Project Eyeball, 17 August 2000

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    10 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, August 17, 2000 Free
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    Lock icon Hope fades
    121 1 Reuters MOSCOW The outlook is bleak for the 118 sailors trapped since Sunday in the crippled Russian nuclear submarine along the Barents Sea bed. The tapping signals from inside the stricken submarine have stopped, and there appear to be no signs of life, although this does not mean
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    Lock icon How’s this for a Web ad?
    86 1 AP NEW YORK A Kansas couple won US$5,OOO (558,700) for naming their baby after a website called the Internet Underground Music Archive. luma Dylan-Lucas weighed 3.82 kg when he was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Jessica and Travis Thornhill last Friday. Travis plays bass
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      176 1 Hot LINES Technology. Is it moving too fast? Do acronyms such as GRPS, GPS, VoIP, MP3, 3G and XML mean more than lousy selections during a friendly game of Scrabble? If so, don't worry. Our Eyeball poll says many Singaporeans feel like roadkill on the information superhighway. See Page 4
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      103 1 e-Speaker’s Comer Why wait for Hong Lim Park? Three weeks before Speaker’s Corner goes live, an online version has cropped up touting itself as a “free speech and free press portal” covering topics from technology to politics. See Page your view today ‘lt’s Just too stressful to be in a
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      49 2 LONDON When Gemma Franks saw dead rock idol Kurt Cobain appearing on her Compaq laptop screen after she had switched it off, pleading: “Give us a kiss love”, she had it exorcised, after kissing him, of course, reports ananova.com. The exorcism resulted in the computer refusing to boot-up.
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      487 2  -  Teen launches website to have open discussions By G. Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg AGREE with him or not, it takes a different sort of 18-year-old to set up a website touting itsejf as a “free speech and free press portal.” Enter onlinespeakerscorner.com. Launched just three weeks before its Hong Lim
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      Lock icon Indonesia protest targets army, Golkar
      43 2 A student showering himself with red paint yesterday during a demonstration to demand that the armed forces and the Qolkar party be withdrawn from Indonesia’s legislative body. The demo was held in front of Parliament in Jakarta. AP
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      Lock icon Singapore financial portal soon
      296 2  -  EDUCATING INVESTORS By Jeanette Pang jeanette@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE investors may be increasingly cyber-savvy, but they are clearly not street smart enough to avoid unintentional risks. If you beg to differ, hear this. Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS) president David Gerald said yesterday: “There is clear evidence
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        923 3  -  Too many sacrifices on time and money make babies a no-no for many couples By Kim-Kyna Tan kimkyna@sph.com.sg BABIES, those little bundles of joy, are sending top G-men scurrying. Singapore’s falling fertility rate has become the current national crisis, being closely monitored by a high-level inter-ministry
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        Lock icon Story of a big family
        270 3  -  DR ANETTE Jacobsen goes weak in the knees when she sees babies. The head of paediatric surgery at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital has five of her own, between the ages of five and 14. She and her husband, Dr Mark Lu, 47, a general
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      Lock icon Providing for the dead
      38 4 Fire and paper reign supreme during the Hungry Qhosts Festival in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, as incense and paper money are burnt by believers as offerings to the dead. Alphonso Chan
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      Lock icon IT chase leaves many above 30 befuddled
      576 4  -  Eyeball polls find that many among them find tech moving too fast By Celine Lim, Kelvin Wong and Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg local@eyeball.com.sg CANT tell GPRS from GPS, and MP3 from 3G? Is XML extra medium large to you, and does VoIP leave a
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      Lock icon Microsoft ties up with local players
      410 4 ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT MICROSOFT Singapore announced a partnership with music and video content providers yesterday, making this the boldest attempt yet by the software giant to get a foothold in the local online entertainment market. “We have a partnership with these players where they’ll distribute
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      Lock icon Faith is flourishing, so is atheism
      1019 6  -  Numbers of believers and non-believers on the rise By Kim-Kyna Tan kimkyna@sph.com.sg VIJAY Das, who is studying to be an engineer, heard his true calling when he was just 21. He was confused and aloof, sick of the monotony and emptiness of “just bumming
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      Lock icon Altruism before ambition
      462 6  -  Kim-Kyna Tan PEOPLE serve their faith in many ways. Vijay Das spends three hours every Sunday playing games and spending time with inmates of Woodbridge Hospital and the Tampines Home for the Disabled. Born into the Hindu faith, Das, 24, an engineering student, entered the Sai Baba
