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  • 434 1  -  Chan Chao Peh OCBC shuts down Internet banking unit by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg WHEN it comes to banking, the wonders of e-commerce are still no match for the sense of comfort that the human touch offers. In less than two months, OCBC the first local bank to have a stand-alone
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    • 45 1 B; ff ifThierry Henry dismissed but France will make it says Sports Editor S Murali Page 78 Win $30,000 worth of prizes in SingTel's SEND World Cup Contest Turn to Page 74 for mote details You don't neea\ a high to get cool free gifts
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 202 2  -  Toh Boon Ngee by boonngee@n ewsto day.com.sg IN the wake of the debate over government payments to MediaCorp and MediaWorks for programming services, the Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) clarified its position in a letter published in Lianhe Zaobao yesterday. Referring
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    • 431 2  -  Chung Lyn-Yi Funding for the arts not enough, says author WRITER Tan Hwee Hwee (picture) was lured back to Singapore over a year ago by the promise of a "Renaissance City" with greater funding for the arts. Having spent nearly 11 years in countries like
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    • 117 2 AFP HONG KONG Canto-pop idol Nicholas Tse (picture) was charged yesterday with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice following claims that he switched drivers after crashing his Ferrari. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) charged that Tse, 21, and police constable Lau Chi-wai,
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    • 169 2 Channel NewsAsia THAI authorities have seized more than 100 bottles of herbal weight loss pills in raids at market stalls along the Thai-Laotian border. These tablets contain banned drug fenfluramine the same substance that was found in the Slim 10 diet pills
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    • 279 3 Taiwan acts over Maersk pullout talk TAIPEI When it conies to competition, the Taiwanese never give up. There is talk that shipping giant Maersk Sealand, which moved its operations from Singapore to Tanjong Pelepas in 2000, wants to shift its regional centre from Kaohsiung Harbour to Shanghai. Even
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    • 131 3 WASHINGTON Singapore is among 52 countries listed by the United States as failing to meet the minimum standards to curb human trafficking. Trafficking in Persons, the US State Department's annual report on human trafficking, categorises countries into three "tiers" based on a government's efforts to
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    • 386 4  -  Sarah Chua Joy Frances by and A CONTROVERSY is brewing over the Xixabangraa team's successful ascent of the B,ooom Himalayan peak. As the four-member team returned to Singapore yesterday, they faced criticisms over whether they reached the "real" summit and
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    • 396 4  -  Leong Phet Phei MDM Saira Begum Yusop was due for a major heart surgery at National Heart Centre (NHC) last Thursday. Her heart valve was leaking, and she needed a new one. However, one hour before the 37-year-old was wheeled into
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 601 7  -  Sarah Chua Station staff approach passengers to help 'before they approach us' by sarah@news tod ay.com. sg WINNING the prestigious "Station of the Year" award is no mean feat for the staff of any MRT station. They have to deal with a whole host of requests
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      122 8 MORE than 150 young soccer enthusiasts had a treat last weekend, when coach for SAF FC Fandi Ahmad spent time giving clinics and signing autographs at the Bishan Stadium. The soccer fans, from the Eurasian Association, Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC), Mendaki and Sinda, jumped right into
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    • 286 8  -  Sol E Solomon Canon branches out by solomon@newstoday.com.sg PRINTERS and copiers have become synonymous with the Canon brand name. Now, the company wants you to associate it with scanners, fax machines, cameras and projectors as well. In an interview with Today, Managing Director Kensaku Konishi
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    • 206 8  -  Rosalyn Lim THE eighth Singapore Design Awards (SDA) is back to honour the best in product design and packaging. For the first time, the biennial competition will be organised by the Designers Association of Singapore (DAS), with IE Singapore as a strategic partner. Mr Tan
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  • LETTERS
    • 208 10  - Dream come true if two foes can re-unite Ramalingom R I REFER to the article, "Tears, Fears..." (TODAY, June 3), on the India-Pakistan conflict over the Kashmir issue. It cited a "radical" suggestion by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which said that
