Project Eyeball, 16 August 2000

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    10 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, August 16, 2000 Free
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      163 1 Hot LIMES ‘Make preschool education compulsory too’ The Committee on Compulsory Education in Singapore released its report yesterday and one recommendation was to make education compulsory for youths up to Primary Six. Some parents would prefer that kindergarten is made compulsory. See Page 2 How do you feel about these
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      236 1 <** 8 "SH* -V '< SS 1 ■i m mm Pictures: Reuters The Kursk, shown above in a file picture, is one of eight giant 154-m Oscar-2 class submarines in the Russian fleet. It was commissioned only five years ago, and is helmed by Commander Gennady Lyachin, 45 (below). Rescue
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      105 2 COUPLES have been told they’re not allowed to kiss in the back row of a British cinema the Odeon multiplex in Birmingham and amorous couples risk being chucked out if caught. Ushers will be on the prowl in the darkest corners of the multiplex and cinema halls to catch
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      26 2 IN THE deck of our story “Living on the hedge” yesterday, we mistakenly referred to marketplay.com.sg as marketplace.com. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon ‘Make pre-school a must’
      800 2  -  Panel wants primary education to be made compulsory, but some push for more By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg COMPULSORY primary schooling is fine, but we could start even earlier at kindergarten. This suggestion and more were thrown up by those had been lobbying to force parents to
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      164 2  -  Celine Lim EVER heard of the San Yu Adventist School(above)? Well, it’s the only other school affected other than the madrasahs -by the recommendations on compulsory education. At this school, apart from the standard curriculum, Seventh-Day Adventist teachers also teach the Bible. To qualify as an
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      68 2 MINISTER-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Abdullah Tarmugi, announced the establishment of the Madrasah Special Assistance Programme yesterday. One madrasah will be selected by MUIS to receive $2 million to improve its teaching of English, mathematics and science. Funds will be raised over the next five years through donations
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      Lock icon Single women say: I’m used to being alone
      1018 3  -  Job and freedom more important By Sue-Ann Chia and Serene Goh sueann@sph.com.sg sereneg@sph.com.sg THE world, for many Singaporean women, is made up of two kinds of people: The married, and the great unwed. If you fall in with Group One, your approval
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      712 4  -  The dotcom boom has fuelled a demand for computer courses, and everybody wants to cash in By Wong Sher Maine shersph.com.sg WELCOME to the rat race of the new millennium. In these days of dotcoms and Internet standard time, it’s not as though Loh Kar Kheng,
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        226 6 THE company i-One.Net has replaced all its 92 first-generation interactive terminals along Orchard Road with 50 second-generation kiosks featuring fresh multimedia content at a cost of $2 million. The difference? Now you can carry out full-scale video-conferencing with a friend at any of the
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        144 6 GLOBALISATION is fine, but there is no getting away from Singapore’s two-language policy, Minister for Community Development and Sports Abdullah Tarmugi told the winner and guests at the Special Academic Awards presentation ceremony yesterday. Stressing the importance of Singapore’s bilingual policy as an anchor to our
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        Lock icon Bus lanes for private buses soon
        64 6 PUBLIC buses’ monopoly of bus lanes in peak hours will end on Aug 28. It will mark the first of a two-phase plan by the Land Transport Authority to open up such lanes for use by private buses. The initial offer is limited to
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        189 6 LOOKS like we will have to listen to words such as “life-long learning” and “constant skills upgrading” for a while yet. This time, it’s the Parliamentary Secretary (Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Health) talking. At the National University Hospital’s National Day Observance
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        153 6 AMERICAN Arlene Johnson, vice-president of management consulting firm WFD, said at a seminar on “Building Awareness and Support for Work-Life Programmes” that people whose basic needs were met and enjoyed their working life were not likely to sacrifice their jobs for an additional “$lO,OOO or
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        79 6 THE Singaporean manager of the US hotel franchise, Colin Gerard Woodford, appeared in a Cambodian court yesterday for questioning after police raided the establishment, rescuing seven Eastern European women. The court laid no charges, but ordered his continued detention and'that he re-appear today. The
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        71 6 A LASALLE-SIA graduate’s attempt to show off his Rover to an ex-girlfriend backfired when he ran afoul of the law. Koh Kian Hua, 24, rented a Rover with a SZA plate and bought a licence plate to fix on top of it
