The Straits Times, 3 February 2003

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    31 1 The Straits Times PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Established 1845 JVI OllQ&y February 3 2003 •68 Pagers in five parts mita (P) 094/03/2002 A Singapore Press Holdings publication OvJ Outs
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    Lock icon 16 minutes to touchdown, then...silence
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    Lock icon Fiery end for shuttle
    893 1  -  WARREN FERNANDEZ By FOREIGN EDITOR Message from Singapore PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tonq sent this message of condolence to President George W. Bush: Dear President Bush, I watched in disbelief the shocking images on television of the Columbia accident. I am dismayed that seven fine men
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      53 1 EX-ENVOY rO KJL SI |EAKS UP: Wrong to treat negotiations in a cavalier fashion, he says PAGE H4 8 *****1V***** The Straits Times interactive: http://straitstimes.asial.com.sq is available from 6 am. TIFFANY&CO. 1837 designs hallmarked T&GO and the year Tiffany was estahlished. SINGAPORE RAFFLES HOTEI \R« AIM MM ow.s NGEI INN
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      51 1 jag tner &&J Heroine Kalpana Chawla chased her dream, and was a hen) in her homeland, India. PAGE3 ■V"*' ofl Comforter Once again, President Bush assumes role of Comforter-in-Chief. PAGE 4 ET' •^■l R* ii Why? Search for the cause of the tragedv focuses immediately on failure of protective riles.
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      154 2 TAKING BREAD TO THE NEEDY WHEN The Sunday Times ran a report about how thousands of buns and loaves are dumped by bakeries every day, many readers were outraged by the waste. But it took logistics expert Christine I^aimer and some volunteers to divert the food away from trash
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      91 2 FICKLE FANS TURN FOCUS TO CHINA A DECADE ago, the western world revered Japan's economy, its potential and its human capital. Now, mired in recession and resistant to reform, the world's No 2 economy has been almost written offby its former admirers. Those same fickle fans are looking to
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      61 2 RELIGIONS BACK CORNEA DONATIONS LEADING representatives of the four major religions here Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Christianity have all previously voiced support for corneal donation after death, writes Associate Professor Donald Tan, medical director of the Singapore Eye Bank. Given this fact, religious considerations should not prevent corneas from
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      83 2 GOAT YEAR TO BRING LOVE AND WAR THE Year of the Goat is likely to bring a short war, but it is also likely to be a good year for marriages and for the property market, say geomancers here. The goat is a tame but rebellious creature. This year
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      114 2 Lee family's gift to charity SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew's family has donated jewellery, mementos and gifts to be auctioned for charity. Among the things to go under the hammer in the first half of this year are a jade seal inscribed with 'Lee Kuan Yew" and a fur
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      126 2 Ministry 'open' to 24-hour creches ROUND-THE-CLOCK creches could become a reality here in the future, but parents will not be allowed to leave their child at such a centre for more than 24 hours at a time. The Ministry of Community Development and Sports clarified its position on childcare
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      56 2 Insurance pitfall TAKING out a private mortgage insurance policv instead of the one offered by the Housing Board (HDB) could prove a costlv pitfall. Private policies are not automatically assigned to the HDB. That means, if the borrower dies, the payout becomes part of their estate and could attract
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      78 2 IRAQ THREATENS SUICIDE AnACKS IRAQ says that it might not have long-range missiles or bomber squadrons, but that it will fight invading American soldiers with an army of suicide attackers. The warnings came a day after US President George W. Bush declared that the conflict with Iraq could be
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      230 2 ASI A MAKING SHANGHAINESE LOVABLE SHANGHAI mayor Chen Liangyu is trying to make the city's 16 million residents lovable by reviving an old "Seven Nos" campaign. It urges people not to spit, harm the environment, damage public property, smoke in public, jaywalk, swear or litter. But it is the arrogance
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      79 2 SPO RTS BAND OF S-LEAGUE BOSSES THE chairmen of Singapore's S-League clubs took time out from their busy schedules and dressed up in army fatigues to recreate a scene from the hit television movie series, The Band Of Brothers. The photo shoot was all in fun, but it was also
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  • SHUTTLE TRAGEDY
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      Lock icon India cries for quiet Kalpana
      942 3  -  V.K.RAGHUNATHAN li) IXniACORKKSI'ONDKN'T 'He won't have a grave I don't have Ilan, and I still can't grasp that.' Eliezer Wofferman, father off Ilan Ramon DFSAF NEW DELHI As a child, Kalpana Chawla nursed a dream of heading for space. "She used to stand on the
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      Lock icon THE CREW: Space heroes who never returned
      343 3 Commander Rick Husband US air force colonel, 45 The former test pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth try. A devoted family man, he once said his children and wife were the pinnacle of his life. "It's been pretty'
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      472 3  -  ABRAHAM RABINOVICH By FORTHE MHMTSTIMKS BTfITTTn JERUSALEM The mission on Columbia was the peak of 48-year-old Israeli Ilan Ramon's career. "I'm simply happy," the father of four wrote in an e-mail to his nrother last week. "It's difficult to describe it in words.
