Today, 15 June 2006, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Germans almost through
      1045 1 -AFP Neuville's 91st minute stunner fires hosts closer to the 2nd round GROUP A —M /Ji 1J Germany 1 Poland 0 Bj^ DORTMUND Substitute Oliver Neuville scored a stoppage time winner as Germany moved to the brink of qualifying for the last 16 of the World Cup
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Spore troops Timor Leste-bound?
      637 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG Close ties with Australia in play as PM Lee considers joining in peacekeeping efforts IN CANBERRA cheekong@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE some recent hiccups, bilateral relations between Singapore and Australia are in good shape as a common strategic outlook drives both countries, their leaders said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Boeing shares take off, thanks to SIA
      353 2 -AGENCIES NEW YORK- Boeing, which had been struggling to compete against European aviation powerhouse Airbus in recent years, is engineering a steady climb as its rival encounters fresh turbulence. Boeing shares took off in New York yesterday as Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced a
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      WHEN A MILLION EYES ARE WATCHING
      792 3  -  CHARLES TAN Proliferating CCTV cameras serve security needs, but will privacy rights suffer? IS SINGAPORE following the example of the United Kingdom, where the average urban Briton is candidly caught up to 300 times a day by approximately 4 million closed circuit television (CCTV)
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Relatives of Kwek disclose discounts
      221 4 DOW JONES RELATIVES of City Development's (CDL) executive chairman, Mr Kwek Leng Beng, have bought three units in the company's upmarket St Regis Residences at discounts ranging between 15 per cent and 17 per cent In a corporate disclosure filing yesterday, CDL said Mr Kwek's
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      Lock icon Call for more open M'sia-S'pore skies
      168 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE chief executive officer of Tiger Airways has called for a more liberalised market between Malaysia and Singapore. Speaking on MediaCorp's Malay current affairs programme, Detik, Mr Tony Davies said that by restricting access to budget carriers, the Malaysian authorities are actually
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  168 words
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      Lock icon PM, MM may apply for summary judgment
      401 4  -  TORCHING LI Chees could then be found guilty of defamation without trial chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) leader Dr Chee Soon Juan and his sister, Ms Chee Siok Chin, informed the High Court at a pre-trial conference yesterday that they wish to call
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      Lock icon Patent investigation of Apple: Creative
      188 4 BLOOMBERG CREATIVE Technology, which makes Zen digital music players, said the United States International Trade Commission will investigate its complaint that larger rival Apple Computer Inc infringed its patent Singapore-based Creative filed a complaint on May 15 seeking to halt sales of Apple's iPod music
      — BLOOMBERG  -  188 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Mica's Lee to attend economic forum
      82 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MINISTER for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang will be in Tokyo to attend the two-day World Economic Forum on East Asia from today. He is expected to share Singapore's experience and views in creating an environment for companies to
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  82 words
    • Article
      Legislate use of personal info
      469 6  -  TAN HUI LENG Bioethics Advisory Committee recommendations up for public feedback huileng@newstoday.com. sg THE Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) is recommending that the authorities legislate the use of personal information in biomedical research. Currently, unlike the laws protecting personal financial and income tax information, there are
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon NISSAN CARS IN SINGAPORE NOT AFFECTED BY RECALL
        57 6 -938UVE A recent Nissan recall of cars in Japan has not hit local drivers. Local distributor Tan Chong Motors said the Nissan March models imported here are equipped with automatic transmission, while the recall is for manual transmission cars which Nissan said
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        Lock icon WET WEATHER AHEAD
        51 6 938 LIVE The weatherman says the recent wet spell in Singapore is expected to continue over the next two weeks. There will be widespread showers with gusty winds in the pre-dawn hours and early mornings. The Meteorological Services said rainfall for the past fortnight was substantially above
