Today, 5 October 2007

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    27 1 TODAY /AediaCorp we set you thinking Friday October 5, 2007 todayonline.com MICA(P) 314/10/2006 TODAY /A=diaCorp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Friday October 5, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon THE MYANMAR TIME BOMB
    802 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG Region's stability at stake if situation there worsens: MM cheekong@media corp.com.sg THERE'S more than just Asean's credibility that is at stake if the situation in Myanmar continues to deteriorate. In fact, the region's future may be in peril if the problem is not
    301 BOON KEONG  -  802 words
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    Lock icon Best Financial Story award for TODAY journo
    711 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg SHE had two days to deliver the goods, and it was no easy task, getting the lowdown on a story laden with contentious issues. But Today correspondent Christie Loh (picture) soldiered on with her usual dogged determination. The focus of her
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      55 1 SINGAPOREANS, A WORRYING LOT? UNHAPPIEST IN ASIA, SURVEY SHOWS LOCAL PAGE 10 I OUR MAN AT THE SHANGHAI GP FACE TO FACE WITH LEWIS HAMILTON SPORTS PAGE 75 today£*O __\S)_ REPORT Your FREE copy inside FCHECK INSIDE FOR DETAILS! 1 I il Fair Price I V Because the good life
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      131 2 This Hari touch with During the festivities, we return to our roots and look at the future, hoping for growth and greener pastures. For more roots and greenery, look no further than your nearest IKEA store with our wide range of plants, flowers, pots and vases. Bring some home and
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Why the pact hung – the Indon view...
      630 3 Why the pact hung the Indon view... INDONESIAN Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono (picture) has launched an attack on Singapore, in an interview published in the latest edition of Indonesian weekly news magazine Tempo. Entitled "Singapore does not want its image tarnished", Mr Juwono alleges that differences between Prime Minister Lee
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      261 3 Raya, get in your roots. At IKEA we have a wide range of home furnishing solutions that will add to your Hari Raya joy even more. And because money doesn't grow on trees, our prices won't grow either. They're very down to earth. Just like our new 100-day return policy.
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      Lock icon 'FREE BURMA'
      709 4  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine@media corp.com.sg AS THE arrests of monks and activists continue in Myanmar, over 900 people from the three local universities joined forces to support a student-led campaign for peace yesterday. Candlelight vigils were held at two campuses. Local and foreign students and faculty members, including playwright
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      Lock icon AT LAST, A BREATHER ...
      550 6  - AT LAST, A BREATHER DAPHNE CHUAH TAN HUI LENG Ducktours' balloon site may get 8-mth extension daphne@mediacorp.com.sg FOR weeks, Ducktours' founder James Heng had that deflated feeling, faced with the prospect of losing his moneymaking, helium balloon. But an email he received yesterday evening sent him soaring again. It was
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      Lock icon Asian nations must 'pilot aviation boom'
      440 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AIR travel in Asia may be soaring but governments in the region need to take greater leadership roles in the global aviation sector. Speaking at a media roundtable here yesterday, International Air Transport Association (lata) director-general and chief executive Giovanni
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      Lock icon MM: No S'poreans want to ask a question?
      255 8 -LOHCHEEKONG THE issue of homosexuality cropped up again during a ques-tion-and-answer session (picture) with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the Nanyang Technological University's Ministerial Forum last night An English language undergraduate asked Mr Lee this question: Whether there was a "mutual
      -LOHCHEEKONG  -  255 words
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      Lock icon WHEN PASSION GETS THE BETTER OF REASON
      931 8  -  TAN HUI LENG An ignorance-no-excuse law may yet discourage some from taking HIV tests huileng@media corp.com.sg THE law may compel you to do certain things, but can it endow you with reason in the heat of passion? The Ministry of Health (MOH) certainly
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        LAST CHANCE TO BE AN OLYMPIC TORCHBEARER
        94 10 Singaporeans have one week left for a chance to be a torchbearer in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Olympics sponsor Samsung Electronics' campaign to select one Singapore representative in the Olympic Torch Relay ends next Friday. Citizens or Permanent Residents who submit an
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        FINANCE MINISTRY ACCEPTS MOST TAX COMMENTS
        126 10 The Ministry of Finance has accepted 21 suggestions from the 29 public consultation comments on the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill. Most of the feedback during the onemonth period between June and July came from professional bodies and companies. The consultation exercise for the draft
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        Lock icon S'poreans do seem a worrying lot
        538 10  -  TAN HUI LENG But survey shows that they prepare for retirement better than their Asian counterparts huileng@media corp.com.sg THE proposed changes to the Central Provident Fund (CPF) are aimed at helping Singapore's ageing population to have enough for their retirement needs. But recent discussions
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        Balm to soothe legal service woes
        367 10  -  DERRICK A PAULO Assistant News Editor derrick@media corp.com.sg IT'S been six years since the Legal Service has bled this much, and it hopes it can close the wound now that a revised remuneration framework has been approved. The outflow of officers is such that
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      Lock icon After three days, a pledge for a peace pact...
