Today, 13 February 2001

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  • 6 1 TODAY LIICSQJIV Februar y 13>2001 MiTA(iiii«n:ouo
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  • 80 1 Agencies LONDON Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur earned herself a name in the record books on Sunday when she completed her solo odyssey of 25,000 nautical miles around the world. She smashed the existing record of 105 days by finishing the trip in 93 days. Ms MacArthur,
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  • 178 1 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians convicted of serious criminal offences will be blacklisted and have their passports confiscated for up to 10 years. The New Straits Times, citing an unnamed immigration official, said that the new procedure took effect last year. Drug traffickers could lose
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  • 516 1  -  Elaine Quek Is this the end for exam paper vendors? by elaine@newstoday.com.sg COMPETITIVE parents have helped create a booming market in school examination papers. Now unhappy schools, who see no reason why others should profit from their work, may help end it. This can only
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  • 240 1 Bloomberg VICKERS Ballas Holdings Ltd., struggling to keep its spot as Singapore's No. 1 brokerage, said it planned a "major" announcement, sparking speculation it will merge with DBS Securities Ltd. Vickers, which last week confirmed it was in talks with another company, halted trading
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 348 2  -  Maurice Png They have to pay a separate licence fee of $110 per television set by maurice @news today, com. sg YOU may feel that $110 for a TV licence is expensive, but spare a thought for the hotels. They have to pay $110 per set.
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    • 260 2 -AFP JAKARTA A younger brother of embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has suggested that he take the road of compromise, step aside and give more power to VicePresident Megawati Sukarnoputri. "I think the idea is good. In such a heated political climate, one must give way
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    • Article, Illustration
      111 2 WITH Valentine's Day approaching, it seems love, or more accurately sex, is in the air for Singaporeans. An online sex survey carried out by Truekisses.com has revealed that 67 per cent of respondents want more sex in their lives, and 79 per cent want their partners to be
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    • 206 2 FIRST gas, then vegetables, and then maybe, water. That's what Singapore wants from Indonesia. Trade and Industry Minister BG George Yeo (picture, right) yesterday signed a US$9 billion (5515.7 billion) agreement for the delivery of natural gas from the Asamera gas
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    • 230 3  -  Danny Er by rep orter@ne ws to day. c om.sg READERS who received their copy of Today on the second day of Chinese New Year may have noticed a cover whiter than usual. That was a wood-free paper, used specially for Tiger Beer's new advertising campaign.
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    • Article, Illustration
      427 3  -  Ng Hwee Koon Visa founder could have been richer than Bill Gates by hweekoon@newstoday.com.sg THE founder of one of the world's largest credit card companies is out of a paying job. And he has been totally cut off from his baby since 1986. This company that accounted for
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    • 34 3 A twoin-one baby seat, which can double up as a pram, has been designed by students of the Temasek Polytechnic Engineering School.- Today photo by WONG KHING CHONG
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    • 117 3 -AFP. KOTA KINABALU The Malaysian government hopes to revive its debt-ridden Perwaja Steel, which is under investigation for alleged abuse of funds. "The government has decided that if we can find some ways of privatising Perwaja to a party that can manage, (we will do so)," Prime Minister
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    • 115 3 TWO middle-aged women accidentally brushed against each other on crowded train at Buona Vista MRT station just before midnight on Feb 10 and got into a heated argument An SMRT spokesman said that the driver was alerted to the fight. However, station officers could not find the
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    • 476 4  -  David Ngiau But it's not just about skin for the actress-DJ by david@n ews tod ay.com. sg FRESH from her most recent storm involving the TV series Growing Up, actress-DJ Jamie Yeo is back in the public eye. And boy, is she an eyeful! Jamie will grace
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    • 146 4 IMAGINE having to live in a cell with a toilet overflowing with rotting faeces. That was what Tony Anthony Sabas, 34, claimed drove him to rip off the padded mat lining in the cell to soak up the previous detainee's faeces. He was arrested on
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    • 114 4 TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine practitioners and retailers are calling for a new government agency, along with a new set of guidelines, to better regulate the converging Chinese medicine and tonic markets. Channel NewsAsia found out that a popular herbal soup restaurant recently got into trouble with
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    • 107 4 Q: What do I do if I am a Hepatitis B carrier? A: Carriers face a greater risk of developing liver disease. If you are a Hep B carrier, you should: a. Go for regular checkups. You should visit your doctor twice a year. The
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    • 171 4 AFP. NEW DELHI Hundreds of Muslims in India's quake-hit Gujarat state have smashed and burned their television sets to ward off evil spirits and prevent a new tremor, the Indian Express reported yesterday. The paper said Muslim priests in the region blamed television
