Today, 19 September 2002

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    12 1 TODAY T ll 11 1* S Q <IV September 19, 2002 mita(P)o63/ii/20oi
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    Lock icon Candidly yours
    825 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Why he's turning heads on both sides of the Causewayj; MALAYSIAN writer Karim Raslan's dashing looks and panache are not the only reasons why he is attracting growing attention in the region these days. Since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States last year,
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Health dollars
      476 2  -  Tan Hui Leng Hub can benefit foreigners and locals WON'T the drive to make Singapore a healthcare hub providing topnotch medical treatment to well-heeled patients from the region create unhappiness among Singaporeans who expect a similar level of treatment? This was a key question dealt with by the
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      Lock icon Targets to be revealed today
      316 2  -  -Joy Frances TODAY, Singaporeans will find out details about the second group of Singaporeans arrested for terrorist activities. The 21 people, who have been linked with the Jemaah Islamiyah network and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, have been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA),
      WONG KHING CHONG  -  316 words
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      Lock icon Into the new economy
      186 2 Channel NewsAsia MATURE students and graduates from other disciplines may be able to obtain accelerated degrees if the National University of Singapore (NUS) accepts recommendations made by the Economic Review Committee (ERC). The ERC working group for legal services is also suggesting that an attractive scholarship
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      Lock icon Message to Iraq
      375 3 Agencies Singapore stand: Comply with UN resolutions DEPUTY Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony Tan yesterday articulated Singapore's position on the Iraqi situation in a clear message to Baghdad: Comply with UN resolutions or face the consequences. Non-compliance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions could have
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      Lock icon Major breakthrough in Sri Lanka talks
      206 3 Agencies SATTAHIP (Thailand) In what is seen as a major breakthrough in the 20-year-old Sri Lanka ethnic conflict, the Tamil Tigers yesterday said that they were not fighting for a separate state for the country's minority Tamils. "We don't operate with a concept of
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      Lock icon South-east Asia, an Al Qaeda hub
      132 3 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Increasing evidence has shown that South-east Asia has "the world's highest concentration of Al Qaeda outside Afghanistan and Pakistan". Admiral Narong Yuthavong, supreme commander of the Royal Thai aArmed Forces, said yesterday that there was proof of Al Qaeda presence in
      – Agencies  -  132 words
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      Icy tactics under fire
      389 4  -  Joy Frances Judge acquits boys charged with arson THE two youths who had been accused of starting fires at two Ang Mo Kio wet markets were acquitted yesterday. The two separate fires, which occurred within the space of a year, had destroyed more than 200 stalls.
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      Club MAD.-the new name for Woodbridge
      211 4  -  Tor Ching Li FROM Mental Hospital to Woodbridge Hospital to Club M.A.D., the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) is resorting to rebranding to resolve its financial problems. Last week, the Government said that hospitals like IMH and the National Neuroscience Institute have been in
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      Animal exchange
      142 4  -  Yee Wei Zhen CUDDLY-LOOKING woolly monkeys, kitten-sized brown-headed tamarins and an Andean condor with a flashy head crest. These natives of South America's Amazon rainforests are among the 33 animals taking up residence at the Singapore Zoological Gardens and the Jurong BirdPark in a few months. "Visitors to
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Cheers at Changi
      321 6  -  Jose Raymond You can buy beer at 1980 prices here TWO outlets at Block 3 in Changi Village are selling beer at a price long-time guzzlers find hard to believe $3.50 for a large bottle of Tiger. The usual price charged by most coffeeshops is between $5.50
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      Mentors for entrepreneurs
      130 6  -  Hannah Teoh ELEVEN local entrepreneurs have volunteered to share their business experience with budding entrepreneurs in a new Phoenix mentorship programme. The scheme matches aspiring businessmen with veterans in the various sectors for a sixmonth mentorship term. Both groups will meet at roundtable sessions and informal meetings.