      563 14 —AP SEOUL Leaders of North and South Korea pledged in a reconciliation pact yesterday to seek a peace treaty to replace the Korean War's 1953 ceasefire and expand projects to reduce tension across the world's last Cold War frontier. North Korean
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      Lock icon Mystery shrouds Myanmar PM's health
      388 14 —AGENCIES YANGON Sources close to the Myanmar junta said on Wednesday that the country's Prime Minister has been placed in intensive care in a Yangon hospital, amid reports that he was dead. Mizzima News, a service run by Burmese people in exile, reported on Wednesday
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      Lock icon Dr M wastes no time loafing
      226 16 MELISSA GOH KUALA LUMPUR Barely recovered from his heart bypass surgery, Malaysia's former Prime Minister is already worried about his bakery that recently opened its second outlet in Malaysia. Former Premier Mahathir Mohamad was as alert as ever and could not stop asking about
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      Lock icon M'sia freezes worker intake
      455 16 —AFP —AGENCIES HANDS UP, MR POTATO HEAD: Australian customs yesterday discovered a large amount of Ecstasy inside a Mr Potato Head children's toy, mailed to Sydney from Ireland. Customs said the toy was intercepted in a parcel at Sydney's international mail centre. Australian customs said the
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      Lock icon Airbus rocked by new scandal
      634 18 —AFP ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL June 2005: Six-month delay in A3BO deliveries announced. March 2006: Executives of Airbus parent company EADS sell tranches of shares. April 2006: Major EADS shareholders Lagardere and DaimlerChrysler each sell 7.5 per cent of EADS stake. June 2006: Another six-month
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      Lock icon Jakarta governor to run for President
      334 20 —AFP JAKARTA Despite the fact that the presidential election is still almost two years away, Jakarta governor Sutiyoso (picture) announced yesterday that he will run for President Mr Sutiyoso, whose term will end on Sunday, said his wish to join the 2009 presidential election
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      Lock icon Indon child preachers
      464 20 —AFP American Idol-style reality show has kids preaching against adultery on the air JAKARTA Dressed in traditional Muslim garb and cuddling her Winnie the Pooh doll as she takes to the stage, six-year-old Ridha Nurul Hag urges Indonesians to fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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      Lock icon Police search 'illegal mosque' for suspects
      275 22 DPA COLOMBO Maldivian police searched an "illegal mosque" in the capital Male after identifying suspects connected with Saturday's bombing, which injured 12 foreigners, media reports in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo said. Police have placed the location under guard since Wednesday night, preventing public
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        Lock icon CO-FOUNDER OF EUROPE'S BIGGEST BUDGETAIRUNEDIESATAGE7I
        124 22 —AFP Mr Tony Ryan (picture), the Irish co-founder of low-fare airline Ryanair, which helped to revolutionise air travel in Europe, died at his home on Wednesday, his family said. The 71-year-old, who suffered a lengthy, unspecified illness, had a family fortune worth about 1.2 billion
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        Lock icon JAPAN TO FINGERPRINT FOREIGN VISITORS FROM NEXT MONTH
        117 22 —AFP Japan said yesterday it will start fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors from next month under stringent new security measures that have been criticised by civil rights advocates. The new measures, approved by parliament last year, are expected to take effect from
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      Lock icon Bhutto's party may not resign
      383 22 —AFP Former PM is optimistic about power-sharing deal with President Musharraf LONDON Former Pakistani Premier Benazir Bhutto said yesterday that there was no final power-sharing accord yet with President Pervez Musharraf, but voiced hope that one could be struck. "We are optimistic today, but I
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      Lock icon Vatican buys own team and vows to clean up Italian football
