Today, 12 October 2006

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    26 1 TODAY /A=£>JJ\CORP share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Thursday October 12, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY share your free newspaper Thursday October 12, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006 /AediaCorp
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    Lock icon Sorry for the haze: SBY
    832 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO Indonesia says it will host regional meeting to discuss ways to prevent future occurrences derrick@media corp.com.sg FOLLOWING complaints from Singapore and Malaysia, including a letter yesterday from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to his Indonesian counterpart to "express his disappointment over the
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    Lock icon Surgery without cuts soon, thanks to a robot from Singapore
    624 1  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg A SINGAPOREAN scientist is out to prove that keyhole surgery is not the ultimate in noninvasive surgical methods. According to Assistant Professor Louis Phee from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), more can be done by "no-scar
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      SURVIVING WITHOUT RACISM
      781 2  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS SINCE the reality TV show made its debut in 2000, Survivor has been a titillating source of entertainment for Singapore's viewers. There was the juicy back-stab-bing, the tribal politics, the stunning locales with their exotic wildlife and pellucid seas and, most of all, there was
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      Lock icon Future smart: MOE to co-develop high-tech schools
      389 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA International team to help produce visionary institutions by 2015 THE Ministry of Education (MOE) will be working with an international research team to develop 15 "Schools of the Future" by 2015. This list will consist of existing schools that have used
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      107 2 Introduction and opening address Freely Time Squeeze Theory Fundamental, Technical and Gapping Analyses Portfolio Management for the modern investor* Case studies of successful investing •Witness graduates' testimonies Dr. Clemen Chiang fl f"~l FCIM, FCMI, FMCA, FPMA, FAAFM I ;4j ,',f\ t p |»'fi ft'l J Ty^l 'Presented by Reely Business
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      14 2 RAMADAN FAST TIMES today: tomorrow: break of fast start of fast 6.55PM 5.22 AM
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Help for elderly to beat 'green man'
      545 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT IN A DAZE: It was like any other work day morning for van driver Koay Soon Lye, till he crashed into a jewellery shop, D-Meyson, at the junction of Home Road and Penhas Road at 12.40pm yesterday. The van, travelling
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      Lock icon Private buses collide, 37 hurt
      174 4 938 LIVE SOME 37 people were hurt in an accident involving two private buses near Marsiling MRT station yesterday morning. Most suffered minor injuries only. The accident happened at around 6.30 am at the junction of Woodlands Avenue 3 and Woodlands Street 32. There were
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      Lock icon Polishing the 'crown jewel'
      457 6  -  LEE U-WEN Macßitchie Reservoir park to get two-storey car park, better facilities u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg ASK visitors to the popular Macßitchie Reservoir Park what their gripes about the place are, and the list is likely to include too few parking spaces, run-down toilets and a lack of shower
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    • Article
      MTV downsizes here, 84 axed
      290 6  -  ZU LOTH MAN zul@media corp.com.sg AFTER days of speculation, MTV Networks Asia has confirmed the downsizing of its operations in Singapore, axing nearly half of its 192 staff here. Some 84 full-time employees across all levels in its Singapore office were retrenched yesterday, as the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon 8 MORE SUSPECTED GASTRIC FLU CASES
        66 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA STAMFORD Primary School has reported eight new cases of suspected norovirus infections, which causes gastric flu. With the canteen shut down temporarily, the school has started catering food for its students. It will continue to provide packed biscuits and mineral water to
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        ECSTASY APPEAL
        93 6  -  -LEONGWEEKEAT AN APPEAL has been filed against the sentence handed down to the man who escaped a jail term despite being convicted of selling Ecstasy pills last week. Ridzuan Mohamad Hanafi, 20, a full-time NSman, was sentenced last Thursday to 24 months of probation by District Judge Siva
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        Lock icon FACELIFT FOR HAVELOCK RD HAWKER CENTRE
        46 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA RENOVATIONS began yesterday to the popular hawker centre at Block 22A/B Havelock Road which is getting a $1.34 million makeover. Built in 1969, the centre will reopen next April complete with new lighting and roofing, and upgraded toilets.-
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE TO SET UP QATAR MISSION
        81 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE will set up a consular mission in Qatar, headed by a Charge d'Affaires, by the end of the year. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo told reporters at the end of a threeday working trip to Qatar. Mr Yeo said Singapore and
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        Lock icon STORE, SWISS RESEARCH COLLABORATION
        72 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SlNGAPOREwillsoonhavea broad-based institutional research collaboration with ETH Domain, a grouping of six of Switzerland's premier universities and research institutions. The collaboration in the areas of energy, environmental science and technologies, biomedical sciences and information technology could lead to the setting up of an ETH
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        Lock icon MENDAKI TO EXTEND EDUCATION TRUST FUND
        39 6 -938 LIVE MENDAKI will extend its Education Trust Fund to reach more needy students. From next year, students from pre-school to Primary 6 levels can apply, as can Malay students in the madrasahs.
