Project Eyeball, 18 April 2001

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebalLasiaLconusg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Wednesday, April 18, 2001 80 CENTS
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      301 1 Dentists and Qovernment disagree over what is adequate care for secondary school kids The issue at hand: Who should man the dental clinics in secondary schools. The Ministry of Health is going to spend $16.6 million to set them up, and wants to hire dental therapists to run them. The
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      119 2 BE careful what you are signing for, especially if you are an absent parent refusing to pay child support. Keith Griffith signed for a takeaway chicken noodle dinner, but instead got child support authority documents demanding $9,450 in unpaid support from Oklahoma state. The state’s Department of Human Resources
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      Lock icon E-learning programme launched
      303 2  -  Course fee to be subsidised Farrah Diba Tahar EVERYONE wants to jump onto the e-learning bandwagon these days. The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects the global corporate e-learning market to grow from more than US$l billion (Ssl.B billion) in 1999 to US$23 billion by 2004. In the
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      Lock icon Madrasah aids ill student
      191 2 THE money may not be enough, but it’s a heartwarming story of how a school rallied to help its ailing student. Madrasah Wak Tanjung Al-Islamiah at Sims Avenue raised $6,000 for Sufian As Sauri -a nine-year-old boy with a hole in his heart. Sufian underwent an
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Safety tips may win you $2,000
        153 2 THE next time you come up with a great idea to improve the safety and security in your neighbourhood, you might win $2,000. North East Community Development Council is the first CDC to introduce cash prizes and trophies to residents and groups who are
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        Lock icon Early release for soccer player
        150 2 AP LUTZ PFANNENSTIEL, the German soccer player who was sentenced to five months in jail over a match-fixing scandal, walked free yesterday after serving almost 3V2 months. The 27-year-old, who had played for Geylang United, was released early on good behaviour and handed over to
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        Lock icon Conserve energy, save on bills
        119 2 ENERGY bills for new buildings may shrink up to 24 per cent once new standards for energy efficiency in air-conditioning, lighting and building material heat transfer are in place. If existing buildings are well-maintained, this may mean up to 30 per cent in energy savings
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        Lock icon Siamese twins off sedation
        89 2 NEPALESE twins Ganga and Jamuna’s wounds are healing well, and they were taken off sedation yesterday morning. Jamuna may also be taken off the respirator, said the Singapore General Hospital yesterday. While it is still too early to tell if they have suffered any brain damage,
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      293 3 CONTONOU Most passengers aboard a ship which has been at sea since March 30 and was suspected of transporting child slaves, were adults desperate for work in oil-rich Gabon, said a Unicef representative. SHARM EL-SHEIKH Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday to discuss the
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      Lock icon Five of eight charges dropped
      411 3 Prosecutors to focus on plunder charge, punishable by death, against Estrada Reuters MANILA Philippine prosecutors dropped five of eight criminal charges against former president Joseph Estrada yesterday so they could “train their cannons” on the main charge of economic plunder, which is punishable by death.
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      Lock icon VELARDE CHARGED
      110 3 AFP MANILA Flamboyant television evangelist Mariano Velarde was charged together with former Philippine President Joseph Estrada yesterday for economic plunder, by allegedly selling real estate to the government at a hugely-inflated price. Popularly known as “Brother Mike”, Velarde heads the El Shaddai group, a religious organisation nominally connected
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Teething problems
        1473 4  -  Plan to employ dental therapists in secondary schools alarms dentists By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THIS promises to be a controversy with much “bite”. The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Singapore Dental Association (SDA) are fighting tooth and nail on the employment of dental therapists for secondary school
        Clarence Chan; Paul Reic Roca  -  1,473 words
    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Clearing the air about asthma
        1181 6  -  20 per cent of kids suffer in S’pore By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg DON’T ignore the student who suddenly goes pale and becomes breathless he could be suffering from asthma, and just minutes away from danger. But what if the teachers are unable to recognise the
        Mike Lee; The Straits Times  -  1,181 words
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        Lock icon Car Free Day may pay off for some staff
        577 7  -  Some firms driving word home with free bus rides and lucky draws By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg THE message from the Environment Ministry is clear: It’s okay to drive to work on Car Free Day tomorrow. But not everyone has opted to
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        Lock icon The green Pulau Ubin getaway
        307 7 EARTH DAY CELEBRATIONS HOW are you spending this weekend? Fancy a sunset bumboat cruise, a picnic on a deserted island, followed by a spot of fresh seafood shopping at a kelong? The best part is that you don’t even have to travel far, or pay
        Mike Lee  -  307 words
    • The World
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        Lock icon Dr M denounces freedom on the Net
        184 8 MEDIA LAWS AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad denounced the principle of absolute press freedom on the Internet yesterday, saying he had seen messages posted that urged people to kill him. “I just read messages on the Internet
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        Lock icon Seizure of Elian wins Pulitzer Prize for AP lensman
        63 8 Alan Diaz of the Associated Press was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for his photograph of armed US federal agents seizing Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives. Gonzalez, held by Donato Dalrymple, was taken by
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        Lock icon ‘Education system has flaws’
        550 8 Dr Madmits over-emphasis on religion at national schools keeps non-Malays at bay KUALA LUMPUR Religion was over-emphasised in national schools which deterred the nonMalays from enrolling in them, admitted Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday after being briefed about problems in Malaysia’s education system.
