Project Eyeball, 4 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, October 4, 2000 80 CENTS
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      179 1 Hot LINKS Music industry stonewalling Napster? A top Napster official says the Internet music portal has made many settlement attempts with record companies, such as subscription fees and offering a cut of profits, but the music industry remains set in closing the portal down. See Page 13 Wait is over
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      303 1 Guinea are worried r w£t£x m From 2002, the A-levels will be modified. Students such as Wong Jun Feng (right) will be tested more on their critical thinking skills, and some subjects, such as General Paper, will have questions on local issues, including killer litter. This year’s batch of Secondary
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      179 2 BACKED by helicopters and attack dogs, Scotland Yard launched a massive operation to arrest a suspected drug trafficker last week, only to find the man was already behind bars. After careful surveillance and aerial photographs of the target house, police officers disguised as delivery drivers prepared their assault, with
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      Lock icon Losing battle against time
      61 2 An emergency medical technician attempting to resuscitate a 5-year-old girl even as he was running to a waiting ambulance. He failed to save her. Her three sisters and her mother survived the fire that struck the house in Massachusetts, US, on Sunday. It was believed to
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      Lock icon Singapore bodybuilder flunks dope test
      431 2  -  Tan Yew Heng banned from competition for two years By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE sport was yesterday hit by its first doping scandal since one in 1993. In marched our Olympic heroes from Sydney, and out came this skeleton from the cupboard. Bodybuilder Edwin Tan
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      Lock icon SIGNATURES WITHOUT PEN AND PAPER
      220 3 HOW do you get and use an e-signature? One reason why they have been slow to take off is that different bodies issue different types of digital IDs, and these are incompatible with other types. Digital certificates or Digital IDs Encrypted codes unique to each
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        Lock icon E-signatures yet to make a mark
        596 3  -  Average Joe prefers the pen By Winston Goh winstong@sph.com.sg DIGITAL signatures, or e-signa-tures, were given legal status in America three days ago, and you would have thought they had just discovered electricity. The US media evidently believes that the law will usher the nation
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      Lock icon Hit by A-class blues
      897 4  -  Today’s Sec Four student will take the new, creative A levels in 2002 By Wong Sher Maine (sher@sph.com.sg) SECONDARY Four student Wong Jun Feng is worried. Till yesterday, he was certain he could breeze through his GCE Alevels, coming up in two years. Now he’s not
      Wang Huifen  -  897 words
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      Lock icon WHAT WILL CHANGE?
      196 4  -  Eri Akbar EXPECT questions such as: “How do you think the baby bonus will affect the birth rate here?”, in the General Paper. This is one way examinations will change when the Ministry of Education takes a bigger role in designing the A-level syllabus and examinations. Now
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      Lock icon Not afraid to be called tacky
      656 5  -  Artist Sanjot likes to dress badly sometimes By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg SHE worships the sultry Hollywood sensation called Gwyneth Paltrow, is an installation artist, designs windows for a fashion store and doesn’t mind wearing secondhand clothes or spectacles. Meet Sanjot Kaur Sekhon, 30, a
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      Lock icon Sugar deal leaves a sour aftertaste
      572 5  -  FORMER OWNER UNHAPPY WITH POST-SALE COMMENTS By Karl Ho karl@sph.com.sg RECENT press reports about Sugar’s change of ownership have left the club with a sour taste in the mouth. The Business Times reported on Friday that businessman Peter Teo has taken over the flamboyant
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      Lock icon One design school will do
      634 6  -  Merger of 3 institutions here will give students a vibrant education, says sculptor Iskandar Jalil By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.cpm.sg MERGE the three design schools here into one national school of arts and design. That’s how students will get a vibrant education in design, suggests sculptor
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      Lock icon DESIGN EXPO
      132 6  -  Denyse Yeo DESIGN aficionados will have a field day at the International Design Forum 2000. This year, the biennial conference-cum-exhibition has been dubbed D-Com-merce: The New Landscape, and it will cover the future of enterprises in design and technology. It is an international design showcase, with countries like
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      Lock icon IT careers come to help of hearing-impaired
