Today, 29 March 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    29 1 TODAY /A=iy]j-\CoRP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday March 29, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY we set you thinking Thursday March 29, 2007 todayonline.com I jV\=D>JJkCORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • Article
      A mandarin's temptation
      876 1  -  LEE U-WEN Tug-of-war between passion for public service and the pull of private sector dollars u-wen@media corp. com.sg AS JOBS go, he was enjoying the one he had, but Mr Gerald Chiu had a decision to make. The former Public Service Commission overseas scholar was about to
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    • Article
      Durai fails to get off the hook, but will he take the stand?
      481 1  -  ANSLEY NG a nsley@mediacorp. com.sg DID former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief T T Durai deceive the organisation into paying $20,000 to his friend David Tan Kee Kan, who had helped him raise funds? Or was it
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      16 1 TEMPTATION -S^T LIES WITHIN ■hTr/ff^Bl GET YOUR H£te WOMEN'S SwiHFnP SUPPLEMENT f^T^^slL PAGES 38-50 L. ms
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  • hot news
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      HDB goes eco-friendly
      667 2  -  SHERALYN TAY Its first build-to-order Eco-Precinctis as green as it gets sheralyn@media corp. com. sg NOW eco-friendly homes will no longer be the preserve of those who can afford fancy high-end private condominiums. The first build-to-order (BTO) eco-precinct, Treetops@Punggol (picture) launched by the Housing and Development Board
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      Lock icon MM Lee honoured amid lively exchange
      482 3 -AGENCIES MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew received an honorary degree from the prestigious Australian National University (ANU) yesterday, amid a heated exchange with reporters. Mr Lee, 83, who was Singapore's prime minister from independence until 1990, received an honorary doctorate in law and said
      -AGENCIES; EPA  -  482 words
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      Lock icon No mean feet as photographer lands second Ifra honour
      280 3  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS an image that captured the imagination a row of legs, neatly crossed and pointing in a uniform direction, belonging to several of our nation's politicians. The white strappy sandal worn by the female politician stood out amidst
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    • Article
      New Spring chief to groom future CEOs
      475 3  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp.com.sg DAYS before he steps into his new role as the chairman of Spring Singapore, Mr Philip Yeo has drawn up a battle plan. His first course of action: To train chief executive officers (CEOs) for Small and Medium
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  • Singapore news
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      Fight between two seniors leaves one of them dead
      285 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG A FIGHT between two elderly men left one dead and the other lying in hospital, under police custody. At about 7am yesterday, the police received a call that a fight had broken out between two men aged 66 and 68
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    • Article
      Parking with fewer barriers
      624 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG Changes to car park label scheme from next month will ease way for disabled cheekong@media corp. com. sg MEANT to assist the disabled in getting about, the car park label scheme was criticised for some crippling shortcomings. But that is about to change from next
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    • Article
      Polo Club bigwigs under fire tonight
      371 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg IT IS the only local venue where the "sport of kings" is played. But tonight, the Singapore Polo Club one of the oldest social and recreational clubs here is set to be the venue for a mighty tussle among its members.
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      Singapore service standards among the best: Poll
      241 6  -  -UNYANQIN ARE Singapore's service standards world-class? Delegates who came to the Republic for the Singapore 2006 (*****) series of meetings last year seemed to think so, a poll revealed. Despite some rumblings on the sidelines about Singapore's handling of protesters, 85 per cent
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      Lock icon Smoke alarm
      517 6  -  TAN HUI LENG Shock anti-smoking TV ads rescheduled after complaints but they're effective huileng@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS intended to shock, and it succeeded so well, in fact, that a flood of complaints from parents has caused the Health Promotion Board (HPB) to reschedule the screening time of its anti-smoking
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      Red card for touts
      392 8  -  ANSLEYNG Clampdown continues as Newton drinks stall joins suspension list ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE kid gloves have come off, as five tout-happy stalls at Newton Food Centre found out the hard way. A drinks stall owner is the latest to have his licence suspended in his case, for
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon RIBENA IN SINGAPORE UNDER PROBE
        104 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority will test Ribena drinks here to determine the actual level of vitamin C, after two schoolgirls in New Zealand doing a science project exposed the fact that the popular drink contained almost none of the vitamin. The drink's
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        Lock icon LTA GOES THE SMS ROUTE
        48 8 938 LIVE The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is introducing a new SMS feedback channel. From next month, members of the public can SMS their feedback to "77LTA" (*****). This channel allows LTA to respond quickly to malfunctioning traffic lights or massive traffic jams.-
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        Lock icon DIFFERENT BUS LANE HOURS FROM SUNDAY
        108 8 -938UVE Changes to the bus lane scheme will kick in from Sunday. For lanes marked with a continuous yellow line, the bus lane hours will be pushed back from 4.30pm to spm on weekdays, and remain in operation until Bpm instead of 7pm. The
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        Lock icon $7.2M BOOST FOR REN CI
        96 8 -AFP This year's Ren Ci Charity Show raised nearly $7.2 million, exceeding the target of $5 million by more than 40 per cent. The charity has pledged to use $1.5 million of the amount for the construction of a new Ren Ci Hospital at Irrawaddy
        -AFP  -  96 words
    • Article, Illustration
      RoboCop CSI-style
      313 8  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg A WATERPROOF torchUght that records sound and images, and a laser-scanning device that takes 3D "pictures" of crime scenes. These state-of-the-art technologies were featured on the popular television series CSI, and are now on display at the Global Security Asia tradeshow at the Singapore Expo.
