Today, 11 April 2007

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    Masthead
    15 1 TODAY /A=DIACORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday April 11, 2007 todayonline.com I
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    WHY THE GDP LINK?
    999 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO Bonus peg a good indicator of how ministers, top civil servants have created wealth for all of Singapore, says Teo derrick@media corp.com.sg FEW would probably take issue with the fact that a minister's pay in fact anybody's pay should be linked to his
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    Surprising surge in construction sector fuels strong Ql growth
    514 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@mediacorp.com.sg THE economy's growth so far this year reads like a tale of beating the odds. A recent hiccup in the supply of sand has done little to stop Singapore's builders from scoring their fastest expansion in six years,
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      54 1 BANGKOK ROCKED Thai forensic police officers inspecting a phone booth the site of a bomb blast in front of Major Ratchayothin, a shopping and cinema complex in Bangkok, yesterday. No one was hurt in the blast. The area was also targetted in a wave of bomb attacks on New Year's
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  • hot news
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      LIQUID RESTRICTIONS ON FLIGHTS
      447 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Curbs apply on departures from Changi, Seletar airports weekeat@media corp.com.sg FROM May 8, that tube of toothpaste or stick of lip gloss in your hand luggage may well be your ticket to trouble at Changi and Seletar airports. From noon that day, new
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      130 2 tTHE NEW WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES 2 IRs Ssll BILLION INVESTED 35 THOUSAND JOBS! The hospitality industry is expected to boom with the opening of 2 integrated resorts. Let our panel of expert lecturers who are industry veterans show you how to stay competitive, employable marketable in this fast growing industry.
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  • parliament
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      A question of motivation
      779 3  -  LEE U-WEN WORKERS' PARTY MP LOW THIA KHIANG I see no point in wasting public resources on this salary issue every few I years if the sole purpose of having this ■debate' is just to pacify the people that the Government has given it fair thought
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    • PARLIAMENTSNIPPETS
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        Lock icon RATE OF ELDERLY ABUSE UNCHANGED
        121 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The number of elderly abuse cases has remained stable over the past three years, especially with a robust protocol in place to deal with such cases. There were 186 cases lastyear, compared to 181 in 2005 and 194 in 2004, said the Minister
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        Lock icon WE CANT MAKE THE BABY FOR YOU'
        110 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA While financial aid may help childless married couples pay for conception treatment at hospitals, it does not guarantee a better success rate in having a baby, said said the Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Mrs Yu-Foo Yee
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  • singapore news
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      Film on ex-detainee banned
      517 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG It may undermine public's confidence in Govt: Mica cheekong@media corp.com.sg A FILM about a former journalist detained under the Internal Security Act has been deemed "against public interest" and banned by the Government. Shot, directed and edited by local filmmaker Martyn See, the 50-minute interviewbased
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    • S'PORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon COMPUTER-ASSIGNED QUEUE
        125 4 -938UVE Nearly 1,300 four-room and larger Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats in the North and West zones are up for sale in the first exercise for such flats under a revamped scheme announced two months ago. The scheme replaces the former Walk-in Selection programme, which was scrapped
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        Lock icon TCM QUACK SENT TO JAIL
        95 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner has been sentenced to four weeks' jail after being convicted of using a false certificate for registration. Zhong Zhili was prosecuted by the TCM Practitioners Board for using a false Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine certificate to
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      Match-fixing: Former M'sia coach fined
      306 6  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg FORMER Malaysia football coach Chow Kwai Lam escaped jail yesterday when District Judge Jasvender Kaur fined him $50,000 for match-fixing. Chow had faced a maximum of five years' imprisonment a fine up to $100,000, or both. In her judgement, District Judge Jasvender
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      Lock icon Abuzz over Aman
      495 6  -  ANSLEYNG Luxury getaway firm sues property developer for trademark infringement ansley@mediacorp.com.sg AN ultra-exclusive resort for the super-rich is suing a local property developer for trademark infringement The Singapore-based resort Amanresorts famed for its luxurious holiday villas in exotic destinations has taken Novelty Pte Ltd to court Lawyers
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      Here's how to improve transport system
      180 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg PUBLIC transport should be nationalised, whereby a central body plans bus routes and tenders them out to private operators. This central planning of bus routes will help eliminate the profit making concerns that may plague some private transport operators. These
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      Lock icon How did Nonoi die?
