Project Eyeball, 10 January 2001

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  • 11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, January 10, 2001 80 CENTS
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    • 508 1 SHOULD 70U FUND BAD T.V.? Your $llO is funding teen soaps like Spin. Some viewers are up in arms but the SBA says it’s a worthwhile show. See Page 4 EAT YOUR WAY HOME When her American friends came by, SOH WEN LIN found herself as much a tourist as
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • 115 2 MOTORIST Kevin Brown wasn’t too happy about being fined, so he took revenge by launching a website branding police officers “clowns”. According to Brown, traffic police in Kemah, Texas, book local drivers because it boosts the local police department’s budget. On his http://www.Kemahpolice.com website, visitors can buy T-shirts, coffee
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    • 50 2 IN OUR report “Old ways frustrate e-citizens” yesterday, we said the National Arts Council (NAC) would replace downloadable forms on its website with electronic ones by the end of this year. The NAC has clarified that this applied only to grant applications and not to all downloadable forms.
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    • 388 2  -  Denis Tay is not joining rival, just leaving ‘while he’s still fit’ By Walter Fernandez walter@sph.com.sg AFTER 37 years with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), Denis Tay, the group’s deputy president, announced his retirement yesterday. Tay, 60, will leave on March 16. He tendered his retirement letter
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 228 2 AGAINST yearly trends, February Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices for cars above 1,600 cc fell to $15,001 -a dive of almost 50 per cent. The bidding results, released yesterday, also saw a drop in Category A- for cars below 1,600 cc from $28,409 to $27,885.
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      • 192 2 NO MORE one-upmanship. The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) will now be the country’s apex organisation for companies, Minister for Trade and Industry BG George Yeo said. Delivering the keynote address at the Trade Development Board International Day yesterday, the minister said that he would
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      • 109 2 IF YOU are having problems getting a flight ticket to Malaysia during the traditionally busy Lunar New Year period, try Singapore Airlines. The airline announced yesterday that it will increase its seating capacity between Jan 19 and 29 by more than 10,000. During the period, the
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      • 85 2 THE subordinate courts has adjourned the case of the 15 Falungong followers arrested at Macßitchie Reservoir on the eve of New Year to Feb 6. The 13 foreigners, of whom five are permanent residents, and two Singaporeans were arrested on Dec 31, and have been charged with
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      • 79 2 A MAGISTRATE court judge simply did not believe the woman who said she was slapped by her doctor during one consultation visit in October 1999. Magistrate Adam Nakhoda said he found Magdalene Choong Siew Shien, 20, inconsistent when she testified that Dr Charles Dean Loo had
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    • Article, Illustration
      300 3 BRUSSELS Nato’s political committee and the EU’s political and security committee are meeting today to begin addressing European concerns that the ammunition used in the Balkans has caused cancer among peacekeepers. SAM SALVADOR Hospitals across El Salvador have recorded more than 5,000 cases of diarrhoea caused by the
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    • 265 3 Economy class syndrome In spotlight Wires SYDNEY Around 800 Australians have signed up with a Melbourne law firm seeking to sue 20 global airlines over the so-called economy class syndrome, when blood clots form due to long periods of immobility, a lawyer said yesterday.
