The Straits Times, 13 June 2004

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  • 19 1 thesundaytimes June 13, 2004 •86 Pages m three parts •MITA(P) 047/03/2004 •i» A Singapore Press Holdings publication OU Cents
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  • 522 1  -  Tracy Quek TOP OF THE NEWS THEY are anxious, frustrated and worried. About 1,300 people seeking to enrol at the National University of Singapore (NUS) or the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are still wondering if they have been accepted at either. That's because some
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    • 533 2 agenda INDEX 1 section news 3-20 invest 21-24 think 25-27 sweat 29-34 gizmos 36 click 37 gen y 38 talk .39-40 I lifestyle hot L2-L9 pulse LlO-Lll go Ll2-Ll3 reflect Ll4 wear L27-L2B taste L29-L32 I ijsifetM&ijy movies LlB-Ll9 tv listings L2O-L22 comics L23-L25 horoscopes L 26 ST WEBSITE phone
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    • 185 2 HHHHHRSMS home Retiring m China Low prices, a rich culture and vast geography are leading many middle-class Chinese Singaporeans to spend their golden years there. PAGE 3-4 Cabbies from hell Commuters hail the Land Transport Authority's warning to taxi drivers to shape up and reduce the number of accidents. PAGE
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    • 170 2 Reagan rests m peace The long goodbye comes to an end with the burial of the 40th US president, who his daughter Patti said had never feared death. PAGE 20 HHHIHTiffiRI Bull's eye? Trigger funds offer very high returns m the first year and can be terminated before the maturity
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    • 389 2 Ft Button's boast Jenson Button has yet to taste victory on the Formula One circuit after 73 races, but the Briton has a mouthful of bravado. PAGE 33 Surfer babe Chanelle Pelaez, who comes from a family that has shone at sports, is well on her way to becoming a
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    • 111 2 B 1 f^>"f<i;'A'.'"^R Chua Mvi Hoong Hotel service m China and the US provides an object lesson m the advantages and disadvantages of both economies. REFLECT PAGE Ll4 Chua Chin Hon If cutting deals or creating a business empire is not for you, you're likely to be out of place
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    • 173 2 lifestyle Football betting Well-heeled, English-educated professionals have no qualms about losing thousands of dollars on bets. PAGE L6-L7 Living with Alzheimer's When mother began using the TV remote control to make calls, Madam Chua moved back from Australia to look after her. PAGE Lll Flying m style You know you've
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  • news
    • 806 3  -  Li Xueying ■H i^^^i 3MomiKi»Hw»i iT^Tnyyjt^i^i^^m i w i\\ ri THE lims' monthly expenditure includes: $280 for dinners at home; $90 for eating out Maid: $180 Estate maintenance 200 Utilities: $150 to $400 Golf: $600 Massages: $144 Car: Over $300 for petrol, insurance, maintenance and tax for
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    • 765 4  -  Chua Chin Hon Chinese officials are surprised that some foreigners want to stay m the country Getting the right visa A WOULD-BE retiree must prove that he has some place to live and can support himself, said Mr Lu Minghui, a consular official with
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    • 574 6  - Cabbies from HELL Arlina Arshad They speed like a madman or fall asleep at the wheel 'The cabby's eyelids were r drooping, and he would jerk up suddenly and shake his legs jto keep awake. The taxi was wobbling from side to side? -MR DEREK TEO |..ffl| MARKETING executive S.Y.
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    • 223 6 Discounts part of safer roads drive THE smell of burning rubber, the sound of screeching tyres and revving engines this was not your typical road safety campaign launch. Freestyle motocross bikers and stunt drivers wowed a 2,500-strong crowd at the police week carnival at the Police Academy yesterday morning. Together
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    • 1200 8  - Mr No Frills Frills Arti Mulchand Tanya Fong No fancy house. No flashy clothes. Just a billion-dollar supermarket chain Man behind the Sheng Siong success story lives life like he runs his business thriftily 'You would probably have seen him working m the stores before. You just didn't know that
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    • 814 8 MR LIM Hock Chee, boss of the supermarket chain Sheng Siong, gives his spin on business, management and success. Q: When was the turning point m your business? A: In 1998, when I felt that the company was progressing too slowly.
