Today, 26 April 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    28 1 TODAY //\=DIA.CORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday April 26, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A-diaCorp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday April 26, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon THE BABY-FACED BUTCHER
      585 1 -AGENCIES International censure as footage of Taliban's child executioner surfaces ISLAMABAD The Taliban of Afghanistan is notorious for its brutality. But the terrorist group seems to have taken barbarism to new heights by using a child as an executioner and releasing a videotape of him beheading an
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      Lock icon 3 rapes in 8 days = 28 years' jail and 24 strokes
      638 2  - 3 rapes in 8 days 28 years' jail and 24 strokes LEONGWEEKEAT LIGHTNING STREAKS ACROSS THE SKIES ABOVE MARINA BAY: Singapore was soaked by an electrical storm yesterday evening that lasted a couple of hours. The deluge forced several events to be called off, one of which was the S-League
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      Pilots snub new pay offer
      464 2  -  ANSLEY NG SIA, Alpa-S fail to agree on pay for A3BO airmen ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Airlines yesterday made an "improved and final offer" to disgruntled pilot union Alpa-S over the salary of A3BO pilots a pitch that was promptly rejected by the pilot body. The national
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      Lock icon Virginia Tech killer Cho fired more than 170 bullets, say police
      514 3 AFP WASHINGTON Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui fired more than 170 bullets in nine minutes in his murder rampage in the university classroom building where he killed 30 people on April 16, police said yesterday (early today, Singapore
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon A new chapter for an old canvas
      517 4  -  DAVID CHEW Singapore Art Museum to lease former Catholic High building, expand premises david. chew@media corp. com. sg WITH its visitor numbers on the rise, expansion is on the cards for the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). The museum, which is housed in the
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      Piracy acceptable, say 4 in 10
      696 6  -  GRACIA CHIANG Most young S'poreans agree with IP rights, but many believe Net content should be free: Survey gracia@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to intellectual property (IP) rights, many young Singaporeans are not prepared to walk the talk yet. While eight in 10 young Singaporeans
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      Lock icon Wanted: Trishaw riders for tourism
      247 6  -  DAPHNECHUAH GRACIA CHIANG daphne@mediacorp.com.sg AS FAR as careers in the booming tourism industry go, "trishaw rider" does not quite ring a bell. But yesterday, 20 such positions were offered at a job fair aimed at exposing heartlanders to opportunities in tourism. With a shortage of
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      Lock icon Singapore, China to build an eco-city
      339 8  -  CA-MIEDESOUZA CHANNEL NEWSASIA China project will bring Lion City's experiences to bear camie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE and China have agreed to develop an environmentally-friendly city together. At a meeting between Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing yesterday, both leaders agreed
      – CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  339 words
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        HUNT FOR CLARKE QUAY MURDER SUSPECTS
        75 8 The 31-year-old man assaulted at Clarke Quay after leaving a bar early Monday morning has died from his injuries. Police investigations reveal that Chua Tee Yeong was attacked at about 4.30 am by a group of men and women. He was taken to hospital,
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        CHANGI VOTED ASIA'S BEST AIRPORT AGAIN
        69 8 Singapore Changi Airport has been crowned Asia's Best Airport for the 21 st consecutive year at the 2007 Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards. It was chosen through a readers' survey by Hong Kong-based Cargonews Asia magazine, based on votes cast by decision-makers operating
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE, VIETNAM TO COOPERATE ON EDUCATIONAL ISSUES
        78 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore and Vietnam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on education cooperation. It covers school twinning programmes, language learning, joint student activities, staff exchanges and training and university links. There will also be joint research programmes between the universities in the
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        Lock icon ASEAN POLICE CHIEFS TO MEET HERE; POLICE WEEK LINE-UP UNVEILED
        92 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Ten police chiefs from the Asean countries will be in Singapore from June 4 to 6 for the 27th Annual Conference of Asean Chiefs of Police. Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar will be the guest-of-honour at the opening
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      Lock icon PAYING A PRICE TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT
      1011 10  -  MAX YUEN TEEN THE World Bank has found itself facing a crisis. Back home, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has also been placed under the spotlight Both cases involved the issue of conflict of interests, but in very different ways. In the World Bank
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      292 6 *$3r AVIVA fr Higher CPF returns with no lock in. Why wait? Current CPF-OA interest rate BIG c interest rate 2r %IpA %2pa- m BIG c, a single premium endowment plan from Aviva, gives you 40% 3 more returns on your CPF-OA savings. There's no lock-in period, so you can