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      Lock icon Pre-school grant to help families
      166 6 Channel NewsAsia THE Northeast Community Development Council has set up a Pre-School Subsidy Grant to offer interim financial help to families. Two hundred families will receive up to $150 subsidy per child each month which will cover 50 to 100 per cent of the school
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      Online chat
      98 6 THE Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Mr David Lim, will host an online chat on Oct 16. Organised by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), the one-hour chat will focus on whether Singapore has what it takes to become a culturallyvibrant society. SIF will invite Singaporeans
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      Lock icon Sabbatical plan
      133 6 Channel NewsAsia FROM next year, principals who have completed a six-year tour of duty can apply for paid sabbaticals. Education Minister Teo Chee Hean, who announced this yesterday, added that the principals will be given full flexibility in deciding on the structure of their sabbaticals. This means they
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      Education proposal a futile exercise
      161 7  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming I REFER to the recommendations by the Economic Review Committee on allowing local students to study at International Schools here, "Freedom to study" (Today, Sept 17). The second language requirement has proven to be a stumbling block for children from families
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      The $40m debate
      357 7  -  Thomas Lam I REFER to the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) response, "Why transit.smart is useful" (Today, Sept 18) and Mr Yak Chin Hua's comments in "What's the gain?"(TODAY, Sept 11). While the LTA has painstakingly pointed out the usefulness of transitsmart, it has left out the fact
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      Workers able to direct traffic
      149 7  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms) I REFER to Mr Lionel de Souza's letter, "Are site workers able to direct traffic?" (Today, Sept 11). When a road is being dug for repair or laying of underground power cables or utility pipes, a trained qualified site supervisor is
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Risky business
      385 9 Bloomberg S'pore should seek growth in risk trade: ERC SINGAPORE should set up an exchange to trade risks such as the threat of loan defaults and terrorism. This would boost the financial services industry, which makes up 13 per cent of the economy, a government panel said. The
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      Lock icon Opec to keep oil curbs
      183 9 Bloomberg OSAKA The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has agreed to leave its oil-production quotas unchanged for now at an 11-year low because of concern that an increase in supply will end this year's surge in prices, ministers from Kuwait and Qatar said yesterday.
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      Lock icon SingPost decision soon
      65 9 Channel NewsAsia SINGTEL will decide soon on whether to divest its profitable postal services. SingTel chief executive Lee Hsien Yang told the Far Eastern Economic Review in an interview that he expects to make the decision "within a very short time frame". SingTel mooted the idea four
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      Lock icon A helping hand
      242 10 Bloomberg Bank of Japan to buy $365 billion of stocks from banks TOKYO The Bank of Japan will buy some of the US$2O5 billion ($365 billion) of stocks banks own to help them avoid losses, Governor Masaru Hay ami said. This is the first time it has
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      Lock icon Private equity investment drops
      171 10 -AFP TOTAL private equity investment by venture capitalists based in Singapore fell 15 per cent year-on-year to US$l.l billion ($1.96 billion) last year, according to a report by 3i and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). Funds raised by the venture capitalists fell 48 per cent to US$95O million well
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      Lock icon Singapore salutes foreign franchises
      134 10 -AFP SMALL businesses in Singapore should leverage on foreign franchises such as McDonalds and Starbucks "to tap global best practices". Franchising is a "viable business option", Mr Lim Boon Heng, the Minister for the Prime Minister's Office, told delegates at the opening of a global franchising
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      IDD in Motion
      268 11  -  Chan Chao Peh HK telco eyes S'pore-China business HONG Kong-based China Motion Telecom (CM Telecom) will spend up to US$3 million ($5.3 million) to launch wholesale long distance call services in Singapore through its subsidiary China Motion Netcom. Despite the presence of dominant incumbent SingTel and new
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      Lock icon 'Not selling stake'
      119 11 Reuters SEMBCORP Industries has no plans to reduce its stake in unit SembCorp Logistics (SembLog) or to take the logistics firm private, the conglomerate said yesterday. "SembCorp Logistics is a key business of SembCorp Industries and will remain so," said SembCorp senior vice-president for investor relations, Mr
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      Lock icon Maxis to buy rival's assets
      65 11 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Maxis Communications, will announce plans today to buy rival Time dotCom's mobile-phone assets, Time said. Maxis, Malaysia's No 1 cellular company, will pay about RMI.S billion ($7Ol million) for the assets. Intense competition prompted Time dotCom, the nation's smallest mobile-phone company, to
