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    19 1 weekendTODAY May 30 31, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking weekendTODAY May 30 31,2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    92 1 A The crisis on the Korean £j is a fantastic opportunity for China to emerge as a global superpower, says Con Coughlin in a news comment. O O Analysts expect some -J -J profit-taking as soon as next week, after Singapore shares clocked fresh highs for the
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    Lock icon Alarm bells not ringing just yet
    863 1  -  ESTHER NG AGENCIES HINI FLU OUTBREAK Health Minister says no need now for aggressive response estherng@mediacorp.com. sg EVEN though the risk of exposure to the HINI virus is now higher, with four confirmed cases in Singapore, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan is adamant that
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY
      1067 2  -  ESTHER NG ZULOTHMAN Spare a thought for Spores dysfunctional families, trapped in a spiral of hurt and neglect estherng@mediacorp.com.sg DRESSED in a simple black skirt and grey blouse, Mary (not her real name) told Weekend Xtra that for the past two years she has had one
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      Nurturing the pillar of strength
      263 3  -  LINYANQIN EVEN the best among us occasionally take family for granted. Hence, there will always be a place for the National Family Celebrations, now in its in 24th year. With Singaporeans feeling the pinch of the recession, this year's celebrations kicking off on Saturday will
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      HOME TRUTHS
      929 4  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH What does it take to be the family guy these days? christophertoh@mediacorp.com. sg I'LL BE the first to admit that while having a family is the best thing in the world, it isn't the easiest thing. For someone who had a dream of being a rock star
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      Getting to the root of the 'phantom' menace
      292 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SOME companies here are under investigation for allegedly abusing the Government's Jobs Credit scheme by hiring "phantom" workers, revealed Second Minister for Finance Lim Hwee Hua in Parliament on Friday. She did not reveal the number of firms being
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      Seeking the right balance
      451 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT IN PARLIAMENT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg MOST of the 45,000 newjobs to be created this year and next would go to Singaporeans, said Manpower Minister Gan Kirn Yong in Parliament on Friday. The Government will create some 18,000 jobs in the public sector, said the Minister, with "a
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      It's time to revisit the dual citizenship issue: MP
      165 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN IT HAS been a bone of contention here, but could dual citizenship be the carrot needed to draw talented foreigners to Singapore in this economic upheaval? Member of Parliament (West Coast GRC) Cedric Foo urged the Government to "reconsider offering
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      'Grow clean energy sector'
      331 8  -  chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg PARLIAMENT Time Singapore started tapping into clean energy: NMP NEOCHAICHIN IT IS a win-win proposition for the environment and Singapore's economy and answers some pressing challenges faced by the country, as outlined by the Prime Minister earlier this week. Singapore needs to grow its economic
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon MEDIACORP'S GAIA AD IN THE RUNNING
        114 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MediaCorp's controversial TV ad for its Saving Gaia campaign has become a finalist for an international award. When the commercial was aired last year, it was criticised by some for failing to deliver the message and causing children nightmares. However, the ad
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        Lock icon BUYERS EYE HIGH-END PRIVATE HOMES
        85 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA High-end private homes have seen renewed interest among buyers and another sales launch has kept up the trend. Developer Frasers Centrepoint said 15 out of 40 units launched on Friday at its Martin Place Residences have been sold. Half the buyers were Singaporeans.
