The Straits Times, 28 December 2003

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  • 20 1 thesundaytimes December 28, 2003 •90 Pages in three parts MITA (P) 032/03/2003 3^~ A Singapore Press Holdings publication DO cents
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  • 495 1  -  Arlina Arshad TOP OF THE NEWS MAID abuse cases have made headlines again this year, but abuse is not a major problem here and employers generally treat their maids well, going by a Sunday Times poll of 284 maids. While one in six say
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  • 216 2 home Timing his exit An upbeat Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong says he will decide on the date of his political departure after the first quarter of next year. PAGE 4 Strong opinions Former president Wee Kim Wee, 88, speaks his mind in his book called Glimpses And Reflections.
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  • 50 2 Moral fables Real-life stones on problems faced by people purchasing financial products and services and tips on avoiding such pitfalls. PAGE 17 Home sweet office Singaporeans are wanning up to the idea of working from home. Nearly 7,300 applications to set up home offices have been approved. PAGE 19
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  • 47 2 Small but powerful Does Qatar's wildly successful Arabic satellite television station Al- Jazeera purvey news or fan the fury of Arabs? PAGE 23 Democracy doomed? One of Britain's leading political thinkers, Prof John Keane, holds forth on why the days of democracy are numbered. PAGE 27
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  • 80 2 Scholes speaks out He's the strong, silent type who likes to let his feet do the talking. But Paul Scholes finally has something to say now. PAGE 28 Price of success Chinese centre Yao Ming and the Houston Rockets are learning the hard way about the grind of playing
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  • 30 2 No flash in the pan Despite the controversy camera phones have engendered, there's a new model out every day. A look at some of the snazzy stuff. PAGE 36
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  • 24 2 Meeting up Launched last year, Meetup.com has become the Internet's latest "It Girl", drawing nearly a million Meetuppers from 604 cities. PAGE 38
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  • 29 2 Daredevil drivers Every year, some 9,000 to 11,000 teenagers take driving tests and about half of them pass. But some youngsters give others a bad name. PAGE 39
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    145 2 Versatile veteran Activist, career woman, wife, mother and grandmother, Anamah Tan handles it all with panache. PAGE 40 Out in the cold W v-nud tnm non China, yearning to be "cool", could do with taking a leaf out of Japan's book, which has a real indigenous culture of cool.
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  • 77 2 lifestyle The fall guys Stunt men are the guys who take the knocks for actors. But the exhibitionist in them loves the chance to do what others can't. PAGE L2 Seriously funny Unlike the happy-go-lucky comedy characters she often plays, Hong Kong singer-actress Miriam Yeung is a tough cookie.
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  • 21 2 Out of joint Ageing, active athletes rarely escape boomeritis, or painful degenerative knee complaints that affect baby boomers. PACE 113
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  • 23 2 Food city Ho Chi Minh City is evolving into a gourmet's paradise with the innovations and adaptations of young Vietnamese chefs. PAGELI6
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  • 27 2 Retro makeover On trying dad's toiletries for a week, just to see whether the modern young man can still feel sleek and sexy using them. PAGEL3I
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      • 69 3 A TRANSIT passenger at Changi Airport had his stay in Singapore extended after he was caught stealing a pair of designer sunglasses on Christmas Day. Italian Libonati Andrea, 38, was fined $1,000 yesterday at a magistrate's court after he admitted helping himself to a pair of Gucci sunglasses
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      • 46 3 TWO women had their wallets stolen from their bags while they were shopping in separate incidents on Friday. A woman shopping at Marina Square discovered her wallet containing $300 missing. The second woman, who was shopping in Waterloo Street, lost her wallet containing $50.
