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  • 1633 1  - TESTING, TESTING DERRICK A PAULO AND CHRISTIE LOH The stage is set. But this examination will throw up tough questions as the Govt moves to bar some activists derrick@newstoday.com.sg HE WILL be the first to admit that his travel plans keep changing by the hour. Mr Donatus Marut, executive director
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    • 32 2 LIVING FAITH CHURCH 8 www.thelivingfaith.org "For I Will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds.The Bible Jeremiah 30:17 Singapore Conference Hall, Level 3, Main Concert Hall Come be blessed/
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  • hot news
    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 184 3 -938 LIVE A road cleaner was killed yesterday morning in a traffic accident suspected to have been caused by drink-driving. The cleaner, a Malay man in his 40s, was the passenger on a lorry travelling along the PIE towards Jurong. As part of his
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      • 172 3 -938UVE Singapore's young entrepreneurs will now have a platform from which they can be nurtured as visionary business leaders, with the newly-launched Young Business Leaders Forum (YBF). Membership is restricted to those aged 40 and below. They will be groomed as the next generation of
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    • 522 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, AFP Missing out on the region's transformation would be to the West's detriment, says Mr Lee EUROPE will "pay a heavy price" if it does not deepen ties with Asia as the region strengthens links with key trading partners including the United States, said
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    • 336 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE wants to attract more doctors and patients from China and, to do so, it may soon recognise degrees from top Chinese medical schools. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced this on Friday on the sidelines of the first ChinaSingapore Joint
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    • 463 3  -  SHERALYN TAY shera lyn@newstoday.com. sg A PLAN by animal rights activists to hold a "naked" protest was met with stark firmness by the Singapore police, just days before the IMF-World Bank meetings are due to start on Monday. Sending a
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  • Singapore news
    • 237 4  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@newstoday.com.sg THE 11-year-old boy nabbed in Thursday's island-wide drug sting has been released unconditionally, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). According to a CNB spokesperson, the boy was picked up in a raid, along with five other people, for suspected drug activities at a multi-purpose
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    • 401 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS the second of three chilling murders in a span of two weeks. But unlike the two other cases, the death of security guard Ong Teong Wah remains shrouded in mystery almost a year on. On Sept 18 last year, the 48-year-old was
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    • 392 4 -938 LIVE Last-ditch effort to keep it open right up to the Christmas period rejected THE last-ditch attempt by Wisma Atria tenants to delay the closure of the popular basement link has been turned down. Mall property manager, Macquarie Pacific Star, failed to defer
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    • 209 4 PARENTS and parents-to-be, there's now a one-stop portal to address your family needs. Launched on Friday by MediaCorp Publishing, Family.sg was developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and the iGov Council, after the idea
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    • 513 6  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE labour movement is rolling out two new services within the next six months to cater to Singapore's increasingly greying population. A new senior citizens' centre will be set up, in addition to a nonmedical home care service for elderly
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    • 521 6  -  SHERALYNTAY FOR most parents, it is the most ordinary thing in the world. But when five-year-old Song Rui hugged his father last month and said, "Daddy I love you", his parents were stunned, and his mother, Mrs Peggy Goh, noted the momentous occasion in
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  • world news
    • 976 8 —AFP LONDON The crisis tearing at the heart of British power springs from the long political marriage, sometimes sweet but often stormy, between Mr Tony Blair and Mr Gordon Brown. Alternately friends and rivals, accomplices and adversaries, the prime minister and his finance minister have been
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    • this quirky world
      • 80 8 A Serbian man hired a fleet of taxis to spell out a wedding proposal to his girlfriend, reported ananova.com. Mr Vujadin Stojkovic, from Arandjelovac, hired a dozen taxi drivers to propose to Ivana Novakovic. Each taxi driver was paid to paint a single letter
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      • 58 8 In a bid to coordinate crimes from prison, four El Salvadoran gang members hid mobile phones, phone charges and spare chips in their intestines, Reuters reported. The items, which were wrapped in plastic and inserted, were found during X-ray examinations and were reportedly used for
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      • 88 8 A 44-year-old Argentine man, who fathered 37 children, is taking legal action for the right to a vasectomy, ananova.com reported. Mr Cleto Ruiz Diaz, a painter, has resorted to court action because vasectomies are illegal in his state. Said to have started his sex life at
