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  • 28 1 TODAY //\=DIA.CORP we set you thinking MICA (P) 314/10/2006 Friday May 25, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=d/aCorp we set you thinking MICA (P) 314/10/2006 Friday May 25, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 799 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT UNSW tries to placate students with generous offer but... weekeat@media corp.com.sg WITH its reputation on the line, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) went into damage-con-trol mode yesterday and offered students affected by its local campus closure more help to resume
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  • 577 1  -  -TANHUILENG LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg SEVEN government agencies were present at a press conference yesterday to update the public on efforts to control the dengue problem, which has claimed its first life this year. The media briefing on the subject at
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    • 471 2  -  lANDECOTTA but nobody's complaining .IN MONTE CARLO, MONACO ian@media corp.com.sg THE narrow twisty streets of the city have begun echoing to the screams only an Fl aficionado can truly appreciate that produced by 800bhp aerodynamic works of art being wrestled around the curves by world champion
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    • 383 3 THE Riau Islands are to protest against proposed military exercises between Indonesia and Singapore to be held in the province. The villagers there were "scared" to learn that weapons would be used, provincial Governor Ismeth Abdullah told the local media. And if
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    • 387 3 AGENCIES TEMESEK Holdings is under investigation in Indonesia for alleged monopoly practices in the telecoms industry, an official said yesterday. Indonesia's anti-monopoly watchdog said it would start interviewing witnesses after concerns that the company was in breach of the nation's business competition law. The
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    • 684 4  -  LEE U-WEN But UNSW should continue with its research plans here u-wen@media corp.com.sg THE courtship went on for two years but the marriage thatfollowed lasted just three years, ending in a shocking split on Wednesday. When the news broke that the University of New
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    • 1280 6  -  PRITHPAL SINGH Will China Eastern Airlines become the proverbial albatross round SlA's neck? IF SINGAPORE Airlines' track record of management and investment deals with other airlines is anything to go by, the sceptics among us are going to throw up their hands and say
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      • 157 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG From tomorrow, residents staying around the Lentor estate will have one more way of getting home after SMRT rolls out its first premium bus service since the easing of such routes in February. Under the revisions, the Public Transport Council did away with strictly defined
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      • 87 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA More mainstream schools will soon be able to cater to students with special needs such as mild to moderate dyslexia and autism. The Education Ministry said by the middle of next year, it would provide an additional 33 schools with Special Needs Officers
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    • 376 8  -  SHERALYN TAY Migraine sufferers may have increased likelihood of stroke sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg HER migraines were so debilitating that Ms Foo Sok Leng missed a total of 100 days of school during her crucial A-level year. The disruption affected her studies so badly that she had
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    • 749 9 Brought to you by WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE 10 workers died at workplaces in the first half of May With each death at the workplace, a family is heartbroken with the sudden loss of a loved one who does not return home
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    • 368 10  -  koh mui fong JASMINE YIN Long waiting lists for skills upgrading as more opt to get retrained jasmine@media corp.com.sg IT USED to be difficult getting staff to go for re-training, but a wage reform in 2005 has led to another problem albeit a happy one at
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    • 314 10  -  -ANSLEYNG THE Court of Appeal yesterday tripled the jail term of a rapist sending him to prison for six years and three months and added caning to his sentence for raping andsodomising his married lover. Mohammed Liton Mohammed Syeed Mallik, who returned to the
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    • 493 12  -  TAN HUI LENG A bed for acute illness costs Govt $1,000 a day; heavy usage ups costs huileng@media corp.com.sg THE current high occupancy rate at some public hospitals is stressing doctors to discharge their patients, admitted Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday. Occupancy
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      83 12  - -001 BOON KEONG 001 BOON KEONG WAR SHIPS UP CLOSE: Check out this pair of Formidable-class frigates at the Changi Naval Base this weekend, when the Republic of Singapore Navy celebrates its 40th anniversary with an Open House. Aside from viewing warships and weapon systems, visitors will also get to
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    • 242 13 NAZRYBAHRAWI COMPANIES that qualify for the Work-Life Works! (WoW!) Fund to promote a family-friendly workplace will soon receive up to a maximum of $10,000 in funding. This is down from the previous limit of $30,000. By cutting the grants, the Ministry of
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    • 468 13  -  DAPHNECHUAH As GSS kicks off islandwide, locals gear up to spend more daphne@media corp.com.sg SINGAPOREANS are prepared to spend 12 per cent more at this year's Great Singapore Sale (GSS) than at last year's a result of higher consumer sentiment in a booming economy.