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      • 49 3 A WOMAN riding pillion on a motorcycle and a lorry driver are in critical condition after getting hurt in separate The woman was flung off the motorcycle when it went out of control on Cavenagh Road. In the other accident, the lorry went out of control along
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    • 706 3  - This IQ has nothing to do with brains Arlina Arshad Parents cry foul, saying Abbott misleads buyers by using the term to refer to 'intestinal quality' of milk powder 'It's unethical that the company prsjs on parents' kiasuisfti. 10 is a commotf term that refers to intelligence quotient. Abbott is
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    • 536 4  -  K C Vijayan DESMOND WEE IT BEGAN as a brazen kidnapping a masked man walked into a house during a Christmas party, grabbed a seven-year-old girl and drove off. He and his accomplice released the girl an hour later and demanded a $1 million
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    • 221 4 SINGAPORE Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been named by Newsweek as one of the faces to watch in 2004. He is also on the cover of the weekly news magazine, which has named 11 other people who it thinks will "shape
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    • 596 4  -  M Nirmala PM Goh says he will decide on retirement date after the first quarter of 2004 AFTER predicting that the economy would grow faster next year, an upbeat Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said he would decide after the first
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    • 151 4 No removal from NCMP post 'He has shot himself in the foot, so he has to repair the damage he has done to himself. It is something I do not want to comment on and I leave it entirely to him to resolve. It is a matter
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      746 6 Long hours and no day off but it's not as bad as it sounds, say most maids Arlfna Arshad THEY work 15-hour days and half of them never get a day off. Sounds like maids in Singapore, get a really raw deal, until you speak to some
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    • 458 6  -  Arlina Arshad WHEN Filipino maid Mitogen Bermudez, 34, hears of maids being abused by their employers, she feels sad. But she also counts her lucky stars. She has been working for Mrs Margaret Tan, 50, and her family for four years and has
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      819 7  -  Li Xueying Arlina Arshad An increasing number of people are giving love a second chance as remarriage becomes more acceptable and 1 don't want to fail a second timeso l y m putting in more effort into this marriage/ -Mr E.L.Khoo THE morning after Mr Oh Teng
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    • 707 8  -  ONG CHIN K A I Wee Kim Wee laments erosion of Asian values and 'toothless' UN Li Xueying SINGAPOREANS who know former president Wee Kim Wee as a soft-spo-ken and graciously avuncular head of state may be surprised by his strong opinions on subjects close
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    • 265 8 REVELLERS looking to ring in 2004 at the Padang now have to look for alternative party plans. Countdown (_> Padang 2004 has been cancelled, according to an ad placed by its organisers, TES Entertainment, in The New Paper yesterday. When contacted at
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    • 423 9  - Making a scene at the movies Arlina Arshad WANG HUI FEN Not S'pore cinema-goers, who suffer in silence as our reporter acts up PHOTO: I WENT to five movies recently and made a nuisance of myself talking on my mobile phone, rustling my bag of chips, and even resting my
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    • 728 10  - Meet the friendly debt collector Lorna Tan No hardball tactics, says Jayaseelan, who tries to help debtors find a solution 1 tell them we are here to help.. J go with a smile, not with a stern face, and try to he a friend/ Mr Jay as«elan HE IS 29,
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      829 12 20,000 DEAD IRAN QUAKE Rescue workers race against time to save residents trapped under rubble; death toll is likely to mount BAM (Iran) INTERNATIONAL rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam yesterday after an earthquake which killed
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    • 332 12 BAGHDAD TWO Thai soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack in southern Iraq yesterday, amid a massive and coordinated wave of attacks by insurgents which killed six coalition soldiers and six Iraqi police officers. The two Thai servicemen were the first casualties suffered by
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    • 268 13 Suspected Sars case in China has sent specialists to conduct more tests on him. Dr Lam added that Guangdong officials notified Hong Kong on Friday evening and followed up with formal advice yesterday. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday it wants a lab outside China to verify the case.
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    • 370 13  -  Mary Kwang 'Oh, I have not heard of the suspected case. Everything is normal here/ Mf Pane Xlaeyan, an office executive in Guangzhou HONG KONG CORRESPONDENT A PATIENT in a Guangzhou hospital is suspected of having contracted Sars, sparking fresh
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    • 150 13 Investors unfazed by mad-cow case ON THE STREET NEW YORK US STOCKS drifted higher in an abbreviated postholiday session on Friday as investors shrugged off fears about the mad-cow disease in the United States. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 19.48 points or 0.19 per cent to 10,324.67 while the
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      • 29 14 AN INDONESIAN army tank rammed a public minibus in Central Java yesterday, killing 18 people and injuring at least five others, police said. AP
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      • 40 14 NORTH Korea has agreed to take part in a new round of six- way talks on its nuclear programme early next year, said Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday after returning from Pyongyang. AFP
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      • 34 14 A BANKRUPTCY court declared Parmalat insolvent yesterday and the group's founder Calisto Tanzi was called for questioning as the authorities widened a fraud probe at Italy's biggest food firm. Reuters
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      • 27 14 IRAQI Shi'ite clerics have called for a boycott of French products in protest at Paris' move to ban Islamic headscarves from schools. AFP
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      • 45 14 A LORRY ploughed into a group of 30 motorcyclists taking shelter from rain under a highway flyover near Kualq&jampur, killing fourpeople and injuring seven, news reports said yesterday. Passers-by handed over the driver, a 32-year-old Malaysian, to the police. AP
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      • 46 14 ONE more sign the technology sector is rebounding: An Internet domain name is again commanding seven figures. A Florida man recently sold men.com for US$l.3 million (552.2 million), a healthy profit over the US$l5,OOO he paid for it in 1997. AP
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      • 39 14 EUROPEAN Space Agency officials said a third attempt has failed to make contact with the Beagle 2 probe that went missing after it was supposed to have landed on Mars on Christmas Reuters
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    • 542 14  -  Goh Sui Noi No danger of a new blow-out, says expert as death toll rises to 198 CHINA BUREAU BEIJING A GAS well that burst spewing deadly gases in south-western China was successfully capped yesterday morning even as the death toll rose to 198.