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    • 254 8 -AFP BEIJING The lawyer for jailed Hong Kong reporter Ching Cheong said on Friday he had appealed his client's five-year prison sentence in China for espionage. "This morning, we submitted the appeal to a Beijing court," lawyer He Peihua told AFP. "The family and
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    • 350 9 —AGENCIES Will Koizumi's likely successor repudiate Japan's war apology? TOKYO As the campaign to replace Mr Junichiro Koizumi as Japan's Prime Minister kicked off on Friday, frontrunner Shinzo Abe (picture) vowed that Japan would make its own rules on the world stage. While Japanese media reported
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    • 235 9 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Two Malaysians together with 12 other terror suspects including Indonesia's Hambali, the alleged mastermind of the Bali bombings have been moved from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay for trial. This is the first time the United States administration has revealed that
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    • 244 9 —AGENCIES ATLANTA (United States) United States President George W Bush said on Thursday that the Taliban's attempt to retake Afghanistan would not succeed, despite the resurgence of violence. Meanwhile, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (Nato) military commander has called for additional reinforcements to combat an
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    • 511 10 —AFP New video shows Osama and his followers preparing for the attacks DUBAI Just days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Aljazeera broadcast previously unseen footage it said shows Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda suicide hijackers
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    • 233 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Members of Malaysia's ruling party on Friday called for unity ahead of a bid by ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad to run in a party contest seen as a precursor to a clash with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Dr Mahathir, who
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    • 192 10 ■AFP COPENHAGEN A Danish newspaper on Friday published cartoons of the Holocaust exhibited in Iran as part of an international contest organised in response to a row over Danish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Six cartoons of the Holocaust appeared in the Danish daily Information. The Iranian
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 90 10 -DPA At least 35 people were killed and 100 injured in two blasts on Friday in the western Indian state of Maharasthra as scores of people were gathering for a Muslim festival. An explosion took place as worshippers were dispersing after Friday prayers
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      • 111 10 —AFP Up to 30 members of the AI-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl) are still hiding in the Philippines, including two suspected Bali bombers, the country's military chief of staff said on Friday. General Hermogenes Esperon said the military was trying to confirm reports that
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      • 103 10 -AP An army sergeant arrested in an investigation into an alleged plot to kill Thailand's prime minister has admitted his involvement, the police officer in charge of the case said. Police Lt Gen Montree Jamroom said the soldier, identified as Chakrit
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    • 184 10 —AFP JAKARTA At least eight million hectares across Indonesia have been damaged by forest fires in the last month, officials said on Friday as dozens of uncontrolled blazes continued on Borneo island. A forestry ministry official admitted that forest and ground fires had destroyed
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  • Voices
    • 118 12  - Dear Neil Humphreys WILLTIMMONS Letter from THANK you for writing such an entertaining book. I only knew about your other books after the new one, Final Notes From A Great Island, came out, and will look for them at my local bookstore. Your tour around Singapore has inspired me to
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    • 773 12  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS WEEKEND WITH news@newstoday.com.sg PAYING bills can be a laborious process, particularly when you're doing your utmost not to pay them. When I was a kid, I was tasked with handling the family's debt collectors. I dealt with milkmen, postmen, insurance sellers and the woman who
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    • SERVICESNUBS&SMILES
      • 176 12  -  MURALI SHARMA: I recently went to a bank to open an account that was being promoted. I was attended to by a young girl who did not know anything. She had to consult her superior several times and made at least eight
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      • 157 12  -  ARYANTO SULTANRY: I had dinner on Sunday at Kopitiam at Plaza Singapura and had great service from a cleaning attendant in a uniform with a "Red Star" logo. Although her job scope is just to clear the trays and clean the tables, she
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    • Don't forget ...
      • 78 13  - the special education teachers FIONA KOH LEE-SHEN Letter from IT IS very heartening to see how hard the Ministry of Education is working at retaining and motivating the best teachers to remain in service. However, do the benefits apply to those teaching in the various special schools all over Singapore?