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      Lim: S'poreans get best of three worlds
      287 10  -  NEOCHAICHIN IN PARLIAMENT chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg "SLIPPER-clad" Opposition candidates and "barking dogs" in Parliament those were the concerns of two ruling party Members of Parliament with regard to the changes to electoral rules. Mdm Ho Geok Choo (West Coast GRC), who asked if the 18
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      PAP needs to groom 'fighters'
      472 10  -  LINYANQIN With more single seats, that's the challenge for party, says MPChong yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg WITH more Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) forthe Opposition to contest, the challenge for the People's Action Party is to groom candidates who can hold their own in a straight election battle, said
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      Lock icon Gripping new designs
      203 12 BUS STOP POLES THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) wants your feedback on three new designs for bus stop poles. The new designs will be installed at 20 bus stops in the Central Business District, Town Centre and selected housing estates. The LTA said that 2,700 bus stop
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      7 more bus services for wheelchair-bound
      114 12 FROM Monday, wheelchair-bound passengers will be able to board seven more trunk and feeder service buses. These wheelchair accessible buses (WAB) will come with low floor boards and ramps and can accommodate up to two wheelchair-bound passengers each. For a start, one in two
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      4 years' jail for 4
      485 14  -  ONGDAI LIN IN COURT Workers tied, gagged landlord; to silence him dailin@mediacorp.com.sg THE four Bangladeshi workers had each forked out $150 in rent to share a room in a flat at Ghim Moh Road. But their landlord would demand additional "pocket money", threatening to tell
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      Joy for minority owners
      301 14  -  TEOXUANWEI THE six erstwhile minority owners who received about $2 million more than their 25 neighbours from the Regent Garden's $34 million en bloc sale arising from additional payments from purchaser Allgreen Properties can keep the sum to themselves, the Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.
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      RUNNER GETS JAIL #1
      108 14  -  ONG DAI LIN A 28-year-old man, Low Han Chuan, was sentenced on Friday to six months in jail and fined $100,000 on four counts of accepting illegal soccer bets. He had originally faced 11 charges of taking the bets amounting to over $23,000 from Feb 2
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      RUNNER GETS JAIL #2
      156 14  -  ONG DAI LIN He had borrowed $500 in March from an illegal moneylender called Ah Lek. Unable to repay the loan, Francis Loo Lian Jie, 25, became a runner for the loan shark, receiving $100 a week in return. Ah Lek would send via SMS to
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      A $100 m fund for the pursuit of peace
      298 16  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg ASIA-PACIFIC nations must develop new ideas, framework and regional institutions to foster peace and security. To get the ball rolling is a US$6B-million ($lOO-million) grant from one of America's largest private philanthropies the John D and Catherine T Mac
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      Lock icon Inter-state talks vital for security
      397 17  -  TEOXUANWEI SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE Australian PM Kevin Rudd says channels must be kept open xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg ON THE one hand, Australia's recent Defence White Paper noted how inter-state cooperation would help deal with strategic challenges the region might face. On the other, the country itself is poised
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      Lock icon Surin: Myanmar situation an 'irritation'
      219 17 ASEAN'S image has taken a battering from the international community over its handling of Myanmar's treatment of prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said the grouping's Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan (picture). Describing the situation as one of "great concern", Dr Surin told Today: "It certainly has
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon N Korea warns UN to back away
      319 18 AFP NUCLEARTHREAT SEOUL North Korea fired another short-range missile on Friday and threatened fresh steps to defend itself if world powers impose sanctions on the country for its nuclear test. With United States and South Korean troops on high alert at the border,
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      Lock icon MINISTERS MEET
      70 18 TREVORTAN Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo met with Sri Lanka Minister for Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollama who is currently here to attend the Shangri-la Dialogue on Friday. They exchanged views on bilateral issues and discussed the latest developments in Sri Lanka. MrYeo said Singapore remains deeply concerned over
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      Lock icon Civilian death toll unacceptably high: UN
      136 18 AFP GENEVA Sri Lanka faced fresh allegations on Friday that its army had killed huge numbers of civilians during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers, as well as complaints it was continuing to block aid workers. Britain's Times newspaper said its investigation pointed to
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      Lock icon A sea of grief
      418 19 AFP ROH MOO HYUN FUNERAL Mammoth crowd turns up to pay last respects to ex-leader SEOUL Tens of thousands of weeping South Koreans packed Seoul's streets on Friday to pay their last respects to former President Roh Moo Hyun, who leapt off a cliff to his
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon RACE A FACTOR IN ATTACKS: INDIA
        74 19 AFP Australia India's top envoy in Australia on Friday rejected police claims police that racism was not a factor in a wave of savage attacks on students from the subcontinent. High Commissioner to Australia Sujatha Singh said after a meeting with police that there
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        Lock icon SUICIDE ATTACK, BLASTS HIT PESHAWAR
        80 19 AGENCIES Pakistan Militants detonated two bombs in a busy market and attacked two police checkpoints in northern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, wounding about 100, just hours afterTaliban warned people to evacuate several large cities, saying they were preparing "major attacks". The
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      Lock icon TINKER TAILOR
      997 20  -  DAVID LEONHARDT THENEWYORKTIMES FAMIVff^fIZ&T SOLDIER BANKERH So much money, so little time for family why you should think twice before entering the finance sector xtra@mediacorp.com. sg THE big influx of highly educated workers into finance in the last two decades has been the subject of some national handwringing
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      Lock icon Iran official accuses US over mosque bombing
      174 22 AFP TEHRAN Iranian officials yesterday accused the United States of hiring those behind a suicide bombing of a Shia mosque in southeastern Iran that killed at least 23 people and linked the attack to next month's presidential vote. "Three people involved with the
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      Lock icon Reporter confessed out of fear
      178 22 AFP WASHINGTON IranianAmerican reporter Roxana Saberi, 32, said on Thursday fear drove her to confess to being a United States spy as she gave her first interview since being freed after 100 days in Iran's notorious Evin prison. US-born Saberi, who was a freelancer with
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      Lock icon Malaria bugs resistant to drugs?