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      507 8 THE TASK Furnishing a new home. TIME TAKEN A week. One day. WINNER: SET WAY METHODS: Armed with the floor plan of my five-room HDB flat, a measuring tape and some ideas from magazines, I made my way to Ikea. Took a walk around the huge
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      Lock icon Hey, listen, it's PCK The Musical
      153 8 Charity performance to feature star-studded cast SINGAPORE’S most famous contractor has not just gone for English lessons; he has taken some singing and dancing classes as well. Gurmit Singh aka Phua Chu Kang will exercise his vocal cords in PCK The Musical for this
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      Lock icon Eating for a good cause
      84 8 SAY hello to easy-to-do charity. For every loaf of Bonjour bread you buy, Boustead Services promises to contribute 3 per cent to a Mendaki scholarship fund. Just make sure you drop off the wrapper at designated Mendaki outlets. Boustead has already donated seed funding of
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      92 8 DRUG traffickers thought no one would ever suspect an innocuous document delivered through an international courier company. But on Tuesday, police intercepted two male suspects in their late 20s when they tried to collect an envelope from the company. The tip-off had come from the
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      Lock icon Woman charged for molesting woman
      57 8 FOR the first time in Singapore, a woman has been charged with molesting another woman. Rankine Juliana Maude, 35, allegedly touched the right breast of a 45-year-old woman on an escalator in the Jurong East MRT station on Tuesday morning If found guilty, Maude could
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      Lock icon Driving beat
      46 8 More than 200 Tibs drivers, mechanics and other staff move to the music of Mambo No 5 at the “chair 3 aerobics session led by Kresics Fitness Business yesterday. The Tibs Sports and Recreation committee organises monthly fitness activities like this. Law Kian Yan
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      Lock icon Girl gets 6 years for torturing teenager
      67 8 AN 18-year-old girl was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for torturing a 14-year-old girl. It was the heaviest sentence passed on a female in the group of seven teenagers who had held the girl captive for 17 days in December. Five
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      Lock icon Second quarter loss for PacNet
      68 8 NASDAQjlisted Internet service provider Pacific Internet (PacNet) disappointed its investors with a second quarter loss of some $5.2 million against a loss of $960,000 a year earlier. For the half-year ended June 30, the homegrown ISP, which is aiming to become a business-to-consumer portal, chalked
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      125 8 THE Singapore Exchange has taken the drastic action of suspending the trading in shares of Links Island Holdings pending enquiries into possible wrongdoing. The SGX said in statement last night that it had reviewed the stock’s recent trading activity and found some irregularities. It is
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      Lock icon Arms heist re-enacted
      202 11 KL stages effort to refute opposition claims Wires KUALA LUMPUR The government yesterday re-enacted last month’s weapons heist by an Islamic cult on a military armoury to refute claims that the event was stage-managed to give the government an excuse to clamp down on the opposition Parti
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    • World WIDE
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        50 11 Wires TAGBAK (Philippines) Muslim rebels yesterday freed a Filipino hostage kidnapped almost four months ago. Lucrecia Dablo, 35, stumbled into the arms of chief hostage negotiator Robert Aventajado after she was driven by intermediaries to a military camp on the edge of rebel-held territory on southern Jolo island
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        94 11 Wires LOS ANGELES-It was a night filled with the echoes of Camelot. Four members of the Kennedy family spoke late on Tuesday to the Democratic National Convention, culminating in a ringing endorsement of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman by Senator Edward Kennedy. “There have only been three
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        81 11 AFP JAKARTAIndonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday pledged a leaner, meaner and more professional Cabinet and greater public participation in decision-making. In a state-of-the-nation address, written and read out by Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Abdurrahman said he planned to restructure the government “to prevent the emergence of new
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      Lock icon SE-Asia trails North-east, says SM
      398 12 ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND REFORM Wires KUALA LUMPUR South-east Asia lags behind Japan and its neighbours in overcoming the region’s financial crisis and will catch up only if it embraces structural reforms, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Speaking at Malaysia’s Institute of Strategic and
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      53 12 Valentina Staroseltseva, 51, wipes away a tear as she watches television for news of her son Dmitry, 20, who is trapped in the Kursk n uclear submarine. An underwater rescue capsule inched through swirling sand and strong currents on Wednesday, trying to reach the crippled sub.