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    • Article
      Biopolis expansion heralds Singapore's R&D boom
      298 8  -  TANHUILENG SCIENTISTS and researchers at the Biopolis will soon find themselves with more lab space, with its second phase due to be completed later this month. Biopolis Phase 2, built on an 8,051-square-metre site with a 30-year lease, will house research labs and office
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      Animal haven
      487 8  -  SHERALYNTAY Acres rescue centre up by April, needs $1 m sheralyn@media corp.com.sg STAR tortoises rescued from suffocating suitcases and green iguanas freed from small cages could have a safe haven by April, when the Acres Wildlife Rescue Centre (AWRC) begins operations. Located at Sungei Tengah Agrotech Park, Singapore's
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    • Article
      $250,000 fine for fraud nearly halved
      225 10  -  -LOHCHEEKONG A FORMER managing director of a construction company, who was earlier sentenced to six months' jail and fined $250,000 for manipulating the stock market, got his fine almost halved after a High Court judge ruled that the punishment was "manifestly excessive". In March,
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      Court mulls over widow's appeal
      484 10  -  LOHCHEEKONG Could bus-biker accident have been avoided? the only account of the event comes from an eyewitness driving a car next to the bus at the time. According to him, the bus was turning right and moved forward at a "faster than walking pace" before
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      Man found guilty of selling arms
      181 10  -  —ANSLEYNG A SECOND man was found guilty yesterday of illegally brokering the purchase of thousands of rifles destined for Syria. BR Chaandrran, 45, was convicted of abetting the brokering of 20,000 ARMS rifles without authorisation from Singapore Customs. His accomplice, Colin Mak Yew Loong,
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      166 4 MOBILE PHONES THE ;:25^ -SIZE QF A BRIEFCASE? ™=r IMAGINE IT. Catch your favourite A/tedi^iCorp DJs and artiste live! Head down to the n oct ispm-spm-, Jean Danger Rod Monterio Singapore Expo Hall 3 from 11 to 15 October to view engaging exhibits of the hottest in infocomm today 12Dct|4:30pm-B:3epmJ
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      112 9 9 y BE PARI Of THE V ERDINGER OKTOBERFEST2OO6 Turn up the music and join in the revelry at the Erdinger Oktoberfest 2006! For a taste of good food Wi and great-tasting Erdinger beer in true German fashion, head down to the Erdinger Oktoberfest 2006! ml im^-^ijf? \g 12-14 October
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      284 10 EXCITEMENT TAKES NEW MEANING P M?^^ m pJ I K?#jnm»Kl^3lßlM Utfl I T*(m»RK 1 FREE WET PARK DEAL 280ct Conceit Tickets from Ss26 19Nov Concert Tickets from Ssl7 Get your Genting Theme Park Frequent Pass WorldCardnovi'. N iHlk bBvI Bel —f—jit f[ i^i^»^^3 Bflj Escape the heat and come enjoy
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      Lock icon After the explosion, a war of words erupts
      511 12 -AGENCIES Bush vows 'serious repercussions' after North Korea warns of 'physical measures' if US keeps up pressure SEOUL North Korea yesterday warned of more nuclear tests if the United States keeps pressuring it President George W Bush responded to the North Korean
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      Lock icon 'Scrap paper queen' tops China's rich list
      432 12 -AGENCIES SHANGHAI A female scrap paper merchant worth US$3.4 billion ($5.3 billion) was yesterday named China's richest person, the first time a woman has topped the annual rich list Ms Zhang Yin, 49, leapt to the No 1 spot after her company, Nine
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      Lock icon Another blast rocks southern Philippines
      248 12 -AFP MAKILALA (Philippines) A powerful bomb exploded outside a commercial building in the southern Philippines yesterday as the country went on security alert after two earlier explosions killed 12 people, police and military said. The attacks on the restive southern island of Mindanao came amid
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      Lock icon M'sian academic quits over race
      388 14 -AFP His controversial research showed Muslim Malays better off than thought KUALA LUMPUR A top Malaysian academic quit as the head of a think-tank yesterday after the government criticised research suggesting Muslim Malays are much better off than previously thought Mr Lim Teck Ghee, director
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      Lock icon Abdullah, Dr M to meet for Ist time since fallout?