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        Lock icon MCA tussle is bad news
        828 9 Umno veteran says Chinese party should settle leadership issue and gear up to fight the Opposition MALAYSIA’S ruling coalition battling the Opposition for the Malay vote is just half the story in Malaysian politics. The other half is the tussle within the ruling coalition itself
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        Lock icon ‘MPs are ignorant and arrogant’
        263 9 GUS DUR HITS BACK JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday fired a broadside at his critics in the Parliament, accusing MPs trying to unseat him of failing to understand the country’s Constitution. “The government cannot be asked to account for its performance,” he said during
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        Lock icon Stepping off the fast track
        621 10 More American students are taking time out to pursue non-academic adventures NYT CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts) Want to build a boat in Russia? How about being a juggler in a family circus in California? Or build a guitar in England for three months? These are just some
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        Lock icon Australians more open about nations dark past
        415 10 CRIME MUSEUM Reuters SYDNEY People all over the world find crime interesting, but Australians seem to be more passionate about their criminal history and a little more forgiving of their bad guys, says the curator of Sydney’s Justice and Police Museum, which captures
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    • Web@Home
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        353 11  -  Visitors flock to NSman’s advice site By Fiona Voon talk@sph.com.sg MAYBE they weren’t kidding when they called love a timeless theme. Despite the current dotcom apocalypse, at least one homegrown cyber-shrine dedicated to romance is still going strong and remarkably, pulling in the dollars. Adolescent Adulthood
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        Lock icon WEB WATCH: Adolescent Adulthood (http://www.adolescentadulthood.com)
        319 11 FIRST IMPRESSIONS DESIGNED by a web pro commissioned by Afian in return for ad space, the site’s classy olive green theme is a welcome change from the bare white backgrounds of most amateur efforts. The design is elegant, clean and idiot-proof with just the right
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        Lock icon Other local love gurus
        158 11 Love Cosmos (below) (http://www.lovecosmos.com) OTHER than the usual dating advice, this site also features articles on karaoke, money, and even the Nasa conspiracy theory not ex- actly the stuff romance is made of. With its bare white backdrop, few pictures and little font variation, the site
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Digital Dubya a big hit
        616 12 More Asians downloading virtual US President on to PDAs than Americans USA Today CALIFORNIA Do you know what is rapidly becoming one of the hottest Palm Pilot downloads in countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong? Well, it’s Porta Bush the beerswilling, dancing, gas-passing, digital
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      • Tech TALK
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          105 12 SANTA CLARA-Fresh from its failed flirtation with selling porn online and still looking for ways to cash in on its site’s popularity, Yahoo has decided to charge for Yahoo By Phone -a service that reads e-mail, news, weather and other information to registered users over the phone.
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          Lock icon Upgraded Explorer
          106 12 CALIFORNIA Microsoft plans to release an upgraded version of its MSN Explorer in the US this week, which comes with new additions like a collapsible toolbar and an automatic spell-check function for Hotmail users. The new software, when used together with the MSN Internet service, will allow users
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          Lock icon New Apples coming?
