Today, 13 April 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 28 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Friday April 13, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Friday April 13, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 744 1  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg IT IS a much-anticipated piece of legislation meant to put some curbs on that expensive menace to email users. Junk mail, or spam, costs the economy more than $23 million a year in productivity losses and is the subject of
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    • 906 1  -  JASMINE YIN Ministers' pay and aid for poor are 'separate issues' jasmine@media corp. com. sg IT'S a comparison that is guaranteed to raise eyebrows: A salary hike of hundreds of thousands of dollars for ministers, versus an increase in tens of dollars in monthly assistance for the
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    • 57 1 MANY residents in Tampines, Punggol and Sengkang in north-eastern Singapore called the MediaCorp News Hotline late last night and early this morning about a strong smell of gas in those areas. The relevant government agencies were investigating the source at press time but it was confirmed that
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • hot news
    • 334 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG Higher allowances for 40,000 across forces from July cheekong@media corp.com.sg FULL-TIME national servicemen (NSFs) can look forward to higher monthly allowances from July, with a $50 hike to be applied across all ranks. In addition, key command and staff appointment holders
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    • 590 3  -  JOSE RAYMOND >DAYEXCLUSIVE Retailer in talks with FAS to get branding rights for Balestier club, stadium jose@media corp.com.sg THE Reebok Stadium and the Emirates Stadium in the United Kingdom are home to English Premiership clubs Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal, respectively. In the United States, National Basketball Association
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  • Singapore news
    • 661 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Coroner records open verdict as court is told that killed teen could have been distracted weekeat@media corp.com.sg AT A pedestrian crossing, who should bear the greater responsibility for watching out for the other the pedestrian or the motorist? As became evident at the coroner's
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    • 366 4  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg PHYSICS teacher and water polo adviser William Ding Chun Fong has been sentenced to a year's jail for molesting two boys from the secondary school where he taught Earlier, Ding cried in the dock as his lawyer, Senior Counsel Engelin Teh, spent
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    • 406 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg THE laws were amended yesterday to allow all Singapore law firms to hire foreign lawyers to practise Singapore law, but that does not mean the floodgates will be opened suddenly, Deputy Prime Minister and Law Minister S Jayakumar said.
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    • 598 6  -  TAN HUI LENG MOH wants compulsory training, greater penalties, more teeth for Council huileng@media corp. com. sg DENTISTS now will have to go for compulsory training and face up to $50,000 in fines if they are found guilty of misconduct In the light of
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    • 180 8  -  JASMINE YIN FOR more effective rehabilitation, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) plans to implement a compulsory counselling programme for residents at the Singapore Girls' Home and their families. Rehabilitation is "not (about) an individual in trouble" and the
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    • 303 8  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT fawziah@mediacorp.com.sg THE Sultan of Johor was awarded an honorary degree by the National University of Singapore (NUS) yesterday for his role in strengthening Malaysia-Singapore relations and contributions to his state's economic success. Sultan Iskandar Ismail, 75, was conferred a Doctor of Laws. Previous
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    • 397 8  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg A STINT at the Home Team Academy is on the cards for some community leaders, starting this month. The Singapore Police Force will train them in mediation and conflict management so that they can help resolve incidents relating to race and
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
      • 45 10 938 LIVE The National Parks Board has launched a new land-scape-training centre at the Botanic Gardens. The Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology aims to be a one-stop training and knowledge hub for landscape and horticulture professionals in Singapore and the region.
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      • 41 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A senior counsel with the private sector has been appointed district judge at the Subordinate Courts. Mr Leslie Chew Kwee Hoe, who specialises in commer cial litigation, counts the Barings Bank collapse among his notable cases.
