Today, 24 July 2007

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    14 1 TODAY /A=DJJ-\CORP we set you thinking MICA (P) 314/10/2006 Tuesday July 24, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon TEMASEK'S BIG CATCH
    730 1 Buys stake in Barclays, China bank joins in. Big prize: Stake in Bare lays-ABN Amro merger IF BARCLAYS' bid for ABN Amro goes through, it will be the world's largest acquisition in the banking sector and Singapore's Temasek Holdings will have a sizeable finger in a sweet
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Pulai Springs round tees off
      477 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO Four work groups formed as IDR ministerial committee meets for first time IN JOHORBARU derrick@media corp.com.sg IT STARTED with a morning golf game between the two countries' point men. And the meeting between the Malaysian and Singaporean delegates, scheduled for 2pm, began
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      Lock icon KILLERS: A CRUCIAL KEY
      640 3  -  TAN HUI LENG Law on compulsory collection of medical data in the works huileng@media corp.com.sg YOUR medical data could hold the key to better health policies. From as early as next year, key information about your illness, such as its diagnosis and treatment, will be released
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      Lock icon Umno files complaint against website
      372 3 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's ruling party lodged a police complaint yesterday against a popular website that often criticised the government, raising fears of a government crackdown on online dissent. The United Malays National Organisation (Umno) believes that political news site Malaysia Today recently published articles
      —AP  -  372 words
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon O$P$ signs at blaze flat
      607 4  -  ANSLEYNG But it's a ruse by woman who had money dispute with apartment owner ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE obvious clues pointed to loansharks being behind the Sunday predawn arson attack on a family of four in Yishun. But it was just a ruse apparently planted by a
      KOH MUI FONG  -  607 words
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      Lock icon Indon can be investors' top choice in Asean: MM
      259 4  -  SUJADI SISWQ CHANNEL NEWSASIA sujadi@media corp.com.sg MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday discussed the state of Indonesia's economy with leading Indonesian personalities over a lunch meeting in Jakarta. Mr Lee, who is on an official visit, expressed his view that Indonesia
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  259 words
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      Lock icon INDON PRESIDENT'S SON GRADUATES FROM NTU
      100 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Among the graduands at the Nanyang Technological University's convocation ceremony yesterday was Mr Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, son of the Indonesian President. He received his Masters of Science in International Political Economy from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. In the audience
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  100 words
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      Lock icon Inflation hits 1-year high
      385 6 BLOOMBERG June's CPI rose 1.3% from last year; inflation to stay high for rest of 2007: Analyst SINGAPORE'S inflation accelerated to the highest in a year last month as holiday travel became more expensive and car prices rose. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.3 per
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      Lock icon Number of dengue cases here drops for 2nd week
      521 6  -  UNYANQIN NEA yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THE number of dengue cases reported has gone down for the second week in a row, dropping to 363 cases last week from 377 the week before. This is below the epidemic level of 378 cases a week,
      — NEA; todayhl'e'photo  -  521 words
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      THE BUSINESS OF GROOMING LEADERS
      959 7  -  JASON HO Southern Cross University's MBA and DBA programmes enable its students to rise up the ranks at the workplace TEXT NEOCHAI CHIN PHOTOGRAPHS You may be an IT professional with management ambitions. Or a manager who wants to brush up on your management skills.