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    • 301 10  -  Lint Boon Hee For health's sake, stricter checks should be done WHENEVER there are health scares in other countries for example, the foot and mouth disease, the Nipah virus, genetically modified foods or the bird flu we have always been reassured by the authorities
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    • 156 10  -  Philip K P Toh THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has re-engineered its current procedures on the ownership of motor vehicles. The exercise is timely. The LTA should also take a critical look at the ways transfer fees are levied. At present, the
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    • 119 10  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms) THE transfer fee, levied when a vehicle is transferred from one owner to another, comprises two components. The first is a flat administrative fee $3 for motorcycles and $10 for all other vehicles. The second is a levy of two per cent of the
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    • 1110 12  -  Karen Tan (Ms), MOH responds to Today reports and letters on liver victim Ms Raja WE refer to your reports, "Death Watch" and "Her brave belief, and the letters, "What killed Ms Raja?" (Today, June 3), by Mr Ananda Perera, and "Too much red tape?" (Today,
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 354 14 -AFP Moody's: Singapore can stand economic jolts SINGAPORE fundamentals are strong enough to absorb an economic shock, Moody's Investor Service said, amid signs the citystate is rebounding from its worst downturn since independence. Although there may be a period of small budget deficits, the Government has substantial assets, the
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    • 68 14 Bloomberg FRANKFURT MG Technologies, a German engineering and chemicals company, said its engineering unit won an order worth 35 million euros ($59.12 million) to produce water-purifying equipment for a Singapore plant. The order is for the production of 30 industrial decanters used to treat sewage sludge over
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    • 47 14 TEMASEK Holdings said it has not given in-prin-ciple approval for the management buy-out offer for its 8.1 per cent stake in NatSteel. "Temasek will review the merits of the offer and will divest only if it makes commercial sense," it said in a statement.
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    • 64 14 SMB United is pushing into China with its electrical switchgears and related products and services. The company has restructured its operations under Bridex Electric (Xiamen) Co Ltd (BEX) which will become its flagship company in China. BEX has also set up a representative office in Guangzhou and
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    • 83 14 Channel News Asia ELECTRONICS trader Thakral Corporation has returned to the black. It has wiped off its previous full-year net loss of $95 million to report a profit of $177 million. This is mainly due to a $162 million exceptional item, arising from the company's successful
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    • 51 14 Bloomberg VIENNA Flextronics International is one of two companies interested in buying Austrian mobile-phone services company EMTS Technologie AG, reported the newspaper Wirtschaftsblatt. The takeover price is expected to be between 45 Swiss francs ($51.77) and 50 Swiss francs a share, making the total price 290 million Swiss
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    • 300 17  -  Toh Boon Ngee by bo o nngc c news today, com. sg LOCAL enterprises can now save time and money by having their products tested here to conform to international standards. They can do the testing at PSB Corporation's newly opened acoustic and telecom test labs at
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    • Market Watch
      • 103 17 Bloomberg SINGAPORE stocks ended on a whimper. The STI index closed 1.54 points down at 1652.46 with 278 million shares worth $315 million traded. Market breadth was mixed, though skewed negatively, while 315 counters were unchanged. Amtek Engineering soared to levels not seen since September 1999, closing seven cents
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      • 62 17 By volume June d Trill!! 1 i ri C-.'i s :l KLW Thai'fill 11 g j. I).T|1 'OM 27,383 10,775 9,632 7,375 6,84! FirstEng L-ongHin Charlered WesTecb 3IL IM '000 6,506 5,659 5,188 5,06! 4,759 By value June 6 UOB Venture Chartered DBS S.A 40,344,490 31,5.6,400 21,315,24(1
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      • 5 17 Straits Times Index 10-Day Ctiart
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      • 76 17 .9 June A Close Change HindHo 1.750 +0.460 [reaiiveSO 13.200 +0.300 F&N1O0 7.750 +0.200 SPH100 20.900 +0.200 Innowlit 0.985 +0.125 lid Piime20OUSS 5.150 +0.100 SPH 20.800 +0.100 GicalEa." 11.200 +0.100 SIA 13.000 +0.500 DBS 13.900 +0.100 By percentage June 6 Close Change Strike R200 0.010+100.0011 Hind Ha
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      • 81 17 .9 une fi Close Changi SS&PSOO 10USS 105.500 -0.900 .nhjr. 15.100 -0.300 JOB 13.900 -0.100 isongyong 1.350 -0.100 IBS Bk NCPS *****.600 -0.100 1PB Breweries 5.400 -0.050 IE 1.220 -0.040 ilentor 0.490 -0.040 Imtek 1060 -0.040 ty percentage iune 6 Close Changi ilrikeR 0.005 -50.000 ioGCen W*****?
