Today, 9 May 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY /AppjaPopp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday May 9, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon To stay in the sweet spot...
      454 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH SAN FRANCISCO Singapore must constantly adapt to maintain economic position, says PM IN christie@mediacorp.com.sg THE unionist answered with a smile when the Prime Minister asked if this year's bonus had been a good one. "Six months?" Mr Lee Hsien Loong hazarded. The
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      Lock icon SingTel reports first profit decline in 2 years
      224 1 -BLOOMBERG SINGTEL, South-east Asia's largest telephone company, has reported the first profit decline in two years as earnings growth slowed at its Indonesian affiliate PT Telekomunikasi Selular. Net income fell 41 per cent to $989 million in the fourth quarter ended March
      -BLOOMBERG  -  224 words
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      Turns out Man U aren't welcome now
      698 1  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@mediacorp.com.sg ON THE surface, it looks as if Asian football "brotherhood" has been achieved if at the expense of Red Devil fans on both sides of the Causeway. Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) deputy president Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah yesterday
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      Lock icon No knots for Asian ties
      458 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH PM Lee confident that new US govt will continue to engage the region IN SAN FRANCISCO christie@mediacorp.com.sg REGARDLESS of whether a Democrat or a Republican wins the United States presidential race next year, Singapore is not losing any sleep over how the new
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      M'sia not for opening up S'pore-KL air route this year
      243 2 EVEN as officials from both sides of the border met in the Republic yesterday, Malaysia's Transport Minister voiced caution over opening up the profitable air route between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore this year. Speaking to reporters in XL, Mr Chan
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      Extradition treaty yet to be ratified, but new Indonesian A-G eyes 'big fish'
      354 3 JAKARTA The extradition treaty that Indonesia signed recently with Singapore has yet to become law, but new Attorney-Gen-eral Hendarman Supanji has already set his sights on 15 business executives believed to be hiding millions of dollars in
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      Lock icon The World's on his back
      614 3 —AGENCIES Panel of World Bank board members finds Wolfowitz guilty WASHINGTON Beleaguered World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz continued to dig his heels in yesterday even as a top-level panel found him guilty of violating the agency's rules and his top strategist resigned. To add to
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        POLICE INVESTIGATING SMS HOAX
        89 4 It cropped up as a chain email in 2002, claiming that seven women died after inhaling free perfume samples. And it is now back in circulation as a hoax SMS. In a statement yesterday, the police said it was investigating the information and advised the public
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        Lock icon STORE OFFICERS ON UN MISSION
        55 4 -CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore will deploy two military Dfficersto Nepal as part of the United Nations mission there to oversee the country's peace agreement. Major Ong Chuan Hian and Major Siva Balan Subramanyam will leave on Friday. Both officers will be deployed in the arms nonitoring
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      Hit-and-run accident at Outram
      442 4  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@media corp.com.sg JUST before 10pm on Monday, he purportedly knocked down a woman at Outram Road, sent her flying almost two metres into the air, and sped off without stopping to help. But the 48-year-old male driver, apparently drunk, did not know that eyewitnesses
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      Lock icon NTU alumni members will be glad to head back to school
      464 4  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW graduate school is being planned at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), to be housed at its new satellite campus at one-north in Buona Vista. Its official opening yesterday also witnessed the launch of NTU's
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      Lock icon Changi Airport has it in the bag
      374 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Newsecuritylawson gels, aerosols, liquids enforced smoothly weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE new security restrictions on liquids, aerosols and gels at Changi Airport took off smoothly yesterday without long queues awaiting security clearance or flight delays. Still, despite the ample publicity and signs
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      Lock icon Childcare subsidy for PRs to be cut
      222 6 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE childcare subsidy for children of Singapore permanent residents (PRs) will be withdrawn over the next two years. The subsidies will be cut by half from January next year, and will cease altogether by January 2009. Currently, children aged
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      Family settles dispute amicably
      188 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg A FAMILY divided over Government compensation yesterday decided to settle their case out of court Mr Tan Jong Kui had filed a civil suit against his sister, brother and father over demolition compensation for a property at Hock Kee House in