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    • 767 9 Cool heads, cool rooms Find out more about air-conditioners before making a purchase. What is the difference between an inverter and a non-inverter air-conditioning system? What do British Thermal Units (BTUs) have m relation to how cool a room feels? And what implications does the green labeling scheme have for
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    • 155 9 Know the brand. Choose a brand that is trusted m the market. Look for the energy label. An energy-efficiency label on air-conditioner brands would mean that these brands would have already been tested and passed by the National Environment Agency. Know the size of your rooms.
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    • Article, Illustration
      848 9 Get the ideal refrigerator for your home. Thinking of getting a new refrigerator for your home but think all they are all the same? Then you might be wrong m this case. Let's just say that these days refrigerators come with so many advanced functions and these will
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    • 370 11  -  Azrin Asmani Some illustrious alumni take to the stage at National Junior College's 35th anniversary SUDDENLY, it was 1969 all over again and the occasion was ripe for that gentle Simon and Garfunkel anthem Scarborough Fair. "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme," warbled seven National Junior College (NJC) alumni,
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    • homefront
      • 97 11 LAOS will waive visa requirements for tourists and investors from Singapore, and vice versa, a Laotian official told AFP yesterday. From next month, ordinary passport holders frpm one country will be able to' enter the other country without a visa. An agreement to this effect was signed
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      • 78 11 i of State for Trade and Industry, and National Development, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, is leading the Singapore delegation to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) m Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr Balakrishnan will be there from today to Friday. He will address Unctad's 11th session
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    • 266 11 IF YOU'RE tearing your hair out over taking care of a dementia patient at home, help will soon be at hand. The National Council of Social Service (NCSS) is introducing an initiative that will provide structured training, counselling and a support network for
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    • 229 12 THREE Singaporean men, who helped to ship stolen luxury cars from Port Klang m Malaysia, through Singapore and on to Batam, were packed off to jail. Brothers Jason Ong Yew Chuan, 32, and Ong Chee Cheong, 33, with cousin Brian Ong Chiu Haur, 25,
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    • 992 12  - China girls hitting on kopitiam Ah Peks Li Xueying Eat,drink,then have sex... or maybe not for some They target older men with CPF money at Geylang coffee shop 'My son is 18, and we need money for his university fees. It costs 1,000 yuan a month, I look down on
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    • 576 13  -  Tracy Ouek Varsities here say they received more applications from 'quality' students THEIR seniors had poorer grades but got into the National University of Singapore (NUS) to study arts and social sciences. jSo some of this year's applicants couldn't believe it "yvhen they
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    • 341 13  -  Li Xueying THINK that Buddhist nuns are inferior because they have to bow to the monks? Think again. The role of women m Buddhism has evolved and m places such as Taiwan, nuns outnumber monks, said Venerable Dr Yifa from Taiwan. She spoke yesterday
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    • 425 15 Two more years for the militants, who are still considered a threat to national security KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA yesterday extended the detention of 10 suspected Islamic militants for two more years, saying they still posed a threat to national security, officials said. The
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    • 421 15 HK 's post-Sars concerts face criminal probes Cost too much Poorly managed Fail to improve HK image Waste of public money Performers overpaid HONGKONG HONG KONG'S anti-graft agency and police have launched criminal investigations into a concert series headlined by the Rolling Stones that critics said cost too much, was
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    • 537 16  -  Lee Tee Jong Some common Konglish terms Service: Complimentary food (e.g. free snacks given when pumping petrol or extra dumplings with a big order Promise: An appointment Skinship: Close relationship Ho choco: Hot chocolate Cash corner: ATM Oil bank: Petrol station Sports hair: Crew
