Today, 21 March 2002, Afternoon Edition

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    9 1 TODAY Thursday •March 2i >2 2 MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Stocks tumble
      75 1 Agencies NEW YORK The market suffered its biggest drop in a month on fears interest rate hikes loom after the Federal Reserve said the economy is recovering. The Dow Jones fell 133.68 points, or 1.26 per cent, at 10,501.57; the Standard Poor's 500 down 18.44 points, or 1.58
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      Lock icon No troops to Indonesia
      178 1 AFP WASHINGTON The United States said today that Indonesia offered easy hiding places for fugitive Al Qaeda fighters, but denied it was planning to send anti-terror advisors there. Brigadier General John Rosa, deputy director for operations of the joint staff, said Indonesia had the potential to
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      The whisper gets a face
      512 1  -  Tan Hui Leng But why is ISD going public now? FOR 54 years it has lurked in the shadows, following the maxim that an intelligence organisation should neither be seen nor heard perhaps only whispered about But in a surprise coming-out party yesterday, the Internal
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon The man with the plan for Sentosa
      175 2 Reuters FIVE weeks into the job, Sentosa Development Corporation's new chief, Mr Darrell Metzger (picture), revealed that $3 billion will be pumped in to overhaul the island's facilities over the next 10 years. This includes a $250-$3OO million mid-sized indoor theme park, along
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      A looser Whip
      429 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim THE first suggestion from Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was for a shadow cabinet to take on the Government and to give MPs and NMPs a bigger role. It would also promote livelier debate in Parliament and make up for a weak opposition. Then,
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      Bitter-sweet victory
      481 2  -  Francis Kan THE most divisive takeover battle ever seen, started playing out its final act, with the world's top female executive declaring victory over the two families who founded her company. After a close shareholder vote, it seems that Hewlett-Packard's US$2O.3 billion ($37 billion) purchase of Compaq Computer
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      Rabbit runs
      359 3 Minister tells of two months of 'torture' TAIPEI She was the woman who shook male-dominated China Airlines out of its gyBut it's now Economics Minister Christine Tsung's turn to be shaken by the rough-and-tumble world of Taiwanese politics. Ms Tsung (picture) yesterday tendered her resignation after having suffered,
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      Lock icon Laid-off and angry
      145 3 Agencies BEIJING Northeastern China was flooded with thousands of laid-off workers staging massive demonstrations over unpaid wages, which saw violent clashes yesterday. Police seized three labour leaders in Liaoyang after the workers besieged government offices (picture) to demand their pay and the release of a spokesman detained
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      Lock icon FBI to quiz Malaysian over Sept 11
      124 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The United States wants to interrogate a Malaysian militant suspected of being involved in the planning for the Sept 11 terror attacks. Police chief Tan Sri Norian Mai told reporters that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief, Mr Robert
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      Curse of talent
      394 4  -  Chan Chao Peh Can S'pore afford to let Dhanabalan retire? SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew once said the limited talent pool in Singapore, the 300 who mattered, could fit into a jumbo jet. And if that jumbo jet should crash, he said, Singapore would disintegrate. Mr S
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      Last hurrah from exiting chief of feedback unit
      206 4  -  Elaine Quek IN a last contribution to the Feedback Supervisory Panel, outgoing chairman Dr John Chen (picture) has managed to get the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) chairman to appoint the feedback group chairpersons on its resource panel. This could spell a more
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      A boost to recycling
      281 4  -  ■Joy Frances RECYCLING and waste management have been getting a lot of attention lately. And the Ministry of the Environment is going all out to help build an industry that could be worth over $500 million. Last September, Environment Minister Lim Swee Say launched the Waste
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      SIA adds flights to US
      111 4 TO meet the demand for the spring/summer season, Singapore Airlines yesterday announced it will restore the number of flights to the US and Nagoya and add more flights or seats to Shanghai, Surabaya, Hanoi, Brisbane and Frankfurt From March 19, the daily Singapore-Amsterdam-New York flights
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      183 3 A listening ear Many companies hear but don't listen to their customers. They invest in customer surveys. Have suggestion boxes. And provide customer service hotlines. But they don't follow-up on them. One company that takes listening seriously is Sheraton Towers Singapore. The company has work performance standards for listening. It
