Today, 13 September 2006

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    26 1 /A=DIJ^CORP TODAY share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Wednesday September 13, 2006 todayonline.com share your free newspaper Wednesday September 13, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY //\3DIJ\COR.P MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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    Lock icon Bridging the gulf
    730 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO Business links with Mid-east up but we've only begun to scratch the potential: SM Goh derrick@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Arab leaders first began visiting Singapore after the 911 attacks, which had affected their ties with the West, one of them remarked that they did not know
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  • Article
    Fares up – but not as much as last year
    516 1  - Fares up but not as much as last year TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com.sg BUS and train fares will go up by between 1 to 3 cents from Oct 1 except for children, students and monthly concession pass holders, including National Servicemen. In fact, one in five rides or 23 per cent
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Chees lose, SDP takes hit
      562 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg WHEN the court ruled yesterday that Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan and his sister, Ms Chee Siok Chin, had defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, the siblings were nowhere to be seen. For
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    • Article
      It's never been our role to set room rates: Singapore Hotel Association
      422 3  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Hotel Association (SHA) has come out to rebut criticisms about its role in poor hotel occupancy and high room rates for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings taking place this
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    • Article
      PROTECTING THOSE GOLDEN YEARS
      787 3  -  CHARLES TAN With retirement villages being built in Spore, there must also be laws to defend the rights of retirees IN THE old days, retirement villages were established by charitable or church organisations to take care of needy seniors. They were associated with abandonment These days,
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      Lock icon Irwin fans seek revenge, killing up to 10 stingrays
      242 4 -AFP SYDNEY Fans trying to avenge the death of popular television wildlife star Steve Irwin may have killed as many as 10 stingrays and cut off their deadly tails, a conservationist said yesterday. Mr Irwin, 44, star of the popular Crocodile
      -AFP  -  242 words
    • Article
      Thai press stirs Shin issue again
      346 4  -  CHRISTIE LOH ButTemasek rejects notion that it broke any law in Shin Corp deal christi e@newstoday.com.sg THE hottest political issue in Thailand got another airing yesterday as the Thai media again accused Temasek Holdings of wrongdoing over its purchase of telecommunications giant Shin Corp
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    • Article
      Vouchers for needy families
      222 4  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine.yi n@newstoday.com.sg AT LEAST $2.6 million worth of help will be on hand for lowincome families struggling to cope with the 1.7-per-cent hike in bus and train fares that the Public Transport Council approved yesterday. Apart from the $l-million transport vouchers contribution from transport
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  • Singapore news
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      Where are the 'shock absorbers'?
      520 6  -  VALERIE LAW Global markets look healthy but not pricing in enough risks: IMF valeri e@newstoday.com.sg THE global economy may look bright and rosy now, but prominent risks still lurk in the background, warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday. These risks include a more pronounced
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        Lock icon FILIPINOS STILL PUSHING TO PROTEST
        91 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Despite being turned away, Filipino activists are still demanding the right to protest in Singapore during the IMF-World Bank meetings. Protesters from the group Freedom from Debt Coalition are insisting the World Bank step up its pressure on the Singapore Government for banning
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        Lock icon SPECIAL TAXI STANDS FOR DELEGATES
        136 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Although some taxi drivers are avoiding the Marina area altogether, IMF-World Bank delegates need not fret. Two taxi stands have been designated at One Raffles Place and the Pan Pacific Hotel for the delegates, courtesy of a tie-up between ComfortDelGro and the *****
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    • Article
      Youth with a global view
      470 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg SINCE it awarded Singapore the rights to host its annual meetings with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank has taken great interest in working with one particular group here: The youth. It has met members of this group on no
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    • Article
      On a mission to help underprivileged kids
      443 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS one home for the aged sick and one for the mentally incapacitated. Now, the voluntary welfare organisation (VWO) that manages both may open an orphanage next. The Sree Narayana Mission (Singapore) wants to expand its services, and
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      Lock icon Cat torturer gets maximum jail term
      459 8  -  LEE U-WEN Man who abused kittens sentenced to 12 months in prison u-wen@newstoday.com.sg IN WHAT was described as "one of the worst cases of animal abuse" the Community Court has heard, serial cat torturer David Hooi Yin Weng was handed the maximum jail sentence
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    • Article
      Lock icon Subutex pills seized, suspects arrested
      217 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA IT WAS a scene straight out of the movies Subutex tablets taped under the seat of a bus and an accomplice all ready to retrieve them. In this case, however, the plan went awry due to a tip-off. Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Gunmen attack US embassy
      441 10 —AFP Three terrorists killed as Syrian forces thwart assault on the eve of 911 anniversary DAMASCUS Gunmen launched a brazen daylight assault on the US embassy in Damascus yesterday, using grenades, automatic weapons and an explosives-laden van in a foiled "terror" attack that left four people
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    • Article
      Lock icon Olmert hit by another scandal?
