Streats, 15 April 2002

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    5 1 Streats MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2002
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  • Article
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    587 1  -  Ugly and kiasu Singaporeans surface again By. Zubaidah Nazeer IT has happened again. The Ugly Singaporean and his kiasu cousin surfaced during the scramble for ez-link transit cards over the weekend. The kiasu ones wanted to be the first to own these convenient train-bus cards now sold at
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    Lock icon NO NEED TO RUSH
    110 1 Commuters have until Sept 30 to buy the ez-link cards at the introductory price of $l3, after which they’ll cost $l5. Transit Link expects the long queues to continue today and will open some of its 56 offices earlier. Pamphlets on how to use the card
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    Lock icon POWELL HEADS FOR LEBANON, SYRIA
    190 1 MORNING RUSH Wire services US Secretary of State Colin Powell heads for Lebanon and Syria today in a bid to prevent the escalation of a border conflict between Israeli troops and Hizbollah guerillas in Lebanon. His meeting with Mr Yasser Arafat yesterday saw the former
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon Mind your p's and queues
      72 2 Ugly and kiasu Singaporeans surfaced over trie weekend as hundreds queued to he the first to get their ez-link cards at several MRT and bus stations. AtAngMoKio station, the queue stretched out of the doors onto the pavement yesterday as people waited for their turn.
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      Lock icon Job cuts will ease
      291 2  -  Downtrend slowing, but wait for a bounce: Lee Boon Yang By- Sonny Phua WORKERS feeling insecure in the face of ongoing retrenchments might take some comfort from the words of Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang, who said yesterday that such job cuts would ease a bit
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      Lock icon ‘Reliability key to water source choice’
      266 2 SINGAPORE will not abandon its traditional sources of water even though it will have more choices by 2005, said Environment Minister Lim Swee Say. When NeWater and desalination plants go into full operation next year and in 2005 respectively, Singapore will have four sources
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    • Article
      Lock icon FORGOT MY MANNERS
      101 2 ONE KIND ACT Girl in pink shirt and jeans AS I walked towards a pet farm at Lorong Halus on April 7, a guy pulled alongside me in his car and asked me if I wanted a lift. I was so taken aback that I refused and
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      Lock icon Will you still love me tomorrow?
      312 3  -  B v Cara van Miriah A HUGE question mark hangs over whether Singaporean pet owners really love their pets. There is strong evidence that many don’t. Last year, these owners surrendered nearly 13,000 pets to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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      Lock icon Back to school for tutors
      178 3 Course will train and certify tutors TUTORS will soon have to attend some classes before they can teach one. Training institution PSB Academy, a division of PSB Corporation, and Sky Media, an education-services provider that offers multimedia-based tuition to students, will introduce a training and
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      Lock icon More villain than victim
      285 4  -  Timid accused in anthrax case failed to move judge By Kkushwant Singh DURING her trial, housewife Yong Yuet Mei, 42, portrayed herself as a timid, simple-minded, harmless person. During the four-day trial, which ended last month, she tried to show herself as ignorant about current and
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      Lock icon $30,000 lost in 5th fish theft
      143 4 AN aquarium shop at Joo Chiat Road was broken into on Saturday night and about 200 Flower Horn fishes worth close to $30,000 were stolen. The loss was a blow to owner H C Teo, 45, who opened the shop less than a month
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      Lock icon Haw Par’s grandpa
      334 4  -  By Cara van Miriah ARTISAN Teoh Veoh Seng, 67, can probably relate the tales of the Ten Courts of Hell better than anyone else. That’s because he has been working at Haw Par Villa since he was 13. Mr Teoh lived in the well-known Chinese mythology theme
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon BROKERS’ RECOMMENDATIONS
      494 6 The stock recommendation is the average of all the recommendations submitted by analysts foliowing the stock. There is a total of 29 brokets submitting recommendations but not every stock is followed by all the 29 brokers. Their recommendations are placed on a lto 5 points scale and average
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES*
      26 6 •AS AT APRIL 12 US$: Ssl_B3B 552.639 EURO: $1,620 Ss: DM1.206 Ss: 71.82 YEN Ss: RM2.068 Ss: HK54.244 Ss: 23.70 BAHT Ss: 5,176 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon 'Too soon to write off S'pore'
      337 6 Doubts cast doubts over PTP’s low-costs strategy -AFP SINGAPORE A young Malaysian upstart has put a dent in Singapore’s dominance of the regional container trade business, wrestling away two of its biggest shipping clients in less than two years. But industry watchers said it
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      Lock icon Pelapas turns sights on K-Line
      176 6 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia now plans to poach Japanese shipping line Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-Line) from Singapore, officials and industry players said. “We are in contact with all liners,” an official with the Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) said when asked if it was