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      Lock icon SOLVING THE BABY PUZZLE
      959 8  -  PAULIN STRAUGHAN AS FERTILITY rates continue to fall in developed economies worldwide and governments struggle to design comprehensive pro-family packages to arrest these trends, it is critical that we identify the structural and cultural constraints modern economies pose to parenthood commitment Three main developments in recent
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      Lock icon Abe's offering vexes S Korea
      567 10 -AGENCIES But China retains diplomatic stance over Japan PM's ritual at Yasukuni war shrine TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an offering last month to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine, a shrine spokeswoman said Tuesday. Mr Abe, using his title of prime minister, offered
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon FORMER FOES SHARE POWER IN N IRELAND
        98 10 -AFP Northern Ireland entered a new era yesterday as former Protestant and Catholic arch-foes were sworn in to share power and restore self-rule in the long-troubled province. Veteran Protestant leader lan Paisley, Northern Ireland's new First Minister, said there was a real chance
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        Lock icon NORTH, SOUTH KOREA BEGIN FIRST TOP-LEVEL TALKS IN A YEAR
        155 10 —AFP North and South Korea Tuesday began their first top-level military talks in a year, but differences over the agenda quickly surfaced. The North called for talks about the disputed western sea border, while the South said it wants the
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      288 8 FINANCIAL GENIUSES TO SHARE THEIR WP^yVl !1 tT Special Article MONEY makes money is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was highlighted that wealth is created by a small group of people whilst the lower income group is barely struggling along. This is because the latter
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Treading softly, but ...
      470 11 Treading softly, but -AGENCIES Analysts doubt Yudhoyono's ability to keep promises JAKARTA Political watchers say that the limited Cabinet reshuffle by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday reflects the President's cautious attitude when it comes to reforming the economic sector. Analysts are wondering how the President will be able
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  470 words
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      Anwar challenged for Keadilan top post
      153 11 KUALA LUMPUR The presidency of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat was supposed to be his for the taking. But Mr Anwar Ibrahim should he decide to run for the contest as widely expected will now face a challenge from the party's former deputy president Mr
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      Lock icon JI behind attack at Philippine market?
      327 12 ■AFP Blast comes one week before national mid-term elections COTABATO (Philippines) A powerful homemade bomb tore through a packed public market in the southern Philippine city of Tacurong yesterday, killing three people and seriously wounding 33. The military said the attack bore the hallmarks
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        Lock icon THAKSIN FACING NEW JAIL THREAT
        98 12 -AFP Thailand's deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra could face a 15-year jail term if he is found guilty of faking the transfer of Shin Corp shares. The Assets Examination Committee (AEC) a high-powered panel of graft busters will open a new investigation to determine if
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        Lock icon GUSMAO CALLS FOR PEACE, UNITY
        98 12 —AFP East Timor's outgoing President Xanana Gusmao yesterday appealed for unity and peace in the troubled nation as it readied for the run-off election in which voters will choose his successor. Current Prime Minister Jose RamosHorta and former freedom fighter Francisco Guterres, will contest a
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        Lock icon HEROD'S TOMB FOUND
        114 12 -DPA Israeli scientists said yesterday that they had discovered the tomb of Herod the Great the notorious, Rome-appointed "King of the Jews" who ruled over the Biblical kingdom of Judaea at the time of the birth of Jesus. Herodium, named after the monarch, is one of the
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      Lock icon Protesters confront army in Thai south
      336 12 -AGENCIES PATTANI In a tense face-off with the Thai army, more than 1,000 demonstrators protested against the arrest of about 20 Thai Muslims in the restive south yesterday, and used a convoy of pickups and motorcycles to make their message heard. The protesters gathered
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      Lock icon Khairy, from a firebrand to a doting father-to-be
      238 14 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Impending fatherhood appears to have mellowed firebrand and rising politician, Mr Khairy Jamaluddin, the son-in-law of the Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi at least for now. The Umno Youth deputy chief, who is well-known for Malay chauvinist views, revealed
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      Lock icon Anwar refuses to fade away
      523 14  -  NOORMOHDAZIZ He may play a leading role in next elections: Analysts aziz@media corp.com.sg THE main component of Malaysia's ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN), has officially shut the door on former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, putting an end to the debate on the possibility of
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      Lock icon She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.