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      680 8 Survivors, if any, may make it to surface today Wires MOSCOW The first of any survivors among the 116 crew trapped in the crippled Russian nuclear submarine at the bottom of the Barents Sea are expected to surface today. Russia yesterday launched a rescue operation to free
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      Lock icon Three-day, zero-night tour for Olympics
      131 8 TOKYO Ever hear of a threeday, zero-night package tour with no hotels or meals? Japan’s travel agencies are offering just that for next month’s Olympics in Australia. Travellers board an airplane on Tuesday, Sept 19, fly nine hours to sunny Brisbane to watch an Olympic
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      Lock icon Jakarta mulls ban on maids
      174 8 CONCERN OVER ABUSE BY EMPLOYERS AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government is considering a 100-day ban on maids going abroad. Indonesian Manpower Minister Bomer Pasaribu told reporters at Parliament yesterday that the move follows several high-profile cases of abuse by employers against Indonesian maids abroad, and
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      Lock icon SM’s talks with Mahathir ‘positive’
      245 10 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who is on a four-day visit to Malaysia, yesterday spent twice as much time as had been scheduled, in talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Hinting at a fruitful talk, SM Lee said:
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        151 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Foreign Minister has slammed US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her comments about the conviction of jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim and questioning Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s leadership. Syed Hamid Albar said Albright had gone beyond the accepted norms
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        173 10 Wires JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has further diluted his promise to put Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri in charge of the day-to-day running of the Cabinet. He said yesterday that she could only make decisions in consultation with himself and two other ministers. Instead of empowering
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        193 10 AFP JAKARTA Some 2,000 Indonesian Muslims took to the streets yesterday to demand a Constitution amendment that includes a controversial requirement that Muslims practise Quranic teachings. The protesters from several militant Islamic groups, led by the “Front for the Defence of Islam”, marched 1 km
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        185 10 AP LONDON British Airways (BA) yesterday suspended Concorde operations after being advised by British and French officials that they intended to revoke the supersonic jet’s airworthiness certification. The morning flight from London to New York was cancelled, as well as the later return flight from New York,
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        157 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said yesterday that the stalled Middle East summit could be revived after US President Bill Clinton was free from his party’s national convention. “As has been mentioned by President Clinton...he said maybe, maybe we will come back after
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      Lock icon Emotional reunions
      385 12 Cries and moans fill hall as North Koreans meet Southern relatives AP SEOUL In an outpouring of joy and distress that was televised live in South Korea, a group of 100 North Koreans yesterday embraced and wept with Southern relatives whom they had not seen for half a
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      151 12 LONDON The next generation of handphones will make it much easier for the British police to carry out covert surveillance of citizens, say civil liberty campaigners. They warn that the combination of locationrevealing technology in the phones, added to the rights given to the
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      245 12 AP LOS ANGELES A festive protest concert outside the Democratic Party convention turned violent as demonstrators threw rocks and fired steel balls from slingshots at police who answered with pepper spray, rubber bullets and finally a charge on horseback. At least four people were hurt
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      84 14 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Achieva 18,874,000 34.0 EW Sport 14,835,000 27.5 ST Assemb 13,044,000 386.0 Top 3 Gainers CENTS V- Chartered 1400 +80 +6.1 Creative 50 3980 +70 +1.8 Venture 2110 +50 +2.4 Total number of gainers: 202 Top 3 Losers CENTS CDLHo 2kHK$
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      74 14 Smaller and safer than a helicopter This gyroplane is safer to fly than a helicopter ora fixed wing plane, says its Chinese manufacturer. It costs $87,000 and is similar to a helicopter, except it uses a free-spinning rotor and a rear-facing power propeller. It can also fly at speeds of
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      551 14  -  Internet message boards are proving useful to stock investors By Jeanette Pang jeanette@sph.com.sg WHO says talk is cheap? Internet message boards set up to discuss the latest “insights” on the local stock market have helped engineer Alan Tan, 27, rake in big dosh. Tan, who says
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      223 14 THE brains behind the site have called it a Web community for working professionals, but that’s not the reason it’s popular. A DBS group official has called this corporate message board the electronic equivalent of graffiti on toilet walls. Well, its popularity is indisputable.
