Project Eyeball, 14 June 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball,asial,com,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Thursday, June 14, 2001 80 CENTS
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      321 1 HEW, CHUA KANG Logon to eyehaU.asial.com.sg to get the news and give your views in our INTERACTIVE web special on local politics. Find out: > Who’s contesting which wards in GE 2001/2 > What’s happening to politics in cyberspace > What Netizens are saying Did you ive t 0... -3
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon QUICKIE
      96 2 IN THE end, Superman didn’t marry Lois Lane but Marcella Encinas. Dressed in a Superman costume, Scott Cranford, 33, an actor from Glendale, California, exchanged vows with his bride in an outdoor ceremony at the Superman Festival in Metropolis, Illinois. “Every little girl has dreamed of a Superman of
      Mik Zarzuela  -  96 words
    • Article
      Lock icon ‘Take the long view’
      333 2 PM Goh offers this advice to US businessmen regarding China Wires WASHINGTON Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has a word of advice for the US administration “take the long view” on China. Addressing diplomats and American businessmen on Tuesday night at the annual US-Asean Business Council
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Largest NDP display ever
        88 2 THIS year’s National Day Parade’s Mass Display will have the largest number of participants ever. Some 3,600 people will entertain spectators with their fancy footwork and props. Fireworks of smiling faces, the largest LED screen and globe seen so far and a giant 3D balloon bridge
        Law Kian Yan  -  88 words
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        Lock icon SM Lee: S’pore must find niches
        94 2 IN BEIJING yesterday, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that Singapore must continue to find new niches in the global economy to remain competitive. Addressing reporters at the end of his six-day official visit to China, SM Lee said that, in another 50 years,
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      • Article
        Lock icon 4 people missing from oil tanker
        167 2 FOUR crew members of the Singapore-registered Heng San oil tanker were missing yesterday after it sank off India’s west coast following an explosion on board. The captain of the 3,500-tonne tanker, who was among the 38 survivors, said it was not carrying any cargo
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      • Article
        Lock icon 90% pass acupuncture exam
        47 2 THE first Acupuncture Appraisal conducted between June 1 and June 3 saw a pass rate of over 90 per cent or 279 examinees. A mere 22 failed. The exercise was organised by an examinations committee appointed by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners’ Board.
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      Lock icon Renal disease patients may get more help
      260 2  -  Denyse Yeo HERE’S a piece of good news for those suffering from end-stage renal disease: The Health Ministry is looking into ways to help Singaporeans pay for the high cost of preventing and treating the condition. Among the measures being considered is one
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      289 3 WASHINGTON North Korea, responding to overtures from the Bush administration, has agreed to talks in New York on Wednesday with US special envoy Jack Pritchard. He will meet Li Hyong Choi, the North Korean permanent representative to the UN, to make arrangements for bilateral talks. JAKARTA Indonesia’s Attorney-General
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    • Article
      Lock icon Did the Earth move?
