Today, 26 July 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 460 1 More Muslims denounce suicide bombings: Global survey WASHINGTON Suicide bombings may be the weapon of choice for terrorist groups with no shortage of recruits eager to die as "martyrs". But six years after 911, a swelling tide of Muslims around the world are rejecting suicide bombings
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    • 688 1  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg PAYING more for the same goods and services as compared to a year ago? Be prepared to fork out more in the near future. After years of benign growth, inflation in Singapore could hit 2 per cent next year a
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    • 187 1 —AGENCIES KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) A deadline imposed on 22 surviving South Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban passed early today, hours after the rebels demanded a prisoner swap after they had killed their first hostage. As the deadline passed, it was reported that a leading
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    • 976 2  -  LAM PENG ER JAPAN goes to the polls this Sunday. At issue is whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will be routed in the forthcoming election and lose control of the Upper House. That the ruling LDP will be severely punished
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    • 259 2 AGENCIES Life may still be tough but people in many parts of Asia, Latin America and East Europe say that they are feeling much happier these days compared to five years ago. According to the Pew survey of 47 countries, surging economic growth in these developing
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    • 227 2 FIRST- and second-time abusers of cannabis and cocaine will, from next month, get a shot at rehabilitation, without having to bear the stigma of a criminal record. They will undergo a stint at drug rehabilitation centres (DRC) a regime that up until
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    • 358 3  -  JASMINE YIN Interactivity the key to MediaCorp's mocca jasmine@mediacorp.com.sg HUNTING for a home will soon be more than just about trawling through pages of property listings in the newspapers, thanks to a new e-classified website. Called mocca which stands for MediaCorp Online Communities
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  • Singapore news
    • 340 4 TO BE among the first in the world to fly on the Airbus A3BO this October, dig deep into your wallet Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be auctioning a substantial number of seats on its inaugural flight from the Republic to Sydney
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    • 581 4  -  NGIAMYINGLAN LEONGWEEKEAT Ngee Ann City library to close due to rising rents yinglan@mediacorp.com.sg ESCALATING Orchard Road rents mean there will no longer be a library in Singapore's prime shopping district- for the next few years, at least Come Nov 30, Library@Orchard will close and its collection of
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    • 133 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp.com.sg THE Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday confirmed that 25-year-old sportsman lan Ng is the fourth dengue death this year. In an email reply to Today, the MOH said laboratory tests have confirmed the diagnosis. The adventure sports enthusiast was admitted to
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    • Article, Illustration
      160 6 -LOHCHEEKONG CAUGHT NAPPING: This photograph of two policemen purportedly sleeping on their job (one is not visible while the other's face has been obscured to protect his identity) has popped up on several online forums and blogs. One result of this, a police spokesman told Today, is that disciplinary action
      -LOHCHEEKONG; COURTESYTOMORROWSG  -  160 words
    • 399 6  -  DAPHNECHUAH 13% between 16 and 23 have sex, but only 36% of them use contraceptives regularly daphne@mediacorp.com.sg THIRTEEN per cent of young Singaporeans between 16 and 23 years old could be sexually active, going by a recent survey of 609 post-secondary students commissioned by
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 72 8 Former Nominated Member of Parliament Zulkifli Baharudin has been named Singapore's first ambassador to Algeria. Mr Zulkifli, the managing director of Global Business Integrators, served in the humanitarian organisation Mercy Relief from 2003 until May this year. Deputy chairman of MCL Land Philip Eng Heng
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      • 74 8 938 LIVE Singapore could have a hand in making the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai a success. A memorandum of cooperation was signed to strengthen information exchange between the Land Transport Authority and Shanghai's Urban Transport Bureau. Two areas Shanghai is keen on
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      • 66 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Singapore Tourism Board is launching the Uniquely Singapore Weekends campaign this week to sell the island's appeal as a weekend getaway. The seven cities targeted in the campaign are: Bangkok, Chennai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johor Baru and Kuala Lumpur. Ads in various cities
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      • 55 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Israeli Education Minister Yuli Tamir called on Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo yesterday, on her first visit here at the invitation of Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Professor Yuli and Mr Yeo agreed that there was scope for closer collaboration and sharing of experiences in education.
