Streats, 8 January 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p> m/03/2003
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  • 548 1 Part of equipment for Libya’s nuclear bomb programme made in M’sia TRIPOLI Malaysia has become a surprise link in the Libyan nuclear Weapons saga. It appears that many of the centrifuge parts which the Libyans Sported for their weapons Programme were manufactured in Malaysia. Centrifuges are used
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    • 29 1 uuta THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2004 streats@sph.coin.sg mita (p> m/03/2003 SHARE YOUR PAPER page 35 I would be if not for cornea transplants, SARSHER Dr Lim Suet Wun e says
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  • Morning Rush
    • 419 2  -  Cases up 68% on growing consumer awareness and confidence in the process By Janice Wong HOUSEWIFE Foo Nyok Chin’s husband was livid when he found out that she paid $1,115 for a set of pots and pans from a door-to-door salesman. Madam Foo, 61, also
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    • 398 3 AN Tock Seng Hospital’s chief executive, Dr Lim Suet Wun, could 3-Ve been a poster boy for the Human Ur gan Transplant Act. The 44-year-old doctor, who was a the frontline of Singapore’s fight Sars last year, almost went ln d when he was
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    • 380 4  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer MR Zulkifli Baharudin, a former nominated member of parliament known for his candid views in Singapore politics, has a soft spot for humanitarian causes. He has been the chairman of humanitarian organisation Mercy Relief for only four months and
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    • 365 4  -  Extensive, reliable database would help their businesses grow better By Sarah Ng SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore have a wish for the new year: Prompt, extensive and reliable information to help them grow their businesses both locally and overseas, a “one-stop agency”
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    • 468 6  -  Dance instructor recognised for her efforts to train wheelchair users Sarah Ng FOR two weeks last October, hundreds of concert goers at The Esplanade Theatres On The k Bay read the n inscription on a column HI dedicated to a dancing queen with a
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    • 267 6  -  Zuhaidah Nazeer MR Chun Kit Chiong, 47, and Ms Stacy Tieh, 40, are living examples of the saying that when your work is appreciated, it motivates you to work even harder. They have been striving more since receiving NTUC’s Model Workers Award
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    • 214 6  -  By Sujin Thomas DURING the Sars outbreak social worker Lee Lay Beng, 44, walked the wards of Tan Tock Seng Hospital with doctors and nurses. Worried that she might catch the disease while working with Sars patients, she wrote a touching letter to
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    • 124 8 BUZZSTOP FRASER Neave executive chairman Michael Fam was paid $6.4 million on top of director’s remuneration of almost $3 million last year for turning around the listed comglomerate which was on the brink of a hostile takeover three to four
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    • 58 8 A toy company representative changing the battery of a toy gun on the opening day of the 30th Hong Kong Toys Games Fair on Tuesday. As the world's third largest, and the biggest toys and games fair in Asia, the event attracts more than 1,800 exhibitors and is
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    • 126 8 Bribery incident BUSINESSMAN and one-time nominated MP Chuang Shaw Peng was back in the dock yesterday over alleged bribery incidents. This is more than three years after being let off by a district court over the same case, The Straits Times reports today. Then, Chuang,
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    • 136 8 Air security concerns Reuters THE search across Europe for one passenger who did not show up for an Air France flight to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve is behind current security concerns that have caused cancellations and delays for some US-bound flights, ABC News reported on
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    • 138 8 DNA test confirms AP GENETIC testing confirms that the cow diagnosed with the first US case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, was bom in Canada, US agriculture officials said. The finding puts new emphasis above the border in the investigation of the North
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    • 109 8 COE premiums for 1,600 cc or smaller cars already near historic lows sank further in this year’s first tender exercise. It fell 2 per cent to $23,801. For cars above 1,600 cc, COEs leaped 9 per cent to $24,293, The Straits Times reports today. For
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    • 83 8 SINGAPORE will take part in the International Consumer Electronics Show for the first time ever this year. At the exhibition, being held in Las Vegas from today till Sunday, the Republic will be represented by a team of 10 companies based here led by International Enterprise
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    • 96 8 Reuters THE US Navy said yesterday that it had charged two of its sailors with stealing personal items from the crew of a Singapore-flagged vessel during a search in the Gulf. A US Navy statement said that the vessel’s master had reported three digital cameras,
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    • 86 8 AFP HUNDREDS of policemen in Mumbai tested positive for HIV in recent health examinations, prompting the police department to launch an Aids awareness drive, an official said yesterday. “Around 450 policemen have tested positive for Hiy” Mr Prem Jain, joint police commissioner for administration, said. He
