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  • 26 1 TODAY frexf share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday July 12, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY //\=DIACORP share your free newspaper Wednesday July 12, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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  • 497 1 -AGENCIES Seven blasts on trains during evening rush hour MUMBAI A series of strikes at the heart of India's financial capital left it dazed and bleeding last evening. Around 6pm local time, as Mumbai's officeworkers clambered onto the city's vast rail network to make their home, the
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  • 675 1  - GIC gives a peek into its books and the numbers are healthy LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) yesterday gave a clear account of how it has fared with Singapore's reserves over the past 25 years. The answer Fairly well. At the GlC's 25th anniversary dinner last
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    • 31 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 10 voices 16 business 22 growth 26 plus 38 tv radio listings 45 classad 46 sports 48 we set you thinking BjL*^LI temone
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    • 94 1 p* 11 BIDDING WAR BEGINS 49 r II MOMENTS IN TIME 51 .j Wi! ~^> If MOCKINGMATERAZZI52 m': Sfc^ l& Italian says he insulted Zizou, but not his mother HI-DEF A 5Q ,«#?> CAMPION!CLEMENCY? 53 TV will NEiLHun Iireys World Cup win may minimise punishments never be IA!££1!§P M meted
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    • 698 2  -  LEE U-WEN At 50, the institute is brimming with plans for new campus and tie-ups u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE birthday bash is ready and the resolutions are in place. The Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) may be preparing to turn 50, but it feels youthful enough to reinvent
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    • 319 2 AGENCIES SYDNEY On the face of it, it is business as usual but Australia's Prime Minister has made one thing clear: He will step down on his own terms when he is ready, and not because his Treasurer wants his job. A
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    • 808 3  -  SIEWKUMHONG SDP's push for lawsuits against the Govt may not be a viable strategy EVEN as the fate of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) remains in the balance in the ongoing defamation lawsuit against it, it appears to have identified a new strategy to advance
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    • 599 4  -  JOYCE CHEN OCBC, Citibank worked to get fraudulent sites shut down; MAS takes action joyce@newstoday.com.sg TWO banks in Singapore OCBC Bank and Citibank were hit by phishing scams in the past two days, fuelling the urgency for banks here to step up
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    • 250 4 A DOCTOR has been convicted by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) for falsifying a medical certificate (MC). Dr Kevin Ong Shu Shien pleaded guilty on Dec 1, 2004 to falsifying an official document when he was a regular medical officer of HQ Medical Corps and
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      • 78 4 Metal thieves have struck again. Copper pipes, copperwire and equipment worth more than $1,000 were stolen from a van parked in Jelebu Road, reported ChannelNewsAsia. Just a week ago, metal window panes from 100 flats in Block 37 on Circuit Road were stolen, said a Chinese
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      • 70 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A war relic, suspected to be an undetonated bomb, was found at the construction site of a multi-storey car park in Toa Payoh yesterday. The police were called to the scene, as was a bomb disposal unit from the Singapore Armed Forces,
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      • 58 4 -938UVE Instead of a Green Transport Day, this year's 'go green' campaign will run for a week from Aug 20 to Aug 27. The Singapore Environment Council is encouraging more eco-friendly travel options such as cycling, hybrid cars or car pooling Pledge your support
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    • 612 6  -  VALCHUA IR hopeful reveals they have famed architect Frank Gehry on board their Sentosa IR bid DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR va l@newstoday.com.sg WITH just three months to go before the Sentosa integrated resort (IR) bid closes, one hopeful has revealed its first card. Bahamas-based Kerzner International,
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    • 657 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG After 2 rejection letters from MOE, 44-year-old former high-flyer is now a teacher cheekong@newstoday.com.sg IMAGINE having been rejected by the Ministry of Education (MOE) twice in your bid to fulfil your childhood dream of becoming a teacher. And 17 years on, you
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    • 178 8 Like Mrs Wong, who was among the 1,882 teachers who would be graduating from the (NIE) in a three-day ceremony which started yesterday, many professionals here are making a midcareer switch to teaching. The number of those above 40 years old who
