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  • 13 1 weekendTODAY MICA(P) 134/10/2007 //\=DJA.CORP we set you thinking May 3 4, 2008 todayonline.com
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  • 51 1 IN YOUR WEEKEND XTRA NINE OF THE 17 MEMBERS OF SPANISH PRIME MINISTER JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO'S CABINET ARE FEMALE, INCLUDING A PREGNANT DEFENCE MINISTER WITH NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE E BOLDEST STATEMENT YET FROM A SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT THAT IS BENT ON RIDDING MALE-DOMINATED SPAIN OF GENDER
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  • 717 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG VK Rajah's judgments show empathy for youthful offenders cheekong@media corp. com. sg WHEN Justice V X Rajah overturned the sentence against a teacher accused of molesting two boys this week, some eyebrows were raised, given the sensational nature of the trial. However,
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  • 573 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg SWITCHING effortlessly between Teochew and Mandarin, Opposition leader Low Thia Khiang laughed heartily, listened intently and spoke animatedly at his Hougang Meet-The-People session on Wednesday evening. For close to three hours, Mr Low attended to his
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • hot news
    • 795 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH Former CEO owns policies affected by insurance firm's 'arbitrary' cut of annual bonus christie@media corp. com. sg OUTSPOKEN insurance veteran Tan Kin Lian has lashed out at his former employer, NTUC Income, for cutting the annual bonus on its life insurance
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    • 217 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG Born in 1957, Justice Rajah is the son of former lawyer and Barisan Sosialis leader T T Rajah, who died in 1996. Justice Rajah studied law at the National University of Singapore and obtained a First Class masters from the University of
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    • 921 3  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA A CITY'S SUCCESS A city's size alone does not seem to result in economic growth or leadership SINGAPORE'S population is too small to compete globally! This constant refrain, tied to the concept that Singapore needs a rapidly growing population to sustain
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    • 594 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Starting from July, fines from $20 up to $1,000, jail nazry@media corp. com. sg FARE evaders on public buses will be fined from July. The Public Transport Council (PTC) says those caught dodging or under-paying fares will be fined $20. A
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    • 657 4  - Fluctuating prices and myths at supermarkets ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WITH inflation hitting consumers hard in the pockets, many are finding it worth their while to do their homework before shopping for groceries. Even then, it might be difficult to keep tabs on prices since they tend to fluctuate, sometimes within just
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    • 379 4  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE Workers' Party has responded to Member of Parliament Seng Han Thong's May Day challenge and has put on record that all its staff at the Hougang Town Council are Singaporeans. At the same time, WP said it
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  • news
    • 435 6  -  TAN HUI LENG New tremor sensors will allow BCA to identify danger sites, respond more quickly huileng@media corp. com. sg SINGAPOREANS have experienced at least five tremor incidents in the last two years. Many will remember quite vividly the crowds running out of office buildings in
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    • 704 6  -  RAVI VELOO -AGENCIES XTRA GENDER POWER HOLY Toledo, what are those macho Spaniards thinking? Now that a country that has 750 soldiers in Afghanistan, whose commuter trains were bombed by terrorists, and which faces a long-violent separatist movement at home has found it fit
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    • 1233 8  - SCIENCE LESSONS IN A KITCHEN CRISPINA ROBERT XTRA EDUCATION John Dewey's approach to childhood learning through discovery AMONG the many emails in my mailbox one morning, one caught my eye. It was an essay on education written by a man called John Dewey in 1897 an incredible 111 years ago.
