Singaporeans what this election was really about "In one word, this election is about our
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      Lock icon Dow nears record, oil price slumps
      151 1 AFP NEW YORK Wall Street shares gained ground yesterday as strong retail sales reports and a sharp drop in crude oil prices helped lift the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a fresh six-year high. The Dow index advanced 38.58 points to 11,438.86, its best
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      Fire put out
      60 1 A FIRE broke out early this morning in a row of one-level flatted factories in Marsiling Industrial Estate. Singapore Civil Defence Force firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control within an hour although it had spread to zinc rooftops when they arrived. There were no casualties
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      71 1 f^FairPrice Singapore's very own FOR THE BEST OFFERS, A JURNTOCENTRESPREAD! I 8 "*****6"*****9" M i Catch the results "Live" on 6 May [SINGAPORE j AA In English from 10pm, hourly updates all day. T CHANNEL NEWSASIA fcilll'^l J? su*ia In English and Malay from 10pm. 1 A In Mandarin and
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    Chiam's worked hard, but has to go: SM
    775 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG He questions how the SDA leader can generate funds to carry out lift upgrading cheekong@newstoday.com. sg TO A man, they all stood up and praised incumbent Potong Pasir MP Chiam See Tong, describing him as a decent, hardworking gentleman. But the
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    Lock icon Iran crisis: Bush, Abdullah agree on diplomacy
    208 3 -AFP WASHINGTON US President George W Bush and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi agreed yesterday on the need to end the Iranian nuclear crisis through diplomacy, the White House said. Predominantly Muslim Malaysia is the current chair of the 57-nation Organisation of
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    Lock icon Ex-White House aide 'guilty'
    147 3 BLOOMBERG A FORMER White House military aide pleaded guilty to passing secret US government documents to Filipino political figures to help them try to oust Philippine President Gloria Arroyo. Leandro Aragoncillo, 47, admitted yesterday in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, that he passed information about
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  • GE2006 ALL THE ACTION
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      'FIXING' THE OPPOSITION? PLEASE EXPLAIN, WP CHIEF ASKS PM
      112 3 The Workers' Party (WP) has lashed out at Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's message to the voters that the Opposition in Parliament will be a distraction to the Government and make it harderto implement policies. "Is he trying to say that
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      NO NEED TO SUE WP'S LOW: MM LEE
      80 3 Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he is not suing WP chief Low Thia Khiang for comments Mr Low had made at a rally on Wednesday night. This is because Mr Low had not called him a liar. "Mr Low Thia Khiang
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      RETIREE DEBATES WITH MINISTER KHAW
      74 3 For 20 minutes yesterday, a 70-year-old Sembawang GRC resident monopolised Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan's daily walkabout with a complaint about the use of his Medisave funds for his hypertension treatment. But he was not able to get a satisfactory reply. Mr Khaw later revealed
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      BEAUTIFUL HOUGANG PLANNED: PAP MAN
      70 3 Atempting multi-million dollar upgrading offer, made to Hougang residents just three days before the polls, has got this traditional Opposition stronghold talking. Mr Eric Lowthe People's Action Party (PAP) candidate in the hotly-contested ward announced on Wednesday that, if he is elected, residents could look
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      NO MORE MONEY IN SINKING FUND? THAT'S NOT TRUE, SAYS CHIAM
      106 3 Opposition leader Chiam See Tong yesterday rebutted an assertion by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong that his Town Council only had $790,000 of its $7.9 million sinking fund at its disposal, which is enough for only four blocks. "That
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      ANSWER TO A KEY QUESTION
      80 3 I A key question that will be answered in this election will be: How popular is Mr Lee Hsien Loong? Over the past three General Elections, we have had to use the total popular vote for the PAP as a proxy for the Prime Minister's
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      IS PERSONAL INFORMATION BEING PASSED ON?
