Today, 4 September 2006, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Temasek to buy more assets in China
      230 1 BLOOMBERG TEMASEK Holdings, the largest overseas investor in Chinese banks, said it has spent more than $8 billion buying assets in the country and plans to add more to capitalise on the nation's growth. The Singapore state-owned company is seeking investments that will
      — BLOOMBERG  -  230 words
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      Lock icon Dr Love: Let's talk about sex... again
      668 1  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com.sg WITH teen sex on the rise and fertility rates in freefall, you just had to expect Singapore's sex guru to make a splash. The flamboyant, eccentric Dr Wei Siang Yu does not disappoint The man best remembered for his
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      Little India's $50 shocker
      266 2 Foreign workers caught moonlighting as sex workers EVERYBODY has heard about women from China soliciting for sex in the red-light district at Geylang and at massage parlours. But a different form of the crime is also taking place in Little India, this time involving men. Tonight,
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      Lock icon MAS ups fuel surcharge
      160 2 —AFP MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS) has announced an increase in fuel surcharges on a number of international routes. The changes, effective from today, will see a rise of between US$2 ($3.14) and US$2O for flights on MAS and those operated by its code-share partners. Surcharges on flights
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      WHEN IN ROME ... OR THE MID-EAST
      783 3  - WHEN IN ROME OR THE MID-EAST CLEMENT MESENAS Fluency in Arabic will help Israel bridge cultural gap in region, in the way Spore has familiarised itself with Malay EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@newstoday.com.sg ISN'T Israel a part of the Middle East? Geographically yes, but Avi Azrieli, writing for the International Herald Tribune, seems
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      Lock icon BUDDING HOPE:
      93 4 About 900 volunteers nearly double last year's number-spread little blossoms of hope throughout the island on Tulip Hearts Day yesterday. The volunteers, including children with cancer and their families, sold handmade silk cocooned tulips at $2 each at places such as Macßitchie Reservoir (left). The annual affair is
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    • SINGAPORSNIPPETS
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        Lock icon TRANSPORT MINISTER VISITS KL
        86 4 938 LIVE Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Raymond Lim will make a working visit to Kuala Lumpur today and tomorrow. He will call on the Malaysian Minister of Transport Chan Kong Choy and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Syed Hamid Albar. Mr
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        Lock icon MANPOWER CHIEF IN GERMANY
        101 4 -938 LIVE Minister for Manpower Ng Eng Hen will be in Germany until tomorrow to attend the First Conference of the Asia-Europe Meeting of Labour and Employment Ministers. Dr Ng will also hold bilateral discussions on manpower issues with other labour ministers, including Germany's Vice-Chancellor and
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      Lock icon CDAC offers bridge to P1
      300 4 -938 LIVE Year-end course gives a gentle start to non-schoolers IF YOU think your child won't be able to cope when he or she enters Primary 1, help is on its way. The Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) has launched a bridging programme to prepare
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      Lock icon Where there's a wheel, there's a way
      447 4  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com. sg IT WAS a test of wheel-power for about 70 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students as they got a taste of what the disabled have to overcome in a typical day. Participants in yesterday's The Amazing Wheelchair Race, organised by
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      Lock icon Austrian police send kidnapper's DNA to Interpol
      310 4 —AFP VIENNA Austrian police said yesterday that a DNA sample from the kidnapper of Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch has been sent to Interpol to check if he may have been implicated in any other crimes. "We sent a DNA sample from Wolfgang Priklopil
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      Lock icon $4.2m for Presidenfs Star Charity show
      196 6  -  EUSACHIA A TOTAL of $4.23 million was collected by the President's Star Charity show last night, surpassing its $4 million target and the $3.75 million in donations reaped in last year's show. Organised by MediaCorp as part of the President's Challenge and broadcast live
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      Lock icon GETTING INTO THE SWING OF THINGS:
      82 6 ERNEST CHUA Guest of honour at the Tampines Central Youth Fiesta, MP for Tampines GRC Sin Boon Ann, making a spectacujar entrance on a Flying Fox from an eighth-storey flat yesterday. The event aimed to encourage youth to express themselves through music and other
      ERNEST CHUA  -  82 words
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      Lock icon Pregnant? Let us get you a cab
      534 6  -  LEE U-WEN Mums-to-be at this local company get taxi rides, laptops u-wen@newstoday.com.sg HEAVILY pregnant and exhausted after waiting over half an hour for her bus home, human resources manager Adeline Chua lost consciousness and collapsed on her back. That happened on a Friday
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Dr M told to 'move on'
      432 8 -AGENCIES M'sian leaders want former PM to stop criticising Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Premier Mahathir Mohamad, who is embroiled in a feud with the government, has said old friends from the ruling party are now ignoring him, reports said yesterday. "Old friends who
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      Lock icon Tehran's softer stance?