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    • 43 2 Qj J HOTLINE 1800 844 5566 FAX 6319 8191 E-MAIL streats@sph.com.Bg IjuGmS ADDRESS News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Block, Level 1 5(*****4) circulation Customer Service 6388 3838 marketing Nalini@sph.com.sg, Juanita: 6319 2072, Adeline: 6319 1627 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS C3tS@Sph.Com.Sg RECRUITMENT ADVERTISEMENTS feCruit@Sph.COm.Sg
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  • Financial
    • Article, Illustration
      791 10  -  Raffles LaSalle is now a well-established education provider in China, but chairman Chew Hua Seng remembers the tough lessons learnt along the way BBr H LSesdaqi Focusi By Choong Choon Yee MR Chew Hua Seng has this warning for education providers here which plan to jump on the
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    • 346 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE The Government’s sale of shares in Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) may prompt Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc (MSCI) to boost the weighting of South-east Asia’s biggest phone company on its benchmark indexes. Temasek Holdings sold 392 million Sing Tel shares
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    • 325 12  -  By ChuaKongHo THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has received no complaints from consumers here about the advertising of Malaysian budget airline Air Asia being misleading. Air Asia was recently slammed by Malaysian Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir for misleading the Malaysian
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    • 510 12 Thai CEOs ride current economic boom in bid to heal 1997 scars Reuters BANGKOK By 1997, Mr Vikrom Kromadit had built a one billion baht fortune from a 250,000 baht loan from relatives as the CEO of top Thai industrial park developer Amata Corp. It took him
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    • 100 12 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), a unit of Singapore Airlines, yesterday said that it is leasing three new Airbus A-320 aircraft to Qantas Airways’ low-cost carrier Jetstar. Market lease rates for a new A 320 plane range from U *****,000 (*****,000) to US$3OO,OOO a
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    • 75 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines plans to add passenger and cargo flights to China, to tap rising air travel demand in Asia’s fastest-growing economy. In April, the carrier will start thrice-weekly flights to Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, SIA chief executive Chew Choon Seng said in the
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    • 77 12 SINGAPORE Speedy-Tech Electronics yesterday said that its electronic share offer had received an overwhelming response. A total of 2,061 investors bought all the 10 million placement shares offered via DBS Bank’s ATM application system within the first 10 minutes of its opening yesterday. The shares are part
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    • 80 12 SINGAPORE Mapletree Investments yesterday said that it had awarded Penta-Ocean Construction a contract to design and build the 1.5 million sq ft HarbourFront Mall. The contract, valued at about $250 million, is for the construction of the mall’s three-storey structure with a twostorey basement. Work is expected to
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    • 505 14 O&M execs accused of inflating billings to US govt by falsifying timesheets Bloomberg NEW YORK Two executives of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide Inc, a unit of WPP Group pic, the world’s No 3 advertising firm, were yesterday indicted on charges that they over-billed the US government
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    • 362 14 Bloomberg LOS ANGELES Walt Disney Co, the second-biggest US media company, said that its board revised corporategovernance rules and re-elected former US Senator George Mitchell as presiding director. The charter of its governance and nominating committee was changed and a code of conduct and ethics for
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    • 252 14 Reuters NEW YORK Hundreds of New Yorkers crowded into a federal courthouse on Tuesday where they were ordered to answer questions about whether they could fairly decide the obstruction of justice and securities fraud case against Martha Stewart (above). The potential jurors were greeted
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    • 248 16 Bloomberg PRINCETON, New Jersey Boeing lost its position as the world’s biggest aircraft maker to European rival Airbus after its commercial airplane deliveries last year plunged 26 per cent because of a slump in air travel. Boeing delivered 281 jets last year, compared with at least
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    • 345 16 STI: 1,835.96 7.24 Wire services SHARES weathered a slump in heavyweight Sing Tel yesterday to notch up gains for the ninth straight day as investors bought technology stocks such as Venture Corp and blue chips on hopes of improved earnings this year. The Temasek Holdings
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    • 24 16 AS AT JANUARY 7 US$: 551.697 553.089 Ss: RM2.239 Ss: HK54.575 EURO: 552.127 Ss: 62.62 YEN Ss: 22.99 BAHT Ss: 4,919 RUPIAH
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    • 449 20 Its acquisitions fail to deliver expected profits Bloomberg MANILA San Miguel, the Philippines’ second-biggest stock, is among its worst performers in the past 12 months as almost US$l.2 billion (Ss2 billion) of acquisitions failed to deliver the profit investors expected. Fund manager Vittorio Gomez isn’t