      270 3 Nasa has delicate plan to save planet LONDON Earth getting too hot? Not a problem, say Nasa scientists. Throw a few comets at the planet and its orbit will be altered, spinning it into a safer, colder part of the solar system. The National Aeronautics and
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      Lock icon Stuck in the middle
      47 3 A motorist being helped out of his car on a flooded street in Tallahassee, Florida, on Tuesday after the state was lashed by Tropical Storm Allison. The storm has been rumbling through America’s southern states, killing 30 people, including nine in Florida. AP
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    • Article
      Lock icon US firm told to pay for birth control
      176 3 Wires NEW YORK A company in the US has been found guilty of sexual discrimination because it did not include birth control in its comprehensive health plan for employees. The class-action lawsuit, filed by Jennifer Erickson, a 27-year-old pharmacist at Bartell Drug
      – Wires  -  176 words
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      Lock icon Tugging at our heartstrings
      255 4 ELEPBANT WOMAN Mdm S Revathy from Malaysia was afflicted with elephantiasis causing her right leg to swell and turn scaly which was reported by The New Paper in April 1997. Her husband, the sole breadwinner, earned RM$6OO (Ss2Bs) a month. Singaporeans donated $54,550 to finance her
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Not another hat passed around
        728 4  -  Is S’pore’s generosity being exploited? By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg A FEW months ago, Shirley Lee and her husband donated $2OO to help pay for the medical bills for Nepalese twins Ganga and Jamuna, who were joined at the head. “I felt very sorry for
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Private operators eye feeder routes
        582 5  -  They claim they can even bring down the fare By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IF YOU think operating feeder buses is not profitable and it’s necessary to charge passengers more, then leave it to us. That was the challenge thrown by private bus operators at Singapore
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        Lock icon Clean up your act, women
        517 6  -  Number of female litterbugs on the rise By Suzanne Ong local@eyeball.com.sg ANY coincidence that along with the growing number of female smokers is an increasing number of female litterbugs? According to statistics released by the Ministry of Environment (ENV) yesterday, the percentage of women sentenced
        Chia Yuen Che  -  517 words
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        Lock icon Caltex ad pokes fun at competitor
        250 6  -  PETROL PRICE WAR LIGHTENS UP Eugene Wee THE petrol price war along Upper Thomson Road just became amusing. Caltex is now offering a 6 per cent discount on petrol sales, but what adds a dash of spice to the whole affair is the wording
        Emmanuel Khong  -  250 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Most workers do their surfing at home
        347 6  -  Steven Ng FROM the looks of things, significantly more Singaporeans are logging on to the Internet at home, rather than at their workplaces. But a straw poll of executives by Eyeball yesterday found that that isn’t because their bosses are keeping a close
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Filipinos want Abu Sayyaf ‘flattened’
        696 7 Newspapers back Arroyo’s words to meet ‘fire with fire’ Wires “Are the Filipinos really so dispensable that it would take an American to get the government to move?” BENTWISDOM a poster on the discussion forum of The Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA The Filipinos are ready
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        Lock icon Cost-cutting is trashing Aussie heritage
        160 7 AP CANBERRA Australia may be halfway through its year-long celebration marking the centenary of its federation, but heritage experts slammed state and federal governments for trashing important pieces of Australian history in the name of cost-cutting. “There is a crisis in the conservation and presentation
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        Lock icon Keadilan leader ‘quizzed on sex’
        311 7 DETAINEE CLAIMS KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian opposition leader recently released from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) claimed he was interrogated for hours about his alleged sexual encounters with various women and not on allegations that he was plotting to topple the government. Keadilan
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        Lock icon Bush gives himself a pat on the back
        323 8 Optimistic about selling missile defence plan to Europe Wires BRUSSELS US President George W Bush gave himself the thumbs up yesterday, saying he is “making good progress” in convincing Nato allies in Europe on the need for his controversial missile defence shield
        – Wires; Reuters  -  323 words
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        Lock icon KOIZUMI: ‘NO’ TO US
        130 8 Reuters TOKYO In a move that could strain normally good ties with the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday refused to back American policies on global warming and missile defence. Koizumi’s unusually frank criticism of key US policies comes ahead of his first summit
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        Lock icon TROUBLE IN PARADISE
        152 8 American 20-somethings have too idealised and romantic views oj marriage, that could cause such unions c to fail, said a survey released yesterday by Rutgers p University. 94 per cent of single Americans in their 20s said they would most like to marry their soulmates. Only 42
