Today, 5 July 2001, Afternoon Edition

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    9 1 Thursday July 5, 2001 MITA (P) U»l 1/2000 TODAY
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon A kiss and a plea on Independence Day
      75 1 Reuters photo PHILADELPHIA US President George W Bush gets a kiss from the Philry Phanatic while posing for pictures with Philadelphia Mayor John Street, luring the Greater Exodus Baptist Church Block Party in Philadelphia. As part of the Independence Day festivities, the
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      Lock icon Menem mess
      374 1 -AFP Former Argentine president charged BUENOS AIRES Former \rgentine president Carlos vlenem has been formally :harged with leading an "illicit issociation" that illegally sold )rms in the 1990s to Ecuador and Croatia. Menem, the first institutionally elected eader of Argentina to >c arrested in a corrupion probe, had
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      Lock icon Fujimori's stash
      128 1 AFP LIMA The ex-wife of ousted Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori said yesterday that her ex-husband has about $12.5 million ($22.7 million) stashed away in the Bank of Tokyo. Ms Susana Higuchi said the money had been donated by Japanese citizens to poor Peruvian children during one of the
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      Lock icon Water woes
      115 1 needs. AFP BRASILIA Brazilian President Henrique Cardoso has warned the country that it faces water rationing if consumption is not cut. "If we are not careful with water use, we are going to have very serious problems like those we have with energy in irrigation," Cardoso said in
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  • HOT NEWS
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      The good deed bank
      283 2  -  Leong Phei Phei Deposit now, withdraw when you're old by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg ONE doctor has come up with the perfect way to encourage Singaporeans to make time for the elderly, and the Health Minister seems excited by the idea. The plan: If you help the elderly when
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      Was plane crash deliberate?
      183 2  -  Elaine Quek WHEN the plaintiff's second witness in the civil suit against Silk Air took the stand yesterday, Justice Tan Lee Meng had a few questions for him. The witness was Captain John Laming. Since 1992, he has been a flight simulator instructor on Boeing 7375.
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      Former actress on drug charge
      91 2 A FORMER Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) actress was charged yesterday with possession of 0.46g of cocaine last year. Low Lin Lin (right), 27, better known as Michelle Low, was a Star Search finalist and had a role in Channel B's 40-episode Return of the
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      He could have been a millionaire, but chickened out at final question
      207 3 HONG KONG The man who almost walked away with a million dollars in the Hong Kong version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? said he would buy a car on the mainland with his winnings because it
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      Jayalalitha back-flip
      406 3  -  S Gulam by gulam@newstoday.com.sg AFTER five years in the wilderness, she came back to power in a stunning manner, virtually routing her rivals in the polls. After just 50 days in power, Ms J Jayalalitha's credibility and moral authority to rule the South Indian state as Chief Minister
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      Awarding schools and teachers
      225 3  -  Audra him A LEE Kuan Yew National Education Award has been set up to recognise schools that have excelled in their national education efforts. The Senior Minister decided to set aside part of the proceeds from the sale of his memoirs to "encourage all schools to
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      Sultan and PAS in stalemate
      244 3 KOTA BARU A constitutional crisis is looming after the Sultan of Kelantan refused to sign a Bill amending the State Constitution to restrict his powers. The Bill was passed without any debate by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)-led State Assembly last week. The two representatives
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      Lock icon Monkeying around in HK
      73 3 -AFP HONG KONG A male monkey gave police officers the slip and took refuge atop a building, causing pandemonium in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The macaque eluded its pursuers for almost two days after apparently crossing the harbour in a ferry. Its escapade came to an
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    • Article
      The 'gentle' criminal
      168 3  -  Pearlyn Tham WARM. Friendly. A gentle giant. That was how former colleagues and students of Gilbert Chee Boon San described him. But yesterday, the burly Chee, was fined $500 for using criminal force on a student. The incident took place in the later part of 1999, when
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      Competition -for points
      340 4  -  Lee Ching Wern Lee U-Wen Get a hostel room -for hundreds of ECA hours by and chingwern@newstoday.com.sg uwen@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the university semester starts again next week, another round of gripes will follow from undergraduates who live in the East, and who have to spend hours commuting to
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      36 hours of huffing and puffing
      139 4 DON'T be surprised if you see 500 sweaty people huffing and puffing past your neighbourhood over the weekend of July 28 and 29. They are the proud participants of Adventure Quest 2001, the first large-scale marathon race to be held in Singapore. Spanning 36
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      Lock icon S'pore success in asthma vaccine
      188 4 Reuters SCIENTISTS here have created a vaccine that could prevent millions of children from developing asthma. Ironically, the vaccine comes from a gene in the dust mite a creature that commonly causes allergic reactions leading to asthma in children. Associate Professor Chua Kaw Van of
