Today, 9 August 2006

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    26 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Wednesday August 9, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY Frew share your free newspaper Wednesday August 9, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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    Lock icon A reason to celebrate, but don't get carried away
    643 1  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE Prime Minister had some good news to share on the eve of National Day. But he also sounded a note of caution. As things stand, this year's economic growth is set to eclipse previous forecasts. A record
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    Lock icon From First World to Next Stop
    1390 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO Singaporeans share their views on Vibrant, Global City derrick@newstoday.com.sg GOING by events of the past year, one thing is becoming clean First World is so passe. Singapore's next objective is to reinvent itself into a Vibrant, Global City. Last year, we
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      Lock icon A PLACE I NOW CALL HOME
      357 2 In just the first six months of this year, 6,800 foreigners swore their allegiance to Singapore. Last year, 12,900 did so. What made these new citizens give up their rights in I the land of their birth, to stake it all in Singapore? We
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      I KNEW BECOMING A SINGAPORE CITIZEN WAS THE RIGHT CHOICE WHEN ...
      246 4 I KNEW BECOMING A SINGAPORE CITIZEN WAS THE RIGHT CHOICE WHEN completed and was of W fered citizenship. It vseemed the natural fthing to do given that Lmy family was here, my mriends mostly Singaand I had WL\ progressed through ftLthe local educa system. When I heard the lyrics of
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon INDIAN FOREIGN WORKER KILLED
        93 4 938 LIVE A 30-year-old Indian national has been found dead on a grass verge along Boon Lay Way. After being alerted at about 3am last Saturday, the police found the man lying motionless near the junction of Jurong West Street 64. He was later pronounced dead.
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        Lock icon SUICIDE BID WITH CHILD IN TOW
        73 4 -938UVE A Chinese woman attempted to jump from a HDB Punggol flat yesterday. She was holding a child when she made the apparent suicide bid. The incident happened on the 9th floor of Block 160 A Punggol Central. After receiving a call, the police
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      THE GREAT IDENTITY CONUNDRUM
      1104 6  -  TERENCECHONG Education, job, life-chances colour how S'poreans face up to conflicting demands of a global city and nation-state THE Singapore identity is destined to be a schizophrenic one. It is characterised by the conflicting demands of the nation-state and global city both of which require different
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      With open arms...
      416 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO Immigrants are more than welcome to Spore, says ICA, Today survey findings derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE number of adopted sons and daughters of Singapore is increasing. For the first half of this year, about 6,800 foreigners were granted Singapore citizenship the same number of citizenships granted
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      SINGAPORE, THE PORT OF CALL I CALL HOME
      737 8  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE great Spanish cellist Pablo Casals once said: "The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" Mr Casals was no doubt speaking from personal experience. Born in Spain, he emigrated to
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      Help for the 'other' victims of a crime
      333 10  -  LEE U-WEN Crime Library Singapore reaches out to those left stranded by breadwinner u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WHILE those who break the law go to jail, all too often, the unintended victims of their crimes are their families and loved ones. But now, thanks to
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      Lock icon Passengers delayed by MRT track fault
      177 10 938 LIVE A FAULT at the train tracks disrupted the East-West MRT line service yesterday, affecting 1,800 passengers. The disruption, which happened at 9.44 am yesterday, caused some trains to be held up at stations east of Tanah Merah station while repairs were carried
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      Lock icon FLAGGING THAT MAGIC NUMBER
      50 10 TREVOR TAN Jubilant TeckWhye folk put their creative minds together to decorate an open space along Teck Whye Avenue wjth flags for Singapore's 41st birthday bash. Simple though the handiwork is, something must have intrigued this man sufficiently to step up to get a closer look.
