Streats, 15 November 2000

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 15 November 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon Heartache, anguish as mother watches only son, 6, fall to his death Horror of a helpless mum
    446 1  -  by VIOLETTA WONG A MOTHER stood rooted in horror at the foot of a block of flats as she watched her six-year-old son her only child fall to his death. It happened in
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    Lock icon Promoting a family-friendly society Don't you just wish...
    292 1  - Promoting a family-friendly society Don't you just wish by SARAH NG parliamentffiofiftfli YOU want Singapore employers to be more family-friendly. You especially if you’re a working mum wish there were policies to promote family-friendliness. You had your wishes aired in Parliament yesterday. Urging the government on your behalf, Dr Lily
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Tamil leader cheated
      222 3 A LONG-STANDING official of the Singapore Tamil Movement was sentenced yesterday to 18 months’ jail for cheating the organisation of over $70,000. Former general secretary Velautham Rengasamy, 63, who had served the STM for 36 years, was allowed $120,000 bail, pending his appeal against conviction and sentence.
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      Lock icon Help desk humour
      117 3 morningsmile. A guy calls in to complain that he gets an "Access Denied"message every time he logs in. It turned out he was typing his username and password in capital letters when it should be in small letters. Tech Support: “Try once more, but use lower case
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      Lock icon Body found in Kallang River
      101 3 THE body of a Chinese man in his 40s was found yesterday around 10 am floating in the Kallang River near the MRT station. Police found the corpse trapped among a tangled heap of junk and ropes at a barricade which prevents rubbish from flowing
      Pic: Shin Min Daily News  -  101 words
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        Lock icon Body found in bag
        92 3 A CLEANER doing his rounds found a man’s body in a corner of a rubbish heap yesterday morning. It was in a big black plastic bag wrapped in a blanket at Blk 807, King George’s Avenue. The body was that of a plump, tanned man in
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        Lock icon Burglary a shoe-in
        142 3 AN 81-YEAR-OLD woman was easy prey for a thief when she left her keys on a shoe rack outside her Henderson Road flat. On Monday at I.lopm, Madam Lee Oi Lin had just returned to her Blk 92 flat and gone into her kitchen. According to Shin
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        Lock icon Truck turns into fireball
        71 3 A PRIME mover turned into a fireball in a matter of minutes in Woodlands on Sunday night. The vehicle, driven by a 35-year-old man, had just left a car park at Woodlands Ave 6 when smoke billowed from the bonnet. He ordered his family out of
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      Lock icon Thoughtful stranger
      118 4 onekindact Admin executive Irene Tang, age 32: WHEN the phone rings after midnight, it usually is kind of scary because it puts most people on standby mode, thinking that something "bad" has happened but not this time. We want to thank a kind guy who made an effort
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      Lock icon 164 detained in drugs sweep
      255 4 Raids across island cripple drugs networks THE Central Narcotics Bureau rounded up 164 suspected drug offenders and nabbed seven traffickers on Monday in one of the most widespread anti-drugs crackdowns to date. The noon to midnight islandwide raids also crippled drug demand routes as far
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      Lock icon Neighbours battle it out over drips
      119 4  -  by KAREN WONG THE drip of laundry water sparked off a fight between two neighbours, the court heard yesterday. Lim Poh Gek’s neighbour had hung out her wet laundry to dry above hers, and the water dripped onto her clothes. Infuriated, Lim, 40, stormed
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      Lock icon Log in to check on blood donation Net keeps eye on the queue
      342 5 IF you’re thinking of donating blood during your lunchtime and need to know how long the queue is, check by logging onto the Internet. A webcam an Internet camera has been installed in the tent of the
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      Lock icon Beach beauties
      51 5 Singapore's representative at the Miss World contest, Charlyn Ding (right) and Mariko Sugai, representing Japan, pose for photographers in the Maldives during the beachwear photo shoot on Sunday. The final of the Miss World competition will take place at the Millennium Dome in London on Nov 30 Pic:
      Pic: Reuters  -  51 words
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      81 5 Our weather girl says It'll be raining cats and dogs this afternoon, with the occasional thunder. Don't forget to carry your brolly. Temperatures will reach a maximum of 32 degrees Celsius. If you don't mind getting wet, head down to the beaches and you'll be able to catch the 3.1
      Pic: Francis Lee  -  81 words
    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this week...
        41 5 Singapore is gearing up for 13 weeks of parties and events till mid-February as part of the annual Celebration Singapore extravaganza. So take out those partying shoes and get ready to boogie as we celebrate the holiday season.
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        Lock icon Remember...