      94 3 The vote is secret, and we all vote fully confident that it is so. But a reader, Mr Tham Yubing of East Coast GRC, was concerned when he received postcards from a political party carrying his full name and home address. After some research,
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    Lock icon Opposition not a 'distraction' to Govt
    589 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT WP questions PM's ability to multi-task; says that its hands are tied weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE WORKERS' Party (WP) has hit out at Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's message to the voters that the Opposition in Parliament would be a distraction to the
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    Upgrading carrot just money politics: Chiam
    395 4  -  CHEOWXINYI, TORCHING LI AND xinyi@newstoday.com.sg THE People's Action Party (PAP) is running out of ideas that's why it is dabbling in "money politics" by offering multi-million upgrading promises, charged Opposition veteran Chiam See Tong. Responding to the $80 million carrot that Senior Minister Goh
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    'Suicide squad' vows to fight till the end
    367 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT JUST for Ang Mo Kio GRC alone, the People's Action Party (PAP) mobilised 2,000 workers to put up posters and distribute flyers when the General Election kicked in. But instead of being intimidated after witnessing the "magnitude of the
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      394 5 Our cabinet will give you a new lift Bedroom Weeks now till 28 May Too much debate on upgrading? Well, take a trip down to IKEA* then where we have tall blocks of wardrobes, drawers and chests to serve any home anywhere in Singapore. In designs that are clean and
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    Lock icon Not your typical walkabout
    479 6  -  TAN HUI LENG Retiree engages in a heated conversation with Health Minister over Medisave funds huileng@newstoday.com.sg FOR 20 minutes yesterday, one Sembawang GRC resident monopolised Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan's daily walkabout The 70-year-old retiree wanted Mr Khaw to review the $30 deductible he has to
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    Lock icon No need to sue Low: MM Lee
    368 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he is not suing Workers' Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang for comments Mr Low had made at a rally on Wednesday night. This is because Mr Low had not called him a liar, and
    — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  368 words
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    Teo defends Punggol 21 plan
    260 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH THE Workers' Party (WP) has no basis to say the People's Action Party (PAP) has not delivered the Punggol 21 dream, said Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean, who helms the Pasir Ris-Punggol constituency. "The WP is making political points and it has no
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    I'm missing? Residents know better: PAP man
    354 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE People's Action Party (PAP) candidate for Yio Chu Kang, Mr Seng Han Thong, yesterday laughed off their opponent's accusations. During Wednesday's Singapore Democratic Alliance rally at Yio Chu Kang stadium, National Solidarity Party president Yip Yew Weng accused
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    Lock icon Hougang's $100m carrot: Some bite, some don't
    568 8  -  ANSLEYNG PAP's offer to improve toilets, linkways, homes and lifts has residents talking a nsley@newstoday.com.sg A TEMPTING multi-million dollar upgrading offer, made to Hougang residents just three days before the polls, has got this traditional opposition stronghold talking. Mr Eric Low the People's
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    Take my phone number, my allowance: Steve Chia
    305 8  -  ANSLEY NG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg HE READ out his mobile phone number to the rally crowd and promised residents he would "go to your house" if they called. Mr Steve Chia is, in his own words, "upping the stakes" in Chua Chu Kang
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    Lock icon SDA's Chiam: I'm not a day too old to tackle issues, elections
    635 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg DESPITE nursing a sore throat and a fever, veteran Opposition figure Chiam See Tong, together with his wife, was the first to arrive at the start of his Singapore Democratic Alliance's (SDA) campaigning activities yesterday.
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  • PARTY POLITICAL BROADCASTS
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      People's Action Party
      1118 10 My Fellow Singaporeans, In a few days, you will decide which party forms the next Government, and what direction Singapore should take for the future. OUR PLANS FOR SINGAPORE The PAP has painted our vision for Singapore. We want to create a land of opportunity, with good
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      Singapore Democratic Party
      434 10 Hello again, Singaporeans and voters of Sembawang GRC and Bukit Panjang. In our last broadcast, we told you that our Prime Minister paid himself $160,000 a month while Singaporeans had to struggle for a living. This has obviously stung the PAP. There is a vicious campaign against
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      Workers' Party
      635 11 Dear fellow Singaporeans, Having a choice and making the right choice is important in life. In the 2001 election, you chose to give the PAP 75 per cent of the vote, and entrusted them to deliver you out of an economic downtown. After that election, you faced even
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      Singapore Democratic Alliance
      493 11 Dear fellow Singaporeans, Good evening. This election is about highlighting the unequal treatment of Singaporeans by the PAP, about the PAP practising the "One country, two systems" policy. All Singaporeans pay their taxes and their dues, yet there are unequal ways of distributing the public funds, like
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    THE ANSWERS THAT WILL COME MAY 6
    1072 12  -  DR GILLIAN KOH THE People's Action Party (PAP) was not returned to government on Nomination Day. It is a testament to the strength of the informal network that has developed among the Opposition parties in Singapore. They were able to agree to avoid
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    Still no poll card yet?