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      178 4 ACPE WOULD LIKE TO jl CONGRATULATE V OUR STUDENTS srJgfowW**' Graduation Ceremony j»^% wfflbeheldon "^A tm Satunlay, 31 st March 2007 f X at The Amata Hotel Singapore Graduates' Testimonials "ACPE has a team d capable and haixtnoteng lecturers, as well as a dedicated support team. All lecturers am not
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Villages in Thai south have been infiltrated
      209 10 -AFP HAT YAI (Thailand) Thailand's junta leader said yesterday that Islamic separatists have infiltrated villages across the Muslim-majority south, making it difficult to identify the militants. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin also told reporters that militants had intensified their attacks in recent months to scare
      -AFP  -  209 words
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      Lock icon Sonthi calls for emergency rule in Bangkok
      298 10 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand's junta chief said yesterday he had asked the government to declare emergency rule in Bangkok to crack down on swelling anti-coup protests. "I have proposed to the Prime Minister that he invoke emergency rule in order to maintain law and
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      Lock icon 'I did it out of love'
      581 10 -AGENCIES Captor provides ice-cream, chamber pots for Philippine child hostages during 10-hour standoff MANILA A Philippine founder of a preschool surrendered to police yesterday after holding a busload of his own students hostage with a hand grenade and other weapons in what he said
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      Lock icon China to weed out 'dead souls' and other slackers
      206 12 -AFP BEIJING China has issued new rules intended to weed out "dead souls" and other employees at government departments who earn salaries despite not doing any work, state press reported yesterday. This is the country's first law that will take effect
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      Lock icon Family planning goes corporate
      383 12 -AFP Japanese firms offer incentives for staff to have kids, spend time at home with family TOKYO Two major Japanese companies yesterday announced new plans to assist workers with families as the country tries to cope with a declining birthrate. Observers said that the moves could
      -AFP; AFF  -  383 words
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      Lock icon Stubbing out bad driving habits
      216 12 -AP NEW DELHI A slew of new measures aimed at deterring habitually bad drivers including banning smoking or using a mobile phone while driving has been imposed by a court here. The smoking ban is believed to be the first such ban in the world.
      -AP /./; AP  -  216 words
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      Lock icon Vessels will stay in Indonesia
      154 12 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES JAKARTA The Indonesian navy will not release two vessels carrying granite chips to Singapore until the legal process dealing with the situation is concluded, navy chief Slamet Subianto said yesterday. "An extensive investigation on the vessels is being carried out currently, but
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon BRITISH KIDS GET BULLET-PROOF VESTS
        101 14 AFP Concerned parents have been buying stab- and bul-let-proof vests to protect their children. The orders came in the wake of a string of fatal stabbings in Britain, notably those of two teenagers on separate occasions in London in the past two weeks. Vest Guard
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        Lock icon WORLD'S TALLEST MAN FINDS OTHER HALF
        77 14 AFP The world's tallest man has finally found a wife a sales clerk who comes up to his elbow. Herdsman Bao Xishun, who is 2.36 metres tall, will marry 1.68 m Xia Shujun (picture), who is also half the groom's age at just 28.
