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    14 1 TODAY Tuesday j»'y i5 > 2°° 3 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com SHARE YOUR FREE COPY
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon US army unit in Iraq to stay on indefinitely
      175 1 Agencies BAGHDAD Facing mounting security threats, the US military said thousands of soldiers from a key army division in Iraq would not return home by September as expected and instead stay on indefinitely. The 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanised) was the first
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      Lock icon US stocks edge up
      51 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks finished modestly higher yesterday. The Dow Jones industrials, which rose more than 140 points in early trade, finished with a gain of 56.86 points, or 0.62 per cent at 9,176.45. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 20.83 points, or 1.2 per cent, to
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      Lock icon Yahoo to buy Overture for $3 billion
      156 1 Agencies SAN FRANCISCO In a move that broadens Yahoo Inc's offering to advertisers, the Internet giant said that it has agreed to buy Overture Services Inc for about US$l.63 billion ($2.86 billion) in stock and cash. This is also likely to help Yahoo
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      Lock icon Wilting of the flower tycoon
      473 1 Kim-Kyna Tan SELF-MADE entrepreneurs who rose from rags to riches during the free-wheeling era of economic reform in China during the 90s are now staring at the very real prospect of becoming paupers overnight Things were coming up roses for flower merchant Yang Bin (picture),
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      Ink attack
      514 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Val Chua Malaysia's ad blitz on water puzzles experts by: and 1 boonyian@newstoday.com.sg JUST when it appeared that regional ties were on the mend and the simmering water dispute had been placed on the back burner, Malaysia has taken a huge swipe at Singapore with
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Two companies
      488 2 News Comment/Francis Kan While SIA made it clear it must downsize to stay afloat THEY are two of Singapore's most closely followed companies, blue chip behemoths that employ thousands and boast billions of dollars in annual revenues. But when it came to their respective retrenchment exercises last month,
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      Lock icon JI man flees Philippine cell
      260 2 UN A worrying turn 01 events, the highest-rank-ing jailed member of the Jemaah Islamiyah 01) vanished mysteriously from his cell in the Philippines. Fathur Rohman Al Ghozi (picture), sentenced to 17 years in prison for possession of explosives, slipped out o: a high-security, special detention
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      Lock icon Saddam's hideout
      129 2 -AFP LONDON Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is hiding in villages along the Tigris River north of Baghdad along with his former chemical weapons chief, known as "Chemical Ali", Britain's Independent newspaper said yesterday. It cited the former head of Iraqi military intelligence, General Wafiq Al Samarrai, as
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      in a tale-spin
      317 3 profitable SPH downplays its rightsizing move and the liberalisation of the media industry. But without the usual media glare that accompanies such high-profile retrenchments, many questions remain. Why did the company restore wages in January, only to cut jobs now? Why did a company that had just
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      Lim to step down as Health Minister
      334 3  -  Tan Hui Leng THE man at the frontline of Sars, Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang (picture), will relinquish his portfolio on Aug 1. It was a move that has been anticipated since Prime Minister Goh Chok long announced a slew of changes to
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      A generation of Sars warriors
      390 4  -  Lee Ching Wern WHEN Sars hit Singapore four months ago, there were fewer than five virologists here. And throughout the Republic's worst medical crisis, that small team had to make do with limited resources, relying heavily on help from foreign experts. Twenty years from now,
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      The HDB jackpot
      299 4  -  Lee Yew Meng Windfall in store for new Sers flat owners by yewmeng(gnewstoday.com.sg GETTING one of 45 new four-room Sers flats in Ang Mo Kio could be the equivalent of winning the lottery for some aspiring homeowners. Some 1,007 people have applied for the units, which means
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      Jayakumar salutes new-style Asean
      317 4 THAT the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) responded well to the stand-off in Myanmar during the foreign ministers summit in Phnom Penh last month was an encouraging sign for Foreign Affairs Minister S Jayakumar (picture). Nobel Peace Laureate and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu
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      MediaCorp tops in TV ratings: MDA
      139 4 THE Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced that Singapore's top English and Chinese television stations for the second quarter (April to June) are MediaCorp's Channel 5 and 8. Figures on the MDA website, released yesterday, put Channel 8 on top with a 36.9 per
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  • Home News
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      Lock icon No side-effects
      238 6 Channel News Asia Slim 10 importer says he took up to 30 capsules a day THE man who imported Slim 10 into Singapore claimed in court yesterday that he took up to 30 capsules of the slimming supplement every day without suffering any side-effects. Mr Semon Liv (picture)
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      SARS AND THE LAW
      469 6 THE LIABILITIES The concern over Sars has diminished and there are now fewer than 40 people serving Home Quarantine Orders (HQO). But that does not mean the public can be lax about their social responsibility, especially as they may be vulnerable to criminal and civil liabilities.