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      Lock icon 12-year-old boy 'saved' family fortune
      566 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Now 69, he sues siblings for land ownership weekeat@media corp.com.sg IT WAS he, and not their mother, who turned the family's fortunes around after their father died suddenly in 1950. Or so Mr Chang Ham Chwee claims. At age 12, the young
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      Lock icon Centre for special-needs kidney patients by year-end
      448 8  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW facility will be opened by the end of the year for kidney patients with multiple medical problems, such as heart disease, who require a greater level of care than what is available at most dialysis centres in the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon SHOPS' CHANCE AT REVIVAL
        114 10 938 LIVE The Housing and Development Board has selected 19 blocks for Batch 3 of the Restructuring Programme for Shops (RPS). These blocks are located in estates such as Bedok, Bukit Merah and Woodlands. The tenants will have three months to revert to the HDB with
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        Lock icon PRIME TIME FOR SCHOOLS
        125 10 938 LIVE Some 210 schools have been rebuilt or upgraded under the Ministry of Education (MOE) Prime project so far, while another 40 are currently being designed or constructed. Under Prime -which stands for Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing schools -the MOE intends to upgrade
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        Lock icon STORE DELEGATION TO UN
        104 10 938 LIVE Minister of State for Community Development Youth and Sports Yu-Foo Yee Shoon will lead a delegation to the United Nations headquarters in New York next week. She will present Singapore's Third Periodic Report at the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
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        Lock icon GETTING A HANDLE ON OPEN SKIES
        699 10  -  LIANG DINGZI XL-Singapore air route talks must bear results soon or those involved will suffer a loss of credibility TALKS about opening the short but lucrative air route between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to more competition have been swinging like a pendulum without a
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      285 8 Advertising Feature 11,600 MILLIONAIRES IN SINGAPORE WHY AREN'T YOU ONE OF THEM? MONEY MAKES MONEY is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was highlighted that the rich is getting richer whilst the lower income group is struggling along. This is because the lower income group is
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Agonising wait continues
      305 12 -AFP Korean hostage crisis drags on as Taliban extends deadline again KANDAHAR Taliban militants yesterday extended the deadline to excute their 23 South Korean hostages by another 24 hours. Minutes after the previous deadline passed, Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP by phone: "We've extended the deadline
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      Lock icon Anti-junta protesters stage another rally in Thailand after violent clashes
      381 12 -AFP BANGKOK Thousands of protesters staged a new rally late yesterday against Thailand's junta, one day after clashes with police left scores injured in the first violence since last year's military coup. Police estimated the crowd at 1,500, but organisers
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      Lock icon Arroyo calls for tougher laws on political murders
      293 12 -AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday called for tougher laws against political killings and warned that the military would not be immune from prosecution. "It is never right and always wrong to fight terror with terror," Mrs Arroyo said in her
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      Lock icon A distracted US, so no FTA now
      560 16  -  TIFFANY TAN AGENCIES Asean chief says group should build on current trade agreement tiffany@mediacorp.com.sg ASEAN Secretary-General Ong Keng Yong said a free trade agreement (FTA) between the 10-member regional grouping and the United States may not happen any time soon due to the
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      Lock icon RICE'S NO-SHOW A 'DAMPENER' BUT...
      219 16 -AFP It will be a "dampener" if US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice skips this year's Asean ministerial meeting, the group's secretary-general Ong Keng Yong (picture) said yesterday amid uncertainty over whether she would attend. He said, however, that ties between the US and Asean
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        Lock icon INDON EX-MINISTER JAILED
        59 16 —AFP A special anti-corruption court in Jakarta yesterday sentenced a former Indonesian minister to seven years in jail for siphoning off more than US$l million ($1.5 million) from his ministry's coffers. Former fisheries and marine affairs minister Rokhmin Dahuri who was also fined US$2O,OOO was "proven guilty
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        Lock icon BRUNEI TO EXPAND CITY
        57 16 —AP Brunei will expand the official size of its capital city by nearly eight times to integrate various government, business and development activities. Effective from Aug 1, Bandar Seri Begawan's municipal area will be expanded from 1,287 ha to 10,036 ha, encompassing more of the capital's
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        Lock icon JETSTAR FLIGHT DIVERTED AFTER ENGINE FAILS
        106 16 —AP A Jetstar plane carrying more than 300 people from Thailand to Australia was diverted to Indonesia yesterday after an engine shut down due to an unidentified fault, officials said. The twin-engine Airbus A 330, owned by the budget subsidiary of Qantas Airways, was
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        Lock icon JET CRASHES, ONE KILLED
        66 16 —AP An Indonesian air force jet crashed into a sugarcane plantation soon after takeoff yesterday, killing one of two people onboard. The second pilot in the OV-10 Bronco counterinsurgency aircraft managed to eject himself from the plane before it crashed and was unhurt, said Rear-Marshal Daryatmo.