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    • 28 3 Dajana Barczewski taking up position yesterday as one of the first women to be accepted into active service in the German army, Bundeswehr. AFP
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    • 178 3 AFP JAKARTA Records kept in a Jakarta mosque on Indonesian Muslims who have fought in Afghanistan are being investigated as part of a police probe into the deadly Christmas Eve church bombings. Teams of Indonesian investigators are also in Singapore and Malaysia tracing phone numbers that
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 1025 4  - We pay good for bad TV? Viewers divided over SBA using $110 licence fee to fund weak programmes By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg SHOULD you pay good money for bad TV? Is TCS s’s first teen drama Spin, chockful of wishy-washy, bitchy youngsters and touted as the Singapore version of controversial
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    • 586 9 Clinton needs to keep busy, like, he could ran for mayor NYT NEW YORK We’ve got to get Bill Clinton to run for mayor of New York City. We have here the greatest politician of the last half of the 20th century. He’s 54,
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    • 248 9 Lat-wp MR PRESIDENT, after Jan 20 you will be taking on the role of a senator’s spouse, so here are some of the unwritten rules to follow: NEVER wear pants (not literally): Means “look your best in public”. Be a credit to your spouse, as the
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    • Singapore
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        84 5 Cops stopped Ganesanfor not paying up for traffic offences. He had a copy of his car’s log book faxed over to prove that the car’s previous owner committed the offences. He was let off. Pictures: Alphonso Chan Ganesan (left) having his passport checked at the Causeway. He was then asked
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      • 565 5  -  JB traffic sting targets S’poreans By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg NEXT time you’re driving up north via either of the Causeways, bring ringgit and your vehicle log book or a copy of it. If you’re a second-hand car owner and are stopped by Malaysian traffic police
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      • 400 5  -  FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE SURVEY By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg DID you know that, on average, each Singaporean spends some 61/2 hours a year with his ear glued to his telephone calling abroad? And no, this latest statistic in a survey by Foreign Policy magazine doesn’t mean
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      • 558 6  -  NUS’ Manic Mondays get peak-hour traffic with over 700,000 hits By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg IT MAY be a virtual classroom, but it’s packed with students, especially on Manic Monday. For at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Monday is when its virtual learning classroom, called
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      • 72 6 Around 50 varieties of snake species heralded the Tear of the Golden Snake at Marina Square yesterday. Part of the Colourful Snakes Of The World exhibition, king snakes, milk snakes, corn snakes and ground snakes were just some of the vibrantly hued creatures on show. Jointly organised by
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      • 265 6 IF YOU are an NSman holding the rank of captain or major, your in-camp training nowadays starts on your laptop before you troop out into the field. Since 1999, the army has been giving such soldiers a laptop and a Sing Tel Magix broadband connection
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    • The World
      • 986 7 Public outrage over granting the young murderers anonymity and new identities LONDON The killers of a British toddler were yesterday granted by a court the right to lifelong anonymity with new identities. But the decision prompted public outrage and fears
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    • Technology
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        447 10 TEO YEN FEN (yenfen@sph.com.sg) updates you on the gadgets you should own, and one you should stay clear of, for your pocket's sake Alcatel One Touch 501 ALCATEL’S WAP-enabled One Touch 501 features the Drive Key, a five-position navigation key and five one-touch buttons for direct access to
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      • 509 10 ELECTRIC TECHNOLGY MEAN GREENER VEHICLES NYT DETROIT Ford yesterday announced plans to install electrical-ly-assisted petrol engines to sharply increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions in a large proportion of the Ford Explorers it sells in 2004, company executives said. The plans are
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      • 495 11  -  Hardware Zone irked by look-alike By Teo Yen Fen yenfen@sph.com.sg FOR the second time in less than a year, a Singapore-based website has found itself being in the centre of a copycat controversy. Well-known local PC hobbyist site HardwareZone.com (http://www.hardwarezone.com), launched at the end of
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      • 352 11  -  KUDOS CREDITED TO LIBERALISATION OF INDUSTRY Nicholas Yong IN THE annual Asia Pacific Telecommunications Index 2001 covering 13 countries in the region, Singapore has come in tops both in the overall index and, for the first time ever, in the services sub-index
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    • Business
      • 1083 12  -  Online magazine has great content but not enough revenue By Frances Katz Cox News Service ATLANTA Just the other day, I was extolling the many virtues of Salon.com, the well-known online magazine. I praised the great writing, the cool graphics and the nifty audio section. But I