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    • 25 6 THINKING OF I iIEW 9VBUE 9llvE9i Checkout the weather first CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S WIFE QUESTIONED Wu Shu-chen interviewed for about 3 hours about graft scandal <n
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  • world news
    • 332 10 —AFP WuShu-chen questioned for about 3 hours, say prosecutors TAIPEI Taiwanese prosecutors investigating scandals involving the family of President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday that they had questioned his wife. "President Chen Shuibian's wife, Wu Shu-chen, was questioned as a witness for about three hours
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    • 257 10 KUALA LUMPUR —Indonesian airport authorities last week seized a cargo of 36 of the world's largest coral reef fish, which were destined for Hong Kong, at the Manado airport It was the third seizure of the endangered Humphead wrasse (picture), also known as Napolean wrasse,
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    • 137 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will draft a new index in an attempt to measure corruption and crack down on it, a minister said yesterday. "We will also look at the existing index being used at the international level," Minister in the Prime Minister's Department,
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      • 86 10 BRITAIN'S NAT'L PASTIME? WAIT FOR IT -AFP Britons, famous the world over for queuing, waste four days each year waiting in line, according to a recent study. Far from being polite, more than 40 per cent admit to having lost their cool. The airport check-in queue was cited as the
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      • 50 10 -AFP Using perfumes to draw better customers and investing savings properly are some of the tips for prostitutes contained in a link on the Brazilian Labour Ministry's website. The ministry shut down the link immediately after being approached for an explanation by the Estado newspaper.
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    • 420 11 —AFP N Korea asks South to join hands to cope with'calamity from outside' TOKYO As China returned to centrestage in diplomatic efforts to deal with the North Korean missile crisis, United States and Japanese satellites detected discernible activity in North Korea that pointed to preparations for
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      • 72 11 -AFP Malaysia may buy raw sugar from China in the face of shortages in a number of states which have been blamed on smuggling and hoarding by wholesalers, reports have said. Several Malaysian states, including Selangor and the Federal Territories, where the capital
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      • 74 11 -AFP Malaysian police said yesterday that they had busted a major international drug syndicate, and seized amphetamines worth nearly US$4 million ($6.3 million) that were bound for Australia, Japan and Hong Kong. Police said 21 people, including one from Hong Kong, were arrested in a series
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      • 75 11 -AP Indian movie star Amitabh Bachchan is to receive an honorary doctorate of arts next week from a British university for his contribution to Indian cinema. The degree from De Montfort University in Leicestershire is Bachchan's second he was awarded an honorary Ph.D
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    • 333 13 -AGENCIES Army will intensify operation if necessary JERUSALEM The Israeli government has decided to continue and, if necessary, intensify the army offensive in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military radio reported even as Israel battered the Gaza Strip with fresh air strikes yesterday. The army has
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 73 13 -AFP Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will hold an election on Sept 20 to decide its next president and successor to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, a 51-year-old conservative from an elite political family, is considered his
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      • 50 13 -AFP Britain's Hindus do not want to be described as "Asians". Instead, 80 per cent of the 800 participants in a survey prefer to be called British Indian or British Hindus, rather than be identified with others with ties to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.-
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      • 77 13 -AFP About 1,400 letters written by Albert Einstein to his two wives and his children have been made public, suggesting the genius was often more interested in women than his relativity theory. The letters reveal he openly discussed with his second wife Elsa and
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    • 239 13 AFP PARIS The Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda on Monday put on the Internet a video showing the mutilated bodies of two American soldiers kidnapped in June and executed to "avenge" an Iraqi woman raped near Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad. "Here is
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    • 657 14  -  SIDASTBURY -DPA And that's impaired the Aussie Treasurer's chances of succeeding Howard TREASURER Peter Costello has split asunder the most successful partnership in Australian political history and in doing so damaged his chances of succeeding Prime Minister John Howard as leader of the ruling Liberal Party.