      1049 7  -  But many employers are still reluctant to hire them By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg THE stigma just won’t go away. These days, they may do business with someone whose face they haven’t seen but whose e-mail address they know. Still, if they are
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon TVs take a dip at Boston Tea Party
        131 8 AP BOSTON Protesters on a “Boston Tea Party” ship tossed television sets overboard with the names of TV networks and the Democratic and Republican parties taped to the front in protest over today’s debate between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W
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        Lock icon Magazine causes stink in Malaysia
        85 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia slammed a business magazine yesterday for publishing a list that ranked the national capital as the world’s third most polluted city. Rosnani Ibrahim, director-general of Malaysia’s Department of Environment said: “We think this is unfair. We don’t believe that Kuala Lumpur
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        Lock icon KL to ban video arcades
        126 8 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will ban video arcades nationwide because they are turning many youths into video game addicts, the deputy prime minister said yesterday. “Video games have turned into some kind of gambling activity. We can impose a ban and it will not be
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        Lock icon Jakarta customs find slimy cargo
        100 8 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian customs officers got a shock last week when it opened boxes labelled hot chili peppers due for export to Singapore, and found the boxes seething with hundreds of live snakes. The Jakarta Post said the discovery of the 789 meter-long protected “jaii”
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon 3% restoration of CPF ‘likely’
        108 8 THE Singapore economy could grow by more than 8.5 per cent. And if this happens, Singaporeans could see a 3 per cent restoration to their Central Provident Fund in January, suggested Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng to reporters yesterday. “It all depends on how
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        Lock icon Tanker spills 7,000 tonnes of oil
        97 8 A TANKER spilt more than 7,000 tonnes of crude oil into the seas off Singapore when it ran aground in the Singapore Straits yesterday. Clean-up operations involving about 60 oil-spill technicians and five vessels are under way. Oil was still leaking from the tanker
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        Lock icon Rent-a-nanny project launched
        143 8 BORROW a nanny if you need help minding your kids. The Tanjong Pagar Community Development Council (CDC) has placed 20 nannies on stand-by to provide alternative child-care arrangements for working parents who can’t find anyone to take care of their children during the current closure of child-care
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        Lock icon HFMD cases: 27 kids now in hospital
        109 8 THE number of children warded for the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has risen to 27. However, all the cases are mild and the children are in stable condition, said the Health Ministry in a statement yesterday. The condition of the five-year-old
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        Lock icon Houses selling like hotcakes
        82 8 MORE Singaporeans are buying homes. There were 1,700 units sold in the third quarter, up 60 per cent over the previous quarter, according to real-estate consultancy CB Richard Ellis. The rise also coincides with a significant increase in the number of residential projects launched and makes
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      Lock icon Student protest broken up
      151 8 Indonesian police fire tear gas Wires JAKARTA Indonesian police yesterday fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of rock-throwing students. They were protesting the increase in fuel prices for the second straight day in South Sulawesi province. The students, from universities in the provincial capital Makassar, burned
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      Lock icon Tommy Suharto seeks presidential pardon
      445 11 The appeal is an admission of guilt, says his lawyer Wires JAKARTA The youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto has thrown himself at the mercy of the country’s new. leader, President Abdurrahman Wahid, and pleaded for a presidential pardon. Tommy Suharto yesterday officially requested
      – Wires; AP  -  445 words
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      Lock icon Gun control rallies across US
      398 11 AP boston it’s been six years since an abortion clinic gunman killed Liam Lowney’s elder sister, Shannon, but till today Lowney is still waiting in vain for the US Congress to pass stricter gun laws. “I can’t begin to tell you how offensive that is
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      Lock icon Gus Dur says docs ‘playing politics’
