Today, 27 August 2002, Afternoon Edition

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    7 1 TODAY Tuesday Au gus t27,2002 MITA(P) 063/11,2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Pre-emptive strike on Iraq critical: Cheney
      297 1 Reuters NASHVILLE US VicePresident Dick Cheney yesterday laid out the White House's case for pre-emptive action against Iraq, citing mortal danger to the US and labelling critics as guilty of "willful blindness". Mr Cheney used a gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to
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      Lock icon US stocks up
      67 1 -AFP NEW YORK- US stocks ended higher yesterday which saw a late rally by energy and financial stocks which have been beaten down in recent sessions. The Dow Jones industrials gained 46.05 points to close at 8,919.01 after spending much of the day in negative territory. The
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      What Terry knows
      730 1  -  Chan Chao Peh A survival guide for parachuted talent by I dia ope h@newsto day. c om.sg WHEN "foreign elements" are parachuted into an industry, the troops on the ground wait for them to stumble. And, as the procession of foreigner CEOs makes its way out of
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  • HOT NEWS
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      21 'lives' later
      321 2  -  Joy Frances Fire crime lands man a 20-year jail term by j oy@ newstoday.com.sg TOO many drinks, a rash act which saw him set his mother's mattress ablaze, and Syed Hamid bin A Kadir Alhamid now has 20 years behind bars to ponder over the night which
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      Lock icon Of cracked tables and mouldy mattresses
      343 2  -  Rosalyn Lim -Photo courtesy of TWO months after 8,700 hostelites at the Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) 15 halls of residence received the good news that their hostel fees will not be increased till January next year, other worries set in. The university had intended
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      Lock icon They didn't get away
      129 2 Channel News Asia TWO men believed to be involved in a series of snatch thefts and robbery cases islandwide were arrested after one of them went to the police to report the loss of their getaway motorcycle. Police said the 43-year-old unemployed man had robbed his
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      Lock icon Hope on the horizon?
      62 3 Reuters I Children singing as an inflatable globe rises behind them at the welcoming ceremony on Sunday for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South African President Thabo Mbeki, who helmed the summit, said it must heal the rift between the rich and the
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      Lock icon Stay away
      340 3 AFP Indonesia not safe for Malaysians KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians have been advised against travelling to Indonesia because of anger among the people there over Kuala Lumpur's treatment of illegal immigrants. "Don't travel (to Indonesia) unless it is necessary," Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said. Malaysians were told to
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    • Article
      Lock icon Talks on Aceh?
      76 3 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia said yesterday more peace talks with Acehnese rebels could be useful, only days after saying there would be no negotiations unless the separatists accepted an autonomy package first. "A dialogue in September could be relevant and useful. We're now waiting to hear from the
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      Lock icon Japan's help
      55 3 Reuters PYONGYANG North Korea enlisted Japan's help yesterday to kick-start its rapprochement dialogue with the United States. Tokyo has agreed to urge the US to open dialogue with North Korea, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. North Korea's First ViceForeign Minister Kang Sokju has said that Pyongyang "wants
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    • Article
      Lock icon Chee's pre-trial meeting adjourned
      107 4 Channel News Asia THE pre-trial conference to determine the trial dates for two Singapore Democratic Party politicians Dr Chee Soon Juan and Mr Gandhi Ambalam has been adjourned to Sept 6. This is to allow the public prosecutor time to apply for a joint trial for
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      Mission of the heart
      418 4  -  Clement Mesenas Hotelier does her bit for domestic helpers by clement® Lie wsto day. c o m. sg HOTELIER Jennie Chua has embarked on a mission close to her heart -to raise $100,000 to provide better facilities for a skills improvement centre dedicated to Filipino domestic
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      The money is gone, so is the safe
      175 4  -  Jose Raymond A POPULAR Indian restaurant along Race Course Lane lost more than $20,000 after burglars struck. When a worker at the Gayatri Restaurant where national under-18 football coach Vincent Subramaniam is a partner reported for work at Sam yesterday, he found
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      64 3 We are proud of you Our Heartiest Congratulations to •mmmmmmmmmmmmmmV lh Professor Lai Kirn Fatt COL Kuek Joo Leng Our President Our Fellow Member On being conferred the On being conferred the Public Administration Medal (Silver) Commendation Medal (Military) By His Excellency The President of The Republic of Singapore From
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  • LETTERS
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      Oh, stop complaining!