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    • 146 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE office rents are the fifth fastest-growing in the world, according to the findings of CB Richard Ellis' semi-annual Global Market Rents survey of 176 cities. In the 12 months up to May, rents in Singapore rose 54 per cent to US$6B ($104)
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    • 590 14  -  CLEMENT MESENAS but Arroyo will face the woes of out-of-work Filipino maids as well EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@media corp.com.sg PHILIPPINE President Gloria Arroyo, a United States trained economist, is expected to make a state visit to Singapore next month where she will join 300 global leaders at the World
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    • 398 16 -AGENCIES Rebels blow up army bus in city after storming navy base COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels blew up an army bus in Sri Lanka's capital yesterday, killing at least one soldier, just hours after the guerrillas said they had also stormed a naval base and killed 35
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      • 83 16 BLOOMBERG Diamond Pet Foods is recalling its Nutra Nuggets Lamb Meal and Rice Formula for dogs because of melamine contamination. No pet deaths have been reported to date, the company said in a statement. The affected products are 40-pound bags sold through retailers in Arizona,
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      • 66 16 —AFP Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was released from hospital yesterday after recovering from a heart attack. He was discharged after responding satisfactorily to treatment but would continue with a rehabilitation programme, the hospital said in a statement. The 81-year-old was admitted to the National Heart
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      • 124 16 -AFP China and Japan will hold the next round of talks on resolving their territorial row over East China Sea gas fields today, the Chinese foreign ministry said. "China stands ready to work with Japan to press ahead with consultation to find a plan
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    • 440 16 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China has quashed rumours that the nation's bananas contain a virus similar to the one that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or Sars, amid mounting public paranoia over food and consumer safety. Domestic mobile phone users received text messages about a "Sars-like"
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    • 281 18 —AP GARDEN CITY (New York) A millionaire couple have been accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their New York home for years. Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 35, and husband Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, were arrested last week after one of their servants was
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    • 223 18 —AFP JAKARTA A strong earthquake struck eastern Indonesia yesterday, causing panicstricken residents to flee homes and buildings on an island near its epicentre, officials said. The undersea earthquake struck off Sumbawa, part of an island chain east of Bali, and prompted a brief tsunami
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    • 218 18 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police said yesterday they had conducted major raids arresting more than 30 foreigners for operating Internet and other scams that snared victims across the Asia-Pacific. Some 380 police, immigration and religious officials made the arrests in raids from Monday to
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    • 370 18 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Just days before crucial internal elections, opposition politician Mr Anwar Ibrahim's (picture) party is racked by dissent, with one colleague challenging his nomination for the party presidency while another is accusing him of backstabbing. The development in the Parti
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    • 392 19 AGENCIES Superpower signals displeasure as Iran defies UN nuclear agency WASHINGTON The United States has threatened new United Nations sanctions to punish Iran's nuclear drive as it ratcheted up tensions with the biggest display of naval power in the Gulf in years. Hours after a
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    • 280 19 -AFP WASHINGTON A key former aide of the United States Justice Department has admitted that she crossed the line by showing political favouritism in hiring top prosecutors. However, she did not link the White House to the scandal over their firings. Ms Monica
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    • 238 20 ■AFP TOKYO Southeast Asia should learn lessons from the European Union's eastward expansion as it considers deeper economic ties with nations such as India, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Mr Lee compared the relationship between Southeast Asia and India to
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    • 335 20 -AP Proposes successor to Kyoto Protocol TOKYO -Japan called yesterday for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over top offenders the United States and China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, unveiling the
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    • 345 22 —AFP No one will be exempt in the clean-up, says Xi SHANGHAI Shanghai's new Communist Party chief said corruption had done enormous harm to China's economic hub, as he vowed to stamp out graft and build the city into a global financial centre.
