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    20 1 TODAY Friday December 5, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday December 5, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    40 1 Phin Wong Today Plus Editor was stranded in Phuket when thousands of protesters decided to camp out at Bangkok's airports. None of this drama, he says, was in vain. He shares the life lessons gleaned from it. Page 44
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    Lock icon TARIFF BREAKDOWN
    83 1 Making up the Jan 2009 tariff of 22.33 cents/kWh 50 .8% Fuel cost, based 11.65 Cdlts/kWh on forward fuel oil price* (Plunged 38% from 18.89 cents/kWh) „co/ 5-96 cents/kWh 2Dt'o Power generation cost* 3 (Dip from 6.24 cents/kWh) 21.4% Grid charge** 4.92 Cents/kWh (Unchanged) Yo Market support services
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    A swing for the better
    651 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Qi POWER TARIFFS 25% cut brings prices near those a year ago but be ready for volatility ahead chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg AFTER the dramatic surge in electricity prices in the last three month of the year, households can look forward to cheaper power
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    A prudent breather to ward off glut
    610 1  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS a "prudent" move to let the market catch its breath and adjust, say analysts. And in any case, the sites that will remain available for sale after the Government moved yesterday to further curb the supply of land for
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      WELCOME PAUSE, BUT CAN IT AVOID MARKET PLUNGE?
      266 2  -  COLIN TAN Rents will continue to fall even as land supply in Singapore is reduced THE drastic reduction in the supply of commercial and residential sites is a case of better late than never. But will it be enough to avoid sharp
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      TO THE POINT
      79 2 The difference between American and Chinese systems is that Americans want you to become American The problem is when the US becomes excessive in its missionary zeal to spread US democracy globally. To export it is attractive to a point, but beyond it, when it tries to
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      Lock icon King skips giving speech
      735 3 AGENCIES TURMOIL INTHAILAND BANGKOK Thailand's revered King failed to make a traditional speech yesterday on the eve of his birthday because he is ill, his children said, ending hopes he might offer guidance amid a long-running political crisis. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (picture), who turns 81 today
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      Costs up, but S pore far cheaper than rivals
      479 4  -  LINYANQIN EXPAT EXPENSES The Republic is 12th most expensive city in Asia yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg WITH inflation and fluctuating exchange rates, Singapore has leapt 27 places up the global rankings of the world's most expensive cities to live in. The consolation for the
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      Lock icon Let the (service) star be your guide
      622 6  -  ESTHER NG QUALITY SERVICE Scheme hopes to encourage better customer care among retailers estherng@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW accreditation scheme will help consumers recognise businesses and retailers that offer good service and helping to make those picks is a jury of mystery shoppers. So far,
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      Lock icon Retrenchment worries aired
      653 8  -  TEOXUANWEI DIALOGUE ON JOBS xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg THE call for employers to retrench staff only as a last resort has provided some assurance to workers, but concerns clearly remain. Such as, would foreign or local staff be handed the pink slip first, should the time for job cuts come?
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      Lock icon Boom times in recession
      366 10  -  ONG DAI LIN MBA PROGRAMME Some business schools in Singapore already seeing rise in MBA applicants dailin@mediacorp.com.sg MANY working adults return to school during recessions to upgrade their academic qualifications so that they can have an advantage when the economy recovers. And one business school in
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      I-Tec fined $5,000 for selling banned melamine-tainted products
      356 10  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SUPERMARKET chain I-Tec has become the first establishment to be convicted and fined for selling melamine-tainted Chinamade milk products after a ban on such items came into effect on Sept 19. Yesterday, a district court found I-Tec guilty of selling
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      Lock icon AVOID TRAVEL TO INDIA: MFA
      59 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singaporeans who do not have a pressing need to travel to Mumbai should postpone their trip to a later date, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). They are also advised to avoid all non-essential travel to India. Should Singaporeans decide to travel,
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      Lock icon Farewell to an 'angel'
      298 12 MIIM R A I IVI mam* |V| t mm^ M I TERRORVICTIM AS A vicious tropical rainstorm beat down yesterday, mourners began a funeral mass for Ms Lo Hwei Yen, the first Singaporean to be killed in a terrorist attack. The rain continued even as Ms
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        MOE GETS NEW DIRECTOR-GEN
        125 12 The Ministry of Education will get a new Director-General of Education, with Ms Seah Jiak Choo, 57, set to retire from the service after completing her five-year term next March. Ms Ho Peng, 54, the current Director of Curriculum Planning Development, will be appointed as Director-General
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        Lock icon CHINESE NATIONAL FINED $19K FOR SMUGGLING CIGARETTES
        100 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A Chinese national was fined $19,000 on Monday for smuggling cigarettes through parcel post. Mr Wang Zhong, 23, had arranged for a friend in Korea to send 160 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes to him by post. The duty and Goods and
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      Four agencies join hands to enhance public health
      296 14  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg PATIENTS can get new drugs quicker and they may also be alerted sooner should a drug be a health risk if the goals of a consortium of regulatory agencies are met. Formed two years ago, the Regulatory Worksharing Grouping
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      Lock icon One teens dramatic change
      430 14  -  SUFIANSUDERMAN MALAY/MUSLIM GIRLS Pilot programme to help them find confidence, purpose sufian@mediacorp.com.sg NURUL Nabiyyah Juremi, 14, used to tease others and made her teachers angry. She spent much of her time idling around with her friends and, from her own admission, had no particular ambition. But
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      Lock icon Army approaches Newin
      604 16 AFP THAI POLITICS Parliament session to choose PM cancelled BANGKOK The Thai military has approached veteran Buri Ram politician Newin Chidchob (picture), leader of a major faction in the dissolved People Power Party (PPP), to help in forming a coalition government, a source in the faction claims.