      505 6  -  Cyrus Daruwala Look around, S'poreans, and see what a great life you have here I'VE got but one word to say about the debates on "stayers" and "quitters", as well as on foreign talent please! Don't we, as a nation, have more pressing matters to attend to?
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      Ease our children's school-bus agony
      185 6  -  Doreen Huang WITH the increase in school bus fees, we, as parents, feel that there should be some improvement in services provided by these bus drivers. To maximise their income, bus drivers send office workers to work after rushing students to school. This is unfair
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      Does NS-lag lead to obsolete skills?
      163 6  -  Poh Hock Seng AMONG the thousands of polytechnic students who have graduated in recent weeks are many young men who have just started their National Service. Will the skills and knowledge acquired by this group of graduates during three years of study still be
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  • FAMILYMATTERS
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      Teach them well
      827 7  -  Theresa Tan Children pick up values from their parents by sorbet@paciiic.net.sg HOW is it that some children are faultlessly polite, will hold the door for others, and willingly share their belongings while other children accept gifts without a "thank you", and throw tantrums when they're asked to
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Daewoo in fraud case
      242 8 AFP SEOUL South Korean police said yesterday that they have launched an investigation into a US$2l million ($37 million) online stock fraud involving Daewoo Securities Co. Daewoo said an unknown trader hacked into its computers last Friday to sell shares of Internet network provider, Delta Information
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      Lock icon July manufacturing output up 17.8%
      207 8 -AFP SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output rose for the fourth straight month in July up 17.8 per cent from the same month last year, with the performance again bolstered by the biomedical sciences. The latest industrial figures are a further confirmation Singapore has overcome its worst ever
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        131 8 SINGAPORE shares trickled lower in quiet dealings as a dearth of positive news kept buyers at bay. The ST index slid 15.86 points lower to 1,516.04, despite a positive US futures market, led by declines in the heavyweights. For every stock that rose, three fell while 327 counters were
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        World markets
        57 8 index Valve Change Pis Nikkei 225 *****.71 +200.29 +2.03 Hang Seng til Ordinaries 1 0226.33 3125.70 ■19.36 -7.70 -.19 ,25 ":i ■■■.■(:r '/i'i 1935.92 -32.93 ,66 Koreo Comp SET Index Jtrkartn Comp 734.79 369.02 456.41 ■5.72 +2.01 -1.86 ,77 +.55 -.41 Phils Comp Jhenzen B Uumbci 1092.86 244.15
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        Your S$1 buys
        38 8 JS$ JKf fen m m Euro iupinh "Jt li0.5688 0.3742 68.135 4.4364 2.1613 0.5866 5073.4 24.110 Peso M ii diar fa Won C$ 'hum EJ NTS 29.71! 1.046! 27.59! 685 5' 0.885! 4.707. 1.217 19.47
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        Commodities
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
        56 8 By volume Hug 26 Citirttyu OnlatrftUSS links Is FJBeuM)***** Charlered 'OOO 59,439 34,536 15,260 13,926 10,524 SembCorp C L Inll WantWtmlUSS IPC niM 'OOO 9,461 9,062 8,606 6,563 4,974 Sy value Sag 26 Utfrnyo DalacrflUSS [holered OCBC /enture 35,436,200 29,579,370 26,346,780 24,875,704 19,025,500 UOB DBS SembCorp SPH
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        SGX top rises
        71 8 tug 26 Close Change thai Prime200U5S 4.8B0 +0.3B0 «BUorpW*****1 0.460 +0.160 :SN 7.950 +0.150 /enlure 13.000 +0.100 iembLog 1.830 +0.0B0 By percentage Aug 26 Close Change PanpaAdWO4Ot090.040+60 0O0 WBLCorpVK*****1 0.460+53.333 Easyknit 200 HKS 0.135+22.727 Ossia 0.165+17.B57 Reed 0040+14.286 lurEng 1.410 +0.0B0 JelGro500 1.820 +0.040 Xpress 0.045+12.500 JonAPat
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        73 8 Bloomberg By$ Aug 26 Close Change SPH 19.600 0.600 SPH 100 19.700 -0.400 By percentage Aug 26 Close Change Goldtron 0.015 -25.000 BDustecd W*****2 0.090 -18.182 UOB 13.500 -0.300 SIA 11.800 -0.300 Frl links 0.045 -18.182 Teledala 0.100 -16.667 SIA 200 11.800 -0.300 PDCCorp 0.16O -15.789 ISMSCISIN100USS
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    • SPECIAL FEATURE
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        Bank on the right planners
