Today, 3 September 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    6 1 TODAY TllCSdftY September 3, 2002 M!TA(P)O63/11.<200]
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Russia threatens to veto US on Iraq
      149 1 -AFP JOHANNESBURG Russia yesterday accused US President George W Bush of having political motives for seeking to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and warned it could veto US moves to obtain United Nations support for an attack. "I hope that this question is
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      Mystery behind the last'palace' standing in Punggol
      375 1  -  Jose Raymond by. jo s e@ n c wsto d ay. co m. sg WHEN a dilapidated kampung house in Punggol (picture) is left standing amid all the development that is taking place, something doesn't seem to be quite right The house, which
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      The chip squeeze
      630 1  -  ValChua by val@news to d ay.com. sg CHIPMAKER Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing yesterday confirmed what the market has long known that it needs money to keep up with the chip race. The Government-Linked Company (GLC) announced that it aims to raise $1.11 billion by selling shares at a
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Waiting and waiting
      145 2  -  Ng Boon Yian IT WAS a day of delays on the first day of ministerial talks between Singapore and Malaysia to resolve a package of outstanding issues, including water. After a two-and-a-half hour wait, the press sprang into action as the Malaysian delegation led by its Foreign
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      Back as principal
      473 2  -  Lee Ching Wern by chingwe rn@newstoday.com.sg FOR the past four months, this man's career and reputation have been hanging in the balance. But, weeks of anxiety and worry ended for the principal of AngloChinese School (Barker Road), Mr Ng Eng Chin (picture), yesterday when he was cleared
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      Firm on illegals
      294 3 Deportation freeze not a change in stance: KL KUALA LUMPUR The temporary reprieve for the Filipino nationals does not mean a change in the government's policy of deporting illegal immigrants in the country, said Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad yesterday. Dr Mahathir said that he had
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    • Article
      1999 plot to oust KL govt
      148 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's top military brass was approached by anti-government elements to help topple the government in 1999. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said he was aware of the attempts, but added that he has immense faith that the military leaders "would
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      New Bill may kill press freedom
      95 3 JAKARTA Press freedom in Indonesia may die an early death with the introduction of a Bill that prevents the relay of news from foreign countries. The legislation, if passed by the House of Representatives, will curb the public's right to information, reported Tke Jakarta
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      Cat-in-flat proposal rejected
      252 4  -  -Joy Frances THE Cat Welfare Society (CWS) has run into yet another brick wall in its campaign to allow HDB flat owners to keep cats in their homes. Last month, the Ministry of National Development (MND) turned down the society's proposal to require pet owners to register
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      Too smart for a S'porean'
      400 4  -  Lee Ching Wern Top student's shock from US university by chingwen newstoday. com. sg IT has been a rocky road to a first-class honours degree for Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Communication and Information graduate Anita Zee (picture). While other students work doubly hard to achieve
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      Lock icon Drive-in preview ofthe 'durian'
      279 4 Channel NewsAsia TAXI drivers were treated to a "durian" feast of massive proportions yesterday. But instead of the King of Fruits, they got a taste of what many of them call tbe "liulian" (durian in Mandarin) Esplanade Theatres on the Bay. In a two-day familiarisation programme,
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  • HOME NEWS
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      PM's health report card
      372 5  -  Rosalyn Lim by rosalyn@newstoday.com.sg PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong spilled the beans on the lifestyles of his ministers and categorised them as "health nuts", the "health-conscious" and those who had "room for improvement". He was speaking at the launch of the National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 2002
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      Lock icon Bon voyage... want to buy a notebook?
      194 5 Bon voyage want to buy a notebook? THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) is trying to entice more travellers to shop for electronic goods at Changi Airport. Electronic goods make up nearly 14 per cent of all sales at retail shops at both terminals the third-highest category of goods
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    What's great...