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      Lock icon Collect rainwater, Malaysians told
      272 14 AGENCIES Laws being drafted in conservation drive KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is drafting new laws to require homes and buildings to collect rainwater in a bid to conserve water supplies. Newspapers quoted Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as saying the move was part of an energy efficiency
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      Lock icon San Francisco bans plastic bags
      250 14 -AP SAN FRANCISCO After weeks of intense lobbying from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group, San Francisco lawmakers approved a ban on plastic grocery bags, a first for a United States city. The law would require large markets and drugstores to give customers only the
      -AP; AF  -  250 words
    • Article
      Postcards used to promote friendship among students in Asean
      281 16  -  -NG HUN WEI PRIMARY school students in South-east Asia can now use postcards to make friends across the region thanks to a project organised by the Singapore Art Museum and Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the 40th birthday of
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      World wide web of terrorism
      493 16  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT SEAsia militants learning from Iraqis, one another: Experts fawziah@media corp.com.sg TERRORISTS in South-east Asia are taking a leaf from the book of insurgents elsewhere including Iraq and adapting these deadly methods for their use, experts warned yesterday. Philippine groups are using explosives hidden
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      Lock icon Britain waiting to hear from Iran on sailors
      325 18 -AFP Release of woman captive not good enough: London LONDON Britain has not yet had direct confirmation from the Iranian government that it will be allowed consular access to 15 naval personnel being held by Tehran, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today.
      -AFP; AFF  -  325 words
    • Article
      Police use tear gas to control Paris rioters
      229 18 PARIS French police used tear gas to clear out 100 youths from Paris' Gare du Nord subway station on Tuesday after a row over a ticket descended into a riot Officers arrested at least 13 people, and two others were injured when
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      Lock icon 'Sexier' Tokyo opens tallest skyscraper
      153 18 -AFP TOKYO The Japanese capital this week opens its highest skyscraper featuring top-notch shops, restaurants and even a hospital, as the metropolis tries to project a slicker, sexier image than rising Asian rivals. Tokyo Midtown is the latest giant urban complex to transform the world's
      -AFP; AFP  -  153 words
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      Lock icon March out
      343 19 —AFP WASHINGTON The United States Senate, for the first time, approved a measure tying funding for the war in Iraq to a timetable for withdrawing US troops. By a vote of 48 to 50, the Senate rejected a Republican measure that would have removed the withdrawal clause set
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      Lock icon $8m bounty on terror suspect
      176 19 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States has posted a US$5 million ($8 million) reward for the capture of a Malaysian terror suspect wanted for several bomb attacks in the Philippines, the US State Department said yesterday. "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has authorised a new reward
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  • Voices
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        Linking salaries to corporate sector does not reflect work of ministers, civil service
        331 20  -  PAUL CHAN POH HOI Letter from I DO not subscribe to the idea of benchmarking the salary of top civil servants and ministers to that of the private sector. The Government needs to find its own formula
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        Are dual appointments an efficient use of manpower?
        260 20  -  DANIEL ONG Letter from WHAT I would like to call to attention is the number of portfolios or titles that employees in the public sector, such as civil servants, are holding. An example is Mr Peter Ho, the head of the civil
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        Salaries must reflect quality
        195 20  -  HO BEE BONG Letter from I HAVE no qualms about paying our ministers and civil servants salaries that reflect the market rate. But if civil service remuneration is to be benchmarked against that of the private sector, then, first and foremost, performance must be measured likewise.
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      Lock icon How green does our garden grow?
      440 22  -  JOHN T HURST Clean Energy Programme is fine but first put our energy inefficient house in order Letter from I AM very proud that Singapore is going to fund a Clean Energy Programme to facilitate energy efficient alternatives. But isn't this like Al Gore
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      Ignore 'fake' contractors
      131 22  -  QUEK BEE LIAN Letter from AG Deputy Director (Housing Maintenance) for Director (Housing Administration) Housing Development Board I REFER to the letter by Mr Sim Choon Chye, "Fake gate painters" (March 23). For works to be carried out by HDB within a flat, HDB would inform the
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      Use the right to cooling-off period
      147 22  -  YEO GUAT KWANG Letter from President, Consumers Association ot Singapore (Case) WE WOULD like to highlight that it is an offence for contractors to claim that they are officials working for the Housing and Development Board when they are not Residents should report such
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      Exams should help, not hinder, a student's development
      391 23  -  RAYMOND NG Letter from FIRST, I am thankful to the views of Mr Lawrence Low and Mr Ho Kong Loon to my letter, "Standardise school examinations" (March 24-25). I hope to clarify my well-intended suggestion. Standardising examination standards does not necessarily mean
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      Free badminton courts available for senior citizens: SSC
      289 23  -  S PARAMESWARAN Letter from Corporate and Marketing Communications Manager, Singapore Sports Council WE REFER to the letter, "A necessary move?" (March 19) with regard to the charges for the use of badminton courts by senior citizens. The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) has
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      207 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN Divorce carries lifelong negative implications for children. It's now known that emotional development in children is directly related to the presence of warm, nurturing, sustained and continuous interaction with both parents. Anything that interferes with the
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      VALUE FOR MONEY
      618 24  -  LIANG DINGZI serveusnght A MILLION-dollar initiative by the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) to upgrade the skills of hawkers has one Today reader suggesting that the issue may have been overplayed. Mr Harry Chia wrote: "I do not see value in the
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    • Smoke them out with shock tactics ?
