Today, 25 October 2008

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    11 1 weekend Today October 25 26, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Its not over yet...
    532 1 MELAMINE SAGA AVA tests show 17 biscuit products from Malaysia contain melamine ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg JUST when the melamine scare was thought to have dissipated, tests conducted by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) on hundreds of imported and locally-made biscuits revealed that some products
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      68 1 LIVING How they stack up Weekend Today shows you where to find the best butties in the CBD. Page 33 We wish our readers HAPPY DEEPAVALI We will be back on Tuesday with our morning edition. We are moving Our new mailing address and contact numbers are: MediaCorp Press Ltd
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      THE OBAMA SURGE WHAT CAN STOP
      767 2  -  KENNETH S CHIANG XTRA AMERICA VOTES THE Obama Omnibus keeps on rolling while the McCain Straight Talk Express seems stuck in first gear. With barely 10 days left in the United States' presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Barack Obama appears to have everything going for
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      249 3 supporters to look at Mr Obama as a Muslim and an Arab, while ostentatiously holding themselves up as real, patriotic Americans. The most outrageous line one of their fans came up with was that Mr Obama was not only un-American, but also "un-biblical" (so unlike the late Charlton "Moses" Heston
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      Riots feared if Obama loses
      338 3 us police LOS ANGELES United States police fear riots could break out if Mr John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, wins the election on Nov 4. Law enforcement officials say the intense public interest and historic nature of the vote could lead to violent outbreaks
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      Lock icon Palm insists that she's 'frugal'
      194 3 AFP WASHINGTON Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palm has insisted she is a "frugal" spender as she denied she hadaUSslso,ooo ($227,000) Republican Party clothes budget for her and her family for the White House campaign. "That whole thing is just, bad!" the 44-year-old Alaska Governor told
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      Stock markets tumble again
      352 3 STOCK markets across Asia and Europe plummeted on Friday, extending the steep losses since the beginning of the month as investors braced themselves for what could be a painful and even prolonged recession. Singapore's Straits Times Index (STI) plunged 145.39 points or 8.3 per cent to
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      Lock icon FINALLY, A CHANGE ON FRIDAY
      656 4  -  P N BAUI XTRA MAS' BALANCING ACT What made it change tack and push for an unusual public stand? Editorial Director balji@mediacorp.com.sg FOR a government organisation that has perfected the art of brevity, Oct 17 will go down as the day that changed not just
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      HOW WOULD YOU ANALYSE MAS'REACTIONS OVERTHE LAST SIX WEEKS?
      232 4 Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Inderjit Singh: "MAS did fairly well. It needed time to understand the situation A measured approach was necessary. Otherwise, it would create panic." Mr Leong Sze Hian (president of the Society of Financial Service Professionals): MAS
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      COULD MAS HAVE DONE BETTER?
      149 4  -  Mr Singh: "I'm glad that there were people like Tan Kin Lian who came forward. MAS could have come forward earliertocalm people. That would have shown a little more leadership." Mr Leong: "It would have been better to have appointed two independent directors for each
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      Lock icon Not just the preserve of hospices
      892 6  -  ALICIA WONG CARING FOR TERMINALLY ILL Nursing homes willing to take up palliative care if resources are provided alicia@mediacorp.com.sg NOT long after Ms Chan May San placed her bedridden father in a nursing home, she discovered that he had developed a host of medical
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      MM Lee predicts a turnaround from the recession in as little as three to five years
      392 6  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg THE current economic slowdown could last three to five years if the banking system does not malfunction. This is the assessment given by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the
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      ASIA ON ITS OWN FEET?
      1038 8  -  SIMON TAY XTRA GLOBAL CITIZEN That's more in the future For now, region must not lose its cool IN MANILA last week, opening a conference at which I spoke, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said the World Bank would pledge US$lO billion ($l5 billion) to bail
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      A directory that tells you exactly where to go for help
      380 10  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg PEOPLE in need of public assistance often do not know where to go, and they end up bringing their children or their aged parents from one place to another, or making many calls trying to locate
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      Women need to plan for their golden years
      552 10  -  ESTHER NG CONFERENCE ON SUCCESSFUL AGEING Call to set up a pension fund for all seniors estherng@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE women live longer than men, they are often less prepared for old age. Therefore, the question of elderly care and finances is more acute
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      Mission Impossible?