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      Lock icon US envoy seeks North Korea nuclear pact
      213 16 BLOOMBERG SEOUL United States nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill met with North Korean officials in Singapore yesterday, seeking agreement on how to check the extent of the communist nation's atomic programme. The US and North Korea disagree over how to verify disablement of the
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      Lock icon Pakistan pledges strong action
      750 19 AFP AFP MUMBAI ATTACKS ISLAMABAD Pakistan promised United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday that it would take "strong action" against anyone on its territory found to have been involved in the Mumbai attacks. President Asif Ali Zardari told the top US diplomat, who is
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      Lock icon Australia seeks closer security ties with Asia
      233 20 AGENCIES SYDNEY Australia is seeking stronger ties with Asian countries to counter security concerns, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told parliament yesterday. Canberra wants to expand its security cooperation with China, India and regional partners including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, he
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      Lock icon India can ask China for help with Pakistan
      466 20  -  JESSINTATAN AFP FIGHTING TERROR Experts say economic impact likely to be limited jessinta@mediacorp.com.sg INDIA can approach China for help to intervene in the issue of Pakistani citizens implicated in the Mumbai terror attacks, suggested a terrorism expert. "Just as India has approached
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      Lock icon CALLING ALL PAKISTANIS
      867 21  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN THENEWYORKTIMES NEWS COMMENT After the Mumbai attacks, community should publicly denounce the terrorists ON FEB 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Mohammed. More such mass protests followed weeks later.
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      Lock icon US congresswoman thought Obama call was a hoax
      266 22 AP MIAMI When a man sounding remarkably like United States President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman on Wednesday, she assumed it was a hoax. So Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up. But this was no prank. "I thought it was one
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      Lock icon Bio, nuclear attacks possible in next 5 years
      494 22 THEGUARDIAN TERRORALERT US report makes chilling prediction WASHINGTON An investigation by the United States Congress into weapons of mass destruction published on Wednesday made a chilling prediction of terrorists mounting an attack using biological or nuclear weapons within the next five years.
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      Lock icon Zaid stays out of opposition parties for now
      262 24 AP KUALA LUMPUR Despite much courting by Pakatan Rakyat parties, former de facto Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim (picture) said he will not be joining the opposition, although he does not rule out doing so in the future. Two days ago, Mr Zaid
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      Lock icon Half of govt staff unqualified
      370 24 INDONESIAN CIVIL SERVICE Top minister says they will be retrained JAKARTA A top Indonesian minister has revealed that half the country's four million civil servants are unqualified. State Minister for Administrative Reforms Taufiq Effendi said his office would find ways to reshuffle the two million
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      Jan 20 hearing for Raja Petra
      103 24 KUALA LUMPUR High profile blogger, Raja Petra Kamarudin has applied to have the criminal defamation case against him to be transferred to the Magistrate court. Yesterday, the High Court here set Jan 20 to hear his application. Judicial Commissioner Zainal Azman Aziz also gave
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      Lock icon Tame your economy, China tells US
      367 26 AP ECONOMIC TALKS BEIJING China's chief trade envoy urged Washington yesterday to stabilise its economy and protect Beijing's investments in the United States as the two sides opened economic talks overshadowed by the global financial crisis and tensions over currency. "We hope the US
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      Lock icon Taiwan's ex-intelligence chief jailed for graft
      292 26 AFP TAIPEI A Taiwanese court yesterday sentenced a former intelligence chief to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a corruption scandal implicating ex-president Chen Shui-bian. Former Bureau of Investigation director Yeh Sheng-mao was convicted of influence peddling, concealing documents and leaking secrets
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        Lock icon US DELIVERS ANTI-CRIME PACKAGE TO MEXICO
        98 26 AGENCIES Mexico and the United States signed an agreement on Wednesday on combatting narcotics trafficking and organised crime. The US will provide US$l97 million ($3Ol million) under Washington's Merida Initiative to aid efforts to stop drug smuggling by violent criminal cartels. The initiative, which
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        Lock icon HK TAXI DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR BLOCKING HIGHWAY
        138 26 AP Hong Kong police have arrested 24 taxi drivers who parked their cars on a highway leading to the territory's international airport, blocking hundreds of visitors heading downtown for hours, an official and local media said yesterday. The protesters were rural taxi drivers
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        Lock icon DON'T LIP SYNCH: CHINA
        127 26 AP Embarrassed by a lip-synching child who sang at the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, Chinese authorities are ordering performers not to fake it during the country's biggest television show of the year. "Choose performers with real singing ability," said a notice posted on Wednesday on the
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      Lock icon WORLD'S OLDEST LIVING ANIMAL DISCOVERED
      176 28 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH An old photograph of a war prisoner with a tortoise, snapped on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena, has shed light on one of the planet's oldest inhabitants. Jonathan, the tortoise in the photo, pictured here with a tourist, is believed
