Today, 14 March 2009

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    10 1 weekendTODAY March 14 -15, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    XTRA
    22 1 If newspapers die... advertisers will lose one of the most cost-effective ways of promoting their products, says Richard Hartung. Page 4
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    SINGAPORE
    24 1 Phantom menaces The first conviction for an employer charged with hiring phantom workers and the prosecution wants him put behind bars. Page 6
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    BUSINESS
    32 1 I'm a little worried Mr Wen Jiabao is concerned about the safety of China's US assets with good reason China is the world's biggest holder of US government debt. Page 24
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    SPORTS
    31 1 Clash of the titans Football giants Liverpool and Manchester United face off against each other on Saturday. Who will come out on top? Our in-house experts weigh in. Page 40
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    LIVING
    17 1 Beyond cooking We look at four cookbooks that are more than mere cook's books. Page 25
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  • Article
    No hike this year
    627 1  -  LINYANQIN UNIVERSITY FEES NTU the latest to announce beefed-up financial assistance yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg AT LEAST one of the three publicly-funded universities will be intensifying efforts to trim costs by ensuring it gets the best deals for goods and services, and streamlining its administrative processes for efficiency. Such
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  • Article
    MP's attacker unfit to plead: IMH report
    474 1  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg A FORMER cabby who allegedly set fire to Member of Parliament Seng Han Thong was initially declared "to be not of unsound mind at the time of the offence". But the latest report from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) declared
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  • NEWS
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      FUNDS HIT, BUT THEY'RE OK
      176 2  -  LINYANQIN While universities overseas are fretting over the losses incurred by their endowment funds as a result of the financial crisis and its impact on their spending, students can rest assured that local universities are not facing the same crisis. All three publicly-funded universities said
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    • STRESS AND THE FOREIGN STUDENT
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        IN CLASS CLIQUES AND CASH TOP THEIR WORRIES
        831 2  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THE paper chase in Singapore can be tough, but the going gets even tougher when you are a foreigner studying here. Apart from having to adapt quickly to a fastpaced study environment, there is also the added pressure on foreign
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        OUT OF CLASS HOSTEL LIFE CAN BE A HOSTILE LIFE
        813 3  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg NANYANG Technological University (NTU) feels almost like home to Mr Yang Mingfei, a Chinese national pursuing his doctorate in electrical and electronic engineering who has been in Singapore for more than five years. Mr Yang, who stayed in
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      WSJ deputy editor to face contempt charge
      236 3  -  ALICIA WONG SOME three months after the Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia) was fined by a Singapore court for three articles published in its Wall Street Journal Asia (WSJA), the Government is now taking a senior editor of its sister publication to court
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      Lock icon YOU'VE BEEN WARNED: IF NEWSPAPERS DIE...