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      Lock icon Bush is cornforter-in-chief, again
      843 4 I wish I was there to hug, and cry, and comfort you right now.' President Bush, to the families off the dead astronauts US President needs to connect with US public, if he is to rally an America still coping with tragedy into a war with
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      Lock icon Terrible rain of burnt metal across 2 states
      328 4 NACOGDOCHES (Texas) On good, clear mornings, it was not unusual for residents of central Texas to catch a glimpse of a space shuttle as it arcs towards touchdown in Florida. That flight path became a vast field of debris on Saturday as
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      630 6 Space station's future in doubt as fleet is grounded The accident not only poses a serious situation for the US manned space programme but also for the ISS project.' Japan's Science Minister Atsuko Toyama. referring to the space station Russian vehicles alone won't be enough to keep the international station
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      41 6 Shuttle's ill-fated mission A WEEK before their tragic deaths, Columbia's mission specialist Laurel Clark conducts a check on an experiment in the Biopack incubator as the shuttle's commander, former test pilot Rick Husband, holds a portable vacuum cleaner for cleanup. AFP
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      Lock icon China and Japan to tighten safety of space programmes
      433 6  -  CHUA CHIN HON KWAN WENG KIN or/ IN BEIJING and IN TOKYO BOTH China and Japan yesterday took steps to safeguard their space programmes following the Columbia disaster. China would further tighten its safety checks for future missions, but will not
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      Lock icon Probe homes in on protective tiles
      903 8 A small piece of speeding debris which hit wing tiles during blast-off may have been 'behind the catastrophic chain of events HOUSTON Although it could take months for Nasa officials to learn what caused the destruction of the shuttle Columbia, they focused immediately on
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    • OTHER POSSME CAUSES
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        125 8 The crew on the Columbia was relatively inexperienced. Only three of its crew had flown before: Shuttle commander Rick Husband and crew members Kalpana Chawla and Michael Anderson. The others were rookies, including the 48-year-old Israeli air force colonel Ilan Ramon, the country's first astronaut. A less-experienced crew
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        75 8 The shuttles are loaded with hydrogen, oxygen and exotic fuels to power their many engines. Just before descent, a shuttle starts three extra power units, which run on hydrazine, a highly volatile fuel. These auxiliary power units run the shuttle's hydraulic system, which moves the spaceship's body flaps
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        87 8 Columbia was the oldest shuttle in an old fleet. It had more than two decades of service and its last ill-fated flight was its 28th trip into space. Columbia made its maiden voyage in 1981, and as recently as July 2001, the space agency was considering parking the
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        52 8 If this occurred, it would have subtly changed Columbia's angle of descent, increasing the re-entry pounding and heating. Dr Ed Crawley, head of the department of astronautics and aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said something like that might have turned a minor wing problem into
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        27 8 Experts said Columbia could have been hit by a piece of space debris or a speeding rock. They, however, discounted this as a remote possibility.
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        59 8 Experts say no terrorist on the ground could have used a missile to strike the shuttle. But, as a remote possibility, they said a terrorist might have managed to infiltrate the shuttle operations and sabotage Columbia's gear. Both the State Department and the FBI said there was no
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      Lock icon SHUTTLE COMES UNSTUCK
      243 8 SHUTTLE COMES UNSTUCK The shuttle has more than 20,000 black, white or gray thermal tiles that are made of a carbon composite or silica-glass fibres and are attached to the shuttle with silicone adhesive. Traveling at more than 18 times the speed of sound, the shuttle first encounters the Earth's
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      323 8 OTHER SPACE DISASTERS HERE is a look at some of the previous accidents connected to man's quest in space. October 1960 Ninety-one people are killed when an R-16 rocket explodes at the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan in the former Soviet Union. January 1967 US astronauts Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee
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      613 9  -  LEON HADAR 'Because the exploration of space knows no national boundaries, the loss of the Columbia is a loss to all humankind.' United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan NEWS ANALYSIS Bu STII KITS TIMES I KITED STATES HI HI. W With the public rallying behind
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      256 9 Dill I Hill* Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote letters to US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to "express the governments sadness and offer his condolences after the death of the courageous astronauts", his office said. HI■LU Commission President Romano Prodi told Italian
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      61 9 LIKE thousands throughout the United States, flags near the Washington Mooui 1 km it fly at half-mast as the country grieved for the seven crew members of the space shuttle C Columbia, which exploded as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on Saturday. President (ieorge \Y. Bush vowed the
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    419 10 TIME TO GET RID OF HIM' RIYADH Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could be toppled before the Arab summit meeting next month, a senior aide to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in remarks published yesterday. "It's time to get rid of
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    550 10 Weapons inspectors want to iron out impasse on reconnaissance flights and talks with scientists UNITED NATIONS The two chief United Nations weapons inspectors will return to Baghdad on Saturday in an attempt to resolve an impasse over allowing U2 reconnaissance flights and Iraqi
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    415 10 Support for war among Americans on the rise WASHINGTON US President George W. Bush has reversed the downward drift in public support for war witn Iraq despite widespread fears that the conflict would continue for many months and produce large numbers of US casualties, according to a Washington Post-ABC News
