Today, 5 April 2008

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    12 1 TODAY MICA(P) 134/10/2007 /A-DJACORP we set you thinking April 5 -a2ooB^^^nlii^^)n^^^^ fc
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    Lock icon JURONG ULU NO MORE
    812 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG Suburb to become commercial, leisure lakeside heaven cheekong@media corp.com.sg DUSTY. Industrial. Out of the way. Such words may spring to your mind when asked about Jurong. But come 2020, the home of the Bird Park and the Science Centre will evoke a whole new vocabulary.
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      Lock icon Today's Loh Chee Kong wins Young Journalist award
      440 2 MEDIACORP ANNUAL NEWS AWARDS HE STEPPED on the toes of his first interviewee as a cub campus journalist in his undergraduate days. The prominent interviewee got hot under the collar when the young journalist asked some tough questions. And although he had
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      Lock icon 'Press freedom a double-edge sword'
      855 2  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Anson Chan: A press council, discerning public can check media excesses nazry@media corp.com.sg THE responsible use of press freedom can give a keen creative and competitive edge to financial cities like Hong Kong and Singapore. But make no mistake a free press in itself
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      Lock icon Petrified – when F16s zoomed into view
      800 3  - Petrified when F16s zoomed into view ANSLEYNG Australian pilot's lawyer says his client'felt his life was in utter danger' ansley@mediacorp.com.sg MINUTES after he took off at Koh Samui Airport for a test flight of his amphibious plane, Australian pilot Rhys Henry Thomas noticed that the landing gear light on the
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      LOOKING FOR SINGAPORE CULTURE
      754 4  -  RAVI VELOO XTRA IMMIGRANT NATION Why are we so hungry for badges of identity? IS THERE a Singapore culture? Something unique and common to all of us in the way we act, speak, celebrate even what we eat? Well, we know it's not the food. Singapore
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      HDB TO LOOK INTO BTO OVERSUBSCRIPTION
      252 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG The HDB is looking at ways to "discourage" flat seekers from giving up their chance to pick a flat "too easily"when they have been shortlisted under the Built-To-Order scheme. Responding to the growing frustration of homehunters who have written to the media. National
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      Lock icon Be 'nimble' in uncertain times
      515 5  -  NEO CHAI CHIN -DOW JONES, Inflation may not yet have peaked, warns Finance Minister SINGAPORE'S inflation rate, already at a 26-year high, may not have peaked and policy-makers must be ready to respond to unexpected economic developments, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Friday "It's
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      Lock icon WILL NEW MEASURES TURN OUT TO BE SELF-DEFEATING?
      828 6  -  TAN KIN LI AN XTRA MOTOR INSURANCE The latest efforts to combat high insurance payments may achieve the opposite THE insurance companies lost over $100 million last year on motor insurance. The General Insurance Association (GIC), a trade group that represents the
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      Lock icon ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER SPACE
      643 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG Yarns of yore evoked as Science Centre prepares to relocate in a few years cheekong@media corp. com. sg HERE'S a trivia item about the Science Centre that you would not read about on its sprawling premises: It was supposed to resemble a glowing spaceship when
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      S'ore fast HFMD test kit a world's first
      324 7  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE is developing the world's first diagnostic kit for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) that will help detect the virus in febrile children within 10 to 20 minutes. This means that children with the highly contagious HFMD
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      Lock icon WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MEDICINE?
      1113 8  -  DR TAN CHENG BOCK XTRA AESTHETICS VS MEDICINE More stringency needed in managing aesthetics THE recent debate on aesthetics and medicine has prompted me to write this article. I write out of concern for the future of medical practice, and how changing medical practices can affect
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      MEDIACORP ANNUAL NEWS AWARDS
      104 10 THIS YEAR'S WINNERS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Geraldine Soh, 938Live YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Loh Chee Kong, Today NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR The March of the Saffron Robes, Channel NewsAsia FEATURE STORY OF THE YEAR The Monk on Horseback, Channel NewsAsia STORY OF THE
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      Lock icon Breaking the news in winning style
      488 10  -  -TEOXUANWEI FOR one night, the interviewers became the interviewees. Putting aside their notebooks and pens, journalists in the MediaCorp stable which includes Singapore's dominant television channels and radio stations in four languages as well as the Today newspaper turned up in formal gear to
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      Lock icon BLIND BOUNCE
      2056 12  -  AGATHA KOH XTRA PERSONALITY Elegant and charming, the Mexican Ambassador to Singapore always knew he would be somebody with or without disability BRAZIL agatha@mediacorp.com.sg THERE was a dark haired woman in his law class. Juan Jose Gomez-Camacho took some time to get her attention, and even then he
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      COLOURADO turns up the heat!
