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  • 26 1 WeekendTODAY December 19 20, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Sfe I>,c,n )^-^mo£ WWW.tf|^lmt.eom Mn'JJM WeekendTODAY December 19 20, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 143 1 SOON after the 2004 Asian tsunami, a group of Singaporeans headed to the Maldives to help survivors. Some of the badly-hit islands were so remote, no NGOs ventured there except for the small team from Life! Community Development. As the fifth anniversary of the
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  • 141 1 A DIPLOMATIC frenzy enveloped the final day of the United Nations climate conference, with President Barack Obama joining a second impromptu closed-door meeting of world leaders in an llth-hour search for a deal. Earlier on Friday, Mr Obama met privately with China's Premier for
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  • 140 1 IT WAS first supposed to open around this time, but construction and manpower woes forced the owners to schedule an opening in the first quarter of next year. Now, the Marina Bay Sands looks set to be delayed further, with an opening optimistically
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  • THE BIG STORY
    • 1085 2  -  VENESSALEE At these homes, a Santa for all seasons is certainly welcome correspondent venessa@mediacorp.com.sg and we're also invited to go out," said Mr Then's uncle, Mr Then Mun Wah, one of the managing partners of the family-run home. While their numbers may increase during Christmas
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    • 26 2 28-PAGE PULLOUT WE HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OFYOURWEEKEND DRINK FIZZ THE SEASON FOOD LOGSINATWIST STYLE 2009—ALLTHINGS FINE SHOP LAST-MINUTE GIFT GUIDE CAR AWHEELY SPECIAL SEASON
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  • NEWS
    • 1013 4  -  ALICIAWONG Groups tell how they put S #pore #s $***** in donations to careful use alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In Sri Lanka, 750 HDB apartment doors unexpectedly adorn the homes of villages. In Indonesia, hospitals have been built, and in the
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    • 499 6  -  ALICIAWONG SINGAPORE For some voluntary welfare organisations, tackling the destruction from the Boxing Day tsunami five years ago was like being thrown into the "deep end". But swim they did, coming out the better for it and, in some cases, transformed. The
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    • 128 8  -  MAYWONG COPHENHAGEN Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong held several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. In his meeting with the President of the Maldives, MrMohamed Nasheed, both leaders discussed the HINI pandemic issue. Mr Lee said
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    • 439 8 AGENCIES COPENHAGEN A clearly frustrated President Barack Obama displayed impatience on Friday with world leaders' failure to reach a new climate accord, urging them to accept a less-than-perfect pact while offering no new United States concessions. He said the US had acted boldly by
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    • 112 10 SINGAPORE More than 100,000 employers, employing about 1.4 million local workers, will receive $900 million from the fourth payment of Jobs Credit by Dec 24. Eligible employers will receive a notification letter by next Tuesday from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. As announced in October,
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    • 586 10  -  ANSLEYNG Couples told to book banquet dates after May 15 ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) opens next yearto the electronicjingles of one-armed bandits and excited cries of patrons pitting wits and chips against croupiers, construction work is likely to be carrying on in
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    • 244 12  -  ASHAPOPATLAL SINGAPORE Two weeks after the foreign worker dormitory at Serangoon Gardens started operations, it now houses 30 women and 70 men with another 500 workers expected in the next three to six months, depending on demand. Central Staff Apartments is made up
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    • 443 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN SINGAPORE The banks have been considering solutions for credit card users, but can the spa industry itself help consumers when one of its businesses folds? The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) is looking for answers to this question by meeting with industry associations. Prompted