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      • 125 13  - and the early childhood educators too JOYCE TAN CHENG ENG Letter from IN ALL the recent articles about motivating and rewarding the teaching profession, I feel early childhood educators have been left behind. We are the first line educators responsible for working closely with parents in nurturing and developing their
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 103 13  -  MATT PASTERFIELD: I refer to the recent letters from vegetarians who were charged full price or more for purchasing a burger without the patty in fastfood restaurants. Having lived in Singapore for a year, and previously having lived in London, I was very surprised that
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      • 112 13  -  JEANNE CHOW: I'd like to congratulate the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) on the speed at which I was able to apply for and collect my biometric passport. Not only was I able to apply online, I was informed via email and post within three days
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    • 173 13  -  LER SENG ANN Letter from Director (Conservation and Development Services) Urban Redevelopment Authority I REFER to the letter "Move Lav Pa Sat to Marina Bay" (Aug 30). The current cast iron Telok Ayer Market building, dating from 1894, has been a landmark for
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    • 222 13  -  MARINA LIM Letter from I REFER to the article "Mobile phone clip returns to haunt 5 national footballers" (Sept 8). I was studying overseas when I first saw the video clip on Youtube.com early this year. I watched it with my
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    • 271 14  -  LOUIS NG Letter from President and Executive Director Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) I REFER to the report, "No more animals from the Arctic: Spore Zoo" (Sept 7). Acres would like to once again congratulate Singapore Zoo for responding positively to our concerns and
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    • 375 14  -  JOAN D'ARCY Honour Steve Irwin the conservationist but not the provocative methods Letter from TELEVISION shows, newspapers, zoos and photographs are unfortunately the only way most of the world's population will ever get to see and appreciate our fabulous animal kingdom. Therefore, people like Steve Irwin,
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  • Businesstoday
    • 908 16 -BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE, poised to overtake Tokyo as Asia's biggest currency trading centre, expects hedge funds, commodities trading and Islamic finance to be areas of growth, said Mr Heng Swee Keat, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The MAS predicts "very strong growth" in
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    • marketwatch
      • 141 16 Dow Jones SHARES ended higher on Friday, with technology counters rebounding from recent declines and Capita Land advancing on reports of a possible collaboration with Disney. The ST Index ended up 4.75 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 2,510.14 on Friday. In the broad market, advancers topped decliners 267
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      • 4 16 ST Index 2,510.14 +4.75
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      • 66 16 SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg Information provided by and Mikkei 225 16.080.46 +68.05 +0.42 IK Hang Seng 17,145.76 +49.32 +0.29 Australia ASX200 5,098.30 -10.40 -0.20 (orea Comp 1,354.89 +3.72 +0.28 rhailand SET 692.46 -0.10 -0.01 lakarta Comp 1,466.57 -3.89 -0.26 Jhils Comp 2,378.04 -27.21 -1.13 Shenzhen B 291.13 -1.31
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      • 52 16 UniFiber ASL Marine ChinaMilk MMI Xpress Bio-Treat ChinaPDye MediaRing AsiaPharm CEnerSave 0.240 0.910 1.050 0.995 0.195 0.755 0.350 0.355 0.535 0.100 -0.010 +0.050 -0.050 +0.040 +0.010 +0.015 -0.010 -0.025 +0.005 -4.0 +5.0 -4.5 +4.2 +5.4 +2.0 -2.0 -4.5 +2.9 32,566 21,405 19,755 19,460 10,033 15,067 15,206 14,420
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      • 36 16 US$ 0.6361 UK£ 0.3399 Yen 74.018 HK$ 4.9455 RM 2.3269 Euro 0.5002 Rupiah 5,803.3 Baht 23.807 Peso 32.076 AS 0.8394 Indian Rs 29.399 Won 608.05 C$ 0.7062 Yuan 5.0537 NZ$ 0.9932 NT$ 20.898
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    • 258 17  -  LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com. sg MOTOR magnate Karsono Kwee of Eurokars Group was named Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 (EVA) at the annual awards ceremony yesterday. Eurokars, which was founded by Mr Kwee 21 years ago, is the sole distributor of Porsche,
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    • 533 17 BLOOMBERG BANYAN Tree Holdings, the Singaporebased operator of luxury hotels, said China would become its fastest-growing market in a global expansion plan to cut dependence on its flagship Thai resort (picture). Banyan Tree has more employees assessing opportunities in China than anywhere else, chairman
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    • 245 17 BLOOMBERG UNITED Fiber System, a Singapore-based forestry company, said an agreement to buy Indonesian pulp maker PT Kiani Kertas was "imminent," refuting a newspaper report that the plan had been scrapped. DBS Group Holdings will help raise funds for the transaction, Unifiber's chief financial
