Streats, 18 December 2001

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  • 17 1 STREATS TUESDAY 18 December 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 401 1 The Taleban has been routed. Al Qaeda fighters, despite vows of fighting till the last man, have either fled or surrendered in their mountain stronghold ofTorn Bora. A new, US-backed government is taking power in Kabul. And international lending agencies are talking of rebuilding Afghanistan. Is it time for
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  • 62 1 momnqrush THE Hari Raya festivities of Mr Mohd Gazai Sairi’s family were tragically cut short on Sunday when his daughter Nur Umairah, aged three, was killed in an accident. While Singapore Muslims celebrated Hari Raya Puasa yesterday, Mr Mohd Gazai Sairi and his wife had the
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    • 16 1 Call us on 338 8922 for your home loan Terms conditions apply CITIBANK where money lives
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    • 53 1 'FINANCIAL" New: The latest news on business to help you shape your future MEDICAI New: The latest developments to help you shape your life New: Views and analyses of the news that shape the world easyStreats. A comprehensive guide, incorporating Just A Minute yigg* andStreats' Weather Girl, to help you
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  • LOCAL
    • 445 2  -  by SONNYPHUA WHILE most Muslim families were celebrating the Hari Raya Puasa festivities yesterday, Mr Mohd Gazai Sairi and his wife Madam Masri Buang had to bury their daughter. On Sunday, at about spm, Nur Umairah Mohd Gazai, aged
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    • 137 2 ABOUT 2,000 employees of the United Bank, which merged recently with the Overset Union Bank, could be retrenched soon. The bank and the unions are said to haV 1 agreed on a severance package last Wednesday after the management agreed to ex-gratia pa) ments,
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    • 119 2 ONE out of every 10 teachers of Chinese it Singapore is from overseas, with the majority from China. As of July this year, 3,500 Chinese teachers were employed in local schools. Out of that 315, or 9 per cent, were from overseas, Shin Mit Daily News reported,
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    • 72 2 A MAN was in critical condition last night aftef being hit by a lorry at a Jurong East pedestrian crossing. The man, 45, was about to cross a two-lane road at Blk 343, Jurong East St 31, when the lorry crashed into him. He sustained serious head
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    • 253 3 You will be seeing more of these §reen and white street name signs in the coming months. ,j The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is in the process of Replacing 13,000 old signs to v lI hprove road safety, Lianhe reported yesterday. j When the $4.4 million
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    • 445 3  -  Sharity Gift Box feels pinch of hard times 6y DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM 'TIS the season of goodwill and giving but sparingly, as charity organisations feel the pinch of hard times. Smaller projects like The *Boy’s Brigade’s annual Sharity Gift Box has achieved only 20 per cent of its
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    • 348 3 FUND-RAISERS remain confident that Singaporeans will continue to open their hearts and their pockets for a good cause. Encouraged by Singaporeans’ reputation for giving, NCSS’s fund-raising arm, the Community Chest, hopes to raise $4O million this year for about 50 funded charities, helping 300,000 people.