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      BOYS AT WORK
      408 8 The second batch of seven male Singapore Idol hopefuls took to the stage last night and Jeanine Tan (jeanine@newstoday.com.sg) says there's hope yet for the singing competition as these boys prove to be the best performers so far. Remember to vote and tune in for the results
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    • Article
      A *Star inks MOU with Aussie varsity
      304 8  -  -LOHCHEEKONG IN SINGAPORE'S first collaboration with Australia in scientific research, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Australian National University (ANU) yesterday. The MOU also marks A*Star's first agreement in the area of immunology
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    • Article
      More speak English as a first language here
      327 8  -  LEE U WEN EVEN as the Ministry of Education looks to improve how English is taught in schools, it has emerged that more Singaporeans are speaking it at home as a first language. According to the General Household Survey (GHS) 2005, which
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      PA goes all out on an image-overhaul
      292 10  -  TAN HWEE HWEE hweehwee@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS been seen wrongly as catering just to certain groups of Singaporeans. To send the message that it is for everyone, the People's Association (PA) will embark on a series of events from July to September, as part
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      Cheaper CD blues
      372 10  -  JEREMY LUA Parallel imports are a hit with consumers, but music industry sees red news@newstoday.com.sg DON'T do a double take if you come across a brand-new CD that is being sold at a fraction of its higher-priced siblings at big music stores. Chances are, it's a parallel
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Cleric's release raises hackles
      557 12 *****6 /WP -AGENCIES Australia, US unhappy; Bali bombing victims express disbelief SYDNEY The release of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was jailed for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, opened up old wounds and drew ire and disappointment from the international community, including
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      Lock icon Thaksin files defamation suits
      162 12 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) filed criminal and civil defamation suits yesterday against the opposition Democrat Party and publishers of three local newspapers, his lawyer said. In the criminal suit, he sued the party and spokesman Thepthai Senphong, accusing them of defaming him
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      MyKad can be tampered with
      210 12 KUALA LUMPUR The security chip in Malaysia's MyKad, the world's first smart card to store biometric data on an inbuilt computer chip, can be tampered with and information other than that of the original owner can be uploaded into the chips, The New Straits Times
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      Singapore is part-owner of Causeway, says M'sian historian
      264 15 JOHOR BAHRU Can Malaysia pull down the 82-year-old Causeway that links it with Singapore, if it so wishes? Bernama reported yesterday, quoting historical documents and a Johor historian, that the country might not have the absolute legal right to dismantle the Causeway
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      Malaysia to declassify bridge letters
      415 15 In response to the attacks by Dr M, KL'will tell all', says Foreign Minister MALACCA The Malaysian government is ready to reveal everything and will declassify documents regarding the controversial deals and correspondence with Singapore, in response to the attacks by former Prime Minister Mahathir
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      Lock icon Shakespeare biography wins world's richest non-fiction prize
      247 17 -AFP LONDON A partial biography about a year in the life of legendary playwright William Shakespeare won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction yesterday, the world's richest non-fiction prize. American professor James Shapiro receives £30,000 pounds ($88,000) for his book 1599: A Year
      -AFP  -  247 words
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      Lock icon Bird flu vaccine protects against pandemic virus?
      463 17 -BLOOMBERG Ferrets immunised with vaccine protected against newer variant of virus: Study UNITED STATES -Vaccines based on the bird flu strain that has killed more than 120 people may reduce fatalities caused by any pandemic the lethal virus spawns, according to a study.