      199 16 -AFP President Bush on the Queen's reaction to his faux pas HUSH IHIKS UK: by ueorge! He did it again, and what a royal mess it was! United States President George Bush, well known for his verba|
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      Lock icon Elderly Aussies set up suicide labs
      454 16 -AFP Desperation forces old folk to combine resources to produce euthanasia drug SYDNEY Frustrated elderly Australians are either smuggling or setting up backyard laboratories to manufacture an illegal euthanasia drug so they can end their lives when they can no longer take care of
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      Lock icon US military posts Iraq combat video on YouTube
      218 18 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States military has indulged in a bit of propaganda in a move to gain support for the war in Iraq by posting video clips of its soldiers in action. Troops in combat and insurgents being bombed are part
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      Lock icon Sarkozy picks moderate as his PM
      324 18 -AGENCIES PARIS French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy is planning to appoint one of his most moderate allies as France's Prime Minister in an attempt to win support for the contentious labour reforms he has said are essential to the country's economic future. He will name
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      Lock icon BLAIR CONGRATULATES FRANCE'S PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE ON YOUTUBE
      173 18 -AP LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair took to the Internet to congratulate Mr Nicolas Sarkozy on winning France's presidential election, posting video messages in English and in French (picture) on You Tube. Mr Blair recorded a two-and-a-half-minute English message to President-elect Sarkozy as
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    66 22  -  Reader Karen Ang With the numerous recent MRT platform mishaps and suicides, the transport bodies must come up with preventive measures to ensure maximum safety for its commuters. While in Tokyo, I saw glass sliding doors erected on some above-the-ground train platforms which only open when the train has
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      Make bus stops safer now, with quick fix
      310 22  -  SEE LEONG KIT Letter from I REFER to the recent May Day accident where a car had smashed into a Penang Road bus stop, injuring five people. The driver was later arrested for suspected drink-driving. The victims were all women three in
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      Lock icon No bubble to burst
      546 22  -  CHARLES TAN MEAH YANG Strong fundamentals back high property prices here Letter from I WRITE in response to the letters from concerned readers Lim Boon Hee and Steve Ngo, regarding their views on the state of global price levels and, more specifically, those of our local
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      259 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BYEA REAW BEAUTY IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Have you ever stopped to consider just how effectively traditional children's literature teaches kids, and especially little girls, that they must be beautiful or else? It's just amazing to see how many of the age-old stories centre
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      Majority loses, too
      332 24  -  MARTIN WOO Ownerswhoobjecttoa sale without valid reasons should compensate others Letter from THERE has been a spate of letters from minority owners voicing their complaints on the existing en bloc laws. They purport that these laws are "totally inadequate and lopsided", as noted by Tan Kirn Liang
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      Customers can tell banks: Do not call
      207 24  -  ONG-ANG Al BOON Letter from Director, The Association of Banks in Singapore I REFER to Mr Peter Low Wai Keong's letter, "Time to put unsolicited calls on hold" (April 27). We wish to inform Mr Low that for telemarketing activities, banks subscribe to
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      More than just a taste of home
      557 25  -  ROYQUEK Singapore Day to help overseas Singaporeans stay engaged, connected Letter from Director Overseas Singapore Unit (OSU) Prime Minister's Office I REFER to the commentary by Mr Siew Kum Hong, "Not a recipe to win hearts over" (May 4). The organisers of Singapore
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      Lock icon Temasek hangs up on Telekom
      441 26  -  JOHNSON CHOO 3.3-per-cent stake sold for profit of about $46m johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings has offloaded its 3.3-per-cent stake in Telekom Malaysia for about RMI.2 billion ($530 million), in a move that some observers say paves the way for its eventual exit from Malaysia's largest