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        Anti-smoking ad won't deter smokers despite its shock value
        289 25  -  MICHAEL LOHYIK MING Letter from I REFER to the anti-cigarette advertisement shown lately. My concern is: Is she real? For one thing, I cannot make out from her features and accent if she is a local or a foreigner. I still
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        Ad leaves a bad taste in the mouth
        138 25  -  TOWJOONHENG Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Shocking anti-smoking ad gets the right message across" (March 27). I beg to differ. I am a non-smoking adult, a parent of two school-going kids. The advertisement is in bad taste, and scares even
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      Empty bus, disappointed passengers
      211 25  -  LAURENCE LEONG Letter from I CANNOT agree more with David Khoo's letter, "Good Safari, bad bus link" (March 27). On Sunday, Feb 25, I took two visitors from overseas to the zoo. We arrived at the Ang Mo Kio bus interchange to transfer to bus service
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      111 22 VOICES ON RADIO Singapore should stop trying w J so hard to be world class, ItfTl simply because it already is. ISTI This view of Singapore, com- Cf-Hr] A ing from dean of the Lee lk'/^ Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Mr Kishore Mahbubani, citing some 10 indicators ranging
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      127 26  -  CHOW PENN NEE RETAILER CX Tang yesterday warned of a loss for the second half of the year ending March 31. This was due to lower-than-ex-pected revenue from the new Tangs store at Vivo City which opened in October last year at a cost of
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      480 26  -  TORCHING LI chingli@media corp. com. sg IN THEIR drive to push sales, it seems that some insurance agents tend to forget that honesty is the best policy. According to the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre (FIDReC), one out of every two complaints it received
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      300 26 -AGENCIES DBS Group Holdings' shares posted their biggest drop in two weeks after South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the lender was forming a multinational investment group to buy Korea Exchange Bank (KEB). Shares of DBS fell as much
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      189 26  -  CHOW PENN NEE pennnee@media corp.com.sg CHINA Aviation Oil (S) Corp, or CAO, was queried by the Singapore Exchange yesterday on the sharp spike in its share price. The stock had risen 34 per cent in a week, rising from $1.14 last Wednesday
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      238 27 DOW JONES -DOW JONES -DOW JONES The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said local developer Allgreen Properties was the top bidder for a residential site at Handy Road, with its offer of $72.3 million. But the tender may not be awarded to Allgreen as selection depends on more than the
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      384 27  -  ASHRAF SAFDAR Shortage of office space pushing prices close to peak ashraf@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S confirmed One Raffles Quay is the most expensive office rental space in Singapore. According to real estate advisor Debenham Tie Leung (DTZ), other buildings charging top dollar are Republic Plaza, Six Battery
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          115 28 DOW JONES SHARE prices fell amid nervousness about volatile oil prices and declines on Wall Street overnight. The ST Index fell 32.4 points, or 1.0 per cent, to end at 3,201.8. In the broader market, decliners beat advancers by 513 to 230 while 2.06 billion shares worth $1.9 billion
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          58 28 Nikkei 225 *****.73 -110.32 -0.64 HK Hang Seng *****.87 -152.92 -0.78 Australia ASX200 5923.20 -41.00 -0.69 Korea Camp 1439.74 -13.49 -0.93 Thailand SET 669.04 -9.53 -1.40 Jakarta Camp 1800.39 -19.26 -1.06 Phils Camp 3162.81 -11.94 -0.38 Shenzhen B 520.75 +0.98 +0.19 Mumbai Sensex *****.34 -239.98 -1.83 Malaysia KLCI
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          153 28 EXCLUSIVELY for Diners Club cardmembers, they can now pay their road tax in three or six monthly instalments interest-free with no service or activation charge. All a cardmember needs to do is to present the Diners Club card with
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          159 28 QUALIFY for daily draws between April 3 and 30 and a grand draw on April 30 by buying a 6-can, 12-can or 30-can pack, or any two large Pet bottles (1.3 L, 1.45, 1.5 L) of Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola with Lime, Coca-Cola Light, Sprite,
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          177 28 TAMPI and Alex are two smiles giant heart-shaped creatures with soft red fur that live in their own little land called Smaland, which is a magical forest hidden so well that no one can find it unless invited by Tampi and Alex.