      245 14 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The word going around in Malaysian political circles recently is that a meeting between Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and former Premier Mahathir Mohamad is on the cards. If that happens, it will be the first time
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      Lock icon Thai martial law to stay for now
      220 14 -AFP BANGKOK-Thai Defence Minister General Boonrawd Somtas said yesterday that martial law, imposed after last month's coup, would not be lifted for at least one month because of continued political instability. "We are not 100 per cent confident of the current situation," he
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon STOP GRAFT PROBE, SAYS MPS
        68 16 -DPA Indonesia's Parliament has urged the government to drop corruption investigations and court trials against nearly 1,000 provincial politicians accused of graft, the Jakarta Post said yesterday. In a non-binding recommendation, MPs said the jailing of 967 regional councillors was "out of proportion" to the
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        Lock icon DENMARK EMBASSY ATTACKED
        73 16 -AFP Demonstrators angered over a satirical video of the Prophet Mohammed hurled firebombs and rocks at the Danish embassy in Tehran on Tuesday night. Earlier, a majority of Iran's MPs 232 out of 290 called on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to cut economic ties with Denmark over the
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        Lock icon TALIBAN VOWS TO FIGHT ON
        74 16 -AP Regional Taliban commander Mullah Nazir Ahmed Hamza said in an interview that insurgents will battle "Christian" troops until they leave Afghanistan. He said the Taliban still has thousands of fighters despite Nato reports of heavy losses in recent battles. He added that support for
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      Lock icon Donald Tsang fails to impress
      455 16 -AGENCIES He skirts hot issues, focuses on soft topics in annual policy address HONG KONG Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang avoided controversial issues such as setting a timetable for full democracy in his policy address yesterday as he laid out his political blueprint for the
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      Lock icon Bridging Asia and Europe
      606 20  -  NG HUN WEI Spore plays a big role in facilitating the relationship: EU official hunwei@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE can act as a bridge between Asia and the European Union, and has an important role to play in boosting ties between the two regions, a top EU official
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      Lock icon Brown, Rushdie back veil remarks
      262 20 -AFP LONDON Britain's former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw found support on Tuesday from Finance Minister Gordon Brown and author Salman Rushdie for raising the issue of whether Muslim women should be veiled. This comes a day after Prime Minister Blair voiced support for Mr Straw.
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        Lock icon KIDNAPPED AUSTRIAN TEEN WANTS CAPTOR'S HOUSE
        109 20 —AP An Austrian teenager who was held captive for eight-and-a-half years said she wants ownership of the house she was kept in so it doesn't become a tourist attraction, and her captor's mother can live there, it was reported on Tuesday. Ms Natascha Kampusch,
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        Lock icon MALE NURSE WINS $75M LOTTERY IN GERMANY
        90 20 ■AFP A 41-year-old male nurse has won Germany's largest ever lottery jackpot of 37.6 million euros ($74.8 million), the organisers said on Tuesday. The man has not been named yet, but is from the western region of North Rhine-Westphalia. A spokesman for Lotto
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      92 12 II Lfc I Information Evening Ranked No. lin the UK (2004) Tim* 7- 15P-m-Top 50 in the World (2005) .J rr Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit Venue AtL Uentre (near Lav Pa Sat) Fully delivered in Singapore Samue|s R Leve| n by professors from the University of Birmingham, UK To
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      isay A HIP-HOP MP WHO BLOGS? WHY NOT?
