Today, 19 July 2001

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    4 1 TODAY Thursday ju|yi9i2(m mo-a^be/i^mo
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    Dr M targets bad debt, old friend
    385 1  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim by za ckari a ©news tod ay. com. sg IN a manoeuvre that could lay the blame for a series of unpopular decisions at the doorstep of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin, and further isolate him, the Malaysian Government
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    Double standards? No, they are different issues, says MP
    332 1  -  Ng Boon Yian by boony ian@ne wsto day.com.sg WHEN East Coast GRC MP Chng Hee Kok recently suggested shaming repeat littering offenders by pinning their photographs on community notice boards, a reader was livid. He wanted to know why the same
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  • HOT NEWS
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      The cheapest in the East
      317 2  -  Ivay Tan by i vay @newstod ay. com. sg A NEW benchmark has been set for 99-year leasehold property in the eastern area of Singapore. City Developments Limited (CDL) yesterday launched its Changi Rise Condominium at an average of $475 per square foot (psf) a
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      Lock icon Foreigners make up 26% of population
      136 2 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE citizens made up 74 per cent of the country's population last year, compared to 86 per cent 10 years earlier. The rest are permanent residents seven per cent last year, up from four per cent in 1990 and non-residents such
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    • Article
      Partner of choice?
      113 2  -  Lee Ching Wern SINGAPORE must double its efforts if it wants to become the partner of choice in Asia again. Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs Professor S Jayakumar said this at the Singapore International Foundation's Singapore Student Symposium held at RELC Auditorium yesterday. One way is
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      Pakistani boy in critical condition
      131 2 A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Pakistani boy, visiting Singapore for the first time, suffered serious multiple injuries when he was knocked down by a car along Balmoral Road on Tuesday afternoon. Muhammad Raza Fazal, who was with his family at the time of the accident, is now in
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      Changes mind on suing Boeing
      231 2  -  Elaine Quek ONE of the families suing Boeing for the Silk Air crash has dropped its suit against the aircraft maker. In the last day of the Silk Air trial yesterday, Mr Thomas San Oey and Mdm Ruby Rachel Joseph were called to the witness
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      Lock icon MCDS work-life grant
      209 3 Channel News Asia THE Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) is looking into providing a grant to help companies set up "Work-Life" strategies. These can be part of a company's business plan to help employees balance work and family. MCDS found that only three per cent
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      The clock ticks
      377 3 On eve of Indonesian D-day, still no solution in sight JAKARTA Political horse-trading and claims of compromise were the order of the day as the clock ticked towards tomorrow's deadline, set by President Abdurrahman Wahid. He has threatened to declare a state of emergency at 6pm tomorrow,
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      New York Times tip to pass SAT
      230 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim by z acka ri a @n ewsto d ay.com .sg TO prepare for the verbal component of the SATI test, Singapore students should start reading New York Times, particularly its business and review sections, said a US-based researcher. Apart from
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    • Article
      Bribe fine
      108 4 TWO former employees of Bata Shoes (Singapore) thought they could enrich themselves through bribes. In the end, they found themselves poorer when they were ordered to pay hefty fines for their offences. Ho Leong Heong, 50, was in charge of sourcing and ordering footwear from suppliers in Hong
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      Stiffer penalty
      98 4 THE injuries suffered by a snatch thief s victim have added to the thief's punishment. Mohd Hamali Bin Yusoff, 20, was sentenced to three years' jail and six strokes of the cane yesterday for snatching a gold chain and pendant off an elderly woman. She fell and fractured
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      Cheaper COEs
      74 4 THE Open Category Certificate of Entitlement (COE) under the open bidding system was $1,296 cheaper this time around. A total of 654 people got $27,445 Open Category COEs in the second round of the open bidding system. There were 670 August COEs available. A total of 1,819 bids
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      309 4 _v INFORMATICS M |L IvP COMPUTER SCHOOL M The Leader in IT Training and Education "A Degree siill counts"" Computer Times. 30 May 2001 w Soar High. ri^J^ Climb new heights as i world-class IT achiever, it GAIN A DEGREE FROM UNITED KINGDOM. UCE University of Central England in Birmingham
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    • Miscellaneous