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      Lock icon US consumer prices rise 0.3%
      49 11 -AFP WASHINGTON The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the United States rose 0,3 per cent last month the highest monthly rise since April taking the year-on-year inflation rate to 1.8 per cent, the Labor Department said. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 per cent
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        107 11 THE market went into corrective mode yesterday following yesterday's gains as well as overnight weakness for US stocks. The Straits Times Index plunged from the opening bell and stayed in negative territory for the whole day. It hit an intra-day low of 1427.69, and closed at 1431.25, down 27.22
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        World markets
        60 11 Index Voiik Change Pis Nikkei 225 9472.06 ■71.88 -0.75 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries 9474.07 3070.70 -233.18 -34.40 -2.40 -1.11 faiwan Wld 4482.65 -151.21 -3.26 Korea Comp iET Index 703.87 354.09 ■22.93 -5.21 -3.15 -1.45 lakarla Comp 419.12 -8.06 -1.89 Phils Camp ihenzen 8 Ve U11" L c i
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 11 USS 0.5637 UKI 0.3670 Yen 68.702 HK$ 4.3969 RM 2.1422 Euro 0.5799 Rupiah 5076.4 Baht 24.226 Peso 29.477 A$ 1.0333 Indian Rs 27.289 Won 683.92 C$ 0.8911 Yuan 4.6660 NZ$ 1.2029 NT$ 19.560
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        Commodities
        20 11 Galduss/E 318.20 Silver uss/« 4.598 Platinum irss/oi 549.40 Ruhber (sitVk9 156.75 Palm oil mVnmne 1362 Brenl crude osMaml 27.63
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 11 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
        54 11 By volume Sett IS '000 ASJ 34,970 Citiraya 31,830 NWTedi 11,415 Chartered 11,039 Units Is 10,215 Gy value Sept IS DBS 44,369,578 Venlure 19,448,000 OCBC 13,308,800 UOB 17,718,215 ASJ 15,738,105 '000 L&M 8,226 STtaemb 7,805 SingTel 7,632 DatrjcrftUSS 7,417 NOL 6,575 Stt 15,735,990 Citiraya 14,235,715 Chartered 12,538,500
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        SGX top risas
        80 11 By$ Sep! 18 Close Change isoan 200tlS$ 7.000 +0.200 DBS Bk 6S HCPS10 104.400 +0.100 SPH 19.800 +0.100 FSN 7.850 +0.050 lurEng 1.360 +0.030 SAISvcs 1.730 +0.030 Parkway 0.825 +0.025 Godpnck 0.580 +0.020 l-Comm 0.260 +0.020 By percentage Sept 18 Koh Bros WO***** Close Changi 0.050 166.671
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        Lock icon SGX top fails
        72 11 BLOOMBERG 3y$ Upl 18 Cieativo 50 Close Change 11.700 -0.7DO /erture 11.700 -0.500 ,11 10.200 -0.400 >IA 200 10.200 -0.400 DBS 12.300 -0.300 QUE 6.150 -0.300 JTIETF*****PV 14.617 -0.274 iTIETFlOO 14.700 -0.230 SukitSem 11.300 -0.200 !y percentage icpl 18 Close Changi «mbCarp QE«CW0302?S 0.005 -50.001 !BR 0.015
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      Lock icon Asian companies to offer $2.6 billion in shares
      336 12 Bloomberg HONG KONG MobileOne, BankThai and Korea Tobacco Ginseng are among Asian companies announcing about US$l.5 billion ($2.6 billion) in share sales this month. The sales come as new stock offers slump in the rest of the world. So far this year,
      ■ Bloomberg  -  336 words
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      Lock icon Economies to grow
      140 12 Bloomberg MANILA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised its economic forecasts for most of the region, saying that rising exports and consumer spending would fuel growth. The 41 countries in Asia outside of Japan, Australia and New Zealand will grow an average of five per cent
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Aussie state gets tough
      88 13 -AFP SYDNEY The New South Wales state opposition unveiled a proposal yesterday to get tough on law breakers and lenient judges. The move came in response to years of community outrage against an excessively lenient judicial system. Under the proposal, convicted paedophiles face a minimum, compulsory
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      Lock icon Back to sobriety
      299 13 Agencies after summit euphoria TOKYO As the world hails the success of the historic Japan-North Korea summit, Japan greeted it with a mixture of sobriety, caution and relief. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's startling admission and apology for the kidnapping of Japanese citizens did little to
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      Lock icon $1.26 billion of Indon funds squandered in six months
      175 13 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's State Audit Agency has implicated various government offices, including the country's embassies in Singapore and Beijing, for their alleged involvement in the misuse of 6.241 trillion rupiah ($1.26 billion) from the Indonesian budget in the first half of
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      Lock icon A white dress and a black suit
      323 14 Agencies North, South Korea move closer in landmark event DORASAN (South Korea) In a landmark event that symbolically opens up the world's last Cold War frontier, the two Koreas began work yesterday to re-link railways and roads that had been closed for half
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      Lock icon Palestinians disappointed with peace plan
      198 14 -AFP UNITED NATIONS While welcomed by Israelis, the Middle East peace plan adopted by the international diplomatic "quartet" did not go down well with the Palestinians. After a series of meetings, the "quartet", comprising the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations,
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      Lock icon Very important hug
      44 14 -AFP photo Kami, a "HTV-positive" muppet, getting a hug from South African Education Minister Kader Asmal at her debut at a hospital in Cape Town on Tuesday. Kami will appear in the second season of South Africa's version of Sesame Street.
