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    27 1 TODAY jy\=O]ACORP we set you thinking MICA(P) 314/10/2006 Friday March 30, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=ojj-\Corp we set you thinking Friday March 30, 2007 todayonline.com MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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    135 1  - HOSTS WITH THE MOST: The Esplanade played host to a galaxy of stars last night as the Singapore Tourism Board's Tourism Awards 2006 honoured 36 individuals and organisations that have exhibited outstanding or exemplary service over the past year. Minister of State for Trade and Industry S Iswaran and over
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    Down by the river, a pitch that swims
    659 1  -  CUBBYLEONG Singapore Gold's bid for National Stadium packs a spectacular design cubby@media corp.com.sg AS IT looks for its home with a view, the Sports Hub has been offered an intriguing option: A roof that can retract, gates that open onto the Kallang
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    Durai, once bitten, shies from the stand
    544 1  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE public will never get to hear T T Durai's take on the $20,000 he paid to close friend and interior designer David Tan Kee Kan. The former chief executive of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has chosen to remain
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    138 2 Gowns, suits and smiles were the order of the night as industry leaders, service, tourism and travel professionals, and, most importantly, the award finalists, gathered to celebrate and honour the stars of the tourism industry PHOTOS BY DON WONG AND I APPLAUSE: (L-R) STB chairman Simon Israel,
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      Poster blitz in hunt for the missing
      579 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Police displays at MRT stations, bus interchanges parallel Crime Library efforts weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE profile of a person gone missing has never been higher. Starting yesterday, the police started posting pictures of missing persons on their website. Posters have also
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      Not worth $5,000?
      380 4  -  30 participants complain as school arranges meetings LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg HAVING paid some $5,000 each for a coaching programme, some 30 participants are alleging that a prominent homegrown company did not give them their moneys worth. The dispute is being heard in the Small Claims
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      Talks on maritime boundaries 'fruitful'
      117 4 SINGAPORE has reiterated its position that its reclamation works would not be a factor in the negotiation with Indonesia on maritime boundaries. In a joint statement issued by both governments on the third round of technical discussions on maritime boundaries, held here over the past
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      GOLD STANDARD
      70 4 SingaporeGold's Sports Hub proposal includes: •World's first waterfront stadium with retractable roof 55,000-capacity stadium can be raised to 80,000 seats •Football pitch can be pulled out onto the basin by floating barges and water can take its place •200-room sports-themed hotel and service apartments •Australian Sports Commission to
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      Cruise terminal in Marina South ready in 6 years
      455 4  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp.com.sg WITH the cruise business in Asia heating up, the snail's crawl so far to develop a cruise terminal at Marina South looks to have been finally given the nod by the authorities but it may take up
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      A BIGGER BILL FOR GENTING?
      206 4 The recent hike in the price of sand and granite aggregates has made the heart of Resorts World at Sentosa's chief executive Tan Hee Teck skip a few beats. The proposed $5.2-billion integrated resort development that he is overseeing is sited on a 49-hectare plot
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        Lock icon S'TORE TO RECOGNISE MORE FOREIGN MEDICAL DEGREES
        111 6 -938UVE Another 20 foreign medical schools will be recognised by the Ministry of Health and Singapore Medical Council from next month. Among the newly recognised institutions are top Asian medical schools from China, India, South Korea and Malaysia. These include the Medical centre
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        Lock icon MM LEE MEETS AUSTRALIAN LEADERS IN MELBOURNE
        118 6 -CHANNEL NEWSASIA Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has met government leaders in Melbourne, on the second stop of his visit to Australia. At his meeting with the Premier of Victoria, Mr Steve Bracks, Mr Lee was told that 40 per cent of the
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        Lock icon POLICE ARREST MEMBERS OF AN ILLEGAL 4D SYNDICATE
        87 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Police have crippled the activities of an illegal 4D syndicate. After monitoring its members' movements over four months, the police conducted simultaneous raids at six locations in Serangoon North, Ang Mo Kio, Tampines, Toa Payoh and Hougang on Wednesday. Three
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE AIRLINES' NEW CUSTOMER ALERT SERVICE
        85 6 938 LIVE Singapore Airlines is enhancing its mobile flight information service that alerts customers if their flight is re-timed. Customers are requested to give their mobile phone contact at the time of reservation. Customers will receive a text message from the airline, sent three
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        Lock icon RIBENA DRINKS SOLD HERE "RICH IN VITAMIN C": AVA
        92 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Ribena drinks sold here have been certified "rich in Vitamin C" by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA). Its test results show the drinks satisfy Singapore Food Regulations, which require 200 ml of fruit juice drinks and cordials to
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      Lock icon Cupid just a click away