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon TAIWAN, CHINA AGREE TO LAUNCH DIRECT PASSENGER FLIGHTS
        62 18 -AP Taiwan and China have agreed to launch direct charter passenger flights during major holidays of the year, including Chinese New Year, Tomb Sweeping Day and the Dragon Boat and Mid-Autumn Festivals. The Taiwanese government made the announcement yesterday, marking a major
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        MONTENEGRO RECOGNISED AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE BY SINGAPORE
        58 18 Singapore has formally recognised the sovereignty of the newly formed independent Republic of Montenegro. In a letter sent to the newly established country's Foreign Affairs Minister Miodrag Vlahovic, Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo also expressed the country's readiness to establish diplomatic ties
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        Lock icon TWO NOISY WORLD CUP FANS SHOT DEAD IN PATTAYA RESORT
        73 18 -AFP Thai police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed two soccer fans at a beach resort in Pattaya, after complaining they were cheering too loudly during a broadcast of Italy's World Cup opener against Ghana, an official
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        Lock icon WHY BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP IS BANNED
        78 18 -AFP An Indian state has decided to drop popular nursery rhymes such as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Baa Baa Black Sheep from textbooks for first-graders for being too Western, reports said yesterday. The Education Minister for Madhya Pradesh state, Mr Narottam Mishra,
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        Lock icon RED ALERT RAISED AGAIN FOR MERAPI
        68 18 -AFP Scientists yesterday said an eruption is imminent at Mount Merapi and placed people in the area around the volcano on the highest alert meaning they an eruption is imminent a day after they downgraded the alert level. "The 'beware' status was reimposed after
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      Lock icon A TURNING POINT, CAREFULLY STAGED
      803 18  -  SHERYLGAYSTOLBERG NYT NEWS SERVICE Bush's surprise Baghdad visit was powerful political theatre IN VISITING Baghdad on Tuesday, United States President George W Bush was trying to deliver a carefully calibrated message to Americans: That Iraq and the administration's strategy there appear to be turning a
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      Lock icon Clintons' earnings top $12m from speeches, books last year
      266 21 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Former United States President Bill Clinton and his wife, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, earned more than US$B million ($12.8) last year from speeches and book royalties, records released today show. Mr Clinton received about US$7.5 million
      — BLOOMBERG  -  266 words
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      Lock icon US fraudsters cheat up a storm
      410 21 —AFP Hurricane 'victims' claim $2.2b on diamonds, raunchy videos, champagnes, vacations WASHINGTON United States fraudsters splashed on diamonds, raunchy videos, sports tickets, US$2OO champagnes and ritzy resort stays as part of a billion-dollar bill in swindled payments meant for US hurricane victims. A House
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      Lock icon MISSION ACCOMPLISHED IN IRAQ?
      767 22  -  JOHN GEE news@newstoday.com.sg WITH claims that Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime was concealing weapons of mass destruction discredited, the administration of United States President George W Bush refocussed its defence of the invasion of Iraq on portraying it as a war of liberation for Iraqis. The problem
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  • Voices
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      Lock icon isay A STAKE IN OUR NATIONAL ICONS
      770 28  -  NGYAKEN AFTER the winning design for the Marina Bay integrated resort (IR) was disclosed, some wondered if the 50-storey hotel towers with the magnificent roof-top garden or the lotus-shape art-science museum could one day turn into a national icon. Some were even sceptical
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      Pity this raging 'Dragon'
      518 29  -  JAMES CHIH Bully behaved the way he was treated at home; and should have been helped Letter from I AM indeed perturbed by the figures in the article "Bullies strike more than nine out of 10 students" (June 14). But I have some questions about the
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      sayagain
      73 29  -  Ronald LH Koh The news that 95 per cent of 4,000 students surveyed said they were bullied is not merely "perturbing", but alarming. The big question is: How many of them are bullies themselves too? What is causing this widespread disease? Do the pressures of our education system have
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      229 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I ASSAULT ON SELF-ESTEEM You know it's not easy getting through adolescence today, and the effective parent must learn early on how to protect his kids. Perhaps the most painful aspect of growing up is related to the assault on self-esteem that
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      Swing checks
      371 30  -  DENIS DISTANT 'Buyer beware' should not be an excuse for SGX not to curb wild market flux Letter from I REFER to the letter "Consider trading curbs" from Chia Hern Keng (June 13) and the follow-up letter "Warning: Stocks a danger to wealth" from Narayana Narayana (June 14).