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    20 10 'WE MADE IT CLEAR T DISARM WOULD HAD CONSEQUENCES... Ul GIVES US THE AUTHOI WITHOUT ANY SECON
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    17 10 THE ENEMY WILL NOSUBURBS BECAUSE K THEY SEND A MILUOV BOYS WILL KHI THEM
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    24 11 CLEAR THAT FAILURE TO LD LEAD TO SERIOUS 15.... UN RESOLUTION 1441 E AUTHORITY TO MOVE i SECOND RESOLUTION.' US President Bush
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    388 11 MILITARY ACTION PLAN 'to target palaces in Iraq' LONDON Military action against Iraq would begin with US-led bombing raids on President Saddam Hussein's Ealaces and other symbols of is regime, a British Sunday paper said. In a bid to convince ordinary Iraqis that the war is not with
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    481 11 Striking notes of defiance, Iraqi leaders say enemy troops will be unable to enter Baghdad's suburbs DcrvuiiN iraq nas threatened to unleash suicide attacks against US nationals in the Middle East and to wipe out any invading force if Washington wages a new
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    339 11 BERLIN Germany's secret service has information that Iraq is developing weapons in mobile labs disguised as goods vehicles, a magazine said on Saturday. Focus weekly said opposition MPs were urging the government to publish the information or make it available to fellow
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    149 12 lAGOS (Nigeria) A blast rocked the heart of Nigeria's commercial capital yesterday, killing as many as 40 people, Red Cross officials reported. The explosion occurred at about 12.30 pm in Lagos' business district in this city of 12 million. The blast tore through
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    Lock icon Blair's military adviser targeted in terrorist plot
    395 12  -  ALFRED LEE By THE STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU Plan to assassinate British admiral heading Iraq war plans is foiled when Italian police arrest 28 Pakistanis found with explosives LONDON Intelligence exf>erts are convinced that an Isamic terrorist bid to assassinate Prime Minister Tony
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    105 12 GENEVA The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a "real and current" threat by terrorists to contaminate food supplies. A report by the UN's health agency warned that terrorists could introduce chemical, biological or nuclear agents into food as a way of "deliberately
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      218 12 Police chief to publish sniper story ADVISER TO TV MOVIE TOO BALTIMORE Montgomery County police chief Charles Moose, who became a reluctant celebritr leading the search for the Washington-area seri~. snipers, will tell his story in a book to be released next fall and has agreed to consult for a
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      101 12 LONDON Britain's Queen Mother, who died last year aged 101, spent the last decade of her life giving secret taperecorded interviews for her official biography, The Telegraph reported yesterday. The Queen Mother revealed her views on a variety of controversial subjects in the interviews in
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      Lock icon FONDA WITHDRAWS HARVARD DONATION
      68 12 BOSTON Actress Jane Fonda withdrew her US$l2. 5-million (5521.8-million) donation to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, derailing plans to establish a research centre to study gender in education. Ms Fonda will with- hold the balance of her donation roughly half and the unused portion of
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      53 12 ORLANDO Actor Wesley Snipes has been sued for the second time in two years for allegedly failing to make mortgage payments on his mansion in Isleworth. The lawsuit said Mr Snipes defaulted on his payments last October and owes the Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp U*****,000
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      39 12 Carlos CrilZ, known as "Mr Television" in Portugal, has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a paedophile ring. Sotheby's auction house has filed a law suit against rock star Michael Jackson for refusing to pav for two paintings.
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      40 12 Quoteworthy 'Of course it's important tfuit politicians should be good managers but politics Is about more than choosing good management, ifs about choosing what sort of society we live in/ Mr Robin Cook, leader of the British House of Commons
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      16 14  - Pendulum swings from japan to China, for now TOM PLATE BiT fdsaf fas fasfd fasd ffasddsa
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      876 15  -  ANDY HO By/ LUCKILY for Miss Tanya Liu, she was declared dead in a country with an opt-in organ donation programme. Otherwise she might be buried by now and her organs working away in other people's bodies. Instead, the Taiwanese newscaster,
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    • ASIAN CURRENTS
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        100 15 J \l'\\ JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi claimed recently that the failure to live up to three key campaign promises was "no big deal". And he insisted that he was thinking about "more important issues", such as jump-starting the economy. However, if his administration is
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        Lock icon APOLOGY A BAD MOVE
        107 15 TAIWAN THE Kuomintang's (KMT) apology to People First Party (PFP) chairman James Soong over the Chung Hsing Securities Bill scandal could not have come at a worse time. If Mr Soong now agrees to partner KMT chairman Lien Chan in the next presidential election, he will
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        Lock icon ROGUE COPS TARNISHING IMAGE
        93 15 PHILIPPINE!) RANSOM kidnappings in the Philippines continue to he perpetrated hut are not reported to the police. This is not only hecause the victims' families fear that their loved ones will he harmed, hut also hecause there is the lingering suspicion that policemen themselves are involved
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        114 15 SOI'TII KOREA SOUTH Korean Presi-dent-elect Roh Moo Hyun has said he will become a "half president with half power" if the ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) fails to win the general elections next April. His controversial statement is likely to put pressure on his party
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        95 15 no\(. ko\(. THE Hongkong government announced recently its altered position on the anti-subversion law. Since it has readily made a numher of concessions, should it not agree to spend about a month holding thorough discussions with the groups concerned with an open mind and amend what is