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    • 266 4 A TWO-WEEK holiday in South Africa ended in tragedy for a family of five from Tampines. Mr Daniel Lim, 46, an engineer with SIA, died after the mini-bus that the family was travelling in burst a tyre and flipped
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    • 76 4 onekindact. May Loh Thank you to the gentleman who helped me when I dropped my shoes on the track at Bishan MRT station on the morning of Dec 3. He went to get help even though his train had arrived at the opposite platform. If you wish
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    • 262 4  -  by I KHUSHWANT SINGH THE Subordinate Courts were largely deserted yesterday, but there was a flurry of activity at about 9am at Court 26. A special sitting of the court had been called to deal with 13 men and three women who stood
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    • 146 5 I WOULD like to appeal to secondary Schools to be more flexible in their > admission criteria. To meet the challenges of the future, °ur education system must require that students excel not only academically but also in the ability to
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    • 245 5 i feel that it’s about time someone stood Up in defence of the disabled and infirm Against insensitive, uncaring social Workers and medical social workers. Being wheelchair-bound or elderly does not mean that a person deserves the label“stupid”. As an only child, I’ve spent more
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    • 154 5 we refer to the letters “My journey to JB is pure hell” and “Checkpoint is hell for us all”(Streats, Dec 6 and 8 respectively). If too many motorists use the same road at the same time, traffic congestion is inevitable. Motorists are advised
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    • 103 5 DR Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Manpower, has very correctly stated that across-the-board pay-cuts are appropriate if they save jobs and help share the pain of the economic downturn. However, hopefully it will not be overlooked that a cut of 5 per cent for wage-earners in
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    • 302 5 ISN'T it time that we gave some recognition to our local book writers and publishers? I know of many local writers who have worked very hard at writing articles, stories and publishing books. A few of them have achieved great success overseas in getting their works
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    • 231 5 AFTER supporting an international cause in Afghanistan, the US should refrain from supporting just one man, Ariel Sharon, in the Middle East. Mr Sharon has waited a long time for an opportunity to be heavy-handed with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority.
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    • 100 5 WE thank the writer of the letter “Crows a nuisance and a danger” (Streats, Dec 8) for his feedback. We have noted feedback about the nuisance created by crows in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3. We carried out three culling exercises this year
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    • 74 4 Without a shield, you are at risk. 9 out of 10 AIDS patients contracted the disease through casual sex. To be safe, always wear a condom. To be sure, avoid casual sex. m Mm m Come for an anonymous AIDS virus antibody test on Wed, 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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    • 35 5 Streats is pleased to publish your views To be heard, email us at streats S>sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. You should include your name, address and contact number.
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  • MEDICAL
    • 412 6  -  by SARAH NG MAMMOGRAPHY does not prevent breast-cancer deaths and should not be recommended, according to a study. The study disputes the assertion that early detection by mammograms reduces the death rate by 30 per cent. Dr Peter Gotzsche
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    • 249 6 SHEFFIELD Girls would do better to drink milk than take calcium supplements to build bone density, according to new research. Scientists at Sheffield University asked half a study group of 86 girls, aged 11 and 12, to take a calcium supplement added to fruit juice
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    • 72 6 healthfact. SENSIBLE drinking could reduce your risk of suffering a stroke. Britain's Stroke Association (SA) says small amounts of alcohol can protect against ischaemic strokes caused by blood clots blocking arteries which account for nine out of 10 strokes. But heavy drinking (two or
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    • 127 6 Reuters CANBERRA First -time dads] to-be are prone to put on weigh and reach for the bottle during their partner’s pregnancy rathef than after the baby is born. A three-year study by thd Adelaide-based Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) found on average men put on I.6kg and
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    • 194 6 Qt My daughter is four months old. She is on breast milk. Recently she had a few drops of blood in her excrement. This happened after I started giving her carrot and apple juices (three teaspoons a day). I stopped giving her the juices but the blood appeared
