Project Eyeball, 31 August 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, August 31, 2000 80 CENTS
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      160 1 Hot LIMES Offshore towns and green belts Singaporeans come up with some interesting concepts on ways to maximise the country’s limited space in response to the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s call for feedback on the best use for land. See Page 3 What do you think about urban redevelopment? Speak out
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      234 1 your views today career, at the end of It, you won’t have anyone to share your Mb with. I would definitely sacrifice my career since there’s always a chance to go back.’ Chua H.S., 25 m whea yon have Mis, you lave responsibilities, commitments. You will not have time for
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  • News & Views
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      124 2 LOS ANGELES Here’s some practical advice for First Daughter hopefuls Jenna and Barbara Bush, and Kristin and Sarah Gore. Patti Davis, the once-wayward daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, has tips on how to have a dating life while being closely guarded by Secret Service agents. For example, she
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      Lock icon WE BOO-BOOED
      29 2 WE REFER to the story ’Dotcom hotspot’ dated Aug 14. We referred to a Victoria Chen from 2bSURE.com in the story. It should have been Victoria Woo.
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      Lock icon Diesel smugglers nabbed
      217 2 ILLEGAL SHIPMENTS FROM INDONESIA RISING AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s coast guard has impounded two tankers and a barge trying to smuggle thousands of tonnes of diesel fuel to Singapore. The Indonesian Observer reported the vessels seized on Monday, along with 18 crew, as the Sin-gapore-registered MV Kansa, and
      – AFP  -  217 words
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      Lock icon And in this Corner, an ex-scholar
      679 2  -  He was first to sign up By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg HE WENT in the dead of night to sign up to talk at the new Speakers’ Corner, but Tan Kim Chuang is anything but an eccentric. Just look at his credentials. He’s a Ministry
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      Lock icon Oh, for a spacious S’pore
      874 3  -  Ideas for maximising land use include offshore new towns, wild green belts By Ng Hwee Koon hweekoon@sph.com.sg HOW would you like living in a floating new town made of oil tankers? Or flatten Bukit Timah Hill and drain reservoirs to make space? Crazy as it
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon We don’t talk anymore
        847 4  -  Government agencies question why people stay away from official feedback channels By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg WE ARE listening. We want your input. So why aren’t you contributing? This seems to be a question that is plaguing some Government agencies nowadays. “We find this extremely odd and
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      Lock icon Careers before babies
      973 6  -  Minister suggests women have children first, then pursue careers, but many disagree By Denyse Lim denyse@sph.com.sg WOMEN, snag a husband and have kids in your 20s. Leave your career till later. That’s what Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng has suggested, that Singapore women reprioritise by having
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      Lock icon Couples welcome help with flats
      489 6  -  NEW HDB NORM By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg THE long rocky road to marriage has become smoother. Letting young couples pay just half their down payment when they sign on the dotted line for a new flat, and the rest when they get their keys, will
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      Lock icon Feedback on babies, but women absent
      388 8  -  Despite ‘oversight’, debate was lively By G Sivakkumran gsiva@sph.com.sg BABIES were a hot topic at Tuesday’s feedback session for the Indian community on the Prime Minister’s National Day Rally. It was all fine, except that there were no women. There were 28 participants at
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      Lock icon The fun of the challenge
      37 8 Fund-raising gets the thumhs-up from President S R Nathan and Tan Soon Tong, vice-principal of Henderson Secondary School, where activities for the President’s Challenge Project T took place yesterday. Yen Meng Jiin
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Weekend cars can become ‘normal’
        192 8 WEEKEND car owners can now convert their cars to “normal” starting Oct 2. But the approximately 4,900 weekend car owners will have to fork out $BOO and top up the unused portion of the upfront tax rebate and savings in Quota Premium that they had
        Yen Meng Jiin  -  192 words
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        Lock icon More pass A-levels for mother tongue
        148 8 MORE GCE A-level students in the “others” ethnic group passed their mother-tongue language last year than in 1998. Compared with 76.9 per cent the previous year, this year the figure was 85.5 per cent. For Chinese students, the pass rate improved slightly at 96.7
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        Lock icon More tourists than ever in July
        107 8 SINGAPORE had more visitors in July than any other month on record. The Singapore Tourism Board reports that arrival figures rose 12.2 per cent to 706,318 over the same month last year. Visitor arrivals from January to July also rose 11.9 per cent to
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        Lock icon IDA to unveil competition rules
        156 8 SINGAPORE’S telecoms regulator, the IDA, will make clear on Friday ground rules for competition in the city-state’s liberalised telecoms market. The key issues that the Code of Competition will tackle are the speeding up interconnection agreements and the requirements for the incumbent, Singapore Telecom, to
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      Lock icon East Timor marks independence day
      212 9 Thousands attend mass and pay homage to the dead Wires DILI Emotional East Timorese marked the first anniversary of their overwhelming vote to end Indonesia’s often brutal rule yesterday with mass, songs for the dead and hope for the future. Thousands counted the cost of
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Metro train derails, 23 hurt
        173 9 Reuters PARIS A Metro train derailed at a station in central Paris yesterday, injuring 23 people and just missing another underground train standing on the opposite track, French emergency services said. The accident occurred at 1.22 pm (7.22 pm Singapore time) at the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette station.
