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    26 1 TODAY /A=ryjJ\COßP TODAY share your free newspaper Thursday May 18, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005 /AeljiaCorp share your free newspaper Thursday May 18, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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    Lock icon More smiles with this bonus ?
    621 1  - More smiles with this bonus LEE U-WEN iladllYgTM But too many firms without flexible wage may shudder should a sudden crisis hit u-wen@newstoday.com.sg IN THE jungle of numbers that accompanied the annual wage guidelines revealed yesterday, two stood out First, members of the National Wages Council (NWC) expect the average
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    Forget CPF cut, there are other rewards
    555 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg BUILT-IN wage increases and year-end bonuses are fine, but the cut three years ago to Central Provident Fund (CPF) contribution rates seems unlikely to be restored anytime soon. And that is how the workers prefer it, according to National
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      38 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 12 voices 22 business 30 plus 36 cHystyle 46 traveller 48 1v 51 classad 52 sports 54 we set you thinking B B WINNING ON cc THEIR OWN MERIT s>O
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      Lock icon House rules for PAP MPs
      557 2  -  JASMINE YIN Be humble, start preparing for next GE and conduct yourselves well, says PM jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong (picture) has laid down the house rules for all People's Action Party (PAP) MPs to abide by in a seven-page letter that was also
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      THE OPPOSITION AND ITS FUTURE
      859 3  -  SIEWKUMHONG What's in store for its Mount Ophir and its Mount Kinabalu? AS THE dust of electoral battle settles after the 2006 General Election, Singapore's political landscape now sports Mount Everest, Mount Kinabalu, Mount Ophir and Mount Faber. No prizes for guessing what they correspond
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Preparing for the Da Vinci fallout
      609 4  -  TAN HUI LENG Worldwide protests but churches here are calm huileng@newstoday.com.sg not taking a laidback approach. "There are other ways of responding and the educational approach is more important (than explicit protests) in the longer run," said NCCS president and bishop of the Methodist
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      Orchard penthouse sold for a record $16m
      261 6  -  LEECH ING WERN A FOREIGN buyer has forked out a whopping $16 million or a record $2,329 per sq ft (psf) for a super penthouse unit at The Boulevard Residence at Cuscaden Walk. The sale of the 7,000 sq ft "ultra luxurious" unit
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      SDP discharges lawyer
      573 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG Party will file no defence, says Dr Chee Soon Juan cheekong@newstoday.com. sg WITH just one more day to go before the deadline to file its defence ends, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) has discharged its lawyer, Mr M Ravi. During a meeting held yesterday
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      New flyover and tunnels to ease traffic congestion
      403 8  -  LINYANQIN LTA announces its costliest road work plan for Woodsville Interchange ya nqinl@newstoday.com.sg TO EASE the traffic gridlock that motorists are experiencing at Woodsville Interchange, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will be carrying out its most expensive and complex project to date
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      Biggest cannabis bust this year
      228 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG CENTRAL Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers seized 1.267 kg of cannabis worth more than $42,200 on Tuesday in the largest single seizure of the controlled drug this year so far. A male Malay trafficker was arrested, along with two male drug abusers. According to CNB's
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      Lock icon UniSIM offers security studies
      202 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FOR the first time here, a local university is offering a degree in Management and Security Studies for police officers. SIM University (UniSIM) signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with the Singapore Police Force. Present at the ceremony were Police Commissioner Khoo Boon Hui
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      Lock icon S'pore looks to Liaoning after Suzhou
      283 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Republic's second industrial project in China bigger than Suzhou, says MM Lee SHANGHAI Singapore and China are looking into a major industrial collaboration in China's Liaoning Province, in what could possibly be the Republic's biggest joint project there. Revealing this yesterday, Minister
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      Number of falling windows drops since replacement order
      291 10  -  —TORCHING LI THE incidence of falling casement windows from high-rise flats has dropped to less than once a week, compared to an average of two or three cases a week previously, since it became mandatory to retrofit windows eight months ago. Since
