Today, 29 March 2002

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    8 1 TODAY Friday March 29, 2002 MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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  • Article, Illustration
    An eye on the main chance
    544 1  -  Francis Kan The ultimate opportunist gets his due by francis@newstoday.com.sg AT a time when the corporate world is being ruled by young guns like Michael Dell and Sim Wong Hoo, a 72-year-old who has been a bank chief for 30 years should, by right,
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    Lock icon Golf course battle moves to trees
    295 1  -  Joy Frances Joy Francis by joy@newstoday.com.sg WHILE the Nature Society of Singapore tries to rescue a marsh in Kranji where the National Service Resort Country Club (NSRCC) golf course is planned, a new controversy has broken out. Has the NSRCC already started chopping down
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    New twist to ORA contest
    253 1  -  Rahim Zackaria Abdul NOW it is going to be a threeway battle to lead the Old Rafflesians' Association. The contest was already sizzling at the prospect of the firstever woman candidate, Ms Madeleine Lee, taking on orthopaedic surgeon Dr Lee Soon Thai. Now, Dr Lim
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Ministries urged to find beams to link their 'pillars of strength'
      392 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has thrown a challenge to the administrative service's officers. At the 14th Administrative Service Dinner held last night at the Shangri-La hotel, PM Goh said that while there are good initiatives in place for
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      Lock icon No shadow off death
      384 2  -  Joy Frances Reprieve for German woman after chemical test by j oy@newsto day. com. sg THE young German woman charged with trafficking cannabis and her three Singaporean accomplices have avoided the death penalty. Julia Suzanne Bohl, 22, was originally charged with possessing 687 grammes of cannabis.
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      M'sian U to teach science, humanities in English
      153 2 KUALA LUMPUR The Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) wants half of its science and humanities courses to be taught in English within the next two years, reported The Star yesterday. The university's vice-chancellor, Professor Datuk Dr Anuwar Ali, told reporters in London that
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    • Article
      ERP to be expanded?
      271 2 THE Ministry of Transport says the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system and the vehicle quota scheme have been effective in easing congestion on Singapore roads. In its addendum to the President's address at the opening of Parliament on Monday, it said it would focus on such
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    • Article
      Moving sand
      325 3  -  Elisia Yeo League okays Saudi's Mideast proposal BEIRUT An historic Arab peace project was launched yesterday after leaders at the Arab League summit unanimously endorsed a Saudi peace plan for the Middle East. The initiative offers Israel normal relations if it withdraws from Arab land occupied since 1967,
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      Lock icon Mega, the messenger, visits Pyongyang
      202 3 Agencies PYONGYANG The job of calming tensions in the Korean peninsula may have landed on the shoulders of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri. She flew to North Korea from China yesterday bearing two diplomatic messages for North Korean leader Kim Jong 11, sources said. One note,
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      Lock icon M'sia: Don't be selfish
      95 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Singapore should not be selfish, Malaysia said yesterday in response to Singapore's comment early this week that it would continue the land reclamation in its territorial waters. "There are certain things we do on our own territory that will have an effect on
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  • HOME NEWS
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      From custodian to interpreter
      410 4  -  Val Chua NLB widens its scope to research and reprinting by val@newstoday.com.sg CALL it the mother of all libraries. By the end of next month, an e-library will give some 500 million citizens in the region access to material from 10 different libraries, including Singapore's National
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      Lock icon 13kg of heroin seized, 9 arrested in drug haul
      205 4 Channel NewsAsia THE Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has recovered nearly 13kg of heroin with a street value of $1.6 million in a major drug haul. Nine people were taken into custody during Wednesday's operation, including eight Singaporean suspects. They are believed
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    • Article
      Goodbye, red packet of river
      276 4  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by kim@newstoday.com.sg FOR more than a year, nobody spotted the glaring mistakes in the simplified Chinese version of tourist information brochures about Singapore. Last week, acting on a letter from a reader of the Chinese daily, Lianhe Zaobao, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB)
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      Two new NHG clinics
      134 4 THE National Healthcare Group (NHG) Polyclinics will soon launch its third night clinic in Woodlands as well as a new specialist clinic in Hougang. The Woodlands Polyclinic will provide night clinic services from April 1 while the TTSH Specialist Knee Clinic will start operations on the
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      Direct access to CPF centre
      65 4 THE toll-free numbers at four of the Central Provident Fund Board's (CPF) branches in Bishan, Jurong, Tampines and Woodlands will be terminated from April 1. Members of the public can contact either the CPF Call Centre at 1800 227 1188 for assistance on member services,
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      Lock icon Board dissolved
      86 4 Channel NewsAsia THE Tenants Compensation Board, established in 1970 to allow landlords to recover their rent-controlled premises for development, will be dissolved on Sunday. Rent control was abolished last year and the board has been settling outstanding matters, including administering the compensation deposited by landlords for payment to
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      At your fingertips ...