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    • 236 14 SINGAPORE They play with lovelorn netizens' hearts, then relieve them of their money. This is the latest Internet scam that has the police issuing an alert. The culprit, claiming to be British, Nigerian or some other nationality, would typically befriend the
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    • 147 14  -  TEOXUANWEI SINGAPORE A Republic of Singapore Navy officer was charged on Friday with deceiving a man into giving him a $50,000 loan. Second Warrant Officer Low Aik Khoon, 45, allegedly told Mr Kuo Fen Ching the money was for a joint investment with his brother-in-law in a
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    • 227 14  -  TEOXUANWEI SINGAPORE On the assurances of a street peddler, he bought a plastic toy pistol and packed it into his luggage, intending to give it to his nephew as a gift from his honeymoon in Hong Kong. It landed 28-year-old clerk Low Yong Quan in
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    • 65 14 THE police are appealing for information on an unidentified man whose body was found in a canal at Prince Charles Crescent on Thursday (Dec 17) at about 9.30 am. He was described as being of fair complexion, between 1.6 m and 1.65 m tall, and had tattoos of
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    • 376 16  -  CHERYL LIM SINGAPORE The 'N' level results were released on Friday, and some 71 per cent of Normal Academic students have done well enough to be promoted to Secondary 5 Normal Academic. This year's cohort is the first batch of Normal Academic students to come under
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    • 243 18 SINGAPORE It was the first accident of its kind in 20 years, which now has the authorities probing the exact cause. While there have been two other fatalities in recent years involving workers being hit by loads lifted, the collapse of an entire gantry
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    • 189 18  -  SHAFFIQALKHATIB SINGAPORE More than 350 passengers bound for Melbourne returned to Singapore's Changi Airport on Thursday evening, after the pilot of Qantas flight QFIO turned back due to a problem in one of the engines. The Sydney Morning Herald said some passengers saw "tongues of fire" coming
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    • 158 18 The proportion of Singaporeans proactively saving for their retirement has grown, from 23 per cent last year to 29 per cent according to the latest Tsao FoundationTNS annual Ageing Preparedness Survey. Emotional and social well-being, though, was still not a priority: Those surveyed still ranked health
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  • WORLD
    • 281 20 AGENCIES MUMBAI A Pakistani accused of being one of the 10 militants who attacked Mumbai last year retracted his confession on Friday and told an Indian court he had been framed. "I was not present at VT," said Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, referring to Victoria Terminus,
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      211 20 AGENCIES MANILA The main suspect in the massacre of 57 people, including relatives of a political rival and about 30 journalists, was angrily mobbed by reporters (picture) at a hearing on Friday. Although there was tight security, reporters were still able to shove pictures of their dead colleagues
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    • 249 21 AFP SEOUL Computer hackers, possibly from North Korea, have gained access to a secret United States-South Korean plan to defend the peninsula in case of war, the Defence Ministry said on Friday. The suspected hacking occurred last month when a South Korean officer
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    • 109 21 AFP North Korea made a rare expression of gratitude on Friday after South Korea sent medicine for Influenza A, a day after Pyongyang threatened retaliation over naval drills near their sea border. A convoy of South Korean trucks crossed the border into North Korea earlier in
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    • 140 21 AFP SEOUL Prosecutors arrested former Prime Minister Han Myeong Sook for questioning on Friday over allegations that she took a bribe from a businessman seeking a state job. The liberal politician has denied the allegations and says the probe is politically motivated.
