Today, 15 December 2007

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    23 1 MICA(P) 134/10/2007 /A=ryJj\COßP TODAY we set you thinking Decembej^^^6, 2007* todayonline.com TODAY MICA(P) 134/10/2007 /A=£JJJ\CORP we set you thinking December 15-16, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon HOW HE MADE UP HIS MIND
    1147 1  -  ABDULLAH OSMAN IN YOUR WEEKEND XTRA ISA ARRESTS AND A RELUCTANT PM: THE INSIDE STORY news@newstoday.com .sg FOR more than a week, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi agonised over whether to reach for the Internal Security Act (ISA) to deal with the threat posed
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    Shortage of Economics teachers in JCs
    505 1  -  LEE U-WEN More Science students take the subject, putting pressure on faculty news@newstoday.com.sg THE revamped A-level education system that came into force last year has thrown up an unforeseen problem a dire shortage of Economics teachers. Because of the new compulsory requirement for students
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    THREE LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY
    123 1 Subjects at A-level are now classified under three categories. H2 subjects are equal in difficulty to the former A-level subjects. H1 subjects are equivalent to half an H2 subject. H3 subjects-which replace the'S' papers are the most challenging. THE COMBINATION Students must take three H2 and
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      Lock icon Abdullah meets NGOs, explains govt position
      151 2 PUTRAJAYA Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Friday met leaders of 13 of Malaysia's main Indian-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to discuss current developments in the country. A spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office said that at the meeting, Mr Abdullah stressed the importance of
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      NKF: $1.4m more, despite drop in donations
      613 3  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Strong market keeps foundation's income at healthy levels nazry@media corp.com.sg LUCK has been with the new National Kidney Foundation on one front since January last yean The bullish investment market has kept the charity's income at healthy levels. However, if it has
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      Two held in Ghim Moh murder
      155 3 TWO Bangladeshi men, aged 29 and 19, were arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of a 37-year-old man. The body of Mr Mohammad Azanil Aman, a security guard, was found on Wednesday night in a third-floor flat of Block 18, Ghim Moh
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      264 3 Everybody Needs A Holiday. Even You. There's a great holiday waiting for everyone at The Fullerton Hotel. go on, you know you deserve one. take a break, singapore. Simply choose from one of our exclusively created packages. Movie Mania Time For Two Spend the afternoon relaxing by the pool, dine
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    • XTRA POINT OF VIEW
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        Lock icon DHANA'S CANDOUR
        152 4  -  P N BAUI IN THE seemingly-unex-citing world of Singapore politics, some unexpected gems do pop up. The reader who bothered to plough through a report in Wednesday's The Straits Times on a Q and A with Mr S Dhanabalan would have made this rare find on why the
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        SACRED NO MORE
        169 4  -  TIFFANY TAN THE ugly side of globalisation has reached one of the most sacred places: The Indian home. Touted for centuries as a society that had the extended family at its core, the recent law that makes the neglect of elderly parents a criminal offence has resulted
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        THAT DIRTY 'R' WORD
        155 4  -  CHRISTIE LOH TRUST Morgan Stanley to spy the silver lining in a United States recession. When America's second biggest securities firm joined a growing camp earlier this week in predicting that this year will see economic growth in America contract for two straight quarters, it was
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      A DEMANDING NEW SUBJECT
      244 4 Another new subject in the revised A-level curriculum is Knowledge and Inquiry (Xl), a demanding researchintensive subject that students can opt to take instead of the General Paper (GP). Not surprisingly, only about 400 students, in this year's entire JC2 cohort of more than 10,000, took
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      Meat cheats nabbed by NEA
      532 4  -  ALICIA WONG Retailers fined for trying to pass off thawed frozen pork as chilled fresh pork alicia@mediacorp.com.sg YOU don't mind paying a premium for fresh, quality food, but this could cool your enthusiasm. As costs and competition escalate, 31 pork retailers have been fined $300
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      BEHIND GIC'S BUY INTO ÜBS
      560 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH You could call the $14-billion investment a 'blockbuster' christie@media corp.com.sg WHEN the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) hands over a hefty 11 billion Swiss francs ($l4 billion) in a deal that could give it as much as 9 per cent of Zurich-based