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      • 84 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A*Star's commercialisation arm. Exploit Technologies, hopes to raise $28 million this year for eight projects created by companies and research teams under its wings. Six projects from last year's first venture capital forum have helped it raise $20 million so far, but there is still
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    • 156 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Former television host Benedict Goh (left, with his lawyer, Mr Lee Teck Leng, was back in court yesterday to answer four criminal charges from two drink-driving incidents. On Feb 18, 2004, at about 6am, the police found Goh in the
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    • 358 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Doc planted camera to film nurse in shower weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE trainee doctor had gone into the unisex staff shower room at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and positioned a black waist pouch on a wall opposite the showerhead. Inside it was a 5-mega-pixel camera with
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    • 230 8 AGENCIES A REPORT of missing language school workers filed on the island of Java triggered alarm bells as far away as Tokyo, raising fears of a kidnap by militants. But the report concerning the four foreigners a Singaporean, a Japanese, an American and
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      113 10 SHERALYNTAY EXTENDED HOLIDAY: For over 470 days, Mr Nicqlai Bangsgaard, 31, has been cycling around the world. "What I like about biking is that you're travelling at eye level with people, if s more intimate and connected with your surroundings,* he told Today on a stopover here. He has so
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    • 368 10  -  SUJADI SISWO CHANNEL NEWSASIA sujadi@media corp.com.sg INDONESIA will see good economic growth in the next two years, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew after meeting Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla in Jakarta yesterday. But Mr Lee added it was important that after its next presidential election
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  • world news
    • 200 12 PUTRAJAYA Malaysian political parties should enforce a ban on party members playing the race card and not depend on the government to crack the whip on those who provoke racial sentiments, a top official told The Star. Minister in the Prime Minister's
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    • 497 12  -  -MALAYSIAKINI Get ready, DPM Najib tells party leaders at three-hour meeting KUALA LUMPUR Leaders of component parties in Malaysia's ruling coalition were told at a meeting to prepare for general elections early next year, according to sources privy to the meeting. Deputy Prime Minister Najib
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    • 215 14 —AGENCIES LONDON Two journalists working for a British tabloid newspaper were arrested on Tuesday after trying to plant a fake bomb on a train, according to The Daily Mirror. Railway staff at the Stonebridge Park depot, on the London Underground's Bakerloo line,
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    • 256 14 —AP They carry explosive parts on planes for practice: Bulletin WASHINGTON Airport security officers in the United States have been alerted to look out for terrorists conducting dry runs to carry explosive components onto aircrafts. On four curious occasions since September last year at airports in San
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    • 70 15 -AFP Thailand staged the first full-scale test of its tsunami warning system yesterday in Phuket. Thousands of residents and foreign tourists took part in the hour-long drill, in which rescuers saved Victims' while sunbathers fled the town's famed Patong Beach to
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    • 279 15 -AFP NEW DELHI As outgoing president Abdul Kalam called for a "cor-ruption-free" India in his last address as head of state, India's first female president, Ms Pratibha Patil (picture), was sworn into office yesterday, promising to fight for women's rights. As he bid
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    • 344 15 AGENCIES BEIJING China yesterday passed a draft law that demands strengthened quality standards and supervision of food amid the recent spate of safety scandals surrounding Chinese products. The draft regulation, issued on the government's website, said the authorities would "strictly regulate producers, strengthen the
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    • 152 15 -AP BEIJING Beijing couples intent on stealing kisses in public are being warned they could be caught on closed-circuit television and suspected of committing a crime, a state news agency reported yesterday. Xinhua said "intimate acts of lovers may be initially categorised as 'kidnapping' or 'robbery' by the
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    • 301 16 -AP MADRID Two small explosive devices went off yesterday in northern Spain along a route used by the Tour de France cycling race after a warning call by the Basque separatist group ETA, said the Interior Ministry. No one was injured.