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      Lock icon England's worst flooding in 60 years
      438 17 —AFP Many homes without power, drinking water LONDON With swathes of central and western England under water and more rain on the way, thousands of people remained cut off yesterday in Britain's worst flooding in 60 years. Thousands of homes have been hit by
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      Lock icon Indonesia floods force 5,000 to abandon their homes
      223 17 —AFP PALU (Indonesia) At least 32 people are dead and 5,000 have fled their homes in Indonesia after floods and landslides caused by heavy rains demolished homes and severed transport links, officials said yesterday. Entire villages are cut off by the disaster
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        TEACHER STANDS BY MOVE TO PUNISH
        111 18 A Malaysian teacher has defended her move to punish 170 teenage girls by making them squat neck-deep in a fish pond, in a case that has sparked concerns about abuse in schools. Ms Wee Vim Pien, an English teacher and warden at a boarding
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        Lock icon BAGS OF ABORTED FOETUSES FOUND
        108 18 —AFP Dozens of plastic bags said to contain the remains of aborted foetuses and newborns have been found in a pit in eastern India. Officials said the grisly find was probably the result of an underground abortion racket involved in the killing of unborn or
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        Lock icon LET YOUR FINGER DO THE PAYING
        111 18 —AFP Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new level, a Japanese company will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger. The system uses biometric technology (picture) to identify the veins on a person's finger, which
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      Lock icon DAP GETS NEW BLOOD
      864 18  -  OONYEOH news@newstoday.com.sg WHEN social activist Lim Guan Eng took over the reigns of Malaysia's opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) three years ago, it was widely expected he would energise a tired party in dire need of an upgrade. For two years, there was very little change,
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      Lock icon Where's Osama? US, Pakistan fight it out
      331 20 —AFP WASHINGTON The United States was at the centre of a diplomatic row yesterday after refusing to rule out military action against Al Qaeda leaders sheltering inside Pakistan, one of its closest "war on terror" allies. The US director of national intelligence, Mr
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      Lock icon Afghanistan's former king dead at 92
      249 20 —AFP KABUL Afghanistan's former king Mohammed Zahir Shah (picture), the last monarch of the troubled nation, died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Kabul residence, said President Hamid Karzai. "We announce three days of national mourning over the death of the father
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      Lock icon Turkey PM: We passed a vital democracy test
      524 21 —AGENCIES Islamist ruling party wins election; PM vows national unity ANKARA Turkey's Islamicrooted ruling party has secured a new mandate in parliamentary elections, and the Prime Minister told jubilant supporters he would pursue reforms, fight terrorism and work towards national unity. Sunday's
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      Lock icon Taboo word in Arab textbook sparks Jewish outrage
      218 21 —AGENCIES JERUSALEM An Arab school textbook, which references for the first time the Palestinian view of Israel's founding as a "catastrophe", has sparked an outcry among local rightist Jews. The book, designed for use from this school year, is aimed at Bto
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      EDB's role to evaluate value-add, business plan left to UNSW
      324 22  -  UMBEEKHIM Letter from Press Secretary to the Minister for Trade and Industry THE commentary by Lee U-Wen ("UNSW is not only about money lost", July 19) took Minister Lim Hng Kiang's reply to Member of Parliament Inderjit Singh that "It's
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      How SingTel succession was done
      253 22  -  PETER HENG After rigorous search, transition was smooth and orderly Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Sing Tel WE REFER to the report, "PAP succession not really for CEOs", by Adrian Tan (July 21-22). At Sing Tel, we have a succession plan in place for key
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      235 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY VIOLENT TELEVISION Suppose a complete stranger came to your door carrying a shopping bag full of story books. He tells you: "You look tired, why don't you just leave the children with me and I'll read to them on the couch." I
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      Lock icon isay MORE TO LIFE THAN GOOD GRADES
      557 26  -  JACINTHETAYWEIQI EVERYONE has their perception of happiness. While some will say simplicity is true happiness, others might embark on the endless pursuit of materialistic satisfaction. To the innocent and young minds of children, happiness is nothing more than being able to scream, laugh
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      Lock icon Jacky's security shouldn't have used lasers
      138 26  -  CAMIE CHUA Letter from Marketing Corporate Communications Manager, Singapore Indoor Stadium I REFER to the letter, "Laser beamed at patrons to stop camera use posed risk to eyes" (July 17). We thank the writer, Mr Kuang Jingkai, for his feedback on the Jacky Cheung
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      SMRT acts to protect users' privacy in public toilets
      100 27  -  NOELLETANG Letter from Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation I REFER to the letters, "Public toilets are open for all to see" by Mr Goh Kian Huat (Weekend Today, June 23-24) and "Men's room peeves addressed" by Mr Tan Puay
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      What's to stop frequent flyers littering corridor?