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      Lock icon 'Too soon to write off Hongkong’
      277 6 AFP HONGKONG Singapore has fired a shot across Hongkong’s bows by announcing a plan to reduce personal and corporate taxes but economists do not expect this to improve its competitive position against its regional rival in the short term. With the focus of global
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  • STREATS medical
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      Lock icon Screening’s not a screaming success
      485 8  -  It is only useful in some types of cancer By Wendy Tan AN EARLY test for a childhood cancer has been proven fruitless, raising doubts about the thinking that the earlier cancer is detected, the better, The New York Times reported last week. Neuroblastoma is
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      Lock icon HEALTH FORUM
      135 8 QI have white spots on my body. They are flat and not itchy. I’ve ignored them and now almost all areas covered by clothes are affected. What should I do? A These could be due to the fungal infection pityriasis versicolor, or a serious but non-life-threatening skin disease
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      Lock icon Cholesterol-free hearts are also at risk
      333 8 LAT-WP DAYTON, Ohio About half the people who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels. Nearly two-thirds of heart-disease deaths are sudden 63 per cent of victims don’t survive emergency-room treatment, and 47 per cent don’t reach the ER alive. Medical science still has
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      Lock icon Dengue larvae meet their match
      187 8 ap BRASILIA Brazilian scientists say they have developed a bacteria-based product to eradicate larvae of the mosquito that transmits dengue fever. Brazil’s agriculture research institute, Embrapa, said the product had been created as an alternative to chemicals. It is expected to be on sale by
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      318 10 “Getting an Honours degree in only a year? 0 Makes business sense to me. m Jessica Yong THAMES S i UDEN I, 6A (Honsj in Accountancy Studies University of Portsmouth Walk the direct path to a degree in Accountancy. At Thames, we have mapped the shortest and most direct path
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Trim the fat and cut reliance on State
      214 11 MANY of us will understand why it’s necessary to raise goods and services tax (GST) and cut direct taxes. In the global economy, reducing direct taxes has become commonplace as a means to compete for talent and investment. As competition will intensify
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      Lock icon Execs not left out in the cold: MOM
      254 11 WE refer to “MOM adjudication scope too narrow” (Streats, April 2), a letter by Carine Chin. We would like to clarify that the Commissioner for Labour can adjudicate salary disputes which relate to statutory or contractual benefits of employees, regardless of their
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      Lock icon Free rides if ez breaks down?
      115 11 I AM surprised that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) did not anticipate die long queues of people who wanted to buy the ez-link card on Saturday. Implementation of the ez-link system has been inefficient. I wonder why it couldn’t have been implemented in stages.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Not ideal choice
      90 11 V RAJINI suggested in her letter, “Give us another public holiday” (Streats, April 12), that Thaipusam should be made a public holiday. Thaipusam is celebrated only by Tamils, so it would be considered unfair to declare Thaipusam a public holiday. If the Government were really to consider
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      Lock icon The rich will gain most from tax changes
      175 11 MY view on the proposed new taxation system is that the rich will get richer, and the poor will get poorer. And it is not wise to rush into raising goods and services tax (GST) to 5 per cent by as early
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      55 11 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email us at streats@spkcom.sg 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 regional
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      Lock icon Words of war decried
      384 12 Johor ex-MB’s recollection sparks fresh S pore-bashing KUALA LUMPUR The recent angry exchanges across the Johor Strait have deep roots and will not go away soon, a comment piece in the New Sunday Times suggested yesterday. The reminder by former Johor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Muhyiddin
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      Lock icon S’poreans can operate lighthouse, says Mahathir
      222 12 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that KL has given Singapore the right of passage to Pulau Pisang in the Johor Straits to man the lighthouse there. He said that it was difficult to say that Singapore had encroached into the
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      Lock icon ‘Spore would have gone to war’
      81 12 THE matter came to light last week when former Johor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that Singapore had once indicated it was willing to go to war for water. Tan Sri Muhyiddin, who is also Umno vice-president, said SM Lee Kuan Yew
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      Lock icon Twins could be torn apart