      730 8  -  -NAZRYBAHRAWI ANSLEY NG DECADE'S BIGGEST DRUG BUST: Officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) made their largest single drug bust in a decade, seizing 20.6 kg of cannabis worth $410,000. A suspected drug trafficker and his accomplice were nabbed during Monday's raid. More arrests could be
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      Lock icon Bangkok rocked by blast
      369 10 -AGENCIES Thailand on high alert after bomb explodes outside shopping centre BANGKOK A nationwide security alert was issued across Thailand after a bomb exploded outside a Bangkok shopping centre that was also hit in a wave of New Year's Eve attacks, officials said yesterday. The device
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    • Article
      New regional terror group?
      325 10  -  SUJADISISWO IN JAKARTA sujadi@media corp.com.sg JAKARTA There is a new regional terrorist network operating in South-east Asia and the militants are not only going for large-scale attacks to inflict mass casualties but also targeting individuals, according to one of Indonesia's top anti-terrorism officials. Until now the
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      306 8 >"k Money makes money is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was I s\ 11, I highlighted that wealth is retained only by an exclusive group of individuals whilst the lower income group is struggling along. This is because the lower gy s^^j>* -4~m ~m r*i
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  • world news
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      Optimistic Anwar
      582 11  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT Opposition will win Penang, Sabah if polls held now, he says fawziah@mediacorp.com.sg PENANG and Sabah would fall into opposition hands if Malaysia were to hold a general election next week, according to former Deputy Premier-turned-dissident Anwar Ibrahim. "For the other states, give (the opposition) a few
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      Lock icon Slender lead for E Timor's Ramos-Horta
      193 11 —AFP DILI A run off looms in troubled Timor Leste's landmark presidential election as Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta held a slender lead in the contest. Mr Ramos-Horta, the nation's prime minister, led in a provisional count of 20 per cent of the votes cast
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      Lock icon Chinese hospital serves up deadly breakfast
      272 12 —AFP One patient dead 200 others, including staff, fall ill in latest case of food poisoning BEIJING A breakfast porridge laced with rat poison killed a 77-year-old patient and left more than 200 other people ill at a Chinese hospital, state media reported yesterday.
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      China slams US plan to file complaints
      267 12 BEIJING China hit back yesterday at a US decision to file a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against it for copyright abuse, warning the move was ill-informed and would damage trade relations between the two countries. "China feels regret and is strongly dissatisfied
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      Defectors from North form alliance to oust Kim
      205 14 SEOUL North Korean defectors in South Korea formally launched a political alliance yesterday, vowing to overthrow the dictatorship in their communist homeland. "Let's overthrow the regime of (North Korea leader) Kirn Jong-il!" a banner read during a ceremony attended by about 300
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      Lock icon Wen focuses on N Korea, trade
      522 14 AGENCIES BLOOMBERG Chinese Premier hails close ties with Seoul SEOUL China's Premier Wen Jiabao held talks yesterday with South Korean leaders that focused on strengthening economic links, including a possible free trade pact and ending the North Korean nuclear impasse. Mr Wen, whose country
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      Lock icon Sailors can't sell stories, after all
      373 15 U-turn won't affect UK naval crew who've already been paid LONDON Britain's Defence Secretary has announced that military personnel have been banned from selling their stories to the media, after his department was slammed for permitting sailors held by Iran last month to accept
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      Lock icon Iran pledges to expand nuke drive
      266 15 -AFP TEHRAN Iran yesterday pledged to further expand its nuclear drive following Monday's announcement that its activities had entered an industrial phase. Shrugging off the latest warning from the United States over its atomic programme, the head of Iran's atomic energy organisation reaffirmed Tehran's
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon THAILAND LOSING CYBER BATTLE
        83 15 -AFP Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Minister has said the government is losing a battle with anti-junta camps in a public relations war being fought on the Internet. But Mr Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said his ministry would improve its "official websites" to counter claims by these groups.
