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    27 1 TODAY r/\=O)ACORP MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday April 12, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=DJj-\CORP share your free newspaper Thursday April 12, 2007 todayonline.com MICA (P) 314/10/2006
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    THE BUCK STOPS HERE
    869 1  -  LEE U-WEN Decision to hike ministerial pay was 'most difficult', but a necessary one to make: PM u-wen@media corp.com.sg BY PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong's own admission, this is not the best of times for the Government to be grappling with an issue as sensitive as
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      NEXT PM SHOULD BE READY IN 10 YEARS: PM LEE
      294 2  -  LEE U-WEN Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the hunt is on to groom his potential successor before 2011, when the next General Election must be held. Mr Lee hopes that in 10 years' time once he has pieced together
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      'A perpetually worried Government, that's us'
      195 2  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg WHILE other countries have their preferred styles of governance, the uniquely Singaporean model has earned another label, this time from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong: "Paranoid Government". This was a Government, he said, that "worries all the time", and with
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      Recapture the ideals, vision of 1965, urge MPs
      854 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg HE HAS spoken fiercely in favour of the market peg for civil service salaries. But when Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was quoted and referred to by Members of Parliament yesterday, they invoked the ideals he stood
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda strikes twice in Africa
      558 2 —AGENCIES Car bombs rock Algiers, suicide bombers hit Morocco TWO suicide attacks rocked the Algerian capital yesterday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 160 outside government headquarters and on the road to the international airport Al Jazeera television said an anonymous
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      300 2 Money makes money is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was 1 Cvl (JL 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 y*""^ s*±+*% lin income group is
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      Lock icon MEETING THAT SECOND BOTTOM LINE
      1191 4  -  DR GILLIAN KOH The other benchmark the Govt should be judged by: Whether S'poreans can fully partake in a growing economic pie IN THE Government's revisions to its remuneration systems for civil servants and political appointment holders, the most significant change is the increase in
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Acquisition act updated
      543 6  -  Government will pay market rate for land acquired on or after Feb 12 LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg THE Government's practice of acquiring land and dishing out compensation based on outdated prices has led to perceptions that it is profiteering at the expense of displaced owners, as
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        Lock icon JOHOR ROYALTY VISITS
        116 6 938 LIVE Sultan Iskandar Ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail of Johor will be in Singapore today and tomorrow, at the invitation of the National University of Singapore to accept an Honourary Degree of Doctor of Laws. This is in recognition of his steadfast leadership of Johor and his
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        Lock icon MACAU CHIEF EXECUTIVE ON THREE-DAY VISIT
        53 6 938 LIVE Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region Edmund Ho will be in Singapore on a three-day visit from today. This is Mr Ho's second visit here as Chief Executive. He will call on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor
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        Lock icon PARAPLEGIC CONQUERS ARCTIC
        65 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singaporean paraplegic Dr William Tan (picture) has become the first man to complete the North Pole Marathon on wheelchair. Withstanding -25° Celsius temperatures, he finished the 26.2-mile race in 21 hours and 10 minutes. DrTan is planning to completel7 marathons in seven continents to raise
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        Lock icon COURT OF APPEAL HAS ONE MORE JUDGE OF APPEAL
        101 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore now has two Judges of Appeal of the Court of Appeal, with the appointment of Supreme Court Judge V X Rajah. Justice Rajah joined the Supreme Court Bench as a Judicial Commissioner in 2004, and was appointed a
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      Lock icon Be green, take one
      463 8  -  LEE U-WEN First Wednesday of month will be Bring Your Own Bag Day at supermarkets u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU are planning to go shopping for groceries next Wednesday, take a bag or two along with you. Otherwise, the cashiers will politely ask you to buy a few
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      More young here hit by Parkinson's
      398 8  -  GRACIA CHIANG gracia@media corp. com. sg DOCTORS are seeing more young people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disease usually associated with ageing. In fact, of the 5,000 to 7,000 cases diagnosed in Singapore, 15 to 20 per cent are patients below the age
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      Singapore Press Club gets it right, second time around
      277 10 IT HAS been an embarrassing startfor the new management of the Singapore Press Club. Their first order of business was to correct a gaffe in a circular issued last week by the club's honorary secretary Narendra Aggarwal to announce the newly-elected
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      Nonoi 'didn't tell me to stop, she just cried ...'