      304 12 MEDIACORPTEES OFF FOR CHARITY BOMB HOAXSENTENCING Appeal to High Court rejected, theory was stiirimplausible' THE High Court on Friday threw out the appeal of a former National Environment Agency (NEA) senior manager who had been sentenced to 30 months' jail for sending three bomb hoax messages to Government
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      Trial of 17 charged with illegal assembly begins
      277 12  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg ALL 17 of them who are either members or supporters of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) stood accused of the same offence. But the frustration with one of them among the group was clear as the trial proper of their
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      NOT AN ISSUE OF ROMANCE
      681 14  -  XTRA VILLAGE VS CITY The way forward is to take the cities to the villages SURESH KUMAR WHILE speaking at the First Global Indian Diaspora conference in Singapore, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew asked India and Indians to stop romanticising its villages. To be a
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      Alternative ERP payment via credit cards from Nov 5
      214 16 FROM Nov 5, motorists will have an alternative mode of payment for Electronic Road Pricing: Via their Visa or MasterCard credit cards. The scheme will benefit motorists who may forget to insert their Cash Cards in their in-vehicle unit (IU) or
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      NUS dean also exposed to loss
      485 16  -  LINYANQIN LEHMAN MINI-BONDS New head of NUS Business School hopes to educate public on risk yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg HE HAD built his career on his expertise and knowledge in the field of finance, but like thousands of others, he too fell victim to the collapse
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        BLURRED BY THE VIOLENCE
        1060 18  -  TAMAL MUKHERJEE XTRA INDIA'S VISION Modern India the idea of a united but diverse people is being threatened from within INDIA was never one big unified country, even during the British era. There were 570 odd princely states in undivided India till 1947. All the maharajas
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        'If we do not change, the people will change us
        593 20 MALAYSIAN POLITICS PM designate Najib believes preferential treatment of Malays will be scrapped KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister designate Najib Razak (picture) said he's prepared to end preferential treatment of the ethnic Malay majority, a campaign pledge the opposition used
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        Lock icon M'sian FM urges university to lift ban
        196 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Foreign minister Rais Yatim has said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi should be allowed to give a speech in Malaysia despite Iran's objections, reversing a government order that scuttled her planned appearance at a university forum, a news report
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        Lock icon M'sian clerics issue edict to ban tomboys
        277 20 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's main body of Islamic clerics has issued an edict banning tomboys in the Muslim-majority country, ruling that girls who act like boys violate the tenets of Islam, an official said on Friday. The National Fatwa Council forbade the practice
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        Lock icon Thai, Cambodian militaries stand firm
        234 20 AFP SIEM REAP (Cambodia) Thai and Cambodian military commanders concluded talks on Friday aimed at easing border tensions after deadly clashes last week. But both armies staunchly maintained their front-line positions. The senior military officials, whose talks began over a round of golf a day
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        Woman jailed after 'killing' online husband
        219 22 TOKYO A woman in Japan became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world that she killed his digital persona, police said. The 43-year-old woman, who was arrested on Wednesday, has been jailed on suspicion of illegally
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        Hong Kong s the widest in Asia
        516 22  -  WAGE GAPS Singapore the only city of the 245 in UN survey without any slums NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE rich-poor gap in Asia is the smallest in the developing world, even though many of its regions are struggling with income disparities between urban and
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        Lock icon Nissin recalls 500,000 cups of noodles
        308 22 AFP TOKYO Japan's Nissin Food Products has said it was recalling half a million cups of instant noodles over fears of insecticide contamination in the latest food safety scare to rock the country's consumers. The scare spread on Friday as another company, Myojo Foods
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        DID MEDIA MISS RED FUGS?
        762 23  -  KENNETH S CHIANG XTRA FINANCIAL TURMOIL If regulators couldn't see the diseased bark and wilting leaves, how could the media see the forest for the trees FINGERS pointed in all directions, including at the mass media, as the widespread financial meltdown wiped out trillions of
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        Lock icon LOST IN UMNO DOMINANCE
        869 24  -  001 KEE BENG XTRA MALAYSIAN POLITICS Can society ever extricate itself from Umno's party penetration? news@newstoday.com .sg THE recently ignited debate about the dominant position of the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) within the ruling coalition may yet be the most fruitful of all the soulsearching
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        Bali 3 to be executed next month
        121 26 JAKARTA Indonesia will execute three Islamists forthe 2002 Bali bombings in early November, an official said on Friday. "The execution will be carried out in early November... The decision is final," Attorney General's Office spokesman Jasman Panjaitan said without providing an exact date.
