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  • 26 1 TODAY //\=DIJ\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday October 30, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday October 30, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 632 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG But Govt keeping close eye on global financial and domestic property markets, says PM cheekong@media corp.com.sg WITH 2007 drawing to a close, Singapore's economy looks set to end the year on a high. The Monetary Authority of Singapore which is due to release
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  • 692 1  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg THE island's top shopping street is looking a little worse for wear. But in one-and-a-half years, you may not recognise it after a $40-mil-lion facelift Picture, instead of heat rising off concrete sidewalks and old benches, little flowery oases instead.
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  • hot news
    • 677 2  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg IMAGINE the adrenaline rush of witnessing a new track and fieldworld record being set at a heartland sports complex near your flat Or cheering an Olympic football final in Bishan and watching goals scored by teenagers who might be the next Ronaldo
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    • 280 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg ORIGINALLY due to kick in on Thursday, the implementation of electronic road pricing (ERP) at four new gantries and the extension of ERP hours at another gantry have been pushed to this coming Monday instead. That is when ERP charges at seven
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  • Singapore news
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      69 4 TREVOR TAN A WEALTH OF TORCH BEARERS: Some 1,500 Singaporeans from all walks of life came together to create their own Olympic history. They set a Singapore record for the most number of torchbearers forming a five-ring formation at the Suntec City Mall Fountain of Wealth. A tribute to the
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    • 531 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG NTUC that includes workers of all collars, origins key to Spores edge: Sec-Gen cheekong@media corp. com. sg IF SWEDEN which boasts the highest unionisation rate in the world at around 80 per cent cannot do it, what are the chances
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    • 442 5  -  LEONG WEE KEAT M'sia govtto consider MAS request for budget outfit to operate KL-S'pore route weekeat@media corp.com.sg AFTER opening up the route to two budget carriers, the Malaysian government said yesterday it would consider Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) request for its budget outfit, Firefly, to operate the
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    • 860 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO Moderate views of most S'poreans needed to temper the vocal minority ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR derrick@media corp.com.sg NOW the Penal Code has been updated with Section 377 A left untouched where does Singapore go from here on this issue of
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    • 473 8  -  LINYANQIN Negative emotions spur on this social worker yanqin@media corp.com.sg EVEN after 20 years as a social worker, what she sees and hears from the family violence victims she counsels still upsets her. But that is exactly how Ms Chow Choy Yin, executive director of Trans
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    • 308 8  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@media corp.com.sg FOR his acts of thieving, forgery and vandalism earlier this year, 16-year-old Nelson Teo Kok Wai will spend the next three months being closely monitored and a total of 30 months on probation. Judge Bala Reddy sentenced the teenager yesterday to
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 110 8 Former National Kidney Foundation chairman Richard Yong, sentenced to 15 months' jail last month, appears to have dropped his plans to appeal against his conviction and sentence. The Subordinate Courts said the date for filing an appeal lapsed on Oct 22, a month after
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      • 41 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Island-wide Cleanest Estate Competition is back after a five-year hiatus. The 14 Peoples Action Party Town Councils are bringing backthe competition with more categories residential, town centre, food centre and toilets and prizes.
