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    13 1 TODAY /A=DIJ\CORP share your free newspaper Friday August 25, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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    Lock icon Apple, Creative start singing in tune
    794 1  -  LEECHINGWERN $158 m deal struck to avoid legal battle over MP3 players chingwern@newstoday.com. sg IN THE end, Goliath decided to settle. Apple Computer agreed to pay Singapore's Creative Technology US$lOO million ($157.7 million) to put an end to their potentially painful legal battle. Creative
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    A 5-year browsing period for foreigners
    767 1  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE journey to make a foreigner switch passports is a long one, but Singapore yesterday spelt out details on how it intends to make the first step count Instead of keeping the current crop of 65,000 employment pass (EP) holders hanging
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      23 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 14 voices 28 business 42 classed 53 homestoday 54 sports 57 we set you thinking
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      58 1 I WOmaQ ONE EXPATS VIEW: HERETO STAY, NOT JUST PASSING THROUGH T a world 4i.L'i.' LOOK INTO MY EYES... fi>--£Z^St_ lllUlSlC ...and learn why this former newspaper editor is an advocate of hypnotism 34 ■ME)*!. ineiHp I '1 FERGIE'S MAN U ARE RED HOT, OUR 24-PAGE P JSSPECIAI BUTJOSE'S FEELING
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  • hot news
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      Taking NE beyond books
      512 2  -  LEE U-WEN Government moves to weave National Education syllabus into child's broader school experience u-wen@newstoday.com.sg A MAKEOVER is on the cards for the National Education (NE) programme, coming less than 10 years after it was introduced to schools in Singapore. Spearheading this will be a new
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      Lock icon VivoCity scaffolding collapse: 3 injured
      224 3  -  -DERRICKA PAULO THREE workers were injured as part of the scaffolding at Vivo City gave way last night Today understands that plastering work was in progress at about 9.30pm, when the scaffolding on one side of the seven-storey building in the Harbour Front area collapsed
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      Lock icon Pluto's no planet
      101 3 -AFP PRAGUE Pluto yesterday lost its sevendecade status as the ninth and outermost planet of the solar system, the world's top astrononomical body decided. The decision was made at an assembly of the International Astronomical Union in a raised-hands vote after what, by the discreet standards of
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      WE'RE NOT JUST PASSING THROUGH
      855 3  -  ZAFARANJUM Fitting in here is a challenge for expatriates from Asia too zaf ar@newstoday.com.sg WHEN one of my Indian friends, working across the Causeway for many years, decided to come here in search of a job, I remarked on how globalised he had become. He
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      396 2 Menopause: Making the transition naturally. It may be a natural step in the process of ageing. Yet for some, the physical and emotional changes don't feel all I B that natural. I Jf What's happening to me? 1 V I Wce4m®ss, «i^V»V suecxVs cxn4 woo 4 &um^&. Menopause occurs when
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Going forth to multiply
      645 4  -  DERRICK A PAULO Perm Sec explains population push derrick@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS been two months since eight civil servants were brought together full time to tackle a 30--year problem in Singapore. Only one country in the developed world, the United States, has been able to do the
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      Lock icon IR boost to hotel room rates come 2009
      246 6 -938 LIVE ACCORDING to Las Vegas Sands, the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort (IR) will significantly boost hotel room rates across Singapore when it opens in 2009. With the IR positioned as the top tourist attraction in Singapore, president and chief operating
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      Star-style luxury
      513 6  -  UNYANQIN Sentosa's Capella resort offers unparalleled service, long-term accommodation yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg IMAGINE being driven to a resort by a chauffeur who can converse in your native language, then being shown to a room arranged to suit your preferences and introduced to your own personal assistants. The books you want
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      HTV-infected drug peddler gets jail, cane
      219 6 AN HIV-INFECTED business development manager was sentenced to six years in jail and 10 strokes of the cane yesterday for selling synthetic drugs to a trainee doctor in March. Carl Benedict Cheo Wang Meng, 35, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of drug-related offences for
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      Dunman High wins Gold, 13 more get arts award
      249 8  -  -DAVID CHEW THE National Arts Education Awards 2006 were given out yesterday by the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Dr Lee Boon Yang (picture), to 14 schools. Dunman High School was the sole Gold award winner. Into its fourth
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      The $30m problem
