Today, 16 August 2006

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    26 1 //\=DIJ\COKiP TODAY share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Wednesday August 16, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY /AediaCorp share your free newspaper Wednesday August 16, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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    Lock icon Koizumi's bow gives maximum offence
    808 1 China, S Korea protest Japanese PM's visit to war memorial on sensitive date TOKYO Stubborn to the very end of his tenure, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stoked historical anger by visiting a controversial war shrine on a day calculated to offend many Asian countries.
    -AGENCIES; AFP  -  808 words
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    Unproven remedy puts myopic at risk of infection, blindness
    641 1  -  SHERALYNTAY shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg SIX children aged between eight and 14 years old have suffered from permanent eye damage after complications arising from a temporary treatment for short-sightedness known as orthokeratology over the last two years, say doctors from the Singapore National
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      Lock icon Reporter's one-day trial
      430 2 —AFP Straits limes correspondent Ching Cheong in China court on spying charges BEIJING The long-awaited trial of a Hong Kong journalist, detained for nearly 16 months on spying charges, ended yesterday after just one day, his employer said. The outcome of the proceedings against 56-year-old Ching Cheong
      —AFP; AFF  -  430 words
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      HANGING BY A THREAD
      953 3  -  MARTIN JACQUES Sustainable peace possible only if Israel lets go of Western influence THIS has been a war that did not happen by accident The kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah was merely the pretext long since forgotten in the absurdly-disproportionate response by the Israelis
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  • Singapore news
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      Supermarket baby: Woman, 35, to be charged
      251 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG THE woman who was arrested on Monday in connection with the death of an abandoned newborn will be charged in court this morning. The 35-year-old Singaporean Chinese woman was arrested shortly after police found a dead baby umbilical cord still attached stuffed
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      Health Ministry issues insurers' report card
      571 4  -  TAN HUI LENG AIA, Aviva lead the pack at speed of processing claims huileng@newstoday.com.sg AIA and Aviva have been found to be the speediest of five insurers in processing hospital medical claims, taking about a week to do so as compared to the 10
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      Lock icon Help from MOM for wage reform in SMEs
      162 6 -938 LIVE THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM), together with NTUC and various employer organisations, has introduced a guide on the Monthly Variable Component (MVC) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The guide shows how SMEs can use the MVC during economic downturns
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      Prepared for all threats
      749 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG For the IMF meetings, the SCDF is ready for all emergencies cheekong@newstoday.com. sg WHILE much of the spotlight is on Singapore's public order policy to minimise crowd trouble as it prepares to host its largest international event, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)
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        Lock icon TRAIN SERVICES BACK ON TRACK
        97 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA KTM train services between Singapore and Malaysia are back on track, after services were disrupted on Monday following the derailment of a cargo train in the Lower Delta Road area. Normal services resumed just before Bpm yesterday. About 50 workers had worked non-stop
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        NARCOTICS OFFICERS STEP UP HUNT FOR SUBUTEX TRAFFICKERS
        110 8 For the second day in a row. Central Narcotics Bureau officers have gone on an offensive against Subutex traffickers. Yesterday, four more suspected Subutex traffickers including a woman -were arrested. The 40-year-old woman, a coffeeshop assistant, was nabbed at Lavender Street after
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      Whistle-blowers as bookkeepers in law firms
      473 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg ABOUT 100 law firms may soon have to find new bookkeepers as a result of the disappearance of lawyer David Rasif and $13 million from his law firm. The Law Society wants to prohibit any full or part-time employee of
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      Lock icon Five illegal immigrants charged with bribing Singaporean
      223 8 —ANSLEYNG FIVE Indian illegal immigrants were charged yesterday with one getting fined for bribing a Singaporean to help them register foodstalls under his name. The illegal immigrants gave Shanmugam Srinivasam about $50 to $250 each month for helping them register stalls with the
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      Dell recalls batteries that can catch fire
      232 8  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirma n@newstoday.com.sg NORMALLY, when the chairman of the world's largest maker of personal computers consents to speak, he is questioned on the state of the industry. Yesterday, at an event organised by the Infocomm Development Authority, Mr Michael Dell found himself
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      Newcomer is NSP secretary-general
      554 10  -  TORCHING LI Law Sin Ling takes over from Steve Chia, who stays on as executive council member chingli@newstoday.com. sg IN A major shake-up of the National Solidarity Party (NSP) leadership announced yesterday, a previously low-profile party member albeit prolific newspaper letter writer Mr Law Sin Ling
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      Lock icon Big rush to get BioPasses
      185 10 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA QUEUES started forming as early as Bam yesterday the first day Singaporeans could apply for the new biometric passports or Bio Pass over the counter. More than 5,000 Singaporeans applied for the new passport in a single day at the Immigration
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      Lock icon The slow end to a bloody war
      472 12 -AGENCIES Lebanon underpressure to deploy soldiers to Hezbollah territory as Israeli troops begin to withdraw BEIRUT Israel began slowly withdrawing forces from southern Lebanon yesterday and made plans to hand over its captured territory to a United Nations-backed peacekeeping force. Hopes grew that
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      Lock icon HEZBOLLAH LOST, SAYS BUSH
      267 12 —AFP UNITED STATES president George W Bush said Monday that the month-long Lebanon crisis had ended with Hezbollah's defeat, but worried the conflict could have gone differently if Iran had a nuclear weapon. Asked about the view in parts of the Arab world that Hezbollah emerged
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      Lock icon Debate rages over plans to profile young Muslims
      131 12 -AFP LONDON Britain was yesterday embroiled in a debate over whether to screen groups of young Muslims rather than imposing blanket security curbs that have disrupted flights since an alleged terror plot was exposed last week. The Times of London reported that
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      Lock icon Extinct mammoth to be revived?