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      162 14  -  Francis Kan THE Trade and Development Board is expected to release Singapore’s July trade data tomorrow, but analysts are not expecting that to affect the stock market. Analysts yesterday gave this lukewarm response, pointing out that last month, when the June export growth came in
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      Lock icon Great (marriage) expectations
      432 15 “THE Singaporean woman has been much-maligned for having overly-high expectations. Well, how about this? One of my relatives has second-class honours, and she chose to marry a technician with only ITE education. “It’s not fair to generalise. Besides, would these single men with no degrees deliberately go
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      Lock icon Get married? Material comforts come first
      486 15 WOMEN HAVE THEIR SAY “I DO not intend to marry, at least in the short-term and the medium-term, simply because there are other pre-occupations on my mind, such as getting a good career, enough money, the material comforts I desire, everything that is important
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      727 16  -  Sure, all of us have our pet peeves, except that most of us choose to bottle up our feelings. It needn’t be that way. We ashed our readers and our staff to take a potshot at anything that bugged them. Over the next few days, we bring you a
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      130 18 GLENN Tmjnst fashionable, not a queen’ (Aug 15) KARL Ho, I guess, in keeping with the spirit of your paper, everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. I quote: “Instead of targeting the fair-skinned and limp-wristed, anti-homosexual elements are now casting their net wider for their prototype
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      172 18  -  GUY MASON ‘Goal 2010? In onr dreams’ (Aug 15) AS AN Englishman whose country is in soccer disarray, primarily because of incorrect coaching techniques a number of years ago, I am perhaps not best qualified to comment on Singapore’s efforts, but here goes anyway. I support
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      46 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5833 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg View 2.0 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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      25 2 What do you think of the recommendations given by the Committee in the report? Log on to our website at http^/eyebalLasmLconusg to give your views.
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      29 2 (food morning! 4 Partly cloudy with showers expected in the late morning and early afternoon affecting most areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 12.39PM/2.5M 11.56PM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      50 4 X You are never too old or young to join IT classes. Click asial.com.sg to learn how a father-and-son team is learning to assemble computers. You can also watch a video interview with an IT school principal and look at the courses being offered by IT schools. nFf\ l r,
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      466 7 If* -<m If* mimm i Apply here for financial freedom. AHN AMIU) CIU HI! I INI AIMMICAIIIIN I URM 1. Whan you have completed this application, please mail it back to us with the relevant documents or visit our ABN AMRO Bank Branch. 2. Applicant must be a Singapore Citizen
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      46 8 Ever wondered what’s life like on a submarine? http://www.coxnews. com/ newsservice/ stories/2000SUBMARi NETOURQBISCOX. htm Read an account of three days aboard the highly classified nuclear submarine USS Hampton. http://www.chinfo. navy.mil/navpalib/ factfile/ships/ ship-dsrv.html This vessel could rescue the Russian crew but it belongs to the US Navy.
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      155 12 DC 77QG INFORMATION SECURITY Dd// JJ MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Jointly organised by: iw.; c Certificates will be awarded to participants who pass the Lead Auditor Course examination successfully Increasingly, organisations are faced with information security threats from a wide range of sources. However, many information systems have not been designed to
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      21 12 Click httiK// eyeball.asial.com.sg for more on the Kennedys and Democrats. http://www.cnn.com/ ELECTIQN/2000/ conventions/ democratic/features/ dems.glance/ More on the Democratic Convention 2000.