      699 8  -  SHERALYN TAY With no insurance schemes for pest damage, termites are eating their hearts out at our expense shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg THE problem is as invisible as the insects themselves that is, until things literally fall apart To say that termites can eat you out of house and
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        Lock icon YOUNG WOMAN KNIFED AT BUKIT BATOK
        111 8 -938UVE A young woman was stabbed at Bukit Batok West Aye 6 yesterday morning. Police got the call at 7.35 am When they arrived, they found a Chinese woman in her early 20s bleeding from slash wounds to her head and abdomen. She was
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        Lock icon PLAZA SINGAPURA GLASS PANEL FALLS ON MAN
        68 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A man in his mid-20s was injured when a glass panel at Plaza Singapura fell from the first floor to the basement on Wednesday. Police said the incident happened at about 8.40pm. The man suffered injuries to his head and shoulders
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        Lock icon GET FIT FOR LIFE
        138 8 938 LIVE The Health Promotion Board will launch its annual National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign next month. This year's theme calls on Singaporeans to be Fit for Life. The campaign hopes to rally Singaporeans to adopt a takecharge attitude towards their health and take simple steps towards
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        Lock icon STOLEN VEHICLES RETURNED TO M'SIA
        125 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Five Malaysian-registered vehicles seized during a joint Singapore-Malaysia operation were handed to the Malaysian police yesterday during a visit from its criminal investigation department's deputy director (Bukit Aman), Syed Ismail Syed Azizan. In 2004, the Singapore police, in cooperation with their Malaysian counterparts,
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      Lock icon 'Let them protest... in the Suntec lobby'
      273 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Outdoor demonstrations cannot be allowed under local rules, says Govt THE organising committee for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank meetings believes it has an excellent solution to outdoor demonstrations by setting aside the Suntec lobby for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
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      Lady Luck smiled on them
      264 10  -  ZAFARANJUM zaf a r@newstoday.com.sg SOME smiles win hearts others win Lady Luck's favour. Ms Rathakrishnan Bhavani, 27 (right), smiled and won an Osim iDesire massage chair as the grand prize winner of the Four Million Smiles lucky draw. The administrative executive in an investment firm
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      Lock icon Drive left, greet right
      236 10 938UVE FROM 1,650 Singaporeans who responded to the Singapore 2006 Organising Committee's call for chauffeurs in May, the list was whittled down to 700. At the month end, only 600 will make the cut Meanwhile, they have all been placed on a special training programme. During
      — 938UVE; WEETECKHIAN  -  236 words
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      'MIT of India' alumni to hold major meeting here
      565 12  -  SHIBUITTYKUTTICKAL Much-touted Indian Institutes of Technology gradssayitisachance to'explore'Singapore shibu@newstoday.com.sg JUST like Massachusetts Institute of Technology only much harder to get into. While this description of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) has become well known, even in Singapore, the island will
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      Lock icon Kg Glam to light up
      260 12  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Singapore celebrates Hari Raya next month, it won't just be Geylang Serai that is abuzz with festive lights and activities. Kampong Glam will also take centrestage, with a Hari Raya carnival that organisers MediaCorp TVI2 Suria and Majlis Pusat (Central Council of
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      Nurul is latest to get voted off Singapore Idol
      241 12  -  JEANINETAN NURUL Maideen is the latest contestant to be eliminated from Singapore Idol. The 20-year-old student was booted off during yesterday's results show after she received mixed reviews from the judges for her two performances on Wednesday night The theme was
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      Lock icon Explosives defused near Thai premier's house
      375 14 -AGENCIES I narrowly escaped assassination bid, says PM Thaksin BANGKOK As the campaign for the Oct 15 general election kicked off yesterday, Thai police defused explosives found in a car parked near Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's house here. They arrested an army officer yesterday
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      Lock icon Most Indonesians don't want Islamic law implemented
      210 14 -DPA JAKARTA The majority of Indonesians reject the implementation of Islamic law despite calls by radical groups to make the world's largest Muslim-majority nation a theocratic state, according to a survey released yesterday. About 64 per cent of 700 respondents across the country
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon GRUNTING CUBICLES
        98 14 DPA The grunts heard from fitting cubicles do not always come from fashion enthusiasts battling to get into those slimline jeans, Dutch boutiques and department stores have found. Some younger people have been having sex behind the curtains of department store dressing rooms. "The risk of being caught
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        MULTIPLE ORGASMS CLAIM BACKFIRES ... OR DOES IT?
