Today, 30 November 2007

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    30 1 TODAY /A=ryjj-\CofiP we set you thinking MICA(P) 132/10/2007 E o o 6 c c o > (0 "O o o o CM o cr> l_ 03 E > o > (0 "O Li.
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    Lock icon The botched five-star coup
    592 1 -AGENCIES Manila renegades surrender after troops storm hotel MANILA An apparently well-orchestrat-ed attempt to trigger the Philippines' third "people power" revolt ended in failure yesterday after elite troops stormed a five-star hotel that had been taken over by a group of dissident military officers. The 30-odd
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    Lock icon Tharman takes over from PM Lee as Finance Minister tomorrow
    528 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg THE impending appointment was hardly a secret Even so, the timing of yesterday's announcement that Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam would take over as Finance Minister from next month caught political pundits off guard. Prime Minister
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    45 1 MediaCorp CEO Lucas Chow (right) receiving the Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year award from Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan during the 12th Asian Television Awards 2007 last night, beating out competition from the Philippines and Japan. TREVOR TAN
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      Lock icon US, M'sia face off over mass protests
      566 2 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON The protesters who took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur a few days ago might have invoked the British Queen's name but it is Uncle Sam who has become the first outsider of note to react to the unprecedented mass rallies
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      MALAYSIA NEEDS NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT
      775 3  -  ANDY MUKHERJEE FOR a country that abhors public protests and suppresses them with strict rules against illegal assembly, Malaysia has had two big demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur just this month. With elections expected next year, a certain rise in political temperature isn't surprising. However, the
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      Lock icon 'The best S'pore could offer'
      316 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT THEY were called role models, filial sons and inspirational athletes. These teary tributes flowed yesterday at a joint memorial service for the five Singapore national dragon-boat rowers who died last week in a boating accident in Cambodia. More than 1,000 people turned up at
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      Healthcare groups launch integrated data system
      223 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI AS THEY seek to live up to the new code of governance for charities finalised this week, 11 healthcare non-profit organisations have come together to launch an integrated IT platform to enhance transparency in their financial operations. To be completed by the end
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      SingTel hangs up dial-up service
      574 6  -  JOSEPH YADAO Overall demand for dial-up services dwindles, as more opt for broadband joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg THE sand in the hourglass, it seems, is running out for users of dial-up Internet access services. In June, StarHub discontinued its Surf For Free dial-up service. Now, SingTel is following
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        3 MORE HELD FOR NOV23 MURDER
        80 8 Police have arrested three more suspects in connection with the Nov 23 murder of 37-year-old Suhaimi Sulong at Orchard Towers, bringing the total number nabbed to six. A 19-year-old Malay man was picked up at Teck Whye Avenue on Wednesday evening. Later that same
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        MOBILE BID SERVICE FROM HDB
        70 8 The Housing and Development Board yesterday launched a new mobile bidding service called "M-bid". With better mobile capabilities powered by 3G networks and the wireless@SG programme, mobile users can now register, search for properties, bid and track the results at www.p2lwap.com. A wide range of
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        Lock icon EX-NKF BOARD MEMBER FOUND GUILTY OF FALSIFYING ACCOUNTS
        84 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Former National Kidney Foundation board member Matilda Chua has been found guilty of falsifying company accounts. This was in relation to her association with GNR, a call centre company she and ex-NKF chief T T Durai set up in 2000
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      Lock icon It's recycling time at Sitex
      357 8  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Good response to cash offer for used electronic stuff hedirman@media corp.com.sg YOU can save the earth while shopping for the latest gadgets at the Singapore Expo until Sunday. At the Sitex 2007 consumer and electronics fair, organisers Singapore infocomm Technology Federation and Singex
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      It'll soon cost more to fly on SIA and SilkAir
      222 10 IT WILL cost a little more to fly on Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its regional wing SilkAir from next week in the face of soaring jet fuel prices. In a statement yesterday, the national carrier said it would raise fuel
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      Lock icon Prime plots going, going...
