Today, 22 December 2007

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    13 1 MICA(P) 134/10/2007 /A=DJACORP weekendTODAY we set you thinking December 22 23, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Bush weighs in on funds debate
    783 1 —AGENCIES As Temasek board reported to have given preliminary approval to Merrill Lynch deal WITH high-profile but troubled American banks seeking cash injections from sovereign wealth funds in China, Singapore and the Middle East, President George W Bush is taking a statesman-like approach, saying
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    Lock icon Salmonella strikes again... on Sentosa
    506 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@media corp.com.sg IT TURNS out Prima Deli was not the only salmonella scare this past month. For 10 days, not even the authorities knew of another food-poisoning incident. Sentosa Golf Club revealed on Friday that 16 people who participated in a seminar
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    WHAT MAKES HIM TURN TO THE COURTS
    1379 1  -  ANSLEY NG IN YOUR WEEKEND XTRA HE'S FLATTERED TO BE COMPARED WITH DURAI ansley@mediacorp.com.sg NEARLY 10 years after he took on the Ministry of Manpower and won, businessman Kannappan Chettiar is taking another established institution, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case), to court.
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      Lock icon FESTALLY, THE NOD
      428 3  -  ALICIA WONG The AVA allows Prima Deli to resume partial operations alicia@mediacorp.com.sg CLOSE to a month after it was hit by salmonella poisoning, Prima Deli was given the official nod on Friday to resume partial operations at its factory (picture) and it has swung into operation with
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      S'poreans on drug rap in India
      361 3  -  ANSLEY NG TEOXUANWEI AND ansley@mediacorp.com.sg TWO Singaporeans one of them an alleged international drug kingpin were arrested in Mumbai on Monday along with 290 kg of raw materials used to make party drugs such as Ice and Ecstasy. The 63-year-old and 36-year-old, were extracting
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      UBS SHAREHOLDERS KEEN TO KNOW WHO ANONYMOUS INVESTOR IS
      302 3 The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation's (GIC) deal with ÜBS is being drawn into unnecessary shareholder attention because of an anonymous Middle Eastern investor. Insistence by that investor-which the Financial Times (FT) said is Saudi Arabia that it should remain anonymous
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    • XTRA POINT OF VIEW
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        WATCH THIS GAP
        218 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG THE fact that Phase Two of the salary hikes for ministers and top civil servants is being implemented despite complaints of rising costs among the not-so-well-off shows that timing is not that critical in Singapore politics. The leadership must have calculated that they will
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        STRICTLY BUSINESS WITH THE NORTH
        172 4  -  ROSNAH AHMAD HIS "747" campaign slogan 7-per-cent growth, US$4O,OOO ($58,000) in annual income, 7th biggest economy may have brought smiles to South Koreans hoping that presi-dent-elect Lee Myung Bak's (picture) go-getter reputation will provide the country's economy with its second wind. But the former Hyundai
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        THAT T WORD
        169 4  -  PAULINE DAWN LOH IF THERE is one word we should hear less of in the New Year, it is talent In a workforce where staff are put on a pedestal, wooed incessantly by bosses and pursued aggressively by head hunters, even a very average worker is made
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      Lock icon Blamed for doing nothing
      517 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG Minority owners say NUS should not follow majority in en bloc sale cheekong@media corp. com. sg IT HAS remained silent and passive in the protracted saga over the proposed sale of Gillman Heights (picture) to developer Capita Land for $528 million. But now, the National
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      265 5 11 'I ill :iH\ 11 \H iff *fc I S Woodlands kaLaJ a §-n w i i Vtf > > > WOODLANDS AYE 7 > > EXECUTIVE CONDOMINIUM l^itr. I 8 8 I With a wide range of facilities, serene greenery, and quality design and finishing, La Casa offers you
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      Lock icon THE LUXURY OF BEING A MOTHER
      1160 6  -  CRISPINA ROBERT XTRA WORKING WOMEN It's not easy giving up a career to raise children, but not all women have the luxury of such a choice WHILE writing this piece, I found a diary I had started a week after quitting full-time work in
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      Lock icon Feeling the pinch
      596 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Cabbies now pick up fewer passengers, but is this due solely to the fare hike? weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE battle of wills, inevitable with the introduction of a fare hike, is taking its toll on taxi drivers too. More than half of 20 ComfortDelGro drivers,
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      GOOD NEWS FOR LATE-NIGHT PARTYGOERS
      128 8 Partying until the wee hours of the morning on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve? You can still get home safely as the MRT, LRT and selected SBS Transit and SMRT bus services will operate past midnight on those occasions. SMRT will extend the operating
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      Lock icon LIFELONG ICONS OR ADULT RELICS?