      610 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG Dating scene hots up with new ideas to hook up the singles alerts would be available. "You can set your status to 'looking for a date' when you are walking around Bugis, and the system will hook you up with someone near
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      Lock icon Innovation that's hot and cool
      533 8  -  SHERALYN TAY With award-winning system, air-conditioning units can become water heaters, too sheralyn@media corp. com. sg SOLAR power may be a great way to go green and save on your power bills, but if you are a flat-dweller who cannot fix a sun panel, what
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      Only Day 2, and eco-precinct has drawn 615 applications
      406 8  -  SHERALYNTAY DESPITE initial reservations over the premium prices and its remote location, the first eco-precinct here has garnered an enthusiastic response just two days into its launch. As of yesterday, 615 applications had been received for the 712 units atTreetops Punggol
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      B-word causes airport scene
      668 10  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Family holiday scuppered when security officers react to woman's remark weekeat@media corp.com.sg A CASUAL mention of the word "bomb", and apparent over-zealousness of the part of airport security officers, grounded a family of four's holiday plans earlier this month. The officers, from Aetos
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      Lock icon Almost sunset for residents at Khatib Bongsu
      457 10  -  GRACIA CHIANG gracia@media corp. com. sg FOR the past 70 years, Mr Tan Siong Aii'i Ling, 74, has called only one place his lw home. As a boy, he would spend hours at his father's two prawn farming ponds. Even when most of
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      Lock icon Britain takes Iran to UN
      409 12 AFP LONDON Britain took the escalating crisis with Iran over 15 captured sailors to the United Nations Security Council yesterday, as Tehran withdrew an offer to free the only woman detainee. Iran also demanded an apology from London for what it said had been an
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      Lock icon 'Malays will become slaves if quota system scrapped'
      522 12  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT KULAUOHOR Mahathir slams southern Johor plans FA IN fawziah@media corp.com.sg Malaysia's former Premier Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that ethnic Malays in Johor would become "slaves" in their own country if the government went ahead with its plan to scrap affirmative-action
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      Lock icon Philippine police chief sacked over hostage crisis
      420 12 -AGENCIES MANILA The Manila police chief and two of his officers will be removed from their posts, the Philippine Interior Secretary said yesterday, in the fallout from a hostage standoff in which 26 children were held for 10 hours on a bus in
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      Lock icon Bangkok protest park declared off limits
      282 14 AFP Sanam Luang was scene of rallies that ultimately led to Thaksin's ouster BANGKOK Thai authorities have decided to close down a park in central Bangkok to prevent anti-coup protesters from staging a rally there at the weekend, officials said yesterday. Bangkok police, regional
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      Lock icon Thai elections to be held in December: PM
      256 14 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's army-installed Premier Surayud Chulanont has said elections to restore democracy would be held in December and he has ruled out declaring a state of emergency in Bangkok. General Surayud also said a referendum on a new Constitution would be
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      Lock icon See-through boxes for greater transparency
      139 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR In a bid to make voting more transparent, Malaysia's Election Commission has introduced see-through ballot boxes. The new boxes, which can hold some 700 ballot sheets, will be used in the next general election, and replace the usual black metal ballot boxes,
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      Lock icon Defame a minister? That's two years' jail...
      285 16 BANGKOK-The leader of protests that precipitated the coup against then Mr Thaksin Shinawatra, then the Thai Premier, was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for defaming a minister in the fallen government, his lawyer said. Media mogul and protest leader Sondhi Limthongkul
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      Lock icon Deface the king's portrait? Make it 10
      464 16 -AFP Swiss could have been jailed 75 years for lese majeste CHIANG MAI A Swiss man was jailed for 10 years yesterday for insulting Thailand's revered king by vandalising his portraits during a drunken spree. Oliver Jufer, 57, had pleaded guilty to five
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      Lock icon SBY, Kalla see huge decline in popularity: Survey
      339 18 -AGENCIES JAKARTA -The popularity of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (picture) and Vice-Presi-dent Jusuf Kalla has declined sharply over the last three years with the public's level of dissatisfaction with their performance dropping below the psychological barrier of 50 per cent Sixty-five
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      Lock icon BRITAIN WALKS A TIGHTROPE
      818 18  -  JULIAN BORGER -THE GUARDIAN The UK has imposed sanctions against Iran, but must continue to negotiate with care THE GUARDIAN looks at Britain's options as efforts are made to gain the release of the British marines held by the Iranians. offensive by the UK's Ministry of
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      Lock icon Too many kids? No promotion for you
      265 20 AP BEIJING Communist Party officials in China's most populous province have been told they will not be promoted if they have more children than the law allows, state media reported yesterday. China's family planning policy implemented in the late 1970s limits urban couples