      334 22 -■mEDAILYTREGRAPH ROME The Vatican has pledged to clean up Italian football after buying its own club. The Italian Bishop's Conference now has a controlling stake in AC Ancona, currently top of Italy's third division, after the money was provided
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      Lock icon Girl, 10, swims 3km with limbs bound in record bid
      219 24 —AGENCIES BEIJING A 10-year-old Chinese girl went on a threehour river swim with her limbs bound, state media reported the latest endurance feat to raise questions of child abuse. Huang Li, from Hunan province, swam in a tributary of the
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    • GLORALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PASSENGER PLANE SCRAPES TAIL DURING LANDING AT AN AIRPORT IN OSAKA
        95 24 —AFP A runway at one of Japan s international airports was closed temporarily yesterday, after a passenger plane scraped its tail on the ground while landing near the western city of Osaka. No one was injured in the incident
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        BRUNEI'S SULTAN MARKS 40-YEAR REIGN
        114 24 One of the world's longest-reigning monarchs, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, will mark 40 years on the throne today with low-key celebrations, an official said. There will be a ceremony at the Sultan's 1,700-room palace and a special sermon at a grand mosque in the city,
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      Lock icon SUMO IN CRISIS
      403 24 —AFP TOKYO A beating with a bamboo sword. Sand shoved in your mouth. Unnecessary violence, or just an acceptable way of toughening up young sumo wrestlers? Japan's national sport has been plunged into crisis following the death of a teenage wrestler who collapsed during practice a day
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      217 14 WellnesSj- C_ylVl© Symposium 07 'Discover beauty and wellness secrets' Wr*^^** Learn from Singapore's wellness experts: "Let Me Glow" by Dr Joyce Lim, leading dermatologist "Dazzle Me" by Dr Ho Kee Hai, dental surgeon "Beauty Within" by Nazli Anwari, trained horticulturist Iff "Breast Health" by Breast Cancer Foundation Wm Jb- Date:
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      149 24 //Communicate with Body Language MOM M M Communication with a pre-verbal child of any age O I m begins with a parent's touch. mm Crying is the only way a pre-verbal child can am communicate with you to tell you something is wrong. —W Picking up and holding the child
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      Indian council itself dropped KMC from its mcd schools list
      168 26  -  DR LAU HONG CHOON MS KAREN TAN Letter from Executive Secretary, Spore Medical Council and Director, Corporate Communications Ministry of Health MR CHENG Shoong Tat asked: "Are foreign medical degree holders 'safe'?" (Oct 3), when he noted the withdrawal of
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      Sex ed and the right message
      580 26  -  DR JOHN HUIKEEM PENG Equip our youth with life skills so they can make the right decisions Letter from IN THE report, "Beyond abstinence, youth need contraceptive education, too" (Sept 26), it was suggested that because "the experience of countries in the West such
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      Very worrying, when payment goes 'missing'
      327 26  -  LIMYONGNAM Letter from THE Ministry of Health started the Integrated Plan for MediShield claims in July 1,2005. Under this system, the hospital or clinic involved in the patient treatment will submit the claim on behalf of the patient And once the claim is approved,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      290 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON I BY IT'S HARD TO SAY 'I'M SORRY' Many people have a hard time saying they are sorry to anyone, let alone to their own children. Although it is hard to do, apologising when we are wrong provides a great opportunity to teach
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      Lock icon Madness that split a community
      773 28  -  Tabitha Wang All this en bloc angsthas made me value my HDB flat I BUDGET TAITAI THIS probably isn't going to win me any popularity contest but I am so glad the Government passed new laws to regulate en bloc sales. It's about time someone
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      Lock icon Mobile phones are dangerous at bomb blast sites
