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  • 13 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Friday July 28, 2006 todayonline.com
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  • 409 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg ECHOING United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan's call for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong expressed grave concern and sadness at the situation in Lebanon. "Singapore urges all sides to exercise restraint and avoid the excessive use
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  • 687 1  -  JASMINE YIN Government invites potential investors to submit ideas for Marina Bay waterfront sites jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg IT LOOKS like more "Work in Progress" signs will have to be put up in Marina Bay already bustling with construction activities as the Government is keen to release another
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    • 63 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 12 voices 22 business 34 plus 46 tv radio listings 58 classad 60 homestoday 61 sports 63 we set you thinking INMEMORIUM Passionate chef dished outfoodforthesoul 22 VALLEY OFTHE DOLLS Is your girlfriend hot like the Pussycat Dolls? 46 STEFAN, 16, SOARS
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  • hot news
    • 470 2  -  LEE U-WEN Greater Marina Bay area to be transformed into a 'thriving lifestyle destination' u-wen@newstoday.com.sg JUST imagine running against a backdrop of the city skyline on a scenic route overlooking the serene Marina Bay waterfront. Or how about renting a dragonboat and challenging your friends to
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    • 327 3 -AGENCIES ZURICH In a stunning announcement yesterday, Phonak said their team leader Floyd Landis (pictured), the newly-crowned Tour de France winner, tested positive for drugs. He could be stripped of his title. The American, who claimed victory at cycling's greatest event on Sunday, has tested positive for
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  • Singapore news
    • 810 4  -  CHARLES TAN Politicians, lawmakers must rethink purpose of prison system and policies EVEN as more countries are building bigger prisons, social scientists and criminologists are urging politicians and lawmakers to rethink failed policies and to downsize jails. They have argued that prison growth does not
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    • 589 6  -  TORCHING LI Universal Studios' proposed Sentosa theme park will eclipse its Los Angeles one: CEO chingli@newstoday.com.sg A UNIVERSAL Studios theme park "significantly larger" than the one in Hollywood, Los Angeles may find its way to Singapore, if Genting International bags the Sentosa integrated resort (IR) site. Expect also
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
      • 155 6 93BLIVE Repeat cat abuser David Hooi, 42, has been diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder, for which effective treatment is limited, according to a psychiatric report by the Institute of Mental Health. In the Community Court yesterday. District Judge Bala Reddy asked for the report
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      • 107 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Environmental officers found a new breeding site for aedes mosquitoes at Jalan Kelemong near Old Tampines Road on Wednesday. They cleaned out drains and trimmed overgrown grass after a dengue case was reported. Residents attribute the problem to an iron-fence in the drain, which
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    • 383 6  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@newstoday.com.sg FANS of Neil Humphreys (picture) can now heave a sigh of relief. The 31-year-old humour writer may be relocating to Australia next month but his laugh-inducing columns will continue to appear in Weekend Today. So said Today Associate Editor S
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    • 455 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Embryonic stem cells created for clinical human use SINGAPORE-basedbiotech company, ES Cell International (ESI), has become the first in the world to create human embryonic stem cells designed for clinical use. This could speed up international stem cell research, which holds
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    • 327 8  -  SHERALYNTAY shera lyn@newstoday.com. sg NO BIRTHS of HIV-infected babies have been reported since the screening of moth-ers-to-be for the virus was introduced, said Prof X Satku, director of medical services for the Ministry of Health. Speaking at the 14th Asean Task Force on Aids
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    • 346 8 —AGENCIES PARENTS are now more open to the idea of banking their children's cord blood at birth. Private cord blood bank Stem Cord noted an overwhelming response to its roadshow last weekend, where nearly 700 parents signed up for the service. When the company was
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    • 186 8 -938 LIVE FOR the second time this year, the Ministry of Health (MOH) will recognise more doctors from foreign medical schools. Doctors from two top medical schools in Israel and Spain along with selected schools in Japan, South Korea, India, the United
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    • 224 10 -938 LIVE MAKE literature a non-examinable subject in primary schools that's the call from some teachers following the introduction of a programme in primary schools to encourage children to enjoy reading. By making use of children's literature that is specially chosen to match each child's
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    • 423 10  -  TOR CHING LI Ministry helps unfairly-dismissed pregnant women get compensation chingli@newstoday.com.sg PREGNANT women who are unfairly sacked even before their sixth month of pregnancy after which it becomes illegal for an employer to do so can seek recourse from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).
