Today, 16 January 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    7 1 TODAY Tuesday January 16, 2001 MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • Article
      US rebuffed on oil cut
      524 1 Opec reduces output, US worried about economic slowdown VIENNA Oil producers belonging to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) pressed ahead yesterday with plans for a deep cut in crude supplies, reigniting concerns in the West about energy price inflation. Determined to underpin
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      Polite Mr Wahid comes a-visiting
      324 1 IT was a calm and dignified President Abdurrahman Wahid who visited Singapore yesterday and said all the right things. No angry outbursts. No departure from his prepared speech. Not even a chat with the press or a reference to the juicy Newsweek article about him
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    • Article
      $7,000 charity hoax
      186 1  -  Shazalina Salim by lina@ne wsto day. c om.sg THOUSANDS of TV viewers heard a man who apparently had a heart of gold, bid $7,000 for a local singer's guitar for charity. It now turns out that he had feet of clay. The caller or at least the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • HOT NEWS
    • Article
      Fees up from July
      525 2  -  Mahesha Thenabadu Undergrads to pay between $150 and $950 more a year for 3 years by. re porte r@ newstoday. com. sg ALL undergraduates at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU) and the four polytechnics have to pay
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      Defence career prospects brighter
      180 2 THE Defence Ministry is giving its 3,500 Defence Executive Officers or DXOs greater control over their career paths with new initiatives to match the best practices of the public and private sectors. Among them an option to convert their gratuity into full CPF benefits. And nearly
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    • Article
      Vote for 'No One'
      124 2 BANGKOK In future elections, if Thai voters don't like any of the candidates on offer, they may be able to choose "no one" on the ballot. And if "no one" gets 50 per cent or more, all candidates for that constituency will be thrown out and
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      Lock icon Problem salons under fire
      208 2  -  Lee Weiling by. we iii ng@news tod ay. com ,s g A WOMAN paid $900 for an underarm hair removal programme that never worked. She paid $3,000 for additional treatment but the treatment was unsuccessful and the salon blamed it on the woman's "resistant" hair. Another
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    • Article
      More shops in business parks
      369 3  -  Ng Hwee Koon Fifteen-per-cent limit lifted, opening door to new players by. hwe eko on@newst od ay.com. sg DWELLERS in sterile business parks have cause to rejoice. The limit that prevents more than 15 per cent of the gross floor area to be used for
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      MOM teaches builder a bitter lesson
      113 3 THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has barred Guan Choon Construction Pte Ltd from employing nontraditional source (NTS) foreign workers for 12 months with effect from Jan 10. The Building and Construction firm violated safety requirements at its worksites. Contractors are given demerit points for
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    • Article
      Man on trial for 'doing nothing7 pleads innocence
      320 3  - Man on trial for 'doing nothing 7 pleads innocence David Ngiau by- david@newstod ay. com. sg A MAN stood in court yesterday, pleading his innocence. After all, he had done nothing, he said. But that's precisely what got Wong Leong Boon, 35, into trouble doing nothing. Wong is on trial
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    • Article
      Online buys now charged to phone bills
      205 3  -  Sol E Solomon I by solomon@newstoday.com.sg SINGNET subscribers now have a new and convenient way to pay for the goods that they buy online. Instead of having to pay for the e-products using credit cards as is normally done, these purchases are charged
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    • Article
      Girl, 3, takes wrong step
      94 3 THE family had made it to the centre road divider on Marsiling Road. Then the three-year-old girl, Norain Ismail, stepped off the divider on her own. An oncoming lorry barrelled right into her. Her father, an assistant supervisor with a landscape company, and her younger
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    • Article
      Giving pigs a heart attack
      296 4  -  Elaine Quek Research could lead to new coronary treatment by. elain e@n ewsto day. c om. sg GIVING pigs heart attacks could save us. The National Heart Centre (NHC) is conducting a study using 11 pigs. In a media briefing at the 10th Singapore Live