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      106 4 READ 0N... Instead of a heart swop New device for those with transplant woes/ 14 WTO pains Countries prefer litigation to negotiation in settling trade disputes/ 15 Coming to a PDA near you Who Wants to be a Millionaire for handhelds soon/17 Breaking conventions Moulin Rouge director Luhrmann likes to
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  • LETTERS
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      Swim against the tide
      374 6  -  Tan Tong Aik Swim group should not just go by the book I REFER to your article "Sasa rejects Peng Siong's appeal" (Today, July 4). I read with disbelief the reason given by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association (Sasa) in rejecting Ang Peng Siong's appeal to
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      Not penalties
      128 6 I WOULD like to thank Mr Wong Teck Tian for his feedback and suggestion for the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents to "impose stiffer penalties on those who are thinking of disowning their parents" (Today, June 26). Allow me to clarify that the Tribunal was set up
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      Bus info needed
      115 6  -  Teo Chin Huat I HAVE found that, except in areas like Orchard Road and the Central Business District, bus stops in most other areas do not provide basic bus information to commuters. Since many people rely on public transport, it is only reasonable that bus information like
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      Expensive postage
      81 6  -  Tey Thye An Victor RECENTLY, I went to Singapore Post and realised that the postage charges are really very expensive now. I saw from the SAM machine that the postage for my letter weighing 21 grams would cost 30 cents. I have plenty of self-adhesive stamps but it
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      No change in rates
      186 6 Sing Post replies... THE basic postage rate for letter mail up to 20 grams is 22 cents and has not changed. If an item is more than 20 grams and up to 40 qms, the charge is 30 cents. Before, the upper limit was 50 grams.
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon SingTel targets Asia
      380 8  -  Chan Chao Peh for a slice of the web-hosting business by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGTEL is ready to garner a piece of this fast expanding web-hosting pie in the Asia-Pacific which is expected to grow by more than 46 per cent annually to hit US$l.B billion ($3.3 billion) in
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      G-7 to discuss global economy
      218 8  -  Bernama TOKYO Finance ministers from the seven major industrialised nations will discuss taking concerted action to stop a further deceleration of the global economy when they meet in Rome on Saturday, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. The report quoted Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, Japan's Vice-Finance Minister
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      Lock icon Asia Pulp to be delisted
      108 8 Channel News Asia EMBATTLED Asia Pulp Paper will lose its listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This came after the company failed to produce a plan to boost its stock price above the minimum US$l ($1.82). Its shares have been suspended at the
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    • $ Market Watch
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        Horizon.com's acquisition
        177 8 LISTED Horizon.com said that, pending shareholder approval, it will purchase the remaining 45.3 per cent stake in online K-12 education provider Postkid.com. This will complete its acquisition of the entire share capital of Postkid. The acquisition will amount to a total of $10.97 million comprising cash, assets and
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        Inno-Pacific restructures
        73 8 MAINBOARD listed Inno-Pacific Holdings has made new key appointments for two subsidiaries. At Shakey's Holdings, its food subsidiary, Mr Kishore Menon has been appointed managing director and Mr Chay Kwok Kee as executive director. It has also appointed Mr Lim Aik Khai as executive director of Inno-Pacific Technologies,
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        Profit warning
        68 8 EI-NETS said it expects to post a net loss for the financial year ended June 30 this year. It said this is due to the regional economic slowdown, amortisation charges and higher than expected start-up costs. Ei-Nets added the board would take the necessary measures to increase revenue.
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        Your S$1 buys...
        27 8 US$ 0.5484 kUK£ 0.3908 Yen 68.195 HK$ 4.2774 RM 2.0839 [Euro 0.6489 Rupiah 6233 BBaht 24.936 kTeso 29.038 A$ 1.0579 .Rupee 25.832 |Won 710.45
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      Lock icon CyberWorks cuts 340 jobs
      137 9 -AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong's leading telecommunications firm, Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd (PCCW), said yesterday it would sack 340 staff working in its Internet services. The move comes as PCCW is developing new Internet services strategies. Existing jobs are being combined, merged with another function or
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      Lock icon Early show by KCH
      194 9 Bloomberg to announce drop in profits KEPPEL Capital Holdings (KCH) is all set to announce its first-half profits earlier than expected. This is so that they can be considered alongside OCBC's takeover offer document. And the profit picture does not look that good. First-half profits are
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      Lock icon Deadline extension for M'sia insurers
      230 9 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will allow about half of the country's 52 insurers more time to raise capital after they missed a June 30 deadline aimed at strengthening their finances. Of the 22 insurers, nine are expected to complete boosting their capital by July 31.