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  • FINANCIAL
    • 388 8 US dollar at 3-year high against Japan's currency Reuters THE US dollar and the euro jumped to multi-year highs against the ailing yen yesterday. A top Japanese official showed tacit acceptance of the currency’s fall, but this failed to stop a fresh slide in Tokyo
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    • 82 8 -AFP TOKYO Business sentiment among Japanese companies operating in Asia remained bleak in December particularly in Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Japan External Trade Organisation surveyed 1,578 companies with operations in member countries of theAsean. According to the poll, business confidence in Singapore slipped
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    • 339 8 -AFP SINGAPORE may be going through a severe recession, but wealthy enthusiasts are spending fortunes on exotic wheels. When collectors snapped up five gleaming new Lamborghini Murcielagos each worth $l.l million at the yearend auto fair, the dealers hardly raised an eyebrow. “We are
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    • money scan
      • 93 8 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand’s economic growth slowed to a modest 1.5 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) said GDP growth in the three months to September fell from the 1.9 per cent year-on-year
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      • 86 8 -AP HONGKONG Hongkong’s economic gloom has deepened as jobless rate surged to 5.8 per cent for the three months ending Nov 30. The latest figure up from 5.5 per cent from August to October was in line with forecasts by private economists and showed Hongkong
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      • 82 8 -AFP NEW YORK French conglomerate Vivendi Universal has agreed to buy USA Networks’ television and cinema assets for US$lO billion ($l.B billion) in a cash and stock transaction. The boards of USA Networks and Vivendi approved the deal over the weekend, although last-minute details were
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      • 55 8 -AFP LONDON US giant General Electric is the world’s most respected company, according to an annual survey of chief executives compiled by the Financial Times and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. GE remained in top spot for the third successive year, while Microsoft, IBM, Sony and Coca-Cola occupied
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  • REGIONAL
    • 386 10 KUALA LUMPUR It would be disastrous if the US sends its troops to southeast Asia to chase suspected A 1 Qaeda terrorists, says a well-known American professor. Instead, Dr Karl Jackson of the John
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    • 139 10 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has not yet decided when to deport jailed rebel leader Nur Misuari to the Philippines. “We have yet to decide the date,” Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. “We’ll wait and discuss (with Manila).” His comments came
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    • 252 10 -AP SYDNEY Dozens of Greenpeace activists dressed up as nuclear waste barrels stormed a nuclear reactor here yesterday. Detective Inspector Laurie Pettiford of the New South Wales state police said 46 people were arrested and would be charged with trespassing. A four-wheel-drive vehicle was
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    • 204 11 Anwar prosecutor promoted -AP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has defended the appointment of Malaysia’s new top law officer, who shot to prominence as the chief prosecutor in the trials of jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim. Mr Abdul Gani Patail who led
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    • 198 11 -AFP BANGKOK A Thai site has launched a computer program which it says will keep mosquitoes at bay by emitting a sound through the computer’s speakers. Thaiware.com programmer Saranyou Punyaratabunbhu said his Anti-Mosquito Program, which has been downloaded 15,000 times, produces a sound
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    • 117 11 SYDNEY Jobless people should be given four weeks’ holiday each year, the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss) said yesterday. And it wants pregnant women exempted from having to look for work during the last 12 weeks of their term, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. Acoss
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    • 122 11 Reuters HONGKONG The place is dressing up for Christmas like never before as it teeters on the brink of its second recession in three years. In 2000, the fourth quarter accounted for 36 per cent of the territory’s total retail sales for the
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      • 92 13 A CARTOON about a family with severe physical deformities has been axed from Australian TV after just one episode. The Oblongs features a multiple amputee, conjoined twins with three buttocks, a girl lacking a lower jaw and another with a penis growing from her head. Channel 9
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      • 96 13 A MOTORIST got stuck to a road after a lorry carrying glue crashed ahead of him, Ananova.com reported. As the man drove on the road from Milan to Pavia, the lorry in front of him crashed into a tree and lost its load of extra-strong glue on