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    • 330 20 AP PITTSBURGH Cutting calories used to be enough for US beer makers to lure Americans watching their waistlines. Now they have to count carbohydrates, too. But they’re not complaining. Not since Miller made light beer socially acceptable with its “tastes great, less filling”
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    • 301 21 1 at sq ua re ma na r The Year of the Monkey has arrived at Marina Square, ushering in an abundance of energy and joyful surprises. Join us as we celebrate with spectacular performances, arts crafts demonstrations from China as well as shopping privileges and promotions. Come swing with
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  • Comment
    • 853 22  -  Soh what? By SOH WEN LIN The Straits Times AH January. As the wafting aromas shift from turkey to bak kwa, there lies that sliver of a season when the air is thick with hope as people make their resolutions for the new
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    • 267 23 6.•'as celebrate Wi »1 i SHI M ft itf» >■/:, y '•Jlk a»*,. /< IfßllWtlßilSßßilt^ ■9SSaSSSESsSSSiS mmmim on the bay Jff at millenia walk HHll n 3 IT ''Mmm H BSSSB It's Gong Xi Fa Cai at Millenia Walk! 9 Jan -1 Feb 2004 «I Gong Xi Fa Cai Lucky
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  • Vocal
    • 302 25 is really tough. I share ae sentiments Ms Janice Wong in her commentary, friendly or flirty, naughty or niCe (Streats, Jan 6). I experience the same thing at Work. I have a young general jttanager who thinks I am in °ve with him.
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    • 296 25 Association of Women for Action Research (Aware) welcomes the entral Provident Fund Board’s recent P r °posal to launch privately managed P e nsion plans. Aware is heartened by the move ec ause CPF is recognising that Fusion funds usually offer better net returns because
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    • 158 25 IT appears that there is no standardised way of displaying prices for merchandise sold in Singapore. I’ve come across two situations: Shops which don’t display any prices. Each time I visit such a shop, I am quoted a different price whether by the same or a
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    • 174 25 RECENTLY, a relative of mine scrapped his near 20-year-old car. Of course, there was a residual value to the certificate of entitlement (COE). Instead of being paid in cash or by cheque, he was handed another document of entitlement: a letter merely certifying that there
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    • 174 27 I REFER to the report, “Don’t ask me, I just sell it” (Streats, Jan 7). It is sad but true that our salespeople are lacking in product knowledge. This is partly due to top management’s failure to attach greater importance to product understanding. While a salesperson
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    • 418 27 MR Tang Wong Meng’s complaint about slow buses (“Feeder buses go too slow”, Streats, Jan 7) may be justified. It is frustrating for commuters to be on a jerky bus, sometimes holding on for dear life and just wanting to get off at their destinations.
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    • 85 25 HAVE. YOUR SAY E-mail us at str©at$@sptl*€©tff*S|£ or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be
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    • 112 27 LAMC Productions Presents 4 V m? An evening witl) Dionne Warwick 29th Jan 2004 Suntec City ,Bpm Ticket Prices: $200,5151,5120 $lOO $79 VIP Package includes best seats and a aftershow reception in honor of Ms Warwick tr mss» m nsi 2St^ Uve 10th February 2004 Suntec City, Bpm Ticket Prices:
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  • Global
    • 401 28  -  Passengers flying to the US not allowed to congregate in planes under new transport security rules By Khushwant Singh PLANS by Singapore Airlines to include a snack bar and lounge areas on its new Airbus A 340-500 for flights to Los Angeles may run into
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    • 238 28 The Washington Post WASHINGTON With huge New Year’s Eve celebrations only days away, the US government last month dispatched scores of casually dressed nuclear scientists to five US cities. They had sophisticated radiation detection equipment hidden in briefcases and golf bags,
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    • 39 28 Chinese policemen holding down criminals during a public sentencing in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, on Monday. The authorities are cracking down on crime ahead of Chinese New Year, when millions of travellers return home for family reunions AP
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    • 215 28 The Washington Post WASHINGTON As the Marine Corps prepares to take over occupying much of western Iraq from the US Army, it is planning a fresh approach. It will emphasise restraint in the use of force, cultural sensitivity and a public message that
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    • 165 30 PETALING JAYA A dress code for non-Muslim women imposed by the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) government in Terengganu has drawn flak from social groups and political leaders, The Star newspaper said yesterday. “Women whether they profess Islam or other faiths should not be held responsible
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    • 594 30 Mahathir tribute interjected with phone calls about appointment of Najib as DPM PUTRAJAYA Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi walked out of the function hall of his residence here three times to take telephone calls during a farewell dinner for Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad hosted by