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    • 153 10 938 LIVE EFFORTS to enhance the teaching and learning of the Tamil language among students have picked up speed. A new curriculum will be implemented at the Primary 1 to 4 levels in 2008. Ahead of the curriculum revamp, a 26-member working committee appointed by the
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  • world news
    • 259 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA KUALA LUMPUR Russia and the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) are celebrating 10 years of cooperation with a commemorative magazine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Kuala Lumpur to join his Asean counterparts at their annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Over
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 84 12 -AFP Indonesia s transport safety commission is investigating the sudden death of a commercial airline pilot who collapsed just before he was due to fly an international flight, an official said yesterday. The Garuda pilot, whose age was not given, was conducting pre-flight checks on
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      • 77 12 -AFP China urged Britain yesterday to refrain from making "random comments" on Hong Kong, suggesting that little democratic progress was being made in the former British colony. The remark was in response to the British government's release on Tuesday of a six-monthly report. A
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      • 66 12 AFP Japan decided yesterday to resume imports of United States beef after a seven-month ban over mad cow disease, ending a long rift between the allies, Jiji Press reported. The ministries were expected to announce a resumption of imports from all but one of the
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      • 100 12 India will send a special envoy to meet Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on its interest to have a free trade agreement with the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), which has suspended the free trade talks with New Delhi, Bernama reported. Indian Minister of
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    • 660 12  -  SHARON VASOO SHARON VASOO Asean to pressure US Secretary of State on Middle East IN KUALA LUMPUR DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR sha ron@newstoday.com.sg YESTERDAY, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived here for Asian security talks but protesters made it clear that they
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    • 452 14  -  CLEMENT MESENAS EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@newstoday.com.sg POISED, articulate and possessed of a clarity of vision, United Nations Under-Secretary-Gen-eral Shashi Tharoor looks every inch the man who could take over from Mr Kofi Annan when the UN chief steps down at the end
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    • 578 14  -  SHARON VASOO Don't pack up and leave, he urges international peace-keepers in Timor Leste IN KUALA LUMPUR DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR sha ron@newstoday.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR Over the past four days, Timor Leste's Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has been spending a lot of time waiting waiting for
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    • 262 14 -AP WASHINGTON GlaxoSmithKline has developed a bird flu vaccine that may be more effective and plentiful than anything invented so far, the company and vaccine experts say. The company's technology addresses two of the many concerns about preparations for a possible
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    • this quirkq world
      • 60 14 -AFP Sorbets flavoured with mackerel, beef blood and fruit were handed out to animals in a safari park near Paris on Wednesday during searingly high temperatures of 36 degrees around the French capital. Bears were treated to the mackerel refreshments, while the big cats
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      • 51 14 Americans are growing so large that patients are increasingly too big to fit into X-ray scanners. Their fat is also too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, according to a report in next month's issue of Radiology magazine. The Daily Telegraph
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      • 58 14 WHEN A SAINT BERNARD WAS THROWN OUT A man suffered bruises after a 50kg Saint Bernard was thrown from a first-floor window and landed on him as he walked down a street. The Daily Telegraph reported. Oskar escaped with a few scratches. It had been shoved out by its drunken
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    • 264 16 -AFP BEIRUT For Mr Ahmed Khalil Ali, a 58-year-old Lebanese taxi driver, Israel has long cast a dark shadow over his life. In 1974, an Israeli attack killed two of his friends and crippled one of his arms. Now, an Israeli missile has left
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    • 492 16 -AGENCIES Israel loses nine soldiers in biggest one-day toll as fighting continues BEIRUT Fighting in Lebanon showed little sign of abating yesterday after Israel lost nine soldiers in its biggest one-day toll so far, with world powers still at odds over a conflict now
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    • 860 18  -  EMANUELSHAHAF As Mideast crisis continues, more players may get drawn in IN JERUSALEM EYES wide shut- this is how one of Israel's elder statesmen, former Minister of Education Yossi Sarid, characterised the current state of mind of the Israeli government. In an interview
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    • 213 20 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Thailand and Australia dismissed concerns yesterday that violence-stricken southern Thailand might become a breeding ground for regional terrorists, saying Muslim insurgents there have shown little desire to tie up with foreign militant networks. "As far as the situation in the southern
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    • 403 20 -AGENCIES Pact's backers see it paving way for new strategic alliance WASHINGTON The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday cleared a controversial US-India civilian nuclear energy deal, which supporters said will be the cornerstone of a new strategic alliance between the two countries.