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      Lock icon Can U Trust It anymore?
      392 10 Agencies Indian mutual fund chief quits amidst uproar BOMBAY The chairman of India's largest mutual fund has quit after panicking millions of investors by announcing a freeze on operations of its flagship US-64 scheme. Mr P S Subramanyam's decision to stand down, followed an unprecedented
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      Property law online
      245 10 POH Lian Realty, the property arm of Poh Lian Holdings, and law firm Edwin Tay and Company have launched an industry first a web-based tool for the management of property development documentation transactions. This portal will allow users to, among other things, manage property development projects, including
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      Lock icon Blair tells Koizumi: Britain will use euro
      220 10 AFP TOKYO British Prime Minister Tony Blair has assured his Japanese counterpart Junichiro Koizumi that Britain will adopt the euro, a Japanese newspaper reported yesterday. The English language Daily Yomiuri said Mr Blair had made the commitment during a meeting with Mr Koizumi
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        290 10 SINGAPORE shares closed weak on concerns over the poor earnings outlook while merger and acquisition (M&A) related stocks got clocked lower on a lack of fresh developments. As the short-term momentum was lost, investors got skittish and reacted to abysmal news by selling. Forced selling and an absence of
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        Malaysia
        139 10 THE Malaysian stock market shrugged off the poorer closing of the US markets with a decent performance that was buoyed by supposed buying support from local institutional funds. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index managed to close the day seven points higher at 598.1 but volume was not convincing at
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      114 9 When: Saturday, 28th July 2001 response SUP (9am to spm) Q Please register me for The Bth Annual Financial Planning Investment Seminar Where: Westin Ballroom Name: Age: Profession: Income range: Registration Fee: $138 for full seminar Addressattendance and refreshments Call: 224 0121 (Carissa, Grace) M i™lL Fax: 224 1651 email:
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      155 11 Rj^C apt ifTTT*s" 6~3&t i v e~s WALK-IN INTERVIEW Date 6 July &13 July 2001 (Friday) C^^fl Time I.oopm 7.00pm Venue CISCO Centre II B^^o 20 Jalan Afifi #02-01 Singapore *****9 (10 minutes walk from Paya Lebar MRT Station) In a career that constantly challenges your every decision, ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■H you
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Bomb blasts rip two hotels
      253 12 AFP Cambodian police say attacks may be linked to extortion PHNOM PENH Bombs ripped through two hotels here yesterday, killing at least three people and injuring seven, as well as causing major structural damage. Police believed the attack was linked to a US$lOO,OOO ($182,370) extortion
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      Lock icon Mass suicide or masked murder?
      131 12 AFP BEIJING Was it suicide or torture? The Falungong movement yesterday denied reports of a mass suicide by followers at a labour camp in northern China and accused guards of torturing 15 female practitioners to death. The Hong-Kong based Information Centre for Human Rights and
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    • Article
      Hollywood actors to get pay rise
      172 12 LOS ANGELES Two unions, representing 135,000 actors, reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday with major film and television studios on a new three-year contract. The deal, which puts to rest months of Hollywood labour tension, allows a hike in the minimum pay scale from
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      Lock icon Engines to blame?
      186 12 Agencies MOSCOW Engine failure was seen as a possible cause of the crash on Tuesday of a Russian airliner in which more than 140 people were killed. However, contradictory explanations were circulating within hours of the disaster. All 145 passengers and crew perished when the Tupolev Tu-154
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      Indonesia has new A-G
      198 12 JAKARTA Indonesia's Acting Attorney-General Suparman (picture) has a tough task ahead of him, filling the shoes left by his highly-respected predecessor, Mr Baharuddin Lopa. Mr Baharuddin, who was appointed as the country's Attorney-General just last month, died of heart failure at a hospital in Riyadh in
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      Lock icon Poor sales hit Apple Macs
      96 12 Bernama CUPERTINO (California) Poor sales have prompted Apple Computer Inc to halt the production of its Power Mac G4 Cube computers indefinitely. Apple Vice-President of Worldwide Marketing Philip Schiller said that "most customers decided to buy our powerful Power Mac G4 mini-tow-ers" instead of the
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      Lock icon Instead of a heart swop ...