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      218 26 938 LIVE -93BLIVE DOWJONES Water treatment firm Hyflux and two Saudi Arabia partners will invest $45 million in a new joint venture company that will recycle used oil. Hyflux will own a 41.5-per-cent stake in the company. It will increase capacity at its Singapore used-oil recycling plant and build
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      Lock icon Thomson may buy Reuters for $26.5b
      237 26 BLOOMBERG CONFIRMING recent speculation, Thomson Corp plans to acquire Reuters Group in an £8.77-billion ($26.47-billion) deal that would create the biggest financial news and information company. Thomson is offering 352.5 pence in cash and 0.16 Thomson shares for each Reuters share, the companies said
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top falls
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        112 27 ■AFP Share prices closed 1.1 per cent lower yesterday on profit taking after the recent record rally, dealers said. The ST Index closed down 38.38 points at 3,439.21 on volume of 2.45 billion shares worth $2.28 billion. Losers outnumbered gainers 617 to 210, with 595 issues unchanged. Blue chips
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        52 27 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.84 -12.00 -0.07 HK Hang Seng *****.35 -100.20 -0.01 Australia ASX200 0304.40 -31.30 -0.40 Mumbai Sensex *****.40 -113.70 -0.82 Korea Comp 1582.05 -1.81 -0.11 KLCI 1354.07 -10.01 -0.78 SET Index 712.87 -3.57 -0.50 Jakarta Comp 2022.70 -14.25 -0.70 Shenzhen B 080.50
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        Commodities
        20 27 Gold US$/oz 690.40 Silver US$/oz 13.64 Platinum US$/oz 1,350.90 Rubber cents/kg 358.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 2400.00 Brant USS/barrel 63.42
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        Your S$1 buys
        28 27 USS 0.6600 UK£ 0.3312 Yen 79.1037 HKS 5.1605 RM 2.2490 Euro ***** Rupiah 5865.9494 Baht 21.5695 Peso 31.1894 AS 0.7956 Indian Rs 26.9322 Yuan 5.0795
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      Lock icon Yahoo searches to grow S'pore hub
      409 27  -  CHRISTIE LOH More California firms plan to expand here, too IN SAN FRANCISCO christie@media corp.com.sg SEARCH-engine giant Yahoo plans to "more than double" its workforce in Singapore, which may become the company's hub for Asia. Revealing this during a phone interview, vice-president for international
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        Lock icon Qantas suitor accepts rebuff
        322 28 -AGENCIES Messy deal sees possibility of new bid by buyout group MACQUARIE Bank and its partners yesterday admitted defeat on their Asll.l billion ($13.95 billion) buyout of Qantas Airways after abandoning the last legal avenue to salvage the offer. They had sought to convince the authorities
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        Lock icon Dow Jones trades: SEC sues Hong Kong couple
        267 28 BLOOMBERG THE US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a Hong Kong couple for using inside information to make US$B.2 million ($12.44 million) from purchases of Dow Jones Co stock before News Corp's US$5 billion bid for the company. Wong Kan King
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        303 28 -BLOOMBERG FORMER New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso won a ruling yesterday that makes it more likely he can keep his US$l9O million ($2BB million) pay package that the state challenged in a lawsuit Mr Grasso appealed against four of six claims in the
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        442 29  -  TORCHING LI Simple steps for SMEs to overcome some challenges chingli@media corp. com. sg LACK of access to capital, difficulty in hiring good workers these are some of the common grouses of Singapore's struggling Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). But while resolving theses issues may be beyond
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        203 29  -  DAPHNE CHUAH As a heroin-addict, many wrote off Vikram Laishram as a menace to society 10 years ago. Now, the 24-year-old has not only shaken off his addiction, he is heading a project aimed at improving the health of youth in Manipur, where
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      947 30  -  Karman Tse Thirsty Traveller Kevin Brauch stops over in Singapore to eat drink but of course! and talk about being a husky in another life karman@mediacorp.com.sg I I A KEVIN Brauch often gets "the shakes". Not surprisingly, some might think, given that Brauch is known to millions around
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      393 32 THE network that created oncehot TV drama Lost is now attempting to rescue it by ending the show in 2010, reported AP. Bowing to the fact that convention isn't working for the drama about plane-crash survivors on a surreal island, ABC is taking the