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    • 286 22 AP MANILA North Korea accused the United States, Japan and South Korea of being Asia's biggest security threats and pledged to give up its nuclear weapons if they dismantle missiles aimed at it, in a document submitted to a regional
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 81 24 AP A fire started by a lightning strike killed seven students and injured 39 others at a primary school in southwestern China, an official said yesterday. The lightning hit a tree next to the school in Chongqing city on Wednesday, igniting a fire that spread
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      • 81 24 AP A lawmaker facing eight criminal charges, including murder, vowed to improve law and order in Uttar Pradesh yesterday, a day after he was sworn in as a minister in the northern Indian state. Mr Anand Sen Yadav told AP: "Improvement in law and
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      • 80 24 AP The police plan to pursue 14 bribery charges against a member of New Zealand's Parliament. It is the first time such serious charges have been pursued against a serving lawmaker in New Zealand. The decision to press charges follows a police investigation
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    • 287 24 AFP PERTH An Australian man was jailed for more than two years yesterday for involvement in a white supremacist conspiracy to firebomb Chinese restaurants. John Van Blitterswyk, 56, was convicted of plotting to attack four Chinese restaurants in Perth in 2004 with three other
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    • 431 26 —AGENCIES It plans incursion into north Iraq to take down rebels ANKARA Turkey's Parliament is ready to approve a military incursion into northern Iraq to attack members of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, after a suicide bombing
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    • 308 26 —AFP I BEIJING The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) wants to finally end tensions arising from its deadly 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and establish ties with China, a general with the alliance said in comments published here yesterday.
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    • 354 26 —AGENCIES NABLUS (West Bank) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for a halt to rocket fire and a truce with Israel yesterday after the army seized 33 senior Hamas figures in its latest crackdown aimed at stopping the salvos from Gaza. "We don't need
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    • 325 26 -AFP ALEY (Lebanon) Sixteen people were wounded when a bomb exploded in a popular mountain resort outside Beirut, the third such attack in just four days, further rattling the nerves of ordinary Lebanese. Prime Minister Fuad Siniora vowed yesterday to eradicate terror after the
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    • 376 27 LONDON Three British terror suspects who were subject to control orders restricting their movements have gone missing and the Home Ministry is under pressure to review the orders, which led to such a lapse. The trio are suspected by the police of
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    • 220 28 —THE GUARDIAN NEW YORK A former Coca-Cola secretary has been sentenced to eight years in prison for masterminding a foiled plot to sell a secret formula for a new soft drink to her employer's arch-rival, Pepsi. Joya Williams, 42, was convicted
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    • 355 28 BLOOMBERG US govt regulators distance themselves from drug company WASHINGTON United States government regulators have embarked on a damage control exercise to distance themselves from the fallout over the diabetes drug, Avandia. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had warned GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in
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    • 380 30  -  REACTIONS TO UNSW ASIA'S CLOSURE Such an ambitious venture should have better planning Letter from CALVIN FONG I AM a graduate of the Sydney campus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and the news of UNSW Asia's closure will stir an emotional response
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    • 141 30  -  HO KONG LOON Letter from THE sudden closure of UNSW Asia is an induced miscarriage that severely trauma,tised those who had been successfully courted by the renowned Australian institution of higher learning. A total of 148 young men and women have had
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    • 282 32  -  LIMWEETECK Govt must make sure public resources have not been wasted on UNSW project Letter from IMAGINE studying for less than a semester and then being told it is to be your last that's the situation University of New South Wales (UNSW) Asia
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    • 152 32  -  MEERASAHASRANAMAN THE students and faculty who chose to join UNSW Asia have been completely let down. While there may be students who want the experience of living in Sydney when they choose to pursue an Australian degree, there are others who prefer to study
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    • 266 32  -  SIMON NG YAP PENG Letter from I READ with your concern your report about the closure of the UNSW Asia campus. I would like to appeal to the relevant authorities to re-con-sider UNSW's revision of its enrolment plan and to let it
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    • 284 32  -  KEVIN LIM PROVIDING an education is not only a business but more importantly, it is also a social responsibility. I have not heard of an educational institution closing after just two months of classes, after planning and committing millions of dollars just three years ago. The