    426 6 if one's quality of life is financed by credit? I REFER to the current interest in the excessive use of credit. Recent reports about the escalating rollover balance of credit card bills show that Singaporeans have not understood the immensity of their debt problems. Having a credit card
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    Sacking of SQ006 pilots a sad loss
    227 6  -  Lee Lai Yong I REFER to recent reports and letters to the press on the dismissal of the Singapore Airlines SQOO6 pilots. The concern is that passengers might feel uneasy when they travel on an aircraft piloted by such a crew. This is
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      105 6 TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL PRESENTS EMILY 1 I OF EMERALD HILL I Directed by Chin San Sooi Starring Pearl ly Chua 12 to 15 September 2002 Touch Community Theatre 3E15 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore *****1 Date Time Price Charity I'reiriiere Thursday 12 Sept 02 Bpm $100, $90, S6Q Matintc Sbo
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon 5.7% growth forecast for 2003
      212 8 Reuters A QUARTERLY survey of economists in the private sector by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) released yesterday found the average gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for this year had barely budged at 4,2 per cent against 4.1 per cent in June. But
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        136 8 THE STI Index caved in under selling pressure to close at its nadir of 1,460.68 or a loss of 27.82 points. For every stock that rose, eight fell while 276 counters were unchanged. Volume was 328 million shares with a value of $317 million traded. Chartered Semiconductor made an
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        World markets
        52 8 Index Value Change Ph Nikkei ?25 Hong Seng sill Ordinaries [aiwan Wtd 9521.63 9896.98 3083.70 4644.50 -97.67 ■146.89 +10.10 -120.36 -i.o; ■1.41 +0.3: ■2.5: Karen Cm j) SET Index 751.90 357.36 +15.58 -3.80 +2,1! -1.0! Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzen 3 439.99 1098.29 242.61 -3.68 5.07 -0.85 ■0.8,
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        Your S$1 buys
        37 8 ISS 0.***** LK£ 0.***** Yen 67.5592 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.171 B0 Euro 0.***** Rupiah 5056.36 Boat 24.1412 Peso 29.5907 A$ 1.***** Indian R_ 27.7054 Wen 687.146 C$ 0.***** Yunn 4.7305 117$ 1.***** NT$ 19.6147
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        Commodities
        19 8 Golduss/__ 313.900 Silver uss/o_ 4.463 Platinum usj/ui 565.800 Rubber cemsAg 159.75 Pnlmoil (M/tonnn 1517 Brent (rude usVb.tr.l 26.85
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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
        60 8 )y volume sepi 2 'barreled iitiraya DatoaftUSS .inks li >NElndV.050B2B 'OM 53,273 30,047 16,676 14,771 I 11,517 ST Assemb BIL Inll UniFood Ip— SingTel 'OOI 9,86* 7,111 6,95' 6,951 6,23! ly value sepi 2 .bartered I Venture jtiraya JOB iT S—ru 86,636,000 27,061,400 18,512,470 17,709,114 13,672,680 DBS
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        SGX top rises
        74 8 Sept 2 IHH400U5S Close Change 5.™ +0.100 C&C Bobinson 4.380 +0.080 5.600 +O.O50 Allied. 0.230 +0.030 HH! 0.135 +0.025 ip Land W*****3 (yaplas KepCor 1.280 +0.020 0.250 +0.020 4.440 +0.020 [opitnMdi SAlSvts 1.040 +0.020 1.770 +0.020 -I _y petcenli Sept 2 m ilage Close Charye 0.020 433.333
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        81 8 BLOOMBERG Sept 2 JK" M: 50 Close Change ***** -1.000 Chartered Venture 1.(00 -O.500 12.500 4400 SPH 100 19.400 -O.400 5PH ST Assemb STIETF100IOPV 19.300 4300 1.330 0.280 I4.B73 4276 S1IETF100 15.020 -0.230 UOB 13.000 -O.200 DBS ***** -0.200 By percentage Sept 2 PNEInrJW05OB23 Close Change 0.050
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      Lock icon Credit card debts soar
      220 10 Bloomberg Banks lose $65m from Jan to July DBS Group Holdings, United Overseas Bank and other lenders in Singapore wrote off $9 million of credit card debt in July. Although this was down from $12.2 million in June, the write-offs were still 53 per cent more
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      Lock icon ABN, ING lead pack to arrange M1 share sale
      259 10 Bloomberg ABN AMRO Holding NV and ING Groep NV are among the banks favoured to arrange an initial share sale for MobileOne Asia, said bankers who are seeking the business. MobileOne, Singapore's sec-ond-biggest mobile phone operator, will probably hire arrangers this
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      Lock icon Airlines still bear 911 scar
      171 10 -AFP GLOBAL civil aviation is still licking its wounds a year after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. The industry posted a net loss of US$l2 billion ($2l billion) last year and also saw tens of thousands of jobs lost and thousands of aircraft grounded. While
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      Riding the wave
      196 11 BARELY two months after it was pub-licly-listed, Darco Water Technologies is making waves in the power and petrochemical water treatment arena. It is teaming up with UK-based Kennicott Water Systems to service power stations in the region, extending its foray outside the semiconductor and electronics industries that