    239 12 ARE you among those eligible to vote on Saturday but have yet to receive your poll card? Singaporeans anxious to get their hands on the white slips of paper have been buzzing Today and the Elections Department over the past week. "Every day, nothing. If
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon It was a suicide pact, says accused Leong
      600 14  -  TEOXUANWEI xua nweit@newstoday.com.sg A SUICIDE pact gone wrong was what led to the death of factory operator Liu Hong Mei. This was the version given to the police by the accused Leong Siew Chor of the events that led to the gruesome
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      MORE DETAILS OF THE CASE
      295 14 THE cause and time of Liu Hong Mei's death cannot be determined, said a forensic pathologist who testified at the Kallang body parts murder trial yesterday. Dr Cuthbert Teo, a pathologist from the Centre for Forensic Medicine of the Health Sciences Authority, told the court
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon THAI WOMAN FOUND DEAD
        108 14 938LIVE A 23-year-old Thai woman was murdered in Geylang last Monday. The deceased, who was here on a Social Visit Pass, was found unconscious and tied up on the floor of a bedroom in a lodging house. She was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital and
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        Lock icon MAY'S COE PRICES FOR CARS DOWN
        95 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA COE premiums for private cars fell in May as dealers reported quiet car sales amid record high fuel prices. The biggest fall was for cars below 1600cc, where COE prices dropped by $1,898 to $10,003. COEs for cars over 1600cc fell by
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  • world news
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      Lock icon MOUSSAOUI TO END DAYS IN'ALCATRAZ OF ROCKIES'
      196 16 AFP Zacarias Moussaoui is headed for a fortress-like federal prison in the Colorado town of Florence. He will find himself in solitary confinement in the facility termed "supermax", short for super maximum security. It houses 399 other inmates, including other allies of Osama
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      Lock icon 911 plotter escapes execution
      475 16 AGENCIES 'America, you lost/ says Moussaoui after being sentenced to life in prison ALEXANDRIA (Virginia) Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has escaped the death penalty as a jury decided he deserved life in prison without parole instead. As he was led from the court after the
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      Lock icon M'sian government tells Dr M not to interfere
      265 16 -AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian minister has accused former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of trying to undermine the government, and told him to honour his promise not to interfere in the running of the country. The outburst by Mr Mohammed Nazri Aziz
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      Lock icon Asean will prod but not pressure Myanmar: M'sia
      245 16 -AP SUBANG Malaysia said yesterday that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) would prod but not pressure Myanmar to restore democracy and free Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi an indication that the bloc would not harden its stand against
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      Lock icon Villagers flee after volcano spews lava
      319 18 —AGENCIES Heightened activity sign of imminent eruption, say officials JAKARTA More than 5,000 Indonesians have fled their homes around simmering Mount Merapi, officials said yesterday, as lava started flowing from the volcano. Streams of molten lava started pouring down the slopes at 2am local
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      Lock icon Tsunami alert fails after huge quake
      180 18 —AGENCIES NUKUALOFA (Tonga) A huge magnitude 7.8 quake, the first of two earthquakes, rocked the South Pacific island nation of Tonga yesterday morning, triggering international warnings of a potentially lethal tsunami but those messages failed to reach the tiny nation. The warning raised jitters
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon WHEN SPORTS AND GOD DONT MIX
        77 18 THE GUARDIAN The Birmingham Steeldogs American football team from Alabama have been barred from spreading the word of God during today's game against Louisville Fire. The team had wanted to replace the Steeldogs' name on the jerseys with that of the Old Testament strongman
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        Lock icon MALAYSIAN NSMAN TO BE TRIED
        61 18 —AP A Malaysian teenager will be tried in the death of a fellow trainee Haziq Jafar, 17, during a brawl at a national service camp in Johor, the New Straits Times said yesterday. The incident has triggered renewed criticism by the opposition, who say it
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        Lock icon A WILD DISCOVERY
        37 18 DPA Malaysian border police have stumbled upon a total of 2,172 live monitor lizards and 436 tortoises kept in 141 buckets by smugglers who are suspected to have abandoned them at the northern border.
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      Lock icon Taiwan's Chen snubs Washington
      381 20 —AFP Taipei leader skips US after being denied high-profile visit TAIPEI Taiwan's President Chen Shuibian has dropped plans to stop over in the United States en route to Latin America yesterday, angered by Washington's decision not to allow a more high-profile visit Adding to his woes,
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      Lock icon Iran claims major nuclear breakthrough
      254 20 —AFP TEHRAN Iran said yesterday it had made more progress in ultra-sensitive nuclear work, showing yet more defiance in the face of Western lobbying for tough Security Council action. "Iran can now mass-produce centrifuges. This is an important success, because no other country was willing
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      Lock icon Solomon Islands elect new premier
      214 20 —AFP HONIARA Lawmakers in the troubled Solomon Islands yesterday elected proChina opposition candidate Manasseh Sogavare as the new prime minister of the impoverished South Pacific archipelago. It was the second election for prime minister in the Solomons in three weeks after the election of scandal-tainted
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon COPS, PROTESTERS CLASH
        60 20 —AFP Thousands of South Korean riot police yesterday clashed with residents, students and activists opposed to plans to expand a major United States military base south of Seoul. Dozens of US military bases in and around the capital are due to be relocated to Camp Humphreys, in
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        Lock icon INDONESIAN BOSS ARRESTED
        104 20 —AFP Indonesian police said they had detained the director of the state electricity company, Perusahaan Listrik Negara, as a suspect in a multi-million-dollar corruption case. Eddy Widiono was arrested after being questioned for hours in a case that revolves around the purchase of gas-powered generators to build