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      Lock icon Tokyo urged shrine to honour war criminals
      475 20 AGENCIES Documents suggest govt made secret overtures to Yasukuni TOKYO The Japanese government secretly led efforts to honour top war criminals at a Tokyo war shrine, according to new documents released this week that undermine Tokyo's stance that their enshrinement is a religious
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      Lock icon US giving wrong signals to Taiwan: China
      288 20 AFP WASHINGTON China's ambassador to the United States has called on Washington to stop sending "the wrong signals" to Taiwan, warning that bilateral ties could suffer if the issue was not handled properly. China "will never tolerate Taiwan's independence or allow anyone to
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      Why terrorists can't go toxic
      436 22  -  NG HUN WEI hunwei@media corp.com.sg TERRORISTS are increasingly interested in building chemical weapons but they still lack the technical know-how to do so, forcing some to resort to crude methods of attack, said a chemical defence expert from Spain's Ministry of Defense. At the Global
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      Lock icon Iraqi police behind murders
      184 22 AFP MOSUL (Iraq) The Iraqi government has admitted that policemen were behind the vengeful slaughter of 70 Sunni Arabs in a northern town, heightening concern about the police force's complicity in the sectarian violence that has devastated Iraq. Some 13 policemen were briefly detained in connection
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      Lock icon 3 killed in Sydney tragedy
      381 25  -  CUBBYLEONG AP, ADDITI BYLEONG SYDNEY A passenger ferry plowed into a pleasure boat under Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge on Wednesday, killing at least three people, including two professional figure-skat-ing judges one of whom was due to judge a competition in Singapore this weekend and injuring
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      Lock icon Timor president, PM seek job swap
      186 25 -AFP DILI Timor Leste's President Xanana Gusmao said he is ready to become the troubled country's Prime Minister, after he ceases to be head of state. Mr Gusmao will not seek reelection in Timor Leste's presidential election on April 9 and intends to join
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      Lock icon Doubling up on Tamiflu dose
      137 25 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam will start trials to see if a double dose of the drug Tamiflu can save more of those infected with the deadly HSNI bird flu virus. The three nations have suffered some two thirds of the world's bird flu
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        Lock icon CHEN BLASTS HONG KONG POLLS
        84 25 -AFP Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian yesterday blasted Hong Kong's recent election, calling it a drama staged by China to give the outside world the impression that the territory has democracy. Mr Chen said the election process for Hong Kong's chief executive on Sunday, through a
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        Lock icon SIX BURIED IN TUNNEL MISHAP
        59 25 ■AFP Six construction workers were buried when a subway tunnel being built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed. and rescuers give them little chance of survival. The accident occurred in Beijing's Haidian university district on the No 10 subway line, which crosses northern Beijing and
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        75 25 AFP A Sri Lankan naval patrol has sunk at least three suspected Tamil Tiger boats off the island's north-eastern coast, the defence ministry said yesterday. The four-hour battle erupted off the seas of Alampil and involved a flotilla of 10 rebel boats. Three of the Tiger
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      isay ARE WE SPOILING OUR KIDS?
      749 28  -  LIANG DINGZI IN A Unicef survey of children in 21 industrialised European countries and the United States, Dutch children are said to be the most fortunate. The study by the United Nations organisation looked at relative poverty, educational and health standards, sexual behaviour and
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      67 28 I've personally experienced insurance agents following me for at least 10 metres while trying to get me to fill in their so called 'survey forms'. Hawker touts are monitored and clamped down by the NEA. Who's going to stop these insurance touts? Reader Gabriel Lim, responding to the article,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      237 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I PARENT-CHILD SEPARATION We talked last time about the life-long consequences of divorce on children, but what about parent-child separation that occurs for reasons other than divorce? Recent research confirms thatthe consequences of any parent-child separation are severe. In one study of
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      782 30  -  Tabitha Wang I may be a fashion slave but I'm no designer groupie I HAVE a love-hate relationship with the Singapore Fashion Festival. Topping my hate list is the pretentiousness of it all, the haughty looks, the trying-too-hard manner, the brittle smiles... and that's just the people
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        379 32  -  DRANNECHONGSUYAN Letter from WHILE it is important to have good and honest top civil servants and ministers, there may be a flip side to the continued upward adjustments to their salaries, which seem necessary in order to retain them. Firstly, there may be
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        138 32  -  TEOPEENGOH Letter from I THINK that pegging the pay of ministers and senior civil servants to private sector pay is fair and transparent. However, is the pay data released by the Public Service Division a full reflection of the remunerations that ministers
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        143 32  - If only the civil service were more vibrant, creative SIMJUEKWAH Letter from AS I read various articles on this subject, a common message emerges: Civil servants leave for the private sector not just for the pay but also for more freedom, accountability and vibrancy. Mr Chan Soo Sen's example shows