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      New condo project
      114 11 CAPITALAMD will launch its latest residential project the 211-unit freehold Belmond Green condo project this weekend, at an average $948 per square foot. Unit size ranges from 958 square feet to 2,400 square feet. More than a third of the 120 units put up for sale in
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      United Food scores
      87 11 UNITED Food Holdings has reported a 26.6 per cent growth in net profit to Rmb 207 million ($43.7 million) for the first half of the financial year ended June 30, 2002. Group turnover rose 27.3 per cent to Rmb 1,261.7 million in the same period. The better
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      Lock icon Shares plunge ...
      291 11 Shares plunge Agencies But ST Assembly says it does not need further financing ST Assembly Test Services said yesterday it has no plans to raise funds this year, after having issued a convertible bond in March, The company's shares plunged to 10-month lows yesterday on fears that the chip-testing and
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      Lock icon $200m Keppel fund for China projects
      167 11 Bloomberg SHANGHAI Keppel Land will create a $200 million investment fund next year to help finance projects in China. By early next year, Keppel will begin selling its China Development Fund to US and European investors, raising money for residential projects in China, managing
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      Stock options ruling
      162 11 THE Finance Ministry said employees who have left their companies, but who have not exercised their stock options, are now deemed to have done so when they quit their jobs. They thus have to pay taxes on their stock options. However, if they exercise their options subsequently
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      Lock icon New rules spark fears of downsizing in auditing industry
      437 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S 568 audit firms face a double blow: New rules mean most clients will not need their services and they will have to give up the customers that do. After accounting scandals at Enron Corp, WorldCom Inc and other US
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Lock icon Lower car tax?
      195 13 Bloomberg Jakarta wants to boost demand, investment JAKARTA The Indonesian government is considering lowering its luxury car tax to spur domestic demand and attract foreign investment in auto manufacturing, the Jakarta Post said, citing an official of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Mr Achdiat Atmawinata, head
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      Lock icon Vodafone 'in $21b takeover bid' for French telco
      181 13 -AFP LONDON The British mobile telephone operator, Vodafone, plans a takeover bid for its French counterpart, SFR, which is controlled by cash-strapped media giant Vivendi Universal, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The newspaper said a formal offer could be made by the
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      185 8 Set your sights |^^^R^; further and higher, /iv^k^ v ifl__^ ___R^_iv^BH JaW—W T/f/Jf .__________!r^______________l IKTi¥l^T?iT'i^Bb________■ 48b Ottawa University, I«P F USA Ottawa University is listed in the 1995 edition of America's Best College in the annual book under Regional Schools. As a higher education provider, Ottawa has a stringent system
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      The year after 911
      529 14  -  Ambiga Raj u by mambiga@hotmail.com FOR one day last year, the United Nations General Assembly did not have a president to take charge of proceedings. An election for the post was to have taken place on Sept 11 at UN headquarters in New York, a short
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      Lock icon China rebuffed
      279 15 Agencies Taiwan sovereignty undeniable: Chen TAIPEI Another wave of ripples in cross-strait relations is likely to be unleashed as Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian declared that the island's sovereignty is not to be denied and flatly rejected China's terms for reunification. Mr Chen said Taiwan would never give up
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      Lock icon Rift deepens
      181 15 WASHINGTON President George W Bush moved to distance himself from his deputy after it was revealed that key points in Vice-President Dick Cheney's bellicose address on Iraq last week were not endorsed by the White House. In his speech to US war veterans last Monday, Mr Cheney said
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      Lock icon Koizumi banking on N Korea breakthrough
      127 15 Reuters TOKYO Much hinges on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to North Korea on Sept 17. While some analysts said that Mr Koizumi's popularity could slide further if he fails to achieve a breakthrough, others believed that Mr Koizumi would never have decided
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      106 15 Do you automatically add sauce to your Ways to cut down on salt: food, sometimes even before you've *s Use less salt, stock cubes and seasonings when cooking. tasted it? Flavour food by using fresh herbs and spices. It's not healthy. Too much salt in your diet Ask for less