      1023 4  -  RICHARD HARTUNG THE MEDIA Companies will see sales slump, citizens will makejmportantde^ xtra@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT if there were no more newspapers? Not just that the delivery person forgot to set one on your doorstep, but that broadsheets and tabloids disappeared entirely. That reality is sinking
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      Lock icon 'I was alarmed by threats': MP
      435 6  -  ZULOTHMAN INTHECOURTS zul@mediacorp.com.sg SHE was "alarmed" when she heard of his "angry" phone calls to the government feedback hotline on Jan 12, but Member of Parliament Denise Phua (picture) already had "some knowledge" of Ng Kirn Ngweng's violent nature, she said. Taking the stand
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      Lock icon Prosecutor wants jail for boss of phantom workers
      329 6 938 LIVE TWO men were charged in court on Friday for hiring phantom workers, while a third man has pleaded guilty to the offence. Under the law, employers are required to hire a certain number of locals, depending on the industry, before
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    • Article
      Army regular, 52, dies after collapsing
      169 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG AN ARMY regular died on Friday after collapsing midway through a 2.4 km routine run organised by his unit. According to the Ministry of Defence (Mindef), Second Warrant Officer (2WO) Lim Kian Hong, 52, collapsed at about 8.25 am at the Nee Soon
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      Look what they are taking away
      334 6  -  ESTHERNG THREE in five former employees in the United States who lost or left a job last year admitted to stealing confidential company information. These include email lists, employee records and customer information. And many of the nearly 1,000 polled were from the financial
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    • Article
      Lock icon Shoppers cut back on Big-ticket items
      418 7 AGENCIES JANUARY RETAIL SALES CONSUMERS here were clearly not in a mood for shopping in January, with many cutting back spending on expensive items such as watches, jewellery and cars. The reluctance to open their wallets led retail sales to fall 12.2 per cent
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      Rebates, instalment plan for tenants
      422 7  -  ESTHERNG IT'S tough to do business in a recession when orders have dropped but rents have risen. The situation with commercial landlord, Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT), is no different. It has to juggle the twin tasks of upholding its financial obligation to investors even as
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      A*STAR CROSS-COUNCIL OFFICE GRANTS: $40M
      85 8 A total of $8.5 million has been awarded to 14 projects so far, among them the development of: •A vaccine against the Chikungunya virus An optical probe to view cross-sections of live cells in the body to aid in the diagnosis of cancer A surface
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      New chief, new opportunities
      458 8  -  ESTHER NG CHANGES AT A*STAR estherng@mediacorp.com.sg GROWING human cells on tiny frames into soft tissue or organs, and manufacturing machines that can detect infectious disease at border controls. These are just two examples of how a marriage of two disciplines engineering and biomedical science have led
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      Now, push for engineering from the private sector
      504 8  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE eyes of some, engineering is not the most attractive of professions. "A lot of people see it as just high-end maintenance work done by geeks," said Mr Ang Kok Yong, a finalyear Mechanical Engineering student at Nanyang Technological
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      'Do not slash budgets'
      359 10  -  TEOXUANWEI WAR ON TERROR Extremist behaviour may also rise due to downturn: Expert xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg TERROR networks have not been spared from the effects of the global economic crisis raising money for terror operations has been "significantly" affected, said one expert on Friday yet, the threat of
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        CREATIVE AXES ANOTHER 300 JOBS
        82 10 Singapore-listed Creative Technology, plagued by weak demand for its music players, plans to cut another 300 jobs. Most of the losses will be in Europe and the United States, the company said on Friday. Severance payments and costs related to headcount reductions will result in
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        NATIONAL MONUMENTS GET $600,000 LIFT
        144 10 Three national monuments have received a total $619,170 as part of an inaugural assistance scheme to prevent the deterioration of monuments in Singapore. The first eligible applications approved under the National Monuments Fund were from the Sri Mariamman Temple ($136,420), the Church of Our Lady
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        SHANGRI-LA GARDEN WINS GOLD AT NZ SHOW
        68 10 Last year's Singapore Garden Festival winning display has won another award. Singapore designer Peter Cheok, 28, was invited by the Ellerslie International Flower Show in New Zealand to recreate his Seeking Shangri-La Garden, a display of a city submerged underwater to highlight issues
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      163 10 MediaCorp Press Limited, the publisher of TODAY, the second most read daily, invites tenders for: The Provision of Newspaper Distribution Services From Printer to Designated Droppoints/ Locations COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS Tender documents can be obtained from 4 March 2009 onwards during office hours between 10am to 4pm (Mondays to
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  • WORLD
    • Article
      Lock icon South Korea warns North of UN action
      302 12 AFP SEOUL South Korea on Friday warned North Korea of United Nations "countermeasures" after the latter set dates for a satellite launch seen by Seoul and Washington as a disguised test of a missile which could reach Alaska. United States President Barack Obama