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    • 224 17 -DOW JONES JAPANESE Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said on Friday that finance chiefs from the world's seven major industrial countries will likely discuss foreign exchange rates when they meet in Singapore on Sept 16. But he declined to speculate
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    • impact media and advertising
      • 927 18  - The man who 'wooed' JESSICA ALBA JANE CHIAPOCO BBDO executive Farrokh Madon was part of the team that brought Tiger Beer and the Hollywood star together ja nec@newstoday.com.sg ADVERTISING agency BBDO's Mr Farrokh Madon the person responsible for bringing Tiger Beer and Jessica Alba together for a local TV campaign
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      • 258 18 1990: Copywriter, Enterprise Nexus in India Became one of the youngest award winners in Indian advertising 1993: Copywriter, Ogilvy Mather Singapore 1995 to 1997: Senior Writer, Anderson Lembke Europe in Amsterdam 1997 to 1999: Senior Writer, Bates Singapore Played a role in winning the Nokia regional business and was
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    • wealth personal finance & investment
      • 658 19 COLD calls, email messages or bogus Internet websites are common techniques used by unregulated entities to solicit business for bogus investments. MoneySENSE shares with you how you can protect yourself from falling prey to such schemes. TELLTALE SIGNS Watch out for telltale signs that indicate
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      • 300 19  -  CHOW PENN NEE DBS Bank credit card account-holders now have less time to pay their bills. The bank has shortened its repayment period from 25 days to 20 days, with effect from July 1. The repayment period begins from the date on a customer's
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      • 264 19 SGX. What is the CDP7 The Central Depository (CDP) is a subsidiary of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The CDP provides depository, clearing, settlement and computerised book-entry services for securities traded on the exchange. As a depository, the CDP provides central nominee services. It is the central party which holds
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      • 682 20  -  ALEX NICHOLAS LEE Aberdeen says there are many small-cap stocks with good fundamentals news@newstoday.com.sg A SMALL-CAP company is loosely defined by some brokerages and fund managers as one with a market capitalisation below US$l billion ($1.57 billion). There are over 4,800 such companies in Asia and
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      • 211 20  -  -VALERIE LAW HSBC has launched Prime Notes, the first principal-protected retail note in Singapore, offering retail investors a potential interest totalling 16.5 per cent over three years. If the Prime Notes are held to their scheduled three-year maturity, investors will enjoy
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      • 435 20 CDL Hospitality Trust (93 cents) —BUY DBS Vickers initiates coverage on CDL Hospitality Trust, which offers investors direct exposure to the potential growth in revenue per available room in the Singapore hotel sector over the next few years. The trust is the first listed hotel real estate investment trust
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    • 722 21  - Raise that brow thick and bold Pearlyn Tham Make a fashion statement with darker, fuller eyebrows WHEN I was 16 years old, I was inexplicably ashamed of my naturally bold and bountiful brows. So one day, in between working on my O-level 10-Year Series, I decided to wield a pair
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    • 1074 22  -  Chan Felicia HOW NOW, BROWS? Now that you know dark and bushy but well-defined brows are the key to causing a brow-ha-ha in the make-up world this FallWinter, it's time to select the right compact, wand or pencil. Yes, you have that many choices when it
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    • style
      • 59 23 Today readers play models for a day and wear the latest Fall-Winter looks i I THE LOWDOWN ON FALL: Student Jasmine Lee gets comfy in her Fall ensemble. Sleeveless face button-front blouse ($89.90), vest ($89.90) and denim mini skirt ($89.90), all from Esprit, and I faux
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        237 24 JASMINE Lee described herself as having been "a fat and ugly duckling" since she was a child, adding that it was only recently she slimmed down though looking at her now, one could never tell! "I would like to capture the youth and beauty that is in
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        225 24 FOR close to a decade, 34-year-old Leong Lai Fong was a teacher. "Years of stress in school have made me look haggard... lam starting life afresh and I want to change my outlook for the better," Lai Fong, now a part-time insurance agent, said. The make-up: As
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        202 25 YOU could call her an optimistic go-get-ter. After all, Joycelyn Ong believes "we can achieve our dreams", having met her own goals of spending quality time with her two sons, being a "star employee" and working towards an honours degree. The personal assistant, who is in her 30s,