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      35 6 Stand a chance to win $70,000 worth of I.T. solutions. Participate in the HP Total Care Challenge. NIXON DIGITAL C^^RA s CZJ Nikon I Q i JV/Aon N/fton COOLPIX COOLPIX worth $300 worth $ZOO j/C
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      129 7 FOX CELEBRATES THE 3-YEAR-OLD IN YOU. It's Fox's 3rd Anniversary. Pull a face. Play a prank. Visit our stores and tuck into the treats we've lined up. While stocks last, so no tantrums please! Get a Fox $30 gift voucher with $60* spent in a single receipt from now till
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      49 10 Enjoy the convenience and comfort of a private car from $8 per hour, with petrol Make NTUC Income Car Co-Op your smart choice. I !|B I I Join us as a member today! Sign up at any NTUC Income branch, call *****511 or visit www.carcoop.com.sg V Hj H| HI
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      132 11 1 life, live it. P^As^JjP™' "HE STARS!^ IJ|w4mwUi^l It's our birthday and we're giving away 10 trips for you and a friend to catch the .^VbImbMIiHbI live concerts of Akon, Nelly Furtado, Jacky Cheung, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol, Jz£o&''\ Scissor Sisters, Elton John, Take That and The Killers! wt *ve^.
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      Lock icon Monks on elephants gather in protest
      483 12 -AGENCIES Thousands demand that Buddhism be recognised as Thailand's state religion BANGKOK- More than 500 saffron-robed monks led nine elephants in a march on Thailand's Parliament House yesterday, to pressure legislators to name Buddhism as the national religion in a new draft of the
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      Lock icon Yahoo! China loses case over downloads
      219 12 -AFP BEIJING Yahoo! China has lost a lawsuit filed by music industry giants including Warner Music for allegedly playing and providing links to unlicensed music. A Beijing court ordered Yahoo! China to pay about 200,000 yuan ($39,200) in damages for assisting downloads of unlicensed
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      Lock icon S'pore, M'sia to aid Indonesia in air traffic emergencies
      221 12 -AFP JAKARTA Singapore and Malaysia have offered to take over control of Indonesia's air traffic if its aircraft tracking system fails, Indonesian officials have said. The plan for Indonesia's air traffic control system, which was released yesterday, was developed following a
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      Lock icon Beware of voters aged 100 and above
      368 14 -AGENCIES Anwar slams dodgy poll register on campaign trail IJOK Malaysia's former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim yesterday complained about phantom voters and police harassment as a key by-election campaign intensified. Mr Anwar the adviser of the opposition People's Justice Party (Keadilan), which is
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      Lock icon MAHATHIR'S MOVE WAS LEGAL
      129 14 -AFP Former Malaysian Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim yesterday lost a lengthy court battle to declare as unlawful his controversial sacking nine years ago by ex-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Mr Anwar was sacked from his posts as Deputy Premier and Finance Minister in September 1998. He lodged
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      Lock icon M'sian king to be crowned today
      269 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Malaysia's second-youngest king ever, will be installed as the country's 13th king today in a ceremony steeped in traditional Malay customs and pageantry. The 45-year-old sultan, who was sworn in nearly five months ago, will
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      Lock icon Beijing to restrict smoking in restaurants for Olympics
      207 14 AFP BEIJING China's capital will restrict smoking in restaurants and bars starting from June next year, two months ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. All large and medium-sized restaurants and bars in Beijing will be
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      Lock icon THE ART OF COOLING
      597 15 NEO CHAI CHIN LG's Art Cool aircon impresses with its use of green technology and award-winning design WHEN the Lims were looking for a new air-conditioner more than a year ago, energy efficiency, reliability and competitive pricing were the top criteria on their list. They found
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      Bloggers united
      498 16  -  FAB 10 SCARPELLO Malaysian All-Blogs seeks to protect members against government criticism news@newstoday.com.sg FEARFUL of a government crackdown, Malaysian bloggers have recently organised themselves in an alliance, not only to give them a stronger voice, but also to educate bloggers on basic journalistic rules and laws. However, the
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      Lock icon M'sian govt unit to counter Internet 'lies'
      216 16 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Information Ministry will create a unit to monitor and counter what it says are lies being spread on the Internet about government policies, reports said yesterday. Deputy Information Minister Chia Kwang Chye said it will issue written explanations to
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      Lock icon First-summit angst
      575 18 AGENCIES Tensions lie behind facade of public solidarity as Abe visits US TOKYO Japanese angst over the United States' stance on North Korea and other simmering tensions may feature backstage in the US-Japan summit today, but talk of a tight alliance will almost certainly take centre stage in
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      Lock icon Discovered: Earth, Mark 2?