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      She's worth $212,000 a year, but works for free
      446 22 Earning power of homemakers equals that of a judge: Survey NEW YORK Husbands, how much do you value your wives who are staying at home full-time to look after your children? It could be difficult to put a dollar figure on
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      Lock icon The Bushes disagree
      195 22 -AFP WASHINGTON First Lady Laura Bush has found nothing wrong with a new Spanish-language version of the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, disagreeing with President George W Bush on the issue. "I don't think there's anything wrong with singing it in Spanish," she told CMVtelevision. "It's
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon BIRTH CONTROL FOR PIGEONS
        60 22 DPA Bangkok metropolitan authorities are considering a proposal to feed birthcontrol pills to the city's fast-growing pigeon population as a means of combating bird flu. The health department of the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority told The Nation newspaper that it would experiment with other methods before feeding
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        Lock icon FAN INSURES HIMSELF AGAINST ENGLAND WORLD CUP EXIT
        83 22 AFP An England supporter has taken out a £1 million ($2.9 million) insurance policy against England bowing out early from the World Cup. Newcastle United fan Paul Hucker, 34, paid £105 for the policy against an occurrence that he said would leave
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        JUDGE WHO CONSULTED MYSTIC DWARFS WANTS JOB BACK
        51 22 After being sacked last month by the Supreme Court, a Philippine judge who claimed he consulted imaginary mystic dwarfs has asked to be re-hired. "They should not have dismissed me for what I believed," Mr Florentino Flora told Reuters, after filing his
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      BETTER WAYS TO WIN
      312 24  -  LAWRENCE NG WAI CHUN, isayGE2oo6 40, Management consultant. West Coast GRC ON THE upside, it was with some pride that I noted the Government of the day has taken such a principled stand on the minority candidate certificate issue vis-a-vis Mr James Gomez. To me, integrity
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      Why only gripes? See the big picture
      210 24  -  NITHIYASUBRAMANIAN, 21, Shipping executive, Aljunied GRC AS POLLING Day nears, I am excited as this is the first time I will be voting. This is important to me, as I will help to choose who will serve my ward for the next five
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      Don't blame Opposition for its information disadvantage
      183 24  -  TAN CHUN MENG, 24, Undergraduate, Tanjong PagarGßC PEOPLE complain that the Opposition is only good at criticising the Government but they are not able to come up with any concrete solutions. I think this is an unfair criticism. The PAP Government ministers have
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      212 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY MYSTERY IN MARRIAGE If you want to put some new life in your marriage, try thinking like a teenageragain. We all remember fondly or otherwise, the craziness of our dating days-the coy attitudes, the flirting,the chase afterthe prize. But as we moved
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      184 26  -  CHIAMTOONLOKE isayGE2oo6 30, East Coast GRC I READ Mr Tan Kay Kheng's letter, "Why harp on the Gomez issue" (May 2) and wondered if the GRC model is really in the ruling party's favour? If voters in a contested GRC felt trapped by the model,
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      183 26  -  ANDREW TEONENG WEE CEO, 40, resident in West Coast GRC I REFER to the letter by Haslinda Shamsudin, "Keep NTUC apolitical" (May 4). Let us not overreact What Minister Lim Boon Heng is trying to say is this: If you need help in getting a
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      sayagain
      74 26 With one-man-one-vote, voters are limited to choosing either this party or that party. Maybe we should see if it is possible to let one, say, cast one's vote by percentages such as 80 per cent for PAP and 20 per cent for the Opposition. Danny Chua, on the quandary
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      DEBATE, DON'T MERELY REJECT
      295 27  -  CHUABOONHOU isayGE2oo6 Senior underwriter, 34, Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC I WATCHED television snippets of Wednesday's lunchtime rally by the People's Action Party (PAP) and was disappointed with some of the comments made. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said if we were to vote in more Opposition candidates,
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      Higher living costs, but more jobs
      122 27  -  CHUAKIMCHOO Bank administrator, in her 50s, Nee Soon Central I AGREE with Lee Khai Yann ("Can Opposition do better?", May 4). When any country progresses, the cost of living inevitably goes up. A colleague in Bangalore told me their cost of living has tripled
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      More spoilt votes?
      105 27  -  JASON LEE BOON HONG Financial journalist, 39, Sembawang GRC IN THIS current election campaign, what has the key focus been? We the voters want to know more about the principles behind the policies and the counter-proposals. We can then decide for ourselves who to cast our vote
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      219 27  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter "MRT glitch: Better response needed" by Alfred Loh Chew Kai (April 24). SMRT places priority on train service availability and passenger safety, and has
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      149 27  -  MICHAELCHUAKHENG HWEE Letter from THERE is a problem especially for those taking a polytechnic course, university course or distance-learning night class with the way we answer essay questions during exams. We have to answer these essay questions in writing. Typically, in such an
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      Know your labour laws, Workers' Party
      793 28  -  JOHN DE PAYVA Opposition party's shallow understanding of such laws led to allegations and errors in rally speech Letter from President, National Irades Union Congress (NTUC) I REFER to the article, "Looking out for workers" (May 3). Ms Sylvia Lim and the Workers' Party
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      Why no notification about boundary changes?
      205 32  -  KRISHNA IYER Letter from I HAVE been a resident of Kg Chai Chee since 1973. The district was a part of East Coast GRC until the recent changes in the electoral boundaries made it part of the Marine Parade GRC. We are going to
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      If my info falls into the wrong hands...