      373 14 Instead of a heart swop Agencies New device for those with transplant woes KENTUCKY An American patient has received the world's first self-con-tained mechanical heart the first major advance in the development of an artificial replacement heart in nearly two decades. The patient, who has not been named, is said
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      Lock icon Canadian author dies
      157 14 Reuters QUEBEC CITY Cigar-smok-ing, hard-drinking and acerbic, Mordecai Richler, one of Canada's most respected and best-known novelists, has died after a battle with cancer, his publisher said on Tuesday. Mr Richler, 70, had a career that spanned over 40 years. His works were mainly comics and novels,
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      Lock icon Branson out to conquer Mideast
      195 14 Reuters BEIRUT Virgin Group Chairman Sir Richard Branson has opened a mega music store in the rebuilt centre of Beirut (picture), marking the group's expansion into the Middle East. The opening of the store late on Tuesday came two days after Israel launched a retaliatory
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      300 killed in witch-hunt
      95 14 ARU (Congo) Nearly 300 people have been killed in a witch-hunt around the remote town of Aru in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two weeks, Ugandan military authorities confirmed yesterday. The victims were beaten or hacked to death. Hundreds of others were forced
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      Lock icon Nod for Iraqi food relief
      167 14 -Reuters NEW YORK The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday for a five-month routine extension of the Iraq "oil-for-food" programme. The vote came after Russia forced the United States and Britain to put off a plan to revamp 11-year-old sanctions against Baghdad. Haggling continued
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      Lock icon Cathay Pacific delays
      179 14 Reuters HONG KONG The protest by Cathay Pacific Airways' pilots began to bite yesterday as Asia's fourth largest carrier was hit by scattered flight delays at the start of the busy holiday season. Three flights were delayed by 15 minutes or more by mid-morning, some of them
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  • COMMENTARY
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      WTO pains
      772 15  -  Art Pine Countries prefer litigation to negotiation in settling trade disputes by in Washington THROUGH much of the post-World War II era, the United States was frustrated with the way international trade cases were handled. The system was haphazard. Losers could block adverse decisions. Little was legally binding.
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  • INFOTECH
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      Nifty handset
      521 16  -  John Lvi The Sendo ZlOO prototype shows promise of great stuff by NEW player in the handset market, Sendo, showed off its ZlOO in Singapore two weeks ago. That gave us the opportunity to feel with our own hands, a semi-work-ing prototype of the smart phone that it
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      SMS evolving to offer users text, sound and more
      285 16  -  Angelia Teo by reporter@newstoday,com.sg YOUR mobile rings and a message arrives to announce the birth of your best friend's newborn baby, complete with a picture of the child, a sound clip of the baby crying and a simple text message. This
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    • BREAKING NEWS
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        Online shopping up
        123 16 A study published by Taylor Nelson Sokes Interactive (TNSI) indicates that the percentage of online shoppers worldwide has grown from 10 per cent in 2000 to 15 per cent in 2001. The Global e-commerce Report 2001, based on 830 interviews in Singapore and more than 42,000 interviews
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        No mass IBM layoffs here
        75 16 layoffs IBM Asia Pacific has "no plans for mass layoffs" in its consulting business, despite its parent company's decision to shed jobs in the division worldwide, an IBM spokesperson clarified. The company had earlier notified over 1,000 workers in its consulting and services business that
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    • DOWNLOADS
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        Answwwer
        44 16 This free visual-search robof is based on the idea that a picture tells a thousand words. When you specify the item you're searching for, 12 major search engines are consulted and the results are filtered to achieve the best-matched accuracy for your query.
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        2020
        23 16 2020 is an interactive graphic adventure game where you select a character of different skin colours and decide what clothing to wear.
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        Acrobatic Elephants
        22 16 What's better than circus elephants? Why, flying elephants, of course. Ihh screensaver depicts cute, animated elephants that perform acrobatic manoeuvres.
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        1-2-3 Empty
        21 16 deletes Temp and Temporary Internet Files automatically at start-up by putting some lines or code in your Startup file.
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        Always On Time
        28 16 This Windows Internet utility will connect to one of a dozen public atomic time servers to automatically synchronise your PC each time Windows boots up.
