Project Eyeball, 1 June 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebalLasial,com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Friday, June 1, 2001 80 CENTS
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      442 1 MICROFILMED NL23I 83 f KPP ■P -m i SSS' JO3S- V/iliib bo 50; V/iMb bO 300. wear, where to eat, See Pages 17-24 Oppositions second chance So, don’t blow it, Mister Low Thia Khiang. Singaporeans are watching. Opposition politics has suffered in the past because its most noisy and shrill
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      100 2 IN A bid to stop legal hassles, mathematicians are giving British town councils a new formula to help them decide if a resident’s hedge is too high. Neighbours had taken each other to court over giant leylandii trees separating their homes, and they flooded their MPs’ mailboxes with complaints.
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    • Article
      Lock icon SCV offers cheaper cable
      474 2  -  New pricing plan lets subscribers choose a set of basic channels CABLE television subscription is going to be much cheaper from now on, as well as more flexible. Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) MaxTV unveiled its new pricing plan yesterday, which will apply to both new and
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon 75,000 crows to be shot each year
        170 2 A WHOPPING 104,000 that’s the estimated population of crows in Singapore. To bring the number of crows to a manageable level in five years, 75,000 crows should be shot per year, said the deputy head of the Environmental Health Deparment, Satish Appoo. Last
        Chia Yuen Che  -  170 words
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        Lock icon Youth footballer found murdered
        111 2 PROMISING Under-18 footballer Sulaiman Hashim was bludgeoned to death in an attack at Boat Quay early yesterday morning. Sulaiman had gone there with two male friends, but on the way home, they were set upon by a gang of armed men. Police said they received a
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        Lock icon Lawyer guilty of shoplifting
        60 2 A SENIOR woman lawyer was convicted yesterday of shoplifting. Lilian Ong, 52, was found guilty of stealing two cheese sheers and a kettle, worth $lBO in total, from Tangs store on Orchard Road in March last year. She is expected to be sentenced on June 4,
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      Lock icon The news, 30 minutes earlier
      223 2  -  TV WORKS RONALD RAJAN TV WORKS is planning to give its viewers an earlier scoop on news. STTV, which provides the channel’s daily news programme, will bring forward its 7.30 pm bulletin to 7 pm. The change takes effect in the next two to three
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      384 3 Right-wing Israeli ministers said the country should go to war against Yasser Arafat and smash his Palestinian Authority. Angry Palestinain officials said such language proved Israel’s aggression against the Palestinians and showed what the Israelis said about a ceasefire was “baseless”. MANAMA US Forces in Bahrain, home of
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      Lock icon Let’s vote on Anwar’s surgery
      397 3 His party proposes a ‘referendum’ on the issue KUALA LUMPUR Should jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim be allowed spinal surgery overseas? Yes, said Malaysia’s officially appointed human-rights commission Suhakam yesterday. No, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad last week. Let there be a national
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      241 3 Round-the-world trip for free AP NEW YORK A 24-year-old Dutchman came up with a tentative idea to induce people over the world to pay for his trip round the globe and got more than he bargained for. Ramon Stoppelenburg set up a website (http://let-me-stay-for-a day.com) where, in exchange for the
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Making schools ‘disabledfriendly’
        835 4  -  There’ll be 61 of them by 2005 MOE BY WONG SHER MAINE sher@sph.com.sg THEY don’t need pity. What children with physical disabilities need are facilities to help them lead their lives like normal people. That, perhaps, is the thinking behind the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) move to
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Lensman pleads guilty to underage sex
        487 5  -  Judge sets sentencing for June 29 BY EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg FORMER Project Eyeball photojournalist Birinus Alphonso Chan Tek Keng, 33, has been convicted of having sex with an underaged girl. He pleaded guilty before district judge Wong Keen Onn yesterday to having sex with
        Lianhe Zaobao  -  487 words
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        Lock icon Could she be wanton and also naive?
