Today, 28 April 2007

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    28 1 TODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /•A-djaCorp we set you thinking April 28 29, 2007 todayonline.com weekendTODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /\A=diaCorp we set you thinking April 28 29, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon FROM FATHER TO SON
    612 1  -  JOHNSON CHOO UOB's Wee Cho Yaw steps down as CEO; son Ec Cheong to take over johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg TALK of generational change at UOB has gone on for years. Still, many were caught off-guard when Singapore's highest-paid banker, Mr Wee Cho Yaw, announced on Friday that
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    Lock icon A pact signed, a new chapter begins
    976 1  -  VALCHUAINBALI DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR val@media corp.com.sg IT WAS their ninth meeting in two-and-a-half years, but probably none was as sweet as the one that took place on Friday in Bali. Here, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened
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    Lock icon $12-billion ticket downtown
    629 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg YOU start at Bukit Panjang, go via Upper Bukit Timah Road onto Dunearn Road, and pass the Botanic Gardens, Newton, Little India and Bugis before you reach the Marina Bay area. If you want to head further east, carry on via Cross
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      Lock icon THE WARM ARM OF THE LAW
      1175 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT The Community Court, almost a year old, was meant to give the legal system a more flexible, humane dimension. Has it succeeded? What more could be done? weekeat@media corp.com.sg HE HAD been jailed and fined thrice before for stealing. When Lav
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Two cops in the dock on corruption charges
      411 4  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg TWO police officers were charged with corruption on Friday. One was accused of accepting sexual favours to warn massage parlours of impending raids, the other of taking money to warn cigarette smugglers of Coast Guard presence. National Serviceman Joseph Yeo
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      BROTHERS IN ARMS
      403 4  -  NOORMOHDAZIZ aziz@media corp.com.sg THE Singapore Armed Forces will now be able to train at bigger and better facilities closer to home, under the Defence Cooperation Agreement signed by Singapore and Indonesia on Friday. A lack of training facilities nearer home has meant the SAF had to conduct
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      Lower HDB resale volumes
      568 4  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg HDB resale volumes for the first quarter of this year dropped by about 20 per cent from the 7,843 units in the last three months of last year, according to its latest resale statistics. This is the lowest resale volume in three
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      Lock icon Aedes alert
      110 6  -  DAPHNECHUAH FAIZAL The spell of warm weather has seen a shocking spike in the number of homes found breeding the deadly Aedes mosquito, according to the National Environment Agency's (NEA) latest statistics, released on Friday. Breeding grounds discovered by the NEA included pails, flowerpot plates, vases, litter-filled areas,
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      Lock icon Marking this bench against the world
      586 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Chief Justice unveils his workplan weekeat@media corp.com.sg IT RANKS high in the minds of Singaporeans and in Asia. Now, the aim is to measure the Subordinate Courts against the world. Unveiling its new workplan on Friday, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong
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      SPECIALISING IN CRIMES
      231 6 EMERGING trends have influenced the reorganisation of Criminal Justice Division judges into five specialised clusters. CJ Chan announced that these are: Crimes against persons; violent property crimes and regulatory offences; nonviolent property crimes, intellectual property offences, immigration and employment offences; community cases; and commercial crimes. Each cluster
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      WHEN FAMILIES FALL APART
      256 6 MORE than 95 per cent of the litigants in maintenance cases heard in the Subordinate Courts have no legal representation. Which is why the Family Court has implemented a number of measures to simplify procedures and enhance access to justice. One such measure, CJ Chan announced,
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      This is your brain on software
      439 8  -  SHERALYN TAY NTU-developed 3D imaging tool can give insights on how the human mind works sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THE age-old mysteries of why men don't stop to ask for directions and why women cry at movies could soon be solved by new breakthrough technology. Showing
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      New checks for charities
      361 8  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp.com.sg THERE will be fewer question marks over how charities spend donations, following a move by the Commissioner of Charities to roll out three new ground rules for both new and existing charities from May 1. All charities will have to use their
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      Boost for arts school
      217 8  -  -DAVID CHEW THE Government has put in $600,000 in seed money to kickstart the School of the Arts' scholarships and bursaries fund, an amount that will be increased over time, says the school. Open to all students who are Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents, the scholarships
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      Hints of the Dragon's desperation
      409 8  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg ACCUSED gunman Tan Chor Jin (picture) yesterday made a desperate attempt to avoid the gallows, by recalling an expert on alcoholism to the stand and despite having represented himself throughout his trial trying to ask the judge for a lawyer. In a
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      To stay relevant, keep learning
      524 10  -  LEE U-WEN MM cites Singapore example to help identify opportunities, challenges facing Arab societies u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg THE Middle East is a booming region rich in natural resources and manpower but what can it do to better engage the outside world? Questions like this flew fast and
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      How 911 ushered in the New Silk Road
      454 10  -  CLEMENT MESENAS EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@mediacorp.com.sg THE revival of commercial links between the Middle East and Asia is leading to the formation of a New Silk Road, said Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, at a Young Arab Leaders (YAL) forum held here on Friday.