        842 9 OVER the last few months, the term "financial planner" may have popped up in your conversations with your colleagues and friends. You may also have noticed the term being used by the media now and then. Before you know it, you will have people knocking
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      Lock icon Thais to pay $1.7b early
      311 10 Bloomberg BANGKOK Thailand plans to pay the last US$l billion ($1.76 billion) it owes the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January, a year earlier than terms of a 1997 loan require, according to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, The early payment may boost investor appetite for
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      Lock icon F&N: No talks with San Miguel
      92 10 Channel News Asia THE soft drink maker, Fraser and Neave (F&N), is currently not in any discussions or negotiations with the Philippine food and beverage giant, San Miguel Corp. F&N said this in response to a Philippine Daily Inquirer report speculating that San Miguel
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2877 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: CoEt 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.osia@reuteFS.corrt Pol* Find Nam NAV/Bid OHer Price Price Aberdeen Asset Manogemenl (Asia] fl/?3 flhcnccnSc AmEf im Opparlunilies 0.618 0.6-5 g/23 *iiw St Asian High ff -fd Ft 1-187 T.723 8/23 Aberdeen tint Ojactu'lieilc 0.971 1.051 1/23 Ape n ten St [ptlitenfai Eticpe Eqly
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      Memory game
      303 12  -  Val Chua SGX-listed company branches into IT by val@news tod ay. com. sg AT a time when many listed businesses are returning to their core businesses, property-and-construction player PDC Corp is diversifying into the hitech business of storage media and handheld devices. Formerly called Hong Lai Huat Group
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      Lock icon United Engineers: Cash flow not a problem
      108 12 Channel News Asia UNITED Engineers says the tight cash flow situation at its China venture Anhui Hefei United Power Generation (AHUP) is expected to be temporary. It was responding to reports that AHUP has run into cash-flow problems, with share- holders hoping that
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      Maybank's 2002 profit higher
      176 12 THE May bank Group has posted a net profit of RM1.648 billion ($760 million) for the year ended June 2002, almost double that of last year's. At the bank level, net profit increased 9.5 per cent to RM987.161 million. Announcing the results in Kuala Lumpur yesterday,
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      Casablanca condo sees improved sales
      110 12 FAR East Organization's Casablanca condominium in Woodlands continues to be a draw with home buyers. Another 61 units of the leasehold condominium project were sold during the weekend. Phase One of the project comprising three towers totalling 220 units, launched a few weeks ago, has
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      Lock icon Evergreen expands
      100 12 Channel News Asia TAIWAN'S biggest shipping company, Evergreen Marine, has begun its cargo operations at Malaysia's Tanjung Pelepas over the weekend. This week, Evergreen will start running six weekly long-haul services connecting China, Europe and the US. Tanjung Pelepas says it expects volumes from Evergreen to total some
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      155 12 Reuters Huan Hsin HI profit down TAIWAN-based electronics contract manufacturer Huan Hsin Holdings is upbeat on its second half in spite of a 21 per cent fall in first-half profit due to the absence of tax refunds and foreign exchange gains. The Singapore-listed firm, which mainly makes electronic
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      Lock icon Losing interest
      292 13 -AFP Japanese investors 'shunning Indonesia' JAKARTA Japanese investors are starting to shun Indonesia because of higher labour and energy costs and other factors, the local head of a powerful trade organisation warned yesterday. "The attractiveness of Indonesia for foreign investors is decreasing," said Mr Kato Hiroyuki, president-director in
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      Lock icon S'pore is the fastest
      112 13 Bloomberg DUBLIN Kolkata and Dublin are the slowest cities in the world for goods deliveries, the Irish Times reported, citing a survey by Ireland's Small Firms Association. The association said it takes an average of 4.5 hours to deliver a five-kg package five kilometres in Kolkata.