      233 12 Wire services HONGKONG Identical twin sisters Lin Yeung-ming (above right) and Lin Yuk-oi share the same hopes and dreams but one of them faces being sent back to China in just a few days, while the other gets to stay in Hongkong. The case of
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon TAIWAN’S N-PLANS
        98 12 AFP TAIWAN considered using small nuclear weapons against China in the 1960 s but did not go through with it after the US rejected the idea. Quoting a recently declassified military document, the United Evening News said that the former Kuomintang government had commissioned a study on April
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        Lock icon KLIA TRAIN SERVICE
        81 12 Wire services MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday launched the KL City Air Terminal (CAT) and the KLIA Express high-speed rail service. He said the new service allowed passengers to plan their travelling time to the airport better and hoped that the KLIA Express would become a
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        Lock icon NZ PM AN ART CHEAT
        110 12 -AFP NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Helen Clark has landed in hot water for having signed her name on a piece of art she never painted, that she donated for an animal charity auction. Ms Clark has admitted that she misled the animal welfare group Save
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        Lock icon CHINA’S $11M GIFT
        70 12 AFP CHINA has given impoverished North Korea a US$6 million ($ll mill ion) grant to mark the anniversary of its late founding leader, Kim II Sung. The “grant-in-aid” donation was reported by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA said the money was a gift for
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon Powell scores first success in peace mission by meeting Arafat but... Still no sign of a ceasefire
      427 13 Wire services RAM ALL AH US Secretary of State Colin Powell called his meeting with Yasser Arafat “useful and constructive” yesterday but indicated no progress towards a ceasefire. The Palestinian leader remains under
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      Lock icon DEATH ROW
      52 13 A Palestinian woman looking at corpses in a hoiLse in the refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin on Saturday. Jenin was one of the towns that took the brunt of the Israeli army attacks. More than 200 Palestinians have been reportedly killed in the Israeli
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      Lock icon Vajpayee faces serious crisis
      136 13 Wire sevices NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his coalition government is facing a serious crisis. The crisis was sparked as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which rules the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, met to reconsider support to Mr Vajpayee’s National Democratic
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      Lock icon Gory pictures ruin Powells breakfast
      255 13 TEL AVIV It was nothing unusual when US Secretary of State Colin Powell sat down for breakfast with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the cavernous reception room at the prime minister’s Jerusalem residence. As they surveyed the spread of freshly baked bread, olives, salad,
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon CHAVEZ BACK IN POWER
        65 13 afp A TEARY-EYED Hugo Chavez returned to the presidency of Venezuela in a ceremony at the presidential palace yesterday after a two-day sojourn as a leader ousted in a coup d’etat. “I am still stupefied. I am still trying to assimilate the process,” he said speaking
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        Lock icon UK BIO-TERROR ALERT
        96 13 AFP BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered 16 million doses of the smallpox vaccine after US VicePresident Dick Cheney warned that Iraq could counter military action with a biological terror onslaught on Britain, the Sunday Telegraph said. When the two leaders met at Downing Street on March
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        Lock icon TREE-SITTER DIES
        79 13 -AP A WOMAN died in the Mount Hood National Forest in Portaland, Oregon, after falling 45m from a tree she was trying to protect from logging. In a sad twist, the sale of timber the unidentified “tree-sitter” was protesting had been cancelled three days before her death on
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  • easy STREATS
    • Two Hongkong stars breezed into town over the weekend and faced a barrage of questions about their private lives
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        Lock icon Wong mellows with age
        421 14  -  Diana Ser HONGKONG actor Wong Hei turned up for this interview in a surfer’s shirt and newly-dyed pale blond hair. A diamond stud earring that looked at least half a carat glistened in his left ear. He looked quite the part of a young surfer dude
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        Lock icon Gigi skirts the issue
        421 14  -  Yvonne Kwok JUST grit your teeth, grin and bear with it. That seems to be Hongkong singer Gigi Leung’s strategy to handle press queries about her relationship with fellow Hongkong celeb, Ekin Cheng. The 26-year-old was speaking to reporters after her half-hour performance at'the TVBB TVBJ
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      Lock icon Small fish, big feast
      462 16  -  Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? Judi Low’s recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals that are easy to do and cost $lO or less for four servings, will see you through these tough times ANCHOVIES
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      Lock icon The end of Nick?
