Streats, 11 April 2002

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    12 1 Streats THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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    Lock icon Israel vs the world
    549 1 Islamic militants call for jihad UN, Western world tells Israel to stop Wire services THE world is ganging up on Israel and its hawkish leader Ariel Sharon at least in words and declarations. On the one hand, leaders of militant Islamic groups across the Middle East
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  • MORNING RUSH
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      Lock icon SHIPS TO PTP NOT AFFECTED
      86 1 JOHOR Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said yesterday that reclamation work being carried out by Singapore at Tuas, Pulau Übin and Pulau Tekong will not affect ships headed towards the Port of Tanjung Pelepas. These ships do not pass through Singapore waters, unlike those
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      Lock icon E-FILING DEADLINE EXTENDED
      77 1 THE Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) has extended the deadline for filing income tax returns via the Internet or telephone to next Thursday. But the deadline for those submitting paper returns remains on Monday. All returns put into the mailbox by the midnight of Monday will
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      Lock icon BABY SHORTAGE ALARM
      82 1 POPULATION experts have expressed alarm over falling fertility rates in Asia’s richer countries, warning the trend could lead to economic and political problems. Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Hongkong and Macau have fertility rates below 1.5 per woman. The proportion of the old-age population will exceed that
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon Evading taxes? They’ll tell
      374 2 Jealous business rivals Unhappy employees Estranged spouses or lovers Dissatisfied customers WHISTLE BLOWERS helped the Singapore taxman recover $56 million in taxes and penalties in 59 cases of tax evasion last year. Mr Goh Khee Kuan, deputy commissioner (Corporate and Investigation) of the Inland Revenue Authority
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      Lock icon Glitch slows down e-filing
      102 2 SOME taxpayers were frustrated over the weekend when a glitch prevented them from e-filing their taxes. Mrs Lim Siew Eng, 46, a human resources manager, said she gave up trying to download the forms after more than an hour on Sunday evening. “I called the hotline
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    • Article
      Lock icon THE PERSONAL TOUCH
      51 2 ONE KIND ACT Mrs Ling I recently experienced some personal treatment from a civil servant, Ms Tan Siew Ling of the Housing Development Board. Ms Tan was the only one who could answer our questions about flat renovation. She was understanding, attentive and tried to solve our
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      Lock icon Less hassle soon for patients One-stop payment at polyclinics
      297 3 IF you’ve been to the doctor and needed to have tests done, you would have to pay for your consultation, X-rays and diagnostic laboratory services separately. And if you’ve been prescribed medication, you would have to take your wallet out once
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      Lock icon Girl, 10, sees mum jump to her death
      187 3 A 3 6-YEAR-OLD woman plunged to her death from the parapet outside her 1 lth-storey flat on Tuesday as her 10-year-old daughter looked on. The woman, Teng Qan Hui, was believed to have attacked the girl and her brother and sister, aged
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      Lock icon Sold: 135 flats in Sengkang
      461 4 Buyers swamp first day of walk-in selection THEY were serious shoppers. Some came as early as 6am, two hours before the office opened for business. Their buys: 135 out of 933 new Housing Board (HDB) flats available in Sengkang. Yesterday, the first day of the
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      Lock icon Jailed for biting policeman
      141 4  -  Kkushwant Singh WHILE out on police bail, delivery driver Lam Chan Hong, 25, bit two policemen who approached him. He was sitting in his lorry in a carpark along Bukit Batok Avenue 6, at 11.30 pm on Feb 12 when the two came up to him.