      1012 10  -  KENNETH TAN XTRA CHILD STARS Love them or hate them, Tinseltown tykes are here to stay CAN you think of a movie star who's had the privilege of acting beside Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Scan Perm, Julia Roberts and Michelle Pfeiffer, and won 13
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      THE PIG WITH BIG AMBITIONS
      250 10  -  KENNETH TAN The very first DVD I bought, soon after the format was first launched, was Babe. I had already watched it nine times at the cinema. To my mind, no other film or TV programme could match its captivating characters. For the uninitiated, Babe
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      Biomed tops R&D efforts
      502 12  -  TAN HUI LENG Top growth sector in manufacturing huileng@mediacorp.com.sg ELECTRONICS may be the mainstay of the manufacturing sector. But the momentum is clearly behind biomedical sciences (BMS) when it comes to employment, and research and development (R&D) spending in manufacturing. From infrastructure and equipment to manpower
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      Lock icon Construction worker arrested for maid's death
      236 12  -  LEONGWEEKEAT A BANGLADESHI worker has been arrested in connection with the murder of an Indonesian maid whose naked body was found last Sunday in an uncompleted District 10 condominium. Kamrul Hasan Abdul Quddus, 34, is alleged to have caused the death of Ms Yulia
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      Lock icon Maths, music ... surfs up
      547 13  - Maths, music surfs up LINYANQIN Students get ready for School of the Arts opening next month yanqin@media corp.com.sg WITH music classrooms named after celebrated American composer Frank Zappa and legendary cello player Jacqueline Dv Pre, the School of the Arts (Sota) is destined to be more than just another school
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      Mendaki explains dip in results of Malay students in PSLE, O level exams
      665 13  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI nazry@media corp. com. sg A NORMAL year-to-year variation, an exceptional 2005 cohort and a larger number of Express students. These are the reasons given by Malay-Muslim selfhelp group Mendaki to explain a dip in the
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      174 8 K2JHK. f m** ">■ H* n Terms ond Conditions •Mix-A-Pack; Applicable to selected channels' 1-month pricing only. An early termination charge applies if (a) subscription is terminated before the 12--month period; [b] any change of channels within the Pack. *Ftee Video on Demand Promotion: Applicable for the first two (2)
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      182 9 mimk d Terms ond CondHioni Equipment specifications may vary. Telecast details are correct at time of printing. Programme schedules are subject to change without prior notification. Sing Tel reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions without prior notice. Other terms and conditions apply. Please log on to www.singtel.com/miotv
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      AND WHAT ABOUT THE CHINESE?
      1021 14  -  LESLIE LAU XTRA ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY Street protests may just swing their support to ruling coalition THE recent spate of street protests may have affected Malaysia's international image to a certain extent But at home, the protests could go some way in halting the Chinese
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      Anti-ISA group plans to hold candlelight protest in KL this weekend
      377 15 KUALA LUMPUR The arrests of several Indian activists under the Internal Security Act (ISA) have not deterred a group from planning to hold a candlelight vigil this weekend. The police said on Friday that they will close off public
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      31 15 EPA GOOD LUCK: Santa offering fortune cookies to an election poster showing Thai Democrat party leader AbhisrtVejjajiva, on the streets of Bangkok on Tuesday, ahead of this Sunday's Thai general elections.