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    • 279 34  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I THE THE LITTLE GIRL AT THE AIRPORT You can learn a lot by watching people (which happens to be a favourite pastime of mine). I was doing just that while waiting to catch a plane some 20 years ago atthe Los
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    • 312 34  -  GEOFFREY YEOH Women's group 'support of lesbian lifestyle' upsetting Letter from I WAS dismayed when I read the report, "Aware's controversial choice for charity gala premiere" (May 19-20). It was highlighted that the Association for Women, Action and Research (Aware) had chosen a movie
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    • 199 34  -  TANPUAYHOON Letter from President, Restroom Association (Singapore) WE WRITE in response to the letter by the Disabled People's Association (DPA) president Leo Chen lan (May 18). We agree that public education on good toilet etiquette is the key to ensuring that public toilets built
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    • 244 36  -  NOELLETANG Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter, "Have a lookout on the MRT platform to save lives" by Chris Chong (May 16). SMRT takes a serious view of safety of our network, as our business
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    • 341 36  -  TAN QUEE HONG Action taken against those who violate them Acting Director Pollution Control Department National Environment Agency tion noise limits for construction site within 150 m of residential premises at night and on Sundays and public holidays. The penalties for exceeding the permissible
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    • 775 39  -  Tabitha Wang Sometimes, it doesn't pay to tell the truth I THOUGHT The Great Singapore Sale had come early. I had gone to a shop along Orchard Road for my weekly supply of biscuits. My husband eats them by the pack so I knew how much they
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    • 796 41  -  GIN TAN Doctors did not immediately respond to calls for help Letter from A RECENT experience left me wondering about the standard of healthcare at our public hospitals. My 12-month-old daughter, Angela, was admitted to XX Women's and Children's Hospital on April
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    • 431 44  -  JOSEPH YADAO Yellow Pages chief takes boardroom dispute in stride joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg IT IS business as usual at Yellow Pages, the mainboard-listed telephone directory publisher caught in a boardroom tussle, said chief executive Goh Sik Ngee (picture). However, Mr Goh who is the target of
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    • 174 44 -AP For the first time, property mogul Ong Beng Seng, 61, has made it into Forbes Asia magazine's list of top 40 richest Malaysian businesspersons. With a net worth estimated at US$5BO million ($885.4 million), Mr Ong holds spot number 12. The Malaysian citizen living in Singapore recently
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    • 367 48 —AGENCIES The airline seeks to expand its own budget carrier into Asia QANTAS Airways is expecting Tiger Airways to claw away some market share when the Singapore-based discount carrier enters the Australian market later this year. Mr Geoff Dixon, chief executive of Qantas, told this to
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    • 245 48 AFP MALAYSIAN budget carrier Air Asia (picture) reported a sixfold increase in third-quarter net profit, putting it on track for double digit growth over the full year. Air Asia's net profit for the three months to March jumped to RM86.87 million ($39.16 million)
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    • 421 50 BLOOMBERG, AFP Ex-Fed chairman believes current rally won't hold FORMER Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said he was concerned Chinese stocks might undergo a "dramatic contraction" after its main stock index jumped more than 90 per cent this year. The benchmark CSI 300 Index, which
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      • 100 53 —AFP SHARE prices closed 0.81 per cent lower yesterday on consolidation after a record-breaking run as investors turned cautious, dealers said. The ST Index closed down 28.75 points at 3,530.26 on a volume of 2.35 billion shares worth $2.28 billion. Losers beat gainers 548 to 222, with 700 unchanged
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    • 212 53 BLOOMBERG DBS Group Holdings yesterday incorporated its wholly-owned subsidiary in China with a registered capital of 4 billion yuan ($798 million). This is shortly after the bank received final approval to incorporate locally in China. Singapore will offer tax breaks on income from liquefied natural gas (LNG) and
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    • 1473 54  -  JeanineTan HOW does an actor charm a roomful of international journalists, most of whom have only a vague idea that he's supposed to be very, very famous in Asia? Why, make everyone take a photo with him, of course. That's how Chow Yun Fat went from being
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    • 266 54 IN PIRATES of the Caribbean: At World's End, Bill Nighy finally shows his face. As Davy Jones, his look is one of an octopus having swallowed his head, but in a poignant moment in the film when Jones meets his former lover, audiences finally get
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    • 128 54 REMEMBER when Captain Barbossa, played by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, was the bad guy in the first Pirates film? In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, he's gone even further than just turning over a H new leaf: He's become m Winston Churchill. Or,
