Project Eyeball, 18 May 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebalLasiaLcom,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Friday, May 18, 2001 80 CENTS
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      420 1 ft *6 ■V' 0 Decidin who to sack Everybody knows it times are bad. Since the start of the year, some 5,400 workers have been let go, either permanently or temporarily. More layoffs are likely, and managers are going to have to decide who gets the chop, reports DENYSE YEO.
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      72 2 CHILDREN in Essex helped recruit new teachers for their school by handing out job leaflets to supermarket shoppers. The 11-year-olds from Aveley Secondary School wore badges urging shoppers to “Teach Me Please”. They spent two hours a night handing out the leaflets at Safeway’s Chafford Hundred store in this
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    • Article
      Lock icon ‘Don’t count on luck’
      300 2  -  Do well what’s within our control, says PM Goh Wong Sher Maine LADY Luck has had a role in Singapore’s success, pointed out Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. He said that though some factors were within our control, things like upgrading programmes should not be
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      Lock icon Power struggles with your child? Listen up
      345 2  -  Farrah Diba Tahar DO YOU feel that your children are the bosses of the family and not you? You’re not alone. Kian Lim, a counsellor at Fei Yue Counselling Centre, sees about five to 10 such cases of parents involved in power struggles
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Pinkk set to open next week
        94 2 CALL it the United Colours of Clubbing. Following the citrus-inspired club Orange at Mohamed Sultan, another nightspot promises to paint the town red, or in this case pink, when it launches at the end of next week. PinkK, at Club Street, epitomises campy kitsch,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Sing along with Tanya Chua
        76 2 WANT to perform with Tanya Chua at this year’s National Day parade? The winning team in Singapore Cable Vision’s (SCV) National Day Song Challenge will get q chance to do just that. Students are invited to perform their own version of this year’s National Day
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      • Article
        Lock icon WWF to be aired after 10 pm
        128 2 YOUR kids will soon be released from the stranglehold of wrestling and stop spouting terms like “choke-slam” and “body-slam”. Responding to a call from the public, the Singapore Broadcasting Authority has asked Media Corp TV to move its wrestling programming to the late
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Choosing who to sack is tough
        631 4  -  Different criteria used, but managers still suffer from guilt and anxiety for handing out pink slips By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg IF YOU’RE married and have mouths to feed, you are less likely to be retrenched when companies have to jettison staff, say managers. This
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      Lock icon SOME FIRMS HAVE ZERO RETRENCHEMENT
      261 4  -  DURING the 1998 economic crisis, when many companies were downsizing, Micron Semiconductor Asia (MSA) was re-structuring but refused to resort to retrenching almost half of its 1,200 employees. It instead responded with alternative measures and opted to run a tight ship and sail through the
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      Lock icon Doing your homework over the Internet
      481 5  -  It’s part of one school’s curriculum By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg THESE days, every other school has a website that students can log on to to do some e-learning, but it’s perhaps at the kids’ discretion. So what sets Bukit Panjang Primary School’s newly-introduced
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      Lock icon Snoring kids may have disorder
      482 5  -  SLEEP APNEA CAN AFFECT CHILDERN,SAYS SURVEY By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg A SURVEY by the National University of Singapore has revealed that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) does not just affect adults. Children, too, are prone to the disorder. Preliminary survey results revealed that about 1 per
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    • The World
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        274 3 WASHINGTON US President George W Bush was to issue a call to action late last night against “the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the *****”, with heavier reliance on oil, coal and nuclear power and SslB billion in tax credits for conservation measures. TEHERAN
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        Lock icon NY bans risque ad on buses
        456 3 Finger pointed at Mayor Giuliani’s anti-smut campaign Salon NEW YORK Is Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s decency commission cracking down on cheesy double-en-tendres in advertising copy? The “city that can kick your city’s ass” rescinded its approval of an ad campaign for B inlOse -a new
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        Lock icon In his face
        64 3 A protester hitting back at Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott (above), after Prescott had thrown a left jab at him at Rhyl in North Wales on Wednesday. The protester (left) was later arrested. The scuffle started when a demonstrator had thrown an egg at Prescott, and
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        Lock icon Govt too slow in reviving economy
        396 7 DIP IN POPULARITY FOR CHEN AFP TAIPEI Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has lost much of his charisma barely a year after he swept into office and ended the Kuomintang’s 51-year grip on power. His approval rating stood at more than 80 per cent not
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        Lock icon QUIT MEGA
        369 7 Gus Dur’s party ‘fed up’ with her JAKARTA If Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri wants to do an Arroyo, she should quit first, the leaders of President Abdurrahman Wahid’s party said yesterday. The reference was to Philip- pine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo who quit after the thenPresident Joseph Estrada be-
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        Lock icon Thaksin faces reality of running country
        345 7 BANGKOK As Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s tycoon-turned-Pri ne Minister, prepares to complete his first 100 days in office, he has learned one lesson for sure: Running a country is tougher than running a company. When Thaksin, 51, took office on Feb 9, he was hailed
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        Lock icon Chinese military activity detected
        281 8 Wires WASHINGTON China is preparing to conduct large-scale military exercises in the South China Sea from Hainan and on Woody Island. Preparations for the exercises, which include amphibious warfare drills, were detected by US intelligence agencies over the past two weeks, defence officials told Washington Times.