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        Before it hits home
        556 26  -  FINANCIALCRISIS Time to encourage foreign investment and diversify Indonesia's economy ERWIN AKSA THE global economic bubble has burst. The United States government is injecting US$7OO billion ($1 trillion) into the financial system in the hope of ending the crisis. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central
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        Lock icon Militants in Indonesia turn attention to economy
        247 26 AFP JAKARTA Islamist militants in Indonesia are no longer targeting foreigners; they have turned their sights on law enforcement agencies and economic infrastructure, the police said on Friday. Investigations into five terrorists arrested in Jakarta on Tuesday had led investigators to believe that
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      27 27 Today, it's no longer business as usual. Today, smarter heads prevail. nnt we set you thinking Reaching out to nearly 600,000 readers daily. (Nielsen Media index 2007)
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      Structures should not be penalised
      266 28  -  Brydon Timothy Wang Letter from Perth, Australia I REFER to the commentary, "A step forward into the past" (Oct 23) by Mr John Kwok. Floating dormitories have the additional benefit of being used as emergency housing. This is particularly important given the natural disasters that
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      Is it sacrifice or suicide...
      248 28  -  Suzanne Ooi EUTHANASIA When a grandmother gives her life up to save others Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "They are scary but necessary" (Weekend Today, Oct 18-19) by Mr Peter Lim. I am sorry that he has sown confusion by citing the case
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      More being done to raise awareness
      246 28  -  Grace Chen Letter from Vice-President, Projects AIESEC Singapore I REFER to the report, "Gen V lacks HIV awareness" (Oct 17). As a generation V Singaporean, I agree that many lack the basic awareness of HIV/Aids and sexually-transmitted infections. People are apathetic to this issue
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      40 YEARS
      664 28 XTRA JOURNALISM Clement Mesenas recalls his life as a journalist here and in the Middle East AT 22,1 fanded myself as a poolroom shark. Instead I ended up being a newsroom sharpie. The venerable Wee Kirn Wee, who recruited me, kept shaking his head, rather negatively I felt,
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      THAT WENT BY IN A BLUR
      905 29 of the wretched article. In the end, luck matters. A bomb that went off in the newspaper office next to mine wrecked its printing plant and killed five printing hands. It cracked the wall of my office, raining dust all over me. So, there
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      Third firm joins fray
      377 30  -  CHEOWXINYI MINI-BONDS RESTRUCTURING Another now keen to restructure troubled notes cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com. sg THE trustee of the beleaguered Mini-Bond programme says a third company is now keen to restructure the notes to bring them to maturity. The trustee, HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore), had previously indicated that
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      Rents get squeezed by credit crunch
      455 30  -  CHEOWXINYI THE leasing market has become the latest casualty of Singapore's weakening property market, with both residential and office rents posting their first declines since 2004 in the third quarter of this year. According to Urban Redevelopment Authority figures released yesterday, rentals of private
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      Lock icon UNLOCKINGTHEVALUEOFYOUR HOME
      97 30 Housing types Schemes Two-room Lease buyback Three-room Lease buyback Downsize Sublet Reverse mortgage Four-room Downsize Sublet one room Reverse mortgage These payouts are only estimates, and subject to other provisions like the flat owner's age, which determines how the annuities are calculated, as well as propertycentric factors like
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      The best option for elderly flat owners
      362 30  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE Housing and Development Board's (HDB) lease buyback scheme appears to be the best option for the elderly who wish to "unlock" the value of their homes. The lease buyback scheme, which the HDB will implement next year, provides the
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      Lock icon Capita Land holds off spending
      211 30 BLOOMBERG CAPITALAND, Singapore's largest real-es-tate developer by assets, will hold back on investments until the global credit crisis shows signs of bottoming, said chief executive officer Liew Mun Leong. Capita Land is evaluating opportunities to invest about $4 billion of cash and will wait for
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      Lock icon It worked for 40 years, then...