        Mik Zarzuela  -  152 words
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        Lock icon US plans for a lean, mean strike force
        340 8 COMBINED SERVICES NYT WASHINGTON The United States military of the future should be a new combined service strike force that can deploy to global trouble spots in a single day, gain control over war zones in four days and achieve victory within
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    • Technology
      • Article
        Lock icon HOW NELSON’S CYBER-SCAM WORKS
        151 9 NELSON works hard to turn auction-site ratings systems against the sites themselves. He usually snares victims by using fake log-in names and gradually generates a positive rating from other auction users, the standard sign of a trustworthy auctioneer. For example, in his most recent scam, he
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        Lock icon Conman strikes auction sites
        865 9 Fugitive now on US most wanted list ON THE Internet auction circuit, Jay Nelson is the undisputed “public enemy No 1”, say US federal authorities. He’s duped thousands of eßay and Yahoo auction bidders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past two years,
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        Lock icon Colour me beautiful
        759 11  -  Steven Ng Jared Tham Nobody buys black-and-white TV sets any more, so why should you settle for personal digital assistants with monochrome displays? Eyeball checks out two handhelds that come with screens screaming colour, colour, colour. Bright young thing with a price to match LET’S not kid
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    • Business
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        Lock icon UOB may bid for Keppel Cap
        815 12  -  Options widen as S’pore’s second-largest bank considers joining fray By Francis Kan fransick@sph.com.sg THE news should be music to the ears of Keppel Capital Holdings’ shareholders. United Overseas Bank (UOB), Singapore’s second largest, said yesterday that it was considering a bid for the island’s
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        Lock icon MOM warns of more lay-offs
        304 12  -  MAY OUTSTRIP LAST YEAR’S FIGURES By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE coming months are likely to be worse as far as retrenchment is concerned that’s the prognosis from the Ministry of Manpower. Still, the overall retrenchment figure for the year is expected to be far short
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        Lock icon What could unfold next
        260 12 Here s a look at the most likely scenarios that are likely to play out in the war for Keppel Cap Scenario 1: OCBC manages to secure at least 50 per cent acceptances from Keppel Cap shareholders. Some analysts say that enough Keppel Cap shareholders will
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    • Mailbox
      • E-Male ADDRESS
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          Lock icon Hey, what about me?
          725 13  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg REPEAT after me foreign talent is gooooooood. And the Government has made no bones about the need to attract them to our fair isle to keep the nation’s economy ahead of the pack. In an interview on the PAP’s newly launched website,
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      • Article
        Lock icon No need to pay if police is efficient
        276 13 ‘Ransom paid, hubby safe, questions raised’ (June 12) JENNY YEO, 42, wife of the most recent Singaporean kidnap victim in the Philippines, is not prepared to accept any blame for encouraging the kidnappers. Although she took matters into her own hands and
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      • Eyeballing THE NET
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          Lock icon Suck, Feed, die, dream
          976 14  -  By Michael Dwyer mdwyer@sph.com.sg ON AUGUST 28,1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared Kuwait the 19th province of Iraq. Exactly five years later, the first Suck (http://www.suck.com) column appeared. Just shy of six years later, it’s all over for Suck, while Saddam is still President albeit without
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      51 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 Fax 734-3017 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5461 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5807 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5864 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5832 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5815 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription fax line 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      22 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder in the afternoon affecting most areas. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 3.41AM/2.4M 5.43PM/2.1M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      281 5 Should private bus operators be given a chance to see if they can cope with providing feeder-bus services in one housing estate? Or should feeder services be made open for tender? Will service standards slip? Tell us at http://eyeball.asial.com.sg •M ill Point, Click Flush! www.env.gov.sg/cleanloo *»>.*■*> Ist prize 2nd prize
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      32 9 < For more on Nelson’s trail of scams: http://publ6.bravenet. com/forum/show.asp? usernum=l344sBl44s A bulletin board set up by Nelson’s victims. http://www.geocities. com/ihamstead/fraud list.html A tote board of how much he has cheated people of.