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    • 293 16  - SM Lee sees old and new of Shanghai Chua Mui Hoong SHANGHAI EVEN as Shanghai's development proceeds at a breakneck speed, the city is trying to preserve historical buildings and memories, which Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew caught a glimpse of yesterday. He visited the Shanghai Urban Planning Department yesterday,
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    • 348 16  -  Kwan Weng Kin JAPAN CORRESPONDENT TOKYO SINGAPORE'S reputation for protecting intellectual property has assured Japanese companies m game software and know-ledge-intensive industries that their products will be safe from digital thieves. Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan said yesterday that many Japanese business executives whom
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    • 244 16 Trouble sleeping? Try this... TOKYO IN FADING light, the murmir of a cool stream soothes your iangled nerves. Your back is nassaged slowly, your exhauited muscles stretched. Before you know it, you are fast asleep. A Japanese company has developed a sleep machine th»t it says will deliver a full
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    • 569 17  -  Leslie Lau By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR AN INCREASING number of orchards m Malaysia are cashing m on the insatiable demand for durians m the region and producing more of the fruit with each passing year. The last
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    • 155 17 JAKARTA INDONESIA has been warned by a foreign intelligence agency about possible attacks from an Al-Qaeda-linked group, and is searching for militants who might have slipped into the country. Police chief General Da'i Bachtiar said police had been searching for the militants, but had so
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    • 168 17  - Mahathir's son to run tor Umno Youth posts ALORSTAR DATUK Mukhriz Mahathir, a son of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, wants to contest two Umno Youth posts m the party election m September. Datuk Mukhriz, 40, hopes to be the chief of Kubang Pasu division and a member of
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    • 283 18 Break up Iraq into nations Retired colonel offers radical solution to problems m Iraq WASHINGTON DESPITE the milestone United Nations Security Council resolution backing the transfer of sovereignty, concerns remain about Iraq's future. Among them: Can Iraq's main political and religious forces the Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds unite under the
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    • 105 18 THE Kurds, who have been trying to do it for decades, would happily form such a state. The Turks would not be happy, but their displeasure would be manageable. The United States would have to establish a security force across the narrow gap m the north, leading from
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    • 99 18 THEY could have Baghdad and form their own government, which is what they want. Gulf access would be problematic, but workable. The new state, with its former Baathists, would be a major security concern, but a separate Sunni state could be supported by a modest international
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    • 103 18 IF WASHINGTON redefines its political objective and breaks up the country into three states, it would cut its losses m the south and not destroy all chances for success anywhere else m the country. The Shi'ites might even think more favourably of the US. The Shi'ites
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    • 338 18 BAGHDAD GUNMEN killed a deputy foreign minister yesterday, the lat- est attack on Iraqi leaders m recent weeks. Mr Bassam Salih Kubba, 60, Iraq's most senior career diplomat, was mortally wounded m Baghdad's Azimiyah district, Foreign Ministry spokesman Thamir Al-Adhami said. The attack took place m
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    • 284 18 LONDON BRITAIN'S embattled Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed to stay the course despite a worse-than-expected drubbing for his Labour Party m council elections m England and Wales. Speaking m Washington on Friday, Mr Blair acknowledged that his decision to take Britain
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    • worldfront
      • 73 18 McALESTER (Oklahoma) An Oklahoma jury has ended three days of deliberations deadlocked, denying prosecutors their request to execute Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. The deadlock on Friday is a major blow to prosecutors. Under state law, the judge cannot issue a death sentence if a jury deadlocks
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      • 58 18 LONDON Two British warships collided off the coast of southern England, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The frigates Argyll and Kent were carrying out displays about 16km from the Plymouth naval base on Thursday when their hulls scraped against each other. A spokesman said: "There is some
