Today, 18 September 2006

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    13 1 TODAY /•A=djaCdf^p share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Monday September 18, 2006 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Thai South boils over
    841 1  -  TAN HUI LENG Four dead, one Singaporean injured as bombs rock Hat Yai huileng@newstoday.com.sg TOURISTS are rushing out of the southern Thai town of Hat Yai after a string of bombs tore through prime business locations on Saturday night, killing four and injuring more than 60.
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    Lock icon Core IMF panel backs voting rights reform
    611 1 -DPA THE International Monetary Fund's (IMF) influential policy-guiding committee yesterday backed plans for an ad hoc increase in the voting rights of China, South Korea, Turkey and Egypt, and said stalled global trade talks must be revived urgently. The IMF's 24-member monetary and
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon WHERE DOES THIS 800-POUND GORILLA PUT
      583 2  -  WILLIAM PESEK Wherever he pleases, given the staggering financial clout of Asia's central banks PREDATOR? Saviour? Either way, hedge funds are taking a backseat to the new 800-pound gorillas of global finance: Asian central banks. The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) last annual meeting in
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      Lock icon 8th Wonder ropes in Giuliani
      560 3  -  THE NEW FACE OF EDUCATION: Activists from the Global Campaign for Education coalition donned face masks of world leaders-including that of (from left) United States President George W Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkelduring a noon protest at Suntec Singapore
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      HIS MONEY?
      365 3 speculators betting on a significant slowdown in growth have switched and are now buying into a market already squeezed by foreigners who own 60 per cent of the Treasury market," noted Bridgewater. The issue should be high on the list of topics discussed at the ongoing IMF-World Bank
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Bird flu could cost $3.16 trillion: World Bank
      473 4 -AGENCIES Crucial to strengthen health services, public education, says task force head A SEVERE bird flu pandemic among humans could cost the global economy up to US$2 trillion ($3.16 trillion), the World Bank said yesterday, sharply raising earlier estimates. The comments came
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      Dr Doom sees gloom in the US
      271 4  -  CHRISTIE LOH Fund manager Marc Faber favours Asian economies christie@newstoday.com.sg INVESTMENT guru Marc Faber yesterday lived up to his name as "Dr Doom". At a time when most are waxing lyrical about the rosy global outlook, the SwissGerman warned that goods had become
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      Lock icon Asia's diversity makes single currency unfeasible
      485 4  -  LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com. sg EVEN as Asia works towards achieving regional integration, the idea of adopting a Eu-ropean-style single currency is not feasible here. The vast disparity between Asian countries makes monetary integration a very "risky proposal that can derail a commitment to Asian economic
      WEETECK HIAN  -  485 words
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      Lock icon Wolfowitz presses ahead with anti-corruption agenda
      207 4 ■AFP WORLD Bank president Paul Wolfowitz pressed ahead with his aggressive anti-corruption campaign agenda on the eve of a key meeting on the issue today. Speaking at a seminar on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank conference yesterday, Mr Wolfowitz said: "The fact that
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      Lock icon Protests of the peaceful kind
      590 6  -  ANSLEYNG IN BATAM Civil society organisers, participants satisfied with outcome of forum in Batam a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE three-day civil society meeting in Batam to discuss World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies ended as quietly as it had begun, contrary to Indonesian officials fearing
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      Fatal accident at Courts' new site
      162 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG ONE construction worker died and another suffered serious injuries after they were believed to have fallen five-storeys from a gondola in a worksite accident at Court's new flagship store and regional headquarters at Tampines Avenue 10 yesterday. Two workers suffered multiple injuries and
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        MAN STABBED TO DEATH
        110 8  -  A man who was attacked by a group of youth at Havelock Road died early yesterday. Police responded to a call about an injured man lying at Central Square at about 1.40 am. He suffered stab wounds to his stomach and was sent to the Singapore
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        AMD CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
        95 8  -  CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore has launched a nation-wide campaign to raise awareness of Age-relat-ed Macular Degeneration or AMD. AMD is the most common cause of blindness in people aged 55 and above in developed countries. It affects the most sensitive central portion of the retina and is responsible
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        Lock icon CLOSER PANAMA-SINGAPORE TIES
        101 8 938 LIVE Foreign Minister George Yeo met with top government leaders in Panama to discuss further economic cooperation with Singapore. These include areas within the framework of the Panama-Singapore free trade agreement. Also covered were areas that Singapore could share its experience, such as education and biotechnology.
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      Another forum for feedback?