        127 14 MULTIPLE ORGASMS CLAIM BACKFIRES OR DOES IT? When Ruth Byron told the media about a condition that caused her to experience up to 40 orgasms a day, the Department of Work and Pensions took a keen interest, London's The Times newspaper reported. The 50-year-old spoke not only about living with
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      Lock icon Indonesian President's son signs up for UN force
      203 16 -DPA JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) may be taking a domestic political gamble by offering troops for a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but he is also taking a personal risk. One of the platoon commanders in the 1,000-strong
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      Lock icon Impeachment bid crushed
      320 16 -AP Philippine leader's opponents to fight on MANILA Philippine lawmakers overwhelmingly crushed the latest impeachment bid against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday after a marathon overnight session as her opponents vowed to fight on to oust her. The House of Representatives, dominated by Arroyo allies, voted 173-32,
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      Lock icon Haze thickens over Sumatra
      174 16 AFP JAKARTA Haze from fires raging on the jungle-covered Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo thickened over those areas yesterday as officials met to prepare a plan for battling the blazes. "We are meeting to coordinate steps to fight the ground and forest fires and the
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        Lock icon CHAVEZ EYES CHINA OIL BOUNTY
        107 18 -AFP Venezuela plans to more than triple its oil exports to China over the next five years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said ahead of a meeting Thursday with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao. "On the whole, production will rise in such a way that we
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        Lock icon CHINA INVITES N KOREA'S KIM
        72 18 -AFP China has invited North Korean leader Kirn Jong-ll to visit "as soon as possible" amid reports that Pyongyang is preparing for a nuclear bomb test. South Korean reports said. Beijing "has asked Mr Kirn to visit as soon as possible, as it believes such
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        Lock icon AIR CRASH: BLACK BOXES FOUND
        52 18 -AFP Investigators recovered the remains of 130 bodies from the charred wreckage of a Russian airliner on Wednesday. An official said the plane's two black box flight recorders were also found. Officials were examining recordings of conversations between the pilots and a Ukrainian air traffic
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      Lock icon A way forward for stem cells
      427 18 -AGENCIES Scientists' discovery could take away Bush's'last excuse' to block research WORCESTER (Massachusetts) Scientists have found a way to make stem cells from embryos without destroying the embryo in the process an advance that could open the door to billions of dollars in research
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      Lock icon 'Mud volcano5 engulfs villages
      681 21  - 'Mud volcano 5 engulfs villages JOHNAGLIONBY THE GUARDIAN Indonesian officials prepare for the worst as growing sea of hot mud grows INPORONG news@newstoday.com.sg FOUR villages and 19 factories have been submerged in a 240-ha sea of mud in East Java that is growing by up to 50,000 cubic metres a
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      Lock icon Teachers caught doping student athletes in China
      334 22 -AFP Uproar after staff at athletic school injected teens with performance-boosting drugs BEIJING Teachers at an athletics school in China have been caught injecting teenagers with performance-boosting drugs in a scandal that has caused fury in Beijing ahead of the 2008 Olympics, state
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      Lock icon Abe to set up CIA-style agency?
