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    28 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Wednesday August 30, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY share your free newspaper Frew Wednesday August 30, 2006 todayonline.com I MICA (P) 192/07/2006
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    Breaking the barrier
    931 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG What will it take to remove the differences that stand between S'poreans, migrants? cheekong@newstoday.com.sg IT TAKES years to build a bridge, but a single unintended insult can break a friendship. Madam Lee, a 38-year-old "study mama" from China, says she stands out in a
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    Subutex junkies 'hiding like rats'
    464 1  -  ANSLEY NG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg SOMEWHERE out there are 800 Subutex users who have shunned a shot at rehabilitation. Doctors worry where they will end up. When the deadline to register ended on Monday, some 3,304 had signed up for the Subutex Voluntary Rehabilitation Programme (SVRP),
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      GET RADICAL TO KEEP STORKS BUSY
      826 2  -  VINCENT CHIA Tweak policies, such as housing, to favour those with kids; make starting afresh easier for estranged couples COAXING Singaporean couples to have more babies is anything but straightforward. The responsibility, time and effort required to raise a child will far outweigh any
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      Lock icon No foreign car levy, but Johor plans in full swing
      376 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Tax idea scrapped but economic zone details soon to be announced: Minister A RECENT proposal to levy a RM2O tax ($8.50) on foreign cars entering Johor from Sept 1 has been scrapped, according to Malaysia's Minister for International
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      Labour to include all in its fold
      543 4  -  TORCHING LI NTUC reaches out to everyone from cleaners to professionals chingli@newstoday.com.sg THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) announced yesterday an ambitious new vision for the next five years to include people from all occupations, nationalities and ages in its fold. Called the
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        Lock icon MULTI-AGENCY EXERCISE TO SAFEGUARD THE SEAS
        124 4 -938UVE A TWO-WEEK-LONG maritime security exercise involving 1,600 personnel from various Singapore maritime agencies is being carried out. Exercise Apex 06 is led by the Singapore Navy's Coastal Command, and will also see the participation of the air force, army. Police Coast Guard, Maritime
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        Lock icon WOMAN FOUND DEAD OUTSIDE TEMPLE
        74 4 -938 LIVE Awoman was found dead outside a temple along Sin Ming Drive yesterday morning. Police received a call about her at 7.20 am. When they arrived at the scene soon after, they found a Chinese woman in her mid-50s, dressed in a pink floral
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        Lock icon FLU DRILL AT NURSING HOME
        83 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Peacehaven Nursing Home conducted a flu pandemic drill yesterday to test the readiness of its staff in the event of a bird flu outbreak here -the second such step-down care facility to do so since Exercise Sparrow/hawk II last month. The drill tested
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        Lock icon GENETICIST JOINS A*STAR
        63 4 I CHANNEL NEWSASIA Renowned international developmental geneticist Professor Philip Ingham has joined A*Star's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB). IMCB's director. Professor Sir David Lane, said Prof Ingham would reinforce Singapore and the institute as a leading research centre for developmental biology. Prof Ingham will research
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      Weeding out the black sheep among cabbies
      477 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG Industry-wide blacklist of errant taxi drivers could be in place by next month cheekong@newstoday.com. sg SOON, errant cabbies whose contracts are terminated by their companies will no longer be able to run to other taxi operators in the hope of
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      Lock icon Student volunteers ace test of heart
      333 6  -  -JASMINE YIN IT IS no ordinary test that these undergraduates have set themselves up for. Believing that the moral test for any society is how it treats its weakest members, the 350-strong National University of Singapore Students' Union Volunteer Action Committee (NVAC) has actively
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      Lock icon Church sued over 'exorcism'
      427 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Woman claims damages for trauma of alleged exorcism by two priests and helpers at Novena Church NOVENA Church, two priests and seven helpers are being sued for an alleged act of exorcism, in an incident believed to have taken place two years ago. Ms
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      Lock icon A new lifeline for low-wage workers and jobseekers