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      • 56 10 938 LIVE Lawyer Tan Phuay Khiang has been suspended from law practice for two years, after the Court of Three Judges upheld the Law Society's findings. The court found Tan guilty of professional misconduct in the sale of a flat seven years ago. He had acted against the
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    • Article, Illustration
      301 10  -  DERRICK A PAULO Smaller, cosier GRC-levell party for new citizens derrick@mediacorp.com.sg FOR the first four years after she moved to Singapore, Ms Chih Hui Chen spent most of her time at home. If she ever went out, it was mostly to shopping centres and food courts. "I hardly
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    • 258 10 AN APPLICATION by the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) to organise a public forum today has been turned down by the police. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority has also not approved the professional visit passes for several foreigners whom the SDP had invited to speak at the
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    • 276 11  -  SHERALYN TAY Huge demand for HDB'seco-friendly Treetops project sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THERE are five days to go till the Tuesday deadline for applications for the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) first build-to-order Eco-Precinct, Treetops@Punggol and already, demand has exceeded the number of units available by
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    • 337 11  -  GRACIA CHIANG gracia@media corp.com.sg MUMS do not seem to know best when it comes to their children's meals. Almost seven out of 10 mothers here do not plan or supervise their children's meals, according to a survey commissioned by a nutrition product manufacturer.
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    • 165 11 SO MANY United States-based Singaporeans want to be part of the inaugural Singapore Day, that organisers have decided to move the big bash to that iconic New York landmark Central Park. The April 21 party for overseas citizens was to have been held at
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  • newscomment
    • 772 12  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg THE fact that the severe disability insurance Elder Shield is up for redesign five years after its launch should draw widespread approval and applause. After all, the insurance scheme is set to find its place here
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  • world news
    • 535 14 —AFP Premier offers Japan the hand of friendship TOKYO Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered Japan the hand of friendship yesterday in a call to put aside bitter memories of the past that have hobbled relations between the two Asian giants. In the first
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    • 249 14 —AP BANGKOK Thai interim Prime Minister General Surayud Chulanont affirmed yesterday he has no immediate plans to step down, despite criticism of his government and rumours that he might resign. "I will try my best If there is no major obstacle that affects my work, I
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    • 209 16 -AFP ALGIERS Algeria's Prime Minister has vowed that national elections will go ahead next month despite suicide bombing attacks, claimed by Al Qaeda, which killed at least 33 people and wounded 222 others. "The objective was media provocation shortly before the election", scheduled for May
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    • 326 16 HMIKfI Wednesday was April 11. Was it a mere coincidence that the nowinfamous number was chosen again as a date for killing and maiming? Likely not The list of incidents since 911 changed the world is growing: PARIS Algeria hunted Islamic militants and gave them amnesty;
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    • 208 18 AFP WASHINGTON Indonesian terror suspect Hambali has denied any links with Al Qaeda when he was a member of the South-east Asian Islamic extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah, the Pentagon said yesterday. Hambali, suspected of being a key JI member, was captured in Thailand
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    • 266 18 DPA At least 8 people, including 3 MPs, killed BAGHDAD The Al Qaeda terrorist network has claimed responsibility for carrying out a suicide bomb blast in the Iraqi Parliament's cafeteria in the heart of Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. At least eight people, including three
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    • 190 18 AFP JAKARTA Leading Indonesian rights activist Munir Said Thalib who was murdered while travelling to the Netherlands was poisoned during a transit stop in Singapore, police said yesterday. Mr Munir consumed deadly arsenic at Changi airport before dying on his connecting flight in September 2004, Chief
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    • 365 19 —AFP Chinese capital tries to correct notoriously goofy English translations ahead of next year's Olympics BEIJING A campaign to correct the notoriously goofy English translations on city signs in time for next year's Olympics could mean the end for the misnomers that have confused and amused
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    • 284 19 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Muslim state in north-east Malaysia is planning to set up a rehabilitation programme for cross-dressers and transvestites amid worries that men are becoming "effeminate", reports said yesterday. The chair of conservative Terengganu's Islam Hadhari and Welfare Committee, which oversees the practice of Islam in