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      • 89 18 KABUL Four men have been arrested following the murders of 11 Chinese construction workers m Afghanistan, Chinese state media said, but a mystery remains as to who masterminded the attack. The official Xinhua news agency said yesterday two more suspects had been I detained following the arrest of
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      • 58 18 BEIJING The authorities have formally arrested eight managers of a billion-dollar steel factory on charges of evading seven million yuan (Ssl.s million) m taxes. State press said yesterday the eight were detained m April, when Premier Wen Jiabao halted the building of the Jiangsu Tieban Iron and
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      • 75 18 SEOUL North and South Korea yesterday signed an agreement on concrete measures aimed at avoiding accidental armed clashes along their land and sea borders, the Defence Ministry said. The agreement was signed at the end of three days of talks involving colonel-grade officers from both sides. The guard
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    • RONALD REAGAN FUNERAL
      • 837 20  -  Wire agencies George HVi Bush I IN A eulogy that managed to bring a laugh to Mr Reagan's widows Nancy, Mr Bush recalled the 40th president's sense of humour. He I remembered Mr Reagan's crack to doctors in the emergency roonf aJqter the 1981 assassination
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      • Article, Illustration
        484 20 GOODBYE to the THE long goodbye has come to an end. As the sun set golden into the ocean on Friday evening, former United States leader Ronald Reagan was laid to rest at his presidential library m the rolling California hills that he loved. World leaders, his friends and children
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  • invest
    • 1285 21  -  Aaron Low Following a look at structured deposits last week, we turn the spotlight to the industry's latest fad: Trigger funds, which terminate once returns hit a specified level but carry a lock-in risk COMMON sense dictates that an investment with little
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    • 165 21 There is a guarantee of a high payout m the first year. The payout is usually about 10 per cent and is given m a cheque, no questions asked. The payout scheme from year two onwards maybe a complicated formula that looks like
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    • from the shelf
      • 299 21  -  Bharathi Rajan HEAD OF CONTENT Fundsupermart.com FIRST State GEM Leaders is a global emerging market (GEM) equity fund. It feeds into the UK-domiciled First State Global Emerging Market Leaders Fund and has been included under the CPF Investment Scheme for
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      • 111 21 While many investors may think of emerging markets as extremely risky, they should note that Asia is also part of the emerging market universe. The correlation of emerging markets to that of United States and Europe is less than 0.5. Thus, exposure to this fund will enable investors to
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    • wallstreet
      • 155 21 UNITED States stocks rose last week as profit reports from companies, including FedEx and National Semiconductor, reassured investors even as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates. "As long as the earnings advance is greater than the interest-rate advance, you can get higher stock
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    • 306 25 THEN: Madam Tan Soo Lan started Lee Hwa Jewellery's first outlet m Circuit Road m 1970. Now 68, the steely matriarch grew her business, selling cornflower yellow gold of 916 and 999 purity to six outlets. From 1994, however, consumer tastes changed and she
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    • 285 25 THEN: Labourer Lion Tiong Kiu, 87, started a modest 10-man, sub-con-tracting company, Tiong Aik Construction, m the *****, handling school, commercial and housing projects to the tune of $5 million a year. His fourth son, Mr Liong Kiam Teck, 52 surnamed Liong by the birth
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    • 270 25 THEN: One of Singapore's oldest road builders, OKP Holdings was founded m 1966 by Mr Or Kirn Peow. The 69-year-old started out scraping together a living as a subcontractor converting kampung mud roads into asphalt ones, before graduating to constructing flyovers and expressways. Thirteen years ago,
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      • 217 26 "But look at how it began. When I was asked what I thought of Reagan, I called him a dinosaur. He called me a bonehead Bolshevik!" FORMER SOVIET UNION PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, recalling his friendship with his former United States counterpart Ronald Reagan, who died