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      681 17 ORGAN donation, which includes the corneas, is in line with Buddhist teachings. It is definitely not true to say that you need your eyes in the afterlife. It is the good seeds that you sow in this life that will enable you to see
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      335 17 THIS THAT Why this... and why that? PROGRAMMING the card readers at the exits of buses to operate only when the doors are opened is a good move, as it win prevent misuse by passengers who tap the card many stops before they alight. However, many also tend to think
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      69 17 Please include your full name (as in IC), your address and a telephone contact number. For women, please indicate Miss, Mrs or Ms. Send your letters via e-mail *> '<tv ■>■■■■.■ stforum@sph.com. sg or fax 6319-8289. By writing to The Straits Times Forum page, we take
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      196 17 1 thank Mr Simon Leong for his letter, "Drug price doubled" (ST, Jan 23). Magtasil trisilicate (100 ml) is currently being sold at NUH Pharmacy for $2.05, inclusive of 4 per cent GST, and not $2.10 as stated in Mr Leong's letter. We last reviewed our
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      155 17 I REFER to Ms Rachel Hee's letter regarding a fallen branch along Marymount Road. ("This That"; ST, Jan 30). The National Parks Board (NParks) would like to assure the public that we have a comprehensive tree management programme where the trees under our care
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      137 17 WE REFER to the letter, "Guess what is missing?" by Mr Peter Teo Boon Haw (ST, Jan 30). We note Mr Teo's observation on the ST photo showing our soldiers on patrol duty in Timor-Ix.*ste wearing United Nations (UN) caps. In the
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      284 15 Well done... thank yon I OPENED my mailbox recently to find a Chinese New Year card addressed to me, with its pink envelope partially torn. But it was neatly encased in sealed plastic. I am indeed impressed by the thoughtfulness of Singapore Post in putting the damaged item into
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      304 15 I REFER to your article, "Are you really so different, SMU?" (ST, Jan 29). I graduated from the Nanyang Technological University and did an exchange programme for a semester in New York University in United States. I do agree that the American-style teaching system is
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      445 15 I AM not qualified to judge which university produces the best graduates our strengths obviously lie in very different areas, and this is exactly the point that the Singapore Management University's advertisement campaign hopes to get across, that those interviewed seem to have missed. If you
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      258 15 MERELY being "different" is irrelevant unless the purported differences go beyond form and facade. Facade, in whatever form it is projected, is cosmetic in nature and should never be mistaken for essence. The true measure of the essence of any university lies in its
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      559 19  - Unsold bread for needy? Let's roll SIM CHI YIN Volunteers to deliver bakeries' unsold loaves which are being dumped to the needy instead ABOUT 120 volunteers will start fanning out across the island from Saturday on a bread run, a daily mission to save a mountain of bread and buns
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      110 19 SHE QUITS JOB TO HELP... It 's really exciting to start something. With this, we kill two birds with one stone: reduce food wastage and help the needy. 9 Engineer Angie I im. 25, who -will quit her job to join Food From The Heart hill-time
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      464 114  - Bilateral Ties Girlfriend remark 'demeans water talks' M. NIRMALA By Malaysian PM's "cavalier attitude" on negotiations prompted former High Commissioner to write to Straits Times FORMER Singapore diplomats rarely comment on the polities at their previous postings. But the way Malaysian leaders have been speaking about the water dispute prompted
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      302 114 JOHOR BARU The price of the raw water that Johor supplies to Singapore has nothing to do with the Republic's sovereignty or principles of separation from Malaysia, said Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman. Singapore leaders were wrong to try to create confusion by associating
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      567 114  -  REME AHMAD By l\ Kl'Al.A I.IMI'IK SINGAPOREANS' poor sex drive, the country's "rising crime rate" and the thousands of its people who flocked to Malaysia over Chinese New Year zoomed into the Malaysian media's focus on Singapore over the weekend. Private
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      334 114 Ties with KLnot beyond repair: Ministers TWO Cabinet ministers have pointed out that relations between Singapore and Malaysia are not at an impasse. Both Mr I.im Boon Heng and Brigadier-General (NS) George Yeo made the point at separate events on Saturday, Chinese New Year's Day. Trade and Industrv Minister Yeo
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      262 114 Fewer jobs lost: NTUC chief sees economy picking up LABOUR chief Lim Boon Heng is hopeful that there will be fewer job losses this year, in the wake of the good employment figures in the last quarter. They indicate a slow turnaround in the economy, the National Trades Union Congress
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      385 114  -  GOH CHIN LIAN Bu FLOWERS and plants left over from a Chinese New Year sale went up in flames last night in a major blaze which engulfed two nurseries along Thomson Road. The fire started at about 7-'*o pm at Far
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      155 114 INDIA'S Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister, Mr Lai Krishna Advani, arrived here yesterday on a four-day official visit. Mr Advani, who is here to promote bilateral ties, will call on President S R Nathan, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Deputy Prime
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      117 115 Gifts with a history THERE are now about 50 items for auction. They include seals given to Mr Lee Kuan Yew, tea sets, carpets, paintings and minute calligraphy scrolls which can be read only with a magnifying glass including a palm-sized set with Sun Tzu's Art of War inscribed on
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      465 115  -  WONG SHER MAINE By Going under the hammer are state gifts which the family bought back from the Govt, and jewellery belonging to SM's wife and daughter A JADE seal inscribed with "Lee Kuan Yew" and a fur hat that the Senior
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      159 115 IT'S A GOOD DEAL It makes it easier as you don't have to pay as much upfront. Normally you would have to fork out about $20,000 immediately, but now, it is less, about 1 0,000. For young couples who do not have so much cash, it is a good deal.'