      149 22 -AFP I TOKYO-Mr Shinzo Abe, the frontrunner to be Japan's next prime minister, is considering setting up a spy organisation similar to the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Sankei Shimbun reported yesterday. Mr Abe, currently the chief Cabinet secretary, is looking at
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      Lock icon Top Lankan truce monitor slams EU
      202 22 -AFP COLOMBO The outgoing chief monitor of Sri Lanka's crumbling ceasefire yesterday criticised the European Union for banning the Tamil Tiger rebels and said his warnings of a violent "worst case scenario" had come true. Brigadier General Ulf Henricsson wrote a memo to the
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        Lock icon ISRAEL ARMY CHIEF ADMITS FAILURES IN LEBANON WAR
        67 24 -AFP Israel's embattled army chief Dan Halutz yesterday admitted for the first time to failings during the Lebanon war amid increasing public discontent over how the offensive was handled. "Parallel with our success, during combat we observed failures in certain areas, notably
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        HE SENT 5 MILLION EMAILS
        64 24 Part-time accounts clerk David Lennon, 19, who took exception to being dismissed from his company and bombarded his former employer with five million e-mails was sentenced to a two-month curfew yesterday, London's The Times newspaper reported yesterday. Lennon used a computer program to send continuous
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        Lock icon BRAZILIAN GETS 543 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ROLE IN MASSACRE
        72 24 -AFP A Brazilian judge on Wednesday sentenced a military policeman to 543 years in prison for his role in the March 2005 massacre of 29 civilians on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Judge Elizabeth Loro sentenced Carlos Jorge Caravalho
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      Lock icon World powers split over Iran
      475 24 -DPA US, France express dissatisfaction, China, Russia call for patience NEW YORK The United States, France and Germany expressed dissatisfaction with Tehran's response to a international offer of incentives in return for a halt to uranium enrichment. But Washington, Paris and Berlin were said to
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      Lock icon IT'S NOT QUITE THE END FOR OLMERT
      796 26  -  EMANUELSHAHAF He may still get the chance to do more than muddle through straight IN JERUSALEM THE last month and a half have probably been the worst in the political life of Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert After taking over from ailing Premier
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      193 27 Ziyi Zhang In Person I I at 'The Banquet' Gala Premiere! C ASIENCE takes you on a star-gazing feast! Meet mega movie stars, Ziyi Zhang and Daniel Wu 'live' in person at 'The Banquet' Gala Premiere in Singapore on 14 Sept 2006 and be among the >*"" first to watch
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        378 28  -  BENJAMIN ANDRES Letter from I AM a 30-year-old French citizen with a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's in business management I have worked as a finance manager for five years in Asia, and am married to an Indonesian citizen of Chinese
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        352 28  -  STEVE KNGO Letter from I REFER to the report, "Lure of the red passport" (Aug 24). Allow me to explain why the Government faces an uphill task. PR status is popular with people who come here for better career opportunities, either because of
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      159 30  -  ACE KINDRED CHEONG Letter from I REFER to the investigations into Youth Challenge sparked off by students' complaints. It is good to ensure that all charity organisations follow the rules and that their accounts are in order, to prevent another scandal like the National
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      467 30  -  HOWARD LEE OB markers, not so much laws, are the concern online Letter from I READ with interest the article by Ang Peng Hwa, "Sending bloggers to school" (Aug 22). I applaud his good intentions to help Singapore bloggers find their way around cyberspace without
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      171 34  -  HO HWEI LING Letter from Assistant Director, Corporate and Marketing Communication Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore WE REFER to Mr Colin Ong Tau Shien's letter, "Limit corporate use of private numbers" (Aug 17). We appreciate Mr Ong's concerns and are pleased
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      868 34  - isay HYPNOTISED BY FEAR? DON'T BE JOE NATHAN LOURDES THREE years ago, I was a senior editor in a Singapore newspaper. Today, I'm a hypnotist. Many people I know are amazed at the change. What's a sceptical ex-journalist doing using that hocus pocus hypnosis stuff? Thanks to science and technology,
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      303 35  - 1 Spore wife 1 foreign wife more babies ONG KEAN HIN JOHANES JIMMY Letter from IT'S nice to see Singaporeans come up with innovative ideas on how to improve the national birth rate. Some ideas may not work in the form they are presented but can be refined and made