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      Lock icon Breast cancer drug could be harmful
      355 28 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH MEDICAL RESEARCH Tests being done to find out percentage of women affected LONDON A leading breast cancer drug could make the disease more aggressive in a small number of women, British scientists have found. Laboratory tests on cancer cells grown in test tubes
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      Lock icon 'Bailout' is the word of the year
      287 28 AFP WASHINGTON Reflecting what's on the minds of Americans, "bailout" and "socialism" beat "maverick" in a US dictionary Merrriam-Webster's word of the year contest. Bailout "a rescue from financial distress" was declared the winner of the dictionary's word of the year competition on
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        104 56 AP Nokia is launching a new phone nextyearthat is designed to compete with Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's Blackßerry. The Nokia N97 (picture) will feature a 3.5-inch touchscreen with 50 per cent greater resolution than the iPhone. It will also have a slide-out alphabetic keyboard,
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        127 56 'AFP Apple has replaced advice that people install anti-virus software on Macintosh computers, with assurances that the machines are safe "out of the box". The move prompted online speculation as to whether Apple was merely polishing the Macintosh image orthat the increasingly popular computers are
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        76 56 International Business Machines (IBM) has created a "Microsoft-free" virtual desktop for corporate customers. According to Wall Street Journal, IBM's Virtual Linux Desktop comprises a suite of IBM office applications running on the Linux operating system and virtualisation software from Virtual Bridges and Übuntu Linux. The applications can
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      921 60 THE NEWYORKTIMES INVESTMENTS GERALDINE FABRIKANT IN A sign of the economic times, Harvard has sent a letter to its deans saying that the university's U5536.9-billion ($56-billion) endowment fund lost 22 per cent of its value in the last four months and could decline by as much as
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      313 62 US AUTOMAKERS Pre-arranged bankrupcty could be price of getting govt aid for GM and Chrysler GENERAL Motors and Chrysler executives are considering accepting a pre-arranged bankruptcy as the last-resort price of getting a multibillion-dollar government bailout, said a person familiar with their internal discussions. Executives warned bankruptcy
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      396 62 BLOOMBERG ASIAN debt managers expect real estate developers and companies in China, South Korea and Australia to provide them with the most investment opportunities next year, an industry survey shows. Economic recession, slowing consumer spending and shrinking bank lending indicate a growing number of Asia-Pacific
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      259 63 BLOOMBERG STRAITS Resources, an Australian copper, gold and coal mining company, is in talks to sell a $403-million controlling stake in its Singaporelisted concern. It has received offers from financial companies, traders, power producers and mining companies for its 47.1 per-cent stake
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      151 63 .AGENCIES THE European Central Bank cut its main lending rate by 75 basis points its biggest reduction ever to 2.50 per cent in a further attempt to lift the 15-nation eurozone out of recession. The third cut in eurozone borrowing costs in two months was larger
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      424 63 BLOOMBERG FINANCIALCRISIS THE financial industry continues to shed jobs, with Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse Group saying yesterday it would cut 5,300 jobs, while Japanese brokerage Nomura will axe as many as 1,000 employees in London. The job cuts at Credit Suisse represent about
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      364 64 AGENCIES SHARE OFFERING THAI Beverage, which is listed in Singapore, yesterday priced its sale of 80 million shares in Bangkok, reviving an offering that had looked like it would be derailed by poor financial conditions and protests by anti-alcohol groups. The 4.69 baht-a-share offering by
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      326 64 CHANNEL NEWSASIA WONGSIEWYING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg ABOUT half of the retail space at the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort has already been taken up, and the stores will feature over 30 brands that are new to Singapore. The $5.4 billion Marina Bay Sands project is
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      377 65 AGENCIES ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN Publisher cuts costs and warns of painful downturn NEWSPAPER publisher Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) plans to cut costs further after freezing wages for senior management and slowing hiring this year. The cuts would help counter a recession that may last "several quarters," Chairman
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      146 65  -  CHEOWXINYI TOP lawyer Davinder Singh has been appointed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to advise on the latest legal roadblock facing the disastrous Lehman Minibond Series. His advice will be separate from that of the lawyers already acting for PricewaterhouseCoopers, receiver for the
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        64 66 32.5 cents I Neutral Nomura upgrades logistics trust from "Reduce" on valuation grounds, sets $0.37 target (previous target not given). Says weakening macro environment will lead to higher industrial property vacancies and may prompt asset writedowns. Trust's portfolio has some protection from lease renewals and falling occupancy due to
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        CAMBRIDGE
        65 66 20.5 cents I Neutral Nomura initiates industrial trust at $0.22 target price. Says refinancing of $337 million loans due in February remains main overhang on stock's performance, higher borrowing spread to see distribution per unit decline in FYO9. Demand for industrial space likely to be hit by slowing economy.