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      Lock icon HOW GIC BAGGED ÜBS
      277 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH At the end of the day, its decisiveness won out. One of the reasons the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) beat other shortlisted buyers to take a slice of ÜBS, Europe's biggest bank, was its quick reaction, according to a Financial Times [FT]
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      A*Star project may lead to cancer cures
      274 6  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp.com.sg A TEAM of Singapore and German scientists have come up with a database that may well open the door to the development of new cancer drugs in the future. The group from the Agency for Science, Technology and
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      Lock icon PARTIALLY BLIND, BUT WITH A VISION
      1019 8  -  CHRISTIE LOH XTRA AGEING A health crisis brings out this researcher's entrepreneurial spirit christie@mediacorp.com.sg DR SHARON Siddique has a way of surprising people. The 61-year-old researcher with a doctorate in sociology has published 18 books. She travels extensively for the twoperson political risk consultancy
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      Lock icon Sergeant and former cop hauled to court
      416 10  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@media corp.com.sg TWO police officers one of whom has since resigned were brought to court by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau on Friday. Phua Jun Yang, 25, is alleged to have obtained sexual favours from two women in December last year and
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      Smaller price to pay for a 'guaranteed seat'
      225 10  -  -LEONGWEEKEAT WANT to travel in comfort and still avoid the taxi fare hikes? SBS Transit thinks it has the "perfect solution", especially for harried shoppers. It is launching eight premium bus services before cab fares go up on Monday. The company promises
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      Lock icon O, WHAT A WINNING INNOVATION
      384 12  -  UNYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg RUNNING a non-profit school to help youth dropouts to complete their 0 levels is a worthy cause but with high rental costs and student bursaries to fund, it is also an expensive one. So, to offset the mounting costs of running the City
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      DIALOGUE IN THE DARK COMING TO STORE
      274 12 He has already made it his mission to address sanitation issues around the world, and now he's set his sights on another cause: Helping the visually handicapped. Hoping to give Singaporeans the chance to experience the world from a blind person's perspective. World
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        N-LEVEL RESULTS OUT ON TUESDAY
        76 12 Results of the 2007 Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Normal level examination will be released on Tuesday. School candidates can pick up their result slips from their respective schools from 2pm. Those applying for courses at the Institute of Technical Education can also obtain the
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        REGISTRATION FOR NATIONAL SERVICE
        62 12 Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents born on or between June 7 and Sept 9,1990, must register for National Service between Dec 19 and Jan 9, 2008. They do so online at www.ns.sg or personally at the Central Manpower Base podium at 3 Depot Road. If in
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        US VISA FEES UP FROM JAN 1
        73 12 Application fees for visas to the United States will go up from Jan 1 next year. In a statement yesterday, the US Embassy said the new fee for non-immigrant visas would be $196.50, while that for immigrant visas would be US$355. Applications for
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        Lock icon SPRING SINGAPORE INKS MOU WITH LIBYAN BOARD
        101 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Spring Singapore has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Economic Development Board of Libya to promote enterprise development in the two countries. The signing ceremony took place on Friday on the sidelines of the visit of Dr Saif Al
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        70 12 ONE FOR THE WEDDING ALBUM: Camera flashes and radiant smiles filled Changi Airport Terminal 3 on Friday as more than 30 soon-to-be married couples and newly-weds participated in a photography contest organised by Changi Airport and The Straits Times. The photography contest gave the lucty couples a rare opportunity to
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      Woman jailed for helping company evade tax
      207 12  -  ■LEONGWEEKEAT THE director of a recycling firm was jailed two weeks for plotting to help her company evade tax. Katherine Ng Gek Cheng, 53, was also ordered to pay a penalty of $205,884.27 three times the amount of tax evaded. The company, Meng
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      Lock icon China may sue over German Terracotta scam
      205 14 -AFP BEIJING Chinese cultural authorities may take legal action over fake "Terracotta Warriors" (picture) that appeared at a German museum. Shaanxi's cultural relics bureau, the authority in charge of the original 2,200-year-old life-size clay soldiers, said it had not sent any artefacts for