      278 8 —AGENCIES TEHRAN —Iran has vowed to support the United Nations' resolution on Lebanon and help bring peace to Lebanon's border area with Israel, but has said that it will not halt its uranium enrichment programme before talks are held. Iran, one of the main backers of the
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      Lock icon Iran to host meet on Holocaust
      199 8 AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran said yesterday it would sponsor a conference to examine the scientific evidence supporting the Holocaust, dismissing it as exaggerated. The decision came as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan raised concerns with Iranian officials over an exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust
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      Lock icon Top Al Qaeda leader nabbed
      427 10 —AGENCIES Terrorist responsible for mosque bombing arrested in Iraq BAGHDAD Iraq's national security adviser yesterday announced the arrest of the second most senior figure in Al Qaeda in Iraq. Hamed Jumaa Farid Al Saeedi, known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, was arrested a few
      —AGENCIES; AFP  -  427 words
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda's US face
      319 10 -AP CAIRO 28-year-old American Adam Yehiye Gadahn (picture), thought to be an Al Qaeda activist, appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader and called on Americans to convert to Islam and for United States soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan
      -AP; AFP  -  319 words
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        PORN FOR SALE IN MALAYSIA
        100 10 Unscrupulous bookstore owners in Johor Baru are openly selling banned pornographic books and magazines and many customers are in their 20s, reported the New Straits Times. At RM39 ($l6) for titles such as Hong Kong's Penthouse and steamy novels for between RMS and RMB, the
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        Lock icon CHINA TO INVITE NORTH KOREA'S KIM FOR STATE VISIT: REPORTS
        126 10 -AFP China will invite North Korean leader Kirn Jong-ll to make a state visit amid ongoing efforts to persuade Pyongyang not to test a nuclear bomb. South Korean media reported yesterday. The Yonhap news agency quoted a South Korean official
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        Lock icon ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN RUSSIA
        116 10 -AGENCIES Over 100 people were arrested and investigators are looking into a series of attacks against ethnic Caucasians in north-west Russia after a bar fight left two ethnic Russians dead, local police said yesterday. Hundreds of local residents took to the streets to protest on Saturday
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    • this quirky world
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        IF YOU CANT GET OFF, GET RICH
        111 12 A Chinese court has rejected a woman's claims for compensation for her sex life, which she said was ruined after her husband was injured in an accident, the Shanghai Daily reported. The 31-year-old woman -whose husband has suffered from erectile dysfunction since the
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        Lock icon RESTRAINING ORDER FOR THE UNDERDOG
        109 12 -AFP A New York judge has issued the first restraining order on behalf of a dog, using a new state law that offers protection to pets, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said. A 20-year-old man was ordered to stay at
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      Lock icon Moves for more missile tests?
      365 12 -AGENCIES N Korea's vehicles in nuke site; also opens Russian accounts SEOUL South Korean and United States intelligence officials have detected suspicious vehicle movements at a major North Korean missile test site, a news report said yesterday, amid lingering tensions over the country's weapons programme.
