Today, 23 April 2002, Afternoon Edition

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    8 1 TODAY Tuesday A P rn 23,2002 MITA(P) 063/11/200]
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Gates: Plan will cripple us
      118 1 AFP WASHINGTON Microsoft chairman Bill Gates (picture), making his first court appearance in the company's anti-trust battle, said that a proposed remedy from a group of US states would "cripple" the company. Mr Gates, testifying before US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, said the pricing provision
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      Lock icon Dow drops
      58 1 AFP US stocks finished sharply lower yesterday, dragged down by the telecom sector after weak firstquarter earnings reports from Lucent and Ericsson and a new downgrade on World Com. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 120.68 points (1.18 per cent) to close at 10,136.43 while the tech-heavy Nasdaq
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      Midnight shoppers
      102 1 Hundreds of Star Wars fans packed the Toys R' Us at Marina Square early this morning in order to be the first to grab Star Wars Episode II action figures off the shelves. The store opened its doors at 12.01 this morning in an exclusive sale. Derrick Yeo,
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      Trains stopped
      338 1  -  Pauline D Loh SMRT pulls out 21 trains from service as safety precaution by pauline@newstoday.com.sg IN a statement issued at 5.45 am today, Singapore MRT Ltd says it is removing 21 trains from service due to faulty gearboxes found in some of the fleet. The immediate effect is
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      66 1 IT JUST TASTES BETTER'" CROISSAN'WICH" Choice of Egg/Turkey Bacon/ Thrkey Ham Tiirkey Sausagc^^^^ ar moil JH Sa\mmM, m\*wy UP' SS3o^^\ CROISSAN'WICH* Value Meal' >^ B^ afiiaaf*^\- \^Maaa\\\\m\ Breakfast King Value Meal* v v... 4««* s\ I Scrambled Egg Platter Value Meal* I Hurry up! I I Breakfast I I finishes
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Test drive for green vehicles
      239 2  -  Val Chua GREEN vehicles running on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) may pave the way for cleaner air in Singapore but vehicle owners have to first ride out the higher costs. For example, SBS Transit said the capital cost of acquiring a CNG bus and its
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      Great job turnaround?
      319 2  -  Richard Seah Survey shows 700 firms planning to hire by richs@newstoday.com.sg JOB seekers, here's a glimmer of hope a survey of 700 corporations in Singapore found that more companies are planning to hire permanent staff in the second quarter of this year. The survey by TMP worldwide,
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      Chinese V-Presidentto visit S'pore
      70 2 CHINESE Vice-President Hu Jintao will visit Singapore on Friday and Saturday at the invitation of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. This will be Mr Hu's first official visit to Singapore. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Mr Hu will call on President S
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      Lock icon New recruit
      55 3 Today photo by ACTRESS Janette Aw, (picture) discovered in an SPH MediaWorks talent show, is joining MediaCorp as an artiste. The 22-year-old ended her contract with SPH MediaWorks on April 3. She is leaving for a two-week holiday in Australia before she returns to discuss her future plans
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      Lock icon Trained in M'sia
      341 3 Agencies That's how blast suspects learned the craft MANILA Two suspects arrested yesterday in connection with the bombings in the Philippine city of General Santos received bomb training in Malaysia two years ago, police said. Regional police commander Colonel Bartolome Baluyot told Reuters that the interrogation of
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      Taiwan, China and S'pore
      117 3 TAIPEI Taiwanese lawmakers have warned their government that China may have offered to provide Singapore with military training facilities as part of an attempt to sabotage the city state's ties with Taiwan. "Singaporean troops being trained here told us they would not come here next year,"
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      Lock icon Thailand fears drug flood
      109 3 -AFP BANGKOK An attempt by druglords in Myanmar to massproduce the illegal designer drug, Ecstasy, could see a wave of the cut-price tablets flooding Thailand, a report said yesterday. The Narcotics Control Board said Myanmar's Red Wa militia, which has been held responsible for much of
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      Lock icon No decision on Russian fighters, says M'sia
      182 3 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday said no decision had been made on buying Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30MK fighter aircraft despite a media report on the project's approval. Malaysia, which is looking to buy new combat aircraft in a
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      The Merlion moves
      128 4 THE Merlion will start its move today from its site at the Merlion Park by the Esplanade Bridge to its new home 120 m away on a newlyreclaimed promontory in front of The Fullerton Hotel. The journey, which will be done in three phases, will involve one
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      Lock icon Appeal against Silk Air court ruling
      180 4 -AFP I FAMILIES of six victims of the 1997 crash of Silk Air flight MIIBS yesterday appealed against a decision by the High Court to reject their lawsuit to seek more damages. The families' lawyer, Mr Michael Khoo, told the three-judge Court of Appeal
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      Lock icon Bedroom anger
      229 4 Channel News Asia Man's act led to woman's death, court told A 36-YEAR-OLD man forced his fingers into a woman's anus last September, causing her to die from her injuries a week later, a court was told yesterday. Rajendran Ramchandran, whose trial for causing grievous hurt to 32-year-old
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      More Car Free Days to come?