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      99 4 READ 0N... Click and store A camera that writes images to CD-RWs/16 The kid's Cruz-ing Cruise and hot Spanish siren an item months after his separation/20 Beating the odds Jurassic Park 111 director Joe Johnson tries his hand at beating Spielberg/22 Not only for women With some help, men can
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  • LETTERS
    • Letter
      Unequal shame
      259 6  -  Roland Ang Is MP employing double standards here? THE MP for the East Coast GRC, Mr Chng Hee Kok, recently called for a review of the Corrective Work Order (CWO). He recommended shaming offenders by having them perform CWO at their precincts so that they will suffer the
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    • Letter
      ESPN-SCV's football rights deprive some
      171 6  -  Khoo Kah Choon I AM writing to register my disappointment on ESPN/SCV's exclusive rights to show "live" English Premier League matches next season. I do understand that m the ongoing ratings war among the television networks, SCV's coup is an inevitable consequence in repackaging its
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    • Letter
      Town Council will act against pilfering
      218 6 WE are writing in response to the letter "Greedy cleaners steal bags that help charity" by Mr Alex Au (Today July 11). The SPD Green Earth Programme is a recycling programme in aid of The Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) and fully supported
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    • Letter
      Not prudent to use CPF for business
      276 6 WE refer to the letter, "Put levy in retirement fund" by Mohamad Rosle Ahmad (Today, July 6). The writer suggested that the resale levy payments collected by HDB from lessees for the sale of their flats could be invested in a special retirement
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    • Letter
      Ogling and dressing
      142 6  -  Gok Liang Song I REFER to the letter "Excuse me, NUS guys ogle too" (Today, July 18). The writer is spot-on that the NUS male population ogle at female students. The crux of the problem is: Indecent and immodest dressing among female students. The Office of Student
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      159 7 MteCaptainsof Lives WALK-IN INTERVIEW Date :20 July &27 July 2001 (Friday) 4B^lH Time I.oopm 7.00pm Venue CISCO Centre II BM^ 20 JalanAfifi #02-01 Singapore *****9 (10 minutes walk from Paya Lebar MRT Station) In a career that constantly challenges your every decision, you can be sure that the rewards are
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Bishan Loft a hot draw
      293 8  -  Tan Hwee Yee Competitive pricing has hundreds joining queue by reporter@newstoday,com.sg THE latest executive condominium (EC) project and probably the hottest in the market yet will be launched on Saturday. The 384-unit leasehold Bishan Loft (picture) in central Bishan (near the MRT station), is priced
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      StarHub-NTT alliance to speed up Net traffic
      320 8  -  Chan Chao Peh by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg STARHUB is integrating its Internet Exchange (EX) network with that of NTT Communication Coporation's global top level network, which will result in faster connections for Star Hub customers. NTT Com, a subsidiary of Star Hub shareholder NTT Corporation,
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      Lock icon MAS request to increase airfares approved
      218 8 Be mama KUALA LUMPUR The government yesterday approved Malaysia Airlines' request to raise airfares by an average of 51.8 per cent for routes within Peninsular Malaysia. Fares for flights between the Peninsula and Sabah and Sarawak will remain unchanged. There will also be no
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    • $ Market Watch
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        Deutsche cuts SIA growth forecast
        88 8 DEUTSCHE Bank Asia Equity Research has lowered its passenger and cargo volumes forecast for Singapore Airlines on the back of the weakness in non-oil domestic exports. It cut its forecast for SlA's year to March passenger volume growth to 3.1 per cent from five per
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        Startech to raise $4.2m from IPO
        85 8 STARTECH Electronics, maker of electronic components, plans to raise $4.2 million in an IPO launched yesterday. It is offering 13 million new shares at 32 cents each. Ten per cent of the shares are for public subscription with the rest for private publication. The
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        Sats seeks to expand India presence
        83 8 SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services said it is in talks with Indian Hotels Co to form an aircatering venture which will handle the catering business of Indian Hotels and the Taj Group. It will take 49 per cent of the venture, with the rest taken
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        Magnecomp to report loss
        88 8 MAGNECOMP International, which makes computer disk drive components, said that it will report a loss for the half year ended in June because of lower-than-expected demand for personal computers. A Bloomberg report said that demand for suspension assemblies, disk drive parts that make up 69 per
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        Your S$1 buys...
