Project Eyeball, 6 February 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebaULasial.com.sg Mita (p) 034/02/2001 Tuesday, February 6, 2001 80 CENTS
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      424 1 RAND MIRANDA Singaporeans love FI, Man U and the like, but passion for home-grown sports is a little on the limp side. See Page 14 Room for a view, or two, or even four WILLIAM SATIRE Say hello to The Recession, get to know him well, ’coz he’s sticking around.
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      116 2 YOU would think that Valentine’s Day is the best day to pop the question. Aspiring Romeos intending to romance and propose to their significant others with diamond rings on Feb 14 should think twice. This day, according to some astrology experts, is just not a good day for romantic
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      Lock icon Glamming it up at TV Works
      430 2 Artistes’ image in the works but gorgeousness is key TV WORKS is gunning for a new image glamour, glitz and good looks. Lounging at Fullerton Hotel’s hip Post Bar yesterday were the English station’s sexy batch of stars Junita Simon, Wendy Jacobs, Tirso Garcia,
      Law Kian Yan  -  430 words
    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Good response for Hepatitis B jabs
        178 2 MORE than 65 per cent of students eligible for the Hepatitis B immunisation programme have been given the go-ahead by their parents. Though this is close to its 70 per cent target, the Health Ministry will educate the public through the mass media on
        Yen Meng Jiin  -  178 words
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        Lock icon S’pore honours Brunei general
        118 2 HE COULDN’T have hoped for a higher decoration from Singapore, The Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) Maj-Gen Pehin Shari Ahmad was conferred Singapore’s highest military award, the Distinguished Service Order (Military), at an investiture ceremony at the Istana yesterday. The award, presented to
        Wang Huifen  -  118 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Public talk by Malaysian DPM
        75 2 DURING his visit to Singapore this week, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will give a public talk on how democracy has affected the region. Titled “Democratic Transitions in South-East Asia”, the DPM will speak on the regional developments in democracy and
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      285 3 I WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Colin Powell said he viewed Aids as a national security problem, adding that “we all need to do more” to fight the disease that is killing millions of people in Africa. RIYADH Saudi Arabia Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz announced
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      Lock icon Mad-cow fears spread to South Korea
      44 3 A slaughterhouse worker examining cattle before an auction in Seoul yesterday. South Korea has refuelled fears of mad-cow disease after saying it had been feeding food scraps, like animal bones, to cattle across the nation since 1999. Reuters
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    • Article
      Lock icon Anwar may be sent back to jail
      241 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Jailed Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, who has been in hospital for over two months with acute back pain, says the government plans to move him back to a prison cell “in a matter of days”. Doctors have said the former
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    • Article
      Lock icon Suharto trial depends on his health
      260 3 Lawyers sure he’ll never be fit AP JAKARTA Lawyers for former President Suharto predicted yesterday that their ailing client would never stand trial for corruption after Indonesia’s Supreme Court ruled that his prosecution can only go ahead if his health improves. “In my opinion,
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Youth ‘just doesn’t care’
        1054 4  -  Political apathy reigns in Singapore’s universities, says student leader BY WONG SHER MAINE sher@sph.com.sg YOU’D think being president of a university political association would be a real honour. But Yong Yih Ming, 24, who holds that distinction at the National University of Singapore, says it’s really
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    • Singapore
      • Article
        Lock icon All conveyancing fees to be negotiable from 2003
        870 5  -  Liberalisation will benefit home-buyers, says Govt; Law Society says consumers will be vulnerable BY Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg BUYING that dream private property may soon cost a little less. Not because property is cheaper, but because the Government has decided to abolish the
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        Lock icon Available options
        260 5  -  BONG FORTIN You may not realise it but you can actually buy and sell property without a lawyer. This was confirmed by Vincent Hoong, Registrar of titles and deeds. So what are your options, now and in the future? L DIY (do-it-yourself) First, go through all the terms
        Mike Lee  -  260 words
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        Lock icon Cloning: Religious leaders have to give guidance
        633 6  -  They themselves ‘need to learn more’ about life sciences BY DENYSE YEO denyse@sph.com.sg MALAY-MUSLIMS here have concerns about the human genome project and human cloning and that will require the guidance of religious leaders. But first, these religious leaders will need to get
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      • Article
        Lock icon ‘Malays should integrate, not isolate’
        777 6 THEY are no Robinson Crusoes. So it’s not surprising that an emphatic “no” was Dr Yaacob Ibrahim’s answer, when asked if the Malay-Muslim community here isolates itself from the rest of Singapore. “We do not isolate ourselves from the larger community. That’s obvious,” said the
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        Lock icon More couples opting for sterilisation
        932 7  -  It’s safer than other forms of contraception, and can be reversed BY DENYSE YEO denyse@sph.com.sg IT’S a surefire way, and more married couples are opting for it. We are talking about sterilisation and with greater awareness, more men and women are going for it. After
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      • Stork OPTIONS
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          Lock icon Will appendicitis affect my ability to conceive?