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        Lock icon LESE MAJESTE CH ARG ES AGAINST THAKSIN DROPPED
        65 15 AFP Thailand's Office of the Attorney General yesterday dropped charges against ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra of allegedly insulting King Bhumibol Adulyadej. But the office chided Mr Thaksin for his "impolite" comments. Mr Thaksin had faced three charges of lese majeste insulting the
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        Lock icon NOT LIVE AID, BUT LIVE EARTH
        74 15 -AFP Madonna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be among more than 100 acts rocking the world against climate change in seven concerts around the globe on July 7. The 24-hour Live Earth concert relay is the brainchild of former American Vice-President Al
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      90 15 He could SEE BETTER if he goes outdoors to play more often. Is your child spending a lot of time on unnecessary nearwork such as playing handheld or computer games? Do you know this could increase his chance of developing myopia? Emerging evidence shows that outdoor activity can protect against
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  • Voices
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      Giving rise to reason
      951 18  -  TRINATAN UMBOONHEE LIMSONGJOO So, what are those performance indicators? Letter from I AM pleased to know that the civil service will be receiving a pay increase, especially when the last major revision was seven years ago. I believe there are civil servants who deserve the hike
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      A JEWEL THAT MUST Uk BE PROTECTED
      358 19 Letter from MARYANNE MAES I REFER to the report, "Old Übin quar- ry may be up and running" (April 10). It has come down to another age-old tussle in Singapore, between economic j development and the natural environment I discovered the joys of
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      MEANS TEST SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON FORMULAS
      115 19  -  JASON CHIAM CHIAH SERN I applaud the decision for public hospitals to undertake limited means testing to ensure that subsidies are given to those who truly need them. However, I also hope the Health Ministry will be mindful of the needs of
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      ASSESS CINEMAS' ACCESSIBILITY NEXT
      102 19  -  CHOOKHOONHOCK A lot has been written about the accessibility of walkways, linkways and overhead bridges in our housing estates. But how user-friendly are our cinemas, especially the new ones in Vivo City, Marina Square, Cathay, etcetera! Perhaps, we should find out what the public really thinks
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      264 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY PUTTING OTHERS FIRST What do you get for the child who has absolutely everything? Well, that's a question Richard Crane dealt with every year on his son's birthday. So one year, he just decided to ask him. The Crane family lived in
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      Anti-pollution signage needed
      161 22  -  TAN SI OK HA Letter from I THANK the National Environment Agency (NEA) for responding to my earlier letter ("Offence to keep car engine idling", April 6). I would like to add that I have not noticed any signage in car parks asking motorists not to leave
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      Address, a sensitive issue
      508 22  -  STEPHANIE SUNG LIMENG Changing one's address should not be so easy to do Letter from I REFER to the report, "Updating of new addresses" (April 10). It is good to hear that the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) is finally reviewing the existing procedure for reporting
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      103 19 Turn left at the traffic mm^^iAA '^ts. Go straight and <J^/M^^^z^M turn right at the junction. Jl js^ffitlW%\ Continue 9°ln9 stpai'9ht V^f^^^l^^^ and we're there! ivt^^ Allow your child to apply her logical thought. Boost her confidence through positive motivation. Make her learning moments happy moments. Proper nutrition is also
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    Lock icon SGX profit up 78%
    171 24 BLOOMBERG, 938 LIVE THE Singapore Exchange (SGX), which operates the local securities and derivatives market, said fiscal third-quarter profit rose 78 per cent as investors traded more shares and derivatives amid the stock market's rally. Net income rose to $89.1 million, or 8.36 cents a share,
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    Lock icon BOOM TOWN
    624 24  -  JOHNSON CHOO Foreign investments in real estate hit all-time high of $5.4 billion lastyear johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S red-hot property market attracted a five-fold increase in foreign investment to a record $5.4 billion last year, compared with $900 million in 2004, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday.
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    Shell to build new complex
    244 25  -  JOSEPH YADAO Joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg ROYAL Dutch Shell, Europe's largest oil company, has been given the green light to proceed with the construction of a new petrochemical complex in Singapore. The new plant will have an annual butadiene capacity of 155,000 metric tons and will be
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  • marketwatch
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      ST Index — 3,422.62 +22.62H
      4 25 ST Index 3,422.62 +22.62H
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      SGX most active
      27 25 Abterra FreightLinks Rowsley FHTK FreightLinks 0.050+0.005 +11.1 91.787 0.105 +0.020 +23.5 90.280 0.130 +0.035 +36.8 87.323 0.015 +0.005 +50.0 78.241 0.055 +0.020 +57.1 59.638
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      SGX top rises
      21 25 CapitalanBNPePW***** China Infra 0.010 +100.0 0.120 +71.4 RowsleyW*****7 ShanghaiAC 2k HK$ VibroPowerW*****2 0.075 +66.7 0.900 +63.6 0.040 +60.0
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      SGX top falls
      23 25 Linair W*****8 STI 3000SGAePW***** 0.050 -50.0 0.005 -50.0 OCBC Bk BNPePW*****0 ChinaBlue RBeCW***** CapitalanSGAePW***** 0.040 -46.7 0.035 -41.7 0.030 -40.0