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      559 34  -  PREETIATHAVLE People need to be shaken out of their apathy towards environmental issues Letter from THE article by David Shukman on global warming and the cascading effect that the melting of the ice caps will have, while not new, still sends a shiver down
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      199 36  -  TAMMY TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, SBS Transit Ltd WE REFER to the letter by Mr David Khoo, "Good safari, bad bus links" (March 27). We apologise to the writer for the discomfort and inconvenience experienced on this occasion where the air-conditioning
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      194 36  -  SARAH LIM Letter from DURING the recent March school holidays, two scouts from a well-known secondary school came to my place atTanah Merah Kechil asking if I had any errands for them to help with. As I did not have any, they asked if I
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      313 36  -  MARYANNE MAES Soft tactics don't work, 'shocking' ad does Letter from I REFER to the letters, "Smoke them out with shock tactics?" (March 29). Singapore's parents are, yet again, pointing their fingers at the authorities for scaring their children for something as legitimate as antismoking
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      952 40  -  MEERA LEE SETHI RANJIT MALKANI Grandpa's later years were spent trying to retain the dignity of his youth in I memorium KHARAITI LALL SETHI Actor and grandfather I DIDN'T know I'd have so much to say. Here are a few facts: My grandfather, Kharaiti Lall
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      393 38 i!l Fair Price Singapore's very own Dove Lucky Draw Contest Buy any 2 Dove hair participating products and stand a chance to )a Will $50 Tung Lok Group A|^\ ft vouchers (100 winners!) H Terms and conditions apply. See entry form for details New Dove Anti-Dandruff No Dandruff, /^k No
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    FROM INDIA, TO THE WORLD
    255 41  -  FOR his significant contributions in developing the outbound Indian travel market to Singapore, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) awarded Mr Ranjit Malkani with a Special Recognition Award at last night's Tourism Awards 2006. Mr Malkani, the founder of SOTC Travel and Kuoni Travel, is regarded
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    SENTOSA: THE ISLAND OF ENDLESS DELIGHTS
    423 41 MR PHILIP NG, the CEO of Far East Organization, is the man behind the redevelopment of Sentosa. He has just finished his six-year tenure as chairman of the Sentosa Development Corporation, where he steered the development and marketing of Sentosa in order to create
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    332 42  -  STEPHEN TAN Special Recognition Award (chief executive, Singapore Exhibition Services Pte Ltd) SINGAPORE has been named the number one convention city for 21 years in a row and the fifth top convention city globally for five consecutive years by the Union de Association Internationales. Part of this
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    437 42 Best Leisure Event Experience CHINGAY PARADE OF DREAMS 2006 FROM its humble beginnings as a simple procession in 1973, Chingay has grown into an annual parade that draws over 200,000 Singaporeans and tourists. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Chingay parade, and in
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    344 42 PARKWAYGROUP HEALTHCARE FOR its significant contributions to the medical tourism sector over the last few years, the Parkway Group Healthcare won the Special Recognition Award at last night's Tourism Awards 2006. In 2005, over 370,000 international patients visited Singapore for healthcare services. This strong growth can
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      107 43 For uniquely Singapore experiences, JHPpi ride with us! J \^s^_W^ SMRT is proud of cabbies Victor Woo and Zainal Abidin xl 'D' n Bu'at or 'De' n finalists in the Best Tourism Host *fl'Y\lL x Transport (Taxi) category of the Tourism Awards 2006. SKA^P^sBfci^_-&gt;._«&gt;^ Their outstanding service and dedication to
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    391 44  -  MICHAEL MA Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year (group chief executive officer, IndoChine Wine Bar Restaurants Pte Ltd) WHEN the IMF-World Bank delegates wanted to let their hair down and party while in Singapore, the "dude" they turned to was Mr Michael Ma, the group chief executive
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    424 44  -  ALEXANDER HASCHER New Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year (managing director, Venue Asia Pte Ltd) IN less than three years, Mr Alexander Hascher, the managing director of Venue (Asia) Pte Ltd, has helped enhance the Singaporean fashion retail landscape for fashion-sawy tourists and locals. The
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      57 45 congratulates Chief Executive, Singapore Exhibition Services Pte Ltd 'A President, Allworld Exhibitions Alliance J w^ We-) on being conferred the 1 by the Singapore Tourism Boarol^^^W CommunicAsia Food Hotel Asia Broadcast Asia events of their kind in Asia I SINGAPORE I i Singex is the manager C) I IvJ LJA
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    KEEP 'EM SWINGING
    261 46  -  JENNIFER TSAI CATHY SHIH Best Singapore Travel Story Print 'SINGAPORE SWING' I BY TRAVEL experiences are hard to condense into words, and it takes some doing to make these words leap out from a page and into readers' minds. But this is what Ms Jennifer Tsai and
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    PUTTING UP GUESTS IN STYLE
    409 46 Best Accommodation Experience Deluxe Hotel SHANGRI-LA HOTEL, SINGAPORE SHANGRI-LA HOTEL SINGAPORE'S general manager Thierry Douin was elated as he left a management meeting last month. His hotel had just been voted the Hotel of the Year for the first time in its history. Now he
