Today, 26 May 2007

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    30 1 weekend TODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /A=DJJ\CORP we set you thinking May 26 27, 2007 todayonline.com weekend TODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /A=djaCorp we set you thinking May 26 27, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon SIA pilots get less than what they wanted – but are happy
    614 1  - SIA pilots get less than what they wanted but are happy LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg IT WAS a protracted dogfight that lasted 17 months. The tussle ruffled feathers on both sides: the airline suggested that flying different type of aircraft was "as easy as changing cars", while pilots were
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    WHO IS THE SOURCE?
    789 1  -  ANSLEY NG Court orders media to reveal name ST, BT give in after initial fight Reuters refuses; case goes to highest court ansley@mediacorp.com.sg AN out-of-court settlement between two rival broking firms has put two Singapore newspapers, a foreign news agency and a public relations company in
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Cracks in the neighbourhood
      511 2  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI As Circle Line works progress, cracks appear in homes nazry@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS a small stretch of road a mere 400 metres but Lorong Gambir's residents are worried because it sank some 20 centimetres about a month ago. Owners of the six semidetached houses along the
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      75 3 Two weeks ago, I attended a Merrill Lynch dinner. Several foreign bankers and executives told me that they were surprised and excited by the "buzz" in Singapore, not only of the financial industry, the Integrated Resorts, the sizzling property market, and so on, but also of the glitz of our
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      Lock icon Cool Monaco hots up for the jousting and the partying
      473 2  -  lANDECOTTA IN MONTE CARLO, MONACO ian@media corp.com.sg THE smell of wealth is everywhere, the locals are stylishly informal, the tourists, bristling with digital cameras and state-of-the-art video cameras, are easy to spot as they try to blend in (picture). The
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      Lock icon THE WATERSPOUT THAT HAD SINGAPORE BUZZING
      335 3  -  -GRACIA CHIANG IT BEGAN as a thin line between the sky and the sea but grew into a giant twister that appeared to be inching towards the shore. This was how people in the East described the "tornado-like" waterspout that was spotted yesterday between
      RICHARD SENIOR; FAR AH ABDUL RAHIM; CHIAEE KHIM  -  335 words
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      35 2 fKI&l^ SOME STORIES, AND A FEW LESSONS g*gj^fc, It was a compelling 2006-07 J IL \JEk Premiership race, and if wrongs are ie/ made right, we could see bigger and better fireworks next time out
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  • Singapore news
    • THE RETURN OF JBJ
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        Looking for his last hurrah?
        727 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg THERE can be no doubt as to who's the single person driving Mr J B Jeyaretnam's insatiable thirst for Singapore politics. He would probably be loathe to admit it, but there was only one name that perpetually hung from Mr Jeyaretnam's lips
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        Method in madness?
        544 4  -  CHOOZHENG XI BEFORE J B Jeyaretnam's recent press conference, there was much speculation in opposition circles about his political future. It was widely rumoured that he was ready to throw in the towel. At the age of 81, he has established himself as one of Singapore's most
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION SIGN UP FOR GST CREDITS
        99 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA More than 1.5 million Singaporeans have signed up for Goods and Services Tax (GST) credits to help cope with the GST increase. This is about 65 per cent of those who qualify forthe payment. They will get between $100
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        Lock icon OLDER STAFF VALUED FOR STAYING AT THEIR JOBS
        102 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Employers value older workers because of their reduced likelihood to job-hop. This, coupled with other findings, was revealed in a Manpower Ministry survey on the conditions for employment of older workers, which polled about 2,900 private sector companies. The results
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      Yellow Pages boss quits
      483 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH Tug-of-war ends with his shock exit christie@media corp.com.sg THE tug-of-war in the boardroom of Yellow Pages, the biggest telephone directory publisher in Singapore, is fast seeing one side get its way. In a shock move, chief executive officer Goh Sik Ngee threw in the
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      101 6  - NAZRYBAHRAWI LOVELY START: Next Valentine's Day will see Cupid work his charms at a breathtaking height of 165 m when the Singapore Flyer opens for business. The $240-millior giant Ferris wheel, originally scheduled to open next April, has already received more than 100,000 bookings. Each of its 28 capsules, which
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      Lock icon UNSW book closed, lessons remain
      722 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) may be beating a hasty goodbye, but the lessons will remain. In its aspirations to build an education hub, Singapore should not necessarily stick to the same strategies, Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said
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  • world news
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      Lock icon N Korea's act of frustration?