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 70 16 -AFP Former Shanghai leader Chen Liangyu has been dismissed from China's parliament for his role in the city's pension fund scandal, a move that brings him closer to trial. The ex-member of the ruling Communist Party's elite politburo was sacked from the city's
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      • 64 16 AFP India yesterday reported an outbreak of bird flu among poultry, the first since it declared itself free of the disease last August, sparking public fears despite official calls for calm. The department of animal husbandry said that the outbreak occurred on a
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    • 183 16 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO Lawyers for Facebook are set to argue in a Boston court for the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing its founder of stealing the idea for the popular social-networking website from his fellow students at Harvard. Struggling website ConnectU alleged in its lawsuit that
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    • 350 17 -DPA Lone female survivor of Pol Pot's secret prison breaks her silence PHNOM PENH Possibly the only woman to survive Pol Pot's infamous Toul Sleng S--21 torture centre, Ms Chim Math, broke her silence to the media yesterday after nearly 30 years. She told the media
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    • 470 18  -  SHARON VASOO Charter signals group's serious global role: Spore Foreign Minister DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR sharon@media corp.com.sg ASEAN'S foreign ministers have one vital task when they gather for their annual meetings later this week: Reviewing the first draft of the landmark Asean Charter. The ministers, who will
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    • 296 18  -  -NOORMOHDAZIZ —AGENCIES THE United States Congress voted yesterday to renew a ban on imports from military-ruled Myanmar under a sanctions regime imposed over the suppression of Aung San Suu Kyi's democracy movement The Senate voted 93-1 to extend the measures
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    • 534 20 ■NEW YORK TIMES System starts in 2009 but will such a reserved society beabletomakeitwork? NAGANO The two-day mock trial resembled, more often than not, a college seminar with the three judges acting as professors and the six jurors as freshmen. Sitting stiffly around
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    • 317 20 TOKYO He is behind in the polls and under fire over pensions and sleaze involving some of his closest allies. But even if polls prove correct and his party loses Sunday's upper house elections, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set
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    • 206 21 -AP MONTEREY (California) Jumbo squid that can grow up to 2.13 m long and weigh more than 49.9 kg are invading central California waters and preying on local anchovy, hake and other commercial fish populations, according to a new study. An aggressive predator, the Humboldt
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    • 277 21 —AFP BANGKOK Thailand's army-installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont threatened yesterday to take legal action against anti-coup protesters if they attempt to stage a new march in Bangkok. General Surayud said the protesters mainly supporters of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra would be allowed to stage rallies as
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    • 231 22 AFP MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit out at Britain's "colonial mindset" in demanding that Moscow hand over a key suspect in the murder of a former Russian agent in London last year. Mr Putin's broadside on Tuesday was the latest salvo in
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    • 308 22 AFP ROME South-eastern Europe was a tinderbox yesterday in the grip of an unrelenting heatwave that has claimed hundreds of lives as wildfires swept southern and central Italy, and bit into a national park in Slovakia. "We've had 50 calls so far already for airborne
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 126 24 AFP A court in southern China has awarded 51,000 yuan ($10,175) in damages to a prison inmate who was tortured by guards, leaving him with erectile dysfunction. The man, identified only by his surname Zhong, was jailed for three years in 2002 for impersonating
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      • 80 24 ■AFP At least nine civilians were killed and 41 wounded when suspected Islamic militants fired five rockets overnight into a city in north-west Pakistan. Four houses were destroyed in the attack on Bannu, a town on the fringes of the restive North Waziristan tribal
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    • 310 24 -AP Over 29,000 of such registered criminals have profiles on site WASHINGTON MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking website more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two US
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    • What price a lost childhood?