        576 5  -  EUGENE WEE CAN a 15-year-old girl with multiple sex partners and who actively arranges to meet men for sex be considered “naive and immature”? This was the most significant bone of contention at Court 3 yesterday between defence counsel Edmond Pereira, representing Birinus
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        124 5 April 2001. Jason Wong Yiming, 17, was fined $30,000 for having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend. They met on the Internet. May 2000. Benson Lim, a 20-year-old NSman, was fined $16,000 for having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend. She became pregnant and had a miscarriage. April 2000. A
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        Lock icon Khoo off on cycling adventure
        459 6  -  Charity event will also help him prepare for mountaineering expedition next month BY TOH BEE PING beeping@sph.com.sg IT’S been just two months since he got back from his aborted North Pole expedition bruised, battered and suffering from frostbite. But intrepid adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow can’t
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        Lock icon Enabling volunteers to give better help overseas
        602 6  -  HUMANITARIAN RELIEF PROGRAMME LAUNCHED BY Uyen Vu uyen@sph.com.sg GOOD intentions are great, but don’t necessarily pave the way for a smart day’s work. Joshua Tang and other members of the Mount Carmel Bible Presbyterian church group on West Coast Road had been asked
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        349 7  -  New $4K limit part of changes to Medisave usage By DENYSE YEO denyse@sph.com.sg INFERTILE couples may now have a little more reason to smile. The Government has decided to double the Medisave withdrawal limit to $4,000 for each cycle of treatment for assisted-conception procedures, which
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        Lock icon Blazing a trail
        32 7 The National Junior Solar Sprint Competition got off to a scorching start yesterday at the Singapore Polytechnic with 89 solar-powered vehicles being raced by secondary school students. Lianhe Zaobao
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      • CARMAKERS TESTING VEHICLES HERE
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          478 7  -  BY DENYSE YEO denyse@sph.com.sg GREENIES, keep your fingers crossed for the year 2010. If all goes well, you might just be zipping about in new generation “green” cars, like Daimler Chrysler’s hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles or BMW’s cars that run on
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          Lock icon Customise your wheels online
          105 7 NOW you can get Daimler Chrysler cars, such as the popular MercedesBenz, customised online. Just go to the Mercedes-Benz Car Configurator at http://www. mercedes-benz.com.sg At the site, you can choose online interior and exterior options. For example, you can have an email sent to your dealer
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          Lock icon BMW LAUNCHES FIRST VOICE-GUIDED GPS
          344 7 HOW would you like to get in your car with a voice guiding you all the way to your destination? But for now, it’s a luxury only BMW owners can enjoy. The carmaker has just rolled out its navigation system, the first voice-guided Global Positioning
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Politicians in flux
        256 8 Bhagyashree Garekar takes a look at whose political stock has been rising and whose reputation has taken a beating during Indonesians leadership crisis. WINNERS Military Gained credibility for staying above the political fray both by abstaining from censuring President Abdurrhaman Wahid and refusing to support his order
        Bong Fortin  -  256 words
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        Lock icon Looking for a compromise
        571 8 Gus Dur still hoping for negotiated settlement as protests die down Wires JAKARTA The hope of a negotiated compromise to resolve Indonesia’s leadership crisis was revived yesterday and the imposition of emergency rule seemed to recede even as President Abdurrahman Wahid’s political rivals set Aug 1
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        Lock icon Alcoholism haunts Bush and kids
        790 9  -  US President needs to come dean about his past drinking BY JOAN WALSH Salon I ALWAYS thought it was a bad decision for Bush, as a politician, to refuse to acknowledge his drinking problem which, by his own account, lasted until he was 40. But,
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        307 9 BIDEN TO BACK POWELL WASHINGTON The incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants to throw his weight behind moderate Colin Powell against hawks like Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and expose foreign policy splits in the Bush administration.