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        199 25 UMA Mageswari Chandrasegaran hopes to look her age 22 instead of "looking 10 years older". Lamented Uma: "I'm sick of the same make-up and clothes I wear every day. For a change, I'd like to see the other side of me!" But as Uma works as a corporate
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        248 26 SHE'S sweet-faced and petite but 24-year-old Ruzzena feels she looks like an "oldfashioned and boring Plain Jane". She told Today she envies her friends' stylish clothes, "compared to my dull and outdated dress sense". Added the receptionist "I want to change the way I look and feel more
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      • 200 26 T-SHIRTS, windbreakers, jeans and sneakers form Chong Kai Fen's everyday dress code. So, the tomboyish 19-year-old student was curious to find out what a difference make-up and hairstyling would make. A big one indeed, as Kai Fen's postmakeover photo shows. The make-up: Kai Fen's almond-shaped eyes suit
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        77 27 CREDITS PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL IMAGING JASON HO STYLING ANDTEXT PEARLYNTHAM ADDRESSES: ALIYAH HOMESTORES, #03-47 PARAGON DOROTHY PERKINS, #02-338/339 MARINA SQUARE ESPRIT #01-12 MANDARIN SHOPPING ARCADE HAYDEN BOUTIQUE, 88 CLUB STREET KELTURE SALON, #03-01 SHAW CENTRE NICHOLAS, #02-04 STAMFORD HOUSE ON REDDER, #02-12 NGEE ANN CITY RAOUL LADIES, #02-12 PARAGON TWISTER
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      326 28 B^^-a^fr^-ft^, fl-^jgtt. Marsha 3F^»">3E'S: te^&MMm <h36&, Mn£Htt-JK'.b3£'B*:#/US, Rlf ng, JBPS&*t6J¥Jtjft o tbW ft --ft 31SH tn+ iB» ittn ffl# l£S SiJia ng'> 3Efe3# p^: ggft, sfenasa. s^s, wm Sfc-feJl®*, MJs«MwW'&P'ft'ft#?T, K£ «J5^3KJf PHtai^ffl, qft! )&m.n todaywithmoseslim moseslim@newstoday.com.sg XIAO LONG BAO If you've not tasted xiao long bao (that soupy steamed
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    • FOODNOTES
      • 135 28 From now until Oct 31, enjoy 25 per cent off the a la carte menu at Peach Blossoms at Marina Mandarin (available for dinner only). Sneak previews of the restaurant's newly-appointed head chef Ng Pang Koon's eight signature dishes and set menus will also be
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      • 136 28  -  BERNADEHE CHONG This month, indulge in seafood crab hotpot available at The Buffet at M Hotel. The dish is prepared with succulent Indonesian mud crabs and a selection from an ice bed of fresh fish, flower crabs, scallops, mussels, squid and deshelled oysters. Live
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    • makan
      • 641 29  -  Amy Van FOR the past three decades, Banana Leaf Apolo has been a popular haunt for locals and tourists hankering after its famous fish head curry. The flagship branch on Race Course Road, which has its beginnings in 1974, still runs a full house
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        113 29  -  111 M m IUH 51*] k'Tt^B TAIWANESE EGG TARTS Bin)8 in) and $1 (other fillings), from it, Blk 1 Tanjong Pagar Road, #01--agar Plaza (tel: 6323 0913) :h their crumbly or flaky pastry and jstard, are one of my favourite line my surprise when I found ese unique
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      • SHOPPINGGUIDE
        • 173 30 With the new Mac Pro, Apple has completed its transition to Intel. Now that wasn't so painful, was it? The Mac Pro is a 64-bit desktop workstation that has two dualcore Intel Xeon processors that run at speeds of up to 3.OGHz. Yes, it runs on
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        • 112 30 Luxury mobile phone manufacturer Vertu has taken the wraps off its latest series of phones the Vertu Constellation line. Each model is handcrafted at Vertu's workshop in Britain and is finished in gold or stainless steel, with leather encasing its back. Targeted at frequent travellers, the
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        • 113 30 If you're looking for ways to make your home audiovideo setup that bit more accessible and simpler to operate, you might like to consider the Philips Prestigo SRU 9600 universal remote control. It differs from other universal remotes with its touch-sensitive display and a
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        • 130 30 Kodak's been churning out cameras that come with a range of great features you won't be able to find in other cameras in the same price category. Take the Kodak Easy Share P712, for example. It's a 7.1-megapixel camera that has a whopping 12xzoom. Couple
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      • 158 30 YOU can now use your mobile phone's wireless local area network capabilities to make cheaper calls. Nokia and Sing Tel are collaborating to bring integrated dual-mode telephony to consumers so they can make calls through conventional means such as 2G and 3G, or take
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      • 774 30  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Samsung lands Blu-ray's first punch in the HD format war hedirman@newstoday.com.sg I'M A child of the '80s. I grew up watching my uncle's rented (and ridiculous) Chinese vampire movies on VHS tapes and recording reruns of The Benny Hill Show and Mind Your
