Today, 12 December 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY /A=dij\Corp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday December 12, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Dow plummets after Fed cuts rate
      515 1 AFP Quarter point reduction to 4.25% but many believe economy will slow down NEW YORK US stock markets tumbled yesterday (early today, Singapore time) after the Federal Reserve cut US interest rates by a quarter percentage point, dashing the hopes of some investors for
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      MEDAL TALLY
      60 1 S'pora's menV rugby team won bronze, f THAILAND 97 87 71 255 VIETNAM 46 29 54 129 SINGAPORE 37 30 29 96 MALAYSIA 31 29 57 117 PHILIPPINES 29 40 61 130 INDONESIA 26 34 50 110 MYANMAR 4 15 25 44 LAOS PDR 4 1 22 27
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      Lock icon Drama in Malaysia's House, more opposition leaders held
      612 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI AGENCIES IN KUALA LUMPUR nazry@media corp.com.sg DRAMA erupted both inside and outside Malaysia's Parliament House yesterday, as Bersih protesters attempted to infiltrate the building while 15 opposition parliamentarians staged a walkout to protest a fresh series of arrests. Members of polls
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      54 1 DRINK AND DRIVE? DETAILS ARE ONLINE WEB COULD BE USED TO SHAME OFFENDERS HOT NEWS PAGE 2 NANJING DENIAL MASSACRE NEVER HAPPENED, SAYS JAPANESE HLM-MAKER WORLD PAGE 22 CHOOSE LIPPI, SAYS HENRY WINTER LF HE'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ALEX FERGUSON... SPORTS PAGE 57 'I ONLY ACT LIKE I'M SMART' REALLY,
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  • hot news
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      A sentence to 'drive home strong message'
      282 2  -  TEOXUANWEI The number of accidents involving drink drivers might have fallen, but District Judge Wong Keen Onn felt it important nevertheless to "drive home a strong message" on such irresponsible motorists. And so, in the first such conviction since the launch of this
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      Hall of Shame: Will it deter drink drivers?
      534 2  -  NGJINGYNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg PICTURE this: As you step into your favourite pub this Christmas, you are greeted by a poster featuring a photograph of a bleary-eyed you, framed with drink-driving messages. You freeze in horror as the crowd throws disgusted looks at you.
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      Three layers to open up market
      586 3  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg HIGH-DEFINITION video conferencing, online transactions and grid computing applications Singaporeans will soon get to enjoy such services at speeds 10 times faster than at present The authorities had last year announced plans for the Next Generation National Broadband Network (Next Gen
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  • singapore news
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      The great East window
      557 4  -  CHRISTIE LOH State funds in the region likely to rescue West from financial woes christie@media corp.com.sg DESPERATE times call for desperate measures, including running to strangers you would usually keep at arm's length. As the woes of the Western financial industry show no signs of receding,
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      UNSW and EDB reach settlement
      235 4  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg AFTER months of discussion, a settlement has been reached between the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Economic Development Board (EDB) over millions of dollars in outstanding loans and grants by the EDB to build a campus here. In a
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      Students address Asean issues
      222 6 SOME of South-east Asia's best student brains are now in Singapore to address issues affecting the region, on the wings of funding from Temasek Foundation in its latest project And when they take a break next Tuesday, the more than 60 undergraduates from the Association of
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      Lock icon 'Soft power' to the fore
      346 6  -  TIFFANY TAN Helping others drives Spores foreign policy tiffany@media corp.com.sg MERELY caring about its own survival in this big, scary world is no longer the main driving force of Singapore's foreign policy. Over the decades, the small city-state has fostered closer ties with its neighbours,
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      Lock icon We want safety, but at no extra cost
      465 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT 6 in 10 S'porean air travellers unwilling to pay more to cover costs of increased security weekeat@media corp.com.sg THEY may be willing to put up with a bit of hassle in the name of security when they travel by
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      WILL RUDD MAKE SIA'S TRANS-PACIFIC DREAM REAL?