      367 8 -938UVE LOW-WAGE workers and jobseekers who have been unemployed for at least six months, now have somewhere to turn for help. The Career Link Plus Centre, which officially opened its doors yesterday, offers them job counselling services. The centre is a joint
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      Lock icon Bangkok security tightened
      445 10 AGENCIES Round-the-clock police checkpoints set up on major roads as another plot to kill PM surfaces BANGKOK Security across Bangkok has been tightened after officials received information of another plot to assassinate Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Plainclothes and uniformed police, including intelligence officials, have been deployed
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      Lock icon Bracing for a storm far away
      229 10 AP FLORIDA Ms Diane Salmon rummaged through cookware on Monday at a department store, hundreds of kilometres from a churning Tropical Storm Ernesto. Her cart held plastic utensils, water, pasta and a small propane-powered stove. Like many South Florida residents, she was determined to
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      Lock icon All fires out before SBY's visit
      140 10 AP JAKARTA The Indonesian government has ordered officials to extinguish dozens of illegally-lit forest fires that have sent a blanket of smoke across South-east Asia before President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) visits Singapore next month, according to a senior official. Fires lit to clear
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      Lock icon Karr off the hook but not free
      451 12 -AFP DNA fails to match in Jonßenet Ramsey case but faces child porn charges in another case BOULDER (Colorado) Prosecutors dropped charges against John Mark Karr, who triggered a media frenzy by confessing to killing six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, leaving the decade-old
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      UN chief Annan's fixed menu to end Lebanon crisis
      211 12 BEN GURION AIRPORT (Israel) United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday arrived in Israel on the second leg of a major Middle East regional tour aimed at shoring up the fragile truce in Lebanon. Mr Annan was due to meet Israeli
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      FIRST ASEAN, THEN THE WORLD
      802 13  -  TAN SU YIN How Singaporeans can become global citizens EARLIER this month, as Singaporeans revelled in 41 years of nationhood, another birthday passed unnoticed. Aug 8 was Asean Day, marking 39 years since the founding of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), which comprises
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      Lock icon Tiger rebels resist military offensive
      214 14 -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lankan troops yesterday halted an advance into territory held by the rebel Tamil Tigers after a fierce battle over a key eastern port which sources on both sides said left dozens dead. The drive to remove rebel artillery guns in Sampur town,
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      Lock icon Turkey warned of more attacks
      294 14 —AGENCIES Militant group urges tourists to stay away ISTANBUL A Turkish militant group yesterday warned of more attacks in the country, urging tourist to stay away even as police made a small breakthrough arresting one man who is believed to be part of a group
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        Lock icon PROFESSOR OF CHILD SEX?
        66 15 -AP Ivy League Professor L Scott Ward, who has been previously charged twice with child sex crimes, was arrested a third time over a video that allegedly shows him engaging in sex acts with boys. The 63-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
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        Lock icon IMMIGRANTS TARGETED
        68 15 -AFP Britain should set an income target for immigrants and those who do not meet it should not be allowed to settle in the country, the Migrantwatch think-tank has proposed. It proposed a minimum income target of £27,000 ($80,750) a year. That income figure, which only one in
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      Lock icon No calm after the storm ...
      502 15 No calm after the storm AP -AGENCIES Ayear later, Katrina-hit areas still struggling GULFPORT (Mississippi) New Orleans yesterday remembered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina with tears and anger at the officials who abandoned tens of thousands to the chaos and whose bureaucratic bungling continues to complicate reconstruction efforts. As United
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      303 15 frs37o. zuji.com.sg! HJ a THEORIES OF pg 0, 4 )li ENGINEERING W^tl I \fj£ I _j */l \x We take learning beyond books. At PSB Academy's School of Engineering, you are encouraged to apply fresh and original thinking in solving problems. Our partnerships with renowned universities provide you with more
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        Will agent accept offer if buyer does not pay service fee?