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      224 36  -  HENGCHOCHOON Letter from YOUR Succeed article, "A lesson on being happy at work" (Aug 21), is a timely reminder to all young mothers struggling with the priorities of family and job. It should tug at the heartstrings of those in a
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      504 36  - Unable, so why not 'disabled' JACQUELINE LIMRAE FERN Driver refused a handicap parking label despite real need, due to inflexible rules Letter from IN A typical HDB multi-storey car park, there are no lifts. And if you do not hold a season parking label, you cannot park your car on
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      244 38  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY nrji DRIVEN BY REVENGE Very few stories are as gripping as Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick. And like most literary classics, its theme is as timeless as the ages. The story focuses on the great whaling ship the Pequod, under the leadership
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      517 38  -  CHIAHERNKENG THE usual perception is that a rich person or organisation should be generous to society by donating to charitable causes. One who does not do so is thought to be lacking in charity. Hence, the criticism that Singapore lacks "Warren Buffetts". This
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      369 40  -  S SATISH APPOO Letter frorr Head, Environmental Health Department National Environment Agency (NEA) and Manager, Corporate Communications Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) WE REFER to the letter "Trace Source of Pollutions and bring culprits to book" (Aug
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      322 40  -  (VMYCHUA New RlB rating will add vibrancy, but shows assessed on own merit Letter from Director, Media Content Media Development Authority WE THANK Messrs Rick Lim Say Kiong and Goh Kian Huat ("Giving the buzz a boost", Aug 22), for their views on the
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      428 42 AGENCIES Shares in the maker of MP3 players back in favour after its settlement with Apple SHARES of Creative Technology are set to rise further after Apple Computer agreed to pay it US$lOO million ($l5B million) to settle a legal dispute and allowed the Sin-gapore-based
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      138 42 BLOOMBERG BRITISH Airways (BA), Europe's thirdlargest airline, said competition regulators in the United Kingdom should consider breaking up BAA's ownership of airports around London. "Decisions on new runway construction in south-east England should not be concentrated in the hands of one company," the London-based airline
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        85 42 SHARES suffered their biggest slide in six weeks as a decline in US home sales sparked concerns the world's largest economy may be set for a slump. "The US housing market has already been identified as a swing factor for the US economy and if there is a severe
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        55 42 ST Index 2,446.11 26.151 Bloomberg day drop since July 17. In the broad market, losers outnumbered gainers 377 to 181, with 946.5 million shares worth $969.2 million traded. Chartered, Singapore's biggest chip maker, fell 3 cents, or 2.4 per cent, to $1.20. Electronics contract manufacturer Venture lost 20 cents, or
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        36 42 US$ 0.6338 UK£ 0.3349 Yen 73.777 HK$ 4.9307 RM 2.3323 Euro 0.4941 Rupiah 5,794.5 Baht 23.888 Peso 32.725 AS 0.8308 Indian Rs 29.493 Won 608.17 C$ 0.7029 Yuan 5.0543 NZS 0.9938 NT$ 20.833
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        58 42 Nikkei 225 15,960.62 -202.41 -1.25 HK Hang Seng 16,883.04 -205.35 -1.20 Australia ASX200 4,987.80 -94.50 -1.86 Korea Comp 1,315.73 -9.22 -0.70 Thailand SET 692.17 -5.84 -0.84 Jakarta Comp 1,429.48 -9.15 -0.64 Phils Comp 2,314.09 -0.48 -0.02 Shenzhen B 286.13 -1.06 -0.37 Mumbai Sensex 11,531.95 +125.30 +1.10 Malaysia KLCI
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        27 42 SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 633.50 Silver US$/oz 12.575 Platinum US$/oz 1,240.00 Rubber cents/kg 342.00 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,579.00 Brant US$/barrel 71.96 Information provided by
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        55 42 K1 Ventur 0.390 +0.005 +1.3 35,946 SingTel 2.430 -0.010 -0.4 25,522 Chartered 1.200 -0.030 -2.4 22,371 ISGAsia 0.230 +0.115 +100.0 21,173 SingPost 1.020 -0.010 -1.0 10,051 Synear 0.905 -0.010 -1.1 17,647 MediaRing Capitaland 0.355 4.400 -0.005 -0.100 -1.4 -3.9 17,104 16,900 Longcheer 1.040 +0.045 +4.5 15,904 Fung
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        251 44 Channel NawsAsia Channel News Asia Singapore's Bio*one Capital has successfully led a group of investors to raise about $57 million for a privately-held biotechnology company, Codexis. California-based Codexis plans to set up a research and development facility in Singapore to support its generics business, which is the production of
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        364 44  -  Will use Chennai as springboard to growth IN CHENNAI ja nec@newstoday.com.sg JANE CHIAPOCO CEMENTING its leadership in the international serviced residence industry, Singapore's Ascott Group yesterday marked its first foray into India. Ascott signed a master development agreement with India-based export, infrastructure development and leasing company,