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon SIX SRI LANKANS ARRESTED FOR ATM THEFTS
        112 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Six Sri Lankans, aged between 24 and 30, have been arrested for a series of thefts from automated teller machines (ATMs). A United Overseas Banktechnician saw one of the men using a white plastic card at an ATM machine. When Cisco
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        Lock icon COE PRICES FOR CARS UP IN LATEST BIDDING
        108 10 -938 LIVE COE prices for cars have risen slightly in the latest bidding exercise. For cars 1,600 cc and below, prices have increased by $97 to $10,100. For cars above 1,600 cc, COEs are now $11,800, an increase of $280. COE prices
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Let's do it our way: Iran
      385 12 behalf. AGENCIES Tehran offers exact opposite of nuclear deal being proposed by EU TEHRAN Iran yesterday offered greater European access to its economy if its nuclear programme was accepted, the exact opposite of a deal currently being put together by the European Union, which
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      Lock icon Bird flu caught at family feast
      179 12 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's bird flu toll jumped to 30 yesterday after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed five more people had died of the virus in the world's fourth most populous nation. The WHO said four of the confirmed deaths came from a cluster
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      Lock icon Lawyer gunman wounds five judges
      165 12 AGENCIES ANKARA A suspected Islamist shouting "Allah is great" opened fire on members of the Council of State, Turkey's top administrative court, wounding five people in what was allegedly revenge for a ruling upholding a ban on Islamic headwear. The assailant "said the attack was
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      Lock icon McCartneys to split with wife
      102 14 -AFP LONDON Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Lady Heather Mills McCartney (picture) are to separate after four years of marriage, the couple said in a statement yesterday. They said that they had "found it increasingly difficult to maintain a normal relationship with
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      Lock icon 620,000 evacuated
      369 14 -AFP Guangdong province recalls 58,000 fishing boats as it braces for Typhoon Chanchu BEIJING Around 620,000 people were evacuated from southern China yesterday as Typhoon Chanchu, the strongest storm to hit the region at this time of year, churned towards the coastal province of Guangdong. At least 320,000
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      Volcano 'calming down'
      131 14  -  BLOOMBERG MOUNT MERAPI Lava and heated gas flowing from Mount Merapi are "calming down" scientists said, while asking residents of the area to stay in evacuation camps away from the mountain. The volcano, near Yogyakarta city, about 400 kilometres south-east of Jakarta, has been on the brink
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      Lock icon Were early humans and chimps more than kissing cousins?
      209 16 -AFP PARIS Our early ancestors interbred with chimpanzees after the two species supposedly drew apart millions of years ago, a new paper suggests. The provocative idea is sketched by American genome experts, who have discovered that hominids and chimps diverged far
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      Lock icon Fake tsunami, real earthquakes
      350 16 -AFP Tsunami warning test marred, not by quakes, but by SMS SYDNEY Dozens of countries across the Pacific took part yesterday in a test of a regional tsunami warning system as a series of earthquakes hit the region for real. The exercise, code-named Pacific Wave '06,
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      Lock icon Thailand's top two parties losing support
      361 18 -AGENCIES Mutual accusations by main opposition, ruling party apparently backfire BANGKOK Thailand's ruling party and the main opposition party are both losing support in Bangkok after months of political turmoil, a new poll found yesterday, even as media reported that new parties are in
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon TAIWAN CONFIDENT ABOUT WHO BID
        73 18 -AFP Taiwan has said it is confident about its 10th annual attempt to join the World Health Organization (WHO) as an observer, despite opposition from China in the past decade. China considers Taiwan as a renegade province and opposes its attempts to join international bodies.
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        Lock icon APPROVED: JAPANESE BILL TO FINGERPRINT FOREIGN VISITORS
        62 18 AFP Japan's Parliament has narrowly approved a Bill to follow the United States in fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors, despite concerns that the anti-crime meas- ures violated privacy. Under the Bill, which will take effect by November next year, all foreigners aged 16
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        I DIDNT KNOW I WAS A PORN ACTRESS
        85 18 A Malaysian woman has lodged a police report after she discovered that a pornographic VCD, which has been sold in her village in Pahang since early this year, contained explicit footage of her with her boyfriend. The New Straits Times reported. The
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      Cheney got more presents than Bush