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      Hygiene is a priority
      207 30  -  S SATISH APPOO iONGSENGENG Letter frorr Head, Resource Conservation Department and Head, Environmental Health Department National Environment Agency (NEA) WE WOULD like to thank Murali Sharma and Sam Lai Wah for their letters and feedback ("Chop chopstick provision", June 8). The NEA subscribes to the 3Rs
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      Lock icon Playing in the fog a risky game for children
      204 30  -  DRSWARUPMUKHERJEE Letter from I HAVE observed many times that when anti-mosquito fogging is done in the HDB estates, the kids around like to be engulfed in the smoke/fog, not realising that it may be a risky game. Whenever I see the
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      A linkway country covered all the way
      239 32  -  LIM POH SENG Letter from WE HAVE the Blue Plan to link all our waterways and we have the Green Plan to link our parks. I would like to propose a Covered Plan for Singapore to link buildings to each other, to bus
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      Many found ***** course helpful
      220 32  -  CHOONGKETCHE Letter from Director, Corporate Marketing Communications Singapore Workforce Development Agency PLEASE refer to the letter, "Training plan misses the target" (June 8). The Singapore 2006 (*****) Customer Service Training Programme, developed in consultation with industry players, helps to prepare our service personnel to be
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      isay BRING BACK THE GREAT TEACHERS
      786 36  -  LEE LAI YONG WOULD the hiring of native speakers to teach English in schools really help to raise the standard of English in Singapore, or will we just end up with future generations of native Singaporeans speaking with a foreign "twang"? Like most senior
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      Study effects of private schools
      446 37  -  WAYNE SOON Creating more of such institutions may have social and political implications Letter from THE recent announcement by the Education Minister to allow more privately-funded secondary and pre-tertiary schools is a heartening sign of increasing choice and diversity in our education system. But will
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      LTA needs to act fast on Tanjong Pagar escalator issue
      123 37  -  DAVID KWOKNG KAN Letter from THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) had earlier said that the newly installed lift at Tanjong Pagar MRT station would be operational by April or May. It has been delayed yet again. I called the LTA
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      More appreciation, then taxi service will improve
      201 37  -  ANDREW NGMUNKEONG Letter from I AGREE with the letter writer of "The predicament of a taxi driver" (June 12) that city passengers professionals and office workers are very demanding but are stingy in their appreciation of service rendered. These passengers complain to the
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      98 32 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES His wife was in bed with the bishop To him it was the cruellest blow But he merely walked to the window And began blessing the people below. 'What are you doing?' cried his wife 'Well, dear,' he replied, 'it's like this His Grace is performing my
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      424 38  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@newstoday.com.sg ALERTED to "serious" financial aberrations in mainboardlisted Daka Designs, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has called on the police to probe the Hong Kong-based maker of consumer lifestyle products whose shares are now suspended indefinitely. At the same time, Daka has replaced its top
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      179 38 CHINA Fishery Group, through its wholly-owned Peruvian subsidiary CFG Investment, has agreed to buy the entire share capital of Perubased fisheries group Alexandra for US$lOO million ($159 million) from the shareholders of the firm. The acquisition gives China Fishery a key operational
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        97 38 -DOWJONES THE ST Index (STI) sank even further yesterday on fears of continued weakness on Wall Street, despite some intraday buying due to recoveries in regional markets, said traders. The STI ended down 12.68 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 2,280.67, despite reaching 2,307.74 points earlier in the session
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        36 38 US$ 0.6258 UK£ 0.3414 Yen 72.229 HK$ 4.8577 RM 2.3056 Euro 0.4992 Rupiah 5941.6 Baht 24.120 Peso 33.359 A$ 0.8487 Indian Rs 28.808 Won 601.76 C$ 0.6968 Yuan 5.0083 NZ$ 1.0083 NT$ 20.436
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        55 38 Nikkei 225 *****.56 +90.96 +0.64 Hang Seng ASX *****.92 4850.80 +13.50 +11.90 +0.09 +0.25 Taiwan Wtd 6469.01 +131.80 +2.08 Korea Comp 1221.73 +17.87 +1.48 KLCI 893.23 -10.40 -1.15 SET Index 646.69 -23.72 -3.54 Jakarta Comp 1234.19 -2.37 -0.19 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2067.00 273.77 -53.29 -3.07 -2.51 -1.11
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        27 38 SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Information provided by! Gold US$/oz 566.80 Silver US$/oz 9.63 Platinum US$/oz 1,11SL50 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brant US$/barrel 438.00 1,405.50 66.90
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        333 40 BLOOMBERG Stock hurt by weak sentiment and falls in wider market SHARES of Banyan Tree Holdings, which runs luxury resorts from the Seychelles to Phuket, slumped 12.3 per cent in its first trading day in Singapore amid a slide in global equities. Banyan
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        163 40 -DOW JONES CONGLOMERATE Keppel Corp has taken a 55-per-cent stake in a joint venture to manage hospitals in China. Keppel, better known as the world's biggest oil rig builder, said its Keppel FMO unit will inject 1.65 million yuan ($328,897)