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Hole-by-hole guide to Southern Hills
      682 15 Sources: USGA, Southern Hills Country Club The US Open tees off today, and not surprisingly the hot favourite is Tiger Woods, the defending champion who is making a hid for an unprecedented fifth major in a row. Let Eye Sport be your caddy as we
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Campbell snubs Liverpool brass
      398 16 Hotspur’s ace defender stays away from transfer talks Wires LONDON Tottenham Hotspur’s hotly sought-after defender Sol Campbell has delivered an amazing snub to Liverpool he didn’t show up for transfer talks yesterday, according to The Sun newspaper. Campbell’s move has given renewed hope to his other
      – Wires; AFP  -  398 words
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      Lock icon Jazz won’t pay tax to keep Stockton
      298 16 TEAM OWNER FIRM AP SALT LAKE CITY After 17 years of being loyal, it might just be time for John Stockton’s love affair with the Utah Jazz to end. Though team owner Larry Miller wants the guard back, he won’t pay a luxury
      – AP; AFP  -  298 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      137 16 COLT: The US Open starts today. For a look at what’s happening from the previews to interesting nuggets about the players, the caddies and the condition of the course, go to http://www.golfdigest. com/images/US_open/ usopen.html MBA: We’ve been hearing all about how the Philadelphia 76ers have the biggest hearts
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Newey stays
        143 16 Reuters LONDON Jaguar and McLaren have settled their dispute over top Formula One designer Adrian Newey, who will stay with the McLaren racing team. “Jaguar Racing and McLaren are pleased to announce an amicable resolution in respect of the future employment of Adrian Newey, who will remain at
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        Lock icon English advance
        99 16 Wires LONDON A strong showing by English dubs in Europe iast season will mean that four dubs will gain entry into the Uefa Champions League for the 2002-03 competition, reported Soccernet. The progress made by Arsenal, Manchester United and Leeds United in last season’s Champions League and Liverpool’s
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  • Unwind
    • Clubbing
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Toasts of Shanghai
        1075 17 Singapore s night scene is migrating as more club 1m owners are setting up shop in China. KARL HO 11 (karl@sph.com.sg) travelled to Shanghai and found its nightlife infused with Singaporean blood. F THE Shanghai Raffles sounds like a pub you might find in the North Bridge
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        Lock icon HAPPY OURS: ARE THESE CLUBS IN SINGAPORE OR SHANGHAI?
        387 18 Eyeball showcases the Singaporean nightclubs in Shanghai: Storm of Shanghai Fifth-seventh floor, Metro City, 1111 Zhao Jia Bang Road The 45,000 sq ft site opened by Peter Wong, Storm of Shanghai is double the size of its sister club in Singapore,
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      • Night HAWK
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          Lock icon Perera moves to Zouk, but not selling out
          343 19  -  Karl Ho BRENDON PERERA, a veteran DJ renowned for his uncompromising musical vision and resident of now-defunct techno club Nox, is joining Zouk. Approached by the super club last month, Perera, 35, inked the deal yesterday evening. He will start manning the
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        Lock icon Getting high on Shanghai
        529 19 With its vibrant neon-lit nightscape, reckless cabs, svelte women and m ultitude of clubs, Shanghai looks set to become the New York of the East. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) takes his picks. T’S a case of too many clubs and too little time you’d find everything from
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    • Movies
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        Lock icon Qame raiders
        971 20 Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within will be hitting cinemas in rapid succession this summer. More game-to-screen projects are in development for the next few years. Why this up-trend? And whaTs next? nr .aba CHOW clarac@sph.com.sg) feels for the joystick on her cinema seat. N THE
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      • Cyber SNITCH
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          Lock icon Cast your own movie
          90 20 EVER wanted to be a Hollywood film producer? At http://www.fantasyfilmleagu e.com, you can. The site lets you pick a director and six stars for your own film. Your cast makes money if one appears in an actual film that makes it to the American or British
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        • Article
          Lock icon Movie diet requirements
          76 20 TRYING to keep away from buttered popcorn at the cinema? Well, for a different kind of munch, surf to Cinema Nutrition, at http://www.needcoffee.com/ html/cn.html. Here, you’ll find quirky labels quantifying how much, say, romance, action or Mel Gibson butt-shots a movie contains. Need a sampling? Charlie’s Angels
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          Lock icon Cliche for every occasion
          86 20 June Wan HAVE a giggle at tired old movie conventions you’ve seen hundreds of times at http://www.moviecliches.com/. Enthusiastic contributors have packed this site with celluloid cliches. For example, have you ever marvelled at how actors seem to be able to play many musical instruments especially wind
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        Lock icon FROM COMPUTER SCREEN TO BIG SCREEN
        217 21 RESIDENT EVIL Based on: Capcom’s gruesome series about a zombie-infested mansion and the task force that gets stranded in it. Who: Directed by Paul Anderson (Soldier, Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon) Starring: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez and Eric Mabius Budget: US$4O million (Ss72 million) Locations:
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        Lock icon NOW STREAMING
        236 21 June Wan STAR Guy Ritchie Time: 6 min 56 sec http://www.bmwfilms.com/ POSSIBLY the most anticipated of BMW’s filmlets, this is helmed by hot Brit director Guy Ritchie (Snatch) and stars his queen-of-pop wife, Madonna. The funniest of the series so far, The Driver (Clive Owen) encounters his most
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      • Out ON DISC
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          Lock icon BEST IN SHOW
          93 22 Parker Posey, Michael Hitchcock, Catherine O'Hara, John Michael Higgins $19.90 (VCD) POSSIBLY the funniest dog-umentary ever released. This microcosm of American life as seen through the lens of satirist Christopher Guest draws seven dog owners and their pooches together for the prestigious Mayflower Kennel Club’s annual dog
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          Lock icon THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER
          86 22 Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Holly Hunter $19.90 (VCD) “ONLY a fool would speculate about the life of a woman,” Diaz’s character states, so this, perhaps, is that insight into a woman’s psyche that any man should watch, if given
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          Lock icon THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
          101 22 June Wan Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum $19.90 (VCD) A MUST for fans of war movies. Though made in 1944, this docu-drama evokes the grittiness of the legendary World War II American bombing raid over Japan with almost surreal realism. America’s attempt to give Japan
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Is this Disney?