      193 10 -AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been implicated in another questionable property deal after reports that his family sold a house in Jerusalem to one of his campaign contributors for an inflated price. According to an investigation broadcast on Monday night by Channel
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka slams aid agencies
      263 10 -AFP COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government yesterday accused international aid agencies of chickening out when civilians needed help the most amid fierce fighting between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella criticised the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for refusing to
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      Lock icon Let's talk enrichment suspension: Iran
      434 12 -AFP But Tehran rejects immediate freeze on nuclear activities VIENNA Iran is open to discussing the suspension of uranium enrichment but has rejected United States demands to do so ahead of talks with six world powers seeking an end to the nuclear crisis. A text
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      Lock icon Indonesian student faces prison for 'insulting' President
      173 12 -DPA JAKARTA Prosecutors in Indonesia's West Java province have asked a court to sentence a university student to six years in prison for "insulting" the country's President during a peaceful campus demonstration. The case was the latest filed under the controversial Dutch colonial-era
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      Lock icon Imelda says she's found a new resting place for Marcos
      335 12 -AP MANILA Mrs Imelda Marcos, formerly First Lady of the Philippines, announced on Monday that she had arranged the final resting place of her husband, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Mrs Marcos said her husband would be buried on the
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      Lock icon HK's 'Iron Lady' will not take on Donald Tsang
      206 14 DPA HONG KONG Ms Anson Chan (picture), Hong Kong's "Iron Lady", will not run against current chief executive Donald Tsang in the upcoming leadership race, a news report claimed yesterday. The former chief secretary of administration is expected to formally announce
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'War is not over'
      370 14 -AGENCIES Bush says Iraq is key to stopping terrorism WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush, in invoking the memory of the 911 victims killed five years ago to argue for a continued military campaign in Iraq before a sceptical American public, drew protests from Democrats
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      Lock icon M'sian officials accused of being biased
      257 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian judge has thrown out convictions of Chinese and Vietnamese women arrested in a pub and karaoke bar, accusing officials of bias against foreign women, a report said yesterday. The 11 Chinese and three Vietnamese women were arrested on July
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    • Article
      Lock icon Go ahead, make a complaint, Dr M told
      434 15 -AGENCIES M'sia's DPM says claim will only be investigated if there is evidence KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said the ruling party's disciplinary committee will investigate allegations that certain members in the Kubang Pasu division were bribed in a
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      Lock icon More JI attacks this year: Former leader
      165 15 -AFP SYDNEY A former leader of the Islamic militant group responsible for the deadly Bali bombings warned yesterday that more attacks were likely this year. Mr Nasir Abbas, who once ran the Philippines branch of Jemaah Islamiah 01) the Al Qaeda-linked South-east Asian
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      Lock icon 3 found guilty for '93 Mumbai blasts
      178 15 -AGENCIES MUMBAI Three brothers of an alleged kingpin behind the 1993 serial blasts in India's economic capital that killed 257, were convicted yesterday for their role in the attacks. The brothers of Tiger Memon who has been a fugitive since the devastating attacks
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      Lock icon Nudging Pyongyang back to the table
      627 16 AFP South Korea urges US to be more open to resuming nucleartalks SEOUL South Korea is pressing the United States to show greater flexibility in its efforts to restart nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, the unification ministry said yesterday. "It is necessary that
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      Lock icon Muted 1st birthday for HK Disneyland
      254 16 -AP HONG KONG Torrential rain dampened celebrations at Hong Kong Disneyland yesterday as the entertainment giant's first resort in China marked its maiden anniversary. In a relatively muted event by Disney's standards, park chief executive Bill Ernest joined Hong Kong pop and movie star
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    • Article
      Lock icon Japan's newborn prince named the 'serene one'
      234 17 —AFP TOKYO Japan's newborn prince, who is in line to become emperor in a generation's time, was yesterday named Hisahito, or "serene one", as his parents wished him a long and serene life. In a traditional ceremony of the world's oldest monarchy, Prince
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      Lock icon Brown moves into No 10
      524 17 -AFP PM Blair opts to shift into larger No 11 Downing St LONDON British finance minister Gordon Brown, the target of attacks from some MPs and ministers in recent days for his alleged role in a rebellion against Prime Minister Tony Blair, has moved into
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  • Voices
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      Lock icon isay WHY DO MIGRATORY 'BIRDS' ROOST ELSEWHERE?
