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New Dates In Europe http://www.depechemode.com /tour.html Check out the new tour dates for the UK! The DM Photo Mosaic http://www.depechemode.com /dm_photo_mosaic.html Check out the great new feature on the site - the DM Photo Mosaic. You can upload up to five pictures, and be part of a huge photo mosaic of Depeche Mode! You also get entered into a contest! Check it out! In The Studio - Web Clip #15 http://www.depechemode.com /news.html This week, the band are working on "Corrupt". A reminder... Luxembourg Contest http://www.depechemode.com /luxembourg.html Simply put, this is the biggest contest we have ever had on the site! Go check it out! Hurry, the contest will be ending in a few weeks. A polite reminder, only one entry per person. Thank you!

You can now hear a 90 second preview of Paolo's new single 'Candy' on his MySpace player. Visit Paolo's MySpace now and get your first taste of his new material. Paolo Nutini on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads Source: www.myspace.com

WITH four months to its opening, Ion Orchard, one of three new malls on Orchard Road, is already more than 80 per cent full. More than 60 per cent of the mall will be taken up by flagship stores, new-to-market brands and new concept stores. Brands like Cartier, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Uniqlo, Topshop and Topman will showcase their collections in double-storey flagship stores. The mall, on Orchard Turn, is also bringing in brands like Bimba & Lola, Boss Selection, Chaumet, Christian Audigier, Dsquared2, Diane von Furstenberg, Just Cavalli, Marc Jacobs, Patek Philippe, and Vivienne Tam, which are new to Singapore or having its own stand-alone boutiques for the first time. New dining options, like Watami, AOBA Ramen, Sho Teppan, will also make their debut. By Lim Wei Chean, Correspondent ...

By Melissa Sim & Lim Wei Chean Only hawkers with islandwide licences, like this vendor, are allowed on Orchard Road. At least 10 illegal vendors have left after warnings from the NEA. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN HAWKERS who do not hold the correct licence have been warned to take their business away from Orchard Road. It is believed that at least 10 illegal ice cream vendors have left the shopping strip in the last month since they were slapped with orders to leave. The only roadside hawkers allowed on Orchard Road are those who hold islandwide licences. But such blanket licences were no longer issued after 1974, and only 35 are in circulation. They lapse when the licence holder dies. The illegal ice cream sellers on Orchard Road typically hol...

THE number nine - jiu in Mandarin - sounds like and is symbolic of 'a long time' in Mandarin. The triple-nine date - Sept 9, 2009 - seems an auspicious date but it is far from being a hot pick with couples getting married this year. The reason? It falls within the Hungry Ghost Festival, which runs from Aug 20 to Sept 18 this year, in the seventh month of the lunar calendar and is considered very inauspicious. A check of several major hotels by my paper found that there have been very few bookings on that date. Ms Rae Tang, marketing-communications manager for Marina Mandarin hotel, said: 'We have had a few enquiries on this date, but as it falls within the period of the Hungry Ghost Festival, most couples are still hesitant to confirm their reservations.' At the Grand Hyatt hotel, there has been 'little interest from couples from the Chinese community', said public-relations manager Patricia Yong. ...

Posted by Michael Leggett, User Experience Designer Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after . Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can't make her surprise party. I can rush to close my browser or unplug the Internet — but Gmail almost always wins that race. An email to the wrong Larry pushed me over the edge. I could undo just about any other action in Gmail — why couldn’t I undo send? Many people agreed, including Yuzo Fujishima, an engineer in the Tokyo office. My theory (which others shared ) was that even just five seconds would be enough time to catch most of those regrettable emails. And now you can do just that. Turn on Undo Send in Gmail Labs under Settings, and you’ll see a new “Undo” link on every sent mail confirmation. Click “Undo,” and we’ll grab the message before it’s sent and take you right back to compose. This feature can't pull back an email that's ...

SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) is concerned that a randomly-occurring type of dengue virus has recently shown up in greater numbers in one area. Seven cases of Type 3 Dengue infection were detected in Little India in January, up from zero cases in November last year. NEA said the virus type has "high epidemic potential" because Singaporeans are known to have low immunity to it. NEA's Head of Environmental Health Institute, Dr Ng Lee Ching, explains: "Dengue 3 is not very common in Singapore for the past decade. So our immunity level in the population is very low towards Dengue 3 - which means if Dengue 3 spreads, the population will be very susceptible to getting dengue. "We also know that overseas, in America and in Southeast Asia, Dengue 3 has caused huge outbreaks." NEA said it had immediately deployed officers to Little India to locate and destroy mosquito breeding grounds. And the number of Type 3 infections there droppe...

American tourists Mike Rigby, his wife and four friends were shocked when the bill came after their meal - nearly $500 for prawns, crabs, baby squid, beer, rice and buns. Singapore, March 17, 2009 - $30 a prawn or eight for $239 - that's how much American tourists Mike Rigby and his wife had to pay at Newton Food Centre last Saturday, reported Shin Min News Daily. The amount was almost half of the total bill that they had to foot - $491, which also covered four crabs at $169, half a BBQ chicken which costs $19, baby squids ($15), beer, mantou buns and rice. When Rigbys and four friends went to the food centre, it was already packed but a stall assistant ushered them to table saying he got one for six diners. So Mr Rigby decided to order food from him. He said: "We only wanted four prawns at first but the stall assistant insisted that eight prawns would be enough of our group of six. Later he even served us two plates of stingray that we didn't order." Mr Rigby w...