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        233 44 AGENCIES MALAYAN Banking, or Maybank, yesterday reported a 51-per-cent year-on-year rise in fourthquarter net profit, largely as a result of lower loan loss provisions. Malaysia's largest lender, with a market capitalisation of RM41.02 billion ($17.6 billion), posted a net profit of RM855.4 million for the
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        234 46  -  CHOW PENN NEE A FLIGHT to Bangkok can be redeemed after charging less than $10,000 to the new United Overseas Bank (UOB) Visa Signature Card, compared to more than $20,000 using other credit cards. The card, launched yesterday, focuses on offering travel privileges
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        340 46 —AFP Sale of 20% of port unit to PSA provides boost HONG KONG Hong Kong ports-to-telecoms giant Hutchison Whampoa posted a doubling of its net profit in the first half but the result was slightly below analysts forecast. The company, headed by Asia's richest man, Mr Li
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        643 48 BLOOMBERG Proposed anti-monopoly legislation in China may hurt firms like Microsoft, GE CHINA is drafting an anti-monopoly law which may force companies such as General Electric Co, Microsoft Corp and China Petroleum Chemical Corp to give up leading market shares in the world's
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        847 49  -  MATTHEW LYNN BLOOMBERG news@newstoday.com.sg IN THE event that anything in this column grabs your interest, don't even think about "googling" it As for turning it into some kind of "pod" don't bother. Why not? Because the lawyers from Google and Apple
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        217 50 BLOOMBERG SONY Corp, the world's secondbiggest consumer electronics maker, took more than a fifth of Japan's digital single-lens reflex (SLR) camera market in its debut month, claiming third place after Canon and Nikon, a market researcher said yesterday. Sony, which
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        498 50 BLOOMBERG PICTURES FROM Says able to replace talent lost to rival Lenovo DELL Inc, the world's biggest personal computer maker, predicted sustained sales in Asia even after losing four key executives in the region to competitor Lenovo Group in the past eight
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      600 54 Design firm KNQ brings new life to tired, old spaces FOR the past two years, Stanley Tham and KusninTan have battled the year-end rush as most Singaporeans do when the festive season approaches. But the designers now face a different kind of rush. Stanley
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      568 56 -AFP World champion's preparations suffer setback as mass dampers are outlawed F1 Turkish Grand Prix ISTANBUL If having a seventime world champion in your rear view mirror is not pressuring enough, Fernando Alonso's Renault team were dealt a further blow ahead of this Sunday's Turkish
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      334 56 AGENCIES LONDON Pakistan cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq's disciplinary hearing could still take place before or during the one-day series against England which starts next Monday. An International Cricket Council (ICC) spokesman told BBC Sport yesterday the governing body did not want the charges lingering for longer than necessary.
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      280 56 AGENCIES LONDON Sprinter Justin Gatlin (picture) must serve at least four years of his doping ban, an International Association of Athletics Federations (lAAF) spokesman said yesterday. The American Olympic and world 100 metres champion, who was given an eight-year ban on Tuesday, escaped
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      553 57 -AFP WORLD BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS China 78 Slovenia 77 SAPPORO China basketball enjoyed their biggest shot yesterday and the country's biggest basketball star could only stand and admire. Wang Shipeng's 3-pointer at the final buzzer gave China a stunning 78-77 victory over Slovenia yesterday, advancing them into the playoff rounds
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      113 57 PHOTO COURTESY OF HARD disc drive manufacturer Seagate Technology organised a charity golf event on Wednesday at the Laguna National Golf And Country Club and raised $30,000 for the Life Community Services Society's (LCSS) Friends of Children programme. The programme provides positive guidance and mentoring to help
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      265 57  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg CHOO Tze Huang faces an uphill task in defending his Singapore Open Amateur crown as the championship enters the final round today. The Singaporean golfer carded a 1-over-par 72 yesterday at the Singapore Island Country Club's Bukit course for a three-day total of 212,
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      598 58  -  JOSE RAYMOND S-League considers staging all live matches at Young Lions'home nextyear jose@newstoday.com.sg THE S-League are exploring the idea of having all live matches to be played at the Jalan Besar Stadium next season. However, it has not gone down too well with some club officials and