        27 8 US$ 0.5457 UK£ 0.3884 Yen 68.262 HK$ 4.2594 RM 2.0737 Euro 0.6333 Rupiah 6152.0 Baht 24.990 Peso 29.332 A$ 1.0708 Rupee 25.730 Won 714.83
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      Lock icon Allied Irish says bye
      580 9 Bloomberg Playing a part in Singapore's banking scene not a real option ALLIED Irish Banks (AIB) Pic is walking away from its two-year investment in Singapore's smallest lender 40 per cent richer. In some ways, though, it is going away empty handed, having failed to gain
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      Lock icon HK sets 3G reserve price
      324 10 Bloomberg Telco players say annual $11 m fee too high HONG KONG The Hong Kong government has set the reserve price for the first phase of the auction for 3G licences in September. It is five per cent of the network turnover, subject to an
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      Lock icon Singapore investments in US soar to $13b
      141 10 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE'S direct investments in the US surged more than fivefold to hit US$7.6 billion ($13.91 billion) last year, compared to the previous year. According to the US Bureau of Economic Analysts, the increase is due mainly to acquisitions. With the
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    • Article
      OCBC note programme
      99 10 OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) yesterday launched a 15-year secured note programme that will issue up to $2.5 billion in principal amount. The note programme will securitise assets, including securities, loans and derivative products, both from OCBC and other players. It will be managed by Pioneer Funding a
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      Four set up Tenantworld
      88 10 FOUR local property heavyweights have come together to put up an e-exchange and collaboration hub for tenants, property managers, owners and suppliers. The four firms City Developments, Singapore Land, Capita Land and Keppel Land will hold equal stakes in the joint venture, called Tenantwortd. The amount
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      Lock icon DBS-Thai Danu posts profit
      102 10 Bloomberg BANGKOK DBS-Thai Danu Bank Pel, the Thai unit of DBS Group Holdings, said that it posted a profit for the second consecutive quarter in the three months to June, after it sold its bad loans last year. Net income in the quarter was 40.2 million
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        296 10 SINGAPORE shares traded lower yesterday on a lack of positive leads as most investors brushed off Intel's overnight better than expected earnings report. What seemed clear was that there has been no convincing recovery outlook for the US. The ST index fell 10.96 points to 1,627.82 on 266 million
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        Malaysia
        165 10 KUALA LUMPUR It was another brisk day on the local bourse. Buying activity was strong, underpinned by investors, both retail as well as institutional, rushing to get into the action. Investors were focused on undervalued companies with a takeover angle, fueled by recent developments on Palmco and United Engineers
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      120 9 4 i,wl When: Saturday, 28th July 2001 RESPONSE SUP Oam to spm) Please register me for The EHh Annual Financial Planning Investment Seminar Where: Westin Ballroom Name: Agej Profession: Income ranga: Registration Fee: SI 38 for full seminar Addressattendance and refreshments Call: 224 0121 (Carissa, Grace) M_ _EtHi Email: Fax:
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Whale bribes
      254 11 AFP Japan uses aid to lift ban SYDNEY Japan has admitted using overseas aid as bribes to win support for its campaign to lift the international ban on whaling. Head of Japan's Fisheries Agency Maseyuku Komatsu admitted this yesterday in an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television.