      499 8 —AFP SEOUL- North Korea carried out its first missile tests in almost a year yesterday, South Korean officials said, amid a continuing logjam in implementing a nuclear disarmament deal. Seoul described the launch of the short-range missiles as part of routine military exercises. "The latest
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      Lock icon Bush says US 'watching' China's actions on the yuan
      220 8 —AFP WASHINGTON President George W Bush said the United States is "watching very carefully" China's steps on its currency and is prodding the Chinese government to open its capital markets to international financial institutions. Mr Bush called the USChina relationship "complex"
      —AFP; AFP  -  220 words
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      Lock icon 2 in the US sick after eating 'monkfish'
      481 8 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON United States regulators have warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish labelled as monkfish that may in fact be toxic pufferfish, after two people fell ill after eating it. Frozen Chinese fish sold as monkfish was recalled by
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      Lock icon US Congress approves Iraq war budget
      203 8 —AFP WASHINGTON The United States Congress approved a multi-billion dollar Iraq war budget on Thursday, after bowing to US President George W Bush's demands to rip out troop withdrawal timelines that prompted a previous veto. After a day of anguished debate reflecting sharp divisions
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      Lock icon Hanson's back with Pauline's United Party
      207 8 —AFP SYDNEY Australia's controversial anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson (picture) said yesterday she had formed a new party and would run for a senate seat this year. The former fish-and-chips shop-owner, who was briefly jailed in 2003 for fraudulently spending electoral funds before the judgement
      —AFP; AFP  -  207 words
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      Lock icon Malaysian workers fall prey to agents
      297 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA KUALA LUMPUR At least 20 Malaysian workers fall victim to abuse and fraud in every month, according to Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn, who cited cases received by his ministry. "The so-called recruiting agents promise the workers good jobs with good
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      Lock icon Thai PM seconds king's call for peace
      530 10 —AGENCIES Gen Surayud urges all to accept next week's court ruling on political parties BANGKOK Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont on Friday urged the public to heed the words of Thailand's revered monarch, who advised judges to act decisively in a case next Wednesday,
      —AGENCIES; EPA  -  530 words
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      Lock icon Thaksin's suitcase stolen in Moscow
      151 10 —AFP BANGKOK A suitcase belonging to exThai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra containing thousands of dollars and his passport was stolen from a McDonald's outlet in Moscow, the Bangkok government said on Friday. The case, taken while he was dining there, also contained legal documents for a
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      Lock icon Anwar unable to stand for party chief
      293 10 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian government agency on Friday barred exDeputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim from running for president of the opposition party he advises, a move condemned as designed to thwart his political comeback. Mr Anwar had been expected to win an
      —AFP; AFP  -  293 words
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      Lock icon Abdullah allays M'sians' fears over Singapore
      220 10 '—AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has rejected concerns that Singapore might wield too much influence over how Malaysia plans to run a multi-billion-dollar industrial park in southern Johor, news reports said on Friday. Both countries announced earlier this month they
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      Lock icon Russia willing to try Litvinenko murder suspect
      267 12 -AFP MOSCOW Russia said it will try ex-KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi for the murder in London of fugitive Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, if Britain provides sufficient evidence of his guilt, news agencies quoted prosecutor general Yury Chaika as saying on Friday. Although Russia
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      Lock icon Suu Kyi jailed another year
      347 12  -  NOORMOHDAZIZ aziz@media corp.com.sg Analysts question whether detention is best MYANMAR'S military government on Friday extended the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (picture) for another 12 months. An icon for democracy, Ms Suu Kyi's detention was up for review on Sunday, a symbolic
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      Lock icon SBY denies corruption claims
      181 12 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono denied on Friday that his 2004 presidential campaign was financed with public money, branding the claims "illogical". "I and (Vice-President) Jusuf Kalla clearly never received (funds) and clearly the claims are misleading and unhealthy," Dr Yudhoyono said in a
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      Passports continue to be issued with five-year validity
      196 14  -  LIMJINGJING Letter from Deputy Head Public Internal Communications Immigration Checkpoints Authority I REFER to the article, "Passport rules may be tightened" (May 22). The report said that after the Passports (Amendment) Bill is passed, new Singapore passports issued would be valid for
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      Lock icon TRADING TOILETS
      772 14  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Dealing with tradesmen is a bladder-bursting affair DOWN UNDER WITH news@newstoday.com.sg I NEED a new toilet The current throne is falling into disrepair, probably because it was designed when Queen Victoria was on her throne. It also releases too much water. Whether it's dealing with a
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      Teaching kids good behaviour: Parents, schools must do it together
      201 14  -  BENJAMIN GAN I COULD not agree more with Mr Ho Kong Loon's article, "Watch it! Writing is on the wall" (May 24), where he said we needed to refocus our attention on the way we raise our children. The way
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      Is futuristic the way to go for schools ?