      400 8  -  SHERALYNTAY Mah hopes townhall talks will enable Tampines residents to see broader issues shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg IN THREE years' time, some 654 blocks of Tampines flats will have covered walkways and linkways with handrails, allowing its residents greater access to bus stops and car parks, said MP
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  • world news
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      Lock icon 'I do it my way' – M'sian PM defends performance
      334 10 'I do it my way' M'sian PM defends performance -AFP HAVANA Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has defended his performance as the country's leader, insisting he is committed to reforms promised when he came into office, a report said yesterday. Mr Abdullah is involved in a bitter spat with
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      Lock icon Pope says sorry for furore
      610 10 -AGENCIES Remarks do not 'express my personal thought': Benedict CASTEL GANDOLFO (Italy) Pope Benedict XVI yesterday said he was "deeply sorry" for the outrage across the Muslim world triggered by remarks he made about Islam and stressed they had not reflected his personal opinion. Under
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      Lock icon Parallel govt for Mexico
      368 11 -AGENCIES Leftists 'vote' for leader to oppose President-elect MEXICO CITY Hundreds of thousands of supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador elected him the leader of a "parallel government" opposed to President-elect Felipe Calderon's administration. The symbolic "vote" on Saturday a show of hands in the
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      this quirky world
      159 11 BOY WIZARD A HIT IN GUANTANAMO The Harry Potter stories are the most popular in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre's library, revealed the Pentagon. J X Rowling's tales of the teenage wizard were the most requested among 3,500 titles available to terrorist suspects held at the high-security
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      Lock icon Indian and Pakistani leaders agree to resume talks
      225 12 -AFP HAVANA Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed on Saturday, at breakthrough talks in Havana, to resume negotiations on the disputed Kashmir region and jointly battle terrorism. "The leaders decided to continue the joint search for mutually-acceptable
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      Lock icon The forming of a unity govt falters
      302 12 -AGENCIES Hamas won't accept existing deal with Israel RAMALLAH Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (picture) has frozen talks on forming a unity government after Hamas said it would not accept existing peace deals with Israel, an aide said on Saturday. The impasse threatens to
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      Lock icon Study tutors are just a click away
      550 13 -THE GUARDIAN British kids getting help from e-tutors in India NEW DELHI When Kelsey Baird began worrying about her preparations for her A-level examinations she got a tutor from India. It is more than 6,500 km from her boarding school in Fife, Scotland,
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      Lock icon Cash for babies works – increasing Aussie birth rate
      230 13 Cash for babies works increasing Aussie birth rate -AFP SYDNEY Paying women to have babies has helped Australia boost its birth rate well above that of other developed nations, new figures have shown. The Australian government's A 54,000 ($4,700) "baby bonus" may have driven the surge of more than 10,000
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      405 11 Healthy Asian Participants Needed The Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a fiV scientific study involving an investigational medicine. I Jfl The purpose of the study is to investigate the safety, tolerability and amount of this medicine in the blood following single and multiple oral doses in
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  • Voices
    • There is no need for protests
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        Focus on pressing problems
        255 14  -  CHARLES LEE Letter from An Australian citizen I'VE GOT an idea for addressing the World Bank's gripes regarding the Singapore Government's stance on not allowing some protesters into the country. World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz commented that he "valued and welcomed the opinions of the protesters".
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        Are demonstrations a show for international media?
        171 14  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from IT IS very strange of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to insist that they want contributions and meetings with civil organisations for policy input and to achieve these objectives, they must take the form
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        Protest cries are not always effective
        165 14  -  SIOWJIARUI Letter from IT IS a fallacy to suggest that being able to assemble and openly protest translates into a more effective avenue for the protesters' views to be heard. I beg to differ. Let us not be seduced by the powerful images of
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        Thumbs up for firm stance against outdoor protesting
        153 14  -  MUCHAMED ELFIAN HARUN Letter from As a Singaporean, I'm proud of the Singapore Government's stand on the need to maintain law and order. This firm stance has made Singapore what it is today peaceful and safe, where one can travel anywhere on
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      247 16  -  JAMES DOBSON BY DR. BEES AND FLIES: EXPERIMENT I heard recently about an experiment in which 12 bees were placed in a jar in a darkened room. A light was beamed onto the bottom of the glass, and then the top lid was removed. Instinctively, the
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      Give mall some time
      548 16  -  TEO CHEW HOON Promotions and publicity in place to promote Dhoby Xchangeto shoppers Letter from Vice-President, Commercial Business SMRT Investments Pte Ltd I REFER to the letters "Dhoby Xchange? Never seen it" by Lim Boon Hee (Sept 8) and "Tenant repellant" by Ernest Tan Jia Rui
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      NTU's new car park system being reviewed
      156 18  -  EDWARD HAN Letter from Senior Assistant Director Office of Facilities Planning Management Nanyang Technological University (NTU) WE REFER to Mr Goh Kian Huat's letter ("Can NTU impose nominal sum for its car parks?", Sept 13). We wish to assure Mr Goh that the
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      Dual commission not an unfair practice
      497 18  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Commission built into the selling price could result in higher HDB sale levy Letter from I I REFER to the letters "Dual commission does not mean conflict of interest" by Mr Low Swee Kirn and "Too many agents jostling for too
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    • Not only kitty litter
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        Litter awareness is part of wider social responsibility
        174 19  -  TAN CHEKWEE Letter from' MANY cat caregivers like myself are as upset as Mr John Ang ("Cat-feeders, please clean up too", Sept 15) about the mess left behind by irresponsible cat feeders. Many, if not most, cat caregivers are aware of the
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        Caregivers end up cleaning other people's mess too
        208 19  -  DAWN KUA Letter from Director of Operations Cat Welfare Society WE REFER to Mr John Ang's letter. Responsible feeding is part of what every responsible caregiver practices. However, there are some people who will not listen and whom the caregivers wish to
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        Time to review Hope scheme?