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      Stop playing games, Chiam: Mah
      398 10  -  -TANHUILENG GIVING his take on the Potong Pasir street lights debacle, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday that Potong Pasir MP Chiam See Tong should stop playing political games as the General Election (GE) was over. The most recent tug-of-war in the Opposition
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon STANDING TALL AMONG GIANTS
        114 10 938 LIVE Singapore's junior bridge team has clinched the bronze medal at an international bridge tournament, the 11th World Youth Team Championships. The six young men had faced worthy opponents from 17 other countries such as the United States, Japan and France. It was the first
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        Lock icon HAZE LIKELY TO MAKE APPEARANCE
        79 10 938 LIVE You can expect a slight haze in the next two to three days. This is because the wind has changed to a south-western direction, blowing in smoke from fires in Sumatra, said the weather man. The National Environment Agency said almost 500 hotspots
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      Lock icon Put money on the silver
      423 12  -  SHERALYN TAY Funding, independent research centre for ageing issues needed: Don shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg BIOMEDICAL research may be the hottest kid on the block, but a leading health economist wants more funding for ageing and population issues, too. This could come in the form of an
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      Lock icon Barrier-free access islandwide for disabled, elderly in 5 years
      309 12 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWS AS IA THE Government is reviewing a building code so that the disabled and the elderly will be able to move around Singapore more easily. According to National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan, the Building and Construction
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      Our Global City, Our Home
      662 14 Get ready for a spectacular birthday bash at the National Stadium as Singapore 4» marks 41 years of nationhood today. Be awed by the stunning aerial manoeuvres of the Singapore Armed Forces' finest aircraft and the stately precision of the parade 4flWi ft contingents. Be
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      SINGAPORE TURF CLUB A tradition of giving
      343 16  -  I From music, dance and visual arts to medical research, education, sports and community projects, the Singapore Turf Club, through the aegis of the Singapore Totalisator Board, has long been a significant benefactor. Hundreds of millions of dollars derived from the sport of
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      Lock icon A BRIGHT FUTURE
      636 17  -  EVELINE GAN TREVOR TAN PSA strives to be an organisation with a heart, contributing to society through community work Text by (eveline@newstoday.com.sg) Photo below by PSA REGULAR National Day Parade (NDP) goers will be familiar with PSAs participation in Singapore's birthday celebrations each year. After all, the
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      Lock icon THANK YOU, SINGAPORE!
      568 18 ST Engineering shows its gratitude by contributing to the NDP in more ways than one FROM a modest ammunition plant supporting the Singapore Armed Forces, global defence and engineering group Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering has come a long way. Today, with a global workforce of nearly 16,000
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      The Power of 8
      848 19 8MlS!iSB!l!IIJiI11)Jirt:ii)l ||IsM||^^ SINGAPORE POWER The numeral "8" is considered an auspicious number to usher in good tidings this is especially so for Singapore Power as 2006 marks the Bth year of its corporate sponsorship of the annual National Day Parade celebrations. Corporatised in October 1995 to
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      PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF EXCELLENCE
      749 21 SMRT is proud to be an integral part of your lives. As the backbone of the nation's transport system, we have grown with Singapore. In line with our vision "Moving People, Enhancing Lives", we constantly challenge ourselves to scale greater heights not just in our
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      Lock icon Labour of Love
      820 22  -  EVELINE GAN LBG-NGT CORPORATION BFOR homegrown pre-fab-Bricated housing and steej/ Bstructures manufacturing Bcompany LBG-NGTygru-Belling preparation for the National Day Parade (NDP) starts months before the big day. Since April, the company has been purchasing new and used shipping containers, which are then reconditioned and converted into storage
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      149 4 Bangkok Chiang Mai Darwin Guangzhou Haikou Hanoi Hat Yai Ho Chi Minh City Krabi Macau Manila (Clark) Padang Phuket Shenzhen Singapore fet lffersal€teal Here's another reason to celebrate National Day. Buy a ticket to Bangkok and get a ticket to Phuket for free, or vice versa. Book from 7 -13