      339 21 —AP WASHINGTON Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, an Earth-like planet outside the solar system that is potentially habitable, with water on its surface. And researchers described the find as a big step in the search for "life in the universe". The planet is about
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      HAWKING TO TASTE ZERO GRAVITY
      279 21 Noted astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has spent his career pondering the nature of gravity from a wheelchair, is set to experience weightlessness during a "vomit comet" flight in Florida today. The idea is to give "the world's expert on gravity the opportunity to experience zero
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      Lock icon 'Good son and dad' – but a bad, bad cop
      237 21 'Good son and dad' but a bad, bad cop -AFP HONG KONG A Hong Kong constable was found guilty of gunning down two fellow policemen and a security guard in a string of grisly shootings that has shocked the territory After nearly 10 hours of deliberations, jurors found 35-year old
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      Lock icon Shades of Prison Break in Indiana jailyard riot
      328 21 ■AP CASTLE (Indiana) About 500 inmates staged a two-hour riot at a United States men's prison yesterday, injuring nine people and setting fires in a courtyard before officials used tear gas to restore order. None of the inmates escaped during the riot
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      Lock icon Dubai ruler's 'rare U-turn'
      500 22 Changes his mind and stops controversial beach project after online petition by expats DUBAI Work along the famed Umm Suqeim beach in Dubai to develop off-shore real estate have come to a halt, after Dubai expatriates lobbied on their blogs and through the media for the
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      Lock icon Intelligence not linked to wealth'
      223 22 -AFP WASHINGTON Intelligence has nothing to do with wealth, according to a US study published on Tuesday which found that people with below average smarts were just as wealthy as those with higher IQ scores. "People don't become rich because they are smart," said Mr
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      Lock icon China's costly African safari
      448 24 -AFP Attack on Ethiopian oil field shows need to rethink Chinese interests in continent BEIJING A deadly attack by rebels on a Chinese-run oil field in Ethiopia that left more than 70 dead on Tuesday is the latest example of the human and political cost of
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda thriving despite war on terror: UK official
      241 24 —THE GUARDIAN LONDON The head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command said yesterday that Al Qaeda had survived the six-year-long "war on terror" launched by United States President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and that its central leadership
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      Lock icon More hospital beds the remedy
      635 26  -  TONY TAN KOK TEE Means testing: Are S'poreans abusing medical system or is capacity just insufficient? Letter from I READ with concern recent news articles on the planned means testing in hospitals here, presumably because our lower-class hospital wards are overcrowded. The question is, what
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      Lock icon Transport system is off track
      347 28  -  LIMBOONHEE Move away from single-entity idea; separate bus, rail providers more competitive Letter from THE idea of a mega merger by ComfortDelGro is the worst-possible retrogressive scenario reminiscent of the days when Sing Tel was the one and only telecommunications monopoly in Singapore. Having a
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      Tan empowered his Income staff
      165 28  -  PETER NG KEE CHOON Letter from I REFER to Mr P N Balji's commentary, "Two good leaders who missed being great" (April 24). Mr Balji described Mr Tan Kin Lian's management style when he was the chief executive officer of NTUC Income thus: "Every press
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      serveusright BE CAREFUL IN KEEPING PROMISES
      636 30  -  LIANG DINGZI AS PERFECT as love, any couple getting married would want their wedding to be. A reader, however, did not get the perfect wedding she had dreamed of. In a letter sharing her "tale of woe", Felicia told of how the hotel where
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      Captains of good service