      303 16  - Is futuristic the way to go for schools Spare a thought for students from the low-income group Letter from JASON CHIAMCHIAH SERN WHILE I applaud the Ministry of Education's (MOE) move to integrate infocomm technology (ICT) into the curriculum of schools ("Chuck the chalkboard, the future is here", May 23),
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      The great outdoors a better tool than virtual possibilities
      161 16  -  JEFFREY GOHKWEEMENG Letter from THE FutureSchools@Singapore initiative seems to be cosmetic in nature. Do schools really need to go to the extent and substantiate their image as though we are a highly futuristic society, just like in the movies? It may
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  • Business
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      Lock icon EDB lapses revealed
      493 18 Government audit finds it allocated $105 million without board's approval IT WAS the first time that the Economic Development Board (EDB) came under the scrutiny of the Au-ditor-General and it did not pass with flying colours. A report by the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee revealed that the
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      Lock icon Error that could have cost S4.4m
      340 18 DOW JONES IT COULD have turned into a costly $4.4 million lesson. But luckily for a senior broker atDMG Partners Securities, a wrong order that he had keyed in on Friday was reversed by the authorities later in the day. The incident happened when
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      Lock icon DBS to expand consumer banking, hire staff in China
      118 18 —AGENCIES DBS Group Holdings will add outlets and staff in China over the next five years as it starts offering consumer banking there. It plans to boost its number of staff by five-fold to 2,000 and expand its distribution network to
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      Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
      361 18 -DOW JONES 938 LIVE DOW JONES BLOOMBERG JOSEPH YADAO Capita Land plans to raise $1 billion in Singapore's biggest convertible bond sale, according to a term sheet sent to investors. The developer plans to let investors convert the 15-year, 2.95-per-cent securities into its shares at between $13.5642 and $14.0486,
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      5 19 personal finance and investment I
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    • wealth
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        Course for budding financial professionals
        214 19  -  TO MEET a rising need for finance professionals, several accreditation bodies and banks in Singapore have teamed up to groom youngsters for the industry. Launched on Friday, the Operations Finance Preparatory Programme (OFPP) is wooing local and foreign graduating students who want a career in
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        Lock icon Production up 19%
        50 19 —AFP SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output rode strong growth from Pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding-related activities to rise 18.8 percent last month compared with the same month last year. On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, industrial output in April rose almost 8 per cent from March, the Economic Development Board said.