      526 10  - Nonoi 'didn't tell me to stop, she just cried LEONGWEEKEAT Stepdad flip-flops in explaining dunking incident to Court weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg IN A fit of rage and wanting to stop his stepdaughter from crying, he resorted to dunking the two-year-old into a pail of water head first But Mohammed Ali Johari's attempts
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      Lock icon Sarawak chief in graft scandal
      393 12 —AGENCIES Minister Taib Mahmud allegedly received kickbacks from Japanese timber and shipping firms KUALA LUMPUR Sarawak's Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has become the latest high profile figure implicated in a corruption scandal. Media reports said that Mr Taib the country's longest-serving chief minister and believed
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      Parties step up heat ahead of Machap by-election
      224 12 MELAKA Campaigning for a byelection seat in Melaka reached fever pitch yesterday when the opposition made a last-ditch attempt for votes by discrediting the ruling coalition through clips of the latter's members making extremist statements, the Bernama news agency reported. The tactic
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      Lock icon Malaysian schools told to speed up racial integration
      274 12 —AP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government has told schools to speed up racial integration programmes and plans to release an online game to promote better understanding between the country's three main races, news reports and officials said yesterday. The New Straits Times
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      Lock icon Shot and burned
      400 14 —AFP Protesters show junta chief body of woman slain in Thai south YALA (Thailand) Around 200 people paraded the charred remains of a Buddhist woman through the streets of Yala town yesterday to protest the unending violence in Thailand's restive Muslim- majority south. The 26-year-old woman was
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      Lock icon Price of Aids drug slashed by 55%
      301 16 -AGENCIES Move could benefit patients in more than 40 poor countries CHICAGO Abbott Laboratories has cut the price of its HIV drug to poor countries by more than half, responding to pressure from the United Nations and Thailand's threat that it may make
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      Indonesia hopes to settle treaty by 2008
      265 16 JAKARTA Indonesia hopes to conclude an extradition treaty with Singapore at a ministerial-level meeting before next year, the country's Foreign Affairs Minister said. "Hopefully, it can be settled before 2008. The sooner, the better. We will try to settle it at ministerial level.
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      Lock icon PM trails as Timor runoff vote is set
      151 16 -AFP DILI A Nobel prize-winner and a former guerrilla fighter are set to contest a runoff vote in Timor Leste's first presidential election since independence in 2002. The ruling Fretilin party's Francisco Guterres and Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta will be running
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      Lock icon A bomber as young as 9
      550 17 —AGENCIES Terror group getting children with disabilities to do its dirty work in Iraq BAGHDAD Mentally- and physically-handicapped children are being exploited by Al Qaeda militants to fight in the war in Iraq, according to reports from the United Nations Office for the Coordination
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      Lock icon Wanted: 'Czar' to run US wars
      133 17 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON The White House wants to appoint a high-pro-file overseer to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has had trouble finding someone to take the job, The Washington Post reported yesterday. At least three retired four-star generals approached by the White
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      Lock icon SM Goh meets UN chief Ban
      153 18 NEW YORK Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (picture) at the UN Secretariat on Tuesday. This was also Mr Ban's 100 th day in office. Mr Goh expressed Singapore's strong support for the UN and Mr Ban, the Ministry
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      Lock icon UN may convene 'high-level meeting' on climate change
      255 18 -AFP LONDON The United Nations is considering proposing a "highlevel meeting" in September to give political direction to a later conference on climate change, UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said in an interview published yesterday. Speaking to the Financial Times, the UN chief
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      Lock icon One day is all N Korea needs
      438 19 -AFP Pyongyang will start shutting down reactor once it gets back frozen funds SEOUL North Korea will take the first steps to shut down its nuclear reactor within a day after receiving funds which have been frozen under United States-inspired sanctions, a senior
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      Lock icon More Mr Mums in America
      249 19 WASHINGTON The number of stay-at-home fathers in the United States has increased more than three-fold in 10 years. According to the US Census Bureau, there are currently 159,000 stay-at-home dads they numbered only 49,000 in 1996. Researchers estimate their number to be closer to two
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      Lock icon The sailors saga, according to Iran
      285 20 —AGENCIES Tehran to release documentary after British troops retract'confessions' TEHRAN Iran said on Tuesday that it will release a documentary on the arrest and interrogation of 15 British naval personnel, who have retracted "confessions" about trespassing into Iranian waters. The military will release a
      —AGENCIES; AFP  -  285 words
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      This boss died hated, broke and hunted
      210 20 LONDON A cold-hearted British boss who became notorious for sacking 2,500 employees of his "ambulance-chasing" law firm by SMS was killed in a road accident, putting an end to a controversial life that saw him being pursued by the authorities for millions owed,
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      The Russian spy and the tycoon's wife
      184 20 MOSCOW As Scotland Yard continues its investigation into the murder of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, a new book spells out who poisoned the spy who died from a massive dose of polonium in London last November. The book called Breakfast with
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    • Selling pay hike to the people
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        Can money replace the joy of service?