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      54 15 What you’ve said in Eyeball’s marriage poll: Nearly half are single because they can’t find someone. Half of men put career before marriage; 80 per cent of women didn’t. 42 per cent of men but only 13 per cent of women want a no-kid marriage. Click on httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg for
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      246 17 JfI'FUST /ICTT^SRKST The wrist-type wearable Digital Camera WRI S T C Visual Data Bank (24 text characters) Memory for up to 100 images Automatic date and time stamping Monochrome 16-grayscale STN LCD monitor Infrared data communication Timekeeping functions Water resistant ill! Hi /X Mi X hoot m m v ■.>x
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      89 18 WO QDST OQ| 1359 When three defined a generation. 5 t Hamilton was there. The Everes^^lection K Xe'X:-' Hh 1 ..a. i s X m m mi IV %v> mm l i w-' x m m ifi-ss I 1 a m m a a T M I a ar- x
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      26 18 Is leisure reporter Karl Ho homophobic? Does sports reporter Zaki Amrullah think Singapore can achieve Goal 2010? Click on http^/eyebalLasi&Lcom.sg to read Karl’s and Zaki’s responses.
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      579 20 According to recent estimates, more than 500 billion Web pages exist. Since there is no comprehensive Internet equivalent of a phonebook, where do you start looking for that page you want? EUGENE WISE (eugenew@sph. com.sg) picks the best search engines. 2LBJKPIIN G WETEGTWB http://Catcha.com.sg NEED to hunt down
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      Lock icon WAPman to the rescue!
      356 21  -  Program adds colour to browser By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg WAP pages are black-and-white, text-only and completely boring, right? Not anymore. Singapore-based Edge Matrix, formerly known as Edge Consultants, has developed WAPman, a colour WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) browser program. The catch is that you need to
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      Lock icon Computers will soon be taking quantum leap
      279 21 PROCESSOR SPEEDS Reuters IF you one day use a computer that uses the mysterious power of quantum particles, the basic matter within atoms, you’ll have IBM to thank. Such machines could do Web searches in a flash, or perform billions of calculations simultaneously.
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      Lock icon JARGON GUIDE TO SEARCHING THE INTERNET
      208 21  -  Eugene Wee Search engines A SEARCH engine uses software that continually trawls the Web in search of new sites and catalogues them in a database. Most search engines allow you to customise how you want your search conducted in order to narrow down the
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      Lock icon Linux-led group takes on Microsoft
      175 22  -  The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO Key Linux software developers and computer makers announced yesterday the first united push to win the PC war. Microsoft is the current champion with its Windows operating system and MS Office programs like Word and Powerpoint. The new Gnome
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      Lock icon Like Windows on steroids
      256 22  -  Gnome offers same features except the hiccups By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IF YOU can point and click in Windows, you are already considered an old hand at the Gnome interface. That’s because navigating your way around the Linux environment using Gnome is no different from using
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      234 22 PUBLISHERS' SALES FIGURES ARE ENCOURAGING PUBLISHERS of e-books have released sales figures for the first time, in reaction to sceptical remarks made by the CEO of a traditional book publishing house. Wired.com, quoting another source, said the CEO had ridiculed the e-book publishers for
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      Lock icon Linux still has an uphill task
      377 22 YOU will still be using Windows, MS Word and Powerpoint for the next few years, even though giants like IBM and Compaq have just put their weight behind a move to topple these programs. That was the verdict of industry watchers and Linux users
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      652 23 Tour wedding day can be a real drag if you set off on the wrongfoot But you could let your mouse point you in the right direction. IHH PUAY LENG (puayleng@sph.com.sg) visits websites catering to Singaporean brides and grooms. Online Wedding Shop Guides http://www. wedding-travel.com.sg THIS site
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      20 21 Click to download WAPman, or read more about it, go to: http://www.edgematrix. com http://www.wapresources. net/browsers-shtml http://www.xgo.com.sg Register for Xgo here.
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      52 22 To find out more about Linux, visit The Linux homepage at http://www.linux.org. To read more about the Gnome project, check out http://www.gnome.org. (The URL is NOT http://www.gnome.com) Eazel is a Gnome application that you might want to learn more about.- Read up at http://www.eazel.com. The Singapore Linux Users’ Group is
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      Lock icon Leboeuf's got a beef with Vialli
      306 24 Leboeuf 's got a beef with Vialli Wires LONDON All is not well at Stamford Bridge. At least Frank Leboeuf thinks so. The French World Cup and Euro 2000 defender is unhappy with Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli. And if you believe him, he is not the only one. “Vialli has
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      41 24 Amanda Adkins breaks through the water while taking part in the womens 200 m backstroke heats during the US Olympic swim trials at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis. Adkins had the fastest time with 2:13:38. AFP
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      Lock icon Top European clubs on the warpath again
      560 24  -  They now want guaranteed slots in money-making European Cup By Nazvi Careem nazvi@sph.com.sg EUROPE’S top clubs are at it again. Having failed to establish their own super league, they want the next best thing guaranteed places in the European Cup. According to Soccernet,
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        601 25  -  As Hungary shows, he gives credit where it’s due By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg IT IS time to give Michael Schumacher a break. With the benefit of hindsight, the accusations that have been hurled at the Ferrari driver have been a little unfair. Arrogant. Selfish. Unsporting.