      346 7  - At your fingertips Sarah Chua Tibs plans easy information for passengers on bus services by sarah@newsto day. com. sg THE Trans-Island Bus Service (Tibs) is embarking on a pilot project for a user-friendly integrated passenger information system. From Monday, an Easy Guide Line Diagram (picture, below right) and new Service
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  • LETTERS
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      The riddle of succession
      322 6  -  Simon Ng Yap Seng Why don't our companies plan for something as basic as this? I REFER to your report, "OCBC's latest number" (Today, March 27). I read with interest the comment from Mr Sam Chin, research director at ABN AMRO Securities, that "OCBC shares will
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      ORA controversy could have been avoided with an 'OBA'
      184 6  -  Narayana Narayana I REFER to the article, "Old Raffles boys and girls slug it out over ORA presidency" (Today, March 25) and the letter, "Why don't you run against Ms Lee" (Today, March 28). It has always been the perception in
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      Have we got our ez-link calculations right?
      104 6  -  Aileen Kong I READ with amusement the article which reported that MRT, Tibs and SBS Transit spent $300 million on its new contactless system (Today, March 23). One major reason for the move is that their customers are underpaying them by an estimated
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      Musings on thwarting bus cheats
      310 6  -  Kathleen Kwan I REFER to the recent hoopla on the implementation of ez-link in our public transport system (Today, March 23). All these gadgets and high-tech wizardry are but tools to prevent commuters from cheating the public transport system. We should take a step back
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      31 6 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax: 65-*****17; E-mail: news@newstoday.com .sg
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Sweet victory
      537 8  -  Val Chua Informatics receives Enterprise Award by val@newstoday.com.sg IT was a humble start that has paid off. Home-grown education provider, Informatics, started out on a shoe-string budget in 1,500 sq feet of office space with two classrooms and five employees in 1983. "I had to do everything myself,
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      A record for US economy
      154 8 WASHINGTON The US economy expanded in the fourth quarter at the fastest pace in a year, fuelled by consumer and government spending that kept growing months after the recession began last March. The GDP grew at a revised 1.7 per cent annual rate from October
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        121 8 THE ST index gained 8.06 points to 1803.22 yesterday on a combination of window dressing at the end of the quarter and short covering ahead of a shortened trading week. Dealers explained that there was a flurry of portfolio reshuffling while the broader market was indulging in penny caps
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        Malaysia
        141 8 THE market ended mixed. The KLCI hit a high of 760.4 but late selling of some key index-linked counters force the index down 1.5 points to 755.05. There were 627 gainers with 151 losers. Volume traded was 479,865 lots. The major blue chips were generally lower, led by Malayan
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        SGX most active
        56 8 By volume Mar 28 '000 Digiland 84,169 Ipco 41,747 GES 39,509 Portek 27,590 LafeTech 19,323 '000 Roly 15,760 KLW 13,985 Mentor 13,065 NOL 9,541 Vikay Ind 7,799 By value Mar 28 Value UOB 40,778,036 SPH 32,171,035 Chartered 30,653,418 DBS 26,813,415 GES 23,512,885 Value OCBC 23,334,555 Venture 22,393,144
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        SGX top rises