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    • 408 31  -  It conducted its first Sars evacuation exercise in Taiwan last June ft. 'Chua Kong Ho THE call for assistance from Taiwan’s health authorities came at 1 lam on June 2 last year. Within two hours, a medical team from International SOS was kitted out in
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    • 93 31 Reuters LONDON A rare feathered visitor to Britain survived a gruelling 15hour journey from Norway, only to be eaten by a birdwatcher’s cat on arrival. The cat’s owner wrote to a bird charity to report the unusual sight of a Norwegian robin in her garden
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  • Medical
    • 318 32 SYDNEY The common cold virus that most people try their hardest to avoid is very likely to be the cure for malignant melanoma, Australian scientists have discovered in a major breakthrough announced here yesterday. A team of researchers at the University of Newcastle believe that
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    • 160 32 QFor how long can infant formula milk he refrigerated so that it is still fresh and safe for the baby? A Infant formula milk left over from the baby’s previous feed should be discarded, as harmful bacteria from the baby’s mouth can be introduced into the food or
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    • 389 33 A Touch Of Stand to win $BB,BBB worth of prizes when you shop at Suntec City this Lunar New Year! Three Guinness Giants Together You heard it here first! 3 Guinness Book of Records title holders coming together at Suntec City! See who they are and what they will do
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 349 34  -  Some computer games can be good for you, especially those which let you pick up on historical and geographic tidbits. By CHUAHIANHOU Computer Times WHO says computer games are a waste of time? Buried within the pretty graphics and thrilling gameplay, some of today’s games teach
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    • 301 35 what can you learn from games? ■anning and management skills, streetsavviness when it comes to interacting people, and a little bit of history. Simlife LEARN how to be a city planner in games e Sim City series by building your own r eam city from ground up. Start
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    • 349 35 Bloomberg SAN FRANCISCO Apple Computer Inc chief executive Steve Jobs (above) took to the podium on Tuesday to announce the iPod mini, the smallest portable music player to hold 1,000 songs, The half-inch-thick device, the size of a business card, has 4 gigabytes of
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    • 175 34 vC AN AUSPICIOUS REUNION FOR THE FAMILY, IN THE COMFORTS OF GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL Experience the festive fervour of a cheery Lunar New Year holiday with your family and loved ones at the Goodwood Park Hotel. Relish our signature luxurious comfort and impeccable service with our special hospitality packages designed
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    • 223 35 BR IN G HO MB ANAB UN DAN T H ARV BS T O F TRE ATS, ONLY PROM. THE GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL Delight your appetite at the Goodwood Park Hotel this Lunar New Year with our auspicious and symbolic menu offerings. Making its debut this year is the Barbecued
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  • EasyStreats weekender
    • 705 36 Things haven't always been easyfor jovial Hong Kong actress Lydia Sum, but she has persevered at work and life thanks to her daughter GARYLIM reports BENEATH the cheerful front which comedienne Lydia Sum constantly puts up, the humiliation of her failed marriage with actor Adam Cheng
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    • going out
      • 500 38  - Politics poignancy By GARY LIM THE Berlin wall was the 155 km divide that stood for all that was different between the former East and West Germany. And the year 1989 marked the start of a phase that changed the face of the world. The wall came down, and w
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      • our PICKS
        • 110 38 CATCH a double bill of Harold Pinter’s plays by luna-id, opening at the DBS Arts Centre tonight. In The Lover, Tan Kheng Hua and Lim Yu-Beng play husband and wife involved in a rather strangely erotic game of sex and power, while The Dumb Waiter features Gerald
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        • 109 38 THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra celebrates a quarter-century with the 25th Anniversary Concert tomorrow night. The programme for the night consists of Dvorak’s Hussite Overture, Op 67, Brahm’s Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98, Dvorak’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op 11, featuring veteran musician Lynnette
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        • 100 38 IF you’ve been bitten by the interplanetary travel bug, watch the Omni-Theatre movie Space Station at the Singapore Science Centre. Narrated by Tom Cruise, this Imax movie takes a closer look at the on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station, a project involving 16 nations. Screenings are
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      • Article, Illustration
        794 40  -  By Gregory Leow SO it has been two months since digital cinema started in Singapore. Flip open any newspaper and you will see movie organisations Cathay and Eng Wah quietly plugging digital cinema in the movie listings pages. But the question for cinema-goer is, so what? Is there
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    • eating out