      252 11 SUHARTO TRIAL Wires OTTAWA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday attacked a court-appointed team of doctors that last week found Suharto too sick to stand trial on corruption charges of “playing politics”. Addressing Indonesian expatriates in the Canadian capital, the president said that he was
      – Wires  -  252 words
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      Lock icon Bono joins war against poverty
      363 13 DEBT RELIEF MEETING TO PRESSURE CONGRESS AP WASHINGTON At one end of the oval table in the Cabinet Room of the White House was Bono, lead singer of the Irish rock band U 2, dressed in all black and wearing his signature goggle-style glasses. At
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      Lock icon Fake gun, bomb slip through UK airport
      180 13 AFP LONDON Stansted, Britain’s fourth-busiest airport, has failed its latest security check -a gun and a fake bomb were carried undetected through its security checks, reported The Sun yesterday. The gun was hidden in the back trouser pocket of a security inspector sent
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      Lock icon Napster attempts to settle spurned
      410 13 But judges’ questioning seems to favour Net music firm Wires SAN FRANCISCO Why won’t the recording industry settle its dispute with Napster outside the courtroom? Yesterday, Napster chief executive Hank Barry accused the recording industry of stonewalling repeated settlement attempts. These included an offer to
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: www.tradelink. com.sg
      176 15  -  Francis Kan THIS is the mother of all links for Singapore businesses. That said, it’s basically a search engine that answers to a glorified name. If the number of visitors to the site over 400,000 at last count is any indication, the site
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      82 15 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Chartered 12,948,000 940 Omlnd 11,801,000 264 ST Assemb 6,194,000 312 Top 3 Gainers CENTS UOB 1300 60 4.8 OCBC 1140 40 3.6 SIA 1660 40 2.5 Total number of gainers: 118 Top 3 Losers CENTS Creative 50 3400 -170 -4.8
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      369 15  -  NUS economists up forecast to 9% and sap oil prices will have little effect Francis Kan THE economic boffins at the National University of Singapore may be on to something. Yesterday, they upped their gross domestic product growth forecast for the year from 7.1 per cent to
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      Lock icon High costs drive AsiaOne losses to $15 million
      416 15  -  JUMP IN TURNOVER DOESN’T HELP By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg HEFTY staff, branding and infrastructure costs have stained AsiaOne.corn’s balance sheet with red. The local Internet-portal operator yesterday unveiled its results for the year ended Aug 31 net losses hit $l5 million, up
      Desmond Wee  -  416 words
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      Lock icon China puts net over dotcoms
      638 16  -  Foreign investors must get approval Financial Times BEIJING The worst fears of many fledgling Chinese Internet companies and foreign venture capitalists were realised yesterday with the publication of rules limiting foreign ownership of dotcoms and imposing onerous self-censorship requirements. The vague content and user restrictions,
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      Lock icon Starhub-SCV deal ‘just a rumour’
      519 16  -  REPORT LEAVES TONGUES WAGGING By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg CONSPIRACY theorists had a field day after last Friday’s Business Times report about Starhub’s interest in buying Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) with the 1.08 billion compensation package from the Government. Lips were sealed all round about the
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      Lock icon This PDA springs a surprise
      513 18  -  Expansion slots increase flexibility of Visor Deluxe By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg THE impatient have already ordered them in bulk from the US. For others, the wait is over. Handspring’s Visor Deluxe (VDe) is finally here in Singapore. It’s the only serious competitor to the popular,
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Trucks run on poppadom power
        75 18 TALK about renewable energy. A food manufacturer in England is using the oil left over from frying poppadoms as “e-diesel”, says bbc.co.uk. A local scientist convinced the company, Sharwoods, that used vegetable oil could be turned into a substitute for diesel. Four trucks are now
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        Lock icon US study predicted Sydney medal tally
        78 18 TWO US professors said they won the gold for their study predicting Olympic medal totals for different countries based on economic, rather than athletic, models. Professors at the Yale and Dartmouth business schools had researched GDP and other data and predicted the US would
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        Lock icon Fabric of music
        25 18 A touch-sensitive fabric piano keyboard at an expo of techno-cloth gadgets at Londons Science Museum. The fabric was developed by Peratech. AFP
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        Lock icon Thalidomide strikes again?