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        Lock icon Avoid derivatives if you are risk-averse
        388 19  -  JOHNSONCHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg IF YOU are risk-averse with your investment, stay away from derivatives, said investment guru Mark Mobius. "I would say one big risk is the derivative market The fact that we have so many artificial instruments out there and the impact of
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        Second consumer credit bureau to be set up by January
        322 19  -  JOHNSON CHOO BANKS and financial institutions can soon look forward to having a second opinion on borrowers' credit standing by early next year. A second credit bureau DP Credit Bureau (DCB) has been approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore
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      • marketwatch
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          ST Index – 3,486.63 43.63
          4 19 ST Index 3,486.63 43.63
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          SGX most active
          25 19 BanJoo Digiland Magnus MiddleEastD THBEV 0.125+0.045 +56.3 292.208 0.040 +0.005 +14.3 228.292 0.175 +0.005 +2.9 97.117 0.435 +0.065 +17.6 77.155 0.270 47.675
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          SGX top rises
          18 19 BanJoo CapitalanSGA***** HSI*****DB*****1 EngWah HSI*****DB*****1 0.125 +56.3 0.015 +50.0 0.185 +48.0 0.575 +42.0 0.430 +41.0
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          SGX top falls
          19 19 HSI*****DB*****1 0.010 -84.6 HS*****0DB070B01 0.005 SPHBNP *****8 0.005 -66.7 -66.7 B0CMBL*****8 0.015 -50.0 Nikkei225DB*****B 0.025 -50.0
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          Lock icon SINGAPORE
          90 19 —AFP SHARE prices closed 1.24 per cent lower on Friday, as investors took profits amid a regional fall over fears of a China market bubble forming, according to dealers. They said the market had been due for a pullback after a prolonged run-up. The ST Index closed down 43.63
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          Commodities
          20 19 Gold US$/oz 653.3 Silver US$/oz 12.92 Platinum US$/oz 1,290.70 Rubber cents/kg 377.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 2610.00 Brent US$/barrel 66.33
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          World markets
          53 19 Nikkei 225 17.481.21 -215.76 -1.22 HK Hang Seng 20.520.66 -278.31 -1.34 Australia ASX200 6.252.8 -26.3 -0.42 Korea Camp 1.644.56 -2.03 -0.12 Thailand SET 719.14 -1.58 -0.2 Jakarta Camp 2.060.43 -18.171 -0.87 Phils Comp 3.441.76 -29.01 -0.84 Shenzhen B 723.28 +12.12 +1.70 Mumbai Sensex 14,338.45 120.34 +0.85 Malaysia KLCI
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          Lock icon Your S$1 buys
          33 19 1SGX, Bloomberg USS 0.6541 UK£ 0.3296 Yen 79.470 HKS 5.1165 RM 2.2175 Euro 0.4871 Information provided by Rupiah 5723.6 Baht 21.433 Peso 30.123 AS 0.7996 Indian Rs 26.545 Yuan 5.0059
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      Lock icon Summer's sporting spirit
      588 20  -  J:'1.J,.h1.l Get sporty-fashion's not just a game this season EVEN gym bunnies and personal trainers won't be brandishing this in their vocabulary: Muscular thumbs. But that's what my friend Penny confesses to having the only strenuous activity she ever takes up is a game of tennis on
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      THIS MAN'S A SHOE-IN FOR A FOOT-FITTING JOB
      380 20  -  LYNETTE KOH The specialised nature of his job has even entailed an involvement with the darker side of humanity. Bob, a Fellow of the United Kingdom-based Society of Shoe Fitters and the first to receive membership at the Honours level, recalled: "(I
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    • style
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        TRAVEL IN GLITTERING STYLE
        320 22  -  ra^jjKJwJjQTW and shells on white sandy Lush Balinese resort. Water glisKening under the summer sun. Undulating and smooth round pebbles. First class Bcruise. These may sound like they came off a vaI cation brochure but they are actually the inI spirations behind TianPo Jewellery's sumI mer
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        Staying white in sunlight
        579 22  -  SHERMAINEWONG In sunny Phuket, L'Oreal relaunches its whitening skincare range i IN PHUKET shermainewong@media corp.com.sg IT DOES seem rather ironic to talk about whitening products in a place like the Le Royal Meridien Yacht Club in Phuket a gorgeous resort built with the idyllic Nai Ham
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        Chase your fashion blues away with G2000 blu
        234 22  -  LYNETTEKOH G2OOO and its sister brand, U2, have long been fail-proof solutions for those seeking basic clothes for work and play. It is now easier than ever to build a wardrobe that goes from day to night The first two-storey G2OOO concept
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    • makan
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        41 23 Stuffed with salted egg, the crab was blanketed with biscuit crumbs and deep-fried to a crisp. The grilled half-shell scallops with lime Tabasco had a startlingly tart flavour.' 'For several days after, I couldn't get Kevin's barbecued pork ribroff my mind.'