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      249 6 r SMS your way to a PowerShot S50 digital camera from Canon. Look out for the Canon DIGIC SMS Contest ad in TODAY'S publication! J BREAKING INTO THE CHINA JOB MARKET JUST GOT EASIER WITH OUR ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE COURSES. B Informatics is the first and only private educator in
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      Ballot is fair: URA
      325 8 I REFER to the news commentary, "This is like killing entrepreneurship, URA" by Mr Lee Han Shih (Today, July 11). Mr Lee suggested that the URA was killing entrepreneurship by adopting a ballot system for the allocation of limited parking lots for mobile food and beverage
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      Permit system reality
      185 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming I BELIEVE Mr Chris Soh (Today, July 14) has missed the point of Mr Lee Han Shih's article, "This is like killing entrepreneurship, URA". It is precisely because business is so regulated that the marketplace ideal of Mr Soh does not work. He
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Optus: Wizard of Oz
      578 10  -  r Chan Chao Peh SingTel's Australian cellular unit aims to overtake Telstra in mobile market by in Sydney OPTUS Mobile is confident of bridging the slim lead in market share held by competitor Telstra's mobile division, said Mr Allen Lew, managing director of SingTel's Australian cellular
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      Lock icon Taiwan bond sale backed by rent
      121 10 Bloomberg THE Taipei city government plans to sell bonds backed by rental income from Taipei 101 (picture) the world's tallest skyscraper due to be completed next year and from the site of a Shinkong Mitsukoshi department store, the Economic Daily News reported. The city
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      192 10 Bloomberg -AFP Bloomberg -AFP Bloomberg India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee unveiled a pension plan that will pay a guaranteed nine per cent to every Indian over 55 years of age, a move aimed at shielding retirement incomes as interest rates decline. Since February 2001, the central bank
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      Lock icon Thailand, Indonesia want to shake off IMF yoke
      208 12 Bloomberg AN 18-month surge in private investment in emerging markets is prompting Thailand and Indonesia to halt borrowing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), after years of using it as a lifeline to avoid default "It's a risky strategy because it could
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    • Market Watch
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        Straits Times Index-1,574.46 +29.62
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        SGX most active
        59 12 By volume July 14 Ipco AsiaFoodP Close 0.165 0.280 Change -0.005 +0.035 '000 -2.9 197,168 +14.3 109,135 UniFiber Acma Inno-Pac L&M Horizon Strike Frontline Japan Asia 0.145 0.115 0.060 0.020 0.110 0.050 0.170 0.115 -0.005 +0.005 +0.005 +0.005 +0.005 +0.005 +0.025 -3.3 77,400 +4.5 55,689 +9.1 55,489
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        Lock icon Singapore
        124 12 AFP SINGAPORE shares closed at one-year highs yesterday on broad-based buying and hopes for an improved economic outlook for the second half, dealers said. The STI rose 29.62 points or 1.92 per cent to end at 1,574.46. It was the highest closing level for the index since July 18
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        SGX top rises
        77 12 By$ July 14 Creative 50 F&N Close Change 15.100 +0.400 9.850 +0.400 By percentage July 14 Close Change PanpacMedW*****9 0.020 +100.0 BakerTech 0.160 +60.0 SIA 11.000 +0.400 CSCW*****7 0.015 +50.0 SIA 200 11.000 +0.400 PNE Ind W*****8 0.075 +50.0 Venture 17.600 +0.400 Vicplas W*****9 0.030 +50.0 DBS
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        SGX top falls