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        Lock icon ‘US needs long-range arms in Pacific’
        699 8 Pentagon review says US bases could become vulnerable to China weaponry NYT WASHINGTON Casting the Pacific as the most important region for military planners, a confidential Pentagon strategy review has called for the development of new long-range arms to counter China’s military power. The
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon $101 COE allows small cars to make comeback
        549 6  -  But experts say its temporary By Eugene Wee eu.genew@sph.com.sg THE one-litre car has been resurrected in the local car market, but how long it will stay remains to be seen. About a year ago, distributors here signed the death certificate for the
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        Lock icon EMI Xchanged for Universal
        329 6 ‘BETTER OFFER’ LOCAL pop hopefuls Urban Xchange, who made headlines three weeks ago when they were picked as the faces of Coca-Cola’s latest ad campaign, have signed with the world’s largest record company, Universal Music. Universal stepped in with an offer just as the eight-piece R&B
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        Lock icon She lost $94,000 in commodities
        331 6  -  By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg THE new Commodities Futures Act, passed uncontested in Parliament on Wednesday, may help prevent more people from falling victim to bucket shops. But it comes a little too late for Ah Neo (not her real name) and her husband. The
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Tropico set to take over Sim empire
        510 9 Will the Sims rule the simulations? With six Sim titles out and SimQolf due for release, it would seem that way, until FARRAH DIBA TAHAR (local@eyehallcom.sg) tested out the latest competition to the Sim empire. EVER wanted to rule the world? Ever groaned
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        41 9 VITAL STATS Minimum system requirements: CPU: Pentium 200 MHz Memory: 32 MB RAM Storage: 820 MB OS: Windows 95/98/ 2000/ME/NT4 PROS: Easy to play, hard to master Excellent graphics with attention to detail. CONS: Inconsistent interface Rating 4 out of 5
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        Lock icon ON UNDERAGE DRINKERS AND INCEST
        303 9 TROPICO began as an idea to design a Banana Republic game, building on the popular models of Civilisation and Sim City. Tropico was recently released for PC, and a Mac version is under development. As smooth as the game’s controls may be as you go
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Firms pushing paced investment plans
        292 11  -  NEW SCHEME ALLOWS YOU TO SAVE OVER TIME By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg WHY burn your fingers trying to time the market when there are new financial instruments that will allow you to sleep soundly? Online finance firms like finatiQ_ and dollarDEX have started pushing the
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        Lock icon Non-oil exports down
        400 11  -  Doesn’t look like good news soon By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE slowdown could well snowball into a recession in Singapore. Figures released yesterday by the Trade Development Board showed that the country’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) fell for the second straight month in April, posting a 1.2
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      • Business BUZZ
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          79 11 SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, which is buying Australia’s Cable Wireless Optus, said it will give Optus shareholders a detailed offer on Monday to complete the purchase. The offer document comes two months after Sing Tel won the bid to buy Optus, beating UK’s Vodafone Group Pic and Telecom Corp
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          Lock icon DBS raises targets again
          98 11 DBS GROUP HOLDINGS said yesterday that it would sell $l.l billion of preference shares, increasing the target amount for the second time to meet strong demand. The bank, which is raising funds to help pay for its US$5.3 billion (559.5 billion) purchase of Hong Kong’s Dao
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          Lock icon Enzer oversubscribed
          37 11 THE public tranche of electronics components distributor Enzer Corporation’s initial public offering has been 7.92 times subscribed, the company said in a statement yesterday. The company’s shares are expected to begin trading on Sesdaq today.
