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  • 17 1 weekendTODAY /A=djaCorp February 24 25, 2007 mica(p)3h/io/2006 share your free newspaper we set you thinking todayonline.com H
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  • 801 1  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg THINK Paris, with its beautiful 19th century buildings, its cafes and kiosks and the life bustling along its boulevards. Or London, teeming with scores of nationalities that give it such an international flavour. And then there is the business
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  • 848 1  -  FELIX CHEONG Asian growing presence atthe awards underlines this region's growing importance to Hollywood plus@media corp.com.sg IT MAY be early days yet to call it an Asian tide. But if this year's Oscar nominations are anything to go by, it appears that stories and talents from
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  • hot news
    • 164 2 The only person to win an I Oscar for playing a member of the opposite sex was Linda Hunt for The Year of Living Dangerously in 1983. The only person to win an lOscarfor playing an Oscar-los-ing actress was Maggie Smith for California Suite
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    • 539 2 MEANWHILE, TODAY GAZES INTO THE CRYSTAL BALL AND MAKES A FEW PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE BEST I > J k^ ill *A ~fl^fl^ Babel Tfte Departed Letters from Iwo Jima /./We M/ss Sunshine Tfte Queen Our prediction: BABEL No Best Picture film has ever been in a foreign language, so history
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    • 144 3  -  Two more sites comprising 15 old blocks of flats have been identified to undergo the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (Sers), bringing the number of sites nationwide to 69. These are Blocks 94 and 96 in Henderson Road, both 32 years old, and Blocks 17
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    • 587 3  -  GRACIA CHIANG -AGENCIES Jakarta gives way on issue of third party for Spores military training INDONESIA may allow Singapore to bring a third party to its military training exercises on Indonesian territory, to avoid talks on a defence cooperation agreement (DCA) from hitting a
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  • singapore news
    • 848 4  -  SHERALYN TAY Having more doctors not the answer to kidney patients' woes sharing the load with GPs, polyclinics is Sheralyn@media corp.com.sg FOR some kidney patients, the three to sevenmonth wait that they have to endure before seeing a renal specialist at public hospitals
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    • 260 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg JUST into their second day on the open market, some unsold Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats offered as resale flats have already found buyers. Of the three appointed housing agencies contacted by Today, two of
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    • 324 4  -  -LEEU-WEN SINGAPORE cannot afford to have its "best and brightest" educated in only a few top schools and within the same system of education. To adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world, we need a diversity of talents among
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    • 294 6  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp.com.sg THE year 2005 confirmed two trends that are unlikely to give pro-family advocates much to cheer about For the first time since 1980, there were more women aged between 30 and 34 who gave birth
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    • 273 6  -  I—CHANNEL NEWSASIA CHANNEL NEWSASIA -938UVE IT'S BEEN 90% DRIER THAN USUAL The mercury hit 34° Celsius on Thursday the highest this year and most of Singapore got less than smm of rainfall in the first half of this month, 90 per cent below average for this time of the
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    • 525 6 Slow to rise —AGENCIES Consumer prices increase 0.3%, lower than the 1% expected by economists SINGAPORE'S inflation rate unexpectedly slowed to an 18-month low last month, as easing oil and car prices offset higher food costs that were a result of floods in Johor. The consumer price index (CPI) rose
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    • 624 9  -  LOHCHEEKONG Business leaders give their take on the new intiatives of Budget 2007 cheekong@media corp. com. sg WHILE they acknowledged that the slew of Budget 2007 initiatives would enlarge Singapore's economic pie, several prominent business figures were less sure of its effectiveness
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  • world news
    • 720 10 —AFP Abdullah supports investment plan for Johor, says success depends on good governance PULAI (Malaysia) Malaysia on Friday voiced confidence that it will attract billions of dollars in global investments to turn its southernmost state Johor into a metropolis similar to China's Shenzhen or Hong Kong. Prime
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    • 206 10 —AFP JAKARTA Firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Thursday urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to implement Islamic sharia law to "save Indonesia from devastation". Along with a dozen of his followers, Mr Bashir tried to enter the presidential palace to submit a letter urging Dr
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    • 183 10 JAKARTA Indonesia may conduct safety checks on all Boeing Co's 737-300 planes operated by domestic airlines after an accident this week involving the same type of aircraft, its Transport Ministry said. Indonesia may expand the inspection now underway on seven Adam Air Boeing 737-300 planes