      509 10  -  ZULOTHMAN Six residential sites fetch $31 m at first SLA auction zul@media corp.com.sg THE Singapore Land Authority's (SLA) first auction of six 99-year leasehold residential sites yesterday fetched $30.64 million another sign that the local property market is still bubbling. More than 120 individuals comprising professionals,
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      Lock icon Fund for HIV families
      248 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA IMAGINE this: Self-administering an HIV test could be as convenient and accessible as a pregnancy test. Dr Balaji Sadasivan, the Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Information, Communications and the Arts, has hopes now that an oral self-test kit able to give
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      Kleptomaniac escapes jail term
      298 12  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg RECOGNISING the need for the courts to adopt a "broadly consistent" approach to offenders afflicted with kleptomania, appeal judge V K Rajah yesterday laid down sentencing guidelines for similar cases in the future. A probation sentence is appropriate under two conditions: The offender has
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      Where families get close to nature
      631 12  -  Cathleen Tung The third in a seven-part series on Pro-Family Businesses WHEN the Jurong BirdParkwas conceived in 1968, thenMinister of Finance Dr Goh Keng Swee envisioned it to be a place where families could relax together and get close to nature. Today, the park
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      Lock icon HOW OUR CHILDREN RATE THEIR OWN EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
      80 16 TODAY FILE PHOTO ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 5 FEEL HAPPY ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 5 FEEL HAPPY WORRY ABOUT THINGS 1 (NEVER) 0.3% 16.9 2 3 (SOMETIMES) 4 1.5% 15.7% 32.7% 18.5% 45.5% 10.7% 5 (OFTEN) 49.8% 8.4%
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      It's not about the money
      383 16  -  UNYANQIN Income not a major factor in children's happiness: Survey yanqin@media corp.com.sg MATERIAL wealth, it seems, may not make much of a difference to a child's happiness. A survey conducted by the Singapore Children's Society has found that how children felt about their emotional and
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      Lock icon Port Klang will repay govt loan in full: Minister
      223 18 CHANNEL NEWSASIA KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy gave his assurance that the country's main port authority will repay the government's soft loan in full and denied allegations of a bailout. In August, the Ministry of Finance agreed to
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      'I had to do his dirty laundry'
      480 18 V K Lingam's brother says sibling used him to run errands for his corrupt partners KUALA LUMPUR A man who exposed his lawyer brother's alleged corrupt links with Malaysia's top judges said his brother V K Lingam and the latter's associates have committed
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      Lock icon M'sia ad out of step
      192 22 —AFP JAKARTA Hundreds of Indonesians protested outside the Malaysian embassy yesterday over the use of a Javanese dance in a tourism advertisement for Malaysia. The demonstrators demanded that Kuala Lumpur apologise "to all the people of Indonesia", they said in a statement "If the Indonesian
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      Lock icon Carrefour, Wal-Mart in China's crosshairs
      133 22 —AFP BEIJING China released yesterday a list of 54 substandard children's products sold in Beijing, including nine items on the shelves of supermarket giants WalMart and Carrefour. Among problem products sold by Wal-Mart and Carrefour were drawing pens with excess poisonous chemical content and toys
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      Lock icon China reports 22-per-cent increase in HIV cases
      223 24 —AFP BEIJING -Ahead of World Aids Day on Saturday, the Chinese government yesterday reported a 22-per-cent increase in the number of confirmed HIV/Aids infections this year. Beijing also raised its estimated total number of infections to 700,000, although activists said that this figure
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      Lock icon Emergency rule to be lifted on Dec 16
      328 24 -AGENCIES 'Mr'Musharraf announces this after swearing-in ISLAMABAD Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is to lift a state of emergency and restore the constitution on Dec 16, government sources quoted him as saying in a prerecorded address yesterday. "I have full resolve to lift
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      Lock icon FORMER ROCK STAR AND MALAYSIAN-BORN WOMAN LEAD AUSTRALIA'S GREEN CHARGE
      295 27  -  PETER GARRETT PENNY WONG —AGENCIES The towering, shavenheaded former singer of the disbanded Australian rock group Midnight Oil continued his long, strange tour from pop star to politician when he was named Australia's Environment Minister. Midnight Oil, founded by Mr
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      Rudd's Cabinet signals change
      336 27 CANBERRA Australia's Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd yesterday unveiled his Cabinet, prioritising education, industrial relations and the environment in a break with predecessor John Howard's legacy. Calling it "a team with fresh ideas", Mr Rudd included four women and a former rock star in the Cabinet and
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      China blames US' 'erroneous' ways for damaged ties
      242 28 BEIJING US actions over Tibet and Taiwan have damaged relations between China and the United States, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday amid a row over US naval calls to Hong Kong. "Due to the erroneous practices of the US recently,
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      Lock icon We're still alive!