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        Lock icon More firepower for Malaysian army
        99 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s military will beef up its commando unit and arm it with new weapons in the face of rising terrorist threats in the country, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak has said. The use of conventional military methods were no longer suitable for
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        Lock icon Tight security for Suharto trial
        138 9 Wires JAKARTA A heavy police cordon will be thrown around the venue of former President Suharto’s graft trial which starts today, as students have vowed to gather at the court house to protest. Jakarta police spokesman Superintendent Nur Usman said yesterday that some 1,250 police
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        117 9 Wires PARIS French investigators are expected to release a preliminary report today on last month’s Concorde crash that killed 113 people. The 80-page document is expected to contain a transcript of the pilots’ last five minutes of conversation before the flaming aircraft plummeted to the ground
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        188 9 Wires MOSCOW Russian divers will start the delicate and gruesome task of recovering the remains of the 118 sailors, who died in the recent nuclear submarine disaster, next September, said a top government official yesterday. After meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister
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        147 9 AFP BEIJING Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono yesterday accused China’s state-controlled media of presenting a distorted view of Japan, and raised concerns about Beijing’s military expansion. Kono cited China’s continued concerns over Japan’s “revival of militarism” among “a tiny minority of Japanese people” as a
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        Lock icon Gory protest against human-rights abuse
        36 9 An unidentified Indonesian artist covered in fake blood pulling fake human skeletons during a public rally in Jakarta yesterday. The demonstration is a protest against human-rights abuse by past governments. AFP
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      251 11 Investors lose $9.6m to ‘club’ AP FEDERAL regulators yesterday filed a suit to stop an allegedly fraudulent pyramid scheme they said was masquerading as an Internet investment club and had milked some 2,000 investors of US$5.6 million (559.6 million). For a U 551,495 membership fee plus
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      Lock icon Marvin the killer has mums screaming
      104 11 Meet Death Row Marv, 15cm of plastic macho plus plus, the toy that has parents in the US reeling in horror. Sentenced to death for killing the pyschopath tthat “ate” his girlfriend, Marv dies with a defiant snarl. “That’s the best you can do,
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      362 13  -  This time, it makes clear it has not picked up any shares By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg ONCE bitten, twice shy. UOB Asia, battered by the fallout of its handling of the eWOS IPO, will not leave anything to chance now. Or so it seems. It
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY www.wiz ojfice.com
      169 13  -  Kelvin Wong DON’T take it too literally. There’s no wizard to do your bidding on this site. It is pretty good if you are looking to beef up the operations or logistics department in your office. Here you can buy almost anything you’ll
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      85 13 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PCI 8,639,000 121 SingTel ST Engg 7,850,000 7,661,000 286 233 Top 3 Gainers CENTS V- Venture 2270 50 2.3 Haw Par 308 18 6 2 Parkway 434 Total number of gainers: 84 18 43 Top 3 Losers CENTS V- Creative
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      Lock icon NTUC Income chief wins online survey award
      195 13  -  FINANCIAL PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR Jeanette Pang TAN KIN LIAN, the chief executive of NTUC Income, was named the Financial Personality of the Year last night by local magazine Financial Planner, based on its year-long online survey. Surfers had to pick the person
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      265 13 AFP SYDNEY Australia’s richest man and biggest punter, media magnate Kerry Packer, lost between US$2O and US$3O million (Sssl million) in a threeday losing streak in a Nevada casino. Packer, considered a gambling “whale” in the world’s richest casinos, which court him lavishly and