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    • 242 10 -AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Friday testfired its longest range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, two days after signing a deal with India to cut the risk of atomic weapons accidents. The Shaheen 11, or Hatf VI, missile with a range of 2,000 km was launched
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 83 10 -AFP Around 200 people rallied against Singapore in north-eastern Thailand on Friday as tensions continued between the two countries. The protest was organised by the People's Alliance for Democracy, the group behind last year's demonstrations which led to the ousting of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The
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      • 69 10 O—AFP More than 120 people are still missing after a fire on board an Indonesian ferry, the Indonesian Red Cross said on Friday So far, 16 people -including an 11--month-old baby-have been confirmed dead after Thursday's blaze on the Levina I car ferry shortly after
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      • 55 10 A member of the Thai Constitution Drafting Committee has been sentenced to 40 months' jail for writing 14 "dud" cheques. Thanaboon Jiranuwat, an international law expert, had financial problems and had borrowed money from various sources. He then tried to repay the loans with dud
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    • 368 12 -AGENCIES Fearing drop in harvests, govt gets cracking on rainmaking activities BANGKOK Only a few months after suffering its worst floods in a decade, Thailand is getting ready for an El Nino-related drought that is likely to affect rubber and rice output in the major
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    • 308 12 JAKARTA-The Indonesian government driven by forecasts of a long dry season this year has allocated 602 billion rupiah (slOl million) in its bid to fight forest fires that have shrouded the region in haze every year. The Jakarta Post quoted Indonesian State Environment Minister Rachmat
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    • 263 12 —AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday announced a resumption of their "freedom struggle" after declaring that a Norwaybrokered truce had collapsed. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said the truce, which came into effect five years ago on Friday, was
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    • 308 16 —AGENCIES MIAMI The late Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas alongside her son, it was announced on Thursday after a tearful judge who often stole the limelight at the proceedings with his dramatic performance left the decision to
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    • 469 16 -AGENCIES US' No 2 expresses concern over Beijing's military rise but praises its role in six-party talks SYDNEY United States Vice-President Dick Cheney on Friday said that China's recent anti-satellite weapons test and its rapid military build-up were "not consistent" with its stated aim of
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 105 16 —AFP President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Friday that Iran would defend its nuclear programme to the bitter end, a day after the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) again found it in breach of a Security Council ultimatum to suspend uranium enrichment.
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      • 78 16 A move banning male spectators from an annual sports meet for women in Kelantan has drawn flak from some women leaders, the New Straits Times reported. Malaysia's Youth and Sports Minister Azalina Othman Said said it was unfortunate the Kelantan government, ruled by opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia
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      • 94 16 ■AP Fur coats advertised as being made from fake fur could, in fact, be made of dog hair, an animal advocacy group said. The Humane Society of the United States said it purchased coats from reputable outlets, which sold designer labels such as
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    • 271 16 -AGENCIES FORT CAMPBELL A United States soldier was on Thursday sentenced to 100 years in prison for his role in the March 2006 rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the slaying of her family
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  • Voices
    • 218 17  - Preferential rates for taxi regulars SEETKINGHWEE Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Taxi waiting time display doesn't solve the real problem" (Feb 23). Here are my suggestions on how to solve the problem. First, make sure that that taxi queues do not overflow and divert excess taxis to other
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    • 780 17 We pretend to admire Oscar films, but we really can't get enough of crap flicks DOWN UNDER WITH NEIL HUMPHREYS ON MONDAY morning, the world will gather to watch actors feign happiness when they miss out on an Oscar. From Singapore to Melbourne, we will congregate
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    • 236 17  -  CAROLTHAM Letter from I AGREE with Mr Thomas Koshy ("Valuing their labour", Feb 21) that Singapore is now at a stage where it can afford to look at better protection for its workers. Singapore has always had a pro-employer environment. It