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      443 12 Hopes of finding survivors recede Wires MOSCOW Russia has finally accepted foreign help in a desperate attempt to save its trapped submarine crew, even as signs of life aboard fade. A British mini-submarine that could help pluck the crew of the crippled Russian nuclear submarine
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    • Article
      Lock icon Join a club, make money
      625 13  -  Pooling money and knowledge can be profitable and fun By Jeanette Pang jeanette@sph.com.sg YOU want to invest that nest egg you’ve saved up, but does handing over your hard-earned bonus to a Shenton Way financial wizard assuming you could afford one leave you trembling? Maybe
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      85 13 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS f Ionics 22,518,000 66 DBS Land 17,341,000 270 Ipco 16,078,000 55 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Venture 2290 *180 +8.5 j PacCent 2500 +60 +2.5 I Bukit Sem 1500 +50 +3.4 Total number of gainers; 240 Top 3 Losers CENTS PBS
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY www.wallstraits.com
      215 13  -  Jeanette Pang IT HITS you all the time. During work and lunch. At the coffee table and parties. The men in suspenders talk about it on the MRT. And no, you don’t get a prize for guessing that we’re talking about stocks. If the
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      Lock icon Being single suits us girls and guys
      606 14 ‘Single women say: I’m used to being alone’ Aug 16 GUTS SPEAK... “I AM a happy single male student in a junior college. The reason marriage seems like a faraway thing for me right now is because of NS obligations, university prospects and
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      Lock icon Give children a choice
      289 14 FORMAL VS INFORMAL EDUCATION FOUNT AIN82 ‘Make pre-school a most’ (Aug 16) FIRST, I would like to say that the idea of compulsory education for children who have the potential to perform well in the arts and sports is a no-no. I think that in order
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      Lock icon Enrichment of child should start at home
      186 14 Teat time’s over, kiddie, now for maths’ Aug 15 IT’S sad that some parents can’t understand the need for a child to go through his childhood untouched by “enrichment” classes. Such enrichment should start at home rather than in tuition centres. I think
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      Lock icon Logistics and lust
      574 15  -  SALON.COM By Jennifer Bingham Hull MY HUSBAND and I used to have sex on a regular, romantic basis. For years we weren’t trying to make a baby. We would just be in the mood. One thing naturally led to another. Fertility treatments, pregnancy and parenthood changed all
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      Lock icon Ghee, how about prata ratings?
      508 16  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg WHEN the news hit, it struck with the force of a thunderbolt, hurling everything I held dear into a void from which my convictions could never climb out. I am, of course, referring to the news that hotels awarded themselves stars
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      4 2 See also Pg 13
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      31 2 Check these other forums out: http://www.delphi. com/ sammyboymod/ messages http://www.sin tercom.org Is political discussion alive on the Internet here? Read our earlier report and join the forum at: httpV/eyeball asial.com. sg
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      29 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy. Showers in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern, western and southern Singapore. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 2.5M/1.03PM Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      50 3 Should childless couples do society a favour by having two kids or more? But of course, that’s why people get married, right? Not at all, it’s a personal choice. Join the fray at http^/eyefonim.asial.com.sg To read what others have had to say so far, turn to pages 14 and 15.
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      34 4 Do you think it’s vitally important to keep up with technology? Tell us in our poll at httpV/eyebalL asial.com. sg Tomorrow, read about what those who have been stung by the New Economy say.