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      Lock icon Chinese navy criticises US deployment
      345 12 AGENCIES TENSIONSATSEA BEIJING Chinese navy officers warned the dispatch of United States destroyers to protect a surveillance vessel involved in a standoff with Chinese ships is an inappropriate response, said state media on Friday. Chinese navy sources said the deployment signalled a US intention to
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      Lock icon BANGLADESH BLAZE
      115 12 AP A fire swept through Bangladesh's largest shopping mall on Friday, killing a security guard and sending frightened shoppers fleeing outside, officials said. At least 17 other people were taken to hospitals after suffering from smoke inhalation, Bangla Vision television reported. The blaze broke out on the 18th
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    • Article
      Lock icon Looted Chinese relic in Taiwan: Report
      262 12 AFP TAIPEI A relic looted from China is in the hands of a Taiwanese collector who dropped plans to auction it after Beijing's wrath over sales of other stolen antiques, an expert told local media on Friday. Mr Wellington Wang, a well-known local art
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      Lock icon Family of civil rights lawyer flees China
      170 12 AP BEIJING The wife of a crusading civil rights lawyer said on Friday that she and their two children are now in the United States after paying human traffickers 40,000 yuan ($9,000) to smuggle them out of China to escape harassment by security
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      Lock icon Top Umno official charged
      294 14 AP GRAFT CASE KUALA LUMPUR Prosecutors charged a top ruling party official with bribery on Friday, sending shock waves through Malaysia's political ranks ahead of party elections that many fear will be marred by corruption. Mr Norza Zakaria, a member of the United Malays National Organisation's
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      Lock icon WHATA DISASTER
      102 14 AP I The authorities declared some of Australia's most popular and pristine beaches as disaster zones on Friday, after 42,500/ of oil leaked from a container ship blackened the creamy shores for miles. National parks at Moreton and Bribie islands in the north of Brisbane were the worst
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      Lock icon Lawmaker sues over detention
      211 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian opposition lawmaker sued the country's Home Minister, police chief and a senior police officer on Friday for her wrongful arrest last year under the Internal Security Act (ISA). Ms Teresa Kok, from the Democratic Action Party, a member of the opposition
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      Lock icon New budget airline terminal for M'sia in three years
      142 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's capital will have a new US$542 million ($836 million) budget airline terminal by 2011, replacing the existing facility which is bursting at the seams, said the authorities on Friday. The current terminal, which opened in 2006 with
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      Lock icon One fined, five charged for online insults to Perak Sultan
      358 15 AP KUALA LUMPUR A man was fined RMIO.OOO ($4,200) on Friday for insulting a Malaysian Sultan in an online posting, government officials said, the latest in a series of actions against Internet writers in the country. Five others were also
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      Lock icon SELF OR STATE FIRST?
      936 15  -  001 KEEBENG MALAYSIAN POLITICS Umno polls will be most significant in ruling party's 63-year history__ xtra@mediacorp.com.sg THE endgame has started for what had until recently always been the most significant polls in Malaysia the party elections of the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno). Quite a
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      Lock icon NO EARLY BLOSSOMS IN DC
      863 16  -  SIMON TAY GLOBAL CITIZEN US winter is as bleak and bitter as the mood in the Capitol xtra@mediacorp.com.sg THE day I flew into Washington, DC was bitterly cold. White snow dressed the usually green lawns and matched the city's famous landmarks like the Washington Monument
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon SEVEN ARRESTED OVER DUTCH BOMB PLOT
        128 17 THE GUARDIAN Dutch police arrested seven people on Thursday on suspicion of plotting to bomb an Ikea outlet and other shops in Amsterdam. Mayor Job Cohen said police received an anonymous phone call from Brussels on Wednesday night. The caller named a suspect and
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        Lock icon MYANMAR PM TO VISIT INDONESIA, SINGAPORE
        115 17 AFP Myanmar's Prime Minister General Them Sein is to pay official visits to Indonesia and Singapore later this month, state media and an official said on Friday. The trips will come just weeks after Gen Them Sein attended a summit of South-east Asian nations
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      Lock icon US want access to nuclear scientist
      389 17 AFP US-PAKISTAN TIES Pakistan told to release Abdul Qadeer Khan for questioning or face cessation of military aid WASHINGTON United States lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation aiming to cut off military aid to Pakistan unless US officials are able to question alleged nuclear proliferator
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      Lock icon 100ml liquid limit for air travel set to be lifted
      227 18 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Trials of a new generation of scanners are due to take place at a number of airports across the European Union (EU) next year, which could lead to the scrapping of the 100 ml liquid restrictions for
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      Lock icon Killer's Internet threat a hoax
      307 18 AFP GERMANY SHOOTING Officials fooled by message posted after shooting WINNENDEN (Germany) An Internet warning ascribed to a German teenage gunman who killed 15 people in a bloody rampage before turning the gun on himself was a fake, the police and a state minister said.