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      • 112 13 Reuters AFTER a survey showed that one in eight vicars had been attacked, Church of England clergy will be taught martial arts. The classes are being organised by the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union which represents more than 1,500 clergy from the Church of England. The union said
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      • 83 13 A DRUNK Englishman was so smitten by a mannequin’s eyes that he smashed a shop window to grab the dummy and cuddled it in the street. Gary Leigh, 32, a plumber, then frolicked with the model in the high street of Buxton, near Derby, before taking it
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    • 430 13 Hamas waits for Israel's next move Reuters JERUSALEM Hamas leaders said yesterday that their resistance to Israeli occupation was still justified. On Sunday Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had called Arab militants to end attacks on Israel. The Hamas leaders said that the militant group’s" future actions depend
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    • 208 13 LONDON The London Ambulance Service (LAS) has launched a campaign to stop abuse of the system by people who don’t need emergency help, BBC News Online reported. One woman rang the emergency number because her husband “wouldn’t do what she told him”. Time-wasters like these may slow down
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  • GLOBAL
    • 465 12 Wire services NO one seems to know. Neither the Americans, nor the Afghans. US leaders have vowed to hunt Osama down, offering US$25 million ($45.8 million) for information leading to his capture. Said Secretary of State Colin Powell: “You can be sure he is under
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    • war diary
      • 69 12 -AFP US-BACKED Afghan fighters yesterday paraded A 1 Qaeda prisoners before the press. Hundreds of locals turned out in Agam village, north of Tora Bora, to see the prisoners. The nine Afghans and 10 foreigners most of them Arabs looked ragged and defeated. Local commanders said they held
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      • 37 12 -AFP NEW ZEALAND Special Air Services soldiers are operating in Afghanistan, backed by two Air Force Hercules aircraft, Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday. The country has decided to scrap its air force. -afp
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    • 252 12 -AFP KABUL Advance troops from an international peace force will arrive here before the interim government takes office on Saturday, a senior US official said yesterday. But the details of the force’s makeup have yet to be announced, and in the run-up to
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    • 236 12 KABUL The Taleban has been driven from power, but almost all its top leaders remain at large. Most of them won their freedom in battlefield deals that exchanged the peaceful surrender of territory for the safety of the defeated commander, the Washington Post
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    • 204 12 Reuters KANDAHAR Afghan tribal forces were yesterday preparing to attack a mountainous region northwest of Kandahar where they believe Taleban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar is hiding. He is being protected by around 500 men, Kandahar’s new intelligence chief said yesterday. Mullah Omar had retreated to mountains and caves
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    • 340 14 Campaign to save pub culture in rural UK LONDON More than half of all English villages have no pub and seven out of 10 have no local shop, a new report reveals. A campaign called Pub Is The Hub was launched by Prince
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    • 166 14 -AP FRANKFURT Hundreds lined up outside the European Central Bank here in the first minutes of yesterday morning to get their free euro “starter kits”. The coin sets are giving 305 million people in the 12-nation euro zone the first chance to actually handle the
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    • 309 14 NEW YORK More than half of the US workforce feels overworked 43 per cent of them to the point where they feel angry towards their employers. This was the conclusion of a study released in May by the New York-based Families and Work Institute,
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    • 143 14 -AP PARIS Arson was suspected i after four people died and eight were injured in a fire at a central Paris budget hotel yesterday. Europe-1 radio reported that the fire was probably caused by arson, but a spokesman for the fire department declined
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  • VOCAL
    • 776 15 Observers are calling it Yasser Arafat's do-or-die speech a watershed political declaration that will determine his fate as leader of the Palestinians. Here is an analysis of his speech. Reuters JERUSALEM Palestinian President Yasser Arafat walked a fine line on Sunday in making a distinction between a
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    • 202 15 University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate Established in 1858, the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) is a world leader in today’s field of educational assessment. Every year, more than one million candidates around the world enter for the high standard UCLES examinations. Mass Communication Advanced Diploma, Higher Diploma