      604 31 AGENCIES FINANCIAL FALLOUT Former Fed chief Greenspan admits mistakes and calls for stricter regulations FORMER United States Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who has admitted to making errors in the 18 years he was in charge of US monetary policy, is now calling for
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      Lock icon Higher pharmaceutical output gives unexpected production boost
      327 31 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S industrial production unexpectedly increased for the first time in three months in September as higher pharmaceutical output offset a decline in electronics manufacturing. Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of the national economy, rose 2.4 per cent from a year earlier,
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      MediaCorp books net profit of $54.6 m
      189 32 MEDIACORP yesterday said it posted net profit after tax of $54.6 million for the year ended March 31 but warned that conditions in the second half of the current financial year would be challenging. The Singapore broadcaster and publisher said operating profit before
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      Lock icon Dont over-react
      445 32  -  LOH CHEE KONG IN BEIJING FINANCIAL FALLOUT PM Lee calls for measured response to ongoing crisis cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg COUNTRIES from East Asia and their Asean counterparts agreed on Friday to accelerate plans to set up anUS$BO-billion ($l2O-billion) pool of foreign exchange reserves. Separately, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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      Lock icon German bankers told to return bonuses
      298 32 AFP FORMER executives at a German bank have been told to pay back millions of euros in bonuses earned before the bank had to be rescued by the government. IKB, which specialises in corporate loans and which invested heavily in toxic securities linked to
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        224 34 A sandwich is a clever idea. But it's only a brilliant meal if it is packed with something worth savouring. My version of a "wish sandwich" is basically two slices of bread and a wish that you had something better than yesterday's leftovers in between. It's certainly no proletarian
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        LITTLE LUXURIES
        378 34  -  DON MENDOZA Rising above the gloom of a dawdling economy is the fast growing appreciation of the humlDle sandwich donm@mediacorp.com.sg CAN a bacon bocadillo be true to its humble roots and yet exalted? Is there a joint serving ajamon-fromage baguette or a smoked turkey triple-decker you've discovered that's
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        BUSINESS^ PLEASURE
        264 34 THE SANDWICH SHOP #02-07 Hitachi Tower Tel: 6536 5141 The place: It sees good business throughout breakfast and lunch. Still, best to have your preferred picks delivered. The queue moves quickly, but you can choose to visit outlets at Robinson Centre or One Raffles Link. The sandwich: It
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        271 34 TOAST #01-09 OUB Centre Tel: 6534 1755 The place: This lunchtime hotspot serves a wide selection of sandwiches and wraps and sees a mixed queue of locals and expatriates. Its daily-baked breads, cakes, tarts, and muffins are also some of the freshest around. The sandwich: The wrap of
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          486 35  -  ANNETTE TAN POSH HAWKER It may be situated in a coffeeshop, but Big D's Grill serves restaurant quality food with prices to match food@newstoday.com.sg IT'S not every day you dine at a coffeeshop or hawker centre as a party of four and fork out $200 for your meal.