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      • 100 8 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is putting up a hospital site at Novena Terrace in Irrawaddy Road for sale by public tender, to help meet rising demand for healthcare services. Novena is fast establishing itself as a distinctive medical zone, with a number of
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    • 236 8 QATAR will be getting a civil defence training centre modelled after the one in Singapore. The US$l6l-million ($233.7-million) Training Institute for Qatar Civil Defence will be almost five times bigger than Singapore's 11-hectare academy, and the Singapore Civil Defence Force will act
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  • world news
    • 239 10 AFP GENTING HIGHLANDS Malaysia's "casino king" Lim Goh Tong, who died last Tuesday at the age of 90, was laid to rest yesterday on the jungle hilltop that he turned into a thriving gambling resort Mr Lim was interred at a memorial park near his
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    • 626 10 -AFP M'sian PM Abdullah rolls out third such masterplan ahead of expected snap polls KUALA TERENGGANU (Malaysia) Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi launched a U5533.5-billion ($49-billion) development plan for Malaysia's poor eastern states yesterday as he prepared the ground for national elections. The East Coast
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    • 312 10 ■AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's government faced mounting pressure yesterday to pursue judicial reforms, as the country's former king voiced distress that judges are losing their case in the court of public opinion. Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah, addressing a conference of lawyers,
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    • 483 12 ■AFP But Jakarta is going ahead with plans to build world's longest suspension bridge JAKARTA Indonesia has brushed aside fears of graft and disaster to pursue plans to build the world's largest suspension bridge in one of the most earthquakeprone areas on earth. The planned
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      71 12 I THENEWEVITA: Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner and First Lady Cristina Fernandez (picture) are poised to switch jobs in December, with near-complete results indicating Argentines elected a female President for the first time and launched their country's most powerful political dynasty since Juan and Evita Peron.With96per cent of votes counted, Ms
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    • 381 12  -  ZULOTHMAN, DESPITE their differences over the effectiveness of sanctions on Myanmar, the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) and the European Union (EU) will work together to strengthen United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari's mediation efforts in the military-ruled nation. "The regional countries don't
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    • 371 14 -AFP Studies find discrimination against minorities in India NEW DELHI India's Muslims and lowcaste Hindus have a harder time landing jobs and die younger than high-caste Hindus, even if they have similar education and incomes, new studies have found. A Dalit, a member
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    • Article, Illustration
      61 14 AFP DOWN BUT NOT OUT: About 25,000 protesters from 15 of India's 29 states marched 600 km from Gwalior to New Delhi to demand land rights. Indian police blocked them from marching to Parliament building. Many protesters are landless farmers who have been displaced by government and private developers. They
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    • 280 14 -AFP LONDON Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah yesterday accused the United Kingdom of not taking terrorism seriously enough. The accusation came hours before he arrived in London for a state visit that has already stirred criticism from politicians and protesters citing human rights abuses and
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    • 173 14 -AFP LONDON US clothing retailer Gap said on Sunday it will not sell garments that were allegedly produced by child labourers in India following an undercover expose by a British newspaper. The Observer reported on Sunday that its investigation discovered Indian children as young
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    • 354 16 His new party to challenge Democrats in Dec polls BANGKOK- Former Jemaah Islamiyah 01) suspect and National Legislative Assembly member Waemahadi Waedaoh said his newlyestablished Puea Pandin party will challenge the Democrats for the Lower House seats in Thailand's deep south, according to the
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    • 289 16 -AFP DEL MAR (California) Dozens of tables are stacked with potato chips, granola bars, baby formula, diapers, toothpaste and toilet paper. A hot lunch buffet sends the odour of fried coconut shrimp wafting across the room as a handful of people crowd computers marked
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    • 220 17 -AFP TOKYO A former top Japanese official admitted yesterday he played golf and dined regularly with a defence contractor, in a scandal that comes as the government struggles to renew a key military mission. Legislation allowing Japanese ships in the Indian Ocean to refuel ships
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    • 321 17 -AGENCIES MANILA More than a million candidates took part in the Philippines' latest election amid tight security yesterday, seeking nuts-and-bolts local posts that keep the country running. The 120,000-strong Philippine police force was on full alert to guard against fraud and violence, with at least
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 84 17 -AP A Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight to Beijing was forced to turn back shortly after departing yesterday because of "an abnormal noise in the cockpit", the carrier said. The pilots "elected to return the aircraft to Singapore for investigation". SIA said a probe found
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      • 87 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has released an album of songs he composed. "I have to fill my soul while reflecting on the demands of my job solving the neverending problems and facing people who were at times impatient. I need to communicate, to express
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      • 89 17 AFP Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday announced he has prostate cancer and will require surgery in the coming months. But he vowed to stay in office, confident of a full recovery. "There will be no need for chemotherapy or radiation," said Mr Olmert,
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  • Voices
    • 301 18  -  DR ADRIAN EE Letter from Director Clinical and Corporate Services Sing Health Polyclinics IN THE commentary "Signs that puzzle" (Oct 25), Mr Liang Dingzi queried the use of three signs at Marine Parade Polyclinic. The first is the electronic sign that indicates the waiting time
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    • People, people EVERY ...