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      Commodities
      25 25 Gold US$/oz 676.90 Silver US$/oz 13.81 Platinum US$/oz 1,264.30 Rubber cents/kg 355.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 2,070.0 Brent US$/barrel 67.28 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE
      84 25 —AFP Share prices continued their record-breaking run, hitting a new all-time high yesterday, after the government said the economy grew a strong 6 per cent in the first quarter, dealers said. The ST Index rose 22.62 points or 0.67 per cent to 3,422.62 on volume of 2.57 billion shares
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      World markets
      50 25 Nikkei 225 *****.69 -79.07 -0.45 Hang Seng ASX *****.87 +138.16 +0.68 6153.00 +75.90 +1.25 Taiwan Wtd 8048.39 -8.17 -0.10 Korea Comp 1499.16 -1.90 -0.13 KLCI 1306.34 +7.98 +0.61 SET Index 689.48 +0.93 +0.14 Jakarta Comp 1925.47 +11.73 +0.61 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 3304.42 +10.19 +0.31 547.12 +0.72 +0.13
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      Your S$l buys
      28 25 JSS JK£ 'en \K$ M iuro 0.6588 0.3342 78.451 5.1475 2.2704 0.4910 Rupiah 5996.8 Baht 21.569 Peso 31.580 AS 0.7990 Indian Rs 28.213 Yuan 5.0959
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    Lock icon Keppel Land to invest in $121m housing project
    156 25 BLOOMBERG KEPPEL Land, Singapore's thirdlargest developer by assets, said it will invest in a US$BO million ($l2l million) housing project in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Construction on the waterfront project in the Binh Thanh district is expected to start after
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    Lock icon ÜBS loses six private bankers to Goldman Sachs
    261 26 -938 LIVE SIX private bankers have quit ÜBS in Singapore to join rival Goldman Sachs. Among them is senior private banker Shern Liang Tan, who spent several years at ÜBS and who was previously with Citigroup. A Reuters report said three of
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  • Article
    Jetstar set to fly into the black
    417 26 Cost cuts, improved loads may make it profitable before 2009 JETSTAR Asia, the Singaporebased budget airline owned 49 per cent by Australia's Qantas Airways, said rising demand for air travel in South-east Asia and cost cuts will help it break even earlier than
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    A designer nook in the city for travelling execs
    292 26  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg BUSINESS travellers will soon find their own "personal pad" in the heart of the city with Singapore's first luxury boutique business hotel Naumi. Situated near the Raffles Hotel, Naumi will open its doors by the end of
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    Lock icon Risk down, but uncertainty up
    419 27 —AFP IMF chief cautions nature of risks different RISKS to the global economy have lessened compared to six months ago but their nature has changed, International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Rodrigo Rate said on Monday. Mr Rato also said rapid progress on reform of IMF
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    China banks cut bad loan ratio
    200 27 CHINA'S biggest commercial banks will cut their combined non-performing loan ratio to less than 5 per cent next year after the restructuring of Agricultural Bank of China, the nation's top regulator said. The 16 biggest financial-serv-ices companies will cut their loan-loss reserves to about
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    Bigger trade surplus = greater US-China friction
    205 27 Bigger trade surplus greater US-China friction CHINA'S trade surplus nearly doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, adding to friction as the United States takes complaints against the nation to the World Trade Organization. Last month's trade surplus of $6.87 billion boosted the country's total for the first
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      372 28  -  Spore hopes to forge links with Bangalore JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE is seeking closer ties with India's Silicon Valley Bangalore. During a meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in Bangalore yesterday, Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told AFP that both cities are similar
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      1693 30  -  David Chew david.chew@mediacorp.com.sg THEY have teamed up for 19 plays often playing husband and wife or even son and mother paired up for MediaCorp TV Channel s's Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, and even appeared together on the silver screen alongside Chow Yun Fat and Jodie Foster in
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      379 32  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Julia na.rasul@media corp.com.sg FOR Gina Glocksen, it was fourth time unlucky. The 22-year-old had auditioned for American Idol three times before finally cracking the top 10 on her fourth attempt, only to be eliminated during last week's show. As Glocksen revealed during
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      245 32 DAVID CHEW AS IT prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, the Singapore Arts Festival looks to be undergoing a metamorphosis, at least if the dramatic changes this year are anything to go by. Ahead of the event's monthlong run from May 25 to
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        366 34  -  ZULOTHMAN The Observatory's new album was made using unorthodox means zul@media corp.com.sg AS ALBUM titles go, the name on the third offering from homegrown experimental rock sextet The Observatory couldn't be more appropriate. Called A Far Cry From Here, the nine-track opus, which was released
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      565 36  -  He brought down one of Malaysia's top coaches, but Zulkifli just wants to get on with life JOSE RAYMOND Yesterday, the former Malaysia coach was fined $50,000 for matchfixing. "It is something which I never imagined would happen to me," said Zulkifli. "I have
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