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    • 1151 18  -  EDMUND TIE Charity comes from the heart that's why this serial fundraiser doesn't calculate how much he donates coffee with I 60, Executive chairman, DTZ Debenham Tie I Leung (SEA), vice-chairman, Com Chest I HE AGREES with Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's call earlier
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    • 361 18  -  RICK LIM SAY KIONG Letter from MS MANDY Lim wrote in her letter, "Control the impatience to get that diving certificate" (Feb 22) that low visibility at Pulau Hantu's waters is not ideal for scuba diving and
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 93 17 m____ MediaCorp Press Ltd I fill A\f 24 Raffles Place #28-01/06 AW-L/rYX Clifford Centre *****21 MEDIACORP Editorial Director P N Balji TODAY EDITORIAL Managing Editor Walter Fernandez Associate/Night Editor Rahul Pathak Deputy Night Editor Yvonne Lim Editor-At-Large Clamant Mesanas Chief Sub-Editor Richard J Valladares Section editors News Business Val Chua
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  • Businesstoday
    • 261 19  -  CHRISTIE LOH INVESTORS piled into Osim International's stock on Friday, despite the lifestyle products maker posting weak earnings the day before. The counter surged to a three-week high of $1.11, before closing at $1.10, up 9 cents or 8.9 per cent Some analysts, on
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    • 305 19  -  CHRISTIE LOH IR winner's full-year earnings nearly halved, while sister cruise line falls into the red christie@mediacorp.com.sg BAGGING the coveted Integrated Resort (IR) project in December would have capped 2006 with a flourish except the winners now have dismal full-year earnings to show. Genting International
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    • marketwatch
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      • 26 19 Senlnt 0.810 -0.010 -1.2 101.440 JTAC 0.020 +0.075 +8.0 82.410 IhinaEntSp 0.010 BBBBB 65.030 Joble Grp 1.400+0.100+12.3 50.823 fahattanRes 0.430 +0.005 +17.8 30.400
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      • 113 19 I J -AFP SHARE prices closed at fresh all-time highs, as investors focused on laggards and continued to buy property counters, dealers said. The ST Index closed up 21.59 points or 0.66 per cent at a new record of 3,310.44, beating the record of 3,293.61 set on Wednesday. Volume
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      • 18 19 ;pcdb iembMar JPCMBL 0.020 +300.0 0.010 +100.0 0.010 +100.0 JableGrpMBL lidiland 0.280 +04.7 0.015 +50.0
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      • 19 19 CapitalanBNP BiosensorML SGX DBS CMBRB 0.025 0.015 0.105 0.330 -37.5 -25.0 -25.0 -24.1 Jasper 0.020 -20.0
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      • 20 19 Gold US$/oz 683.00 Silver US$/oz 14.25 Platinum US$/oz 1,230.00 Rubber cents/kg 351.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1928.00 Brant US$/barrel 60.14
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      • 52 19 Nikkei 225 *****.42 +70.03 +0.44 HK Hang Seng *****.05 -07.58 -0.47 Australia ASX200 0030.10 +10.00 +0.32 Mumbai Sensex *****.53 -388.78 -2.77 Korea Camp 1400.88 +4.47 0.31 KLCI 1283.47 +0.05 +0.54 SET Index 000.70 -2.85 -0.41 Jakarta Camp 1701.55 -10.88 -0.03 Phils Camp 3380.37 +23.84 +0.71 Shenzhen B 530.25
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      • 28 19 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by JSS JK£ 'en IKS 0.6521 0.3333 79.201 5.0927 2.2781 Rupiah Baht Peso AS Indian Rs 5920.6 21.911 31.373 0.8264 28.869
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    • wealth the business of personal finance
      • 351 20  -  MIRAKASHINATH Giant aims to double its market share by expanding its distribution network to reach the mass market mira@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU'RE a customer with Citibank, get set for a nudge towards buying insurance through the foreign lender. Coming up is a series of targeted insurance
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      • 287 20  -  MIRAKASHINATH EQUITY markets started the year by chasing new highs. With share prices all fired up, is it time to take profit now? According to market watchers who spoke at a recent investment seminar organised by NTUC Income, there is room for more
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      • 389 20 BORROWING money can help you meet your long-term educational or home improvement goals. However, excessive borrowing may lead to financial trouble. MoneySENSE highlights key issues you should consider before borrowing. WHEN SHOULD I BORROW? Before using your credit card, taking a loan to buy
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      • 186 20 AN INCREASING number of merchants are offering instalment plans with zero interest charge if purchases are made through a credit card. You pay the instalments using your credit card over a period ranging from a few months to 48 months, depending on
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    • 108 19 J^B ft Jofa IP* IBkluW *^B KW"=2b —:—LJ "We played masak-masak using the leaves of plants in the garden. We also climbed trees, especially the low jambu tree. There was a rambutan tree that produced excellent fruit. Years later, when we moved from the house, my mother made a graft
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  • wh?ch
    • 674 21  -  raus/fflrawEn CITYSTYLE pea rlyn@media corp.com.sg Who will win the best actress Oscarr More importantly, what will Charhze wearr THERE'S a mighty good reason why I'm not on the film beat. Showbusiness has never been my kind of business. I can never tell Jennifer