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    • 20 14 SURVIVORS and state media gave harrowing accounts of the disaster that killed nearly 200 and poisoned thousands in south-west China.
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    • 122 14 MS TANG Xiaoying, who lived 300m from the gas field, lost nine family members, including her five-year-old daughter, the Chongqing Economic Times reported. She was quoted as saying she had just put her children to bed when she smelled the gas and heard neighbours shouting
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    • 83 14 Lucky escape for farmer who fled FARMER Xiao Ninghu, 33, was among the fortunate ones who survived the disaster. All eight members of his family escaped from the village of Nongya. He said that as they fled, pigs and chickens lay dead in their farmhouse yard. "I heard a roaring
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    • 155 14 XIAOYANG village, identified as the community closest to the mine, was apparently the most devastated, with 90 per cent ofthe people who lived there reported as dead, including many entire families. Not far away, in the town of Zhonghe, some 600 people had to be
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    • 42 14 A MERCHANT in one of the 28 affected villages, Xiaoyang, was credited with saving 400 people, piling residents into his truck and carrying them away from the gas in 20 trips, Chongqing Economic Times reported.
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    • 368 14 Fishermen chased from Pedra Branca during storm: KL KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA has expressed concern over an incident in which the Singapore authorities had reportedly prevented its fishermen from taking refuge on Pedra Branca during a storm on Dec 21. In a statement issued to Bernama yesterday, the Foreign Ministry said
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    • 616 15 Christopher Tan A SCENE in the sci-fi thriller Minority Report shows a cityscape of mega-skyscrapers several kilometres high served by individualised mag-lev lifts. While that remains in the realm of imagination, the world's largest maker of lifts told The Sunday Times it has
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    • 288 15 LONDON NORWArs birth rates have stopped declining since the introduction of generous paternity leave four years ago. The country leads the way in Europe in terms of benefits for new fathers. They get four weeks of paid leave after their baby
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    • 747 15 Daddy's home for you, baby With the birth rate at a new low. Britain mulls over paternity leave to encourage couples to have kids Alfred Lee LONDON MR JACK O'SULLIVAN was over the moon when his wife, Hester, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy a year ago. Like all
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    • 596 16 JACKO: It's okay to share bed with children But I would rather slit my wrists than hurt them, says star facing nine charges NEW YORK MICHAEL Jackson, who is facing child molestation charges, says he still thinks it is acceptable to share his bed with children, but he would rather
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      • 169 17 Ignatius Low DEPUTY MONEY EDITOR THE United Convertible Bond Fund is one ofthe more interesting launches the market has seen in recent times. That's because as its name implies it allows investors to invest in convertible bonds. These bonds give investors the
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      • 26 17 According to the fund managers, investors can expect a targeted annual income distribution of 2 per cent per annum, in addition to potential capital gains.