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    • 654 10  -  ZU LOTH MAN Relationship began soon after routine urine test for drugs at police station zul@media corp.com.sg THEIR relationship was forged under the unlikeliest of circumstances: During a routine urine test at Ang Mo Kio police station last year. She was a 22-year-old waitress
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 154 11 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Silk Air and its appointed travel agents will no longer issue paper tickets. The carrier has implemented full electronic ticketing a month ahead of the International Air Transport Association's (lata) target date of June 1. Silk Air also has arrangements with over
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      • 138 11 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Indian army have been conducting a bilateral armour exercise in central India since March 25. The drill, which will end on May 5, involves soldiers from the Singapore Armoured Regiment's 41st Battalion and the 4th Singapore
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      • 98 11 Singapore's first child adoption conference will begin today. The aim is to equip parents with the relevant knowledge and skills to provide quality care for their child and to raise the competence of professionals working with these families. The conference runs until May 7 and will
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    • 427 11  -  JINNY KOH jinny@mediacorp.com.sg MOST Singaporeans have heard of the Nigerian scam, and now there is a similar version, this time in Lancashire England, where home-grown DBS bank's name has been used. The police in Lancashire are warning civilians not to fall prey to
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    • 477 12 -AFP —AP Thailand wants to join neighbours to influence price of rice BANGKOK Thailand, the world's biggest rice exporter, said on Friday that it wants to form an Opecstyle cartel with four South-east Asian neighbours so that together they have more control over international prices of
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    • 137 12 —AFP MIAMI The "DC Madam", whose arrest for running a high-end prostitution ring sent sexscandal tremors through the United States capital, hanged herself on Thursday in a shed at her mother's house, police said. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found by her mother, 76, who
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    • 358 12  -  JESSINTATAN jessinta@media corp. com. sg ASEAN needs a good public relations (PR) campaign to boost understanding of the regional grouping, said a former secre-tary-general of the Association of South-east Asian Nations. "I think it's important for Asean to have a good PR campaign," Mr
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    • 259 12 —AFP JAKARTA The future of a major United States Navy research laboratory in Indonesia is in doubt amid allegations, which were dismissed as "crazy" by US diplomats, of espionage and secret experiments. Negotiations between Washington and Jakarta over the renewal of the operating contract of
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    • 262 9 Get Beautiful, YUN NAM wwi wv*wi■■ v# if H A I R C A R E Lustrous Hair AT This Mother's Day! Hair loss problems are assumed to be a male thing but reality often strikes a different A chord. Female hair loss conditions may be triggered by poor lifestyle
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    • 33 12 We would like to state that the Qantas ad that ran on 2nd May 2008, page 6, is of a campaign that has ceased on 30th April 2008. We regret any inconvenience caused.
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  • world news
    • 580 14 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Nuclear-capable site will threaten US Navy dominance LONDON China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be disclosed. Satellite imagery, passed to The Daily Telegraph, shows
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    • 361 14 —AFP HONG KONG United States actress and activist Mia Farrow on Friday accused sponsors of the Beijing Olympics of bowing to "greed and fear" in failing to pressure China about its role in the Darfur conflict. Her comments came as the Olympic torch made a
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    • 320 14 -AFP AMSTETTEN (Austria) A former tenant in Austria's "house of horrors" told of a string of suspicious occurrences that could have pointed to the secret dungeon where a woman was held as a sex slave by her father for 24 years. In the
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    • 221 14 —AFP BEIJING Doctors in China struggled to contain the spread of an intestinal virus that has infected about 3,000 children, killing 21 so far, state press reported on Friday. The latest death over the enterovirus 71, or EV7I, occurred in the city of
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    • 959 15  -  LESLIE LAU XTRA UMNO POLITICS Ruling party split down the middle as push for power intensifies A FEW days after his once invincible Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition lost its two-third parliamentary majority in the March polls, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi gathered together some of his
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    • THIS quirky WORLD
      • 106 16 A Romanian man has lodged an official complaint with the local trading standards agency after he got drunk on a single can of beer, Ananova.com reported. Mr lancu Boroi, 35, said he had bought the beer at a local supermarket in Arges in
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      • 102 16 —AP Two men have been charged with second-degree burglary after they and a teenager tried to bust a dog out of the city pound for its owner's memorial service. The mixed-breed dog, Luke, had been picked up while roaming the
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    • 450 16 —AFP Labour party suffers worst showing in elections since 1960s LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted on Friday that his party had suffered a blow in key local elections, as forecasts predicted the worst results for Labour since the *****. As results poured in, Labour
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    • 277 16 -AFP KHARTOUM A Sudanese cameraman with Arab satellite news channel Aljazeera on Friday accused the United States of insulting Islamic symbols after arriving home after six years of detention at Guantanamo Bay, also known as Gitmo. There were "many violations we were deprived from