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  • COMMENTARY
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      The slum factor
      830 16  -  Wan Hamidi Hamid Why KL's tough stand will remain by in Kuala Lumpur IT WAS estimated last year that there were about two million foreign workers in Malaysia and that almost half had entered the country illegally. Most of them were Indonesians and Filipinos. In some states,
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  • UPFRONG
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      Lock icon Women at the wall
      550 17 -AFP For this Israeli human rights group, the pen is mightier than the sword ABU DIS (West Bank) With one foot in annexed East Jerusalem, the other in the West Bank, a Palestinian woman lifts her child through a hole in the wall that splits the
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      188 17 a. si B why ore frtese people so hoppyT H H m> \Mst yl '9.1 :sSB IK *^8H I li ■i simonYip i, t AnifaLi Ifl uNili w ß iok^ Stayed in world-renowned, 5-star Celebro.ed birthday in Phuket airlines Seoul hotel For the price ol a 3-Hor. with boyfriend F|ew
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  • YOUR MONEY
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      Do you have a plan?
      557 18  -  Eli Lenyoun If it's satisfaction and recognition you want, then financial planning is the job for you by WHETHER we realise it or not, each of us has some experience in personal financial planning. For many of us, deciding to buy a car, take a
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      160 18 The CFP™ certification is a mark of excellence granted to individuals who meet stringent standards of education, experience and ethics. It is the most prestigious and internationally accepted financial planning qualification, recognised and respected by the global financial community. The CFP™ certification wins trust and presents opportunities for financial professionals
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  • BUSY COOK
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      Stuffed full of goodness
      317 19  -  Pauline DLoh L Now's the season to enjoy sweet crabs, fat and full of roe WITH mid-autumn just round the corner, it's time to get really crabby. If you're paying attention when you go shopping at the supermarkets or wet markets, you'd have noticed that our
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      Stuffed crab shells with mushroom and mozzarella
      247 19 Ingredients: Four large crabs, preferably female 1 pkt button mushrooms, sliced 200gm shredded mozzarella 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 brown onion, diced 1 carrot, diced 1 cup of white wine (optional) 1 cup young green peas (petit pois) Pepper to taste
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      How to dress crabs
      238 19 Some use double forks. Others prefer a single chopstick. Yet others despatch them with a single blow of the cleaver. In my younger days, I actually anaesthetised them in the freezer before I had the courage to kill them. Older and bolder now, I have become
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  • INFOTECH
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      It's a smooth operator
      471 20  -  John Lui This hserjet offers colour printing at black-and-white speeds by john.lui «>__ sia.cnet.com THE new HP has spiffed up its colour laser series with a new top-end model the LaserJet 4600. This workgroup printer features a fast, one-pass operation. It took 18 seconds to print
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      Detonator unleashed
      119 20 NVIDIA has launched its Detonator 40 unified drivers desktop, mobile and workstation Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The Nvidia Detonator 40 delivers software applications designed to extend and enhance the visual computing experience. The driver features View 2.0 multi-display technology to help users access and view applications. It includes
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      Network experts are only 16
      292 20 WHEN it comes to ■knowing their networks, Ng Junyang and Sim Yan Chuan of The Chinese High School are Singapore's most switched-on students. Recently, the two 16-year-olds emerged as the winners of the Networking Challenge and walked away with the top prize of $3,000, handheld
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    The fit and the productive
    479 21  -  Alice Leong by MANY of us spend eight hours or more in the office, five days a week. But, are you aware that because of the significant amount of time you spend at work, what you do has a great impact on your lives and
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    Get Mickey Mouse frames
    123 21 HERE'S a great deal not to be missed. As part of Optic Point's Children's Eyecare Week, which is on till Friday, the company is offering free eye examinations worth $35 to children aged between five and 15. All they have to do is show up at
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    EXHIBITION TO LOOK OUT FOR