        378 24  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AHMAD Letter from IN HIS book, "A Mandarin and the making of public policy", former permanent secretary Ngiam Tong Dow wrote that"... it's quite easy to be the Finance Minister of Singapore (because) the problems of Singapore are very finite (thus)
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        Tie ministers'salaries to per capita GDP
        280 24  -  NG KONG JIN Letter from I REFER to the article, "Why the GDP link?" (April 11), on the linkage of our ministers' performance to gross domestic product. Based on the latest revisions, ministers will enjoy a gross domestic product (GDP) bonus of between three
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        Lock icon Singaporeans need convincing answers
        348 26  -  SOONSZEMENG Letter from Illinois, USA THE current debate on ministerial pay increase failed to provide the facts to back three assertions made by the Government for the need to increase the entry-level salary for ministers, or the MR4 grade, from $1.2 million to $1.8 million in
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        Why such a high salary for the President?
        173 26  -  MATTHEW CHUA Letter from IF A couple of millions can help keep our government clean and corruption-free, so be it It is a small opportunity cost in the bigger economic picture. But what I must insist is that every cent has to
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      244 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON G BY MORE FUNNY SIGNS Some time ago I shared several signs that I have been collecting for more than 25 years. I've found these little messages in places all over the world, and they amuse me because they reveal something about the
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      Conflict of interest for UOB chief?
      124 26  -  JASON CHIAMCHIAHSERN Letter from IT IS now widely known that Mr Wee Cho Yaw, chief of United Overseas Bank (UOB), drew a salary of $9.25 million for the financial year 2006. A quick look at the UOB Summary Financial Report for 2006 reveals that
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      Lock icon So that the peace stays
      254 28  -  FAITH FU Necessary to prevent fights similar to last weekend's ruckus Letter from I REFER to the picture story, "Remains of the day" (April 9), on the fight at Serangoon Road over the weekend. While it was reported that only four Indian men were involved,
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      Initiatives promote green issue
      287 28  -  ONGSENGENG Letter from Director, Resource Conservation Department, National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letter, "How green does our garden grow?" (March 29) by Mr John T Hurst We agree with the writer that more can be done to make Singaporeans more environmentally savvy. The issue
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      Subsidy cut to drive home message of family planing
      91 28  -  MS KAREN TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Ministry of Health IN "A penalty for having more children" (April 3), Ms See Lay Keng asked why XX Women's and Children Hospital's delivery charges for fourth order births are higher compared to
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      DON'T BE AN UGLY CUSTOMER
      576 29  -  LIANG DINGZI seiveusright I CANNOT remember when Singapore launched its queueing campaign, but I recall the personal pride of aspiring to be counted as one of the world's more progressive nations. It suffices to say it was a long time ago. So, by now, one
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      US intelligence shortcomings were analysts' views
      179 29  -  TOH YONG CHUAN Letter from Deputy Director (International and Corporate Relations) Ministry of Home Affairs I REFER to the report, "Little dots and the big picture" (April 10), on a speech made by Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng on
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      360 32  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@media corp.com.sg EVERY year since 1991, well-known names have converged in Sweden to honour the water world's version of the Nobel Prize laureate. A similar splash may hit home next June when Singapore starts giving out its own Water Prize, as part of
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      64 32 MediaCorp has appointed Ms Chan Yit Foon as its executive vice-president for human resource. Ms Chan brings with her more than 20 years of experience encompassing finance, business operations and human resources. Prior to joining MediaCorp, she was IBM's regional head for HR. She will be responsible for staff
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      310 32 NYT CITIGROUP will be axeing more than 17,000 employees starting this week, as part of a sweeping overhaul that will eliminate or reassign more than 26,500 jobs to cut costs and streamline operations. The move comes as Citigroup chief Charles Prince faces mounting
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          76 34 AFP Singapore share prices closed steady near record highs yesterday after recovering from intra-day losses, dealers said. The ST Index fell 2.0 points or 0.058 per cent to finish at 3,420.62 from Tuesday's all-time closing high of 3,422.62. Volume totalled 3.07 billion shares worth $2.29 billion. There were 346