      555 14 Cutting Edge fashion jeweller livens up the catwalk with an explosion of hues! STYLISH, KITSCHY. SK Jewellery launched their latest Spring collection, COLOURADO, with a big bang at the National Museum on Ist April. No, it's not an April's Fool Joke, it's as real as
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      Phone camera voyeur pleads guilty in court
      368 16  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg AN OTHERWISE humdrum day turned into a dramatic one for two gutsy Ngee Ann Polytechnic students when they discovered a man taking upskirt pictures of them in a bookstore in Orchard Road. Yesterday, 35-year-old Ong Boon Leng pleaded guilty in the
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      Lock icon They preyed on others' dreams
      453 16  -  NGJINGYNG jingyng@media corp.com.sg FOR the sake of their Australian dream, more than 40 people, mostly Chinese nationals, were willing to fork out large sums to secure a work permit But the local employment agency, Newplan Enterprises, which was supposed to provide them with their tickets
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon ORCHARD FACELIFT TO START APRIL 28
        111 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Orchard Road is set to undergo a 10-month-long facelift from April 28. The $40-million makeover, which had previously been announced, is expected to be completed by next February. This will include state-of-the-art lighting to showcase Orchard Road's treelined boulevard, new creative spaces
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        Lock icon CHICAGO VARSITY TO OFFER MASTERS IN FINANCIAL MATHS HERE
        155 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The University of Chicago has announced a new graduate programme in Singapore. Its Financial Mathematics Department will offer its full curriculum-involving a year of theoretical and applied mathematics, as well as managing financial assets leading to a Master of
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        JAILED TWO WEEKS FOR EVADING TAX
        63 16 The director of construction firm Visa Engineering has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for falsifying the company's general ledger and evading $19,130 in taxes in 2001. Ong Kah Sut, 41, also has to pay a $57,390 penalty, or treble the amount of
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      Top-class training for Subordinate Court judges to ensure top-class standards
      326 17 TO ENSURE top-class judicial standards, training for Subordinate Courts judges will be enhanced through programmes such as seminars, workshops and overseas stints. So far this year, about 20 of the 70 judges in the Subordinate Courts are scheduled to attend
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      Cracking the gambling nut
      438 17  -  ALICIA WONG Government steps up efforts to tackle compulsive gambling alicia@mediacorp.com.sg AHEAD of the planned opening of the integrated resorts with casinos over the next two years and with the expansion of sports betting at Singapore Pools to include motor racing, the Government is stepping up
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      297 17 In celebration of World IP Day which falls on April 26 every year, the HIP (Honour Intellectual Property) Alliance is organising this half day public seminar to equip parents and educators with the necessary knowledge on how they can protect themselves and their children against various Internet risks and bring
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Umno a 'sinking ship', says Razaleigh
      356 18 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR A challenger to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Friday kicked off a campaign in the ruling party to oust Malaysia's leader, saying the party has become a sinking ship that needs to be fixed after its recent election debacle. Mr
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      Lock icon US, N Korea to hold talks in S'pore
      140 18 -AFP WASHINGTON A top US envoy will meet in Singapore on Tuesday with his North Korean counterpart as part of negotiations to end the communist state's nuclear weapons drive, US officials said on Friday. State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey downplayed chances
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      Lock icon Midflight blasts would have killed 1,500
      561 18 AGENCIES Chilling details of gang's terror attack plan unveiled in court LONDON The gang plotted to cause carnage on an almost unprecedented scale. They fantasised of bloodshed that would rival nothing less than the Sept 11 terror attacks on the United States. The plan:
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    • GLORALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon BRITAIN'S PRINCE PHILIP IN HOSPITAL
        96 18 -AFP Queen Elizabeth ll's husband, 86-year-old Prince Philip, has been admitted to hospital for treatment for a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. "His Royal Highness' programme of engagements forthe weekend have been cancelled," said a spokeswoman. He was admitted to the King Edward
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        Lock icon N KOREA ASKS CHINA FOR MASSIVE FOOD AID AMID TENSION WITH SEOUL
        111 18 -AP North Korea has recently asked China to provide large amounts of food aid to relieve worsening shortages, a news report said on Friday. The move was seen as a sign the North will not request food aid
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        Lock icon BABY DIES AS TEENAGE MUM TRIES TO FLUSH IT DOWN SCHOOL TOILET
        110 18 -AP A 14-year-old girl in the United States gave birth in a restroom at her middle school and killed the baby boy when she tried to flush him down the toilet, officials said. An autopsy confirmed that the