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      1281 17 One slip may cost you an investment. If you're thinking about buying a financial product or service, do your homework and ask all the right questions Lorna Tan WITH the liberalisation ofthe financial sector resulting in an aggressive roll-out of new financial products and services, consumers are spoilt for
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    • 259 18 Step 1: Resolve your problem with the financial institution first Give the financial institution a chance to sort out your problem. Speak directly to the staff who attended to you, call customer helpline, write a letter to the quality service
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    • 629 18  -  Lorna Tan Tough questions to get you more bang for your buck FINANCIAL advisers are no longer the stereotypical product pushers of the past. Instead, they must satisfy a whole myriad of expectations along with adhering to new legislative standards in providing advice to
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    • 113 19 Crescent Road Location: Semi-detached houses at 12M and 12N Orescent Road, off Katong Road Tenure: Freehold UnK Sizes: Land area of 2,282 sq ft (12M) and 2,293 so ft (12N) Price: $1.95 million (12M) and $2.05 million (12N) Developer. Papageno Investment The Greenwood Location: Terrace houses at Greenwood Crescent,
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      71 19 'Lucky for me, I don't need a car for my business. I have an understanding family and a roof over our heads. That's all we need/ MR SHAKIEB AL JOHARY, who set up his online sates business at his HOB executive flat in Pasir Ris because it gives him
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    • 536 19  - Singaporeans warm up to HOME WORK Vladimir Guevarra More than 7 f ooo applications to set up offices at home have been approved since scheme was launched in June; 'freedom' and home-cooked meals among benefits cited SINGAPOREANS are warming up to the idea of working from home, if official figures
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    • 321 19 Irena Josoeb THE garden of this 2V_ -storey, freehold semi-detached house has been paved so there is room to park two cars. The six-year-old house and garden has been renovated three times in the past three years for $500,000. The works included covering
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    • 382 22 YOUR PERSONAL ADVISER 0 HAVE been pressed by creditors day in and day out, almost every single day, and regardless of the time of the day. I have also received calls at my workplace. I have got calls at home even at 11pm, on holidays and once,
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    • 531 22  -  NICHOLAS FANG THE SAVVY INVESTOR I've actually learnt a lot from Warren Buff ett in that I try to look for good companies that do simple things and make sure that I understand what they do/ Mr Robertson {left) WITH Mr Montgomery, who nurtured his
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    • 289 22 MUST READ CRASHPROOF YOUR LIFE By Thomas Schweich 295 pages Available at the National Library Ref no: 332.024 SCH-[BIZ] AN UNEXPECTED event such as illness or retrenchment can wipe out your savings if you are not prepared for it. Lawyer Thomas Schweich shows you how to
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    • 287 22 MONEY MANAGEMENT FOR THE CREATIVE PERSON By Lee Silber 333 pages Available at the National Library Ref no: 332.***** SIL-[BIZ] WHEN I took this book off the shelf, I expected a typical financial management book filled with ideas on what to do with your money,
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    • 92 23 A politician took pictures of himself in the bun. Okay, he also got his maid to pose as a model. But what's the outcry about? Can't a non-constituency MP be an amateur photographer and nudist in his spare time? Yes, the wife raised objections. She had had
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    • 91 23 Mao zedongttnow a managsment guru. His rather vag«e ashohsms, which branded capitalists as running dogp (what' s so strange about dogs that run?), are uowbeing harnessed to promote cowboy eapitaliam with Chinese characteristics. Hie Great Halifßrman would no doubt fpfi over in his grave, if he had on*.
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    • 94 23 infwHqi^iiinifw ft Would be no surprise ifyou have a beef wi&fr* in this season of festive cheer. The symptom* of the disease, say experts, are pretty close to what hanpeos when you have had one too many. The affected moo, stamp their feet impatiently and have that
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    • 85 23 All non-smokers better eat their hats or at least inhale deeply if there's one of the tobacco tribe around. Seems the much-dreaded nicotine improves memory and patches of it worn by people with debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's have had them quote all of The Tempest from memory. When
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    • 101 23 Haven't you always wondered whether you could get some free advice on managing your meagre finances? Well, it seems there is a financial education programme called MoneySense which the Government has operated since October to make paupers like you and me more money-sawy And before you know it, there's
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    • 2262 23 M atch in a tinderbox In a region where propaganda and self -censorship are common, it shows news that people want to watch and dialogues they want to hear, Arabic satellite television station Al-Jazeera has been called the hit station of the Iraq War, the biggest international story this year.
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    • 451 24 AL-JAZEERA'S next big plan is to move into English-language television. It should begin broadcasting before the end of next year, says editor-in-chief Ibrahim Helal, after a building to house both the Arabic and English stations in Doha, Qatar, is completed.
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      1037 25  -  Chua Cttfn Hon CHINA JOURNAL BEIJING Cool is hot in China. Of late, I've lost count of the number of restauraoA, cafes, and clothing stores here that use the word "cool in their names, never mind if they sound mostly nonsensical. There's Zen-Cool (a restaurant), Tea-Cool (a cafe),
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    • 642 25  -  Peter J. Donaldson NO STORY in the Western canon is more familiar than Luke's account of the first Christmas, which begins, "In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world", and
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    • 301 26 thesundaytimes End this nonsense THE midnight taxi surcharge has long been slammed by locals as complicit in cabbies' late-night misconduct. It is the one grouse that crops up in foreign visitors' narrations to friends of their stay in Singapore. But far from thinking up ways of addressing the annoyance of
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    • 168 26 "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." US
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    • 879 26 W Andy Ho ON ETHICS IF YOU are not one of the 300,000 Singaporeans who have taken the flu shot, count yourself lucky. The current vaccine against influenza A was made to be used against a strain first isolated in Panama in 1999.