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    • Technology
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        633 10 Not all computer games deserve a sequel. STCSVENNG (stevenng@sph.com.sg) compares three follow-ups which are due for release soon to earlier winners and gives them the thumbs up. WARCRAFT III: REIGN OF CHAOS LET’S face it resource gathering is the most tedious part of any realtime strategy
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    • Business
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        473 11 FINANCE SECTOR’S GLASS CEILING CRACKING NYT ANNE M TATLOCK will never forget her first business trip. It was the mid-*****, and Tatlock, then an asset manager for Smith Barney Co (now Salomon Smith Barney), was heading into an all-male supper club in Minneapolis with a
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        537 11  -  Analysts say Dew queues sparked by several factors, not Just price BY Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg A REVIVAF in the property market may make for great headlines. The only hitch is that it might be too early to call it that. That’s the verdict of
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      • Business BUZZ
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          123 11 AUSTRALIA’S biggest carrier Qantas Airways said yesterday it was not seeking outright control or a merger with Air New Zealand (Air NZ). Any partnership would see both airlines maintain their own operations and brands, it said. “We are certain the partnership would offer considerable benefits for
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          109 11 HONG KONG’S Pacific Century CyberWorks is confident that it has enough financing to bid for Mobile One Asia (Ml), PCCW’s deputy chairman Alexandra Arena said yesterday. Financing the Mobile One acquisition “is not a concern for us”, said Arena. PCCW has net cash of “over
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          Lock icon URA to sell 1.7 ha of land
          76 11 SINGAPORE’S Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said yesterday that it is selling a 1.7-ha land parcel in the western part of the island for private residential development. URA said in a statement the site at Boon Lay Way and Corporation Road could be built
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon Don’t shut door on sex-change operations
        825 12 ‘Doors close on sex-change operations’ (May 30) SINGAPORE has been one of the region’s leading centres for sex-change operations, but now the last hospital to offer them has stopped doing so. An ex-National University Hospital (NUH) gynaecologist suggested that the Health Ministry ought to
        Mik Zarzuela  -  825 words
      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Don’t screw it up this time
          1083 13 LET’S put it this way: Low Thia Khiang is the best man to head the Workers’ Party (WP) and those who don’t think so should do the Opposition a favour and just get out of the way. A cadre member who questioned the legitimacy
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      24 2 Qood morning! Showers over many areas in the afternoon and early evening. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 6.48AM/2.4M 8.07PM/2.4M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/metsin
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      36 4 Which are the disabled-friendly schools, and where are the new ones coming up? Log on to http://eyebalL asial.com.sg and find out. Also, tell us what else needs to be done to help schools become more disabled-friendly?
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      72 7 HIGH VOLTAGE The Rat Machine uses advanced electronic technology to deliver a deadly shock to mice and rats. OTHERS: Mosquito Trap, Insect Trap/Killer (various model), Lizard Repellent/Trap, Termite Powder/Oil, Bed Bug Pesticide, Rat Clue, Snake Kill Powder, Silverfish Powder, Fly Glue Trap, Ant Bait Powder, Snake Hook Pole, Ultrasonic Pest
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      44 8 Two newspaper editorials evaluate the worth of Indonesia’s 19 months of democracy: http:/ www.the jakartapost.com/ detaileditorial.asppfileid =2oolos3l.Col&irec=o The democratic process must be allowed to run its course, whatever the outcome. http://www. indonesian-observer.com story.asp?libld=2B23s Indonesians want to live in a democracy, not a demonstration-crazy country.
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      163 9 Underage drinking is quite prevalent in the US, so what is the big deal with Jenna’s arrest? Find out more at http://www.salon. com/mwt/feature/ 2001/05/31/drinking/ matol tonic MATOL was created in CANADA in 1992 and made up of 13 herbs. MATOL is used for those with the following chronic discomforts: Chronic
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      59 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF TOE INTERNET WHAT'S IT LIKE TO HAVE MOUSY, HELEN? I PONT HAVE THAT MUCH .money, i-ucy oh. come oni you maps a FORTUNE TRAPfMO ONLINE.' BUT f WOULPbl'T CALL IT A FORTUNE. I'M... COMFORTABLE WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE COMFORTABLE THEN? **3." i&ssr i ©aiwep MOPERATELY. vy
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      29 11 SAN MARCO COLLECTION SALE OF EXOTIC PASHMINA LUXURY Men's& Ladies' Ethnic Shirts SHAWLS $3B-$5B Prices ranges from $3B $lBO #O2-208D Marina Square #Ol-51 Lucky Plaza #O2-82 Far East Plaza
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  • EyeSport
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      633 14 76ers’ point guard delivers on time despite fracture Lat-Wp PHILADELPHIA Eric Snow has a broken foot, Tyrone Hill has a broken heart and the two of them helped break Milwaukee’s back. Snow, Philadelphia’s point guard who found out on Wednesday morning that he has a
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      Lock icon Ignore the tattoos and just learn