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 107 4 READ 0N... Chretien's concerns Canadian PM raises human rights issues/1 1 Clinton to be impeached? Former President in trouble again over pardon/12 Vital to bridge the race gap Singaporeans should realise that economic disparities between the races are unhealthy and why this is so/13 The direct way Dell's answer to
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  • HOME NEWS
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      429 5 What is the link? NTUC Deputy Secretary-General Heng Chee How (right) explains it in the Feb 9 issue of NTUC News: "WHY must the Government force me to work beyond 55 years old? Why can't I retire at 55? "Why is the Government keeping the retirement age
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    • 232 5  -  Chelsea Chua TRANS-ISLAND Bus Services (Tibs) announced yesterday its decision to jump on the bandwagon of local transport companies who have gone multimodal. This decision has led to an agreement between Tibs and the operator of the Paris Metro System, Regie
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    • 194 5 |iii _______^rjii_' *I?^3__t iiS!? ■/,^'fi 1-77%, IPI? if ,fc I**! lili_ flil^H^HßlHni^^HH^ Dig Curtin University of Technology "Ranked Australia's No. 1 University of Technology in the Asia Pacific region" Asia Week Magazine 2000 Sf_g -BCom in Information Technology RMIT University *_fc T-IYTTT "Flanked Australia's Top 3 University of Technology in
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  • LETTERS
    • 285 6  -  Norbert Arianayagam Richard Bird population rising in housing estates I RESIDE in Yishun Street 81, Block 877 and have noticed that the pigeon population has increased tremendously. The birds are currently roosting on the narrow ledges of the building walls. I am concerned, as I have
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    • 189 6  -  Joshua Tan I REFER to the letter titled "Teachers may have good reasons for 'moonlighting'" by Roy Tan (Today, Feb 10). Moonlighting is a trade-off of a teacher's personal time. Wouldn't we prefer the teachers take a rest or use that personal time to improve teaching
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    • 87 6  -  Shirley Yuen YOUR report on the church banner about homosexuality is timely. It is high time this issue is discussed openly, intelligently and honestly, without any religious taboos and bigotry (Today, Feb 8). There is a big poster stuck on the students' notice board of a
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    • 171 6  -  I REFER to the letter "Teachers are not slaves", by Kevin Sim Today, Feb 9). The writer makes a paperthin defence for moonlighting teachers. Having a sister who is a teacher, I agree with the first writer that teaching is a timeconsuming job, not a 9
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    • 244 6  -  Mohamad Razali I AM an National Serviceman and I take the train to work and back every day. On Feb 9, at about 10.30 pm, my MRT card was not accepted by the electronic gates. I then approached the station control personnel. He checked
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    • 218 6  -  David Kwok THERE has been much criticism from the public about red tape and improvement in public organisations. One area that could be looked into is the purchasing of season parking labels from the Housing Development Board (HDB). I wanted to purchase a motorcycle season
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 420 7  -  Chan Chao Peh But CapitaLand expects to do better this year by i ch »o peh @ne wstoday. com. sg TOP local property developer CapitaLand Ltd has suffered a higher than expected 43 per cent fall in net profits last year to $106 million, as a 61
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    • 194 7  -  Chin Wei Lin fay we ilin@news to day.com .sg BY 2002, owners of MercedesBenz vehicles can look forward to having cheaper spare parts provided here. Daimler-Chrysler, the world's fourth largest automaker, will be setting up Asia Pacific's largest Regional Logistics Centre (RLC) in Tuas. Costing
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    • 53 7 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia registered a trade surplus of RM5.5 billion (552.47 billion) in December 2000. Total December exports were valued at RM30.2 billion while imports amounted to RM24.7 billion. For the year 2000, Malaysia recorded a RM60.9 billion surplus in its external trade balance as against RM73.1
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    • 64 7 Bloomberg KEPPEL Corp, Singapore's biggest diversified group, said profit rose 21 per cent, boosted by earnings from its financial services and property units. Profit rose to $265.4 million from $220.3 million in 1999. Sales rose 55 per cent to $6.3 billion for the 2000 year from $4.1 billion
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    • 123 7 SYDNEY Singapore Airlines is about to take a direct shareholding in Ansett Australia from Ansett's owner, Air New Zealand, to help improve Ansett's balance sheet, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The report quoted unnamed airline analysts as saying that Singapore Airlines, which bought
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Fine day for banks
      • 490 8 SINGAPORE shares started the week yesterday on a mixed note with recent actively traded penny caps suffering from profit taking and forced selling while investors nibbled on selective blue chips in defensive buying. Trading was mostly lacklustre with banking issues rising amid hopes
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      • 410 8 KUALA LUMPUR It was a rather unexciting start to the week with market sentiments undermined by a poor performance on the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite over the weekend. Investors were generally cautious, awaiting the outcome of the Timedotcom IPO subscription, to be released in the next few
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    • 191 9 RESPONDING to the growing needs of building corporate reputation here and in the region, three veteran communications heavyweights have joined hands to start the newest financial public relations firm here. They are Mr Low Teo Ping and Mr Baskaran Nair