      676 22  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg BEING a politician must be one of only two jobs where Singaporeans lambast you for trying too hard the other being a debt-collector, legal or otherwise. While the similarities between a Member of Parliament and a loan
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    • HPB, AVA moves to cut trans fats
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        Important to reduce saturated and trans fat intake
        380 24  -  LAMPINWOON Letter from Uhiet txecutive UTTicer Health Promotion Board WE REFER to the letter by Mr Richard Seah, "We know fat lot about trans fats" (Oct 3) and thank Mr Seah for his feedback. The Health Promotion Board (HPB) would like to
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        School's Model Tuckshops serve less trans fat
        407 24  -  GOHSHIHYONG Letter from Asst Director, Corporate Communications, for CEO Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority, and PATRICIA WOO Deputy Director, Corporate Communications, Health Promotion Board WE REFER to the letter, "HSA must banish trans fat" (Oct 5) and thank Mr Heng Cho Choon for his
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      284 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON JEEI JEEP FENDERS You know, children can be so hateful and mean to each other, especially when we, as adults, hayen'ttaughtthem basic kindness and sensitivity. I learned this when I was only eightyears old. I attended a Sunday School class at the time,
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    • Why focus on our differences ?
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        I'm Indian, with or without a headscarf
        159 26  -  KAUSAR SHAIK NAINA Letter from I REFER to Ms Eliza Ng Lai Kuan's letter, "When race isn't religion" (Oct 10). I believe that the conflating of race with religion is so that all Singaporeans can be properly assorted under certain labels. I have
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      • Letter
        I'm Catholic, and I enjoy Deepavali
        442 26  -  JO SMITH Letter from ELIZA Ng Lai Kuan said that wishing all Indians a happy Deepavali was "ignorant". While I sincerely thank Ms Ng for her conscientiousness in pointing out the political correct facts that, technically, Deepavali is a Hindu celebration -1 feel I
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      Arts-related uses allowed at Tanglin
      184 26  -  LIM ENG HWEE Letter from Director (Physical Planning) Urban Redevelopment Authority I REFER to the letter "Singapore dreaming a thriving Tanglin arts village" (Oct 6). Mr Edmund Lim Wee Kiat suggested that this area has the potential to be developed into a thriving arts village.
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      We're scholars for good reasons
      385 27  -  RANXIA Letter from I REFER to He Vi Hua's letter, "Degrees of distinction" (Oct 10). I am from mainland China and I was a research scholar with the National University of Singapore (NUS), from which I graduated with a Master's degree. I feel I must
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      Look elsewhere, doc
      426 27  -  PETER SONG Contrary to popular belief, having a PhD won't guarantee work in life science research Letter from I REFER to your report, "The life sciences conundrum" (Oct 9). I studied civil engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Then, with so much hype being created
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    • Letter
      For the sake of those who can't escape from the haze
      211 28  -  WALTER M JAYANDRAN Letter from I REFER to Frances Ong's commentary, "A clear solution to a hazy problem" (Oct 10). The fact is that officials and commentators are not the folk suffering most from the effects of this cruel
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    • Article
      EN-COUNTERS OF THE SURLY KIND
      558 28  -  LIANG DINGZI serve right EVEN the world's best airport can sometimes lose its sheen. My recent experiences at Changi Airport were a mixed bag of impressions. I was at a ticket office and observed how unhappy the staff looked. They had turned an impressively designed
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      70 22 HAVE YOUR SAY ON RADIO Do consumers have the power to turn backthe haze —by demanding that plantation owners stop burning their land? Pedestrians have the rightto cross when the green man's lit; but does it make it right for them to take their time about rt? Tune in to
