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    20 1 TODAY Friday July 25, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday July 25, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    23 1 PHINWONG Tween stars are making big bucks with their wholesome images. Does anyone buy it? Who are these kids fooling? Page 45
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    COMMENT
    30 1 FIGHTINGTERROR Trust is the key in the fight against terror and more must be done to convince Muslims that Islam is not the target of this drive. Page 26
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    I SAY
    35 1 DATE BLUES Single and lacking opportunities or skills to find the right one? Our reporter Ansley Ng says singles could do with a little help from the companies they work for. Page 4
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    SINGAPORE
    22 1 CHILDCAREHELP Low-income families need to pay only $200 a month to enroll a child at a heavilysubsidised care centre. Page 10
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    WORLD
    34 1 PROTONVS MERC The Terengganu Chief Minister has hit back at critics who rebuked him for buying Mercedes as official vehicles, instead of the Proton. Mercs are cheaper to maintain, he says. Page 17
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    PLUS
    27 1 DYNAMIC DUO Nightlife's wackiest duo Bobby Luo and Ritz Lim has made The Butter Factory, Robertson Quay's hip-hop club the success it is today. Page 40
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    Lock icon GARDEN CITY
    57 1 WEETECKHIAN The Government is increasing the land set aside for parks in Singapore by 25 per cent in the next 15 years. This phase will see parks with amenities such as dining outlets, spas, adventure and sports activity centres, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday at
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    Expectation and reality
    799 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN COST OF LIVING As inflation forecast is raised to 6 to 7 per cent, what will shape consumer sentiment? chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg JUST as consumers were seeing pump prices come down for the third time in 15 days and the consumer price index stabilising, one of the two
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    Lock icon Rais vs Rice over Anwar
    587 1 AGENCIES THE war of words between Malaysia and the United States over the Anwar Ibrahim affair, which began in a letter earlier this month, continued yesterday as the two countries' top diplomats defended their governments' respective stands. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the
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    Home alone ... with a panic button
    780 1  - Home alone with a panic button ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN you are elderly or disabled and alone at home, a fall out of reach of a phone can be disastrous. But at the push of a button worn on a cord around your neck, you could get connected to a
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      29 1 A PUBLICATION OF /A=diaCorp MICA (P) 132/10/2007 I r^ r-T TIT JcHECK INSIDE FOR DETAILS! I SlFairPrice I NTUC V Because the good life shouldn't cost a lot J
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  • NEWS
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      Both sides 'to give talks another try'
      656 3  -  TEOXUANWEI BORDER ROW Dispute should not have been allowed to boil over into a vbig issue': MrYeo xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg NOT long after Foreign Minister George Yeo called Cambodia's move to take its quarrel with Thailand over a disputed border area to the United Nations
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      Lock icon FIVE NATIONS TO APPOINT ASEAN AMBASSADORS
      176 3 AFP Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and Russia are appointing ambassadors to Asean. The appointments are "a clear sign" of the countries' commitment to the 10-nation group, an Asean statement said yesterday, without providing further details. "I would imagine these appointments will come fairly
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      I SAY HELPING SINGLES MEET SINGLES
      732 4  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg I AM almost ashamed to step into the video rental store near my home on a Saturday night alone. It is like an admission that I am single at 29 and a loser without a date. But I am increasingly seeing other
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      Lock icon A park to suit every interest, in 15 years' time
      325 4 TRAILS and treks, cycling and tranquil nature in 15 years' time, these may not be the only things you would associate with parks in Singapore. Try dining outlets, spas, adventure and sports activity centres, for example. These are some of
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      Lock icon The stray dilemma for animal groups
      882 6  -  ESTHER NG CANINE CONTROL One plans to sterilise 400 industrial dogs this year, but it may not save them from being culled estherng@mediacorp.com.sg THE volunteers get stray dogs sterilised, shelter them for a few days while they recuperate, then release them back where they
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      Lock icon Half-price concert tickets, anyone?