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      332 5 www.ml.com.sg The hottest deal in town Sign up for |J||lh jgj r tM§m f SSST/ i I 1 r»: Wssss illiii s v> Si •s'* ,V-‘' (Model Code: JD-18) and get a skate scooter for only $2O! A special deal that won't last forever. Buy a new Ml forewet pager
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      30 6 Local religious bodies have geared up for the new millennium, and are reaching out to the faithful on the Net. Take a look at how far they’ve come at asial.com.sg
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      48 7 it has to be earned 5| X The new singtelshop.com serves you better by offering: new products and services first 7 day exchange guarantee the widest range of choice numbers the security of charging to your Sing Tel bill delivery to your doorstep i 1 K Sing Tel
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      105 9 www .wjrldroom.com By integrating business travel tools with up-to-the-minute travel and market news, and comprehensive city guides that cover Asia and Europe, we've become the premier online resource for the business traveller making business trips work. Everywwwhere. Log on to Worldroom.com now and get a chance to WIN two round-trip
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      91 10 SIEMENS Buiit-i m, S3si m iv if mmm X Hi f *7s |F 1 fßhtotv 1 Shock Resistant f 7r MP JP/V* Picture £T -j. Messaging ,r >* 5i ■p Which one is i W¥/W/4tfitftfiWi corn m7s f-. m*:f 3st Authorised Distributors: TAC No: PRNEQ-0082-2000 TAC No: PRNEQ-0137-2000 TAC No:
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      168 11 Diploma in Economics UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Lead College: London School of Economics The Diploma in Economics examinations are set and marked by the prestigious London School of Economics to the same standard as internal students. The Diploma in Economics qualification allows students direct entry to the second year of the
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      25 12 For the latest on the saga, click onto balLasial.com.sg www.telegraph.co.uk/ et?ac ***************&rtm0 kNNCTNop&atmo=mm mmxwzß&pg=/et/00/ 8/16/tlsubl6.html For a story on the pain of a submariner’s wife.
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      132 13 Who should you invite to join your investment club? Not your beer-guzzling buddies, for sure. For a couple of tips click on httpV/eyebaU.asial.com.sg Look up http://www.fool.com/ investmentclub/investmentclub.htm to find out what to do when some members don’t pull their own weight. Mobile Computing is fun... K > A m so
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      29 14 What do you think of marriage, staying single and starting a child’s education early? Make yourself heard at asi&Lcomjsg We publish the most interesting views in print every day.
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      55 15 m <* SinGRPOPE ZOOLOGICAL GAROEfIS Mk rn C<WS£RI/AT/<W in SOUTH EAST ASIR Mr Blttu Sahgab Editor of Sanctuary Magazine Date 20 th August 2000 (Sunday) Time 10.15 am to 12.00 noon Venue Learning Centre, Singapore Zoological Gardens Free Gift When you present this advertisement at the Zoo's Learning Centre. Limited
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      142 16 Get registered now to be the great warriors of: FIFA 2000 QUAKE 3 STARCRAFT (BROOD WAR) Prizes for each game: Ist1 st S$ 1,000 2 nd S$ 800 3 rd S$ 500 Winners of each game will represent Singapore to compete in the WORLD CYBER GAME CHALLENGE 2000 in Korea
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      Lock icon ‘A gentleman’s sportscar’
      694 17  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg T’S A gentleman’s sportscar,” said the distributor as he waved his hand in the directio of Maserati’s latest drool mobile, the 3200 GT. Indeed, it is. Gone is the boxy silhouette reminiscent of older Maseratis such as the Karif and BiTurbo. Instead, the
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      Lock icon Accompli combines handphone, PDA
      522 17  -  TWO-FOR-ONE DEAL By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg THE new Motorola Accompli A6lBB combines the functions of a handphone and a personal digital assistant (PDA). But is it necessarily better than having two separate devices? The simple answer is: It depends. That sounds like something an undergraduate “smoking”
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    • Small Pleasures
      • Tech FILES
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          Lock icon Dacky Jr?