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      Coming to a PDA near you
      390 17  -  Sol E Solomon Who Wants to be a Millionaire for handhelds soon by solomon@newstoday.com.sg GOOD news for fans of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Before the year is out, the company behind the gameshow, Celador Productions, plans to roll it out onto a
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      1338 18 /4eo/j\Corp /A^diaCorp Unknown Swordsman The Golden Dog Idoman channel NtwsAsiA Channel 8, l.OOom Arts Central, 9pm Suria, 9pm Some villagers want to get rid of Idiot, The Golden Dog follows a family group </% j*, 0K I 50 named because of his peculiar of jackals. The golden jackals have g,
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      1376 19 \^J Theatreßeat Q U I Me Courses Musicßeat LbBIB Chinese Classic (right) Creative Movement Lg^J The Beijing Opera Troupe is H. The dance class organised by The Musicals here to remove any pre- I EcNad will guide children in the Hear musical classics like Music I conceived ideas that the
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Breaking
      565 20  -  David Ngiau by david@newstoday.com.sg Behind the garish films Strictly Ballroom, Romeo Juliet and Moulin Rouge, which opens in Singapore today, is a man who's happy to have plain, blank walls in his home. Residing nay, bouncing, skipping, buzzing about somewhere between the two extremes is 38-year-old Australian director Baz
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      conventions
      665 21 Moulin Rouge director Luhrmann likes to take a different route, as he tells David Ngiou classical art, don't we? I think Shakespeare had the same dilemma. There was criticism of him at his time, going: "He's not an artist, he'll never last, because he's too popular." Sure, he invented
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      94 21 V..,,. A FILM B V DARREN ARONOFSKY REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (ra> 'A powerful fable about love and ELLEN BURSTYN nominated addiction that manages to be darkly for Beat Leading Actresß humorous when it isn't graphic or in the Academy Awards" harrowing in the extreme." New York Post '..a road
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Deedee's dreams
      477 22  -  Rachel Lo Wishes come true for this Miss Saigon by rachel@newstoday.cora.sg Deedee Lynn Magno, who acts as Kirn, the female lead in Miss Saigon, is surprisingly down-to-earth. Most people would think that an actress who has appeared in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon is likely to have
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      Who says failure is not an option?
      694 22 I THINK it was ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky who said: "You can be absolutely certain you'll miss 100 per cent of the shots that you don't take at the goal". While that may seem like a really obvious statement to make, you'd
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      465 23  -  Linda Lim by WOMEN today realise the importance of maintaining their looks by looking good, they feel good. Physical well-being plays an important part in one's emotional well-being. Working mothers often find that time is a commodity they cannot get enough of having to juggle
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      Lock icon Tiger and Mickelson go head to head
      399 24 Reuters World's best using tournament as tune-up to Open Western Open LEMONT Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson (right) have avoided each other for the most part in recent months, but they will lock horns at the Western Open starting here today. World No.l
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      Lock icon Atherton the key to England's chances
      474 24 Reuters Ashes England v Australia LONDON Michael Atherton rarely uses a word when none would do. Returned to barracks for the recent one-day series against Pakistan and Australia, he barely uttered a sound. Today, however, it will be time for the Lancastrian to man
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      Lock icon Eales' players back their skipper
      186 24 -AFP Rugby MELBOURNE The Wallabies rallied around captain John Eales yesterday after former Australian skipper Michael Lynagh claimed he had passed his sell-by date. The Aussies, who go into Saturday's second Test in a must-win situation, are saying all the right things just before battle
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      Lock icon Injured Klim will be ready for worlds'
      106 24 Reuters Swimming MELBOURNE Australian Olympic gold medallist Michael Klim has suffered an ankle injury, but is not in doubt for this month's world championship in Japan, a spokeswoman for the swimmer said yesterday. Klim, 23, won two relay gold medals at the 2000
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      Lock icon Fifa president Blatter will survive, but he will be considerably weaker
      200 25 Reuters LONDON Fifa president Sepp Blatter faces the toughest fight of his career this week when delegates from around 200 national associations meet in Buenos Aires for Fifa's Extraordinary Congress. The 65-year-old president must convince them he has made
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      Lock icon Ruiz and Holyfield ready to rumble
      219 25 Reuters NEW YORK -John Ruiz and Evander Holyfield are on opposite ends of the champions spectrum in boxing, but both fighters insist they have something to prove in their August 4 bout in Beijing. Ruiz will be making his first World Boxing Association title
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      Lock icon South American stars to get personal touch for next year's Copa America