          129 12 Wires APPLE has stopped selling the 667 MHz Power Mac G 4, a move which could mean the company is making room for new dual-processor computers later this month. In late March, several dealers said they were told that Apple would stop selling this model in April.
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    • Business
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        572 13  -  Retrenchments expected to increase By Fiona Voon A SURVEY on employment expectations in Singapore appears to confirm the Government’s grim outlook for the economy in the coming year. The survey, conducted by hu-man-resource consultants TMP Worldwide eßesourcing, shows that companies here expect the
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon S1A monitoring Ansett
          82 13 SINGAPORE AIRLINES said yesterday that it was monitoring the troubles hobbling Ansett Australia, but skirted comment on whether it would attempt to gain control of it. Ansett is owned by Air New Zealand, in which SIA has a 25 per cent stake. But the New Zealand government
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          Lock icon Plans for stock futures
          31 13 THE Singapore Exchange yesterday announced its plan to list single stock futures contracts by the third quarter of 2001, pending approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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        405 13  -  P.S.B. HOPES BIG FIRMS CAN BE MENTORS By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg CALL it the Team approach if you will. Now, Singapore’s larger companies can play mentor to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to improve their own supply chain. The Singapore Productivity and Standards Board
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        Lock icon Govt will help firms in crisis, says minister
        156 13 A HELPING hand. That’s what the Government can extend to businesses if there’s a need for it. Minister for Manpower Lee Boon Yang told newsmen yesterday that in an event of a downturn, the Government will look to contain costs and help
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    • Mailbox
      • Global EYE
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          Lock icon Hit where it hurts most – the pocket
          701 14  - Hit where it hurts most the pocket By Ian Lim ianlim@sph.com.sg THERE’S a new Berlin Wall coming up -a temporary barricade in Quebec ahead of this weekend’s Summit of the Americas. It’s meant to deter the usual hordes of anti-globalisation protesters who plague world leaders at summits in the name
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          Lock icon LAID OFF? WAHT NEXT?
          85 14 RETRENCHMENT dangers await many. What is your coping strategy? 25% I’ve already been retrenched. 18% -1 am keeping my fingers crossed but am still very worried. 17% -I am constantly upgrading my skills just in case. 15% -1 don’t need to worry, my job is 99%
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      • Singles SAY
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          Lock icon Guess who’s in the news again
          877 15  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu SCANNING the news this past week, I can’t get over how women regardless of race or nationality are constantly the focus of “family planning” at every stage of their life. In India, for example, modern technology has made the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      22 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder over many areas in the afternoon. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 6.56AM/2.0M 9.24PM/2.1M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      50 4 Should the School Dental Service continue to use dental therapists to treat secondary students? Or should dentists be used? And as a parent, would you still send your child to a private dentist even if there was a free dental service in school? Tell us what you think at http^/eyebalLasiaLconusg
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      404 5 www.ml.com.sg Everywhere under the sun. D S Get creative with 50 new r UN HUNK at just 500 per download. With FUNBOX, you can pick from the latest range of FUN TUNES, to add a dash of excitement to your phone. Trust Ml to pack the fun into your mobile
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      85 6 Here’s where to go for information on asthma: http://www.asthmaassociation.org.sg Official website of the Singapore Asthma Association. http:// www.lungusa. org/asthma/ Information on asthma by the American Lung Association. http://www.ginasthma. com/index.html Official website of the Global Initiative for Asthma. For children: http://www.merck.com/ i! uXHU A3 V tkuXH Z6Q dx A/ disease/asthma/iustforkids/ children.html
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      39 7 Are you leaving your car at home this Thursday? And is your company planning something fun to commemorate Car Free Day? Or do you think that Car Free Day is just a waste of time? Tell us at htt|K//eyeball.asial.com.sg
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      124 7 Nutritious Homemade 11 Douhud Shui? Boil-it yourself, it's easy with Soyabean is well known for its wide range of nutritious value. For most people, soyabean drink for breakfast is a necessity but, that warrants a trip to the market in the early hour. Now, it is so easy to prepare