      • 194 18  -  SIAMAKADIBI Letter from I REFER to the article "Is Singapore getting too crowded?" (Oct 27-28). I am a foreigner who has been working in Singapore since last year, and I find that Singapore is getting increasingly crowded. The infrastructure here may not
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      • 107 18  -  DARREN CHONG Letter from THE increase in population density has put pressure on the existing water supply, electricity and other public utilities. Our hospitals and government clinics are flooded with people daily. Our MRT trains are crowded. Imagine if there drought
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      • 91 19  -  MARK LEE Letter from DO WE need to have the crowds seen in Manila, Mumbai, Bangkok, Hanoi and Jakarta before we can declare that Singapore is too crowded? The Government has always expediently compared Singapore with Third World cities to show how good Singapore is, and
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      • 106 19  -  PRITAM PAUL Letter from I WOULD like to invite any Singaporean who thinks Singapore is too crowded to visit India. The roads are crowded, the streets are dirty, we have too many cars, we have power and water shortages, we have cows, dogs
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    • 221 20  -  ESEE2IZS2EI BY LITTLE MOMENTS VERSUS BIG EVENTS As mothers and fathers, it's easy to put our energy into the big extravagant moments, rather than the small spontaneous ones. We concentrate on the all-day Saturday outing, or the two-week trip to Disney World in the summer, or
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    • Pay for what you watch, and why
    • 123 20  -  TEO LI LIAN Letter from I REFER to the debate on whether the Housing and Development Board should re-look its rules regarding allowing large dogs in HDB flats. I feel that part of the problem is that behavioural training for pets is not mandated. Most
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  • Business
    • 194 24 -AGENCIES DUBAI Drydocks World has offered to buy Labroy Marine for $2.4 billion, its second acquisition of a Singapore company this year. In July, the maritime holding company of statecontrolled Dubai World, Dubai Drydocks, bought Pan-United Marine. "The acquisition of Labroy is integral to
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    • 187 24  -  -JOSEPH YADAO THE contenders for the prized Sing Tel advertising account are now down to four following the telco's announcement that it has shortlisted the agencies participating in the next round of its creative agency pitch. Sing Tel is seeking a world-class
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    • 283 24 -AGENCIES Swiss firm Novartis to open manufacturing plant here HOT on Friday's announcement by Norwegian company Renewable Energy Corp's plans to build the world's largest solar manufacturing complex worth $6.3 billion, Novartis AG yesterday said it will spend US$7OO million ($1.02 billion) on a biotechnology
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    • 215 24  -  -LOHCHEEKONG SINGAPORE might not be the cheapest place to do business, but it has few peers when it comes to the overall package, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the NTUC National Delegates Conference yesterday. Last Friday, Norwegian company Renewable Energy Corporation
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    • 212 25 -AP NEW YORK- Mr Stan O'Neal, the beleaguered chief executive of Merrill Lynch, was reportedly set to resign amid broad criticism for leading the world's largest brokerage to its biggest quarterly loss since it was founded 93 years ago. In a
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    • 341 25  -  CHEOWXINYI Property stocks dip on DPS withdrawal cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE shares rose yesterday in anticipation of a United States interest-rate cut on Thursday, but property stocks languished after the Government's sudden withdrawal of the deferred payment scheme (DPS) last week. The Straits Times Index
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    • 121 25 -CHEOWXINYI RAFFLES Medical Group posted a net profit of $6.5 million for the third quarter, up 60.1 per cent over the past year, due to more efficient hospital operations. Revenue for the healthcare provider rose by 25.2 per cent to $43.8 million from $35 million.