      191 22 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH HEALTH RISK PHNOM PENH Malaria could be developing resistance to the most effective type of drug, potentially threatening the lives of millions. Tests have picked up disturbing signs that treatments based on artemisinin are becoming less effective at combating the disease, which affects 250
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      Lock icon CHINA'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
      714 24  -  CONCOUGHLIN THEDAILYTELEGRAPH NEWS COMMENT Beijing has taken the first step now it must persuade Pyongyang to back down THE Korean peninsula stands once more on the brink of war. To the nuclear-armed North, the massed ranks of Kirn Jong IPs army stand ready to attack; to the
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      Lock icon Mediator vows to be 'aggressive'
      472 25 AGENCIES MID-EAST PEACE Obama ups pressure on Israel, meets Abbas WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama declared on Thursday the US is a "stalwart ally" of Israel. But he challenged the Israelis to stop settlement construction in the disputed West Bank to help advance the
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      Lock icon Hope, but no advances, in China-US climate talks
      175 25 AGENCIES BEIJING United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is hopeful of reaching an agreement with China on a common approach to climate change ahead of a conference in December in Copenhagen, despite considerable pessimism among other members of her congressional
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      Lock icon Suicide cases go up, US army base shuts down
      190 26 AFP WASHINGTON The commander of a United States army base in Kentucky has ordered a three-day suspension of regular duties following an increase in suicides among his troops and concern over a wider trend across the armed services. The "stand-down" entered
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      Lock icon Good for football, but...
      380 26 AGENCIES PRISONER ABUSE SCANDAL White House lashes out at British papers WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama's spokesman lambasted British newspapers on Thursday over new allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq, saying he trusted Fleet Street for football results but little else. Mr Robert Gibbs reiterated
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      Lock icon Bigger role for the FBI
      184 27 AFP WASHINGTON The FBI and the Justice Department will play a larger role in anti-ter-rorist operations. The move is part of a shift away from a reliance on the CIA and the military, the Los Angeles Times reported. The plan to expand the role of
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      369 27 THENEWYORKTIMES CYBER WARFARE Pentagon plans new unit run by vcyberczar WASHINGTON The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare. Administration officials said the military command would complement a civilian effort
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      Lock icon It started with a kiss
      192 28 THEGUARDIAN. RACIAL ALLEGATION JOHANNESBURG A theatre production designed to promote inter-racial harmony in South Africa has been hit by recriminations over an onstage kiss between a white and a black actor. Ms Carolyn Forword walked out of a production of The Pied Piper ofHamelin after
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    • THIS quirky WORLD
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        Lock icon PARROTTAKES FLIGHT WITH STOLEN PASSPORT
        88 28 AFP WELLINGTON A Scottish tourist got his passport stolen by a cheeky parrot. The passport was in a brightly-coloured bag in the luggage compartment of a bus heading into a popular tourist destination in New Zealand. The kea struck when the bus stopped and the
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        Lock icon FREE IPHONESTO NABTRUANTS
        62 28 AP A Tokyo university is giving away nearly 600 iPhones to its students to use its Global Positioning System to nab those who skip class. Although students can still fake attendance by passing the iPhone to someone else in class, the school believes that youngsters are not
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        Lock icon A MAN ON A MISSION
        48 28 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH A software engineer is on a quest to visit all the Starbucks stores on the planet. The 37-year-old has spent about US$lOO,OOO ($145,000) in the past 12 years, drinking coffee from 9,100 stores. He has about 3,000 outlets left to visit.