      183 27  -  DANIEL LAW ZHEN Yl Letter from I THERE was a time when residential letterboxes were flooded with flyers from small-and-medium enterprises. The situation improved greatly after the Town Councils upgraded the residential letterboxes by fixing internal locks. However, it seems that advertisers have
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      477 28 BLOOMBERG Marubeni, Keppel, SembCorp to bid for three power firms: Sources MARUBENI Corp, Keppel Corp and SembCorp Industries plan to bid for the electric utilities being sold by Temasek Holdings, Singapore's government-owned investment company, three bankers with knowledge of the deal said. Singapore-based Keppel and SembCorp,
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      300 28  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg MOBILE One's (Ml) strategic decision to focus on providing quality mobile data services is paying dividends. For the first six months this year, Ml's net profit grew by 10.3 per cent to $90.3 million compared to the same period
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      258 28  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg TWENTY-FIVE seasoned businessmen have enrolled at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) this month for their executive MBA classes. These leaders from small and medi-um-sized enterprises (SMEs) are
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      275 29 DOW JONES THAILAND'S Finance Minister Chalongphob Sussangkarn (picture) said yesterday the baht has started to soften and stabilise since last week, thanks partly to the Bank of Thailand's intervention in the foreign exchange market to limit excessive volatility. Earlier this month, the currency hit
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      351 29 BLOOMBERG STOCKS in Singapore fell, led by real- estate shares, on concerns that the Government will introduce measures to dampen speculation after raising a property redevelopment charge last week. "Investors are getting more cautious about property stocks as there's a worry anti-speculation measures could
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      213 29 but dollar stays strong DOW JONES THE Singapore dollar rose to its highest level against the greenback since 1997 yesterday as upward momentum trumped news of capital outflows linked to Temasek Holdings' purchase of a stake in Britain's Barclays Bank. "The mergers and acquisition flows can be seen as negative
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      386 30  -  CHEOWXINYI —AGENCIES Singapore's leading ornamental fish exporter Qian Hu reported yesterday that it made a net profit of $2.1 million for the half year ended June 30. This is up 88.4 per cent from the same period last year. Total revenue from its core business of ornamental fish, accessories
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      359 30  -  CHEOWXINYI Seminar to letSMEs know how they may seek help raising growth capital cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg ONE of the major bugbears, and possibly the Achilles heel of Singapore's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is the lack of alternative funding for growth. In fact, many enterprises, in
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      355 30  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) can expect more business space choices by next year, following the successful tender for a JTC Corporation Tuas development site by property developer Soilbuild Group Holdings yesterday. Located at Tuas Crescent, the 43-year leasehold
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      346 31  -  JOSEPH YADAO The US brand works doubly hard to win hearts of motorists in Singapore joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg THE local motoring scene is dominated by Japanese and European marques, but an American has its sights on breaking that monopoly. Leading the Stars and Stripes' charge is Chevrolet, a
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      317 31  -  —JOSEPH YADAO SINGAPORE'S strategic location and tranquil waters makes it an ideal cruise hub, a fact not overlooked by some cruise operators based halfway around the globe. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has formed a global strategic marketing partnership with Costa Crociere,
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      1005 32  -  MAYO MARTIN -THE GUARDIAN «.wj^ wasgL INPENANG mayotsmedia corp.com.sg HOBBLING uphill on a sprained ankle amid heavy rains is hardly one's idea of a good time. That was the predicament this reporter found himself in on his way to the inaugural Penang World Music Festival (PWMF)
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        141 34  -  Zul Othman Time On Earth WHAT was originally intended to be singer Neil Finn's third album became the comeback vehicle for New Zealand pop outfit. Crowded House. Finn had pulled the plug on the band in 1994 to pursue solo work, but the original members reformed after the
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        147 34 The Sun And The Moon SYRUPY 1980s-inspired pop hooks, stylishly shimmering guitar work and ridiculous lyrics about damaged women makes The Bravery sound like New York's answerto Duran Duran. However, their second album. The Sun And The Moon, is affably lightweight even though it moves away from the
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        143 34 Love It When It Feels Like This THEY achieved fame for being label mates to hip British rockers Kaiser Chiefs, but Birmingham's The Twang score extra points for delivering a set of melodies that is best described as a grittier version of U2. But they are far from
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        108 36 —AP Marge Simpson's gravity-defying blue beehive is a hybrid creation, revealed the series' creator. Matt Groening revealed. The Simpsons matriarch's impressive hair was inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein and by his own mother's hairdo from the *****, Groening told The New York Times Magazine
