Today, 7 July 2006

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    • 717 2  -  AJAYCHHIBBER RONALD PARKER Disasters are predictable but countries don't plan for them I AND THE devastating earthquake in Indonesia killed about 6,000 people and displaced as many as 650,000. This followed the tsunami from which Indonesia and other countries in the Indian Ocean are still
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    • 696 3  -  VALCHUA TTSH and other hospitals feel the squeeze va l@newstoday.com.sg FOR eight days in a row, a surge in elderly pneumonia patients has forced Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) to divert non-criti-cal cases to other public hospitals. It has also been forced to close its Accident
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  • Singapore news
    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 172 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Convicted killer Michael McCrea has appealed against his 24-year jail sentence. This comes as Justice Choo Han Teck released the grounds for the sentence yesterday. McCrea, 48, had been convicted for killing his 46-year-old driver Kho Nai Guan and Kho's 29-year-old girlfriend Suzie Lan
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      • 200 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA American fashion symbol Gap will be opening its doors at Centrepoint Shopping Centre. Frasers Centrepoint has revealed that together with Esprit, Gap will be one of the key tenants at the new wing of the shopping mall, which will
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    • 621 4  -  PHOTO COURTESY OF Hotel group points to the flip side of Singapore 2006 JANE CHIAPOCO ja nec@newstoday.com.sg IF ONE expects a traffic jam on a certain street, one is likely to avoid it altogether by using an alternative route. Hotels here may face
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    • 756 6  -  The NEA identifies breeding grounds, hopes public will do their part in the fight against dengue LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE threat of dengue is rearing its ugly head again, and the National Environment Agency (NEA) is pointing the finger at irresponsible residents in private estates
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      69 6 HDB CLUSTERS Blk 840, TampinesStB2 Blk 922, 925 Jurong West St 92 Yunnan Crescent Blk 318, Serangoon Aye 2 PRIVATE HOUSING CLUSTERS Farrer Court (King's Rd) Palm Grove Aye Jansen Rd Highland Rd Jalan Batalong/ Jalan Chelagi Flora Rd Khalsa Crescent Blk 28, Ceylon Rd Lor G Telok Kurau
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    • 440 6  -  THE National Environment Agency (NEA) is going to get tough on those who flout the recently-extended smoking ban despite the fact that just five smokers were fined and 253 warnings given out since the changes kicked in last Saturday. Now that smokers and licensed
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    • 380 8  -  ANSLEYNG She also has to perform 240 hours of community service a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE teenage girl who used fake $50 notes to pay for taxi rides was sentenced to two years' probation by a district judge yesterday. Charlene Lim Jia-Wen, 17, who had faced
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    • 260 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Workforce Development Agency (WDA) is setting aside half a million dollars to improve the professionalism of the tour and travel services industry. The move is timely as a survey of about 170 local travel agencies last year found that nearly 60 per
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    • 202 8  -  SHERALYN TAY shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg ABOUT 130 people have benefited from the July 2004 revisions to widen the scope of the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota), announced the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday. According to the ministry, 69 people got new kidneys and 10 got new livers.