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  • PEOPLE
    • 161 16 HONGKONG A Beijing film director has asked Ms Jenna Bush, daughter of US President George W Bush, to star in an anti-terrorism movie, the South China Morning Post reported. Director Long Zanxu has written to Ms Bush offering her the part of heroine Nancy Lee in
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    • 384 16  -  by SARAH NG FOR 40 years, he has been the doctor, the one who heals, the one in control. Then one day, in 1998, his world turned upside down. Dr Richard H Yung, 68, was diagnosed with advanced bone marrow
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  • easy STREATS
    • 556 17  -  by 'YVONNE KWOK Mmf/: w«sife. r Js through his relatives. Find out if Jeff has had a Taste Of Love since Singapore last heard from him more than a year ago WHAT happens if your name is Jeff Chang and you’re too busy to date
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    • 595 18  -  by YVONNE KWOK WKRZ 91.3 FM will be tweaking its line-up of programmes next month. One of its most prominent changes is the addition of a third Singaporean party into MTV Select, a late night request programme. Jensen Ho emerges from the relative obscurity of his weekend
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    • 168 18 Every day 6-10 am: The Morning Show with Howie And/Or Suzi News, weather, movie reviews and contests with Top 40 hits. Every day except Sundays, noon 4pm: Just Breezin' With Chris lunchtime requests, listener interaction, and hits from the 70s to the 90s. Sundays,
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    • 396 21  -  M®L fVONNE KWOK ONCE in a while, there comes a show that reminds you that no matter how enlightened mankind, we are just a few genes away from living in the jungles with the rest of the apes. Alas, that show is Channel U’s Snap
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    • 78 22 Do your errands early in the day since it will be fine then. Then stay put in the office or at home, as thunderstorms are expected to break over all areas in the afternoon. Let's hope the rain clears in the evening, and you can squeeze
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    • Just a minute
      • 64 22 SMRT's trial service from Boon Lay (East-West line) to Expo will run on weekdays. This means that one in every four trains from Boon Lay station will go to Expo MRT station, via the Changi Airport extension track. The other three will go to Pasir Ris. The service
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      • 103 22 If you are having trouble finding the right job, visit the Job Matching Service Centre at Blk 257, Jurong East St 24 #Ol -405. Timings: 9am-1 Opm. Tel: 1-800-567-0110 Patients with chronic illnesses can attend nine polyclinics run by the National Healthcare Group. They are in Ang Mo Kio,
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    • Happenin'
      • 69 22 LIVE WEBCAST OF VANILLA SKY MEDIA CONFERENCE www.s-one.net.sg Today, 3-4 pm See sizzling couple Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz and director Cameron Crowe take questions on their latest movie Vanilla Sky. CATCH A CRUISING STAR Lido Cineplex Groundfloor (outside Isetan) Today, 6pm One of showbiz’s hottest couples walks down
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      • Article, Illustration
        25 22 BIG SEARCH 01 Till 23 Dec Log on to www.can.com.sg for clues to finding hidden cans all over Singapore. Prizes up to $l,OOO.
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      • Article, Illustration
        23 22 CLARKE QUAY CHRISTMAS FAIR Clarke Quay, Satay Club Entrance Today, 7.30 pm onwards Free Features performances by fire-eateri stilt-walkers and strolling musicians
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      • 44 22 NOKIA SINGAPORE ART 2001 THE CITY: LIPS II Suntec City, Atrium Till 3 Feb 2002 Free Artist Tan Bee Aye zooms in on the I powerful icon of lips in pop culture I and shows how the female body has! become a commodity.
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      • 52 22 STAR-SPANGLED X'MAS CELEBRATIONS FOR TOUCH SILENT CLUB Sheraton Towers, Scotts Road Till Dec 31 Free Tel: 825-8031 They sign, you buy. Pay $5 for a raff ticket for a ball autographed by star like Zoe Tay, Fann Wong and Guo Liang. You may just win a prized ba and
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    • Tune in TV & Movie news
      • 40 23 fn, TV Works ew baby is on the way, and it’s a in this sequel to the hit comedy, hing John Travolta, Kirstie Alley I featuring the voices of Roseanne k Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans.
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      • 34 23 to, Central ted on the Lewis Caroll story of a Whose fantasy world comes to life. r sTina Majorino, Robbie Coltrane, teopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, r istopher Lloyd and Martin Short.
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      • 18 23 l Star Movies (SCV 58) insurance investigator (Catherine ft~Jones) tries to entrap a master thief (Sean Connery.
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      • Article, Illustration
        18 23 Channel U Poh, the winner of Snap’s “bo ba” top) contest, appears tonight, in a hisuit.