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        Lock icon PSALM BOOK TAKES A BULLET
        122 28 AFP An Argentine evangelical pastor was saved when a psalm book he was holding deflected a bullet fired at close range. Pastor Mauricio Zanes Condori, 38, was trying to talk two thieves out of robbing his church when one who was standing 2 metres away,
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      816 30  -  NICKDUERDEN THEGUARDIAN 36 hours alone with my 16-month-old daughter xtra@mediacorp.com.sg ELENA looks skittish, almost frisky. Odd. "I bought one," she says. "One what?" I ask. "A pregnancy testing kit." She strides to the toilet, pees, flushes and comes back into the living room, the radioactive stick
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      785 32  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Teri Teo told his family in 2007 that he was quitting his full-time job as a sales manager in the plastics industry, selling his car and pumping in some $300,000 of his savings into a recycled plastics business, they were
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      281 33  -  KELVIN CHOW kdvinc@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE Singapore share prices continue to surge and clock fresh highs for the year, analysts are expecting to see some profit-taking as soon as next week. On Friday, the Straits Times Index (STI) closed at a new year-to-date high of 2,329.08 points,
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      320 33  -  ESTHER FUNG CHARTERED SEMICONDUCTOR Despite the firm's takeover bid denial, shares close up 1% esther@mediacorp.com.sg MAINBOARD-LISTED Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing on Friday quashed speculation that an Abu Dhabi government-linked firm had made a takeover offer, yet the stock price did not retreat to levels before Thursday's spike.
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      225 34  -  MOKFEI FEI 938 LIVE FIRM ASSESSMENT More qualify for this year's Excellence awards feifei@mediacorp.com.sg THERE has been a "profound improvement" in the quality of Singapore's small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) over the last three years, said DP Information Group, a credit and business information firm.
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        BRIGHTER DAYS AHEAD FOR RSH
        127 34  -  ESTHER FUNG Mainboard-listed RSH Limited said on Friday that its net profits rose 17.7 per cent to $16.2 million for the year ended March 31, aided by robust growth in its retail business during the first half of the financial year. The fashion product distributor's
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        KEPPEL ROPES IN LAWYER MP AS INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR
        77 34 Senior Counsel AlvinYeo will join the board of Keppel Corporation as an independent director starting June 1. "A Member of Parliament of Singapore, MrYeo brings with him extensive experience in the area of litigation in banking and corporate disputes, construction and civil
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        181 34 938 LIVE A report found that the growth of Islamic funds in Asia and the Middle East has stalled. According to accounting and advisory firm Ernst Young, 25 Islamic funds were liquidated from last year to the first quarter of this year, while the number
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        107 34 DOW JONES India's GMR Group said on Friday it has agreed to acquire the entire stake in Singapore-based Island Power, which is building the first independent power plant in the city-state. GMR will buy the stake from power producer Inter Gen, which
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      771 35  -  SHERMAINE WONG SMALL PLEASURES Dim sum buffets are surging in popularity as more restaurants start offering them to lure diners shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg THE old adage that good things come in pairs probably never rang truer where food is concerned. There are some culinary combina- tions so divine, one
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      472 36 JADE What: Apart from the usual suspects, such as har gow and siew mai, Jade offers innovative dim sum including deep-fried golden cheese dumpling and a steamed squid and coriander dumpling coloured with black squid ink (left). The soups, such as
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        AUSSIE STARS
        130 36 In the month ot June, an internationally renowned range of premium sparkling wines by Australia's famed Domaine Chandon winery will be available in Singapore under the Chandon label. Two refreshing styles are primed to mark its arrival: The Chandon Brut and the Chandon Brut Rose (shown here). These
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        DRINK IN THE NEW
        136 36 This is probably the only time you would be excused for having your wine on the rocks and I don't mean by the beach on one of the breakwaters. In Singapore for the first time, this innovative wine, the Rosemount O, can be purchased at DFS
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        MORE CHEESE, GREATER VALUE