      340 28 He's a liar, cries family of man who said they were slain by Iraqi militiamen BAGHDAD The angry family of an Iraqi journalist have gone on local television to denounce him for claiming they had been massacred three days earlier by Shia militiamen in Baghdad. "We are
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      Lock icon Asia cool on climate change fight
      461 33 —AFP Wealth concerns main factor at Bali meet: Economists BEIJING Climate change has become one of the hottest topics across the Asia-Pacific, but national and personal wealth remain the overwhelmingly dominant concerns, economists and environmentalists say. "In Asia, people are becoming more aware about
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      Lock icon 'Drag queen' held over gay murders
      221 33 -AFP MONTBELIARD French police have detained a 68-year-old retired "drag queen" performer for the murders of 18 mostly gay men over three decades, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The man was being held along with a former male lover, who is a suspected accomplice. The
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      Lock icon Indonesia's vanishing islands
      100 34 —AFP Indonesia has lost 24 of its more than 17,500 islands due to natural disasters and environmental damage, a minister yesterday said, according to Antara news agency. Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Freddy Numberi said four islands disappeared when the massive tsunami devastated Aceh on Dec 26,
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      Lock icon Dog killer still barking mad
      413 34 —AFP 20 years on, poisoner continues to dog pet-mad Hong Kong HONG KONG For nearly two decades, a serial killer has terrorised one of Hong Kong's most affluent residential areas. The person's motive and identity remain a mystery. The infamous Bowen Road Poisoner has claimed
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      Lock icon HK'S LITMUS TEST
      769 36  -  JASON LEE Are territory's citizens 'economic animals'or do they want democracy? jasonlee@media corp.com.sg IN WHAT promises to be a titanic clash between two "Iron Ladies" of Hong Kong, former Chief Secretary for Administration Anson Chan and former security chief Regina Ip will face off in a legislative
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      228 38  -  ROGER POH Caning an effective deterrent, no matter a student's gender Letter from I REFER to the report, "Malaysia considers caning girls to discipline them, too" (Nov 29). Our teachers here also bemoan the general lack of discipline in schools, particularly among girls, and
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      227 38  -  DRCHUA BOON LING Letter from MULTIPLE sclerosis (MS) is a rare disease in Singapore, but its destruction of the body's nervous system can be devastating. The pathological explanation is a defect in the body's immune system that causes it to attack its own nervous
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      320 42  -  TAN WEE HOCK NEA took care to distribute reusable souvenirs Letter from Director 3P Network Division National Environment Agency I REFER to the letter by Mr Tan Qian Hui, "NEA itself needs to practise being ecofriendly" (Nov 27). We thank Mr Tan for supporting the NEA's
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      252 42  -  MARIANNE MAES Letter from I REFER to the report "Dinner time can be ear shattering" (Nov 27). As things stand, enjoying relaxed meals in Singapore is difficult. But having to endure loud repetitive bursts of noise at bedtime is not only intolerable, but
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      252 44  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON SOAR TO THE SKIES, WITH SOME HELP We can learn a valuable lesson from the glider pilots who soar through the skies. From my office in Colorado Springs, I enjoy watching Air Force Academy pilots during their training sessions. Theirflight patterns take
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      723 44  -  Tabitha Wang We post-'6sers love our '80s music and I don't want to hear any jokes about it "IF YOU go by the music, Singapore is still stuck in the '80s," an overseas visitor recently told me after having heard the popular '80s song, Mickey,
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      351 46  -  ESTHER FUNG It will start with two projects in Bangkok and is also eyeing opportunities in S'pore esther@media corp.com.sg A NEW fund has been set up to invest in prime development projects in Asia, including Singapore, targeting US$4OO million ($5BO million) of prime real
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        379 49 —AGENCIES SINGAPORE shares rallied 3.2 per cent on the back of gains in financial shares and index heavyweights after Wall Street recorded its largest percentage gain in four-and-a-half years. The Straits Times Index jumped 108.50, or 3.2 per cent, to 3,478.22, its steepest
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          74 49 Until Dec 30, 500 Maybank credit card customers will enjoy shopping rebates capped at $21 each weekend (from Friday to Sunday). They can also choose to charge $1,000 to their Maybank cards until Dec 31 to redeem attractive Christmas goodies. Maybank Platinum card customers can