      166 30  -  TAMMY TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications SBS Transit Ltd I REFER to Miss Lynette Tan's letter, "The bus driver who makes a difference" (April 14-15). We are pleased to learn of her positive experience with our service 145 bus captain who provided passengers, including Miss
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      258 32  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I CHILDISH IRRESPONSIBILITY VS WILLFUL DEFIANCE I want to talk to parents today about the very important distinction between childish irresponsibility and willful defiance. Let me explain. Suppose little Chris is acting silly in the living room and he falls on a
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      468 32  -  ONG SENG ENG Good support all round for Bring Your Own Bag Day, but effort must be sustained Letter from Director, Resource Conservation Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letters and commentaries in Today on the Bring Your Own Bag Day (BYOBD). As a
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        En bloc changes should protect minority interests
        401 33  -  PAULCHANPOHHOI Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "Don't just hammer home majority rule" by Loh Chee Kong (April 25). While I agree with this universally accepted principle of majority rule, I do have some reservations over its application in the management of
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        Emotional attachment can't be compensated
        233 33  -  HARRY CHI A Letter from AS SOMEONE whose estate is going through a collective sales process, I can understand the emotions of the minority group in this "forced eviction". Having lived in my apartment for a good 18 years and loving it, we have no
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      SHOOT TO FRAME
      1025 34 PHOTOS TREVORTAN&WEE TECK TEXTTREVOR TAN&JENNY KONG ARCHITECTURE&IIM If you have tried your hand at p would probably have taken photos buildings and spaces be it a q contrasted against a backdrop of s a cosy corner in your home. Architecture and interior pho inherently different, share a
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      87 33 VOICES ON RADIO The majority rules in en bloc sales, but how can the minority be B^^^^^^^^^^H protected, or compensated, as well? 11l ill Which procedures and rules do 111 fIN I you think are due for a change, now IBm H| Til tna* a public consultation is underI|l Fl
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      506 36  -  JOHNSON CHOO Genting shareholders blast directors'fees johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg FOR a brief moment yesterday, the will of the minority prevailed during Genting International's annual general meeting. In a surprise move, the company's minority shareholders voted against paying its five directors a total of $444,835 in
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      100 36 938 LIVE -938 LIVE Electronics contract manufacturer Ventura Corp said net profit for the first quarter ended March rose 43 per cent to $70.7 million from a year earlier. Revenue gained 32 per cent to almost $969 million. Venture said the global electronics industry's outlook remained healthy. Osim International,
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        328 38 —AFP, BLOOMBERG THREE European banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have opened a blockbuster takeover battle for Dutch giant ABN Amro with a 72-billion-euro ($149-billion) bid, eclipsing an agreed offer from Barclays by 5 billion euros. The proposal made yesterday by RBS,
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          4 38 ST Index 3,362.68 -11.84
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          22 38 CITYDEV DBSeCW*****8 0.480 Surface MTW*****0 0.045 +108.7 +50.0 Star tech W*****3 0.020 RnwsleyW*****7 0.205 Jasper 0.025 +33.3 +28.1 +25.0
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          19 38 CapitalanBNPePW***** 0.005 ChinaEntSp 0.005 CITYDEV BNPePW*****0 0.010 CharteredDBeCW*****4 0.045 -50.0 -50.0 -33.3 -30.8 B0CMBLeCW*****8 0.050 -28.0
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          54 38 1 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 17.230.10 -215.01 -1.24 HK Hang Seng 20.530.78 -30.02 -0.18 Australia ASX200 0.188.20 -20.00 -0.34 Korea Camp 1.545.55 -11.10 -0.72 Thailand SET 000.30 +4.82 +0.70 Jakarta Camp 1.080.07 +5.10 +0.20 Shenzhen B 570.34 -0.10 -0.03 Mumbai Sensex 14.217.77 +81.05 +0.57 Malaysia
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          38 38 —AGENCIES SHARE prices closed 0.35 per cent lower yesterday. The ST Index closed down 11.84 points at 3,362.68. Volume traded was 2.69 billion shares worth $2.11 billion. There were 389 risers, 374 decliners and 669 unchanged issues.