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      96 21 AP A cold snap and snow on Friday wreaked travel chaos across Europe, causing disruption a week ahead of Christmas. Hundreds of schools across southern England shut down after scm to 15cm of snow fell unusual in a country whose winters are cold, wet and dark but
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 98 22 AP I 1 I UNITED STATES Hackers briefly blocked access to the popular microblogging site Twitter, steering traffic to another website with the message: "This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army." "The USA thinks they control and manage Internet access, but they
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      • 105 22 AP 2 VIETNAM Four people will be prosecuted for trafficking 400 Vietnamese women sent to Malaysia, Singapore and other Asian countries. The trafficking ring was uncovered late last year in Ho Chi Minh City when the police detained its alleged leader, Nguyen
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      • 114 22 AFP 3 CAMBODIA Cambodia's United Nations-backed war crimes court charged former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan on Friday with genocide over the regime's slaughter of Vietnamese people and ethnic Cham Muslims. The 78-year-old has already been charged with war crimes and
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      • 88 22 AP |4 MYANMAR A bomb planted at a bazaar celebrating the ethnic Karen minority's New Year holiday killed eight people and wounded 13 others. The explosion occurred on Wednesday evening near food stalls at a festival ground in Phapun in northern Karen state, the Myanmese Ahlin
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    • 138 29 AFP WARSAW Thieves have stolen the infamous iron sign bearing the cynical Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Will Set You Free) from the former Auschwitz death camp, Polish police said on Friday. The sign (picture) was pulled off from the gates of the Auschwitz
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    • 456 29 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD Pakistan has barred the Defence Minister from travelling abroad as the fallout on Friday from a court ruling reviving graft cases against a raft of top politicians threatened the government's stability. The country's top anticorruption body has called for travel bans
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    • 369 30 AFP WASHINGTON Beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in the measurements between the eyes, mouth and ears of the woman being observed, American and Canadian researchers have found. In four experiments aimed at finding "an ideal
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    • 184 30 AP LONDON-An estimated 1 million passengers, fearful of losing their holiday trips because of a British Airways (BA) strike by cabin crews, have just received an early Christmas present. Britain's High Court granted an emergency injunction on Thursday against unions' plans to shut
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    • 329 31 AFP WASHINGTON A day after the Pentagon acknowledged that Iraqi militants had used cheap software to intercept United States drone feeds, a new report said on Friday that senior military officials dismissed that risk in 2004. On Thursday, military officials sought to play down security
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    • 171 31 AP LONDON A Kurdish father has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murdering his 15-year-old daughter because she fell in love with a follower of a different branch of Islam. A London judge gave Mehmet Goren, 49, a minimum 22-year prison sentence
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    • 163 31 AP UNITED NATIONS The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved new measures aimed at ensuring that UN sanctions target the right people, companies and organisations for links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Since the council imposed sanctions against the Taliban a decade ago,
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    • 421 32 AGENCIES ROME An American doctor, on the run for five years from accusations of fraud and malpractice, was arrested as he hid out on a snowy mountain in the Italian Alps. Dr Mark Weinberger (inset) attempted to stab himself in
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    • 225 33 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH TALLAHASSEE (Florida) A mother who posted updates on Twitter as rescue workers tried to save her dying son has sparked debate over the use of the microblogging website. As paramedics attempted to revive her son Bryson after he was found floating
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    • 376 33 AGENCIES BARTOW (Florida) A man who spent 35 years in prison was freed this week, after DNA evidence exonerated him of raping a child. Mr James Bain has spent more time in prison than any of the 246 inmates previously exonerated by
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  • BUSINESS
    • 411 34  -  AZHAR KHALID Sino-Environment minority shareholders band together at upcoming EGM azhark@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The bid to remove the executive directors (EDs) of beleaguered Sino-En-vironment Technology Group at its upcoming extraordinary general meeting (EGM) could be a breeze if minority shareholders band together to support the
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    • 183 34  -  YASMINEYAHYA SINGAPORE Commodity players Wilmar and 01am International have agreed to part ways from their venture, which has invested in a Malaysian firm listed in London. 01am and Wilmar tied up last year to buy a 20-per-cent stake in London-listed Pure Circle, a firm that produces
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    • 351 34 AFP SINGAPORE The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) said on Friday it will keep its stake in Citigroup in a vote of confidence for the American banking giant, whose shares tumbled this week. The Singapore sovereign wealth fund said its holdings in Citigroup has