        78 36  -  DON MENDOZA Can't have enough cheese on your pizza? Then how does Pizza Hut's 1-for-l Cheese Lover's Deal sound? Simply have any a la carte order of a Cheesy Lava 3 Stuffed Crust Pizza (BBQ Cheez Chic/Supremes range, $24.50 to $30.50) and you'll enjoy a pan
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      Lock icon A FAMILY THAT COOKS TOGETHER
      669 37  -  DON MENDOZA GOURMET DYNASTY Da Paolo's continued success can still be found unsurprisingly close to home donm@mediacorp.com.sg IT ALL began 20 years ago, with a humble yet emphatically elegant trattoria on Tanjong Pagan Nestled a few stones' throw from the heart of the city, Trattoria
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      837 38  -  LYNETTE KOH POWER DRESSING This season, the shoulder is fashion's latest erogenous zone lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg THERE were some horrified gasps when I first sounded people out about their views on fashion's latest obsession: The power shoulder. "So damn ugly," pronounced one of my subjects, before launching into
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      GET THE LOOK
      312 38 Commitment-phobic? Strap on or take off the look with this bag by N.nchal.nt, which gives the illusion of major shoulders. Available at Front Row (5 Ann Siang Rd] at $165. The tribal print of this women's jacket by Reckless Ericka ($329] plays up its warrior-like strong shoulder,
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      SCREEN SAVERS
      373 39  -  LYNETTE KOH SOLAR SAFETY Sun protection ought to be a top beauty must-have lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg THESE days, almost everyone we meet greets us with complaints about the heat. It's official: Sunny days are here again (not that they really ever leave). As the best line of defence against signs
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      648 40  -  DERRYN WONG VOLKSWAGEN POLO 1.4 It looks like a Golf that's shrunk in the wash, but the Polo is a fine car in its own right IN SARDINIA, ITALY news@newstoday.com .sg SALES of the previous generation Volkswagen Polo hatchback never really took off in Singapore, one
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      NISSAN 370Z GEARING AID
      268 41  -  COLIN YONG EXECUTING a perfectly smooth downshift in a manual car is almost like making a hole-in-one in golf or scoring a perfect 300 bowling game often aspired to but usually elusive. At least you don't need extraordinary physical attributes for those sports. Operating all the
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      THE NEW SHAPE OF HARLEY RIDERS
      371 41  -  JULIAN LOW RIGHTLY or wrongly, the image of the typical Harley-Davidson rider usually involves tattoos, a goatee, and a body shape more like a Ribena Berry than a man. Gradually, though, slenderer forms are beginning to appear atop Harleys here. Local importer Harley-Davidson of
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      498 42  -  MAYSEAH TWEENTV Kelly Blatz is ordinary teen by day, superhero by night—and a Miley Cyrus in the making may@mediacorp. com.sg "KELLY who?" you might ask. Maybe you don't recognise him from horror movies Prom Night and Simon Says, but get this: This dude's ex-girlfriend is Blake Lively.
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      342 42  -  GENEVIEVELOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg WINNING The Asian Pitch (TAP) a MediaCorp Caldecott Productions International collaboration with Japan's NHKand Korea's KBS aimed at bringing out original stories from within Asia is a dream come true for any first-time film-maker. Okay, maybe not any filmmaker. "It was a nightmare!" said TAP
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      974 44 TV LISTINGS SATURDAY ON MEDIACORP STAY HOME SATURDAY MOVIE PARADISE ASIA -r^-V High School Musical 2 £V SPECIAL club, and he in turn gets everyone else a job and secluded hillside retreat in ijstkiTj* wPWI MR***" jj there too. Things heat up when the high- jaßssssssßa? 'waßssLaßH Bali's central foothills
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      195 46 AFP CLEVELAND Leßron James grabbed a triple double as Cleveland staved off elimination by beating Orlando 112-102 on Thursday (Friday morning, Singapore time) in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference championship series. James and the Cavaliers clamped down in the fourth quarter after
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      464 46 AFP FRENCH OPEN Third seed dumped out by Szavay as Ivanovic finds her feet on clay again PARIS Venus Williams once again failed to get to grips with the claycourts of Roland Garros on Friday, while defending champion Ana Ivanovic breezed into the last
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      650 47  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Defending champs SAFFC are back on song after a tough start to the season Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 Home United v SAFFC dementi Stadium, Saturday 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SAFFC have not had the best of starts to the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009.