      113 4  -  Joy Frances CAR Free Day looks set to stretch beyond just one day, if the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) sticks to this year's formula. "We will organise a similar Car Free Day next Earth Day We intend to include it over a weekend next
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  • HOME NEWS
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      They gave and they won big!
      194 6  -  -Joy Frances MR and Mrs Yeo Sei Cheng (picture) never expected to win a condominium and a brand new car when they donated to charity. The couple, who are in their 70s, won the top prize for the National Kidney Foundation Charity Show on
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      So much more to achieve
      340 6  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Internet yet to live up to its promise by za ckaria@newstoday.com.sg THE Internet has barely begun to achieve its potential and objective as a medium for cooperative endeavour, says the creator of the international standard for Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). Commercial
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      311 7 Diversification? J Blue chips?a____\^\ \n h jhJJBjIw, mmm*^ \jAU^^ M l"*""' -+*Aa**%^_^A X*^---"^ I iITV WHY TRY TO OUTGUESS THE MARKET WHEN YOU CAN OWN IT? WITH EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS (ETFs), YOU CAN BUY THE MARKET IN ONE SINGLE STOCK TRANSACTION. ©The new streetTRACKS SM Straits Times Index Fund (streetTRACKS
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  • LETTERS
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      No need for 'middleman'
      269 8  -  Mardupi Ismail I HAVE been reading Mr Lim Boon Hee's letters to Today. His latest letter, "Oh, Rafidah how can politics and business be kept separate?" (Today, April 19), is way over the top. Gone are the days when foreign multinational companies (MNCs) make investment decisions
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      Cut the fat
      391 8  -  Eric Tan Budget should reflect current realities I REFER to the reports on the recommendations of the Economic Review Committee (Today, April 12 and 15). I agree with the ERC's recommendations to reduce the maximum tax rate for corporations and individuals. But I was disappointed to note
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon S$ tracks yen and euro to 6-week high
      257 9 Bloomberg THE Singapore dollar rose to its strongest level in more than six weeks, tracking gains in the currencies of its peers. It gained as much as 0.3 per cent to $1.8160 in the day against its US counterpart, the highest since
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        152 9 THE STI index fell for a third day, ending 3.16 points down at 1727.66, as institutional investors continued to siphon money from "boring" counters into more interesting plays both locally and abroad. It was a mixed showing for the blue chip segment, while penny caps continued their usual rotational
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        World markets
        55 9 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.64 *****.42 3362.10 6462.30 +209.63 -112.76 +7.10 +14.18 +1.82 -1.00 +0.21 +0.22 Korea Comp 920.89 -3.05 -0.33 SET Index 25.61 -0.03 -0.12 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzen B Mumbai 535.68 1373.79 216.73 3390.25 +2.90 -27.57 -1.62
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 9 USS 0.5504 UK£ 0.3806 Yen 71.631 HK$ 4.2930 RM 2.0916 Euro 0.6200 Rupiah 5099.8 Baht 23.812 Peso 28.061 A$ 1.0205 Indian Rs 26.927 Won 719.53 C$ 0.8667 Yuan 4.5560 NZ$ 1.2319 NTS 19.173
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        Commodities
        21 9 Gold uss/oz 303.000 Silver uss/oz 4.503 Platinum uss/oz 551.600 Rubber centsAg 121.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1195 Brent crude uss/barrel 25.45
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 9 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
        56 9 By volume Apr 22 '000 Ipto 31,234 Eastgate 18,244 Dayen 16,051 FuYu 13,680 HongLaiH 12,755 By value Apr 22 DBS 41,187,656 SIA 40,343,500 OCBC 38,814,200 Venture 35,223,300 UOB 34,507,866 '000 Sing Tel 12,200 Europtron 11,258 Integra 10,929 Globa 10,005 Portek 9,738 Chartered 26,126,340 Sing Tel 19,216,720 SPH