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    • 304 15 -AGENCIES NEW YORK A four-storey building on Manhattan's Upper East Side collapsed into rubble on Monday after a thunderous explosion hurled fireballs skyward and left an upscale block littered with bricks, broken glass and splintered wood. Authorities said they were probing whether
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    • 188 15 -AFP MOSCOW Chechen fighters will continue their "jihad" against Russian forces following the death of rebel warlord Shamil Basayev in an explosion, a spokesman for the separatist movement said yesterday. "A new generation of Muslims who will never give up on their
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    • 180 15 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's Parliament yesterday passed a draft law granting tsunami-battered Aceh wide-ranging autonomy as part of a peace deal signed last year with separatist rebels, a lawmaker said. The law clears the way for local elections to be held in the staunchly Muslim province, where
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    • 487 16  -  HO KONG LOON I WAS a marker for the PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination) English Composition scripts for almost 40 years. I highlight one particular incident to illustrate the critical and responsible role of an examination script marker. A teacher had just marked a
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    • 235 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY CREATIVE WAYS TO DATE YOUR SPOUSE Are you tired of that same old dinner and a movie? Are you sick of watching mindless television, or yet another boring soccer game? Maybe it's time to come up with some creative ways to date
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    • 303 18  -  LIMTHIAMPOH Prompt calls to the police to report bullying incidents more feasible than confrontation Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Citizens against bullies, unite!" (July 8) by Andrew Teo. I admire his idealism to turn Singaporeans into citizenry police. But I doubt whether Singaporeans will
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    • 247 18  -  ALOYSIUSANG Letter from STUDENTS and National Service personnel have been granted concessionary privileges through their respective personalised ez-link cards. Such concessionary privileges include options to purchase one of the three types of monthly concession passes (Bus/Train/Hybrid) to be encoded on the ez-link
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    • 226 20  -  TAN HONG BOON Letter from I REFER to the News Comment "Next superstar, India: Myth or fact?" (July 10). Regardless of whether it is a fact or myth, what caught my eye were the pictures of children smiling though malnourished and
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    • 666 20  -  ZAFARANJUM FOR the last 10 years, New Delhi had been my home until I left for Singapore two years ago. My friends, who visited New Delhi recently brought me amazing news about the city. Delhi is transformed, they say. It has developed like
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    • 199 21  -  SRAVANA KUMAR NELLORE Letter from I REFER to the News Comment, "Next superstar, India: Myth or Fact?" (July 10). I would like to take my life as an example of India's tremendous growth, just comparing the lifestyles of my grandfather, father and me. There was
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    • 207 21 MIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA Ist July Legislative Changes Permanent residency awaits those who are currently under 45 years old, have functional English and who possess the following skills: Accountant Chef Cook Pastry Cook Chemical Civil Engineer Fitter Machinist Computing Professional General Electrician Doctor Specialist Hairdresser Pharmacist Lift Mechanic Registered Nurse and
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    • 73 21 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES On each side of the gender divide They're exact opposites of each other He roams, she homes He quests, she nests mmm |V|USES He strays, she stays But biology still brings them together! Singapore is the darling In capitalisms embrace Maybe it's time to go for Less
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    • 503 22 BLOOMBERG Itwill also increase its investments in hedge funds and commodities THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), which manages more than US$lOO billion ($l5B billion) of the country's reserves, said that it would invest more funds in emerging markets including China, India, South Korea
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    • 202 22 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) said yesterday that its third-quarter profit rose 81 per cent, boosted by the revaluation of The Paragon mall that it owns. SPH's net profit for the three months ended May 31 rose to $174.6 million, or 11 cents