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      Lock icon Thaksin's in HK for Thai polls
      284 15 DPA Moves there to observe election, but warned against hurrying home BANGKOK Thailand's ousted ex-Premier Thaksin Shinawatra has moved to Hong Kong to observe the country's general election this weekend, his former aides said on Friday. "Thaksin is in Hong Kong," confirmed Mr Jakrapob
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      Lock icon THAKSIN FIXES DATE ON VALENTINE'S DAY
      101 15 -AFP Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will return to Thailand for the first time since lastyear's coup on Feb 14 after a new government is installed, one of his political allies said on Friday. "Thaksin told me that he is not yet ready to
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      Lock icon Blast at ex-minister's home kills 50
      402 16 -AFP Official's son injured while death toll is expected to rise in Pakistan bomb attack CHARSADDA (Pakistan) At least 50 people were killed on Friday in a suicide bombing at a mosque in north-west Pakistan targetting a former interior minister and close ally of
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      Lock icon China to crack down on trafficking of women, children
      239 16 —AFP BEIJING Trafficking in women and children is on the rise in China, the authorities said on Friday as they announced a five-year plan to combat the problem. The nationwide campaign, to begin next year, will seek to step up monitoring
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      Sri Lanka sacks airline chief
      256 16 COLOMBO The British head of Sri Lankan Airlines has been sacked after the carrier, 51-per-cent government-owned, refused to bump passengers off a flight from London to make way for the President of Sri Lanka. The government of Sri Lanka said yesterday it was cancelling a
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      Lock icon Japan calls off plan to start hunting humpbacks
      349 16 —AFP TOKYO Japan said on Friday it was dropping plans to start hunting humpback whales (picture) for the first time in four decades after protests led by Australia seeking to spare the popular mammals. It is the first time that Japan has
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      Lock icon Toronto court sentences man to four years in jail for raping daughter, 4, on the Net
      378 18 -AP TORONTO A Canadian man who sexually abused his four-year-old daughter live on the Internet so that another man could watch was sentenced to four years in prison. The father, 35, whose name was
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      Lock icon WILL THE REAL HILLARY LOOK THIS WAY?
      887 18  -  MAUREEN DOWD XTRA AMERICAN POLITICS In a looks-obsessed culture, Hillary Clinton needs to be a picture of visual perfection, all the time ONE of my male colleagues was explaining why men age better than women. "It's evolutionary," he said. "As we wear out
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      Lock icon THIS quirky WORLD
      257 20 YOU DON'T EXIST, FACEBOOK TELLS A BRITISH MP A BRITISH MP has had his Facebook account suspended after the site decided he was not real and accused him of impersonating himself, Reuters reported. When Mr Steve Webb, a member of the Liberal Democrat Party, tried to log
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      Lock icon POLITICIAN FROM CLINTON'S BIRTHPLACE JOINS RACE
      155 20 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH It seems incredible that the United States might have a second President from Hope, Arkansas, but for the first time this week that remotest of possibilities became a reality. Mr Mike Huckabee (picture), like Mr Bill Clinton, was born in the
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      Lock icon Giuliani's health raises concerns
      359 20 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON Widely seen as the frontrunner over the past few months in the Republican race for the 2008 presidential nomination, Mr Rudy Giuliani is ailing physically and politically with the start of the primaries two weeks away. The former Mayor of New York asked for
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      Lock icon Aussie court upholds ruling on Indian doctor's visa
      242 22 AGENCIES SYDNEY The Federal Court of Australia on Friday cleared the way for an Indian doctor arrested over failed bomb attacks in Britain to return to Australia, when it upheld a previous ruling that the government erred in cancelling his visa. Immigration
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      Lock icon Putin and his 'secret' fortune
      544 22 THE GUARDIAN Clans in Kremlin fight for control of $58b in assets ahead of his departure from office MOSCOW An unprecedented battle is taking place within the Kremlin ahead of President Vladimir Putin's departure from office, with claims that he presides over a secret multi-billion-dollar
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      Lock icon GOLKAR GEARS UP FOR 2009
      940 24 SINDOEXCLUSIVE As one of Indonesia's largest political parties, Golkar's role in the 2009 elections is something its rivals take seriously. What does Golkar have in store for its rivals and supporters? Sindo recently spoke exclusively to the Chairman of Golkar, Indonesia's Vice-PresidentJusufKalla (picture). The national
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      74 20 As Singapore's largest broadcaster and one of the region's most renowned K9 IRj broadcasters, MediaCorp offers a complete range of media businesses: TV, Radio, Entertainment Productions, Movie Productions, Newspapers, -*J Magazines, Electronic Media and other broadcasting services. MediaCorp's Nfl J^ 2^, vision is to become one of Asia's top media
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      25 24 SEPUTAR INDONESIA roundup Seputar is Indonesia's 3rd largest circulating paper. It is owned by MNC, which has a strategic and financial partnership with Media Corp.