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        SGX top rises
        68 9 By$ Apr 22 Creative 50 Close Change 21.200 +0.600 SIA 14.000 +0.500 SIA 200 13.900 +0.500 Venture 17.400 +0.400 GreatEast 11.400 +0.300 F&N100 7.700 +0.200 SPH 23.000 +0.200 C&C 5.000 +0.120 F&N 7.650 +0.100 By percentage Apr 22 Close Change BonvestsW*****5 0.010+100.000 El-Nets 0.030 +20.000 SeeHS 0.105
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        76 9 Bloomberg iy$ Vpr 22 IBS Close Changi 13.600 -0.201 )CBC 13.100 -0.201 JOB 14.400 -0.101 VPB Breweries 4.900 -0.061 JUS 2.220 -0.061 ipindex lemb Log JeneMedix 0.420 -0.05: 2.160 -0.051 1.130 -0.051 JelGro 500 2.690 -0.051 By percentage Apr 22 Close Change Seatown 0.020 -20.000 Falmac 0.050
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      Lock icon Founder sells 28% stake
      152 9 Bloomberg THE Singapore-based construction company, Hong Lai Huat Group, said its founder, Mr Johnny Ong Bee Huat, has agreed to sell a 28 per cent stake to Taiwan's Power Data Communications Company for $9.4 million. The privately-owned Taiwanese consumer electronics company will pay Mr Ong $0.18
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      Lock icon Poh Lian takeover by Tektronix
      279 10 Bloomberg POH Lian Holdings, a Singapore building contractor, said its shareholders have approved a takeover of the company by private investment company Tektronix Industries. Tektronix, based in Sweden, and other investors will receive new shares and cash worth U*****.3 million ($5Ol million) in exchange for
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      Lock icon UOB places bets on HK
      497 10 Bloomberg Bank wants platform to move into China UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) said it is pushing to expand into Hong Kong's personal banking market. UOB, Singapore's biggest credit-card issuer, is looking to grow outside its home market UOB started offering credit cards in Hong Kong
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Lock icon Japan's trade surplus with rest of Asia soars 71.1%
      186 12 -AFP TOKYO Japan's trade surplus with the rest of Asia soared 71.1 per cent year-on-year in March, supported by rising Japanese exports of chemicals and steel, the finance ministry said. The surplus with Asia totalled 455.4 billion yen ($6.37 billion) with
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      Lock icon MISC ties up with Saudi shipping firm
      159 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia International Shipping Corp (MISC) said it has tied up with a Saudi Arabian firm, Bakri Navigation Co, marking its foray into the Middle East. The pact will enable MISC a unit of national oil company, Petronas to seek opportunities
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      Lock icon India's Bharti slashes overseas call rates
      202 12 Bloomberg INDIAN expatriates here can soon expect more calls from home as India's biggest mobile-phone operator, Bharti Tele-Ventures, said it plans to offer overseas long-distance calls at rates up to 50 per cent lower than existing tariffs. Sing Tel has an effective stake of
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      Lock icon Tuas Power bonds
      41 12 Bloomberg TUAS Power, Singapore's third-largest electricity producer, plans to raise $300 million by selling bonds for the first time, IFR Asia reported, citing unidentified bankers. The bonds will likely mature between five and seven years, the report said.
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      213 10 Health Seminar How to win the Immunity war with Colostrum! An event organised by New Image International Singapore Pte Ltd General invitation to all the public Special invitation to New Image representatives Learn more about Colostrum and your immune system from: MICHAIL BORISSENKO (M.Sc, B.Sc): Chief Scientist at the Institute
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon It will be a lonely Israel' at Europe-Middle East meeting
      312 14 Agencies WASHINGTON Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, considered a mild voice in his country's politics, has equated European criticism of Israel's attack on the Palestinian camp in Jenin with an expression of feelings against Jews. He said he expected to
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      All eyes on the ball ...