      • 250 26  -  TRISHAFINE Letter from I AM from England and have been teaching Primary 3 English in a Singapore school since January. And I am shocked by the weight of their backpacks. It's certainly time for research to be carried out into the
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      • 107 26  -  EMMANUEL ER Letter from I AM nine-and-a-half years old and I agree with the article. The struggle my friends and I are go through is very tiring. We are always studying, and it is not fair. If we don't get
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      • 171 26  -  RAYMOND NG Letter from WHILE I am a supporter of the achievement of world-class standards, I think we are going about it in the wrong way. During the weekends, my child has to complete a lot of homework comprising almost every subject, in
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    • 204 26  -  NOEL PECK Letter from I REFER to "Cruising to the jewels of the Far East" (July 24). Yes, Singapore's strategic location and tranquil waters make it an ideal cruise hub but one big drawback is the location for disembarkation of passengers. When
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    • 242 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I NATURE OR NURTURE For many decades, behavioural scientists have been arguing over whether environment or genetics plays the bigger role in shaping the human personality. In the early part of the 20th century, child developmentalists were convinced that babies were born
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    • 409 28  -  JULIE KAY BENG NEO Not selected for sponsorship from company, 43-year-old cannot afford to pay for course Letter from, I'M 43 YEARS old, married and have an eight-year-old daughter. I work in the field of human resources. In line with the Government's call
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    • 229 28  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from A COUNTRY club in Singapore has sent a letter by ordinary mail to all its members informing them that $25 will be charged to their accounts as a donation to charity in conjunction with a
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    • 622 30  -  LIANG DINGZI AN ACQUAINTANCE of mine found herself in a situation that I can only say was typical of the poor aftersales service in Singapore. She had kept one afternoon free to wait for the delivery of a filing cabinet to her
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    • 176 34  -  BALASINGAM-CHOWYUHUI Letter from A RECENT phenomenon has made me wonder if our roads are too brightly lit at night I have noticed an increasing number of vehicles being driven at night with their headlights switched off. I recently saw four cars being
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    • 248 34  -  LIONEL DESOUZA Use of laser pointers in breach of lawfor security agencies Letter from I REFER to the letter "Jacky's security shouldn't have used lasers" (July 24) from Ms Camie Chua. The indiscriminate use of laser pointers by Jacky Cheung's security detail was intended to
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    • 111 34  -  KHOOSHUUNG PATSY LUSTY FOREIGN WORKERS GETTING IT ON I live at Blk 402, Hougang Aye 10. On many occasions, I have spotted a maid and a foreign worker (wearing a green and yellow uniform) making out in the lift and staircase landings of my block. On one occasion I
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      328 36 -BLOOMBERG Petroleum firm's three-month net income climbs to $179.2 m thanks to refining business SINGAPORE Petroleum Company (SPC), the only oil refiner traded on the country's stock exchange, said profit rose 32 per cent in the second quarter because of higher earnings from processing crude into fuels.
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    • 196 36  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg SAVILLS Singapore is hoping to get at least $180 million, or $2,477 per square foot (psf) per plot ratio, for the collective sale of Trendale Tower, the firm said yesterday. Its expressions-of-interest exercise closed on June 20, and the
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    • 210 36  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) hopes to turn Singapore into a cashless society, starting with yesterday's launch of the UOB One Card the island's first contactless credit card. With Visa pay Wave, Visa's contactless payment technology, cardholders pay for purchases totalling
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      • 187 38 DOW JONES FIVE bidders have been shortlisted to buy a 39-per-cent stake in South Korea's Hanarotelecom, held by American International Group and private equity firm TPG Capital, a source familiar with the situation said yesterday. More than 10 large investors have
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      • 321 38  -  JOSEPH YADAO Aims to restore the Ebel brand status joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg HOPING to ride on Asia's large and growing appetite for premium consumer products, Swiss Movado Group and Singapore's Sincere Watch Ltd yesterday announced a five-year partnership aimed at increasing regional sales of the Ebel watch
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      • 289 40 -BLOOMBERG South Korea's economy grew at the fastest pace in 18 months, adding to speculation the central bank will raise interest rates for a second time this year. Asia's thirdlargest economy expanded 1.7 per cent in the three months to June 30 from the first quarter, the Bank of
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      • 382 40  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg ONE of the biggest cost components for a growing small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) is communications. This includes voice, mobile and data communications to link different arms of a business. There is also the need for computing through the use of
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      • 362 41  -  -HEDIRMANSUPIAN Global Entrepolis Singapore (GES) will be back for the fifth time, providing businesses here an opportunity to seal deals, raise funds, exchange ideas and forge new partnerships. The trade event will be held from Nov 12 to 15 at the Suntec Convention Centre. This year's event will see
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      • 397 41 BLOOMBERG Index down slightly as investors turn conservative over news from US SINGAPORE'S stocks fell, dragging the Straits Times Index (STI) from a record, after a drop in profit at the largest United States mortgage lender heightened concerns that consumer spending would slow in the Republic's
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    • 737 42 Upcoming drama Big Fool Lee aims to tell the story of legendary 50s radio personality, Lee Dai Soh, who enthralled his audience with classic Chinese parables. NGIAM YIN 6 LAN goes behind the scenes. ON AIR, he preached morals, but off the console, Lee Dai Soh was
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    • 419 42  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SENSASI, Star Hub's new Malay cable entertainment channel, will make its debut on Aug 7. Meaning "sensation" in Malay, it is due to broadcast 18 hours daily delivering specific genres each night, said Abdul Rashid Budin, airtime director with Content
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    • 206 44 -AP WOULD Jason Bourne dress up as a gas pump for a You Tube video? Probably not But Matt Damon (picture), who plays him on the big screen, is willing to look silly when it comes to raising awareness about global warming.