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      • 610 31  -  ARIELTAM The LG KG32O is perfect for lightweight phone users a riel@newstoday.com.sg THE KG32O from Korean electronics maker LG looks pretty much like your run-of-the-mill black candy bar phone, just flatter. With a sleek profile of less than lcm and tipping the scales at 73.6g, this handset
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      • 132 31 -AP NEW YORK IBM Corp said it has shipped the first microprocessors that will be used to power Nintendo's Wii video game console. IBM earlier this year signed a multi-year agreement to supply Japan-based Nintendo with chips made at its East Fishkill, New
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      • 257 31 Calling Skype and Windows Live users PHILIPS has unveiled two Dect (digital enhanced cordless telecommunications) phones that allow users to conduct Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls. The Philips V01P321 ($198) allows users to make Skype calls via a broadband Internet connection. Press the Skype key on the phone and
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      • 1045 32  -  COLIN YONG Two of Spores best-selling 2.4-litre MPVsgo under the knife for a makeover colin@newstoday.com.sg MITSUBISHI GRANDIS SPORT GEAR O MULTI-PURPOSE vehicle ownership is simultaneously a confirmation of your entry into the ranks of solid, responsible adulthood, and the four-wheeled embodiment of the death of fun. Thank goodness
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      • 717 34  -  COLIN YONG Car owners who have christened their rides tell us what's in a car's name colin@newstoday.com.sg FORGET the usual Betsy, Daisy or Herbie Singaporean motorists are more likely to name their cars after popular cartoon characters. Today spoke to eight car owners who gave pet
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        • 113 34  -  COLIN YONG Jeep's first seven-seater vehicle, the Commander, recently won its first major award by scooping the "4x4 of the Year" title handed out by British publication 4x4. The Commander scored 39 points out of a possible 50, beating models including the Range Rover, Hummer H3 and
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        • 148 34 The new Qashqai is Nissan's first vehicle to be designed completely in Europe. Its name is pronounced "cashkai" and Nissan must also be hoping it will be its cash cow in the rapidly growing mid-sized Sports Utility Vehicle segment. Both 1.6- and 2.0-litre engines-producing 115
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        • 129 34 Italian automaker Lancia could make a comeback in Singapore as soon as 2008, when it resumes produc- I tion of right-hand drive cars after halting it for more than a decade. Lancias were last sold here in the '90s. The brand's' parent company Fiat then
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      • 658 35  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA Knock-on demand from sellers who want to stay close to old home shobha@newstoday.com.sg IT IS not only property developers and sellers of en bloc sale projects who are enjoying the benefits of the collective sale boom, which is showing no sign of abating. Older
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      • 504 35 -BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S $10 billion real estate investment trust (Reit) industry may triple in market value in the next five to 10 years as more assets become available, the Republic's biggest developer said. Capita Land, which manages three of Singapore's 13 property trusts, said
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      1291 36 -AGENCIES SHOULD VIDEO FOOTAGE OF STEVE IRWIN'S FATAL ATTACK BE SHOWN? NEW YORK Keep the cameras rolling no matter what happens even if I'm dying. That was what the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin always told the film crews who recorded his death-defying antics. "If I'm going
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      524 38  -  EUSACHIA WHO'S WHO IN SHINHWA ACCORDING TO ANDY AND DONGWAN "ERIC is the big brother. He's "The most manly and passionour mediator and always helps ate person is definitely us make a decision when we JUNJIN." have differences." "The most romantic guy? "MINWOO is the all-rounder HYESUNG
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    • INADDITION
      • 49 38 THE Singapore Biennale 2006 exhibition at the City Hall (along Padang) will be closed to the public from Monday till Sept 20 because of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Meet. Exhibitions at the other Biennale sites will remain open.
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      • 50 38 Catch Canada's most prolific soprano Nancy Argenta with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) on Saturday at the Victoria Concert Hall as she sings two of Mozart's concert arias as well as his ever-popular sacred work Exsultate, jubilate. The concert begins at Bpm. Tickets from Sistic.
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      • 36 38 Join the SSO as they perform John Adams' 1986 masterpiece Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Haydn's Cello Concerto in C on Sunday, spm at the Victoria Concert Hall. Tickets from Sistic.