      97 14 All eyes on the ball SEOUL Tempers that appear to have frayed ties between South Korea and Japan over a controversial visit to a shrine two days ago by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi are not likely to affect the World Cup. Both countries are preparing for the event, that
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      Japan's 'White House'
      134 15 TOKYO Japan has opted for extensive use of glass panels to give a sense of openness, airiness and light to its Prime Minister's new residence (picture), unveiled yesterday by former Prime Ministers of the country. The new official residence could hardly differ more from the cramped and
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      French 'earthquake'
      372 15 Arch-conservative Le Pen beats Jospin, faces Chirac PARIS A chilling wind is blowing through Europe, shaking the foundations of traditional progressive politics to the benefit of conservative viewpoints. The latest instalment in this trend was yesterday's first round victory for the arch-conservative politician, Mr Jean-Marie Le Pen (picture,
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Unbind to unite
      842 16  -  Roger Mittort Peace and unity possible only if regions like Aceh get independence A FEW years ago, in northern Australia, I signed up for Whitewater rafting. We set off in individual rubber dinghies and, ahead of each spot with rapids, our guide indicated the route to follow.
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Stephen Chow's night of glory
      520 17 -Reuters Directorial debut sweeps Hong Kong Film Awards HONG KONG Shaolin Soccer, a comedy that will soon hit US cinemas, scored a resounding victory on Sunday at the Hong Kong Film Awards, one of the most prestigious accolades in the Chinese movie industry. With its
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      Lock icon Reginald Rose dies
      271 17 Reuters NEW YORK Reginald Rose, one of the leading writers from television's Golden Age in the 1950s who was best known for the movie Twelve Angry Men, died on Friday at a Connecticut hospital at age 81, a hospital spokeswoman said. Rose died of complications from heart
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  • INFOTECH
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      The best, for less
      700 18  -  SolE Solomon Quality, finance and trade-ins to help SMEs upgrade r SPECIAL FEATURE Business PCs SUPERIOR uptime at an affordable price, that's what SMEs in Singapore look for in office PCs. But is asking for the best for less just wishful thinking? Are PC vendors able
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      Vendors work together on high-availability for Windows 2000
      218 20 A SERVER maker, Stratus Technologies, has embarked on a major initiative with Microsoft to accelerate the uptake of faulttolerant computing on the Windows and Intel Architecture platform. Aimed to help enterprises of all sizes, this push is spearheaded by the Stratus ftServer
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      S'pore-Australia construction e-hub
      110 20 THE local business-to-business (B2B) construction hub, icxl23.com, has partnered Aconex, a similar hub in Australia, to give suppliers from their communities greater overseas exposure. This inter-portal effort will let buyer communities on both hubs have greater supplier reach, as the two hubs will have easy access to
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      Breaking News
      132 20 CNETAsia TAsia osio. cnel. com/newslech Bug 'spreads confidential data' THE latest variant of the Klez worm sometimes chooses to hitch a ride on sensitive documents, resulting in the victim's confidential information spreading with the malicious program, said the Russian anti-virus firm, Kaspersky Labs. However, the security response team
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      195 22 SCV's Creative Classroom and Nickelodeon have organised a competition for students to express their views. Winning entries each month will be produced into a news segment on a 30-minute monthly programme, Hear Me Out, to be aired on Nickelodeon. All that secondary students need
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      422 22  -  Janice Lee True Files poses new challenge to Lim Kay Tong by janice@newstoday.com.sg LIM Kay Tong has worked all over the globe, and for five years we've known him as Charlie Tay in Growing Up. This week, the veteran actor begins a new challenge of hosting the crime
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      399 23  -  Pauline DLoh Mushrooms, fresh sweetcorn and mozzarella cheese make a satisfying meatless meal MUSHROOMS are nature's gift to the vegetarians. These wonderful fungi come in a large variety of shapes, sizes and texture so helpful for the inventive vegetarian cook. I've been meaning to introduce a
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      232 23 Ingredients: 20 large mushrooms (Button mushrooms or shiitake) 1 fresh corn on the cob 100 gm fresh breadcrumbs 200 gm fresh mozzarella cheese (grated) A little milk Dried chilli flakes (or paprika) Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C. Clean mushrooms, break off
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      528 24  -  David Ngiau Indonesian director Riri Riza makes his own path AFTER his last film, Sherina's Adventure, became Indonesia's highest-grossing film for 2000, what did director Riri Riza (picture) do? He set out to do something completely different With Eliana, Eliana, Riza's inspiration to depart from Sherina's, successful formula