      769 10  -  LIANG DINGZI STRATEGISTS hoping to chart Singapore Airlines' (SIA) course beyond Australia's eastern shore to the United States are probably growing more optimistic as a result of Canberra's new Cabinet led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has pledged to reverse many of
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon GOVT DONATES TO CYCLONE RELIEF
        119 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Government has contributed US$2O,OOO ($28,800) through the Singapore Red Cross Society to victims of last month's Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. The Red Cross has collected another $20,200 and will send the donation to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
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        Lock icon PM IN BALI FOR CONFERENCE
        84 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is in Bali to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this is a demonstration of Singapore's commitment to tackling climate change. While there, Mr Lee will address the conference and also
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        Lock icon DRUGS SEIZED AT CHECKPOINT
        71 12 -938UVE About $14,500 worth of drugs were seized from a Chinese Singaporean motorcyclist at the Woodlands Checkpoint on Monday. The drugs- 100 Ecstasy tablets, IOOg of Ketamine, 20g of Ice and five Erimin-5 tablets were found in two cigarette packets. The man was placed under arrest
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      Lock icon Dhow a gift to forge closer ties with Oman
      312 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA OMAN-Singapore relations are up a notch with joint cultural projects like the rebuilding of a 9th-century dhow, a traditional Arab sailing vessel. Construction of the craft will start early next year and come 2009, the dhow will set sail
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      Lock icon 1,000 soldiers secure mutiny hearing in Manila
      343 14 -AFP MANILA The leaders of a failed mutiny in the Philippines returned yesterday to a court ringed by 1,000 soldiers in a bid to prevent them from staging any future rebellions, officials said. Senator Antonio Trillanes, a former Navy lieutenant, and Army Scout
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      Lock icon Twin blasts rock Algiers
      338 14 AFP -AFP ALGIERS Two bomb blasts rocked the Algerian capital yesterday one at a United Nations' refugee agency killing at least 62 and injuring over a hundred. Ten UN staff were among the dead, hospital sources said. One bomb tore apart the front of the UN
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      Lock icon No cakewalk, this
      269 17 —AFP 10th anniversary of Kyoto Protocol marred by problems over new pact NUSA DUA, Indonesia The worldwide forum on climate change marked the 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol yesterday but the celebrations were shadowed by doubts on a new pact to tackle global warming. A 1.5-metre
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      Lock icon Cambodia slams UN envoy for remarks
      224 17 —AP PHNOM PENH Cambodia denounced a United Nations envoy yesterday as unfit to represent the world body and accused him of trying to incite unrest by predicting that the country would rise up against the government to protest human rights violations. Mr Yash Ghai,
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      Lock icon Explain arrests: US ambassador to Vietnam
      181 17 —AGENCIES HANOI The United States ambassador said yesterday that he has seen no evidence linking four detained US citizens to terrorism, and called on the Vietnamese government to explain their arrests. "To date, we have received no formal notification of the charges against these
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      Lock icon Protests over Gaddafi's visit to French Parliament
      360 18 -AGENCIES —AP PARIS Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi met French lawmakers yesterday, although more than half boycotted the event to protest his presence in a Parliamentary building. Mr Gaddafi met lawmakers at the lower house of Parliament, on the second day of an official
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      Lock icon Stop carping, China tells US
      344 18 —AFP Washington blamed for rising trade tensions BEIJING China said yesterday that constant criticism by the United States over trade disputes was hurting economic ties, although both countries agreed at top-level talks to cooperate on improving the safety of Chinese exports. Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Vi
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      Lock icon First school shooting in India
      147 20 -AGENCIES NEW DELHI A teenage pupil was shot dead in a school in an affluent town near the Indian capital yesterday in the country's first reported school shooting, police said. "One student was shot at by two classmates," senior police official Mahendra Lai told AFP,
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      Lock icon Decision time for Gujarat
      378 20 —AFP BJP hopes Modi win can revive fortunes INDIA Gujarat state voted yesterday on whether to re-elect a Hindu hardliner accused of turning a blind eye to deadly anti-Muslim riots five years ago. Some 17.9 million voters were eligible to casts ballots as voting opened early
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      Lock icon Jail for 'remorseless' modern-day Citizen Kane
      225 22 -AGENCIES CHICAGO Disgraced media baron Conrad Black was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison, far less than sought by prosecutors, for swindling shareholders in his Hollinger media empire out of US$6 million ($8.7 million). The 63-year-old silver-haired millionaire member of the British House of
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      Lock icon 'Nanjing? It did not happen'
      372 22 —AFP No massacre, says Japanese film-maker TOKYO As China tries to keep memories alive of the Nanjing Massacre, which started 70 years ago this week, a Japanese filmmaker is trying to convince the world it never happened. Several films have been released to mark the