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    98 28 I believe a pregnant woman will go into labour before she is offered a seat in Singapore. Reader Penelope Bennett on few offering up places for pregnant women on the MRT Would you please sleep with me to fulfil my dreams? Actress Joan Chen (picture) on the weirdest thing
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      A question on remuneration
      364 28  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Including bonus, is minister's pay above the 77% of private sector benchmark? Letter from I REFER to media reports on ministers and top civil servants getting the second of their three-phase pay rise, approved by Parliament in April. They say that "Singapore ministers
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      69 28 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Give yourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. FLOWER-POWERED SPINNIN'WHEELS: This cyclist and his eye-catch-ing bike caught the attention of Today
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      Lock icon Preserve the beauty of Clementi Park
      224 28  -  COLEYEE Letter from CLEMENTI Park owners are being proactive against a second attempt to sell the condominium en bloc and have formed a group called Save Clementi Park. I am one of them. The group has launched a website, www.saveclementipark.com, which proclaims the beauty
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      RUSK RUSH
      172 29  -  WEE TECK HIAN A PHOTO ESSAY BY Situated centrally and accessible by two main expressways, Tan Tock Seng Hospital runs one of the busiest Emergency Departments in our city-state. Its Accident and Emergency (A&E) department receives the highest number of ambulance cases among all hospitals here, seeing an
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      S'pore developers build on Vietnam's growth
      490 30  -  ESTHER FUNG Vietnam's capital-gains tax plan unlikely to be deterrent esther@mediacorp.com.sg A GROWING middle class seeking property in Vietnam will keep Singapore property developers there busy, even as its government plans a tax on capital gains. Last month, the national assembly of the socialist
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      Lock icon China due to show its first passenger jet
      422 30 BLOOMBERG CHINA was set to introduce its first passenger jet on Friday, taking on Bombardier and Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica in the world's fastest-growing aviation market China Aviation Industry Corp I, the nation's biggest aeroplane maker, was due to showcase its first
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      Routine needed as safeguard, says umbrella organisation
      163 31  -  CHEOWXINYI DECISION-MAKING may be a cumbersome and lengthy affair for the 11 affiliated bodies under the Singapore Manufacturers' Federation (SMa), but its president Edwin Khew said the rounds of approval safeguard the functioning of the organisation. "As leaders of SMa, council members have
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      A split in Asia
      403 31  -  ESTHER FUNG More MNCs opt for separate regional HQ to serve both North and South esther@mediacorp.com.sg AS PROSPECTS for Asia grow, more and more multinational companies (MNCs) are setting up separate regional headquarters (RHQ) to serve the northern and the southern areas. Singapore is the clear
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        WHEN BRAND, NOT CEO, IS TOPS
        1043 32  -  DANESH DARYANANI XTRA BUSINESS BRANDING A famous CEO can be a cheap source of publicity but ultimately the brand must stand on its own ABOUT 50 per cent of a company's reputation is dependent on that of its chief executive officer, a Burston-Marsteller study
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        Lock icon BUSINESSBRIEFS
        373 34 AGENCIES TECHNIP, KEPPEL FELS GET $1.7B ORDER Petrobras has awarded the FSTP consortium, composed of Technip and Keppel Fels, a contract worth approximately US$1.2 billion ($1.7 billion) for the engineering, procurement and construction of the P-56 semisubmersible platform. The platform will be installed in the Marlim Sul oil field
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        Lock icon Market ends the week high
        395 34 AGENCIES BUOYED by Hong Kong's strong performance, the Straits Times Index (STI) ended at its highest level in four sessions on Friday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng surged 2.3 per cent on Friday on China's smaller-than-ex-pected interest rate hike. A Wall Street Journal report that Temasek