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 68 20 -AFP Smoke from ground and forest fires on the island of Sumatra blanketed the city of Pekanbaru yesterday, reducing visibility. The latest report on the fires released by the Indonesian Space and Aviation Agency showed that a total of 28 hotspots were detected in
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      • 63 20 -AFP Thailand said a warning for Thai travellers to cancel or postpone trips to France was a "technical slip-up". The government meant to urge travellers to exercise caution after its diplomats suffered a number of violent robberies around Paris, the foreign ministry said, assuring Thais
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      • 68 20 -AFP Two Afghan teenagers trekked from Afghanistan to try and meet Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, but were jailed after crossing into India through Pakistan for not having proper immigration papers. The boys, from a village outside Kabul walked for 18 days
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  • Voices
    • 1035 22  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg BORN on Teachers' Day some 54 years ago, Mr Toh Thian Ser a pioneering chef and doyen of the cooking fraternity succumbed to colon cancer last week, leaving this world as a man fondly remembered as a generous and inspirational
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    • 230 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE THE RETURN HOME Recently I heard an incredible story of the perseverance of the Pacific Salmon from a nature video produced by the Moody Institute of Science. A stalwart salmon was spawned in a hatchery in northern California, released into a
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    • 385 24  -  LIM KIM LARK WHAT does it take for a child to like his teacher? If you ask my Primary 6 son, not much. One Saturday, after Michael had done some homework, I told him to take a break. While resting, I
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    • 329 24  -  SEETKINGHWEE HOW many teachers leave an impression on us? I would expect the percentage to decline over time for the pre-1965, post--1965 and post-1987 age groups. Why is this so? Teachers today are burdened with so many tasks. They are "grounded", so to speak, by ministry
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    • 391 26  -  MURALI SHARMA Window-blocking ads, seat space and air-con issues need to be addressed Letter from IT IS good to see the Public Transport Council (PTC) moving to improve service standards in the industry. A good public transport system should be regarded as part of
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    • 475 26  -  LIEWKAIKHIUN Letter from IN LONDON I ONCE asked my Filipino friend who was a tutor at a local university how he addressed his Singaporean students' grouses about their country. His solution: Send them to the Philippines and they will see the cruel reality of
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    • 119 26  -  PHILLIPANGKENGHONG Letter from PUBLIC announcements (PA) by MRT drivers and station personnel need to be improved. In any emergency, it is important that announcements be clear so that passengers are able to follow instructions. As a regular commuter, very often one hears garbled
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    • 176 28  -  EDWIN YEO TEE YEOK Benefits of move not really clear to citizens Letter from I REFER to the report, "Asean to accelerate integration: George Yeo" (July 26). In the plan to speed up the integration of the Association of South-east Asian Nations, the Singapore
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    • 140 28  -  TAMMY TAN Letter from Group Corporate Communications Officer ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited I REFER to the letter, "How did cabby get passenger's details?" by Mr Abdul Islam (July 26). We wish to clarify that personal information of our commuters are held in the strictest confidence. Similarly, the
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    • 98 28  -  SONG BEEHENG Letter from IT IS understandable for cab drivers to go into hiding since they benefit from callbooking charges and peak-hour surcharges. I propose that there should be no additional surcharges when call charges are applied. All surcharges, whether during the morning or afternoon peak
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    • 1906 29  -  LYNETTE KOH -LYNETTEKOH PUB and Shangri-La Hotel are just some of the companies which know the benefits of supporting National Service That's why these four companies are such strong advocates of Total Defence lynette@newstoday.com.sg The PUB, our national water agency, seems
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    • 600 30 His long working hours has not deterred Staff Sergeant (SSG) Ikram Bin Daeng, a cameraman, from fulfilling his duties as an operationally-ready NSman. SSG Ikram, who is the Regimental Sergeant Major of his unit, makes it a point not to miss any in-camp training
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    • 849 32 Minister for Defence Award (MDA) City Developments Limited Mazda Motor (S) Pte Ltd National University of Singapore Neptune Orient Lines Ltd Peck Tiong Choon (Pte) Ltd Rayco Technologies Sembawang Kimtrans Ltd Shangri-La Hotel Singapore ST Airport Services Pte Ltd Tian
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      49 33 BAILA! To celebrate Tan Jock Seng Hospital's 162 nd Founder's Day, a dance extravaganza was held at its atrium. Competition winning dancers from Germany, the Philippines, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore entertained staff and patients. The event was sponsored by Koprtiam Investments Pie Ltd. Photo by Ooi Boon Keong.