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          115 49 Marigold-the No 1 fresh yoghurt drink brand in Singapore has introduced yet another new flavour: Marigold Pomegranate 0% Fat Yoghurt Drink. This drink's new flavour is made with real pomegranate juice. The special blend of pomegranate juice in the drink gives you a
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        196 51 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The European Commission is exploring plans for a European Union-wide law to regulate sovereign wealth funds, a move that could vastly complicate the City of London's ability to serve as a hub for investment flows from Asia, the Middle East
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        350 51 -BLOOMBERG GIC, Citigroup, Shinsei Bankthe lenders: Sources MORGAN Stanley (picture) is getting ¥225 billion ($3 billion) in loans from Citigroup, Shinsei Bank and the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) for its purchase of hotels in Japan's largest real estate deal, three people familiar with
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        246 52 BLOOMBERG TEMASEK Holdings has asked the Indian government to lift proposed limits on airwaves on concern the measures will curb expansion in the world's fastest-growing wireless market. "The latest proposals risk making private operators sub- scale," Temasek's chief executive Ho Ching
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        270 52  -  CHRISTIE LOH STT rolls up sleeves to tackle Indonesian directive on shares christie@media corp.com.sg HOW could Indonesia's competition watchdog backtrack on its initial approval for ST Telemedia's (STT) investment in the mobile phone market? That is an unresolved question for the Singapore firm, as it prepares to fight
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          225M GOLDEN AGRI SHARES ON OFFER
          83 54 Golden Agri-Resources shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $416 million from selling 225 million shares in the company, according to an email to investors. The unidentified individuals are selling the shares between $1.76 and $1.85 apiece. They have an option to sell
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          ONE MORE SICOM CLEARING MEMBER
          58 54 Louis Dreyfus Commodities Asia has been granted "in principle" approval to be a clearing member on the Singapore Commodity Exchange (Sicom). The firm has been a Sicom trade member since June 4. It would be the 16th clearing member of Sicom, which trades rubber and
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          76 54 BLOOMBERG Wilmar International, the world's biggest palm oil trader, sold US$5OO million ($724 million) of convertible bonds. Investors can convert the five-year security into Wilmar's shares at $5.38 apiece, 5 per cent lower than a previous-ly-indicated upper range of $5.67, the company said. It will get
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          86 54 —AFP Temasek Holdings sold 80 million shares in container shipping firm China Cosco Holdings. "This is part of our on-going rebalancing of the portfolio against new opportunities," Temasek said in a statement that did not give more details of the transaction. It was Temasek's third
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        282 54  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg MR KV Kamath (picture), chief executive officer of ICICI Bank, has been named Forbes Asia's Businessman of the Year for 2007 the third Indian in four years to win the prestigious award. The 60-year-old was picked for building ICICI into India's most valuable
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      167 54 DAILY GOLD UPDATE Last Business Day: Nov 29, 2007 SPOT GOLD OPEN (9AM) US$BO5.lO/OZ SPOT GOLD CLOSE (SPM) U*****.50/OZ CHANGE +0.05% StreetTRACKS Gold shares trust holdings hit a record high, surpassing the 600-tonne level to stand at 609.33 tonnes as at Nov 28,2007. This consistent increase in holdings demonstrates investors
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      325 56 —JOSEPH YADAO CAN you envision a world without iPods and Zens? That could be what's in store for us if StarHub's new music streaming service takes off. This week, it introduced Music Anywhere a service that allows users to access their home computer's
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      294 56  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN hedirman@media corp.com.sg MEET Jennie. She'll tell you where to go for a good night i out, and when you're tipsy, A she'll make sure you get jg\ home safely. Jennie is a mobile application from Johnnie Walker. Styled as an avatar of
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        256 58  -  -JOSEPH YADAO THE humble short message service (SMS) has been duly serving its purpose for the last 15 years, letting our fingers do the talking. To make the messaging experience even more engaging, Ml has launched SMS2.O, making its customers the first mobile users
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        265 58 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH EMPLOYERS who trawl social networking sites to dig up information about potential employees could be breaking the law, an Internet expert has warned. The rapid rise of sites such as Facebook and MySpace, where users often post extensive personal