      216 30  -  LIONEL DESOUZA Letter from THE photograph supporting the report, "First terror attack ever on Maldives" (Oct 1) astounded me. As a professional in the private investigation and private security business, I was bemused to see two people using their mobile phones at
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    • Letter
      Cord blood: A boon, not bane
      359 30  -  DRTOHKENGKIAT Watchdogs ensure high standards of cord blood use Letter from Medical Director, Cord Life WE REFER to the letter, "Which way to the cord bank?" (Oct 3). Cord blood banking is a lifesaving medical service that can treat 80 different diseases today with
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      Don't give up on our dialects
      131 30  -  DAVID YOONG Letter from I REFER to the article, "Silent mother tongue" (Oct 2). Since the Speak Mandarin campaign was launched in 1980, more people are conversing in Mandarin. Older folks are also communicating with their grandchildren in Mandarin. Dialects, however, are less commonly
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      311 40  -  JOHNSON CHOO ESTHER FUNG Details of the launch to be released today johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg CHINA Oilfield Technology (COT) is planning to sell 211.6 million shares in an initial public offering (IPO) at the Singapore capital market The engineering firm, which specialises in developing oil
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        128 40 Private-equity firms TPG Capital LLP and Affinity Equity Partners are likely to succeed in their $2.2 billion takeover bid for Singapore chip tester United Test and Assembly Center (Utac). Some shareholders, who previously opposed the deal, recently indicated their approval through proxy
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        70 40 Real estate heavyweight Capita Land and Indian property firm D S Kulkarni Developers are negotiating a 7-billion-rupee ($264-million) joint venture agreement for a development in India. A person close to the deal said the joint venture will develop 60 acres of land in India's Pune.
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        47 40 Singapore Press Holdings is taking a majority stake in a $25-million joint venture company in Hong Kong. Called 701 Sou (Hong Kong), the joint venture will provide digital media services including online and mobile search services, in the Chinese market.
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        53 40 Malaysian Airline System, the nation's largest carrier, plans to introduce its next business transformation plan in January after job and route cuts helped return the company to profit. The carrier, forecasting its first profit in three years in 2007, is ahead of schedule on its
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        87 40 UK house prices fell in September for the first time in nine months as five interest rate increases in the past year and a global credit slump cooled demand for property, a report from HBOS showed. The average cost of a home in Britain declined 0.6
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        255 40  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg THE average rent for a small prime grade A office space of less than 10,000 sq ft rose to $14.90 per square foot (psf) per month in the third quarter ended September this year. According to property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle
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      496 44  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE shares rebounded slightly in an extended consolidation, with market participants remaining cautiously upbeat amid a lack of fresh leads. The Straits Times Index gained 0.8 per cent to close at 3783.8. Volume was 3.8 billion valued at $2.7 billion,
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      294 44  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg SMEs, it's time to mobilise your employees as brand ambassadors. "In small and medium enterprises, everyone is an ambassador for the brand. You have to leverage as many people as you can. If your employees are positive about the brand,
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      499 46 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH VIETNAM is planning to cut its purchases of US Treasuries and other dollar bonds, raising fears that Asian central banks with control over two-thirds of the world's foreign reserves may soon join the flight from assets from the United States.