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      • 376 12 CASHFLOW WOES The Washington Post FOR more than a year, The Industry Standard, a weekly magazine that chronicles Internet-related news, has been tracking the number of redundancies made by “new economy” companies. On Monday, it added its own lay-offs to the list. Standard
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    • Mailbox
      • Single’s SAY
        • 779 14  -  Soh Wen Lin wenlin@bmndeis.edu REMEMBER that old community song that goes: “Sing your way home, at the close of the day”? Probably not. These days, even community songs come packaged with complex codas and ultra-stylish MTV-ish videos. And everything here seems to go out
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      • 290 14 ‘X hated orientation week’ (Jan 3) SINGLE’S SAY columnist Soh Wen Lin says “bleccch” to orientation week. Readers respond with their own experiences. GREAT FUN MY FIRST JC orientation lasted for an entire three months. While the rest of the school looked us at as if
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      • 824 16  -  By Joshua Smith jsmith@sph.com.sg BARRING a diplomatic miracle, the Middle East peace plan proposed by Bill Clinton will soon lapse and the mediation role will be passed on to his Republican successor, George W Bush. A word of advice for Dubya: Include the refugee question
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    • 50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyebalicom.sg Eye Sport 730-5833 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription hotline 749-2577 Fax 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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    • 10 2 Log on to http://eyeball.asial.com.sg to view the interview with Tay.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 31 2 (food morning! 4* Showers with thunder are expected in the late afternoon and early evenings over many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 23C Tides: 12.05AM/2.8M 10.46 AM/3.1M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/ metsin
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 39 4 So now we know what the TV licence fee pays for. Do you support SBA’s choice of popular dramas like Growing Up? Or would you prefer to fund any other socially worthy programme? Tell us your picks at asial.com.sg
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 21 5 For a brief report on the survey results, log on to: http://www.foreignpolicy.com http://www.usatoday.com/news/ washdc/2001-01-07-global.htm Other newspaper reports on the survey results
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 19 6 Check out some e-learning websites of local education institutions at: http://www.openivle.com National University of Singapore http://ole.tp.ac.sg/ welcome.htm Temasek Polytechnic
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 46 7 Should Jon Venables and Robert Thompson be allowed to live anonymous lives? Vote at http^/eyebaXL asial.com.sg http:// www.guardian unlimited.co.uk/ bulger Chronological coverage of the Bulger case. http:// www.the-sun. co.uk/news/*****184 The killers lived in rooms, watched videos, made seaside trips, and cost taxpayers £1.6 million (554.2 million).
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 208 15 Baby Bonus Get a chance to have a free birth announcement ad and win $5OO worth of prizes I Simply send us a non-returnable photograph of your baby (below I year old) and a birth announcement message of not more than 30 words. Selected entries will be published for free
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  • EyeSport
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      818 17 VINCE MCMAHON’S idea of entertainment is squeezing Anna Kournikova into a wet T-shirt and having her hit serves and volleys. At an opponent. Unfortunately or fortunately, for some he hasn’t yet acquired any ATP rights. So the godfather of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) has the next best
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    • Sport IN SHORT
      • 97 17 LONDON Manchester United is unlikely to win the treble this season, confessed Teddy Sheringham on Monday. “We don’t have what it takes to win another treble,” he said. United’s continuing domination at home and in Europe has seen it widely tipped to emulate its achievements of two seasons
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      • 70 17 HAVANA Although he must retire from the ring because of his age, three-time Olympic boxing champion Felix Savon said he will always work in the sport he loves. “Boxing is my life,” Savon told The Associated Press on Sunday after state media announced his retirement. In his new
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      • 46 17 “THE booing didn’t help him. But it would be better if he didn’t sit on the floor for five minutes appealing for freekicks.” Aston Villa boss John Gregory on David Ginola, after the luscious winger got a hard time from Newcastle fans.
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      • 80 18 AFP ROME Lazio’s Swedish coach Sven Goran Eriksson has resigned from his post with the Italian champions. Eriksson’s decision clears the way for him to become coach of the England national team, six months ahead of his scheduled start in July. Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti was holding
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      • 75 18 AP WASHINGTON Washington Wizards player Rod Strickland was arrested and charged with drunken driving in another legal entanglement for the disgruntled guard. He hasn’t played in nearly two weeks because of an injured shoulder and a clash with management over his work habits. He has asked to be
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      • 49 18 AP CHARLOTTE (North Carolina) Hornets star Jamal Mashburn needs further tests on his inflamed left knee after missing the last two games of the team’s road trip. Mashburn, the Hornets’ leading scorer at 20 points a game, was to have an MRI on Monday, the team said.