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    • 234 33  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I AM unmoved by the controversy and public indignation against online scalpers who tout exorbitant prices for National Day Parade tickets. We have become such practical, mercenary monsters that hardly anything is sacred anymore. Money talks. Everything can be bought at the
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    • 274 33  -  WONG SENG KAI Letter from ALLOW me to share my two cents on happiness or the lack thereof in Singapore. I am reminded of a motivational story about two shoe salesmen who went to Africa to do a market survey. The first salesman
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 59 33  - ITS LEGAL TENDER TOO FREDA CHIANG YIN Recently I patronised a Mobil gas station along Tanglin Road. I tried using onecent coins for the five cents in my bill, but was told by the cashier that these are not accepted by Mobil. Is the onecent coin no longer legal tender?
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      • 77 33  -  PAUL ANTONY FERNANDEZ: Come Aug 9, our nation will celebrate its 41st year of independence. May I suggest that a tribute be made to our founding fathers, by way of a book, and also respect accorded them during the National Day Parade. Most of the men
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 121 28 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES Oh, don't we love the howler From the misspelling and mistake Which students in the exam hall We can always count on to make. One student of agriculture wrote 'Even in the deepest of chasms The soil is extremely fertile When it's full of tiny orgasms' 'Artificial
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  • Businesstoday
    • 474 34  -  CHRISTIE LOH Retrenchments mostly in Spore as chip tester and packager warns of a pause in growth christie@newstoday.com.sg AS A pause in growth looms on the horizon for Stats ChipPac, the world's third-largest semiconductor packaging and testing group said yesterday that it would lay off
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    • 304 34 —AGENCIES, 938 LIVE OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell,will spend "several billion" US dollars building a petrochemical plant in Singapore to take advantage of rising demand for plastics, led by China. The Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex, wholly owned by Shell, will produce 800,000
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    • 124 34 DOW JONES CONGLOMERATE Fraser and Neave (F&N) reiterated yesterday its intention of keeping its unit Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) listed, despite recently raising its direct stake in the brewer. Speculation that its major shareholders F&N and Heineken would take
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    • 307 34 -AGENCIES SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX), South-east Asia's largest bourse by market volumes, said fourthquarter net profit nearly doubled as securities and derivatives trading revenue surged. SGX's net profit for the three months ended June 30 was $55.1 million, or 5.19 cents per share, up from $28
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    • business news
      • 183 38 BLOOMBERG KEPPEL Corp, the world's largest maker of shallow-water oil rigs, said that second-quar-ter profit rose 45 per cent, boosted by its offshore and marine division, and higher home sales at its property unit The company said that profit rose to $195.7 million,
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      • 174 38 THE Commercial Affairs Department is accusing Sesdaq-listed education service provider Auston International Group of deceiving the investing public during its bid to list three years ago. Auston has been charged with two counts under the Securities and Futures Act, it said in a filing with
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      • 490 38 Holders of Mapletree Logistics Trust, a warehouse landlord, will get a payout of 1.19 cents per unit for the second quarter ended June 30, which is higher than the first quarter's 1.11 cents per unit. During the same period, net property income rose 43.4 per cent to about $16.2
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        • 55 38 -DOW JONES SHARE prices gained strongly, with a takeover igniting interest in technology stocks, and the property sector boosted by Keppel Land's strong earnings. The ST Index (STI) closed up 1.6 per cent, or 38.35 points, at 2,444.66 points. Gainers outpaced losers 425 to 171 as 1.18 billion shares
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      • 366 39 -BLOOMBERG CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust, one of Singapore's biggest downtown office landlords, said assets in China and Malaysia would make up 30 per cent of its targeted $6-bil-lion portfolio by 2009. The trust will focus on buildings that have the highest rents in
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      • 201 39 The good news is that neither the extraordinary price of oil northe inching-up of interest rates negatively impacted demand. Mr Giovanni Bisignani, chief executive officer, International Air Transport Association INTERNATIONAL airline passenger traffic climbed 6.7 per cent in the first six months of this year
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      • 150 39 AGENCIES SINGAPORE received 5.3 per cent more visitors last month compared to June a year earlier. However, the June growth was slower than an increase of 7.8 per cent in May, the Singapore Tourism Board said yesterday. Indonesia, China, India,
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      • 221 40  -  CHRISTIE LOH SINGAPORE-listed Dairy Farm International Holdings had a strong report card on all fronts for the last six months. The retailing giant said yesterday that its net profit in the half year ended June 30 hit an all-time high of
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      • 533 40  -  JOYCE CHEN Surge in raw material prices drives expansion joyce@newstoday.com.sg FIRMS involved in manufacturing activities and wholesale trade dominated this year's ranking of the fastest-growing 50 companies in Singapore, accounting for 34 of them or 68 per cent of those on the list.