        110 18 AFP THALIDOMIDE, the drug responsible for numerous birth defects in the *****, is now believed to be affecting a second generation, according to Thalidomide UK. The group, which campaigns on behalf of victims, says it knows of 10 “second generation” children in Britain who suffer from deformities,
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        Lock icon 86 US dotcoms may run out of cash
        156 18 AFP US INTERNET companies spent US$l.B billion (553.13 billion) in the second quarter of 2000, leaving at least 86 firms ready to run out of cash in the coming 12 months, a study said on Monday. The study by Pegasus Research International,
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        Lock icon Parts shortage hits Palm, PlayStation 2
        131 18 AP A SEVERE shortage of electronic components is taking a big toll on makers of video games, handheld computers and other devices. Latest evidence of the shortage came this week when Sony announced that a lack of components will force the company to halve
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      Lock icon Flexibility needed
      608 20 ‘Refunds? Inconvenience? At a time like this?’ (Oct 3) FOUR children are dead, and pre-school centres have been shut down to stop the spread of hand, foot and mouth disease. But some parents are complaining about the “inconvenient” closures. Eyeball readers comment. BOSSES TO BLAME THE negative reaction
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      Lock icon Enjoying his Handspring VDe
      333 20  -  DBN26 AN EYEBALL reader sent us this e-mail about his new Handspring Visor Deluxe (VDe). AS THIS is my first PDA, I was quite excited with my Handspring Visor Deluxe which I bought from the US. My observations: Colour: A selection of hip colours means I
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      Lock icon How not to drive men wild
      816 21  -  DEVE BARRY The Miami Herald WHEN I’m in the supermarket check-out line, I always look at Cosmopolitan magazine to see if the editors have made any progress in their ongoing effort to figure out men. I’m sure you’re familiar with Cosmopolitan. It’s the one
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      25 2 Qood morning! i Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 3.26AM/2.4M 2.30PM/2.6M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      28 3 To find out more, visit: http:/ 7www.netrust.net http://www.entrust.com/ resourcecenter/index.htm IDA is also gathering feedback on digital signatures and secure e-transactions. For more details, visit IDA’s website at: http://www.ida.gov.sg
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      32 4 Surf over to our new webpage for young people, by young people and post your views. Want to know how different the exam papers will look? Log on to: httpV/eyebalLasial. comjgg/htm/EyebaU /WebSpedals/teens/
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      252 6 Should a single design school be set up here in Singapore? Are there other alternatives? Give your views at http^/eyeball.asia.l.comjsg m Mr Win a Free Trip (with Grandstand Seat) to the Malaysian FI Grand Prix this month! Misssed out on our recent Eyebalt-Shell “Go Kart with Michael Schumacher” promotion? Fret
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      41 7 You take e-mail, the short-messaging system (SMS) on your mobile phone for granted. For the deaf, these have been nothing short of life-changing. More at asial.com.sg/Eyeball/News Deaf American John Stanton who became a lawyer: http://www.gallaudet.edu/-penmpway/ sep-oct9B/interview.html The Deaf World Web: http://dww.deafworldweb.org/
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      184 9 Bringing you the Mega Twins by lomega Mega Twins from lomega consist of Internal ZipCD™ Drive, 8x4x32 Internal Drive Zip® 100 MB Atapi Drive Also available separately: External ZipCD™ Drive 4x4x24 (6) (Mac Win9B PC compatible) It is your complete 2 in 1 data entertainment storage solution only from lomega.
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      106 10 Before investing in angora frog farming, log on to asiaonemarkets.com &'gasiaone iiimarkets www.asiaonemarkets.com Asia’s new one-stop investment site has all the tools you need to make smarter investment decisions. Brought to you by SPH Asia One and The Business Times, it gives you credible and up-to-the-minute information on stocks, futures,
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      48 11 /A wh© are fed up* Fed up because they perceive Suharto as guilty, but lie’s declared free/ Gus Dur speaking in Ottawa, Canada Read about how the Suharto family amassed its wealth: http://www.indopubs. com/darchives/ *****.html A satire on the financial acumen of the Suhartos: http:/ stgtech.com/staff gcallah/lt/humour/ Suharto.html
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      159 12 r F I mm ■«rv I I I m i m a •v'-'V. .o-.. VI StVVJ*** v 1 A Crabtree Evelyn Animal Zoo Soap Set* worth 5524.90 for every subscriber! Keisha Mane Cover Baby of tbe Year! AYS.,, PLI DREN'S DAY TREAT FOR 1 OP 50 YES! I would like
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      24 13 flipside.org/vol3/ aproo/00apl9b.htm Shouldn’t the Third World pay debts like any debtor? Noam Chomsky’s insights. www.jubilee2ooouk.org A global movement for Third World debt relief, www.woza.co.za/
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      210 14 < i tfem m i-, S«B&*®s k 'X V? V V 6l Sleepless nights but endless joy, tired days but a fulfilling life. Baby Sakinnah entered our lives on 2/8/2000, changing it forever... for the better. Herman Rita 1 W ust missed the government’s new baby bonus? Wed, here’s another
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      104 17 THE ONLY HOME YOU CAN'T FIND IN THE STRAITS TIMES CLASSIFIED I -ifc, l g >s». X HI 5 -v m ii m i r; v S'- :V j f J ,‘,S; 111! mBhhHMI i mam SI j HI >-.• I v :■■■■->- mm mxm llillill iiiliii mm m ri
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      69 19 I rrrji .vV wtmm r \i '"'i mmmm m l f||| WHAT REALLY GOES ON AFTER OFFICE HOURS ■M mjt: <: WICKED WOMEN WE A i m>mm ssswsiss s ■MIm HOLLYWOOD VIRGIN KIRSTEN DUNST MIiMM 11 KM: i, 2 i-u 4 Jg§sgg£&; f SifilM OP TILL S I COR tm
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  • Eye Sport
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      Lock icon Is United coming apart?