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    • 558 10  -  DERRICK A PAULO NUS creates China committee, awards honorary degree to former Chinese official derrick@newstoday.com.sg THERE was a distinctly Chinese flavour at the National University of Singapore's commencement ceremony yesterday. Former Chinese vice premier Li Lanqing received his honorary degree of Doctor of Letters on the
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    • 328 10  -  TANHWEEHWEE IF TELEVISION set manuals or any manual, for that matter usually read like Greek to you, a bunch of Singaporean kids have come to the rescue. Fourteen students from First Toa Payoh Primary School have been roped in by global electronics giant
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    • 239 12 938 LIVE REPRESENTATIVES from 42 organisations pledged today to make Singapore one of the best service cities in the world. They were attending a rally organised by self-styled "service guru" Ron Kaufman, who helped to create Singapore Airlines' Service Quality
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    • 547 12  -  TORCHING LI But Web-enabled mobile phones a concern for Internet Advisory Committee chingli@newstoday.com. sg WHEN it comes to new media platforms such as the blogosphere, the light touch is still the right touch, says the National Internet Advisory Committee (NIAC). The 27-member committee,
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  • world news
    • 284 14 -AFP BANGKOK—Thai prosecutors yesterday asked the Constitutional Court to disband premier Thaksin Shinawatra's ruling Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party and its main rival over election violations. The officials of the Attorney-General's office transported 14 boxes that contained a total
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    • 443 14 —AGENCIES Pyongyang threatens 'countermeasures' if sanctions are imposed SEOUL North Korea threatened yesterday to fire more missiles and warned of "all-out countermeasures" if the international community imposed new sanctions. As Japan and South Korea remained on guard for more tests, the United States launched a diplomatic drive
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    • 187 14 DPA TAIPEI Taiwan has secretly developed a missile which can hit China's south-east coast, a Taiwanese online newspaper said yesterday. The ETtoday, quoting an unnamed military source, said the military Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology has secretly developed the Hsiung Feng 111 (Brave
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    • this quirkq world
      • 76 14 A Marks Spencer employee found himself in court sentenced to serve 200 hours of community service and pay a US$6OO ($950) fine to his boss because he sent her a Mexican redkneed tarantula as a parting gift on his last day of work. The Times newspaper reported.
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      • 80 14 —AFP British motorist John Hopwood concocted a novel scheme to avoid payment when he was given a speeding fine simply switch the road signs. Caught by a camera breaking a 50kmph speed limit, he went to an area with a 65kmph limit, removed the sign and
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      • 86 14 —AP A bear cub climbed into a convertible car and proceeded to gobble pizza and guzzle beer that had been left inside by the owner in Stateline, Nevada. "The bearwas loping along in the parking lot and then decides to get inside the car,"
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    • 576 16 -AGENCIES Ex-tycoon accuses ex-PM of forcing him to take over MAS to bail out the govt KUALA LUMPUR In a startling claim likely to shake up Malaysian politics, an ex-tycoon has accused former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of forcing him in 1994 to
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    • 246 16 -AFP NATHU LA PASS (India) The famed Silk Road pass in the Himalayas was reopened yesterday, allowing the first direct border trade between India and China since their brutal frontier war 44 years ago. Merchants were greeted on each side with silk scarves, music and
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 60 16 A 23-year-old drug-addict killed his younger brother following an argument over a handphone. The 21-year-old was killed as he intervened in an argument between the drug addict and their mother at their house in Kampung Tikat in Kelantan, the New Straits Times reported. The addict had
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      • 61 16 —AFP Trouble at Indian hospitals deepened yesterday as thousands more doctors joined the strike at the country's main hospital. A 35-year-old patient died after being turned away. Doctors at three leading state-run hospitals joined the 24-hour strike in support of the AllIndia Institute of Medical Sciences
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    • GLORALROUNDUP
      • 39 18 DPA Indonesia is suffering "serious nutrition problems" across the country with many people not getting enough to eat, children being underweight and infant mortality a persistent problem, the World Food Programme said in a report.
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      • 47 18 DPA Indonesia yesterday pulled out of a Federation Cup tennis match with Israel to protest ongoing military operations in the Palestinian territories following the abduction of an Israeli soldier. Indonesia's top women players were to play in Israel next week.