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    • 193 35 SINGAPORE Prices of resale landed homes in the prime districts of 9, 10 and 11 have reached levels that surpassed the previous peak in Ql '08, said DTZ Research. The average price of freehold landed resale homes in the prime districts increased 4.6 per cent in Q4,
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    • 79 35 SINGAPORE Chipmaker Chartered Semiconductor stocks will be delisted from the Singapore Exchange from Dec 29. The firm said Singapore regulators have approved a takeover offer by Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Company (Atic), which made a bid for Chartered in September. Atic had offered Chartered shareholders $2.68
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    • 61 35 SINGAPORE Singapore-listed United Overseas Australia has issued a profit guidance. The Kuala Lumpur-based property developer said its expected profit for the year ending Dec 31 is about Asllo million ($139 million). It also said the profit is derived from sales revenue of Asl7o million. A final dividend will
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    • 142 36 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Chinese banks' capital strength is probably more "strained" than it appears as lenders use more off-balance sheet transactions to make room for loan growth, Fitch Ratings said. The increasing amount of unreported transactions, including repackaging loans into wealth management products to sell
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    • 236 36 AP TOKYO -Japan's central bank said on Friday it was crucial for the country to beat deflation and it would not accept continued price declines. "It is a critical challenge for Japan's economy to overcome deflation and return to a sustainable growth path with
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    • 318 36 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Developers may lead a rebound in the city's stocks after the benchmark Hang Seng Index dropped below its 50-day moving average for the longest period since March, Mainfirst Securities Hong Kong said. The Hang Seng, which has declined 3.3 per cent
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  • PROPERTY
    • 503 37  -  ANGCHOON BENG news@mediacorp.com.sg POINTOFVIEW 1\ If ost of us can probably still IVI vividly recall the trepidation in the private residential property market at the start of the year. How far we seem to be from those days now. Then, with Singapore forecasted to suffer one
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    • 103 37 SINGAPORE Real estate hunting is usually not on the to-do list during the year-end. However, if you are still looking around, check out Far East Organization's Adria (picture). Located at Derbyshire Road, the freehold development near Novena MRT station is inspired by the charm and ambience of
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  • SPORTS
    • 598 38  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SDFSDFSDF shamir@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE It was burning bright for the last 10 days of competition, and even as the flame was put out at the Laos National Stadium on Friday night, bringing the 25th SEA Games to a close, the image of legendary
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    • 41 38 The MediaCorp news team that has been bringing you daily reports from Vientiane, Laos, during the 25th SEA Games From left: Reporters Tan Yo-Hinn, Shamir Osman, Philip Goh and Low Lin Fhoong, and photojournalist Don Wong.
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    • 80 39 Singapore's Quah Ting Wen and Malaysian Daniel Bego were crowned king and queen of the 25th SEA Games during a glittering closing ceremony in Vientiane on Friday night. The duo set the Games' swimming programme alight with their recording-breaking performances to
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    • 803 39  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Chef-de-mission Phua gives Team Singapore an A+ says athletics a major letdown VIENTIANE It was Team Singapore's smallest SEA Games contingent in recent memory, but the 192-strong squad were worth their weight in gold after 10 days of official competition in 19
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    • 586 40  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Besides athletics, Singapore's badminton team has also spluttered VIENTIANE Singapore's athletics team have been in the spotlight over the last few days. With only two gold medals and one silver, the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) have come under fire for the lacklustre performance at the
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    • 373 41  -  TANYO-HINN Shooter walks away empty-handed after losing concentration VIENTIANE It could have been gold medal No 34 for Singapore, but that was not to be. On the final day of the SEA Games on Friday, national shooter Gai Bin missed out on an individual gold
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    • 816 42  -  lANDECOTTA Oon says only track and field fraternity can bring about change to lift the sport SINGAPORE Track and field chief Loh Lin Kok insists the Singapore Athletic Association is moving forward. But Singapore Sports Council (SSC) chief executive officer Oon Jin Teik
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    • 781 43  -  LEONARDTHOMAS Track and field needs leadership overhaul or it will continue to struggle In 2004, the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association presented a battleplan to the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) in an effort to secure government funding. I believe the association sought a total of
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    • 660 44  -  DAVID NGIAU There will be drama at the Bridge when Mourinho returns What a draw. A top-drawer Hollywood screenwriter couldn't have come up with better, there will be lots of drama in the last 16 of the Champions League come February and March. Friday's draw
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  • WeekendVOICES
    • 616 46  -  RIZALSUKMA President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono began his second term of office on Oct 20 with an overwhelming mandate from the people. Mr Yudhoyono's landslide victory in the election gave him the political capital to continue and consolidate what he has achieved during his first term.