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      • 55 17 Index Value Change P. Nikkei 225 *****.94 -88.93 -0.7i Hung Seng All Ordinaries Fa man '.'.'it *****.77 3298.80 5591.02 -21.61 -4.80 -8.40 -0.1! -0.1! Korea Camp SET Index Jakarta Camp 809.59 417.76 513.73 +3.26 +6.69 -6.74 +0.41 +1.6: ii! Phils Camp Shenzen B Mumb-i 1302.68 212.79 *****1 -9.02
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      • 36 17 US$ 0.5555 UK_ 0.3817 Yea 69.434 HK$ 4.3335 RM 2.1112 Euro 0.5930 Rupiati 5025.3 Etahr 23.629 P«c 28.274 A$ 0.9700 Indian Rs 27.232 Won 680.23 C$ 0.8520 Yuan 4.5977 NZ$ 1.1371 NT$ 18.981
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      • 21 17 Gold uss/flz 322.100 Silver uss/k 1945 Platinum ussA>; 549.800 Rubber ™*/kg 133.00 Palm oil wmnnt 1462 Brenitrudeuss/b O r™l 24.12
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    • 303 19  -  Francis Kan SPRING, SBF unveil strategic partnership to help 15,000 SMEs by fra ncis@ne wstoday. co m. sg LOCAL firms will now have an easier time getting access to financial assistance schemes under a tie-up between government agency SPRING Singapore and the Singapore Business Federation (SBF). The two
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    • 293 19 -AFP VIENNA Opec chief AH Rodriguez yesterday called on non-Opec rivals such as Russia and Norway to maintain reduced export levels which have helped shore up oil prices after Sept 11. Mr Rodriguez also reiterated that the 11-member cartel was likely to keep its own
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    • 128 19 Bloomberg ELLIPSIZ, which provides engineering services to semiconductor companies, said it will have a wider-than-forecast loss in the second-half of its financial year on costs for writing off assets and investments. The company expects to post a pretax loss of $17 million to
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    • 70 19 COMPACT disc maker General Magnetics has resolved amicably a patent infringement suit brought against it by Dutch electronics giant, Philips. As a result, both parties have dropped their legal claims against each other, reported Channel NewsAsia. Last November, Philips filed a suit at the Singapore High Court,
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    • 47 19 SINGTEL'S Australian unit, Optus, has signed a 10-year outsourcing deal with IBM worth Assoo million ($515 million), reported Channel NewsAsia. Under the deal, IBM agrees to provide services to Optus such as application development and enhancement and maintenance of its IT systems and billing services.
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    • 252 20 AEN AMRO Bank is firing another aggressive salvo in Singapore's home loans war. Breaking the two per cent barrier a second time and going even lower, ABN Araro is offering a home loan package which kicks off with a fixed rate of 1.88 per cent
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    • 67 20 Bloomberg CAPITALAND will buy the remaining 10 per cent of Hind Hotels International that it does not own for about $11.6 million, or $1.75 a share. CapitaLand will take Hind private after the purchase, the company said to the exchange. Hind's main asset was the Imperial
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    • 265 20 Bloomberg THE outlook for Singapore's real estate market is weaker than Hong Kong's, making it harder for developers to raise funds, Standard and Poor's said. The credit rating agency said Singapore's long-term credit outlook would remain "subdued". Singapore developers also have higher debt levels compared
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    • 649 22 Bloomberg Investment bankers out to exploit regional push to open up utilities SYDNEY Steaming coal is back in fashion. At least as far as investment bankers in the Asia-Pacific are concerned. More than US$B billion ($14.4 billion) of power assets are being sold in the region
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    • 614 24 Bloomberg India's economy suffers NEW DELHI Vardhaman Spinning and General Mills Ltd, a textile maker based in the northern Indian state of Punjab, is usually visited by overseas buyers in July. This year, company director Neeraj Jain is concerned that the growing tension between India
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      826 26 Bloomberg China joins car race as the Chery and Geely hit the road BEIJING If you haven't heard of the Chery sedan or the Geely compact car, analysts say that may change. China's home-grown car makers have two advantages as they try to draw attention away from worldfamous
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 336 28 Diplomacy paying off in India-Pakistan row ISLAMABAD Diplomatic efforts seemed to be making headway after US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf here yesterday. "President Musharraf has made it clear that he is searching for peace and won't initiate a war," Mr
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    • 146 28 Agencies SYDNEY-The Chinese Communist Party's chief in Tibet was due to arrive in Australia late yesterday to meet Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. Human rights groups in Australia have slammed Mr Guo Jinlong's visit, which was kept secret to prevent protests. Mr Guo is the Party
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    • 175 28 HONG KONG All she wanted was a hairstyle like Hollywood actress Julia Roberts, but she ended up looking like Osama bin Laden instead. So Ms Chu leu sued the New Idol Hair Salon, for HK$5O,OOO ($11,500), for damage done to her hair during two perms
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    • 320 30 Reuters WASHINGTON American envoys and Middle East leaders are dashing back and forth between Washington, Jerusalem and Arab capitals with unusual speed, giving the impression of movement towards an elusive peace. The Bush administration, however, has not decided on what to do with