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          25 38 Rnwsley 0.300+0.055+22.4130.372 SinoTechfib 1.250 +0.020 +1.0 80.858 AusGrnup 0.000 +0.100 +21.0 71.772 Star tech 0.055+0.005 +10.0 71.001 Ascendasreit 2.700 +0.070 +2.7 55.405
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          20 38 Gold US$/oz 687.70 Silver US$/oz 13.78 Platinum US$/oz 1,311.50 Rubber cents/kg 347.50 Palm oil RM/tonne 2,310.00 Brent US$/barrel 67.36
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          28 38 uss UK£ Yen HKS RM Euro 0.6613 0.3299 78.398 5.1699 2.2619 0.4847 Rupiah 6009.2 Baht 21.483 Peso 31.341 AS 0.7936 Indian Rs 27.136 Yuan 5.1036
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        376 40  -  DARYL LOO CHANNEL NEWSASIA Taking office space out of CBD supply makes way for increase in rentals darylloo@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the current trend of old office buildings being sold for redevelopment, an estimated 1.73 million square feet of space might be taken out of the
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        282 40  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg XP POWER, one of the world's leading providers of power supply solutions to the electronics industry, has relocated its headquarters to Singapore from Britain. The company is a manufacturer of electronically-controlled or "intelligent" transformers for the communications, defence
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        201 40  -  JOSEPH YADAO THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is calling for bids for a reserve site along Rochor Canal earmarked for hotel development. Located at the junction of Victoria Street and Jalan Sultan, the 99-year leasehold land parcel has a maximum permissible gross floor area of
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        425 42 CHINA has become Japan's top trading partner for the first time since World War 11, unseating the United States in the past fiscal year despite strained ties between the Asian giants. The new milestone announced yesterday came as Japan reported the first rise in
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        301 42 -BLOOMBERG It aims to remove excess cash and prevent inflation THE People's Bank of China, manager of the world's largest foreign-exchange reserves, plans to step up open-market operations to remove excess cash from the economy and prevent inflation. "The amount of cash has increased in
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        202 44 -AFP NEW YORK The leading Dow Jones Industrial Average share index struck a record peak yesterday (early today, Singapore time), smashing the 13,000-point barrier for the first time as investors cheered ballooning corporate profits. The blue-chip share gauge rocketed to a close
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        401 44 -BLOOMBERG,; AP Former finance chief says he cautioned Jobs on options IN AN assertion that may undermine an earlier exoneration of Apple Inc head Steve Jobs (picture), the company's former finance chief said he had warned his boss about the possibility of the firm taking
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      732 46 Name: The Mona Lisa (print) Coming to: Singapore Art Museum Even as attendance figures rise, a huge number of I artworks are still kept in storage due to lack of space ARTWORK BYYENYOK Written by: David Chew Email: david.chew@mediacorp.com.sg Name: Mousedeer (1803) Coming to: National
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      199 46 What: Pablo Picasso: The Vollard Suite This complete set of 100 prints were commissioned by a legendary art dealer and publisher named Ambroise Vollard. It centres around the mythical creature of a minotaur, who is half man and half bull. When: May 3 to July 7 Where: Singapore Tyler
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        71 48 Be part of MediaCorp Radio Y.E.S. 93.3FM's DJ Search 2007 by following the progress of the 10 finalists picked by the popular Chinese radio station. Log on to www.yes933.sg/djsearch to read their blogs, in which each finalist writes about their experience learning the ropes.