        53 5 If you have moved from say, Queenstown to Tampines and need to see a doctor at the polyclinic in your new hometown, there is no need to tell your physician your medical history. Medical records can now be forwarded electronically at polyclinics at Queenstown, Tampines, Bukit Merah, Geylang and
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        61 5 "If I die, I will go to heaven as I have been to hell." That was one of the insciptions found on the old Berlin Wall which divided Germany. Catch a photographic exhibition and video art show on the city and its infamous wall at the Goethe
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      Lock icon Doing your home work
      655 6 WHAT you are about to read may cost me my job. Telecommuting not talking on your handphone while you commute from home to office but working from home, is supposedly “catching on” here in Singapore. Corporate soothsayers are saying that it’s the way of the future
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      323 8 scv Extravaganza at CASBAA 2000 A fun-filled day exclusive for all SCV subscribers and your family! Singapore Expo, Hall 3 Friday, 17 Nov 2000 3 to 9 pm Free transportation will be provided from Tanah Merah MRT station from 2.30 pm at half-an-hour interval v scv Hunt asure fre r\aht
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon It wants to push programmes that make a difference to people New look for Apec
      254 9 Reuters BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Pacific Rim leaders arrived in Brunei yesterday for a summit where they will try to breathe new life into the Apec group. The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation has been increasingly split over
      – Reuters  -  254 words
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      Lock icon Aussie PM in plane scare
      97 9 AP CANBERRA Prime Minister John Howard was forced to delay his flight to the Apec summit yesterday after his plane developed a fuel valve fault. The valve on the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Boeing 707 malfunctioned after landing in Darwin. “We all flew up
      – AP  -  97 words
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      Lock icon Sound of music
      78 9 knowornot. didyouknow.com Transmitting music through phone lines goes back to 1876. In 1896, Thaddeus Cahill filed a patent on the "art of and apparatus for generating and distributing music electronically" And in 1914 he fed music signals down AT&T's telephone lines with his Telharmoniums apparatus. Elisha Grey
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      Lock icon Terry tubby:
      36 9 Children play with the new Terry the Wheelie Puppy. Its maker Toytron claims it is South Korea's first voice-recognis-ing toy. Equipped with artificial intelligence, it responds to voice orders. It costs $96 Pic: AFP
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      Lock icon Police step up hunt for Tommy
      116 9 AP JAKARTA Police stepped up the manhunt for Tommy Suharto yesterday. Police officers searched his house yesterday morning but found no trace of the 38-year-old millionaire playboy. The officers then walked around the corner to Suharto’s residence and continued the search. “We searched all
      – AP  -  116 words
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      Lock icon Aussie camels for Malaysia
      206 10 Bernama MELBOURNE Malaysia is taking a shipment of 40 of the finest outback camels from Australia, said Mr Peter Seidel, the Central Australia Camel Industry Association President. The deal could eventually result in more than 4,000 camels being sold to Malaysia, with breeders receiving about As4oo
      – Bernama  -  206 words
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      Lock icon Protests as Erap trial set for next month
      260 10 -AFP MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada’s impeachment trial will begin next month. Aquilino Pimentel, the newlyelected president of the Senate, said the Senate committee on rules had been asked to draw up rules for the country’s first impeachment trial of a sitting
      -AFP; Pic: AP  -  260 words
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        Lock icon Child refugees 'abused'
        89 11 -AFP SYDNEY Child sex abuse is rampant at South Australia’s isolated Woomera detention centre, home to boat people mostly from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, a Catholic Church official and a former employee claimed yesterday Dale West, Adelaide director of the church’s welfare arm, Centacare, said the government’s
        -AFP  -  89 words
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        Lock icon E Timor 'ready to be state'
        84 11 -AFP DILI, East Timor UN Security Council envoys wrapped up a two-day mission to East Timor yesterday, concluding that it was ready for independence but in dire need of international support. “The continued support of the international community is crucial,” the delegation’s chief, ambassador
        -AFP  -  84 words
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        Lock icon 4 quakes jolt Japan
        90 11 AP TOKYO A strong earthquake shook Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido early yesterday, and was followed by another powerful tremor nearly 12 hours later. Two moderate tremors jolted other parts of the nation yesterday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The first
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        Lock icon Dead rebels' kin upset
        83 11 AP SUVA- Fiji s human rights commission said it has received complaints from the families of five rebel soldiers killed during a failed army mutiny, but refused to reveal details. Human rights commissioner Dr Shaista Shameen’s refusal to elaborate on the complaints came amid reports that
        – AP  -  83 words
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      Lock icon Singapore Singles
      58 11 gofigure 2000 census How many Singaporeans in their early 30s are still single? One in three, and 16.5 per cent of them remain single well into their 40s, as compared to justonein 10in 1990. Around 27 per cent of men in their late 30s were unmarried, as compared
      – 2000 census  -  58 words
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      Lock icon Cops "used pliers on me'