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      41 31 ALL THE BETTER TO SERVE ASIA Percentages of survey respondents (MNC manufacturers) who cited each country as one of their top three countiy choices. HEADQUARTERS HUB SINGAPORE 54% 13% CHINA 53% 33% HONG KONG 45% 9% INDIA 24% 16% SOURCE SPIRE
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      453 36 These festive drinks also make extra-special presents For years, whisky has been an integral part of the Scottish Christmas and New Year (called Hogmanay in Scotland) celebrations. This year, you can peg on to tradition by giving your (very best) loved ones some of the world's most
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      952 36  -  AUDREY PHOON SEASON'S SIPS THE 16th-century English poet Thomas Tusser once advised that to bring Christmas cheer to the home, one should have: Good bread and good drink, a good fire in the hall, Brawn, pudding, and souse, and good mustard withal. Beef, mutton, and pork, and good
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        605 38  -  AUDREY PHOON The delicious colours of Italian cuisine are liberally sprinkled on white in this trattoria next to the art museum audrey@mediacorp.com.sg I APPRECIATE a good work of art as much as the next person, but to be honest, I'd pick Portobello mushrooms on toast over
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        367 38  -  CHANG SU-FERN PARKWAY THAI RESTAURANT If you're hankering for a Thai feast that won't bust your wallet, go for the buffet promotions at Parkway Thai Restaurant. The lunch spread at the Centrepoint outlet (tel: 6737 8080) costs $1 9.90++ on weekdays and $21.90++ on weekends. Dinner buffet is $23.90++
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        635 39  -  EVELINE GAN Waraku's Japanese meets Italian cuisine is so popular that it has opened a third branch in Square 2 eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SQUID with plum paste fettuccine and cold spaghetti may sound strange on an Italian menu but such quirky pasta creations aren't all that uncommon at Pasta
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        868 40  -  PEARLYN THAM SHOE REMEDIES IT'S HIGH TIME YOUR FEET FELT AS GOOD AS THE SHOES YOU PUT THEM INTO I'VE done a lot of strange things in the name of work. But sniffing my shoes? I never thought I'd have to experience this until I visited Arch
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        530 41 Don't leave your new shoes to rot in the closet just because they are less than perfect in any way. Help is at hand (or, foot, if you prefer) with these nifty shoe remedy tricks. (anti-clockwise from top left) 1 GET A GRIP Shoe repair shops and cobblers
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        357 42  -  PEARLYN THAM IN MOST cases, digital watches are hardly sexy. They remind me of grubby kids who haven't learnt to tell the time yet or college boys who prefer function to fashion. So, it's a pleasant surprise that there are digital
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        203 42  -  LYNETTE KOH IN THE fickle world of fashion, various entities regularly lay claim to being the new black. If 77th Street founder and president Elim Chew, is to be believed, however, the gothic look currently holds this title. While 77th Street has long been a favoured
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        427 42  -  PEARLYN THAM CLIMATE-FRIENDLY COIFFURES With Liese products, there's now a hairstyling solution to beat Singapore's weather pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg CELEBRITY entertainers may still be popular as brand ambassadors. But hairstylists here are making the cut, too. Not just any hairstylist, mind you, but celebrity cutters with famous names in their
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          90 43 If you're in your 20s, you can stop borrowing your mum or elder sister's SK-II skincare from now on. The brand is launching its new Aqua Physics line next month. This helps to "future-proof" the skin of those in their 20s an age when skin begins
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          85 43 Don't rush to board your plane the next time you're at Changi Airport Terminal 2. Make time instead for a bout of retail therapy at the new Amazing Grace concept store by Nuance-Watson. The store houses a mix of ethnic crafts, jewellery and clothes from 13 Asian
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          90 43 If your hair is more crowning gory than crowning glory, treat it with Svenson's new range of hair care and scalp treatment products. These include a choice of four shampoos ($37.40 each), which target various hair and scalp conditions. For instance, oily and acne-prone scalps