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      226 27 12-21 Octo6 •A «X/ 7 r at Le Meridien Singapore L*f*,TU <**% I Cafe Georges 11^ I r Make a date with the world's renowned cheese Y\ I 1^ I PI T m§itre- Gerard Poulard at the Cheese Festival ■i^ I I XV XV t held at Le Meridien Singapore
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      350 30  -  VALERIE LAW HSBC's consumer banking sparkled in the first half this year valerie@media corp.com.sg HSBC Singapore's personal finance business, which deals in home mortgages, credit cards and personal loans, helped boost the bank's results in the first half ended June 30. The pre-tax profit of HSBC's Singapore operations
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        4 30 ST Index 2,641.61 6.05
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        111 30 DOW JONES A CORRECTION in property stocks led blue chips lower yesterday, but gains in technology and China stocks kept the market mood generally positive. The ST Index lost 6.05 points, or 0.2 per cent, to end at 2,641.61. On the broader market, however, advancers outnumbered decliners by 306
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        55 30 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.57 -76.60 -0.47 Hang Seng ASX *****.79 5202.00 +39.09 +0.22 +34.20 +0.65 Taiwan Wtd 7006.67 +9.43 +0.13 Korea Comp 1325.49 -2.00 -0.22 KLCI 970.37 +0.66 +0.07 SET Index 697.02 -1.34 -0.19 Jakarta Comp 1553.11 -1.79 -0.12 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2527.27
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        36 30 US$ 0.6294 UK£ 0.3394 Yen 75.350 HK$ 4.9050 RM 2.3253 Euro 0.5020 Rupiah 5801.4 Baht 23.579 Peso 31.501 AS 0.8458 Indian Rs 28.831 Won 603.99 C$ 0.7130 Yuan 4.9792 NZS 0.9550 NT$ 20.826
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        20 30 Gold US$/oz 576.20 Silver US$/oz 11.22 Platinum US$/oz 1,075.70 Rubber cents/kg 289.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,517.00 Brent US$/barrel 60.30
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      Lock icon Retail, F&B sectors set for higher growth
      134 30 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE outlook appears bright for retailers in Singapore. Consumers spent $24 billion on shopping and food and beverage (F&B) last year. Retail sales were up by nearly 8 per cent compared to 2004, while F&B spending rose by 2.8 per cent,
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        Lock icon WHAT PRICE THE A3BO DELAY?
        816 32  -  LIANG DINGZI news@newstoday.com.sg FROM consternation at lost opportunities to an unbelievable euphoria about princely sums in compensation that appears to be how the mood is swinging as Airbus announces further delays to the delivery of the new A3BO superjumbo to its long list of customers.
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        185 34 -AFP ASIA'S first gold-backed exchange-traded fund listed yesterday on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The street Tracks Gold Shares, sponsored by World Gold Trust Services, are designed to track the price of gold and trade like any stock on the exchange, said a
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        459 34 -BLOOMBERG Free wireless may draw more investments: IDC SINGAPORE'S plan to deploy free wireless broadband access across the island may help boost investments and its standing as an Asian business centre, analysts including IDC Market Research's Mr Lincoln Lee said. The Government on Tuesday said
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        215 37  -  CHOW PENN NEE SENTOSA Cove yesterday announced that it awarded its Marina Collection condominium site to Indonesian group Lippo Global Assets for $234.7 million. The tender exercise for the residential commune attracted seven other bids. According to industry watchers, the other
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        Lock icon Caution advised amid fever over Genting prospects
        527 37 DOW JONES Share price nears target based on expectations of Sentosa win GENTING International may be the favourite to win the bid for Singapore's second integrated resort with casino, but investors may want to hold on to their chips until the decision is
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      978 38  -  David Chew Appreciating traditional dance and classical ballet? No problem. But understanding contemporary dance, now that requires BE IT ballet, ball-1 room, para-para I or salsa, dance is I very much alive I in Singapore. And with the opening I today of the Esplanade's I inaugural