          301 7 DEAR Dr Chen: I had my appendix removed when I was 19 because I had appendicitis. Will it affect my attempts to conceive? I’m now 28 and in relatively good health. NANCY Dr Chen replies: Appendicitis can lead to potential problems with fertility
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Clinton may play sax at Italian festival
        243 8 SHOW MUST GO ON AP WASHINGTON You haven’t heard the last of Bill Clinton yet. The former American president could be playing the saxophone at the annual San Remo Song Festival Italy’s glitziest music festival to a tune of U *****,000 (*****,000), reported
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        Lock icon Campaign for Israel’s ‘fateful vote’ ends
        563 8 Early ballots trickle in from soldiers AP JERUSALEM All official campaigning, including the broadcast of election commercials, ended in Israel’s hotly contested prime minister’s race, giving the nation a day of quiet to contemplate its choice in what Prime Minister Ehud Barak has called
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        Lock icon Rice is nice, says Sharon, 73
        379 8 Lat JERUSALEM Leader of Israel’s Likud Party Ariel Sharon swears he has no trouble concentrating. No trouble, that is, except when it comes to Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Adviser in the Bush administration. In a report by Israel’s mass-circulation newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth, the
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      • Article
        Lock icon M’sia bars Net reporter
        537 9 Award-winning malaysiakini.com says it won’t be stopped from doing its job Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian officials barred a reporter for an Internet news portal from a news conference yesterday, enforcing a rarely applied rule that only accredited journalists can cover official events. A reporter from malaysiakini.com
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Gus Dur backers burn Golkar offices
        483 9 TENSIONS RISE Wires JAKARTA Political tensions in Indonesia escalated yesterday as supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid continued to show their dissatisfaction against the Parliament’s attempts to oust him from power -by burning offices of the former ruling Golkar Party. Police said that a mob
        – Wires; AFP  -  483 words
    • Technology
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        Lock icon Easing that strain
        338 10 This week, Eyeball presents you with a few new products so you can stop tearing your hair out from having to wrestle with cables, batteries and eye-strain. Check out the Targus Stowaway Portable Keyboard, Sony's Multiscan Ezzo and NEC's Multi Sync MTIOSO Projector. TARGUS PORTABLE KEYBOARD OWNERS
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        Lock icon Ready to wear
        51 10 Forget laptops, Hitachi wants us to wear our computers. Expected to be available worldwide later this year, this wearable PC comprises a palm-sized Windows CE-based unit weighing 230 g, a 70-g LCD HMD (head monitor device) and a pointing add-on. But, will it go with your wardrobe?