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    • 268 18 -THE GUARDIAN ROME One of Italy's most senior intelligence officers was jailed on Wednesday, accused of helping the CIA seize a radical Muslim cleric and terrorist suspect who later said he was flown out of Italy and tortured. His arrest was welcomed by some parliamentarians
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    • 424 18 —THE GUARDIAN US President told Cheney to oversee efforts to discredit Iraq war critic: Report WASHINGTON President George W Bush directed his vicepresident, Mr Dick Cheney, to take personal charge of a campaign to discredit a former ambassador who had accused the administration of twisting pre-war intelligence
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    • 228 18 -AFP LONDON A sensitive 46-page defence ministry file with details of how the British armed forces would respond to a terrorist incident has been found in a roadside ditch, The Sun newspaper said yesterday. The document labelled "Directorate Counter-terrorism and United Kingdom Operations
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    • 260 20 —AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian minister wants censors to delete suicide scenes from imported Bollywood movies after an ethnic Indian woman killed herself and two of her daughters in a way reminiscent of one of the films, news reports said yesterday. Mrs M
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    • 148 20 NEW DELHI At least 38 more people have died in rain-related incidents in India, officials reported yesterday, taking the nationwide death toll since the start of the monsoon season in May to 272. At least 19 people have died in the western
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    • 404 20 —AFP EU negotiations postponed for security fears: Tehran TEHRAN—Iran postponed key talks in Brussels between its chief nuclear negotiator and the European Union foreign policy chief until July Tuesday for fear of hit squads, the state news agency Ima reported on Wednesday. United
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    • 800 23  -  Simon Tay Otherwise, your new security role can lead to fresh insecurities news@newstoday.com.sg straight talk news*views*analysis Japan must seek a major role in the new structures that are emerging in East Asia and re-emphasise its ties with Asean THE grey clouds in Tokyo now mirror
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    • 345 25 —AFP After Israel's wave of detentions, portraits take the place of MPs RAMALLAH (West Bank) A week after Israel arrested a third of the Palestinian Cabinet and 24 MPs, nearly half the West Bank's lawmakers are in jail. Offices are empty and political life has come to
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 162 25 —AFP Australian Prime Minister John Howard has denied he had made a deal to hand over power to his ambitious Treasurer Peter Costello ahead of elections next year. Long-running speculation over Mr Howard's retirement plans was revived on Wednesday by Mr Costello's refusal to confirm
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      • 61 25 DPA The United States East Coast's answer to Las Vegas was closed for business on Wednesday, as a New Jersey state budget crisis forced all casinos in Atlantic City to close. The state senate's failure to agree on a budget has left state workers without pay,
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  • Voices
    • 659 26  -  HO KONG LOON Legislation needed to ensure nursing home service levels acceptable across the board Letter from THE standard of personalised care in nursing homes can be likened to the daily temperature range in a desert It can pendulum from extreme warmth to sub-zero levels. There
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    • 240 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON B V EMERGENCY ROOM LESSONS Most parents know/the trauma of rushing ouryoung ones off to the local hospital emergency room. We usually encounter crowded waiting rooms and frustrating forms to fill out, and all the while we wonder:, "What's wrong with my child?"
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    • 121 28  -  JANN SIM Letter from MSO, Corporate Communications Competition Commission of Singapore I REFER to Mr Tee Wei De's letter "Fare deal: Anti-competition red flag" (July 5). Price-fixing occurs when firms get together with their competitors to collectively agree on the prices that they charge. Such agreements
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    • 179 28  -  TAMMY TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications SBS Transit Ltd WE REFER to the letter, "Some are punctual and others too early by Mr Lim Kong Hiong (June 30). We have investigated the matter and would like to share the following. Our records show that
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    • 151 28  -  LAM MINH SING Letter from I REFER to David Kwok Ng Kan's letter regarding parking against traffic flow (July 6). Every day I drive through areas such as Peak Seah Street, Club Street and Ann Siang Road in Tanjong Pagar. I have noticed cars parked in the wrong