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      161 10 I A Are you 65 or older? 1^ Healthy Participants Needed for Clinical Research fc The Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants Rfor a scientific study involving an investigational medicine. P The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety, tolerability f and amount of this medicine
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      103 11 Celehrcctvnfycuno€her new freth/hxyrOfrom Come celebrate 41 years of our nation's progress with Cold Storage. Paying c^^fci&gt;v homage to Singapore as our home, Cold Storage brings Singaporeans a f KSf A continuous feeling of warmth and friendliness in its welcoming service and c W its fresh product range, upholding the trademark
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      280 20 PSC Born in a crisis to address an acute housing shortage in 1960, HDB has today successfully housed A 83% of the nation's population of 3.5 million people in well-designed apartments in comprehensively Ak Hl^f-f^^ planned public housing estates throughout the island. jfE gggj^**** Central to HDB's mission are responsive
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      Lock icon Mahathir revives attack after M'sian PM denies corruption
      349 24 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's former Premier Mahathir Mohamad yesterday revived his attack on Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi after his successor was forced to go on national television to deflect rumours of nepotism and corruption. In an interview aired on television on
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      Lock icon Israel readies for expanded offensive if diplomacy fails
      553 24 AGENCIES -AFP Beirut's peace plan 'interesting' but could be 'smokescreen for Hezbollah' JERUSALEM Israel yesterday cautiously welcomed a Lebanese proposal to deploy 15,000 troops north of their border under a United Nations ceasefire resolution, but ordered its army to prepare for an
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      Lock icon I won't be handing out free cows, says Thaksin
      312 24 —AGENCIES BANGKOK- Thailand's embattled Prime Minister said yesterday he would not be handing out free cows and land deeds during a trip through the rural heartland because he does not want to be accused of violating election law. Mr Thaksin had
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      Lock icon Indonesia bird flu toll 'hits 44'
      553 26 -AGENCIES Experts worried about the speed of the virus' spread JAKARTA Two Indonesian teenagers were yesterday confirmed to have died of bird flu, making the nation the world's worst-hit in terms of human fatalities with 44 deaths recognised by the World Health Organization. The
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      Lock icon CHINA SAYS FIRST HUMAN BIRD-FLU CASUALTY OCCURRED IN 2003
      170 26 —AGENCIES China has said its first confirmed human case of bird flu a 24-year-old man who later died was in November 2003, two years earlier than previously reported. The health ministry said it had confirmed the case through laboratory tests that
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      Lock icon US troops grilled chicken wings after raping 14-year-old girl
      602 27 —AP They also murdered her and her family in Iraq, tribunal told BAGHDAD A squad of drunken American soldiers took turns to rape a 14-year old Iraqi girl, a military tribunal in Baghdad heard yesterday. The men then murdered her and
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      Lock icon Tamil Tigers lift water blockade
      201 27 -AGENCIES TRINCOMALEE (Sri Lanka) Tamil Tiger rebels yesterday lifted a water blockade at the root of the latest round of bloodshed in Sri Lanka, a rebel spokesman told AFP. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) opened the Maavilaru sluice gates, freeing water to about
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      Lock icon Babies can spot mathematical errors
      349 28 AGENCIES LONDON Babies as young as six months old can spot mathematical errors, a new study has showed. A team of Israeli and American scientists scanned the brains of babies aged six to nine months as they were shown a puppet display. The researchers found
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      Lock icon Japan's FM calls for a secular war shrine
      467 28 AGENCIES Placing Yasukuni under state control would calm things down, says Aso TOKYO Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, a candidate for the premiership, called yesterday for the controversial Yasukuni war shrine to be put under state control and stripped of its religious
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon GO AHEAD, PUNCH THE BAR STAFF
        131 28 AFP A new bar in eastern China is offering customers an unusual outlet for anger by allowing them to use the staff as punching bags. Besides getting a drink, customers at the Rising Sun Anger Release Bar in Nanjing city can pay money to
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        WORLD'S FIRST 'ANTI-STUPID' PILL
        66 28 A scientist has tested the "world's first anti-stupidity pill", with encouraging pre- liminary results on mice and fruit flies, according to Germany's Bild newspaper. Mr Hans-Hilger Ropers, of Berlin's Max-Planck-lnstitute for Molecular Genetics, has tested a pill that helps improve attentiveness, Reuters reported. "With mice and