        76 12 By$ July 14 Close Change Prima 6.000 -0.050 By percentage July 14 Close Change ChuanSH W*****0 0.030 -14.3 Innovalu 1.150 -0.030 Falmac 0.065 -13.3 StamfordTyre W*****00.565 -0.030 CapilaMall 1.150 -0.020 PDCCorp 0.040 -11.1 Reed 0.120 -7.7 DalacrflUSS 1.150 -0.020 ASTIW*****1 0.075 -6.3 GuocoLandNCCPS*****91.060 -0.020 LeeMelal 0.085 -5.6
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        World markets
        61 12 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng KLCI Value 9,755.63 10,122.40 727.11 Change Pis +120.28 +210.90 +3.21 +1.25 +2.13 +0.44 Sydney All Ords Taiwan Weighted Korea Composite Thai SET Index 3,053.40 5,349.94 720.10 484.39 +30.60 +109.98 +15.95 +10.11 +1.01 +2.10 +2.27 +2.13 Jakarta Composite Philippines Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai 534.961
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold us$/oz 344.615 Silver us$/oz 4.***** Platinum us$/oz 674.000 Rubber centsAg 178.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,416 Brent crude us$Aarrel 29.14
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        Your S$2 buys
        30 12 JS$ JK£ fen luro (upiah 0.***** Peso 0.***** A$ 66.8779 Indian Rs 4.***** Won 2.***** C$ 0.***** Yuan 4,686.06 NZ$ 30.512 0.8643' 26.221: 670.10' 0.7863: 4.7155: 0.9657'
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      Lock icon Sino luxuy
      104 14 Bloomberg VOLKSWAGEN AG started selling its A 8 model in China yesterday to meet the demand for luxury cars in one of the world's fastestgrowing vehicle markets, The Shanghai Daily reported. The Audi A 8 is fitted with a 3.7 or 4.2 litre engine and sold for between
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      155 14 Bloomberg AFX-Asia Bloomberg -AFP Agva, which manufactures storage bags and wallets for multi-media products, said that it will sell 54.8 million shares at 21 cents each via its initial public offering which will be launched today. Trading is expected to beam on July 23. SembCorp Industries, South-east Asia's
      — Bloomberg; – AFX-Asia; -AFP  -  155 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Portek's smart moves
      412 16  -  Carmen Lee It diversifies into terminal operations, eyes port reconstruction projects by news@newstoday. com, sg THE port-related business operator, Portek, is seeing renewed investor buying interest Within the past two months, the stock has moved up 63 per cent and hit a recent high of 37.5 cents.
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      Lock icon 16% return target for Sing Tel CEO
      205 16 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Telecommunications, South-east Asia's largest phone company, set a 16 per cent return on invested capital and the performance of its shares against rivals as benchmarks for granting stock to its CEO, Mr Lee Hsien Yang (picture). Mr Lee will get 702,712
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      Falling expat numbers drive rents down
      381 16  -  Lee Yew Meng RENTS for private residences in Singapore continued to fall in the second quarter of this year. Property consultancy firm Colliers International said rents in the prime Districts 9,10 and 11 slipped an average of more than two per cent over the
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      If Fair Price never existed
      653 17 If Fair Price were a person, it would have a capitalist mind with a socialist heart. FAIRPRICE is a co-operative yet it never loses sight that it has to make money before any of its social objectives can be met. If Fair Price were a
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  • INFO TECH
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      Lock icon Voices that matter
      399 18 Reuters People Soft customers play key role in Oracle bid PALO ALTO (California) People Soft customers have backed the software maker's efforts to fend off a US$6.3 billion ($11.07 billion) hostile takeover bid from Oracle. And analysts said they expect customers to play an even more important
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      Mitsubishi helps to avoid 'no shows'
      208 18 THE Mitsubishi Express Replacement Assistance (ERA) programme aims to help users of the vendor's projectors keep their presentations going. Under the programme, if a Mitsubishi projector goes faulty, the vendor will loan its corporate customers a replacement unit so that the customers can continue