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        65 48 Filament, a screening of final year film projects from students of the Wee Kirn Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, boasts a series of 13 distinct works, ranging from romantic dramas to documentaries on the issue of foreign talent. FilamentwlW be
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        68 48 If you don't like the formal atmosphere of a classical concert, then you might enjoy the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's (SSO) Casual Concert. To be held at the Esplanade Concert Hall on May 20, the concert will feature light classical pieces. There is also an interactive segment, where maestro
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      466 48  - It's all in the mind DAVID CHEW Off Centre is back to throw more light on society's attitude towards mental disabilities david.chew@media corp.com.sg FOURTEEN years after it was first staged, The Necessary Stage's groundbreaking play, Off Centre, is still as relevant as ever. And that, says the play's director, Alvin
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      393 49  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Julia na.rasul@media corp.com.sg THE Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) is spending almost $1 million to stage A Midsummer Night's Dream a contemporary adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most enduring comedies. The extravagant budget is second only to SRT's Forbidden City, which cost more than
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        218 50  -  DAVID CHEW BOOKREVIEW Lucy Eyre How do you get the masses to think more deeply about what is right and what is wrong? If author Lucy Eyre had her way, as she states in her debut book If Minds Had Toes, it would be "philosophy classes
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        620 50  -  ZULOTHMAN The first Singapore Drumfest 2007 aims to raise awareness of drum music zul@media corp.com.sg WHETHER you're a performer or audience member, you will need stamina for the inaugural Singapore Drumfest 2007, which will take place on June 9 and 10 at Suntec City. Billed as
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        138 50 Rebecca Pitcher (picture) plays the key role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera, which is now on at the Esplanade Theatre until May 20. To date, some 110,000 tickets have already been sold. Tickets are still available from Sistic. "I'm currently reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, an
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        488 52  -  PEARLYN THAM Clothing maestro Wykidd Song is proving he is equally adept at designing jewellery with this range pea rlyn@media corp.com.sg HE USED to design on a larger scale. But Wykidd Song, who helmed the now-defunct Song+Kelly2l clothing label, has moved on to smaller things. And we
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        249 52  -  -PEARLYNTHAM I'VE been feeling like the Dynamo Man of late. You know, the one who used to appear on the telly in his lab coat and terrorise shrieking housewives by spilling ink and curry onto their laundry, before showing
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          101 52 If you've got yourself a sexy St Tropez tan for summer or a Sentosa tan if your budget calls for it set it off against Indian designer Rohit Bal's latest Spring-Summer 2007 collection. Forgoing vibrant colours for creams, ivories and whites, Rohit has turned to
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          141 52 There's a difference between Singaporeans and the folks behind Escada's new Sunset Heat fragrance duo for men and women: We gripe about long summer nights, but Escada sees them as fun and sexy. Sunset Heat for women evokes memories of carefree, summer-night parties, thanks to its
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          GEL DE LA CREME
          124 52 Light may be better for some of us and we aren't talking about super-skinny, featherweight models. The über-luxurious Creme de la Mer now has a lighter counterpart in the new The Moisturising Gel Cream. Available exclusively at Tangs Orchard and Robinsons Centrepoint, the latter boasts the
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          IT'S ONLY NATURAL
          110 52 Those who love floral notes in their bath and body products can stop reading this. That's because the new Naturals range from Crabtree Evelyn doesn't have a single floral note in it. Instead, it adopts non-gender-specific scents so that even if your guy shares your Naturals products
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        558 53 Wine consultant CH'NG POH TIONG lets you in on the fruity vivacity of five types of Sauvignon Blanc SAUVIGNON Blanc, a white varietal, is related to perhaps the most famous black grape of them all, the Cabernet Sauvignon. The relationship just about ends there because white Sauvignon
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        752 54  -  NAZIR KESHVANI Home to the sacred Dalai Lama Temple, this north Indian town is a haven of peace and serenity I WAS greeted by the sound of chanting as shaven-headed monks were streaming towards the Tsuglag Khang temple, clutching their crimson robes close
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        485 56 ■MCT Forget politics, soak up mud, salt and fun at Israel's Em Gedi spa IT'S not just mud. It's super healthy mud. And it's part of Em Gedi spa's do-it-yourself ritual of weird-smelling mineral baths, gloppy black mud and sulphur showers. There are no expensive beauticians.
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        677 58 MCT What stories do the massive statues on the world's most remote island have to tell? EVEN in the murk of a sullen, grey afternoon, the massive stone sentinels of Ahu Tongariki seem imperious, an uncompromising guard against the gluttonous sea crashing at its flank. The shimmer of
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          173 60 Star Cruises is bringing fairytales alive onboard SuperStar Virgo during the May/June school holidays. The cruise liner has planned a whole host of activities to keep the little ones occupied. Children can set sail for a "FantaSea" cruise adventure and meet Tinkerbell, pixies, Cinderella and
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          100 60 Search engine Google, through its popular Google Earth product, has teamed up with New Zealand's tourism marketing organisation in a world first. Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to provide in-depth, easily accessible geographic information. Tourism New Zealand has provided
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        GOING FOR GOLD
        532 62  -  LYNETTE KOH MediaCorp artistes Christopher Lee and Darren Lim relive their childhood on the Gold Coast SEVENTY kilometres of sparkling white beaches, perfectly balmy weather and the world's best theme parks is it any wonder some 10 million visitors descend upon Australia's Gold Coast everyyear? This week's
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