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        A BED WORTHY OF MAGNETO
        90 28 A Dutch architect has created a floating bed that hovers above the ground using magnetic force, Reuters reported. Mr Janjaap Ruijssenaars' bed is designed as a black platform that can double as a dining table or a plinth. It took six years to develop and
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      66 24 &gt;*«bMR\ National Day *****^ Commemorative &lt;v*LL Watch xv Z25 HOURS is pleased to be commissioned to design this Commemorative Watch that i highlights the global time of all 58 jc I major cities, in line with the vision I i of making Singapore "Our Global 1 City, Our Home". ■Htf
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      97 25 it H t T I mm Mm m* I** r A glittering, five star salute. Emerging from a humble beginning, The Jewel Box now stands as Singapore's Best Reinvented Attraction. And in the spirit of national pride and progress.The Jewel Box wishes to congratulate Singapore on forty-one years of nation
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      453 26 FAQ: The Right Insurance Plan 1. Why is it important to have life assurance? Life is uncertain. If anything unexpected happens to you, life insurance can provide a sum of money to take care of the financial needs of your family. You can also use life insurance to save for
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      257 27 Insurance at Best Value from NTUC Income Being the only insurance cooperative, NTUC Income offers you a wide range of financial plans with the best valuetosuityour needs. Financial protection for loved ones i-Term is a low-cost, high protection life insurance policy. Our premium rates are among the lowest, making it
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      149 28 rAr A \r 4 \r A \r A r 4 \r^r A^vJ^ As Singapore celebrates its 41st birthday, we offer you the Terms Conditions: perfect way to enjoy the holiday. 1 Rooms are subject to availability. 2. Promotion Package includes: valicl from 1 t0 31 August 2006. 3. This offer
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      127 29 jl m. m jBB v s-^^^'Q ft**'1 nttUH*J^v JHh^ ||H QR. CHICKEN CHOP TREAT YOURSELF EVERYDAY fe^ T) Why wait for a special occasion to have a treat? Come over and indulge in our newest offering, the KFC O.R. Chicken Chop. T^ p^ V' It's prepared with the Colonel's secret
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      270 30 *IIUHII3 NDP SPECIAL BUY NOW Celebrate Singapore's ft ify" ©^v^k Nowfrsll^Fl 4Ut Birthday with w \X K3ftiipHipßiii^^^H Audio House's iW' HL ""^SSS^ ip i Great Deals*! *Terms Conditions apply. Samsung yp-vwl .^^^UB^^ 'Promotion is valid from 9-13 August 2006 only. lUnw 'lset per customer only. 9 August 2006 upon purchase.
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  • SHORTTAKES
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      PICK UP AFTER YOURSELF
      104 32  -  RAMCHAND RAMESH: The relevant government agencies have done a tremendous job of sprucing up the city centre with numerous trees and plants in anticipation of the IMF and World Bank visitors. Unfortunately, when one peers into the lush foliage, it is not uncommon to see rubbish
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      BOTANIC GARDENS NOT SO ACCESSIBLE
      99 32  -  CHRISTOPHER TAN: I refer to Mr Lee Kip Lee's comments, "Gardens' parking fees too high for retirees" (Aug 5-6). The Botanic Gardens are relatively inaccessible by public transport, so most locals would drive if they could. Since foreigners either take a cab or a tour
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      The mystery of debtor pile-up
      345 32  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Fewer bankrupts discharged despite measures-why? Letter from I REFER to the front-page article about proposed changes to the credit regime (Aug 8). About 450,000 more Singaporeans may soon be able to borrow money from banks without putting up any collateral, thanks to
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      Make 55 the age of becoming senior
      220 32  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I REFER to Mr Harry Chia's letter, "At what age do you become a senior?" (Aug 5-6). For entertainment outlets, people of 55 years and older should be considered senior citizens. They should continue to receive cinema concessions for
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      ISKANDER:ERPSOLUTIONS
      110 32  -  ISKANDER BY As a cartoonist my rather eclectic career has included a one-year stint on hit sitcoms Phua Chu Kang and Under One Roof. I've done animation for MTV Asia and my cartoons and illustrations have been published in local and regional magazines, as well as online at www.SGcinemas.com,
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      East Coast smoking corner under review
      103 32  -  CHAN WAI SAN Letter from Head, Hawkers Department National Environment Agency (NEA) WE REFER to the letter, "Breeze smells of smoke here" (Aug 2). The designated smoking corner at East Coast Lagoon Food Village was decided by representatives of the hawker centre as the
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      IT FINALLY, TRULY HIT ME I WAS A SINGAPOREAN WHEN ...