      751 18  -  ZAFARANJUM zafa r@newstoday.com.sg THE question of immigrants and immigration was recently a hot topic in Singapore. The island state needs immigrants to supplant its declining population. Japan is another example but it can't take a recourse like Singapore. Singapore is unique in the
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    • Letter
      Coming face to face with our own unfairness
      257 19  -  IGNATIUS LEO Letter from I AM trying to sort out my feelings about foreign workers. Recently, I got annoyed when I saw a Chinese construction worker smoking at a bus interchange. Perhaps I was irritated at having to inhale sec-ond-hand smoke but,
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      ISKANDER:A'RICH'CULTURE
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      255 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY UAK HAND LOTION My friend, Mimi Wilson, tells of a simple experience she once shared with her daughter, Kendra. Kendra was in university atthe time, and having a great deal of trouble in her studies. She was preparing for an important exam,
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    • End of the road for free parking
      • Letter
        Can NTU impose nominal sum for its car parks?
        285 20  -  GOH KIAN HUAT I Letter from THERE are about 18 large car parks within the compounds of the 200-ha residential campus of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), located in the south-western part of Singapore. And this does not include the seven
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      • Letter
        $3 per entry charge for motorcycles is excessive
        228 20  -  BERNARD NGHAKJENG Letter from I AM a regular customer of Tangs and usually ride to the department store over the weekends and park there. During my recent trip, I was shocked that I had to pay $3 per entry for my motorcycle.
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    • What's the deal with commission?
      • Letter
        Dual commission does not mean conflict of interest
        427 21  -  LOWSWEEKIM Letter from 2nd Vice-President Institute of Estate Agents sth Council WE REFER to the letters from Jimmy Ho, Phong Kah Ho, Cheng Chin Chin and Gray Lim Gay, "Dual commission is just not right" (Sept 4). Let me first respond to
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      • Letter
        Too many agents jostling for too few deals
        233 21  -  JASON CHEW Letterfrom I REFER to the letter by Yap Swee Hoo "Dual commissions help make ends meet" (12 Sept). In the third paragraph, Mr Yap notes that "it is not every day or month that a housing agent can close a
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    • Letter
      Security shouldn't keep shoppers away
      172 21  -  ALVIN CHAN Letter from Public Relations Executive Precious Time I REFER to the article "Where are the shoppers?" (Sept 12) on the slow sales due to the International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings. As a tenant in both Suntec City and Millenia Walk, where our core
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    • Letter
      Who needs protests?
      170 24  -  S RAMAMIRTHAM Letter from THERE have been numerous reports over the past few days about Singapore's position on outdoor and indoor protests during the IMF-World Bank meetings and the displeasure of the two international organisations and civil society groups at Singapore's firm position. As a Singapore citizen,
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        SINGTEL SHOULD EXPLAIN
        109 24  -  LEONGSZEHIAN: I REFER to the report "Optus may hurt Sing Tel earnings" (Sept 12) in which investment bank Merrill Lynch said that Sing Tel may have to write down as much as $8 billion on its Australian unit Optus. If that happens, I believe it may be
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      • Article
        ARE BILLS MONITORED?
        87 24  -  GEORGE ISAAC TAN: EVER wonder if our monthly mobile phone usage is metered and billed accurately? According to 2005 statistics, there were 978 mobile phone subscribers for every 1,000 people. Given this vast number, it is undisputedly a public concern that these customers have the assurance that
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  • Businesstoday
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      Priority banking at the airport
      219 26 DBS Bank yesterday opened Asia's first full banking centre in the transit lounge of an airport The bank's DBS Asia Treasures Centre located at Changi Airport's Terminal 2 will be open only to selected clients from its priority segment and business clients by invitation only.