      180 8 ARTS lovers can now watch their favourite operas or concerts at halfprice, thanks to a generous contribution from Keppel Corporation. The company contributed $250,000 yesterday in a joint effort with the National Arts Council (NAC) to launch a new ticket purchasing scheme to cultivate audiences for
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      Stricter rules from Nov 1
      438 8  -  ALICIA WONG AESTHETIC PROCEDURES alida@mediacorp.com.sg YOUR neighbourhood doctor may go by the title "Aesthetic Physician" and have training certificates to boot. But from Nov 1, that title will have to go, and those certificates must be acquired by attending courses recognised by the Singapore Medical
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      Kudos for Malay-language TV programmes here
      235 10 THEY may have serious social messages to deliver, but local Malay-language productions have succeeded in doing so in an entertaining manner. That is the view of the Malay Programmes Advisory Committee (MPAC), which yesterday released its biennial report covering the period from August 2006
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      Lock icon Childcare on a budget, at last
      424 10  -  ONGDAILIN COMMUNITY WELFARE Low-income groups will pay highly subsidised rates dailin@mediacorp.com.sg AN UNLIKELY quartet has joined hands to set up a unique childcare centre in Sengkang that caters to low-income families. Called the Modern Montessori Community Childcare Centre, it is open to families with
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      Lock icon Driving into the lap of luxury with TODAY
      292 12 WHEN Madam Alice Tan bought an Acer laptop to help her eldest son to do his school projects, she did not expect that it would land her the top prize of a car in the Shop To Win Today contest. "I knew
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      Wounds lacked 'hesitation marks'
      447 12  -  ZULOTHMAN MASSAGE PARLOUR MURDER It's unlikely that accused stabbed himself: Defence witness tells court zul@mediacorp.com. sg THE prosecution claimed Eu Lim Hoklai had killed his lover and then stabbed himself to make it look like self-defence. However, an expert witness for the defence took the stand
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon US calls juntas promise a 'mockery
      381 14 AP MYANMAR POLITICS Myanmar to vtake bolder steps towards transition to democracy in near future' THE United States blasted the Myanmar junta's oft-repeated promise to democratise as a "land of mockery" yesterday, while Asia-Pacif-ic countries urged the generals to take bolder steps to meet
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      Lock icon N Korea signs non-aggression pact with South-east Asia
      410 14 AFP NORTH Korea inked a non-aggression pact with South-east Asia yesterday in what officials and analysts said was a sign it wants to be seen as a more responsible international player. The signing came a day after unprecedented talks between foreign ministers
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      Lock icon 3 quakes hit China's disaster area
      259 14 AFP BEIJING One person was killed and at least 17 injured yesterday as three powerful earthquakes hit the area of China's south-west that was devastated by a massive tremor in May, local authorities said. The three quakes rattled a rural, mountainous area of Sichuan
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      Lock icon Asia-Pacific powers finalise ambitious disaster relief plan
      369 14 AP ASIA-PACIFIC powers announced an ambitious plan yesterday to pool international assets, including military support, to tackle natural disasters in a region beset by cyclones, earthquakes and floods. At the end of their meeting, foreign ministers of 26 countries and the European Union
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      Proton too costly? Get a Merc
      407 17 TERENGGANU POLITICS Terengganu Chief Minister justifies trading in Protons for Mercedes-Benz E2OOS KUALA LUMPUR The Chief Minister of Terengganu has hit back at critics who rebuked him for buying 14 Mercedes-Benz cars to be used as official state vehicles, reported the New Straits Times
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      Lock icon Sondhi charged over alleged royal slur
      218 17 .AFP BANGKOK A media mogul who has spearheaded protests against Thailand's six-month-old government was questioned by police yesterday for allegedly insulting the nation's revered monarch. Mr Sondhi Limthongkul, owner of Manager Media Group, presented himself at Bangkok's police headquarters as hundreds of flag-waving supporters
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      Lock icon Hi, my name is Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii
      275 18 AGENCIES WELLINGTON (New Zealand) Some Taranaki parents have been branded child abusers because of the bizarre names they are giving their children. Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand's North Island. Family court judge Rob Murfitt expressed
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      Lock icon THE OLYMPIC CHALLENGE