    87 21 THIS year, Singapore will be hosting the 4th International Exhibition on Hospital, Pharmaceutical, Medical Rehabilitation Equipment Supplies (HOSPIMedicaASIA) and the 3rd Occupational Safety Health Exhibition for Asia (OS+H Asia) from Sept 10 to 12. During the three-day event at Suntec Singapore Halls 601-603, you can
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  • INCINEMAS
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      256 22 VENICE Last year, Steven Soderbergh was the toast of Hollywood. Today, he's fighting disparaging critics who "don't get" his latest effort, Full Frontal. Shot on a shoestring budget, Frontal has been panned by many of the critics who cheered him on to two
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      Lock icon Ford defends K-19 role
      213 22 Reuters/Variety VENICE Harrison Ford has defended his controversial portrayal of a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker, a film strongly criticised by the original crew. The producers say K-19 is inspired by actual events on board a Soviet nuclear submarine on the verge of a
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      151 22 Rettters/Variety VENICE For his debut Hollywood film American Beauty, British director Sam Mendes walked off with an Oscar. For his second film, he's picked a different road to tread. Road ta Perdition, a gangster movie set in the Depression-era Midwest US, is in the running for the Venice
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Body Will Sing ... and sell
      212 24  - Body Will Sing and sell -ElisaChia ii TNEVER expected to Aachieve such good results," Vanness Wu gushed to a roomful of unbelieving reporters after he was presented with a platinum plaque. Some 15,000 copies of his debut solo album, Body Will Sing, have been snapped up within two weeks of
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      Lock icon Yours truly, Jay
      417 24 This singer has found his own style by Serene Foo serene@newstoday.com.sg CALL it a reversal of fortunes. At last year's Singapore Hit Awards, singer Jay Chou (picture), 23, took second place behind local songbird Stefanie Sun for the Best Newcomer Award. On Sunday night, however, the Taiwanese
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      1618 25 On TV Ally Mcßeal irflKlstv Print to Screen Portrait Tuesday Midnight Movie Project X Boby's First Breath Channel 5, 10pm M '''■*'''jjEk [of 0 Lady Arts Central, 1 Opm Our Sister Hedy Channel NewsAsia, 7.32pm Fish's father, Chartit asks his son to defend t < Isabel Archer visits her wealthy
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  • SPORTS
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      He ended a dvnasty
      887 26 When Nicol brought down the Khan family... FOR 40 years, squash was dominated by Pakistan's Khan dynasty. Players like Hashim (seven British Opens), Azam (four Opens), Jahangir (10 Opens) andfansher (six Opens) are all legends of the game. But in 1998, Aberdeen-born Peter Nicol finally ended
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      Lock icon Serena's father threatens to kill her stalker as she cruises through
      466 26 AFP NEW YORK -Richard Williams, the father of the Williams sisters, has threatened to kill German Albrecht Stromeyer if he harms the world number one Serena. Serena Williams ignored a six-and-a-half hour rain delay and the arrest of Stromeyer,
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      Lock icon Row rumbles on unabated
      344 27 -AFP NEW DELHI India's leading cricketers will only take part in next week's Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka only if they get the nod from their personal sponsors, sources said yesterday. Snubbed by the International Cricket Council (ICC), Sourav Ganguly's men were considering a written plea
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      Lock icon Sweet and Sauers
      189 27 Reuters SURREY Gene Sauers seized his first victory on the US PGA Tour for 13 years when he posted a bogey-free 69 to win the US$3.5 million ($6 million) Air Canada Championship by one stroke from Steve Lowery yesterday. Sauers, 40, who had not won on the
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      Lock icon Ticket system to be revealed
      163 27 Reuters SYDNEY Australian rugby officials will unveil their ticketing policy for next year's World Cup today. The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) is expected to unveil a lottery-style ballot similar to the system used at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Stung by public criticism over its past
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      Attitude, money and role models
      961 28  -  Jose Raymond SAAA, SSC must tackle these issues to get back on track by j ose ©news tod ay. com. sg IT DOES make for abysmal reading. Over the last 20 years, Singapore has won just seven gold medals in track and field at the
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      Awesome Oz
      45 28 NAIROBI Australia trounced Kenya by eight wickets in the fourth match of the triangular one-day international yesterday. The world champion was again at its devastating best, bowling Kenya out for its lowest-ever total of 84. The Aussies then reached 85-2 in 17 overs.