        744 22  -  Jeanmarie Tan Reuters NO MUSICAL NUMBERS NO TALKING ANIMALS NO CUTE SIDEKICKS Disney executives have axed the singalong music scores, the cute sidekicks, and the warbling warthogs with its latest release, Atlantis: The Lost Empire. This season, they’re going full steam ahead on adventure, JILL SERJEANT reports.
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    • Arts Fest
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        Lock icon Fresh grandeur for old story
        530 23 The breathtaking epic Shang Tang sweeps into town boasting grand costumes and sets, fine acting and directing, and a story that brought Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji close to tears. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports. 0HANG YANG is not one of China’s longest running plays for
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        Lock icon FESTIVAL PROFILES
        353 23  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg Who: Musica Ficta, an ensemble that plays Spanish Renaissance music on replicas of 16th to 18th century instruments, since humidity and wear and tear have rendered original instruments almost unplayable. The name of the ensemble comes from the ambiguity, or “fictitiousness” of scores,
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      37 23 The Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre performs a light-hearted comedy, www.com on June 15 and 16, 8 pm at Kallang Theatre. Tickets are $l6, $22, $32 from Sistic (348 5555). June 15 show sold out. Length: 2 hrs.
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  • The Back Page
    • Chat & Mouse
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        Lock icon Dead-serious about football
        214 24 BOB received a free ticket to the World Cup finals from his company. Unfortunately, when Bob arrived at the stadium he realised the seat was in the last row in the corner of the stadium. He was closer to the blimp than the field! About halfway through
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      • Article
        Lock icon This son isn’t chicken
        107 24 THE farmer’s son was returning from the market, with the crate of chickens his father had entrusted to him, when all of a sudden the box fell and broke open. Chickens scurried off in different directions, but the determined boy walked all over the neighborhood scooping
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      Lock icon New comedy series cleared to take off
      127 24 A MADE-IN-SINGAPORE English sitcom will debut on the television screens come July 1. MediaCorp’s new Channel 5 offering, Now Boarding, will be set against the misadventures of the unusual crew of Air Connections —a fictional struggling South-east Asian Airline. Inflight entertainment will be
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      Lock icon Can Jet Li kick butt as a comedic actor?
      165 24 ACTION star Jet Li is set to take a comedic turn in the Big Apple after agreeing to play a Tibetan monk who wins a trip to New York, Daily Variety reports. The trade paper said Li dreamed up the idea
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Survivor: Africa casting completed
        61 24 CASTING for the next round of Survivor is a done deal. The final interviews to determine the next group of 16 castaways for Survivor: Africa have ended. With only 50 out of the 50,000-plus who applied invited to Los Angeles for the final interviews. Survivor 3
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        Lock icon Meanwhile...
        130 24 Wires FORMER Charmed star Shannen Doherty really leads a charmed life. She escaped jail after pleading no contest to drunk-driving charges. Instead, Judge Charles Campbell agreed to let her work off the time by speaking at teen centres and meetings for Mothers Against Drunk Driving in the Los Angeles
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