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    • 83 22  -  CHOW PENN NEE SEMBCORP Industries yesterday said that the compensation and related legal costs of 350 million euros ($704 million) that it incurred in relation to the Solitaire arbitration will be recognised by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore as trade losses. These
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    • 206 23 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE-based Internet telephony services provider Mediaßing received only 29-per-cent acceptance for shares of Pacific Internet (PacNet), failing in a planned US$l26-mil-lion ($199-million) takeover of the online service provider. Mediaßing's offer "lapsed" as it did not receive the minimum 50 per cent required
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      • 153 23 DOWJONES SHARE prices ended down, led by losses in the United States and regional markets as investors were cautious ahead of mid-year earnings reports. The ST Index fell 22.54 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 2,415.9 points. Losers led gainers 381 to 182 as 1.03 billion shares worth 841.9
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      • 36 23 US$ 0.6347 UK£ 0.3448 Yen 72.568 HK$ 4.9326 RM 2.3119 Euro 0.4986 Rupiah 5744.1 Baht 24.023 Peso 33.099 A$ 0.8507 Indian Rs 29.288 Won 597.89 C$ 0.7136 Yuan 5.0712 NZ$ 1.0399 NT$ 20.526
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      • 23 23 Bloomberg SGX, B Information provided by: Ml uss/oz 626.10 a«rus$/oz 11.11 PMhii uss/oz 1,230.70 RllblW cents/kg 414.50 PlhliRM/tonnt/443.00 Brut out iisx/i,.- 72.92
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    • business news
      • 270 24 -BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE investment giant Temasek Holdings and private equity groups may bid for the long-term lease of Chicago's Midway Airport, the Financial Times (FT) reported in its Asian edition yesterday. Australia's Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Spain's Cintra may also be bidding
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      • 444 24 -AGENCIES Shares gain 2.7%, second most active stock SINGAPORE-listed Pacific Century Regional Developments (PCRD) said yesterday that it would make a gain of $1.9 billion from the sale of its 22.7-per-cent stake in PCCW, Hong Kong's biggest telephone company. Shares of
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    • growth the business of enterprise
      • 671 26  -  JOYCE CHEN joyce@newstoday.com.sg MORE Singapore businesses are seeing potential investment opportunities in Laos and Cambodia, as the governments of the two countries foster a climate that is being termed as a "rare sustained period of sociopolitical peace". Once chaotic places shunned by foreign investors,
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      • 444 27  -  LEECHINGWERN Singapore International Foundation is looking for such 'envoys' to China chingwern@newstoday.com.sg YOUNG professionals here hoping to venture into China now have a stepping stone. The Singapore International Foundation (SIF) is looking to appoint four outstanding young individuals as Young Business Ambassadors (YBAs)
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  • 1058 28  -  Tay Joo Thong I infotech@newstoday.com.sg The writer is the chief technology officer of MediaCorp Group and chairman of the HDTV Advisory Group, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. NOW ON THE MEDIACORP TRIAL HDTV CHANNEL 38: CSI Miami 3 Ghost Whisperer Smallville 4 Cold Case 3 Gilmore
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  • 545 30 The dawn of a new television era is here, with the possibility of an HDTV commercial launch next year by MediaCorp and Star Hub. And what's the first Singaporean instinct? Shop, of course. Viewers are hitting the retail shops to buy HD-ready flat-panel displays. When colour TV
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  • 376 30 Resolution The screen resolution refers to the number of pixels. 1,366x768 is a common resolution size. It means there are 1,366 pixels horizontally and 768 pixels vertically Screens with higher resolution can display finer images and detect enhanced display signals. A display with a minimum of 720
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  • 224 30 BEFORE YOU BUY AN HDTV Local stores are stocked with a wide range of HD displays, or what they call "HDready" sets. Liquid crystal display (LCD) or plasma sets with 1,920x1,080 resolution will provide the full benefits of HD in terms of colour clarity and fidelity. HD-ready sets larger than