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      209 47 FOOTBALL Association of Singapore (FAS) president Zainudin Nordin handed 57 bursaries to financially-disadvantaged children from its Centres of Excellence (COE), National Football Academy (NFA), welfare homes and charities on Friday night. The ceremony took place before kick-off of Woodlands Wellington's Great Eastern- Yeo's S-League 2009
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      284 48  -  LOWLINFHOONG THE Singapore Asian Youth Games Organising Committee (Saygoc) has surpassed its targets in sponsorship and athlete participation with a month to go to the inaugural Asian Youth Games (June 29-July 7), it was revealed on Friday. "The
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      395 48  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE SPORTS Priest will run to raise funds for Myanmar orphans, despite pain and doctor's warnings linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg LAST May, Father Michal Gitner witnessed first-hand the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Nargis. "I was in Myanmar during the cyclone, and after seeing
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      254 48  -  PHILIPGOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg ASK any local sports fan who ran the 100 m sprint for Singapore at last August's Beijing Games. Chances are you'll get a blank stare, and a "Who?" when you tell them it's Calvin Rang, who's now 19. Athletics once dominated sports pages
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      274 49  -  LOWLINFHOONG SPORTS Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has called for the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) and former head coach Liv Guodong to find a dignified and fair outcome to what he termed a "rather unseemly public dispute". "We shouldn't overreact, nor should we...
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      243 50  -  lANDECOTTA SHE has won six Olympic medals three of them gold, one silver in the 2004 Athens Games and last year in Beijing. But after one last swim in the 2012 London Olympics, and hopefully a couple more medals, Australian swimmer
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      489 50  -  lANDECOTTA SWIMMING Aussie swim team urge Fina to take a stand on contentious new swimsuits ian@mediacorp.com.sg AUSTRALIA'S Olympic swim coach Grant Stoelwinder hit out at controversies plaguing the sport after he learnt from Today that some sites scheduled to host the World Swimming Championships in
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      1030 51  -  STEVE MCMAHON STRAIGHTTALK sports@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS been one of the most exciting English Premier League seasons in recent memory. Manchester United may have won the title a couple of weeks ago, but they were pushed all the way by an improving Liverpool side. Chelsea,
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      338 52 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Cristiano Ronaldo (picture) has reignited the uncertainty over his Manchester United future by claiming that he intends to go on holiday before deciding on where he wants to play his club football next season. The 24-year-old who appeared to criticise United's tactics during
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      606 52 AFP ENGLISH FOOTBALL FA Cup would be the perfect parting gift for Chelsea's inspirational boss FA Cup Final Chelsea v Everton Saturday 11pm LONDON John Terry has already lined up a farewell present for Guvs Hiddink but he knows the only gift the outgoing Chelsea manager
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      578 53 THEGUARDIAN ENGLISH FOOTBALL Midfielder's ethos drives him and Everton, on team but to be there was something that we could enjoy with the fans. "On a different level now, being there with Everton, with the collective group we've got, we do have a realistic
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      83 53 Guvs Hiddink v David Moyes Hiddink bids farewell to Chelsea and English football for now and what a great way to finish. Hiddink loves the FA Cup and its tradition, and a man who took South Korea to the World Cup semi-finals is unlikely to be daunted by
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      79 53 Frank Lampard vTim Cahill Two of the season's outstanding performers will meet in a fascinating midfield clash on the new, lush turf of Wembley. The stage is set for an enthralling encounter, with Lampard who is no stranger to the stadium, determined to finish an otherwise disappointing season
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      154 53 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH With Jo cup-tied, Saha is set to lead Everton's attack. Marouane Fellaini is set to return, probably behind Saha, with Moyes banking on the 4-4-1-1 formation that has served Everton well all season. Hiddink must decide whether to recall Michael Ballackto midfield, but it seems likely
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