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      Skills, fairness, safety the keys to a strong workforce
      270 10  -  —JASMINE YIN UNPOPULAR and painful measures taken in recent years have borne fruit, with a record 176,000 jobs created last year but efforts must be sustained to tackle three key challenges facing the Singapore workforce. In his May Day 2007 message
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon CALCULATORS FOR PSLE MATHS
        96 10 938 LIVE btudents will be able to use calculators in tne Primary School Leaving Examination's Mathematics and Foundation Mathematics examinations from 2009. The exams will also be revised from the current single paper to a two-paper format. Basic numeracy skills such as mental computation will continue
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        Lock icon AIR-CONDITIONED AMK BUS TERMINAL OPENS
        54 10 938 LIVE Singapore s tnira air-conditioned bus intercnange starts operations on Saturday. It is located at the Ang Mo Kio Hub, at the junction of Ang Mo Kio Aye 3 and Aye 8. The temporary Ang Mo Kio Bus in^^or,™ *'™g Ang Mo Kio Aye
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        Lock icon POLICE MOVE TO CURB METAL THEFT
        72 10 938 LIVE With an increase in the number ot metal thett cases here, the police are working with property owners to educate them on effective theft-prevention measures. In the first three months of this year, there were 294 reports of metal thefts, 110 cases
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        Lock icon NEW DIMENSIONS TO ADVERTISING
        79 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MediaCorp will be offering advertisers the chance to have greater creativity in their ad campaigns and a more precise reach to their clients with a series of online and mobile initiatives, to be launched this year. One such initiative is an online marketplace for
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Anwar's return to politics does not 'worry' Abdullah
      258 12 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Friday defended allegations against his deputy Najib Razak, and said that Mr Anwar Ibrahim's comeback to Malaysian politics did not "worry" him. Mr Anwar, a former Deputy Prime Minister, has been leading
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      Lock icon China names US expert as new Foreign Minister
      687 12 —AGENCIES Three replaced in Cabinet reshuffle BEIJING China abruptly replaced its Foreign Minister on Friday, elevating former Ambassador to the United States Yang Jiechi to the post in an early reshuffling of top positions ahead of key political meetings. The removal of
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      Lock icon Ijok by-election heats up
      614 12  -  NAZRYBAHRAWIINIJOK nazry@media corp.com.sg SINCE Japanese forces occupied Kampong Rantau Panjang near Batang Berjuntai more than half a century ago, darkness had enveloped the street just a few metres ahead of Mr Mat Sari Abu's warong (drink stall) at night And then, there was light A few
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      Lock icon Japan rules against war reparation
      215 14 -AFP TOKYO Japan's Supreme Court ruled that individual Chinese do not have the right to seek war reparations. In its first ruling on the issue, Japan's top court struck down a lower court's decision that awarded compensation to former Chinese forced labourers potentially adding weight
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      Lock icon 'Deeply sorry' about sex slaves
      370 14 —AGENCIES Visiting Japanese PM tells US lawmakers that he sympathises with World War ll'comfort women' WASHINGTON -Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed his sympathy for Asian women driven into brothels by Japan's military during World War II while he pledged to step up its alliance
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      Lock icon A SECOND SERVING OF 'CHEESEBURGER DIPLOMACY'
      151 14 DPA Cheeseburgers made with United States beef will be on the menu when President George W Bush hosts Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Camp David. Beef imports have become a major bone of contention between the close allies and US lawmakers from cattle-ranching
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon STRONG QUAKE HITS ACEH
        88 16 —AFP A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's Aceh on Friday, seismologists said, sparking panic in the province. Residents fled their homes as the offshore quake hit at 3:o2pm, shaking provincial capital Banda Aceh and other districts for about 30 seconds, witnesses said. The earthquake was centred
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        Lock icon 38 NABBED IN M'SIAN BROTHEL
        117 16 —AFP Malaysian police have arrested 38 people, including 22 suspected prostitutes from China, in a raid on a brothel that offered lucky draws for TVs and other prizes for big-spending customers. The women, in their early 20s, were nabbed on Wednesday at the premises, which
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      Lock icon US schools ban iPods at exams
      353 16 —AP Music players are latest device to hide answers and notes to cheat at tests MERIDIAN (Idaho) Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools across the United States started banning mobile phones after realising