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      • 355 42  -  LEECH ING WERN SINGAPORE'S first Over-the-Counter (OTC) trading platform is finally ready, with the first company on board to begin trading in two week's time. Announced by the Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Vi Shyan at the
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      • 429 42  -  LEECHINGWERN Industry veteran will now serve as adviser chingwern@newstoday.com. sg IN A shake-up in China-based United Eagle Airlines (UEA) a recent investment of local venture capitalist Dr Finian Tan former Singapore Airlines (SIA) chief executive Cheong Choong Kong (picture) resigned from its board last
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      • 887 44 DOW JONES Fear of litigation may send negotiators back to the table, but re viva I of diplomacy unlikely BRUSSELS A collapse of global trade talks could foment a frenzy of international legal fights as Panama launched a trade dispute with neighbouring Colombia
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    • 646 48  - Here's the story Felix Cheong Writers still call the shots HEADS up if you've already written off the written word in this age of electronic wizardry. Here's news for you: The pen is still mightier than the sword. Look no further than three films currently playing in cinemas here with
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    • 208 48 -AP LONDON There may be lingering doubts about the viability of 00 7's latest alter ego, but regardless of what sort of James Bond Daniel Craig turns out to be, one thing's for sure: The movie's gonna rock. Audioslave frontman and former Soundgarden mastermind
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    • 144 48  -  -EUSACHIA OOPS, did her cheeky comment cost herthe votes of viewers? Singapore Idol contestant Emilee Kang got axed on last night's results show. The 28 year old certainly wasn't the weakest singer on Wednesday's show, but she nonetheless got the boot. Wielding a cane seductively
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    • 476 50  -  JEANINETAN Film-maker Eric Khoo's No Day Off explores maid abuse in Spore I jeanine@newstoday.com.sg OF THE three households featured in No Day Off, Eric Khoo's short film about the experiences of an Indonesian maid named Siti in Singapore, the one where she receives the
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    • 447 50  -  FRENCH actor Romain Duris may be best known to audiences here as the happy-go-lucky Xavier in the international hit The Spanish Apartment and its sequel Russian Dolls, but he made an about-turn to play a complex character in The Beat
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      • 146 52  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by HERE we go again: Another sappy South Korean love story that's so predictable you can probably circle the right answers in the synopsis below without having watched the movie. Pretty boy Min-su (Jo Han-sun) is a casanova who loves them and (leaves them/knifes
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        311 52  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by.... Armed with his last nickel, Bandini visits a cafe and starts a screwball comedy-like repartee with Mexican waitress Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek). One thing leads to another and they fall in love. He gets his fair share of life experience and soon, a
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      • 261 54  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by DESPITE its potentially cheesy premise, The Beat That My Heart Skipped turns out to be a worthy film that is as gritty as it is sensitive. A remake of the little seen Harvey Keitel cult film Fingers (1978), this French
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        322 54  -  Justin Cheong Intriguing premise, but leads don't deliver FILMREVIEW by I The Lake House TO SOME people, the act of writing a letter, sealing it in an envelope and sending it off might seem a quaint method of correspondence. Thus, The Lake House should come across as a
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      • 244 56  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW I I by HONG Kong cinema is back only if by comeback, you mean campy packages like last year's The Promise and A Chinese Tall Story. You can now add Dragon Tiger Gate to that league of extraordinary cheese. Based on a popular 1970s
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      • 379 56  -  Neil Humphreys FILMREVIEW by The Libertine JOHNNY Depp is a frustrated rock star who also happens to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. He hangs out with musicians, plays slide guitar on Oasis albums and admits that his most popular cinematic creation is