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Running like clockwork
      373 6  -  Tan Hui Leng with sales staff trained in housekeeping and butlers on every floor SHERATON Towers' success formula is based on good, old-fashioned calculus. "Differentiation" and "integration" are buzz words at the 413-room hotel located near Newton MRT station. Sounds complicated? Not quite. While the departments work
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      Lock icon S'pore rated tops by expats in Asia
      172 6 Reuters EXPATRIATES living in Asia have ranked Singapore as offering the best quality of life for the second year running. Thailand was second, followed by China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, according to a survey by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy. The
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      393 7 NOW YOU CAN EXPECT EVEN MORE. From a NIKON SLR. V JH i^fekhL -llfiB l^l^l^l^l^l^^_^^V_H|ll^V "*S"—^^_H aMuW __i V/t/ BbW i::H b^bMb^bSbw Wmim W i i r f ■FAWmmW \\\m\ \\\\m!£u\\\\ For Less. (ONLY $499)* The Nikon F55. The most attractively priced SLR camera that just lets you do much
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  • LETTERS
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      When big does not mean better
      219 8  -  Benny Wong or why we have to watch some accounting firms THE Monetary Authority of Singapore's new regulations for banks to change their external auditors every five years will start in 2006. I feel that this should be practised by all companies. Do remember
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      Black is also beautiful, look at Naomi
      288 8  -  Kathleen Kwan I READ with interest Ms Audrey Pereira's article, "What's a brown-skinned girl to do?" (Today, March 18). I agree that most of the top women's fashion magazines in the world focus on Caucasian women and their concept of womanly beauty. Inevitably,
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      Choker chain a great tool to train dogs
      286 8  -  Kabir Singh IT was very disturbing to read the article, "Torture training" (Today, March 15). It is highly irresponsible and grossly inaccurate to suggest that trainers who use a choker chain in dog training are torturing dogs. The reporter failed to mention
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      How high will he go?
      367 10  -  Val Chua Hikes in US interest rates seen by val@newstoday.com.sg HE is unlikely to stop at one. US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan will probably raise US interest rates in quarter points from June until the end of the year. That's the view of analysts who
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      Lock icon The price of selling contaminated oil
      180 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE is prosecuting the owner and operators of two local bunker tankers after they were found to be selling contaminated oil to shipping companies as it seeks to restore bunker sales at its ports. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore received 14
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        116 10 SINGAPORE shares succumbed to prof-it-taking in response to unchanged US rates. The STI closed the day 6.53 points down at 1801.88. For every stock that rose, about 1.8 fell, while 275 counters were unchanged. Volume was 630 million shares with a value of $551 million traded. CityDev, Singapore Land,
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        Malaysia
        111 10 THE local bourse opened on a firm note with investors shifting their focus to the lower-liners. Index-linked heavyweights saw light selling pressure throughout the day, leading the benchmark index to briefly slip into negative territory before recovering towards the close. At the close, the KLCI was up 0.7 points
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        SGX most active
        57 10 By volume Stocks '000 Vikaylnd 55,153 ASTI 25,175 Pac Cent 21,381 IPC 20,960 Achieva 17,816 Stocks '000 GES 17,582 Ipco 15,462 STAssemb 13,851 Seksun 13,075 Trek 12,611 By value Stocks Value SPH 50,483,600 STAssemb 40,708,960 UOB 39,276,362 DBS 33,493,892 Chartered 27,745,844 Stocks Value SIA 22,271,798 Sing Tel
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        SGX top rises
        79 10 Mar 20 Close Change SPH 100 24.300 +0.700 SPH 24.300 +0.600 Robinson 4.940 +0.220 DBS Bk6% NCPS *****.600 +0.200 STAssemb 3.000 +0.150 Isetan(S) 2.830 +0.130 GreatEast 12.400 +0.100 CSA 1.620 +0.090 ASJ 0.510 +0.060 Food June 0.440 +0.050 By percentage Mar 20 Kian HoW*****9 Close Change 0.010+100.000
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        World markets
        54 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries faiwan Wtd *****.78 *****.60 3411.80 6059.06 -266.04 -186.23 +6.20 +152.33 -2.26 -1.66 +0.18 +2.58 Korea Comp 887.48 -2.50 -0.28 SET Index 383.34 +7.44 +1.98 lakarta Comp Phils Comp ihenzen B Wumbai 477.29 1407.54 238.16 3575.90 +5.64 +16.60 +.53 +15.58
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        SGX top falls
        76 10 War 20 tenture Close Change 18.400 -0.300 Creative 50 22.700 -0.200 ilA 200 14.700 -0.200 »IA 14.700 -0.200 ;es 0.670 -0.190 :iTYDEV 6.950 -0.150 JOI 3.000 -0.100 JOB 14.700 -0.100 3CBC >emb Eog 13.400 -0.100 2.230 -0.060 By percentage Mar 20 Close Change SanTeh W*****5 0.005 -50.000