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      Lock icon Labour crisis hits booming Macau
      412 18 —AGENCIES Unions, civil servants resist move to allow in more foreign workers MACAU To hire or not to hire, seems to be the problem for Macau. As its gam-ing-led economy reaches a red-hot level, efforts to bring in foreign workers to alleviate the increasing labour
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      Lock icon Gere apologises for 'offensive' behaviour
      196 18 -AFP HOLLYWOOD star Richard Gere offered a "sincere apology" on Friday for any offence he caused by embracing Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty and planting several kisses on her cheeks during an Aids awareness event in New Delhi earlier this month. His statement came a day
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      Lock icon Iranian women warned over 'bad hijab'
      300 18 —AGENCIES TEHRAN Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned by police over their Islamic headdress this week and several hundred arrested in the capital in the worst crackdown in more than a decade on what is known as "bad hijab". The latest crackdown on
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      Lock icon Prince Harry to get minder in war zone
      208 20 -THE GUARDIAN LONDON It has been decided that Britain's Prince Harry (picture) will be deployed with his regiment to the frontline in Iraq next month despite concerns among military commanders that he might attract fire from insurgents and rogue elements within Shia
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      Lock icon Taliban hawks Osama spectre
      381 20 —AGENCIES Group's commander claims terrorist leader still alive and planned attack on US base KABUL Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is well and alive, and was the brains behind an attack on a US military base in Afghanistan during a visit by US Vice-Pres-ident Dick
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      Lock icon Stephen Hawking goes zero-gravity
      282 20 -THE GUARDIAN CAPE CANAVERAL For almost four decades, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has studied black holes, exploding stars and the origin of the universe from his wheelchair. Yesterday, the renowned Cambridge University professor took a bold step of his own by experiencing the weightlessness of space on
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      Lock icon Democrat candidates unite, slam Iraq policy
      281 22 —AFP ORANGEBURG (South Carolina) Eight Democrats vying for the White House were united in condemning President George W Bush's Iraq policy at a presidential campaign debate more notable for the candidates' easy consensus than disagreement hi the first televised debate of the 2008 campaign,
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      Lock icon Wolfowitz scandal hurts anti-graft drive
      459 22 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON World Bank officials spearheading the institution's anti-corruption drive expressed deep concern on Friday over the impact to their work from the scandal involving bank chief Paul Wolfowitz, reported Reuters. The officials said they could no longer credibly implement the bank's anti-corruption strategy, which
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      Surprising audience
      229 24  -  ISWARI KUNALAN Letter from AFTER a 12-year wait, I finally managed to catch the world-acclaimed Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera. The show left me speechless for two reasons. One, without doubt, the splendour of the musical. The other was the scant display of appreciation by the
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      Lock icon NO PLASTIC, FANTASTIC
      778 24  -  Down Under with Neil Humphreys Save the world-and your kitchen drawer news@newstoday.com.sg THERE is one drawer in our kitchen that attacks me. All of the other drawers and cupboards are benign, but this particular drawer has got it in for me. As soon as I wrench the
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      There's no place for a 'heck-care' attitude in a first-class country
      279 24  -  FANNY CHAN Letter from ONE evening last month, I took my children to a free concert at Republic Polytechnic. To control the crowd, the organisers set up a booth near the entrance to distribute the free tickets. Although there
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      Public transport system not quite 'first class'
      312 25  -  SEE LEONG KIT Letter from IN "NO need to merge: SMRT boss" (April 25), SMRT chief executive Saw Phaik Hwa reported a 31 per cent increase in the company's net profit to $135.8 million last year, and commented on Singapore's "efficient" public transport
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      77 24 m____ MediaCorp Press Ltd I f|T\ A\^ 24 Raffles Place #28-01/06 AW-l/rYX Clifford Centre *****21 MEDIACORP Editorial Director P N Balji TODAY EDITORIAL Managing Editor Walter Fernandez Deputy Night Editor Yvonne Lim Editor-At-Large Clement Mesenas Chief Sub-Editor Richard J Valladares Section editors News Business Val Chua Foreign Sharon Vasoo Voices
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Will SGX CEO leave in 2009?