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    • 188 19 —AP CANBERRA The pilot of a doomed Indonesian passenger jet might have decided not to abort a crash landing that claimed 21 lives a month ago because he wanted to save fuel, a pilots' representative said yesterday. The Garuda Boeing 737-400 was flying at
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    • 215 20 —AFP BEIJING The food poisoning of 203 hospital patients in north-east China was an intentional act, police said yesterday, while announcing a criminal investigation into the case that left one dead. "The mass poisoning incident on April 9 at the Heilongjiang Traditional Chinese Medical
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    • 440 20 —AFP Oliver Jufer had been sentenced to 10 years'jail for lese majeste BANGKOK Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has pardoned a Swiss man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison last month for vandalising portraits of the monarch, prosecutors said yesterday. "I have learned that
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    • 277 22 AGENCIES HONG KONG As one of the architects of America's war in Iraq, World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is no stranger to bad press. Now, he's in the limelight for the wrong reasons yet again: He reportedly personally ordered the hefty
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    • 292 22 -AFP New Delhi announces successful test of nuke-capable weapon BHUBANESWAR (India) New Delhi announced yesterday that it had successfully test-fired a nu-clear-capable, intermediate-range ballistic missile that can reach the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai. The Agni-111 missile was launched from Wheeler Island, 180 km
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    • Article, Illustration
      96 23 AFP QUITE A MOUTHFUL: Surgeons in Taiwan have reattached the left forearm of a vet after it was bitten off by a sick crocodile. Mr Chang Po-yu, 38, is in stable condition. He was injecting the male Nile crocodile with an anaesthetic in the zoo in the southern city of
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    • 421 23 DHAKA The Bangladesh government has asked former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed who has been charged with the killing of four rival political activists to delay her return from a visit to the United States, a spokesman for her party said yesterday.
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    • 230 23 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday launched an impassioned defence of his record in battling corruption, saying he was ramping up efforts to battle the scourge. He also scolded Malaysians for being cynical about the government's anti-corruption efforts. "Perception
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    • 633 24  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Controversy over new book on former Indonesian leader Suharto EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@media corp.com.sg CONTROVERSY threatens to dog the latest biography on ousted Indonesian leader Suharto, the strongman who fell from power nearly a decade ago following a downturn in the Indonesian economy and
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    • 169 26 —AP MEXICO CITY Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim (picture) has quietly overtaken investor Warren Buffett to become the world's second-richest man and is now "breathtakingly close" to wresting the top spot from Mr Bill Gates, Forbes magazine reported. In the two months since
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    • 498 26 —AP CANBERRA- Australia's booming wine industry faces drastic changes due to global warming as creeping temperatures spoil the taste of reputable labels and winegrowers search for cooler climates to plant new vines. The sensitivity of wine grapes differences of one or two
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    • A FUTURE FOR ALL
      • 462 30  -  CHUASOOKIAT Letter from LIKE many Singaporeans, I have tracked with great interest the debate on ministerial pay. Besides the pay rise, what struck me most was the Minister Mentor's statement: "Should the economy ever falter, that is the end of Singapore and its FirstWorld status." Once again, the
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      • 186 30  -  ALBERTTAYBENGGUAN Letter from WE NEED to take a broader view as we debate ministers' pay increase in relation to Singapore's future success. One often-cited reason for competitive ministers' salaries is the competitiveness of the global economy. High salaries, it is argued, are needed to sustain a competent
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      • 148 30  -  TANKOKTIM Letter from I AM glad that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced in Parliament that he will donate his pay increment to charity. It shows that he cares for his country, and that the pay hike is not for his own sake but so
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    • 515 32  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Fear of prolonged stay could result in overcrowding in lower class wards Letter from I REFER to the Health Minister's clarification in Parliament on April 10 that downgrading to subsidised wards is a two-day process and his plans to introduce means testing in hospitals
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    • 247 32  -  DR LIM BOON HEE Letter from I HAPPEN to peruse a bill from the National Heart Centre (NHC) to a patient, who had undergone a battery of blood tests. It came up to $175 but the patient paid $84.40 after subsidy. I
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    • 194 34  -  SEAH SENG CHOON Letter from Executive director, Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) WE REFER to Mr Chan Chee Mun's letter, "Consumers should be made aware of their rights" (April 5). We agree that retailers should not collect more GST than what is required.