      173 25 Reuters ASUNCION Colombian Football Federation president Alvaro Fina said yesterday that he would personally ask South America's top players to come to his troubled nation to take part in next year's Copa America. Fina said that Paraguay's flamboyant
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      Lock icon Fifa worried about'illegal' players
      147 25 Reuters BUENOS AIRES Fifa admitted on Tuesday that it was "very difficult" to ensure that teams did not field overage players at the World Youth Championship. Fifa secretary general Michel Zen Ruffinen said official passports were used as proof of players' ages, but admitted that the
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      Lock icon Thanks, Fergie
      680 26  -  Leonard Thomas Celebrity duo says Man United supremo is simply the best by leonard@newstoday.com.sg "ONLY when the great man retires will we realise how outstanding he truly was." So said Richard Keys yesterday, referring to Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United's manager, the man many love to hate. Keys
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      Lock icon Patrick Vieira will remain a Gunner, insists a defiant Wenger
      249 26 Reuters LONDON Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger (pictured), fresh from signing Sol Campbell, is confident that key midfielder Patrick Vieira will stay at Highbury, British newspapers reported yesterday. Wenger dismissed remarks attributed to Vieira in recent weeks that the French international
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      Lock icon The S-urprising League
      582 27  -  Jose Raymond by jose@newstoday.com.sg FIVE different teams at the top over a 16-week period. A steady flow of foreigners in and out, thanks to a new SLeague rule which allows players to be registered and dropped at any time during the season. Sackings and lie-detector tests. A
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      Hello, are there any giant-killers out there?
      217 27  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg FIVE thousand dollars. We at TODAY are not talking the monthly salary cap for local SLeague players. Nor are we talking about the rental of a Fifth Avenue apartment. It is the gauntlet thrown down by SLeague 'Giant-Killer of
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      Adieu Spanring
      113 27  -  Jose Raymond HIS presence set many title hopes soaring sky-high at Home United. Even the club's management felt that German Martin Spanring was the final piece to the jigsaw puzzle. But the former VFB Stuttgart player, with 175 Bundesliga matches to his name will be on a flight
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        Players acclaim quiet Fagan as a great manager
        761 28 LONDON Joe Fagan would doubtless have been relieved that, when the praise came yesterday, he was not around to hear it. It was only after his death at the weekend, at the age of 80, that the former Liverpool manager came to
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        Lock icon Reds in mourning again, this time over Scottish great
        234 28 AFP LIVERPOOL English Premiership giant Liverpool lost another legendary figure yesterday when its fourth ever highest scorer, former Scottish international marksman Billy Liddell, died aged 79 after battling against Alzheimer's disease. The passing of Liddell comes only a day after Joe
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        'We'll be ready'
        696 29  -  Leonard Thomas Owen talks to Today about Liverpool's title hopes by leonard@newstoday.com.sg THE brief was a telephone interview with Michael Owen, super football talent of Liverpool and England. It would last only 10 minutes and nothing controversial like contract talks or potential transfer targets should be discussed.
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      A world champion speaks
      581 30 The Committee on Sporting Singapore (CoSS) report is set to push the Republic to a new level of sporting excellence. The 40 recommendations made will be implemented over the next five years, together with $700 million in funding. But even before CoSS, Singapore had already produced
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        Lock icon Agassi roars on to semis
        406 31 -AFP Wimbledon LONDON Andre Agassi of the United States, the second seed, celebrated Independence Day yesterday by defeating Nicolas Escude of France 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 64, 6-2 to reach the men's singles semi-finals at Wimbledon. British sixth seed, Tim Henman, had to dig deep to
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        Campbell advised to prepare for the worst
        321 31 LONDON Arsenal striker Dennis Bergkamp warned his new team-mate Sol Campbell last night that he could face death threats from angry Tottenham fans after his £27 million ($69.31 million) transfer to Arsenal. Former Spurs skipper Campbell sparked a furious supporters' backlash with one
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        Lock icon Weah tried to bribe Ghanaians, says coach
        151 32 AFP ACCRA Liberia's former world player of the year, George Weah, tried to bribe opponent Ghana on his last game with the national side, alleged the Ghana national team coach yesterday. Weah allegedly offered players US$5,OOO ($9,121.50) each if they allowed Liberia to
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      55 32 Michael Owen, less than 10 days from tf*"7 hitting Singapore, mm cannot wait for the football season to start >:r^2 In an interview with w Today, he reveals how m k he is preparing for what mCP should be an exciting campaign, especially jjj with the World Cup on mM
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