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      Anwar releases full video
      235 14 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has disclosed that he has more evidence to back claims of judicial impropriety, after he released the full 14-minute recording of the scandalous V X Lingam video on Friday, malaysiakini.com reported. In September, Mr Anwar, a former Deputy Premier,
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      PARLIAMENT UNVEILS SPECIAL COMPLAINTS COMMISSION
      207 14 A Bill to protect whistle-blowers has been unveiled in the Malaysian parliament, according to the New Straits Times [NST). The first reading of the bill to set up the Special Complaints Commission (SCC) was tabled on Thursday. The SCC will succeed the Independent Police Complaints
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      Lock icon New Jersey Ist US state in 40 years to scrap death penalty
      213 14 -AGENCIES NEW JERSEY New Jersey became the first American state in four decades to vote to abolish the death penalty, in a move hailed by human rights activists as a step towards ending capital punishment The Democrat-controlled state
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      Lock icon A shade closer to green in Bali
      310 16 ■AFP BALI The United States and European Union stepped back from confrontation on Friday as global talks on climate change headed into extra time amid hopes they could still thrash out a compromise. US and EU officials both voiced optimism that the 12-day
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        Lock icon DECK THE (PENTAGON) HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY... NOT
        176 16 DECK THE (PENTAGON) HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY NOT AP FOR precisely three weeks a year, the United States Defence Department allows displays of holiday spirit on its premises, provided they conform to rules in the 12-page Pentagon Guide for Use of Hallways. That means no candles, no shouting, no
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        MOTORIST FILLED CAR WITH PETROL THROUGH WINDOW
        70 16 AN EARLY-morning motorist in Hungary poured 150 litres of petrol through the back window of his car, according to ananova.com. The man drove off with petrol dripping on the floor at the petrol station shortly after the staff noticed his mistake. It was
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      Lock icon WHAT NOW, PAK LAM
      947 18  -  LESLIE LAU XTRA ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY Portrayed as weak and indecisive, M'sian PM needs to act now before 2009 polls news@newstoday.com .sg THERE is little doubt among many Malaysians that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will lead his ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition to another victory
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      Lock icon Pakistan polls already rigged: UN envoy
      333 20 -AGENCIES Tells US lawmakers not to send monitoring delegation WASHINGTON A United Nations human rights envoy has told United States lawmakers not to send any delegation to monitor the upcoming election in Pakistan, claiming that it was already rigged by President Pervez Musharraf. "There
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      Lock icon Thai energy giant won't be delisted
      161 20 -AFP BANGKOK A top Thai court ruled on Friday that energy giant PTT had legally listed its shares, but ordered the firm to return part of its operations to the state. Consumer groups had challenged the legality of the listing of the kingdom's top
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      Lock icon No mascara with mercury in Minnesota
      355 22 -AP MINNESOTA The quest for thicker lashes and defined eyes should get safer in Minnesota from Jan 1, when a state law banning mercury in mascara, eye liners and skin-lightening creams takes effect. Minnesota is apparently the first state in the United States to
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      Lock icon Djoko Santoso's many challenges
      803 24  -  ANDIWIDJAJANTO Indon defence chief has much work to do, but time is running out UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA LECTURER sindo@media corp.com.sg INDONESIA'S newly-appointed National Defence Forces (TNI) commander General Djoko Santoso will be an important player in determining the direction of the country's military reforms. Gen Santoso
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      111 23 15-24 December 2007 7pm Daily Plaza Singapura, Front Plaza (outside Starßucks) Experience the Christmas Story through creative acts, dazzling floats, and mass Carolers as Singapore celebrates Christmas. Be a part of Singapore's most exciting Christmas celebration this yearl Official Card Organised by: Supported by: ,-^^Pk a I Christmas NOfe Cap/taCard
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      318 28  -  TAN SIN LIANG Letter from I AM a disabled driver and a tenant in Chinatown Point. I am grateful to Woon Wee Teng for writing to Today, "Punish ugly Singaporeans"( Dec 13), highlighting the lackadaisical attitude of building managements in enforcing the disabled car parking.