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon Miffed over Millionaire
        851 12 ‘Make it harder to win a million’ (May 15) WHO Wants To Be A Millionaire has been a hit since it debuted in April, but it’s also attracted criticism for the mediocrity of its contenders’ performance. Should the selection of contestants be made more stringent? Or is
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        Lock icon SAFETY FIRST
        67 12 WHEN buying airline tickets, what would you stretch your dollar for? 39% Safety, definitely. 19% Comfort and entertainment. 13% -1 only fly SIA. 12% -Nothing comes between me and rock-bottom prices! 7% Convenient timings. 5% Any airline I can get frequent flyer points from. 3% Service and image.
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      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Time for PAGi and parents to link up
          821 13 PARENTS, here’s another wake-up call. A survey conducted by the Parents Advisory Group for the Internet (PAGi) reveals that while 81 per cent of parents trust their children to behave responsibly online, only 46 per cent of the children feel the same
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      26 2 (food morning! Wm** Showers with thunder in the morning and early afternoon over many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 7.28AM/2.1M 8.46PM/2.2M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      30 4 Have you lived through or seen a retrenchment exercise? Was it badly managed or did the employers make the best of a difficult situation? Tell us your experience at http;//eyebalLasial.com.sg
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      65 7 O* Mi > \xz £immt Set D (For 8-10 Persons) Only sl BB.BB+ V>' Mint'd Appetizers Fried Aba lone Fish u'itb Chili Saace Thai Green Carry Pandan Chicken Fried Proton Tamarind Saace Chicken Casheio Nat Tom Yam Seafood Fried Mixed t/eaetab/e Jai Thai Restaurant #O2-251 Marina Square Opp Rasa Marina
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      28 8 Know more about US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a Cold War veteran with a “ruthless” view of the world, according to The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor. com/durable/2001/05/17/ fpls3-csm.shtml
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      140 9 matol tonic MATOL was created in CANADA in 1992 and made up of 13 herbs. MATOL is used for those with the following chronic discomforts: Chronic fatigue Pain in the joints Shortness of breath when climbing stairs Lack of appetite Irregular bowel movement Irregular blood circulation Backache Nausea Flatulence Skin
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      152 10 p c V.v Two $250 Japlo vouchers (Japlo is a leading brand of baby feeding accessories, apparel, toiletries and other baby products in United Kingdom.) r m ©y w*/; (A/ Just send us a non-returnable photograph of your baby (below 1 year old) and a birth announcement message of not
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon For a good cause
        71 14 AFP DORTMUND Uefa Cup final man-of-the-match Gary McAllister donated his US$3,OOO (555,400) cheque to breast cancer charities following his wife’s struggle with the disease. Scottish veteran McAllister scored from a penalty in Liverpool’s 5-4 win over Spanish side Alaves. The money will go to the McMillan
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      • Article
        Lock icon Tests positive
        33 14 Reuters MILAN- Dutch international Edgar Davids has been suspended by the Italian Football League for doping offences, Italian news agency Ansa reported yesterday. The Juventus midfielder’s suspension will take immediate effect.
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        Lock icon Agassi out
        36 14 Reuters HAMBURG-Third seed Andre Agassi followed other top players out of the Hamburg Masters yesterday after losing 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to Fabrice Santoro. Other seeds out include Marat Safin, Magnus Norman and Alex Corretja.
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        Lock icon 76ers prevail
        30 14 AP PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson scored 52 points as the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Toronto Raptors 121-88 yesterday to take a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference semi-finals series.