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          197 28 March 29 10am to 10.30 am A Lover's Guide Love coach Kloudiia Tay, who is also Singapore's first certified matchmaker, fans those flames of passion as she walks Stanley and Mahesha through what's between the covers of her brand new selfhelp book The 69 Love Notes Secrets
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        390 28  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg IT'S springtime for the biologies industry in Singapore as American company Genentech announced its plan to setup a US$l4O--million ($212.5-million) manufacturing facility. To be situated atTuas Biomedical Park, the plant will be the first such
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        210 29 -BLOOMBERG CHINA will ease rules for companies to buy a wider range of products including steel, plastics and machines from abroad, in an effort to encourage imports and reduce the country's record trade surplus. Beginning April 1, Chinese companies will
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        137 29 -AFP BEIJING Transactions in China's real estate market surged 69 per cent last year, funded to a great extent by foreign investment, a leading research firm said yesterday. "There is increasingly more investment going into industrial property," said Mr Kenny Ho, a Shanghai-based head of
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        366 29 BLOOMBERG Yangzijiang listing in Spore may raise $944 m YANGZIJIANG Shipbuilding (Holdings), a Chinese builder of container ships, and existing shareholders may raise as much as $943.5 million in a Singapore initial public offering. Yangzijiang Shipbuilding is selling about 993.2 million shares,
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        417 30 —AFP Inter-continental NYSE Euronextto be 'the world's largest exchange group' PARIS A vast trans-Atlantic stock market emerged on Tuesday when the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) won control of pan-Euro-pean market operator Euronext, creating an entity worth US$29 billion ($44 billion) linking trading platforms in
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        166 30 -AFP SYDNEY Credit Suisse became the third institutional investor in as many days to reveal that it had taken a significant shareholding in Qantas. The Swiss investment bank said it had built a 5.39-per-cent stake in Qantas, which is the subject of a US$B.9-billion ($13.5-billion)
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        134 30 -BLOOMBERG ABN Amro Holding said merger discussions with Barclays might not lead to a deal, and that the largest Dutch bank would consider other options, including remaining independent, if talks fail. "It is not clear yet if our talks with Barclays will lead to a merger
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      1208 32  -  David Chew BHMB TRACeS^^H mm TO EXPLORE WHAT WAS BEHIND HER THEN RECORD-SETTING SEX FEAT BELIEVE it or not, Singapore is known internationally for things other than its ban on chewing gum and its passion for rules. Theatre director Loretta Chen recalled that while studying abroad
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      252 33 FIRST, it was a retreat in Changi where cast members shared stories about times when love had taken violent or other uncomfortable turns, then it was screenings of (ahem) adult films Annabel Chong had made during her porn career. These were among the things 251
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        401 36  -  WINSONTEO Ai Leng's Second Homecoming is still a breakthrough for herj winson@mediacorp.com.sg THOSE who don't recognise Ong Ai Leng from recent TV ads for fruit juice and toothpaste might be surprised to learn that she shared the screen with Tony Leung Chiu-wai in the film 2046. Even
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        438 36  -  DAVID CHEW david. chew@media corp. com. sg NO ONE ever said bringing a Broadway musical to the Singapore stage was easy. Each performance of The Phantom of the Opera, which is now on at the Esplanade Theatre, is a Herculean
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        213 37  -  BOOKREVIEW ElifShafak THE sixth novel by this Turkish author, her second in English, kicked up a storm last year because of comments the book's characters make about the massacre of Armenians during World War I. Shafak was charged by a Turkish court with "violating Turkishness" but
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        85 37 FORMER drug abuser-turned-youth activist Glenn Lim (picture) is the author of Wake Up Call, an autobiographical bookthat will be launched on Sunday at 3.30pm at Borders Bistro. I'm reading Star Wars Jesus,"a commentary on the reality of the force" by Caleb Grimes. I've been waiting for a book like
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      936 40 BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Some people shy away from the unfamiliar but not Siti Suhaila Yahya-Ong. Four years ago, she found that there was no upmarket spa catering to Malay women. So, she set up the Wayan Retreat Balinese Spa to create a niche for herself in