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          102 43 Here's a brain teaser: How does time go forward while going backwards at the same time? The answer lies in the Irony Chrono Retrograde watch collection from Swatch. On each watch, the seconds hand moves from zero to 30 seconds on the lower half of the
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        590 43  -  PEARLYN THAM SHARP IN THE OFFICE Project the right corporate image, with this book s help pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg GUYS, if you receive the Personal Branding for Men book this Christmas, don't feel insulted or think that the giver thinks little of your dressing. This how-to title isn't modelled
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        187 43  -  PEARLYN THAM STEAL the thunder from your Christmas tree this season with Goldheart Jewelry's Fantasy collection. The collection is inspired by the fairy lights and baubles on Christmas trees. Deck yourself out in the Fantasy ring or the Fantasy pendant, each
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        854 44  -  COLIN YONG DERRYN WONG MOTORING TREATS Still racking your brains for the perfect Christmas present to give a car enthusiast? Here are some great gift ideas that won't bust the bank colin@mediacorp.com.sg 1. PIAA TREBASSO WIPER BLADE $48.20 With the non-stop rain that's been coming
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          84 46 This is the first official photograph of the BMW X 6, a four-wheel drive car that the German brand says is the world's first Sports Activity Coupe. Although based on the latest X 5, the X 6 is positioned as a much more sporty model and boasts
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          79 46 One of Singapore's perennial best-selling cars gets a major update early next year. Toyota's new Corolla Altis is expected to be launched in February, with the first customer deliveries starting in March. The car is 10mm longer and 55mm wider than the outgoing model,
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          78 46  -  COLIN YONG Mazda has announced that it will start selling the new 6 in Singapore by January next year, with prices starting under $90,000 with COE. The car is larger allround, yet slightly lighter than the previous model. As before, buyers will have a
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      831 48  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH ALMOST FAMOUS Paul Ponnadurai has been called the 'greatest musical interpreter of our time', but who is he? christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg WITH HIS long hair and easy-going demeanour, it's easy to dismiss singerguitarist Paul Ponnadurai as just another musician playing in a pub. But one listen to
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      166 48 MOSAIC GOES INDIE The Mosaic Music Festival may have started off as a gathering of jazz and world music greats, but judging from next year's line-up, it's also gearing up to be a festival for the alternative set. Norwegian pop rocker Sondre Lerche and criticallyacclaimed Canadian rock collective Broken
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      395 49 -AP OSCAR RACE WIDENS Scan Perm-directed road-trip drama receives four nominations after being shunned by Golden Globes THE HARROWING road-trip drama Into the Wild received a leading four Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards nominations on Thursday, including honours for lead actor Emile Hirsch and supporting
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      257 54  -  LOW LIN FHOONG BASKETBALL fans can look forward to some slam-dunking action at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall this weekend when the Beijing Aoshen Olympians take on visitors Houston Takers. The two sides will play a two-game series of the American Basketball Association (ABA),
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      186 54 —AFP NONGKHAI, Thailand Thai veteran Boonchu Ruangkit produced a grandstand finish with three closing birdies on Friday to take a slender one-stroke lead into the final round of the Singha E San Open. The defending champion shot a five-under-par 66 for a three-round total of
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      571 54 AFP OFF THE BOUNCE Tourists slammed by British media after Sri Lanka thrashing CRICKET Sri Lanka v England GALLE, Sri Lanka After a dismal performance at the crease on Thursday in Galle, Sri Lanka, where they were bowled out for just 81 in the final match in
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      696 55 -AFP A BATTLE ROYALE Milan giants face off in mouth-watering clash for bragging rights in the city SERIE A Inter Milan v AC Milan ROME The best team in Italy will take on the "best team in the world" in this weekend's eagerly anticipated Milan derby.