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    • 583 56  -  Felix Cheonq The island state gets more mentions in Hollywood films, but it's not quite the country we're familiar with AUDIENCES here will no doubt get a kick when they watch Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, now showing. That's because the third part in the Pirates
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    • 525 58 —ap Her powerful voice outdoes rival Blake Lewis' beatboxing showmanship THE big voice overwhelmed the beatbox as Jordin Sparks was crowned the newest and youngest American Idol. Sparks, 17, was announced as the winner of the television singing competition on Wednesday night She
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    • 149 58 BLOOMBERG FROM a financial and artistic perspective, it hasn't always mattered who becomes the next American Idol. In season three, Jennifer Hudson was eliminated halfway through the competition. In February, she won an Academy Award for her role in the 2006 film, Dreamgirls. Last
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    • 284 60 —AFP CHINESE director Zhang Yimou will head the jury of this year's Venice film festival marking the event's 75th anniversary, organisers said. "Zhang is the only director in the world to have won all the most important prizes at the Mostra of Venice in
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    • 584 62  -  VALARIETAN ROSS WALLACE True story of Dutch girl at centre of epic custody battle to be filmed here IN CANNES ross@media corp.com.sg DEADLY riots and the tension-filled true story of a teenage girl at the centre of conflict between East and West will soon be
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    • 386 63  -  ZULOTHMAN Spore producer to rock Global Sessions zul@media corp.com.sg HIS affinity for electronic music is taking him places: Producer Sam Yap (picture) better known in the music circles as Akien left yesterday to compete at the Thirst Studio Global Sessions in Las Vegas. The annual contest is sponsored
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      • 47 63 The Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2007 is drawing to a close. So, catch French performance group Deviation at the Esplanade on Saturday and Sunday. Also, don't miss the free outdoor events, Deballage Public and Murmurant. Get more details from www.voilah.sg/Deviation.htm.
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    • 154 64 -AP GLORIOUS booksellers of America: Please welcome the esteemed Borat Sagdiyev. The ever eloquent ambassador from Kazakhstan has a book, with two titles, coming out this fall: Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Borat: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation
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    • 524 64  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW i i by, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worid's End PIRATES of the Caribbean: At World's End represents everything that is wrong with big studio productions, and yet it is also a fine example of why people keep going to the movies
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    • 348 64  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by I I Infamous IT'S star-studded, flashy but not necessary an improvement Released a year after Capote, Infamous follows the same impulse of spinning a story around American novelist Truman Capote's struggle to finish his nonfiction novel,
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    • 280 64  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW 1-1 by I Overture A simple story, simply told. That's the old-fashioned, laidback charm of this Thai offering, The Overture. Based on the life of traditional Thai music maestro Luang Pradit Pairoh, the
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    • 481 68  -  TAN YO-HINN WHILE Singapore has ruled the South-east Asian waterpolo pool at 21 successive SEA Games since 1965, the national team has failed to translate that dominance beyond the region. Former national star Jerome Lav wants to change all that The four-time SEA Games champion, who
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    • 139 68  -  —TAN-YO-HINN Singapore's Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu (picture) are through to the women's doubles semi-finals at the 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, after they beat Germany's Zhenqi Barthel and Nicole Struse 4-2 (11-6, 11-3, 6-11,11-4, 5-11,11-1) yesterday. They will meet China's Wang Nan and
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    • 460 69 —AFP Premiership champs cancel XL date, M'sia annoyed AFC won't budge KUALA LUMPUR Premiership champions Manchester United bowed to pressure from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) yesterday and called off their July 27 friendly clash here. The decision followed talks on Wednesday between AFC
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    • 412 69  -  DARREN LAI BASKETBALL 2007 NBA Superstar Camp IN SHANGHAI darren@mediacorp.com.sg WITH two National Basketball Association (NBA) stars in town for the 2007 adidas Superstar Camp (from this Monday to Saturday) at the Shanghai Sports Academy, China's most fashionable city is buzzing with
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    • 419 69  -  CUBBY LEONG THEY are the samba queens of beach volleyball. Ranked No 1 in the world, Larissa Franca and Juliana Felisberta Silva have amassed U*****,750 ($815,196) in prize money over three years. The trophy cabinet is missing only an Olympic medal and
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      • 584 70  -  JOSE RAYMOND Lions'first-leg triumph over Thailand in the 2007 Asean Cup Final marred by disgraceful scenes jose@media corp.com.sg QUITE possibly it was the last time the Grand Old Lady would see 55,000 fans packed into her stands for a competitive football match.