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    • 69 28 ARMANDO TUAZON: THANK YOU, HONEST CABBIE MY DAUGHTER accidentally left her mobile phone on board a Comfort taxi (SHA *****). The taxi driver found it, scanned the list of contact numbers, and phoned our home. He even delivered the phone to us. We did not even realise our daughter's
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    • 156 30  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from MR JAYARAM Vellu, 62, ("Not a day too old to graduate with a poly diploma", July 5). is to be commended for his determination to obtain a diploma in electronics after 14 years of part-time classes, including at the Institute
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    • 643 30  -  MARCUS YAP WERNCHING Timeshare industry needs regulation urgently Letter from THE timeshare business has been around for some time and, while it's not illegal, it is time its practices are reviewed by the authorities. Timeshare companies usually impose a hefty joining fee (possibly $20,000, or more). Hard-sell
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    • 269 32  -  LIMTHIAMPOH Bikers don't cause road accidents all on their own Letter from OF LATE, there has been discussion of motorcyclists on our roads and how bad riding behaviour has caused accidents. My premise is that if all cars were taken off the roads, motorcycle
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    • 375 32  -  FOONG NGAI KEONG Letter from HAVING returned from abroad recently, I decided to go to a nearby shopping complex. You can imagine my dismay when I saw a barrier had been erected along the centre divider of Boon Lay Way. There are walking paths leading
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    • 223 34  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager Corporate Marketing Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter, "Flagrant disregard of MRT 'no eating' rule" by Mr Nelson Quah (June 26). SMRT places priority on cleanliness in our premises to provide a comfortable
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    • 311 34  -  HAMISH MACKLEY Letter from I WOULD like to add my own experiences to all the handwringing going on about Singapore's poor showing in the Reader's Digest courtesy survey. My wife and I are foreigners who have been living in Singapore for two years and
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    • 154 34  -  GOHSHIHYONG Letter from Assistant Director Corporate Communications For CEO, Agri-Food &Veterinary Authority (AVA) Ministry of National Development I REFER to the letter "Check on toxicity of food additives here" by Mr Lim Boon Hee (July 3). Boric acid is not a permitted food additive in Singapore.
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    • 657 36  -  TANG LI WITH so much being said about sex or the lack of it in Singapore, I've been reminded of my friend Sam. I met him when I was studying in London. Although Sam was considerably less educated, I learnt more from him
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    • 554 38  -  CHRISTIE LOH Govtfinalising guidelines for national programme involving local businesses christie@newstoday.com.sg BY THE end of the year, all companies involved in supply chain activities here will receive a set of guidelines to enhance their operational security, the Government said yesterday. But whether the implementation will hurt
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    • 276 38 VICTOR Tan was not the mastermind of a scheme to cheat handphone maker Nokia, said defence counsel for the exchief executive of Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS). The scheme involved ACCS submitting fictitious claims to Nokia and recording them under the
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    • 68 38 Keppel Corp has won contracts worth $260 million to build an auxiliary icebreaking vessel and a multi-purpose icebreaking supply vessel for Russia's Lukoil. The two vessels will be delivered by the middle of 2008. Singapore-listed commodities trader Noble Group confirmed it was in talks with Fortescue Metals Group to
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      • 384 44 DOW JONES Analysts forecast Q2 growth contracted on lower pharmaceutical output SINGAPORE'S economy may have contracted in the second quarter due to a drop in drugs output and only modest expansion in the electronics sector. A poll of economists forecast gross domestic product (GDP)
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        • 54 44 Mikkei 225 *****.40 -202.54 -1.30 Hang Seng USX *****.99 +173.01 5120.30 +23.40 +1.07 +0.46 FaiwanWtd 6659.07 -0.09 -0.01 &lt;orea Comp 1263.96 -15.09 -1.24 &lt;LCI 920.00 -4.09 -0.53 SET Index 600.96 +0.24 +1.21 Jakarta Comp 1340.02 +1.69 +0.13 Dhils Comp Shenzhen B 2227.05 -34.49 291.63 +2.39 -1.52 +0.02 Vlumbai
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      • 214 44  -  JOYCE CHEN LOCAL Indian businessmen who want to vie for the honour of being the best Indian entrepreneur can now register to take part in an annual business award. Known as the Sicci-DBS Indian Entrepreneur Awards 2006, the event is opened to all ethnic