        255 16  -  IVAN TAN KAREN ONG Letter from and WE REFER to Chiam Moi Leng's letter, "Should buyers pay agents who don't represent them?" (Aug 29). We are buyers who were not given a choice in this matter of paying the
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        Review the 3% commission rate
        181 16  -  JAMES CHI Letter from WHEN agents act for a seller and a buyer comes along after viewing a print ad, the latter is actually helping the agent to close his/her deal and should not have to pay a commission. For the sale of a $250,000
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      sayagain
      69 16 The PSI reading of 50 on Sunday was an average over a 24-hour period. The photo in the report was probably taken when the PSI was much higher than 50. A more meaningful way of reporting the PSI would be to publish the lowest the highest and the median
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      240 16 NTUC INCOME Helping motorists at the accident scene EACH day, an average of 20 motorists insured by NTUC Income meet with an accident. Some motorists need assistance at the scene of the accident. They can call our hotline 6788 6616, to ask for our free "immediate response
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      isay TALKING SEX, WITH MUM AND DAD
      755 18  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN THE other day, my seven-year-old son told me he can only have "baby sex" when he is married, while it is perfectly okay to have "talking sex" all the time. I was caught off-guard and wondered what he meant
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      248 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY DISCIPLINE IS LIKE A BATTERY There are those who believe so strongly in the value of positive thinking that they see nothing to be gained from that which is negative. I respectfully disagree. It'sthe balance between the positive and the negative that
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      Not just for wheelchair-bound
      433 20  -  CHENG LAY TIN CATHERINE CHAN Handicap parking labels also given to the elderly, infirm and genuine medical cases Letter from Director, Corporate Communications National Council of Social Service Manager, Corporate Communications Automobile Association of Singapore WE REFER to the letters by Ms Jacqueline Lim Rae Fern,
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      Seminars needed to help parents teach children about HTV
      192 20  -  RACHEL TAN Letter from I READ the Weekend Today article, "What daddy doesn't know" (Aug 26-27). As a mum of three, although my kids are relatively young now (aged four, five and six), I would like to be mentally prepared to
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      A new home near the old
      624 21 With SERS, homeowners need not leave community ties behind when they move Nine years ago, the Lims considered upgrading their home from a 3- to a 4-room flat.Yet, they did not want to go through the hassle of settling into a new place. "Our
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      JUST CLICK FOR A NEW BEGINNING
      252 21 To improve service delivery and make it more convenient for residents involved in the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) to obtain information on the SERS package, HDB has introduced two new e-SERS initiatives a Virtual Exhibition and SERS e-Brochures. All you need to
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      Lock icon Move Lau Pa Sat to Marina Bay
      166 24  -  RAMCHAND RAMESH Letter from LAU Pa Sat, the largest remaining Victorian filigree cast-iron structure in South-east Asia, is truly a wondrous piece of architecture. However, its present use as a food centre is sorely lacking in many respects. It lacks adequate ventilation and
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      Understanding the law is harder than it seems
      356 24  -  ANG PENG HWA Letter from I WRITE in reply to Mr Howard Lee's letter, "Blogging past the grey areas" (Aug 25), which was in response to my article "Sending bloggers to school" (Aug 22). Perhaps I was not clear enough, as I
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      Refinements without polish
      86 24  -  CHIN MUI LOW Letter from AFTER a visionary and heartwarming message from the National Day Rally, coupled with the constant buzz of activities and news of improvements to come, perhaps it's timely for us Singaporeans to do our part and work on refining our idiosyncrasies: Littering, spitting
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      Owners right to take en bloc process in hand
      230 25  -  TAN KENG ANN Letter from I REFER to Chiu Li Yu's letter, "When neighbours and friends turn enemies" (Aug 29). Our freehold condominium is also considering going en bloc. I agree with the writer only to an extent It is because
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      Why charge admin fee on Medisave use?
      445 25  -  LEONG SZE HIAN This and other questions on healthcare, hospital bills Letter from I REFER to the article, "A shot in the arm for diabetics" (Aug 29). Medisave will be extended to cover the general practitioner bills of those with chronic illnesses. Those
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      CORPORATEBRIEFS
      295 26 Mainboard-listed Eu Van Sang International, a leading household name for Traditional Chinese Medicine, said its net profit for the year ended June 30 amounted to $14.4 million, or 4.01 cents per diluted share, up 16 per cent from $12.4 million, or 3.47 cents per diluted share, a year earlier.