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    A SOJOURN ON THE ISLAND OF HAPPINESS
    440 46 Best Accommodation Experience Superior Hote RASA SENTOSA SHANGRI-LA GUESTS at the Rasa Sentosa ShangriLa Resort on Sunday mornings are often greeted by the sight of general manager Ben Bousnina manning the fresh juice bar, offering them glasses of fresh mixed juices. Mr Bousnina's
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      81 47 Ironically, Asia's premier playground is also home to one of Singapore's most hardworking visionaries. Then again, maybe there is no irony. After all, it's taken exceptional drive and foresight to transform Sentosa into a world-class tourist destination. All of which comes quite naturally for Philip Ng. From creating exciting new
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    GOING BEYOND THE 'BUDGET' TAG
    310 50 Best Accommodation Experience Standard Hotel HANGOUT@MT.EMILY AS ALL economy style travellers know, backpacker horror stories of budget hotels are the stuff of their itinerant nightmares. Dirty, scary, and dodgy are just some of the words used to describe their experiences. But there's one budget hotel
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    THE HERITAGE OF A UNIQUE IDENTITY
    359 50 Uniquely Singapore Award SINGAPORE HERITAGE FEST THE Uniquely Singapore Award is one of the new categories in this year's Tourism Awards. It is awarded to individuals, organisations, events or projects that best embody the essence, personality and inspiration behind the Uniquely Singapore branding. This
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    BEST SMILE FORWARD
    364 50  -  ARIS AZHAR Best Tourism Host Hotel iggg jiig sgra raw an THE Singapore Tourism Awards 2006 has proven to be third time lucky for Aris Azhar. The assistant front office manager at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel has finally bagged the Best Tourism Host Hotel award in
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      247 51 Now, One more reason for over 10 Million people to visit Singapore. HPrWL j^H \^K RmNl mm I I -&gt;■■■ B ***** v,' M fl^ni 'P. J*ißß Q H Parkway Hospitals Singapore is proud to receive the Special Recognition Award from the Singapore Tourism Board for its part in developing
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    THE SPA EXPERIENCE WITH THE PERSONAL TOUCH
    332 52 Best Tourism Host Spa SITI KHADIJAH BTE ABDULTARIP YOU know that you're at the right spa when it has won the STB Award for the Best Spa Experience three years in a row, and that thought is further reinforced when you find yourself
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    TRAVELLING TALES
    218 52 Best Singapore Travel Story- Broadcast 'GO TRAVEL' BY CHIU KENG GUAN JUMP cuts, MTV-like dynamism, music, and a contemporary shooting style. That sums up Go Travel, a travel programme that explores and discovers tourist spots all over the world. This series was awarded the Best Singapore Travel Story
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    GARDEN OF EARTHLY BLISS
    318 52 Best Spa Experience ARAMSA SPA NESTLED in the tranquillity of Bishan Park lies Aramsa The Garden Spa. The relative newcomer in the local spa scene has emerged as a major player after having won the Best Spa Experience award in the Singapore Tourism Awards 2006. "We
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      70 53 J^^^^^m 1* M To them, winning isn't i* j W f&r everything. i^ But providing the best-in-class w 9 service to their passengers, at all times, is. J^k V '^H ComfortDelGro cabbies 2006 Tourism Host of the Year -Transport (Taxi) Finalists (left) Nicholas Patrick Stephen, MaxiCab (centre) Albert Tan, Sovereign
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    SO MUCH MORE THAN A TAXI RIDE
    342 54 ALBERT TAN KIAN MIN PREMIER cab driver and Singapore Tourism Board's (STB) Best Tourism Host Transport (Taxi) award-winner Albert Tan Kian Mm often does more than ferry passengers safely to their destinations. He even helps them with their domestic needs such as babysitting
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    TOUR OF DUTY
    343 54  -  GARRY KOH Best Tourism Host-Tour Guiding (freelance tour guide) IT is hard to get hold of Mr Garry Koh in the city. On any given day, the freelance tour guide can be found at Sentosa, the Zoo, or Jurong Bird Park. Today finally caught up with him
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      76 55 GRACEFUL wSs^^lv B^r VtHS»\. "X,. As 't v^BM V I' a j jj^^B^. &gt;^m Mwo Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore. Awarded "Best Accommodation Experience Deluxe Hotel" at the 21 st Tourism Awards Your vote of confidence is much appreciated. On behalf of all our staff, thank you for naming us "Best Accommodation
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    292 56 Best Leisure Attraction Experience NIGHT SAFARI LUCKY number seven that's how often the Night Safari has won the Singapore Tourism Board's Best Leisure Attraction Experience Award. "This is a great honour and a testament to Night Safari's contribution to Singapore's tourism industry. We seek
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    IT'S JUST FUN AND GAMES
    314 56  -  Tefl !s!alßi!^ffil^Mfl!B^HßnlfflSE^Bfflffl!^B wra to rcra A TODDLER enjoyed the Sentosa Luge experience so much that he asked his parents to buy him the Sentosa Luge shirt. His parents obliged and he immediately wore the shirt. But that was not enough; the young Michael Schumacher wannabe
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    Lock icon ALL IN IT TOGETHER!
    188 56 Top 10 Best Family Experiences Award Winners UNDER Tourism 2015, the family is a key segment that will play a major role in increasing visitor numbers and tourism receipts. The Top 10 Best Family Experiences Award recognises family oriented attractions, tours, shopping and food and beverage
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    DOING EVERY LITTLE BIT – AND MORE
    326 57  - DOING EVERY LITTLE BIT AND MORE DANNY CHEE KAILEONG Best Tourism Host- Restaurant (supervisor, The Cliff at the Sentosa Resort Spa) A DREAM come true, that is how Mr Danny Chee Kai Leong describes his feelings after winning the Best Tourism Host Restaurant award at last night's Tourism Awards 2006.