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      Lock icon Indonesia unveils huge statue of Jesus Christ
      191 23 —AFP JAKARTA Muslim-majority Indonesia has unveiled one of Asia's tallest Jesus Christ statues in the mainly Christian town of Manado on North Sulawesi island, the company behind it said yesterday. Indonesian real estate developer Ciputra built the 30-metre-high statue in its CitraLand residential
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      90 23 AP WASHED OUT: Locals in Kelantan evacuating their house as heavy rains continued to fall yesterday. The death toll from widespread floods in Malaysia rose to six and the number of people evacuated to relief centres increased sharply, officials and reports said. More than 15,000 Reople in total were housed
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      Lock icon Pakistan tests nuclear capable cruise missile
      388 23 -AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile yesterday and its military vowed a strong response to any international attempt to seize its atomic arsenal. The security of Pakistan's estimated 50 nuclear warheads has been under global scrutiny since President Pervez Musharraf imposed
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      Lock icon Vietnamese protest over disputed isles damages ties: China
      217 23 —AP BEIJING A Vietnamese protest over the sovereignty of islands in the South China Sea has damaged bilateral relations, China said yesterday. Several hundred Vietnamese staged a rare public demonstration on Sunday near the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi to protest China's claim
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      121 24 KOREAN RECONCILIATION ON TRACK: North and South Korea began a regujar cargo train service across their heavily armed border yesterday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation. The 12-cartrain carried construction materials to a North Korean border station, and then
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      Lock icon Hope and fear
      316 24 -AFP Poll reflects paradox of feelings among Americans, Chinese WASHINGTON In a striking contrast, Americans view China's growing economic and military power as a serious threat while the Chinese feel the United States is trying to prevent them from becoming a top world power, a new survey
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      Lock icon US Congress grills CIA chief over 'torture' tapes
      225 26 -AFP WASHINGTON Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Michael Hayden was set to face a tough grilling from United States lawmakers yesterday over the destruction of interrogation tapes amid charges that the agency was covering up evidence of possible torture. Mr Hayden, who
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      Lock icon Online onboard an American jet
      363 26 NYT NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON Starting this week and over the next few months, several American airlines will begin testing Internet service on their planes. Jetßlue Airways will offer a free email and instant messaging service on one aircraft, while American Airlines, Virgin America and Alaska
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        Lock icon Still more can be done to address our taxi issues
        230 28  -  GABRIEL LOW Letter from I FEEL the taxi-fare increase is a good start to helping taxi drivers earn more while making it easier for passengers to flag taxis in the city. However, I think more could be done to address
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        Time for Case to intervene?
        46 28  -  DAVID SOH POH HUAT Letter from THE Consumers Association of Singapore should evaluate if the taxi-fare increase is necessary and how it affects commuters throughout the day. It seems to me that the latest increases are addressing the complaints of those
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        A trial period for new fares
        68 28  -  KHOO LIH HAN Letter from I FEEL the revised taxi fares and surcharges should be introduced on a trial basis, to see if they result in more taxis entering the city area and help taxi drivers offset rising fuel costs. If these issues are
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      A brief, necessary inconvenience
      165 28  -  TAN AILING Letter from Head, Bishan Branch Office Housing Development Board (HDB) I REFER to Sharon Foo's letter, "Construction at housing area disrupts residents' peace" (Dec 7). The writer mentioned the noise from the construction work at the car park from Blocks 304 to 308 on
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      240 30  -  JAMES DOBSON BYDR DRIVEN BY REVENGE Very few stories are as gripping as Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. And like most literary classics, its theme is as timeless as the ages. The story focuses on the whaling ship Pequod, under the leadership of Captain Ahab. The
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      260 34 -DOW JONES JAKARTA —Temasek Holdings confirmed yesterday it had strengthened its interest in PT Bank Internasional Indonesia by increasing its stake in Sorak Financial Holding Ltd to 75 per cent from 50.02 per cent. Sorak Financial holds 55.8 per cent
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      397 34 —AGENCIES China's inflation hits record as trade surplus swells CHINA'S inflation accelerated at the quickest pace in 11 years and the trade surplus swelled, adding pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates or let the currency appreciate faster to cool the economy. Consumer prices
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        204 36 -BLOOMBERG ASIAN nations lack the "strong political will" and institutional structures to establish a common currency, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in a report yesterday. The report stated that "financial integration in Asia remains relatively weak", and that "Asia lacks the requisite institutions and