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      • 144 23 LOOKS like Hollywood’s globe-trotting pair are making all the right moves the Cruise-Cruz vehicle Vanilla Sky parked itself at the No. 1 movie slot last weekend in the US. The toothy Tom Cruise proved his star power when the movie took US$25 million ($45.8 million) at
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    • 106 23 JSICCITY.COM 'Rfers can help themselves to ‘3s, music videos, documents, iges and software all free of trge at MusicCity.com, one of the 'st comprehensive file-sharing music Unload services. you have to do is register as a l sicCity member and download the Orpheus program. Hie website is easy
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    • 166 25 Reuters London Robbie Williams ind Nicole Kidman have shot Straight to the top of the British charts with their cover of the Sinatra hit Somethin’ Stupid. The duo (right) knocked dance music newcomer Daniel kedingfield off the number one spot that he had held for
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    • 120 25 American -born singer Edison Chen is not exactly thrilled with news that his older sister is becoming a singer too. No, he is not jealous. j The 21-year-old Hongkong-based crooner v is worried that the stress of showbiz may tire Out his sister, Tricia, 24, Hongkong’s Oriental Daily
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    • 195 25 -AP NEW YORK At first, Will Smith wanted nothing to do with the film Ali. ‘I didn’t want to be the dude that messed up the Muhammad Ali story,’ Smith said in an interview with Time magazine. But Ali, 59, said he was pleased with
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    • 185 25 YOU wouldn’t want to serve fried rice on these porcelain plates. They are specially designed by famous personalities such as Sharon Stone (left), Jackie Chan, Shizuka Kudo and Makiko Esumi for an auction to raise funds for the Children’s Cancer Foundation in Hongkong. The auction, which
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    • Article, Illustration
      107 25 THE filming of Jet Li’s movie on Tibetan monks has been shelved by Miramax Films. The script of the Chinese gongfu star’s A Tibetan in New York was thought to clash with Chow Yuen Fatt’s upcoming movie Wu Di He Shang (Invincible Monks), Hongkong’s The Sun reported.
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    • Sports
      • 457 26 Wizards pulls off sixth straight win r NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Toronto Raptors 88 Washington Wizards 93 J J TORONTO Michael Jordan showed Vince Carter that it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. Jordan’s Washington Wizards held Carter scoreless in the second half, and pulled
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      • 581 27 Rank outsider Chievo now serious contender for title Reuters MILAN Chievo Verona’s hugely impressive victory over Inter Milan at the San Siro stadium finally appears to have forced Italian soccer to take Luigi Del Neri’s side seriously. Chievo returned to the top of Serie A with its 2-1
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      • 428 28 LEEDS Disgraced Leeds United defender Jonathan Woodgate (below) began his 100-hour community service sentence on Sunday, but has been ordered by the club to stay away from Elland Road. Leeds has claimed that it does not know the type of work he is
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      • Article, Illustration
        516 29 For Leeds, it's time for action LEEDS David O’Leary is fond of a rant, as top referees and anyone who dares to censure Leeds United would testify. But after the complacency shown by his players at a stunned Elland Road on Sunday, he should concentrate his fire on
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      • 501 30  -  Man United's title hopes are on track again Soccer TALK by /TAN KIM HAN OH, what a difference a week makes. ’Within the short period, Manchester United has clambered up the ladder with the agility and sure-footedness of a mountain goat. From ninth position to sixth.
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      • 27 30 k Chelsea 4 (Le Saux 3, Hasselbaink 28, F Dallaßona7l,Gudjohnsen9o) Liverpool 0 Leeds 2 (Kewell 7, Viduka 59) V Leicester 2 (Deane 78, Scowcroft 88)
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      • 185 30 Team P W D L F A Pts 1. Liverpool 16 10 3 3 25 15 33 2. Arsenal 16 8 6 2 34 18 30 3. Newcastle 16 9 3 4 27 19 30 4. Leeds 16 7 8 1 20 11 29 5. Chelsea 17 6
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      • 290 30 Reuters ZURICH David Beckham said yesterday that uncertainty over the appointment of a manager to succeed Alex Ferguson at Manchester United was not a big issue in his contract talks. He said: “It is an issue, but it is not as important as people say.
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