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    • 342 9 Bloomberg News Planners bow to pressure from developers HONG KONG Hong Kong plans to cut the amount of land it will sell for private housing by half, bending to pressure from developers who are concerned about stagnating property prices. The administration will offer for sale 38
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    • 105 9 BROADVISION Inc, an electron-ic-commerce software maker, said it will open about five new offices in Asia and double its sales and staff in the region this year as more companies move online. "We remain optimistic (that) investment in Internet technology by large companies will remain high," said Mr
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    • 160 9 RETAIL investors have responded to the Housing Development Board's recent bond issue. They subscribed 1.8 times to the $10 million public tranche of the seven-year note. In a statement, the HDB said it has decided to increase the amount for public subscription to $11.75 million
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 312 10 Umno Youth chief says student leaders instigated to hate govt KUALA LUMPUR Nearly all student leaders in Malaysian universities are anti-government, said Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. He attributed the trend to efforts by certain quarters to sow the seeds of hatred among university students, Utusan
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    • 236 10 Reuters YANGON Myanmar's military government said yesterday there had been good progress in reconciliation with the opposition. Plans were also being drawn up to build a "disciplined and flourishing democracy" in the country, said a military leader. Talks between the government and the pro-democracy opposition led
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    • 154 10 HONOLULU As hopes of finding the missing Japanese victims in Friday's submarinetrawler collision fade, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has suggested that America would provide compensation to their families. Nine people from the Ehime Maru are still missing after the USS Greeneville struck it off Hawaii.
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    • 215 10 AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said on Monday that she would shun "ambush interviews", apparently to avoid being misquoted or misinterpreted by one of Asia's most free-wheeling presses. "I don't think a president should make casual remarks that can just be put in the
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    • 113 10 Reuters SYDNEY Political maverick Pauline Hanson (below) has marked her electoral comeback with another controversial statement. Ms Hanson said that her One Nation party's return was in part a backlash at the Australian government's "soft" approach to boat people, whom she accused of bringing diseases to
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    • 68 10 ROME An Italian, who robbed a garage, thought the cashier was such an easy target that he returned another four times. He staged his raids the same time each week to make sure that the same cashier was on duty, reported ananova.com. Police in Naples
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    • 180 11 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO IBM has acknowledged that its German subsidiary provided the Nazis with a tabulation machine used in their administration of the Holocaust during World War 11. The US computer giant said Sunday that the existence of the IBM "Hollerith" punch card machine,
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    • 131 11 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR An increasing number of Malaysians mostly the old or infirm are being abandoned in a hospital here by families unwilling to care for them. Last year 147 patients at the government-run Kuala Lumpur Hospital, including seven children aged below 10, were abandoned by
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    • 314 11 Agencies Canadian PM raises human rights issues BEIJING Human rights issues were very much on the Canadian Prime Minister's mind when he met his Chinese counterpart. Mr Jean Chretien said he had raised the gamut of human rights in China during his meeting with Prime Minister Zhu Rongji
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    • 101 11 -AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian navy ship saved 123 people from a sinking passenger boat in the waters off Sulawesi island. The warship Teluk Ende answered a distress call on Saturday from the passenger ship KM Sentani-3, which was leaking badly after being
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    • 210 11 AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong has to loosen its belt, with people getting heavier as they eschew traditional Chinese cooking for fast food and snacks. "Eight per cent of children in Hong Kong are obese," said doctor Mimi Sham, a nutritionist at Canossa hospital. "Even
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    • 188 11 MADHYA PRADESH Police in this Indian state have arrested a gang which was running a parallel office of the chief minister and appointing fake employees to government jobs. They had been on the trail of the seven-member gang for 18 months, reported BBC
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    • 295 12 Agencies Former President in trouble again over pardon WASHINGTON Mr Bill Clinton's granting of a lastminute presidential pardon to a fugitive financier may cost him dearly. The United States prosecutor for New York, Ms Mary Jo White, is considering opening a criminal probe into Mr Clinton's
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    • 190 12 -AFP HANOI Two Vietnamese intellectuals have been placed under formal house arrest amid a clampdown on dissidents in the wake of unrest in the central and southern highlands. Biologist Ha Si Phu and former city council deputy chairman Mai Thai Linh were accused of "making contact
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    • 122 12 -AFP HONG KONG Three jobless men were sentenced jail yesterday for abducting the son of Taiwanese film star Sylvia Chang Ai-chia during a seven day ordeal last year. The group's mastermind Tsang Yiu-tung, 20, for 12 years, and sentenced Leung Man-kwon, 21 and Yuen Lee-man, 20, for