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      Lock icon Side by side to fight terrorism
      431 19  -  JESSINTATAN Research body aims to equip nations with know-how to fight terrorism jessinta@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE is sharing its counter-terrorism expertise with an increasing number of countries in Asia and the Middle East, especially those facing threats from the rise of extremism and terrorism. Dr
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      Lock icon China urged not to run torch relay through Tibet
      218 19 -AFP BEIJING An envoy of the Dalai Lama on Friday urged Beijing to cancel "provocative" plans to run the Olympic torch relay through Tibet, but China promptly dismissed his call as a bid to sabotage the Games. Mr Lodi Gyari, an
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      Lock icon CALL IT POLITICAL HEDGING
      654 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER XTRA MALAYSIAN POLITICS Umno bigwigs in power game for party polls WANTED: Independent-minded individual; personality and charisma optional, but must seem able to rise above the ashes of Election 2008 and sound like a reformist on one day, and a status-quo-lover on another.
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      Lock icon This Tiger's not baring his fangs
      668 21  -  PAULINE DLOH China's Foreign Minister is urbane and media-savvy FOREIGN EDITOR paulined@mediacorp.com.sg THE former Chinese foreign minister was once described as the "Old Red Guard in Washington", a reference to his rather belligerent brand of diplomacy. But Mr Li Zhaoxing was perhaps the last
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      Lock icon ON BEING BOTH INDIAN AND INTERNATIONALIST
      212 21 Former United Nations diplomat and celebrated writer Shashi Tharoor (picture) was in Singapore recently as the inaugural speaker at the India Se India Club Literary Salon, the first dedicated literary platform in the region for South Asian writers. An excerpt from his interview with
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    • THIS quirky WORLD
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        A LORRY DRIVER WITH NO HANDS
        142 21 POLICE who stopped an overloaded lorry in Jimo city, China, were caught by surprise when they saw that the driver had no hands, Ananova.com reported, citing Bandao Metropolis News. The driver, Mr Zhang, who was controlling the vehicle with the stumps on his wrists,
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      Lock icon THE HORRORS OF HEATHROW
      959 22  -  lAIN MARTIN -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Ministers, so used to YIP treatment, have no idea of the problems IF MR Gordon Brown flew out of Heathrow, on his way to the Nato summit, his trip through Britain's biggest airport will have been as congenial as it usually
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      Lock icon Supermodel nabbed... again
      188 22 -AGENCIES SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell was arrested at Heathrow on suspicion of assaulting a police officer on Friday following a dispute over a mislaid bag at Terminal 5. Ms Campbell, 37, became the latest victim of the T5 baggage chaos when she was told one of her checkedin
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      Lock icon EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
      683 23 Indonesia's new political parties may upset the political formbook nextyear IF THE performance of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party in Indonesia's 2004 elections is anything to go by, expect the country's newest political parties to spring a few surprises in next year's elections. The 2004 elections
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  • Voices
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      Will Government stay aloof if Temasek defaults?
      148 24  -  Letter from LARRY CHARLES MEDINA I REFER to "Temasek and SWFs" (April 4). Most people would agree that Temasek is investing purely to maximise shareholder returns. The structure and governance are designed to create independence in making investment decisions. However, I disagree with
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    • PM is part of nation's soul
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        An 'imported' one would not be as committed
        230 24  -  JONATHAN LIM WEN ZHI Letter from I REFER to "How wide do we cast the net?" (April 3). Underpinning Singapore's success story is the constant self-renew-al of the leadership of the People's Action Party, which has played a very crucial factor in
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      • Letter
        Educational qualifications not the only factors
        337 24  -  HAUMWAHAB Letter from I REFER to "How wide do we cast the net" (April 3). I read with interest the search for the next Prime Minister to step into Mr Lee Hsien Loong's shoes. There have been suggestions that we should look at Singaporeans
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      Lock icon theweekinvoices
      125 24 The best-dressed people come in late When the phone rings with a ring tone from a Beyonce song -they will pick it up. Actress Karen Tan (picture), on the lack of theatre etiquette. but it will be a matter of time before we see a woman minister in the
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      Formula One organisers: We did consider Earth Hour
      324 25  -  MUHAMAD ROSTAM BIN UMAR JONATHAN HALLETT Letter from Director, Communications Singapore Tourism Board Media and Communications Director Singapore GP WE REFER to "Why were Formula One lights tested during Earth Hour?" (April 1) and thank Patrick Wong Fook Seng for his views.