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        RIGHT THIS WAY
        679 23  -  Eveline Gan Inexpensive Cafe Oliv, out in the east, gets the details right, down to the home-made dips JUST a few weeks ago, I wrote about Black Sheep Cafe. The tiny eatery, tucked in the ulu reaches of Yio Chu Kang, offers unpretentious French fare at neighbourhood
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      Lock icon In the company of Friends
      700 24  -  EVELINE GAN JASON HO WHERE AMICI AUTHENTIC ITALIAN RESTAURANT 275 HOLLAND AVENUE, HOLLAND VILLAGE; 24 TANJONG PAGAR ROAD TELEPHONE 6469 9989 (HOLLAND VILLAGE) 6557 2090 (TANJONG PAGAR) OPENING HOURS 11.30 AM TO 3 PM (LUNCH) 6 PM TO 11 PM (DINNER) DINNER IS SERVED UNTIL
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    • gadget
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        APPLE TV A FEAST FOR THE EYES
        354 26  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN REVIEWAPPLETV $488 hedirman@media corp.com.sg SAY hello to the iPod maker's newest foray into the living room with the Apple TV, as it tries to bridge the digital media gap between the computer and the home entertainment centre. The Apple TV claims
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        VERDICT
        62 26 FORM SEIUP It's a magic slab of metal that plays your digital media seamlessly. But its lack of support for movie formats and limited HD playback leave much to be desired. Like the first iPod, this is clearly a work in progress. Still, the Apple TV provides one of
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        WIRELESS ADVENTURE
        329 26 NOKIA will hold an islandwide race today, called "Wireless Adventure", to discover what it has dubbed the "Soul of Singapore". In a race to the finishing line, 30 teams will be armed with Nokia's latest phone, the all-in-one multimedia N95, for a chance at winning the top cash
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        Sheer joy to get hold of the Halo 3 beta
        300 26  -  PETER LI BUNGIE'S released a multiplayer beta to give Xbox 360 gamers a sneak peek into Halo 3 the third and final installation to the epic first-person shooter. The first things you'll notice about the game are the rich graphics
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    • car
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        Chinese cars gain a foothold in Singapore
        320 28  -  COLIN YONG WITH a combined line-up of just three models, Chinese car brands Chery and Geely already accounted for more than one per cent of new cars sold in Singapore over the first four months of this year. Chery, which started selling cars
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        295 28  - SHELDON TROLLOPE news@newstoday.com.sg CHINESE car brand Hafei has been in Singapore for less than a month but it has already sold 100 Minz multi-purpose vehicles. A pretty impressive achievement Buyers are undoubtedly drawn to the prospect of getting a seven-seater for comfortably less than $40,000. The next cheapest vehicle that
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        THIS CAR MINZ BUSINESS
        331 28 Hafei is making inroads here with this tiny seven-seater There's no need to worry about only your left arm getting a workout because the Minz has no power steering, which means lots of wheel twirling when manoeuvring into tight parking spots. The good thing is that
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      • QUICKTAKES
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          HAFEI MINZ
          32 28 Ups it's the most affordable seven-seater Surprisingly roomy High driving position Downs You get what you pay for Lack of safety features Agent: Hafei Automobile (Singapore) Price: $37,999 with COE
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        265 30 —JOSEPH YADAO A SKY villa and two penthouses of the luxury Leonie Pare View condominium (picture) will go under the hammer on June 8 in a by-invitation-only auction conducted by Colliers International and Christies' Great Estates exclusive affiliate Ken Jacobs. The freehold,
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        305 30 —JOSEPH YADAO SINGAPOREANS may baulk at the record prices that luxury developments are fetching today, but a London-based businessman has shown that the well-heeled are willing to shell out good money for a top acquisition. The unidentified man has just signed
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        361 30 —JOSEPH YADAO OVER the past two decades, Paramount Shopping Centre has developed a rather infamous reputation for itself; more known for the seedy karaoke bars and pubs that crowd its ground level rather than the retail and computer shops on the upper levels. Once the
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      647 36 Geylang-themed Pleasure Factory gets praise at Cannes light with the likes of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien and South Korea's Lee Chang-dong. "I mean, you're not together with them but you're near them. I met Lee and I was like: 'Your movies have been so inspiring! I
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    340 40  -  DARREN LAI I BASKETBALL 2007 adidas Superstar Camp IN SHANGHAI darren@media corp. com. sg MOST young basketball fans would jump at the chance just to meet an NBA player. Imagine the delight of the three Singapore boys taking part in the 2007 adidas
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