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      57 25 South Africa’s ace fielder and hatsman Jonty Rhodes will he playing in Kallang at the week-long Singapore Challenge international cricket triangular. The tournament, which involves South Africa, Pakistan and New Zealand, starts on Sunday. Tickets are $3O for adults and $2O for students on weekends, and
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        Lock icon Creaky champion lands a dubious record
        338 25  -  By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg SO, the old man was back in the ring again. Only this time, Evander Holyfield did not dance and punch as he used to. In fact, he creaked as only a 37-year-old can. The Real Deal claimed the vacant World
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      Lock icon Valhalla bucks trend
      506 26  -  Unlike other major venues, the PGA tournament site is relatively young By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg VALHALLA is the name of the ancient Nordic burial ground. It is also the name for the course of this week’s US PGA Championship. For professional golfers, Nordic history has a richer
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      Lock icon Hip op puts Elk out of PGA
      142 26 Wires LOUISVILLE Poor Steve Elkington. The Australian has withdrawn from this week’s PGA Championship after hip surgery last week. “This was obviously pitiful timing,” said Elkington, who expects to be playing again in about six weeks. Elkington, winner of the 1995 PGA Championship,
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      415 26  -  Luke Pachymuthu MARK Brooks has been wallowing in the boondocks of golfs one-hit wonders. After bagging the 1996 PGA Championship his first and only Tour victory Brooks has been struggling desperately to find the game which helped him win at Valhalla four
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      723 27 Singapore s dream of becoming a Renaissance City gets a big push with the arrival of several new theatre groups, reports TAN DAWN Will (dawntan@sph.co,sg). SARTRE would have nodded. It’s an existentialist world out there. Even if all you want to do is to just watch a play,
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        609 28  -  Tan Dawn Wei WBMAM &OIIHI WW&SvCTM&IS PTE Founder: Actress Selena Tan, former lawyer who quit in 1997 to pursue a career in theatre. Perhaps best remembered as Anita from Under One Roof. Name: It goes back to Tan’s teenhood, when she had an idea to build an
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          70 28 A TWO-woman performance, incorporating cabaret and other theatrical styles, Postcards from Persephone examines motherdaughter relationships. Yale theatre major Wang Meiyin and Adelina Ong tackle roles ranging from Japanese nuclear victims to space aliens to give audiences a comic spin on the Demeter and Persephone myth.