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      350 40 -AP LONDON Indian writer Kiran Desai won Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize yesterday for The Inheritance of Loss, a cross-continental saga that moves from the Himalayas to New York City. Desai, daughter of novelist and threetime Booker Prize nominee Anita Desai, had been one
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      FOURTOTANGO
      218 40 The inaugural da:ns festival has something for everyone to kick up their feet to. DAVID CHEW picks a few highlights. RASAS (various Asian Dance groups) Catch these free, outreach performances at the Esplanade concourse. Enjoy traditional dances that celebrate harvests, pay tribute to religious deities or tell stories. The
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        241 42 -AP Mcl Gibson (picture) called his anti-Semitic rant following his arrest for drunk driving in July "the stupid ramblings of a drunkard". In an interview with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer set to air in North America on Friday, Gibson, 50, said that though staying sober is
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        Here we OK Go again
        486 42  -  JUSTIN CHEONG Success of music video on You Tube gives Chicago punk-pop outfit second wind justin@media corp.com.sg IF YOU'RE an avid netizen, you've probably visited You Tube to catch the latest rib-tick-ling video clips. Chances are, then, that you are one of the more than
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        Fragile Things
        252 44  -  Neil Gaiman JEANINETAN BOOKREVIEW THE magical and the mythical, urban legend and plain self-indulgence come together in Fragile Things, a collection of Neil Gaiman's short stories and poems, which originally appeared in a range of publications. Cult author Gaiman continues to please his legions of fans by writing
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        WHO'SREADINGWHAT
        92 44 WRITER Ng Yi-Sheng's (picture) new poetry collection. Last Boy, is out now. Ng also wrote the upcoming play from the Toy Factory, 251 about homegrown porn star Annabe Chong. "Three books I'm reading are related to 251. They are Laurence O'Toole's Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Gerrie Lim's
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        No aches, will travel
        505 45  -  NEOCHAI CHIN It is the norm to return from a holiday looking radiant and refreshed, but if you want to look your best even while on the trip, Osim has a range of products for you to stuff into your suitcase. The health and lifestyle company's
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        VERA GOOD INDEED
        390 45  -  PEARLYN THAM With The Body Shop's new skin care offerings, there's no need to harvest your own aloe vera pea rlyn@media corp.com.sg FOR some time now, I've been thinking of growing aloe vera so I can have my own supply of its skin-loving goodness. Alas, since the
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        Baby deserves better
        222 45  -  -PEARLYNTHAM REMEMBER that plain old-fashioned gold anklet with the übiquitous little bell that your parents made you wear as a baby? Tiny tots these days have it much better and more fashionable, if Oribelle Soo Kee Jewellery's new range of baby anklets is anything to go by.
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        312 46  -  AMY VAN Korean noodles Serves 2 Ingredients 2 packets Fair Price Korean Big Bowl Noodle (Hot) 1 packet shimeji mushrooms, rinsed Btiger prawns, peeled 1 carrot, peeled and sliced 2 tbsp spring onions Method 1. Bring a pot of waterto a boil. Blanch mushrooms
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        690 47  -  BERNADETTECHONG traveller@newstoday.com.sg IT'S hard to see the sky in Dubai without at least one crane swinging into your view these days. In the past few years, the emirate on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf has seen a construction boom as it races to build, among
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        469 48 DPA LOOKING for another road less travelled in Europe for your next vacation? Try BosniaHerzegovina. A decade after the world equated the Balkan nation with internecine bloodletting, a commercial appeared recently on CNN presenting Bosnia's natural beauty and recommending tourists come visit "Enjoy breakfast, enjoy music, water, nature,
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        Going wild in Sydney
        608 49 SYDNEY is a fantastic family holiday destination if you're thinking of giving your city slicker kids a dose of the great outdoors. Beneath the facade of a cosmopolitan concrete jungle, Sydney, together with its spectacular surrounding regions, has a surprisingly rich biodiversity of nature and wildlife.