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      • 31 18 A FORMULA 1 engine consists of 63 per cent aluminium, 29.5 per cent steel, 5 per cent titanium, 1.5 per cent magnesium and 1 per cent carbon fibre.
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      • 85 19 AFP SYDNEY-Amelie Mauresmo learned a few hard lessons after her victories over grand slam champions Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport on the way to winning last year’s Sydney International here. Days after her rousing leadup 2000 tournament win in Sydney, she fell to Patty Schnyder in
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      • 45 19 AFP BRISBANE Australian golf officials are reportedly offering world No 1 golfer Tiger Woods huge money to play here later this year. Australian Golf Union executive director Colin Phillips yesterday confirmed he was negotiating to have Woods headline the Australian Open in November.
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      • Article, Illustration
        133 19 Reuters SYDNEY lan Thorpe will resist the temptation to tackle the 800 m freestyle at this year’s world swimming championships in Japan and will instead channel his energies into toppling Pieter van den Hoogenband in the 200. The Australian teenager, whose bid for four Olympic golds was foiled
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    • 452 18 They lose 85-82 to Pacers despite leading with four minutes left Lat-wp YOU knew it was too good to be true. With a chance to defeat the defending NBA champions and last season’s runners-up on consecutive nights, the Clippers blew a late lead and lost to
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    • 585 18 STAR SPLIT-UP Wires SYDNEY Anna Kournikova was coy on Tuesday over the reasons for her doubles combination breakup with world No 1 Martina Hingis and refused to elaborate. The 19-year-old Russian denied that the bust-up ended in tears and said it was over
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    • 612 19 The first of the four Qrand Slams, the Australian Open, will begin on Monday. In the first of a three-part series, ADAM HASHIDY (hashidy@sph.com.sg) gives you the inside track on the tournament, beginning with the top three seeds in the mens competition. GUSTAVO KUERTEN Country: Brazil
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  • Unwind
    • Travel
      • 1348 20 Memories of Laos, for ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg), are made of bumpy bus rides and floating down rivers on rubber tyres. F THE KING AND I inspired in you a love affair with majestic wats, mysterious remains of historical kingdoms and elephant rides, Laos is not the
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      • Travel SHELF
        • 96 22 THE accommodation at http:// www.hotel discount.com is worth keeping your eye on, especially if you’re thinking of spending a couple of nights at such major destinations as Las Vegas, Rome or London. Living up to its name, you’ll be able to find lodging costing from USS 29 (SSSO)
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        • 66 22 CAN’T afford that Ferrari? Now, for a mere US$B75 a day, you can drive around in a Ferrari Spider in San Francisco. Choose your dream car and book for it online at http:// sanfrancisco carrentals.com. Prices range from US$69 a day for Jeep Wranglers, to a whopping
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        • 84 22 THAT dream villa might not be that far beyond your travel budget. The offerings at http://rentvillas.com include scenic accommodations anywhere in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Britain, which range from US$45O upwards per week. Since many sleep anywhere from two to six people, the cost can be
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        • 59 22  -  Serene Goh LOG on to http://banyan travel.com, where specials this week include a two-person stay at The Golden Lemon Inn and Villas, on the north-east coast of St Kitts. Couples staying at this Caribbean resort enjoy a free night and other goodies with a minimum stay of
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      • Article, Illustration
        545 22 Contact Details, a wired database service, is your address book that updates itself. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) reports. OU’VE made new Y friends while travelling, and want to keep in touch with them. Like you, they are 20- or 30-somethings who are changing jobs, e-mail accounts, cellphone numbers, and
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    • Arts
      • 559 23 A technically more impressive and dazzling Chang And Eng brings the homegrown musical one step closer to the world stage, says TAN DAWN WEX (dawntan@sph.com.sg). RACTICE, as the P sages say, makes perfect. After going at it for four seasons, Action Theatre’s Chang And Eng The
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      • Article, Illustration
        385 23  -  Tan Dawn Wei SHE was dowdy yet bubbly as the confused Julianna in TCS’ dramedy Money. But Adelina Ong in real life is a pint-sized waif pretty, confident, and certainly not confused. She plays a prostitute in Beatrice Chia’s directorial debut, the acclaimed Shopping And F***ing, written by