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5471 UK£ 0.3847 Yen 72.140 HK$ 4.2675 RM 2.0791 Euro 0.6218 Rupiah 5,430.3 Baht 23.724 Peso 27.986 A$ 1.0333 Indian Rs 26.662 Won 725.39 C$ 0.8653 Yuan 4.5289 NZ$ 1.2535 NTS 19.176
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        Lock icon Commodities
        23 10 Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 293.00 Silver uss/oi 4.523 Platinum uss/oi 515.30 Rubber centsAg 123.50 Palm oil RM/tonne 11 65 Brent crude uss/barrel 24.88
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3101 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Fund Name NAV/Bid Price Oiler Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) Aberdeen Se American Opportunities 0.746 0.784 Aberdeen Se Asian Freed Income 1.172 1.209 Aberdeen Se China Opportunities Fund 0.997 1.048 Aberdeen Se Continental Europe Equity 1.007 1.058 Aberdeen
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      Lock icon Goliath snared
      431 12 Bloomberg Utama to take control of RHB KUALA LUMPUR Utama Banking Group Bhd will pay RMI.2 billion ($577 million) to take control of a rival seven times larger than itself and create Malaysia's second-biggest lender. Utama will buy 24 per cent of Rashid Hussain Bhd (RHB) from founder
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      Lock icon SingTel to spend $36m on data centres
      189 12 AFP SINGTEL has earmarked US$2O million ($36.56 million) in the next 12 months for the management and operation of two data centres in Hong Kong. The project is part of its regional initiative to meet a growing demand among multinational corporations and Internetbased
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      Lock icon Roaring ahead
      373 14 Bloomberg Tiger to open second brewery in Vietnam ASIA Pacific Breweries (APB) maker of Tiger beer will invest US$44 million ($80.47 million) in a second brewery in Vietnam to boost production as it seeks to increase earnings in its thirdlargest market by sales. The company will proceed with
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      Motorola aims to gain mart share with 9 new models
      353 14  -  Chan Chao Peh AMERICAN electronics giant Motorola is poised to come back to the mobile phone market here with a vengeance. With only a handful of new models offered last year, the world's second largest handset maker has a market
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      Hello to an old rival
      191 14 ABOUT three years ago, SingTel president and CEO Lee Hsien Yang was eyeing the then Hong Kong Telecom, but just before the deal was finalised, Pacific Century CyberWork's Richard Li stepped in with a counter-offer and won the bid. Yesterday, the two men said hello
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    • Corporate Briefs
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        NatSteel's $129m loss
        101 14 NATSTEEL suffered a net loss of $129.63 million last year because of the $109 million restructuring charges of its steel operations. The loss reversed a $914.35 million net profit in 2000. Revenue rose 10 per cent to $1.58 billion from $1.44 billion the year before. Contributions from
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        PSA acquires CWT
        61 14 PSA Logistics has acquired a majority stake in CWT Distribution. With 14.8 million shares acquired by PSA Logistics at $0.60 each, PSA Group now owns 82.63 million shares in CWT, or 55 per cent of its issued share capital. Both PSA Logistics and CWT will continue to
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        First dividend
        52 14 SESDAQ-LISTED Innovalues Precision which makes customised precision turned parts and components, has reported an unchanged net profit of $3.8 million last year on 12.2 per cent increase in revenue to $27.6 million. It is proposing a final gross dividend of 1.5 cent, a first for the company since
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        AP Oil profits slide
        54 14 SESDAQ-LISTED AP Oil International has suffered a 28.8 per cent fall in net profit of $1.9 million on a 14.6 per cent rise in turnover of $34.6 million in FY2OOI. Sales from the Group's manufacturing operations, which contributed about 50 per cent of total turnover, rose
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      What's Next?
      269 16 Taiwan magazine raided over scandal TAIPEI There is a limit to press freedom when it comes to official secrets even in freewheeling Taiwan. Taiwan's Next Magazine learnt this lesson on the eve of releasing its latest issue with a front-page article on slush funds, amounting to NT$3.5 billion
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      Lock icon Italian economist shot dead
      147 16 Reuters ROME Fears of a revival of "political terrorism" in Italy rose yesterday after two men on a motorcycle gunned down a senior adviser to the government. Economist Marco Biagi (picture), who helped Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government draft controversial new labour reforms, was shot dead
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      Lock icon Air Canada accepts Rushdie
      107 16 Reuters TORONTO Author Salman Rushdie is once again free to fly on Air Canada after the airline backed down from its policy of refusing to carry him. Mr Rushdie is under an Iranian death threat for allegedly blaspheming Islam. "After further consultation with US and Canadian
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      Was it a deal?