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      484 55 AFP PRIMERA LIGA Barcelona v Real Madrid MADRID Few derby matches in the world can match the excitement of Barcelona's clashes with Real Madrid and the latest edition of this long-running series will be no different Adding extra emotion to Sunday's game nicknamed El
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      2193 56 THE GUARDIAN ALL ROADS LEAD TO MILAN Reds to meet red-hot Inter Milan in tough Champions League encounter NYON, Switzerland Liverpool have drawn arguably the toughest assignment of the Premiership 's four representatives in the first knockout round of the Champions League. The Reds were drawn with
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      2062 58 TURF WAR The war chests are set to blow the lid as Premiership bosses prepare transfer battle LONDON The countdown has started. In 11 days from Saturday the "For Sale" signs go up and the transfer window opens. With the stakes higher than ever,
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      319 59 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH REPAID IN RUBLES LONDON Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has dipped into his £10-billion ($28.9-bil-lion) fortune again this week, this time to write off a £36-mil-lion Eurobond taken out by former chairman Ken Bates. With Manchester United and Arsenal heavily indebted and Liverpool struggling
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      201 59 -AFP HONG KONG Carson Yeung (picture) has shelved plans to take over Birmingham City after the English Premiership club terminated talks with the tycoon, Yeung's company said on Friday. But Sammy Yu, the chief operating officer of Grandtop International, insisted money was not the issue. He
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      316 60 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Lawrie Sanchez (picture) has been sacked by Fulham after just eight months in charge at Craven Cottage. Despite spending heavily in the summer transfer market, Sanchez and Fulham have endured a miserable season so far, with the Cottagers currently 18th, in the relegation zone
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      326 60 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra has praised the impact manager SvenGoran Eriksson (picture) has made at the club and said he could have a job for life at Eastlands. Eriksson succeeded Stuart Pearce in the summer following Thaksin's takeover and the ex-England
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      535 60 THE GUARDIAN WINTER OF DISCONTENT Striker lashes out at foreign fakers and Chelsea's Mikel, may face further FA censure LIVERPOOL Peter Crouch has accused Mikel John Obi of feigning injury and insisted the midfielder's theatrical reaction to a two-footed lunge was something an Englishman would not
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      746 61  -  I KENNETH GOH EYE ON THE BALL THEY may be a far cry from Howard Kendall's league title-win-ning sides of 1985 and 1987, who pushed mighty Liverpool hard for the tag of being the best side in the land from the mid-Bos. The
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      430 61 LONDON There was more fallout from the rape allegations that followed Manchester United players' all-day party on Monday. West Ham manager Alan Curbishley took the hardline, insisting that football players and Christmas parties don't mix. "I'm not happy about the Christmas parties,
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      730 62 AFP BEAUTIFUL TEAMS Gunners' ex-skipper joins the chorus of approval that's lauding flamboyant Arsenal ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Arsenal v Tottenham LONDON Could Arsene Wenger's current crop of youngsters be the best Arsenal side he's ever fielded? Former captain Patrick Vieira certainly thinks so. The Gunners head into
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      249 62 LONDON Arsenal's German keeper Jens Lehmann (picture) has voiced his anger at being unable to reclaim his first-team place by saying manager Arsene Wenger "uses a different measuring stick to evaluate" current number one Manuel Almunia. Lehmann, 38, told a German magazine that Wenger had
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