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    • 250 21  -  SHERMAINEWONG shermainewong@media corp. com. sg GETTING your nails done has never been that serious an affair until now. With the BMI Nail Asia competition coming up next Tuesday, participants from Singapore, Malaysia and China will compete in three categories: French manicure, 3-D folk art and creative nail
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    • style
      • 588 22  -  PEARLYN THAM Milan, Madrid have banned them but what about skinny clotheshorses here? pea rlyn@media corp.com.sg UNLESS you're referring to plus-sized models, being thin and being a model have always gone hand in hand. But in recent months, words like "thin" and "skinny" have almost
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      • 165 22  -  SHERMAINEWONG HOWEVER slim models here may be, one beauty company is committed to making them gorgeous come the Singapore Fashion Festival (SFF). In fact, L'Oreal will be assembling make-up and hair teams to support local fashion designer Baylene Li in a first-ever collaboration at this
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      • Article, Illustration
        296 22 SMELLS LIKE SUPERMODEL SPIRIT Nothing may have come between supe model Kate Moss and her Calvin Klein fragrance ads but that will change, nov that the original waif will launch her ov line in a partnership with fragrance cot pany Coty. Already the face of Rimmel London
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    • makan
      • 711 23  -  SHERMAINEWONG No need for a magic carpet, just head out to Changi Village for exotic dining shermainewong@media corp.com.sg IF CHANGI Village to you is synonymous with nasi lemak, perhaps it is time to rethink that notion, especially with new kid on the block, Pardis. Iranian-born chef Mike Mehdinejad,
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      • Article, Illustration
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      • 225 23 Once a year, we organise a gourmet tour to Japan, taking participants toTokyo, as well as the places less travelled by tour groups. Needless to say, visits to all kinds of restaurants and eateries are a must. In one of the small towns inTokyo, I
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    • gadget
      • 537 24  -  TREVOR TAN New LCD monitor for gaming from Asus trevor@media corp.com.sg TECH companies are targeting the PC gaming market with increased ferocity and accessories like gaming mice, keyboards and headphones are a dime a dozen. Now, there's even a gaming liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor the
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      • 335 24 1 wcsnic/i laptop ians now nave i six new options to choose from the company has added fresh models to its Satellite and Portege notebook computers series, all equipped with the latest Windows Vista operating system. Top of the line is the 2.72 kg Satellite
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      • SHOPPINGGUIDE
        • 117 24 Motorola has hopped onto the 3.5G bandwagon with the Motorazr maxx V 6 ($738). Its wireless connectivity features include Bluetooth, 3.6 Mbps High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)and Enhanced Data GSM Environment (Edge). Made of metal and glass, the 15mm-thin clamshell also doubles as
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        • 125 24 The Pioneer DEHP7950U8 in-car entertainment system integrates an iPod or a USB-compatible device mio your cars audio sysiem. You can select menus on the iPod, enable shuffle play back or listen to podcasts and audiobooks. It also charges the iPod while it's connected. The unit
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        • Article, Illustration
          111 24 The MoGo Mouse BT is a compact wireless mouse that you can store in the PC card slot of a notebook. It's the size of a business card, measuring smm thin and weighing 41 g. The mouse has an optical resolution of 500 dots per inch and
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        • 113 24 The Samsung Ultra Messaging i6OO ($898) is a smartphone with HSDPA and 802.11 b/g WiFi connectivity. It's compact for something so full-featured- even though it has a 2.3-inch screen, it measures only 11.8 mm in thickness and weighs 105g. The Bluetooth-capable phone runs on Windows
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      • 238 25  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN GAMERS, mark March 7 on your calendars. That will be the day when only 200 of you will get your lucky mitts on the Playstation 3 (PS3). It is the official launch of the l,oBop gaming powerhouse. And it'll be priced at only
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      • 387 25 SONY Ericsson has launched nine mobile phones to cater to different customer needs. First up are three additions to its popular Cyber-shot phone family the KBloi, Kssoi and Kssoim. The KBloi is a 3G phone that boasts a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera with Xenon flash and red-eye
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      • 682 25  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN No sharp shooter, but Nokia N93i impresses with online capability hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg THE Nokia N93i tries to marry the functions of a camera and a camcorder with that of a mobile phone. It looks the part, at least with a big barrel that houses a