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      Win a Canon digicam worth $999
      126 18 LOOK out for a chance to win one of eight Canon Power Shot S5O digital cameras worth $999 each. The Power Shot S5O digital cameras are among the first cameras from Canon that take advantage of the Digic digital imaging processor technology developed by
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon My Guinness Book of Records gain
      105 20 Reuters photo An Australian woman has ripped her way into the record books by giving bikini waxes to 130 people in four hours without apparent mishap. Ms Lareesa Guttery (right), a beauty therapist in the western city of Perth, claimed her new record on
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      Lock icon Blasts rock Indon Parliament
      227 20 Agencies JAKARTA Two months ago, a bomb exploded behind the United Nations headquarters. Yesterday, another bomb hit the seat of Indonesia's government, the Parliament building. A cynic would suggest that terrorists have free reign to bomb Jakarta's most important buildings. It would be funny if it
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      Lock icon The Arafat block
      462 20 Agencies Israel doesn't want to deal with him, PM can't get along with him LONDON It's becoming increasingly clear that peace in Palestine and Mr Yasser Arafat cannot co-exist Indeed, that's the message Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon conveyed as he arrived in Britain as efforts to
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    • AROUND THE WORLD
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        Lock icon DEADLY GRAFT:
        58 20 Reuters Vietnam sent out a deadly warning against widespread corruption and graft by executing a businessman and a banker for their role in fraudulently obtaining loans worth US$2OO million ($351 million). They were shot dead by a firing squad on Friday after being found guilty of using false
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        Lock icon ANWAR'S LAWYER ILL:
        34 20 -AFP A Malaysian court yesterday postponed the bail hearing of jailed former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for a week after learning that senior defence counsel Karpal Singh had been hospitalised.
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        Lock icon TOMMY'S COMFORTS
        64 20 -AFP Mr Tommy Suharto, son of the former Indonesian dictator, has cable TV, an exercise bike and meals delivered to the cell where he is serving a 15-year jail term for weapons possession and murder. His cell at Batu prison on Nusakambangan island also has a bathroom.The jail's
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        Lock icon BLAME THE POLICE:
        54 20 Reuters inexperience, disnonesry and serious professional failures by police investigators allowed Britain's worst serial killer, Harold Shipman, to continue his killing spree undetected, an official inquiry ruled yesterday. Shipman, a family doctor nicknamed "Dr Death", was convicted in 2000 of murdering 15 of his patients and sentenced
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      242 22 \V-" CNETAsia Gartner Summit 2003 19 20 August, Suntec Singapore Me mw&^ ■few' The much-awaited CNETAsia Gartner Summit 2003 is here. This premier IT industry conference brings together world-class speakers, including leading market analysts, top-notch consultants and vendors. This Wk two-day Summit explores today's most pressing issues in business transformation,
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Bush, man of the Kalahari
      957 23  -  Dr Khoo How San Out of Africa and facing critics at home, the man they call 'the Shrub' is acquiring aTeflon-like aura STRANGE as it may seem, George W Bush is the ideal mascot for the Speak Good English Movement On one hand, the 43rd
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  • WATZUP?
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      Join the chorus line ...