      640 14 Lat-Wp PHILADELPHIA Sometimes, you can find someone to admire in strange places. Allen Iverson has hidden in strange places in jail when he should have been in high school, under the covers instead of at practice, in a training room closet eating tacos instead
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      Lock icon On THE BOX
      164 14 NBA What: NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Game 6 Milwaukee Bucks vs Philadelphia 76ers When: 9 am tomorrow (live on ESPN, SCV Ch 23) Why bother: At 3-2, the 76ers are one win away from a face-off with the Lakers in the NBA Finals, but with Iverson hurt
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Williams advances
        80 15 AFP PARIS US sixth seed Serena Williams began like an express train, faltered, but then re-asserted herself to move into the third round of the women’s singles at the French Open yesterday, beating Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 6-0,7-5. Williams was not pleased with her performance. “I couldn’t stop
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        Lock icon Suspensions
        113 15 Reuters LONDON Holland’s Edgar Davids and Portugal’s Fernando Couto have been suspended from all football with immediate effect, said Fifa yesterday. The suspension runs until the end of the open-ended ban imposed by the Italian authorities after they tested positive for nandrolone. So Juventus’ Davids and Lazio’s Couto will
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        Lock icon Kluivert stays
        85 15 Reuters BARCELONA Dutch international striker Patrick Kluivert said that he is about to extend his contract with Barcelona until June 2006. “We have reached an agreement and all we need to do now is put it onto paper and sign it,” Kluivert, 24, whose contract expires at the
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      Lock icon Formula I moves
      606 15 Change Is In the air as engine-makers, drivers and staff rethink loyalties Wires WHO WILL HONDA DECIDE TO DITCH? THERE will not be a case of divided loyalties in Honda next season. Reports are circulating that the Japanese engine maker is set to part ways with either
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      Lock icon Brazil beats Cameroon 2-0
      259 15 CONFEDERATONS CUP Reuters KASHIMA (Japan) Brazil brushed aside criticism that it was fielding a “B-class” outfit by beating Cameroon 2-0 in the opening group B match of the Confederations Cup yesterday. Washington and Carlos Miguel scored in the second half for a Brazil side lacking star
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      106 15 pASKBTBAT.t.!! You’ve read all the reports about how Eric Snow, playing on a hobbled leg, turned in a great performance to help the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. But CBS Sportsline executive editor Mike Kahn thinks that the Bucks
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  • Unwind
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      102 17 DO IT IN STYLE they yay iii trey cA/reircles, It swing. HSMWi j And here’s where Eyeball sashays in with a complete guide to surviving the next three weeks of festival mayhem in fi style. J• i We’ll let you in on where to position yourself for
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    • Arts Fest
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        542 18 Feeling peckish after a show but dont want to risk dragging your finery into a fume-filled hawker centre? JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) shows you where to find late-night dining with some panache. Who says you have to sit on oily stools after io pin? THE curtain has gone
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        20 18 Aromaz Bakery Deli THE Pan Pacific Hotel shop serves up sandwiches for deli lovers. This is Singapore’s only 24-hour deli.
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        20 18 AT CONRAD Centennial Singapore, it is a blessed 24-hour restaurant that promises sweets before bed and a cosy ambience.
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        43 18 THE site, at Paradiz, takes its last order at 4 am on Fridays, Saturdays and the eve of public holidays. After midnight, sushi lovers can seek out its $1 conveyor-belt promotion, which is a very popular option among the sushi faithful.
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        55 18 LOCATED at 36, Purvis Street, it takes its last food order at 11.45 pm. Afterwards, sip on the Marmalade After Dark martini, a $l7 nightcap of vodka, shot of espresso, sugar and milk. Or try one of its yummy treats from the dessert trolley such as the roasted peached
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        480 19 June Wan WHERE to go if you’re hungry after the performance: CAFE AT GRAND HYATT Last orders: Midnight from Sundays to Thursdays, (it closes at 1 am); 24 hours on Fridays and Saturdays. The late night menu is available from 10.30 pm. Try: Young professionals in their late
        – June Wan  -  480 words
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        371 19  -  BY Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg Who: H Art Chaos, an all-female Japanese contemporary dance company that has received acclaim and fame both in its home country and the West -for its creative stage effects and unrestrained, almost punishing choreography. Driving force: Artistic director and choreographer sakiko Oshima and
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        79 19 “That last act was so good, I almost peed in my pants!” ala Julia Roberts at the opera in Pretty Woman. “The stage is a blur, but no matter, ’coz all I see is you” when you’re in the circle seats. “The moment I saw you, I
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        46 19 (n.), DEFINITION: A highly energetic style and the method of hanging in the air. Dancers are suspended in air by wires, allowing for some stunning aerial movements. The idea is to generate new bodily movements with the wire acting as an additional limb.