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        209 36 -AGENCIES SINGAPORE shares gained yesterday ahead of an expected in-terest-rate cut by the United States Federal Reserve Board. The Fed is expected to lower its key funds rate by at least 25 basis points to shore up the ailing US economy. "I think any cut
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        134 38 BLOOMBERG SEMBCORP STARTS WORK ON $115 M HANOI PARK SembCorp Industries has started construction on an US$BO-mil-lion ($ll5-million) industrial park north of the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi to provide factories and offices for overseas investors. Singapore-listed conglomerate SembCorp will prepare 685 hectares of land and build roads and
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        344 38  -  JOSEPH YADAO Initial plans for five hotels now expanded to seven larger ones joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT a difference nine months make: The investment for Banyan Tree Holdings' Laguna Vietnam integrated resort has swelled more than three-fold to about US$9OO million ($1.3 billion). When the project was
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        275 40  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg AS PART of its expansion plans in Asia, Nasdaq-listed IT infrastructure service provider Sawis recently paid US$5 million ($7.2 million) to acquire the Geo-Tele data centre, which will allow foreign financial institutions to connect directly with the Singapore Exchange
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        291 40  -  CHEOWXINYI AXA's multi-manager model is designed to reduce the risk of under-performance cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg IN A bid to spread risk, wealth management and financial protection firm AXA Group announced yesterday the implementation of a multi-manager approach to six of its 14 in-vestment-linked funds under its
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        916 41 Kephren Ayanari wants to bring joy to the less fortunate through the Make a Wish Project WHILE the rest of his peers were busy with last-minute revision forthe 0-level examinations in October, Kephren Ayanari was busy dividing his time between his revision and making deliveries around
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        574 42  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE IF YOU want to see what kind of businesses will work well in Vietnam, visit the state-owned Tv Dv Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Medical resources are so tight in this 800-bed maternity home that authorities line up six women in one
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        377 43 -DOWJONES Agricultural protectionism to blame, says IMF director A SIGNIFICANT part of the ongoing increase in food prices such as corn, wheat and pork can be traced directly to biofuels policies, a recent article by an International Monetary Fund director said. "A key part of this
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        522 43  -  Veronica Nathan Men are like micro-wave and women like oven by' "He treats me like a piece of object". "She punishes me by not sleeping with me. "All he wants Is sex". "She is cold towards me". Sounds familiar? Passion in marriage is clearly a challenge
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      1200 35 ABBOTT MOM SHARING SERIES-STRONG M Healthy %Dp?J As a GP, Howe Wen Li recognises the importance of providing the best for her children. She shares her reasons. ooking at four-year-old Jovan Hsu, few will guess that he weighed 2.3 kg at birth. W Now tipping the scales at nearly 18kg,
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      438 38 Watch "An Introduction To Forex Trading" At: www.rankbooks.com Join thousands of Singaporeans who have started trading Forex to enfoy a new income stream. Let Nicholas Tan, Best Selling Author of "Handbook On Forex Trading" show you how to trade with success! This online video will show you the benefits of
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      1215 44  -  Karman Tse Surely, this age-proof, award-winning singer/ actor and multi-millionaire does not owe his success to plain dumb luck. Today gets to the bottom of what makes Andy Lav a superstar photo by ooi boon keong WHEN Andy Lav suave, successful, much-desired Hong Kong megastar Andy
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      486 46  -  MAYO MARTIN Tale of kids gone wild Lord of the Flies set to swarm Esplanade Theatre mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINISTER savages. Delusional psychopaths. Bullies. Killers. And they've yet to grow some fuzz on their upper lips. Get set to meet the "pubescent" bad boys of Lord of the Flies.
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        54 46 Here's your chance to perform at one of the biggest music festivals in town: Baybeats 2008. Auditions will be held on Jan 18, but you will need to send in your applications before next Monday. For application forms, log onto usher.esplanade.com/baybeats2ooB/registration_form.aspx or call the Esplanade hotline at
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        125 46 Rockers may want to check out the screening of the cult classic movie Radio On at the National Museum of Singapore next month. First released in 1979, film-maker Christopher Petit's debut feature follows a London DJ on his travels to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. Co-produced
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      343 48  -  JeanineTan The Warlords is a gritty, brutal drama with powerful acting FILMREVIEW by, The Warlords FINALLY, here comes a Chinese blockbuster that has no discernable aspirations to impress the West No showy pugilistic moves, for one, nor a plot that is as flimsy as the silk of
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      229 49  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by i Alvin and the Chipmunks REMEMBER how, in the days when cassette tapes were still in fashion, and if you played one on fast forward, the song would sound like it was sung by a chipmunk? Well, that