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      Lock icon GAME, SET, MATCH TO EQUALITY?
      698 25  -  MANOJ THULASIDAS XTRA GENDER ISSUES Not so fast it all depends on how you define equality GENDER equality has made some great strides. About 100 years ago, most women in the world didn't have the right to vote no suffrage, to use the correct term.
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  • Business
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      To sell or not to sell?
      438 26  -  CHEOWXINYI Dubai group's offer for Robinson 'attractive': Analysts cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg AL-FUTTAIM'S offer for retailing icon Robinson and Co is being hailed by analysts, with minority shareholders being given a clear message: Copy Lippo and sell them your stock. This, after the Dubai-based group raised its
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      Lock icon Ministerial committee for S'pore-India projects
      293 26 CHANNEL NEWSASIA -BLOOMBERG BILATERAL ties between Singapore and India are set to move a notch higher. Both countries are setting up a joint ministerial committee to oversee the whole range of co-operation projects between the two sides. The committee will be chaired at the foreign
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      Lock icon FOREIGNERS TAKE A PIECE OF SINGAPORE ABROAD
      645 26  -  CONRAD RAJ EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg SOME might see the takeover of Robinson and Co by Dubai's Al-Futtaim Group in the same vein as Capitaland's sale of Raffles Hotel, the fall of another local icon into foreign hands. The 150-year old local department store
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      Lock icon Pressure on ÜBS as dissent grows
      319 27 AGENCIES Former chief wants to overhaul the bank's board THE former head of ÜBS has launched an activist campaign to break up the embattled Swiss bank and overhaul its board. Mr Luqman Arnold, who was forced out of ÜBS in 2001, wants to speak
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      Lock icon Thailand pledges rice supplies, elsewhere protests loom
      432 27 BLOOMBERG THAILAND, the world's biggest rice exporter, pledged supplies to importers, while India vowed to crack down on hoarding as shortages drove prices to a record and threatened to trigger protests in Asia and Africa. The nation "has enough rice for export to
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      Lock icon MERRILL HAS PLENTY OF CAPITAL: CEO
      173 27 BLOOMBERG Merrill Lynch doesn't need more funds from outside investors as it has "plenty of capital', said its chief executive officer John Thain. It raised US$l2 billion ($l7 billion) from investors in January, including Korea Investment Corp. and Singapore's Temasek Holdings. That was ahead
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        Lock icon WHERE'S THE MORAL AUTHORITY?