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    • business news
      • 621 26 -BLOOMBERG Bernanke 'reluctant'to slash rates but may end up doing so UNITED States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke (picture) and his colleagues sound as if they'd prefer to just say no to an interest-rate cut this week. The financial markets may not let them. Policy-makers from Mr
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      • 234 26 PEOPLE who want to park their funds in real estate investment trusts (Reit) will have another choice next year. Indonesian property conglomerate PT Perdana Gapuraprima (PGP) yesterday announced plans to list a Reit on the Singapore Exchange in the first half of next
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      • 67 26 A WEAK United States dollar, growing Middle East political tensions and worries about the supply outlook ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter have been pushing global oil prices higher. Yesterday in early Asian hours, after-hours screen-based trading of crude oil prices showed that light, sweet crude
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    • impact
      • 462 27  -  JOSEPH YADAO Y&R's Patrick Low adds Creative Director of the Year award to his trophy cabinet joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg MUCH like the trophy cabinet at his beloved Liverpool Football Club, Mr Patrick Low, Young and Rubicam Singapore's executive creative director, boasts his own collection
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      • 184 27  -  —JOSEPH YADAO L'OREAL Singapore and NTUC Fair Price claimed the top award at the 10th annual Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) AsiaPacific Conference and Exhibition for their Health and Beauty centre at the Fair Price Xtra hypermarket at AMK Hub. The award recognises improvements
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      719 30 TODAYEXCLUSIVE The Eagles are finally back with music they're loved for. The band tell CHRISTOPHERTOH (christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg) about the Long Road to releasing their new album, the camaraderie they've lost and found, and not wanting to be 'whores' IT'S been 28 years. But here it is The Eagles have
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      334 31  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH BY /ones wh The Eagles are not the only ones who have seen the remarkable value of getting back together. New records from old acts not only makes good business sense, it also gives bands a good reason to tour without the stigma of being a
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    • 481 31  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH THOSE suffering from local pop idol withdrawal will get a one-two punch with the release of Taufik Batisah's third album, Teman Istimewa {Special Friend), and Olinda Cho's debut, Rewind, this month. Despite the fact that all 11 songs in Cho's album are I cover
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    • CDREVIEWS
      • 118 32  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Juanes For those who have not heard of Juanes yet, shame on you. The follow-up to his wildly-popular Mi Sangre (which spawned the big hit. La Camisa Negra) is a great rebirth for one of Colombia's hottest stars. For this effort, Juanes has
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        116 32  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Carrie Underwood Generally, we like country music about as much as we like eating live maggots. There are, of course, exceptions to the rule, and this is definitely one of them. Who would have thought that Carrie Underwood could go from pop idol to country superstar?
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        78 33  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH The Sugababes These girls just wanna have fun, and from the moment you press "play" and the bubbly About You Now comes on, until you hear the last notes of Undignified fading out, that's what you get. There's nothing dramatic in here, nothing deeply meaningful, no political
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        99 33  -  KARMAN TSE Nicholas Teo Given that this album has the Midas touch of local music hotshots Paul and Peter Lee (the brothers who made Stefanie Sun a star), one wonders why Prince is just another collection of prosaic Mandopop tunes that go in one ear and right out the
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      • 107 33  -  KARMAN TSE Freya Lin They say love is blind. But when did it turn deaf, too? After a six-year hiatus, Taiwanese singer Freya Lin Fan has decided to come back with a compilation of English love songs. And her choice of songs are, well, challenging: The Carpenter's
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    • 185 32  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH BY_ HEROES THIEVES Vanessa Carlton This third effort marries the light pop style of her debut and the dramatic turn of her second album, with just enough balance to make this one to put on repeat. BRAVE Jennifer Lopez Say hey-lo to J Lo's
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      • 92 33 Asian film buffs can now have their fill at the library@esplanade at The Esplanade as the Asian Film Archive (AFA) has opened its collection for public reference. This marks the first time a collective body of Asian films- comprising over 100 Singapore and 50 Asian film titles is
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      • 76 33 Arts Fission is presenting Ghost Exchange Series II at the Substation on Thursday and Friday, at Bpm as a prelude to the dance company's performance at Art Summit Indonesia in Jakarta on Nov9 and 10. The show is a travelling dance collaboration based on the topic of ancient
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      383 34 Singapore Dreaming wins at the Tokyo International Film Festival HOME-GROWN movie Singapore Dreaming snagged the Best Asian/Middle-Eastern Film Award at the 20th Tokyo International Film Festival on Sunday, Competing in the Winds of AsiaMiddle East category open to new feature films from all over Asia, including the Middle
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    • 422 35  -  JOANNEYAP New corrective eye surgery reduces the risk of infections joanne@media corp.com.sg LAW student Noel Oehlers paid $3,500 for lasik surgery using a femtosecond laser two weeks ago, and is pleased that his eyesight is now close to perfect "I'll be working soon and will probably have
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    • HEALTHLISTINGS
      • 41 35 Find out how pap smears can help detect abnormalities and cancercausing viruses. Date: Today Time: Ipm to 2pm Venue: National University Hospital, Health Education Hub, Main Building 1, Level 1 Fee/Registration: Free. Registration required. Call 6772 2184.