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      • 73 29 FOR Euro 2004, Singapore Pools outlets will close at 10pm on weekdays. Selected outlets will close at 2.30 am on weekends: 877 East Coast Road; Blk 1 Tanjong Pagar Road; Blk 803 King George's Avenue; Clarke Quay (3, River Valley Road). Plus Cheers stores at Downtown East
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      • 54 29 TEO Hock Seng, chairman of Tampines Rovers, has given his players permission to watch the late Euro matches. Experience has proven that nothing will stop them anyway. "I tried stopping them at the last World Cup, and they still came half-asleep for training. So this time, I'm
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      • 58 29 SERIOUS football fans who do want to be distracted from Euro 2004's quarter-final stage onwards should dump their girlfriends today. A British magazine has found that it takes 12 days to reach a stress-free state following a break-up. One dumping tip: "The good news is that Heskey
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      456 29 B^H^Bfl A KAfl E at vfm V> |9 ■■liSf^l Singaporean readers agree that France are favourites for Euro 2004 FRENCH soccer will be the flavour of the month and a few days m July with 244 Singaporeans voting m a Sunday Times poll for Zinedine Zidane and company
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    • 2075 29 Singapore Racing Results Track: Yielding (1-2). then Good. Race 1 Maiden 1200 m 4 STORM WATCH, E Wilkinson 1. I Mister Sunshine, App X Sara 2. 5 Fast Tycoon, A Whelan 3. Margins: 1/2 len x 3-1/4 len. Time: 1:12-0. Nos. 4, 1, 5. Win: SlO3. Place. $20,
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    • 1183 30  - EUROMANIA STRIKES Marc Lim Chia Han Keong Bribes, lies and medical certs are just some of the measures fans resort to so that they can watch the late-night games "HI be off operations, no looking after the kid, no chores/ KEVIN PANG, idle at home "HI say sorry and hop
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    • 640 30 BOYS will be boys, and it seems most of them will choose football over stocks when play time comes. If past years are a gauge of what will happen with Euro 2004, liquidity on the stock market is likely to shrivel up as
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    • 1034 31  - French class will tell in the end Rob Hughes England are equally motivated In the battle, which will see Arsenal versus Arsenal is some key positions HEART OF FOOTBALL THE second night of Euro 2004 brings a tumultuous affair. Inside the Stadium of Light, we wait for France versus England;
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    • 424 32  - Underdogs' battle royale: Croatia v Switzerland LEIRIA CROATIA and Switzerland face off here today m a showdown of Group B outsiders who are shooting for a chance to spoil the plans of the mighty. With champions France and England after that, they know that three points are essential to give
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    • 652 32 Spurs defender's first competitive start is also England's biggest game THE stakes have been raised. Captain David Beckham declared yesterday: "We are better than France." Manager Sven-Goran Eriksson added England were not afraid and Steven Gerrard was "confident we can get all three points".
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    • 525 32  -  HARRISON GOLF (New York) IF FRED Couples wins the Buick Classic, he will owe a debt of gratitude to an acupuncturist named Snowball. His back was throbbing on Wednesday night, to the point where he considered withdrawing from the tournament. His wife Thais wanted him to
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      • 68 32 ENGLISH Premier League soccer club Arsenal have confirmed that Nigerian striker Nwankwo Kanu will be leaving Highbury, along with Martin Keown and SylvainWiltord. The trio are on a list of 17 players that have been released by the Gunners, said The BBC. Latvian defender Igor Stepanovs, who
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      • 41 32 HOSTS New Zealand put England to the sword at home with an emphatic 36-3 win m a rugby Test match m Dunedin. It was the world champions' biggest loss since the All Blacks beat them 64-22 m 1998. AFP
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      • 31 32 SINGAPORE Tenpin Bowling Congress president Jessie Phua has been appointed to the Singapore National Olympic Council. She replaced Robert Tan, vice-president of the Singapore Dragon Boat Association. AFP
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      • 51 32 RAIN made the DuPont Country Club course unplayable and caused the LPGA Championship the second Major of the women's golf season to be postponed on Friday. Filipino Jennifer Rosales had a one-shot lead over Karen Stupples, Gloria Park and Chiharu Yamaguchi after a bogey-free flve-under 66 on Thursday.