        915 28  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA FINANCIAL CRISIS The question that stares at you when you compare the two crises AT A time when the United States faces a rapidly slowing economy, the tepid proposals by the US government this week to reform the financial regulatory sector re-emphasise the
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      TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN
      1340 30 Fln</ out more: Details on the World Gourmet Summit and the calendar of events can be found at www.worldgourmelsummit.com. WORLD GOURMET SUMMIT '08 Here's a dummies' guide to the food event of the year THE World Gourmet Summit (WGS) begins on Monday and, for fans
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    • weekendmakan
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        Lock icon A GOOD CHANCE TO VEG OUT
        782 32  -  AUDREY PHOON AYURVEDIC APPETITES Created for the World Gourmet Summit, this menu is perfection for lovers of holistic Indian cuisine audrey@mediacorp.com.sg TO REVIEW one of The Song of India's World Gourmet Summit (WGS) menus, I brought with me two of the best gauges: A
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      • FOODNOTES
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          EAT YOUR WAY TO JAPAN
          90 33 Every Yoshinoya meal you have (like the one shown here) from now until May 4 will take you that much closer to Tokyo. Just collect a Yoshinoya Passporto with any meal purchase, which will then allow you to accumulate "miles" for every subsequent meal you
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          ANYONE CAN HAVE A LITTLE LAMB
          103 33 Hosting a party? Give your guests a good roasting of lamb, that is. Cold Storage and Market Place have collaborated with Les Amis Catering to offer a home gourmet lamb spit service that includes a professional chef who will do the cooking. Tuck into
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        Lock icon LIVE OUT YOUR SALAD DAYS
        697 33  -  CHEN FEN GREEN GASTRONOMY The rejuvenating offerings at Fresh Origin encapsulate the idea of nealthy eating' food@newstoday.com.sg AURELIEN Blanc has a mission. He wants everyone to eat "simple fresh food that is not only healthy and balanced but tasty, filling and energising" as well. So,
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    • weekendstyle
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        Lock icon TAKING OFF ON THE RUNWAY
        1147 34  -  PEARLYN THAM SINGAPORE FASHION FESTIVAL 2C pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg If fashion is becoming more accessible to the public, shouldn't fashion shows? FORTY-FIVE minutes of waiting or champagne sipping if you prefer and 20 minutes of stage action. That's a fashion show for you. But fashion shows are
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      • ON HOME GROUND
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          JAZZES IT UP
          382 36  -  ASHLEY ISHAM HE MAY have worn a lilac jacket with tailored shorts at last Friday's Singapore Fashion Festival (SFF) media launch. But it was not a sneak preview of what Ashley Isham had to show in his SpringSummer 2008 and Fall-Win-ter 2008 collections last Saturday night Both
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          Lock icon VINTAGE ELAN
          291 36  -  TAN YOONG There are designers and there are designers' designers, such as Tan Yoong. At his long-awaited SFF show on Monday night, fellow designers David Wang, Francis Cheong, Sunny Ang and Thomas Wee were seen in the audience. A favourite with bridal and high society customers, Tan Yoong
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          Lock icon CHIC TWIST
          332 36  -  THOMAS WEE When my editor strode into the office in a black beribboned skirt, I had no inkling that it was a Thomas Wee design circa the '90s. Looking just as chic and classic even in 2008 -1 mean the skirt it showed off the designer's sense of
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        570 38  -  COLIN YONG HAPPENING HATCHBACK Hyundai takes on European hatchbacks with its new i3O colin@mediacorp.com.sg HYUNDAI says its new i3O is capable of competing head-on with cars such as the Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf. A lofty claim, given how the Europeans are the acknowledged masters of
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          111 40 Mercedes-Benz has treated its two smallest models, the A-Class (picture) and B-Class, to mid-life makeovers. Both get subtle exterior styling changes, with shapelier headlamps, a new-look grille and more contoured bumpers giving them a more modern appearance. Safety has also been given a boost the cars'
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      164 42 -AFP IT HAD nothing to do with sand. Celine Dion postponed her concert in Beijing because the original venue was unsuitable and not because of sandstorms as was reported, said the singer's website. Earlier reports had said the FrenchCanadian diva cancelled the April 13 show
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      472 42  -  MAYO MARTIN '80s pop star headlines Toy Factory's Superhero Diaries mayo@mediacorp.com.sg DEBBIE Gibson (picture) is a queen *****. Yes, you heard that right The wholesome American teen pop star who rocketed to stardom in the late '80s with bubblegum hits such as Lost in Your Eyes, We
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      317 42 -AFP MYSPACE is creating a free music Internet service with major recording labels to go head to head with digital giant Apple, whose iTunes has just claimed the crown as the world's largest music store. The leading social networking website on Thursday unveiled MySpace
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      361 52 LONDON A footballer accepted £50,000 ($138,000) to help fix a game in order to pay off a gambling debt, The Independent reported on Friday. The report claimed the player, who was not named but was alleged to have a Premiership club on his CV, took
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      620 52 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH GINGER-HAIRED STAR How England miss Scholes the craftsman in United's midfield LONDON Watching Manchester United beat Roma on Tuesday night must have been a bitter-sweet experience for many English football fans. The sweetness requires no exposition. The bitterness does. Let's put it this way:
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      406 53 -AFP FA CUP SEMI-FINAL West Brom v Portsmouth LONDON Portsmouth's 69-year wait for a major match at Wembley will finally come to an end when the last Premier League side left in this season's competition faces West Bromwich Albion in the semi-finals of the FA
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