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      256 49  -  Christopher Toh FILMREVIEW ,,,,by I Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium THE real "wonder" of Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium is that it got made despite its bland script. I'm saying this, of course, as an adult, which makes me technically ineligible to watch
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      421 50  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Explore the musical frontier with the latest installment of Electro Lab christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IF MUSIC is the new frontier, then the merry band of adventurers pushing the new frontier are doing so under the starship "electro". These days, "electro" is the catchphrase for many musicians whose main
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        107 50 -AP Regis Philbin (picture) is taking on more television duties. The host of Live with Regis and Kelly, who holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a TV camera, will host the official Oscar red-carpet show, producers announced
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        126 50 A Sex and the C/tysequel may already be in the pipeline, according to British newspaper The Mail on Sunday. Even though the first movie doesn't hit cinemas until May next year, producers are apparently working on a script for a follow
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      746 51 —AP Continuing strike by Hollywood writers could mean less quality movies INDIANA Jones, Capt James T Kirk and other movie heroes may have to toss off more ad-libbed wisecracks next year. By 2009, they could be positively tongue-tied if a strike by Hollywood writers drags
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      1252 52 BUM KUMIIMIB FOOD OLD DAYS (DEBUT) DRAMASUTRA DOCUMENTARY GAME INC Channel U, 9.30pm OKB (Finale) Nigel Marven's Ugly Animals Channel News Asia, 8.32pm 11.32pm Singapore is heralded as Suria, 9.30pm Arts Central, 10pm a food paradise and a Jflj In this episode, we finally Our culture is obsessed with JE&
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      854 53  -  HARVEY ARATON NEW YORK TIMES Vick, who will serve 23 months in prison as punishment for his dogfighting operation, threw it all away news@newstoday.com.sg NEW YORK In Harlem yesterday, a long way from a federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, the news on Michael Vick
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      381 53 CALIFORNIA Tiger Woods claims he is in better physical shape than ever following his recent twomonth break, Sky Sports reported yesterday. The world No 1 is back in action this week as he defends his title at the
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      536 54 AFP MADRID First-half goals from Julio Baptista, Raul Gonzalez and Robinho secured the top spot for Real Madrid in the European Champions League Group C with an emphatic 3-1 win over Lazio yesterday (early today, Singapore time). The
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      242 55 -AFP GLASGOW Mark McGhee (picture) would be the "perfect choice" to replace Alex McLeish as Scotland manager, according to Celtic boss Gordon Strachan. McGhee, 50, has won plaudits for his work in transforming Motherwell from a struggling side into one currently third in the
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      600 55 ■AFP Gunners will rest players tonight, even with top spot in the group at stake- CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP H Arsenal v Steaua Bucharest LONDON Arsene Wenger is ready to put Arsenal's Champions League ambitions at risk by playing an under-strength team in tonight's (tomorrow morning, Singapore
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      597 56 —THE DAILY TELGRAPH Grant takes a dig at his critics and talks up his players ahead of' Grand Slam Sunday' LONDON An appreciation of the sure, steady progress Chelsea are making under Avram Grant can be achieved simply by reflecting on the circumstances surrounding
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      351 56 -AFP NEW DELHI South African bowler Nicky Boje (picture) yesterday denied charges of match-fix-ing under questioning by Indian police probing the scandal which hit cricket seven years ago. The 34-year-old, who was escorted to a New Delhi interrogation centre by South
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      733 57  -  Henry Winter THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Capello is favoured, but if Italy's World Cupwinning manager is good enough for Fergie, then IT WAS a coaching brains' trust that would have made Brian Barwick swoon. It was shortly after the 2006 World Cup final and Uefa had
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      475 57 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Jose Mourinho's (picture) decision to withdraw his name from the race to succeed Steve McClaren will break plenty of English hearts. Regardless of their club affiliation, football fans across the country overwhelmingly regarded the self-styled "Special One"
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      290 59  -  CUBBYLEONG SASI Zura Raush (picture) was making his debut in the SEA Games, but he was hardly overawed by the occasion as he took the stage in the men's 70kg Lightweight final. Indeed, so eager was he to catch the judges'
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      385 60  -  Tan Yo-Hinn WITH 37 gold medals in the bag and four days of competition to go at the 24th SEA Games, Singapore are on course for their best-ever "away" performance. In 2005 the team came home with 42 golds, but with
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      431 62 SELECTED RESULTS (Singaporeans otherwise stated) Archery (quarter-finals) Women's md compound: Maryanne Gul 109 Aung Ngeain 110 (Mya), Amaya Paz (Phi) 114 Lee Bee Teng 112 Men's md compounrf: Heng FookHup 116 Ye Mm Swe (Mya) 118, Ong Choon Soon 110 Igusti Puruhito (Ina) 111 Athletics Men's 200 m
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      27 62 COVERAGE FROM KORAT 11.30 am Today At The SEA Games (Encore) 6pm SEA Games Action (live) 11pm Today At The SEA Games (highlights)
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