      129 13 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON Extinct animals such as woolly mammoths could be brought back to life using sperm from frozen bodies, scientists have discovered, according to the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that sperm taken from the frozen reproductive organs of
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka steps up security, closes schools
      196 13 —AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka yesterday stepped up security here after an unprecedented bomb attack on a diplomat, while all schools were shut amid fears of Tamil Tiger reprisals for an air raid that killed dozens of children. Police said new parking restrictions were
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      Princess hospitalised
      74 13 TOKYO Princess Kiko, 39, who is experiencing complications in a pregnancy that could give Japan a male heir to the throne, will be hospitalised today to prepare for delivery, the palace said. Earlier reports said Princess Kiko is expected to give birth around Sept 6 by Caesarean section.
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      Lock icon Tanker spills over million gallons of oil
      103 13 —AP TOKYO A Japanese tanker spilled about 1.4 million gallons of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker's operator said yesterday. The Bright Artemis tanker spilled the oil following a collision on Monday with
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      Lock icon Tit-for-tat cartoon exhibition opens
      140 13 -AFP -AFP TEHRAN An international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust opened in Tehran on Monday in response to the publication in Western papers last September of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. "We staged this fair to explore the limits of freedom Westerners believe in," Mr
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      Lock icon Boy George gets down ... to clean up
      112 13 Boy George gets down to clean up -AGENCIES NEW YORK- British pop icon Boy George has been assigned to clean a public garage in downtown Manhattan as part of a weeklong community service sentence handed down by a court, officials said. The move came after the former Culture Club frontman
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      Lock icon The ball is in Pakistan's court, says Indian PM
      289 14 NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked Pakistan yesterday to take concrete steps to stop cross-border terrorism to allow the neighbours' peace process to succeed. "We have taken several initiatives," he said. "To be successful, these need an atmosphere of
      -DPA; AFP  -  289 words
    • this quirky world
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        POTTER PIPS BLAIR
        69 14 Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, Reuters reported, citing a poll on pop culture. According to the Zogby International poll, 57 per cent of Americans could identify JK Rowling's fictional
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        Lock icon LOBSTER'PINCHES' SWIMMER'S WALLET
        72 14 -AFP A British swimmer, who felt the pinch after losing his wallet during a dip in the sea, was convinced it had vanished. But it was recovered by a diver who caught a lobster, which had the wallet in its claws. He pried the wallet from the
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        Lock icon DATING GONE AWRY
        61 14 -AFP Dutch dating website for farmers has taken Internet search engine Google to court for listing sponsored links to pornographic sites when the site's name is entered into the search engine. The site, farmdate.nl, describes itself as "a respectable meeting website for farmers". It is outraged that
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      Lock icon Dr M resorting to 'political blackmail'
      475 14 -AGENCIES Umno leaders close ranks against former premier after his bridge comments KUALA LUMPUR An influential member of the Malaysian Cabinet yesterday accused Dr Mahathir Mohamad of political blackmail over remarks made that he would only stop criticising the Government if it agreed to
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    • Article
      If a M'sian Muslim tries to convert ...