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      • 345 46 -DOW JONES MELBOURNE Citing its interest in the China market, Australia's Dyno Nobel yesterday confirmed it was in talks to buy a stake in Singapore-listed Fabchem China, but said the discussions were at a "very early
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      • 547 46 BLOOMBERG Apple, Creative remain open to settlement of MP3 suits PICTURES COURTESY OF APPLE Computer and Creative Technology said in court papers they "remain open to the possibility" of ending their litigation battles over handheld MP3 music players. California-based Apple, whose iPod music player controls
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      • 448 48 BLOOMBERG Lay's stunning fall eclipsed his spectacular rise KENNETH Lay was a preacher's son who rose from humble origins to earn wealth and acclaim as head of Enron Corp, then died in disgrace after he was convicted of fraud in the energy
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      • 126 48 BLOOMBERG FRENCH Finance Minister Thierry Breton said that the government backed the decision by Renault directors to hold talks with General Motors Corp about forming an alliance. Directors of Renault, in which the government holds 15-per-cent, voted on Monday to pursue the
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      • 345 50 —AGENCIES Move to stop investors from owning key stakes in more than one lender may affect Temasek BANK Indonesia, the nation's central bank, said it would prevent investors from owning key stakes in more than one commercial lender, a move that may affect investment giants
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      • 143 50 BLOOMBERG INDONESIA'S central bank cut its benchmark interest rate for the second time in three months in a bid to revive consumer spending in South-east Asia's largest economy. Bank Indonesia governor Burhanuddin Abdullah yesterday cut the rate used as a reference for bill sales
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    • 511 52  -  Zul Othman zul@newstoday.com.sg For thousands of Japanese comic fans, passion is whatyou wear TO SOME people, late adolescents and young adults dressing up as cartoon characters might smack of immaturity, low-self esteem or outright self-delusion. Event promoter Stephanie Loh begs to differ. For seven years, Loh has
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    • 141 56 -AFP PARIS Actor Vince Vaughn (picture, left) proposed to Jennifer Aniston, his costar in the movie The Break-Up, during their recent trip to Paris to promote the movie, according to reports. Aniston, the 37-year-old ex-wife of heartthrob Brad Pitt, said yes after
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        211 60  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by RAW and slowing to a plodding pace at times, The Unforgiven nonetheless packs such a wallop of a message that it may be one of the best indie films of the year. Sco Jang-won is fresh military recruit Seung-young, a quiet Yonsei University graduate
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      • 276 60  -  Jeanine Tan Aishwarya shines but Mistress misses mark FILMREVIEW by I Mistress of Spices DESPITE the promise of its title, Mistress of Spices is a palatable but bland film. The film is Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai's second Western vehicle after the disappointing Bride and Prejudice. Unfortunately, the
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      • 179 60  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by GIVE the man a motorcycle, and he'll give you a top-notch story. That man is Anthony Hopkins and the story is the biography of legendary motorcycle racer Burt Munro, a New Zealander who set the landspeed record at age 67. Helmed by
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      • 122 68 DPA THE HAGUE An exhibition entitled A Summer full of Rembrandt has opened at the Mauritshuis museum inThe Hague. Some of Rembrandt's works have been restored especially for this exhibition which runs until Sept 18. Works on exhibit include Simeon's Song of Praise, in which Rembrandt
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      536 70  -  CUBBY LEONG SRU chief delighted as SSC reinstate full funding cubby@newstoday.com.sg AFTER a turbulent year, the Singapore Rugby Union (SRU) roller-coaster ride is officially back on the rails. The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) said in a press statement yesterday that full funding has been reinstated for the embattled
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    • 221 70 —AGENCIES LONDON Justine HeninHardenne (picture) continued her mastery over Kirn Clijsters, beating her fellow Belgian in straight sets yesterday to reach her first Wimbledon tennis final in five years. Henin-Hardenne's 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) victory on Centre Court was her fifth in a row over