      296 11 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian mechanic said yesterday that police had squeezed his genitals with a pair of pliers to try to make him confess to a theft. His account was the latest in a series of allegations of police brutality. S Ganasan, a father
      -AFP  -  296 words
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Bush, Gore teams launch talks to solve row over vote End to US fiasco sought
      300 13 Reuters WASHINGTON Vice-President Al Gore is considering a proposal to end the stalemate over Florida’s vote count. The proposal calls for his election opponent Mr George W Bush to agree to a manual re-count throughout
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      Lock icon Rent too high, so mayor skips town
      80 13 justbelieveil Life is getting a little too rich in Silicon Valley's self-proclaimed “City of Good Living" where real estate is so expensive that even the mayor is being forced to quit and leave town. San Carlos mayor Dave Buckmaster said he and his
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      Lock icon Fazed lawmakers go home
      144 13 -AFP WASHINGTON Baffled by a deadlock in the presidential election, US lawmakers have decided to take a near monthlong break. They say their efforts to set a legislative agenda are hampered by the climate of uncertainty. In Washington, a temporary funding measure hastily negotiated by Congress
      -AFP  -  144 words
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      Lock icon Palestinians adopt 'death on roads' strategy
      218 13 Reuters JERUSALEM Israel erected blockades around Palestinianruled towns in the West Bank yesterday after gunmen killed four of its citizens. Israel accused the Palestinians of adopting a “death on the roads” strategy. The areas were sealed off for security reasons after the Israelis were
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        Lock icon Snake-bite deaths rife
        102 13 -AFP COLOMBO More than 600 people are killed annually in Sri Lanka as a result of snake bites. This is one of the highest rates of fatalities in the world, a newspaper said yesterday. The state-run Daily News said the number of women killed was twice the
        -AFP  -  102 words
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        Lock icon India probes crash
        95 13 -AFP NEW DELHI The Indian Air Force does not rule out Pakistani involvement in the weekend downing of a military helicopter. The aircraft went down with the loss of 12 lives on Sunday about 90km south of the Gujarat district of Nalia while on a routine mission
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        Lock icon US spearheads e-tickets
        114 13 AP WASHINGTON US airlines are leading the steady march of e-tickets. In a field where profit margins have been small, every paperless ticket saves $4 to $5 in labour and materials. A Northwest Airlines spokesman said: “We no longer have to be like the store where the
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        Lock icon Skinheads sentenced
        116 13 -AFP COTTBUS, Germany Eleven German skinheads who caused the death of an Algerian asylum seeker in a chase in 1999 were jailed for up to three years. Three of the youths, aged 17 to 20 at the time of the crime in the eastern city of Guben, received
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        Lock icon Lawmaker's rough ride
        85 13 AP FREDERICTON, New Brunswick The campaign plane of Canadian Alliance leader Mr Stockwell Day made a rough landing on Monday after losing power in its left engine. No one was injured when the Boeing 737 landed hard at the airport in Fredericton in eastern Canada. Passengers said
        – AP  -  85 words
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      Lock icon Poker seeks top TV slot
      323 15 Reuters 250 players vie for s2.smtop prize LONDON Hundreds of amateur poker players sat down among the world’s best on Monday tojplay for the biggest prize in history, a cool £1 million ($2.5 million). But with just a handful of prizes on offer to the
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      Lock icon A view of the future
      135 15 Comdex 2000, now in Las Vegas, offers a look at the latest computer gadgets (Left) Mary Star man of Microsoft holds a new generation pocket PC from Compaq. The pocket PC with a wireless connection allows the user to personalise and use the Internet to
      Pics: Reuters, AFP; Pic: Reuters  -  135 words
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        Lock icon India captures avian spy
        105 15 -AFP NEW DELHI Indian border guards have captured a falcon which they believe was being used by Pakistani intelligence agencies as a “spy hawk”. “The falcon was fitted with a transmitter, which we have sent away for examination,” said B D Sharma, border force deputy inspector
        -AFP  -  105 words
      • Article
        Lock icon High on love
        117 15 Reuters AREQUIPA, Peru Twenty couples will remember their wedding day in Peru as the height of romance, literally. At the weekend, they tied the knot 5,825 metres up, atop Mt Misti, the volcano that dominates the southern city of Arequipa, in what organisers say may be the
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        Lock icon Number blunder
        76 15 Reuters BERLIN Three American exchange students did little to enhance the credibility of their country’s voting system by failing miserably to count the number of chairs in the auditorium on a German television game show. In a less-than-subtle dig at the US failure to produce a president-elect after
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        Lock icon Marathon man
        82 15 Reuters COPENHAGEN Allan Hansen, a 54-year-old Dane, has run his 88th marathon this year an unofficial world record and says he aims to complete 105 races before the end of 2000. Mr Hansen finished Sunday’s marathon in Copenhagen in three hours and 55 minutes. The Guinness Book of
        – Reuters  -  82 words
    • web cites
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        Lock icon Break these chains
        40 15 One man obsessed with the means of incarceration is showcases them on a website. Yossie's Handcuff Collection at Blacksteel.com/~yossie/hcs.html will lead you into the bizarre world of antique handcuffs, leg irons and other types of draconian restraints.