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    • Article
      Unhappy investors
      600 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH 'Concerned CES minority shareholders' ask SGXto look into recent dealings christie@newstoday.com.sg SEVEN small shareholders of Sesdaq-list-ed China Entertainment Sports (CES) have asked the bourse operator to look into the recent dealings of the shell company. In a letter to the Singapore Exchange (SGX), the minority shareholders
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  • business news
    • Article
      Lock icon UBS to open wealth management campus
      323 27 —AGENCIES The Spore campus will train 5,000 staff in the next 4 years SWISS bank ÜBS AG said yesterday that it will open a wealth management campus in Singapore to train its private bankers in the Asia-Pacific region. ÜBS Europe's second-largest bank by market
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      Lock icon Midas Holdings in Chinese joint venture
      195 27 SINGAPORE-LISTED Midas Holdings a maker of aluminum frames for train cars said it will form a joint venture company with a Chinese state-owned enterprise and three other Chinese companies. The joint venture China Northeast Light Alloy Company will inherit the operations of the state-owned
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      Lock icon Jardine Matheson's profits fall 18% to US$550 million
      181 27 BLOOMBERG JARDINE Matheson Holdings, which runs drugstores and supermarkets across Asia and owns the Mandarin Oriental hotel chain, said its first-half profits fell 18 per cent on lower earnings from its Indonesian car unit and smaller gains from the revaluation of property.
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      Hunt on for S'pore's pro-family business
      268 28  -  CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@newstoday.com.sg YESTERDAY marked the launch of an inaugural contest to find Singapore's favourite pro-family business. The contest is aimed at increasing awareness of pro-family businesses and their practices. Started by an organisation known as the Making Businesses Pro-Family Workgroup, the contest
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        66 28 -DOW JONES SHARE prices ended flat, hit for a second day by falling oil and commodity prices and worries about slowing growth in the United States and Japan. The ST Index fell 1.31 points, or 0.05 per cent, to 2,487.20 points. Losers led advancers 369 to 194 as 929.8
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      448 29 —AFP S Korea looks to FTA with US and to more open economy SOUTH Korea said yesterday it would open up its economy wider and pursue an unpopular free trade agreement with the United States to maintain growth in the face of an ageing population.
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      228 29 -BLOOMBERG CHINA reported the slowest growth in government and corporate spending this year, the strongest indication yet that a clampdown on investment is starting to bite. Fixed-asset investment in towns and cities climbed 21.5 per cent last month from a year earlier, slowing from
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      793 30  -  LEECHINGWERN Caterer's turnover grows to $3m in third year of operations chingwern@newstoday.com.sg JUST as "boutique" is fast becoming the buzzword of the day with boutique hotels, boutique firms and boutique stores popping up in fashionable locations all over the island one boutique caterer has
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      139 32 CONVERSION OF A BUSINESS Can a business firm be converted to a company? In effect you will be starting a new company and transferring your existing business name to the new company. You should look into the following: Incorporate a new company Attach the name and registration number of
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      412 32  -  LEE CHING WERN chingwern@newstoday.com.sg FOR the first time, entrepreneurs can access a one-stop-shop portal Marketlnfo.sg for market intelligence tailored to meet the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Launched by the Minister-in-charge of Entrepreneurship, Mr Lee Vi Shyan, at the Singapore Business
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      1051 33  -  LEECHINGWERN SPRING Singapore helps SMEs to build their brands chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THINK branding and what may probably come to mind would be the top brand names in the world such as Coca Cola, Microsoft, Nokia and Starbucks. Traditionally, smaller companies have long associated the act of
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      1090 34  -  Elisa Chia Once hot-tempered and outspoken, this evergreen actor has found peace with maturity HE PROVED elusive to pin down for an interview. In fact, it took a good 10 months before veteran TV star Chen Shucheng agreed to be featured as a Singapore
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      166 34 1948: Born on Oct 21 in Swatow, China, Shucheng was adopted at about age three. 1961: Came to Singapore with his adoptive family. 1969: Began working as a part-time Teochew newsreader and storyteller with Rediffusion radio while still a student at Tuan Mong High School. 1971: Worked as a
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      186 36 77ms week, we him the spotlight on what Singapore Idol forum participants are saying about remaining hopefuls Hady, Jasmine and Jonathan. Jon is very lucky i felt he did the worst but he's safe he should sing with more different ranges if you listen carefully, his vocal range is