      841 24  - Join the chorus line Felix Cheong Long a fertile source of Hollywood films, Broadway has begun to turn the tables by news@newstoday.com.sg SUDDENLY, everyone in show business is doing it turning all kinds of stories into song, dance, music and light Call it a copycat trend, or an effort to
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    • HEALTH
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        20/20 vision is possible
        411 25  -  Lynette Leong Give your eyes a break to keep myopia at bay by WHEN Mr Tan Kirn Hong's daughter started attending Primary One, his worst fears came true. "She started complaining that she could not see objects a\ a distance. I think it happened because she
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        Lock icon When mere mortals inspire
        467 26  -  Andrew Lee Additional reporting by Ivy Lee, NLB librarian by j news@newstoday.com.sg This book review is the third in a series of monthly reviews by Library Ambassadors for the Library Ambassador Campaign. Organised by the National Library Board (NLB), the year-long campaign aims to promote reading
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        Cabaret girls are back and steaming
        350 26 ACTRESSES Selena Tan, Pam Oei and Emma Yong, aka the Dim Sum Dollies (picture), will relive the supermodel experience when they perform the cabaret-inspired stage show Steaming! tonight "Do you remember how fast our changes were the last time?" Oei asked rhetorically. "Someone had
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        Lock icon The natural chef
        277 27  -  Pauline DLoh Bon appetit! Chef Fok Ming-tin's master touch coaxes the best from ingredients Main i oi us were already laminar witn Chef Fok's talents when he created a following with his innovative menus at Kin Cuisine at the Concorde Hotel. When he started his own restaurant
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        CHEF´S PROFILE
        180 27 CHEF Fok Ming-tin is now very much a local, having succumbed to the irresistible charms of his Singaporean wife and the faithful following of foodies who have tracked him from five-star hotel to neighbourhood restaurant. As the former executive chef of Kin Cuisine at the Concorde, Chef Fok
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        287 27 leaves and stems. SEAFOOD CHICKEN WATER CHESTNUT PATTIES Ingredients (Serves 8 10): 150 g grouper fillet, finely diced 300 g chicken fillet, finely diced 150 g scallops, finely diced 300 g water chestnut, peeled and diced 50 g spring onions, chopped 30 g coriander, more stems than leaves Seasoning:
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        Brazen Karena goes bra-less
        603 28  -  Sifcene Foo But the star of HK coming-of-age tale Truth or Dare says it's no big deal TO GET under the skin of her latest character based on a real person actress Karena Lam was prepared to scoot around sans lingerie when the cameras rolled. "My
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon X-rated rats
        223 29 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Randy rodents earn Bad Boys II an R rating LOS ANGELES Bad Boys 11, which opens in North America on Friday and in Singapore on July 31, carries with it an R rating, courtesy of its bullet-ridden bodies, desecrated corpses, and rats "doing it". That's right
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        Lock icon Exorcist lawsuit arrives in court
        207 29 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES More than two years after it was filed in May 2001, the breach of contract lawsuit brought by screenwriter William Blatty and director William Friedkin against Warner Bros, over the studio's re-release of the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist, is set
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        Lock icon A win for Window
        67 29 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic The Italian film Facing Window (Lafinestra difronte), directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, scooped three top prizes at the 38th annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic on Saturday, including the US$2O,OOO ($34,090) grand prize. Window, the most successful
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      1609 40 n. 10 Things I Hate About You True Courage Akhir Kata |T Channel 5,10pm Channel 8,8.30pm Bianco Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) has never gone on You saw it The threat of terrorism, the Iraq war, the __^^^V WLWmW a date as her parents have a little rule which says that on
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      413 41 J^H ft M ft I Feel sad J| about your unsatisfactory Perhaps your feelings have been hurt when your boyfriend m praised a beautiful lady with a sexy bust in a film? Or when you m were both out shopping he became suddenly attracted to a curvaceous, sexy woman and
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      1605 42 -H TV K. 10 Things I Hate About You True Courage Akhir Kata |T channe| Channel 5,10pm Channel 8,8.30pm Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) has never gone on You saw it The threat of terrorism, the Iraq war, the UWmm^m\ XWmWW a date as her parents have a little rule which
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Not so strong, Lance
      830 43 Agencies American takes the yellow jersey but challengers prove he's not unbeatable BOURG D'OISANS Lance Armstrong would be forgiven for admitting he had endured one of his toughest tests on the Tour de France after the second day of climbing in the Alps. Armstrong, who is
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      Lock icon Els ready for Tiger
      575 44 AFP Red-hot 'Big Easy' is so confident he's not thinking of Woods nowadays Golf Scottish Open Win number five for Els LOCH LOMOND Ernie Els heads to the British Open armed with the belief that he has the mental strength to cope with anything Tiger Woods
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      Sandwich's not exactly Tiger's favourite course
      265 44 KENT Favourite Tiger Woods believes Royal St George's will provide him with his toughest test when the British Open gets underway on Thursday. The state of the fairways and the lack of visibility startled the 2000 champion as he arrived at Sandwich for his
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      Lock icon Perry now among the favourites at Royal St George
      424 44 -AFP Golf Milwaukee Open Perry makes birdie on 18 to win MILWAUKEE A few weeks off did not slow down Kenny Perry's spectacular run. Perry birdied the final two holes to post a dramatic one-stroke victory over Steve Allan and Heath
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon 141 million can't buy Gerrard
        392 45 Agencies England star is priceless, says Liverpool LIVERPOOL Liverpool has issued a hands-off warning to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich after it learned that the Russian billionaire had set his sights on Steven Gerrard (picture). The Reds said Abramovich will fail to land the England international
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        Lock icon Another English club sold to a billionaire with money to spare?