      448 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH Bourse denies media report that Hsieh's current term is his last christie@media corp.com.sg WILL Mr Hsieh Fu Hua (picture) seek a new term at the helm of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) after his contract ends in September 2009? That is a matter
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      Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
      275 26 CHANNEL NEWSASIA o I l_>l I \J.\J I—AFP Capita Land's first-quarter net profit more than quadrupled, boosted by the sale of Temasek Tower and income from property developments in Singapore. Net profit for the three months ended March 31 rose to $608 million from $130 million a year earlier.
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      Lock icon GuocoLand pays top dollar for Leedon Heights
      315 26 GUOCOLAND, a Singaporebased developer controlled by Malaysian billionaire Quek Leng Chan, is buying an en-bloc property off Holland Road for a record $835 million, the company said on Friday. The total price for freehold Leedon Heights, located in the prime District 10, is
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      Lock icon Star Hub and partners to build Internet gateway between South-east Asia and US
      295 26 -DOW JONES, BLOOMBERG STARHUB is joining 16 other parties in building a new US$5OO-million ($758-mil-lion) optical fibre submarine cable that will be the first to link countries in South-east Asia with the United States. In a statement
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      Contract shower
      303 27  -  JOHNSONCHOO Government offers $3.2b of contracts, $I.Bb earmarked for construction firms johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg THE Government plans to award an estimated $3.2 billion worth of projects over the next 12 months, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday. The figure, which is the lowest in three years, is less than
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    • marketwatch
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        ST Index — 3,398.6 -8.29
        4 27 ST Index 3,398.6 -8.29
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        SGX most active
        25 27 Digiland Olam Ab terra Rowsley Yangzijiang 0.015 -126.402 3.080 +0.020 +0.7114.180 0.055 -0.005 -8.3107.905 0.300 +0.005 +1.7 71.401 1.350 +0.090 +7.1 60.608
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        SGX top rises
        21 27 JiinaEntSp 0.010 +100.1 nformatics R500 fepCorp CA fepCorp BNP HTK 0.030 +100.C 0.290 +93.; 0.015 +50.C 0.020 +33.;
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        Commodities
        20 27 iold US$/oz 678.00 iilver US$/oz 13.46 ■latinum US$/oz 1,303.60 lubber cents/kg 348.00 'aim oil RM/tonne 2350.00 (rant USS/barrel 66.78
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        94 27 AFP, BLOOMBERG Share prices fell 0.24 per cent on Friday on profittaking ahead of the weekend, dealers said. Blue chips such as City Developments and Neptune Orient Lines dropped from records on concern that their recent advances have exceeded earnings prospects. The ST Index shed 8.29 points to 3,398.6.