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      Lock icon Battle against Al Qaeda to intensify
      167 14 Reuters WASHINGTON A more intensified and covert war against the Al Qaeda will soon get under way. The Pentagon has plans to consolidate control of most of the global war on terrorism under the Special Operations Command which includes highly-trained special forces and clandestine
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  • COMMENTARY
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      George and George
      902 16  -  Khoo How San George W Bush can learn from Shakespeare's George Petruchio TO understand world politics in the era of George the Second (the one from Texas, USA), one should turn to good old Bill (not Clinton, but the one from olde England, William Shakespeare, bless his
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Tale of two women
      678 17 -AFP '-g— Reuters BERLIN One is demure and reserved in a traditional German hausfrau kind of way. The other, combining motherhood and career, is confident and politically aware. Meet Doris and Karin, two German wives with one big thing in common. They are the partners of
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  • INFOTECH
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      No more grey boxes
      340 18  -  Val Chua Canon goes for curves and colour LOOK sexier. No more boxy, business-like machines. This could well be the mantra for the folk at Canon when they decided that style and form should be the over-riding theme for its new bubble-jet printers. That promise was
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      CBETAsia Breaking News
      149 18 TAsia asia.cnet. com/news tech IBM gives handhelds multilingual voice BIG Blue will start selling its ViaVoice Translator a software for PDAs (personal digital assistants) that use Microsoft's PocketPC operating system. IBM's software will translate English to and from German, French, Italian and Spanish. The ViaVoice Translator is
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      A networked lifestyle
      243 18 WITH its global "Networked Lifestyle Devices" strategy, BenQ plans to take advantage of its core expertise in digital device technology to extend the communication capabilities between devices and users and among the devices. The vendor, with its strength in optical, display and communications technologies, is introducing "Digital
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      A universal digital media server
      216 18 REALNETWORKS has shipped its Helix Universal Server, providing a delivery system for major audio and video formats. The Helix Universal Server lowers the cost of digital media delivery by supporting every major digital media format, including RealAudio, RealVideo, Apple's QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and Windows Media.
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  • FOOD FORUM
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      Ever heard of creme fraiche?
      719 19  -  Katrina Karim i. 111 11- ii n DINERS are consuming more cream than ever before. Cream is used to coat cakes and is a divine topping for ice cream, as most children know. It is also added to soups for a creamy texture. These days,
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      349 20  -  Elisa Chia WANT to make friends and keep them? No need to turn to a how-to guide. Taiwanese singer Emil Chau (picture) has a tip or two drawn from experience. "This friendship thing I'm quite good at it," he said with a laugh during a
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      547 20  -  Hannah Teoh Heard of this local comic book? SINGAPORE'S first English-language comic book about a cosmic teenage superhero aims to put the fun and humour back into a genre where bleak storylines and stony-faced characters dominate comic book shelves. Last month, artist Jerome Hinds (picture, below) launched Get
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      335 21  -  Pearlyn Tham When make-up is so good, why wait? IF there's anything that gives make-up from The Body Shop an edge, it's the fact that it is made with a conscience. The Body Shop does not test its make-up products on animals and campaigns strongly against this
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      Turn your home into a spa with DIY body scrub recipes
      517 21  -  Toh Xing Yu, Miss EverSoft NOT all of us can be like the rich and famous who can afford to indulge in regular body scrubs and massages at a spa. But we can indulge in home-made body scrubs in
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      A new body for Elizabeth
      312 21  -  Pearlyn Tham HONG Kong movie star Christy Chung has done it. So has doe-eyed actress Vicki Zhao Wei. And now, former beauty queen Elizabeth Lee (picture) is doing it. They are joining the list of celebrities who have achieved a well-toned and slim figure, thanks
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lots of hot air
      598 22  -  Yong Shu Chiang a^MH^H^HßEMEßflßßaßflßaart^ Draqorrslayer film Reiqn lacks any real fire FILM REVIEW Reign of Fife (Opens today) LEGEND has it that slaying dragons typically requires brave men with lots of metal gear. These medieval exterminators, otherwise known as knights, would wear heavy suits of armour
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      Sex and the sequels ...