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        421 20 Want to sashay into Kallang Theatre's foyer with just the right amount of attitude plus a dash of cosmopolitan cool even if the last performance you saw was Cats hack in the igBos? CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) helps get you “into" the arts scene; and nobody would suspect
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        252 20 EYEBALL’S resident festival agony aunt, Ms Arti Fhati, will solve your arts fest etiquette dilemmas: Dear Ms Arti Fhati, Em looking forward to the arts festival so much, but the thought of meeting those uncouth folk who insist on whispering and giggling in the row behind is filling
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        45 20 ONE thing elegant women won’t be without this fest is the pashmina shawl, which has the power to glam up next to any everyday outfit. Go ethnic with an embroidered version. Or try an oriental silk piece to add sheen to your look.
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        Lock icon Sitting pretty
        36 20 YES, your friends and you are excited. But sort out who sits where before you enter the theatre. There’s nothing more irritating than people blocking up the aisle as they waffle over seating partners.
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        Lock icon Lose the baggage
        59 20 TO CONVEY the sense that you’re a dedicated man/woman/androgynous follower of style, carry as little as possible with you when heading out to the arts fest. For the women, that means that your evening purses must be hanky-sized (left), so as to contain only your entrance ticket,
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        145 21 What to wear for each show: Where: Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Symphony Orchestra What: Conservative. Classic cuts. Avoid crazy prints and bright colours. Where: H Art Chaos, Philip Glass Ensemble, Ultima Vez, Theatre Vidy-Lausanne, UROBOS What: Avant garde and dramatic looks (think Jean Paul Gaultier) probably won’t
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        84 21 WILL audience temperatures rise, fall or stay cool? We take the guess-work out of how much to wear: Jubilee Hall: Kallang Theatre: SRT Theatre: Victoria Concert Hall: Victoria Theatre: University Cultural Centre (UCC) Theatre: UCC Hall: What they stand for: Bring the faux fur. A pashmina will do.
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        230 21  -  BY CLARA CHOW clarac@sph.com.sg BE A transformer make your working-girl or -boy look pull double shifts into the night. No time to head home before the show? Here’s how to maximise your outfit: FOR HER Wear a simple but plunging dress, covered with a shirt,
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        Lock icon Red or dead: Be seen in killer shades
        35 21 GOING avant garde. Dramatic looks (think: Jean Paul Gaultier) probably won’t raise many eyebrows. Horn-rimmed glasses, tone-on-tone (above), and lots of red will give you standout class.
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        Lock icon The big chill
        54 21 KALLANG Theatre appears to be the coldest of the lot. If you’re planning to enjoy a performance there, make sure you stay snug. Don’t forget a coat, though you may want to leave the fur (right) at home, unless you really get chilled, or want to make
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        31 21 HAIR products use them. Don’t be afraid of them. Have a stash of TIGI Bedhead handy to give an after-work greasy pate a deliberately careless, fresh-from-the-boudoir makeover.
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        343 22 The Singapore Arts Festival opens to heating drums and dry weather. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports. QVEN though it looked like the gods were threatening to soak Fort Canning Park yesterday evening, the word “rain” was taboo among the National Arts Council staff. It was the
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        33 22 TAKE it from any ballerina: Wear comfortable shoes if you want to venture from stage to stage, check out the pasar malam, or just hug the trees but, please no climbing.
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        27 22 LOOSE-FITTING and lightweight attire (right) will save you from sufferinetoo much from the humidity when you’re packed in with the rest of th< audience.
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        34 22 APART from a straw mat or ground sheet, don’t bother lugging too big a picnic basket since a wide variety of drinks, snacks and meals are available from the various makeshift stalls.
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        536 23 David Byrne, ex-frontman of Balking Heads, is still very much around. He's now busy exploring other art forms and his collaboration with a Belgian all-male dance ensemble is showing next week. ROHALD RAJAM (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) reports. E MAY just as well be another name in rock’s has-been list.
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      60 24 HERE’S away to not pay for your arts fest tickets. By winning them. Each week, a pair of tickets, plus goodies from sponsor MSN Singapore, are up for grabs at http://www.msn.com.sg/artsfest.asp. Go online, answer a question about the fest and you may get lucky. And check out the
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