      62 23 Manchester United’s i-o defeat to Arsenal over the weekend has the vultures circling around Old Trafford. With apparent insubordination in Alex Ferguson’s ranks, many are predicting the giant’s fall from grace this season. And many believe Arsenal is ready to take over as the Premiership’s dominant
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      418 23  -  By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE writing is on the wall for Manchester United it’s going to be a long, long season. Hey, I’m not saying this because Arsenal stumped them over the Weekend. Just look at the unrest among Fergie’s boys and you’d know why the cupboard could be
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      321 23  -  By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg LET’S straighten this out. Manchester United will lift the first Premiership title of the millennium. But the doom merchants are out in force. It was a great victory for the Gunners last weekend and Thierry Henry’s syrupy volley over Fabien Barthez couldn’t have been any
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Pacers keep coach
        171 24 AFP NEW YORK The National Basketball Association (NBA) has allowed Isiah Thomas to coach the Indiana Pacers this season while continuing his efforts to sell the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), it was announced on Monday. Approval from the league’s Board of Governors was contingent on assurances from
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        Lock icon Mike’s conscience
        85 24 Reuters PHNOM PENH-US sportswear giant Nike has cancelled a contract with a Cambodian garment factory because it was employing an underaged worker, a company spokeswoman said late on Monday. “We pulled an order with the factory on the basis of underage labour,” Yvonne Iwaniuk, Nike UK’s head of
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        Lock icon Lucky Luc is well
        65 24 AFP NEW YORK New York Knicks centre Luc Longley will miss three to six weeks less than originally expected after injuring his right knee at the Sydney Olympics. Longley underwent a medical examination by Knicks physician Dr Norman Scott on Monday. The player was diagnosed with
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        Lock icon Sex assault charge
        93 25 AP SYDNEY-An Olympic boxer from Western Samoa appeared yesterday in a Sydney court charged with sexual assault against a 22-year-old woman last week. Pauga Lalau, 24, was arrested at the Athletes’ Village yesterday by the New South Wales state police. Lalau did not enter a plea when
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        Lock icon Bells ring In Beijing
        90 25 Reuters BEIJING President Jiang Zemin and members of the Communist Party Politburo treated China’s Olympic team home to a raucous welcome yesterday. Jiang invited the team to the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square hours after they flew in from Sydney after the country’s
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        Lock icon Brazil coachless
        74 25 AFP RIO DE JANEIRO Cruzeiro coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has refused to take over as Brazil coach following the sacking of Wanderley Luxemburgo after their Olympic defeat, Scolari told a press conference. He said on Monday he was not interested in the job because he did not want
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      Lock icon Ewing no Sonic boon
      860 24  -  Seattle shouldn’t buy into his hoopla By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg PATRICK Ewing wants to rock and roll. Good for him. The trade with the Seattle Supersonics finally came through. But no one really gives a damn about this former New York Knick. And, frankly, he shouldn’t
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      Lock icon Walking gold mines
      47 25 Olympic gold-medal winners Susie O’Neill and lan Thorpe on a photo-stop during a parade through Sydney yesterday, with a crowd of more than 50,000 cheering the Australian team on. A reception at the Sydney Town Hall was held later in the winners’ honour. Reuters
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      Lock icon No play for you, boys
      336 25  -  Olympians come back to more training and exams By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg THE Sydney exams are over, and the boys just want to have some fun, right? Wrong. Even Sng Ju Wei, who made his mark in the 400 m event, is back right in
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      Lock icon THE NEXT TARGET
      107 25  -  Adam Hashidy THE exploits of table tennis star Jing Junhong in Sydney proved that Singaporeans are capable of competing with the best in the world, said Abdullah Tarmugi, Minister for Community Development and Sports. Speaking at yesterday’s welcoming ceremony for Singapore’s Olympians, Tarmugi said: “When Junhong was