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      601 41 You've probably heard from grandma and can improve your general health. to your beauty needs as it keeps you our favourite EuYan Sang products. EuYan Sang Zing Pearl Golden Whitening Facial Mask There's no better way to end a hard day's work than by
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      1187 43 NAME: PONZ GOO, 35, CEOOFHAACHSPAAND WELLNESS CHAIN THE LOWDOWN: BOTTOM OF THE CLASS, TOP OF THE LADDER For someone who is the chief executive of homegrown spa and wellness chain Haach, Ponz Goo's office in Ngee Ann City is not the least bit ostentatious. Like her working
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      732 44  -  TEXT: NEOCHAI CHIN RECALL Meryl Streep's role as the monstrous fashion magazine editor in The Devil Wears Prada. Or the impatient workaholic lawyer played by Michelle Pfeiffer in I Am Sam. Ambition in women is often depicted scarily in films, with ruthless female bosses terrorising subordinates, or
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      831 45  -  TEXT: JOANNE YAP joanne@mediacorp.com.sg IJ-LIKI Y-three-year-old working mum Jas Chan starts seeing red whenever her child misbehaves. The mother of one feels vexed when she doesn't have control over her daughter's behaviour. "When we went on a family outing recently, my daughter kept crying and refused to get
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      652 46 TRAIN FOR THE PAIN: SKY PILATES Giving birth is tough on the body, so train for the day. Said Teresa Woo, director of Sky Pilates: "If you were to run a marathon, you would train for the event, right? Here's another big event labour. And mothers
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      703 48 TO SPA, TO EAT On top of its regular menu. Alligator Pear, a poolside restaurant and bar at Raffles The Plaza, also serves spa cuisine to complement its spa treatments at RafflesAmrita Spa. A team of spa therapists, chefs and nutritionists created the menu, which focuses
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      341 50 JETSETTER DREAMS Even if the only private oasis you'll ever enjoy is your bathtub, you can still make-believe that you have a jet-setting, island-hopping life. Estee Lauder's Emerald Dream fragrance, a travel retail exclusive scent, wants to take you to your own exclusive garden retreat. What's more
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        596 51  -  PEARLYN THAM Local celebs, label put down their style in black and white pea rlyn@media corp.com.sg WHEN she was 16, Fly Entertainment head honcho-cum-artiste Irene Ang harboured dreams of becoming a model. She signed up with a local modelling agency, took part in a fashion show and was
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        377 51  - GO AHEAD TRY NEEDLING ME PEARLYNTHAM A NEEDLEPOINT masterpiece isn't the only aesthetic good that needles can produce. Imagine if they can also reduce pigmentation and wrinkles, improve skin texture, and more. But don't go pricking your face with a set of sewing needles. Special microneedles need to be employed
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        728 52 THE Chardonnay cultivated and celebrated in Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, China, Japan, India, Spain, Italy, Austria, Romania and France is perhaps the most widely used white grape in wine production. Compared to Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay tends to be less aromatic, and has
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        688 54  -  ANNE CHALFANT -MCT With its array of musicals, England's capital now a hot spot for theatre-goers traveller@newstoday.com.sg ON WEEKENDS, Parisians cram the Chunnel train, heading for trendy London and its theatre scene. Pardon? It's true. London financial sugarplum of Europe these days rocks with mod-decor bars,
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        902 56 Greek city embraces spirit of revival while cherishing its past CHRIS WELSCH traveller@newstoday.com.sg IN ATHENS, you can't escape time's arrow. Not even in a shiny new subway station in the heart of the city. "Do you know how many versions of Athens we are standing on right
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        678 58  -  MATTY AN IVr ANDERS ON -MCT "UP THERE." The seemingly ancient Ugandan boatman pointed a gnarly finger toward a dense vine-covered ridge rising a hundred feet or so into the jungle above the hippo-and-crocodile-filled Nile River. "That's where Hemingway crashed his plane while on safari. And tomorrow, when
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        573 59  -  Lynette Koh Spot the Tasmanian devil and savour the island's tantalisingly sinful surprises WITH a land area of about 68,400 sq km and a population of just over 488,000, Tasmania is one of Australia's most untouched states. Stock up on the refreshments
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        781 60  -  M ELAN IE LEE traveller@newstoday.com.sg I WANTED to make my first holiday to New Zealand a memorable one. This meant that conducted tours were out, since I have been known to fall into a deep slumber during long bus rides. After some discussion, my travelling
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