      79 18 AFP Guinness world record card stacker Bryan Berg completed a model of the Beijing Athlete Village out of playing cards in Hong Kong yesterday. He took 160 hours to construct the entire piece, which includes famous Beijing landmarks such as the National Stadium, also known as the
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      Lock icon France adopts law ending 35-hour week
      335 18 AFP LAW REFORMS Companies and employees now allowed to discuss working hours PARIS The French Parliament adopted a major economic reform that effectively ends the country's mandatory 35-hour work week, in a Senate vote yesterday. The Bill was supported by the upper house's right-wing
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      Lock icon Soya and your sperm count
      392 22 THE GUARDIAN HEALTH WATCH A diet high in soya may water down those little swimmers and lower fertility: Study IN THE biggest human study into the effects of soya on fertility, a link between soya-rich diets and lower sperm counts has been detected. The study,
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      Lock icon British PM faces fresh test in Scotland by-election
      311 24 AFP LONDON Voters in one of the most deprived parts of Britain went to the polls in a by-election yesterday, potentially holding the fate of their fellow Scot, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in their hands. Mr Brown's Labour Party is defending a
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      Lock icon Fog hits rescue effort
      449 24 AFP AFTERTHE QUAKE Japan searches for injured after 6.8-magnitude quake strikes the north IWAIZUMI (Japan) Rescue teams searched in dense fog and rain yesterday for victims of a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left 126 people injured. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck just after midnight on
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      Lock icon Indonesian pilot charged with deliberately crashing jet
      336 26 AFP YOGYAKARTA (Indonesia) The pilot of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed last year, killing 21 people, was charged yesterday with deliberately causing the disaster. Marwoto Komar, a former captain from flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, could face a maximum sentence of life inprisonment
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      Lock icon TRUST IS THE KEY TO FIGHTING TERRORISM
      709 26  -  BAHTIAREFFENDY THE JAKARTA POST NEWS COMMENT More must be done to convince Indonesia's Muslims that Islam is not the target SOME time ago, Detachment 88 Indonesia's police counter-terror-ism unit stormed a high school in North Sumatra. The raid was not carried out based
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      Lock icon Entry restricted
      330 28 AP OLYMPIC GAMES No casual business visits until late Sept as China tightens visa restrictions BEIJING China has clamped down further on issuing business visas during the Olympics, government officials said yesterday, in the latest expansion of already-tight entry restrictions for the games. Beijing has stopped issuing invitation
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        Lock icon HEAVY RAINS LEAVE 12 DEAD OR MISSING IN HUBEI
        140 28 AFP Twelve people are dead or missing after the heaviest rain in centuries hit parts of central China, state media reported yesterday. A total of 10 people are confirmed dead after the week-long rains in Hubei province, while two are missing,
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        Lock icon BUNNY SAVES AUSTRALIAN COUPLE FROM FIRE
        147 28 AFP A pet rabbit in Australia was credited with saving its owners Michelle Finn (picture) and her husband yesterday after scratching on the door of their bedroom as their home burned, emergency workers said. The couple were in their bedroom of their Melbourne home
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      Lock icon Terry Guo celebrates marriage with charity pledge
      230 28 AGENCIES ONE of Taiwan's richest man has decided to donate 90 per cent of his fortune to charity. Mr Terry Guo, the founder of Hon Hai Precision, is a self-made man whose net worth is reportedly US$5.5 billion ($7.4 billion), according to a
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      Lion-hearted video charms millions
      455 30 YOUTUBE SENSATION Thanks to the Internet, clip of pet lion embracing his former owners has been immortalised LONDON The "Christian the lion" video, which shows a full-grown lion hugging and kissing his former caretakers in a heartwarming reunion, has become an Internet sensation, logging more than
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      Lock icon British downloaders to get surprise letters
      291 30 THEGUARDIAN LONDON Thousands of parents in Britain will learn of their children's illegal downloading habits when warning letters arrive at their homes in a battle against Internet piracy. A government-backed drive is targeting the worst of the estimated 6.5 million involved in illicit file-sharing
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      161 34  -  Denis Distant Letter from MANY bus stops have electronic panels that display the arrival times of buses. Though it is a very helpful feature, it can cause stress to commuters who are in a rush. I was at a bus stop along Orchard Road