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    • 706 71  -  CUBBY LEONG Coach Steinbrunner refuses to throw in the towel until it's mathematically impossible NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Albirex Niigata v Woodlands Wellington cubby@newstoday.com.sg BIG things were touted for Woodlands Wellington at the start of the season. A third-place finish last season, just seven points
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      111 73 The Beautiful Game needs a knowledgeable voice, so why haven't the likes of former international Fandi Ahmad and national coach Radojko Avramovic been given the chance to offer expert opinion on television during the World Cup, asks Anthony Tan. Here is the Letter of the Week, along
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    • 325 73  -  ANTHONYTAN Letter from I REFER to Mesh Will's letter "World class commentary, free World Cup viewing, all Down Under" (June 30). I could not agree more with his views on the World Cup package, which is the most impersonal, dry package of sports broadcasting ever
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    • 397 73  -  LIEWKAIKHIUN Letter from London, England UNLIKE Neil Humphreys' "Don't cry for me, England" (July 3), my problem with England's performance at the World Cup 2006 is not with the players on the field but their fans. Before I came to London, I counted myself as
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    • 215 73  -  KEITH LIM Letter from IN HIS article "Don't cry for me, England" (July 3), Neil Humphreys wrote that England's first team players are so good they could stroll into the Portugal team. Is that really true? If it is, why did the English
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    • 101 73  -  GEOFFREYUM Letter from I AM disappointed with the standard of refereeing in the World Cup. A number of good teams are out of the tournament due to errors by the men in black. They have made wrong offside calls, dubious penalty decisions and erroneous-
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    • 1103 74  -  LEONARD THOMAS Sports Editor in germany with leonard@newstoday.com.sg SEMI-FINALS Portugal 0 France 1 veterans of similar ilk, Claude Makelele at 33, Lilian Thuram at 34 and 35-year-old Fabien Barthez all roundly criticised for refusing to exit the stage, for obstinately remaining in the spotlight
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    • 610 76 —AGENCIES THE 'KID' Peerless defender continues to defy age, logic and the critics MUNICH The guy had been told he was over the hill, but he refused to listen. His legs are supposed to be slowing down, but they won't play the ageing game. He was pinpointed as
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    • 423 76 —AGENCIES THE COACH MUNICH Not since Elvis Presley quit the cheap film sets that had become his life, exchanged a Hawaiian shirt for black leather and began singing Suspicious Minds, has there been a comeback quite like it Raymond Domenech has redeemed France and salvaged
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    • 603 77 —AGENCIES NEARLYMAN I Disappointed Figo gave everything, but it still wasn't enough MUNICH After the match, the two former Galacticos embraced warmly, exchanging shirts before leaving the pitch in different directions. Zinedine Zidane walked away to prepare for a date with destiny in Berlin. Luis Figo, on
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    • 394 77 -AP NEARLYMAN II MUNICH Pauleta (picture) is Portugal's all-time leading scorer. He is also proving to be a choker at major tournaments. Portugal paid for the absence of a consistent scorer when they lost to France 1-0 on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in the
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    • 133 78 DPA BERLIN With two matches to go and the average number of goals a low 2.27 per match, Fifa president Joseph Blatter is again encouraging any ideas that will bring more goals to football. "The football isn't that bad but there are too few goals," he said.
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    • 635 78 With all that talent, the match was settled by two dubious decisions SEMI-FINALS Portugal 0 France 1 MUNICH The French players celebrated, the Portuguese were in tears. Ecstasy at one end, heartbreak at the other. And it was thanks to those damn penalties again: One
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    • 248 78 —AP 4th minute: Cristiano Ronaldo plays in Deco, who works space outside the area and shoots. Fabien Barthez' palmed save almost falls to Pauleta, but the striker cannot reach the rebound. 9th mm: Maniche lets fly with a dipping drive that goes narrowly over the bar.
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    • 600 79 —AGENCIES MUNICH Before the semi-final, Luiz Felipe Scolari reminded his team how soldiers held out against Napoleon's French army in 1810 to prevent the capture of Lisbon. But after winning his previous 12 games at the World Cup, it proved to be unlucky 13 for
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