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  • 620 34 The cost of HDTV deployment An important consideration for MediaCorp in rolling out HDTV is the cost to upgrade its present analogue infrastructure. The infrastructure spreads from television studios, post-production and editing facilities, playout equipment, IT equipment, measuring and monitoring facilities to over-the-air transmitters and transmitter
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  • 643 36 Yeo Chun Cheng infotech@newstoday.com.sg Even before the kick-off of this year's I World Cup, there was already one I clear winner HDTV. Watching I what some call The Beautiful Game on I the most technologically advanced screens I has driven up so much interest in HDTV
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    • 1594 38  -  David Chew Playwright Verena Tay on women's creativity, the launch of Singapore's first women's contemporary theatre festival and her idea of a perfect pair of shoes david.chew@newstoday.com.sg PLAYWRIGHT Verena Tay is a force to be reckoned with. Having been involved in the Singapore theatre scene for 20
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      • 117 40 Ever dreamt of being a superstar trailed by your own entourage? HBO Asia is on the prowl for a hot hunk to be a posse-surrounded star a la Vincent Chase on the channel's upcoming production. Entourage. The winner will appear on HBO channels across Asia and
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      • 72 40 If you are one half of a set of twins, head down to Eng Wah Cinemas at Suntec City on Saturday at 3pm for a free movie treat. The Singapore Twin project invites you and your twin to a free screening of Pirates of the Caribbean:
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      • 49 40 The Asian Film Archive is calling for submissions of medium-length films (between 30 and 70 minutes) for the 6th Asian Film Symposium in September. Selected films will be presented during this annual symposium for Asian independent filmmakers, movies audiences, and their peers. The deadline is July 31.
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    • 463 40  -  Zul Othman Coldplay wows 10,000-strong crowd with visual and sound spectacular CONCERTREVIEW by I Coldplay: Twisted Logic Tour SO, DID the year's most talkedabout gig at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Monday night live up to the hype? About 10,000 screaming fans certainly thought so.
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    • 412 42  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Juliana r@newstoday.com.sg WHILE the judges may have panned the skating costume he designed for Olympic silver medallist Sasha Cohen, Emmett McCarthy revealed he's received 6,000 email messages of support "People thought my design was, at the very
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    • 582 43  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Season One's Taufik and Olinda on how to come out tops in the singing competition Julia nar@newstoday.com.sg AS THE top 12 take the stage tonight for their chance at enshrinement in the Singapore Idol hall of fame (or shame), Today asks Season
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      • 429 44  -  JEANINETAN Film looks at never-say-die Murderball c o m p etito rs jea nine@newstoday.com.sg THEY'RE mad, they're bad and they play rugby on modified Mad Max-style wheelchairs built for violent contact Say hello to the American national quad rugby team, a group of quadriplegic men
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      • 114 44 AFP LONDON Vinnie Jones is to make his West End debut in a Stephen Sondheim musical, the footballer-turned-actor revealed yesterday. The 41-year-old former Wales captain is to tread the boards at London's Royal Albert Hall in two special performances of Into The Woods. "A
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  • sports
    • 220 48 —AFP PARIS Pedro de la Rosa will replace Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya (picture) at the McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 team, it was announced yesterday. The Spaniard will compete for McLaren for the first time as a first choice driver at this Sunday's French
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    • 153 48 SINGAPORE sailing has enjoyed a bumper crop of titles in the last week and Scan Lee added another yesterday. The 15-year-old Singapore Sports School student claimed the 2006 Optimist North American Championships title in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), ahead of
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    • 435 48  -  CUBBYLEONG Spanish giants intend to visit region after sealing Tiger Beer deal cubby@newstoday.com.sg BARCELONA are likely to make an appearance in this part of the world next year. The Champions League holders are expected to make two trips to South-east Asia in the next 12 months.