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      222 36  -  Veronica Boudville LIBRARYTALK But discrete indoor events can benefit library users Letter from Deputy Director Public Library Services National Library Board WE THANK Ace Kindred Cheong ("Library reading rooms do not an exhibition space make" [July 18) for his suggestion. We are glad to note that the
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      233 36  -  DR JAMES DOBSON ....BY 60 YEARS IN HIDING The game "Hide and seek" is fun for kids, but many adults play a hiding game that's really not much fun at all. I recently saw a fascinating story in The Seattle Times. The headline read, "Sixty Years
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      1332 40  -  GENEVIEVE LOH NIGHTLIFE A LIFE INTHE DAY The Butter Factory's Bobby Luo and Ritz Lim live large and dress louder genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg FIRST, you see the oversized sunglasses with flamingos on the side, followed by an enormous straight-out-of-a-cartoon Madhatter's hat. And even before the word "hi"
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      347 42 Bobby Luo was an Anglo Chinese School boy for 10 years before attending two polytechnics and two art schools all four of which he never completed. However, his illustrious career, all centring around the design and concept, speaks volumes. He has been an offline film editor ("I
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      771 45  -  PHINWONG MALADJUSTED plus editor phin@mediacorp.com.sg Tween stars are making big bucks with their wholesome images. Does anyone buy it? IS IT just me or does everyone have a halo these days? You've seen them, haven't you? They're not ordinary halos they're manufactured in China, made
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      414 46  -  MALCOLM OEI NIGHTLIFE REVIEW Heineken beer throws a big party in someone's living room plus@newstoday.com. sg A NIGHT out might actually mean a night in with house parties becoming the rage among tired clubbers in Singapore these days. But it might be the first
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      227 48 The silent Knight meets fans AP CHRISTIAN Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a glittering Spanish premiere of The Dark Knight, appearing calm as he greeted fans after reports surfaced that his mother and sister had accused him of assault. A 15-car motorcade delivered Bale and his
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      579 48  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH COMING SOON Panic at the Disco are excited about the MTV Asia Awards as long as they can find the stage christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE 1983 Rob Reiner mock rockumentary, This is Spinal Tap, there is a hilarious scene in which the band Spinal Tap find themselves
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      460 50 HOMEGROWN MUSIC Frontman of local rock band launches solo album IT HAS been mere weeks since local rock band Plainsunset launched their long-awaited album but already, frontman Jon Chan is preparing for the release of his solo effort. His album Ears and Eyes will
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      1321 56 TV LISTINGS GHOST WHISPERER 111 DOCUMENTARY SCHIZOID EjBHHVHIMMBHHBj TASTE MATTER Weight ofwhatwas (Available in True hd on HDS) Seconds From Disaster: Texas Oil Explosion Suria, 9.30pm B^jSSB"" ■^SHb^* Manila Channel 5,10pm Arts Central, 10pm Schizoid is "=^N3H Channel News Asia, 7.32pm for answers gV j I gasoline a day. And
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      692 58  -  KENNETH GOH SAMBA IN SINGAPORE Coach Dunga's banking on a happy Ronaldinhoto lead Brazil to Olympic history football correspondent kenneth@mediacorp.com.sg BRAZIL'S main rivals forthe Beijing Olympic gold medal had better beware: Ronaldinho's in high spirits again. The 28-year-old, who arrived in Singapore from Paris on
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      463 59  -  KENNETHGOH BRAZIL'S first training session at the National Stadium yesterday afternoon was a mixture of sublime, on the pitch, and silly, off it. Dunga's first work out on the pitch for the players suggested that Ronaldinho, Anderson and Diego are the three who are likely
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      659 59  -  TANYO-HINN GOLF Team Asia skipper eyes third straight title as former world No 1 Sorenstam readies for retirement yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg WITH 10-time Major winner Annika Sorenstam set to retire after the current LPGA season, this November's season-ending Lexus Cup is likely be her final appearance. After
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      471 60 MOSLEY V NEWS OF THE WORLD Judge rules there was vno justification' for tabloid's expose of Mosley's S&M romp LONDON World motorsport chief Max Mosley won his privacy case at London's High Court on Thursday against a British newspaper which alleged he took part in
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      156 60  -  SHAMIR OSMAN THE three-day Singapore leg of the Guinness 9-Ball Tour 2008 kicks off today at Velocity@Novena Square, featuring worldclass pool players like current world No 1 Dennis Orcollo and world No 6 Joven Bustamante of the Philippines, and defending Guinness 9-Ball Grand Finals