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    • 1263 17  -  ZAFAR ANJUM XTRA OH, BIHAR Once the centre of art and learning, now a place torn apart by corruption, lawlessness INDIA may be rising but unfortunately, not all parts of the country are equally shining. Bihar is one such place a state that has over 10
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    • 510 18 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Website crashes after government puts Italians' salaries, tax details online ROME The incomes and tax details of every Italian citizen have been published online in a move that has outraged the country's rich and famous. A full list of names,
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    • 723 18  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI As the government mulls banning Ahmadiyah, hope for tolerance now lies with presidential hopefuls nazry@media corp. com. sg A DECADE since Reformasi ushered in democracy, Indonesia may be experiencing an awakening of religious intolerance. The government could ban the Jemaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia even as
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    • 584 20 —AGENCIES $40m in OCBC account tells tale of botched attempt to buy friends TAIPEI A $40.6-million dollar account in Singapore's OCBC bank has exposed the dirty underbelly of the diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan. It is no secret that both China and Taiwan resort to
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    • 1510 21  -  SALAHUDDIN WAHID A YEAR before the 2009 elections, all the political parties and the figures who aspire to be presidential or vice-presidential candidates are picking up the pace. In the last third of this year, they will use all their abilities to gain
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    • 27 21 3SEPUTAR INDONESIA roundup «t>| eputar is Indonesia's 3rd largest circulating paper. It is owned by MNC, which has a strategic and financial partnership with Media Corp. fl
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  • Voices
    • 64 22 Let us be clear: Foreign workers coming to Singapore, they are our friends. NTUC secretary-general Lim Swee Say I have no regrets. Law Minister X Shanmugam on giving up his law practice After all that, it was a brand new day. The only way I could go was up
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    • 383 22  -  GLEN YANG Road safety responsibility lies with pedestrians, too Letter from I REFER to "Jaywalker's death: Driver fined, banned for negligence", (April 29). According to the report, the driver did all she could to warn, step on the brakes, call for help, and assisted
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    • 170 22  -  CHRIS CHAN Letter from Secretary-General Singapore National Olympic Council THIS is in reply to Khoo Lih-Han's comment on April 26 on the Olympic torch not stopping over in Singapore. The Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay is a prelude to the
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    • 358 22  -  CHUA KIAN TIONG Letter from I REFER to "SMRT fullyear profit up 10.4 per cent", (April 30). It seems almost fairy tale-like our public transport system seems to have succeeded in wooing commuters and has submitted a beautiful report card to its shareholders. However,
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    • 339 23  - Sorry Sir, I don't understand you PAUL WEE KIAN NGHEE Foreign service staff should be trained to speak English, in order to prevent disputes Letter from I REFER to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's May Day Rally speech in which he spoke of the rationale and importance of hiring foreigners
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    • 896 23  -  SUMANA RAJARETHNAM XTRA SUIT YOURSELF Tourists travel to the city to get a piece of the textile action SUKHUMVIT Road may be the longest road through Bangkok, but it is the shortest way to get to know the city. Bustling constantly, all strata of Thailand's
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  • Business
    • 450 24  -  CHEOWXINYI Events such as the Grand Prix are new growth drivers to help cushion the slowdown: Analysts cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore economy is in for at least a year-long slowdown, but there will still be growth, according to most economists surveyed by Today. This is
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    • 136 24 BLOOMBERG MALAYAN Banking, Malaysia's biggest bank, said it plans to announce a "material" acquisition. Its shares were halted yesterday. The stock will be suspended from trading till 5 pm on Monday, it said in a statement without elaborating. Shares in Malayan Banking, or
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    • 216 24  -  ESTHER FUNG BLOOMBERG, UNITED States computer firm Sun Microsystems' shares fell 17 per cent in German trading after a surprise loss, stagnant sales and another round of job cuts raised concern that chief executive officer Jonathan Schwartz's growth plan is not working.
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    • 233 24 —AP WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve announced Friday that it will expand a series of efforts to deal with the global credit crisis, in coordination with European central banks. The Fed said it was boosting the amount of emergency reserves it supplies to United
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    • 374 25  -  ESTHER FUNG 10 years later, tech company commits $272 m in Tuas facility esther@mediacorp.com.sg WITH growth margins in its home country dwindling, United States-based technology company 3M wants to cater more for the markets in the next growth area —the Asia Pacific and
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    • 260 25 —AGENCIES ASIAN stocks rose on Friday, sending the region's benchmark index to its highest in more than three months, on speculation that global credit market turmoil will ease. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 1.6 per cent to reach 151.86, the highest since Jan 14.
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    • 641 25 XTRA PROPERTY Cushman and Wakefiled's Donald Han (picture) offers his views on the property market in the Channel News Asia programme, When The Bears Are Out Invest Wise, hosted by Lin Xueling. What are your favourite locations at the moment? And for which categories?