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        SGX top falls
        19 27 Digiland W08D116 0.005 CharteredDB 0.030 HSI*****BNP 0.240 -50.0 -33.3 -30.4 HSI*****BNP 0.075 Nikke225SGA 0.075 -28.6 -28.6
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        Your S$1 buys
        23 27 JSS JK£ 'en m 0.6592 0.3303 78.726 5.1558 2.2546 Rupiah 5980.2 Baht 21.587 Peso 31.286 AS 0.7963 Indian Rs 27.003
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        53 27 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.41 -28.76 -0.17 HK Hang Seng *****.50 -140.79 -0.68 Australia ASX200 6151.60 -60.60 -0.98 Korea Camp 1542.52 -10.61 -0.68 Thailand SET 695.11 +4.32 +0.63 Jakarta Camp 2019.67 +3.64 +0.18 Shenzhen B 592.54 +6.47 +1.10 Mumbai Sensex *****.58 -320.30 -2.25 Malaysia KLCI
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      297 27  -  CHRISTIE LOH THANKS to stronger-than-ex-pected sales in the first three months of this year, Singapore Post clocked a 24.8-per-cent jump in net profit to $39 million for the fiscal fourth quarter. The performance surpassed even the "traditionally strong" October-to-December period, Sing Post chief
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      Services' share of economy leaps to 92%
      120 27 REFLECTING the non-manufacturing sector's growing importance to Singapore, the services trade accounted for 92.4 per cent of the economy in 2005, the Department of Statistics (DOS) said on Friday. This is a jump from 62.2 per cent the previous year. In terms of
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      NTU expects 153,000 new jobs this year
      322 27  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@media corp.com.sg JOBS could see another year of robust growth. Economists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are predicting that this year could see some 153,000 new jobs, mostly in the construction and services sectors. While this would not exceed last
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        Banks zoom in on niche customer groups
        607 28  -  JOSEPH YADAO AND GRACIACHIANG Indians here and affluent foreigners among target prospects for new products joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg AS THE competition for credit-card customers heats up, the need among banks to find new niche markets becomes even more pressing. This week, two institutions launched
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      113 27 |gS| we are expanding!!! Telesales Executives/ C||/ Be part of MAS dynamic team as: j AppOJlitmeilt Setting Off JCersJ Open House on 27 &28 Apr '07,11am-spm 10am-2pm please bring your resume and Mm. 4 GCE 'O' level passes (Telesales Execs position only) educational certificates to: Motivated, energetic and disciplined AIA
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      239 28 SERVICES' I View t^le ent;ire list or programs on the WINGS website: www.wings.sg A joint project by the Singapore Council of Women's l- Counseling: Organisations (SCWO) an the Tsao Foundation, Emotional Appointments must be made for all Counseling WING'S is a non-profit centre just for women in LeSal Services their
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      Lock icon Real men won't sniff at this
      576 29  -  W'WJ.H.M"I CITYSTYLE with I pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg Even the most macho of men use multiple fragrances to reflect their alter-egos IT WAS the last thing I expected to hear from an alpha-male colleague who's usually more about babes, beers, bikes and baloney. "I have two night
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      A skincare range that will help you break up with breakouts
      353 29  -  -PEARLYNTHAM DON'T call Jade Seah low maintenance. To her, the term is just a polite way of describing her attitude towards her skincare regimen: Plain "lazy". But if being lazy still has the MediaCorp artiste looking this radiant and
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        GET THAT MAN A FRAGRANCE
        773 30 If the smell of musty socks and stale cigarette smoke isn't your idea of sexy, Pearlyn Tham (pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg)says take a sniff at these... GUCCI POUR HOMME II ($BB FOR 50ML/$ll6 FOR 100 ML) What it smells like: A triple-S fragrance —think spicy, sensual and sexy.
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          ELIZABETH ARDEN – INTERVENE AND INDULGE
          125 30 ELIZABETH ARDEN INTERVENE AND INDULGE Unlike Adam Sandler's character in the movie Click, we don't have a remote control with which to rewind or pause our lives and the age of our skin. The next best thing may be in Elizabeth Arden's Intervene Pause Effect Moisture Cream SPFIS or its
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          FOX – A VIXEN AT 3, WITH BIRTHDAY BONUSES
          99 30 FOX A VIXEN AT 3, WITH BIRTHDAY BONUSES Clothing chain Fox may turn just three years old this month, but it's growing mighty fast. There are 17 Fox stores in Singapore, with more coming up soon. But the label isn't keeping its celebrations to itself. Until May 1, receive a
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          THE CENTREPOINT- MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING
          198 30 If you only have time to shop at one mall, make it The Centrepoint as you will be rewarded amply there. Until Sunday, be spotted by Centrepoint Shopping Ambassadors at noon, 3pm and 6pm when you make a purchase and you'll get to try
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        Lock icon KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PIE
        657 31  -  EVELINE GAN Big Ben's is worth hunting down for solid British fare eveline@media corp.com.sg YOU must have heard the phrase "eat humble pie". It originated in medieval Britain, when domestic help ate pie stuffed with inferior meat like offal, while upper classes enjoyed better
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          SUNSHINE'S NEW RANGE OF BREADS
          136 31  -  CHIAHUIJUN Health-conscious bread lovers can now get their carbo fix without worrying about the dreaded trans fat. Rolling fresh off the ovens is Sunshine's new range of low-fat, no-trans-fat breads. The Sunshine Enriched Softmeal Bread ($1.85) contains natural wheat bran, a source of dietary fibre,
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        A Taste To Remember!