      170 34 IT FINALLY, TRULY HIT ME I WAS A SINGAPOREAN WHEN I went back to China after becoming a Singapore Citizen. I forgot that I needed to apply for a visa for a long stay, and was penalised by the local police for overstaying! I found I was able to sing
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      Lock icon 'Lady of Everywhere'
      1001 34  -  ZAFARANJUM FORTY-ONE BIRTHDAYS WITH zafa r@newstoday.com.sg SHE was there for the very first show, back in 1966. "The first National Day Parade (NDP) was held early in the morning at the Padang. And as a young nation, we feltvery proud," says Madam Bibi Mahmood, who as a
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      255 36  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE MYTH OF FAME AND FORTUNE Society's fascination with Hollywood and celebrities has just gone a little crazy. Millions idolise those who have achieved fame and fortune, but stardom does not provide the satisfaction that it advertises. Marilyn Monroe could have told
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      I KNEW I WAS RIGHT TO BECOME A SINGAPOREAN WHEN ...
      155 36 I KNEW I WAS RIGHT TO BECOME A SINGAPOREAN WHEN I My wife said she wouldn't Jhave married me if I wasn't Singaporean, because if I was a foreigner I might have run back'home'and dragged her with me! Were I to have said I was from Segamat, I don't think
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      AREN'T WE ALL TRANSPLANTS?
      673 36  -  ROGER JENKINS I WAS born in 1953 in Changi Hospital, which in those pre-Independence days was a British hospital. When my mother was fit to fly, we returned to Rangoon in Burma (as it was then known) where my father was stationed. What I didn't know
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      IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR
      173 38 The most Singaporean thing about me is how I complain about the army- but would be willing to die if called on to serve my country. Singapore is clean outwardly, green and beautiful; and the strict laws keep people clean inwardly. If you are one who
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      IT'S ALL ABOUT BOTTOMS
      822 38  -  Neil Humphreys NATIONAL DAY WITH Here's how to climb those happy, courtesy, sex charts SINGAPOREANS have been obsessed with bottoms lately. You can't open a newspaper right now without coming across an expert chewing the fat of the latest bottom. There are indeed plenty of bottoms
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      70 32 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES In my collection of sexy verses There isn't a single one on Viagra Oh, if only I could find its link With either Niagara or Biafra! MUSES In the frenzy of modern living Where rule the brash and loud How we yearn for quick retreat Far from
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  • growth the business of enterprise
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      Lock icon Blooming in harsh times
      517 40  -  CHRISTIE LOH A SPLASH of red here, some yellow there, and suddenly a bald patch. That now-empty space homed petite pink orchids for years until recently when the entire batch was tossed out to make room for younger, better-yield-ing flowers. At Toh Orchids in the Chua
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      SMALL COUNTRY, BIG FOOTPRINT
      597 40 IN THIS National Day edition of Growth, we profile two companies that reflect the changing relationship between Singapore Inc and the rest of the global economy. Outsiders have always shared Singapore's roof. Itself a nation built by immigrants from around the world, the island managed to
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      WHEN I KNEW BECOMING A SINGAPOREAN WAS THE RIGHT CHOICE
      338 40 During the 2004 tsunami crisis, when Singapore responded generously to help the victims of the disaster. I feel so warm and right at home, when I touch down at Changi Airport after a holiday. We SqW Lllc stability of the
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      540 41 CHRISTIE LOH SCOTSMAN Andrew Skene (picture) wears nothing under his kilt*. And when he moved here one and a half years ago, the 38-year-old bachelor also brought nothing but a notion to hawk Scotch whiskies in Singapore, a country entwined in his family tree.
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      Lock icon Boom time for private bankers
      616 42 BLOOMBERG As Spore develops itself as banking hub in Asia, demand for such professionals increase MS LYNNE Low has been catering to millionaire clients at DBS Bank for less than a year and headhunters have already approached her six times, dangling enticements to switch jobs.