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    • Waste by the bagload
      • 194 34  -  PATRICK LEE Letter from I FIND the report, "Be green, take one" (April 12), very interesting. I am a hawker in a wet fish market I'm tired of giving out free plastic bags to aunties, uncles and even professionals, who demand the fish be
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      • 118 34  -  KYMONG Letter from MOST families don't simply throw away the plastic bags they get from stores or supermarkets. Instead, the bags are reused to dispose of household garbage. There are signs in some estates near the rubbish chute that say: "Please tie up
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      • 85 34  -  SALLY TAN Letter from I THINK the takings from the sale of the reusable bags and plastic bags should go to charitable organisations for the elderly or children, rather than the Singapore Environment Council. And instead of just encouraging people to carry their own
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    • 802 36  -  Tabitha Wang No point giving modern comforts to cave dwellers I BUDGET TAI TAI news@newstoday.com.sg THE corner coffeeshop in our estate just got a makeover. Oh sorry, it isn't a mere "corner coffeeshop" now it's a spanking new "food centre" with halogen lighting and
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    • 256 40  -  DR JAMES DOBSON By......................... MANNERS AND COURTESIES Let's talk about teaching some fundamental principles of courtesy and manners to our children. It's an interesting topic, given the coarsening of society and rudeness that have become so common today. That, in itself, is a good reason for
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    • 232 40  -  LEE YOKE PUNG Cycling on footpath beats riding on road Letter from READER Yap Yit Fun wrote on the recurring issue of cycling safety, emphasising that cyclists endanger pedestrians ("Draw up dedicated road rules for cyclists", April 4). I drive every day, cycle a few
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    • 142 40  -  HASUNDASHAMSUDIN Letter from I REFER to the reply from the Ministry of Health's Karen Tan, "Subsidy cut to drive home message of family planning" (April 12). Ms Tan wrote that "subsidies for higher-order births are lower to reinforce the message that couples should plan their family
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    • 138 40  -  AMANDATAN Letter from EVERY day, I find unwanted mail in my letter box. Those that bear no addressees normally end up in the bin. Then, there is other mail addressed to me containing my full name and address and sometimes even details such as my IC
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    • 83 42 DOW JONES Singapore Press Holdings' second-quar-ter net profit rose 28 per cent to $108 million from a year earlier, boosted by higher advertising revenue and investment income. Sales rose 4.5 per cent on-year to $250.6 million. The company proposed an interim dividend of 7 cents a share. GIC Real
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      • 468 44  -  JOHNSONCHOO UNYANQIN johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg HE WAS not just the top-earn-ing banker in Singapore. With a pay packet of up to US$5.l million ($7.7 million) last year, United Overseas Bank's (UOB) boss Wee Cho Yaw was one of the top five in the Asia-Pacific
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      • 551 46 T TODAY Fls PHOtO DOW JONES A COMPANY part-owned by Mr Hsieh Fu Hua (picture), chief of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), has begun competing with the bourse for lucrative China listings, raising a potential conflict of interest. Last month, Prime Partners Corporate Finance
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      • 413 48  -  CHRISTIE LOH 38% drop in property index follows central bank's statement on risks related to deferred home payments christie@media corp.com.sg INVESTORS ditched property stocks on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday, on learning that the popularity of deferred home payment schemes has raised alarm
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      • 314 48  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg MALAYSIA holds bargains for investors with its relatively "cheap" real estate prices, said UOB Asset Management. Using benchmark prices set by high-end properties in the region as a guide, the UOB team said that Malaysian properties were a steal. The US$2BO
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      • 653 50 -AFP Asia 'won't be much affected' by US cooling EMERGING Asian economies, driven mainly by China and India, will expand at a brisk but slightly slower pace during this year as the United States' influence declines, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The
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      • 297 50 FEDERAL Reserve policy makers in the United States, questioning their own forecast that inflation will recede, revived the prospect of interest-rate increases. Records of the Fed's meeting last month, released on Wednesday, showed officials agreeing that tighter credit may "prove necessary". Those
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        241 50 FOR CONCERNED PARENTS DON'T Worry, Be Sure A parenting seminar for concerned parents will be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre's Stamford Ballroom tomorrow from 12.30pm to 4.30pm. Consultant paediatrician Benny Kerzner of the Children's National Medical Centre in Washington DC, will give the keynote address: "Growth and
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      • 255 51 —AFP, BLOOMBERG AS CONSUMER confidence in Thailand hits a five-year low, the kingdom's top trading nations are urging the armybacked government to scrap a new investment law that limits foreign ownership and punishes violators with jail terms. During yesterday's talks with a senior government
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    • 1160 52  -  Felix Cheong THERE'S HOPE YET FOR THE LANGUISHING HONG KONG FILM INDUSTRY AS £0K THE MAINLAND RELAXES ITS RULES WHAT a difference a year makes. It was all doom and gloom for the Hong Kong film industry when its premiere film awards were pven out last year.