      551 15  - If a M'sian Muslim tries to convert -REUTERS Court plea by woman would split society down the middle hotspot| KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is expecting a court ruling any day now that could shake society to its foundations. A Muslim woman decided to become a Christian, marry and raise a family.
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon HAZE WORSENS OVER BORNEO
        93 15 -AFP Thick, acrid haze from fires set to clear land blanketed parts of Indonesian Borneo again yesterday, restricting visibility as the number of fires grew, a meteorology official said. Mr Maroni, of the meteorology station in Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan, said visibility was at
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        Lock icon PHUKETWEDDINGSONHOLD
        92 15 -AFP Those wanting to tie the knot on the Thai paradise island of Phuket will have to wait a while or find another venue after the main city ran out of marriage certificates, officials said yesterday. An official from Muang Phuket Registration Department said they used their last certificate
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        Lock icon TYPHOON SAOMAI TOLL 295
        61 15 -AFP The death toll in China from Typhoon Saomai has risen to 295, with the number likely to climb further, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The discovery of more bodies in devastated coastal villages near the city of Fuding in the southeastern province of
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      Lock icon Aceh, a year on: One of the safest places on earth
      681 16  -  MARIANNE KEARNEY IN JAKARTA Still, first anniversary of historic peace deal sees obstacles ahead TEUGKU Ahmad Haikal, 37, has experienced three major military operations and two failed peace deals. He has struggled for the rights of thousands of people
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      Lock icon Suu Kyi must not rock the boat, Myanmar warns
      265 16 -AFP MANILA Myanmar warned yesterday that detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi must not rock the boat, even as the ruling junta announced that talks to draft a new Constitution for Myanmar would resume in October with the likely exclusion
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      Lock icon Pakistan quake funds used for terror plot
      615 18 -AFP Less than half of the $14.9 m collected went to victims WASHINGTON A Pakistani charity that received £5 million ($14.9 million) from Britain for earthquake relief last year helped finance the alleged bomb plot to blow up passenger jets, reports said yesterday,
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      Respecting a choice
      489 20  -  TAYKIAHKOON JEREMY Hardline view about smoking has harmful consequences Letter from I AM appalled by the moral tirade of certain individuals in the letters "Consider banning smoking outright" (Aug 15). Goh Kian Huat makes a fallacious assumption in considering cigarettes "as harmful" as other Class A drugs.
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      Lock icon Free up funds for locals
      456 22  -  ONGUPHUA Provide loans instead of subsidies to bright foreign students; savings can be used to help locals upgrade Letter from SINGAPORE'S rapid rise is due to our pragmatic policies of planning our education with regard to our manpower needs. Our economy has been slated to
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      Spending quality time with your child is the best gift
      207 22  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I REFER to Frances Ong Hock Lin's article, "Real gifts of a road warrior parent" (Aug 14). I agree with her that parents should not replace or substitute themselves with gifts that will have a negative
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      Health group, are costs justified?
      163 23  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I REFER to the new ad-hoc healthcare group set up by the Health Ministry to look into the concerns of patients and keep the healthcare system affordable ("MPs focus on health", Aug 15). While the group is correct to focus
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      A Caldecott media school in remembrance?
      116 23  -  COLIN ONG Letter from I READ with a tinge of nostalgia in "After 50 memorable years, it's farewell Caldecott for MediaCorp" (Aug 15) that by 2011, MediaCorp will relocate to Bukit Batok. Much of Singapore's growth as a young nation has been well documented
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      That's no way to treat anybody
      358 23  -  MARILYN ENRIQUEZ Agency cloistered 200 maids in a 'chicken house' Letter from I AM urged to write in after reading a News Comment by John Gee, "Give the maid a break" (Aug 3). Being a Filipino and having worked as a maid for the
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      228 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE BATTLESHIP AND THE LIGHTHOUSE Inthe official magazine of the Naval Institute, Frank Koch reported on a very unusual encounter at sea. A battleship was coming in for maneuvers in heavy weather. Shortly after the sun went down, the lookout reported light
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      Lock icon isay PLEASE TAKE US SERIOUSLY, SKATES AND ALL
      819 24  -  UJIEXUN I HAVE been skating for a fairly long time. I started when skating was looked upon as a "punk" sport and associated with ah bengs. It would seem that this stereotype has not changed with time. While the sport has evolved
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      Speak easy? Hardly
      323 28  -  MURALI SHARMA More needs to be done to get people to pronounce words like our country's name-correctly PRONOUNCING words correctly is no easy task and doing so is about to get progressively more varied with the onset of globalisation. The pronunciation of any word often depends on
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        THERE'S A REASON YOU PAY REDUCED FARES, STUDENTS
        119 28  -  TAN YEN LING I refer to the letter "Sow seats of respect" (Aug 15), in which Ms Daisy Tan wrote of her observation of a notice in a Gold CoastBrisbane train that read: "Students on concessional cards must not occupy seats whilst
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      • Article
        WHEN ROAD MARKINGS BECOME ROAD HAZARDS
        135 28  -  SUKIMTECK Some of the road markings and layouts in Singapore baffle me. For instance, most roads have double yellow lines, which means no parking at all times on these roads. This is most probably done for road safety reasons. So, why are parking lots
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        HOW ABOUT A SCHOOL BREAK DURING IMF MEET?