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      Lock icon Phone thief gets six months
      110 4  -  Khushwant Singh INSTEAD of servicing the cellphones, Guee Luck Boon, 35, stole them. Yesterday, he was jailed six months on three charges of stealing 18 cellphones, and three cellphone LCDs. Guee was a service technician at First Mobile at Central Industrial Building in New Industrial
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      Lock icon Chee picks QCs from HK and Sydney
      205 4 TWO Queen’s Counsel from Hongkong and Sydney may be the ones who will defend Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan in his defamation case. Mr Chee was yesterday given more time to apply for the two Martin Lee from HK and William
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      186 2 Incomeshield $450,000 medical cover till age 00 with 30%‘ premium savings Call: 6788 1777 Visit: streats.income.com.sg Email: mkg@income.com.sg $450,000 S $6 SB s>> SB w^SSS $3OO 000 $270,000 May 2000 1 Dec 2001 1 Mar 2002 Use your CPF to extend $450,000 medical cover for each of your family members
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      182 3 Don’t wait till you fall ill to discover the high cost of hospitalisation. See below and act now. It costs no cash to give your family the As worth a f e lily the hospitalisation cover $480,000Your company insurance may not be able to cover the rising cost of hospitalisation
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Block lewd Internet material
      125 6 THERE is a simple solution to the problem of cybersex addiction, as reported in “www. sexaddict. sg” (Streats, April 9). All of Singapore’s Internet service providers must be ordered to block sex-related materialffom their servers. This solution is technically simple and seems to already be in
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      Lock icon Get working on customer service
      278 6 CURT replies or blank looks in response to customers’ requests or questions are bad for the image of any organisation. The public and private sectors have their work cut out to shake off their negative customerservice image, a subject of the recent parliamentary debates. The
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      Lock icon The buck stops with us: Tourism Board
      184 6 I REFER to “Buck never stops with civil servants” (Streats, April 10), a letter by Lim Boon Hee. The Singapore Tourism Board apologises for errors made in two of our Chineselanguage brochures Insider’s Guide and 101 Ways to Live it Up! We accept
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      Lock icon SingTel has its lines crossed
      108 6 I REFER to “Our policy on recycled numbers is transparent: Sing Tel” (Streats, April 9), a reply by Sing Tel to my letter detailing dissatisfaction with the way it assigned my business a recycled telephone number. I still believe that Sing Tel should have given
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      Lock icon Let us use CPF to pay for infertility treatment
      95 6 THE authorities have come up with lots of incentives to encourage couples to have more babies but infertile couples are overlooked. Studies have shown that up to one in eight couples suffer from primary infertility problems. Often the treatment they need
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      Lock icon PSA, is it time to start worrying?
      86 6 I WAS disturbed to read in Streats April 4 issue that the Port of Singapore Authority believes Evergreen Marine Corp’s pullout from our port “is not expected to have a significant impact on PSA’s financial performance”. Coupled with MaerskSealand’s departure, that’s a total
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      Lock icon Technology as a teaching aid
      50 6 TECHNOLOGY is having an impact on teaching and enriches education. Many teachers are proficient in the use of traditional methods, but I feel that technology is such an invaluable teaching aid it will eventually become the norm for all teachers to use it. Samuel Cheah
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      55 6 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email us at streats@sph.comsg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. Contributions should comprise no more than 200 words. Letters sent to other
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon STI hits low over tech sector worries
      412 8 STI: 1,715.35 38.91 Reuters SHARES closed sharply lower yesterday, dragging the main index to a six-week low, as earnings worries and valuation concerns hit the technology sector and banks hard. “The market fell due to the uncertainty in the Gulf and the profit-warnings
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      Lock icon S’pore economy shrinks 2.6%
      340 8 Weak electronics demand blamed -AFP SINGAPORE’S economy shrank 2.6 per cent in the first quarter in a worse than expected performance amid weak electronics demand, government figures showed yesterday. Although the market reacted negatively to the year-on-year data, economists said the figures the best since the
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      Lock icon Poor show response could push Pata to move
      242 8 A TASK force has been set up to study the reasons for the lacklustre participation in Pata’s annual travel exhibition in Singapore. One of the reasons the task force will look at later this month is the possibility that the Pacific Asia