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      Lock icon British ministers in video diaries
      212 12 —AFP LONDON British government ministers, in an attempt to show that they are "in touch" with ordinary workers, are reportedly into filming video diaries of themselves doing everyday jobs. Environment Minister David Miliband will get his hands dirty at a recycling plant, Northern Ireland Secretary
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      Lock icon DYING THEIR
      208 14 —AP Exploding numbers of overweight children could make today's generation the first to die before its parents, warned health experts at the International Congress on Obesity in Sydney yesterday. Australia's Monash University professor Paul Zimmet said obesity has reached pandemic proportions throughout the world and is now the
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      Lock icon Battling the youth bulge
      419 14 —AP Aussie researchers say community health campaign helps kids stay slim SYDNEY Parents, teachers, doctors and community leaders in a small Australian town town called Colac have rallied together to help fight the problem of obesity in children. The community-wide approach, named "Be Active, Eat Well"
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      Casualties of a dirty war
      624 15  -  FABIO SCARPELLO Killings of Philippine leftists linked to govt drive, Communist Party's'cleansing' news@newstoday.com.sg THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) have been blamed for a killing spree that has left numerous left-wing sympathisers dead in the
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        Lock icon EAST TIMOR TIGHTENS BORDER SECURITY
        78 15 -AFP Indonesian authorities have stepped up security at the border with East Timor to prevent a rebel East Timor military leader from entering the country. Major Alfredo Reinado escaped with 56 other inmates from his Dili jail last week, triggering an ongoing manhunt by Unitd
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        Lock icon 14 UK SOLDIERS DIE IN PLANE CRASH
        84 15 -DPA Fourteen British military personnel were killed on Saturday after their aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, the Defence Ministry in London said. Among those who died were members of the Royal Air Force as well as one Royal Marine and a British army soldier.
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        Lock icon TOKYO WOMAN ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF HUSBAND
        61 15 -AP An 86-year-old Japanese woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her 90-year-old husband by repeatedly stabbing then suffocating him with a plastic bag. Tsuruno Vagi, a Tokyo resident, told investigators that her husband Shiro's violent behaviour drove her to murder. She
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      287 15 We take learning beyond books. At PSB Academy's School of Information Technology, you are encouraged to apply fresh and original thinking in solving problems. Our partnerships with renowned universities provide you with more than just qualifications, they also equip you with relevant skills to succeed at the workplace. And with
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      Draw the line on hogs who won't move to the back of the bus
      258 16  -  COLIN TAN WEIJIAN Letter from IT IS assumed that most bus passengers know they must move to the rear to allow others to board. However, this does not happen most of the time, hence causing a
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      CHEAH:TEACHER'SDAY
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    • Dual commission is just not right
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        Conflict of interest to act for seller, buyer
        247 16  -  JIMMY HO KWOKHOONG Letter from I REFER to the reply "What 1% sales commission means" (Sept 1) by Mr Low Swee Kirn of the Institute of Estate Agents (lEA). Mr Low does not address the general concern of flat buyers on why
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        Guideline or requirement?
        421 16  -  PHONG KAH HG Letter from ACCORDING to the HDB's wel> site, "HDB does not stipulate nor regulate the commission charged by housing agents. The commission rate may vary depending on the level of service and consumer needs". It points readers to the lEAs Recommended Commission/Fee for real
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        3% commission for agents is too high
        313 17  -  CHENG CHIN CHIN Letter from IT MIGHT be standard practice for agents to collect commission from buyers and sellers, but in the eyes of the public, there is no rationale for buyers to pay commission to the seller's exclusive agent when the buyer
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        Is'standard market practice'ethical?
        320 17  -  GARY LI M GAY Letter from I MADE a written enquiry to HDB from the perspective of a potential seller. I was told that "sellers" (presumably applicable to buyers too) "who choose not to engage the services of the housing agent, would not be obliged by any
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      sayagain
      80 17 In a case where the buyer who is unwilling to pay the commission offers the highest price for the property, is the housing agent not duty-bound to bring this to the notice of the seller? Clearly, there is a conflict of interest in such a situation. I would ask
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      782 18  -  LIANG DINGZI 'NOT THERE MEANS DON'T HAYE 5 I WAS pleased to be asked for my impression of the service provided by a local bank as I had wanted to compliment Felicia, who went the extra mile for me. But the surveyor was reluctant to pass on the compliment,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      266 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... THE WORTH OF A HUMAN Once, while on a ski trip with my family some years ago, I climbed onto the back of a flatbed truck that shuttled skiers up the mountain. Among the 12 or 14young people there that day was
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    • No smooth sailing
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        Shutdown speed camera on ECP for a six-month trial
        243 20  -  MOHAMAD NOOR ABDULLAH Letter from IN HIS letter "The cause of the crawl" (Sept 1), Mr Lim King Hui pointed out an interesting point about the ECP congestion. After the traffic from Beach Rd merges with the ECP in the direction
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        Jams on the CTE caused by cars trying to get onto the PIE
        134 20  -  JAYANDRAN SANDRA ALISON Letter from I WOULD like to highlight a similar problem on the CTE, which I use for commuting home from work every evening, going northwards towards Yio Chu Kang. The traffic would be extremely
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        SCHOOL'S REPUTATION REMAINS TOP PRIORITY?