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        138 115 ABOUT $1,300 in hongbao money snatched from a 50-year-old woman was recovered within an hour thanks to swift police work Madam Seah Cheng Kee, who works in a clinic, was on her way to visit some relatives with her daughter, when four youths approached
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        96 115 A 50-YEAR-OLD woman returned to her fifth-floor condominium flat on Chinese New Year night to find some $25,000 in local and foreign currency, plus three watches worth $2,4()0, missing. The bedrooms and kitchen in the flat had been ransacked and the woman's unopened safe
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        88 115 SOME $2,000 worth of cigarettes and $800 in coins were stolen from a coffee shop at Block 214, Jurong East Street 21. The coffee shop manager, a 50-year-old woman, had locked the shop up on Chinese New Year's eve at about 3 pm. She
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      845 119  -  SHAHIDA ARIFF GRACE CHUA Service Standards For Taxi Operators By (111(1 1 Market saturated The market is alreadv so saturated ami. once the North-East MOT kni opens. I think even fewer people will lake taxis. I might have to change jobs... It's a really
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      241 119 A DRIZZLE could not deter a thousand or so people from ?[ueueing up yesterday for ree tickets to a Singapore River Hongbao show in the posh concert hall of the Esplanade Theatres On The Bay. Only 500 tickets were up for grabs at 6
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      311 28  -  LIM HSIN HIN lUj THE SIX slithery visitors were welcome visitors among Pei Chun Public School's 1,400 pupils. The two cobras, two pythons, a flat-headed viper and a mangrove snake were brought to the primary school's afternoon assembly by info-communications company StarHub, as part of
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      769 28  -  JANE NG 5s Barker Road ACS students go from class to class for lessons in rooms grouped and decorated according to the subject WHILE most secondary school students sit in the same classroom for five to six hours a day, the boys
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      485 28 Temasek Polytechnic counsellor Theresa Chan gives an insight on design diplomas and suggests related enrichment courses "MY DAUGHTER would like to pursue a course in multimedia design, particularly in 3-D animation at a polytechnic here. To keep her occupied constructively while waiting
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      233 31 THE Shanghainese sense of superiority stems from their cosmopolitan heritage and position as China's financial centre. Their gross domestic product per capita in 2001 was U554,500 (557,820), five times the national average of US$9ll. More than 1,000 skyscrapers have been built in the past decade,
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      677 31 Shanghai mayor Chen Liangyu has begun a campaign to turn them from being seen as arrogant and cunning to lovable fir/ CHU A SOK PENG TilK STRAITS TIMES CHINA OKSK THE Shanghainese are often seen as arrogant and cunning by other fellow Chinese. With the city
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      713 32  -  JASON LEOW B-/J CHINA CORRESPONDENT Changing China, a weekly series by corresponded tsfron i The Straits Times China Bureau, will examine June life in China from family life, education and technology to pop eidture is changing with the times BEIJING Professor Cheng Fangping says
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      239 32  - Beijing's courtyard homes vanishing Jason Leow BEIJING Courtyard homes are fast becoming extinct in the capital. Grey brick walls along narrow lanes, known as hutong, are marked with the character "cha?\ or demolish. Beyond those grey walls are siheyuan, or courtyard homes. Aristocratic families of the Ming dynasty once lived
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      357 32  -  XIE HONG NEW YEAR HOLIDAY By- ////.STRAITS TIMES CHINADESK LIKE many Singaporeans, people in China use the Chinese New Year holiday to travel, shop or get together with family and friends to enjoy a few rounds of mahjong or cards. Many Chinese
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      138 32 BEIJING A fire at a hotel in the north-eastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang killed 33 people vesterday, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It said that 10 injured people were rushed to hospitals and they were reported to be out of danger. More
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      145 33 HK official picks unlucky number HONGKONG Hongkong had an inauspicious start to the Chinese New Year yesterday when a top official picked an unlucky fortune number at a Taoist temple during the second day of celebrations. Searching for economic guidance following record unemployment last year, Home Affairs Secretary Patrick Ho
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      302 33 IN TAIWAN 'Let's have peace and stability and make a lot of money. Taipei native Chuang Sheng-rong, who received President Chen's first red packet TAIPEI President Chen Shuibian ushered in the Chinese New Year on Saturday by handing out 15,000 red envelopes containing
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      486 33 With congested services stretched to the limit, Premier Zhu says the nation's transport network must be expanded BEIJING China's Premier Zhu Rongji urged transport officials yesterday to ensure the smooth running of services as bus stations, train stations and airports remained
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      363 34 With US focused on Iraq war. experts warn Pyongyang may be pushing ahead with reprocessing plutonium for weapons WASHINGTON Mounting evidence that North Korea is setting up a nuclear reprocessing plant suggests that Pyongyang may be determined to trigger a crisis
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      139 34 SEOUL North Korea has threatened to scrap Korean reconciliation projects if the South takes action over an alleged secret cash payoff to Pyongyang ahead of an historic summit in 2000. South Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine Co allegedly funnelled US$2OO million (Ss34B million) to the North
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      563 35  -  V.K. RAGHUNATHAN By INDIA CORRESPONDENT It now objects to Kerala's plans to build dam across the Bhavani river, just days after a quarrel with Karnataka subsided NEW DELHI Another river water dispute is brewing in south India, this time between Kerala and Tamil
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      111 35 NEW DELHI The Indian army will send thousands of special forces troops to Israel for training to fight Islamicmilitants in troubled Kashmir, and the two countries have signed a multi-million-dollar weapons deal, a news report said yesterday. An Indian Defence Ministry delegation will visit
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      341 35 India's federal police taking over Kashmir rebel fight SRINAGAR India's federal police force is preparing to spearhead the drive against Islamie rebels in Kashmir after border troops were ordered out of counterinsurgency operations. India, which has been trying to put down a rebellion in the disputed Himalayan territory since 1989,