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      767 32  -  ZULOTHMAN Malaysian film-maker returns to racing movies following terrifying success of Jangan Pandang Belakang zul@media corp.com.sg MALAYSIAN auteur Ahmad Idham's fifth directorial eftortjangan Pandang Belakang (Don't Look Back) may be one of the most talked about Malay horror flicks in a while but don't expect him
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        604 34  -  JEANINETAN Sing to the Dawn is Raintree Picture's most expensive production to date jeanine@media corp.com.sg DESPITE its forte being live-action films, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures' first animated feature Sing to the Dawn has the biggest budget of any film spearheaded by the company. Based on
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          91 34 MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is looking for male child actors between nine and 12 years old, bilingual in Mandarin and English and active in sports for an upcoming film. Taller Than Yao Ming. Auditions will be held at Caldecott Broadcast Centre on May 19,20,26 and 27, from 10am to
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          74 34 Have theatrical aspirations but limited experience? Kate Wen's So You Think You Can Act?ta\k may help. In town to judge the auditions for The King and I, Wen is an expert in the performing arts, and is part of The King and /Asia touring company.
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          71 34 The first-ever Grey Festival, which runs from today to Sunday at the Substation, celebrates contemporary Indian dance. Both dance practitioners and scholars will appear to share their expertise on the dance form. Tickets are priced at $35 for the workshops, and $25 for dance performances, except
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          60 34 Collecting works of photography need not be an expensive hobby, as one will discover at the first-ever Affordable Photo Fair, where the works by professional and emerging Singaporean photographers all cost less than $300. The fair will be held at Loof at Odeon Towers on Saturday from
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      745 36  -  Leonard Thomas AFC chief Hammam gets his way as Malaysia reject United, but there can be no winners when football is the loser LESS than 24 hours after Manchester United collected their 16th English league crown, he blasted the club, chiding them for being disrespectful.
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      375 36 -AFP ROME France has been rocked by the news that swim star Laure Manaudou has left the country for Italy in order to be with her boyfriend, Italian swimmer Luca Marin. The 20-year-old dominated the women's competition at the recent World Championships
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      327 37 BLOOMBERG Player apologises on club's website for stamping on Ronaldo during match MANCHESTER City defender Michael Ball yesterday admitted violent conduct for stamping on Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo. Fulham's Michael Brown faces a similar charge relating to Liverpool's Xabi Alonso. The Football Association charged the players
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      177 37 -AFP LONDON Watford manager Adrian Boothroyd (picture) has signed a new contract which will keep him at the club till 2010 although the Hornets have been relegated from the Premiership. The 36-year-old Boothroyd, who joined the club two years ago, has been given
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      541 37  -  DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Liaoning Guangyuan v Sengkang Queenstown Stadium, 7.45pm darren@media corp. com. sg LIAONING Guangyuan currently prop up the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2007 table with three points from eight matches. They have scored 11 goals and conceded 23. While they
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      1541 38 AFTER Arsenal's unbeaten 2003/04 season and Chelsea's titles in 2005 and 2006, the impatient critics grew bolder. Alex Ferguson was over-the-hill, they carped, as he entered his 20th year in charge of Manchester United. One newspaper hack predicted a fruitless 2006/07 season and to "expect the Fergie
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      519 38 Lampard: Congratulations on winning the title, but LONDON Frank Lampard (picture) believes Chelsea are still the best team in the Premiership and he is determined to hammer home the point by inflicting a pair of defeats on Manchester United. Jose Mourinho's side surrendered the title to United on Sunday, but
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      322 39 Then there were 18 GETTY IMAGES AGENCIES LONDON Alan Pardew (picture) admitted Charlton deserved to be relegated after his side crashed out of the Premiership. The south London club's slender hopes of avoiding the drop were extinguished on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) as Tottenham won 2-0 at the Valley.
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