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      22 8 US$: 551.834 552.638 EURO: $1,617 Ss: DM1.208 Ss: 71.13 YEN Ss: RM2.072 Ss: HK54.252 Ss: 23.69 BAHT Ss: 5,228 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
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        Lock icon HK FUNDS’ THREAT
        87 8 -AFP OFFSHORE fund managers have warned they will leave Hongkong if authorities in the affluent territory attempt to levy taxes on profits made on their portfolios, a report said yesterday. Currently, some 2,000 funds authorised by the Securities and Futures Commission are exempt from profits tax. In
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        Lock icon UOB TARGETS HK
        78 8 Reuters UOB is going after the high-yield credit card business in Hongkong with the launch of its first own branded card, laying the ground work for future expansion into China. But the launch comes at a time when Hongkong is struggling to emerge from recession and local
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        Lock icon OIL PRICES STEADY
        66 8 Reuters OIL prices steadied yesterday as traders weighed latest data showing a jump in US fuel stocks against concerns over supply disruption from major exporters. International benchmark Brent blend crude started 15 cents lower at U 5525.93 a barrel in London while US light crude lost 12
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  • STREATS medical
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      Lock icon HEALTH FORUM
      146 10 Q/ lost 2-3 kg in the first 15 days of taking Duramine slimming pills. I exercise. Why am I not losing more? A Appetite supressants help you control your desire to eat. However, you still have to watch the type of food and drinks you consume. When your
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      Lock icon Fish-fat link in food chain
      264 10 Eating it cuts risk of heart attacks Wire services BOSTON Bad news for fish. Two fresh studies are telling us again that they’re good for us. Eating fish a few times a week cuts the risk of death from a heart attack or other heart
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    • Article
      Lock icon Screening by photograph
      236 10 DENVER Many parents don’t even think of an eye examination until a child reaches school age. But new research, published in the US in last month’s issue of Pediatrics, says many devastating eye diseases can begin in infancy or early childhood. Experts are recommending that parents test
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      Lock icon Weighing for two
      104 10 ap SAN FRANCISCO Putting on too much weight during pregnancy appears to increase a woman’s chance of having breast cancer after menopause, a new study says. The study, done at Georgetown University, found that mothers-to-be who put on more than 17kg had a 40 per cent increased
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      Lock icon Recognising stress
      58 10 HEALTH FACT STRESS affects everyone differently. Some people become anxious or defensive, others depressed or withdrawn. Others become aggressive or excited. Stress can also bring headaches, stomach aches and diarrhoea. Some people have eating disorders, don’t sleep well, suffer migraines and stomach ulcers, skin rashes. Chronic stress may
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  • STREATS regional
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      Lock icon Expert sounds alarm on falling Asian birth-rates
      153 13 -AFP FOURTEEN countries and territories in Asia, including Singapore, have alarmingly low birth-rates that are below the 2.1 births per woman required to replace the older generations. An expert said at a seminar here yesterday that this is more pronounced in the richest
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      Lock icon KL buys missiles, orders 3 subs
      132 13 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday ordered missile systems worth US$364 million ($666 million) and agreed to buy three submarines. “We are not competing. We are doing it our way. It’s part of our modernisation programme,” Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said. Asked about
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon IT’S A FRAME-UP: TOMMY
        64 13 -AFP JAKARTA A second prosecution witness in the Tommy Suharto murder trial yesterday testified in court that police had used threats during interrogation, and three others accused police of forging their signatures. Said Tommy: “As a matter of fact the whole thing is just a conspiracy.
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        Lock icon WHY’S AKBAR OUT?
        49 13 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has summoned the country’s top legal officer to ask why graft-charged parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung was freed from detention. Judges last Friday released parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung after his wife guaranteed he would attend future sessions of his trial. afp
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      Lock icon FEMININE FORCE
      45 13 Female personnel of the Japan Grand Self-Defence Force bidding farewell to their families and officials before departingfor East Timor at Chitose Airbase in northern Japan, yesterday. This is the first time that Japan is sending women to take on the role of peacekeeping
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      Lock icon School-free Saturdays? Cannot!