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    • 131 30 Reuters GENEVA Trade union officials from around the world have accused Belarus, Colombia, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Sudan and Venezuela of having the world's worst records of abuse of union rights. In a brief report prepared for the annual meeting of the International Labour Organisation (ILO),
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    • 284 32 WASHINGTON Amid rising concern about the infringement of civil liberties, the United States yesterday launched a new federal registration system, boosting the surveillance of visitors. US Attorney-General John Ashcroft said that, under the new National Security Entry/Exit Registration System, as many
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    • 241 32  -  Valerie Ng Indonesia's moderate Islamic curriculum appeals to Malaysia by vale rieng® ne wstoday. com, sg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, which has been sending scholars to the Middle East and Pakistan for Islamic studies, may turn to Indonesia for more "progressive and moderate" ideas. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk
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    • 111 32 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police yesterday raided an opposition party's office and seized pamphlets opposing the Prime Minister's declaration that the nation is an Islamic state. The raid came a day after Mr Lim Kit Siang, chairman of the Chinese-dominat-ed Democratic Action Party (DAP),
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    • Article, Illustration
      34 32 Reuters Forty-two-year-old former priest Michael Lau (left), who is charged with child sexual abuse., leaving a Hong Kong court with his lawyer yesterday. The Hong Kong clergyman was defrocked in 1995,
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    • 133 32 Agencies SYDNEY Australia was accused yesterday of creating wide-scale depression among asylum seekers by systematically locking up illegal immigrants. Mr Louis Voinet, chairman of a United Nations delegation, said a collective depression syndrome could have stemmed from the state of limbo detainees were held in. "We
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    • 526 32 Are You Reading Well Fast Enough for Your Own Good? JUST TMNK what it would mean to you if you cuuld read k comprehend twice faster than you do now. Ifyou're a student you would learn more in less time, and get better grades in your studies and examinations. In
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 836 34  -  Roger Mitton and what US is doing to terror suspects SEVEN years ago, in northern Spain, I walked out of a museum which had a special exhibition about torture through the ages. The displays remain etched in my memory to this day. One was that
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    • 295 34 The Bangkok Post comments on the deadly ambush on a bus near the Thai-Myanmar border NOBODY could have anticipated the events that awaited the 20-plus children from Ban Kha whose school bus was fired upon by three unidentified gunmen on Tuesday in
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  • UPFRONT
    • 593 37 -AFP BEIJING In a recent issue of China's best-selling women's magazine, Trends Cosmopolitan, a reader asked if it was inappropriate to get the phone number of a man she had met at a bar and make the first move. "Not at all," Trends reassured her. Another
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    • 399 37  -  Low Shi Ping by news@newstoday.com.sg DO your kids pester you with endless questions? Then get them to watch The Big Q. A local info-science programme in its fourth season now, it contains a Big Q (or Question) every week. Hosts Mervyn Goh and Melody Chen
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  • FAMILY
    • 411 38  -  David Ngiau Discovering the clan's history over a bottle of wine by david@newstoday.com.sg ITS a question of caring enough to make an effort. My dad lives close by just across the street. But it always seems like there would be other times to
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    • 202 38 Reuters UNITED NATIONS Fifty million babies a year (41 per cent of the world total) go undocumented at birth, the United Nations children's agency, Unicef, said on Tuesday, urging governments to do more to provide all babies with an official identity and nationality. "A birth
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  • TRAVELLER
    • 907 42  -  Alexis Yeo It's about Versace opulence, sandy beaches and star-gazing by HOW far will you go to indulge yourself? For most of us, a vacation break is one of the rare occasions when we can take pleasure in some serious pampering. So, during my trip to Queensland
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    • 559 46  -  Richard Valladares Explore Bangladesh's unspoilt Rangamati area before the package tourists do by ritchie@newstoday.com.sg REPORTS would leave you believing that Bangladesh is a disaster zone rather than a travel destination. Despite being the world's most crowded country, rural Bangladesh is relaxed, spacious and friendly. Facilities are
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  • SINGAPORE SALE
    • 2 48 Hi
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      304 52  -  Pearlyn Tham Pearlyn Tham /CALLING all guys out there. Don't just look Smell good too, with the new range of antiperspirants and deodorants from Uno (picture, centre). Take your pick from the Uno Ice Direct Deodorant, the Uno Roll-on Deodorant, the Uno Smooth Deodorant and the Uno Water Deodorant.