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      • 59 38 The latest exhibition at the Alliance Francaise toes the line between fiction and non-fiction as Singapoarean artists Sandra Lee, Tan Wee Lit and French photographer Hermance Triay dissect popular tales, rhymes and legends and even contemporary writings to understand them in the artists' own contexts. The
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    • 504 38  -  ZAFARANJUM zaf ar@newstoday.com.sg THE diva of dandiya is back. Six years after her she last visited Singapore, Falguni Pathak the leading practitioner of this traditional form of Indian dance will hold a show on Saturday at D'Marquee Downtown East. Dandiya is
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    • 637 40  -  ZUL OTHMAN New National Geographic documentary looks at the infiltration of Osama spy AliAMohamedintotheUS zul@newstoday.com.sg IT SOUNDS like something out of a John le Carre espionage novel. Radical former Egyptian army officer Ali A Mohamed lives in the United States for more than 14 years, becomes a
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      • 137 40  -  SEAN MCCULLYWRI+ES: I HAVE been a fan of Jean Danker (picture), the focus of your feature "Girl Power" (Sept 6), since she started DJing on MediaCorp Radio 987FM. Jean has matured far beyond her 28 years to become, in my opinion, the most versatile and well-respected
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      • 78 40  -  JERRY TAN WRI+ES: MY DAUGHTER and I were followers of Singapore Idol until last Thursday's episode, which will probably be our last Paul Twohill is a young boy who worked very hard to stand out from the other contestants and highlight his uniqueness. Alas, his
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      • 153 40  -  JENNIFER LEE WRI+ES: I WAS in the studio for the President's Star Charity 2006 last Sunday. I must say the production team and local artistes put on a great show. I would have enjoyed it fully, if not for the incessant screaming from some of the
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      237 42  -  Justin Cheong DVDREVIEW u by FILM: Oh my god, this movie is, like, so cool. It's got, like a mermaid who, like, grants wishes and she falls for this guy who's, like oh my god, he's so cute! That basically sums up what Aquamarine is about and the tone
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    • 443 42  -  JEANINETAN Jane director wanted cast and crew to savour the film-making experience jea nine@newstoday.com.sg SOMETIMES, a director has to give up directing. That's what happened in the case of Jane, a collaborative effort between Singapore film-makers and others in the movie industry. The 17-min film, which
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      170 42  -  Ross Wallace DVDREVIEW D by FILM: Americans love their sports movies and, of late, there has been no shortage of titles to choose from. The latest entry in the feelgood sweepstakes is Ghry Road, the true story of Texas basketball coach Dan Haskins (Josh Lucas), who in 1966
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      • 34 43  -  The emoting is realistic and the scares are genuinely chilling in this very good motion capture animation about a trio of kids terrorised by a haunted house in their suburban neighbourhood. JEANINETAN
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      • 42 43  -  The second feature film from Talking Cock's Colin Goh, about the aspirations of one Singaporean family, dares to hold up a mirror to the audience, which may make for difficult viewing, but you have to have a look. NEIL HUMPHREYS
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      • 44 43  -  This Samuel L Jackson Bmovie inspired extravaganza is not Shakespeare but right now: "I've had it with these motherf***ing snakes on this motherf***ing plane!" is probably being etched as one of the most badass one-liners in movie history. JUSTIN CHEONG
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      • 36 43  -  The indomitable Meryl Streep, who plays a bitchy magazine editor loosely based on Vogue's Anna Wintour, turns what could have been an episode of Video Fashion with dialogue into something classier and meaner. FELIX CHEONG
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      • 33 43  -  More than just a horror movie featuring the standard-fare creature, this South Korean box-office hit is a clever and humourous satire of government red tape and the US military. ROSS WALLACE
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      • 40 43 JT Minus the racial sterotypes, this family drama about a little African-American girl who spells her way to the Nationa Spelling Bee has enough urban sass and ethnic pride to carry the film further than it seems to promise.
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      • 57 43 RW Everyone loves a Usual Suspects-\\ke con game where it takes the length of the movie for the film-maker to show his hand, but in this game it's clear from the outset how things will turn out. It's interesting enough, but in the end all you want
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      • 25 43 -FC It doesn't make for easy viewing because it confronts issues we'd rather sweep under the carpet, but Pretty Persuasion is persuasive enough.
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      • 38 43 NH There are enough jokes to tickle the little ones in this animation about really smart farm animals and their crazy antics, but the Nickleodeon effort feels like it belongs on the small screen of cable television.
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      • 49 43 NH If you're the kind of voyeuristic cinemagoerwho enjoys watching women being molested, men being smacked in the testicles and, best of all, a "toddler" being kicked unconscious, then this Wayans brothers' effort about a pint-sized criminal in disguise as a baby is the film for you.