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          259 35 HEART AND SOUL D'Silva commands a firm following from his days at his previous restaurants Citrine Chocolat and Soul Kitchen. At the latter, he served an eclectic menu of Western, Eurasian and Peranakan dishes that drew a healthy crowd of regulars who appreciated his no short cuts, painstaking approach
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          FOOD TANTALISINGLY THAI
          291 35  -  BEST IN ASIA Tired of the many Western guides telling Asians the best places to wine and dine around this part of the world? Well, your wait for an authoritative guide to the region's finest restaurants has finally arrived. Written by expert food lovers who know and
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          743 36  -  TWO OF A KIND Two more dessert-bars open, offering wider choices and more tantalising varieties SHERMAINE WONG shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg NEWSFLASH for the sweet tooth: Two new dessert and pastry-only bars have opened in the past two months, giving fans more varieties to choose from and, of course, another
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          722 37  -  SLEEPWEAR CHIC HANNAH BETTS style@newstoday.com .sg ccc ONE knew something was up when Dolce Gabbana traded its signature corseted Italian sirens for a campaign featuring head-scarved, tartan-sporting, labradorbrandishing Brits. Then, cardigans appeared on the catwalks and pyjamas were mooted as the evening wear of choice again at D&G
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          THROUGH GOOD& BED TIMES
          153 38  -  At its Spring 2009 ready-to-wear runway show, Dolce Gabbana showed that sweet dreams are made of pyjamas. No, the Italian label wasn't presenting its latest home wear range. I was showcasing its glamorous take on the classic men's PJs in striped and spotted silk. Models strutted
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          AT GLANCE
          353 39 SEA THE BENEFITS you can't go to c Dead Sea, let it come to you in the form or C'est Naturel products priced from $14.90. Made for the face, body and even hair, the beauty products in this line are made with Dead Sea salt and mud, plant
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          SHINING EXAMPLES
          593 39  -  PEARLYN THAM GLITTER PARTY Jade, gold, diamonds and pearls the Singapore JewelFest 2008 brings on the sparkle 1/CHRISTMAS LIGHTS Mouawad didn't call this the Fantasy Collection for nothing. This USs4.sm ($6.7 m) set consists of a pair of panties, a bra, hair clip, garter and cuff with poinsettia
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          401 40  -  WINNING DESIGNS Shu Uemura contest winner sees victory as stepping stone to becoming a renowned interior designer PEARLYN THAM pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg IN A beauty pageant, pimples and freckles may be considered minus points. But in the inaugural Shu Uemura Design Art Competition organised, ironically, by a beauty brand
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          MARKS, SPENCER ... AND FIELD
          255 40  - MARKS, SPENCER AND FIELD IT'S going to be a Field day at Marks Spencer for fans of Carrie Bradshaw and her posse. The UK retail chain has inked an exclusive deal with Patricia Field, the designer and stylist of the fashion-forward TV series Sex and the City and Ugly Betty,
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          COLDWEAR NOW OFFERS ITEMS FOR ALL SEASONS
          332 40  -  WARM up to this idea: Coldwear is diversifying into lightweight casual separates. Once synonymous with winter wear, the clothing chain has now launched new concept stores that stock travel wear for all four seasons. In stores is the new label Empire, which is
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          A HARLEY-DAVIDSON FOR THE RACE TRACK? SAY IT ISN'T SO!
          316 41  -  PURISTS that is, those who view their Harley-Davidsons as rolling chrome sculptures to be ridden as slowly and noisily as possible must be up in arms. Proper sportsbike riders, on the other hand, must be having a proper chuckle. Harley's
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          FRESH-FACED FAVOURITE
          579 41  -  BMW's much-admired 3 Series gets a range of updates for 2009 GERMANY newsOnewstoday.com .sg JULIAN LOW IN MUNICH, FOR anyone who's ever wondered just what the big deal about BMWs is, a quick blast in a 335 i would provide all the answers. For starters, it is wonderfully
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          PUTTING THE "MENTAL" IN ENVIRONMENTAL
          277 41  -  Diesel cars might be unfairly associated with great plumes of black soot, but here's one whose only smoke emissions are likely to be from the tyres. BMW's facelift of the 3 Series brings with it a new diesel engine. Installed in the 330 d, it's
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          RACE TO THE FINISH
          489 42  -  TOP SELLERS Honda and Toyota are locked in a battle for the number one ranking COLIN YONG colin@mediacorp.com.sg JAPANESE brands continue to dominate the new car market in Singapore, accounting for all the top 10 best-selling models among Motor Traders Association (MTA) members for the first
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          CAR SALES BY MODEL, JAN-SEP 2008
          42 42 RANK CAR UNITS Honda Civic 4,573 Toyota Corolla Altis 3,692 Toyota Vios 2,990 Nissan Latio 2,442 Mitsubishi Lancer EX 2,430 Mitsubishi Lancer 2,176 Toyota Camry 2,070 Subaru Impreza 1,845 Honda Stream 1,818 10 Honda Jazz 1,315
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          CAR SALES BY BRAND, JAN-SEP 2008
          26 42 RANK BRAND UNITS Honda 10,074 Toyota 10,020 Mitsubishi 5,413 Nissan 4,443 Mercedes-Benz 2,970 Note: Fh ;ures exclude mrallel im. wrt:
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          NEWSTRACKS
          404 42  -  THE XC6O GETS PRICED Volvo distributor SM Motors has started taking orders for the new XC6O crossover at 172,000 with COE. The car will be launched here in January and buyers who place their orders before that will have $5,000 worth of accessories thrown in. Power for the T6
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          593 44  -  ShermaineWong shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg In these uncertain economic times of falling stock prices and inflation, it seems surprising that dining budgets have been relatively unaffected. A straw poll of 20 people revealed that about 70 per cent have not cut back on their dining expenditure, with
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        ETERNAL STUDENT
        423 47  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH IN CONCERT Master percussionist Zakir Hussain says he's still 'a student' christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg LUCKY. That's how worldrenowned tabla player Zakir Hussain describes his life. "I get a chance to learn a lot of exciting things through working with different musicians, I travel the world and meet great
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        Lock icon WEDDING BELLS FOR BRANGELINA?