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    • 273 48  -  CUBBYLEONG RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2006 QUARTER-FINAL SECOND LEG Tampines Rovers 4 SAFFC 2 (5-3 on aggregate) TAMPINES Rovers came back from 2-0 down to beat SAFFC 4-2 for a 5-3 aggregate victory overall, earning a semi-final place in the RHB Singapore Cup last night After the
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    • 467 49 -AGENCIES Real in the market for at least two World Cup stars LONDON The World Cup is over, the bidding war has started and Real Madrid are leading the charge. With former Juventus manager Fabio Capello now at the helm at Real, the fallen Spanish giants have
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    • WHO'S UP FOR SALE
      • 62 49 Nistelrooy THE striker didn't have a great World Cup, with Marco van Basten appearing to agree with Alex Ferguson that his best position was on the bench. But his services remain in demand, with German champions Bayern Munich confirming they want to sign him and Real's
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      • 68 49 NOW a despised figure in England after his role in getting Wayne Rooney sent off during the England-Portugal quarter-final, Ronaldo can't wait to leave Old Trafford. His choice is Real Madrid, but they no longer seem keen. But the temperamental Portugal winger has reportedly claimed he will
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      • 40 49 SEEKING to replace Roberto Carlos, Real Madrid will offer Manchester United £10 million ($29 million) for full-back Heinze and double his £40,000 weekly pay. The Son said. The 28-year-old Argentina international has made 45 appearances for United.
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      • 93 49 ACCORDING to the Sunday Mirror, Newcastle United'stop transfer target is the German Golden Boot winner. Apparently Klose has a clause in his contract with Werder Bremen that stipulates he can leave if a club are prepared to pay £6 million ($l7 million) for him. Klose's game seems
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      • 53 49 REPORTS have claimed that Chelsea are looking to take advantage of the Spanish international's unhappiness with his Real Madrid contract. The 20-year-old versatile stopper, who cost Real £18 million ($52 million) from Sevilla last year, is thought to be upset he is among the lowest earners in
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      • 59 49 HEADING into the World Cup, the Dutch striker was one of football's hottest properties. In his last three seasons with Feyenoord Rotterdam, Kuyt scored a total of 71 goals. Although he did not really deliver during the Dutch campaign and failed to score, Kuyt, 25, is still
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    • 949 50  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Mediocre World Cup will be remembered for its defensive caution and a vicious head butt final notes from neil@newstoday.com.sg ZINEDINE Zidane turned around, eyeballed Marco Materazzi and launched himself like a belligerent bull. The Italian defender went down theatrically and the world rose as
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    • 1005 51  -  LEONG WEE KEAT THERE was plenty that was good, but very little that was great. No outstanding creative players, no dominant stars or teams and few matches that will live on in the memory. Italy lifted the World Cup and deservedly so, but the tournament in
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    • 518 52 -AGENCIES Italian admits he mocked Zizou, who faces Fifa probe ROME The biggest mystery of the World Cup Final was partially solved yesterday. Italy defender Marco Materazzi confirmed what the Italian lip readers already knew by admitting that he "insulted" Zinedine Zidane just before the French captain
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    • 259 52 -AGENCIES ROME The spectre of racism continues to loom large over Italy's World Cup celebrations. Yesterday, France sent a formal protest to the Italian media following a right-wing senator's racist comments that the defeated French team were made up of "Blacks, Muslims and communists".
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    • 267 52 -AFP PARIS France football coach Raymond Domenech has been given a new contract in charge of the team he took to within a penalty shoot-out of World Cup glory. "The federation board have unanimously agreed to propose to Raymond Domenech that he continue as coach,"
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    • 388 53 -AFP One million Italians hail their victorious gladiators ROME An entire nation came to a standstill yesterday (Singapore time) and there will be some sore heads this morning. Rome's mayor, Walter Veltroni, estimated that one million people turned out to welcome home the conquering heroes as the team
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    • 340 53 -AGENCIES ROME After Italy threw a lavish welcome to honour its heroes, calls were made for the four top clubs caught up in a match-fixing scandal to be treated leniently. The verdict of a sports tribunal investigating the murky affair had been expected on
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