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      Lock icon Shooter had violent DVDs
      143 18 AP SAMSON (Alabama) Investigators found dozens of soot-cov-ered DVDs on how to commit acts of violence in the charred Alabama home where Michael McLendon, 28, killed his mother at the start of a massacre that left 11 dead, a county official said on Thursday. "There was
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      Lock icon Paris, 20 years later
      488 19 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH CITY REVAMP Architects unveil plans to turn city into a sustainable green metropolis PARIS Ten of the world's leading architects have detailed their plans to dramatically transform the French capital into a Grand Paris, in what has been described as the most complex city project
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      Lock icon Sahara sun could power whole of Europe
      181 19 THE GUARDIAN LONDON European countries could transform their electricity supplies within a decade by investing in a giant network of solar panels in the Sahara desert, an expert told the global warming conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday. Dr Anthony Patt of the International
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      46 19 What would the world be like without women? A MONTH DEDICATED TO ALL THE SPECIAL WOMEN IN OUR LIVES! Our mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and friends. They fill our lives with so much love, strength and beauty that it's hard to imagine life without them. /A=dlj\Corp
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  • voices
    • Letter
      The world thanks you, professor
      92 20  -  Errol Goodenough Letter from IT IS easy to view our world as turning into a cesspool of greed and deceit. Then along comes someone like Professor Gatze Lettinga ("Why he said 'no' to patent", March 10). That Prof Lettinga chose not to patent his technology
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    • Letter
      The price of ethics: 10 cents
      152 20  -  Lionel DeSouza Letter from THE other day, as I was trying to fish out a 10-cent coin from my pocket so I could use the toilet at Maxwell Road Hawker Centre, I was rudely surprised when a man darted in front of me in
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    • Letter
      I SAY GOODNESS GRACIOUS, NO
      550 20  -  Subana Hall Are Singaporeans really as gracious as survey suggests? Letter from IT IS interesting that 90 per cent of Singaporeans feel that Singapore is a rather gracious society ("Gracious, really?", March 12), according to the recent survey by the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM). However,
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      Courtesy begins on the train —just ask the Japanese
      452 20  -  Lewis Ho Letter from I REFER to the report on graciousness in Singapore. We have no details of how the survey was conducted. Therefore, I assume the survey was done via a random "off-the-street" method which is highly unrepresentative. Personally, I
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  • business
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      Lock icon NOL denies rights-issue talk
      271 22 STOCK MARKET SHARES of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) staged a recovery on Friday, after the container shipping firm finally quashed week-long talk that a fundraising rights issue was in the works. In the trading hours after the company issued a statement at around 1 pm, the
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      FAIRPRICE STANDS BY FOR CAPITAMALL TRUST
      179 22  -  ESTHER FUNG NTUC Fair Price, a cooperative that runs a supermarket chain, has agreed to be a standby subscriber if Capita Mall Trust's rights issue is not fully subscribed, the real estate investment trust revealed on Friday. The co-op is a major shareholder with
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      Lock icon Switzerland breaks with tax tradition
      192 22 AP THE Swiss government said on Friday it would cooperate on cases of international tax evasion, breaking with a long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollars in the Alpine nation. Switzerland insisted it would hold onto its banking secrecy rules,
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    • Article
      Oriental Century ropes in the pros