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      764 14  -  Auto Salon 2000 features fastest custom builds By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg LET’S get this straight. These cars may look like an Ah Beng racer’s wet dream, but that’s where Norman Lim, organiser of the Singapore Auto Salon car show, draws the line. “Most of the cars
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    • Tech FILES
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        69 15 HERE’S a strange hybrid. Fujifilm’s latest product is the Fine Pix 40i an MP3-playing digital camera. The camera is available in Singapore now for a price of $1,189. Look out for a full review of this strange hybrid in these pages soon. Fujifilm’s Fine Pix 40i
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        59 15 PHILIPS demonstrated its new Light Frame technology yesterday. PC monitors featuring this technology will be available in Singapore in a fortnight. Light Frame uses a special chip and software to make pictures and video clips brighter and clearer. Look forward to 15,17 and 19-inch monitors,
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        Lock icon Intel admits fault with chip
        71 15 Reuters INTEL’S chief executive Craig Barret admitted yesterday that the company had fallen short in the development of its newest and fastest chip, which the chipmaker was forced to recall on Monday. He made these remarks while on a tour of South America. Analysts said
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        Lock icon Meet Clie, another new PDA
        57 15 SONY unveiled its latest range of personal digital assistants yesterday in New York, the Clie. The name is not French, but stands for Communication Link Information Entertainment. The monochrome version, the US$399 ($686) PEG-S3OO, is already being shipped to Japan, but the colour version will
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        Lock icon Mac OS X beta to debut on Sept 13
        70 15 STEVE Jobs has publicly declared that the public beta of Mac OS X would be available to the public on Sept 13. It will begin shipping copies of these at the Apple Expo in Paris. But Jobs did not say whether
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        Lock icon Sony avoids Napster controversy
        73 15 SONY appeared to be distancing itself from anti-Napster comments made by one of its senior American executives last week, reported The Register. The executive in question, Steve Heckler, had said that Sony would develop technology to block Napster at all levels -a comment which infuriated many.
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        Lock icon Whose sperm is the fastest?
        142 15 WIRED.COM reported yesterday that Ars Electronica, the annual digital arts festival held in Linz, Austria, would be holding a sperm racing contest. The contest was held in good fun, but had a serious point the organisers wanted to counter arguments by racists that people from
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      Lock icon Food...virtual food
      400 16 Lack the imagination to cook up the next storm? Let TAN MAT PING (feedhack@eyeball.com.sg) help you out with favourite recipes from all over the world. Makan Time Cookbook http://www.sinter com. org/makan/recipeOl.htm THIS informal site has one of the most extensive lists of Malaysian and Singaporean culinary recipes on
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      Lock icon The heart of the matter
      587 17  -  By Jeannette Ng jeanng@sph.com.sg “IS LITERATURE useless?” Ah. Juxtapose a soul-stirring word like “literature” with a hard normative judgment like “useless” and you get the predictable mix of passionate defenders of the soul-universe versus the cynical get-real naysayers. You can play with all kinds of
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      Lock icon Shakespeare doesn’t pay
      437 17  -  THE COMEBACK KENNY ANG JUN KEAT ‘ls literature relevant in the new economy?’ (The Straits Times, Aug 23) I’M AN ex-Literature student with National Junior College. I used to flip the Recruit section of the newspapers with a red marker in hand, poised to strike but, not
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      23 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder expected in the morning over many areas. High: 32C1 Low: 24C Tides: 12.48PM/2.7M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      31 3 So what do you think of these ideas? Tell us at http^/eyebalL asial.com.sg or submit your ideas to the authority at http:/ /www.ura. gov.sg, under the section named “Concept Plan 2001”.
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      39 4 Why are people shying away from official feedback channels? Because: (1) We prefer to talk among ourselves on unofficial ones. (2) No one listens on these channels. (3) We are tired of giving feedback. Visit http;//eyebalLasiaL coxnjsg to vote.