        69 31 Yummy! Yummy! 60 s Traditional home-made "Kong Ba Pau", "Wu Xiang" Glutinous Rice", "Cold Kaya Roll", "Coffee French Toast" "Kaya Butter Toast" has just relocated to 57 Killiney Road 57 Killiney Road Also look out for our weekday set lunch menu Opening Hours: Mon- Fri 07.00-
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        FOODComfortr
        707 32 At La Nonna, you will discover that homely, traditional Italian cuisine will leave you hungering for more Til CDC are swan' <y Italian restau--1 rants that are good for impressing your date with and then there are also the more homely, traditional ones. Six-month-old La Nonna (Italian for "grandmother")
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        A phone for all reasons
        572 34  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN The N95 has GPS with voice directions, plays video, etal hedirman@media corp.com.sg THE new Nokia N95 will be one of the few mobile phones that will get gadget geeks buzzing this year. The new phones that have been churned out so far are
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          SONY NW-ABOO WALKMAN
          119 34 Later this month, Sony will launch the NW-ABOO Walkman, a flash-based digital media player that can play music and video. Sony's keeping mum on the price of its aesthetically-pleasing new Walkman, which comes in three models 2GB, 4GB and BGB and in blue, black, white or pink.
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          SAMSUNG BORDEAUX PLUS LCD TV
          130 34 Although it has more subtle and elegant lines, Samsung's latest update to its Bordeaux Plus LCD TV series is more than just an aesthetic tweak. It now has three high-definition multimedia interface, or HDMI, ports so you can hook up your Play Station 3 console
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        Wind in your hair, song in your ears – and a voice tracking the calories burnt
        617 34  - Wind in your hair, song in your ears and a voice tracking the calories burnt TREVOR TAN trevor@media corp.com.sg ACCESSORYREVIEW Nike+iPod Sport Kit SINCE Apple announced its collaboration with Nike to roll out the Nike+iPod Sport Kit in the middle of last year, exercise and gadget aficionados in this region
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        C1, WANT ONE
        521 36  -  SHELDON TROLLOPE Citroen's most compact car proves that good things do come in small packages news@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU'RE reading this because you're looking for a small, budget priced city runabout, you can turn the page now. The Citroen Cl may be cheekily compact but at $53,988 with
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          NEW 5 SERIES IN TOWN
          233 36 A facelifted version of BMW's 5 Series hits local showrooms this weekend. Not that you'd notice, for the car looks quite similar at a glance. Closer inspection however reveals clearlens headlamps, a flush front grille and revised tail lamps on the new model. Hardly earth-shaking
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          A SPORTY ACCENT
          110 36 Local Hyundai distributor Komoco Motors has just introduced a three-door version of its popular Verna small saloon, called the Accent. The name will be familiar to many as it was used on the Verna's predecessor for more than a decade. It's now making a comeback with this
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          AMERICAN REAL ESTATE
          134 36  -  COLIN YONG If the Chrysler 300 C saloon isn't distinctive enough for you, the new estate model might be right up your street. Called the 300 C Touring, the car is identi- cal to the saloon in front, sharing its upright headlamps and huge grille. The differences
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        A soothing, gripping ride.