      391 16 IT could be game over for Hongkong pop star Nicholas Tse. His popularity and career have suffered drastically after he was detained over the weekend by Hongkong’s anti-graft agency for corruption and perverting the course of justice in relation to a traffic accident. Tse’s advertising rates
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      104 18 Midnight tonight is the deadline for posting your income tax paperwork. Watch out for huddled raincoated figures rushing up to the various mailboxes all over the country, dodging raindrops from the thunderstorms that are expected all over the island. So if the IRAS gets a sackful
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    • Happenin’
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        72 18 SCF MASTER LECTURE SERIES: scon HICKS GV Grand Cinema 5 Tomorrow, 7pm Tickets at $15.95 Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 or visit www.filmfest.org.sg Listen to Oscar nominated Australian director, Scott Hicks, who will be in town for the Singapore premiere of Hearts In Atlantis. Hicks is probably best known
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        57 18 SHERYL CROW LIVE CHAT Tomorrow, sam www.chat.msn.com/msnlive_feature.ms nw ?id=artist/sherylcrow Here is your chance to ask Sheryl Crow anything you want. The singer will take questions from fans all over the world to promote her new album C’mon C’mon. You can also ask her about Emmylou Harris and Lenny Kravitz,
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        Lock icon THEATRE
        92 18 AUTUMN TOMYAM DBS Arts Centre (20 Merbau Rd) April 18 to 25, 3pm (weekends) and Bpm Tickets at $4l, $36, $3l, $26 and $2l Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 Singaporeans love Thai, especially when it comes in tight shorts and a buffed physique. Action Theatre’s well-received play about a
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        85 18 ANIMAL FARM Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel April 18 to May 4, Bpm and 3pm (weekends only) Tickets at $46, $39, $36, $29 and $27 Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 Some of Singapore’s top stage actors get down on all fours to bring you George Orwell’s 1945 book, Animal Farm.
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        Lock icon SHOW
        78 18 GOLDEN MELODIES NIGHT Escape Theme Park (1 Pasir Ris Close) Friday, 7-30 pm $lO (adults), $5 (senior citizens), $4 (children) The swinging sixties, Singapore-style, is just a few MRT stations away. Be serenaded by Ling Ying, who is known as “Zhou Xuan of the South”. Then, check out the
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out..
        69 18 Donate to charity and have a good laugh while you’re at it. Buy a ticket to Friday’s charity premiere of Talking Cock The Movie. Proceeds go to Action for Aids. Block-bookings of 20 seats or more will get a limited edition poster upon presentation of the receipt.
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        Lock icon From today...
        68 18 The internal slip road in front of the World Trade Centre (WTC) will be closed from 1 lam onwards. This is to align it with the road in front of the new developments next to WTC and to facilitate construction of the new Circle Line MRT. Traffic to
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        Lock icon WIND AND CLOUD
        56 19 10.30 pm, Channel U Yun takes Chu to Jian Shan Mansion to get the invincible sword. Lang and Jiantan are at the mansion too, attending a ceremony. The three warriors fight, and their blood helps to create the sword. But will it be used for good or
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        Lock icon A MATTER OF CUSTOMS
        44 19 Bpm, V VDrama (SCV 55) Lu Fu Ming is a young widow, a Customs superintendent dedicated to her career. She meets Ling Shan, who is being blackmailed into trafficking drugs Hongkong drama starring Wang Xi, Jessica Hsuan and Lisa Wang.
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        Lock icon LONG KISS GOODNIGHT
        107 19 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Samantha Caine, homemaker, is the ideal mom to her small daughter, lives in an ideal New England small town, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to
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        Lock icon Talent agency rapped
        284 19 AP THE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rebuked one of Hollywood’s most powerful talent agencies for exaggerating the number of Oscar nominations its clients received. The Creative Artists Agency placed congratulatory ads in trade papers on March 22 two days before the Academy Awards saying
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      Lock icon Chill out
      174 19 ICE COLD BEER 9 Emerald, Hill Road Tel: 6735-9929 Website: www.emerald-hill.com Nearest MRT station: Somerset ICY cold beers, hot dogs, football, pool tables and rock music are the main ingredients of Ice Cold Beer. Just as its name suggests, Ice Cold Beer stocks beer. Lots of beer. With
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      218 17 <> N gee Ann PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT Centre For Professional DEVELOPMENT N gee Ann Polytechnic is pleased to announce that, effective 1 April 2002, the Continuing Education Centre (CEC) has been re-named the Centre for Professional Development CPD ’s vision is to be a leading provider for professional development of the
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    • Miscellaneous
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      466 18 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Your wishes may not actually shape reality, but this time you’re lucky enough to desire the inevitable. Every so often the Universe slips you something extra. a LEO JUL23-AUG22 Ar fy° u the only grown-up around here, or what? Being annoyed can motivate you to handle