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      • Arts DIARY
        • 79 26 YOU’VE marvelled at the glorious wedding costumes worn by the likes of Gong Li in movies such as Raise The Red Lantern. Now, take a look at some at close range. The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts’ (Nafa) School of Fashion Studies is holding an exhibition of Chinese
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        • 82 26 THIS ballet, choreographed by Thierry Malandain, includes the original story, The Hard Nut by ETA Hoffman, and is an exploration of gender issues, sexuality, power and relationships. Featuring a cast of 12 dancers, this version of The Nutcracker attempts to demonstrate how an in-depth exploration of a familiar
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        • 64 26 PHILHARMONIC Winds, the ensemble-in-residence at LaSalle-SIA College of Arts, is celebrating Singaporean music. On Jan 20, the musicians, along with composers from various institutions as well as student composers, will showcase a programme of local works. The concert will be held at Victoria Concert Hall. Tickets are priced
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        • 62 26  -  Hera Chua IT’S Richard Strauss season for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO). The composer’s tone poem Thus Spake Zarathustra is best known for its use in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Led by music director Lan Shui, the SSO will accompany Singaporean violinist Yuuki Wong. This master
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      • Article, Illustration
        872 26 Monique Wilson, who directs and acts in The Vagina Monologues to be staged here, talks to TAM DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) about sex, childbirth and violence against women. CONTROVERSY raged last year when a local play The Vaginalogues projected on stage a picture of a woman’s private part. Now,
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    • Living Well
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        590 24 A tight squeeze and small garden didnt stop designers from introducing light and air with a patch of paradise in the air well of this semi-detached house. Concrete doesn’t have to be a deterrent. Even if you don’t have a big garden, a prettily landscaped air well is
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    • 35 23 Chang and Eng will play at Kallang Theatre till Jan 21,8 pm daily (except Mondays) with matinee shows at 2.30 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are $2O to $9O from Ticketcharge (Tel: 296 2929).
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    • 38 23 Shopping and F***ing, R(A), runs from Jan 12 to 21 and Jan 26 to Feb 4, 8 pm at Toy Factory Theatrette, 17A Smith Street. Tickets at $lB from Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble (Tel: 222 1526) and toyfactory@mail.com
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 32 26 The Vagina Monologues by The New Voice Company will be staged at the Jubilee Hall from Jan 12 to 17, 8 pm. Tickets are $4O and $45 from Sistic (Tel: 348 5555).
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  • Tube Talk
    • 130 27 You re getting on in years when... Your sweet secretary says: “Let’s go upstairs and make love.” And you answer: “Honey, I can’t do both!” Your friends and neighbours begin complimenting you on your new alligator shoes... And you’re barefoot! A sexy babe catches your fancy... And
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 513 27 Movies Nowhere In Sight 7 pm Star Movies 58 The premise is about as fresh as yesterday’s nasi l'emak. Carly Bauer loses her sight in a car accident and becomes increasingly dependent on boyfriend, Eric Shelton. One weekend, Eric is suddenly called away on a business trip. On the first
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    • 46 27 The 5 th Wave By Rich Tennant 1/21 SlAA-O m 3k 2001 Rich Tenoant/Oist Dy Universal Press Syndicate “Our automated response policy to a large company-wide data crash is to notify management, back up existing data, and sell 90 percent of my shares in the company.”
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  • The Back Page
    • 317 28 COUNTRY singer Faith Hill dominated the American Music Awards yesterday, walking away with three trophies, for favourite female pop artist, favourite female country artist and best country album. On the other hand, teen pop princess Britney Spears, who co-hosted the star-studded ceremony with rapper LL Cool
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    • Making HEADLINES
      • 132 28 “I’m the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room,” Boyle said in the February edition of Vanity Fair magazine. “Which makes me feel neither powerful nor insecure. It just makes me feel sad for other
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      • 83 28 DATED BECKHAM gave wife Posh Spice a roll of paper for Christmas. But it was perhaps the best gift the paper contained drawings of a *****,000 inhouse studio Beckham was building, reported The Mirror.. Kate Moss might have found herself a new man and he’s Jefferson Hack, the face
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