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        Lock icon Westerveld deserves an Emmy
        505 26  -  Bis antics make for good TV By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg LIVERPOOL goalkeeper Sander Westerveld is good at what he does, in every sense of the word. And since life’s a stage and if ever he gets tired of tending goal, the Dutchman could probably make a
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        516 26  -  LOOKING BACK ON SYDNEY USA Today SYDNEY Well, mate, the Millennium Olympics are done over Down Under. And not a moment too soon if your initials are CJ or NBC. For the rest of us, long after we’ve forgotten who tested positive for what, years after the
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      990 27 Boogie SUE-ANN CHXA (sueann@sph.com.sg) lost track of time and discovered Shaiigri La in the middle of Thailand’s River Kwai. ILTON obviously L T J didn’t get his I k j H facts right. He 1 never saw Jungle Rafts on the River Kwai. If he had, he wouldn’t have
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        235 28  - Bridge over the River Khwae’ Sue-Ann Chia ANCHANABURI province lies 190 km east of Bangkok, on the western frontier with neighbouring Myanmar. The thircblargest province with about 700,000 people, it has lots of natural and cultural attractions. But the main draws to this place are the infamous Bridge over River
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        269 29 DVENTURE travel might not involve trekking through the Gobi Desert. In fact, though empty booths may be all that’s left of the Natas Holidays 2000 travel fair at the Suntec International Convention Exhibition Centre, which ended on Sunday, heading off the beaten track to find the ultimate
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        608 29 Among the more outstanding of the websites we tried and tested from eTravel Fair’s www.ecelebrationsingapore.com/etravel/etravel.html portal, we found these winners. FINDER PLUS http://www.fmderplus.com Rating 4 out of 5 stars. Layout: Casual, unfussy appearance that is both functional and appealing. Ease of use: Its concept of self-service travel might
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        251 30 Dont normally have the luxury of a good soak? If you happen to he holed up in a hotel room on a business trip, dont neglect to bring your own bathroom buddies for a return to the womb. SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) shows you the essentials.
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          121 30 IF YOU missed the Natas Holidays 2000 travel fair, check out eTravel Fair 2000, now on at http://www.ecelebration singapore.com/etravel/etravel.html. You’ll find reasonably priced holidays that won’t erode your monetary reserves. For one, United Airlines is offering a $299 (Ss33l with taxes) round trip to Hong Kong if
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          73 30 THE unfortunate coup that crippled Fiji’s tourist industry has yielded a bright side cheaper air fares. Visitors headed from Australia and New Zealand on Air Pacific and Air New Zealand can enjoy 50 per cent off their trips. A sample round-trip ticket from Australia’s east coast will
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          71 30 THE Ministry of Tourism of Cambodia has announced that visas on arrival can be obtained at Phnom Penh and Siem Reap international airports and at the international checkpoint at Poipet on the Cambodia-Thailand border. Thirty-day tourist visas on arrival cost US$2O each. Visitors from Malaysia, Myanmar and
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          114 30  -  Serene Goh VIETNAM is opening its doors to travellers. Though foreigners who wish to stay in Vietnam for more than 14 days still require a visa, they no longer need a separate visa to visit the isolated Duong Dong on Phu Quoc Island. Explore the island’s beautiful
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        392 31  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg TO PUT it rather crudely, The CandoCo Dance Company is not a circus. So banish all thought of gravity-defying stunts performed in wheelchairs. The group of seven mixed-ability dancers two in wheelchairs, one with a single leg, one with one hand and
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        450 31 JEANMARTR TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) gives you the dish on Double Happiness, a play which is part Web event and part live performance. HYGIRL7 rubbed S eyeballs with 6wasabe9 in a chatroom. Fluffboy visited hunny.bunny’s website. Continents and cultural barriers aside, these virtual lovers jack into the