        150 47 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ANGELINA Jolie says she may quit her career and marry Brad Pitt all because of her children. "Usually people fall in love and everything revolves around the ritual of marriage. Children are an afterthought," she told the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. "We did
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        JOURNEY TO THE WEST
        751 48  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH IN CONCERT How hip-hop star Kanye West finds his new calling christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU still haven't bought your tickets to Kanye West's show this coming Wednesday, you'd better go get them now, otherwise you're going to miss an "amazing" show so says the American
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        Lock icon HER NAME'S NOT BEYONCE ... IT'S SASHA FIERCE
        233 49 HER NAME'S NOT BEYONCE IT'S SASHA FIERCE THEDAILYTELEGRAPH BEYONCE Knowles has established a reputation for changing her hairstyles and now she's gone a step further in developing her image by choosing a new name. The R&B singer has christened herself "Sasha Fierce" for her double album, I Am... Sasha Fierce.
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        Lock icon HATHAWAY'S EX GETS 4 1\2 YEARS
        109 50 AP ANNE Hathaway's ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, was sentenced on Thursday to four-and-a-half years'jail for cheating investors of millions of dollars by claiming he had Vatican connections that enabled him to buy Roman Catholic Church property at a discount. Follieri said he started off with
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        Lock icon DAWN OF THE LOCAL SONG
        339 50  -  GENEVIEVE LOH Sing to the Dawn opens nationwide Oct 30. IN CINEMAS Singapore's first English-language animated film is 'unique' genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IT MAY be Singapore's very first Englishlanguage animated feature film, but Sing to the Dawn has been touching young Singaporean lives since long ago. Cultural
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        Lock icon TO AMERICANS, ELECTING A PRESIDENT IS A FUNNY THING
        220 50 AP WITH Americans voting between Barack Obama and John McCain for President on Nov 4, the race to make the funniest joke about it is heating up. Here's a wrap-up of the latest election jokes on American latenight television: "I come
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      191 54  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Super Reds 1 Albirex Niigata 2 THE pressure seems to be getting to the Super Reds, as they chase history in the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008. The Koreans had the opportunity to go top of the table with just four
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      NEW BOWLING LEAGUE FOR CORPORATE TEAMS
      102 54  -  KOH MUI FONG On Oct 16, Singapore Bowling Federation (SBF) president Jessie Phua took another step towards meeting her target of financial independence when the SBF announced the new Canon Super Series 2008, a competition for corporate teams. The competition is part of the
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      Third times the charm
      706 54  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL SAFFC defender Arai has been superb and is Today's pick for S-League Player of the Year shamir@mediacorp.com.sg KENJI Arai has twice been nominated for the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League Player of the Year award. He came away from the awards night in 2004
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      536 55  -  SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Striker close to making history but he #s focused on helping team in title battle NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Woodlands Wellington v Home United Woodlands Stadium, Sunday 7.45pm MILTON TAN sports@newstoday.com.sg WITH Singapore captain Indra Sahdan out injured and only four more
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      Maldives sounds nice, but Sivaji wants to stay put, for now
      330 55  -  ACCORDING to a Maldivian football website, 2007 Maldives National Championship runners-up Victory SC are trying to sign Home United coach P N Sivaji for next season. Victory went up against the Protectors in the group stage of the AFC
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      627 56  -  SINGAPORE SPORTS Right now it looks as if foreign talent graduate Zhang is only good for SEA Games medals LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg TEN years ago, Zhang Guirong arrived in Singapore from her hometown of Shenyang, in China. The shot put specialist received her citizenship in 2003, under
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      Lock icon Eddy Tay is new high performance manager for Singapore table tennis
      342 56 LOW LIN FHOONG THE Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) have found a replacement for their high performance manager, Antony Lee. Eddy Tay, 31, who was the association's assistant high performance manager from April to September, will take up his