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    • 957 26  - Can't call idiots idiots in today 's America Janadas Devan ON WORDS AMERICANS, like good democrats everywhere, claim they prefer political debates to be substantial and civil, shorn of personal attacks. If that were really so, political campaigns in the United States would resemble Socratic dialogues, but they don't. As
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    • 1855 27  -  Cheong Suk-Wai TEA WITH THINK One of Britain's leading political thinkers points to the signs that it could be replaced by a mediaeval-style collage of unaccountable governing institutions and the democracy advocate sees this happening within half a century CHEER and fear simultaneously gripped
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      • 96 27 IF YOU go to Tan Tock Seng Hospital these days, temperature checks are taken of all visitors, but no other security checks are conducted. But if you hop across the road to the Ministry of Home Affairs headquarters, the picture you'd get would be very different
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      • 67 27 A MINISTER was asked at a community event last week if he was surprised by the Steve Chia imbroglio. Without turning a hair, he said: "Why should I be surprised?" Well, the Non-Consti-tuency MP was an upcoming politician who showed a great deal of promise, said reporters. "You
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      • 119 27 Christmas card, featuring a stone sculpture of a man doing taiji, by a Taiwanese artist. But it was recalled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, just days after it had given out thousands of the cards to staff No reason was given, said puzzled MFA employees, who speculated
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        108 27 DRINKING and driving don't mix, says the not-so-original slogan in the Traffic Police anti-drink drive campaign this year. TTiey have come up with several ways to drive home the message, including giant billboards and this ingenious beer mug. It will be served at nightspots around town and if
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    • 193 21 card you will need for an auspicious Lunar New Year r new clothes, home furnishings Starting your new year preparations, Planning a reunion dinner with your family visiting? Spend at any shopping spring cleaning or hamper gift-giving? or a celebratory meal with your business t fdstive goodies. Spend on any
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      • 111 28 FORMER baseball slugger Mark McGwire has taken his big swing to the links and is considering the PGA's Champions Tour when he turns 50. Big Mac, 40, told Associated Press: "If I'm still playing golf in 19 years' time, yeah, I'd take a shot at it. Why not?
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      • 52 28 ENGLAND star Michael Owen bought a sparkling Christmas present for sweetheart Louise Bonsall a £10,000 (S$30,000) diamond ring. But pals denied the couple, whose baby daughter Gemma Rose was born in May, were now engaged, reported The Sun. Said a friend: "It's just a token of love
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      • 47 28 WAYNE Rooney has passed his advanced driving test and now plans to swap his Ford Sports Ka for a powerful Jaguar XKB, like the one driven by Michael Owen. He has already decided on the colour of his new vehicle blue, reported The Sun.
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    • 2672 28 I would never join Chelsea. They are the enemy. I wasn't too bothered about Becks going. Rio was treated in a terrible way. The players were very upset. France not doing well at the World Cup was just a blip in a stupid country where the World Cup
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    • 538 29 PAUL SCHOLES boasts the complete game. He scores plenty of goals from midfield and has a record most strikers would struggle to match: more than 100 goals in about 300 appearances for United. He creates goals with his passing and movement "One
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    • 607 30 PREMIERSHIP Weekend PHOTO: Results Birmingham 2 Man City 1 Robbie Fowler headed home a cross by Shaun Wright-Phillips to give the visitors a 14th minute lead but Kevin Keegan's team survived two penalty appeals before caving in near the end. Birmingham levelled nine minutes from the end when a free
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    • 725 30 He must turn Chelsea's prima donnas into fighters soon LONDON THE assumption in August was that Chelsea's kinks would be ironed out with time, that their constellation of stars would shine as understanding developed. But a magnificent run of 15 League games (with a
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    • 478 30 LONDON FOOTBALL in England faces a radical shake-up under proposals to be published in the new year. Ministers, including Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, are waiting to act on a report that has been drawn up in response to the growing financial crisis
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    • 200 30 P W 0 L F A Pts Manchester United 18 14 1 3 37 13 43 Arsenal 18 12 6 0 34 12 42 Chelsea 18 12 3 3 33 16 39 Fulham 18 8 4 6 30 23 28 Charlton 18 7 6 5 26 22 27 Newcastle
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    • 52 30 Alan Shearer (Newcastle) 15 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 13 Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 12 Louis Sana (Fulham) 12 Nicolas Anelka (Manchester City) 8 Michael Owen (Liverpool) 8 James Beattie (Southampton) 8 Mikael Forssell (Birmingham) 8 Juan Pablo Angel (Aston Villa) 7 Hernan Crespo (Chelsea) 7 Frederic Kanoute
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    • 624 31 PREMIERSHIP Weekend Playing Today Chelsea v Portsmouth Chelsea boss ciaudio Ranien Knows his side need to bounce back immediately from a 2-4 defeat by Charlton on Friday their second League loss in their last three matches and he will be without Heman Crespo and Damien Duff. Portsmouth's 2-0 victory over
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    • 963 31 Hello Gareth, Goodbye Diego THE three points earned against Everton on Friday came at a high price for Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, and could also cost striker Diego Forlan his Old Trafford career. John O'Shea injured a hamstring and will miss today's visit to Middlesbrough, while
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    • 612 32 Yao Ming the new sheriff BASKETBALL Chinese star has revived the Rockets but refuses to be seen as their leader DENVER (Colorado) CHINESE centre Yao Ming and the Houston Rockets are learning the hard way about the grind of playing road games on back-to-back nights in the National Basketball Association.