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      Investors flock to Ist OTC firm
      440 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH Globalßoam raises $2.4 m and Ace calls for the publicising of traded prices MARKET response to Singapore's first over-the-counter (OTC) company Globalßoam Group has surpassed expectations. But more investors could jump on the bandwagon if regulators allowed newspapers to publish the traded
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      Lock icon China EnerSave to have 3rd Chinese plant
      105 27 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE-listed China EnerSave will build its third biomass power plant in China's Shangdong province. Construction of the 250-million-yuan ($5O-million) plant is expected to commence in the first quarter of next year and will take 20 months to be completed. The 24-megawatt
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      Lock icon Global Crossing aims to buy Fibernet
      102 27 -AGENCIES INTERNET protocol-based telecommunications carrier, Global Crossing, is offering to buy UK-based Fibernet for US$96.l million ($l5l million) in its first buyout since emerging from bankruptcy in 2003. Global Crossing, which is 71 per cent controlled by Temasek Holdings through ST Telemedia, is offering
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      Lock icon China regulator takes a step back
      284 27 -DOW JONES Suit over SGX China Futures trading issue deemed a commercial issue BEIJING A vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission said yesterday that the commission was concerned but would not interfere with a lawsuit filed over planned Singapore futures trading in a
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      163 27 ONE-UP FOR THE TREES! THE Finals of the Double AYouth Enterprise Environmental Challenge last Saturday was between five primary schools that participated to generate "profit" to fuel their pet environmental projects. They executed their business plans with gusto, making "rental bids" for choice locations at Bugis Junction's fountain courtyard
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      280 28 -DOW JONES AMTEK Engineering, which yesterday reported a 33-per-cent rise in its annual net profit, plans to open a plant in Poland to meet demand from customers in Europe. The consumer electronics and automotive services firm's net profit for its fiscal year
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        158 28 -AFP SHARES rose yesterday, led by Wall Street's higher close overnight in the wake of retreating oil prices. But with the end of the quarterly corporate earnings reporting season, further gains are likely to be limited because of a lack of fresh incentives to spur investors, dealers said. The
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        66 28 Nikkei 225 15,890.56 +127.97 +0.81 HK Hang Seng 17,083.28 +160.99 +0.95 Australia ASX200 5,067.60 +43.40 +0.86 Korea Comp 1,344.61 +16.72 +1.26 Thailand SET 686.24 +4.17 +0.61 Jakarta Comp 1,432.93 +14.93 +1.05 Phils Comp 2,302.69 +4.11 +0.18 Shenzhen B 291.48 -0.17 -0.06 Mumbai Sensex 11,706.85 +87.33 +0.75 Malaysia KLCI
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        54 28 Synear +0.065 +7.4 57,104 China Sun 0.835 +0.045 +5.7 42,027 SingTel 2.510 +0.040 +1.6 31,064 MMI 0.000 +0.075 +9.3 30,054 Wilmar 1.290 +0.050 +4.0 27,095 UTAC 0.725 +0.025 +3.6 20,733 STXPO 0.770 +0.010 +1.3 20,673 SSH Corp 0.275 -0.030 -9.0 20,621 THBEV 0.205 +0.005 +1.0 19,790 MediaRing
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        67 28 GreatEast 17.000 +0.000 Bukit Sem 10.400 +0.200 DBS 17.700 +0.200 JMH 400US$ 17.600 +0.200 KepCorp 15.100 +0.200 SIA 13.300 +0.200 Venture 11.300 +0.200 ChinaFish 3.040 +0.160 CITYDEV 9.550 +0.150 Wing Tai 1.720 +0.140 OiinaEntSp 0.010 +100.0 SGXMH.8CW*****4 0.075 +66.7 HyfluxDBSeCW*****7 0.055 +57.1 CapitBlandCSeCW61D31 0.205 +51.9 CapltalanMBLeCW***** 0.315
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      752 29  -  LEECHINGWERN If the best people are picked to lead, such firms can keep going for many generations chingwern@newstoday.com.sg A CHINESE saying goes: "It is difficult to start a business but even harder to keep it going." And there is an old joke which says
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      219 30  -  CHOW PENN NEE SMALL and medium enterprises (SME) short on cash and technological know-how can still jump on the technology bandwagon. Spring Singapore's Technology Innovation Programme (TIP) was launched yesterday by Minister of Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang. Under the scheme, $150
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      472 30  -  LEECHINGWERN Modest Ya Kun family stall now a global name chingwern@newstoday.com.sg IF "AH K00N" could see what his little kopi (coffee) stall has become today, he would surely "wake up" in delight, Mr Adrin Loi, executive chairman of Ya Kun International, said of his late father.