        100 28  -  SAMUEL GAN I think the authorities are doing a good job in introducing road closures, traffic diversions and stepped-up security for the International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings. I was in Shanghai in June, right smack in the middle of a security summit.
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        IT TAKES ONLY ONE PIECE OF LITTER ...
        91 28  - IT TAKES ONLY ONE PIECE OF LITTER KHOO LIH-HAN I was at the Esplanade area watching the fireworks display on the eve of National Day. To my horror, paper bags, newspapers and drink cans filled the grounds of the vicinity of the Esplanade. If every Singaporean has the mentality that
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      480 30  -  Sesdaq company plans to buy HK telecoms firm Carrier Net CHRISTIE LOH christie@newstoday.com.sg PHONE calls over the Internet look set to get cheaper next year as potential new entrant ArianeCorp is eyeing the top spot in the fledgling market here. The Sesdaq-listed display panel maker
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      430 32  -  JANE CHIAPOCQ At least one unit at Scotts High Park development sold for more than $2,000 per sq ft ja nec@newstoday.com.sg CAPITALAND has sold four units of its Scotts High Park luxury boutique development along Scotts Road with at least one boughtfor more than $2,000
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      290 32 DOW JONES CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust (CCT), which owns offices and carparks in Singapore, yesterday said it will issue between 478.6 million and 499.5 million new units to raise up to $803.2 million to partly finance its purchase of a 60 per cent stake in
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      307 33 -BLOOMBERG Retail sales figure in Singapore up 5.1% from last year SINGAPORE'S retail sales increased in June for the 16th straight month as a strengthening labour market and rising tourist arrivals spurred consumer spending. The retail sales index rose 5.1 per cent from a year
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      233 33  -  CHOW PENN NEE A SHIPPING executive has been hauled to court for accepting bribes for buying vessels from another shipping company. Ng Sing Yuen, the president of Parakou Shipping Pte Ltd was yesterday charged with 15 counts of corruption for accepting $434,800 in bribes.
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      295 34 Bloomberg Bloomberg Department store operator Robinson and Co reported a net profit of $12.1 million, or 14.1 cents per share, in its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, down 8.3 per cent from $13.2 million, or 15.4 cents per share, in the corresponding period a year earlier. The decline
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      276 34 BLOOMBERG Overall load factor rises to 69.6% from 69.1% SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), the world's second-largest carrier by market value, flew 4.9 per cent more passengers last month to register a record high of 1.57 million as economic growth encouraged more people to
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      183 34 A UNIT of Hong Leong Asia has made a mandatory offer for the remaining shares of Thakral Corp after its stake in the consumer electronics distributor crossed the 30-per-cent level. New York-listed China Yuchai International, a subsidiary of Hong Leong Asia,
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      523 35 BLOOMBERG Indian-born CFO Nooyi to succeed Reinemund as CEO PEPSICO named its chief financial officer Indra Nooyi as its new chief executive officer, becoming the biggest United States company to be run by a woman. Ms Nooyi, 50, takes over
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      226 35 —AFP JERUSALEM Israel's army chief Dan Halutz offloaded his stock portfolio hours before the Jewish state unleashed a massive offensive in Lebanon and the stock market tumbled, the Maariv daily reported. Mr Halutz sold the shares at noon on July 12, three
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        857 36  -  JOYCE CHEN As a woman in a man's world, the way ahead starts with winning their respect, says Entrepreneur of the Year contender Annie Yap news@newstoday.com.sg ONCE again, she finds herself in the all-so familiar situation of being the only woman among the men. Only
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        331 36  -  CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@newstoday.com.sg A PLUCKY young businesswoman is taking a health-and-beauty delegation comprising representatives from companies in Singapore, China and Taiwan and elsewhere to Pakistan to showcase their products to the retail companies there. Led by Ms Zalina Curran, 50 delegates from 10
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      420 40  -  JEANINETAN Idol-wannabe with the rock grrrl image reflects on her fateful,'eerie'song choice jeanine@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Joakim Gomez*;' cried his heart out after it was announced that his rumoured love interest Rahimah Rahim (picture) had earned the lowest number of votes on last Thursday's Singapore Idol > results