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    • 297 32  - Three young bodybuilders banned for drug offences Peh Shing Huei THREE young Singapore bodybuilders have been banned for between six months and a year after testing positive for banned substances. Jackson Quek, 19, was slapped with a six-month ban by the Singapore Bodybuilders' Federation after being caught at July's National
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    • 1073 32 More than any coach, Tele Santana refused to bow to the pragmatism, and believed Brazilian football had to come from the soul, from the instinct to treat the ball as a lover and not as an object to be thumped. THE British leagues are
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      311 33 docsport Q Is it true that caffeine can enhance performance in endurance sports How relevant is it in our hot and humid climate, since coffee (my source of caffeine) is also a diuretic? A Marathoners and IPPT takers, take note! Caffeine has been shown to enhance performance in endurance sports.
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    • 695 33 While increasing muscle mass will boost your weight, it also helps your body to burn fat faster Wei Koh IT SEEMS to fly in the face of common sense, but talk to any top trainer and he will stress that lifting weights is integral to
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    • 218 33 How Hwee Young PHOTOS AND TEXT Mr Zahid Zainudin, 20, a hearing-impaired student Exercise regime: "I go skim boarding, swimming and running about three times a week in the east coast." Diet: "I normally
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      1282 34 7 am Me resurrection end the life: he that belleveth In Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.' John 11:25 'Blessed are the pure In heart* fer they shall see God. Matt 5:6 LIM JOO NEO, JESSIE Age: 81 called home to be with the Lord on 26
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      1461 35 lst Anniversary In Loving Memory Of Linda Chen M ong Hock Departed on 29 December 2002 The family of the late Chen Mong Hock Husband: Prof. Tan Seng Huat Children: Thomas and Yang Lay, Richard and Chiew Lian, Choon Sheng Grand Children: Andre, Han Xi, Anna, Fang Xi wishes to
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      384 36 Yeong Ah Seng Samsung E7OO What It Is: Dual-band camera phone Why It If hot: The first camera phone to allow users to take 15 consecutive shots at the press of a button. Pictures can also be tweaked via brightness control and digital zoom. The antenna in this Samsung
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    • 1158 36  - Take out your trash Ho Ka Wei SNAPPING nude pics. Posting naked pictures of themselves on the Net. Why do users of electronics gadgets take such daring sexual risks? Because you bypass gatekeepers when content production lies in your hands, said Assistant Professor Mark Cenite from the School of Communication
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    • 747 37 g« Q NY AN ADVERTISING MATURE The latest line of Sony LCD TVs is a great addition to your home. Pair them up with Sony's wide range of DVD hi-fi systems to create a compact and stylish home entertainment system. ompact enough to blend perfectly into your bedI room or
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      37 38 trpisimtted from Antarctica where Beth is studying Mount Erebus, an active volcano on the icebound continerrt Follow her as she explores the region, climbs the volcano, sets up her equipment and tries to stay warm. iceUog.pnddingb6wl.org
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      65 38 A CROSS between experimental art and a science project, Ball Droppings is a fascinating downloadable program that turns multiple bouncing balls into a weird musical instrument. The aim ofthe game is to keep hundreds of balls in the air as they drop via simple blocks. As you block
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      51 38 SMS a message to the Hello World Project and have it projected via a laser beam ob a building, mountain or fountain in Mumbai, New York, Rio de Janeiro or Geneva as part of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society being held in Switzerland. www.helloworldproject.