          36 20 Japanese toy giant Takara shows off a doggie-bot “Dacky Jr” in Tokyo. Dacky Jr. is equipped with an infrared sensor and can react or play with objects. It sells for 2,g80 yen (Ss4j). Reuters
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          Lock icon Some college grads shunning dotcoms
          78 20 MANY university graduates in the US are shunning dotcoms and returning to traditional firms, a study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers in America has shown. The trend comes amid wariness of start-ups, what with layoffs and sliding stock prices. Many grads
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          Lock icon RealNetworks adds subscription
          93 20 REALNETWORKS, the company that gave us the Real Player media streaming program, has started a subscription service. Subscriptions for the service, called Real Player Gold Pass, start at U 559.95 (Ssl7) a month, in addition to the purchase of Real Player Plus, which offers higher-quality video and
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          Lock icon Future will belong to open-source
          59 20 Wires A MARKET report from Forrester Research quoted on Wired.com said open-source standards will have a profound impact on the software industry. The report said that in four years, software vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle will have to change their business practices to open-source,
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        Lock icon Chic flicks
        457 21 Some film-review websites are spun from a female perspective. LIM PUAY LENG shows you those that pack a punch It’s a girl thang http://www.girlmovie critic.com PERSONIFIED as a lady with a hat from the early *****, this great site offers a good listing of various US movies right
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      271 18 Join Eugene Wee in the driver’s seat at httpV/eyebalL asial.com. sg to see how the Maserati 3200 GT drives as he takes you on a video joyride in this drool mobile. Total PDA Screen Protection Against Scratches, Dirt And Grime j x Jf £n(ore protection tcreencire for OA. Unlike vNOKr>aL
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      157 20 Click on to asial.com.sg and tell us if a handphone/PDA two-in-one works. Yes I absolutely hate carrying around so many gadgets. No I need the specialised functions that a PDA can provide. HEMSDALE THE UNIVERSITY CENTRE Advanced Diplomas Certificates Adv Dip GM Advanced Diploma in General Management DIPLOMAS Next Intake:
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      168 21 NEC Monitors Tmagi nation. Sol uti ons. mm W I PC PCWM s :000 VENDOR AWfiROS a The complete range of LCD CRT monitors follows the tradition of quality and reliability set by previous generations of NEC award-winning monitors to give you peace of mind. NEC monitors are designed for
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Borg, McEnroe to play here
      346 22  -  FINAL BATTLE OF TITANS? By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE fans could be among the last to witness Swedish great Bjorn Borg in a competitive match in October. Borg, the five-time Wimbledon champion, and his age-old rival John McEnroe, head the cast for the Ml Motorola
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      Lock icon Brazil takes a beating
      33 22 Chile's Francisco Rojas (left) fighting Brazil's Amoroso for possession of the ball in their World Cup 2002 tournament qualifying game in Santiago, Chile. Brazil lost the match 3-0. AFP
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      Lock icon The soccer income gap
      498 22 Premiership clubs made $178m last season, the other 72 English teams lost the same amount Wires LONDON We all know the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Only now, it’s happening at a faster rate. According to accountants Deloite and Touche, top
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      Lock icon Valhalla’s challenge
      116 23 Defending champion Tiger Woods aims to become the first man since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in the same year. Victory at Vahalla will see him complete a hat-trick of wins following his triumphs in the US and British Open Championships. Graphic News spt Hole
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      Lock icon Everyone’s afraid of Tiger
      917 23 The players he has to beat this week have to interrupt their coronation of him to swing their clubs Wires LOUISVILLE (Kentucky) David Duval found a good way of stealing the spotlight away from Tiger Woods he withdrew from the US PGA Championship because of back
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    • Tee TIME
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        411 24  -  Woods gives journalists writer’s block By John Crean pettime@sph.com.sg TIGER Woods has not just deflated the world’s best golfers, he has caused writer’s block amongst the hundreds of journalists who cover the game. As Woods was lining up his birdie putt at the final hole in
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    • REWIND
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        Lock icon The day the Devils ate humble pie
        336 24  -  SEASON OF ’95 By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE soccer season is here again. The opening day of the season is always filled with apprehension. Manchester United had their worst loss since 1992 on day one of the 1995-96 season. United lost 1-3 away
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      22 23 Get intimate with Valhalla, click on httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg for a hole-by-hole analysis. The official site for the US PGA Championship is www.pga.com.