      194 13 AP TOKYO Satoru Shiina is upset at Japan’s decision to end Saturday classes at public schools across the country, ending a more than 100-year tradition of six days of classroom work for students. Satoru is 12. He is a student. And he worries that if he doesn’t
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      Lock icon Work-free Mondays? Can!
      166 13 Reuters MANILA The Philippines has come up with a surefire way for curing those Monday blues make it a holiday. The Government plans to shift public holidays that fall in the middle of the week to Mondays to allow for a three-day weekend, which it says will
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      Lock icon Still on the run
      292 13 Five A 1 Q&eda men with S’pore passports Xinhua JAKARTA North Sumatra police are on the trail of the five men carrying Singapore passports, who are allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda terrorist network, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. The police have slapped
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon Elect me for country’s sake: General Musharraf
      155 15 ap ISLAMABAD President Gen Pervez Musharraf yeterday urged Pakistanis to vote to extend his rule by five years, saying he needs to ensure that his political and economic reforms are continued after the restoration of civilian government. “Your vote in the referendum will
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon OSAMA ALIVE, PLANS NEW MOVES
        94 15 -AFP OSAMA bin Laden is alive and well, and planning new attacks, his A 1 Qaeda network has warned. The Arab daily A 1 Hayat said in its Tuesday edition that it had received a statement from A 1 Qaeda, dated March 26, claiming that
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        Lock icon NAPPING ON THE JOB
        76 15 -afp STAFF of the Hilleroed town council are permitted to take a 20-minute siesta after lunch. Mayor Nick Haekkerup hopes the move will put an end to grumpy, tired workers. It is the first time a Danish workplace has instituted such a practice, although Scandinavian experts
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        Lock icon LONG HAUL FOR US TROOPS
        74 15 -AFP AMERICAN troops will keep a long-term presence in Afghanistan because they have accomplished only one of their three strategic objectives, US Army Secretary Thomas White said yesterday. He told US soldiers during a visit to the Bagram air base north of Kabul that the
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      Lock icon Powell pledges peace-time observers
      452 17 Arabs want American peacekeepers; US want diplomats as monitors CAIRO On the second leg of his Middle East diplomatic rescue mission, US Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged to deploy American peace monitors if the Israelis and Palestinians agree on a truce. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and
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      Lock icon $93m Saudi grant for Palestinian ‘martyrs’
      266 17 WASHINGTON It is not just Iraq that pays families of Palestinian suicide bombers. The Saudi Arabian government has paid US$33 million ($62 million) to families of Palestinians killed or injured in the 17-month-old intifada. According to Arabic news services and the Saudi Embassy’s website,
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      Lock icon Middle East update
      98 17 Israel’s security cabinet has vowed to press on with its West Bank military offensive, despite increasing international pressure for it to stop. Israeli forces killed three Palestinians, including a civil servant and a female civilian, in separate incidents yesterday in the violencewracked West Bank. French Nazi-hunter Serge
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      Lock icon Deadly desert camp for arrested Palestinians
      273 17 -AFP GAZA CITY Israel’s plan to reopen an internment camp in the Negev desert for Palestinians captured has re-awakened bitter memories for those who languished there in the first intifada a decade ago Israeli security services detained thousands of Palestinians at the socalled Ansar
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  • STREATS people
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      Lock icon Lift the ban before peace talks: LTTE chief
      139 18 -AFP KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran insisted last night that a 1998 ban on the guerilla group should be lifted if they are to enter Norwegian-brokered talks in Thailand sometime next month “Only after deproscription will we take part
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      Lock icon Will the Tiger change his stripes?