      • 543 46  -  IV LA mfFFF vw i* t: By Amy Van IT’S not difficult to think of several good reasons for shoppers to make their way towards Gusto after a shopping spree at Wisma Atria, which is currently undergoing a facelift. This contemporary semifine dining outlet with camelcoloured chairs and
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      • 288 46  -  Sharlene Tan HE’S a photography contest veteran who has gotten it right on several occasions and is gunning for more. Aircraft maintenance engineer Liew Tong Leng, 35, won the top prize at the Christmas Magical Moments Photography Competition organised by Raffles City shopping centre
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    • staying in
      • 269 49  -  By_ Gregory Leow BLUE CRUSH ©O©®® VCD REVIEW THE best thing about this movie are the brilliant surfing scenes. To not watch it on a large screen television is a cardinal sin. Big wave sequences accurately portray the thrill of a pipeline (a large, curling
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      • 53 51 10pm, Channel i Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th century England, enter a gentlemen’s agreement. They team up to rob the arisocrats using Plunkett’s criminal know-how and Macleane’s social connections. Starring Johnny Lee Miller, lain Robertson
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        61 51 SINGAPORE FILM SOCIETY SCREENING Today, 7-15 pm and 9pm Alliance Francaise Auditorium (1, Sarkies Road) Admission hy membership (available at door) This double-bill feature showcases Asian films on adolescence and the bittersweet pangs of young love in the midst of growing up. Taiwanese movie Blue Gate Crossing is the
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      • 67 51 BLOOD MAHERS Saturday, 10.30 am Bloodbank@HSA (11, Outram Road) Free, but limited to 30 seats. Register by calling 6220-0183 or e-mail blood.program@donorweb.org What happens to the blood you donate? How can one packet of donated blood save at least three lives? What are the myths that stop Singaporeans from
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      576 52  -  Andrew Fang set for return to bowling after a year’s absence B y Lim Han Ming ANDREW Fang (above), the 2001 Sportsman of the Year, is set to make a comeback to bowling. The 25-year-old economics undergraduate quit the lanes last May to concentrate on his degree at
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    • 311 52  -  By. Sarah Ng FOR nearly a decade, Singapore’s pioneer sports psychologist Edgar Tham (right) has taught and trained athletes on the power of imagination in improving performance. Now, he is part of a national effort to raise the standards of sporting professionals here even
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      • 140 53 AFP TOKYO Nigerian star Nwankwo Kami may be on his way to Japan’s J-League after spending a frustrating season at Arsenal, a press report said yesterday. JEF United Ichihara are keen to sign the 27-year-old striker to fill in for South Korean international Choi Yong Soo, who
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      • 119 53 Wire services LONDON Leeds striker Alan Smith has been banned for two matches by the Football Association over a bottlethrowing incident in October. He threw a bottle into the crowd during Leeds’ Carling Cup defeat by Manchester United at Elland Road on Oct 28. His ban is due
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      • 85 53 GEYLANG United and Sengkang Marine will be conducting trials for their under-16 and under-18 teams. Interested players must be bom in the years 1988 or 1989 for under-16 and 1986 or 1987 for under-18. Geylang’s trials will be at spm on Sunday at the Bedok Stadium. For more
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      499 53  -  Tiger Cup winner Sasi fails to find work in S-League, quits football By_ Tan Kim Han SIX years ago, he was feted by the football community for helping Singapore bag its first international trophy the Tiger Cup. In the final against Vietnam he scored the winning goal with
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    • 227 53 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Minnesota 106 Los Angeles 90 MINNEAPOLIS Kevin Garnett and the Minnesota Timberwolves were waiting for this one. Garnett had 26 points, 18 rebounds and six assists as the Timberwolves ambushed the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers 106-90 in their first meeting since last year’s play-offs.
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    • 274 54 AFP SYDNEY Heralded as the world’s fastest and strongest 22.5 m trimaran, the “Castorama B&Q” is to be launched here today by one of the world’s most feted mariners, British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur (right). The massive boat was unveiled by the petite MacArthur on Sydney Harbour
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    • 243 55 London Rio Ferdinand will continue to earn his wages during the wnminent eight-month ban for failing to report for a drugs test. The Manchester United defender is on a £70,000 (*****,000) weekly salary. Apart from the salary, he will also be entitled
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      467 55 Fulham coach Coleman livid at Ferguson’s attempt to unsettle Saha Wire services London Fulham manager Chris Coleman has accused Manchester United of trying to “bully” the London Premier League side into selling striker Louis Saha. In comments published in British Newspapers yesterday, Coleman vented Lis anger at what
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    • 393 55 Wire services ROME Roma coach Fabio Capello made no excuses for his side’s 1-2 home defeat to AC Milan which saw the league leaders’ 14-match unbeaten run come to an end. The win also threw the Italian title race wide open. Ukrainian striker
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