      220 32  -  THAMYUNBING GE2006 Release of personal data by Elections Dept raises questions of accountability, privacy Letter from I LIVE in a contested ward. Not too long ago, my family received postcards from a party with our full names and home address. Concerned about
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      Why use cert when 'race' is on our ICs?
      128 32  -  KHOO MENG KUAN Letter from WWW W Ml^ #4 MX W^ Ut W Ml^ WWW W Mt WITH reference to the James Gomez saga, why in the first place does one need a minority candidate certificate? In our identity card (IC),
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      As with all big decisions, it's a leap of faith
      873 34  -  mr brown There's still so much to think about on the eve of the big day, such as the dress code... ONE more day to the big day and suddenly I am nervous about attending my first election. A grown
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      Tax based on immovable properties
      163 34  -  HAN KOK JUAN Letter from Director (Social Programmes), Ministry of Finance WE REFER to the letters on the Progress Package by Law Sin Ling "Why should we pay tax on unearned income?" and Bin Hee Heng "Only scrutinise those who appeal for a better payout"
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      Sing Tel returns $4b to shareholders
      456 36  -  CHRISTIE LOH Final gross dividend of 10 cents plus buyback of shares at $2.74 each christie@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE falling profits in Australia, SingTel plans to fork out $4 billion to buy back stock and to finance a higher payout than the previous year. The final
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      328 36  -  JANICE GOH $0 AUDIO HOUSE SOCCER FRENZY ja nice@newstoday.com.sg ELECTRONICS megastore Audio House is turning up the heat on soccer fever with a unique sales promotion. The $0 Audio House Soccer Frenzy offers Audio House's customers a chance to get a 100-per-cent refund on their purchases. This is how
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      387 36 DOW JONES SYDNEY Putting pressure on Telstra Corp ahead of the Australian government's planned As26-billion ($32-billion) privatisation of its controlling stake in the telecommunications' firm, SingTel's Australian unit Optus said yesterday that tough market conditions were likely to continue. "We are
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      Social entrepreneurs join hands
      314 38  -  MAGDALENE LIE Group to help like-minded individuals start businesses that reap social dividends news@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S high-flying social entrepreneurs have banded together to give like-minded individuals advice on how to start businesses with a heart The Social Innovation Park, which is a non-profit, non-government organisation, plans to
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      Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
      385 38 SGX. Millennium Copthorne Hotels, the hotel arm of City Developments, said yesterday it had signed a deal with Chelsea Football Club to operate two hotels at the club's Stamford Bridge stadium in west London. The first hotel, with 160 rooms, will be branded the Copthorne Hotel at Chelsea Village,
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      Lock icon Singapore's mobile phone subscriber rate exceeds 100%
      158 38 —BLOOMBERG THE number of mobile phone subscribers in Singapore at the end of March exceeded its population for the first time. The number of mobile phone subscribers rose to 4.38 million, or 100.9 per cent of the population, from 4.34 million, or 99.8
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      AsiaPharm raises $64m from new share placement
      195 40  -  -VALERIE LAW MAINBOARD-listed AsiaPharm yesterday announced that it placed out 80 million new shares at 80.32 cents each to raise $64.26 million. Under the private placement, OCBC Securities agreed to subscribe to 60 million new shares and 35 million vendor shares, while Templeton
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      428 40 —AP Pandemic could cost businesses $1.3 trillion AN ECONOMIST warned yesterday that a flu pandemic would cause a global economic slump and would likely be costlier than Sars, which devastated the airline and hospitality industries throughout Asia in 2003. "The exact estimate of
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      Life insurers do well
      321 42  -  CHOW PENN NEE Bullish share market gives the sector a strong boost pennnee@newstoday.com.sg LIFE insurance sales almost doubled in the first quarter compared to a year earlier, boosted by positive sentiment towards share markets. New premiums collected by the industry came up to nearly $1.9 billion
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        4 42 ST Index 2,644.70 -14.95
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        66 42 DOW JONES SHARE prices closed lower on profit-taking yesterday after closing at a record high on Tuesday. "The selling is not surprising as the market needs to go slow after the index's recent stunning gains," said a trader. The STI ended down 0.6 per cent, or 14.95 points, at
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        49 42 Mikkei 225 Hang Seng USX *****.93 -13.05 5109.10 -04.40 -0.00 -1.60 Faiwan Wtd 7345.04 +102.67 +1.42 <orea Comp 1441.02 +5.05 +0.41 <LCI 954.16 +3.93 +0.41 SET Index 760.22 -6.22 -0.00 Jakarta Comp 1404.33 -14.73 -0.90 Dhils Comp Shenzhen B 2370.29 +29.47 +1.26 Vlumbai Sensex *****.63 +36.91 +0.30
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        26 42 /SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 668.50 Silver US$/oz 13.80 Platinum US$/oz 1,186.70 Rubber cents/kg 351.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,429.00 Brant crude US$/barrel 72.65 Information provided by
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        SGX most active
        52 42 Goldtron Jiutian SingTel W88 Poh China Sun UniFiber ChinaEssen Xpress Ezyhealth GMG US$ 0.035 0.710 2.750 0.005 0.920 0.320 0.650 0.235 0.200 0.055 -0.005 +0.020 -0.005 +0.025 +0.035 +0.005 +0.010 +0.005 -12.5 +0.7 -50.0 +2.0 +12.3 +0.0 +5.3 +10.0 110,670 73,657 72,152 50,021 44,659 33,793 25,570 23,017