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      444 36  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Hair intact, Paul guns for own punk show DAYS after Paul Twohill was eliminated from Singapore Idol, the faux emo-rocker revealed that his morale took a dip due to the perceived backlash against him, not least in this newspaper. "I kept reading this
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      178 36 Today and MediaCorp TV Channel 5 are holding a contest to give away tickets to this month's Singapore Idol: The Final Showdown at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. From today, 10 pairs of tickets to the Performance Show on Sept 24 and 10 pairs of
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      130 37 The upcoming second season of Project SuperStar saw a record 6,000 hopefuls turn up for auditions thaf s 2,000 more than last year, when the debut season launched the careers of SuperStar winner Tan Wei Lian, along with fellow contestants Kelly Poon and Hong Junyang. Held over two
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        116 37 -AGENCIES Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died of a "massive heart attack" while visiting his mother, 38, and newborn sister in their hospital room over the weekend, according to media reports. Daniel Smith had flown to the Bahamas on Saturday to join his
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        71 37 What is the Singapore Biennale all about? Join Bryan Wong and Quan Yifeng (picture) for a crash course on this milestone event in the Singapore arts scene. In What's Art? the wacky hosts will also go out into the streets to find out if the
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        92 38 AGENCIES NEW Zealand film-maker Peter Jackson has optioned Naomi Novik's historical fantasy series Temeraire. Set in an alternate Napoleonic era with dragons the acclaimed Temeraire series focuses on Captain William Laurence who is forced to give up his naval career when he finds a
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        464 38  -  David Chew This is part of a weekly series on the works in the inaugural Singapore Biennale, which is on until Nov 12. One venue will be featured each week along with comments by an experienced curator. This week, June Yap, deputy director and curator
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      764 42  -  Leonard Thomas In the grand European theatre, the Red Devils need him to be at his sparkling best CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Man United v Celtic AT TIMES you think it impossible, but the statistics don't lie. After 67 appearances for Everton and 15 goals, after 66
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      517 43 AFP Real's newmidfield enforcer in for a hostile reception CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP E Lyon v Real Madrid PARIS Last year, he was the midfield general who guided Lyon to a 3-0 upset win over Real Madrid in their Champions League opener. Tonight (tomorrow morning,
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      485 44  -  CUBBY LEONG After last week's disappointment, Singapore's top paddler aims for Doha redemption cubby@newstoday.com.sg SHE went into the 2006 Volkswagen Open Singapore on a high, fresh from a rare victory over world No 1 Zhang Yining in the Chinese Super League. But Li Jiawei's hopes
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      358 44 —AFP GOLF Ryder Cup LONDON Tiger Woods has told Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman he is ready to share the burden of leadership, as the United States seek to wrest the trophy back from Europe at the X Club in Ireland next week. The
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      609 45  -  TANYO-HINN I'll decide after the Asian Games. My passion for bowling is as strong as ever, but I'm not young anymore, and I have a wife and family to look after. Ong (seen here with wife Shawna) World champion may quit after Asian Games DAYEXCLUSIVE
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      354 45  -  JOSE RAYMOND AFC CUP QUARTER-FINALS IST LEG Tampines Rovers 0 Al-Wihdat 1 jose@newstoday.com.sg TAMPINES Rovers' hopes of qualifying for the last four of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup are hanging by a thread, after they lost 1-0 to Jordan club Al-Wihdat in a quarter-final
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      14 47 Turn the page to find out more about the United Asia Pacific Infrastructure Fund.
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      111 47 UNITED ASIA PACIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE FUND Build Asia's infrastructure, build your investments. Infrastructure such as roads, railways, ports, water, energy and telephone lines is the essential foundation for every country's economic development. With rapid economic growth and urbanisation in Asia, infrastructure demand is set to increase multifold. In order to keep
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      856 48 Capitalise on the long-term infrastructure boom in Asia sector. The growing participation of the private sector provides a wider source Asia is currently the fastest growing economic region in the world, with its of funding and it also spreads execution and operational risks. growth being projected to continue for some
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