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      582 60  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Dalian Shide v Geylang United Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm sports@newstoday.com.sg DALIAN Shide, who face Geylang United in tonight's NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 clash at Jalan Besar Stadium, have struggled to live up to expectations. The Chinese club kicked
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      626 62 TENNIS Federer #s No 1 spot under threat after second straight loss TORONTO Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were back in action on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), playing their first matches since their classic Wimbledon final on July 6, which Nadal won in five epic
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      262 62 AFP LOS ANGELES -Jessica Hardy, an American who qualified to swim the 50 metres freestyle and 100 m breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics, tested positive for a banned substance, Swimming World magazine reported yesterday. The magazine's website said an unidentified coach not on the
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      279 62 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK CITY Roche Holding AG, which make a version of a stamina-building drug illegally used by some athletes, said they didn't plant a molecule in the substance to help identify it in doping tests, spokeswoman Martina Rupp said. Tour
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      269 63 AFP LONDON Peter Shilton has told David Beckham he will never beat his England appearance record, and believes Fabio Capello's side are doomed to failure in their bid to win the 2010 World Cup if the midfielder is in the side.
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      167 63 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER ■HBBBDIHHI S.League Dalian Ceylang Fri, 25/07/08 7.30pm International Football Wolfsburg Mallorca Sat, 26/07/08 12.30 am League Kashiwa Reysol Kyoto Sanga Sat, 26/07/08 6.00pm League FC Tokyo Yokohama FM Sat, 26/07/08 6.00pm League Ksaki Frontale Nagoya Grampus Sat, 26/07/08 6.00pm League Jubilolwata Tokyo Verdy
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      40 63 SPORTS ON TV TODAY spm Billiards Guinness g-BallTour: Singapore, Ch 24 Bpm Golf Russian Open, Ch 26 11pm Golf Senior Open C'ship, Ch 23 11pm Tennis Rogers Cup, Ch 24 6.35am-11.35pm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on g3BLive
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      167 64  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN SHOPLETTE: WWW.SHOPLETTE.COM Think you've got the sartorial chops to be sfashionista? Well, allow me to introduce Shoplette, a new website by local startup Mobrick that lets you flaunt the latest togs from your shopping spree. Billing itself as an online playground for shopaholics, Shoplette
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      424 74  -  LOHCHEEKONG ASSET MANAGEMENT $1.17 trillion of assets now managed in Singapore cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S bid to become a Switzerland for Asia's wealthy appears right on track going by the findings of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) latest asset management survey. Compared to 2006, the total assets
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        96 75 Indonesian palm oil firm Kencana Agri has attracted strong investor interest in its Singapore initial public share offering. The public tranche of its IPO has been 40 times oversubscribed, despite volatile recent stock market conditions. Its placement tranche was also fully taken up. "Kencana is well-positioned
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        117 75 Airline catering and ground handler Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) reported a net profit of $34.5 million for the three months ended June. That's a 28-per-cent dip from a year ago due to lower overseas earnings and higher costs after adding more capacity at Changi's
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        75 76 $4.09 Buy Deutsche Bank upgrades the rig builder from "hold" and lifts the price target to $5.05 from $3.80. It said the firm is ideally positioned to benefit from high demand beyond 2010, as it has posted year-to-date new orders worth $4.4 billion versus $5.4 billion for all
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      594 76 DOWJONES SINGAPORE'S booming office market is facing a drop in demand and a slowdown in rents that have left many wondering: What happens next, when a host of new developments are launched? Tight supply and high demand, mostly from financial institutions, made Singapore
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      323 76  -  BARRY PORTER SINGAPORE has been ranked the best place to live in the world by expats in one of the biggest international surveys of expatriate living ever conducted. The Expat Explorer survey for HSBC Bank International found that as well as coming out tops overall,
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