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          SKI WITH THE PROFESSIONALS IN SOUTH KOREA
          134 50 FROM Dec 10 to March 7, ski enthusiasts can take lessons from professional instructors on the famous slopes of Yong Pyong (picture) and Muju ski resorts in South Korea. The annual Fun Ski Snow Festival will once again be hosted by the two
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          254 50 ROYAL Brunei Airlines has several packages designed for business people, golfers and families planning yearend holidays. Its 2D/1N businessmen's package, starting at $410, includes a return economy ticket from Singapore to Brunei, one-night hotel accommodation, daily breakfast and airport/hotel/airport transfers in Brunei. Golfers may want
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      550 53 ARIES (Mar 21 -Apr 19) LIBRA (Sep 23 Oct 22) H Don't believe everything you hear or take Take a trip if it will enable you to tie up loose offense at what you are told. You will face W#^ ends or start something new. Courses that criticism if you
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      157 53 EMERGENCY LINES City Gas (to report gas supply 1800-752-1800 interruption, low pressure and leakage) Civil Defence (Fire Emergency Ambulance) 995 Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Police 999 Police hotline 1800-255-0000 SPPowerGrid 1800-778-8888/ (to report power failure) 6778-8888 Traffic Police 6547-1818 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 HELPLINES —GENERAL Samaritans of Singapore 1800-221-4444 Society for The
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      Lock icon Aussieslead Asian rivals
      328 54 -AFP Park up for individual nod in awards race AUSTRALIA is leading the race to be named Asian Football Confederation (AFC) national team of the year as shortlists were released yesterday. The Socceroos, who only joined the AFC in January, upstaged their Asian rivals by reaching the
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      Lock icon Indian breakaway
      143 54 -AFP NEW DELHI India's top golfers are at loggerheads over which tour to play on after a faction launched a new tour that promises better marketing of the domestic game. International names including Jyoti Randhawa, Gaurav Ghei, Shiv Kapur and Uttam Singh Mundy are part of the new
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        EASY FOR S KOREA
        80 55 A HARD fought 1-1 draw with Syria was enough to earn South Korea a place in the Asian Cup finals yesterday, while Iran ensured a record 11th consecutive appearance at the showpiece event. Bayern Munich star Ali Karimi (picture) netted a double for Iran as they
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        86 55 AN ONLINE poll taken by Catalan sports paper Mundo Deportivo showed that 56 per cent of Barcelona fans are "very worried" about the prospect of Ronaldinho leaving for AC Milan. There have been several contacts between Milan and Roberto de Assis, brother and agent of the Brazilian
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        77 55 POLICE have detained a gang who swindled Chinese firms out of thousands of dollars by offering bogus Olympic sponsorship deals. Three men claiming to represent the 2008 Beijing Olympics promised that brand names of the firms would benefit from Olympic advertising deals. The gang collected more than US$lO,OOO
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        HAMMER TIME
        57 55 ICELANDIC Football Federation chief Eggert Magnusson confirmed yesterday that he is interested in buying English Premiership club West Ham. The 59-year-old businessman has made a formal takeover approach for the club which British businessman Kia Joorabchian is also interested in acquiring. Magnusson heads a group who value the
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        79 55 SAFFC'S Prime League team won the Singapore Pools FA Cup last night, after beating National Football League Division 1 side Singapore Cricket Club 2-0 in the final at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Goals by Khairul Anwar and Shaiful Esah either side of half-time gave the Warriors their first
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      567 55 -AGENCIES LONDON Arsene Wenger has launched an astonishing attack on national team managers, accusing them of behaving like "car thieves". Clubs are becoming increasingly angry that players are returning injured from international duty and there is a growing demand for compensation in such instances. Wenger
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      Lock icon Taufik dumps Bao to hit comeback trail, Susilo also wins
      354 55 -AFP TOKYO Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat came through a tough three-setter to knock China's world silver medallist Bao Chunlai out of the Japan Open badminton tournament yesterday. In another second round encounter, Singapore's Ronald Susilo (picture) eased past local star
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