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      175 54 The art of dressing up... and down IudwigreiterRAFFt,ESHOTELARCADE#O2<3I tOprnanW)SMAATRIA#O2-18 ba I IyTAKASHIMAYAf IHSTFLOOH photOSALVINTOH grOOmingDANIELTJAHJAD|PIVOT POINT) styIingTiUYSOELiSTYO modeISKAI6RYAN(UPFRONT MODEIS)IVAN LIM TopMan tee (was $33, now $26.40) and bermudas ($53). Ludwig Relter trainers ('was $258, now 30% off). BELOW: TopMan tee (was $33, now $26.40) and jeans ($79). Ludwig Reiter
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      185 56  -  Pearlyn Tham by pe a rlyn @newstod ay.com. sg IF YOU can't create Havoc, you can smell like it the fragrance that is. The Body Shop Havoc range includes the Havoc EDT Spray ($48.90 for 100ml) and the Havoc Moisturising Aftershave Balm ($28.90 for 75m1), among other products. The
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      38 56 Take a peek at some of the new goodies Op is offering this season photOSALVINTOH OpRAFFIESCITY*O2-36 opPLAZASINGAPURA#BI -30 OpWISMAATRIA#BI-51 opJUNCnONB#OI-36 Ocean side Campus wallet ($l6) Oceanside Campus backpack ($39.90] Pink corduroy bag ($23) Op pencil case ($l5)
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    • daddy'sDAY
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        202 58 NOW, fathers can do their part for Mother Earth even when they are watching the World Cup. That is, if their television is a Sharp AQUOS LCD (picture). The LCD TV models, which come in various screen sizes including 10", 20" and 28", are eco-friendly because they consume about
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        213 58 THIS Father's Day, let your little girl do something literally sweet for her daddy. The Marina Mandarin is holding a twohour pastry and gift-making class for 30 little girls. Its pastry chef will teach the young participants to create marzipan cakes of almond paste and sugar (picture) that will
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      • 123 58 DON'T know what to buy for dad this Father's Day? If he's a true Singaporean, he will love a feast over any other gift! Dads will surely approve of the special Father's Day international buffet lunch ($3O for adult, $17 for children under 12} at the Orchard Cafe. He
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      88 60 Manners moketh the gentlemen that, and the details. Check out these accessories that give a man his polished edge. Items from ig's Heaven unless otherwise indicated. igsheaven 1 RAF FLESLINKCITYLINKMALL#B 1-38 timeclub IRAFFLESLINKCITYLINKMALUBI-59 Hugen Sports Chronograph from Time Club (was $435, now $155) S-shaped photo holder (was $12.90, now
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  • Page 48 Miscellaneous
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    • 191 50 MF Dad Deserves No Less, Our exacl sentiments Father's Day 2002 ORCHARD Dine a Wine Extravaganza 9 H\w™° >The buffet selection in itself is a celebration, complete with free flow of beer and soft 8-16 June 2002 drinks on the house. Round up the night of feasting and merry-making at
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  • INCINEMAS
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    • 151 64 'The greatest actor in the world' AT LEAST that's what Russell Crowe called himself on the Gladiator set. Now, you must have already heard all those stories about how Crowe (picture) can be difficult, to put it mildly. But here's more proof anyway, because we love that guy. In the
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    • 249 64 Reuters French minister rejects calls to ban film PARIS France's Justice Minister dismissed a call from another politician for a ban on Scream a trilogy of slasher movies that a 17-year-old boy said inspired him to stab a schoolmate to death. Justice Minister Dominique Perben said on
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      92 64 WHEN The Scorpion King debuted, the question "Kelly who?" was oft heard. Fans of the television series, Martial Law, may have been familiar with Kelly Hu (picture) but it took Scorpion to bring the Asian-American actress to the attention of Hollywood. This week, Hu has been cast
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    • 544 66  -  Gillian Wong This Ecnad production could well be referring to you by gillia n@n ews today.com.sg LIKE anyone who functions in the concrete jungle of today's urban landscape, the dancers in Missing in Tall Pillars (picture) are at times obscured from view, at other times merged into
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    • 390 71 AFP TUNICA Mike Tyson laughed, smiled and joked with a group of 60 school children here yesterday, answering questions in a relaxed manner even when it came to the infamous "Bite Fight". One day after shunning reporters, it was question time from the kiddies