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      237 40 This week, we turn to the official blogs of the Singapore Idols themselves to see just what makes them tick. Log on to www.singaporeidol.com/blogs.htmto have a peek. I didn't dare approach Rahimah while she was singing her song cause the cameras were already on me and cause trouble for
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      257 41  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@newstoday.com.sg A SLICE of Latin American culture will come to the Harbour Front area at the end of October in the form of Movida, a world music bar in the new St James Power Station entertainment complex. Due to open by the end
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      465 42  -  ELISACHIA Actress Julie Bowen of Boston Legal 'is tired of playing the passive role elisa@newstoday.com.sg SHE has made a career out of playing girlfriend roles, but Julie Bowen has had enough of that even though she gets to snog some of the hottest leading men in
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      403 43  -  DAVID CHEW Artist to set up tree that 'reverses ageing, cures illnesses...' david. chew@newstoday.com. sg For his trouble, the artist was arrested by the Japanese police, who let him off with a 50,000 yen ($670) fine after seven days of questioning. In Berlin, he managed to get
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      94 43 A NUMBER of artists today work by creating "interventions". While the methods and effects are often novel IEPE's body of work, for example -the practice can be seen as part of a longer history of modern art. For over 100 years, artists have sought to make familiar objects or
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      218 48 LONDON Arsenal winger Jose Antonio Reyes (picture) claimed yesterday he was closing in on his "dream" move to Real Madrid. Reyes, 22, did not play in Arsenal's win over Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League and not being cup-tied has apparently helped pave the way for
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      281 49 -AGENCIES DUBLIN Republic of Ireland football manager Steve Staunton has played down the incident in which he was threatened by a man with an imitation gun at the team's hotel. Staunton, whose squad are preparing for today's friendly against Holland at Lansdowne Road, was unhurt
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      121 49 CHINA MEAN BUSINESS! Recalls top players for match against Lions! Asian Cup 2007 Australia Kuwait Wed, 16/08/06 5.30pm Asian Cup 2007 China PR Singapore Wed, 16/08/06 B.oopm International Football Denmark Poland Thu, 17/08/06 2.00 am International Football Norway Brazil Thu, 17/08/06 2.10 am International Football Czech Republic Serb&Montenegro Thu, 17/08/06
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      543 50  -  TANYO-HINN Heem Wei makes history as SNOC give her Asian Games nod yohinn@newstoday.com.sg LIM Heem Wei cites missing out on the Melbourne Commonwealth Games earlier this year as one of her biggest disappointments. Now, the gymnast can look forward to making up for that huge setback in
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      221 50 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Volvo Ocean Race is known for being the world's toughest and most prestigious sailing battle on water. And Singapore could be a possible stop for the round-the-world race in 2009. The race's chief executive, Glenn Bourke, who is in town to assess the infrastructure
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      84 50  -  -TANYOHINN SINGAPORE'S Amanda Choo set a new national women's 100 m junior record when she clocked 12.26 sec in the heats at the lAAF World Junior Athletics Championships (Aug 15-20) in Beijing yesterday. It erased the previous mark of 12.27s set by Hiranisha Rasimuddin in 1997. However,
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      97 50 -AP TAIPEI Veteran billiards champion Jennifer Chen has dropped out of a competition to win a place on the Taiwanese pool team for the Asian Games, an official said yesterday, allegedly because of gambling debts. Chen reportedly went into hiding in the United States last month to
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      767 51  -  Jose Raymond Singapore already written off, but bullish Avramovic has faith in his men ASIAN CUP GROUP E QUALIFIER China v Singapore THE locals have billed it as a no-con-test Many Singapore fans also think the Lions are in for a mauling, when their favourites
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      350 51  -  -JOSE RAYMOND in Tianjin CHINA head coach Zhu Guanghu admitted yesterday his side were under pressure to secure full points against Singapore at the Teda Soccer Stadium tonight in their Asian Cup Group E qualifier. However, with Europe-based players Li Tie, Shao Jiayi and Dong
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