      309 18 S Africa, Nigeria vote against Zimbabwe LONDON The leaders of two key African states have surprised many by supporting a Commonwealth decision to suspend Zimbabwe from the group for a year. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe earned international condemnation following his return to power last week in
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      Lock icon Suicide bomber in Israel kills seven
      109 18 Agencies JERUSALEM Less than a day after Israelis and Palestinians committed to a ceasefire, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in northern Israel yesterday, killing at least seven people. A transport company spokesman said the bus had been packed with
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      Lock icon 30-page charge sheet for Tommy
      117 18 AFP JAKARTA The murder trial of Tommy Suharto opened yesterday with prosecutors outlining a chilling plot to assassinate the judge who had earlier found him guilty of corruption. In a 30-page charge sheet, prosecutors alleged that Tommy gave two hitmen pistols and US$lO,OOO ($18,280) to
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      Lock icon Bombs put Manila on alert
      143 18 AFP MANILA The Philippine capital is on alert after the discovery of two bombs yesterday. Two explosive devices were found at dawn in the stations of Manila's overhead rail system. Both packages were defused. Two similar devices were found on the pavement in the financial
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      336 19 DlffilJT H^^^H v nllin I Hill Rotation Strategy SGAM Global Sector Rotation (Ss/US$) The global economy undergoes varying business cycles each year. Some sectors lead in one business cycle while lagging in another. Our Global Sector Rotation Strategy will invest in sectors which offer the best potential returns. As an
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Politics of pressure
      881 20 ChristineTsung is the latest to succumb to Taiwan's harsh legislators FOR all its shortcomings and ugly fights, Taiwan's political scene has much to be admired in recent years, after a jerky start a decade ago. Its legislators, mainly from the three major parties representing the extreme forces
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      Lock icon Cracking down on North Korean escapees in China
      464 20 Agencies SEOUL China and North Korea have launched a massive manhunt for North Koreans hiding in China following last week's defection by 25 North Koreans, an evangelist group said yesterday. "Truckloads of arrested North Korean escapees are being taken away every day
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Queen's appeal to Hollywood
      488 22 Reuters BEVERLY HILLS Jordan's dynamic Queen Rania Al Abdullah (picture), seen as the rock star of the little-known world of microfinance, has appealed to Hollywood to help spread the microfinance scheme of helping women out of poverty and dependence. In a world where some four billion
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      Share her glamour, buy her gown
      177 22  -  -ElisaChia FANCY a bit of Sharon Au glamour? You may want to get hold of this Song and Kelly gown (picture) which the popular MediaCorp artiste wore at the Star Awards 2000 ceremony. At the same time, you will be doing your bit for
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      Dyslexic + slacker = one great comedian
      288 22  - Dyslexic slacker one great comedian -Low Shi Ping ROSS Noble (picture) was once described as a "dyslexic serpent" as well as one g who is "prodigiously talented, fast-think- 1 ing and amazingly inventive". Mm Here to perform for three nights as part of the Singapore International Comedy Festival, his show
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  • INFOTECH
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      Putting colour on your Palm
      328 24  -  Colin Duwe This PDA works with all accessories for the m5OO series byj gives you a card slot to add RAM. It accepts MultiMedia Memory and Secure Digital cards and the Bluetooth SD card. The ml3o works with all accessories such as keyboards and digital
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    Stylish day and night
    30 28 Catch th ise Miss Singapore Universe 2002 finalists, and more, live on Saturday; 7.30pm, on Mcdii iCorp TV Channel 5 Valeric Sharilyn Eleanor Christinel Joycelin kKarfen
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  • CLARKE QUAY SPECIAL
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      From humble beginnings
      280 29  -  Serena Sim IF HE were around today, Sir Stamford Raffles would be proud of Clarke Quay. Designated a conservation area by the National Heritage Board, Clarke Quay may have been named after Sir Andrew Clarke, the second Governor of Singapore in the 1870s, but it was Raffles
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      Tease your taste buds at Lotus
      606 29  -  Serena Sim 'T^HERE is nothing wrong with appreciat--L ing a slice of historical Singapore, especially since we just celebrated Heritage week, but Clarke Quay is not just history. There is no end to good cuisine, great music and hearty fun in this festival village
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      ON THE HERITAGE TRAIL
      198 29 TONGKANGS and twakows are river craft that were once a familiar part of Singapore's riverscape. Plying the waters every day, these vessels ferried cargo between ships in the open sea and warehouses along the river bank. Constructed in Singapore in accordance with designs introduced from southern