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          59 28 VIRTUOSO Lee Huei Min aims to rejuvenate classical music a la youthful darlings Vanessa-Mae and Charlotte Church. Watch the Ivy League prodigy perform with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at Victoria Concert Hall on Aug 25 and 26. Tickets are available at $lO, $l5, $2O (stall), $25, $25 (circle)
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          58 28  -  Jeanmarie Tan THE experimental work, Shush, revolves around a group of youths who gather at a deserted house and undergo a harrowing experience. In Mandarin, it’s at the Substation from Aug 31 to Sept 6 at 8 pm. Tickets are priced at $2O and $l6 (students, NSmen
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        287 29  -  By Sam I-shan ishan@sph.com.sg EXPECT gunfire, sirens and a fierce battle of words and wits at 42 Waterloo Street later this month. Battle@waterloo: Fighting for Art’s Sake is a series of three debates where arts and media professionals will spar over arts issues in a
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        607 29 Michelle Chong, lead actress in Oleanna, talks to TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) about sexual harassment and power politics. WATCH what you see. Otherwise, you will have to watch what you say. Once you watch Oleanna, you’ll never talk to anyone quite the same way again. Pulitzer
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        170 29  -  Karen Tan June Wan LAST seen in First Emperor’s Last Days in the 1998 Arts Festival, Karen is back after seven years in London with her husband and baby girl. She will appear in the upcoming Theatreworks production, Spirits. Feel queasy about performing again after so
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        478 31 Without uttering a word, these men shower the audience with sparks. RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) takes a look at Japanese installation art, hut from a safe distance. Pancy the notion of four Japanese guys onstage with assorted bits of hardware, spewing sparks around in a glittering display
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        284 31 MILLENNTUM EXHIBITION JEANHHARDS TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) speaks to the artists behind the masterpieces to he featured in Spectra zi. WHAT do you get when the designing disciples at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) open the floodgates of their creative juices? Spectra 21, a Millennium Exhibition organised by
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        787 32 Heeding the call of the wild, SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) hoisted her backpack and took a merry jaunt through Crocodile Dundee country Kakadu National Park, east of Darwin. OT the most glamorous of Oz cities, especially compared to the much more populous Olympics-hosting Sydney. But if you dig the
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          64 34 ADRENALINE junkies with a yen for exotic destinations, click on www.iexplore.com. If you have often wanted to go where the Discovery Channel has been, you can venture into the Amazon -16 days, no less -for U 551,220 ($2,086). The package comes with a visit to a Quichua community
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          66 34 NOW you too can get bumped for free airline travel. And it’s kosher too. Just get yourself on an overbooked flight, turn up at the airport 90 minutes before the scheduled departure and be the first to check in. Then allow yourself to be bought off by the
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          56 34 STAG night? Hen party? Tiss.com offers the perfect excuse. Any time between Aug 21 and 31, just $145 will get you on an Emirates flight to Jakarta, economy-class, of course. With food aplenty and accommodation at reasonable rates, this is good news. You’ll now have more dosh
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          73 34 IF you’re planning on a relaxing vacation in the few days you have off after a US business trip, head for the high seas. If you happen to be one of the few who missed that movie starring Leonardo di Caprio and the iceberg, take a chance with
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          61 34 ABOUT.COM, http://www.about.com, suggests to anyone who has ever had to tango with customs: Make a list. Have a hard copy or PDA version that includes your passport number, date of expiry, issue dates and other details. This will save you the trouble of having to retrieve your passport
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        280 34 It’s in the hag. Accessories for weekend getaways are endless and as varied as the destinations you might visit. So unless you re migrating south, SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) suggests packing up your troubles in these spiffy kit bags. Delsey red suitcase Price: $l9O Inside scoop: Slightly
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      33 27 Do you think the arrival of these groups will rejuvenate the Singapore theatre scene? Or are you convinced that nothing too dramatic is going to happen? Tell us by logging on to http://eyeball.asial-coin.sg
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      31 29 Want in on the action? Log onto httpV/eyebalLasiaLcomjsg to win tickets for the “Starving artistes produce the best work” debate on Aug 24. Ten pairs of tickets are up for grabs.
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      39 29 Oleanna is directed by Goh Boon Teck. Starring Lim Kay Siu and Michelle Chong, it’s on from Aug 18 to Sept 2 at Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel. Tickets are $3O-$45 and available from Sistic at 348 5555 or http://www.sistic.com.sg.
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    112 36 Our Eyeball travel reporter went to Darwin and look what she brought back. Read more on her adventures in Crocodile Dundee country. Listen to didgeridoo playing so fine (above), your household kangaroos will be thumping in unison. http://eveball.asial.com.sg/Eveball/Leisure Everyone’s jumping on the IT bandwagon, it seems. Computer school
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    203 36 PEOPLE often speak of the wisdom of children. Based on these sample answers to 11-year-olds’ science exams, you might be glad they’re not running the world. Here’s today’s humour, gathered from the Internet. Water is composed of two gins, oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin
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      127 36 Let ns know what yon think Today’s polls, and where to vote: Which lifestyle would you prefer, being married or single? Vote in our online poll: Will the arrival of new theatre groups rejuvenate the local theatre scene? When searching the Web, what’s your preferred style of search engine? URLs
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