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      58 12 http://www.lplexmarin. com One of the hacked US sites. http:/ /www.bushorchimp. com George W Bush is likened to a chimpanzee. You can even download hilarious screenshots or movie clips. http://republicanssuck.com Digitally altered pictures that portray Bush and the Republicans unflatteringly. http:// residentbush.com Even more hilarious pictures of Dubya. http://www.gwbush.com An extensive
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      28 12 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET m NOT KtPmUGI THIS OOMPAMY WANTS us TO {7ESUSN AN AUTOMATS!? GUICiPB PRBVehITIOU MOTUWS! HOW TIMSUy. rw m u m m '.poterzale.com ww\v,coimcsixißc-.com
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Rivaldo in the dark
        107 16 MADRID Brazilian forward Rivaldo is in the dark about a claim that Barcelona is set to negotiate his transfer to an “important” English club. “I know nothing about meetings between clubs and I don’t want to know anything about them,” he said on his website. “If
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        Lock icon Aussie athletic team
        67 16 MELBOURNE Olympic silver medallists long jumper Jai Taurima and pole-vaulter Tatiana Grigorieva are in the list of 27 Australian athletes for the world championships. The oldest and youngest members are walker Kerry Saxby-Junna, 39, and 1500-metre runner Georgie Clarke, 16. But Sydney Olympics 400-metre gold medallist Cathy
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        Lock icon Williams fined again
        67 16 Wires NEW YORK Sacramento Kings’ guard Jason Williams was fined U 5525,000 (5545,000) for;. “inappropriate conduct directed at fans” in last week’s victory over San Antonio, said the NBA. On March 1, Williams was fined US$l5,OOO for directing a profanity at fans during a Feb 28 victory
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      Lock icon But it’s still set to be a scorcher
      587 16  -  Despite deficit, Red Devils may have the edge By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg IF YOU believe my friend Steve, who will be in Munich to watch his beloved Manchester United take on Bayern at the Olympic Stadium tomorrow, the Red Devils have the
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      147 16 FOOTBALL: Manchester City’s captain Alf Inge Haaland threw his shirt at a fan who had heckled him and his teammates thfQug'houee recent PfejTiier£fr?p match. But guess whet was embarrassed? Read why the Norwegian star did what he did and what happened after that at http://www.soccerage.com/ en/13/*****.html. BOXING: After
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      Lock icon Team chemistry
      946 17  -  This season’s all about who’s got it and who hasn’t By Davi Dupree THIS season, perhaps more than any other in the NBA, chemistry is the pivotal intangible that determined which teams got to the playoffs and which has the best chance to win it all. If a
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Growing arts
      703 18 From its humble beginnings, the Singapore Arts Festival has developed into a big-budget, multi-layered affair with a menu of 2jo performances. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan @sph. com.sg) traces its roots and finds out where iFs headed. SINGAPORE Arts Festival may be a staple on many arts lovers’ calendars,
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    • Arts
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        Lock icon ART TO ART: SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL TIMELINE
        368 19  -  Tan Dawn Wei, with additional REPORTING BY JUNE WAN AND LIM HUI LING 1959: Singapore’s first Arts Festival, organised by the Singapore Arts Council, was a modest $20,000 affair. 1977: Singapore Festival Of The Arts, a five-day event that grew out of the
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      • Article
        Lock icon THE MUST-SEES
        404 19  -  Lim Hui Ling BESIDES the Philip Glass Ensemble as an obvious tour-de-force highlight for the Singapore Arts Festival in June, experts say you shouldn’t miss these: DANCE Angela Pul-Yin Liong, co-founder and artistic director of the Arts Fission Company, picks: In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting Performed by
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        Lock icon To hang up a piece of star
        700 20 NYT A Tippi, a Qracie or a Tony. What will it be for an addition to your art gallery? CAROLYN SUSMAN makes dollars and sense of the appeal of celebrity art. WANT to own a drawing by Grace Slick? If you have to
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      • Arts DIART
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          Lock icon Winning art on show
          110 20 TWO hundred pieces of acclaimed art and design works by students of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts will be on show from today to April 27. Among the showpieces are works that have won national art and design
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        • Article
          Lock icon Ask or dance
          76 20 FEEL free to ask questions about concertos, symphonies and aspects of orchestral movements you’ve always wondered about. Or just treat yourself to an afternoon of dance music in Moscow To New York On Sunday on April 22 at 5 pm at the Victoria Concert Hall. Organised by
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          Lock icon Experimental art