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        48 35 THE crew of an Air China passenger plane foiled a hijacking attempt yesterday morning and subdued the would-be hijacker, state media said. The incident occurred on the airline's Flight CA1505 from Beijing to Fuzhou, the capital of southern China's Fujian province. AFP
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        74 35 THE number of South Koreans who emigrated totalled 11,17K last year, down .3. .5 per cent from 2001 when 11..584 went abroad for new lives, the Foreign Ministry said. In contrast, the number of South Koreans who returned to their home country after having settled
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        60 35 NEW Delhi police's crime investigation wing has been asked to probe an internal scandal how three dogs being trained by the force to be sniffers managed to get pregnant under police noses. "Mating is not allowed, to keep the dogs efficient," a dog squad officer
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        45 35 ABOUT 2,000 chickens at a farm in southern China's Guangzhou city died from fright or were suffocated by other terrified birds when teenagers set off firecrackers for Chinese New Year, the I l.i i i.i Dushi newspaper has reported. AFP
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        68 35 CHINA'S mobile phone operators will cash in on Chinese New Year with a record seven billion text greetings expected to be sent during the holiday period, state media said yesterday. The country's two mobile phone operators, China Mobile and China Unicorn, are expecting earnings of
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      55 36 Distress over arrests CAM BODIANS linked to riots over a purported insult to the country' by a Thai actress wait in a police truck after being arrested, much to the distress of the wife and daughter of one of the suspects. The Thai embassy and Thai businesses were ransacked during
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      553 36 Phnom Penh's foreign minister, visiting Bangkok tomorrow, is expected to be grilled on reasons for the anti-Thai riots PHNOM PENH A shaken Cambodian government faces the tricky task this week of repairing the damage to its reputation and regional relations after being widely accused
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      333 36 NO, WE ARE SINGAPOREANS. WE HAD DECIDED OH THIS ANSWER IN ADVANCL.. TREY THREATENED TO CUT THE HEADS OFF THAI PEOPLL' Kosit Cliatpaiboon, in i 11 i \t er-coun sellor of I lu* Thci Embassy, on how he and his compa ii
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      166 37 JAKARTA Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir took part in several meetings with Bali bombing suspects before and after the carnage, Antara reported National Police Chief General Da'i Bachtiar as saying. He added that although police have yet to find out details about
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      112 37 YANGON A senior army officer has been appointed to a position left vacant in Myanmar's top hierarchy for nearly two years, its junta announced yesterday. There was also a minor Cabinet reshuffle. The ruling State Peace and Development Council said that Lt-General
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      474 37 If he signs the peace agreement, then he will be covered by a blanket amnesty. ivhich by definition isforgeifulness or obliviousness. That means for every one of them, the government will wipe the slate clean.' Philippines Foreign Secretary Bias Ople calling on exiled Communist Party
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      431 38 Top security areas under guard by foreigners The Home Ministry has told airports, radar stations and water and power plants to remove these guards PUTRAJAYA Foreign workers are being used to guard some top security areas and installations in the country, the Home Ministry says. A government committee on security
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      351 38 KUALA LUMPUR The 108-year-old Pudu prison, once the most feared and daunting correctional facility in the country, will once again see inmates behind its heavy solid bars this week. Work to repair the prison, located in the heart of the capital, has been completed
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      375 38 Borrowers are increasingly turning to them KUALA LUMPUR Desperate borrowers spurned by banks are increasingly seeking out unlicensed lenders in Malaysia despite horror stories of intimidation and jaw-dropping interest rates. But a recent campaign to stamp out loan-sharking might soon take
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      156 39 KEPAIxA BATAS Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wants all Barisan Nasional leaders to concentrate on the tasks at hand and mute the latest flurry of discussions about retirement. The Deputy Prime Minister said such talk was inappropriate as Dr Mahathir Mohamad was still at the
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      388 39 KLTo Review Laws Describing the crime as an act of sabotage against the economy, minister says a crackdown is essential to curb the menace KUAIA LUMPUR Malaysia may impose tough penalties including whipping on rice smugglers in a bid to wipe out the
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      265 39 SEREMBAN It was an inauspicious start to the Year of the Goat for seven people, including five Singaporeans, who were injured in a multiple vehicle pile-up at the North-South Expressway in Negri Sembilan early on Saturday. The cause of the pile-up? Sheep carcasses
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      324 39 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians living in the KJang Valley have been complaining about dirty water from their taps for the past year and their grouses are now being taken up by Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Muhyiddin Yassin himself a complainant. Tan Sri
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        84 39 IN ANOTHER Malaysian bid for a world record, a Selangor man will attempt to cross the l,0()()-m mark for unassisted rope traversing during the National Day celebrations in August. The organisers of the event have withheld the name of the Malaysian "on technical grounds", saying
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        52 39 A BOOK in Arabic on Malaysia's role and its contribution to the Arab and Islamic countries under the leadership of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is expected to be launched at the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Kuala Lumpur in October. New
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        38 39 THE mastermind of a syndicate, which ripped off several local and foreign banks of an estimated RM.i million (551.37 million) by tapping telephone lines, was arrested in Johor last Wednesday. The Star Asia News Network