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    • 768 47  -  001 KEE BENG Controversial civics class forces party to rethink how it manages criticism in a brave new, transparent world GLOBAL CITIZEN One more Pandora's Box was recently opened in Malaysian politics. The Youth Wing of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) managed beyond its
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    • 807 48  -  LOHCHEEKONG Ask any Singaporean on the street to cite the country's greatest engineering feats and the people behind them, and chances are he would not have a ready answer. A pity, given engineering's central role on an island hamstrung by intrinsic limitations. Not only
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    • 747 49  -  RICHARD HARTUNG POINTOFVIEW For many workers the data may be unnerving. Instead of an increase in permanent employment, what's actually rising is contract employment. The latest Singapore Workforce report from the Ministry of Manpower showed that nearly 13 per cent of resident employees are
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    • 710 50  -  CHUNG LYN-YI A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about wedding belles and beasts, aka "Bridezillas". Before we get to that fire-breathing monster stage of the wedding game though, there is the interesting question of the proposal. Lest you think I am obsessed with marriage,
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    • 870 51  -  NICHOLAS FANG Sweat, cramps and introspection at the finish line of a marathon I recently embarked on the slightly foolhardy venture of attempting to run a marathon on zero training. This is not a training philosophy I would recommend, but given that I've
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  • LIVING
    • 12 53 Photography: Jason Ho Styling: Don Mendoza
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    • DRINK
      • 695 54  -  Don Mendoza Make your New Year's celebratory bubbly count by appreciating the finer characteristics of Champagne donm@mediacorp.com.sg WE KNOW of its iconic status.Yet we often drink it at some of the most inappropriate times like at the stroke of the last midnight of the year, after we've
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      • 499 55 Dom Perignon Vintage 2000, $230 to $250 Fresh, crystalline and sharp, the first nose unveils touches of white pepper and gardenia. On the palate, notes of aniseed and dried ginger.The long finish gradually unfurls and settles, smooth, mellow, all-encompassing. Another good example of the ripe 2000
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      • 415 56 Think log cakes are all about thick cream and chocolate sponge? Shermaine Wong hunts down unusual creations Centre Ps (Tel: 6220 1285/9387 7337) Log cakes make good gifts at home I Christmas parties, literally. Gourmet patisserie Centre Ps breaks away from traditional log I cakes that
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        198 57  -  SHERMAINEWONG Spice the season Talk about putting a new spin on the holiday turkey.This year, Heritage —The North Indian Cuisine (Copthorne Orchid Hotel) is serving up a myriad of spicy North Indian adaptations of this festive fowl.We are talking about a whole Tan- doori Turkey ($75) marinated in yogurt,
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      • 443 57  -  Don Mendoza withH donm@mediacorp.com.sg Strange but true A brief look at a year of culinary curiosities I'VE learned many peculiar things this year.At the top of the list is that my six-year-old daughter still prefers broccoli to pork ribs. It must be due to the vegetable-rich diet she
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    • STYLE
      • 905 58  -  Lynette Koh Our top 10 most unforgettable moments in fashion and beauty lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the going gets tough, things seem to get more interesting. Or, at least they did in the world of fashion and beauty. Right from the get-go, 2009 was nothing if not eventful.We
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        583 60  -  LYNETTE KOH SDFSDFSDF Gaile Lai shares her thoughts on style and being married to Leon Lai IN HONG Kong, Gaile Lai who was born in Macau and grew up in the United States is as well-known for her high- profile modelling career as she is for her
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      • 295 61  -  LYNETTE KOH Meet Dominique Rist, the woman behind the I massage techniques developed for Clarins' I face, body treatments I I HAD never put my feet I up on an interviewee's lap until I met Clarins' international treatment development director, Dominique Rist. In town to conduct training seminars