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  • STREATS sports
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      Lock icon Schumacher sizzles
      560 20 German world champion opens 14-point lead over brother Ralf AFP IMOLA, Italy Four-time world champion Michael Schumacher won the San Marino Grand Prix here yesterday to clock his 56th career win in what was his record 97th drive for Ferrari. Team-mate Rubens Barrichello finished 18sec behind as he
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      Lock icon Tiger stalks historic Masters repeat
      301 20 AFP AUGUSTA, Georgia On the fifth anniversary of his epic first Major triumph, Tiger Woods (above) made another record-setting charge at the Masters. The defending champion fired nine birdies and only one bogey over 26 holes on Saturday to tie with reigning US Open champion
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      Lock icon Plenty of bite
      493 21  -  S-League reflections By ADAM HASHIDY THE happenings at Tampines Rovers during the past two weeks could have been aptly titled “A tale of two coaches”. Under former coach Jita Singh, who resigned last week, the Stags of Tampines were listless in the 1 -3 loss to Balestier
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      Lock icon Finley stars in Dallas’ big victory
      272 21 ■AFP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Seattle 99 Dallas 116 SEATTLE Two days after blowing a 20-point lead and losing at home to lowly Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks crushed playoff-bound Seattle Super Sonics on the road, 116-99, to match a 15-year-old franchise record with 55 wins. Michael
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    • SPORTS SCAN
      • SOCCER
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          Lock icon VIEIRA TO REJECT OFFER
          104 21 LONDON Patrick Vieira is set to reject an offer of a one-year extension to his contract with Arsenal, according to his agent. The France midfielder wants a fiveyear deal worth £lOO,OOO ($260,000) a week after tax, reports the News of the World. Vieira has been repeatedly
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          Lock icon VALENCIA DRAWS
          115 21 Reuters MADRID Valencia missed the chance to step up the pressure on Real Madrid at the top of the table after being held to a 1-1 draw by struggling Real Mallorca in the only match played in the Spanish First Division on Saturday. The draw leaves Valencia a
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        70 21 MARATHON AP LONDON Khalid Khannouchi set a new world record in the London Marathon yesterday, clocking 2:05:385ec to break his own record set three years ago in Chicago. The old mark was 2:05:42. Khannouchi, the Moroccan-born American, pulled away from Paul Tergat and Haile Gebrselassie over the last
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      488 22  -  Soccer talk By TAN KIM HAN LITTLE was known about Jerzy Dudek when he signed for Liverpool from Feyenoord Rotterdam last August. But the £4.5 million ($11.93 million) Polish goalkeeper has since established a name for himself in the Premiership with some heroic performances for the Reds.
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      244 22 Aston Villa 0 I Leeds 1 (Viduka 29) Charlton 1 (Rufus 17) Southampton 1 (El Khalej 85) Derby 2 (Christie 46, Morris 53) Newcastle 3 (Robert 73, Dyer 76, Lua Lua 90) Everton 2 (Chadwick 64, r Ferguson 86) Leicester 2 (Deane 18, 27) Sunderland 0 Liverpool 1
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      236 22 LONDON Gerard Houllier was delighted by the way Liverpool bounced back from its Champions League defeat to Bayer Leverkusen to beat Sunderland by a lone goal. The manager said: “A good team is one that doesn’t lose twice in a row and the players
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      333 23 Wire services LONDON David Beckham is back on course to play in the World Cup according to both Alex Ferguson and the Football Association (FA). After being sceptical initially, the Manchester United manager now feels that the captain is certainly not out
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      497 23  -  Bullet pace makes 19-year-old All-Black a force to reckon with By 'Adam Hashidy HE is just 19 years old, yet he is ever willing to grasp the baton and conduct the orchestra. All Black Joe Rokocoko was still in school last year when the SOS call came from
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      112 23 NO Waisale Serevi. No Vili Satala. The Fijian team landed here for the Singapore Sevens last weekend without the two stars, who are busy with their clubs in France. They will also miss the Malaysia Sevens later this month. Said coach Ratu Kitione Vesikula: “Experience
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      306 23 Reuters LONDON Blackburn Rovers’ striker Matt Jansen won his first England call-up when manager Sven-Goran Eriksson named him in the squad to face Paraguay. Jansen, who scored in Rovers’ League Cup final win over Tottenham Hotspur, will play at least part of Wednesday’s friendly at
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      56 21 IN THE LIVING ROOM DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: Augusta Masters: The Masters: Rnal day highlights (Star Sports Ch 24, 4.30 pm). SOCCER: Spanish League: Osasuna v Real Madrid (Star Sports Ch 24, spm). FA Cup s-final highlights (Super Sports Ch 22, 9pm). Football Salsa: The Latin Road to The World Cup
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