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          104 32 IF LAUGHTER’S the best medicine, then irrepressible Selena Tan’s just the pill the doctor ordered. Catch the final instalment of her Stand Deliver series with Medicares MCs sold separately. Jokes and silly songs abound about doctors, nurses and the medical life in her last stand-up
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          77 32 NAGOYA Philharmonic Orchestra will perform with top soprano Regina Renzova in a charity concert, part of the Toyota Classics 2000 Concert Series. Expect classic pieces by Bizet, Wagner, Puccini and Kalman. All proceeds from the concert will be donated to St Luke’s Elder Care. At Kallang Theatre on
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          82 32  -  Jeanmarie Tan FOR those who missed the closing date for applications for Practice Performing Arts School’s (PPAS) new Theatre Training and Research Programme, the good news is it has been extended to Oct 15. Applicants should be above 18 and possess an A-level certificate. Expect to
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        1229 32 Do you want to be an art collector, but dont know your Picasso from your Pollock? TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) talks to the experts and says dont just be in it for the Monet, buy art that you love. N ORIGINAL is, well, an original. Nothing comes
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      32 31 CandoCo performs at the Jubilee Hall tonight at 8 pm. Tickets at $45 and $60 (stalls) and $25 (concession) and $30 (balcony) are available from The Substation box office (tel: 337 7800).
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      71 31 You can double your happiness at The Black Box from Oct 5 to 7 and Oct 12 to 14, at 8 pm. Tickets are $l2 and slsfrom The Substation (tel: 337 7800) and at the door. For more information, contact Kaylene Tan (tel: 9727-6938, spellseven@hotmail.com). Before watching the two pairs
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      143 35 THE average geek’s eight favourite classics: The Old Man and the C:\>, by Ernie Hemingway, a stirring tale of an old man’s attempts to come to grips with pre-Windows computing. The.dlliad Homer’s account of the struggles of early Windows programmer to reach a consensus on library protocols.
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      532 35 Norman, is that you Norman? Find out as Anthony Perkins (right) has a killer role in Pyscho. Movies Psycho 10 pm Arts Central A cinematic classic from filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s canon. A woman who absconds with $40,000 pulls into The Bates Motel, managed by a quiet young man, Norman, who
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      113 36 SYDNEY The teen star of the Sydney Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, Nikki Webster (right), has signed a contract for a major role in a Hollywood children’s film. The Daily Telegraph, an Australian newspaper, said the 13-year-old Webster, whose cute face and blonde curls charmed
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      107 36 WORCESTER, Massachusetts Elizabeth Hurley (left) and Michael J Fox (right) were among the celebrities who played a benefit ice hockey game in honor of six firefighters killed last year in a warehouse fire. Sunday’s game raised US$2OO,OOO (*****,000) and also featured Party
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      97 36 JULIANNA Margnlies (above), who turned down millions to continue on ER, has also drawn the line on stripping in any future film roles, IMDb.com reported yesterday. Asked at an audition if she would consider taking off her clothes, she shot back: “I have no problem
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        48 36 FORMER Spice Girl Geri HalliwelTs new movie has been shelved. Therapy, a comedy, had Halliwell staras a patient who falls for her hypnotherapist. Her production company could not get the investors excited enough to pay out US$lO million (5517.4 million) for it.
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        58 36 CHLOE Sevigny (above) turned down half a million dollars for a role in a comedy. The actress admits she is lazy, but said huge offers help keep her working. “It’s hard to resist when they’re dangling huge amounts of money in front of your face that’s one of
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        77 36 Wires DENNIS Qnaid has been spotted with a mysterious blonde stunner in LA, weeks after his split-up with wife, Meg Ryan.. Pop idol Robbie Williams lost a British copyright battle over a track on his album... Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, who is suing for half
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