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    • 677 71  -  HAKIKAT RAI Now 34, the National Stadium will make way for a new sports hub later in the year. To honour a Grand Old Lady that has become Singapore's most powerful and poignant sporting icon, Today has identified 34 of the most special sporting moments at Kallang.
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    • 212 71 SHARE YOUR STORY I Share with us your most memorable moments at I the National Stadium. Each week, the two best letters will win a $100 ticket voucher each from Jetstar (terms and conditions apply). Send your letters (not more than 200 words) to sports@newstoday.com.sg. Include your name, IC number
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    • 434 72  -  JOSE RAYMOND But champs SAFFC will face stiff resistance from surprise package Gombak NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO7 SAFFC v Gombak United Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.45pm jose@media corp.com.sg IT'S an unfamiliar position for SAFFC and coach Richard Bok is not a happy man. The Warriors were
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    • 244 72  -  JOSE RAYMOND HE ONLY wanted a part-time contract with Home United at the start of the season, but was persuaded to turn professional. Goh Swee Swee's (picture) decision to take up the offer with the Protectors looks like it is paying off. Yesterday, the 21-year-old
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    • 97 72 Goalkeepers: Hassan Sunny (Geylang Utd), Jasper Chan (Young Lions) Defenders: Sevki Sha'ban (Gombak Utd), Shahril Alias (Home Utd), Shaiful Esah, Hafiz Osman (both SAFFC), Shariff Samat (Tampines Rovers), Baihakki Khaizan, Ismail Yunos (both Young Lions) Midfielders: Syed Thaha (Geylang), Shahril Ishak(Home), Ridhuan Muhd (Tampines), Erwan Gunawan, Hariss
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    • 146 72  -  JOSE RAYMOND NTUC INCOME YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Super Reds 1 Young Lions 2 A 65TH-MINUTE goal by 17-year-old midfielder Hariss Harun gave the Young Lions all three points, as they beat the Korean Super Reds 2-1 in an NTUC Income Yeo's S-League match at the
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    • 101 72 Home Utd Tampines SAFFC Gombak Utd Woodlands Young Lions Albirex Balestier Geylang Sengkang Liaoning Super Reds 11 9 1 1 26 7 28 10 8 0 2 22 10 24 10 7 1 2 29 10 22 10 5 2 3 17 12 17 10 4 3 3 16
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    • 852 73  -  While the final in Athens hardly set the pulse racing, it was still beautiful ONE might say football is heartless, but also that it is demanding. It is not enough to show intent, and wriggle down the wing, or knit delightful passes, and embarrass defenders,
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    • 928 74 —THE GUARDIAN The final spluttered, but don't take anything away from the wonder that is Maldini, and the effervescent Inzaghi great footballers, and it was wonderful to witness his opponents' supporters rise above their disappointment So there was to be no repeat, in
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    • 456 75 —AGENCIES ATHENS Liverpool departed the Olympic Stadium choked by disappointment, and with frustration welling in their midst Rafael Benitez berated the officials for denying his side more added time at the end, while his crestfallen side simply accepted that luck had
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    • 157 75 THE National Stadium will always be remembered for so many wonderful moments, and sometimes sad ones, especially during the days Singapore played in the Malaysia Cup. I cannot forget VSundramoorthy's bicycle kick against Brunei in 1993, Fandi Ahmad's winner against Pahang in the semi-finals that year and
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