        400 19  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from I REFER to the articles, "We have a problem, no kid (Sept 5) and "A class with room for all" (Sept 1). The Prime Minister said that no child will be left behind, and that with the widening income gap,
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  • Businesstoday
    • marketwatch
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        Singapore
        88 20 LOCAL share prices are expected to trade cautiously in the week ahead as the market awaits the outcome of the next US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, dealers said. Investors are worried that the US central bank may raise interest rates. For the week ended Sept 15, the ST
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 20 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6319 0.3359 74.267 4.9182 2.3197 0.4989 5763.0 23.519 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 31.738 0.8391 29.143 604.42 0.7071 5.0193 0.9540 20.812
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        Commodities
        26 20 Gold US$/oz Silver US$/oz Platinum US$/oz Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent crude US$/barrel 583.00 10.88 1,163.70 299.75 1,523.00 64.51 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg
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      Lock icon IMF in budget 'crisis': NGOs
      278 20 -AFP THE International Monetary Fund is in a budgetary crisis because developing nations are increasingly reluctant to borrow from it and some have accelerated their debt repayments, non-government groups (NGO) said in a recently released paper. They called for the institution to be diluted, disempowered
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      Lock icon Better days
      428 20 -938 LIVE Singapore market stronger after CAO, ACCSfiascoes SINGAPORE financial markets have grown stronger after the high-profile corporate governance failures at China Aviation Oil (CAO) and former mobile phone repair services firm Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS). A top executive of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) said that a
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  • business news
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      Businesses spy trade barriers rising
      277 22  -  CHRISTIE LOH DBS Bank chief Jackson Tai sees "early signs" of protectionism creeping up in the global trade system. And he is not alone in that diagnosis, according to captains of industry gathered yesterday at a seminar held in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
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      Lock icon Why Fed may not raise interest
      483 22  -  Mr Kenneth Beauchemin, -AFP economist, Global Insight Data shows trend of easing inflationary pressures WASHINGTON The United States Federal Reserve, seeing its predictions on cooling economic activity and inflation come to reality, is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged at its meeting on
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      Lock icon Try at restarting WTO talks
      149 22 ■AFP SYDNEY Major trading powers will meet in Cairns this week in a bid to kickstart stalled World Trade Organization (WTO) talks. The meeting was initially called to mark the 20th anniversary of the Cairns Group the 18-nation grouping of agricultural exporters formed in the
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      Lock icon MAS advisory panel upbeat over S'pore
      81 22 938 LIVE THE Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) International Advisory Panel expressed confidence that Singapore is wellpositioned to tap regional and global opportunities for growth. This is given the Republic's strong reputation for integrity and reliability, its connectivity with Asia and the rest of
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  • SUCCEED the business of learning
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      Leaders point to the sky
      665 24  -  JOHN BETTLESTON SUCCEEDwith succeed@newstoday.com.sg If he knows the clear path, encourages real participation and is a confident spirit, stick with him YOU will often see an announcement that so-and-so has stepped down from the day-to-day management of a business "to devote more time to strategic
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      CEO101
      128 24 Loyalty is dead in the workplace. Agree? MR LAWRENCE LEOW, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE AND EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF CRESCENDAS GROUP: The fact that many organisations still have longtenured employees is evidence of the existence of loyalty in the workplace today, even though there are
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      Lock icon BRAINFOOD
      244 24 Lee U-Wen What is Your Formula? Team of veteran local financial planners You don't need to be a rocket scientist, it seems, to understand the fundamentals of financial planning. Complicated as it may appear, the authors of this new book. What is Your Formula?, say it is anything but.