        91 20  -  TAN HAO YANG: lama student from one of the better secondary schools. Recently, an unidentified student displayed an offensive gesture to a member of the public. Thus, the school held us back during the morning assembly to get this student to admit his mistake. Throughout
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        SPARE A THOUGHT FOR OUR ELDERLY CLEANERS
        122 20  -  UN MEI BAO: I have immense respect for the elderly cleaners working in hawker centres and food courts clearing the tables or manning the public toilets. Despite their age, they put up with the long hours and tedious nature of their jobs. We
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      Lock icon SINGAPORESEEN
      118 22 AND THEY ALL FALL DOWN: This photo has been digitally enhanced to show the path of a cable ski competitor (from left to right) at East Coast lagoon's cable ski and wakeboard park. The photo contributor, Mr Matthias Chng, added: "Whenever I make my trip down the ECP, I'll
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      Training, certs never enough?
      408 22  -  TEOKOKSEAH Govt needs to help those who have gone for skills upgrading, but are unable to find jobs Letter from DOES upgrading guarantee one a job? I know of jobseekers who have heeded the Government's call to upgrade themselves, but became disillusioned when they came up
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      Class 2 parking issue clarified
      190 22  -  CATHERINE CHAN CHENG LAY TIN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications National Council of Social Service Manager, Corporate Communications Automobile Association of Singapore WE REFER to the letters by Mr Tony Teng and Ms Julie Chia "More consideration please for Class 2 parking label holders" (Sept
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      177 24 Healthy Participants Needed for an Ethnicity Study The Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) is inviting healthy participants for a scientific ethnicity study involving an investigational medicine. The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety, tolerability and amount of this medicine in the blood following a single dose administration.
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      115 24 AIROCEAN Group said that its executive director Thomas Tay Nguen Cheong had told the company on Friday that he had been charged under the Securities and Futures Act and that he was on $230,000 bail. According to Airocean's statement to the Singapore Exchange on Saturday,
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      382 24 Forbes conference in Singapore draws top CEOs, thought-leaders, capitalists DESCRIBED as the biggest gathering of billionaires in Asia, the two-day 6th Forbes Global CEO Conference, which opens at the Shangri-La Hotel today, has drawn delegates with net worth of more than US$BO billion ($126 billion).
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      144 24 BLOOMBERG QATAR National Bank, the Persian Gulf emirate's largest lender, plans to open a Singapore office "in the near future" as it seeks to expand overseas, the bank said in a statement to the Doha Securities Market Middle
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        178 26 BLOOMBERG UNITED States Federal Reserve Chairman, Mr Ben S Bernanke, said the Chinese economy was likely to avoid a "hard landing", the news agency Reuters reported. He made his comments in a letter to a US lawmaker. "We believe that the chance of
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        348 26 -BLOOMBERG Spore in top five: CB Richard Ellis survey LONDON has overtaken New York City as the city where luxury homes are the most expensive, a study by CB Richard Ellis Hamptons International (CBRE) showed. Singapore is fifth. In London, prices in prime defined as costing
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          134 26 -AFP SHARE prices here are forecast to trade in a narrow range this week as investors wait for clear signals on the United States' central bank's next move on interest rates, dealers said. Until then, investors are taking a "wait-and-see" approach, they said. "Investors are looking for firm indications
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          26 26 ISGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 632.60 Silver US$/oz 13.07 Platinum US$/oz 1,254.80 Rubber cents/kg 319.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,542.00 Brent crude USS/barrel 69.11 Information provided by
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        1106 28  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg NOT many people, let alone Singaporeans, go from working on Wall Street to studying in Hollywood. And according to Jaclyn Chan, who counts among her current teachers the screenwriter for the Tom Cruise movie Top Gun, she started off
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        694 29  -  JOHNBITTLESTON You don't have to yell to be a strong boss, to motivate your men LET'S face it, you can't run a fruit stall by committee, let alone a major business. That's why so many voluntary organisations squander much of their time squabbling. Since none of them