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    • 559 72  -  Jose Raymond by jose@newstoday.com.sg THE new Jurong West Stadium has come under criticism from heads of various national sports associations (NSAs) even before construction has begun. This is because the blueprint for the $40-million structure, due to open next year, indicates that it will
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    • 321 72  -  Stanley Ho by Stanley @n ews t o d ay. c am. sg WHEN the cross came curling in, Grant Holt peeled away from his marker, timed his jump to perfection and powered in a header to complete his hat-trick for the
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    • 144 72 -AFP PARIS Former champion and fourth seed Andre Agassi was knocked out of the French Open yesterday by Spain's 11th seed Juan Carlos Ferrero. The 22-year-old Spaniard won their two-hour, 45 minute quar-ter-final clash 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 and will now face second-seeded Russian Marat Safin, who beat
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    • 187 72  -  Kelvin Phang DESPITE carding a solid threeunder 69 final round, Singapore's Jonathan Leong was unable to stop Taiwan's Tsao Chwan Sheng from winning the Singapore Junior Golf Championships yesterday. Tsao shot a steady 74 to finish with a three-day total of 225, just one ahead of
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    • 323 73 AFP Nigeria v Sweden KOBE Nigeria will become the first casualty hi the "group of death" if it goes down to Sweden today. The Super Eagles' 1-0 defeat by Argentina in their opening game has left them facing certain elimination, if they do not
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    • 236 73 AFP |World Cup Group B I Live, on CH2S-28, today, spm JEONJU Four years is a long time to nurse a grudge, but Spain will aim to make Paraguay pay for ending its World Cup dreams four years ago, A strange quirk of fate
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    • 202 74 AFP SAPPORO England and Argentina's players will have to contend with unfamiliar playing conditions when they clash under the roof of the futuristic Sapporo Dome today. The arena on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido is a multi-purpose venue with a pitch kept outside and
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    • 751 74  -  Terry O'Connor 1 1 Argentina v England by _ports@newstod_y.com. sg England needs the Irish spirit I'M INSPIRED. Along with a group of friends the other day, I watched the sheer spirit of the Irish, who despite all of their pre-tournament problems, snatched a last-gasp draw against
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    • 786 75 Agencies I World Cup-Group F uLive, on Ch2s-28, today, 7.30pm SAPPORO England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson insisted yesterday his team would not settle for a draw against World Cup favourite Argentina when the teams meet in a crunch "Group of Death" clash tonight England locks horns
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    • 366 76 Agencies World Cup-Group E Cameroon 1 Saudi Arabia 0 j Improved showing sees Saudis regain pride I SAITAMA Saudi Arabia became the first team to be eliminated from the World Cup finals when it lost 1-0 to African, champion Cameroon yesterday. The Saudis, humiliated 8-0
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    • 405 76 Agencies World Cup-Group A Denmark 1 Senegal 1 African upstart still on for second round YOKOHAMA Senegal midfielder Salif Diao experienced agony, ecstasy and finally despair during his team's 1-1 draw with Denmark yesterday. Diao knocked over Jon Dahl Tomasson in the 16th minute for a
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    • 121 76 Reuters KYONGJU- South Korea's goalscorers in its historic 2-0 win over Poland on Tuesday are doubtful for the team's next game against the United States. Neither striker Hwang Sun Hong nor midfielder Yoo Sang Chul trained with the rest of the squad yesterday.
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    • 532 78  -  3. Murali I^rßee. France 0 Uruguay 0 by. mura I i@n cwstoday_. om .sg Zidane will save Les Bleus ONE man does not make a team. That was the constant refrain from the French camp since the World Cup started, as it tried to explain why the loss
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    • 245 78 Agencies BUSAN The controversial redcard dished out to Frenchman Thierry Henry in the 26th minute nearly wrecked the defending champion's hopes from the word go. Henry threw himself into a twofooted challenge on Marcelo Romero, which should have earned him a
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