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      Yoong back
      53 28 SPA FRANCORCHAMPS Alex Yoong will return to drive for Minardi at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sep 15, having been dropped for the last two Formula 1 races. The Malaysian driver, who has failed to qualify for two races in 2002, had lost his seat to
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      World record
      44 28 MELBOURNE Matt Welsh set a world record of 23.31 seconds for the men's 50 metres backstroke at the Australian short-course swimming championships yesterday. Welsh bettered the previous world record of 23.42 set by Neil Walker of the United States in March 2000.
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      Off the hook
      67 28 PARIS An investigation into charges that the US Postal team of Lance Arm strong used banned drugs during the 2000 Tour de France has been scrapped for lack of evidence, legal sources said yesterday. Chief investigating magistrate Sophie-Helene Chateau dropped the case at the end of August.
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      Moving up
      67 28 LONDON Thomas Bjorn's victory at the B3MW Masters at the weekend has moved him up two places in the world rankings. Bjorn, who won by four shots in Munich from Bernhard Langer and England's John Bickerton, lies 36th in the world after claiming the seventh European title of
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      Lock icon The Five Musketeers
      831 29 The Warriors who helped turn SAFFC into the best team in Singapore LOVE it or loathe it, SAFFC is a class above the rest. With five matches logo in the 2002 NTUC Income S-League, it has stormed to the championship title in record time, leaping its rivals
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      Lock icon NTUC Income-ToDAY Fan ofthe Week
      140 29 Today photo by BRANDON Leong (picture) is a "soccer star wannabe". The eight-year-old primary two student, who sports a distinctive cleanshaven head, dreams of being a football star strutting around the pitch with his shiny pate. His favourites include Brazilian superstar Ronaldo, Turkey's Hasan Sas
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      Lock icon NTUC Income-ToDAY Fan ofthe Week Party
      109 29 "ARE you ready? All together now, here we go!" Geylang United fans Zeenath Elias (picture, left) and Wahimah Wati (right) held on tightly to Eagles' flying winger Mohd Noor Ali as they prepared for a ride down an icy slope at the NTUC Income-TODAY
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon Shearer stuns the Kop
        678 30 Reuters Former England striker strikes late to deny Liverpool victory English Premier League Liverpool 2 Newcastle 2 Owen opens Premiership account but is guilty of squandering a glut of chances ANFIELD Michael Owen was left to rue a string of misses as former England partner Alan
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        Lock icon Former Red helps Real off to winning start
        239 30 Reuters MADRID A glancing header from Ivan Helguera and a cool finish from substitute Steve McManaman gave slow-starting Real Madrid a 2-0 win over Espanyol in their opening league game of the season at the Bernabeu this morning. Kicking off the Spanish
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        Lock icon Davenport in last eight
        51 30 Reuters NEW YORK Fourth seed Lindsay Davenport wasted little time in bulldozing past Italy's Silvia Farina Elia 6-3, 6-1 to advance into the quarterfinals of the US Open this morning. Heavy rain, which caused the cancellation of Sunday's night session, forced a delay of nearly seven-and-a-half
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        Lock icon United firmly behind Keane despite his misdeeds, says Beckham
        247 30 -AFP LONDON England captain David Beckham backed under-fire Manchester United colleague Roy Keane yesterday and insisted the rest of his team-mates were fully behind the controversial midfielder. Keane was sent off in Saturday's IT English Premiership draw with Sunderland for elbowing
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      Lock icon The best of all time?
      619 31 -AFP MADRID Now that the 45 million euros ($77 million) transfer saga of Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid has finally been resolved, many pundits are asking, "What next?" Popular opinion is that the current generation will outshine even that of Di Stefano, Gento, Kopa and
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