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        57 43 FC Watching wallpaper dry with an insistent drone telling you how exciting it is about sums up this halfway arthouse enterprise based on a Haruki Murakami book, about a man who places an ad in a newspaper to find a woman to replace his recently deceased wife. •URBAN SASS,
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    • 294 43 —AP LOS ANGELES Ellen DeGeneres has been tapped to host next year's Oscars, the Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences said on Friday. It will be the comedian and TV talk show host's first time helming the Academy Awards ceremony and first
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    • 877 47 -KRT Plugging in to music in the office helps some focus but others are concerned that it takes away from teamwork PETER Hubert keeps a mirror on his desk so he can see people walking up behind him, even if he can't hear them. With headphones
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      578 49  -  CUBBY LEONG Tampines face three crucial match-upsinsixdays, starting with Cup semi-final RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2006 Tampines v Woodlands cubby@newstoday.com.sg THE next six days will make or break Tampines Rovers' season. On Saturday, the defending S-League champions will try to overturn a 2-1 deficit against Woodlands Wellington in the
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    • 420 49 TAMPINES V WOODLANDS Tampines Stadium, Saturday, 7.30pm Correct at press time. These are preliminary opening odds. Visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or any Singapore Pools outlet for current odds. AOS: Any Other Score SAFFC have signed a new product sponsorship deal with Phiten, said to be
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    • 716 50 tiEWEEKENDilltellliw WITH TABLE TENNIS'WORLD NO 1 WANG UQIN MANY experts believe Wang Liqin has the most fearsome forehand drive in men's table tennis. After joining the China national team at just 15, he bagged Olympic gold in men's doubles in 2000 and grabbed bronze
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    • 643 50 TENNIS US Open NEW YORK James Blake merely said what the whole tennis world already knew. Beaten on yet another amazing shot by Roger Federer, Blake shouted across the net "You're too good!" Federer looked every bit the best player on the planet, turning back
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    • 571 51  -  CUBBYLEONG TABLE TENNIS 2006 Volkswagen Open Singapore cubby@newstoday.com.sg LI JIAWEI eased into the last 16 of the women's singles in the 2006 Volkswagen Open Singapore after a 4-0 win over Huang I Hwa of Taiwan at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall on Friday. The world No
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    • 146 51 CHANNEL NEWSASIA ON FRIDAY, the SEA Games Federation Council announced that Singapore will host the 2013 South-east Asian Games (SEA Games). The biennial event is the region's premier sporting event involving 11 Southeast Asian countries. At the 2005 SEA Games in Manila, Singapore finished
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    • 704 52  -  TANYO-HINN South African thrives in the morning to move to the top, Aussies Strange and Scott in the hunt GOLF Barclays Singapore Open 2006 yohinn@newstoday.com.sg to give anything away. "I hit some putts yesterday (Thursday) after my round and found a little secret and went with
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    • 516 52 UNHERALDED Scott Strange could well gatecrash the party this weekend at the US$3 million ($4.7 million) Barclays Singapore Open 2006. Despite nursing a sore back, the Australian carded a 2-under 69 at Sentosa's treacherous Serapong course to move
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    • 577 53 Worthy champions PROVE FT! -AFP After a controversial summer, Italy's top dogs are raging favourites this season SERIEA Fiorentina v Inter Milan ROME Italian champions Inter Milan will be plunged straight in at the deep end when they start their Serie A campaign away to Fiorentina on Saturday. Inter were
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    • 584 53 CHIEVO Location: Veneto, North Founded: 1929 Highest ever Serie A position: sth (2002) Coach: Giuseppe Pillon (picture) OUTLOOK: Despite a shoestring budget and a squad that contains no big names, unfashionable Chievo continually defy the odds. The Verona club secured a place in the Champions League
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    • 659 54  -  Lan De Cotta FORMULA 1 Italian Grand Prix HE'S had so many thrilling weekends in the course of a 15-year career. He has dominated Formula 1 like no one else before, and surely no one will be able to match, let alone overtake, his
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    • 216 54 MANCHESTER Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney floored Blackburn defender Michael Gray with a single punch in an altercation at a restaurant here last weekend. Rooney, 20, was with fiancee Coleen McLoughlin and three other couples, all longstanding close friends of the pair, at a
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    • 954 55 -AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton v Liverpool ANFIELD He is considered one of the English Premiership's brightest young managers. Under his stewardship Everton are currently just two points behind leaders Manchester United in the league standings. In joint-second spot with seven points after two wins and a
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    • 233 55 -AFP LONDON Manchester United's ability to sustain their early season momentum will be put to the test on Saturday by a Tottenham side desperate to emerge from a lethargic start to their own Premiership campaign. After narrowly missing out on a Champions League
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