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    • 66 38 STRICTLY for football fans, the London Borough of Waltham Forest has put together a walking trail for its favourite son, David Beckham, who was raised in the area. Next time you are in London, you can explore the hospital where David was born, play on the fields
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    • 855 38 Free networking website brings netizens with common interests face-to-face Michelle Heng HAD he lived in mediaeval times, Jan Hal, 32, might have touched base with fellow witches by sending messages with the help of a flying broomstick. Instead, he takes the MRT to meet other Wiccans he befriends
      LAU FOOK KONG; MIKE M DIZON & HOW HWEE YOUNG  -  855 words
    • 659 38 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Rory Daniel A WORTHY sequel to the legendary original game, Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne is a third-person shooter which follows the fortunes of a burnt-out New York cop in his crime-ridden city. After escaping from hospital
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    • 949 39 Having an L of a time FSffjjßiiufißMiM SOME tips from the Automobile Association of Singapore for newbie drivers Your main responsibility is to drive safely, to protect yourself and to prevent injury to others. Use common sense. If the roads are wet from rain, slow down. Don't be talked into
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    • 849 39 Q Sometimes I feel that life is so meaningless that it would probably be better to end it. But there is something holding me back. I used to be this cheerful person who could crack a joke any time and shrug off my worries. Now I
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    1294 40  - I hate men? Wong Kim Hoh THE E-MAIL INTERVIEW: DR ANAMAH TAN Who says gm. MANY female activists have problems with beauty pageants. But not Dr Anamah Tan, the first Singaporean to head the International Council of Women (ICW), one of the world's oldest organisations for women's rights. "Let's face
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  • 139 40 Wong Kim Hoh A weekly roundup of the most interesting Web discussions by Singaporeans. Culture void? OF THE four original Asian Tiger Economies, is Singapore the only one without any soft pop culture to export? "Nut" seems to think so. "Nothing at all that comes remotely close to what
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  • 106 40 WHAT is a new year without a promotion and a pay increase? But if you're not given one, how do you negotiate for one? "Poorman's" question provoked a rash of threads. Some lamented the state of the economy, others lambasted him for even entertaining such ludicrous thoughts.
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  • 439 40 INBOX WITH pressure-cooker lifestyles, Singaporeans can't help being victims, and perpetrators, of incivility on a daily basis. This explains the edifying flow of bouquets in The Straits Times Forum pages for service staff who return lost wallets or are remarkably helpful by Singapore standards. It also
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  • 186 40 1 LrKJiAI Lr appreciate the tact that Singapore's courtesy campaigns have always been all-encompassing and non-discriminating, instead of targeting stereotypes. However, I would like to highlight a worrying phenomenon, which is the increasing lack of courtesy in public places generally exhibited by parents with young
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  • 202 40  - HIV and the foreign link Lim Geok Hua (Ms) I READ with interest the report, "201 new HIV cases here" (ST, Nov 25). It was reported that "nine in 10 were men, most of whom were heterosexual and infected through casual sex or sex with prostitutes". Hence, there is a
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  • 168 40  -  Phillip Urn I REFER to the article, "New weapon against sex predators" (ST, Dec 17), about the Drink Spike Detector. Wouldn't it be safer for a woman to go clubbing with friends she knows well if she is afraid of getting her drinks spiked?
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    • 5 L1 lifestyle thesundaytimes December 28, 2003
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        575 L2  - RISKY business Ho Ai Li ORIGIN OF SPECIES Job hazards aside, it's knowing that they are doing something others cannot that keeps stuntmen going ONE vomited blood after jumping down seven storeys and hitting the water. Another could not walk for a month after a bad fall. Others elsewhere have
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      • 108 L2 Age: Mostly in his 30s On-duty attire: Anything from period robes to shirts and ties, depending on who they are standing in for Off-duty attire: T-shirts, jeans, track pants and sports shoes Appearance: Good looks not necessary. Build varies, from stocky to lean Personality: What some psychologists call
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      • 449 L2 NOTHING upsets Wu Yunfeng (inset) more than seeing others pull off a stunt that he can't. "I'd be most unhappy,* he says in Mandarin. But, he says, this has not happened yet. In fact, he is usually called in to perform stunts that less able peers can't.