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      75 28 TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: Today photographer Don Wong captured the over-excitement of this young fan who had to be 'helped' back behind the barriers at the recent concert by My Chemical Romance at the MAX Pavillion, Singapore Expo. CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken
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      Dirty hawkers must clean up act
      230 28  -  S SATISH APPOO, Letter from Director, Environmental Health Department, National Environment Agency (NEA) WE REFER to the letter "Would you like toilet water with that?" (Dec 13). We agree with Mr Simon Ng Yap Peng that all food handlers should exercise responsibility and observe
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      Lock icon GIVING LIFE TO THE DYING
      1295 30  -  CLEMENT MESENAS XTRA FINAL DAYS The terminally-ill can count on volunteers and staff at this hospice to be there for them right to the end EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@mediacorp.com.sg HE LIES in bed, a gaunt figure, his eyes glued to the flickering images on the television screen.
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      274 34  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE rules requiring Singapore-incorporat-ed banks to enhance their capital management and standards are kicking in as global credit risks heighten. As of Jan 1, these banks will have to adhere to the new Basel II rules, said the Monetary
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      143 34  -  CHEOWXINYI PRIME rents will likely see a moderation in their rise next year, said LaSalle Investment Management head of Pacific research David Edwards on Friday. "In the (prime grade A) office market, we have seen rents increase 70 per cent this year, reaching
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      324 34 AGENCIES SINGAPORE'S retail sales rose for a third month in October as a hiring boom and higher wages encouraged consumers to spend more on clothing (picture), telecommunications equipment and watches. But the pace of increase slowed from the previous month on lower car sales.
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      756 35 With NGNtalk, users can make overseas calls at a fraction of the market rate SIMPLICITY, choice and cost savings. Alliance NGN is offering you just that with its NGNtalk service. The service is based on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which works by sending voice data overthe
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        1112 36  -  RYAN WOO XTRA BUDGET-CONSCIOUS Think backpacker hostels are packing them in because more tourists are coming? Think again YOU love the idea of running a backpacker hostel. But before you take out a loan to fund that double-storey Kampong Glam shophouse purchase, think again. While
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        286 37 -AP Rising anxiety over US slowdown possibility fuels gloomy outlook CONFIDENCE at Japanese companies fell to its lowest in more than two years, a closelywatched Bank of Japan survey showed, amid rising anxiety about a possible slowdown in the US economy and recent market turmoil. The
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        299 37 -AGENCIES THE prospect of slower economic growth in Asia next year isn't expected to raise the incidence of debt default among companies in the region, James McCormack, senior director and the head of Asia Sovereign Ratings at Fitch, said on Friday.