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        527 60  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN REVIEW ASUS EEE PC ($598) The Eee PC offers a good mix of value and portability hedirman@media corp.com.sg WITH the rigours of work and travel, a desktop computer just does not cut it for me any more. The future points to
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      1336 62  -  Phin Wong So what if she hasn't had a hit at the box office in six years? All it takes for the beautiful NICOLE KIDMAN to hog the limelight is a tiny sneeze o, 'i t NICOLE Kidman's face is almost unnaturally perfect Up close, her alabaster skin
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      391 66  -  Felix Cheong Ang Lee flick should romp home with Golden Horses FIRST, the good news. The 44th Golden Horse Award, due to be announced in Taipei on Dec 8, is groundbreaking for Singapore cinema two films share four nominations between them. Just Follow Law gets three
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      336 68  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Have a taste of this new, tasty-sounding local film nextyear christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg MENTION local movie directors, and names like Jack Neo, Eric Khoo and Royston Tan roll easily off the tongue. And then, there's Michael Wang. Michael who? "Yes, I know. People have no idea who I
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      496 70  -  LIM KUAN CHIANG Another beauty queen from Asia? Chances are good, looking at this year's stunning crop kuanchiang@media corp.com.sg WILL 2007 be the year when Asia achieves its first pageant double by winning both Miss Universe and Miss World the two oldest and most prestigious
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      179 70 WICKED IS BIG They're loud, they're wicked, and BBCthinks they may be the future of music. Singapore's foremost percussion band Wicked Aura Batucada was recently picked as the only Asian band in the British broadcasting giant's The Next Big Thing *****0p 20 Longlist. They were chosen based on their
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      235 74 —THE GUARDIAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP B Rosenborg 0 Chelsea 4 TRONDHEIM, Norway The Champions League was supposed to have done away with mismatches like this. Chelsea claimed Group B at a canter on Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), ripping a floundering Rosenborg side
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      724 74 —AFP Reds fans show their love for the manager, who plays down spat with owners CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP A Liverpool 4 Porto 1 LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez resisted the temptation to gloat after Liverpool's 4-1 Champions League Group A victory over Porto on Wednesday (yesterday morning,
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      890 75 -AGENCIES Portsmouth manager, four others detained as corruption scandal erupts LONDON Football's corruption investigation took a sensational turn on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) with the arrest of five men, breaking all precedent Harry Redknapp, Portsmouth's manager, was one of five to have been detained by City of
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      316 75 THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Blackburn 0 Aston Villa 4 BLACKBURN Martin O'Neill may have ruled himself out of the running to be the next England coach, but the Aston Villa manager can expect his name to figure high still in discussions if
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      576 76  -  CUBBYLEONG Night race element a key reason why SingTel paid $15 million for title sponsorship of 2008 F1 race cubby@media corp.com.sg EARLIER this month, SingTel announced their title sponsorship of the 2008 Formula 1 race in Singapore. At the time, no figure was given
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      151 76  -  —TANYO-HINN FORMER Singapore national coach P N Sivaji will return to club football next season when he takes over the reins at Home United. Sivaji, currently the technical director at the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), will step down at the end of the year to take
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      433 77  -  LOWUNFHOONG He is unplaced in his pet event and Singapore only manage silver in team stakes linfhoong@media corp.com.sg AFTER enjoying a golden harvest on Wednesday, Team Singapore's shooters endured a frustrating time on the third day of competition at the 24th SEA Games in Thailand yesterday.
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      365 77  -  CUBBYLEONG ONES TO WATCH (#7) Singapore is sending its youngest ever contingent of athletes to the 24th SEA Games (Dec 6-15) to blood them for bigger competitions. Each day until Dec 6, Today will feature one youngster that will use the Games as a springboard
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      241 77  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE'S No 1 referee, who officiated at last year's World Cup finals, has blown the whistle for fulltime on his referring career. Shamsul Maidin (picture), the Asian Football Confederation's Match Official of the Year for 2005 and 2006, will officially retire on
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