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      • 218 61  -  LYNETTE KOH LESS than four weeks: That's the time it takes fast-fashion chain Forever 21 to deliver the newest runway trends to its approximately 500 stores in the United States, Canada, Japan, South-east Asia and the Middle East. With the opening of Forever 21's third
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    • SHOP
      • 761 62  -  Grace Tay shop@mediacorp.com.sg WITH Christmas around the corner, your party diary is probably full. If you haven't finished your Christmas shopping, here's a helpline with some great ideas, as well as addresses of a couple of fab stores where you can make a quick stop for last-minute
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        68 63  -  LYNETTE KOH NEON shades are everywhere this year even at Italian luxury house BottegaVeneta, which is known for its classic, earthy palette. Not that we're complaining:At the brand's Cruise 2010 presentations, its sorbet-coloured chunky statement necklaces stood out for all the right reasons.This year, we hope to find
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    • AT HOME
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        561 64 Quick, fun ways to give your home a Christmas spruce-up ...without resorting to boughs of holly THROWING Christmas parties is fun, but if you don't own a tree or want anything that will take up too much storage space for the next I I months, you need
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    • CAR
      • 542 66 ForthespeeddemonJ For the motorcyclist BMW Motorrad Neck Brace, $899.95 Most serious injuries are a result of head or neck damage. This brace works in conjunction with a helmet to limit extreme movement of the neck during a collision. Designed by a South African neurosurgeon, it's already
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        519 67  -  DARYL LEE fCARREVIE^' After Kia's recent quality and value-heavy offerings, the excellence of the Sorento sport utility vehicle comes as no shock whatsoever AFTER I had parked the Kia Sorento sport utility vehicle (SUV), a friendly old chap came up to me and complimented the car's looks. Not
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      • 456 70  -  DERRYNWONG [cARREVIE^' Munich's 730 Li is the most accessible 7 Series in terms of price and performance What's cooking with the newest of the new 7 Series? In terms of styling, the fifth generation luxury saloon is sleeker than the previous model, which had a rather
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    • SILVER
      • 802 71  -  Elizabeth Poey Age is the least of your worries when taking up a new sport silver@mediacorp.com.sg IN HER wetsuit, with her diving gear strapped on,AnnaTay (picture) looks like any other diver who is enjoying her underwater adventure. However, the sight of her silvery hair swaying
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      • INTOWN
        • 801 76 Today's top 5 IBookFest@Singapore 2009 Don't miss your chance to catch the last two days of this annual event this weekend.This year, the fair features over 700 publishers and exhibitors from all over Asia, Europe and the United States. Apart from English and Chinese
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          115 78 The walk from the immigration counter at Changi Airport to the departure gate can save you hundreds on your mobile phone bill. Just step into one of I I Times Link outlets, which now I stock the Ready-2-GoTravel Kit.The kit contains a country-specific prepaid I SIM card
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        • 177 78 IT'S as far removed from the glitzy, festooned malls of Hong Kong as you can imagine, though it has more reason than any to celebrate the birth of Christ this year end. Noah's Ark, a theme park built by Christian Hong Kong property developers, is hosting
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        • 95 79 I Laos For unparalleled natural beauty and adventure tourism. Try Luang Namtha, an eco-tourism hotspot, or Luang Prabang (picture), for culture, arts and crafts. 2 Nam Song River Kayak or tube down the Nam Song River in VangVieng, Laos, for a truly unique experience. 3Ayutthaya Explore
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        • 866 80  -  DFSDFSDFSDF k Today travel correspondent Rachel Lo sums up A her two-month journey through the region r t raveller@mediacorp.com.sg A FOUR countries, two months and 10,000 kilometres later, we are back in Singapore, a little tired, a bit dusty, but fully recharged. We have travelled through
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