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      Lock icon EU, South Korea try to settle shipbuilding row
      176 13 AFP SEOUL The European Union (EU) and South Korea kicked off two days of talks yesterday to try and settle their long-simmering row over alleged subsidies given by Seoul to the domestic shipbuilding industry. The EU has threatened to file a complaint
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon No regrets
      254 14 Agencies Australia urges others to be tough with asylum seekers CANBERRA A year after Australia adopted a tough stance against asylum seekers, refugee boats have stopped arriving and the government wants the world to follow its lead. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock, now viewed as a hero by a
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      Lock icon Iraq: Bush doesn't need Congress' nod
      182 14 Agencies WASHINGTON The US Congress remains divided on the Iraqi issue but that may not stop President George W Bush from launching an attack to oust the Saddam regime, reported The Washington Post. As Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Mr Bush does not need
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      Lock icon 54% of Britons are 'quitters'
      120 14 Reuters LONDON Britain has its own population of "quitters". A survey published yesterday by the Daily Telegraph found that 54 per cent of Britons are considering moving abroad. Similar polls found 42 per cent wanted to emigrate in 1948, shortly after World War 11, and
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      Thai history to be more diplomatic
      113 14 BANGKOK Thailand's Education Ministry will launch a new school textbook next month which features watereddown accounts of conflicts with neighbouring countries to try and improve bilateral relations. The textbook is published under an initiative to build regional unity proposed by the South-east Asian Ministers
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      Lock icon Jiang stays on
      512 16 AFP. President comes out on top in party struggle BEIJING President Jiang Zemin has won the power struggle within the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), dashing the hopes of his modernising heir-apparent and continuing the country's tradition of gerontocracy. An announcement by the official Xinhua
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      Lock icon Nominee for PM grilled
      154 16 Reuters SEOUL Mr Chang Dae Whan's past business dealings were back to haunt him as Parliament began a hearing to confirm his nomination as South Korea's new Prime Minister. Lawmakers yesterday grilled Mr Chang, a former newspaper executive, over the U5532,000 ($56,224) land deal, for which
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      Lock icon Bandit strikes
      101 16 AFP BANGALORE India's most wanted bandit, M Veerappan, has kidnapped a former state minister after a shootout, a government minister said yesterday. Mr H Nagappa, 62, a former minister belonging to the centrist Janata Dal, was abducted from his home. "Veerappan was present during the abduction, along with
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      Lock icon Houses underwater
      75 16 Reuters CHINESE residents travel by boat past submerged houses through a flooded area along the Yangtze River in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. Heavy rain yesterday lashed the flood-soaked southern region of China, once again threatening to flood Dingting Lake. After coursing through the lake, the flood crest
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      Lock icon Taiwan offers to help democratise China
      258 16 Agencies TAIPEI Relations between China and Taiwan look set to be stoked again as Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian yesterday offered to help China achieved democratisation. Mr Chen said Taiwan was willing "to contribute its part to the democratisation in the region, especially in China"
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • COMMENTARY
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      When the bough breaks
      702 17  -  Shoba Tsering Bhalla She abandoned him but Ming Hong is a credit to his mother by_ AS Singapore-Malaysia relations continue to ebb and flow on the fickle tide of "water diplomacy", one story that reverberates positively across both sides of the Causeway, without the aid of
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      Lock icon There's something odd about the US debate on invading Iraq ...