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      Lock icon Irreplaceable
      143 11 Agencies WASHINGTON An extraordinary woman. A legend in her own lifetime. Irreplaceable. Public figures and private admirers were effusive in their tribute to one of America's most remarkable women: Mrs Katherine Graham (picture), the shy housewife who became a media icon. The 84-year-old Mrs Graham, who was at the
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      Dr M's son target again
      158 11 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Deputy Finance Minister Shafie Mohd Salleh yesterday blasted allegations that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad's son, Mokhzani Mahathir, had a stake and an interest in Pos Malaysia Bhd, reports malaysiakini.com. Mr Shafie told parliament that the accusation was baseless and pure
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      Lock icon Black youths told to riot
      324 12 Reuters Leaflets accuse UK police of murder LONDON Black youths were urged by the antiracist group Movement For Justice to riot yesterday after armed police shot dead a black man wielding a novelty gun-shaped cigarette lighter. Leaflets accusing police of murder and demanding the end
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      Lock icon Search for bushman that ambushed couple
      188 12 Reuters ADELAIDE The father of a British man feared killed in an ambush by a gunman on a remote Australian outback highway said yesterday he believed his son was still alive. "If there wasn't any hope I wouldn't be here," Mr Luciano Falconio said
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    • Article
      Lock icon ISA detainees charged
      124 12 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Five ISA detainees have been slapped with charges of unlawful assembly. The five are all supporters of Anwar Ibrahim and include Mohd Ezam Mohd Noor, the youth head of the pro-Anwar Keadilan party. "These new charges are an indication of how paranoid the Mahathir
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      Lock icon Canine cakes to woof down
      51 12 A dog held in the arms of its owner gazing at cakes at a newly-opened bakery for dogs in Tokyo. The cakes, cookies and bagels at Ike Three Dog Bakery are all fat-, sugar- and salt-free, and are made especially to suit canine diets. Reuters
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    • Article
      Lock icon Tax bill for HK hooker
      98 12 AFP HONG KONG A Hong Kong prostitute has been presented with a hefty tax bill after authorities estimated she had earned HK$3 million ($703,000) over five years. The woman, identified as "Kitty", was confronted with a demand for a HK$3lO,OOO. This was after tax officials
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      Lock icon FBI embarrassed by lost laptops, weapons
      225 12 -AFP WASHINGTON In a highly embarrassing disclosure, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations has admitted it has lost a number of laptop computers, some containing classified data. Their absence, discovered in the course of an investigation prompted by the February arrest of FBI executive-turned-spy
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      'Crazy medicine' worries Thais
      411 13 DOI KIU HUNG (Thailand) "Crazy Medicine", it sounds fun enough, but this illegal form of metharaphetamine is rivalling the world's heroin trade. The rise in its popularity has prompted the US military to train an anti-drug commando unit in Thailand as part of its efforts to
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      Lock icon Transsexual's 20-year-old 'marriage' not legal
      154 13 AFP LONDON A British court on Tuesday upheld a decision not to legalise a 20-year-old "marriage" between a male-to-female transsexual and her husband. By a majority of two to one, the Court of Appeal upheld a ruling by a High Court last November that Ms
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Let's talk politics
      848 14  -  Anil Bbatia How will they vote during recession by A DISCUSION in a kopi tiam setting about day-to-day issues Participants: Prof Ec Ru Dite (professor of political science) Prof Ah Beng (professor of the arts, representing the man-in-the street) Prof Got Dough (an MBA, professor of business
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      Lock icon Pak-lndia summit a non-starter
      534 14  -  Dr Vidya Shankar Aiyar Channel News Asia. I by THE important lesson for India and Pakistan to learn from their Agra summit is, if there is to be a "dialogue", then it simply cannot be a set of competing wish lists. There must be a realistic
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      104 15 Be in-tune with the entertainment capitals of the world on TVMobile with the latest from Reuters Entertainment News! We've got the juiciest gossip! In-depth interviews! Breaking entertainment news, reports, what's hot and what's not around the world, downloaded within 24 hours onto TVMobile via satellite!!! The Latest Entertainment News, Comprehensive
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  • INFOTECH
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      Click and store ...
      659 16  - Click and store Reuben Lee A camera that writes images to CD-RWs by STORAGE space is always a big problem that most digital camera users face. In most cases, memory space runs out just after a few shots, especially when taken in the maximum resolution. And as resolutions get higher
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      Built-for-you service
      102 16 COMPAQ Computer AsiaPacific's "Built For You" programme at selected retail outlets in Funan IT Mall and Sim Lim Square allows customers to configure Compaq Presarios according to their needs. By visiting one of Compaq's retailers in Singapore, customers will be able to get the product customised. This includes
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    • Article
      Richer ringtones to come
      130 16 A GLOBAL facilitator of data and money flows in the wireless space for mobile network operators, corporations and content providers, Mobile Way, and ringtones and logo download services developer Digiplug will offer polyphonic ringtones. The sound quality of polyphonic (multi-chan-nel) ringtones, which future handphones will be
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    • BREAKING NEWS
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        Pentium 4 blitz
        83 16 Intel \s preparing a Pentium 4 blitz for the remainder of 2001. This is to drive the chip into the heart of the desktop PC market before the end of the year, executives said after the chipmaker's second-quarter earnings announcement. The company intends to accelerate its Pentium
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        Advanced LCDs to come
        112 16 Sharp Corp, Japan's top liquid crystal display (LCD) maker, said it would start making advanced displays in October 2002 that integrate circuits into the screen to improve image quality and cut power use. A spokesman said the company would spend US$BO million ($146.5 million) in the
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    • DOWNLOADS
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        PSMemoPak2000
        20 16 This application for home PC users makes it possible for you to keep track of appointments and yearly events.