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    • 72 12 ROME An Italian who robbed a garage thought the cashier was such an easy target he returned another four times. The crook even staged his raids at the same time each week to make sure the same cashier was on duty, reported
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    • 204 12 -AFP A husband, while he is on a business trip to a hill station sends a telegram to his wife: "I wish you were HERE." The message received by wife: "I wish you were HER." WASHINGTON Two top US officials went on TV at the weekend to
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    • 36 12 The 'King of the third millennium" float was on parade on Messina square in Nice on Sunday, during the 117th Carnival of Nice. The carnival ends on Feb 27. -AFP photo
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    • 152 12 -AFP SANGATTE Two illegal migrants were seriously hurt and dozens injured on Sunday when a massive riot broke out at a Red Cross centre. The illegals were being detained at the centre which is near the French port of Calais. Fourteen ambulances and dozens of
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 597 13  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahman Singaporeans should realise that economic disparities between the races are unhealthy and why this is so by zackaria@news to day.com .sg THE figures released recently to highlight the progress of the Malay community in Singapore are indeed heartening. It's even more
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    • 418 13 Reuters LANDMARK talks between Myanmar's military government and pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, offer the best hope for democracy and full engagement with the rest of the world for more than a decade. The talks, which began in
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  • TECH NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      648 14  -  Sol E Solomon Dell's answer to weathering the economy if it goes south by sol o mon newstoday. com. sg DESPITE the uncertainty over the global economic outlook, a senior executive at Dell says that the company will continue to do well in Singapore. This is because
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    • Article, Illustration
      199 14 EPSON launched its EMP-8150 projector with EasyMP.net, a technology that facilitates net-work-accessible presentations. The bright 3200 ANSI lumens projector that weighs 9.1 kg, is designed for auditorium use. EasyMP.net is a PC card and network-accessible system that eliminates the need to have a PC in the same
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    • 218 14 SUN Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) from Sun Microsystems Inc, is software that allows businesses to create, assemble and deploy Web services. It comprises a development environment, application and technology building blocks and an infrastructure platform. The suite is designed to provide greater productivity and lower
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    • Article, Illustration
      271 15 SINGAPORE-BASED wireless product vendor, AirGateway, has entered a sales alliance with European value-add service (VAS) telco provider and application service provider (ASP), WAPMe Systems AG. The alliance will allow both parties to expand their product ranges and market channels into Asia and Europe. As part of the alliance,
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    • 197 15 VASUNAS and NexLabs are the winners of The IgniteAsia Challenge, a competition that spanned 11 countries and 260 non-public Internet companies seeking funding. The judges included venture capitalists. Vasunas won Category A, for companies with at least one round of external investor financing
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    • 403 15 Free Internet access in Singapore is one reason DESPITE it being a maturing one where demand for PCs is traditionally driven by replacements, the Singapore PC market maintained its growth in 2000. The incentive for home users without PCs to purchase computers for their homes
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    • 113 15 TradeMX from eTrons Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd, is an emarketplace for the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry. Hosting the site and providing consulting services for network security, data redundancy and transaction performance of the portal, is IBM Global Services. The e-marketplace initially serves the EMS industry in Singapore,
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    • 88 15 STORAGE vendor, EMC Corporation has appointed JOSProData Computer Systems Pte Ltd as a value-added reseller of its mid-tier storage products. JOS-ProData provides key technologies, tools and technical support for e-business enabling services. The partnership is part of EMC's strategy to extend into the mid-range market. EMC's latest mid-range
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  • Relax
    • 767 22 Agencies A hungry public rushes to watch Hannibal as it opens in the US MAKE a dinner date with Hannibal Lecter, if you have a stomach for the grotesque. Hannibal, the controversial sequel to the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs, debuts here in Singapore next
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    • Article, Illustration
      312 23  -  Shazalina Salim Working round-the-clock, they keep Jurong Island safe by shazalina@iiewstoday.com.sg I used to think that all a fireman does is sit around all day and wait for a fire to happen somewhere. A visit to the Jurong Island Fire Station, which started operations on May 1,
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  • SEEFOOD
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      694 24  -  Pauline D Loh Salmon, rainbow trout, oysters only the freshest at Sydney Fish Market by pa u line® n e wsto d ay. co m .sg IT was a tempting piece of salmon belly, pink and gleaming with goodness. We drooled collectively. Succumbing, we told the lady
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