      288 18 Peace talks to follow chiefs image revamp Wire agencies KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka held its breath yesterday as the reclusive leader of Tamil Tiger guerillas prepared to step into the public eye for the first time in over a decade, with peace talks
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon The man of your dreams
      603 20  -  A total stranger named Sunny Ooi might just approach you one day on the street, and you could he on your way to fame By Cara van Miriah IF YOU see him creeping up on you in the MRT or disco, don’t scream he may
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      Lock icon New shows for U and i
      375 20  -  By_ Yvonne Kwok A NATURE programme, a reality adventure travelogue and a giant game show. These are some of the quality locally-produced shows that Media Works channels, U and i, will launch this month and the next. First up are two Singapore Broadcasting Authority
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      Lock icon Soggy offering from De Niro
      412 22  -  This pizza man fails to deliver Stephanie@ the movies By STEPHANIE GOH SHOWTIME Directed by Tom Dey Starring Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, William Shatner YES, folks do get softer as they grow older. But, et tu, Bob? Yup (gulp), I’m talking to
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      Lock icon Does Showtime deliver a good time?
      171 22 ‘Nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas, and Showtime is crammedfull of them! Union-Tribune reviewer David Elliot Rating: V/ 2 out of 4 ‘From frame one Showtime displays an ingenuity, cleverness and briskness that never flags! Los Angeles Times
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      104 24 If you hung the washing out before leaving for work, phone the neighbour as soon as you can to do you a favour and help you take it in as soon as it dries. There will be thunderstorms in the afternoon, mainly over the northern and
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        41 24 The Economic Review Committee (ERC) will release its recommendations on taxation today. If you can’t wait to find out what’s in store, the proposals will be made available on the ERC website at www.mti.gov.sg from 9.30 am onwards.
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        Lock icon From this month...
        71 24 Find out about healthy living the fun way. Health Zone reopens this month with new exhibits that illustrates how health behaviour affects our physical and mental well-being. Level 2, Health Promotion Board, 3 Second Hospital Avenue, tel: 1800-435-3616. Opening hours are from 9am-spm from Tuesday to Saturday,
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    • Happenin’
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        Lock icon THEATRE
        270 24 ONE FLEA SPARE Guinness Theatre, The Substation Till Sunday, 3pm and 8pm Tickets at $21 and $19 Call TicketCharge at 6296-2929 A tale that takes you back to the mid-17th century England during the time of the Black Death. What happens to society when death is imminent and knocking
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        Lock icon WORKSHOP
        42 24 INSIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY: HOW TO USE YOUR EYES Photographic Society of Singapore, Loke Wan Tho Gallery Selegie Arts Centre, 30 Selegie Road Saturday, 3.30 pm Free Award-winning photographer Hui Man Yan shares his skills. This is part of Aware’s Women@Work Photo Competition.
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        101 24 SCF MASTER LECTURE SERIES: SCOTT HICKS GV Grand Cinema 5 April 16, 7pm Tickets at $15.95 Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 or visit www.fflmfest.org.sg Are you an aspiring filmmaker? Learn from Oscar nominated Australian director Scott Hicks, who will be in town for the Singapore premiere of his latest
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        Lock icon NARROW MARGIN
        64 26 10pm, Channel i A woman on a blind date becomes a key witness when her escort is slain by mob thugs. A Los Angeles DA must protect her, and he doesn’t trust her. Then his fellow cop is killed, and the woman and the DA find themselves running
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        Lock icon SWORDSMAN II
        65 26 10.30 pm, Channel U Zhang rescues Fengying from Loumeng, who wants to kill her for marrying Zhang. Zhijun seeks help from her seniors, Menglian and Sanxin, hoping they will deal with Lichang and take vengeance for Nianzu. Nianzu undertakes a series of vengeful acts against Hui Dao Men.