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      Lock icon Ballesteros in strife
      530 57 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH SEVE WATCH While world waits for news of his brain surgery, experts paint a bleak picture LONDON Seve Ballesteros underwent a third operation at the La Paz Hospital in Madrid on Friday morning. While the world awaits news on how the operation went, hours before the
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      430 57 MCT World Series, Game 2 Tampa Bay 4 Philadelphia 2 ST PETERSBURG (Florida) After losing the opener of the World Series to Philadelphia on Wednesday, the Tampa Bay Rays were ready to hear the same kind of things they
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      Lock icon How dare you Gilchrist,
      599 58 AFP Retired Aussie wicketkeeper under fire for tarnishing Tendulkar in his book NEW DELHI Indian cricket officials slammed comments by Australia's Adam Gilchrist against Sachin Tendulkar in a new book, as tensions brewed ahead of the third Test between India and Australia. The World Cup-winning wicketkeeperbatsman,
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      560 59 THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH FOOTBALL Frenchman says his young team need to be backed by inspired home fans English Premiership West Ham v Arsenal LONDON Arsene Wenger on Thursday offered Arsenal supporters timely encouragement ahead of their visit to London rivals West Ham United on Sunday,
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      Lock icon Jamaica row could endanger England's World Cup bid
      335 59 AGENCIES LONDON England's hopes of hosting the 2018 World Cup have been hit by a dispute over a £135,000 ($325,000) debt owed to them by the Jamaican Football Federation (JFF), which could see them lose the vital Caribbean block of votes. A
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      Lock icon 23 candles for Rooney, one goal
      688 60 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH WAZZA RAZZLE DAZZLE United's red-hot striker looks to reach 100 goals at the place where it all began English Premiership Everton v Man United LIVERPOOL Like Michael Owen, another who exploded into football while he was barely shaving, Wayne Rooney appears much older
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      Lock icon Kinnear rolls with Newcastle, as north-east derby looms
      426 60 English Premiership Sunderland v Newcastle LONDON Interim Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear has revealed he is to sign a new one-month contract as efforts to sell the club continue. Kinnear's original deal was due to expire at the end of this month, but
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      Lock icon BARTON GETS KEANE SUPPORT
      206 60 Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton (picture) has won backing from an unlikely source in the shape of Sunderland boss Roy Keane, reported Sky Sports on Friday. Barton is in line to return to action against Sunderland in the traditional north-east derby, after serving a sixgame ban for
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      489 61 AGENCIES UDINE (Italy) Tottenham's disastrous start to the season boiled over into recriminations on Thursday night (Friday morning, Singapore time), as Juande Ramos' side crashed to a 2-0 defeat by Udinese in the Uefa Cup. The Spaniard dropped £16-million ($38.5
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      685 61  - STRAIGHTTALK EXPECT A SIZZLER ON SUNDAY STEVE McMahon sports@mediacorp.com.sg SO OFTEN when titans are scheduled to meet, we tend to build up the game and stoke the excitement, only for the action itself to bore the life out of everyone. Honestly, though, I think Liverpool's visit to Stamford Bridge on
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      686 62 THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH FOOTBALL Pumped-up Alonso believes Liverpool can end Blues' stunning home run English Premiership Chelsea v Liverpool LIVERPOOL Xabi Alonso illustrated the rising confidence at Liverpool on Friday by insisting that Rafael Benitez' team are equipped to enhance their title challenge by
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      217 63 AFP ROME Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo (picture) believes he deserves to win this year's prestigious Ballon d'Or. Speaking in an interview published in Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport on Friday, the Portuguese pin-up said he should be the favourite to
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      600 63 ENGLISH FOOTBALL Midfield star demands more of the same from team-mates, as Reds loom LONDON The team have been hailed this season for their attacking verve and new boss Luiz Felipe Scolari has changed the mood dramatically at Stamford Bridge with his confident attitude. As
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