          71 20 A SERIES of artworks on the premise of excess and exaggeration is on display now. Too 2 -a collection of works by full- and part-time staff at LaSalie-SIA College Of The Arts’ School of Fine Art features a broad range of experiments in space, site, media and ideas,
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          Lock icon Printmaking made safe
          81 20  -  Lim Hui Ling PRINTMAKING is no longer a poisonous process, with Acrylic Resist Etching. This new system is easy and mess-free cleaning up is easily done with water and allows craft enthusiasts to work in a non-toxic environment. The Nanyang Academy of Fine Art has night workshops
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    • Travel
      • Travel DIARY
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          Lock icon Blastoff
          65 21 GO INTO outer space without leaving your couch. Discovery Channel’s Space Journeys, a three-hour special on April 29, kicks off at 7 pm with Search For Alien Planets, followed by 95 Worlds And Counting a take on the moons in the solar system at 8 pm. The last segment,
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          Lock icon Beijing for business
          75 21 THE Swissotel Beijing has refurbished its Swiss Executive Club to provide better service to business travellers. Free services which guests can expect include airport transport, local calls, incoming faxes, buffet breakfasts and high tea. Guests who dine at the hotel pay complimentary prices and there are other
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          Lock icon Bop Scotch
          100 21 ISLAND packages to Scotland’s north and west coasts are now available, saving you many travel hassles. The two-night Barra Connection at S$542 starts with a landing on Barra and includes a scenic rail journey through Oban and Glasgow, before it ends with a trip back to the mainland.
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          Lock icon Free calls to US
          67 21 NOT only do guests at The Pan-Pacific get an hour’s worth of free calls to the US during their stay, they can also choose between making one hour-long call or several short calls that add up to an hour. The hotel’s has a partnership with StarHub,
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        Lock icon Luggage goes economy
        741 21 Baggage the stuff that van weigh your travels down. But manufacturers are now adding belts and buckles to consolidate various bags into one traveller-friendly unit. That means, BETSY WADE says, you have fewer pieces to chase down the carousel. WITH the numerous items the average non-light packer
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        Lock icon Catching the phrase
        409 22 When you re on holiday it j best to show a little respect by not mangling your host country’s language. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) looks through some conversation guide books to help you embark on a cultural immersion. MAKING OUT IN INDONESIAN (Tuttle), 87pp, $9.90 from major bookstores
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        Lock icon Learning while on vacation
        255 22 NYT COURSES in vacation settings are proliferating. Many are on the fluffy side, covering topics such as the history of swing bands. But there are classes with more substance too. In Britain, for instance, a non-profit organisation called City and Guilds in London twice a year
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      • Living Well
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          Lock icon The sound of style
          571 23 Exclusive engineering is the spirit of lAQ-McLaren Audio. RONALD PA TAW (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) gets a joyride on the system and reports on the divine music it makes. THEY say a classy car never goes out of style. The same could now be true of your stereo. TAG-McLaren
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      Lock icon Jackson, Madonna plan concerts
      158 24 (but not together) MICHAEL JACKSON is planning to mark his 30th year as a solo artist in an all-star concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sept 7. Stars slated to perform are Whitney Houston, ’N Sync, Britney Spears, Marc Anthony and Shaggy, reports AP
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      Lock icon West Wing creator busted for drugs
      137 24 AARON SORKIN (above), the Emmy-winning creator of The West Wing, was arrested on Sunday at a Los Angeles-area airport for possessing illicit mushrooms, reports the Los Angeles Times. An X-ray camera showed a suspicious object in his case. A hand search was prompted and
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      Lock icon Chats & Mouse
      157 24 Chats Mouse Before the computer became common... An application was for employment. A program was a television show. A cursor used profanity. A keyboard was a piano. Memory was something that you lost with age. A CD was a bank account. Compress was something you did to garbage. And if
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Broling Driver wedding again set
        82 24 MINNIE DRIVER and Josh Brolin are engaged again. In 1999, the lovebirds’ engagement was reported, then quickly called off. This time, E! Online reports that Brolin, the 33-year-old actor/son of James Brolin, and stepson of Barbra Streisand, confirmed his trip to the altar with the
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