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        377 29 Q: What is the typical career path for a fresh graduate in digital media/gaming? Where can I expect to be in five years'time? How are the demands in this industry different from, say, a typical 9-to-5 office job? Timothy Prof Alexander Nareyek answers: What kind of path you take
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      767 30 —AGENCIES British TV network courts American outrage with film of US President Bush being gunned down by sniper LONDON It's the kind of image that newspapers run across the entire front page and 24-hour news channels put in endless rotation. Propped up by a Secret Service agent
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      282 32  -  Elisa Chia CONCERTREVIEW by.... IT was a rare sight to behold. Teens, working people and even the silver-haired brigade a combined crowd of 7,000 people all assembled at the Max Pavilion Singapore Expo on Saturday night. Such was the appeal
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      468 33  -  JEANINETAN vm.... jeanine@newstoday.com.sg KWON Sang Woo (picture) may have proved how manly he is by playing bad boys in movies like My Tutor Friend and Running Wild, but little of that masculinity was on display when he was in town yesterday. The 30-year-old South Korean actor is here
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      386 33  -  EUSACHIA elisa@newstoday.com.sg DON'T call her new style a departure from her rocker roots call it progress. Looking school-girlish in a pink T-shirt, shorts, knee-length socks and sneakers during an interview with Today on Friday, Rebecca Hsu Tong En said she knows her new look and
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      308 34  -  Tan Hui Leng PERFORMANCEREVIEW by.... AS CORSETTED dancers dangled in midair just minutes into Saturday's performance of Whose Voice Cries Out?, it was tempting to wonder if the Singapore Dance Theatre's joint effort with Japanese choreographer Sakiko Oshima was meant to be as much of a
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      23 34 A*mei honoured at MTV Mandarin Awards HHffllMH mm rißßM'flßivilß lillllll Biiiiiil MBS 18HHB 11.... iiiiiJiiiiliiß IJliljJtiWliw.iSißliiii AP
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      220 35 -AFP SEOUL-The South Ko-rean-made monster movie The Host has set a new ticket sales record in South Korea by drawing more than 12.37 million viewers, its distributor Showbox said yesterday. On Saturday, the movie, directed by Bong Joon-Ho, broke the
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      377 35  -  DAVID CHEW S Korean artist's wall reliefs depict uncle's medicinal shop from childhood david. chew@newstoday.com. sg HIS works have been exhibited in New York and throughout Europe but he calls South Korea home. Still, world renowned South Korean artist Chun Kwang-Young would be living in the Lion City
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        913 36  -  TORCHING LI No more Cog N Bull, The Grill at Hillcrest now makes seriously good steaks chingli@newstoday.com.sg WHEN your inner carnivore starts craving for a nice, juicy chunk of steak grilled to perfection, you suddenly realise there aren't that many places to stake out for premium protein except
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          162 37  -  BERNADETTE CHONG Look out for a new range of food and beverage products from Nestle. If you're looking for a quick snack, try the new Maggi Xtra Delixious Bowl Noodles. The noodles contain no MSG, and come with a springier noodle bite
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          192 37  -  BERNADETTE CHONG Until Sept 10, indulge in the exotic flavours of Thai cuisine at Ellenborough Market Cafe, Swissotel Merchant Court. Guest chefs from Swissotel Le Concorde, Bangkok, will whip up an array of authentic mouthwatering Thai dishes such as torn yam goong, green
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      53 39 MONDAY MONTHLY CHALLENGE Poor English examples from internet chat rooms. 1 Quiz 1) What is the origin of 'gostan'? 2) What does half-past-six mean? 3) When do you 'tapau' something? 4) What is the Standard English equivalent of those words and the phrase? Your health matters. Hear what the experts
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      562 39 ARIES (March 21 April 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) H Everything may appear to be up in the air but Don't leave anything to chance -6 doubleit really isn't, the people you are working |K#^ check everything before leaving the house, with and for are just trying to figure
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      218 40 WEATHERTODAY Amsterdam W2IC cloudy Los Angeles 19/29 C partly cloudy c Auckland 10/17 C partly cloudy Manila 2932 C thunderstorm OingapOre Bali 23/30 C fair Melbourne ***** showers 25/33 C BS Begawan 25/32 C showers New Delhi 23/30 C thunderstorm Bangkok 2934 C partly cloudy New York 18/26 C cloudy
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      530 40 -AFP Even without Gasol, Spaniards trounce Greeks to lift title for the first time WORLD BASKETBALL C'SHIPS Spain 70 Greece 47 SAITAMA A Spanish team playing without injured scoring leader Pau Gasol overpowered Greece 70--47 yesterday in the final of the World Basketball Championship, capturing the crown