        73 8 By$ Mar 28 Goodwood Close Change 37.000 +2.000 SIA 200 Robinson 14.400 +0.300 5.450 +0.250 UOB 15.200 +0.200 SIA 14.400 +0.200 Venture Innovalu 18.200 +0.100 0.650 +0.100 SPH 24.600 +0.100 GreatEast 12.300 +0.100 DBS 14.800 +0.100 By percentage Mar 28 Close Change Heshe 0.135 +22.727 Innovalu 0.650
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        SGX top falls
        76 8 By$ March 28 Close Change AseanSupremel 00USS5.400 -0.150 CITYDEV 6.550 -0.100 KepLand 1.800 -0.080 GES 0.580 -0.075 TAC200USS 1.370 -0.060 NOL 1.080 -0.060 Sp Land 3.440 -0.060 DatatrftUSS 2.240 -0.050 SpComp 1.660 -0.050 ICB 5.550 -0.050 By percentage March 28 Close Change Flextech W*****2 0.010 -33.333 El-Nets
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        World markets
        55 8 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.11 *****.92 3363.30 6209.92 +9.43 +45.04 +2.90 +62.17 +0.08 +0.41 +0.09 +1.01 Korea Comp 892.67 -9.79 -1.08 SET Index 379.55 +2.45 +0.65 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzen B Mumbai 481.77 1403.62 233.82 3469.35 +.49 -3.51 +4.50
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 US$ 0.5436 UK£ 0.3822 Yen 71.942 HK$ 4.2402 RM 2.0658 Euro 0.6235 Rupiah 5341.2 Baht 23.604 Peso 27.736 A$ 1.0213 Indian Rs 26.518 Won 718.69 C$ 0.8669 Yuan 4.4996 NZ$ 1.2344 NTS 19.005
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        Lock icon Commodities
        23 8 Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 297.00 Silver uss/oi 4.6750 Platinum uss/oi 511.20 Rubber cents/kg 122.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 11 23 Brent crude uss/barrel 25.60
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3118 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Fund Name NAV/Bid Price Oiler Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) Aberdeen Se American Opportunities 0.744 0.782 Aberdeen Se -Asian Fixed Income 1.177 1.214 Aberdeen Se China Opportunities Fund 1.006 1.058 Aberdeen Se Continental Europe Equity 1.014 1.066 Aberdeen
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      Lock icon Battle for high-fliers
      308 10 -AFP But the price war among small Asian carriers may not hit SIA SMALLER Asian airlines have launched a business-class price war to ride on a projected recovery but major carriers like Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Cathay Pacific are likely to soar above the fray, analysts said.
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    • Article
      SingTel: PwC to stay auditor
      140 10 SINGTEL intends to propose the re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as its external auditor at its annual general meeting in August. The re-appointment follows submissions from the "Big Five" accounting firms Arthur Andersen, Deloitte Touche, Ernst Young, KPMG and PwC PwC has been SingTel's auditor since
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      Foreigner to head RHB
      67 10 KUALA LUMPUR RHB Capital Bhd will name the chief of Standard Chartered's Malaysian operations to head the bank, Bloomberg reported. The 41-year-old Mr Michael Hague will be the first foreigner to head one of Malaysia's 10 local banks. His appointment comes as Malaysian lenders prepare for
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    • Corporate Briefs
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        Hong Leong cuts loss
        39 10 HONG Leong Asia Limited narrowed its loss to $7.8 million in 2001, down from $15.1 million a year earlier. This improvement was achieved with a turnover of $270.2 million, compared to $258.5 million in 2000.
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        Comfort plans bus firm
        22 10 COMFORT Group will launch a new company called Comfort Bus Pte Ltd to extend its chartered bus services.
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        Gul Tech in the red
        36 10 MAINBOARD-listed Gul Technologies Singapore has suffered a net loss of $27.4 million in 2001, compared to a profit of $20.7 million in 2000. Turnover fell 29 per cent to $170.5 million.