        594 38  -  COLIN YONG IN ZHUHAI, CHINA colin@mediacorp.com.sg LOVE them or loathe them, Sports Utility Vehicles or SUVs are here to stay. No longer the noisy, unstable and thirsty beasts of yore, today's breed of "crossover" SUVs are spacious and versatile, yet very car-like to drive. No wonder
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        Big guns take to the off-road
        283 38 NEED proof that buyers can't get enough of SUVs? Just look at what the top three German luxury brands have up their sleeves. Audi is showcasing the Cross Coupe quattro at the ongoing Shanghai motor show, which ends its five-day run today. It's just
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        Eyeing a view of Orchard Road
        568 39  -  JOSEPH YADAO Two properties in Leone Hill area looktogoen bloc joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg THE Leonie Hill area looks set for major changes. Two properties in the area are looking to go en bloc. On Monday, CB Richard Ellis launched an Expression of Interest (EOI) to find
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        A NATURE HAVEN RISES IN THE WEST COAST
        236 39  -  JOSEPH YADAO LOCATED in a low-rise neighbourhood in West Coast Park, the new 12-storey Botannia will offer nature lovers unparalleled views of lush greenery set against the backdrop of the Pandan Reservoir. A joint venture between Capita Land Limited and City Developments
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      1224 40 BETa LOS ANGELES -Tobey Maguiresayshe and) his big-screen alter-ego, Spider-Man, "have very different lives." Still, both are caught in the same web of uncertainty: What next? The release of Spider-Man 3 on Tuesday raises as many questions as it answers for the web-slinging hero ana thp^ctOK^ehind hinA Is
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        BEATEN, BUT NEVER DOWN
        529 42  -  Sanjaya Malakar knew how to play the American Idol game his own way LATHIKADEVI plus@newstoday.com.sg THE world first saw him as an awkward, timid teenager trying his luck, along with thousands of others, for a spot on American Idol. Sanjaya Malakar's (picture) dream came true when
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          Lock icon ANNA NICOLE SMITH DIARIES SELL FOR $91,000
          85 42 -DPA An anonymous businessman has shelled out almost US$6O,OOO ($91,000) for two diaries written by the late model and actress Anna Nicole Smith in the early *****, reports said yesterday. The Dallas-area recording executive bought them after the diaries failed to sell at
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          Lock icon RAIN LISTED IN PEOPLES 100 MOST BEAUTIFUL
          118 42 -DPA South Korean pop star Rain has become the first entertainer from his country to make People magazine's annual "100 Most Beautiful People" list. "I am very honoured. This will be a great boon to my efforts to raise public awareness of me
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          Lock icon SANDRA BULLOCK'S HUSBAND ATTACKED
          68 42 —AFP An obsessed fan tried to run over the husband of Sandra Bullock in an attack at the couple's home near Los Angeles, police said on Friday. Police told AFPthat a woman, Marcia Valentine, attempted to mow down Jesse James after Valentine was discovered on their
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        Subtlety wins big at film fest
        429 42 Family films win top honours for shorts, while gay-themed feature Solos snubbed IT WAS one of the most talked about homegrown films in recent years, but the gay-themed film Solos went home emptyhanded at the Singapore International Film Festival's Silver Screen Awards on Friday.
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        ALL THREE SPIDEY MOVIES AT ONE GO
        97 44 Fancy watching the Spider-Man saga all in one sitting? Golden Village will hold marathon showcases of Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 5 on Friday starting at 7pm at GV Grand, Great World City Level 3 and GV Marina Marina Leisureplex Level 3. Tickets
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        WHY CAN'T WE SIMPLY BE S'PORE?
        483 44  -  Lionel Seah hink+wice Chase for super-structures and marquee events shows Lion City's lack of confidence plus@newstoday.com.sg UNLESS you've been living under a rock, you know there are grand plans in the pipeline for this tiny country. From Formula 1 to integrated resorts, from skyscrapers
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        Love, death and a whole lot of camp
        319 44  -  by Juliana June Rasul THEATREREVIEW I Nothing IN THE middle of Nothing's second act, actors Siti Khalijah and Rizman Putra burst into song Culture Club's Karma Chameleon, to be exact a fitting tribute to the actors' versatility. Cake Theatre's contribution to this
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        Happy Feet
        235 45  -  by Juliana June Rasul DVDREVIEW FILM: Mumble (Elijah Wood) is a penguin without a "heart song" the song every penguin has that identifies his life partner. He dances rather than sings, and for that, is briskly excommunicated from his tribe. Happy Feet's outcast-be-comes-hero premise is familiar Disney shtick,