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      Chinese New Year delicacies on show
      182 4  -  Maurice Png by. maurice@news tod ay. com. sg THIS Chinese New year, sample China delicacies cooked up and served by famous people at the Singapore River Hong Bao. Introducing a treat all the way from GuLzhou, China, three Chinese and six Singaporean chefs will
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      The problem is: Men are digital, women are analogue
      473 4  -  Leong Phei Phei by. pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg WHAT do men and women do when they are in a room? They talk, though not always on the same wavelength. During the Family Life Education Conference on Focus on Marriage and Family yesterday, men did
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      Drug ring busted
      86 4 A PSYCHOTROPIC drug syndicate, headed by an 18-year-old youth, was busted in an operation by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). The syndicate operated in nightspots, and had regular clientele. Operation Osprey, conducted from Jan 11 to 14, nabbed 24 male and seven female Singaporeans, six of them
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      101 4 READ 0N... Target for assassination Chief of Indian Kashmir unhurt/ 12 Of branded goods and stuff Lamenting Singapore's perpetual materialistic obsession/13 It's more than a toy The Xbox will not only impact gamers/ 14 Sob! Sapian is leaving The hunky star of popular drama series Bara will be 'fading oul'
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  • HOME NEWS
    • Article
      Lock icon Finally, some support at home for poly grads
      275 5 Ckong Kian Tung I REFER to Aaron De Roza's letter "Poly grads good enough" (Today, Jan 15). I agree that polytechnic students are discriminated against in the selection process by local universities. I'm currently studying in Australia, after failing to obtain a
      Ckong Kian Tung  -  275 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Who's for Potong Pasir?
      302 5 S Ramamirtham PAP candidate named but not the ward concerned I READ with interest Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng's revelation over Channel NewsAsia and its website on Saturday that chartered accountant Mr Sitoh Yih Pin is a confirmed candidate for the coming general election. It
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Bucking the trend
      374 6  -  Asian tech stocks are the year's top gainers VENTURE Manufacturing and other Singapore technology companies are defying warnings of weaker-than-expected profit from US personal computer makers, emerging as some the best performing stocks here this year. Venture, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and others, which rely on US PC
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      Singapore to grow 4.8 per cent HSBC says
      207 6 HONG Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has maintained Singapore's economic growth for this year at 4.8 per cent, but has reduced its growth forecasts for several other Asian economies. It said Singapore's political stability makes it a choice location for increasing
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      Lock icon SGX rally unlikely after IPO lock-down
      165 6 Bloomberg THE Singapore Exchange, the third Asia-Pacific bourse to trade publicly, could see its stock price capped by sell offers for as many as 318 million shares next month. While the shares rose as much as 5.2 per cent yesterday, investors who hold 32
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      Lock icon S'pore-Japan in free trade talks
      103 6 Bernama-AFX-ASIA SENIOR government officials from Singapore and Japan will meet from today to Thursday in a preparatory round of negotiations for the JapanSingapore Ecomonic Partnership Agreement, which they hope to conclude by year-end. Chairman of Singapore Technologies Aerospace Lim Chin Beng will head the Singapore
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    • Article
      Kia vehicles fine
      79 6 CYCLE and Carriage (C and C) says the 240 Kia Carnival and Carens multi-purpose vehicles it sold here are not affected by the recall of Kia vehicles in South Korea. They are being recalled because of engine problems. In a statement, C and C said the Carnival
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      Retail sales up
      98 6 SINGAPORE'S retail sales rose almost 20 per cent in November from a year ago. That's mainly due to a nearly 45 per cent surge in motor vehicle sales. Excluding motor vehicles, overall retail sales were up by only six per cent. Watch and jewellery retailers enjoyed an
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      Lock icon Fed's energy fears