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      Lock icon ST Assembly's sales likely to skyrocket if demand for chips rebounds
      258 11 Bloomberg ST Assembly Test Services, Asia's second-largest chip tester, said sales may surge seven-fold to US$l billion ($1.84 billion) when demand for semiconductors recovers and reaches its next peak. Mr Harry Davoody, ST Assembly's chief executive officer, said the
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      Lock icon Fresh hurdle
      238 11 Bloomberg Andersen Singapore, Indonesia cited in suit ARTHUR Andersen LLP Asia-Pacific's planned merger with KPMG, beset by defections from more than a quarter of partners, faces a fresh hurdle as its Singapore and Indonesian offices are being sued in the United States. An august class action by Asia
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      IBM's Changi HQ
      61 11 INTERNATIONAL Business Machines (IBM) yesterday opened its new regional headquarters in Changi Business Park. About 1,000 of its employees are located in the new offices, of whom more than 100 are here on overseas assignments from 25 countries. IBM, which first set up office here in 1953
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      242 9 YEARS IN SINCAPORE Hi LM&\ «—*nn I [lan [S [mar [*S f"*V II -v^ m Vt p_ j bi S fe "jw r»|| y* I ■w? As part of our celebration of 100 years in Singapore, Citibank is giving away a total of $1 million over 10 months. From January
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      370 11 I Catch the fever of 2002 FIFA World Cup" with MasterCard First Half- Whether you're a soccer fan or not, there's no escaping the passion and wonder of 2002 FIFA World Cup™. From 15 Mar to 15 May, every $20 you charge to your MasterCard card gets you a chance
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Johor's water wave
      296 12 Malaysia to spend $25b on water projects KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is to build two dams in Johor before 2010 under a new nationwide masterplan to cater to the growing water needs of the country. The Johor dams in Sayong and Ulu Sedili Besar are among five with
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      Lock icon Indian states choose to ignore anti-terror law
      142 12 Agencies NEW DELHI Although Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is celebrating the passage of a tough new anti-terrorist Bill, as many as half the country's 29 states are set to ignore it. Several states in India's northeast, including Assam and Nagaland, have
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      Lock icon Okinawa hails conviction
      78 12 -AFP NAHA (Japan) Okinawa residents yesterday hailed the guilty verdict given to a US airman for raping a Japanese woman, saying it marked progress in dealing with crimes by American troops there. US air force staff sergeant Timothy Woodland, 25, was con victed of raping the woman
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      Lock icon Paris gunman in death leap
      60 12 -AFP PARIS Richard Durn, the 33--year-old loner who killed eight local councillors in a Paris suburb on Wednesday, committed suicide yesterday by leaping from a fourth-floor police station window. France 3 television reported that police found a 13-page suicide letter in which Durn railed at
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Tudung issue revisited
      627 14 THE New York Times on March 2 carried a report written by Mr Seth My dans on Singapore's tudung debate. The article was reproduced in Malaysia's New Straits Times on March 3. The Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur sent a letter to NSTon March 11 to
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      THE REPLY
      309 14 CONTRARY to Mr Seth Mydans' claim, the Government does not seek to quash the cultural identities of the different ethnic groups in Singapore. On the contrary, it respects each community's wish to practise its own religion and customs. The Government does seek gradually to expand the common space
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon I know Singapore ...
      703 16  - I know Singapore David Ngiau Jack Neo's stories are simple, funny and, most importantly, uniquely local by da vid@newsto day. com. sg THIS man has his finger squarely on the pulse of Singapore. Jack Neo cut his teeth as a comedian/host on MediaCorp TV's Channel 8, gaining a following with
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      Stupid White Men is No 1
      192 16 WASHINGTON A controversial book by US satirist Michael Moore criticising President George W Bush is topping bestseller lists in the US. Despite Mr Bush's continued popularity, Stupid White Men is number one on the Los Angeles Times bestselling non-fiction list, reported the BBC. It
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      Lock icon Dion's husband accused of rape
      228 16 -AFP LOS ANGELES A female resident of Los Angeles has filed rape charges against Rene Angelil, the husband of Canadian pop diva Celine Dion, according to court documents here. In the suit, first filed in the western US state of Nevada on March 15, Kwon
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  • TIMEOUT
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      Going solo at 15
      433 17  -  Low Shi Ping SCGS student to showcase Carnatic music in weekend concert AN average 15-year-old can usually be found chilling out in shopping malls, imbibing the latest in the pop scene or talking on the telephone. But Sneha Ramesh Mani, a Singapore Chinese Girls' School student,
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      Designers inspired by the movies
      129 17  -  FREEDOM, Scandalous Romance Of Exotic Glamour and Frosted Frangipanis have one thing in common. They are the clothing collections created by Apparel Design and Merchandising students at Temasek Polytechnic. The collections will be featured as part of the students' Graduation Show entitled Movies! Movies!, held
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      157 17 \Singapore Fashion Festival* at y^yj I 7he jfeeren Shops. JJn I Till 31 march ZOOZ ><~-—-/(\ I A Fashion Showcase OTw^ Catch the final grand fashion showcase on the W\\ 1/ latest J-fashion and streetwear this Sat Sun, I N I 3pm spm at the external platform. \I I 1
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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      168 17 See listings for more details. PARTICIPATE Enquiries: 6338 2053 Movies! Movies! Temasek Polytechnic's Apparel Design and Spice Appreciation Workshop Merchandising Graduation Show takes on Learn more about the spices found in the movies as the theme behind the Singapore and their uses. designs. Date: Sunday Date: Sunday Time: 2 to
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Lock icon For jazz aficionados
      415 18  -  Lim Kuan Chiang By FOR jazz music fans looking for that cool spot with smooth tunes, here's good news. Jazz Southßridge has opened at the South Bridge end of Boat Quay, tucked away on top of what used to be Bernie's. Climb up a flight of stairs
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      Lock icon Super stardom, here we come!