      194 18  -  -THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON United States Vice-Pres-ident Dick Cheney, who is known to like hunting, received four firearms as presents last year, according to the latest disclosure forms submitted by the White House. All of the gifts reached him before February's embarrassing incident in which
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      Lock icon isay MAKING THE LAST LEG OF LIFE GOLDEN
      752 22  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN RECENTLY, I met an octogenarian who was placed in a home by his children. He has lived a rich, varied life. He has an independent spirit and up until now, has managed to live alone and look after
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      255 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I EMOTIONS, CAN YOU TRUST THEM? We've been talking all this week a bout human emotions and how unreliable they are. Attimes, they can be downright tyrannical, and they should never be permitted to dominate us in that way. This principle was
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    • Let children be free, within limits
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        Let out the leash slowly
        362 24  -  RIAREDOBLE Letter from I REFER to Frances Ong's commentary, "When should a mother let go?" (May 11). I am the ninth child in a family of 10 kids. I saw how my parents brought us up and I saw how my brothers brought their kids
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        Let go of married children
        110 24  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from MS ONG's interesting article was an eyeopener. Some possessive mothers cannot let go of their children even after they are married. They interfere with their children's married life, often messing up their relationship with their spouses. They may remind their children
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      Upgrading of lifts not for all flats
      320 25  -  PATRICK TAN HDB should demolish ageing flats whose designs make upgrading costly Letter from IN THE 70s and '80s, the HDB started to build 4-room flats with common corridors that have lifts which stop at certain levels. These of flats was popular because
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      Concessionary fares and air-con buses
      345 25  -  KATHRYN LAU TAMMY TAN Letter from Assistant Corporate Communications Manager Transit Link Pte Ltd and' Director, Corporate Communications SBS Transit Ltd WE REFER to the letters, "Aren't firms subsidised for fare concessions?" and "Why same answer on poly fares" (May 11). Travel concession scheme is
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      82 26 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Give yourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. BACK TO THE DRAWING BLOCK: Sometimes, even building contractors need a bit of
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      Sick doesn't mean slack
      257 26  -  HASUNDASHAMSUDIN Take a leaf from the British system of MCs Letter from I AGREE with Dr Lee Yung Seng that we should do away with the medical certificate (MC) hassle (May 17). The writer's suggestion for the Ministry of Manpower to "consider revising the (MC) policy
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        TOILET DOORS A HEALTH RISK
        107 26  -  CJBALACHANDRAN: I have been living in Singapore for a year or so. I am really appreciative of the clean toilets found in public places here, but I have a suggestion to make related to hygiene. When done with the toilet, I come to the main
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        REPAINT RUSTY LAMPPOSTS
        59 26  -  TONY LEE HUP SENG: For the past year, I have observed that more street lampposts such as along West Coast Road, Pasir Panjang Road and the Ayer Rajah Expressway are becoming rusty. The relevant authorities should have them repainted to prevent the rust from spreading and causing
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        BEING'ME'IS NOT ALL BAD
        96 26  -  PJJOHN: I refer to the News Comment, "To go global, drop the 'me' mentality" (May 15). To be global citizens, we need a better idea of world and current affairs. International relations entails being sensitive to those around you. But dropping the "me" mentality altogether is
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      Extend our cultural understanding and tolerance towards animals
      383 28  -  TAN CHEKWEE Letter from FOR ABOUT 12 years, I have had the opportunity to live with a cross breed of a Shih-tzu dog, called Lucky, in a HDB flat. He was a badly abused dog that I had found at the void
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      Lock icon Shelters not the answer
      410 28  -  DAWN KUA Sterilisation a more effective solution for handling strays Letter from Director of Operations Cat Welfare Society THE Cat Welfare Society was heartened to see so many Singaporeans writing in to express concern about the recent cases of cat abuse highlighted in the media. We
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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      34 22 CORRECTION In our report "The leading edge" (May 9), the photograph of Mr Dominic Lefebvre, regional director of their Singapore office, was wrongly identified as Mr Mark Sundquist. We are sorry for the error.