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        503 42 -AFP -BLOOMBERG Airline to get just one aircraft this year, seeks compensation SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) and Emirates, customers for the Airbus A3BO, are seeking financial compensation from the European plane-maker for a second round of delays of the aircraft SIA said it
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        159 42 BLOOMBERG A CONSORTIUM which includes the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has agreed to buy Associated British Ports Holdings (AB Ports), the United Kingdom's biggest port company, after raising its offer to £2.5 billion ($7.32 billion). The Goldman Sachs-led team will pay
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        194 46  -  CHOW PENN NEE THE Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) and Hewlett-Packard will pump in $30 million over three years to establish a research and development laboratory here. The HP Shared Services Platform Laboratory (HP SSP Lab) will be staffed
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          146 46 To take Fifa World Cup 2006 celebrations to greater heights, Giordano is launching a series of Soccer Team tees, which come in graphic and number prints as well as national colours. The T-shirts come in an assortment of colours such as orange, sunflower, dusk,
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          102 46 Ms Nellie Tang and Ms Josephine Quah will be sharing details about how you can achieve work-life harmony, as an organisation and as an individual, at the Arrows with Soul seminar tomorrow. Joining them at the seminar is keynote speaker David Lock, director of coaching
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        422 46 BLOOMBERG Rapid growth suggests further credit tightening in the offing CHINA'S industrial production expanded at the fastest pace in two years last month, reinforcing expectations the central bank will further restrict lending in the world's fourth-largest economy. Output climbed 17.9 per cent to 706
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        755 48  -  WILLIAM PESEKJR -BLOOMBERG Western powers need not fret: There's more to gain than lose news@newstoday.com.sg YOU would think a family barbecue in the New York City suburb of Queens would be a nice escape from my job thousands of miles away
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          87 44 CHINA PLAYS SELECTED BUYS SBI E2-Capital Securities says recent "indiscriminate selling" in the Singapore market has been excessive as fears of a sharp and prolonged economic slump are unfounded. "We think that this is an excellent opportunity for investors to pick up bargain values and position themselves for a sharp
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          99 44 AQUA-TERRA (26 CENTS) BUY OCBC Investment Research starts AquaTerra as a "Buy" with a fair value of 33.5 cents as the company is positioned to ride on the multi-year boom in the oil industry. Aqua-Terra is "procuring a good future" as its growth-by-acquisition strategy is an inexpensive and fastest mode
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        795 44 -DOW JONES Some feel that expected credit tightening not fully priced in HONG KONG Investors in Asian debt are bracing for more market turbulence in coming months due to concerns that interest rates globally are headed higher. Despite a selloff in bond
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      457 45 Panasonic ideas for life Demand a lifestyle that marks your personality! To pamper your whims ~VDC [D I ~|\l O E O MIX/ and fancies for a pleasurable life, look no further than Panasonic Home Q/\ f QIIIQIMwQ WIM I_T Appliances. Beginning 8 June 2006 till 31 July 2006, a
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      80 46 f Travel Tips If you are travelling to countries affected by avian flu, 0/^ supported by avoid contact with poultry and refrain from visiting /yf"J Health *is°'^°?£f% commercial or backyard poultry farms and markets Board Ot selling live birds. 1 n 1 1 1 ix For more information, Avoid handling
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      28 47 ■■■■I BUIII irr.-ff.'i, tag^^'ji-^'\'^^^^B \^/>^ Start with the freshest ingredient. Cold Storage Quality is our standard. Great Taste is our passion. Freshness is our signature. TTie fresh food people
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      134 48 Bausch&Lomb .'■*■#*;:.-*n y? ■SOP' Banara /j^BSmß^wlSj/IHJiW^I Ska :i^ *^'^*^«a 1 Treasure Deal 1 X Treasure Deal 2 Pure Vision I X sofLem 38/comforM 24-hr Wear Monthly Disposable Contact Lens Monthly Disposable Contact Lens m 3 boxes $189 1 year supply $140 B 2 boxes of PureVUion (worth $126) 1 m
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      547 50 nrOURHOROSCOPETODAY by Eugenia Last ARIES (March 21 -April 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) HGet back to doing the things you enjoy. Make V^B Today is all about you and what your needs time for your friends, lover and children as Hj^ are. Don't feel guilty if you wanttobuyyourwell as
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      153 50 EMERGENCY LINES City Gas (to report gas supply 1800-752-1800 interruption, low pressure and leakage) Civil Defence (Fire Emergency Ambulance) 995 Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Police 999 Police hotline 1800-255-0000 SPPowerGrid 1800-778-8888/ (to report power failure) 6778-8888 Traffic Police 6547-1818 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 HELPLINES —GENERAL Samaritans of Singapore 1800-221-4444 Society for The
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      298 52 SINGAPORE Jl^^£\ll| *B Oily skin is shiny, thick and dull-coloured. It is due to excessive oil production in fl overactive sebaceous glands. Oily skin has I enlarged pores, blackheads and other H embarrassing blemishes. It is prone to acne as the oil trapped in the glands encourages A bacteria growth.