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      • 434 L3 SOME people think stuntmen are daredevils who relish hurling themselves off high places. But Chau Cheung Tak (right) will be the first to tell you it is not true. At least, not for him. "When I have to jump off a building, my legs tremble,"
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      • 422 L3 WHEN Chen Liping's character lost her footing and hung on for dear life 11 floors above the ground in the Channel 8 serial Holland V, it was actually Teng Weng Kong viewers saw. For the role, Teng not only had to wear a curly wig
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      • 873 L4  - Rage or Revenge? Elisabeth Gwee A rising politician. Sexy pictures of his maid. Police reports made by his pregnant wife. His resignation and fall from grace. NCMP Steve Chia has been at the centre of a maelstrom that reads like a plot from a soap opera, with its captive audience
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      • 509 L4 Why did Mrs Chia make police reports against her husband? MANY feel that she was probably driven by sheer anger and revenge. After all, her marriage was already in a shambles and divorce was an option the couple had considered six times. Those that LifeStyle spoke
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      • 712 L5 Wat It right for Mrs Chia to have filed police reports? NO, SAY the majority. "Silly" and "too impulsive" are some of the less harsh words being used to describe Mrs Chia, and from both men and women. The general feeling is that she over-reacted. Many
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      • 788 L5 Does Steve Chia deserve any sympathy? MANY people describe Mr Chia as "careless" for taking sexy photos of his maid. Retiree Eric Teo, 63, says: "A lot of people had hope in this up-and-coming member of the opposition. If he had some sense, he would
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      • 263 L5 Smashing rampage In December 2002, Ms Wah Lay Chin, 34, went on a demolition drive after friends told her that her husband of 16 years was allegedly having an affair with a former actress. She used a sledgehammer to smash the windows and windscreens of 18 luxury
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      • 676 L6  - Aaah, the elusive smile Mak Mun San By Miriam Yeung may be all smiles and laughs on screen and stage, but that's not the case when you meet her in person MIRIAM Yeung, whose name is synonymous with her dimpled smile and bubbly on-screen persona, has a tough-cookie side. And
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      • 1036 L8 Food delivery Cuisine Xpress (tel: 6339-9883; www.cuisinex press. com. sg) Choose from the menus of about 40 restaurants, including Tony Roma's, Thai Express and Hard Rock Cafe. Minimum order is $25 and food will arrive in 60 to 90 minutes. Delivery charges are between $2 and
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        3558 L8  -  Tee Hun Ching John Li TIME EFFORT Our lives, said American essayist Henry David Thoreau, are 'frittered away by detail'. He urged: 'Simplify, simplify'. To help you do this is our list of tips and numbers that will save you time, money and effort in 2004. Happy New Year!
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      • 1346 L11  - The WILD WILD REST Tan Shzr Ee ACCIDENTAL TOURIST of Singapore A nature trek in the north unveils myriad surprises, from red ants to mating moths, egrets and... wah, is that a wakeboarding hunk? THE first glimpse of Nature in Singapore and I mean trees, dead leaves, mud and red
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      • 868 L13 JOINT INSECURITY AREA Wear and tear and the ravages of time are bringing active baby boomers to their knees FOR years, United States President George W. Bush's joints seemed to defy the forces of age and time. He ran ever faster miles, instituted a professionally timed race for White House
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      • 140 L13 When you age, your knees will show signs of wear and tear, particularly if you have been running for decades like President George W. Bush. One ailment is degenerative arthritis, which is a thinning of the cartilage and a thickening of the bones that
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      • 663 L14  - follow your instincts Judy Kuriansky SEX MATTERS In this fortnightly column, we get the experts to answer questions on sex and relationships. Please send your questions to stlife@sph.com.sg A guy I'm attracted to will be going to a Now Year's Evo party at a friend's placo. I'm not sure If
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      • 304 L15 Quality of sperm dives with age THE sperm whale in the photo does more than share a name with this topic It is also displaying what happens to the quality of sperm as men age. It nose-dives. The older men get, the more damaged their sperm are genetically, say American
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      • 157 L15 FEW come out of the holiday season as thin as they went in. Here are some suggestions from Weight Watchers to keep your weight under control: If you're on a marathon shopping trip at the mall, be careful around the food court. Opt for
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      • 155 L15 Cutting edge surgery PATIENTS whose appendix is removed via laparoscopic surgery go home sooner than if they undergo more invasive operations, according to a recent study. In laparoscopic surgery, small cuts are made in the abdomen before a tiny camera is inserted to allow doctors to perform the operation by
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      • 352 L15 BEANS, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, pumpkin, salmon, soy, spinach, tea, tomatoes, turkey, walnuts and yogurt all rich in nutrients and relat^ely low in calories. Plus, they are. all credited with preventing, and in some cases even reversing, heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers and
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