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      • Article
        Lock icon Patients to carry microchips in fingers
        328 10 AVOIDING HOSPITAL MIX-UPS AFP TOKYO Hospital patients in Japan could start carrying coded microchips on their fingernails to help doctors and nurses avoid making medical mistakes, a Japanese physician said yesterday. A research team at Toho University’s Omori Hospital in Tokyo has developed a
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      • Article
        Lock icon Carry your voice translator in your phone
        276 11 TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE AFP TOKYO Japan’s biggest consumer electronics company Matsushita Electric Industrial said on Monday it was developing the first Japanese-Chinese voice translation technology for mobile devices. Translation technology for two of the world’s most complex languages already exists for personal computers,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Net users flocked to fun sites
        121 11 AP THE number of Singaporeans logging on to entertainment Internet sites nearly tripled in December to 247,012 up from 97,795 in November, market researchers said yesterday. Singaporeans flocked to the Net to send Christmas greetings and download music, Internet ratings research group Nielsen/ Netßatings
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        Lock icon Talk longer with smart antennae
        464 11  -  Mobile phone advance to increase battery power BY Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg HOW do you make mobile phone batteries last longer? First, develop a smarter antenna. That’s exactly what a team of researchers at Singapore’s Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) is doing. Their work will be
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    • Business
      • Business BUZZ
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          41 12 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Economic Society of Singapore’s essay competition on the theme “East Asia in the New EconomyOpportunities and Challenges” is running for five months commencing this month. R>r details: http:// www.mas.gov.sg or http://sunsite. nus.edu.sg/ess
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          Lock icon DBS’ Hong Bao
          77 12 SINGAPORE’S largest bank, DBS Bank, will donate $lOO,OOO to two charities the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) and the Autistic Association (Singapore) as part of its annual DBS Smgapore Hong Bao programme. The RDA will use its Hong Bao funds to construct a roof over their
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          Lock icon SIA load up
          73 12 NATIONAL carrier Singapore Airlines said yesterday that Its overall load factor in December was up 0.5 points at 71.8 per cent, compared against the same month last year. The load factor is an indicator of usage of its passenger and cargo capacity. Meanwhile, total number of passengers
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          Lock icon New B2B site
          42 12 eGuide Singapore, a regional online directory, and local business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce firm beXcom yesterday launched eGuide Marketplace -a provider of credit risk ratings for companies trading online. The service will cater mostly to small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore.
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      • Article
        Lock icon M1 IPO not before April
        321 12 C&W LOOKING TO OFFLOAD M1 STAKE DON’T expect a public listing for Mobile One (Ml) anytime soon. Ng Eng Ho, managing director of Ml’s 35-per-cent shareholder Keppel Telecommunications and Transport (Keppel T&T), said that an initial public offering (IPO) before April was not possible. “We
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Moderate growth forecast for electronics
        525 12  -  Affected by global industry showdown BY Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S electronics industry is expected to experience only “moderate growth” this year, due to tougher global economic conditions. In a statement released yesterday, the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said it was “cautiously optimistic” about the
        Bong Fortin  -  525 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Say hello to recession
        671 13  -  As consumer confidence plunges, the downturn rears its head BY William Safire NYT WASHINGTON “I am Recession and am pleased to see your apprehensive face once again. Ask me anything.” How can you be so sure that you are here? “I rise in inverse proportion to
        – NYT  -  671 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon The spirit of giving
        33 13 While the ground-level sentiments in Singapore are that the economy is sluggish and has seen better days, hope and charity appear to be alive and well. Law Kian Yan
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      • Article
        Lock icon Job cuts less severe than in the 90s
        609 13 SILVER LINING IN LAYOFF TREND Lat THE corporate downsizing phenomenon that rattled work places in the early 1990 s is staging a sudden and dramatic comeback, as scores of companies make headlines with seemingly large layoff announcements. Yet, despite the rash of
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      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon Seeking that sporting spirit
          1213 14  -  BY Rand Miranda rand@sph.com.sg OVER the weekend, I went biking, played 36 holes of golf and followed it up with a little basketball. After a quick break for a tuna sandwich, I played a little American football, and took Spiderman out to save New York City
          AFP  -  1,213 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Snake sits snugly in belly like tongue lodged firmly in cheek
        846 15  -  BY Dave Barry talk@eyeball.com.sg Miami Herald IN THE newspaper business, (motto: “Trust Us! We’re English Majors!”) we have high standards of accuracy. Before we print anything, we make sure that: -We personally believe it’s true, or A reliable source
        Mik Zarzuela  -  846 words
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      24 2 Qood morning! K 4* Showers with thunder over many areas in the afternoon. High: 31C I Low: 23C Tides: 8.54AM/2.7M 11.15PM/2.5M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      27 4 The Government wants to reach out to and engage young Singaporeans, but they seem politically apathetic. What can we do about it? Tell us at http://eyebalL asial.com.sg
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      27 5 WHICH do you prefer? The old fixed conveyancing scale fee system, letting market forces decide conveyancing fees, or an informal Law Society guideline? Tell us at asiaLconusg
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      32 9 Read more about the alleged Soros funding for malaysiakini.com: http://202.56.157.37/Editorial/2001/02/ *****2Q501.php3 An editorial attacking Feer’s refusal to admit their mistake. http://www.feer.com/ 0102 08/ pos3money.html The interview with Soros that started it all.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      45 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET you BROKE MY HEART, SPSMOER! A mo! your W-WAS THAT LOVE OR MK2HAEL CORLEOME? sr y H&. /O ©SV& iniM you* \%l IST YOU KMOW.J Ok\ |y^s Jm you! n t?? e M^l77 v: YOU BROKE MIMS FIRST, HELEMI 2-6
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      28 14 Does Singapore have a sporting spirit, or does it come in spurts? Can anything be done about it? Should it? Speak your mind on Singapore sports at asiaJLconusg
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Will Raikkonen pass the F1 test?