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        236 34 -938 LIVE SAUDI Arabia-based property developer and investor, Tanmiyat Investment Group, hopes to launch Singapore's first Islamic real estate investment trust (Reit). On the sidelines of a real estate event, Tanmiyat's executive director, Dr Rasim Kaan Aytogu, said the developer is already in talks
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        339 36  -  JOHNSON CHOO Iskandar Development Region markets itself at Cityscape Asia 2007 johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg MALAYSIA'S Iskandar Development Region more popularly known as the IDR is going all out to woo potential investors and developers at the Cityscape Asia 2007 exhibition and conference here. The
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        292 36  -  JASMINE YIN BUOYED by the fast-growing Asian markets, the people behind ITB Berlin, one of the world's largest travel trade shows, are launching an Asian spin-off in Singapore next year. Messe Berlin inked a deal with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) yesterday to host
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        318 37 —AFP THE subsidence plaguing the foundations of the United States housing market deepened on Tuesday as America's biggest homebuilder, D R Horton Inc, reported a hefty 37 per cent slump in new home orders. The company is a key bellwether for the US housing
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        94 37 DOW JONES FOLLOWING the timely completion of the cabin installation of the first A3BO for Singapore Airlines, Airbus has started the paintwork on the aircraft, the manufacturer said yesterday in a statement The A3BO will stay about three weeks in the company's paint-shop in Hamburg, Germany. In addition
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        103 37 BLOOMBERG DBS Group Holdings may work with Qatar Development Bank and other investors to make a joint bid for Korea Exchange Bank, the Seoul Economic Daily reported, citing unidentified finance-industry officials. DBS is tapping bid partners in South Korea as well as overseas, the
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        212 38 BLOOMBERG THE value of stocks listed on China's mainland surpassed that of Hong Kong for the first time as benchmarks surged and the government encouraged the domestic listing of state-owned companies. The combined capitalisation of shares listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges
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        375 38 BLOOMBERG Japan, China sign agreements on energy, environment JAPAN and China agreed to deepen cooperation in energy security and tackle climate change in two accords signed in Tokyo today, setting aside a dispute over drilling rights in the East China Sea. Japan's Trade Minister Akira
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        219 38 —AFP China, the world's largest producer and consumer of coal, aims to cut its reliance on the polluting energy source while shifting more to natural gas over the next three years, the China Daily reported. China plans to reduce the share of coal
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      847 40  -  dg SOME hail it as Singapore's hottest new nightlife district Others dismiss it as too remote an area to attract big crowds. Whichever side of the debate night owls are on, the prime movers behind Tanglin Village the entertainment enclave on Dempsey Road are doing
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      508 42  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Former Idol contestants to be 'travelling minstrels' Julia na.rasul@media corp.com.sg ent as tour guides? Along with Paul Twohill, Jay Lim and Norman Then, the girls will be part of a special package from New Century Tours, doubling as "group leaders" and travelling
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      252 42 And the DNA test proves —AP LOS ANGELES For months, Larry Birkhead was the mysterious other man, a photographer who told everyone that he was really the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby. Well, it turns out he had it right all along: DNA tests yesterday proved that Birkhead, 34,
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      249 43  -  -WINSONTEO WHEN a pair of youngsters meet the dubious Mr Gadget, who sells them a feather duster he claims is magic, the duo promptly forget their dads' instructions to buy flowers as Mother's Day gifts. While it might sound like an entry in Politically Correct
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      278 44 —AP LONDON Madonna, Genesis, Bon Jovi and The Police top the list of pop megastars who will rock the world against climate change in seven mammoth concerts across the globe on July 7, organisers said yesterday. More than 100 acts will perform in
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      494 45  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Celebrity chef behind Floyd on Asia —and planned Singapore eatery —is uneasy with fame juliana.rasul@media corp.com.sg IT WAS only noon on Tuesday in the lounge at the Hyatt Hotel but Keith Floyd, TV personality and "mad cook" he feels he doesn't