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      199 53 WEATHERTODAY Amsterdam 10/20 C rainy London 10/20 C fair c Auckland ***** showers Los Angeles 16/26 C fair OlflgapOre Bali 25/29 C cloudy Manila 26/32 C thunderstorm 24/31 C BS Begawan 25/33 C showers Melbourne 06/140 showers Bangkok 26/36 C showers New Delhi 2940 C thunderstorm th Bangalore 21/32 C
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      650 54 -AFP American confident, but plays down talk of winning three Majors in a row GOLF US Open MAMARONECK, New York It doesn't roll off the tongue particularly well, but get used to the phrase "Mickel-slam". You'll hear it a lot in the next few days. The
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      536 54 —AP MAMARONECK, New York One of Tiger Woods' greatest thrills was winning on Father's Day. It was a tradition in the Woods' household when he was young. The son would play 18 holes with his father and then they would go home to
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      616 55 -AP Miami's guard leads furious late game rally for a much-needed victory NBA FINALS Miami 98 Dallas 96 (Dallas lead series 2-1) MIAMI Dwyane Wade was not going to let the Heat go down in flames. Not here. Not now. Not this quickly. "I said, 'I
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      331 56  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg A LESS than impressive start to the 2006 season ended the relationship between Woodlands Wellington and their coach Karim Bencherifa (picture) yesterday. The Moroccan quit the club after 11 matches, on the eve of their NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League clash against Sporting Afrique, some
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      548 56  -  CUBBY LEONG Boxers ready to do battle here tonight, hope it's the first of many BOXING Black Tie Fight Night cubby@newstoday.com.sg AFTER almost two decades, Singapore will host a professional boxing bout tonight when some of the region's best boxers do battle at the Black Tie Fight
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      136 56  -  TANYOHINN SINGAPORE beat Chinese Taipei 34-22 in a Division Three Asian Tri-Nations Rugby Tournament at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium last night to remain in the division for next year. This after the hosts earned a bonus point under International Rugby Board rules for scoring more
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      1749 57  -  LI ZAI SHI KENNETH GOH DAVID NGIAU KENNETH GOH Skipper Goh calls for an end to the Rams' losing streak NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE Woodlands v Sporting Afrique sports@newstoday.com.sg WOODLANDS Wellington captain Goh Tat Chuan has called for unity and a renewed focus to lift the team out
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      384 59 -AGENCIES Outsiders Ecuador ready to reach knockout stage for first time GROUPA Ecuador v Costa Rica HAMBURG From also-rans who could only play at altitude to an odds-on bet for the knockout stage, Ecuador stand on the brink of history. If the South Americans win against
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      183 59 -AGENCIES GROUPB Sweden v Paraguay BERLIN The World Cup will be less than a week old when Sweden play Paraguay tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), but both sides are talking about packing their bags if they lose. The first games in Group B have
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      Lock icon Smallest nation ready to make history against mighty England
      297 60 -AGENCIES BADEN-BADEN Trinidad Tobago will go into the match looking to write another chapter in what is rapidly emerging as the fairytale story of the finals. Coventry striker Stern John said T&T, the smallest nation ever to participate in the World
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      677 60 AGENCIES England captain orders his team-mates to show their true World Cup potential GROUP B England v Trinidad Tobago' BADEN-BADEN The lesson has not been lost on David Beckham and the rest of the England squad. They watched every match in the other groups
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      730 60 -AFP LONDON The Scots aren't in the World Cup, but they're getting into the spirit of things by hoping their arch-ri-vals get humiliated. British bookmakers said they were bracing for the biggest betting mismatch in World Cup history, with only a handful of
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      Lock icon Beckham not happy over German tabloid attack on family
      319 61 —AFP BADEN-BADEN England captain David Beckham accepts public criticism as part of the job. But he will not stand back and allow his family to be abused. The midfielder has hit out at a German tabloid's portrayal of his family but