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    A GLITTERING SHOPPING TRIP
    317 58 Best Shopping Experience Speciality Store GOLDHEART JEWELRY THE Goldheart shopping experience starts even before customers enter the store, says Ms Magdalene Eng, the branding manager of Goldheart Jewelry. "We are constantly committed to jewellery innovation and creativity to better serve our customers' tastes and needs. We
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    HE'S GOT THE RIGHT MIX
    363 58  -  MOHAMED YUZAINI BIN ISRAIL Best Tourism Host- Nightspot (assistant operations manager, One Rochester) HAVING spent 13 years in the F&B industry, Mr Mohamed Yuzaini bin Israil, the assistant operations manager at One Rochester, is a celebrity of sorts in the local nightlife scene. He became
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    Lock icon HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES
    296 58 Best Nightspot Experience MINISTRY OF SOUND EVER since it opened its doors in December 2005, Ministry of Sound Singapore has been reverberating to capacity crowds every week from Wednesday all the way through to Saturday nights. Small wonder then that it bagged the Best Nightspot Experience
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    A WORLD-CLASS RETAIL CONCEPT
    313 59 Best New Retail Concept SINCERE HAUTE HORLOGERIE AT THE HILTON GALLERY ONLY in Singapore that is the concept behind Sincere Watch Limited's Sincere Haute Horlogerie at The Hilton Gallery. And it was only in Singapore that collectors and aficionados were able to get their hands on
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    GET IT AT TANGS
    369 59 Best Shopping Experience Department Store TANGS ORCHARD CUSTOMERS feel comfortable shopping at Tangs. That is why it is the winner of the Best Shopping Experience Department Store award at the Singapore Tourism Awards for the second year running, claims Ms Ellen Yeo, its vice-president of store
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      65 59 Mr Stephen Tan Chief Executive Singapore Exhibition Services Recipient of Special Recognition Award by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) at Singapore Tourism Awards 2006 Thank you for your contribution and continued support to the MICE industry of Singapore The Management Team of Suntec Singapore Suntec SINGAPORE Inter national Convention 6
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    SERVICE, THE MOST PRECIOUS OF THEM ALL
    365 60  -  I AARON BEK SUAN HAO Best Tourism Host Retail (senior customer service executive, Aspial Lee Hwa Jewellery Pte Ltd) "WARM, personalised service accompanied by thoughtful suggestions and in-depth product knowledge" that is what providing excellent service is to Lee Hwa Jewellery's senior customer
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      220 60 'm TOURISM A AWARDS \siNGAPORE \^73^ TheSentosa Singapore A Beaufort Hotel aw Lk iW '^El^adJU ;J lOrfaS SB. PHj Hal B'iß Itl law I b«-JS Thank You We're deeply honoured that you've voted Siti Khadijah bte Abdul Talip and Danny Chee Kai Leong as Best Tourism Host Spa and Restaurant.
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      Singapore's biomedical efforts enjoy another win
      830 61  -  TAN HUI LENG Lonza breaks ground at its second plant here huileng@media corp.com.sg THE latest in a string of good news for the Singapore biomedical industry: Biologies firm Lonza broke ground at its second biologies manufacturing plant here yesterday. A 50-50 joint venture with
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      Lock icon 5,000 jobs to be created in precision engineering sector
      261 61 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FIXED asset investments in precision engineering will reach about $400 million this year, the Economic Development Board (EDB) forecasts. The EDB estimates that about 5,000 jobs in the sector will be created in the next four years. But it
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      Lock icon Investment property sales here hit $9b
      186 61 DOW JONES SINGAPORE investment property sales reached $9.23 billion in the first three months of this year, up 53 per cent from the same period a year ago, according to a report by real estate consultancy CB Richard Ellis. "Following a record setting year
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      Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
      294 61 DOW JONES 938 LIVE 938 LIVE 938 LIVE 938 LIVE Hyflux has entered into a joint venture to build and operate a seawater desalination plant in Algeria. The Algerian Energy Company will own 49 per cent of the joint venture project company with Hyflux owning 10.2 per cent and
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          HEALTHIER HOME LIVING WITH SAMSUNG
          293 62  -  -NEOCHAICHIN Refrigerators with separate cooling systems for fresher food, washing machines that use hot air to remove unpleasant clothes odours, and air-condi-tioners that eliminate viruses. Samsung unveiled its latest range of digital home appliances at a roadshow last Friday, and proudly showcased the increasingly advanced
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          FRAUD PREVENTION THAT COMES IN THE SHAPE OF TWO PENS
          293 62  -  SHERMAINEWONG Don't be surprised when someone tells you that the type of pen you use can actually help prevent crime. The people at Mitsubishi Pencil have come up with something called pigment ink ink so hardy, it is insoluble. Mitsubishi
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        Lock icon Tiger bares its claws
        812 62 AGENCIES t aims to shake up Australia's 'stagnant' domestic tourism AS ONE aviation analyst put it starkly: The war has begun. Namely, the battle to conquer the Australian skies as Singapore-based Tiger Airways declares its ambitions to shake up the "stagnant" domestic tourism after it recently
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        Lock icon SIA, CHINA EASTERN STILL IN TALKS
        97 62 -AGENCIES Singapore Airlines chief executive Chew Choon Seng said that the carrier was still in cooperation talks with China Eastern Airlines and it is possible that it could take an equity stake in the Chinese airline. On the sidelines of an aviation conference in
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        Lock icon China back in favour, investors flee Thailand
        368 63 -DOW JONES INTERNATIONAL fund managers have shifted their regional equity focus back to China, while continuing to favour Singapore, but are increasingly shunning Thailand, according to Dow Jones Newswires' latest monthly survey of fund managers. Fund managers stayed overweight on Singapore's stock market,
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        Lock icon Thai AirAsia to buy out Shin Corn's stake?