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        Lock icon Back to the future
        50 15 Travelling through time to the pastor future at will never cease to tickle the imagination of sci-fi fans. At Time-travel.com, you can join the "greatest scientific quest in the history of mankind" and study the nature of time and how our understanding has changed through history.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      128 14 w 6 out of 10 diabetics in Singapore do not know they have diabetes. mmm Are you one of them? If you’re over 40, overweight, or have a family history of diabetes, go for a blood sugar test every year. People with diabetes often don’t have any symptoms. If left
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Brunei Sultan to help Hyundai
      220 16 I Reuters SEOUL The Sultan of Brunei has agreed to a request from visiting President Kim Dae Jung to help out South Korea’s biggest builder, now on the verge of insolvency, by settling the sultanate’s bills with the company quickly. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah agreed to
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      Lock icon Rochefort suffers a multi-million dollar hernia
      218 16 -AFP PARIS French actor Jean Rochefort, slated to play the leading role in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, has suffered a hernia, triggering what could prove to be one of the most expensive film write-offs in history. Shooting on the US$32 million ($56
      -AFP; Pic: AFP  -  218 words
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      Lock icon Aga Khan sells family jewels for charity
      107 16 -AFP GENEVA The Aga Khan, spiritual head of the Ismaili sect of Shiite Muslims, is selling a sumptuous collection of jewels belonging to his late grandmother, Begum Om Habibeh. The “crown jewel” of the 19piece collection being auctioned by Sotheby’s today is a
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      Lock icon Mrs Blair kills another book on her family
      137 16 AP LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife has won a second court battle over their family’s privacy, gaining an injunction to prevent publication of material about life inside 10 Downing Street. Cherie Blair, a lawyer, took legal action against Nel Lister,
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      Lock icon Sihanouk takes Jiang on Angkor tour
      251 17 -AP SI EM REAP, Cambodia Chinese President Jiang Zemin capped a historic trip to Cambodia with a tour of the temples of Angkor and King Norodom Sihanouk as his guide. Mr Jiang flew from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap yesterday to visit four of
      -AP; Pic: AFP  -  251 words
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      Lock icon Hongkong's monkey man now an ad icon
      143 17 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong’s long-suffering “monkey man” and his primate pal have a new sideline advertising. The story of 90-year-old Chan Yat-biu and Kam Ying hit the headlines when they were separated by wildlife officials as the Kowloon City hawker did not have a
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      Lock icon Fujimori wants me dead, says ex-spy chief
      272 17 Reuters MEXICO CITY Peru’s former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos, who went into hiding last month, says President Alberto Fujimori wants to silence him. “Fujimori is desperate,” he told the Mexican magazine Epoca in an interview. “He is not looking for me for justice...