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      • 37 32 5,000 m Record TURKISH runner Elvan Abeylegesse shattered the women's 5,000-metre world record at a Golden League meeting m Norway on Friday. Her time of 14min 24.685 ec broke China's Bo Jiang's 1997 record of 14:28.09. AP
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      • 49 32 GERMANY'S Graciano Rocchigiani, the former world light-heavyweight champion, has sent the World Boxing Council down for the count. The WBC filed for bankruptcy on Friday after an American court upheld a US$3l-million (5553.15-million) award to Rocchigiani, who said the WBC illegally stripped his title m 1998. AFP
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      • 39 32 LOS Angeles Lakers basketball star Karl Malone has been questioned by police for hitting a fan m a National Basketball Association Finals game against the Detroit Pistons on Friday. Malone said the fan spat on him. AP
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      • 50 32 ANDY Roddick smashed his way into the semi-finals of tennis' Stella Artois Championships on Friday and hit the world's fastest serve on the way. He beat Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan 6-3, 6-3, and sent a record 246.2-kmh piledriver lkmh faster than the previous best m the second set. Reuters
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    • 410 33  - Schumi 's car is great, not him MONTREAL CANADIAN GRAND PRIX Still without a title, but Jenson Button also thinks he's a better driver than the six-time world champion "As a driver, I think I am the best on the grid. If I have the equipment to win, I will,
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      465 33 BADMINTON Spectators at the Cheers Badminton Age-Group tournament can be forgiven for seeing double. Eight pairs of twins will feature m the two-week tournament, which starts at the Singapore Badminton Hall tomorrow, reports MARC LIM. The Sunday Times talks to seven of the pairs. The eighth pair of
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    • 62 33 FERRARI technical director Ross Brawn has denied rumours that the Italian stable have been spraying their tyres with a special chemical for added grip. "Why would we want to do it? We have a fantastic car with great tyres and the best driver, so we are
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    • 76 33 KIMI Raikkonen believes McLaren have a realistic chance of winning races this season once their new car is ready. McLaren tested the car at Silverstone last week and are hoping to give it its debut at the French Grand Prix next month. "There's only been one test, so
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    • 87 33 RALF Schumacher can rest easier knowing he is not the only Schumacher whose driving abilities have been questioned of late. After last week's Baja Rally, his wife Cora was slammed by fellow-driver Ellen Lohr after Cora finished 18th and Lohr was 13th. Lohr believes breast enlargements
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    • 43 33 FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela has appealed to Formula One drivers, past and present, to support his country's two-seater grand prix. The event, which is to raise funds for Mandela's children's charity, will be held m August. Reuters
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    • 55 33 MAX Mosley, president of the International Automobile Federation the organisation which governs Fl has begun grooming Ferrari team chief Jean Todt as his successor. Todt is the mastermind behind Ferrari's domination of Fl and Ron Dennis, boss of McLaren, acknowledges that he could do an excellent
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    • 1027 34  - Part-time bar manager, Full-time surfer Wei Koh f* si 1 1 aII i I liflvl ilVl v«sillli|* riding the waves MISS Chanelle Pelaez, 23, knows she has a pretty face, but she doesn't want you to think she's an "airhead". She's far from it. Sports are m her DNA. Her
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        108 34 |j The Family Of The Late jl JULIANA ONG TECK LIM called home to be with the Lord on 6 June 2004 would like to express their heartfelt thanks and sincere appreciation to all relatives, friends, prayer groups and the neighbourhood bible-sharing group for their prayers, condolences, attendance, wreaths, donations
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        56 34 The family of the late T WONG FOOK KUM Departed 4th June 2004 wish to express their heartfelt thanks appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues, business associates, doctors and nurses of Alexandra Hospital (Ward 12) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Ward 9B) for their kind assistance, attendance, prayers, condolences, donations
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        45 34 In Ever Loving Memory Of I SENIVASAN S/0 MANNARSAMY Departed 13/6/1996 Your presence is ever near us, Your love remians with us yet; You were the kind of father. Your loved ones will never forget. Always remembered by Wife, children, grandchildren and all loved ones
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        321 35 r "Surely Goodness and Love will follow me all the days of my life; 4ffib And I will dwell m the house of the Lord forever!" T SIM AH BEE Age: 74 passed away peacefully on 12 June 2004, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: Lim Sek Soon Sons: Daughter-in-law: Lim