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        SGX top rises
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        35 42 UOvP UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.3449 72.172 4.9258 2.2926 0.5029 5575.1 23.946 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 32.625 0.8239 28.476 593.61 0.7043 5.0916 0.9890 20.088
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      Lock icon East Asian giants mull common currency
      512 44 DOW JONES Ahead of IMF-World Bank meeting in S'pore, they call for increase in their Fund quotas SEOUL South Korea, China and Japan have agreed to study the formation of a common Asian currency, South Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy said in a
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      ACCS takes $5m loan amid talks over rights shares
      221 44 MOBILE phone aftermarket services provider Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) said yesterday it borrowed $5 million for its working capital needs and expected the funds to be drawn down by the end of the month. The loan, comprising $2.54 million and
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      1072 45  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Two very satisfied customers recommend GEMoney-SingPost personal loan scheme janec@newstoday.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 offered through
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      143 48 CHAN BrothersTravel has several packages to New Zealand aimed at catering to different budget and holiday needs. Those with a bigger budget can choose packages such as the 11D New Zealand and Farmstay (from $2,738) or the 12D New Zealand andWellington (from $2,988). Packages
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      128 48 THOSE who are planning to visit Cairns, Australia, may want to check out Sakura Holidays' offerings. Its 7D Port Douglas Cairns will take visitors to interesting spots such as the Rainforest Habitat at Port Douglas where you have breakfast with the birds. You can
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      210 49 —AP Lithuania's ex-prison camp is a quirky theme park GRUTAS (Lithuania) A Soviet prison camp may not sound like the ideal place for a good time. Even less so in a country occupied by the Red Army for half a century.Yet Grutas Park, a quirky theme
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      Lock icon LeBron 'The Layup' James
      544 50 —AP NBA PLAYOFFS, EASTERN CONFERENCE IST ROUND Cleveland 121 Washington 120 (OT, Cavs lead 3-2) CLEVELAND Leßron James now has his signature shot Until further notice, "The Layup" defines his growing greatness. James tiptoed along the baseline and muscled through traffic for the lay-up with 0.9
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      245 50 —AP PHOENIX The NBA suspended Phoenix Suns guard Raja Bell for one game for throwing Kobe Bryant to the floor in the fourth quarter of Tuesday's playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers. That means the Suns will be without Bell, the
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      860 51 —AP legacy... Golf world mourns death of Earl Woods, who moulded Tiger into what he is today CYPRESS, California Paul Traughber remembers the day a kid named Tiger Woods showed up to play in an 18-and-under golf tournament The tournament scout had invited the scrawny 14-year-old to participate
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      285 51 —AFP NEW DELHI International advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi has secured the marketing rights for Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar (picture) for 1.8 billion rupees ($63 million), it was reported yesterday. Iconix, the newly-formed marketing branch of Saatchi, signed Tendulkar after his 10-year deal with
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      529 52  -  DARREN LAI Skipper Noor Ali is revelling in his new role in the Warriors' engine room NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Sengkang Punggolv SAFFC darren@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Peter Butler appointed Mohd Noor Ali as SAFFC captain at the start of the season, it raised more than a few eyebrows. The
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      128 52 THEY are Singapore's best, now let's see how they fare against the masters of the game. Team Vanuatu, champions of the under--20 category in the Nokia Defend Your Turf Challenge, and under-23 champions On The Run will pit their skills against The Boys From
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      Lock icon Relieved Geylang end winless streak
      447 52  -  JOSE RAYMOND V-r vlvl^ www.singaporepools.com.sg SENGKANG V SAFFC Correct at press time. These are preliminary opening odds. Visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or any Singapore Pools outlet for current odds. AOS: Any Other Score NTUC INCOME YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Gombak United 0 Geylang United 1 AFTER going six
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      504 54  -  TANYO-HINN Current chief Chua expected to step down in upcoming AGM yohinn@newstoday.com.sg FOR nearly 20 years, the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) only had one president. Former Singapore National Olympic Council vice-president Goh Yong Hong helmed the SSA from 1985 to 2004. Chua Thian Poh was elected
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      252 54 —AFP BADMINTON ÜberCup TOKYO World No 1 Zhang Ning led defending champions China to a 3-0 semifinal win over Germany yesterday to rekindle her rivalry against Mia Audina Tjiptawan of Holland in the Über Cup final. Athens Olympic champion Zhang shrugged off a slow start
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      Lock icon Four-game ban, $1,000 fine for Rafi
      286 54  -  CUBBYLEONG TAMPINES Rovers midfielder Rafi Ali was slapped with a four-match ban and $1,000 fine last night, after the Football Association of Singapore disciplinary committee found him guilty of elbowing Albirex Niigata's Keiji Uchino in an S-League clash at Jalan Besar Stadium on April