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        210 37 AGENCIES SINGAPORE stocks ended lower for the third straight session on Friday over concerns about a slowing United States economy, mirroring falls in the rest of Asia. The Straits Times Index fell 0.4 per cent to 3,466.38 from Thursday's 3479.31, on a volume
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        251 37 AP FORMER Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the odds the United States will fall into a recession are "clearly rising" and he believes economic growth is "getting close to stall speed". Greenspan, who ran the US central bank for 18--and-a-half years, until early
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        169 37 -AGENCIES NEW YORK Citigroup will take over the assets of seven troubled investment funds it manages and assume US$5B billion ($B4 billion) of debt to avoid forced sales that will further erode confidence in capital markets. Citigroup follows HSBC Holdings, Societe Generale and
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          70 37 Mapletree Logistics Trust has completed the acquisition of the American Industrial Park in Guangzhou, China, for 241 million yuan ($47 million); a site in Klang, Selangor, for RM 35 million ($l5 million); and a site in Tuas, Singapore, for $9 million. Fully funded by debt, the
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          3RD BANYAN TREE RESORT IN CARIBBEAN
          54 37 Luxury hotel developer Banyan Tree has signed a contract with developer Nexus RD to manage an integrated resort under its Angsana brand in the Dominican Republic. Called Angsana Samana Bay, it is to be completed in 2010. The 22-hectare resort is Banyan Tree's third
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          LIFEBRANDZ GROUP LOSES $796,000
          57 37 Brand development group Lifebrandz lost $796,000 in the three months ended Oct 31, even as its revenue rose 59 per cent to $9.9 million. The firm's subsidiary, LB Investments, which operates the Ministry of Sound franchise, was recently in the news when its United Kingdom-based franchiser
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      1228 38  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Spice up your Christmas by tucking into the festive bird cooked in a distinctly different way IN A twist to tradition, the turkey has been given a good turn over this Christmas not by its avian counterparts such as the duck, goose or chicken, but
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        470 40  -  ANNETTE TAN There's no drama at Dallas just decent, affordable set menus in an elegant setting food@newstoday.com .sg TO GET to Dallas restaurant on the second floor of a Boat Quay shophouse, guests have to walk past a rowdy bar which is also under the Dallas umbrella and
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        493 42  -  LINWEIWEN There is quantity and quality at Straits Cafe's Asian buffet food@newstoday.com.sg AT A buffet, what's more important: Quality over quantity, or vice versa? For Choo Kok Seng, the executive sous chef of Rendezvous Hotel's Straits Cafe, the quality of food is just as important if not more
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        572 44 Get comfortable at this casual poolside restaurant SYLVY SOH food@newstoday.com.sg AT A glance, it's easy to dismiss Eatzi Steakhouse and Bistro a subsidiary of Jack's Place Holdings as a clone of the more established steakhouse. Minus the signature green-and-white checkered tablecloths in the latter's outlets, Eatzi's interior and
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        1295 46  -  PEARLYN THAM IMAGE OVERHAUL Looks like Giordano, G2OOO and Bossini are on their way to becoming trendy lifestyle brands IF YOU declare that you wore Giordano jeans back in the '80s and early '90s, you'd probably elicit a couple of aiyohs and giggles. Those of us old and brave
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        286 48  -  PEARLYN THAM PEARLYN THAM ASIAN NATION Tianpo Jewellery's new range is inspired by ancient Mongolia pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU can't go to Mongolia, TianPo Jewellery will bring Mongolia to you. This season, the homegrown jewellery chain has looked to ancient Mongolia for inspiration. Its Adore and Adorn collection pays
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        361 48 Keep your skin healthy and youthful with Nivea's new Visage Oxygen Power range IT'S A simple theory: You need oxygen to live and so does your skin. Unfortunately, our skin only absorbs about one per cent of the oxygen we inhale from the air. Oxygen is
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          82 50 Local Honda distributor Kah Motor has brought in two units of the new Accord for customer previews, ahead of the model's official launch early next year. The 2.0- and 2.4-litre models will be on display from this weekend at the company's Alexandra and Übi showrooms.
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          83 50 This is the first official photo of the new Skoda Superb, which makes its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show in March next year. The current Superb is most commonly seen on Singapore roads as a Silver Arrow cab. The new model shares many
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          ASTON MARTIN REUNITES WITH BOND, JAMES BOND
          99 50  -  COLIN YONG The world's best known spy will once again drive an Aston Martin on the big screen. James Bond, to be played by Daniel Craig for the second time, will be reunited with the Aston Martin DBS in the 22nd 007 thriller.