      224 7 Bloomberg News Board concerned that price surge will increase inflation in US NEW YORK Energy prices seem to be the bugbear, threatening to introduce inflation to the US economy, as far as the Federal Reserve Board is concerned. In the 12 months ended December, the producer price
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    • Article
      Bernasto buy a third of QAF bakery
      127 7 KUALA LUMPUR Padiberas Nasional Bhd (Bernas), Malaysia's monopoly rice importer and distributor, has agreed to buy 30 per cent of Singapore-based QAF Ltd's Malaysian bakery unit for RM54.8 million (5524.6 million) Bernama news agency reported. Bernas will buy a stake in Gardenia Bakeries
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      Solectron to own NatSteel
      92 7 SOLECTRON Corp, the top maker of mobile phones, computers and other equipment for other companies, said it will acquire the remaining shares of NatSteel Electronics Ltd. The California-based company purchased about 99.5 per cent of Singapore-based NatSteel Electronics. It is entitled by Singapore law to buy
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Positive close
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        Thanks to bargain hunters and short-covering activities
        548 8 BARGAIN hunters and short-covering activities lifted the ST Index 9.62 points higher for a positive closing at 1929.44. This was a 20-point net improvement from the low and leadership came from index linked buying activities. Market breadth was still negative although it improved
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        Profit-taking trims gains
        418 8 AFTER having risen by just over one per cent in the morning, selling pressure emerged to push the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index lower in the afternoon as it closed the day only 3.8 points or 0.6 per cent higher to 682.7. With no fresh leads, the local
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • Article
      China's moves
      236 9 Plans missile base, logistics exercise nearTaiwan TAIPEI Taiwan's wariness of its giant neighbour moved up a few notches yesterday amid reports of China's plans for a new missile base and a massive logistics exercise. The United Daily News reported that China is building a base in the Fujian
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      Lock icon Illegal immigrants may be sucked into criminal gangs
      139 9 AFP CANBERRA Asylum seekers using the services of people smugglers run the risk of being drawn into crimes like drug smuggling and prostitution. Australian Justice Minister Amanda Vanstone told a conference on human trafficking that the increase in people-smug-gling was deeply unsettling
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    • Article
      Lock icon Estrada trial witnesses flee
      121 9 MANILA At least three witnesses who testified against President Joseph Estrada have fled abroad after facing death threats. Prosecutors said former finance secretary Edgardo Espiritu, senior bank executives Clarissa Ocampo and Manuel Curato left the country separately after taking the witness stand in Mr Estrada's corruption
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      Lock icon When a child becomes a mother
      148 9 -AFP NIGERIA Cradling her baby son in her arms, Nigerian child-mother Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, at the centre of a storm over Islamic law, said she accepted she was "guilty" of pre-marital sex. Islamic authorities here said they had postponed indefinitely her sentence and reduced
      -AFP  -  148 words
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      German 'Red Light Minister'
      361 10 She was a target of blackmailers because of her past BERLIN The increasingly wobbly government of Gerhard Schroeder was thrown further off balance on Sunday by revelations that the new German Health Minister used to work in a red-light bar. Ulla Schmidt (right), who was appointed
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      Lock icon A view of earthquake-hit EI Salvador
      45 10 This is the Santa Tecla neighbourhood of El Salvador after being hit by an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale on Saturday. At least 403 people were dead, 779 injured and hundreds missing as of yesterday. Reuters photo
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    • Article
      Superior sex
      61 10 LONDON Female students gained more first-class degrees than their male counterparts for the first time last year, making them the superior sex at every examination level in Britain. The Higher Education Statistics Authority said 11,000 women were awarded first-class honours compared to 10,800 men, reported the Times. Girls
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      Search on for child-porn victims