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      noticeboard
      377 24 UPGRADE YOURSELF THE PRACTICAL WAY EMPLOYERS and workers both agree on a salient fact of the modern marketplace: An individual's achievements and capabilities matter more than the letters printed after his name. To drive home this point, the Hartford Institute is arranging a special, one-hour seminar on practical learning
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      on the go GIVING UP A CAREER FOR A PASSION
      838 25  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg WHEN it comes to choosing her career, Ms Tan Joo Hymn, 37, adopts a simple yet unconventional philosophy. Happiness is her primary concern, never mind if the choice is not "right" by societal standards. The professional track
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      QUIZTIME
      251 25 Q: I have a 13-year-old daughter who is showing a keen interest in fashion design. I have seen some of her work and I know that she has the interest in this line. I would like to guide her in pursuing her ambition. But every design school I approach,
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      Dressed for SEXSESS
      1157 26  -  Lorraine Lim For eccentric US pop band Scissor Sisters, it's all about the act MUSIC is sex. Or at least that's how drummer Paddy Boom (known to his mum as Patrick Seacor) from Scissor Sisters sees it Touted by no less an authority than Britain's Q Magazine
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      OLDSONGNEWSOUND
      402 27 NOT everyone who covers a classic pop tune strikes gold like Scissor Sisters, says ZUL OTHMAN. Here, he profiles five artistes whose attempts at recreating hit songs ranged from the sublime to the abysmal. SID VICIOUS MY WAY (1979)+++++ Punk rock legend and ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious covered this
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      Fresh record deal for Stefanie Sun
      176 28 HONG KONG Homegrown singer Stefanie Sun (picture) inked a deal with record company EMI Music's Capitol label yesterday, giving the brand a second Chineselanguage big-name pop star after Taiwan's Jolin Tsai. Stefanie, who left Warner Music for Capitol, said she wasn't worried about competing
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      Lock icon Robbie's S'pore show called off?
      326 28 —AGENCIES Singer cancels some Asian dates citing exhaustion LONDON Pop star Robbie Williams has cancelled shows in China and India that were part of the Asian leg of his world tour, raising fears that the singer's Nov 18 concert in Singapore could also be called
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      Chinese Music Awards comes to Singapore
      140 28 THE stage is set and the stars are making their way to Singapore. Big names slated to appear at the sixth Global Chinese Music Awards which will be staged here on Oct 28 for the first time include Twins (picture) and Joey Yung from
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    • in cinemas
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        Broadband
        407 30  -  DAVID CHEW Ong Kirn Seng Homegrown artist's life and works now available for download on TV service M2B david. chew@newstoday.com. sg HE IS arguably Singapore's most famous water colourist, recipient of both the Cultural Medallion as well as awards from the American Watercolour Society. Now, in hopes of even
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        Lock icon 8-year-old wants to swim with dad's killer
        362 30 —AGENCIES SYDNEY- The eight-year-old daughter of the late crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, has expressed a strong desire to swim with the same stingray that killed her daredevil father, Britain's Daily Mail reported on Saturday. Bindi, who was named after one of Irwin's favourite
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      159 31 —AGENCIES TORONTO -Bella, a romantic drama by Mexican director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, was the top prize-winner at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday, while the controversial Death of a President received a critics' award. Bella, which follows a faded soccer star and his unhappily pregnant waitress
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      599 34  -  LOW SHI PING f ood@newstoday.com.sg THE external facade of Turkuaz Restaurant and Bar is rather nondescript. But push through its double glass doors and you'll step into a world of Turkish charm. One wall is awash in a cool shade of blue a colour
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      607 38  -  CUBBYLEONG THEY have been to two World Cups in the past and have never finished better than in 17th position. But with Mardan Mamat in red-hot form and his confidence rubbing off on partner Lam Chih Bing, both are optimistic that they can improve on their previous
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      238 38 CUBBYLEONG THERE'S just no stopping Remy Ong these days. The newly-crowned world champion dropped 245 pinfalls to beat home favourite Jeffrey Choi (165) in the Hong Kong leg of the ABF Tour yesterday to successfully defend his men's title. After winning two gold
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      371 39  -  CUBBYLEONG SIX national swimmers will be flying the country's colours at this year's Fina Marathon Swimming World Cup, after qualifying through the skm selection trials held at the Changi Sailing Club yesterday. Lim Zhicong (picture), Marcus Cheah, Rainer Ng, Gerald Koh, Christel Fung
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      378 40  -  CUBBYLEONG WHEN PN Sivaji (picture) was national coach in 1992 and 1993, he saw tremendous leadership qualities in Lim Tong Hai. Sivaji now believes the leadership skills will serve Lim well in his current coaching role at Geylang United. "Tong Hai has the
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      305 42 -AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton2Wigan2 LIVERPOOL Everton boss David Moyes has criticised his side for twice throwing away a lead against Wigan. The momentum from last week's 3-0 derby win over Liverpool evaporated at Goodison Park on Saturday as Austrian midfielder Paul
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