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      199 25 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD With a mere 25 years of work under his belt, Sylvester Stallone will claim the title of "Action Star of the Millennium" at the Video Software Dealers Association Convention this summer. "Sly" Stallone is expected to accept the award personally at the
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      282 25 Reuters/Variety The Rock's Scorpion King opens impressively HOLLYWOOD The Scorpion King may herald Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the next action monarch. The film opened in North America with an estimated U5536.2 million ($61.7 million) last weekend, leading some to ask: "Arnold who?" Indeed, Universal Pictures built
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      291 25 Reuters ROME Veteran director Marco Bellocchio's latest film, which premieres internationally next month in the Cannes Film Festival's official competition, has sparked controversy in Italy. The Religion Hour centres on an artist and confirmed atheist, whose peace of mind is shaken when his family attempts to
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      210 24 Singapore International Film Festival screenings today Venus Boyz (Switzerland/US/Germany) R(A) Getting My Brother Laid (Germany) R(A) Director: Gabriel Baur. Director: SvenTaddicken Documentary about feminine masculinity and Mike is a subway cop with a bizarre family: a women who want to become men. horny sis and retarded brother who likes 7pm,
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  • TIMEOUT
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      613 27  -  Sian E Jay Galleries promote local artists in New Finds by THE Art Galleries Association of Singapore's two-week festival, New Finds, is now underway. Each of the nine participating galleries is featuring a Singaporean artist in the hope that more members of the public will begin to
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      Solid batting inspires India's late recovery
      167 28 PORT-OF-SPAIN Venkatsai Laxman and Sourav Ganguly shared a century stand to brighten India's chances of setting a stiff fourth-innings target for the West Indies in the second Test here yesterday. Laxman was batting on 60 and skipper Ganguly on 48 at stumps on the
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      347 28 Reuters NBA 1st round playoff LA Lakers 95 Portland 87 Kobe, Shaq take care of business LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Lakers began the pursuit of its third straight NBA title with a solid 95-87 win over the Portland Trail Blazers in game one of their Western
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      Do you have the ambition, Bennett?
      521 29  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg WREXHAM'S manager Denis Smith has thrown down the gauntlet to reigning S-League Player of the Year Daniel Bennett (picture). The Welsh team has been relegated to the Third Division in the English League. Smith now wants the former Tanjong Pagar
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      Great start, but Singapore Sevens' organisers must build on this
      686 29  -  Kelvin Phang Comment by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg ORGANISERS, sponsors and fans were undoubtedly on a high (alcohol infused or otherwise) after the conclusion of the inaugural Singapore Sevens on Sunday. The eighth leg of the International Rugby Board World Sevens Series saw
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      209 30  -  Stanley Ho TODAY WHEN Sengkang Marine hosted SAFFC last Friday, a young man thrilled more than 3,000 fans with his nifty footwork and showmanship. And it was not the Dolphins' latest sensation Chris Downey. Mohd Rendy Aziz, an amateur performer, thrilled the Hougang faithful by rapping and
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      657 30 Agencies Champions League Barcelona v Real Madrid Live, tomorrow morning on Chs 23, 2.30 am BARCELONA The day of November 23, 1960 is etched into the history books of both Barcelona and Real Madrid. And the man most responsible for its infamy was
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        723 31 Agencies Swede helps Arsenal go top, as Wenger warns England LONDON Arsene Wenger has warned Sven-Goran Eriksson that Freddie Ljungberg (picture) could shatter England's World Cup dream. The Arsenal midfielder scored twice against Ipswich to send the Gunners back to the summit of the Premiership. And it
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        174 31 AFP NEW YORK Chinese giant Yao Ming (picture) is going to America, perhaps as soon as next week for a workout, and has a strong chance of being the top player selected in June's National Basketball Association Draft Yao, a 7"5' centre, led the Shanghai
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        104 31 AFP WASHINGTON The United States has named its 23-man squad for the World Cup this morning, including in its roster 11 debutantes for the tournament. Seven players will be playing in their third World Cup, including captain Claudio Reyna of Sunderland and Joe-Max Moore
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