      112 10 SYDNEY An international operation will be mounted this week to sift through 750,000 pornographic pictures of children to try to identify the victims. Seven members of a global child pornography ring, named Wonderland, face a three-year prison term in Britain after pleading guilty to their
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      Lock icon Relief for dissidents
      119 10 CNA YANGON In a further sign of political thaw, junta officials said jailed supporters of the National League for Democracy would be allowed to receive food parcel and letters. The NLD said they were informed yesterday that the International Red Cross had visited their members who were
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      Lock icon 'Flawed' plan to scrap nuclear plant
      98 10 Agencies TAIPEI Taiwan's top judges, apparently seeking to avoid a constitutional crisis, declared that a controversial Cabinet decision to scrap a nuclear power plant was "flawed". But they stopped short of saying it was unconstitutional. Premier Chang Chun-hsiung would have been forced to resign
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      Lock icon Mighty mouse
      71 10 AFP ZURICH A scheduled flight from Switzerland to Mexico was unduly cancelled due to a maverick mouse. An airline spokesman said the runaway rodent caused havoc on Sunday after it was spotted in the aircraft's cockpit. The crew also aborted its trip to Mexico after a failed search
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    • Article
      Older men, young wives
      408 11 Malaysia grapples with this growing dilemma KUALA LUMPUR Older man divorces his wife to marry a younger girl. Nothing new you might say, after all it is common in Hollywood. But now there's a growing trend in Malaysia and this has got the politicians in a
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      Lock icon Engine down, plane safe
      65 11 Reuters HONG KONG A Cathay Pacific Airways airplane landed safely in Hong Kong on Sunday night after one of its four engines was shutdown due to overheating. The crew of flight CX4SI, which had 245 people on board, shut down the engine on their way to
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      Lock icon Kids can unlearn violence
      98 11 Reuters CHICAGO Aggressive behaviour can be unlearned if children cut down on television, videotapes and electronic games, according to a report. Mr Tom Robinson, a physician at Stanford University who was chief author of the report, said: "What's encouraging is that, in children, some of the
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      Lock icon Target for assassination
      291 12 -AFP Chief of Indian Kashmir unhurt SRINAGAR (India) Muslim guerrillas on Sunday fired two grenades at Indian Kashmir's provincial chief, Farooq Abdullah (right) but he escaped unhurt and vowed to press ahead with New Delhi's latest peace initiative in the region. The police said 62-year-old Mr Farooq
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    • Article
      Lock icon Woman steals baby to keep boyfriend
      144 12 O ana-Bern am a TOTTORI A woman who pretended to be pregnant allegedly snatched a newborn girl from a hospital to prove to her boyfriend that she had given birth to his child. Tatsuyo Kamoda, 29, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of abducting the
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      Lock icon Manila police locate and detonate bomb
      195 12 Reuters MANILA A tragedy was averted yesterday after Philippine police managed to detonate a bomb planted near a train station in the capital. On a tip from a phone caller, police located the bomb at a hamburger stall near the Light Rail Transit station
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    • Article
      Kedah's Mentri Besar: In or out?
      164 12 ALOR STAR A visit by Kedah Mentri Besar to Putrajaya sparked rumours that he was on his way out. But Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday denied that Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed Zain was quitting, reported The Star. "There's nothing. I
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      Lock icon Becker's divorce sealed and settled
      168 12 -AFP HAMBURG Former German tennis star Boris Becker and his estranged wife, Barbara, have signed an out-of-court divorce settlement stipulating shared custody of their two children as well as alimony payments, the German Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported. The three-time Wimbledon champion will pay out
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Of branded goods and stuff
      648 13  -  Siva Anantham Lamenting Singapore's perpetual materialistic obsession by. HAVING spent three years in the United States, one of the most significant things that I noticed was the relative lack of handphones in America as compared to an excess of these mobile gadgets in Singapore. Outside
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      Are Malay Singaporeans marginalised?