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      203 42  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@newstoday.com.sg THE former chief of Informatics Holdings an award-winning education service provider plans to fight criminal charges concerning the company's overstated profits. Ong Boon Kheng is pleading innocence, his lawyer Senior Counsel Michael Khoo told reporters yesterday after closed-door discussions
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      210 43 BLOOMBERG THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has announced that its trading link with the Australia Stock Exchange Ltd will end on Sept 29 because of a lack of demand from investors. The trading link was set up in December 2001 to allow investors in both
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      105 43 —AFP SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Sing Tel) said yesterday it has entered into an agreement with Cybernet of Pakistan to provide Internet Protocol-Vir-tual Private Network (IP-VPN) coverage in Karachi. Sing Tel said in a statement that it was offering its Connect Plus IP-VPN service
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      137 43 Singapore DOW JONES SHARE prices ended slightly higher led by Venture Corp, although many investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting in the United States later in the evening yesterday and today's National Day holiday. "It was a slow market. The Federal Reserve decision and Wall
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      22 43 SGX, Bloomberg Hi uss/oz 659.50 Snruss/oz 12.27 PWBiim uss/oz 1,266.90 Mkl cents/kg 363.00 P*ili RM/tonnt^99.oo But mfcusS/bami 78.30 Information provided by
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      Lock icon Hyflux second-quarter net profit falls to $2.99 million
      259 44 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE water treatment company Hyflux said yesterday that its second-quar-ter net profit fell 79 per cent from a year earlier when its earnings were boosted by one-time gains. Net profit for the three months ended June 30 was $2.99 million,
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      298 44 DOW JONES Football event raises firm's Q2 profit to $76m STARHUB yesterday reported a 43.7-per-cent rise in secondquarter net profit compared to a year earlier, driven by growth in cable TV subscribers during the World Cup season. Net profit for three months ended June
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      183 44 DOW JONES Super Coffeemix Manufacturing said that for the second quarter ended June 30, net profit was $3.6 million, or 0.72 cent per share, compared with $5 million, or 1.01 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Revenue rose 11 per cent to $45.5 million. The company declared a
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      1638 46  -  PLUS DESK If you want to be creative, you've got to dare to be different. You need to dare to fail. The problem is, we do not dare to fall. So, as a society, we have to start embracing failure as a part of success. Jacelyn Tay
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      498 48  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR Comedian Suhaimi Yusof goes on a diet and you're invited to watch him get trim ashraf@newstoday.com.sg SUHAIMI Yusof's buddies used to call him "Towkay Perut" (Stomach Boss), a reference to his burgeoning belly. And for a while, Suhaimi basked in the attention, loving the nickname
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      356 48  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL HER stint on Project Runway may be over, but Kara Janx is hard at work thinking of her next design for her wedding gown. The 30-year-old designer is set to marry her boyfriend next January, but still hasn't had the time to
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      430 49  -  JEANINETAN How did tear-prone Jay Lim exit last week with dry eyes? Well, he made a deal... jea nine@newstoday.com.sg IF he weren't a contestant, Jay Lim would have made a pretty good Singapore Idol judge. The 27-year-old music instructor at the Lee Wei Song
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      293 49 After less-than-stellar performances from some of the contestants, the armchair critics are out in full force. Today serves up a sampling of the latest buzz on the Singapore Idol forum. I have a strong feeling that she and Joakim will be in the finals Jasmine and Joakim at the
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      199 50 —AFP LOS ANGELES INKS frontman Michael Hutchence, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1997, will be the subject of a new movie by two film-makers who want to protect the Australian rocker's legacy, Hollywood media said on Monday. The project, Slide
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      184 52 AUTHOR and Today columnist Neil Humphreys (picture) may be leaving Singapore soon, but it seems Singaporeans can't get enough of him. His third book, Final Notes From a Great Island: A Farewell Tour of Singapore, is currently tops on the national non-fiction
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      376 52 -AFP Hollywood star seemed in control, say eyewitnesses SYDNEY Two women who saw Hollywood actor Mcl Gibson shortly before his controversial drink-driv-ing arrest said he was acting like a "normal guy" and expressed shock at his "Jekyll and Hyde transformation". In an interview
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      463 53  -  DAVID CHEW [Be/ief Doubt Wisdom\ david. chew@newstoday.com. sg KNOWN as an artist with words, Barbara Kruger aptly lives close to one of the most famous words in the world: "Hollywood". That is, the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles. A graduate of New York's Parsons School of Design,
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      107 53 -AGENCIES It doesn't have a director and the cast has yet to be confirmed, but the sixth instalment of the Harry Potter film franchise now has a release date. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released in North American cinemas on
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      90 53 -AP Janet Jackson (picture) has never been afraid to show some skin. The 40-year-old singer, newly svelte after losing about 27kg, appears on the cover of Vibe magazine wearing a skimpy bikini bottom and a necklace made of large shells. Her right arm covers her breasts.