      868 16  -  Confident rookie Finn raring to go BY Adam Hashidy and Luke Pachymuthu hashidy@sph.com.sg luke@sph.com.sg KIMI RAIKKONEN is on trial, but the latest wonderboy of Formula One is confident of the verdict. I’ll still be around, he says. The 21-year-old Sauber-Petron-as rookie has been hailed
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Gannon in form
        108 17 AP HONOLULU Rich Gannon got the AFC off to a winning start in the Pro Bowl, then took the rest of the day off. Gannon, who led the Oakland Raiders to their best season in 10 years, passed for 160 yards and two touchdowns in the first
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        Lock icon Chmura repentant
        94 17 WAUKESHA (Wisconsin) One day after being acquitted of sexually assaulting a teenager, Mark Chmura broke down in tears as he apologised for his conduct and said he hoped to resume his professional football career. “I know as a Green Bay Packer and as a professional athlete, I’ve disappointed
        – AP; AP  -  94 words
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        Lock icon SPORTS TALK
        60 17 “ELITE athletes are a breed apart. Everyone playing sport for a salary has been all-pro since the third grade. They live in a pampered world complete with apologists and those who look the other way when a punch is thrown or a class is missed.” Fox Sports football
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        Lock icon Seve to play here
        118 18 SPANISH legend Seve Ballesteros, winner of five Majors and 83 international titles, will play in the US$B5O,OOO (Ssl.4 million) Caltex Singapore Masters and Charity Pro-Am at Singapore Island Country Club’s Bukit Course from Feb 22 to 25, according to an Asian PGA press release. Ballesteros will
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      • Article
        Lock icon Love wins at last
        62 18 PEBBLE BEACH (California) Davis Love 111, without a win in 63 US PGA Tour events since 1998, carded a 63 on Sunday to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Love tied a Pebble Beach Golf Links record with a 28 on the front nine and finished
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        Lock icon DID YOU SNOW
        46 18 WITH the NBA season already past the halfway mark, it won’t be long before the league will have to pick this season’s Most Valuable Player. Leading the list for top honours is Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson, set to be NBA’s shortest MVP.