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      1037 31  -  LEECHINGWERN From accessing business opportunities to exploiting FTAs for business growth, SMEs get a leg up with SPRING'S assistance chingwern@newstoday.com.sg WHEN MrTan Soo Khim set up his business trading in toiletries 24 years ago, there were over 90 wholesalers who were getting their goods from
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    203 32 1962 Born in Kandang Kerbau hospital to a medical lecturer father and English teacher mother. 1972 Accompanied father on a sabbatical in Australia, where she studied for a year before returning to Singapore. 1980 Entered the National University of Singapore on a Public Service Commission (PSC) Local Merit Scholarship
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    1428 33  -  Ashraf Safdar Eleanor Wong is top of her field in law but it's as a playwright that she has found her true calling IN A country where law school has become the unlikely training ground for playwrights and actors (think Ivan Heng, Ong Keng Sen and
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    439 34  -  JEANINETAN jea nine@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Singapore Idol co-host Daniel Ong put Nurul Maideen's sister on the spot with an awkward question during last Thursday's results show, he probably thought it would make good TV. He had asked Nurul's older sister Hazlina, who was in tears
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    198 34 This week, we turn the spotlight on what people are saying about the hosts and judges of Singapore Idol. Not even the judges are spared the wrath of the fans... They should just switch the order in which the judges give comments. Sometimes Dick first, sometimes Flo, sometimes Ja,
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    423 36  -  ZUL OTHMAN Audience thrilled by Womad's best outing yet zul@newstoday.com.sg LAST weekend's World of Music, Arts and Dance (Womad) festival looks to have been its most successful outing yet Nearly 20,000 people converged on Fort Canning Park to be entertained by a line-up headed by the likes of
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      112 36 -AP THE Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bandwas voted Britain's favourite chart-topping album yesterday. The foursome's 1967 album edged out Michael Jackson's Thriller by just 201 votes, as well as U2's Joshua Tree which came in third, in the BBC Radio
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      131 36 -AP Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will play the son of Rudyard Kipling, John, in a TV movie about the author. John Kipling died in World War I and the Iraq war is said to be part of the subtext of My Boy Jack, which
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      384 38  -  DAVID CHEW Learning Site works with kindergarten students to explore land scarcity david.chew@newstoday.com.sg A GROUP of children will be tending their garden patch very closely in the coming weeks, although their piece of paradise may look anything but green. And it's indoors. The 58 students from PCF Kreta AyerKirn
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      721 38 LEVEL 5, SflW HOUSE LEVEL 5, SHAW HOUSE £V "SHE'S THE 1..N- ,IJM, rf.^i-B BOOMMG HOTUNE *7«71*38 3(0 MLfSHEI ROM PRETTY PERSUASION AN AMERICAN !f B,'!!™™!!..- LOVE WRECKED iommww* HAUNTING.d■!«.„< .bi/TMBV LOVEWRECKED* ,onw 10:30 am, 12:40,2:50, 11:30 am, 9:3opm HI T —I WT^ "TTB 11:00,12:45,2:30, 11:00 am, 12:45,2:30, 7:10,9:20pm CLICK
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      436 38 Singapore THE MARKET VS THE PUBLIC A number of contemporary artists work with the distinction between the market and the public. Markets can be characterised by discrete transactions: The one-time exchange of an object for money. In contrast. Learning Site aims to develop communities through open-ended processes of communication, understanding
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      100 38 TOP TEN In Singapore (August 24-27) "^H RANKING MOVIE WEEKS IN K»'^*^ CINEMAS P-.«^^ 1 Snakes on a Plane (NCW) 1 2 (1) Theßreak-Up 2 |2M 3 (2) Click 2 W«S 4 (3) Ghost Game (Thai) (NCW) 2 5 Lovewrecked 1 >-!■ 6 Lucky Number Slevin(R2l) 1 gJK < 7