      477 18  -  Elisa Chia MediaCorp artistes groomed to be singing sensations THE man who helped turn Stefanie Sun into a mega star has a new task: To transform Tay Ping Hui, Jacelyn Tay, Jaime Teo, Gurmit Singh and other MediaCorp artistes into the next singing sensations. And
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      Xinyao folks live again in Kallang concert
      224 18  -  -Low Shi Ping TWENTY years ago, Xinyao, or Singapore's unique brand of Chinese folk music, took the country by storm. Xinyao helped to put Singapore, previously known as a cultural desert, on the regional map. Many Xinyao groups mostly comprising students from the
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      135 18 Chinese Programmes No. Programme Channel 1 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 8 2 Vive La Famille 8 3 Sunday Prime Movie First Strike 8 4 News 8 At Ten 8 5 Health Matters 8 6 Happy Ever After 8 7 One Fun Day 8 8 A Kindred Spirit U
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  • TRAVELLER
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      QUICKTOURS
      295 19 TOURS Brunei Negara Brunei Darussalam, "The Abode of Peace", is just two hours away on Royal Brunei Airlines. The 3D/2N Weekend Package starts at $372 twin sharing. Includes air fare, two nights hotel accommodation and daily breakfast. Departure every Friday or Saturday. Call any agent or RBA at 6235
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      Lock icon Calm yet so thrilling
      789 19 Today Features Scenic New Zealand is also a sports enthusiast's playground NEW Zealand, an outpost at the corner of the world, seems far removed from the rest of the world and, perhaps, the problems that plaque this planet as well. Made of two main islands, it
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  • MOTORING
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      Baby Benz grows up
      550 20  -  Colin Yong The new A class has more rear legroom than an S-class IF cars can be likened to people, then the Mercedes-Benz A-class had a turbulent childhood. As the German manufacturer's first attempt at building a compact hatchback to compete with the Audi A3s and
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      Renault confident of Brazilian Grand Prix
      317 20  -  Colin Yong FOLLOWING its solid performance in the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix a fortnight ago, the Renault Fl team is carrying new-found confidence into this weekend's race in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Renault made a return to Fl at the start of this season.
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      Goodbye to closed COE bidding
      268 22 THE closed bidding exercise for vehicle COEs in March was the last to be held. From Monday, open bidding will completely replace closed bidding, putting an end to freak results such as the $50 COE in 1998 and the $101 COE last year. Closed bidding
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      Here at last
      208 22  -  Colin Yong Peugeot 607 back with special windscreen by colin@newstoday.com.sg IT made its first local appearance at the 2000 Singapore Motor Show, but the Peugeot 607 (picture) has only just gone on sale here. The delay in the car's arrival was due to ERP complications caused by
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      Longer Seven for the driven
      163 22 HALF a year after introducing the controversially-styled new 7 Series, BMW has released details of the more luxurious long wheelbase version. The new "Li" designation will be used for the first time. Local BMW distributor, Performance Motors, has priced the 3.6-litre 735Li at $350,000 and
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      Evolutions dominate at Kallang
      191 22 THIS will be the year of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution in local motor sports, if the first major event of 2002 was anything to go by. Held last Sunday at Kallang Carpark F, the Shell V-Power Sprints/SuperSprints Round 1 saw more than 80 cars participating. A
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      343 23 -Agencies HOLLYWOOD Dudley Moore the elfin British actor who became a successful, if unlikely, Hollywood leading man in the films 10 and Arthur died on Wednesday. He passed away at his New Jersey home of pneumonia, resulting from complications of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare degenerative brain
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      229 23 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Milton Berle (picture), the TV era's first major star, died in his sleep at his home in West Los Angeles on Wednesday. He was 93. Known by such sobriquets as "Mr Television", "The Thief of Bad Gags" and "Uncle Miltie",
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      Unforgettable
      482 24  -  David Ngiau FILM REVIEW If 15 (Now showing) ALZHEIMER'S disease (AD) is a strange affliction, to say the least Through its course, for which medicine has no answer, the AD sufferer slowly fades away as he loses his mind. Especially in the later stages, AD sufferers are largely unaware