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      THEY'RE SPECIAL
      135 56 He's a genius who does the most unbelievable things with the ball day in, day out Team-mate Samuel Eto'o is apparently always wide-eyed when Ronaldinho's around BARCELONA'S second successive Spanish league triumph has been pretty much on the cards for a few months already. Consistency has been the
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      Lock icon THE SORCERER
      382 56 —AFP MADRID As Barcelona fans celebrated their second successive Spanish cham-< pionship on Wednesday, they were giving k much of the credit for the success to their Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho. Even more than the goalscoring machine Samuel Eto'o, who found the net 25 times after Wednesday's 1-0 victory;
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      Lock icon THE MASTERMIND
      387 56 MADRID Barcelona celebrated their 18th Spanish league title by showing their class and beating Celta Vigo 1-0 on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Catalan club had earlier in the night been confirmed as champions for the second successive year when their nearest rivals Valencia went down 2-1
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      176 50 WEATHERTODAI Amsterdam 12/24C thunderstorm Los Angeles 14/19C cloudy c Auckland 10/18C showers Manila 27/34C party cloudy OingapOre Bali 25/32C thunderstorm Melbourne 10/17C windy 24/33C BS Begawan 25/33C partly cloudy New Delhi 2942C hazy Bangkok 2936C thunderstorm New York 15/26C partly cloudy anowers Bangalore 25/37C thunderstorm Paris 14/24C partly cloudy c
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        Lock icon Super-sub Reyes scores 2 goals
        590 58 -AFP Away win ensures Gunners are on course for a top-four Premiership finish ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man City 1 Arsenal 3 MANCHESTER Two late goals by Spanish substitute Jose Antonio Reyes earned Arsenal a 3-1 win away to Manchester City at Eastlands here yesterday and kept
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        330 58 —AGENCIES LONDON -Steve McClaren was officially named as the next England manager yesterday, ending months of speculation over Sven-Goran Eriksson's successor. Eriksson will leave his post as England manager after the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The Middlesbrough manager will assume his new role on Aug
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          BEST PITCH, YOU'RE KIDDING
          65 58 THE pitch at Nuremberg's Franken-Stadion ground regarded as the best in the German Bundesliga is not good enough for the World Cup, Fifa have decided. The Nuremberg club will now replace it at a cost of 150,000 euros ($298,000). The pitch is only two years old
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          BACK KLINSMANN: GREECE COACH
          64 58 GREECE'S German coach Otto Rehhagel has called for more support for the national team coach Juergen Klinsmann. Rehhagel predicted the German team would survive the group stage and from there, it would be "crunch time" forthe team. The coach who guided Greece to a shock European
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          COSTINHA STILL BELIEVES
          87 58 PORTUGAL'S international midfielder Costinha (above), who has been dropped from Dynamo Moscow's first team for indiscipline, has unilaterally rescinded his contract with the Russian team. The 31-year-old, who has been training with mid-table Portuguese side Belenenses, added he still believed he could become fit enough to be
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          TERRY FIT, HARGREAVES HOPEFUL
          90 58 CHELSEA have backed their captain, John Terry, to be fit enough to make it into England's World Cup squad, after a scan on the defender's injured ankle. After a precautionary scan to make sure there was no deep bruising on the bone, Terry has been told
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      523 60 —AGENCIES In the second of three Today special features on newly-crowned English Premiership champions Chelsea, manager Jose Mourinho grabs the spotlight. Many have said he has one of the easiest jobs in football and recently, the Portuguese has expressed his anger at the lack of recognition of his
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      36 58 7am NBA Nets v Pacers, Ch24 12pm Badminton Thomas Cup semi-finals, Ch24 7pm Bowling Asian 9-Ball Tour, Ho Chi Minh City Qualifying, Ch24 9.30pm Golf Telecom Italia Open, Ch22 2.40 am Football Leeds v Preston, Ch22
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      Loosing it on the couch
      1151 64  -  Jeanine Tan rlt's not only Tom Cruise who has been loosening his tongue and revealing his private life. A slew of stars are telling all and breaking the barrier that separates us from them j^^W^" 1*1" mnn hewouldkickYousomething goes wrong, hew jeanine@newstoday.com.sg THE world took
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      WHOSAIDWHAT
      441 65 WHO: Lindsay Lohan WHERE: Vanity Fair, February 2006 WHAT: The former child star confessed to having bulimia, falling dangerously ill because of her eating habits and experimenting with drugs, although she refused to confirm if it was cocaine. "I was sick. Everyone was scared. And I was scared too.
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      862 66  -  Felix Cheong K-cinema might be enjoying its day in the sun but that day could be ending soon JUST before a star dies is when it shines brightest And that's exactly the case with South Korean cinema. Out of steam, out of
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      Lock icon One king to rule them all
      521 68  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Let tyranny reign on the movie set: Oscar-winning LOTR production designer Juliana r@newstoday.com.sg GRANT Major thinks totalitarianism is the way to go. At least for the film industry. He should know, having been in the business for close to 20 years.