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        778 50  -  COLIN YONG X-CEPTIONAL SEDAN The Mitsubishi Evo X's abilities border on the supernatural colin@mediacorp.com.sg THE bend up ahead is fast filling the windscreen. It's a tight right-hander with a high kerb on one side, a grass verge on the other and little room for error in between. I
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        395 50 DO CARS really need to be symmetrical side to side, have two headlamps and be narrower on top than they are at the bottom? BMW Group design chief Chris Bangle (picture, right) doesn't think so. "We need to get around the established
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        470 51  -  COLIN YONG GET FRESH Visual and mechanical updates freshen up the BMW 6 Series nicely colin@mediacorp.com.sg THE extensiveness of a car's mid-life facelift is usually inversely proportional to its market success up to that point. By this measure, BMW's 6 Series has been a big hit with
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      728 52  -  PHIN WONG STAR AWARDS 2007 Surprise omissions may be in store when top 10 lists of local stars is revealed phin@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS "performance review" time for the celebrity staff on Caldecott Hill, as the Star Awards 2007 comes around on Sunday. More than simply slugging
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      380 55 BLOOMBERG IMMORTAL GIRL Madonna one of five 2008 inductees for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame SHE HAS been called many things throughout her career, from marketing genius to blasphemous harlot, but on Thursday, Madonna was called something she's rarely ever been accused
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      565 56 AGENCIES OSCAR RACE Atonement heads blood-soaked Golden Globes field THE race to the Oscar acceptance speech is getting messy. Atonement has established itself as an early Oscar frontrunner, leading a gory field of nominees with seven nods for the 65th annual Golden Globe awards. The critically-acclaimed
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      272 57 BLOOMBERG PAPER VALUE A SINGLE handwritten book of fairy tales by J X Rowling was bought by Amazon.com, the world's largest online bookstore, for £1.95 million ($5.75 million) at a London charity auction on Thursday, the company said. The Tales of Beedle the Bard (picture),
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      131 42 WH ERE: Straits Cafe Rendezvous Hotel 19 Bras Basah Road TELEPHONE: 6336 0220 OPENING HOURS: Daily from noon to 2.30pm (lunch) and 6.30pm to 10pm (dinner). 1 /Vv DINING SAKE BAR Enjoy a harvest of more than 120 items of f jKj-, scrs/vm/,sushi, tempura,sumiyaki,teppanyaki W* etc. from just $28 onwards.
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      24 43 PIVIM A TASTE® ]<'kJcrU<^ Tuck into a selection of authentic Singapore favourites such as Laksa, Hainanese Chicken Rice, Prawn Mcc and many more. ,^^Ab
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      304 43 Eatzi V BakeryCatering-Restaurant Festive Feasting with Eatzi I Onjoy a corporate year-end party or I family get-together with our restive buffet menu from $18.00++ per jL-v-^1 I personOr simply celebrate with our range of delicacies like Roast Turkey and J^rik Log Cakes, which is sure to make I your Christmas
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      257 44 FESTIVE BUFFET* (1 Dec '07 -1 Jan '08) > Enjoy a selection of international fare with festive favourites, fl 1 Our sumptuous spread includes Seafood On Ice, J Roast Turkey, Honey Baked Ham, Smoked Salmon, J Coffee Fbrk Ribs, Braised Mushrooms, Roast Beef, Unagi, «^T Steamed Mullet, Dory Fillet, Sauteed
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      237 45 I WHERE: Eatzi Steakhouse Bistro 60 Yishun Avenue 4, SafraYishun L TELEPHONE: 6852 8270 6756 2118 OPENING HOURS: Daily from I I am to 10pm f Festive Feasting with J Seafood Harvest Celebrate this season with your family and friends with our sumptuous festive set Vv Indulge in traditional 4813G«M
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      437 60 CAPELLO GETS RICH CONTRACT AND POSSIBLY HIS OWN BOOT ROOM THE GUARDIAN LONDON Talks between the Football Association (FA) and Fabio Capello continued on Friday after protracted negotiations over the contracts of his backroom team and debate among FA board members delayed the expected confirmation of the Italian as Steve