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  • weekendplus
    • 855 26  -  PEARLYN THAM LUXURY SHOWER GELS pea rlyn @mcd iacorp. com. sg If you're willing to spend on a fine meaf, why not pamper yourself in the bathroom, too? CELEBRITY hairstylist Addy Lee takes his shower time very seriously. He fills up the bathtub, squirts a few
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    • weekendstyle
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        345 28  -  PEARLYN THAM MOTHER'S DAY GIFT IDEAS Here are 10 reasons to splurge on something dear for the woman dearest to you pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg CITIGEMS PERLE PENDANT Add to mum's trove of heirlooms and invest in this Perle pearl pendant ($348) for her. TRUE SPA PAMPERING MY MOM PACKAGE
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      • ATAGLANCE
        • 58 29 You can now wear black without worrying about dandruff flakes showing up on your shirt. L'Oreal Elseve's Anti-Dandruff Intensive hair care range ($11.50) targets persistent dandruff problems with the ingredient Active Selenium S. This will reduce dandruff and make your hair shiny, soft and healthy. Choose from
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          74 29 It sounds like the name of a robot but 1 8-MEA is the natural protective coat on your hair's surface. This is easily depleted due to chemical treatments. To put the shine and smoothness back into your hair, Asience uses the MEA Hair Renewal Technology in its new
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          62 29 Give your scalp and hair the Biotouch with the Wella Biotouch Balanced Revitalising Shampoo ($24), formulated to treat temporary hair loss. Symptoms of this may include very fine and lifeless hair. This shampoo contains the fragrance and colour-free Stabilising Complex, which penetrates into the scalp to soothe
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          71 29 Shampooing may be good for your hair, but did you know that it is most likely to break when it's wet? That's where Pantene Pro-V's water-activated formula comes in. It is said to help reduce hair breakage even when hair is wet by up to three times.
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      • Article, Illustration
        413 29  -  LYNETTE KOH Brian McHardy puts the fire into diamonds lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg DIAMOND cutting is no easy job. One needs skill, patience and lots of fortitude, which will come in handy, should the 10-carat diamond that one is polishing suddenly develop internal fractures, or cracks. Recounting how such a disaster
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      • 230 29  -  PEARLYN THAN! THERE are only 24 hours in a day. So, when you discover a make-up product that lasts for up to 16 hours, you know that you're on to a good thing. But that's not the only advantage of Revlon's new Color Stay Mineral
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    • weekendmakan
      • 1071 30  -  AUDREY PHOON THE LITTLEST MOUTHFULS audrey@mediacorp. com.sg Downsized cakes are gaining popularity, thanks to smaller family sizes and changing consumer lifestyles MY MOTHER, who is in her 50s, has a photograph of her 21st birthday party. In it, she stands surrounded by family and friends,
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      • 667 32  -  ANNETTE TAN LIFE'S A BEACH Set amid a backdrop of bougainvilleas and a beach, Sunset Bay offers an eclectic menu of dishes to match its surroundings food@newstoday.com.sg REGULAR beach-goers from the early 1990s will be familiar with the name Sunset Bay. Owned by the Belandier siblings,
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      • 579 33  -  LISA TAN f ood@ n c wstod ay. com.sg LET'S just say dieting shouldn't be on your mind if you're lunching at Wine Garage. Recently, the wine bar and restaurant launched an Italian- and Mediterraneaninfluenced lunch menu laden with rich food such
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      • FOODNOTES
        • 177 33 What could be more English than an afternoon tea endorsed by the Brits themselves? The Regent Singapore has launched just such a treat with the support of the British High Commission. Until May 1 8, you can park yourself every afternoon in the hotel's opulent
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        • 174 33  -  AUDREY PHOON Remember the dish that won over food critic Anton Ego's heart in the animated movie, Ratatouille? Now you can warm your stomach and your soul with it, too. Delifrance Cafes are serving up a range of hearty oven-baked macaroni items that includes
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    • M A MOTHER'S DAY SUPPLEMENT BY TODAY
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        1098 34 Photography Jason Ho Styling Pearlyn Tham Hair Augustine Yong of KeltureThe Image Shop, #03-01 Shaw Centre (6735 6468) Make-up Manisa Tan (9295 3027) Shot on location at Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa, 1 Larkhill Road, Sentosa www.aniarasanctuary.com Special thanks to James Ho of Amara Sanctuary ADDRESSES Hayden Boutique
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      • 1207 38  -  LYNH 1 GIVE MUM SOMETHING SHE CAN REALLY SINK HER TEETH INTO by SWENSEN'S This Mother's Day, give your mum a treat that's as sweet as she is with Swensen's new heartshaped ice-cream cakes. Specially-chosen flavours have been swirled together to create two new flavours:
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      • 520 40  -  BYPEARLYNTHAM MAKE MUM FEEL SPECIAL WITH THESE GIF IDEAS STARLET LIPS Be warned: You may be fighting with mum over these limited edition Dolly Girl Lil' Starlet lip glosses ($35 each). There are three shades to choose from, inspired by make-believe Hollywood stars with names like