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        37 39 INTER-CITY train services in the peninsula were disrupted yesterday because Of floods near Gemas station in Negri Sembilan. The affected services included trains running between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Bernama JAMES CROUCH ER
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      24 40 Co I I Emie Els comes from behind to win a tilth title in his last seven events. 412
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      22 40 Aim i. i: I i s Charlie Francis admits that he is working with American star duo. all
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      25 40 Bask E i I 1. 1 Kobe Bryant leads the LA Lakers to another win with a 42-point performance. Ai3
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      176 40 NEWCASTLE Teenage star Jermaine Jenas is set to be rewarded for his outstanding performances for Newcastle this season by winning a call-up to the England squad. Jenas, who turns 20 on Feb 18, has been told by England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson that he
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      822 40  -  MARC LIM SOCCER B^ Baros, Gerrard and Heskey score as Reds remain in sixth place IT WILL always be a mismatch when the team with the worst defensive record in the English Premier League takes on the side with one of the most impregnable backlines. And
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      190 40 HONGKONG Denmark captain Morten Wieghorst missed a penalty in the 0-1 loss to Iran in the Carlsberg Cup at the Hongkong Stadium on Saturday and admitted he did it on purpose. He deliberately kicked wide the spot kick awarded to his team in the
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      605 40  -  JEFFREY LOW MK CKIU OHKI S|*<)\|)| I IT MUST surely go down in the annals of Singapore football as one of tne craziest ideas for promoting an upcoming season: The chairmen of S-l>eague clubs attempting to re-create the definitive scene from a
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      366 41 LONDON Glenn Hoddle is convinced his side will be playing European football at White Hart lane next season. Tottenham gained a priceless point in its fight for a Uefa Cup place against Hoddle's former club Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, with 36-year-old
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      459 41 LONDON Manager Alex Ferguson saw Manchester United register its first away clean sheet of the season with a 2-0 win at Southampton on Saturday and then said it was that kind of form which will bring the English Premiership title back to Old
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      650 41 SOCCER Arsenal displays champ's tenacity True grit sees uninspired Gunners grab last-minute winning goal LONDON It seems Manchester United does not own the copyright on last-minute comebacks after all. With a dogged 2-1 victory against Fulham, courtesy of Robert Pires' injury-time winner, Arsenal showed its determination not to surrender its
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      359 41 MADRID Barcelona's new coach Radomir Antic was left thanking his new employers after he was left at home for the match at Atletico Madrid. It meant that the .-.4-year-old Yugoslav, who replaced I /hi is van Gaal, was spared a haptism of
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      223 41 Leeds striker Smith wants higher pay Terry Venables could be in for more frustration after striker Alan Smith threatened to walk out unless Leeds come up with an improved deal that gives him parity with the highest-paid players at Elland Road. When he sits down with Ridsdale on Tuesday, reported
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      906 41  -  ROB HUGHES B« TERRY VENABLES, the chirpiest manager in English football, is trapped like a bird in a gilt cage. He wakes up in the night wondering should he go, or should he stay at I^eeds United. He has been deceived
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      624 42 GOLF Big Easy becoming big winner Els fights back to defend Heineken and win fifth title in last seven events MELBOURNE It is not often that Ernie Els has to come from behind to win a golf tournament. He did it yesterday at the Heineken Classic, and his third win
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      699 42 BASKETBALL NBA: Washington 109 New Orleans 104. Detroit 106 New Jersey 84. Indiana 109 Boston 100. Dal las 122 Denver 100. San Antonio 67 Miami 65. Mil waukee 107 New York 100. Phoenix 116 Gclden State 107. Seattle 90 Chicago 77. LA Lakers 99 Utah 87. GOLF
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      217 42 MELBOURNE Nick Faldo has won six Majors but said he was still on a learning curve after he missed a golden chance to break a six-year title drought at the Heineken Classic yesterday. The 45-year-old put himself in position for his first win
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      311 42 ATHLETICS Disgraced coach admits helping star duo TORONTO Disgraced athletics coach Charlie Francis has confirmed that he is working as a consultant for triple Olympic champion Marion Jones and her boyfriend, 10() metres world record-holder Tim Montgomery. In a statement released on Friday, Francis, who was suspended for life by
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      757 43 fgjg STAR BARRED: Freshman James is sidelined for accepting two jerseys AKRON (Ohio) Leßron James sat in the bleachers, watching as his high schools freshman basketball team warmed up for a game. For now, it is as close as the 18-year-old can get
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      1108 44 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Tim. 4:7 ONG SING CHIAT ONG CHI HUI Age: 83 was called home to be with the Lord on 1 February 2003 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Ng Soo Kong Sons: Daughters-in-law: Frank
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      977 45 LIM SUIT MUI Age: 80 passed away peacefully on 2 February 2003. Lovingly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Tar Cheng Sim Tan Kwee Seng Sons: Daughters-in-law: Tan Ser San Ng Bee Lay Tan Tuan Teo Hoi Hoon (Tan Ser Lip, deceased) Daughters: Sons-in-law: Tan Sew Chu Helena Tan How Khim
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    677 46 ROVJND-VJP Overseas markets TOKYO'S Nikkei 225 Stock Average is expected to struggle to hold above a 20- vear low this week because of fears of war in Iraq and heavy institutional selling, although technical indicators suggest the market has limited room to fall. Analysts said
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    426 46 REVIEW Currencies MOST currencies in the Asia-Pacific region were down against the dollar, which gained as fears eased among investors of a negative fallout from a possible war in Iraq. JAPANESE YEN: The yen fell against the dollar towards the end ot the week as
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    595 47  -  Existing and future FT As will be boon for S'pore firms while investment relations with Indonesia are improving: BG Yeo Bu, SIMON WILCOX THE Year of the Goat is going to be a year of uncertainty on the international stage but