      725 17  - There's something odd about the US debate on invading Iraq Andrew Ferguson by in Washington "OUR nation is presentiy engaged in a debate about whether to launch a war against Iraq," wrote former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in the Wall Street Journal recently. The debate that Mr Scowcroft refers
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon What catfights?
      759 18  -  Serene Foo So Close castors insist that they get along, or so they say WHEN three of Chinese cinema's hottest babes team up for a movie, expect to hear rumours about catfights and petty rivalry. So, were Shu Qi, Zhao Wei and Karen Mok at each other's throats
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      Comedy nights gain popularity
      434 18  -  Janice Lee by j anice ©newstoday. com. sg FOR years, we laughed at people getting their faces slammed with cream pies and slipping on banana skins. Those days are over. Today's intelligent public seems to want more than slapstick humour. Despite the economic downturn, organisers say
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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  • YOUR MONEY
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      The lesser-known secret
      594 19 Financial planning works best hand-in-hand with strategic career planning WHY is it that some people are able to accumulate a sizeable asset and attain their financial goals, while others continue to slog to make ends meet? The answer is in financial planning. Many assume that financial planning
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      195 19 The CFP™ certification is a mark of excellence granted to individuals who meet stringent standards of education, *4B^^. experience and ethics. It is AW< the most prestigious and internationally accepted financial planning qualification, recognised and respected by the global financial community. "*^mA The CFP™ certification wins trust and presents opportunities
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  • BUSYCOOK
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      One dish fish
      312 20  -  Pauline DLoh Crisp, crunchy vegetables in a tangy sauce over Tried pomfret POMFRETS are one of the best edible fishes around. Before there was cod and salmon in the markets, pomfrets were the most popular because they made such easy eating. Their nice neat shape made them
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      Instant desserts from fruits in a jar
      178 20 MANY of you remember the William pear and chocolate tart we featured some time back, and judging from the frequency of the requests for that recipe, it's become quite a favourite. I discovered another lovely fruit the other day in the same series.
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      Fried pomfret with sweet-and-sour sauce with vegetables
      231 20 Ingredients: 1 pomfret or ikan bauial (abt 350gm) 3 tomatoes, quartered and seeded 2 fresh shiitake mushrooms, diced 1 carrot, peeled and diced 1 small broccoli, cut into florets 1 tblsp cornflour, salt and pepper 4 tablespoons tomato sauce 2 cloves garlic, skinned
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Two faces of love
      362 21  -  by Yee Wei Zhen weizh c n@ne wsto day. c o m.sg ONE of them pines for romance, while the other is trying to get over lost love. Rene Liv (picture, left) and Victor Wong (picture, right) said in a press conference last Thursday that their
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      One for the kids
      299 21  -  Elista Chia THEY'VE been called the clones of the Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls but Hi-5 would have you know that they are not targeting hormone-charged teenagers. Kathleen de Leon, Nathan Foley, Charli Robinson, Tim Harding and Kellie Hoggart would rather be in the company of
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      59 21 BLUE fans can rejoice the group is in town today for a meet-the-fans session. Lee Ryan (picture, left), however, is absent as he is badlyinjured after a go-karting accident. A message from Lee to his fans will be screened before the autograph session with (from second left) Simon, Duncan and
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      71 21 ALVINTOH FAMOUS local artist Dr Lai Kui Fang (picture) had to clamber up to a height of nearly four metres and clock more than 300 hours to produce this painting depicting the Sept 11 tragedy. Dr Lai spent weeks collecting newspaper clippings and television reports
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      38 21 Been waiting to show off your cooking talent? <i^ U 5 The search for MAGGI HOMECHEF Of The Year is on! Attractive prizes awaits you; look out for more details in this paper on 17 24 Aug 2002.