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      102 24 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES 'Here's the proof says St Augustine 'That God meant woman to be equal He made Eve from Adam's rib Which is situated right in the middle. The bone would have come from the feet If she were meant to be inferior And definitely from the head If
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      Lock icon Govt more bullish on economy
      615 30  -  CHRISTIE LOH MTI raises full-year growth forecast to between 5% and 7% on expected higher global expansion, electronics christie@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE several fear factors looming on the global front, the Singapore Government has again raised its forecast for this year's economic growth by one percentage point
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      200 30 -AFP SINGAPORE'S key non-oil exports grew 10.1 per centyear-on-year in April, down from the previous month's 16.6 per cent, the Government's trade promotion agency said yesterday. Non-oil domestic exports (Nodx) totalled $13.37 billion, compared with $14.98 billion in March, International Enterprise Singapore said. Economists
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        209 34 -BLOOMBERG HEWLETT-Packard, the world's No 2 per-sonal-computer seller, said its fiscal sec-ond-quarter profit rose 51 per cent as the company took sales from rival Dell. Its net income rose to US$l.46 billion, ($2.32 billion), or 51 US cents a share, from US$966
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        126 35 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has taken action against UOB Asset Management (UOBAM) and three individuals for breaching stock market trading rules. UOB Asset Management was fined $5,000 for offering units in United Asia Top-50 Fund to six investors using a prospectus that had
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        80 35 -DOW JONES UNITED Industrial Corp (UIC) will invest $35.2 million in a property joint venture in Tianjin, China, the developer said yesterday. UIC will hold a 51-percent stake in the joint venture, to be called UIC JinTravel (Tianjin) Development Co, with Tianjin Tourism (Holdings) Group
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      1122 36  -  David Chew david.chew@newstoday.com.sg With two edgy new programmes hitting TV and radio, the arts looks poised to get a fair airing at last ART for art's sake? If more people believed in the principle that art should be enjoyed simply because it is there to be
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        437 40  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Homegrown urban artists showcase their works in two exhibitions, Collision and Collision II Julia nar@newstoday.com.sg FOR years considered the work of mere vandals, graffiti is now making its way into galleries and even classrooms. Two exhibitions, Collision and Collision Collision a collaboration
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        372 42  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Idol host Daniel Ong gets tips from co-host Gurmit Singh by... simply staring at him Juliana r@newstoday.com.sg COULD there be more than just brotherly love between Singapore Idol hosts Gurmit Singh and Daniel Ong? Since it was announced earlier this year that Daniel
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        480 43 —AFP Tom Hanks'thriller receives lukewarm response from Cannes audience CANNES (France) Critics yesterday crucified Hollywood's long-awaited film of the runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code ahead of its glittering premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Several disappointed whistles instead of applause were all that
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        155 46  -  -PEARLYNTHAM DEEP-SET, slitty, almond-shaped, single eyelids these are just a few descriptions of the types of eyes that we are born with. But to superstar Maggie Cheung, it's not the shape of your eyes that makes them look attractive or not Rather, it's how bright
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        172 46  -  FOX is giving out presents for its second anniversary and today is the last day you can take part in the celebrations. Purchase any two items from Fox and the third item is on the house. For women, choose from denim jackets, flirty
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          81 46 The notion of two becoming one on your big day extends to your wedding bands, with the new Attrazione wedding ring collection. Exclusively available at Goldheart Jewelry stores, Attrazione wedding rings are made with the new Magtinium technology so that both his and her rings are drawn to
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          70 46 Lancome has launched its first travel retail exclusive fragrance Tropiques. This fruity-floral fragrance opens with notes of cranberry, raspberry and kumquat, followed by a heart of mango flower, jasmine and blackberry. The scent then ends with a base of Tonka bean and vanilla. Tropiques by Lancome is
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        322 47  -  AMY VAN You don't have to go to a hawker centre or restaurant for a nice bowl of pulut hitam food@newstoday.com.sg PULUT hitam (sweetened black rice porridge) is a classic hot dessert served at many Peranakan restaurants in Singapore. Some Chinese restaurants have given the dessert a
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        712 48  -  ELAINE QUEK Savour Ontario's offerings of the Niagara Falls and its exquisite vineyards WHEN I decided to visit some friends in Ontario, Canada, while on holiday in New York City, I thought my only tourist stop would be the Niagara Falls. Besides enjoying
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        449 49 Owner of newly-famous property provides lodgings and lectures for a price VILLETTE (France) Chateau de Villette, the sumptuous home of Sir Leigh Teabing the wealthy, polio-afflicted character from The Da Vinci Code is not just a figment of author Dan Brown's imagination but
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          153 50 Tennis fans take note: British Airways is offering them a chance to win an exclusive travel package worth over $9,000 to the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships 2006. The prize includes a pair of BA World Traveller tickets to London Heathrow, two nights'
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          148 50 -AFP An island town in Croatia has proclaimed itself a "bikini-free zone" following protests from its vicar scandalised by the sight of scantily clad tourists. The village of Vrbnik, on the Adriatic island of Krk, is to post signs in its old city showing a
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      Lock icon Wade's steal seals it
      565 54 —AP Heat edge Nets to reach second consecutive Eastern Conference finals EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS Miami 106 New Jersey 105 (Miami win series 4-1) MIAMI Dwyane Wade struggled all night offensively, so he sent the Miami Heat into the Eastern Conference finals with a huge defensive play.