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Night lives, night loves
      955 25 Local club owners are serious about having and offering customers —a good time Join KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) at the bar for a closer look ICHEL Lu, owner of Lush, rattles on about the business of running clubs I i i the way power brokers talk about
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    • Nightlife
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        Lock icon Insomnia, Xpace shaking up Bugis Village
        526 26  -  By Karl Ho karl@sph.com.sg DANCE revolution is brewing at Bugis Village. Not the Eurotrashy, arcade-game kind. Rather, a thriving rave subculture mushrooming amid getai stages, zi cha stores (Chinese hawker food outlets) and uncles with broccoli perms. Insomnia Cafe and Xpace, new strongholds of
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          83 27 Space and Insomnia Cafe, Block 4 y New Bugis Street TIRED of how club culture is spilling into the mainstream? Then head on down to Xpace and Insomnia Cafe, Bugis Village’s underground hang-outs for discerning hipsters. This Saturday, both clubs will hold Xpace III: Neu-Perspektive, an
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          188 27 Ha'll bar Singapore Art Museum 71 Bras Basah Road SO WHO says IT guys and computer geeks do not have fun? Thursdays are huubar.com nights, where angels (Richie Rich types who fund dotcom projects), VCs (not Viet Cong, but venture capitalists), technopreneurs and dotcommers come down and boogie.
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        665 27  -  By Elizabeth Nash NYT ADRID-Like L T J everyone else in i H Madrid, I have f grown used to the BHHMHHI permanent angry roar of traffic and the screech of high-decibel conversation. But these dog days when I lean from my balcony and strain my
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          796 28 Koem Bacon tells SAUDI TAN (sand'd* sph.conug) about fuming green and losing his identity for his new mode, the /1 oil ox Man E was called Kermit the Frog on the set by co-star Elisabeth Shue, and, at best, he said he felt like a dancer from Cirque
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        1410 29  -  Reviews: Sandi Tan SPACE TRAVELLERS (PG) Takeshi Kaneshiro, Eri Fukatsu, Ken Watanabe DON’T look beyond its glossy surface, and Space Travellers is a sharp, funny satire of the Hollywood bank-heist flick -a Japanese version of what would be a sub-Quentin Tarantino film like Things To Do
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          99 30 NETIZENS have dissed the trailer to the new Tom Hanks movie Cast Away due to be released in December. On cyber outlets like rec.arts.movies.current-films and the Ain’t It Cool site, viewers spoiled by the successful TV show Survivor, are calling the marooned-on-an-isle trailer less than exotic
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          127 30 FILM nuts would be dismayed to learn that Mr Bala has stopped selling his kacang puteh. The online peanut seller-cum-movie reviewer has retired and his website, www.kacangputeh.com, has not been updated since mid-July. Apparently, user-traffic was too low to keep it going. Given a platform to
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          28 30 “You think you’re Qod, 111 show you Qod!” Elisabeth Shue to Kevin Bacon in The Hollow Man, before she sets him on fire.
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      138 29 mSW STREAMING Dessert, by Jeff Stark Time: 4 minutes 12 seconds http://atomfilms.blockbuster.com DESSERT is notable mainly for the fact that it stars Ewan McGregor, of Trainspotting fame. Opening with a low-level shot of the overcast skies and grey sand of a nameless beach, McGregor emerges slowly out of the distance
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      50 30 Swatch will unveil its Fall Winter 2000 collection tonight at 9.24 pm at one of the world’s Seven Wonders the Great Wall of China. Logon to httpV/eyebalLasiaLconusg/or a live webcast. You can also take part in a contest where you can win one of 20 watches from this beautiful collection.
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      834 31 Tube Talk Movies JJmSm HfffllHthalg 11.30 pm •HBO 60 Remember The Fugitive, which starred Harrison Ford as the innocent runaway and Tommy Lee Jones as the tenacious detective who goes after him? Well if you like to watch prototype movies ad nauseum, you can see Tommy Lee Jones as US
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    131 32 It’s touted as the gentleman’s sportscar, the Maserati 3200 GTI. It’s also a car of choice among Silicon Valley elite. View 2.0 reporter Eugene Wee was lucky enough to take one for a test-drive. See our video footage of his fast and furious spin (above). http://eyeball.asial.com.sg/ Eveball/Tech As
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    239 32 SOME languages regularly attribute gender to inanimate objects. Even in English, ships have long been characterised as being female. Recently, a group of computer scientists (all male) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. Five reasons to believe computers are female: 1. No
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      141 32 Let us know what you think Today’s polls, and where to vote: The great marriage debate continues. Join our discussions on marriage and find out why so many choose to remain single. http://eveball.asial.com.sg/ html/Eyeball/Others/Marri age/article webmarrv.html Do you make it a point to keep up with information technology? http://eveball.asial.com.sg/ Eveball/Tech
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