        346 63 AFP Its management will take over the 50% stake held by Shin Corp: Sources THE management of Thailand's Air Asia will shortly acquire the 50-per-cent stake held in the carrier by Shin Corp, sold off controversially to Temasek Holdings last year, said
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        318 64 DOW JONES AUSTRALIAN investment bank Babcock Brown and partner Singapore Power have re-entered the bidding process for As7-billion ($8.6-billion) energy infrastructure group Alinta. Sources close to the deal said that Alinta's directors were in talks yesterday with both BabcockSingapore Power and rival
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        413 64 AGENCIES BEIJING Citigroup chief executive officer Charles Prince is "looking forward" to adding to the headcount in Asia even as shareholders pressure the bank to rein in rising costs. The New York-based firm is planning acquisitions in Japan and Taiwan
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          4 64 ST Index 3,228.88 +27.13
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        452 65 -AFP Washington driving at more favourable trade balance BEIJING China has made "little to no progress" in opening key market sectors, a senior United States commerce official said yesterday, as he warned of a souring mood in Washington over trade issues with the Asian nation.
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        229 65 ■AFP BEIJING China's economic growth in the first quarter this year is likely to exceed the 10.4 per cent recorded for the last three months of last year, state media said yesterday. The economy showed no signs of a slowdown despite a slew
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      522 69 -AFP South Africa I I Sri Lanka I GEORGETOWN, Guyana Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga nearly gatecrashed South Africa's party when he became the first bowler in one-day history to grab four wickets off successive balls. The paceman with the low-slung roundarm action, bleach-blond
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      346 69 ■AFP ST JOHN'S, Antigua Australia captain Ricky Ponting says talk of opposition teams having no fear of the world champions will be nothing more than hot air unless they perform on the pitch. Bidding for an unprecedented third World Cup title in a row,
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      640 70  -  DARREN LAI But'new' Geylang could push Tampines in eastern face-off NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Tampines Rovers v Geylang United Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm darren@mediacorp.com.sg THERE was a time when a Tampines Rovers and Geylang United clash was one of the most highly anticipated match-ups in the local
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      383 70  -  JOSE RAYMOND NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Korean Super Reds 0 Balestier Khalsa 2 jose@media corp.com.sg THE Korean Super Reds were targeting their second successive win, but ended up with their third loss after four games of the NTUC Income-Yeo's
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      483 71  -  DARREN LAI Arowanas aim for a top-four finish as NSL 2007 is all set to get underway darren@mediacorp.com.sg WITH a squad made up of players from the Bukit Jalil Sports School, the Malaysian Arowanas finished second in their debut season in the Netball Super League (NSL)
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      531 71 -DPA SWIMMING 12th Fina World Championships MELBOURNE Mark Spitz' performance at the 1972 Olympics is still widely considered the pinnacle of swimming, but the exploits of Michael Phelps at the world championships here are coming very close. And the 21-year-old now seems destined to overtake
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      81 71 QUAH Ting Wen, Mylene Ong, Lynette Lim and Lynette Ng combined yesterday morning to break the women's 4x200m national freestyle record at the 12th Fina World Championships in Melbourne. Theirtime of 8:31.65s in the heats eclipsed the 8:31.78s set at the Doha Asian Games last year. Singapore's biggest
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      1086 72 —AFP England boss whips men into shape at half-time, then gets upset at press conference EURO 2008 QUALIFIER, GRPE Andorra 0 England 3 BARCELONA Steve McClaren showed the strain of England's recent slump in form when he stormed out of a press conference after less
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      220 72 —AFP EURO 2008 QUALIFIER, GRPB Italy 2 Scotland 0 BARI AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso sprang to the defence of under-fire Italy coach Roberto Donadoni, after the world champions improved their chances of qualifying for the European 2008 championships with a crucial 2-0 win over Scotland.
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      118 72 -DPA BUENOS AIRES Former Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona is being kept in hospital for observation after falling ill, his doctor said yesterday. Maradona was admitted to the Guemes clinic in Buenos Aires on Wednesday for an "imbalance" which was "not related to an addiction to dangerous drugs".