        299 45 -AFP LONDON An anonymous Venezuelan billionaire is negotiating with Aston Villa chairman Doug Ellis about buying a major stake in the Premiership side. His representative Mcl Goldberg, a London-based sports lawyer, has told Ellis the Venezuelan wants to buy
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        Red Devils try to snatch Kleberson
        149 45 MANCHESTER Manchester United has attempted to hijack Brazilian midfielder Kleberson from right under Leeds United's noses. Just as they had tried to snatch Harry Kewell from Liverpool with a dramatic late bid, the Red Devils have opened negotiations with Atletico Paranaense over Kleberson, who
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      Lock icon Germany-bound, Vietnam in mind
      534 46  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Athletes off to Europe to prepare for SEA Games by yomnncs'newstoaay.com.sg WITH the South-east Asia (SEA) Games just five months away, Singapore's track and field hopefuls must pull out all the stops if they want to be in Vietnam in December. On the track,
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      Woodlands chairman Tang promises to stay-for now
      372 46  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THERE might be a new deputy, but the chairman isn't going anywhere. Last Wednesday, Woodlands Wellington appointed Francis Gomez, executive director of SembCorp Power and director of SembCorp Gas as its new deputy chairman. The appointment led to rumours that Rams'
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      Harris safe
      63 46 CONTRARY to reports in the English press, Malaysia coach Allan Harris is not set for the axe. Former England Football Association technical director and ex-Sunderland boss Howard Wilkinson is in Kuala Lumpur as chief instructor for the Asian Football Confederation Pro Coaching Diploma course and not to replace
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      Star arrested
      74 46 ATLANTIC BEACH Washington Wizards guard Jerry Stackhouse was arrested yesterday on a misdemeanour assault charge brought by a woman, police said. Stackhouse, 28, had apparently rented a beach house in this coastal vacation community and believed he had the property until yesterday. The real estate agent, an older
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      World record
      69 46 LONDON Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva set a world record in the women's pole vault in in a Super Grand Prix meeting on Sunday. The 21-year-olds mark of 4.82 m exceeded American Stacy Dragila's 4.81 m set in June 2001. Earlier, Briton Dwain Chambers won the men's 100 m in
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      Beloki crashes
      95 46 GAP Lance Armstrong survived a scare in the Tour de France yesterday when his main rival, Joseba Beloki, crashed heavily in front of him near the end of the 184.5-km ninth stage to Gap. Beloki, second last year and third in 2000 and 2001, lost control and Armstrong
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      Lock icon Rafi ready to roar again
      561 47  -  Tarn Wee Boon He's the most experienced Lion in the squad, and he's now playing in a new role by weeboon@newstoday.com.sg IT LOOKED as if his Lions' career was all but over after the disastrous Tiger Cup showing in December. Despite being one of the
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      These boys are a bit special
      179 47 THREE youngsters in the Lions' squad have caught the eye of Rafi Ali. After three training sessions, Singapore's most experienced player has tipped Tanjong Pagar midfielder Sazali Salleh, Geylang defender Baihakki Khaizan and Singapore under-23 star striker Shahril Ishak for success in national colours
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      Lock icon No waltz as defending World Cup champ struggles to show any sort of form
      511 47 -AFP SYDNEY The Wallabies have lost their Houdini-winning habit and are running out of time to be ready for their rugby World Cup title defence, the Australian press said yesterday. South Africa rose to the occasion
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