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      • 43 35 Burn survivors join healthcare professionals from Singapore General Hospital to speak about treatment and ways to cope with the injuries. Date: Nov 3 Time: 2.30pm to 4.30pm Venue: National Library, Level 5, Possibility Room Fee/Registration: Free. Registration required. Call 6326 6110.
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      • 52 35 Doctors from Mt Alvernia Hospital will speak about breast and colorectal cancer, as well as dietary prevention and cancer nutrition. Date: Nov 3 Time: 2pm to 4.15pm Venue: YMCA International House, Function Room 2, Level 4 Fee/Registration: $6 per person, $10 per couple. Registration required. Call
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      • 46 35 Glaucoma is the most common cause of blindness in Singapore. Find out more about the symptoms, treatment methods and coping strategies. Date: Nov 3 Time: 1.30pm to 3.30pm Venue: Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Theatrette, Level 1 Fee/Registration: $5. Registration required. Call 6357 8266.
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    • 355 36 THE GUARDIAN Is running better than brisk walking or vice versa? Here's a look at how they match up RUNNING WALKING Busting calories If you want to burn calories, running beats every other form of exercise. Even at a leisurely 10-minute-per-kilometre pace, a man weighing
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    • 451 36 My baby is nine months old. Two months ago, she showed signs of having phlegm in her throat and produced throaty noises when she was fed milk. Not long after, she developed a cough. She was prescribed a cough syrup (Rhinathiol Syrup) by a paediatrician and the
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    • 1327 38 LIFESTYLE DRAMASUTRA MY SASSY NEIGHBOUR 3 I THE INTERVIEW Fashion Avenue: Toronto Gol&Gincull How Can You Mend a Broken Heart French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner Arts Central, 9.30pm Suria, 9.30pm (Season Finale) Channel News Asia, 8.32pm 11.32pm I .^mmmwmi'ir l rnVMrnMrnW _~_~_l Channel s'B3°p™5' 83°p™ a co-founder of the Nobei
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    • 647 39 -MCT Red Sox leave the Rockies floundering for their second Series triumph in four years BASEBALL WORLD SERIES, GAME 4 Colorado 3 Boston 4 (Boston sweep series 4-0) DENVER They are an empire, these revisionist Red Sox, of magic and might. Whether or not they are
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    • 172 39 ■AFP TOKYO Baseball fans here voiced pride as two Japanese rookie pitchers led the Red Sox to a World Series sweep. Ace Daisuke Matsuzaka, who moved to Boston this season on a US$52-mil-lion ($75.5 million) six-year contract, was the first Japanese pitcher to open a World Series game
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    • 271 40 —AFP GAZA CITY The Palestine football federation yesterday urged Fifa to re-schedule their 2010 World Cup qualifier with Singapore, explaining their no show on the pitch was due to Israel denying them travel permits. The first round, second leg clash
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    • 561 40 -THE GUARDIAN League leaders mix style with grit at Anfield, now for Old Trafford ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool 1 Arsenal 1 There was a period in the first half when Arsenal monopolised possession, pinging first-time passes to leave the Kop transfixed in a collective howl of
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    • 522 41 -THE GUARDIAN Club's central fulcrum is weak and new manager Ramos will need to shore things up LONDON "They'll always be a threat in an attacking sense," Mark Hughes said of Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), after his Blackburn side had stolen
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    • 587 41  -  PAUL GREEN NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Sengkang Punggol v Super Reds 7.45pm, Hougang Stadium sports@newstoday.com.sg BOTH sides are struggling at the foot of the table, it won't be pretty but when Sengkang Punggol host the Super Reds tonight in an NTUC
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    • 683 42  - Singapore an Olympic city TANYO-HINN yohinn@media corp.com.sg IT WAS built for the 1973 South-east Asia Peninsula Games. Patricia Chan made a splash in the pool then, winning six gold medals as a 19-year-old. Over the years, the Toa Payoh Sports Complex (picture) has hosted numerous events, including the 1983 and
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    • 761 43  -  TANYO-HINN Singapore's junior athletes to receive funding for sporting glory on an Olympic stage yohinn@media corp.com.sg THE promise is to turn the country into an Olympic city, if Singapore wins the bid to host the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. Events will
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