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      241 40 -AP SAITAMA When the US basketball team were assembled this year, they embarked on a three-year march to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Now the road to China must go through South America. The Americans won the bronze medal at the world championships on Saturday with a
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      862 41 —AFP 36-year-old leaves after more than two decades at the top levels of the game NEW YORK Andre Agassi (picture) lost in the third round of the US Open yesterday (early today Singapore time), a defeat that brought down the curtain on one of
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      409 41 -BLOOMBERG ELANO scored two goals and Kaka got the third as Brazil beat South American soccer rival Argentina 3-0 in a sold-out exhibition game in London. Shakhtar Donetsk's Elano got goals in each half at Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium and Kaka completed the
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      371 41 -AFP GOLF Asian Tour JOHOR BAHRU South Africa's Anton Haig claimed his maiden Asian Tour title yesterday with a victory at the US$3OO,OOO ($470,000) Pulai Springs Malaysian Masters. The 20-year-old champion carded a winning total of 22-under-par 266 to walk away with the top
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      394 42 —AP EURO 2008 QUALIFIERS, GROUPB Italy 1 Lithuania 1 NAPLES Italy are struggling, less than two months after winning the World Cup. In their only two games since then, the Azzurri drew Lithuania 1-1 on Saturday in a qualifier for the 2008 European Championship, and
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      571 42 -AGENCIES McClaren pays tribute to Crouch and Co as they kick off Euro campaign on high note MANCHESTER Steve McClaren hailed Peter Crouch as "phenomenal" and praised his rampant England side, after their 5-0 destruction of Andorra in their first Euro 2008 qualifier on Saturday. Crouch struck twice
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      206 42 -AGENCIES TBILISI France were back to their swaggering best as they blew Georgia away in a ruthless attacking display to begin their Euro 2008 Group B campaign with a 3-0 victory here on Saturday. Florent Malouda and Louis Saha put the French
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      563 43 -AGENCIES Villa boss calls for uprising against Chelsea and wants other clubs to join him LONDON Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill has vowed to challenge Chelsea's dominance of the English Premiership. He has also urged other teams to follow suit. O'Neill returned to management this summer
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      289 43 —AGENCIES LONDON Carlos Tevez said he joined West Ham because they offered him what the likes of Premiership giants Chelsea and Arsenal could not promise first-team football. Tevez and Argentina team-mate Javier Mascherano joined the Hammers from Brazilian side Corinthians despite being linked with the
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      53 42 BRAZIL ON SHOW IN LONDON! International Football Brazil* Wales Wed, 06/09/06 2.30 am This match is played on neutral ground. Sales closes 5 minutes before kick-off time, or at the outlets' closing time. For PoolzConnect members, sales closes 5 minutes before kick-off time. IplayA Always Play With Care IreapunsiblyJ RCB
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      350 44  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg A GHANAIAN footballer who attended trials with Sporting Afrique in April this year is currently making headlines all over the world, after being stranded at the Manila Diosdado Macapagal Airport for almost two months. On Thursday, the Philippine Star reported
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      458 44  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Thrower gets his gold, but fails in his bid to qualify for Asiad weekeat@newstoday.com.sg JAMES Wong (picture), South-east Asia's undisputed discus king, struck gold again at the 68th Singapore Open Track and Field Championships yesterday. The 37-year-olds throw of 53.21 m gave him a
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      329 44  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg As part of her recent training routine, world No 17 Yukie Nakayama (picture) Japan's top ranked shooter in the women's trap event- shot over 700 rounds each day, leaving her with a sprained left arm. But now, she thinks
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      586 45  -  JOSE RAYMOND Subramaniam realises the pressure he is under, but insists he has mellowed jose@newstoday.com.sg HE ONCE applied his Midas touch to SAFFC, leading the Warriors to consecutive S-League titles from 1996 (Pioneer Series) to 1998. But two-time S-League Coach of the Year, Vincent
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      329 45  -  JOSE RAYMOND THE Singapore Cubs' dreams of making the knockout stages of the Asian Football Confederation under-17 championships here in Singapore took a massive blow yesterday when they lost 3-1 to Korea Republic at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The Cubs, who are in Group A along
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