      353 22 ORIENTAL Century, a Singapore-listed Chinese education firm fighting to survive amid fraud revelations, has hired accounting and legal firms to assess the damage as well as its options. It has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to conduct an independent review of its financials and investigate how
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    • Article
      New index tracks unit trusts here
      334 22  -  TANHUILENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SIGNALLING the extent of the bloodshed in stock markets, just 10 out of over 300 equity unit trusts in Singapore are now in the black. Overall, the instruments lost 50 per cent of their value last year and are down another 10
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      Lock icon FROM ICON TO CON
      1174 23  -  PATWESCHLER DAVID GLOVIN BLOOMBERG r BERNARD MADOFF The convicted fraudster will be living a very different life behindjjars_ AND xtra@mediacorp.com. sg BERNARD Madoff, who pleaded guilty on Thursday to masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history, may have to fight off prison inmates who want to
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      Lock icon China fears for its US assets
      605 24 AGENCIES FINANCIALCRISIS Hints of extra stimulus in China and Japan fuel Asian markets WITH United States deficits ballooning on mega bailout and economic stimulus packages, China the world's biggest holder of American government debt is concerned about the safety of those assets. On Friday,
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      Lock icon NG KOKSONG JOINS FUTURES HALL OF FAME
      193 24 Mr Ng Kok Song, founding chairman of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex), has received a global accolade for his contribution to the futures industry. This year, he will join luminaries including former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in the Futures Industry Association's
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      Lock icon HK investors file US lawsuit over Minibonds
      367 24 AGENCIES A GROUP of Hong Kong investors has sued Lehman Brothers and HSBC in the United States, in a bid to recoup as much as US$l.6 billion ($2.4 billion) in losses after the collapse of the Wall Street investment bank left their investments
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  • weekend Living
    • MAKAN
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        Lock icon A thousand flavours & then some ...
        1111 25  - A thousand flavours then some Don Mendoza Photo by djT(Jtoj@to£^A4Jip-.6<ntos.jrd 125, Montagud Editores Available at 25 Degree Celsius (tel: 6327 8389) OWNING The Escoffier Cookbook (complete with 2,973 recipes) does not make us better cooks. Using this heavily abridged insider's peek into the art of professional European cookery does. So,
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      • FOODNOTES
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          A VALUE-ADDED CUPPA
          137 26  -  DON MENDOZA It was only a matter of time that 46-year-old Boncafe International a pioneer in the coffee-roasting business since 1 962 opened a coffee gallery and academy in Singapore. "Many coffee drinkers are familiar with the brew they drink every morning, or in the afternoon," said
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        DEUCIOUSLY GOOD FOOD
        582 27  -  ANNETTE TAN VEGGING OUT Finally, a restaurant that serves healthy vegetarian cuisine that doesn't sacrifice flavour and finesse food@newstoday.com.sg BESIDES being greedy, I am also a steadfast carnivore who feels that no meal is complete without a nice side of red or dark meat. So, you might
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        HIGH AND MIGHTY
        348 27  -  DON MENDOZA IF YOU were passionate about wine, you would have heard of Jeannie Cho Lee the first Asian to pass the notoriously rigorous exams at The Institute of Masters of Wine, in 2007. This makes her one of only 276 certified Masters of Wine (MWs) worldwide.
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    • STYLE
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        PRETTY AND ADORABLE
        975 28  -  PEARLYN THAM CUTE COLLECTIBLES This season, fashion and beauty brands seek to melt the hearts of girls and grown-up women alike pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg THIS Elvis doesn't sport a pompadour, nor is he decked out in a gold lame suit. Instead, he's covered up in Swarovski crystals and is
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        GETTING UNDER THE SKIN OF SUPERMODEL QIQI
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