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Up, down, & up again
      807 22  - Up, down, up again David Ngiau Three offers two highs and a low FILM REVIEW Tmee (Now showing) SHORT film anthologies, such as Three, practically invite audiences to play "critic", and during the film too. You're not just watching one film but three, and it's all in one sitting. It'll
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      Excuse me, are you a gladiator?
      134 22 RUSSELL Crowe, who won last year's best actor Oscar for his lead role in Gladiator, was far from gladiator-like last week when he went berserk at a party in Mexico. He was subdued by a woman. Crowe, currently busy filming The Far Side of
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      A handshake in Cannes at 3am
      168 23  -  ANTONIO Banderas (picture) says plans for a new film with director Pedro Almodovar, their first together in more than a decade, were hatched at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Speaking to Today in Los Angeles recently, Banderas said that they came to an
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      Lock icon Is the Venice festival waning?
      127 23 AFP ROME Europe's oldest film event, the Venice International Film Festival, risks losing its lustre due to bureaucratic problems bordering on the absurd, its new director has warned. Only days before the 59th festival begins, Moritz De Hadeln told the Italian daily, Corriere delta Sera,
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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      1548 24 M PP^V *Oh Carol! Step Aside Julia, Tuesday Midnight Movie Off Centre Let's Meet Project X The Seikan M Here Comes Carol Channel 5,8,30pm Fairy, Ghost, Vixen Mike Euan channel 5, R3oam Tunnel- 24 Years Below M 1 Channel 8,1.15 am the Sea Channel Hews Asia, 7 32pm r"" I
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  • TIMEOUT
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      Lock icon Dirty dancing
      322 25  -  Janice Lee by janic e@ne wstoday. co m. sg THE themes are passion, love and humour but no one expected the dancers of the Singapore Dance Theatre to get down and dirty for Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka. For its season this month, the company will stage a series of
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      186 25 FILMS Les 400 Coups Antoine Leaud often plays truant with his friend, Rene. After stealing a writing machine, he is put in a care centre for young offenders only to escape to the seaside. Date: Today Time: 9pm Venue: Alliance Franchise Price: $5 (members), $7 (non-members) Ticketing: Call Sistic
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      310 25  -  Janice Lee SPEAK of excavations and you'll probably think of dinosaur bones in Jurassic Park, not stoneware jars in Singapore soil. But, a recent dig at the old Parliament House has shed new light on Singapore's history, pre-dating all the way back to the 14th
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      111 25 TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL PRESENTS I EMILY 1 I OF EMERALD HILL I H H Directed by Chin Sari Sooi Starring Pearlly Chua 12 to 15 September 2002 Touch Community Theatre 3615 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore *****1 Date Time Price Charity Premiere Thursday, 12 Sept 02 Bpm $100, $80, $60
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Still an Open wound
      776 26 AFP Players admit that 9/11 is still on their minds before New York event NEW YORK Memories of the Sep 11 terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center linger for Lleyton Hewitt and Venus Williams as they prepare to defend their US Open tennis titles. The
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      Lock icon Historic first ATP triumph for Thailand's Paradorn
      423 26 Reuters COMMACK-Thailand's Par adorn Srichaphan rallied past Juan Ignacio Chela to stun the seventh seed 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday and captured his first career ATP title at the TD Waterhouse Cup. The unseeded Par adorn defeated his Argentine opponent in the final
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      Lock icon Parry ends Woods' streak
      504 27 AFP SAMMAMISH It took Craig Parry (picture) 236 tournaments, and more than a decade, to win on the USPGA Tour, but when he finally won, he did so in style. The chunky little Australian putted superbly to compile a flawless six-under-par 65 final round to clinch
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      Lock icon The Tiger and Butch partnership comes to an abrupt end
      615 27 Agencies ORLANDO Golf coaches are like football managers: From the moment they are hired, they know the sack is waiting for them somewhere down the line. So it was no surprise that after his "catastrophic" failure to win either of
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      Lock icon Pak rallies for three-shot win