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        Lock icon Under-20 champs
        95 19 Reuters GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador) Brazil beat host Ecuador 3-0 on Sunday to win the South American under-20 football championship but their title was marred by allegations of unsporting behaviour throughout the tournament. Two first-half goals by Ewerton and one by his striking partner Adriano sank the home side and
        – Reuters; AP  -  95 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Roma beat Parma
        83 19 Reuters ROME Gabriel Batistuta rescued AS Roma with two goals in the last 20 minutes to earn a gutsy 2-1 win at Parma that re-established Roma’s six-point lead in the Italian first division on Sunday. The Argentine striker hit a superb equaliser in the 74th minute and
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      • Article
        Lock icon Fergie, please stay
        77 19 Wires LONDON David Beckham is trying to convince Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson from leaving the club. Beckham is just one of the growing number of United players who have come out to plead with their manager who has led the club to unprecedented success in
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      Lock icon Booze banned in camp
      366 17  -  England soccer players get a real taste of Eriksson BY Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg IT’S been a month since Sven Goran Eriksson took over the reins as England’s football boss, and already he’s demonstrating his no-nonsense style. And it’s long overdue for the spoilt brats of English
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      Lock icon No Shaq? No problem for the Lakers
      620 17 PULLING CLOSE TO DIVISION-LEADING KINGS AP LOS ANGELES Not Shaq’s team, not Kobe’s team, the Los Angeles Lakers were simply a team. With Shaquille O’Neal again watching in street clothes, Kobe Bryant scored 26 points and had 11 rebounds and got plenty of
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      Lock icon DeFrantz running for IOC presidency
      765 18 As a younger, black woman, she faces an uphill battle Wires TO THE world Anita DeFrantz’s name may not ring any bells but that could change very soon if she has her way. DeFrantz, a former Olympian declared her candidacy on Sunday for the sports’
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      Lock icon Shorts CLICKERS
      186 18 BOXING: NOT many people take boxing seriously these days, but HouseofBoxing.com is hoping to change that. A feature called Issues, to be unveiled this month, promises investigative reports by writers such as author Thomas Hauser and columnist Michael Katz. The first multimedia report, about the trial in which
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      690 19 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE This week, Liverpool and Robbie Fowler had a glorious weekend and claimed top spot on EyeSporfs weekly English Premier League Power Rankings. Hero of the Week: He’s back to hitting the headlines, but this time for the right reasons. Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler shut his
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        Lock icon The Velvet Revolution
        575 20 The Paris catwalk is awash with hue and spiced with leather and velvet. SUZY MENKES reports on the fall mens collections. RESURGENCE of colour and print and a focus on leather and velvet were the major trends of the 2001 men’s fall fashion season. On the sharp
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        Lock icon Sweet scent of smoke
        519 24 Incense, formerly the province of worshippers and religious orders, has now moved into lifestyle and fashion as part of the embrace of spirituality. JUMii WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) goes hlowin in the wind. ESIGNER Calvin Klein released an incense stick version of his hit fragrance Truth recently, but
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        Lock icon Montblanc aims for female market
        563 25 Traditionally male luxury pen brand Montblanc is setting its sights on what women want JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) talks to president and CEO of Montblanc Asia Pacific James T Siam about its plans to capture this lucrative market. WOMAN, forget bra-burning. Buy a Montblanc pen instead,
        Clarence Chan  -  563 words
      • Wear & TEAR
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          Lock icon Kyle hopes parting was sweet
          92 25 KYLE MACLACHLAN has no ill feelings about splitting up with supermodel Linda Evangelista. The Sex And The City actor (he plays a surgeon), who is now dating a PR executive, told Ananova.com: “She is a particularly thrilling, exciting lady and will always occupy a special
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          Lock icon Will YSL turn to LVMH for HELP?
          93 25 THE designer rebels are coming out of the underground. French cable channel Canal Plus aired footage of Yves Saint Laurent talking to LVMH’s Bernard Arnault at the Christian Dior menswear show, starting rumours that the loquacious designer is thinking of a non-tailored cut
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          Lock icon Hilfiger’s ego trips up
          107 25 TOMMY HILFIGER, picking up a trick from Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, tried to make sure New York magazine would use a flattering photo of him on its cover by commissioning Francesco Scavullo to take his portrait. It worked with Wintour, and the magazine used the shot
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          Lock icon Kate Moss puts on the pounds
          79 25 KATE MOSS, who once defined the look of heroin chic, has expanded. Pagesix.com reported seeing her pack her fuller form at the Russian Tea Room. Moss, who looks about 10 kg heavier in a new Gucci ad, was spotted wolfing down a bowl of
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          Lock icon British fashion goes Underground