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      247 11 Blinded by love. Literally. Sunligbt -a special ray ;eot by tl?e band; of fate, no le;; glinted off tbe motley <olle<tion of ;<bool badge; pinned onto ber baver;a<k. And tbit'* bow be first set eye* on true love. Not puppy love, but tbe <ru*b of tbe reil thing. Now be
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      77 14 In its heart beats a 350 bhp engine that reaches a top speed of 230 kmh. And by the time you read this, it would have gone from 0 to lOOkmh in a breathtaking 4.9 seconds. Watch a video of Winson Ow, manager of CS Autolab, giving a grand tour
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      226 16 Calling Web critics. Give us your spiel on your favourite bookmarks, or the hottest hang-outs you’ve discovered on the Web. Do you have a gripe or consuming Net obsession? Tell us. If your piece is published here, you’ll win one of five sets of Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, worth $361
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      45 17 Do you think literature, or for that matter the arts, have a place in Singaporeans’ lives? Talk about this or share your views on gender, petrol prices, hostels as hotbeds for marriage, and other issues at A selection of views will be published here daily.
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Overstaying their welcome
      620 20  -  Too old, too many injuries, but they just won’t go SPORTS’ BIGGEST JERKS: PATRICK EWING VS TIM HARDAWAY By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg IF THERE was a movie to be made about the American jerk, Patrick Ewing and Tim Hardaway would probably be kicking each other for the
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      Lock icon NOT THE ONLY JERKS AROUND
      283 20  -  Luke Pachymuthu ROY Keane and Patrick Vieira aren’t the only jerks around. Not according to Eyeball readers anyway. The pair joins a host of other notables in Eye Sport’s Hall of Shame. Try former Manchester United chairman for size. “This guy had his say on
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      Lock icon Romario regains cap
      55 21 Wanderley Luxemburgo, Brazil’s soccer manager (right), keeping an eye on Romario, who was called back to the national team after its first two World Cup qualify ing losses ever. Dubbed ‘saviour of the nation by the Brazilian press, Romario has criticised the manager for leaving him out
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      Lock icon Soccer chief praises S’pore
      512 21  -  Thumbs-up for stance on match-fixing By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg ASIA’S top football official yesterday praised Singapore for its stance on match-fixing, saying the Lion City remains among the most vigilant in the region. Dato’ Peter Velappan, general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), told Eyeball
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      Lock icon Sutton’s fortunes on the upswing
      388 21 RECALL TO NATIONAL SIDE ON THE CARDS Wires LONDON Two years after being told his England career was finished, Chris Sutton is on the verge of a recall. Celtic striker Sutton was told by manager Glenn Hoddle in 1998 that he would never play for
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      Lock icon Blanco beats Rafter in five sets
      644 23 No. 2 seed Kuerten also out Wires DESPITE being unseeded, his US Open titles in 1997 and 1998 made Patrick Rafter a dangerous player. But matches are not won on mere reputation, as the Australian found out in his first-round match against Spain’s Galo
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    • Article
      Lock icon Say hello to the new giant killers
      269 23 Wires HE MIGHT have made a discreet entrance into this year’s US Open, but his win over Patrick Rafter in the first round has probably launched him into instant stardom. Remember the name. Galo Blanco. He’s Spanish, 24 years of age and ranked
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    • Tee TIME
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        Lock icon Thomson snubs Asian golfers
        392 24  -  Be sparks debate over how international teams are chosen By John Crean pettime@sph.com.sg THE captain of a professional golf team is always a loser when it comes to making “his picks”. Mark James hurt great Ryder Cup campaigners Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer when he left
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        Lock icon Headed home
        26 24 Atlanta Braves’ first baseman Andres Qalarraga sliding home following a Javy Lopez base hit in the game against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday. AP
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    • REWIND
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        Lock icon When Wright spoke out against a wrong
        711 24  -  JUST A FEW SEASONS AGO By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg REMEMBER lan Wright? Remember his big mouth and large appetite for goals? You don’t hear much of him today, on the football pitch at least. But five years ago, he was difficult to ignore.
