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• Ministry to help Elis Syuhaila reunite with son

  
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  KUALA LUMPUR: The Woman, Family and Community Development Ministry, through the Attorney-General’s Chambers, will assist Elis Syuhaila Mokhtar, 34, reunite with son, Ferris Mokhtar Van De Ven, 5, who was taken to Belgium by her former husband.Its minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said Attorney-General Tan ...
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• Gerrard calls for unity

  
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  LIVERPOOL: Steven Gerrard has called for unity as Liverpool look to bounce back from their premature Champions League exit with victory over Everton in today’s Merseyside derby. A season that started with so much promise is rapidly turning sour for manager Rafa Benitez and his players.Out of the Champions League, ...
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• Inclusion of U-10s good for ping pong

  
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  KUCHING: The inclusion of singles for U-10 boys and girls in the 49th Sarawak Open Table Tennis Championship is seen as a positive step forward for development of the game in the state.Organising chairman Helena Christine Wee said the move would greatly help unearth more talents in this particular age group to be ...
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• Davydenko pips Djokovic to semi-finals spot

  
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  LONDON: Nikolay Davydenko sealed the last semi-final berth at the ATP World Tour Finals on Friday, claiming the victory he needed over Robin Soderling to send 2008 champion Novak Djokovic spinning out of the tournament.Serbian Djokovic completed Rafael Nadal’s miserable week with a 7-6 6-3 defeat of the Spaniard but ...
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• Woods global sports icon

  
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  MIAMI: Golf superstar Tiger Woods, who was reported to have been seriously hurt Friday in a car accident in Florida, is arguably the biggest sporting personality in the world - with a bank balance to match. The 33-year-old world number one, who reportedly drove into a tree after leaving his property in the Isleworth ...
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• Double chances to win great prizes from Minex Jewellery

  
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  KUCHING: In celebration of its sixteenth anniversary this year alongside Tun Jugah Centre ‘Sparkling Christmas’ carnival, local jewellery retailer Minex Jewellery is holding two lucky draws for customers who made purchases during its annual 10-day ’60 Per Cent Sale’ exhibition, starting from yesterday until ...
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• Voon lodges police report against five BN assemblymen

  
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  KUCHING: Batu Lintang assemblyman Voon Lee Shan yesterday lodged a police report against five Barisan Nasional (BN) assemblymen for their “offence in making publication of a seditious material”.The five BN assemblymen were Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah (Asajaya), Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi (Pantai Damai), Snowdan Lawan ...
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• Make Junk Regatta a tourist draw: Rep

  
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  BAU: The Junk Regatta can be a stepping stone to develop Bau into a tourist attraction. Tasik Biru assemblyman Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie said this at the opening of the regatta here yesterday.“The regatta is a unique event in the state and country. We should capitalise on the uniqueness of this event and promote ...
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• Sibu plans grander lantern festival

  
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  LANTERN festival in October?That was the question my somewhat surprised friend, Brian, now staying abroad, asked when I e-mailed him on the grand celebration to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival in Sibu this year. DRAGON HEAD: According to feng shui masters, the head of the dragon is found at the site of the temple . The ...
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• The versatile Bugaboo stroller

  
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  WATCHING Bugaboo sales project manager Robert Cohen de Lara lock, unlock, fold and tuck a children’s pushchair under his arm without breaking a sweat is like watching a clown pull out a balloon, pump it up and twist it into a replica of the Eiffel Tower. Bugaboo means endless, no barriers and pushing the ...
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• Preventing tooth loss

  
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  Older people with dental health problems have benefitted from dental implants, particularly implant overdentures, which have a proven record of long-term success and survival.POOR oral health, particularly dental, has become more prevalent among the elderly who are inclined to suffer from high levels of tooth loss.To ...
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• Cramming: Poking holes into the education system

  
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  EARLIER this semester, a friend of mine met with his group to discuss about one of their coming exams. During their meeting, they wrote down in one piece of paper, literal essays, on possible questions that might appear in the exam. My friend, due to his comparative level of English, was assigned with the task [...]
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• The art of problem anticipation

  
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  THE ability to foretell the exact nature of future events belongs to the very few and to the past. However, many humans, if you count the psychics, and certain birds and animals such as the elephants and dogs can sense trouble coming at some future date.Did you read the story about the elephant that refused [...]
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• Op-ed pages, fertile ground for social and intellectual progress

  
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  WHO reads the newspaper columns like mine?I haven’t the faintest idea really. Writing must be one of the loneliest jobs on earth. You stare at the computer monitor, and try to imagine an audience out there, waiting with bated breath for your entertaining words of wisdom. In actual fact, you never know who reads your ...
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• Look within to find goodness

  
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  POLLUTION of falling moral standards is the seed of all other pollutants that are degrading the quality of life.A parallel can be drawn between the growing pollution in the urban areas and the erosion of moral values in public and private lives.Just as anti-polluting devices are in-stalled in industries to check ...
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• Are we really that boring?

  
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  A FRIEND recently encountered a person who is of the opinion that Kuching (specifically) and Sarawak (generally) is a ‘boring backwater place that has not developed for the past three decades, where there is nothing to do’. The friend relayed this encounter over coffee one day to the Eye. He had met this ...
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• In search of perfection

  
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  “HAVE you heard of airwater?” Well, at least that was what I thought Yeoh said. “Airwater? You are kidding right?”Yeoh was my university mate. I caught up with him again after over 30 years. We were sitting in a Dim Sum restaurant in San Francisco Chinatown, filling in the gaps of the intervening years.Yeoh ...
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• Masteel returns to profit with RM13.4 mln

  
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  KUCHING: Malaysia Steel Works Bhd (Masteel) returned to profit with RM13.4 million in the third quarter from a loss of RM2 million in the first half of financial year 2009. The turnaround was mainly attributed to the escalating average selling prices (ASP) of long steel products between May and July, 2009 resulting ...
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• Archery range for Lawas soon?

  
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  LAWAS: Lawas may soon be the first in the state to have an outdoor archery range.The state government will consider the Lawas Archery Association’s application for such a facility, and the latter has been tasked to identify a site suitable for hosting not only local but also major tournaments.Second Minister of ...
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• Masalah gula di Lawas selesai minggu depan

  
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  LAWAS: Masalah kekurangan bekalan gula yang membelenggu lebih 40,000 penduduk di daerah Lawas dijangka selesai apabila 75 tan metrik gula akan tiba di daerah itu minggu depan sekali gus memenuhi keperluan menjelang perayaan Krismas nanti.Ketua Cawangan Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan ...
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