      194 27 -AFP KUTZTOWN Pak Se Ri staged another final-round charge on Sunday, making birdies on six of the last seven holes, including the last four, to post a three-shot win at the Betsy King Classic. Two months after rallying from four strokes behind in the final
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      US amateur title for Barnes
      172 27 BLOOMFIELD HILLS Ricky Barnes held off Hunter Mahan to win the US Amateur Championships by a 2 and 1 margin on Sunday after going 20 holes without a bogey at the Oakland Hills Country Club. The 20-year-old from California took the lead for good in
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      Lock icon Seaman fine
      342 28 Agencies LONDON Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman (picture) has vowed to ignore jibes from rival fans after his World Cup torment and continue his England career. Veteran Seaman has been under pressure for his place particularly from Leeds United's Paul Robinson and West Ham's David James ever since his
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      Ridsdale running out of patience
      308 28 LONDON Leeds United chairman Peter Ridsdale claimed he has been subjected to "appalling, threatening" letters from fans protesting at the sale of Rio Ferdinand to Manchester United. Ridsdale, in an interview with The Times yesterday, said that the job of chairman is the "most taxing
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      Lock icon Zalegerszegi has no chance
      811 29  -  Leonard Thomas After first-leg scare, aristocrat United will be too strong Champions League j Man United v Zalegarszegi Live, on Ch22, 3.05 am, tomorrow by! leona rd@ n ewstoday. com. sg DID anyone notice Alex Ferguson's little jig just before the referee blew the whistle for
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      Lock icon Is Hasselbaink going or staying at Chelsea?
      304 29 Agencies LONDON Confusion still surrounds the future of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (picture) at Chelsea. The Dutch striker was quoted in yesterday's Daily Mirror as saying he could not turn down a move to Spanish giant Barcelona. Said Hasselbaink: "At my age, when a
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon Another early exit for Anna
        545 30 AFP Kournikova undone by her own mistakes NEW YORK Anna Kournikova's US Open singles appearance was short and bitter. Indonesia's Angelique Widjaja needed only 44 minutes to oust the 21-year-old Russian beauty 6-3, 6-0 this morning, hitting only one winner while being aided by the
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        Red Devils are bad losers, say Hungarians
        251 30 MANCHESTER Manchester United has been branded a bad loser by the European minnow which aims to kick the English Premiership giant out of the Champions League. Zalegerszegi takes a 1-0 lead into tonight's pre-qualifier second leg at Old Trafford, determined to complete a
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        Seak steps down, coach Jang resumes control at Geylang
        418 30  -  Stanley Ho Today EXCLUSIVE byf stanley@newstoday.com.sg HE HAD decided to take sole control of the team at the beginning of the season. All the time, he said he would be the one calling the shots and picking the team. But now,
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      Why the double standards, Mr Quah?
      752 31  -  S. Murali JOSE RAYMOND STANLEY HO. Others who have criticised have been censured Comment by murali® ne wstoday. c om. sg YESTERDAY, in a rare show of selfchastisement, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) released two statements. Both referred to an interview carried in
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      FAS' clarification
      129 31  -  COO John Koh FAS wishes to put on record our appreciation for the efforts of all S- League clubs, their Chairmen, in particular John Yap, Charles Siahaan, S Thavaneson and their respective Committees. They have all contributed significantly to Singapore football, and we look forward to their continued
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      Quah sends apology
      176 31  -  Quah Kirn Song I MUST confess that the views expressed in the article are mine, and not the views of FAS. I have, in the article, also referred to Chairmen of three said to be struggling S-League clubs. In making those remarks, I intended no malice to
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      46 29 t presents I viVVt sii W IT'S TIME TO AIR YOUR VIEWS Has Roy Keane gone nuts? Is he wrong for being honest? Will this saga be the cause of Man Utd's downfall this season? E-mail your opinion to: tigerfootballfbrutn@newstoday.com.sg We will publish the best responses.
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      319 31 OVER the past two days, FAS director of competitions Quah Kirn Song granted an interview to The Straits Times in which he lambasted the S-League. But a lot of what he said was the subject of numerous stories in the press over the past months. The only difference was, at
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