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      24 53 Uxiiii Thurman liiiks Wilson "THIS SUMMER'S MOST SUPER COMEDY! UMA THURMAN IS DYNAMITE," TONY TOSCANO, TALKING PICTURES "REFRESHINGLY SMART." JANE HORWITZ, THE WASHINGTON POST
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      554 56 —AGENCIES Arsenal ready to complete $40 million deal for French star LONDON Arsene Wenger can't wait to get rid of Ashley Cole. The England defender's transfer to Chelsea will net Wenger £25 million ($74 million), with which the Arsenal manager could purchase the two players he
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      303 56 —AFP MELBOURNE Australian cricket pundit Dean Jones returned home yesterday after being sacked by his TV employers for calling a South African Muslim player a terrorist during a Test match in Sri Lanka. "The terrorist has got another wicket," Jones said when bearded Hashim Amla took
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      425 56  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg MANY would flinch when faced with the treacherous rough at Sentosa Golf Club's par-71 Serapong course. Except Adam Scott, who made a mockery of it when he shot 13-under 271 to win last year's Singapore Open. The Australian world No 6 is looking
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      615 57 Will the real Reds show up -AGENCIES Shaken up in pre-season, now Liverpool face tricky Haifa test CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUALIFIER, IST LEG Liverpool vMaccabi Haifa LIVERPOOL Liverpool are fivetime European champions, boast a squad of big-name internationals and last won the Champions League in 2005. Maccabi Haifa are an outfit
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      351 57 —AFP MILAN Veteran defender Alessandro Costacurta believes AC Milan can cope with the threat posed by Red Star Belgrade's giant striker Nikola Zigic in their crunch Champions League qualifier tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Zigic stands at 2.02 metres tall and was voted Serbia
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      868 59  -  LAN DE COTTA AIGP Singapore depend on fans to rally them all the way to the chequered flag ia n@newstoday.com.sg A CONSULTANT, who was supposed to be advising clients on a football deal over dinner at Swissotel's Kopitiam in January, triggered the biggest motorsport undertaking
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      195 59 WHEN Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum conceived AIGP two years ago, he envisioned a competition where the emphasis is on driver skills rather than technology. The main complaint about Formula 1 was that it had become a competition where
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      109 57 ALL'S NOT WELL IN LIVERPOOL! Thrashed in 3 tune-up matches. International Football Japan Trinidad&Tobago Wed, 09/08/06 6.20pm UE Champions Dynamo Kiev Fenerbahce Thu, 10/08/06 12.00 am UE Champions Hamburg Osasuna Thu, 10/08/06 2.30 am E League Champ Southampton Coventry Thu, 10/08/06 2.45 am E League Champ Sunderland Birmingham Thu, 10/08/06
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      1253 60  -  Razali Abdullah Brace yourself, Singapore sport is about to make a giant leap forward National Day 2006 JUST a speck on the world map, but for 40 years Singapore has endeavoured, first to simply survive, and then to make its mark on the
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      287 60 IT FINALLY, TRULY HIT ME THAT I WAS SINGAPOREAN WHEN I found myself taking on an 'ambassador 1 role to my American classmates. Many had limited knowledge of Asia, so I found myself teaching them basic geography- no, Singapore's not in China! When I cast my vote at the last
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      300 61  -  -TANYOHINN AFTER a poor start to the Thailand Sports School Games, the Singapore Sports School bounced back in style at the Chonburi Institute of Physical Education yesterday. Leading the way was Nurul Jannah, 14, with a new personal best of 5.15 m in the girls' under--15 long
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