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      • 97 56  -  -JEANINETAN HELEN THE BABY FOX Warm and fuzzy as the titular little fox, this Japanese drama is one for the family and the soft-hearted. Taichi (Arashi Fukusawa), a lonely little boy, finds a baby fox only to learn from his veterinarian guardian that it's blind, deaf and dumb. He
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    • 665 63 —AFP Connolly slams All Blacks' violent imagery, as Kiwis make eight changes BRISBANE Wallabies coach John Connolly yesterday condemned New Zealand's controversial "throat-slitting" haka as damaging for rugby. Criticism of their pre-match ritual, which in the Kapa 0 Pango haka climaxes with an apparent throat-slitting
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    • 1082 65  -  CUBBYLEONG Flamingos coach Balasubramaniam and his men are confident of revenge over Japanese outfit at Jalan Besar NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE Sporting Afrique v Albirex Niigata cubby@newstoday.com.sg BACK on May 3, Albirex Niigata were unstoppable, as the Japanese side overran Sporting Afrique 4-1 in their S-League clash
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    • 370 66 -AP SAN FRANCISCO Lawyers for the personal trainer of 13--time Major League Baseball AllStar Barry Bonds say he'd rather go back to prison for a third time than take part in the grand jury investigation of his childhood friend for tax evasion
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    • 514 66 -DPA Off track battle of Bridgestone and Michelin could decide Sunday's winner FORMULA 1 German Grand Prix HOCKENHEIM Tyres will be the key element when championship rivals Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso look to gain a psychological edge by winning this weekend's German Formula 1
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    • 237 66 —AFP BEIJING China's Olympic table tennis champion Kong Linghui (picture) has made a public apology and begged for forgiveness after he crashed his Porsche while drunk, state press reported yesterday. "I feel really sorry for this error. I sincerely apologise to everybody," the two-time
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    • 565 67 -AGENCIES Mourinho is also determined to turn Chelsea into English football aristocrats LONDON Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho wants his name in the history books. And to do that, he is determined to establish the Blues as the dominant force in English football. Mourinho has taken
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    • 451 67 A Ruud ride, from Manchester, to Munich, to Madrid and London -AGENCIES PARIS Ruud Nistelrooy's expected transfer from Manchester United has taken a new twist with reports about how the negotiations are contradicting each other. According to AS newspaper in Spain, Real are on the brink of sealing the transfer
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    • 231 67 -AFP GLASGOW Celtic fans were left fuming after watching Gordon Strachan's side get torn apart 3-0 by an inexperienced Manchester United line-up in a pre-season friendly here Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). One fan's fury got the better of him in the final moments when he raced
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    • 324 70 -AFP ROME Inter Milan have been awarded last season's Serie A title despite finishing third behind Juventus and AC Milan, the Italian football federation (FIGC) announced Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The move comes after both Juve and Milan were sanctioned
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    • 545 70  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Youngster breaks 19--year-old national triple jump mark, now eyes world youth medal TRACK FIELD Asean Schools Track and Field Championships weekeat@newstoday.com.sg SILVER might as well have been gold for Stefan Tseng yesterday. The 16-year-old had to settle for second place behind Thailand's Kongnil Varunyoo (15.76 m) in
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    • 68 70 CHONG Pang CSC and Jalan Besar CSC will battle it out for the top prize in the final of the Inter-Constituency Football Tournament 2006 tomorrow at the Clementi Stadium. Preceding the big kick-off at 5.45pm, Yew Tee CSC and Jurong Central CSC will play in the 3rd/4th
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    • 283 70 —AFP TEST CRICKET Sri Lanka vS Africa COLOMBO Muttiah Muralitharan and Dilhara Fernando combined to bowl out South Africa for 169, their lowest total against Sri Lanka, on the opening day of the first cricket Test here yesterday. The pace-spin duo claimed four wickets each
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      362 71 DARREN LAI ON THE day the Young Lions got the nod to play in the Asian Games, championship rivals SAFFC did their best to dampen the youngsters' celebrations, as they won their sixth successive game to open up a five-point gap between them and Fandi Ahmad's side at
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