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      776 62  -  LEONARD THOMAS The only spark in a sorry display, the new Cruyff could lead Brazil all the way GROUP F Brazil 1 Croatia 0 I SAW him just after dawn and he was chirpy full of jokes and song, Brasil forever, Brasil campiones, or at least he
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      593 62  -  ME GUARDIAN BERLIN As the Brazilian hordes made their way from the Olympiastadion after their country's winning World Cup start, a band of drummers led the celebrations. Amid the bikini-clad dancers bobbed a lifesize cutout of Ronaldo, carried on the shoulders of
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      753 63  -  ROHITBRIJNATH When it's Brazil, we must demand industry and artistry YES, we know, it was their first match, a sort of shrugging off of collective rust, and no doubt even Yo-Yo Ma can sound unharmonious when tuning his cello. Sure, they didn't lose but in fact
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      674 64  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS notes from neil@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE football fans are struggling. Sitting through three matches is no easy task. It's not the twilight telecasts that are the problem. It's the commentators. My colleague Leonard Thomas caught up with Martin Tyler earlier this
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        637 64 -AFP Spain are looking capable of shedding their perennial underachieverstag group h It (m, Spain 4 Ukraine 0 I^J^"^-' LEIPZIG It has taken just 90 minutes for Spain's World Cup landscape to change dramatically, but after their 4-0 drubbing of debutants Ukraine, Spain coach Luis Aragones
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        382 64 Spanish offence delivers without Raul -AP LEIPZIG Spain didn't need captain Raul Gonzalez after all. Coach Luis Aragones chose not to start the veteran striker from Real Madrid, instead putting his trust in David Villa, Fernando Torres and Luis Garcia and Spain beat Ukraine 4-0 yesterday, the most one-sided game
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        387 65  - Rise for the South Korean national anthem twice! TAN YO-HINN offside with yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IT MUST have been some debut at football's biggest showpiece for poor Togo. First, the Togolese national side were distracted over salary disputes between the players and the national federation that saw the country's Prime Minister Edem
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      62 66 VIVA ESPANA, AT LAST? Spain could shed their underachieverstag ■FV TAN YO-HINN I I explains why the jf '^m Koreans were f > J«| twice as lucky V as poor Togo "^lk L-A^ Commentators <^B HUMPHREYS J alaVm BRIJNATH MM HKaka could be the saviour of samba, says LEONARD THOMAS
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        690 66 -DPA Jaidi's last-ditch equaliser ensures Tunisia get a share of the spoils GROUP H Jf /<_A Tunisia 2 Saudi Arabia 2 V \aw MUNICH For eight minutes, it looked like something out of 1001 Arabian Nights as Saudi striker Sami al-Jaber hit what would have
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        148 67 BLOOMBERG NUREMBERG England striker Wayne Rooney may play his first game at the World Cup in tonight's meeting with Trinidad Tobago, after being declared "match fit" by manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. "For me, Rooney is match fit, but let me sleep on it," Eriksson told reporters in Nuremberg. "Almost
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      1876 72  -  Zul Othman as $jIM £®d r .usl&' jt 51a STUART Braithwaite, founding member of Scottish experimental rock quintet Mogwai, is amazed at how popular they are. Not to mention the crackpots his success attracts. "I must say people do take our music too seriously,"
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      449 74  -  AMELYNN LIONG Winner of dance reality series gives up NY apartment for career in LA a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg NICK Lazzarini, winner of dance reality series So You Think You Can Dance, might have won a swanky lease-free New York apartment but he has given
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      258 74  -  -DAVID CHEW A NEW show that markets itself as having been influenced by acts such as Cirque dv Soleil has come to town and will be at Clarke Quay for two weeks. But be warned, parents this is no family-friendly show. Also influenced
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        112 78 The Cuban Film Showcase, part of Cathay's Viva Cuba Festival, begins today. Viva Cuba, an amusing and touching coming of age movie about two children who run away from home, will be screened at 7.30pm at The Picturehouse. Why Cuban Films?, a talk on the rich history
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        38 78 Do your part for the Central Java earthquake victims by buying Starbucks' new Java Chip Frappuccino from noon to 2pm today at all outlets. All proceeds will go towards the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