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Written by texstar Wednesday, 11 March 2009 Ripper Gang is pleased to announce the final public ISO release of PCLinuxOS 2009.1. This release features kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Ktorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more. We decided to use kde3-5-10 as our default desktop as we could not achieve a similar functionality from kde4. We will however offer kde4 as an alternative desktop environment available from the repository once we stabilize it. PCLinuxOS is an rpm based distribution utilizing apt-get with a Synaptic Software Manager frontend. In addition to the above PCLinuxOS comes with mklivecd GUI, a nice utility to build a custom live CD from your install. Install or remove what you want then remaster your own cd. Great for backups or to give to friends. PCLinuxOS is also known as as rolling release distribution. What that means is you install once and update it when new applicatio...

Plunging a knife in again and again, diver Craig Clasen grapples with a 12ft tiger shark to protect a friend. For two hours he wrestled with the giant, spearing it seven times, even drowning the beast before eventually finishing it off with a knife. Mr Clasen was hunting yellow fin tuna with fellow fisherman Cameron Kirkconnell, photographer D.J Struntz and film maker Ryan McInnis in the Gulf of Mexico when the encounter took place. Scroll down for more Free diver Craig Clasen was forced to fight head-on with a 12-foot tiger shark when the predator turned on his friend during a spearfishing trip The group were about to leave the deep waters south of the Mississippi River's mouth, when Mr McInnis found himself alone in the company of a tiger shark. With no time to lose, Mr Clasen grabbed his speargun and swam to his stranded friend, who was being circled by the giant predator. 'I positioned myself between Ryan and the shark and I tried to watch it for a second, hoping it w...

MANILA - FINANCIAL assets in Asia lost US$9.6 trillion (S$15 trillion) in value in 2008, slightly more than a year's worth of GDP, the Asian Development Bank said on Monday. It said Asia was hit especially hard as the global downturn led to an estimated US$50 trillion in capital losses around the world. 'Asia was hit harder than other parts of the developing world because the region's markets have expanded much more rapidly,' the Manila-based bank said in a new study. It said losses in Asia, not counting Japan, amounted to more than a year's worth of gross domestic product. 'Losses on financial assets in developing Asia in 2008 totalled 9.6 trillion dollars, or just over one year's worth of GDP.' -- AFP

YANGON (Myanmar) - TWO explosions shook parks near busy thoroughfares in military-ruled Myanmar's largest city. An official said there were no casualties although onlookers saw one man being led to an ambulance. The official said it was not immediately clear what caused the blasts late Tuesday in Yangon. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information. Security personnel rushed to the sites of both blasts and blocked off one road, while soldiers and police stopped and searched vehicles along another main thoroughfare that passes by the sites of both explosions. The was no immediate comment from the ruling junta - standard practice in the tightly controlled nation where almost all government comment is released through state-run media. Witnesses said the first blast took place at about 9.40pm at a small par...

SHANGHAI - BRITISH rock supergroup Oasis say Chinese authorities banned them from performing in China because guitarist Noel Gallagher played at a Free Tibet benefit concert 12 years ago. Oasis, led by brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, said authorities had abruptly ordered organisers to cancel two shows - April 3 in Beijing and April 5 in Shanghai - that would have marked their debut in mainland China. 'The Chinese authorities' action in cancelling these shows marks a reversal of their decision regarding the band, which has left both Oasis and the promoters bewildered,' the band said in a statement posted on its website on Monday. The move came as tensions surrounding Tibet were on a knife edge before the March 10 anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule that ended with revered spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fleeing into exile. Noel Gallagher's support for the Tibetan cause appears to date back to 1997, when he performed five of the group's hi...

03 Mar 2009 Nearly 200 whales and several dolphins beach themselves on King Island off southern Australia. - AFP

Tell Me It's Not Over: Just wanted to remind you all that our new single Tell Me It's Not Over is out NOW. There are some great digital deals on the 4 track bundle at Amazon, iTunes and 7digital. You can also order it via our site £3 for 7", CD and Mp3. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Te ll-Me-Its-Not-Over/dp/B001 TO3OJU/ref%3Dsr_f3_1?ie=UT F8&s=dmusic&qid=1236005468 &sr=103-1 7 Digital link: http://www.7digital.com/ar tists/starsailor/tell-me-i ts-not-over-2/ For those of you who bought the bundle via recordstore, the mp3 element is now available for download. Please download it this week to count towards our chart placing. Janice Long BBC Radio2 TONIGHT: James will be in the studio with Janice Long at Radio 2 tonight, as well as performing a couple of Starsailor tracks he'll be picking some records that are important to him. Visit the message board for details on other upcoming appearances - http://forums.starsailor.n et/viewtopic.php?t=8306 Acoustic...