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        239 35 VICTOR ONG HUNG SIAH AGE: 52 passed away peacefully on 11 June 2004, leaving behind Mother: Ec Eig Wife: Tan Siew Khim Daughters: Jerlynn Ong Bee Hui Christine Ong Bee Ju Brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews loved ones. Body is resting at Blk 111, Lorong 3 Geylang. Tel: *****966/ *****821 Cortege
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      • 80 36 What they are: Refrigerators with an anti-bacteria coating Why they are hot: Electrolytic silver particles, with disinfectant and antibiotic properties, are coated on the insides of these refrigerators. Bacteria and fungi cannot grow on these coated surfaces. So your meat and veggies will keep fresh up to
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      • 73 36 What it is: Big-screen projector Why it is hot: Movies can be projected onto screens up to 2.7 m wide from the 3.5 kg machine which is compatible with any gaming machine, digital cameras, camcorders, VCRs or DVD players. The user-friendly device, which comes with a backlit remote
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    • 754 36  - Is the PDA going the way of the dodo? Serene Luo Smartphones, which combine mobile phone and PDA functions, are taking over Everybody's talking about... SOME new all-in-one smartphones that are making waves: Treo 600 from palm One A MOBILE phone, full Palm OS organiser, wireless radio, e-mail and Internet
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    • 530 36 TOKYO NINTENDO Co, which dominates the portable video-game machine market, m developing a new home game console codenamed Revolution m an apparent attempt, to catch up with rival Sony Corp, v/hi'h makes the Play Station 2 console. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata refused to
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      • 81 37 THE authorities m Vietnam have begun a crackdown on Internet traffic. Under new rules, owners of Internet cafes m the communist-led country can be fined or jailed for allowing customers to send or download what is described as "bad information". Pornographic sites and those deemed to be
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      • 66 37 POLICE from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, British National Crime Squad, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Interpol and Australian Federal Police have joined forces to combat child pornography on the Internet. Dubbed the Virtual Global Taskforce, the group will operate 24 hours a day m several time
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      • 54 37 RIVALRY for the top spot m Google's rankings has heated up, with the worldwide SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Challenge. The first-round winner of the competition topped the ranking for the made-up term "nigritude ultramarine", beating 1,000 entrants who, among them, set up thousands of sites using the term
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        45 37 NEW and expectant mothers can access timely and useful information about their pregnancies and the development of their babies at babycenter.com. Simply enter your baby's due date or date of birth to get a personalised homepage and weekly bulletins on baby care. www.babycenter.com
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      752 37  -  Mike Lee Internet users lose millions of dollars a year because of unsolicited e-mail IT MAY be just an e-mail nuisance to Internet users, but it can potentially affect the bottom lines of companies. A survey by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) estimated that spam costs local
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    • 387 37  -  Rory Daniel GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Hitman: Contracts AGENT 47, the sinister and remorseless assassin, is back m the third instalment of the Hitman series. Waking up m a pool of his own blood with a nasty gut wound, a delirious Agent 47 tries
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      585 38  -  Serene Luo UNDERSTANDING TEENS Children who turn violent when angry are ticking time bombs. Experts blame doting parents and school pressure THEY aren't psychotic. But one Secondary One student got so angry that he holed himself up m the science lab and hurled test tubes at the
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    • 66 38 Listening to a rockin' CD? Reading a really good book or comic? Or are you hooked on a fabulous new computer game? Share it with everyone. Here's how: In 200 words or less, tell us why your CD, book or computer game pick is worth checking out.
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      247 38 Circles of Silence by Preeti Singh Coronet THIS book, set m present-day Delhi, depicts the life of a traditional Indian family. The eldest son of the Malhotra family, Rattan is pampered by his parents and grandmother. His life is planned for him from birth, and like all other
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    • 458 38 Sister hears in her head Life can get overwhelming sometimes. But you do not have to suffer m silence. Write to Teen Confidential, and we will get trained counsellors to help you through your problem. E-mail your letters to stgeny@sph.com. sg Q HELP! My sister seems to be hearing voices
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      35 38 ■>r Brian Yeo is a onsultant psychiatrist in rivate practice. He has postgraduate ualifications in child and dolescent psychiatry. He > also Visiting Consultant 'sychiatrist to the •ingapore Armed Forces :e of Mental Health.