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      397 78  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL ERNEST CHUA IMAGINARY NO MORE: Get to see Mac and his friend, the blue blob 8100. Cartoon Network characters gather for a weekend of fun atCartoonival Juliana r@newstoday.com.sg IMAGINARY friends come to life in Cartoonival, Cartoon Network's biggest stage show ever. Mac and the blue
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      657 82  -  ELEANOR WONG Politicians can laugh at themselves after all, so are congratulations in order? plus@newstoday.com.sg WHEN did we come to accept the ruling party's definition of acceptable engagement so completely that, emerging from this last election, we were pleased (relieved? proud?) that they seemed to
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      390 83  -  DAVID CHEW david. chew@newstoday.com. sg WHEN British drama group Interacting visited Canberra Primary School recently, the students had so much fun they didn't want to leave school. The group staged an interactive play, Around the World in 80 Minutes, that involved the participation of students. "We laughed so
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      348 84  -  DAVID CHEW Three books show that art is all around and to understand it is to recognise it david. chew@newstoday.com. sg IT'S so embedded in our everyday lives that we take it for granted sometimes. Indeed, how often do we ruminate on
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        249 85  -  Michael Sanders Christie Loh ramilies or the Vine had all the ingredients of an engaging read. The theme: People making wine in a setting no less romantic than the south of France. The book cover: Earthy and enticing. Yet, at the hands of American writer Michael
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        172 85  -  Morris Gleitzman Lorraine Lim Written with a deft hand, Morris Gleitzman's latest novella for youth deals with the Holocaust. Set in Poland in 1942, Felix, a Jewish boy in an orphanage, finds a carrot in his soup. He believes the carrot is a gift from his parents who left
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      144 86 VIVIAN WANG (picture), vocalist and keyboardist of homegrown band The Observatory lets us in on what she's reading when not preparing for the band's third album. "Most recently, I finished Coma by Alex Garland, probably the most enjoyable piece of fiction I've read in years. Currently, two books occupy
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      486 86  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL The coolest female detective in children's literature gets her own graphic novel series Juliana r@newstoday.com.sg AT 76, Nancy Drew is more hip than ever. Having already gone through a 21st century update in 1998 when she starred in her first computer game, the
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      484 87  -  AMY VAN f Love crabs but hate shelling? Pop a crab cake in your mouth to enjoy the best of both worlds Serves 3 to 4 Ingredients 2 crabs, chopped 2 eggs (use only egg white), lightly beaten 2 tbsp mayonnaise 1 1/2
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        796 88  -  LEE HUI SHAN LEE HUI SHAN AND A ROYAL BARGE REHEARSAL CROWNED THIS TRIP During my Bangkoktrip, I had a chance to witness a dress rehearsal of the Royal Barges sailing on the Chao Phraya river. The oarsmen were preparing for an official procession that was part of
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        737 90  -  EVELINE GAN Tired of Europe's great capitals? Try Nice and Lucerne for a change eveline@newstoday.com.sg THERE was a time when I thought that the only cities in Europe that I would care to visit for a holiday would be two of its most glamorous
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          125 92 AIR France in Singapore now offers an online check-in service. Holders of an e-ticket have the option of checking-in online and printing out their boarding passes at home or in the office. The service is available for a stipulated time before a flight
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          96 92 Jetstar Asia has been named the Best Lowcost Airline 2006 for both the Asia and South-east Asia categories in the Skytrax Airline of the Year survey. The survey is an independent passenger study conducted at airports by Skytrax, an aviation industry monitoring agency. "Recognition by our
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          166 92 Air Asia plans to develop Kota Kinabalu and Kuching airports in Malaysia into fully operational hubs by next month. The low-fare airline will begin daily direct flights from Kota Kinabalu to Miri and Tawau from July 11; and Bintulu, Sibu, Miri, Kota Kinabalu from Kuching,
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