          75 25  -  June Wan BRITISH COSMOPOLITAN readers have bigger aspirations than the magazine’s usual salacious suggestions: They want to drive trains. Since the February issue came out with a half-page Underground advertisement seeking female drivers, the organisation has received more than 200 replies from readers. And leave it
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Give this Scot a sarong
          660 26 Rookie actor Steve Clark is currently seen warming the heart ofVernetta Lopez in Under One Roof. ■TBAMMABTTi tam (jeanm@sph.com.sg) talks to him about fashion disasters, crow's feet and of course, kilts. nRAVEHEART. Rob Roy. And now, Steve Clark? Scotland isn’t exactly famous for its thespians,
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      • Simply ESSENTIAL
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          Lock icon Shampoo with a hue
          68 26 TURN a daily cleansing routine into a quick beauty fix. Origins Tealights Colour-boosting shampoo has purifying herb teas and essential oils to simultaneously condition and add colour to hair. The five varieties include Black Chai Tea for black hair, Rose Hips Tea for red hair, and
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          Lock icon Stylish Sydney
          71 26 TRAVEL stylo-mylo with Louis Vuitton’s Carnet de Voyage Sydney Scrapbook, a luxury version of the usual Lonely Planets or Go! guides. Compiled by Australian artist and die-hard traveller John Wolseley, the book includes watercolour images of the city which are meant to invoke desire for travel, as well
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          Lock icon Karan scent for men
          93 26 TAKING her cue from the spellbinding success of her first fragrance for women, Donna Karan is launching DKNY The Fragrance For Men which is also inspired by the Big Apple. Bottled in a skyscraper-esque container, the men’s packaging version differs from the women’s only in its
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          Lock icon Designer phone pouches
          62 26 June Wan TALKING on your mobile in the cinema is frowned upon, but getting colourful with it isn’t. Only thing is, Dunhill’s new range of mobile-phone covers only dress the Nokia 8210,8250, and 8850. Wielders of these models can head down to Dunhill boutiques for the box
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    • Gender
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        Lock icon What shoppers want
        600 22 NYT The minds of women work in mysterious ways when they hit the stores. STUART ELLIOT reports on a new study which seeks to define what shopping means to women today. N HIS new comedy movie, Mel Gibson plays an adman who accidentally develops the power to
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        Lock icon After Susan, a different Brooke
        568 22  -  BY Bridget Byrne AP THE audience is agog. Brooke Shields performing wonders with a riff on a word not usually heard in polite society. She’s the latest in a parade of high-profile actresses to appear in the Los Angeles version of Eve Ensler’s outspoken voice
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon Second wind at 50
          151 23 AN ITALIAN study says men in their autumn years will experience springtime again falling in love with their wives, their friends’ wives or even their daughters’ girlfriends. A recent survey by Rome’s Institute of Psychology found that men think they fall in love while in their
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          57 23 IT’S not necessarily bad to be always thinking about sex. Researchers asked 40 people to plunge their bare hands into freezing water and discovered that those whose mind concentrated on nookie managed to keep their hands in the cold water three times longer than those who didn’t. The
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          843 23 Until recently, Singapore was a land unfit for plus-sized women. But, as SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) discovered recently, retailers here are beginning to cash in on the spending power of women who fancy clothes that hug not just the bust, but the hips as well. Gulliver hasn’t
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      542 27 Movies Passport To Paris 12.30 pm HBO A pair of twins are sent to Paris to spend the summer with their stuffy grandfather. Things don’t turn out their way, but they find ways and means to have fun, even as the old man tries to stop them. Starring real twins
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        73 28 PAMELA ANDERSON has ditched model boyfriend Marcos Schenkenberg “Marcus is a really nice man, but I’m looking for something different,” said the VIP babe. “I’ve only been with three men in eight years, so I need to see what’s out there.” Divorced from rocker Tommy Lee, the
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        122 28 LOUNGING in a hot tub when the weather’s freezing would seem to be a luxury. But when you have to do it for four days, it doesn’t seem so hot after all. And don’t expect to see Richards nude she wore a black bikini
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        48 28 Wires SIGOURNEY WEAVER will earn Ss3B million to play Ellen Ripley again. Aliens V will be released in 2004, the 25th anniversary of the originaL.Director John Woo ordered Nicholas Cage and Christian Slater to boot camp so the two will be convincing in the war film, Windtalkers.
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      184 28 Not in the cannibalistic way, but simply being a loner. “I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people,” the actor said in an interview with Barbara Walters. “I keep to myself, very much to myself, so that makes
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      138 28 AND they say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. But not for Madonna she can’t and won’t cook, even though husband Guy Ritchie has a big appetite, reported Peoplenews.com “She does not know how to cook,” the director has
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