      215 23 Sex and the sequels THE next Matrix special effects extravaganza, Matrix Reloaded, will have its stars Keanu Reeves and CarrieAnne Moss creating some fireworks of their own. Reeves and Moss' characters Neo and Trinity respectively will be getting busy with a sex scene during a stopover in the fabled city
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      Lock icon Who needs Kane? Give us Braveheart
      464 24 Reuters, /Variety LOS ANGELES Read all about it: The Godfather bumps off Citizen Kane, at least according to a survey of more than 5,000 voters who may be more accustomed to ranking restaurants than films. Moving into an area that it has never touched
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      A plea for tolerance
      95 24 BEN Affleck, who is dating singer/actress Jennifer Lopez, has agreed to appear in a new ad campaign to talk about homosexuality. But before you jump the gun, the Oscar-winner will be on screen with his gay, male cousin as part of the Parents, Families, and Friends
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      Dim sum plays
      331 25  -  Yong Shu Chiang IT'S like comparing dim sum to normal dishes. Just because a dim sum dish is smaller doesn't mean it's easier to make. The same is true with 10-minute plays, six of which the Action Theatre will present in its collection Squeeze and Squeezability. Working
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      Time to take out your suitcases
      186 25 THE NATAS Holiday 2002 at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre this weekend is expected to draw over 35,000 visitors and generate about $20 million. This, according to Mr Jason Ng, marketing manager of National Association of Travel Agents, organisers of the annual
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      Celebrate Children's Day with a hearty breakfast
      76 25 Nestle Singapore (Pte) Ltd has teamed up with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and TV 12 Kids Central to organise the Healthy Living School Tour 2002 to educate children on the importance of breakfast. The tour, which will visit 20 primary schools, will
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      Lock icon Oldie Ewing calls it quits
      341 28 Reuters NEW YORK Patrick Ewing (picture), voted one of the National Basketball Association's 50 greatest players in history, announced his retirement on Tuesday after 17 seasons, 15 of them as a New York Knicks centre. "Basketball has been very good to me," the 40-year-old said
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      Lock icon Feud in India's squad, says Hewitt
      364 28 -AFP ADELAIDE Lleyton Hewitt says there may be a feud within India's Davis Cup squad after voicing his doubts that doubles star Mahesh Bhupathi may not be injured as claimed. Bhupathi, who has represented India in Davis Cup since 1995, withdrew from the squad
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      Lock icon For family, for country
      567 29  -  Kelvin Phang THE saying that behind every successful man is a woman is certainly true for medal hopefuls Simon Chua and Abdul Halim Haron. The two musclemen are key members of an eight-man squad heading to Busan, where bodybuilding makes its much-awaited debut. In order to
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      Expensive rights mean no TV coverage
      350 29  -  Jose Raymond A HEFTY increase in broadcast rights means that there will be no live telecast of the Asian Games in Busan. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), which owns the rights to the event, is seeking US$5OO,OOO <S$886,000) as broadcast fees from Singapore
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      Rookie Teng skippers bowling team
      230 29  -  Stanley Ho SHE is the most inexperienced member of the Singapore women's bowling team. And yet, Rena Teng, 21, has been entrusted with one of the most important roles in sport that of captain. National coach Goran Bergendoff revealed this surprising move when TODAY visited
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      Lock icon Coach: Real still to peak
      698 30 Agencies But Wenger says Arsenal will end Madrid's dominance in Europe ROME After putting the fear of god into his rivals with a 3-0 demolition of Italian giant AS Roma, Real Madrid coach Vicente Del Bosque upped the ante when he said that his side
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      Lock icon Difficult journey into the unknown awaits Uefa Cup favourites
      519 30 Reuters LONDON A host of prestigious clubs more used to the richer diet of the Champions League must make do with slightly less appetising fare when they start their Uefa Cup campaigns tomorrow morning, Singapore time. Teams such as Leeds United,
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      Lock icon Reds in a mess?
      636 31 Agencies Liverpool's famed defence is leaking goals like never before VALENCIA Liverpool has been considered a defensive fortress for two seasons. Though it was often outscored by Manchester United and Arsenal, its centreback pairing of Sami Hyppia and Stephane Henchoz was considered the best in the
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