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        92 66 $2.03 I Underperform Merrill Lynch keeps call, cuts target to $1.80 from $2.00 after lowering FYO9 earnings forecast by 60 per cent to reflect weakness in refining and exploration and production businesses. Expects another round of share price correction as 2008 closes, with falling oil prices piling on more
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        18 66 Wednesday 1,640.57 A 0.08% Tuesday 1,639.18 T 3.02% Monday 1,690.23 2.44% Friday 1,732.57 A 1.29%
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        27 66 lang Seng 13,509.78 Jikkei 7,924.24 lhanghai 2,001.50 leoul 1,006.54 /lumbal 9,229.75 ILComp 846.86 T 0.58% T 1.00% A 1.84% T 1.58% A 5-51°/° T 0.08%
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        22 66 JS$i :i euro .$i !Mi $1,526 ¥100 $1,644 $2,218 HK$ioo $19.69 $1,923 RMB100 $22.18 $0,982 RS100 $3,070 $0,419 RPio,ooo $1,291
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      641 66  -  KELVIN CHOW CONSUMER LOANS Company says it is watching the risks amid roiled markets kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg THROUGH eye-catching ads of "I love James" and readily available "ezyCash" at post offices, General Electric (GE) has been aggressive in grabbing a slice of Singapore's consumer loans market over the past
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      303 66 I THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER SPECULATION is rife that Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is in talks for a possible merger or strategic alliance with British Airways (BA) and Qantas to form a global airline. It is learnt that what is being looked at is the
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      1814 78 WHETHER IT'S KEEPING TIMELESS HOBBIES OR STOPPING THE RAVAGES OF TIME, THESE FOLK GIVE IT THEIR ALL. LYNETTE KOH REPORTS FREDDY TAN: DOLL ARTIST For many of us, giving our dolls a new look would probably involve swopping one outfit with another. To Freddy Tan,
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      992 82 DON MENDOZA PICKS OUT CLASSIC EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO FEAST ON THIS HOLIDAY SEASON SANTA may just be a decorative feature as far as Singaporeans are concerned, but log cakes, turkey and ham remain very real festive indulgences we can't seem to get enough of
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      578 86 RING IN THE FESTIVITIES WITH DON MENDOZA'S HEART-WARMING RENDITION OF A FINE CHRISTMAS TREAT THE best way to get into the sugar-and-spice spirit and into the kitchen for some fun-filled holiday baking is via greattasting yet simple recipes. And if there were one variety of a classic
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      596 88 SHERMAINE WONG RECOMMENDS SOME ACTIVITIES FOR YOU TO MAKE THIS A CLASSIC CHRISTMAS LET IT SNOW f Want a wintry Christmas getaway but don't have time to leave Singapore? Then head to Snow l City, the only place here where you can frolic in real snow. Go
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      520 90 AARON CHONG SELECTS FESTIVE ACTIVITIES AT THE MALLS THAT THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN ENJOY EVENTS FRASERS CENTREPOINT MALLS The Cacao Show This event promises to be atreatfor all chocolate fans. Besides the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the chocolate tree sculpture created by
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      619 92 YVONNE CHAU DRAWS UP A LIST OF TIMELESS GIFT IDEAS fe 1 /YOU'VE GOT MAIL Kg, Actually, it's more like you've got a chic I*,'.; Helen Kelly envelope-shaped card |>. holder ($65) from Anthropology. I 2/CHAIN REACTION f:;' This necklace ($33.90) from Acces- sorize gives classic pearls an
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