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      Lock icon Final hurdle for Reds
      436 14  -  With three Caps in the bag, Liverpool looks to Champions League’s spot By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg A NEW era dawned on Wednesday. Liverpool’s 5-4 Uefa Cup final win over Alaves confirmed what many already know: The Reds are going places next season. It also landed Liverpool
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      Lock icon Monty flounders as Tiger roars ahead
      335 14 A TALE OF TWO GOLFERS Lat-Wp LOS ANGELES While one is in the doldrums, the other is cruising just fine. Such are the contrasting fortunes of golfers Colin Montgomerie and Tiger Woods these days. Last weekend at the Belfry, Montgomerie topped his tee shot
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      128 14 SOCCER: The game bleeds red again. Liverpool pulled off a dramatic win over Spanish side Deportivo Alaves in the Uefa Cup final on Wednesday night. Get in on all the post-match reactions at http://www.liverpoolfc.tv MBA: So Shaq’s whining and Kobe Bryant is, well, just being Kobe. The Lakers
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    • TEAM REPORT CARD
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        Lock icon LAKERS
        116 15 LASERS OFFENCE: Shaq probably won’t get as many points as he did against the Kings, but he’ll still score in the high 20s. Kobe Bryant averages more than 30 a game against the Spurs. Lakers are also an outside shooting threat at times. RATING: A DEFENCE: Shaq will clog
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        138 15 SPURS OFFENCE: Twin Towers will get their points, and if Antonio Daniels plays as well as he did against the Mavs, it’ll be blowout time. Plus Derek Anderson (above) could return as soon as Game Four. RATING: A DEFENCE: Spurs own the best defence in the league, never mind
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      Lock icon PLAYOFF GRUDGE MATCH
      636 15 NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS It’s been called the ‘real NBA finals by coaches and players alike To get you ready for the best-of-seven heavyweight series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs, Eye Sport sets the stage and looks beyond the numbers. wmwmmmwmmhm Kobe
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      Lock icon Green is the colour of his rivals’ eyes
      690 16  -  Schumacher’s accomplishments made him a target of criticism By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg FOR Michael Schumacher, being the hunted is part and parcel of the territory that comes with the “best driver of his generation” title. But even he must be feeling the
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      Lock icon ON THE BOX THIS WEEKEND
      198 16 What: Leeds United vs Leicester City When: Live at 9.30 pm tomorrow (Football Channel, SCV Ch 22) Why bother: With nothing to show for the season, the final Champions League spot is everything for Leeds now. But don’t hold your breath because Leicester will probably
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      114 16 EyeOnJobs An established construction company at Sims A venue requires 1) QUANTITY SURVEYOR 2) ASSISTANT PC literate 0 2-3 years relevant working experience 0 Able to start work immediately 0 Bilingual in English Mandarin Interested, please fax to <<*****71>> Established IT Networking Company is expanding -and looking for the following
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      642 17 EyeOnJobs Opto Systems (S) Pte Ltd, having operations in Singapore, Malaysia, USA and India, is an IT solutions provider to Educational Institutions, Banking, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Telecommunications organisations. For our Singapore operations, we are mviting the applications for the following positions: IT PROJECT MANAGERS Responsibilities: To manage/lead the software projects
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Fish on the move
      905 18 A conveyor-belt sushi bar war is about to break out in Singapore. TAX DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) goes into the battlefield and checks out what the players have in their armoury. 0O THERE’S the lazy Susan. But who would’ve thought of putting food on a conveyor belt?
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    • Food
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        Lock icon THE BEST ON THE BELT
        341 19 WE tell you who’s got the best familiar favourites chawanmushi (steamed egg custard), salmon sashimi, soft-shell crabs and agedashi tofu (fried beancurd). Chawanmushi Kingyo, Ichiban Boshi Salmon sa shimi Sushi Tei, Genki Soft-shell crabs Sushi 77, Ichiban Boshi Agedashi tofu Honjin We also recommend their
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon Alsace’s in town
          107 20 GERMAN heartiness and French subtlety in food are brought together at Top Of The M, at Mandarin Hotel. Chef Pierre Mann will take you on “A Journey Into The Grandeur Of Alsace”, with authentic delights like traditional Alsace chocroute -a meat platter with sausage and cabbage. You
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        • Article
          Lock icon By Georges!