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        Lock icon ROBBIE WILLIAMS LIVE AT THE ALBERT
        59 26 9pm, Star World (SCVIB) This concert offers tracks from Swing When You’re Winning. Robbie is backed by a full swing band and a slew of glamorous dancers. The show is hosted by Rupert Everett and features duets with John Lovitz, Jane Horrocks, the scene-stealing
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        Lock icon Almost licensed to poke fun
        249 26 THE third Austin Powers movie is due for release in the US on July 26, but it does not officially have a name yet. New Line Cinema, wants to name it Goldmember but MGM the studio behind the 007 films hasn’t given its nod despite
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      Lock icon Stefanie beats Britney
      130 26 Chillout OKAY, so the critics hated Stefanie Sun’s latest release, Start, an album of mainly cover songs. But that did not stop Silent All These Years a cover of Tori Amos’ hit song from ascending to the number one spot on the Perfect 10 Top 20 charts
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      563 28  -  Maldives coach tips Noh Alam Shah to fill legend’s boots By Lim Han Ming NOH Alam Shah can become the next Fandi Ahmad. So said the Republic of Maldives’ coach Josef Jankech after he watched the Sembawang Rangers marksman tear his team apart in the 0-2
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      411 28 Reuters MILAN Italian football is bracing itself for another possible night of European misery when AC Milan and Inter Milan seek to overcome first-leg deficits in their Uefa Cup semi-finals today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Inter is hopeful as it travels to Rotterdam
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      416 29  -  Rams need big effort to stop SAFFC’s streak By_ Tan Kim Han WOODLANDS Wellington hopes to be the first team this season to take points off Singapore Armed Forces FC in the top-of-the-table clash tomorrow. The SAF Warriors have won seven matches in a row and are
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      62 29 TONIGHT: Clementi Khalsa v Tampines Rovers (Clementi Stadium) Sembawang Rangers v Sengkang Marine (Yishun Stadium) TOMORROW: SAFFC v Woodlands Wellington (Choa Chu Kang Stadium) Geylang United v Jurong FC (Bedok Stadium) SATURDAY Tanjong Pagar v Balestier Central (Queenstown Stadium) Gombak United v Home United (Bukit Gombak Stadium) All
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      630 30 Liverpool's European hopes come to grinding halt CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL (2ND LEG) Bayer Leverkusen 4 Liverpool 2 (Bayer wins 4-3 on aggregate) LEVERKUSEN Michael Owen’s misses against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League have left Liverpool fans in despair, and England supporters praying there will be no
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      289 30 -AP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINALS (2ND LEG) Barcelona 3 Panathinaikos 1 (Barcelona wins 3-2 on aggregate) BARCELONA Barcelona was on Tuesday left counting the cost of the win against Panathinaikos which helpec it secure a place in the semi-finals. Barcelona players talked afterwards of the stress
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      45 30 Barcelona (Spa) 3 (Luis Enrique 23, 49, Saviola 61) Panathinaikos (Gre) 1 (Konstantinou 8) Barcelona wins 3-2 on aggregate Bayer Leverkusen (Ger) 4 (Bailack 16, 63, Berbatov 68, Lucio 84) Liverpool (Eng) 2 (Abel Xavier 42, Litmanen 79) Bayer wins 4-3 on aggregate
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      603 31 Course has changed, but Woods remains man to beat AP AUGUSTA MASTERS AUGUSTA, Georgia Tiger Woods walked briskly out of the Augusta National clubhouse on Tuesday and was headed for the first tee, unaware of a small problem his caddie had already solved. A wooden clock
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      240 31 AP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Lakers 112 Jazz 82 LOS ANGELES The two-time defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers is putting up its wall in time for the play-offs. Lakers rolled to a 112-82 win over Utah Jazz, beginning the impressive run after Shaquille O’Neal
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          104 31 -AP ASUNCION, Paraguay Paraguay coach Cesare Maldini picked an unchanged squad for his side’s upcoming World Cup warm-up with England in Liverpool. The England game, scheduled for April 17, will be Maldini’s penultimate friendly prior to the finals, with Paraguay also due to face Sweden in May.
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          99 31 Reuters BEIJING A Chinese firm plans to donate 100,000 yuan ($21,900) to the China Youth Soccer Fund for each goal the national team scores in the country’s debut in the World Cup finals. Midea Group, a home appliance manufacturer based in Guangdong, says the goals they
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        96 31 M.OTOR RACING IMOLA, Italy Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya has both vengeance and victory on his mind going into Sunday’s San Marino Formula One Grand Prix. Rightly or wrongly, the Williams driver is still simmering after blasting Ferrari’s four times world champion Michael Schumacher for a first-lap collision
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