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      Quitting while she's ahead?
      437 70  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Marriage could be the reason the singer is taking it slow Julia nar@newstoday.com.sg COULD Siti Nurhaliza's latest record be her last? The 27-year-old singer released her 11th album Transkripsi (Malay for Transcription) last week, but there are signs that she's ready to slow
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      Lock icon A prodigy flies solo
      359 72  -  AMELYNN LIONG Pianist Abigail Sin, 14, launches European tour, leaving parents behind a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg ACCLAIMED homegrown pianist Abigail Sin is no newbie when it comes to performing in faraway lands. But for her first European tour, which began yesterday, the 14-year-old is travelling on her own
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      Building bliss
      539 74  -  DAVID CHEW Author de Botton wants to be the middleman between academia and mass culture david. chew@newstoday.com. sg FROM the man who somehow made impossibly dense subjects such as philosophy and the complexity of falling in love a joy to read, Alain de Botton's latest book The Architecture
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        46 74 A collaboration between Sweden's Lars Otterstedt and Singapore's Ramesh Meyyappan, this performance -which runs from May 11 to 13 at Bpm in the Drama Centre Black Box explores the strategies used by males to preserve their dominance. Call 6296 2929 for tickets.
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        AN EVENING OF THE CLASSICS
        81 74 Treat yourself to a night of music on May 14 as Victoria Concert Hall presents a series of musical delights featuring Johannes Matthias Sperger's Quartet in D major, Antonio Pasculli's opera melodies Homage to Bellini and Jean Daetwyler's work for trombone and harp, Orpheus and
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        59 74 The musical genius and exceptional technique of Pinchas Zukerman have long been a marvel to critics and audiences alike. Come May 24, Zukerman will be in Singapore to conduct the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Esplanade Concert Hall. In Bach's Violin Concerto No 2, he will
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        Shrew to get fierce lesson in obedience
        225 76  -  —ASHRAFSAFDAR ONE of the many controversies surrounding Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew has to do with Petruchio's abominable treatment of his wife: He starves her, stops her from sleeping and acts like a fool, all to tame her independence and spirited outspokenness.
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        Love in the time of the Internet
        341 76  -  DAVID CHEW SAM to launch exhibit that celebrates youth culture david. chew@newstoday.com. sg THIS year's International Museum Day has as its theme "museums and young people", but before that day arrives on May 18, the Singapore Art Museum is launching one of its
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          BODY ART
          51 76 Using bodies as blank canvases, artists such as Ai Yamaguchi and Zero transform models into moving artwork. They will be in town with a Polaroid crew. Be caught with them and you stand to win a Nokia mobile phone. Limited edition collectibles will also be given out. May
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          1,000 TREXI
          54 76 Trexi, the Singaporean toy that has earned acclaim around the world, is yours to cus- tomise. There will be 1,000 of them at the event. Create an/me-style scenes for the team category or dress up your Trexi in outlandish costumes for the individual category. Refer to the above
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          OFF THE WALL PARTY
          71 76 Come and be dazzled by a light show and a transformation of the SAM's grounds into a mythical Neverland. Cosplayers stand a chance to be crowned the Ultimate King and Queen of this May Ball. Nokia handphones and door gifts can also be won. Oh, and
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      MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
      723 78  -  Neil Humphreys PLUS MOVIES I Brilliant You simply cannot miss this movie Very good A fine way to spend an evening Good Decent, no-frills entertainment Average Could end up disappointed Awful Do not waste your money Except for a blubbing Ethan Hunt, M:i:lll proves to be the action
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      Diesel's gagster falls flat
      451 80  -  Neil Humphreys hi by FILMREVIEW Find Me Guilty AFTER leading roles in mediocre productions A Man Apart (2002) and The Pacifier (2005), Vin Diesel was in serious danger of becoming his generation's Arnold Schwarzenegger. Fortunately, he has stepped away from the action hero's path to star
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      Jasmine Women
      232 80  -  JeanineTan FILMREVIEW by ACCORDING to Jasmine Women, it's no fun being a Chinese woman. Joan Chen and Zhang Ziyi (picture) play a mother-daugh-ter pair through three generations, beginning in Shanghai in the *****. In each era, the mother hopes her daughter will not repeat her mistakes, but she
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      When a Stranger Calls
      248 82  -  Felix Cheong by FILMREVIEW IF it's possible to script an entire film around exclamation marks, then When a Stranger Calls has done it Screenwriter Jake Wade Wall's staging directions probably read something like this: The phone rings! Cue ominous music! A cat creeps into the house!
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      Calm before the stormS
      394 82  -  Felix Cheong Paradise Nowa funny, thrilling masterwork FILMREVIEW by I Paradise Now A STORY about the last 48 hours in the lives of two suicide bombers would make for an unrelentingly grim movie, right? Wrong. Equal parts thrilling, moving and comic, Paradise Now is the Palestinian
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