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    • 358 38  -  Wu Peining 'He demonstrated his desire to challenge himself over and over again to reach greater levels of athletic achievement, which was the core criterion of the competition/ -CONTEST JUDGE G. KANNAN, managing director of Adidas Singapore, on Firdaus WHEN he was seven,
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    • 12 39 A weekly roundup of the most interesting Web discussions by Singaporeans.
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    • 64 39 SOME netizens have expressed their concern about mollycoddled children m Singapore. Wuming7B feels that "many parents are over-protecting their kids". Branzzz shared this anecdote: "I was shocked to find out that my cousin, who is m Secondary 1, wiped his own ass for the first time one month
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    • 95 39 RECENTLY, companies and schools were encouraged to let their staff and students leave early on "Eat With Your Family Day". Netizens have differing views about this campaign by the non-profit Centre for Fathering and the Ministry of Community Development and Sports, however. Metta thinks "it's ludicrous to
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      • 257 39 IN RECENT years, local versions of numerous foreign particularly American game shows and television programmes have been made. In the *****, one of the first American game shows to be "localised" was The 25,000-Dollar Pyramid, reproduced here as The Pyramid Game. Since then, there has been
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      • 258 39 MY WIFE has a lung condition that means she has to carry oxygen and use a wheeled walking aid. I have written to the papers before on the difficulties faced by people with handicaps m navigating the streets and buildings here. Progress has been made but
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      • 148 39 I REFER to Mr Lim Kian Boon's letter, "Enforce smoking ban" (The Sunday Times, June 6). Regular checks against smoking m prohibited places are carried out by officers from the National Environment Agency. This includes air-conditioned shopping centres and other areas well known for people flouting
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      • 197 39 IT HAS been some years since I visited Australia, so I was unpleasantly surprised to find that Singaporean visitors now end up having to pay for a tourist visa to the country. While the Australian government provides tourist visas of up to three months'
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    • 1143 40  -  Wong Kirn Hoh SINGAPOREANS are really not that humourless. Selena Tan will attest to that. She should know: She makes a living tickling the funny bone. Stand-up comedy, cabaret routines, Broadway burlesque the former litigation lawyer does them all, and more. "We have a bad rep
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        785 7 Football fanatics here place football bets through legal and illegal channels SINGAPORE POOLS: It introduced Singapore's only legal football betting system m March 1999. Currently, Pools outlets offer two betting games. Score is for SLeague and Singapore Cup matches. Strike! is for international football tournaments and matches.
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        934 8 ROOT CAUSE F FIRST, it was small vegetable plots, then it was hydroponics. Now, the latest trend is herb gardens. One woman has even taken this trend one step further by creating a Chinese herb garden m her Jurong HDB estate. Today, two years after the herb garden was set
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        999 12  - Forget me not Teo Cheng Wee She's even picked up a new skill sewing cloth roses. We were pleasantly surprised as that's something she's never done before. Madam Linda Chua (far left, with her Mum) Alzheimer's disease is m the spotlight following the death of Ronald Reagan. LifeStyle speaks to
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        675 30  -  Teo Pau Lin Durians are going for as low as 50 cents each and they are not inferior stuff either Food Correspondent DURIAN prices are so low this season you can pay like a pauper but eat like a king. From Geylang to Clementi, many stalls are selling
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        545 30 IF YOU'RE buying 50-cent durians, which some stall j owners will not open, you will need to know how to choose one yourself. Follow these steps. Listen: Tap the spikes with the flat of a knife. A ripe fruit gives out a hollow sound. Touch: Give the fruit
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        497 31  -  Thng Lay Teen COOKJT Mv FORGET about making pyramid-shaped dumplings this year. Try sampan dumplings. Making them longer and flatter m shape won't just result m them looking cute. The flat shape means you can cook more dumplings m a pot since it takes up less space than
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