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      1038 73  -  Kenneth Goh Expect more Premiership clubs to fall into foreign ownership, because the EPL is just going to get bigger WALK along the streets of Pekanbaru and within minutes you will spot a boy wearing a replica Manchester United jersey. At dusty fields in
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    134 77 SHAKE, RATTLE ROLL The night of fun and excitement was punctuated by song and dance routines, with Selena Tan standing out in her red sequinned dress as she did her rendition of the Godfather of Soul's/ Feel Good 1 LISSOME LOW:Jazreel Low, CEO of Asmara Tropical Spas Pte Ltd, sizzles
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      1414 80  -  JeanineTan IF ONLY the relationships forged on the set of the sci-fi film Sunshine were a microcosm of cross-cultural ties, the world would be a happier place. Sunshine, about a group of eight astronauts and scientists who risk all in a bid to reignite the dying sun,
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      712 82  -  Felix Cheonq WHEN is an actor himself and when is he just a mask? It's hard to tell with someone like Tony Leung Chiu Wai. The Hong Kong superstar, probably the best actor of his generation, is laconic and laidback to a fault. He speaks with the
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      492 84  -  WINSONTEO winson@media corp.com.sg IT SEEMS The Grasshoppers, the veteran Hong Kong Cantopop outfit, can't wait to perform in Singapore again. The trio last played here in 1996 and one of the reasons why they're looking forward to their return appearance at the Singapore Indoor Stadium is that
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      218 86  -  -DAVID CHEW ARAB and Turkish cultures and traditions may seem a world away, but the Middle East and its problems are often in the news. To highlight the area's cultural heritage, the National Museum of Singapore is holding Under The Crescent Moon, a
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      483 86  -  AMELYNN LIONG Concave Scream set for an acoustic comeback plus@newstoday.com.sg YEARS ago, they pricked the ears of former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who praised Concave Scream for peddling a ruckus that smacked of "naive aggression" and which was in a word "dirty". Now fans will get
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        70 88 Anugerah, MediaCorp TVI2 Suria's popular singing competition, returns this year and is in search of its next big star. A one-day-only registration exercise for the contest will be held tomorrow from 9am at Jurong Entertainment Centre. Auditions will begin at 11am and continue on April 1,7 and
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        84 88 Still wondering whether to send in an audition tape for The Amazing Race Asia Z! You have a little more time to make up your mind. AXN has extended the deadline for applications by two weeks, to April 13. If you live or work in
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        80 88 This year's Ren Ci Charity Show raised a total of $7,188,000.80, more than $2 million above the targeted $5 million. As pledged to the public, Ren Ci will channel $1.5 million of the total funds raised to the development of the new Ren Ci
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      500 88  -  JEANINETAN US director's first arts experience was Chinese opera here jeanine@media corp.com.sg WHEN Hans Canosa was 10, he had his first taste of the arts when he sneaked out of his Macßitchie home to attend a Chinese opera. Decades later, the arts have become his
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      121 90 Today has 10 pairs of tickets to give away for The Lost Suitcase, which will have its international premiere at the 20th Singapore International Film Festival. The Indonesian film is a drama about a lowly clerk who discovers a mysterious suitcase whose contents could change his
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      334 90  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Actor Mathialagan believes Pradhana Vizha nominees point to bright future ialagan said: "It's always the same people who get nominated because the market is not so big." But that, he says, also means that those who appear often are clearly loved
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      245 90 DAVID CHEW TWO years ago, when two bloggers were charged for making seditious remarks online, it sparked artist Choy Ka Fai's interest in the blogosphere. The associate artist at Theatreworks now presents the fruits of his research into the topic: The one-man performance
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      930 92  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS MELBOURNE Scissor sisters bassist discusses Elton John, death threats and being a chubby sex symbol MPI RDI plus@newstoday.com.sg ON stage he's the enigmatic Babydaddy but backstage, he's the soft-spoken Scott Hoffman, a talented songwriter who also happens to be co-founder of the delightfully camp Scissor
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        36 93 We look the way the music sounds. You don't do Shakespeare in jeans and T-shirts for a reason. This ain't Shakespeare, but it's still theatre to some degree. This is entertainment.
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        54 93 I often wonder what the teenage version of myself would think of the Scissor Sisters. I might have pushed it aside as a gimmick. But that's who we are, we're flamboyant people. We love getting dressed up in sequins and sparkles. It's a rock and roll tradition,
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        32 93 Noel Gallagher publicly hates us, but I hear he's a really smart and nice guy. It seems you're not really famous until Noel Gallagher has slagged you off.
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        39 93 I don't have a problem with genre, it's the hardness of it I can't relate to as a human being. I think it's a front to a lot of scary problems that aren't being dealt with.
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        60 93 There is a malaise. Bands are scared to have downs now. There isn't a great artist in the world who hasn't put out a bad album at some point, but I think the immediacy of music now, and the fact that album campaigns can take two years,
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        458 94  -  Jeanine Tan Bizarre concept, lame script spoil the fun FILMREVIEW F by The Number 23 IF YOU can get over how silly the characters in The Number 23 get over the number 23, then it may make this thriller from thriller specialist Joel Schumacher a bit easier
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        333 96  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW F by SEXY, sparkling chemistry has rarely been done as well as it is in the indie Conversations with Other Women, which stars two very unlikely romantic leads. Aaron Eckhart, whose blonde, beefy all-American charm is almost oxymoronic when pitted against Helena Bonham
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        219 97  -  Juliana June Rasul FILMREVIEW Fl by IN THE latest from mockumentarian extraordinaire Christopher Guest he of the tight pants and pouffy hair in the classic This Is Spinal Tap the focus of all the low-grade humour and sight gags is the ruthlessness of Hollywood's buzz machine. The
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        388 97  -  Jeanine Tan Freedom Writers predictable but heartfelt FILMREVIEW Fl by I Freedom Writers HOW do you make a movie work when even the premise makes clear that audiences have seen it all before? By overcoming the built-in predictability with a heartfelt script, that's how. Freedom Writers has a
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        232 98  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW F by HOW times haven't changed. Nada Sou Sou, a Japanese weepie with a pretentious title (it means "Tears for You"), basically rehashes the 1950s Cantonese soap formula that made household names of Hong Kong stars like Patrick Tse and Josephine Siao. Yotaro (Satoshi
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        343 98  -  Felix Cheong Well, except maybe when she's as kaypoh as the mum in this ear-piercing chick flick FILMREVIEW F by I Because I Said So BECAUSE Diane Keaton has turned overnight into a parody of her kooky persona. Because four women talking at once isn't comedy. And
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