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  • STREATS easy
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      Lock icon Andy Hui gets serious about celluloid
      464 19  -  by Kwok AFTER three years away from the big screen, Hongkong singer Andy Hui is determined to make an impact on cinema-goers with his newest film, Marooned. "You can say, wo shi chong chu jiang hu (coming out of the wilderness),” said Andy in
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      Lock icon Last chance to get in on the Streats Party
      424 20 UAUCOC nrnCflC X v Europa Beach Bor at the Big Splash (East Coast Parkway) WHEN Today, 7pm onwards WHO Streats readers who are above years old BABES who hit the Streats Party at Europa Beach Bar@East Coast tonight are in for
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      Lock icon Life's a beach
      377 22  -  hour by Cara van Miriah THINK sand. Think surf. Think suntan. Think sunkissed bodies under blue skies. If, by now, you are thinking Baywatch, stop. You don’t have to go that far. While for most of us in Singapore, the beach is recreational, for some, it is
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon CHARMED
          58 25 10pm,TCS 5 k There is a reason why Wk this show is so sucmk cessful and its called illl cleavage. This week, 0 the heaving bosoms H 0 get really agitated ĔW when the sisters enW counter a demon who makes film images come alive. And so, the Halliwells
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          Lock icon RAN
          69 25 10pm, Central Directed by renowned Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa, this adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear won an Oscar in 1986 for Best Costume Design. Set in the 16th century, it tells the story of an old lord who disinherits his most filial son in a moment of anger. He
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          Lock icon NBA – ORLANDO MAGIC VS SACRAMENTO KINGS
          54 25 NBA ORLANDO MAGIC VS SACRAMENTO KINGS Bpm, ESPN (SCV 23) Basketball fans should i go wild over this I match. Chris Webber I and Jason Williams of 1 the Sacramento Kings are pitted against the impressive might of Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady of Orlando Magic. Watch out for Williams’
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          Lock icon TO HEART
          83 25 10.30 pm, VV Drama (SCV 55) This Japanese drama stars Dohmoto Tsuyoshi as Yuji, a professional boxer who trains hard. Fukada Kyoko is Tohko, a young lady who works at a local crepe shop. They meet at a video store where they ridicule each other’s choice of tape.
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          Lock icon KISS THE GIRLS
          83 25 10pm,Cinemax (SCV 59) Kate McTiernan is almost murdered by a serial killer who picks his [0 victims according WWk to their good looks I and talents. Kate is I aided in her battle I by Dr Alex Cross, a forensic psychologist, who has a per- r sonal
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      Lock icon Mop-topped chart-toppers
      211 25 Ex-boss of the Beatles' US record label tells ofhowhe nearlyshut the door on the Fab Four Reuters LOS ANGELES The former boss of the Beatles’ US record label on Monday recalled signing the group over the advice of a colleague who had put down the Fab Four as
      – Reuters  -  211 words
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      Lock icon Can Singaporeans be gracious?
      343 26 Just one question It is difficult to teach someone social graces especially if he or she is an adult One's behaviour often becomes a habit that is hard to break. It is the same as smoking. Smokers know that smoking is bad for health but they
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    • easyStreats sports people
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        Lock icon 'WTA taking advantage of my daughters'
        328 32 AP A WEEK after Tiger Woods expressed his discontent with the PGA Tour, the father of Venus and Serena Williams said on Monday that his daughters were being taken advantage of by the Women’s Tennis Association. Although the specific complaints vary, Richard Williams drew
        – AP  -  328 words
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        Lock icon Flying Woods
        232 32 -AFP BANGKOK Tiger Woods has found a way to get around Bangkok’s chaotic traffic. He will travel each day to the Alpine Golf and Sports Club on the city’s outskirts by helicopter. The world No 1 is in the Thai capital for the US$l.3 million ($2.26 million) Johnnie
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        217 32 -AFP ISTANBUL French playmaker Zinedine Zidane on Monday brushed aside speculation that he was ready to quit Italian Serie A side Juventus. Zidane was jostled by fans last week at Turin airport after being blamed for his team’s Champions League exit because of his sending-off
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        464 33 LONDON England manager Peter Taylor has been forced to come face to face with the consequences of his youth policy. He has lost the cutting edge of his squad and discovered how determined Italy is to expose his youngsters’ frailties, reported Soccernet.
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        139 33 Reuters DUBLIN Ireland captain Roy Keane will miss out on winning his 50th international cap after pulling out of today’s soccer friendly with Finland because of a sore hamstring. Striker Niall Quinn, who needs just one goal to break the Irish scoring record he shares
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        344 34 -AP EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey Bad boy Rasheed Wallace had 16 points, 11 rebounds, four blocks and another technical foul as the Portland Trail Blazers began their seven-game, 10-day road trip with a 94-82 victory over the New Jersey Nets. It was
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        245 34 Bloomberg NEW YORK Boston Celtics forward Antoine Walker has been fined U 552,500 (554,370) by the National Basketball Association for verbally abusing a game official during the 83-85 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. The fine comes after he received a technical foul in the
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        319 35 Reuters NEW YORK Seventeen-year-old Kim Clijsters breezed into the Chase Championships like a breath of fresh air after being awarded a place in the 16-player field when some of the Tour’s established stars pulled out. “I wasn’t really expecting to play here. This
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        418 35 -AFP, Reuters BANGKOK -Thailand manager Virath Chanpanich is confident his team can overcome Malaysia and book a Tiger Cup final spot. With the exception of striker Worrawut Srimaka, who earned a red card and a one-match ban in Thailand’s victory over the Philippines, the
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