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      991 46 /a=d,acoxp SATURDAY CHANNEL {J 10- 30 Saturday Movie House CHANNEL d I HIGHLIGHTS TN he ec^ct ofthe THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE 6.00 AM The Ellen DeGeneres I.OOAM Saturday Late Night 6.00 AM Secret History of Late I Channel 5, 10.30pm Show IV Movie Qing Dynasty Jessica Simpson/ Wolves of
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      1115 47 SUNDAY /a^diacorp I CHANNEL n3O Svi'i Next Top CHANNEL^ The Girl Who Punk'd 6.00 AM The Ellen DeGeneres Ashton 6.00 AM The Story of Swan Show IV 12.30 Pepper Dennis 6.30 The Emperors Hugh Laurie/ Heiress Bridenapped 7.00 Springs of Life Tommy Lee 1.30 AM Commander In Chief 8.00 Kids'
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      Lock icon Lethal Lions out for the kill
      536 48  -  JOSE RAYMOND National strike partnership Noh Alam Shah and Indra Sahdan Daud face off NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Home United vTampines Rovers Bishan Stadium, Saturday 7.45pm jose@media corp.com.sg THEY led the line for the Lions and played a huge role in Singapore's successful defence
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      Lock icon Liaoning gored, as Gombak's attacking trio feast
      384 48  -  DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Gombak Utd 5 Liaoning Guangyuan 1 THE Bulls went on the rampage on Friday night, as Gombak United thrashed Liaoning Guangyuan 5-1 in an NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2007 clash at Jalan Besar Stadium. The win moved Gombak
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      120 48 —AFP BEIJING Thai duo Panuwat Muenlek and Chapchai Nirat shared a narrow oneshot lead after the second round of the Pine Valley Beijing Open on Friday, as double major winner John Daly remained two strokes off the pace. Rookie Panuwat fired a 2-under 70 while compatriot
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      LEADING SECOND ROUND SCORES:
      67 48 136 Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 69 67, Panuwat Muenlek(Tha)66 70 137 Scott Strange (Aus) 69 68, Gaurav Ghei (Ind) 65 72 138 Gerald Rosales (Phi) 71 67, John Daly (US) 67 71, Adam Blyth (Aus) 70 68, Brad lies (NZL) 69 69 139 Liang Wen chong (Chn)
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      Lock icon SAA to meet with Zhang and Du
      569 49  -  CUBBY LEONG Eager to get back in the swing, throwers will thrash things out with officials on May 7 cubby@mediacorp.com.sg FINALLY, after months of anger, confusion, tears and snap backs, the feud between Zhang Guirong and Dv Xianhui and the Singapore Athletic Association
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      346 49  -  CHERYL NG AS PART of Adventure Singapore 2007, Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza will host the Downtown Wakeboard Rail Jam Championship on June 16. A specially constructed water tank will be used for the competition, the first time an international wakeboard battle will be
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      All set to be bowled over
      755 50 Proven match-winners, McGrath and Muralitharan's final act could decide the destination of the trophy I CRICKET WORLD CUP FINAL Australia v Sri Lanka BRIDGETOWN, Barbados The moment the two sides opened their respective campaigns in the 2007 World Cup, they seemed destined for a
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      AUSTRALIA Probable line-up:
      27 50 Matthew Hayden Adam Gilchrist (wk) Ricky Ponting (capt) Michael Clarke Andrew Symonds Michael Hussey Shane Watson Brad Hogg Nathan Bracken Shaun Tait Glenn McGrath
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      Lock icon Sorry Oz, but Sri Lanka must win ...
      522 51 Sorry Oz, but Sri Lanka must win AGENCIES To justify the International Cricket Council's (ICC) insistence on having a 51-match, 47-day marathon when they could have chosen the easier option hand the trophy to Australia at the start itself To provide a grand finale to the least-watched cricket World Cup
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      STATS THAT MATTER
      118 51 Total meetings: 64 Australia wins: 42 Sri Lanka wins: 20 Tied: 0 No Result: 2 Last 10 meetings February 2004, Colombo Australia won by 40 runs February 2004, Colombo Sri Lanka won by 3 wkts January 2006, Melbourne Australia won by 116 runs January 2006, Sydney Sri
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      SRI LANKA Probable line-up:
      28 51 Upul Tharanga Sanath Jayasuriya Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Vlahela Jayawardene (capt Chamara Silva Tillakaratne Dilshan Russel Arnold Farveez Maharoof Chaminda Vaas Lasith Malinga Muttiah Muralitharan
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      765 52 —AGENCIES Tensions rise in title race*ajter countrymen Mourinho and Ronaldo square up on television PREMIERSHIP TITLE RACE LONDON The most engaging football drama in Portugal of the past week has not been whether Sporting Lisbon can catch Porto, who lead the league by four points with four
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