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        515 46  -  JEANINETAN Kal Perm lands leading role in The Namesake, thanks to director I Mira Nair's son and a charming letter jeanine@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN director Mira Nair was looking to cast the lead actor in her new film, The Namesake, her then 13-year-old son and his best friend
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        125 46 AGENCIES LONDON Pop superstar Justin Timberlake is writing songs for Madonna's new album, a British tabloid reported yesterday. Famed for reinventing herself, the Material Girl plans to adopt a new persona as hip-hop diva for her next album, due out in November, and reined in Timberlake
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        569 47  -  PEARLYNTHAM Make-up guru Bobbi Brown shows mature women how to shine with her latest book pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg MY CLASSMATE used to tell me how she couldn't wait to be 40. This was quite disturbing as she was only 17 at the time but to her, women look
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        322 47 PEARLYNTHAM HOW do you throw a stylish birthday bash for a three-year-old? Homegrown jewellery chain SK Jewellery did that last Saturday with its "The Fashionably Red Party" at Vivo City's Central Court. Guests enjoyed makeovers from Paul Joe, manicures and discounts on SK
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        207 47 LYNETTEKOH EVEN though I was one of those little girls who decapitated Barbie dolls, I still loved Cacharel's feminine first fragrance, Anais Anais. The lily-based scent, and its bottle round, white and decorated with pink flower motifs were clearly
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        802 49  -  NAZIR KESHVANI The Spanish capital is the perfect place for people who work to live and party traveller@newstoday.com.sg IT'S close to midnight at the Puerta del Sol, the centre of Madrid, and there's a traffic jam. It's a weekday, but it's perfectly normal. You see, Madrid is
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          76 52 Cathay Pacific Airways will resume flights to the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo from April 22. Flight CX7O3, which departs from Hong Kong on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, will fly via Bangkok, while flight CX7II on Monday, Wednesday and Friday stops in Singapore before continuing
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          111 52 Tourism New Zealand is bringing a taste of New Zealand to Singapore on April 29 at its Travel Taste New Zealand fair. Melody Chen and Sharon Wong -the team from Singapore who competed in the first season of The Amazing Race Asia will share their
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        550 54  -  LYNETTE KOH MediaCorp artiste Darren Lim indulges in wonderful sights, sounds and tastes as he drives around the New South Wales capital SYDNEY is more than its Opera House and the Bridge there are other surprises at the New South Wales capital waiting to wow you. Art and
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      606 56  - Not time to panic yet DARREN LAI Woodlands coach blames bad luck and injuries for slow start, insists things can only get better NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Woodlands v Home Woodlands Stadium, 7.45pm darren@mediacorp.com.sg TO SAY it's been a frustrating start for Woodlands Wellington is an understatement. The Rams were
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      145 56 World badminton champion Taufik Hidayat (picture) will begin the defence of his Olympic singles crown at next month's US$2OO,OOO ($303,000) Aviva Open Singapore 2007 from May 1 to 6 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Joining the Indonesian world No 15 are virtually all
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      502 58 —AGENCIES With the hosts all but eliminated, captain Lara says he will quit one-day internationals West Indies SouthMica SUPERQS BRIDGETOWN, Barbados World Cup hosts West Indies tried everything. Pace, spin, their entire 15-man squad and even a mid-tournament holiday all proved in vain. And in a
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      290 58 —AFP LONDON Michael Dawson knows Tottenham must find a way to eliminate UEFA Cup holders Sevilla if they are to avoid the tag of English football's biggest underachievers. Just two months ago, Spurs fans were excitedly talking up their team's chances of winning a cup treble.
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      55 58 Minister for National Development and Football Association of Singapore adviser Mah Bow Tan (right) presents a memento to outgoing FAS general secretary John Koh last night at the Amara Hotel during a tribute to Koh's retirement. Other guests included FAS president Ho Peng Kee
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      259 59 —AGENCIES LONDON Fulham's 3-1 home loss to Manchester City on Monday was the last straw for Chris Coleman (picture), following an eightmatch winless streak that sees the club sucked into a relegation battle. On Tuesday, the English Premiership side sacked manager Coleman and his assistant Steve Kean,
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