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      Lock icon Gatlin didn't break world record: IAAF
      229 54 —AFP PARIS A timing mistake has stripped world and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin (picture) of a stand-alone world record time in the men's 100 m, world athletics ruling body announced yesterday. Gatlin was timed at 9.76s at a lAAF Grand Prix meeting in Doha
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      Lock icon BRIDGING THE COLOUR DIVIDE
      662 55  -  TANYO-HINN World Golf Foundation's Barrow believes golf must move beyond white-dominated domain yohinn@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour abolishing their "Cau-casian-only" policy in 1961, their first commissioner John Dey predicted more than 30 years ago that by the new millennium, they would not be
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      Lock icon Young Lions not privileged, says Sivakumar
      632 56  -  DARREN LAI Club chairman believes Asian Games dream is motivating his team darren@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS a start Fandi Ahmad would not have imagined. Two months into the NTUC IncomeYeo's S-League 2006 campaign, his Young Lions side are second in the league behind SAFFC with
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        68 56 Kelly Gan, student How does it feel to be the son of a regional football giant? Pongpisut: I am very proud and honoured that my father Piyapong is one of the most famous footballers in Thailand and in the region. I learnt a lot from
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        121 56 What do you think of the standard of the S-League? Pongpisut: The standard of the league seems to be very high. I am sure that teams like Tampines Rovers and SAFFC are close to being able to challenge the best teams in Asia. One-on-one with Daniel
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        66 56 Why is it so difficult to break into the Thai national team? Pongpisut: There are so many good footballers in Thailand and every year, younger players emerge. So national players who do not maintain their form will have to make way. But in a way, this
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      Lock icon Leow gets the nod
      518 57  -  TANYO-HINN New SSA president and his team lookto chart future of swimming here yohinn@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE losing his contest for the post of deputy president at the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) two years ago, Jeffrey Leow kept his promise of introducing a High Performance Swimming League and
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      Easy victory for Albirex
      269 57  -  -DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 Albirex2Sengkang 0 JAPANESE side Albirex Niigata easily disposed off cellar-dwellers Sengkang Punggol 2-0 at the Jurong East Stadium last night to rejoin the title race. The win ensured the White Swans go level with second-placed Young Lions on 16 points. Ichiro
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      Lock icon Singapore bow out on a whimper
      388 57  -  Cubby Leong ASIAN GAMES MEN'S QUALIFIERS Singapore 0 Iran 0 SINGAPORE'S hopes of making it to the Asian Games finals were effectively dashed yesterday, after a 0-0 draw against Iran at the Maulana Bhasani Stadium. With the result, Singapore remain fifth in the table
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      497 58  -  -THE GUARDIAN After five months out with injury, striker comes through tough workout unscathed ALGARVE The daily bulletins on Wayne Rooney's fitness may cause Sven-Goran Eriksson anxiety but on Tuesday, there was positive news for the England manager as he watched Michael Owen come through his
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      274 58 -AGENCIES LONDON Tottenham Hotspur have signed Bayer Leverkusen's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov (picture) for a fee of £10.9 million ($32.4 million). The signing was announced on the London stock exchange yesterday, but the deal is still subject to a work permit. If that is
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      343 58 —AGENCIES LONDON Premiership side Middlesbrough are about to name former England boss Terry Venables as their new manager, according to press reports yesterday. He will replace Steve McClaren who will take over as England manager at the end of the World Cup finals. The reports
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      Lock icon Why footie RULES
      925 59  -  Rohit Brijnath THURSDAY WITH news@newstoday.com.sg Football is not just a sport, it's also a dance WHY, I am asked occasionally by people who insist Ronaldo and Ronaldinho are the same person yet sneeringly roll their eyes if you inquire why Monet is sometimes spelled as Manet, is
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        NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED
        122 59 HEALTH experts are sounding a cautionary note about the World Cup finals, saying that some matches could be quite literally heart-stopping. Cardiac arrests, drunk-driving, fan violence, wife-beating, binge boozing, smoking, gorging on fatty snacks with no exercise, even suicide all of these phenomena surge during
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        BOOST FOR BANGLADESH
        72 59 AUTHORITIES in football-mad Bangladesh have ordered the state-run power company to ensure minimum disruption to power supplies during the World Cup. More than half of Bangladesh's 140 million population now has access to television but rapid development has resulted in massive power shortages. Only 25 per cent
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        86 59 GERMANY left-back Philipp Lahm (picture) picked up an elbow injury in a friendly on Tuesday. "Lahm was taken to hospital for an X-ray to see that his elbow isn't broken," said national goalkeeping coach Andreas Kopke. The German team beat the amateur side Luckenwalde 7-0 but
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        68 59 ASIA'S standing as a reputable footballing continent will be on the line at the World Cup, said AFC president Mohammed bin Hammam. Five Asian Football Confederation teams will be in action Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, with plenty at stake. "In the context
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