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    • 174 52 FLASH POINT Director: Wilson Yip Cast: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Colin Chou Release date: July Another honest-to-goodness fist test with Donnie Yen as choreographer, this triad story is about an agent battling three brothers in a powerful Vietnamese gang. INVISIBLE TARGET Director: Benny Chan Cast: Nicholas
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    • 154 54 I THE BATTLE OF RED CLIFF Director: John Woo Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Lin Chi Ling Release date: 2008 Director John Woo returns to Asia for this epic that recreates the legendary Chinese battle that led to the end of the Han Dynasty. The
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      109 56 Lucinda Leong, the winner of FHMs Girl Next Door 2007 finals, posing in one of the photos from the Media Corp publication's May issue, which is out now. Lucinda, 19, who also appears on the magazine's cover, earned the title last month along with a $5,000 in prize
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    • 514 56  -  ZULOTHMAN He has spun for Bowie, Busta Rhymes but DJ Dieselboy wants to lose curiousity label zul@media corp.com.sg NORTH America's top underground music export, Damian Higgins better known as DJ Dieselboy, and renowned for his storming drum bass sets the world over is regarded as one of
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    • 167 58 —AFP NEW YORK Kurt Vonnegut (picture), the creator of wry science fiction and black comedy built on his experience as a World War II prisoner of war who survived the horrific Dresden bombing, died yesterday, the New York Times reported. Vonnegut was the
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    • 328 60  -  WINSONTEO It was no fun for Survivor hopeful, who gets her wish to be kicked off winson@media corp.com.sg IT COULD be exciting to be the only girl among a bunch of guys. Unless, of course, they're losers. Such was the case for Survivor: Fiji's Lisette
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    • 209 60 -AP HONG KONG The first film pairing of gongfu stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li will tell the tale of an American teenager's fantasy journey to ancient China to rescue a mythological monkey king, the film's US distributor said yesterday. The Forbidden Kingdom will
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    • 355 62  - Goon fight Been there, gunned that Felix Cheong Style trumps substance in fight-filled mob saga of duelling hitmen out for a million-dollar score FILMREVIEW F by IcUW/UMM SMOKIN' Aces is what happens when a director tries too hard to outgun what's already been done before in this case, shamelessly ricocheting
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    • 287 62  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW Fl by HAS South Korean horror finally gone the way of Saw (2004), Hostel (2005) and other unsavoury, tor-ture-numbing films? It certainly looks that way with To Sir with Love. For once, there's no female spook with a bad hair day or a
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    • 240 63  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW F by LOVE and Honour, as its plainspeaking title suggests, is a simple film about the basic codes of morality that guide the Samurai in Tokugawa-era Japan. If simplicity is the theme of the film, which is reflected in its austere cinematography and measured
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        322 64  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW h by WHY do nubile young people with time on their hands and an itch between their legs never learn that it doesn't pay to stray off the beaten path? Haven't they watched Hostel (2005)? In Turistas, the six good-looking tourists in Brazil obviously haven't. They're
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        351 64  -  Felix Cheong A rookie agent keeps tabs on an FBI veteran in this slow-burning thriller FILMREVIEW F by Breach THE mole-versus-mole story gets another big-screen airing in Breach. And this time, it's based on a true story and has more at stake than just putting a mobster
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        373 65  -  Ross Wallace FILMREVIEW Fl by IT'S freighted with a head-scratcher of a title and a premise to match but parents shouldn't let that stop them from taking the kids to see The Last Mimzy. If its family-friendly save-the-planet message isn't recommendation enough, there's also the fact it's