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    • car
      • 636 26  -  SHELDON TROLLOPE news@newstoday.com.sg JUST like how varieties of the once-hum-ble hamburger can now be found in places ranging from neighbourhood coffee shops to high-end restaurants, Multi Purpose Vehicles or MPVs are now also available in different sizes to suit every budget At one end of the scale
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      • NEWSTRACKS
        • 151 26 It will soon be time to say goodbye to some of the most recognisable names on our roads. Hyundai, the world's sixth-largest automaker, will introduce a new naming strategy for all its future cars on March 6. Out will go familiar names like Getz, Santa
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        • 147 26 Italian sports car manufacturer Maserati has taken the covers off its brand new two-door coupe ahead of the car's official unveiling at next month's Geneva Motor Show The GranTurismo replaces the Coupe and Gran Sport. As its name suggests, it is more of a long-distance touring
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        • 123 26  -  COLIN YONG Suzuki is gearing up to launch a four-door saloon version of its SX4 crossover hatchback, also at the Geneva Motor Show. It's not yet known if the saloon will use the SX4 name though, since 'SX' is supposed to stand for Sports Crossover,
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      • 384 27  -  COLIN YONG MORE than a year has passed since the Land Transport Authority (LTA) revised the vehicle tax structure to make hybrid cars more affordable but many buyers are still reluctant to take the plunge. Hybrid cars, which have an electric motor in addition to a
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      • 411 27  -  COLIN YONG Toyota kicks off 2007 the way it ended last year while Mitsubishi shows strong growth colin@newstoday.com.sg THE "big three" Japanese car brands in Singapore could soon face stiff competition from a fourth, if January's sales figures are anything to go by. While Toyota, Nissan and Honda
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      • 341 27  -  COLIN YONG THE Internet can be as much a curse as a blessing for car manufacturers. Just ask Audi, who was preparing to unveil its all-new A 5 to the world during a grand ceremony at the Geneva Motor Show next month. That plan was blown
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    • property
      • 653 28  -  JOSEPH YADAO Not every piece of property on the en bloc market is snapped upsome sales take years joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg WITH en bloc sale announcements dominating the property news pages, it may seem that almost every development that is put on the collective sale scene rakes in
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      • 319 28  -  -JOSEPH YADAO DTZ Debenham Tie Leung has put Elmira Heights, a property off Newton Circus, up for collective sale. The property has a site area of 108,550sqft. According to the Master Plan 2003, it can be redeveloped into a 30-storey condominium that
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    • 1035 31  -  Felix Cheong Good acting is good mimicry. At least according to Hollywood. OSCAR-WINNING IMPERSONATORS 2001 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 WHERE does reel life end and the real person begin? If all goes according to pundits' predictions, the top two acting honours at this
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    • READERS WRI+E
      • 370 32  -  SHERINA OMAR SAAID WRI+ES: WHEN the latest Singapore Budget was delivered by Second Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam last week, I thought how nice it was to see a fresh face performing that task. It actually made me read Today's articles on the Budget in
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      • 146 32  -  SUCHEN CHRISTINE LIM WRI+ES I REFER to Felix Cheong's interview with MediaCorp Raintree Pictures managing director Daniel Yun ("With a little help from my friends", Feb 14) where my name was wrongly written. It should be and always has been Suchen Christine Lim: Asian name before
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    • 183 32 -AP LOS ANGELES A new TV series from Steven Spielberg and reality TV mogul Mark Burnett that offers aspiring filmmakers a US$l million ($1.5 million) studio contract will air this spring. On May 16, On the Lot debuts with an hour-long audition episode on
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    • 552 40  - Ong to Zizou GOAALLLLLLL! Tan Yo-Hinn mil lu-niini in Chiang Mai yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg That's what the radio star is hoping for anyway, as he teams up with the great man MILLIONS still want to know why Zinedine Zidane did what he did last summer in Berlin. Not Glenn Ong, though. He
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      374 42  -  Kenneth Goh Mourinho and Wenger's loathing is ugly, but it does add considerable s. pice to Sunday's Cardiff showpiece IN THE red corner is the cool, studied Frenchman, a leeky, confident Portuguese kstruts in the blue corner. Both share a fierce passion for foot- 4 ball, both are proven
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    • 454 43 GUARDIAN LONDON Arsene Wenger stoked the simmering relationship between Arsenal and Chelsea on Friday night by reminding Jose Mourinho that winning the Champions League with Porto in 2004 does not to make him a "great" manager. The London rivals meet in Sunday's Carling
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