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      348 58  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg JAPANESE side Albirex Niigata beat the Young Lions 4-3 at the Jurong East Stadium last night. Goals by Tsuneyuki Ueda (35th minute), Takanori Maeda (51st, 90th) and Suguru Hashimoto (84th) condemned the Young Lions, whose goals came from
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      338 58  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg JUST as Cuesports Singapore are seemingly heading towards rosier times, a member of the national sporting body is in trouble. On Aug 9, a police report was lodged against Cuesports executive board member Haresh Lilaram Sadhwani after a dispute at the Singapore
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      1067 59  -  DARREN LAI Protectors look to Korean Jeon to give Bok first taste of defeat NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 SAFFC v Home United da rren@newstoday.com.sg IT IS difficult enough being forced to play in an unfamiliar position. Now imagine having to fill the boots of Indra Sahdan one
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      611 61  -  CUBBY LEONG Ex-striker tips Man United to be Chelsea's biggest challengers this season cubby@newstoday.com.sg THEY might have stumbled on Wednesday at Middlesbrough, but few would bet on a team other than Chelsea to lift their third consecutive English Premiership title this season. And while most observers
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      73 61 AT THE launch of Fitness Asia 2006, the new sporting, fitness and wellness show to be held at the Singapore Expo (Sept 8-10), some of the participants show their respective exercise regimes. Maia PHOTO COURTESY OF Cannon (far left), Zahira Bay (second from left) and Ayana Wong (second
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      586 62 AGENCIES Forwards are firing on all cylinders, United are top and fledglings are maturing ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Charlton 0 Man United 3 LONDON Manchester United are now sitting pretty at the top of the English Premiership table, but they only seem to notice one team below them:
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      382 62 —AGENCIES LONDON Former Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane is expected to be named as Sunderland's manager this week, according to reports yesterday in the British press. Niall Quinn, Sunderland's chairmanmanager, has been in regular contact with Keane and reports state that the duo
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      502 63 -AFP Chelsea boss questions his players' attitudes as they hand rivals early psychological boost ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Middlesbrough 2 Chelsea 1 MIDDLESBROUGH Last season, they didn't drop a single point until more than two months into the season. But two defeats in three games and already
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      317 63 —AGENCIES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUALIFIER Arsenal 2 Dinamo Zagreb 1 (Arsenal win 5-1 on aggregate) LONDON Emboldened by last year's run to the final, Thierry Henry has backed Arsenal to go one step further this season and lift the Champions League. The Gunners defeated Dinamo Zagreb
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      329 63 —AGENCIES MANCHESTER Portsmouth midfielder Pedro Mendes suffered a seizure after being struck in the head by the forearm of Manchester City defender Ben Thatcher during a 0-0 draw in a Premiership clash on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Portsmouth manager Harry
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      1271 66  -  Zul Othman L^^ a jm I If A.^i n»il|;KH AND WITH IT, SOUNDS AND CULTURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO DAZZLE YOU ONCE AGAIN IT'S the same old song every year, World of Music, Arts and Dance (Womad) festival director Sarah Martin laments. No matter how varied the
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      331 67 BE prepared for a sizzling weekend as artists hailing from countries ranging from South Africa to Thailand converge on Fort Canning Park for this year's Womad. With music fans faced with a treasure trove of musical riches, ZULOTHMAN picks out five noteworthy performers. JIMMY CLIFF (JAMAICA) Arguably Jamaica's biggest
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      632 68  -  JEANINETAN Why have you not heard of actress Sarah Polley? Because that's the way she likes it jeanine@newstoday.com.sg SARAH Polley is an actress who could have been better known to movie audiences. That is, she could have played the iconic groupie Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous,
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      539 68  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL There's nothing else like it. Ifs the Olympic Games o TV shows. Michael McKay, executive producer of The Amazing Race WHILE details about The Amazing Race Asia are still shrouded in secrecy, one thing's for certain: It's not easy