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      273 36 Budding directors show their short films at Singapore Short Cuts next month BEFORE directors make their first cinematic feature, they make short films that get their first airing at Singapore Short Cuts. The annual short film festival, which is into its fourth instalment this year, is
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      347 37  -  NGIAMYINGLAN yinglan@media corp.com.sg THE female form has fascinated Namiko Chan Takahashi for almost 30 years. Since she was four, the artist, who specialises in life-size and frequently-nude portraits, has been painting the female form, because it is "more lyrical". "It's really beautiful how a small change
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      566 38  -  JOANNEYAP Internal fat can lead to all kinds of health problems joanne@media corp.com.sg WHILE some people might not be considered fat based on their appearance, they could be just that on the inside. Researchers from London's Imperial College studied 800 people over 13 years and
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      133 38 A person's weight and body mass index (BMI) are not good indicators of visceral fat. A high BMI and weight reading might mean a person is obese, or just big and muscular but fit, according to the Imperial College study. It showed that 45 per
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      175 39 FITNESS® WORK Unwind after a day at the office with an hour-long workout. Date: July 25 Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm Venue: River Promenade (beside UOB Plaza) Fee/Registration: Free. No registration required WOMEN IN SPORTS For avid women runners: This forum will cover topics such as running and gait
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      593 40  -  Dr Stanley Liew I am a 16-year-old girl, currently 160 cm tall. I hope to be about 170 cm, but it is difficult since I would stop growing soon. Are there ways to grow taller at my age, such as doing a certain sport or taking some
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      550 41  -  JOANNEYAP Study suggests that eating less may have an effect on longevity joanne@media corp.com.sg EAT less to live longer? That's what current literature on animal studies suggest Researchers are studying whether these results could indicate that restricting the amount of calories in one's
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      699 43 —AP Iraq's football team are bringing Sunnis, Shias and Kurds together, unlike the government BAGHDAD One Sunni man drove 30 minutes through the dangerous streets of Baghdad so he could watch his country play play Vietnam in the Asian Cup quarterfinals last Saturday with his Shia friends,
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      265 43 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR South Korea's elation at staying alive in the Asian Cup has been tempered by only two days' recovery from their draining quarter-final win over Iran on penalties here on Sunday night. The Koreans, bidding for their first tournament success
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      703 44 —AGENCIES MACAU Manchester United's chief executive, David Gill, says the club will not fire the gun on the race to succeed Alex Ferguson, until the 65-year-old manager gives a date for his retirement. Ferguson, currently on a rolling oneyear contract, has made it clear he
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      442 44 HONG KONG Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez is not giving up in his pursuit of Gabriel Heinze, and he could go to court to wrest the Argentine full-back from archrivals Manchester United. United boss Alex Ferguson has said that he will never allow the
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      374 45  -  TANYO-HINN As big kick-off draws closer, Star Hub announce new channel dedicated to Premiership yohinn@media corp.com.sg NEXT month, cable pay-TV operators Star Hub will launch Football Channel, a new 24-hour channel dedicated to the English Premiership. While content details will only be made known closer to
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      232 45  -  CUBBY LEONG —CUBBYLEONG cubby@media corp.com.sg TWO magnificent strikes from Therdsak Chaiman ensured SAFFC a place in the 2007 RHB Singapore Cup semi-finals, after they beat a plucky Gombak United 5-3 in the second leg of their quarter-final clash last night at Choa Chu Kang Stadium. The
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      470 45  -  CUBBYLEONG RHB SINGAPORE CUP QUARTER-FINAL, IST LEG Balestier v Bangkok University cubby@media corp.com.sg THREE of the four foreign clubs invited to take part in the 2007 RHB Singapore Cup have been knocked out Brunei's DPMM, Phnom Penh Empire of Cambodia and Thai side
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      258 46  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER Tiger Woods, he is probably the biggest draw in golf. But, while organisers are in talks with world No 2 Phil Mickelson, reports yesterday that suggested the American superstar had already pencilled in the Barclays Singapore Open as part of
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      442 46  -  LAN DE COTTA Melbourne rejects Ecclestone's call, Australian Grand Prix will stay as a day event ian@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT Bernie Ecclestone wants, he usually gets. This time, however, the Formula 1 czar is in for disappointment Yesterday, reports in the media Down Under said organisers of the
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      402 46  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg LAST year, the famed Boston Marathon featured an estimated 22,000 enthusiasts who ran the full 42km distance. That figure has now become the benchmark for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, which enters its sixth edition this year. Speaking yesterday at the
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      902 47 It chewed up the Irishman, and spat him out, to devour a hapless Garcia GOLF 136 th British Open CARNOUSTIE, Scotland The 18th at Carnoustie is the cruellest hole in golf. The 499-yard par-4 shatters hearts, and perhaps careers. Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore
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