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    • 234 45 -AP JONI Mitchell (picture) is following the lead of Paul McCartney in joining with the coffee giant Starbucks to release her comeback album. Hear Music, a record label formed in partnership with Starbucks Corp and the Concord Music Group, announced on Wednesday
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    • 550 46 Lindsay, drugs and booze again -AP The star was arrested for drink driving and cocaine possession on Tuesday LINDSAY Lohan is the latest star to tumble from Hollywood's heights into the tumult of substance abuse, continuing a sad tradition of young celebrities who deal with fame by turning to drugs
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    • 129 47 MOVIE CLASSICS AT THE MUSEUM Give cineplexes a miss and watch some timeless Hollywood classics while having a picnic with family and friends at Under The Banyan Tree at the National Museum's Stamford Garden tomorrow and on Saturday. The Audrey Hepburn classic Breakfast at Tiffany's screens tomorrow. The movie
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      • 470 48  -  ZULOTHMAN Being different is not always a good thing for Noisettes, who will be performing at Singfest 2007 zul@media corp.com.sg CONTRARY to popular belief, non-con-formity is not always a good thing in the world of rock 'n' roll. Take London-based indie-rockers Noisettes, for instance. During
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    • 207 51  -  -SERENE HUANG FANS of the Grimm Brothers' The Musicians of Bremen will have a chance to watch the much-loved tale come alive when they board the Superstar Virgo. The fairytale, which has been transformed into a musical extravaganza, features a 29-member cast including
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    • 837 52  -  NEO CHAI CHIN A Today journalist recounts her unforgettable internship atthe Singapore Pavilion at lastyear's Venice Biennale chaichin@media corp.com.sg MANY people describe Venice as a dream and I have agree. Most visitors make a beeline for the stunning St Mark's Square and Basilica on arrival,
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    • 820 54  -  CAROL PUCCI -MCT Peasant life continues in Maramures, a cultural time capsule in North Transylvania JUST 65km from the shops selling mobile phones in the mining town of Baia Mare, Maria Stan sits in front of her house on a dirt street in the village of
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      • 64 55 Trains run between Bucharest and Baia Mare (11 hours), Sighet (14 hours), Satu Mare (13 hours) and other cities. Romania's Air Tarom (www.tarom.ro) flies between Bucharest and Baia Mare (one hour). Tickets can be booked online. The best way to get there is to rent
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      • 69 55 There are hotels and hostels in each of the cities. Lodging in the villages is in private homes. The biggest concentration of guesthouses more than 100, in fact is in Vadu Izei and Botiza. Many of the old wooden homes have been restored with modern bathrooms
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      462 56 BLOOMBERG From the organic beauty of Frank Gehry's architecture to the exquisite wines of the Basque region, you'll be hooked AMID the green vineyards and gentle hills of Spain's Rioja region, waves of pink, gold and silver ribbons appear to dance around a building that featured, among other
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      573 58 -NYT You'll love Bayreuth despite 5-year queue for Wagner tickets WITH two renowned opera houses and a world-class music scene going back to the 18th century, the small north Bavarian city of Bayreuth, population 75,000, is the Woodstock of the opera set. Until Aug 28, hordes of
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    • 146 61 —AFP I BERLIN French star Franck Ribery continued his impressive early form by scoring the opening goal and creating a second in Bayern Munich's 2-0 League Cup semifinal win over German champions Vfß Stuttgart yesterday. After scoring two goals on his competitive debut in Bayern's
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    • 171 61 Deco sta ying put at Barcelona AFP MADRID Barcelona's Portuguese international Deco, who has been linked to a move to the English Premiership, will be staying put at the Spanish club, Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard said yesterday. Rijkaard told the club's website that he is "very pleased" with Deco, as
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