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    442 47 BANK FINANCING SHRINKS 1% LENDING by Singapore banks to non-bank customers tumbled in December, particularly due to the hard-hit manufacturing and construction sectors, official data showed, and analysts expect the trend to continue. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said bank credit to
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      22 47 The economy and the I ZZ I markets i in the I J Year of the Goat. A roundtable in today's BT
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      13 49 Life! The Straits Times Monday, February 3, 2003 CELEBRATES THE WONDER OF LIFE
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        211 49 l-i J^ MCDS open to j^^Etf By Tee Hun Chinq PAGE 3 Monday ARTS Tuesday TRAVEL Wednesday MOVIES Thursday FASHION Friday MUSIC Saturday DESIGN Sunday LIFESTYLE BVi I rKJI I fl! I I 1 l^a^y^i j-B '•xJtf^Uiy.'-T iCio^'.' 3T~ 'HomßbW _Mm\r ..i^y g -fc^ g^ ,-tfjl iißnTnff^' *^Brv!»\lC*\ jaH|^M^^HjgflljßMt*^^ i-
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        152 50 WASHINGTON Sing-er-aetress Jennifer Lopez's plans to marry actor Ben Affleck have met a glitch posed by an ex-husband. Waiter Ojani Noa, whom she married and divorced in 1995 when she was an ambitious starlet, is threatening to fight any annulment application. He was quoted in People.com as saying:
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        174 50 NO MORE SPIN'S CITY: mi, :1I Entertainment, the exclusive licensee for Meteor Garden II which stars (from left) Vic Chou, Barbie Hsu, Ken Chu, Michelle Saram and Vanness Wu has successfullv stopped Spin Video from selling imported VCDs of the series. A NFAV TV series featuring Taiwan's hot-selling
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        274 50 PARTY animals may be staying at home more given the economic downturn, but that is not stopping at least one bar from going for a major overhaul. Marriott Hotel's basement bar, Bar None (right), will be closed from Feb 16 to March 4 for a $250,000
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        268 50 LOS ANGELES MTV has apologised to the people of India for offending tham with an animated sitcom character named Gandhi, who is supposed to be a clone of the late leader. The apology came after protests in India over the character on the MTV show Clone High,
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          1343 51  -  TEE HUN CHING *L We teach, we don't babysit A SET-UP at Esplanade Theatres on the Bay is the answer to many modern parents' prayers. Rather than fret, those with a concert to catch and a child to mind can leave him at iHappy Child
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        864 52  -  TEO MENG JOO ESTHER YEE Bu and Can 7 tell the difference between a goat and a sheep, yon silly bitty? Here's hoiv, plus other goat-related trivia ALTHOUGH both goats and sheep are generally called yong in Mandarin, the proper term for goat is shun yong
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        716 52 What will happen this Goat Year? [From Page 1 Geomancer Lynn Yap, 44, however, forsees a different scenario for the year ahead. She says: The goat is a calm and gentle creature, so this year will be stable and peaceful, with strong water and earth elements at play. Expect no
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        263 50 *VS Wishes Singapore a JJgZZu- Happy Prosperous New Year! r.r.rESH<^.^■^^lrUml ttiPw MS MM I■l -J m-aJ 1 WR \w%&mV Wmm\ WA 1 eMVVA M R^—aßsx^"' *hj^_|T*_^^B Am 1 I B^ fl JK'r flam-aRr fll flflflr J lubRF" Hi afll RlF^ "RR^ml fl t '"A "flflF mmM iVflflflml 'J HR I
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        203 50 WISHING ALL GONG XI FA CAI _|U Business as usual during Chinese New Year _JL **ff|s ijraffl?i.niJ|iij'|j|M|ri fjf* «>4m#4-m#^/Foriopax $368 Pc? ca> _^!^*<flE fVif^^J®i Ra S o |mon Lo Hei Steamed Live "Soon HoclftFlsliif -^M V-*<<? 3y Roosted Peking Duck Braised Duck w/ \h#*V-* o*^J&f--Biaised Shark's Fin Soup ling-Zhi" Mushroom
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        319 51 CUMQU Wear Clinique Red Luck. jißßmm<ki.--jf v"""^- or more good fortune. m j?a~' IflhlV jf' Usher in the Lunar New Year with glowing skin, shimmery neutrals ff s Tfe- -i I for eyes and cheeks. And red, red lips. Attracting fortune has never i'fkß^L flP^'Rfll -Vi been easier. Let Clinique
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        260 52 Godts Get In Free! We're giving everyone born in the year of goat* free admission" to Singapore Discovery Centre this Chinese New Year 1 And Multi-Rider Package Tickets are only SB.Bo* (usual price $19 adult), giving you unlimited Motion Simulator rides, endless giant-screen 3D movies in our iWERKS theatre and
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      115 115 Life! and the Esplanade Theatres on the Bav w ant you to see historv in the making. The Peonv Pa\ilion will unfold over four davs in six episodes. Don't miss this chance to marvel at lieautiful costumes
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      1044 54  -  Tommy Wee STRAIGHT TALK Middle-aged men should not keep harping back to the golden age of rock Yi roll. They should open their minds to new music forms, like hip-hop RECENTLY, 1 made the mistake of discussing rap music with two slightly tipsy, middle-aged acquaintances.
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      620 56 Reality TV shows 9 attempt to outshine one another has drawn flak, but it keeps the media talking about them LOS ANGELES A recent Fox special, Man Vs Beast, featured a stunt pitting the pulling power of an elephant against 44 midgets. But before it was aired,
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        555 58 LIFE! •WHAT SON If you have time for only one event. J H F, AI ?T S T H,S WEEK J by Magdalene Lum n» U ?^«MMMIDC f~ HHT '""•""'ERA: PEONY PAVILION ■UK JAI AN" jINuAr UKt .M^^^l^llS. Ftplanaae Theatre, Thu Sun. Feb 13 16: Spm lalso 2 30 pm
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        937 58 EATS EXOTIC: d» it Bollywood style this Valentine's Day and celebrate with an exotic North Indian meal with wine at Zaobao's workshop. Su Lou He Zi Nian (Falling In Love At The Lake). Part of the Glorious Years First Series. COFFEE MORNING Fsplanade Recital Studio. Today: 10.30 -11,30 am. Tickets:
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        551 LII Channel i Channel U AM AM 9.30 Lunar New Year Movie: 10.00 Cover Story: Stephanie Babes In Toyland Two days Sun (Entertainment News) before Christmas, the Toyland n.oo One Of The Lucky Ones Toy Factory receives its biggest (Movie) Based loosely on the order ever But the evil Barnaby, story
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      212 LIII LONDON Nicole Kidman's nose is the most sought-after celebrity body part, say Hollywood's plastic surgeons. But, no, they are not referring to the prosthetic nose she wears in her role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours. It is her cute real nose, which she may
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      324 LIII NEW YORK The Beatles' Let It Be album is going to be re-released, stripped down It will have the same track listing but not the orchestration which producer Phil Spector added after the band broke up. And that is the way the surviving Beatles had
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