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    • weekendspeed
      • 777 41  -  COLIN YONG BMW X 6 xDRIVESOi UPS Amazingly nimble to drive Monstrous performance High-quality cabin DOWNS Only seats four A bit un-PC in these times AGENT Performance Motors PRICE To be announced ENGINE 4,395 cc, 32V V 8 MAX POWER 407bhp at 5,500-6,400rpm MAX TORQUE 600Nm at
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      • 154 41 NEW TECH BRINGS SPORTS CAR-LIKE AGILITY TO THE X 6 I The X 6 has a hidden secret a new electronic power-split system BMW calls Dynamic Performance Control or DPC. Instead of simply distributing power to the wheel with the most grip as most allwheel drive systems on the market
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      • NEWSTRACKS
        • 121 42 Audi's has treated its smallest car, the A3, to a mid-life facelift and expanded .he model lineup at the same time. All A3s now have LED daytime running lights and curvier headlamps in front, while a revised rear bumper gives the car a more
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        • 99 42 Children under the age of three should travel in rearward-facing car seats for maximum safety, according to safety experts at Swedish automaker Volvo. Their research has shown that since children have larger heads in relation to their bodies compared to adults, more strain is placed
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        • 103 42 Chevrolet dealer Alpine Motors has closed its Boon Lay showroom and opened a more centrally located one at Novena Ville, just next to the Novena MRT station. The facility has 41 8 sq m of floor space and an external patio area, allowing 1 0 cars to
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        • 80 42  -  COLIN YONG To celebrate Ferrari's second one-two finish in a row in the Formula One race series last weekend, the team's official fuel supplier Shell has lowered the retail price of its high-end V-Power petrol this weekend in Singapore. Motorists who drive into Shell stations between
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      • 573 42  -  JUSTIN LEE NEAT NEWCOMER Chana's first effort the Benni is cheap but far from nasty n ews@ newstoday. com.sg OVER 1.3 billion people, or nearly a fifth of the world's population, live in China. The country is also known as the bicycle kingdom of the world, with each
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      • 866 44  -  MANOHLA DARGIS -THE NEW YORK TIMES Who needs girls, anyway? Women are becoming a rare breed in the cinema plus@newstoday.com.sg IRON Man, Batman, Big Angry Green Man. To judge from the new popcorn season, it seems as if Hollywood has realised that the best way to deal
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      • INADDITION
        • 180 45 AGENCIES Her vision of love might have just come true. Mariah Carey (left) and rapper/TV host Nick Cannon (right) reportedly got married this week in the Bahamas. The pair met only several weeks ago when Cannon directed the video for her recent single. Bye, Bye. According
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    • 329 48  -  SHAMIR OSMAN PAUL GREEN THE month of April threw up a host of scintillating matches, with several top sides squaring off. The Super Reds proved that their early form was not just a flash in the pan as they cemented their position atop
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    • 323 52 -AFP NBA PLAYOFFS Philadelphia 77 Detroit 100 PHILADELPHIA The Detroit Pistons booked their second-round berth in the NBA playoffs on Thursday night {Friday morning, Singapore time) with an emphatic 100-77 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. Richard Hamilton scored 24 points and Chauncey Billups chipped in
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    • 269 52 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Ken Bates, the Leeds chairman, has called for the Football League chairman Brian Mawhinney to resign after the club lost an appeal against a 15-point penalty imposed at the start of the season. An independent three-man tribunal upheld the decision
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    • 578 53 -AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Fulham v Birmingham City LONDON Alex McLeish must have thought the Premiership was child's play when he saw Birmingham City beat eventual League Cup winners Tottenham at their own home ground, in his first game as a manager in England. Since
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    • 714 53 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER TRAFFIC Reports say Brazilian will join club next season as outgoing Eriksson quells player revolt MANCHESTER Luis Felipe Scolari has agreed to become the next manager of Manchester City, according to reports. City owner Thaksin Shinawatra has made it clear that current
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    • 603 54 AGENCIES LIGHTS, CAMERA Man United, Chelsea headed for photo finish to season ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP I Man United v West Ham LONDON A screenwriter couldn't have come up with a better climax to the 2007--08 English Premiership season. It's May, the penultimate weekend, and after rocky starts
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    • 202 54 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted Football Writers' Footballer of the Year on Friday. Ronaldo, who also won the PFA Player of the Year award earlier this week, becomes only the second player to win the writers' award in successive seasons
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