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      38 20 Most of you agreed with us that Maurice Greene is the bigger jerk than Michael Johnson. As of yesterday, 75 per cent of you thought so. Dive into today’s jerk battle between Ewing and Hardaway at httpV/eyeball. asial.com.sg
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Massive appeal
      727 25 Pile on the rubber prosthetics because big is beautiful at the box office. TAYYEKKEAK grapples with the meat of the matter. JABBA the Hutt can’t hold a candle to these guys. There’s nothing real in that make-believe blob of slob. But The Klumps, Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professors sequel,
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      Lock icon Back to Hong Kong
      1089 25  -  The New York Times Directors who packed up for Hollywood are returning with a mission to revive a dying industry, reports MARK LANDERS. WHEN Stanley Tong left his hometown for Hollywood in 1996, Hong Kong’s film industry was headed for a crack-up as spectacular as anything
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    • Movies
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        Lock icon MediaCorp keeps Jack Neo
        476 28  -  Tan Dawn Wei OW! MediaCorp P punches back after losing a slew of their big name artistes and producers to SPH MediaWorks. The national broadcaster has just inked a new deal with seasoned comedian Jack Neo and his company, J Team Productions. The new collaboration will
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      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          Lock icon Almost perfect
          79 29 BRAD PITT’s just a regular guy with regular bodily functions, even after getting hitched to Jennifer Aniston. “Being married means I can pass gas and eat ice cream in bed.” But Pitt’s husbandly qualities have not been blunted he even knew the colour of Aniston’S' toothbrush. “White and
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          Lock icon New storm brewing
          67 29 THE family of doomed fishing boat captain Frank William “Billy” Tyne Jr is suing Warner Bros for depicting him in a “false and unflattering light” in The Perfect Storm. According to the complaint, Tyne (played by George Clooney) came across as “emotionally aloof, reckless, excessively risk-taking, self-absorbed,
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          Lock icon Blade’s back
          89 29  -  Jeanmarie Tan NEXT YEAR, vampires will have a bigger problem than Buffy to worry about. Wesley Snipes is getting ready to smite bloodsuckers in Blade 2, the sequel to the 1998 thriller about a half-human, half-vampire superhero. The new movie will take place in Las Vegas, where the
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        Lock icon Clumsy Klumps
        1287 29 Reviews: Sandi Tan NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE KLUMPS (PG) Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson RECENTLY, there’s been a breakout of the bawdy and the gross-out at the movies. The former an amalgamation of knowing sexual jokes and fart gags was behind the success of recent African-American comedies Big Momma’s
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        Lock icon NOW STREAMING
        191 31  -  Saml-Shan HARE! IS THAT THE ROARING OF THE CANNONS I HEAR? Directed, written and produced by: MATT MERKOVICH http://www.mediatrip.com/film/ movies-on-demand/891.html PARODIC short film comedies either prey off the plots and characters of existing films or take the mickey out of industry whys and wherefores. Matt Merkovich’s Hark! Is
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          106 31 FOR those who grew up reading True Singapore Ghost Stories or R L Stine books on the school bus, try www.urbanchillers.com, a website devoted to spooky stuff. There’s a forum to exchange spooky stories and a screening room showing short films centred around American urban myths. Three
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          127 31  -  Sandi Tan KOREN filmmaker Jang Sun Woo’s controversial movie Lies has finally found distribution in the US, reported indiewire.com. Small companies Offline Releasing and Cowboy Booking said they will jointly release the film about a middle-aged professor who carries on a sexually-obsessive relationship with a teenage girl.
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          22 31 ‘See ya later, chunky butt!’ Buddy Love (Eddie Murphy) to Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) in The Klumps.
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        895 32 If you thought breakdancing was just an 80s dance craze, think again. The body-popping groove is still alive and kicking, discovers KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) T HAS been resurrected, just like the comic book hero the Crow. Breakdancing is back. But while da moves are the same, the
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        426 33 IT’S cool, but breakdancing may break your hip, say medical experts. So what do medical experts say about breakdancers bustin’ the move? After b-boys Sani Wang and Fairuz Hateem from the Lion City Ruckus six-stepped and windmilled for specialists from the Osteopathic Treatment Centre at Tanglin Shopping
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          98 33 Roar 15 Cairnhill Road, 02-01, Cairnhill Place ROAR, a 7,000-sq-ft disco-cum-pub, opens officially this evening. A mishmash of neo-classi-cal and post-modern designs, the club dishes out a plethora of musical genres for pubbers who don’t really know what they want: Acid jazz during happy hours, mainstream
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          58 33 Club Eden 25, Mohamed SultanRoad THE Secret Garden of Eden night on Wednesdays. Club Eden just launched its ladies’ night, the Secret Garden of Eden, on Wednesday. Ladies get in free with a complimentary shooter upon entry. They also get two Cointreau cocktails for the price of one
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          48 33 30 Victoria Street, m-07/08, Fountain Court, Chijmes CHINA Jump holds its third Blind Date competition on Saturday. Enjoy picking a date through blindfolded confusion, sign up for the contest immediately. