Today, 19 October 2002

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    8 1 weekendTODAY October 19 20 2002 mita (p) 248/03/2002
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    OF A CHAMPION
    1269 1  -  Kelvin Phang WHAT makes Remy Ong a champion is what we cannot see. What compelled him to average a staggering 225 pins over 42 games to win three golds at the Asian Games is not visible to the naked eye. Yes, we can dissect his technique and
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    PUBLIC VIEWS, PRIVATE FACE
    1075 1  -  Rahul Pathak and Elisia Yeo Enigmatic Dr Gunaratna diagnoses terrorism LIKE a doctor discussing the state of your innards, terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna breaks chilling news with a straight face. This region is particularly vulnerable to terrorism, he says. It will be a very long fight
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      47 1 NEIL HUMPHREYS/6 WHLk X Uffl wants bookies and ah bengs in Asian Game: m /Sffi^^i W^w/M-M mW^M THE RAVI VELOO/18 KHs^iSMI OASIS ikJ"^ mW 1 /l\iOTftnv /on DAVE BARRY/19 (g) 3Ull%^^. If >, f" f smmG^^SiY/ nags ROHIT BRUNATH/39 Xbody 1 says heroes are not just medal winners
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Who am I?
      434 4 Reuters Returning abductees may face identity crisis TOKYO If the five Japanese abductees were to return to Japan for good, they could suffer an identity crisis, said experts. The five who were abducted by North Korea 25 years ago are back in Japan for a 10-day bittersweet
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      Second run for Mr Zoo's tale
      260 4 ON Saturday evening, visitors to Borders on Orchard Road will get to see the man who took the Singapore Zoo to the international arena, Mr Bernard Harrison (picture), and his best canine friend, Ah Beng. The former CEO of the Wildlife Reserves will be
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    • Article
      S'pore hopes to be a matchmaker
      180 4  -  Tan Hui Leng SINGAPORE is caught in between again this time between India and China, as International Enterprise Singapore launched Network India yesterday. Intended as a networking platform for Singapore and Indian businesses, the project comes a year after the formation of Network China.
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    • Article
      Bomb threat pranksters warned: You may face the real thing ...
      381 4 Bomb threat pranksters warned: You may face the real thing PRANKSTERS who think it fun to call in phoney bomb threats won't be laughing should the real thing explode in their faces one day. Minister of Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng yesterday warned that bomb hoaxes wasted valuable resources as
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      90 4 4J v Should bomb hoaxers A K^ be caned? Just^SEND to this week's poll via your mobile Win a Motorola E360 and 6 months f^^ FREE Sing Tel Mobile subscription Cj KEY: [T] g 0 for YES aooo^]forNO |T) [t] (T) f^lto find out polling 20 cents will be charged
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  • HUMOUR
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      Lock icon Singapore's NEW ASIAN CHAMPIONS!
      859 6  -  Neil Humphreys Kiasus, aunties, illegal bookies and VCD sellers can become... SINGAPOREAN killjoys are ruining the Asian Games' celebrations. Despite the five gold medals won by the Republic, there are still pessimists on hand to cheapen the achievement That's tragic. It's not easy to knock down
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  • LETTERS
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      The dangers of not being scared enough
      173 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming I REFER to the report, "Hoax at Toa Payoh HDB Hub" (Today, Oct 18). The bomb scare at the HDB Hub in Toa Payoh fortunately turned out to be a hoax. No one was hurt and no one was
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      JC revamp: Will earlier batches lose out?
      263 8  -  Michelle Chia Chern Mci AS A student nearing her A-Level examinations, it is interesting for me to observe that plans are being made to revamp the junior college (JC) education system. In the midst of the changes, however, I wonder if people are
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      Good to be cautious
      146 8  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng I DISAGREE with the points raised in the letter, "Why all the fuss over a sign?", (Today, Oct 18) by Felix Ang Kok Hou. The water talks encompass not only raw water but also treated water and other relevant issues. The water
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      52 8 It's 7.10 am. You have to drop the children and maid at the in-laws, your wife at her office and get to your meeting by 8.15 am. Then, why not start your morning with TODAY? To subscribe to TODAY, please send your request via email to subscribe@newstoday.com.sg or fax to
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      30 8 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:6s-*****217; E-mail: news@newstoday. com.sg
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  • BUSINESS
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      Manufacturing out? Wrong
      358 10  -  Val Chua It remains key driver of Spore economy by val@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S manufacturing industry faces an uncertain outlook following the Bali bomb blasts and heightened terrorism concerns in the region, said a Government minister on Friday. "It's difficult for us to see clearly into the future," said
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      Lock icon Cool pictures, hot sounds
      82 10 AFP photo AN employee of Japan's electronics giant, Matsushita, displaying the new, tiny digital camera, D-snap SV-AV3O, at Asia's largest PC trade show, WPC Expo, on Wednesday. The camera weighs 95g and is equipped with a 350,000-pixel CCD on its image sensor. The D-snap can play
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    • Article
      Lock icon Quarterly reports made compulsory
      178 10 Reuters SINGAPORE is demanding quarterly reporting for listed companies. Listed companies will be required to furnish quarterly reports from the end of this year to improve disclosure in "increasingly volatile markets", the Finance Ministry said. "Quarterly reporting should be mandatory for all companies listed on the
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      Tug-of-war over Chartered shares
      230 10  -  Chan Chao Peh DESPITE a turnover of more than 40 million shares on Friday, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing shares were locked in a two-cent range as short sellers covering their positions and local institutions offloading their stakes engaged in a tug-of-war. Chartered shares dipped and rose above
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        133 10 TECH stocks led the market higher on Friday but profit-taking trimmed gains as traders locked in profits ahead of the weekend. The ST index ended 4.63 points down at 1,461.39 after touching a high of 1,484.54 in the morning. For the week, the index rose 79 points its best
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        World markets
        55 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 9086.13 +126.25 +1.41 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9613.07 2967.40 4458.17 +36.92 +20.80 +177.36 +0.39 +0.71 +4.14 Korea Comp SET Index 670.79 342.46 +26.13 +9.28 +4.05 +2.79 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzen B 360.90 1027.67 211.19 +5.80 -11.91 +0.52 +1.63 -1.15
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.***** UK£ 0.***** Yen 69.9583 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.***** Rupiah 5148.64 Baht 24.4679 Peso 29.8123 A$ 1.***** Indian Rs 27.0660 Won 697.373 C$ 0.***** Yuan 4.6294 NZ$ 1.***** NTS 19.5335
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        Commodities
        21 10 Gold uss/oz 312.200 Silver uss/oi 4.345 Platinum uss/oz 582.700 Rubber centsAg 144.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1414 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.285
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        Straits Times Index— 10-Day Chart
        5 10 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
        56 10 By volume Oct 18 'OOO Chartered Links Is NWTech DatacrftUSS FJBenW*****6 40,691 24,676 24,422 21,030 19,732 By value Oct 18 Venture DBS UOB Chartered Creative 50 73,529,000 52,215,260 47,240,144 40,867,190 29,465,590 UniFood Citiraya BIL Intl BBR TAC 200USS 18,569 14,987 14,639 14,497 14,175.4 SIA OCBC SingTel STAssemb
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        SGX top rises
        74 10 Oct 18 Close Changi Creative 50 13.800 +0.901 Venture 13.300 +0.401 GrealEast 9.200 +0.251 SIA 11.000 +0.201 UOI 2.930 +0.181 DBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.800 +0.101 SNP500 0.630 +0.061 Informatics 1.300 +0.051 HLSpFin 1.900 +0.051 fy percenti tage Dct 18 El Nets Close Change 0.020 +33.333 .KN 0.040
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        75 10 Bloomberg )ct 18 Close Changi JOB 12.900 -0.301 ,PH-SIA DBeSCW*****70.640 -0.271 .PH100 19.500 -0.201 law Par 3.940 -0.121 )CBC 10.500 -0.101 IPH 19.600 -0.101 ,IAEngg 1.990 -0.081 TTYDEV 5.050 -0.051 )UE 6.050 -0.051 By percentage Oct 18 Close Changi Kian Ann W*****7 0.030 -40.001 SPH-SIA DBeSCW*****70.640 -29.671
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    • Article
      Reduce your taxes through SRS
      425 11  -  Vasu Menon THERE is a growing awareness that unless you save voluntarily and manage your finances actively, you may have insufficient funds to provide for your golden years in retirement. One avenue is the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) which was set up in April last
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4278 11 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Dote Fund Nome NAV/Bid Oiler Price Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) 0/7 AlerteenSe-American Opportunities 0.572 0.601 0/7 AwceenSe-Asian High Yield Fj 1.195 1.232 0/ 7 Aberdeen Se -China Opportunities Fd 0.931 0.979 0/7 Aberdeen Se-Continental Europe Eqty 0.782 0.822 0/7 AierteenSe-Globa MNC
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      Riding the wave at eWorld of Sports
      649 12 THERE is a nice little story about eWorld of Sports (eWoS) moving into the food and beverage business in China. To recap, listed eWoS is issuing 134.7 million new shares at 8.5 cents each to the owners of Zhejiang-based Hangzhou Kingsea, to acquire
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      MONEY TALKS
      25 12  -  Mano Sabnani Savvy Investor A new weekly column that focuses on investment opportunities arising from market trends and corporate developments ■by" lmano@newstoday. com.sg
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      It's payback time for Akbar Khan's nephew
      365 12 WHO can forget the Clob debacle at the height of the Asian financial crisis? Scores of Singaporean, Malaysian and foreign investors had to go through the painful process of getting shares transferred from the Singapore exchange to the Malaysian one. There was much
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      Wees take painless way out
      369 12 UNITED Overseas Bank has started the long-awaited process of disposing non-core assets and indications are that it will be a painless one for the wealthy Wee Cho Yaw family. As advised by JP Morgan Securities Asia, UOB has decided on a distribution in specie after
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      >> THE BUZZ << who's saying what in investment chatrooms
      291 12 &gt;&gt; THE BUZZ &lt;&lt; who's saying what in investment chatrooms Read at the forum in shareinvestor.com THE WAITING GAME What strategies should you take in a bear market? It could be a simple and unexciting game of "waiting". Reader Fungus wrote: "It's the investor's holding power that decides the validity
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    • WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ...
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        Lock icon UNISTEEL TECHNOLOGYMAINTAIN OUTPERFORM
        100 13 OCBC Investment Research THE stock is beginning to attract attention again as the market recovers. Substantial shareholder Prudential increased its stake to above five per cent again recently. Management recently revealed that business stayed strong in Q3 and is expected to rise further in Q4.This is a
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        Lock icon QIAN HU – UPGRADE TO BUY
        95 13 QIAN HU UPGRADE TO BUY DBS Vickers Securities QIAN Hu reported a resilient ninemonth net profit of $4.8 million and is on track to achieve record profit of $5.8 million for the full year. We like Qian Hu for its diversifying business (into both fish distribution and pet accessories) and
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        Lock icon HUAN HSIN – MAINTAIN OUTPERFORM
        96 13 HUAN HSIN MAINTAIN OUTPERFORM OCBC Investment Research ORDER visibility remains good despite current uncertain market conditions. Huan Hsin remains one of the few technology stocks with good forward orders. However, we are lowering our FYO2 forecast as production at the new Songjiang plant was delayed by the testing of new
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        WING AI HOLDINGS – MAINTAIN HOLD
        141 13  - WING AI HOLDINGS MAINTAIN HOLD M Sassoon ITS high-cost, high-end residential landbank caused Wing Tai's FY2002 losses to widen to $69.1 million, from $21.9 million last year. Turnover rose 66 per cent to $250.5 million thanks to a 90 per cent take-up rate at new project launches like the 90-unitThe
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      Stock Picks — 'Strong Buys'
      219 13 Stock Picks 'Strong Buys' Company Forecast EPS P/E Ratio PEG 1 2-Mth Price Target Aussino Group Limited 0.06 5.45 0.08 0.62 Boardroom Ltd 0.05 9.57 0.22 0.68 Capitamall Trust 0.06 18.50 1.19 Cei Contract Manufacturing 0.02 11.00 -0.40 0.29 Cse Systems Engineering 0.04 9.38 0.12 0.57 Darco Water Technologies Ltd
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      72 13 NE^U* ju S t a dd water. It's the nutritious and convenient breakfast cereal drink. n reakfast is a good time for family interaction. Sitting Ddown to enjoy breakfast together for even a few minutes can provide a family with quality time to discuss what is happening in their lives.
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  • PROPERTY WATCH
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      Shanghai property high
      1460 14  -  Lee Yew Meng Housing market in Chinese city expected to flourish A SHANGHAI-BASED property expert is upbeat about the housing market in the vibrant Chinese city but warned of the risks in investing in top-end condominiums and villas. Mr Stanley X X Chan, managing director of Stanley
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Miracle or medicine?
      811 16  -  Shanoo Maharaj Mother Teresa's sainthood hinges on the claims of a woman who says she was cured of her illness by prayer WAS a dirt-poor tribal woman living in the boondocks of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal cured by doctors or saved by a "miracle"
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      Lock icon Illness may delay police questioning of Bashir on alleged terror ties
      422 16 Agencies JAKARTA After months of hesitation, Indonesia has issued a summons that could send Muslim cleric and suspected terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir to jail on charges of treason and organising bomb attacks in the country. But the apparent crackdown
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      Lock icon Bus blast kills three
      215 17 Agencies MANILA A bomb blast ripped through a bus on EDSA Avenue in Quezon City late on Friday, killing at least three and injuring 20. The Golden Hi-way Transit bus was completely burnt, reported ABS-CBN news. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility. Earlier, a
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      Lock icon Reward for Bali clues
      161 17 -AFP KUTA (Indonesia) Following the footsteps of the Australian government, the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of those behind the Bali carnage. "Kadin is providing a one billion rupiah ($193,135) reward to anyone who
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      Lock icon N Korea is N Korea and Iraq is Iraq
      396 17 US won't strike Pyongyang despite nuclear admission WASHINGTON North Korea's recent admission of a secret nuclear programme has put it in the same league as Iraq, as possibly having weapons of mass destruction. However, the United States insisted on Friday that
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      Lock icon Jaws on tour... with a message
      54 17 AFP photo School children lifting a helium-filled whale shark balloon in Hong Kong on Friday. The balloon is on a tour organised by Wild Aid as part of the international conservation group's fight against the practice of leaving sharks to die after their fins
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      Witness made up statements
      100 17 WASHINGTON The statements of a witness, who claimed to have seen the sniper's latest shooting of an FBI analyst on Tuesday, was made up, said police. The Washington Post reported on Friday that the man's account misled the police into telling the public to look out
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    ShopTalk
    277 18 FROM THE WIZARD'S SHOP While we wait for the next chapter of the Harry Potter™ series to hit the screen, this will get you in the mood for more fantasies and flying brooms. Harry Potter™ Confectionery hits the shelves with a range of goodies aimed to please your sweet
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Blame question in Bali
      777 18 Ravi Veloo on: THERE is something crucial, and yet common sense, about the horrific Bali bombings (picture) that remains unanswered, or worse, unasked. Why would terrorists attack their own safe haven Indonesia? Within hours of the blasts on Bali on Saturday night that killed nearly 200
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      The newspaper business in a Jimmy Eat World
      815 19  -  Dave Barry AWHILE back, I wrote a column complaining that many young people do not read newspapers and seem to be more interested in Britney Spears than the Middle East I assumed that this column would not offend anybody, because I was
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  • weekend FEATURE
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      OASIS
      1132 20  -  Neil Humphreys WHAT'S THE STORY NOW. Noel Gallagher slams everything from Robbie Williams to the Rolling Stones telephone rings, ending a bliss- Mful sleep. The call is an hour early. MDesperate attempts to sound W "awake obviously fail when the caller laughs and says: "Have you just woken up?
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      Women explored
      358 22  -  Yong Shu Chiang ONE of the most enduring images of ijl^i^i^i^i^H Hollywood's history is also a classic face of I exploitation. O^OOOOOOOmB Marilyn Monroe, known for her blonde tresses, beauty and glamorous life, is one of pop culture's most bankable commodities. She's even featured in Nupi, an Indian^B
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      HAPPENINGS
      181 22 PARTICIPATE SENIOR CITIZENS' HEALTH CARNIVAL STAYING HEALTHY IN THE GOLDEN YEARS The Health Promotion Board is organising its first Senior Citizens' Health Carnival.The event will provide senior citizens with practical tips on how they can lead healthy and productive lives during their golden years.They can look forward to health
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  • IN TUNE
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      Lock icon SHAMAN of the frets
      357 22 Reuters/Variety NEW YORK When the call comes from Carlos Santana, what singer could resist? Not Musiq, Seal, Michelle Branch or Macy Gray. Following the phenomenal 25 million sales of his Grammy-winning 1999 album, Supernatural, which featured the Latino guitar great playing with the likes of Dave
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      132 22 Top Ten Charts 1. Voyage 2 Various Artistes 2. Sentimental Hits Various Artistes 3. Elvis 30 #1 Hits Elvis Presley 4. Let Go Avril Lavigne 5. The Chicago Story Chicago A Rush Of Blood ri„ij„i„„ 6- To The Head Cold Play 7 Stars: The Best of Cranlierries 1992-2002 LranDernes 8.
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  • FAMILY
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      Responsible parents GET HEALTHY
      770 23  -  Theresa Tan OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is a cause near to my heart My mother suffered breast cancer twice. She first contracted it when she was 49 and that year, I thought I was -going to lose my mummy. At the .same time,
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • IN CINEMAS
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      What a great Guy
      1230 24  -  David Ngiau Meet versatile Aussie actor Guy Pearce EARLIER this year, audiences here were treated to three films starring chameleon-like Australian actor Guy Pearce: Time Machine, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Hard Word. A fourth, 'Til Human Voices Wake Us, is due out soon.
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      Guy Pearce on his varied film roles
      816 26 I I A CONFIDENTIAL, directed by Curtis Hanson, was Pearce's first LHollywood role. Playing straight-arrow detective Exley, he shared the screen with Russell Crowe (picture, left), Kevin Spacey and Kirn Basinger, who later won the best supporting actress Oscar. Pearce held his own
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    • ROUND-UP
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        Lock icon New films this week
        592 28  -  David Ngiau Serene Foo Janice Lee Yong Shu Chiang joy Frances -DN DN -DN SF YSC JL DN -SF DN SF Elisa Chia YSC Changing Lanes: Two men (Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson) get into a car accident and then spend the rest of the
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      393 30  -  Jeffrey Yang OVER the last four weeks, we've discussed the major red and white wine grape varieties that are currently on every wine-enthusiast's drinking list. But before you run out to get a few bottles of Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon, you'd probably want to know how you should
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      A whole new world
      507 30  -  Karman Tse There's more than meets the eye and nose, at Vansh OH BLIND me! For I have turned a blind eye to the wonderful world of Indian cuisine throughout my 15-year stay in Singapore. Against the general impression that Indian nosh has a requisite pungent
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      Break fast gently
      368 30  -  Richard Seah BREAKFAST is actually breaking fast. You have not eaten for 10to 12 hours. So the way to go about it is gently. The idea of eating a huge ana heavy breakfast "like a king" is therefore not a sound advice. Eating only fruits for breakfast,
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      Chicken salad in a loaf of fresh bread
      469 31  -  Pauline D Loh Freshen up the weekend with an easy lowfat palate pleaser LEAN chicken fillet spiced up with hot pepper and tomato sauce and served in a salad of crisp green apples and sweet blueberries. Serve the salad on a hollowed
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      644 32  -  Colin Yong BEAUTY, as they say, is in the details. In the Getz's case, it is in the air vents on the dashboard. Not content to just have them swivel left and right and up and down, Hyundai's designers incorporated a mechanism that allows them to
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      Rally returns to Kallang
      121 32 FANS of local motorsports will be making a beeline for the Kallang car parks this weekend, for the last major rally of the year. The Falken-Subaru Rally of Singapore will be held at car parks A, B, C and F. The race cars will be flagged
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  • HEALTH
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      Battle for the bones
      557 34  -  Alice Leong Osteoporosis how much do you know about this silent disease? IMAGINE a day when your skeletal bones crack or break with every move you make, or a slight fall leads to a severe hip fracture. If you find these scenarios hard to imagine, you
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      586 36 The lighter side Meehan Streak I -11 r^TT-l I TTuhaWadecaf^apTl /Cw\ T°day'S "°ke f I KNOW YOU j AND A SLICE OF .m^M J A/rAIvT YOU'RF THE ONE WHO CARAMEL SHORTCAKE. J V^^y A MAN was waUclng *c beach at WOULD RATHER RULE IN HELL V— ITXEast Coast Park and
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      887 37 Agencies Baseball World Series Anaheim Angels v San Francisco Giants Game 1, live, Sunday morning, Ch 23, 7.30 am ANAHEIM Baseball purists may be appalled at the thought of two wildcard teams, both unable to win their divisions, competing in the World Series. But the
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      Lock icon All eyes on two Reals
      546 38 AFP MADRID Unfancied Real Sociedad could continue to defy Spain's football pundits by taking over the lead in the Primera Liga on Sunday. The San Sebastian side, which plays away at fellow Basque side Alaves, is one of five unbeaten teams and lies second with
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      335 39 -AFP ROME Table-topper Inter Milan, which lost the Italian championship on the final day of last season, lock horns with the team that pipped it to the title when Juventus visits the San Siro on Saturday. The derby d'ltalia, as this fixture is
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      You have to look beyond champions
      978 39  -  Rohit Brijnath 7 J V -XSometimes to finfl-romance in sporA. SOMETIMES the most romantic sporting stories are not on prime time. Sometimes to be moved we don't get breathless announcers and finely-tuned athletes gambolling in celebrated stadiums. Sometimes to understand the very nature of
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      Lock icon When s my next Lions cap?
      649 40  -  Jose Raymond Ex-Tiger Cup hero wonders FOUR years ago, he made history as he helped Singapore to its first ever international football trophy. In the 71st minute of the Tiger Cup final, R Sasikumar beat Vietnam's offside trap, out-jumped goalkeeper Tran Tien Anh and
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      372 40  -  Stanley Ho JUST who will be Geylang United's coach next season? For the last two S-League campaigns, the Eagles seemed to play musical chairs as far as the job of head coach was concerned. During the Eagles' champi-onship-winning season in 2001, head coach Jang
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      Randy Sven
      54 40 LONDON Beleaguered England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson faced further embarrassment Friday after newspaper revelations that he was courting another woman at the time of his high-profile affair with Ulrika Jonsson. Blonde sales promotion girl Jayne Connery told the Daily Mirror newspaper that Eriksson had pursued her relentlessly, although their
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      Waugh cry
      61 40 SHARJAH Australia's captain Steve Waugh will be motivated by the recent terror attack in Bali when the final Test against Pakistan starts here on Saturday. Australia has wrapped up the three-match series with victories in the first two Tests. The Australians will take the field wearing black armbands
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      Three-way tie
      65 40 ORLANDO Perfect conditions produced a birdie-fest in the first round of the Disney Golf Classic. Jeff Sluman, Bob Burns and Japan's Hidemichi Tanaka fired nine-under-par 63s Thursday to share the lead after 18 holes at the penultimate event of the PGA Tour season. Tiger Woods showed no signs
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      51 40 BIRMINGHAM Aston Villa signed Finnish teenage striker Mika Aaritalo for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract from TPS Turku on Friday pipping Arsenal and Manchester United. The 17-year-old has scored 19 goals at youth team level for his club this season and is already a Finnish youth
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      Time to quit
      51 40 LONDON England goalkeeping legend Peter Shilton has told David Seaman its time to hang up his international gloves. Seaman, 39, has been pilloried mercilessly by the British press after conceding a goal directly from a corner in England's embarrassing 2-2 draw with Macedonia in a Euro 2004
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      Lock icon Windies bounce back
      191 42 AFP MADRAS Veteran fast bowler Mervyn Dillon and debutant Jermaine Lawson shared four wickets to lead a West Indies fightback in the second Test against India on Friday. India was strongly placed at 93 for no loss before slipping to 190-5 at stumps on the second day
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      Lock icon Fulham's French football master
      830 42  -  Leonard Thomas Tigana is showing genuine coaching acumen as Man English Premier League Fulham v Manchester United Live, Saturday, 9.55pm, Ch24 IN FEBRUARY, most critics predicted Fulham's demise in the Premiership. An utter lack of self-belief in front of goal had seen the team's strikers suffer
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      604 42 English Premier League Leeds v Liverpool Live, Saturday, 6.55pm, Ch23 LIVERPOOL Gerard Houllier was left cursing Liverpool's commitment to the international scene. The Anfield club has paid a heavy price for its players' involvement in midweek European Championship qualifying matches,
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      Lock icon Garcia and Vijay ease into semi-finals
      318 43 WENTWORTH All four of the stars headed for the Tiger Skins in Singapore next month were locked in titanic battles at the Cisco World Matchplay on Friday night In the end, Spaniard Sergio Garcia and Fijian Vijay Singh moved through to the semifinals, after
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      58 42 The Angels are praying /37 Anaheim must stop San Francisco's Barry Bonds to win the World Series Heroes are not just winners /39 Romance in sport does not belong to the rich and famous, says Rohit Brijnath No place for the Tiger Cup star /40 Jurong FC's R Sasikumar wonders
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