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      647 42 -AP Record crowd helps the veteran down Pavel as the farewell tour gets underway NEW YORK Andre Agassi refused to go gently into the night in his final tournament by coming back to beat Andrei Pavel of Romania 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 at the
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        303 43 -AGENCIES LONDON With two days to go in the summer transfer window, Owen Hargreaves' agent admitted defeat yesterday in his quest to engineer a "dream move" to Manchester United. Bayern Munich bosses have been unmoved by a string of emotional appeals from Hargreaves this summer, and
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        274 43 —AGENCIES ROME Manchester United have tabled a take-it-or-leave-itbid of £15 million ($45 million) for Juventus' France international David Trezeguet, according to a report in Gazzetta dello Sport yesterday. The Italian sports daily said Trezeguet's father Jorge was in Manchester over the weekend talking to United officials,
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      323 43 GETTY IMAGES —AGENCIES LONDON Arsenal new boy Tomas Rosicky is not worried about his side's slow start to the season. The Gunners slumped to a surprise 1-0 defeat to Manchester City last weekend leaving them with just one point from their
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      156 43 -AFP LONDON Tottenham yesterday swooped for Egyptian striker Mido, who spent last season on loan at the Premiership club from Roma. The 23-year-old White Hart Lane favourite returned to Italy in the summer after his 18-month loan period but Spurs coach Martin Jol stepped in for the player
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      597 44 -AFP SUNDERLAND In his first public comments yesterday after he signed on as manager of struggling Championship side Sunderland, Roy Keane hinted broadly that he was forced out of Manchester United by his former mentor Alex Ferguson because he had crossed a line by his criticism of
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      192 44 THERE were no major surprises in Radojko Avramovic's 22-man squad named yesterday, as Singapore look to put their Asian Cup 2006 qualifying back on track against China on Sept 6 at the National Stadium. After an agonising 1-0 loss to China a fortnight ago, Singapore are now
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      120 44  -  CUBBYLEONG LAAKKAD Abdelhadi shot himself back to the top of the goalscorers' chart after his superb hat-trick helped steer Woodlands Wellington to a 3-1 comeback win over Gombak United in an S-League clash last night Ruhaizad Ismail's goal in the 32nd mm silenced the home crowd but Abdelhadi
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      366 44  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE SPORTS SCHOOL weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE race for a ticket on the Singapore men's golf team bound for the Asian Games in Doha in December (Dec 1-15) has hit the final straight The Singapore Golf Association (SGA) will hold a playoff
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      479 45  -  Razali Abdullah In tandem with Yao Ming, McGrady's looking forward to a stellar season TRACY McGrady cannot wait for the new NBA season to start. The Houston Rockets All-Star believes that if he stays fit, along with teammate Yao Ming, then he could be wearing his
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      284 45  -  -RAZALI ABDULLAH MANY will feel he has a glamorous job, but Tony Skinner insists being Tracy McGrady's personal bodyguard is not all champagne, bright lights and parties. The 34-year-old former police officer has been a bodyguard of the NBA superstar for the last eight months, and
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      227 45 -AFP BASKETBALL World Championships SAITAMA, Japan Reigning Olympic champions Argentina and hungry Spain, both propelled by NBA stars, advanced easily to the World Basketball Championship semi-finals yesterday. Pau Gasol, a 2.12 metre-tall centre with the Memphis Grizzlies, scored 25 points in Spain's
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