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      118 24 Reuters/Variety NEW YORK-Warren Beatty (picture) has stepped out of the title role in writerdirector Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and will be replaced by David Carradine. Carradine joins Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu and Daryl Hannah in the Miramax drama, which starts shooting in June
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      Better than Lara
      345 25  -  David Ngiau FILM REVIEW Resident Evil (Now showing) I ACTUALLY looked forward to watching Resident Evil although I knew it was just another video-game adaptation which arrives in our cinemas this weekend. Mortal Kombat, Streetfighter, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider... you name it, I'm there. Hey, that's the
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      Lock icon Lloyd's Jockey Club suit thrown out
      164 27 -AFP HONG KONG A landmark attempt by Lloyd's of London to sue the Hong Kong Jockey Club over the death of a valuable thoroughbred in a 1998 riding accident has been dismissed. On Wednesday, Justice William Stone threw out the case, said to be
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      Lock icon Portland's Wells blazes Spurs
      103 27 Reuters PORTLAND Bonzi Wells scored 24 points and Dale Davis 19 as the Portland Trail Blazers recorded an important 98-93 victory over San Antonio yesterday to wreck the Spurs' league season-high 13-game winning streak. Portland also snapped a fivegame skid against San Antonio. Tim Duncan scored
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      334 27 -AFP Motor racing Brazilian Grand Prix German ace believes his new 2002 model Ferrari will earn him a victory in Sunday's race SAO PAULO World champion Michael Schumacher is confident the new 2002 model Ferrari, which is being turned loose upon Formula One rivals here this weekend,
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      Lock icon Beware Brazil
      575 28  -  Leonard Thomas If Ronaldo improves, his team can win World Cup World Cup friendly Brazil 1 Yugoslavia 0 Brazil sees ace striker shine by: leonard@news today.com. sg AT FIRST glance, Brazil's slim win over Yugoslavia yesterday would not have made too many sit up and take notice. Critics
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      Lock icon Italian lessons for England's Eriksson
      377 28 Reuters World Cup friendly England 11taly 2 Montella double cancels out Fowler strike LEEDS Sven-Goran Eriksson learned two valuable lessons from England's 2-1 friendly defeat to Italy yesterday. Vincenzo Montella's second goal of the night, a penalty in the closing seconds, consigned England to only
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      Financial crisis hits English football as rich television deal collapses
      428 28 LONDON English football bosses yesterday warned of impending disaster, with dozens of clubs going to the wall and wholesale redundancies among players as a result of the ITV Digital decision to go into administration. The chairmen of the 72 clubs
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      Lock icon Fang and Mr Perfect struck out
      596 29  -  Kelvin Phang Today EXCLUSIVE Both unlikely to represent Singapore in Asian Games by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg ONE is the reigning Asian FIQ champion. The other is a five-time national champion with six South-east Asia Games gold medals under his belt But Andrew Fang (above) and Jack
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      Agassi on course
      115 29 MIAMI Defending champion Andre Agassi continued his steady march towards a record fifth Nasdaq-100 Open Masters title with a 6-3, 7-5 quarter-final win over Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti yesterday. Next up for the American is another fiery Latin, Chile's Marcelo Rios, who advanced with an impressive 7-6 (7-0),
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      Holyfield-Rahman on?
      113 29 ATLANTIC CITY Don King, who last promoted a fight in Atlantic City in 1998, wants to stage a heavyweight clash between former world champions Evander Holyfield and Hasim Rahman in the casino city, thought to be around the same time as the Mike TysonLennox Lewis fight, which is
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      Mike's final hurrah
      102 29 WASHINGTON Michael Jordan is unlikely to play for the Washington Wizards next season because of his nagging knee injury, his coach said. The 39-year-old Jordan said he would play for two years when he came out of his second retirement last autumn, but he has been bothered
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      Lock icon Noor Ali's hungry
      732 30  -  Stanley Ho Eager Eagle shows insatiable appetite for attacking by stanley@newstoday.com.sg THIS Tuesday, national coach and Goal 2010 director Jan Poulsen will be announcing his 18-man squad for April's international friendly against the Republic of Maldives. After last night, the name Mohd Noor Ali will probably be
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      Lock icon Local press hails Nakata as he sends message to Troussier
      421 30 Reuters World Cup friendly Poland 0 Japan 2 Midfielder the key to Japan's win TOKYO The Japanese newspapers left no doubt where their allegiances lay yesterday morning following the World Cup co-hosts' 2-0 win away to Poland, one of the
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