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  • INCINEMAS
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      HG Wells' Time warp
      501 30  -  Janice Lee FILM REVIEW The Time Machine (Opens today) WHEN I first read HG Wells' The Time Machine, I thought it was the greatest flight of fancy it was my good fortune to chance upon. Sadly, Simon Wells director of this latest film adaptation of the
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      Family man Sly
      470 31  -  Clement Mesenas in Los Angeles 'TVSUGH guy Sylvester Stallone gets all mushy J. when he talks about children, especially his own. "I enjoy playing with them. I mean, where else could you get such a captive audience," he said with a smirk, as if underlining the fickleness
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      Lock icon Bloom moves from fantasy to folk
      123 31 Reuters/Variety NEW YORK Orlando Bloom, who played the elf archer, Legolas, in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is set to star in two films about folk heroes. Bloom, who also was part of the Black Hawk Down ensemble, will
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      Lock icon Downey Jr on the mend
      290 31 Reuters INDIO (California) A judge told Robert Downey Jr on Tuesday that he was pleased with his progress in drug rehabilitation, as the actor prepares to restart a film career derailed by his battle with addiction. Downey appeared before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Randall
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  • SPORTS
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        Lock icon Shock exit for Gunners
        649 33 AFP Weakened Juventus outplays Arsenal to end its European dreams Champions League Gp D Juventus 1 Arsenal 0 Henry's penalty miss proves crucial as the Gunners lose to a single strike TURIN- The Gunners dreamed of a treble and manager Arsene Wenger said it was possible.
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        Lock icon Leverkusen stuns Deportivo to go through
        410 33 Agencies Champions League Gp D Deportivo 1 Leverkusen 3 German underdog deserves win LA CORUNA Bayer Leverkusen, seemingly out for the count after two early away thrashings in the Champions League, reached the last eight this morning, by winning 3-1 at already qualified Deportivo
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        Reds show club's Dedigree
        360 33  -  Leonard Thomas Champions League Gp B Liverpool 2 Roma 0 Liverpool could go all the way I ATE pie yesterday in stunned disbelief. For unfolding in front of me was an imperious Liverpool tearing Roma apart to ensure its membership in an exclusive group of football
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      Lock icon Why soccer and badminton?
      767 34  -  Kelvin Phang Other factors also count in core sports selection AT TUESDAY'S National Sports Associations (NSA) Review by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC), a journalist stirred up a small commotion when he questioned if football deserved to hold on to its core sports status. After all,
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      Tiger's in love
      72 34 STOCKHOLM World number one golfer Tiger Woods has found himself a girlfriend in Jesper Parnevik's former nanny Elin Nordegren, the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet reported yesterday. "Elin is precisely what Tiger needs to get some stability in his life. They are a perfect match," the tabloid quoted
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      Ice hockey tragedy
      106 34 COLUMBUS A 13-year-old girl who was hit on the head by a puck at an NHL ice hockey game died in hospital on Monday. Brittanie Cecil is believed to be the first spectator killed by a puck at an NHL game. Cecil was hit on Saturday night
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      Dacourt for Lazio?
      84 34 MILAN Lazio has reached an agreement with Leeds United for the transfer of French midfielder Olivier Dacourt, a spokeswoman for the Serie A club said yesterday. "We have an agreement with Leeds United, but we still need an agreement with the player himself," said Lazio spokeswoman Laura
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      Jordan return imminent
      62 34 WASHINGTON Washington Wizards owner-superstar Michael Jordan had his first practice on Tuesday since arthroscopic surgery on his knee. Jordan had an easy one-hour practice to test the stability of his injured right knee after surgery on Feb 27 to repair torn cartilage. Jordan hinted he did not
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon Injured Rivaldo out of Brazil squad
        169 35 Reuters BARCELONA Barcelona forward Rivaldo says injury will prevent him playing in Brazil's World Cup warm-up match against Yugoslavia next Wednesday. The striker, who missed his club's 1-0 Champions League win at Galatasaray, has an ankle strain sustained in last week's 1-1 draw against
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        Blame luck, says coach Bogdan
        414 35  -  Stanley Ho NTUC Income S-League Geylang v Clementi Elephants don't look like stopping losing run KOUR games into the season and Clementi Khalsa is still searching for its first point in the 2002 NTUC Income S-League. So far, the Elephants have suffered four defeats on
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