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      682 70  -  EUSACHIA Find out the best places to shop, visit and eat in D J Tan Liyi's guidebook to South Korea elisa@newstoday.com.sg BAE Yong Jun, Lee Byung Hun, Won Bin and Jang Dang Gun. She hobnobbed with the four Heavenly Kings of South Korea when they visited Singapore separately
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      297 70  -  EUSACHIA SINGAPORE'S Chinese concert scene has just got hotter. Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter Wang Lee Horn will bring his Heroes of Earth World Tour to the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Oct 21. News of the concert was confirmed on Wednesday. Bursting onto the music scene
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      603 72  -  ROSS WALLACE UK avant garde mag for the'black-collar', or stylish creative crowd, comes to Singapore Deputy Plus Editor ross@newstoday.com.sg BLUE collar workers, white collar workers or "black collar" workers? It's the latter group of men Arena Magazine is targeting with its soon-to-be-released Singapore edition. Firmly
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      422 74  -  JEANINETAN Children can join Batman in action-packed rescue mission atthe Indoor Stadium jea nine@newstoday.com.sg CALLING all kids with superhero dreams: You could be who Batman is looking for. Notorious Gotham City villains The Joker, Poison Ivy and The Penguin have escaped from Arkham Asylum and kidnapped
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        66 74 Join London-born Gordon Hunt as he collaborates with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra on Strauss' Oboe Concerto tonight at the Esplanade's Concert Hall at 7.30pm. Hunt appears regularly throughout the world as a soloist and conductor and is also the principal oboe in the London Philharmonic and
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        63 74 Aptly for the seventh-month period. In Source Theatre's Celebratory Songs of the Dead will explore an after-death journey as depicted by physical movements inspired by research in tai chi, yoga and silat. To be a part of that out-of-body experience, join In Source Theatre on Sat or
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        81 74 The Periplus Publishing Group in conjunction with The Peranakan Association has launched A Baba Malay Dictionary: A Compendium of Straits Chinese Terms and Expressions by William Gwee Thian Hock. The first-ever compendium of Straits Chinese words and phrases, the book documents unusual words, phrases, idioms and expressions used
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      230 76  - in cinemas soon I with JEANINETAN jeanine@newstoday.com.sg PAN'S JfL, LABYR#FTH When little Ofelia's mother Carmen marries Vidal, a captain in the Republican Army, mother and daughter move into Vidal's family home. There, Ofelia discovers a nearby labyrinth, which is a portal into an alternate universe that lays claim to Ofelia
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      487 78  -  Justin Cheong When all your worst fears collide in mid-air, you know you're in for a fang-tastic ride FILMREVIEW by Snakes on a Plane YOU'VE got to love Samuel L Jackson. The man has his own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and has been featured in over
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      171 80 FANCY a taste of the forbidden? Forbidden City star Kit Chan (picture) will hold an autograph session tonight from Bpm to 10pm at Tangs Department Store. The appearance is part of a showcase that will also see the department store's windows transformed until Sept 7
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      464 80  -  Ross Wallace Crime film has no punch in its punchline FILMREVIEW by I Lucky Number Slevin THIS one has cult classic written all over it. Or so the makers of Lucky Number Slevin must have thought A twisty tale of scheming rival mob bosses, fast-talking hit men,
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      293 82  -  Felix Cheong War crimes film well-shot but lacks focus FILMREVIEW by I Passabe IN LIGHT of recent violence in Timor Leste, this documentary by first-time filmmakers James Leong and Lynn Lee comes as a timely reminder that all is not right with the world's
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      228 82  -  Felix Cheong F by FILMREVIEW EVER had one of those nightmares of being stranded in the cinema watching a film you couldn't wait to leave? Welcome to Lovewrecked. Amanda Bynes plays Jennifer, a cutie who's screaming-head-over-teeny-bopper-heels in love with rock star Jason Masters (Jon Bon Jovi look-alike Chris Carmack).
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      273 84  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW I by n Pretty Persuasion PRETTY Persuasion is one very busy film. Not because its plot is convoluted but because director Marcos Siega presses, almost relentlessly, four hot-button issues: Racism, paedophilia, cult of personality and gun control. And what a bonfire of American vanities he
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      187 84  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW F by TAKE three babes, two sidekicks and a plot that has as much direction as a loose cannon. What have you got? A should-have-been-straight-to-video spoof of Charlie's Angels. Sillier than Naked Gun, with more hair than Jennifer Aniston, Chat-Lai (Thai for gorgeous but also
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