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      225 60 Italo Galbiati, 69 Assistant manager Galbiati was part of the Internazionale squad of the 1960s that won three Serie A titles and two European Cups. He later became a youth-team coach at Milan, progressing to become part of their management team under Capello. The pair have been
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      833 61 AGENCIES BATTLE STATIONS IN LONDON Ahead of the biggest London derby of all, Van Persic ranks .Chelsea behind Man United LONDON Arsenal's Robin Van Persic is fit and raring to go. And pencilled in for his first game after rehabilitating his right knee,
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      1843 62  -  KENNETH GOH BIG GAME FOR BIG BOYS Benitez' Liverpool cannot afford to lose the biggest match of them all IT IS a match both sets of fans look for first when the fixtures are released for the upcoming season. Both groups have been spoilt by
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      542 65  -  LOW LIN FHOONG GATHERING STEAM MCYS' Teo says lOC questions were handled well, as Asian Youth Games takes shape linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S bid to host the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2010 is moving along nicely. The hour-long video conference with the International Olympic Committee's
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      236 65  -  -LOWLINFHOONG FOR the first time in Singapore's Xtreme sports history, a local skateboarder will feature among Billabong's line-up of athletes. At the Xtreme Singapore media preview on Friday, the Australian sports brand announced the one-year sponsorship deal for KIA X Games Asia champion
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      615 66  -  CUBBY LEONG THE STRONG SURVIVE Fazrul a hat-trick king as Avramovic's men end 12-year medal drought With chief striker Khairul Amri out through injury, coach Radojko Avramovic praised his men for delivering a virtuoso performance. "We may have been missing Amri today but the side
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      261 66  -  CUBBY LEONG IN KORAT, THAILAND cubby® mediacorp.com.sg THEY are runaway leaders in the medal tally with 173 gold medals. But, ask Thais which triumph in the SEA Games is the most precious and they will almost all say the men's football gold. Thousands of
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      575 67  -  David Ngiau ART ON COURT Its silver for Lee, who has no answer to Olympic champion's cunning strokes LIKE a surgeon he dismantled the Singapore upstart, if Taufik Hidayat had seemed sluggish all tournament long then the Indonesian badminton star had clearly decided to chuck his lacklustre
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      255 68 SELECTED RESULTS (Singaporeans otherwise stated) Badminton {finals) Men's singles: Taufik Hidayat (Ina) bt Kendrick Lee 2-0 (Silver) DouWes/Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan (Ina) bt Hendri Saputra/Hendra Wijaya 2-0 Bowling Mixed Doubles final: Remy Ong Cherie Tan (2227pt5, 6th), Jazreel Tan Ng Qenn (2108pts, 10th) Canoeing Women's Kayak Single (K1) 500
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      556 68  -  I22J22EIEIZM HUNGRY FOR GOLD Second place in the penultimate race enough For Rachel to clinch gold THE colour gold was all Rachel Lee had on her mind. Not the gold she had just won in the Optimist girls' competition at the SEA Games here
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      483 68  -  TAN YO-HINN IN PATTAYA, THAILAND yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg CALL it bad luck. Blame it on the winds. Whatever the reason, Laser sailor Koh Seng Leong will have to wait a little longer for his first SEA Games gold medal. Koh has
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      640 69  -  TAN YO-HINN I Tay and Chung make a vital tactical decision and it pays off for gold THEY could not be more different as a sailing couple. RoyTay,the more "offensive-minded" half, is constantly on the lookout for any opportunity to make the kill. Chung
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