          129 20 RAY wings, periwinkles, gravlax and arctic char are not your usual food names. But if you are game, then head for Blue Lobster Restaurant’s inaugural Quebec Seafood Appreciation, with chef Georges Mamelonet. His cooking style is a combination of his rugged hobbies like diving, work in the navy
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        • Article
          Lock icon School of fine dining
          99 20  -  Lim Hui Ling HERE’S one place you can eat and learn. L’Ecole Gourmande, a new French restaurant in Far East Square, is literally translated as “School of Fine Dining” and French cooking classes are in the pipeline. The restaurant is the brainchild of the owners of
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Box of delights
        510 20 The decor is stylish and the cuisine innovative. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) gives Brownßox the culinary thumbs-up. Restaurant: Brownßox Where: 5 Kensington Park Road Telephone: 288 1452 Fax: 288 0294 Open: Daily at 11 am. Closes at 11 pm (Sundays to Thursdays) and midnight (Fridays, Saturdays and public
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        Lock icon SHOPPING CART
        225 20 Small Swensen’s tubs LOVE ice-cream but don’t want too much of the same flavour? Swensen’s offerings Cookies ’n’ Cream, Mocha Almond Fudge, Chocolate Chip Brownie and Ol’ Fashioned Vanilla Almond now come in one-pint tubs. While new addition Chocolate Chip Brownie tastes like the real thing with its
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    • The Tube
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        Lock icon STORY-TELLERS PLAY ANCHORS
        401 21 THE STRAITS TIMES’ freshlyforged tagteam of TV anchors prove they aren’t just your typical buttoned-up stiffs regurgitating pre-written scripts. Meet Money editor Paul Jansen and ex-Channel News Asia broadcast journo Michelle Quah. Mews bulletins are often perceived as boring and serious. How are yon going to change
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        Lock icon Bringing flair to the news
        639 21 Debuting on Monday, TV Works News promises to add spark to typically staid bulletins, thanks to anchors Elisabeth Qwee, Michelle Quah and Paul Jansen. JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) chats with the talking heads who are right on cue. N THIS reporter-as-celebrity age, it’s hardly incongruous that
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    • Music
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        Lock icon A new confidence revealed
        321 22  -  POP|ROCK Ronald Rajan REVEAL R.E.M. (Warner Brothers) EMERGING from a “difficult phase” the mediocre reception for their recent two efforts and the loss of drummer Bill Berry in 1997 Reveal sees R.E.M. ease into a new confidence with a collection of songs. Every track here crackles
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      • Article
        Lock icon OUT OF THE CLOSET
        436 22 FOR years, everyone was kept guessing about R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe’s sexuality. In a 1995 interview, he said with regards to the word “bisexual”: “I like sexuality without prefixes.” This week, the singer, who has been linked to Natalie Merchant and Courtney Love, came out of
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        Lock icon Screams sunshine
        830 23 POP|ROCK SCREAM IF YOU WANNA GO FASTER Geri Halliwell (EMI) ALL is unwell in Spice-ville these days. Having the last laugh it would seem is The Artist Formerly Known As Ginger, who showed foresight by bailing out of the Spice Girls before the band went down the sink.
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        Lock icon CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
        185 23  -  Ronald Rajan MARQUEE MOON Television (Elektra) TELEVISION’S 1977 album, Marquee Moon, can rightly be called revolutionary. But it’s a subtle, understated revolution. It’s a guitar album unlike any other listen to the interplay between Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd. Where their predecessors in the New
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        Lock icon DESERT ISLE PICKS
        69 23 ADRIAN PANG (left) TV Works artiste Songs Zn The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder: I think Stevie’s voice is What heaven must surely sound like. Older by George Michael: It’s an ideal record for when you’re feeling depressed. Sign O’ The Times by Prince: This is
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      34 18 X Catch Hanjin’s chef Francis Loo in action at http^/eyeball. asial.com.sg What does your sushi say about you? Pick your favourite sushi off the cyber conveyor belt at http://www. astprince.com/english/ sushi/indexe.html to find out.
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      173 19 WINES ON S Savour a complimentary glass of Robert's Rock wine to complement our South /African Mother's Day Sunday Braai (BBQ) buffet. Robert's Rock wines, a big hit in South /Africa, are specially blended for easy drinking. This Sunday at African Heartbeat, gratify yourself with more African gastronomy and surprises.
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      265 24 Chat Mouse Don’t do it THE head of a small industrial company posted Do It Now signs all around his office and plant in hopes of getting better results from his workers. Just a few days later, he was seen hastily taking down the signs. When asked why he was
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      Lock icon All that glitters
      284 24 DIAMONDS were out-sparkled by Czech model Adriana Shlenarikova (seated in the centre) at a charity dinner in Cannes on Wednesday, reports The Sun tabloid. The Wonderbra stunner sported a 145-carat necklace with 132 diamonds worth £1 million (552.5 million) on the Majestic Hotel’s beach during the presentation
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon B’day musings
        183 24 HOLLYWOOD’S most enduring sex symbol would have turned 75 on June 1 if she had not died of a fatal drug overdose in August 1962. And the latest game in Tinseltown, reports Reuters, is trying to picture what Marilyn Monroe (above) would have been like if she were
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        Lock icon No kidding
        69 24 Liz Burley’s boyfriend Steve Bing has won damages from The Daily Mail in a libel suit. According to ananova.com, the libellous article was called “The murky past of Hurley’s new lover”, and detailed how he used his bachelor pad for sex romps between movie big shots and call
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