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      • 182 65  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW h by THE Red Cockatoo of the film's title is a dance club in 1961 East Germany. It's where the country's youth go to dance the night away during an era of authoritarian rule. One young man in particular, Siggi (Max Riemelt) is introduced
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    • 437 67  -  LAN DE COTTA Mokhzani says more phases in the works to spruce up "shabby" F1 circuit ian@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone next visits Sepang, he will surely not describe the circuit as "shabby". In an interview with Today, Sepang International Circuit (SIC) chairman Mokhzani Mahathir said
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      55 67 AFF We prioritised what refurbishment needed to be done, addressing F1 requirements first then general refurbishment and then on to a list of things we would like to have to upgrade SIC. We have completed Phase I of the programme and I hope to get II and 111 done before
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    • 203 68 —AFP ISLAMABAD Former Pakistan cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq criticised the security at the Jamaican hotel where coach Bob Woolmer was strangled during the World Cup last month. Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica on March 18, a day after cricketing
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    • 450 68 Vaughan and Co end Bangladesh's dreams, but it was a hard slog CRICKET WORLD CUP SUPERBS Bangladesh v England BRIDGETOWN, Barbados England captain Michael Vaughan saw his team labour to a fourwicket win over Bangladesh on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), and admitted there
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    • 734 69  -  DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Young Lions v Albirex Niigata Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm darren@mediacorp.com.sg LESS than a year ago, not many would have heard of footballers Zakaria Normat, Zulfadli Zainal Abidin, Ridhwan Jamaludin and Erwan Gunawan. The four were playing in the Prime League,
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    • 318 69  -  JOSE RAYMOND NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Woodlands 3 Home United 2 FIVE days ago, they suffered one of the most embarrassing defeats in the club's history when they were hammered 6-0 in front of their home fans by reigning S-League champions SAFFC. Yesterday,
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    • 766 72  -  Kenneth Goh London giants desperately need Wenger to rediscover his golden touch if Arsenal are not to be left behind kenneth@mediacorp.com.sg A BLACK cloud hangs over Arsenal these days. Out of all competitions and their Champions League qualification place anything but assured, the Gunners
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    • 268 72 —THE GUARDIAN LONDON Real Madrid have stepped up their attempt to sign Cristiano Ronaldo (picture) by meeting his agent and agreeing a course of action that directors at the Santiago Bernabeu believe will end with the Portugal winger becoming their latest galactico. Franco Baldini, right-hand
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    • 107 72 Eriksson No way LONDON Freddy Shepherd has dismissed reports that Sven-Goran Eriksson has been lined up as a possible replacement for Glenn Roeder at Newcastle. A report in The Times yesterday claimed that the Magpies chairman was considering installing the former England manager should he decide to bring Roeder's reign
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    • 692 74 -AFP Spaniards content to sit on two-goal lead in the second half but Spurs level the score in stunning style UEFA CUP Quarter-final, Second Leg Spurs 2 Sevilla 2 Sevilla win 4-3 on aggregate LONDON Sevilla set up an all-Spanish Uefa Cup semi-final against Osasuna as
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    • 154 74 ■AFP PARIS Spanish clubs repeated the feat of English clubs in the Champions League earlier this week by booking three of the final four berths in the Uefa Cup yesterday (early today, Singapore time). Holders Sevilla led the way as they held Spurs 2-2 to
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