      427 13 A 1998 book on Malays in Singapore written by academic Lily Zubaidah Rahim received attention in the Malaysian press recently. According to the reports, Dr Lily's book suggested that Malays in Singapore had been marginalised by the Government. Dr Lily, who is the niece of Singapore's
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  • TECH NEWS
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      It's more than a toy
      723 14  -  Sol E Solomon The Xbox will not only impact gamers by. solomon@ne wstoday. com. sg LAST week marked Microsoft's official entry to the home game console market, when Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveiled prototypes of the company's Xbox game machine at the
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      New name will reach new markets
      190 14 SO encouraged was it by its inaugural performance last year, e-business software company, elipva, (formerly known as sttarfire.com) has embarked on an aggressive global plan. Having enjoyed nearly $7 million in first-year revenue, the company will ride on its elipva business suite that is
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      Time to unravel ASP issues
      109 14 CONFUSION about the Application Service Provider (ASP) industry should be reduced with the recent release of three documents by Singapore's ASP Alliance Chapter (AAC). Through the documents ASP Definition, End User Literature SLA Guidelines, and AAC ASP Code of Practice AAC attempts to define an
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      Partnership enhanced
      118 14 THE Microsoft Certified Service Provider (MCSP) programme has been enhanced and re branded as the Microsoft Certified Partner programme. The revamped programme offers customers new partner certification choices based on the services, applications and hosting capabilities provided by companies that design, develop, deploy and manage technology. At the
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      Be virtually there
      501 15  -  Sol E Solomon E-ttending: A service that adds value to local exhibitions by. solo moil news lod ay. com. sg Here's a relatively economical way for local exhibition organisers to have their shows stay on for up to 60 days. Expocentric.com provides a service to event organisers
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      Linux power: the SME's answer to the Internet age
      619 15  -  Gary Foong by. If you are running a small- and mediumsized enterprise (SME), and want to compete in the Internet Age and e-nable your company at minimum cost, then Linux is your obvious platform of choice. Linux is a computer operating
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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      531 17 Shadow of the Shark W&t Gormenghast AA—LJJ '\(~OF£P J\ Arts Central, 9pm g^ Arts Central, 10 pm J f\ In the crumbling castle of /V&tf%f channel new-as<a "Shadow of the Shark" gives Ihe m; 1 Gormenghast, the birth of Titus, the audience an insight into Ron and ;j 77th Earl
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      1 19 Movies
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      1245 19 China Strike Force (M): 11.40am, 2 pm, Lavender (M): 11. 30am, 12.30pm, 1.45, Meet The Parents: 11am, 3pm, 7, 9.15 Hv *^f \w^ a 4-20,6-45, 9-05 2-45,4' 5j 6-15, 7-15, s-30, 9-30 2-30, 4-45,7i 9-15 ff 4B____B._______^__________l Gen"Y CopB (M,: IL3oam> 2-05 Pm. 4-25. Meet The Parents: 11.50am, 1.30pm, The
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  • SHOWCASE
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      A tale of two Siamese twins
      682 20  -  Rosalind Png by. rosalind@n ewsto day. c om. sg Israel Film Festival 2001: Under Western Eyes R(A) Today 7 pm Golden Village, Great World City A tragic-comic road movie telling the story of Gary Razumov, a young architect living in Berlin. He is in
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  • RELAX
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      Both sides now
      490 21  -  Hazel Tan This is one savvy babe by. haze I@ne wstoday. com. sg IT is easy to understand why newcomer Kim Min Jeong is so media-sawy. The Korean actress knows exactly what it feels to be on the other side to be interviewing. Her first job after
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      Lock icon She's so SEX-Y!
      81 24 Ernest Chua Yes, go on, drool away at Karen Mok, the queen of (strip)tease. No matter which way she turned, Karen's simply hot. TODAY captures the Hong Kong actress-singer-exhibitionist at h^r rnnrprt nf thp Singapore Indoor Stadium on Saturday night. Photos by Karen Mok strikes a sexy
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  • MY SAY
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      Distinctions, or your life
      455 22  -  Georgina Chang Teach your kids the right values. Grades do not make a person by i I WAS thrilled about starting my final semester at school last week. Like most Singaporeans, I constantly look for ways to upgrade myself and my lifestyle. A couple of years
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      Lock icon Sob! Sapian is leaving
      585 23  -  Shazalina Salim The hunky star of popular drama series Bara will be 'fading out' from the show by. sh az _Jina@new_ today, co m. sg t iris, tms is going to break your VThearts. Sapian Sapari, known as JJ in Bara, will be 'fading out' from
      WONG KHING CHONG  -  585 words
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Seattle tramples the Suns
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