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        CDCoverPrint
        34 16 Are your CD covers not attractive enough? This program lets you print covers to fit a standard CD case. Supporting )PG, GIF and BMP, i! is designed lor use with preformatied CDcover files.
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        'Stealth' and other jets
        34 16 jets For all aircraft enthusiasts, here is a desktop theme which features the F-U7 Stealth fighter, the B-2 Stealth bomber, the B-i bomber, the SR-71 and the U-2 spy plane.
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        AdFree
        37 16 Find the advertisements on websites annoying? This one filters your web connections as you surf, blocking the sites that provide banners. It also can block servers you do not want to access, such as aduh sites.
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        4000 A.D.
        30 16 Try this play-by-email strategy game of galactic conquest. Players expand the reach of their empires, researching new technology to create devastating weapons, planetary defence systems and production facilities.
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      Palm basks in glow of research report
      471 17  -  Sol E Solomon by s olomo n@n c ws to d ay. com ,sg BASED on a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) report, 2000 was a good year in the region for PDA maker, Palm Inc. Apart from China where Palm has no
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      1404 18 Men Behaving Badly Layar Suria Gemerlopan Judgement Night channel newsasia Arts Central, 10.30pm W^m ™>w*m. 3Qpm Dermal (right in pic) has left the flat Mt#» (played by Baby Res 2) is a Four male friends leave their middleleaving Gary with the problem of find- student at an elite college. Although
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  • TIMEOUT
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      Girls charm with wide repertoire
      174 19 WHO says little girls are young and weak, like the Little Red Riding Hoods that we come across in fairy-tales? The Texas Girls' Choir will prove you wrong. The members may be young between the ages of eight and 12 but they are a power-packed
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      Lock icon Haven for Impressionists to open after face-lift
      536 19 Reuters THEY are some of the world's most coveted and costly 19th century paintings, but for the duration of World War Two, they lay hidden in a cave behind a house outside German-occupied Paris. Some 30 canvases by Pissarro, Cezanne, Van Gogh and
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      207 19 THREE-DAY LISTINGS MUSIC THE TWO VIENNESE SCHOOLS DVORAK'S NEW WORLD The distinguished Italian conductor Gaetano Delogu returns to open The Two Viennese Schools series. The revolutionary Second Viennese School is explored with the Lyric Suite of Alban Berg, a three-movement transcription of the string quartet work. The second part of
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon The kid's Cruz-ing
      508 20 Reuters/Variety Cruise and hot Spanish siren an item months after his separation LOS ANGELES Two of Hollywood's hottest properties have been "Cruising" together. Or is that "Cruz'in"? Five months after announcing his split from Nicole Kidman, movie star Tom Cruise (right, top} is back in the dating
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      Lock icon Hanks gave no advice?
      104 21 -AFP LOS ANGELES Tom Hanks said he wasn't on the set and offered no advice to son Colin when he was filming HBO's upcoming 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers. "My son has good chops and I knew it when I saw him in the junior high
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      Too much 'reality' on TV
      94 21 LOS ANGELES At least one US television network has had enough of "reality." The UPN network, which last year broadcast Chains of Love, says it has no plans for more of the sexy and sensational programing that has grabbed hold of American TV sets for
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      Lock icon Spielberg seeks insurance
      148 21 STEVEN Spielberg is reportedly looking to insure his life for US$l.2 billion ($2.2 billion) in England, Britain's Independent Television News (ITN) reported on Tuesday. According to ITN, Spielberg's studio, Dream Works SKG, is concerned that his death would cost them that much in lost earnings. Spielberg is
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    • Article
      Reality check
      131 21 LOS ANGELES Shortly after CBS kicked contestant Justin Sebik off of its reality TV programme Big Brother 2 for pulling a knife on another guest, it came to light that the network had missed a number of arrests on the hot-tempered bartender's record. A check by the New
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      Lock icon The Mummy Returns to impress
      182 21 -AFP LOS ANGELES The critics didn't welcome The Mummy when it returned in May, but the Egyptians sure did. The Mummy Returns achieved the top foreign film opening of all time in Egypt, and has been doing record business around the world, according to its
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      Lock icon Wanna-Be a mobster too
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