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      660 48  - Looking for that human touch JOSEPH YADAO Why play against a robot only when you can pit yourself against a real person? joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg IT APPEARS artificial intelligence (AI) isn't all that it's cracked up to be these days, with the gaming community preferring to play online against real players
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        530 51  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN HEDIRMANSUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg YOU can never go wrong with classic black. Sure, multi-coloured gadgets might appear fun, flirty even. But they leave your space in a mess of different shades and styles. This season, black is back among gadg-et-makers. So, if you're hoping to match
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        481 52  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN Welcome to the mobile phone capital of the world hedirman@media corp. com. sg DURING a recent work trip to Japan to attend the Tokyo Game Show, I had foolishly brought along a non-3G mobile phone that was not compatible with the networks there. Yes, clearly an ignorant
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      587 56  -  JEANINETAN Clive Owen defends the action in his new film Shoot Em Up INNEWYORK jeanine@media corp.com.sg EVEN if Clive Owen has never delivered a baby in real life, he has already done so twice in the movies. Once was in the Alfonso Cuaron futuristic drama Children of Men
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      602 58  -  ASIFANSAR Survivor: China boasts a mix of oddballs and brand new rules asif@media corp.com.sg IT WOULD seem like a bar room joke. But when a professional poker player, elementary school teacher, homosexual Mormon, gravedigger, and beauty queen-turned-wrestler meet in China... it has to be the return of Survivor,
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      Lock icon A confident actor, a good lover
      434 58 KARMANTSE DANCING is his forte. And he has improved by leaps and bounds as a singer since his Can't Stop Loving You rookie days. Now, Aaron Kwok (picture) wants to devote his time and attention to acting. Two Golden Horse wins (for 2005's Divergence
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      770 60  - TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE NEILMCCORMICK —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Just how much to pay for Radiohead's new album is a moral decision for fans plus@newstoday.com.sg RADIOHEAD is causing quite a furore with their pay-what-you-want digital album release of In Rainbows. It is less a model for the future of the
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      Lock icon TOUGH COOKIE
      514 62  -  JEANINETAN Actress Yvonne Lim has no qualms filming in conditions that are less than desirable jeanine@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS pretty easy to convince Yvonne Lim (picture) to play the lead in Truth Be Told, even though the film was a low-budget effort from first-time directors Lim Jen Nee and
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      288 62 IT'S OFF TO FRANKFURT FOR SINGAPOREAN AUTHORS, ILLUSTRATORS With over 80 new titles, it's a veritable harvest of local books that Singapore will be presenting at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, which runs from Oct 10 to 14. Over 10 organisations-including first-time participant National Arts Council, IE Singapore and
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      349 63 -AP GWYNETH Paltrow (picture), acclaimed chef Mario Batali and New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman are set to embark on a road trip with slick cars, hearty food and a candid camera monitoring the flashy travellers. Paltrow, the duo of American food gurus and Spanish actress
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      229 63 amrtjuyii^H GO TO London for musicals and Paris for food, the old saying goes. While the French capital excelled at dining, museums and newwave cinema, it didn't care for sing-along shows. Now Paris's theatre scene is braced for a revolution as big entertainment
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      450 64  -  Felix Cheong FRIDAY WITH FELIX plus@newstoday.com.sg More films are making fun of gay people WHAT a difference a year makes. Last year was the year gay-themed movies supposedly came out of the closet in Hollywood, with titles like Brokeback Mountain and Capote winning the Oscars. But the tide
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      257 66 NGIAMYINGLAN Documentary follows making of the A3BO HISTORY will be in the making when the world's first Airbus A3BO makes its maiden commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney on Oct 25. But the moment will also have arrived after two years of costly delays
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      372 68  -  ZU LOTH MAN Young Anugerah winner taking fame in his stride zul@media corp.com.sg IT'S BEEN three months since he was crowned champion of Anugerah 2007 MediaCorp TV 12 Suria's annual singing contest- and Mohamad Aliff Aziz (picture) reckons being a pop star isn't as easy
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      191 68 —AP THE producers of the new Indiana Jones movie have settled a lawsuit against an actor accused of breaching a confidentiality agreement by revealing the film's plot in a newspaper interview. A Superior Court order was filed on Tuesday finding that Tyler Nelson knowingly violated the
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      405 72 —AFP CARDIFF French rugby administrators, even more than coach Bernard Laporte and the players, are to blame for the hosts running the risk of being knocked out of "their" World Cup in the capital of Wales. That Les Bleus
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      412 72 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Wallabies drop top try scorer Drew Mite hell from starting XV for England clash MARSEILLE Australia coach John Connolly has dropped the World Cup's leading try-scorer, Drew Mitchell (picture), to the bench for tomorrow's much anticipated quarter-final against England
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      196 73 THE GUARDIAN GLASGOW Uefa yesterday launched an investigation into the farcical scenes at the end of Celtic's 2-1 victory over AC Milan at Parkhead on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) when a home supporter raced on to the pitch and appeared to slap Milan
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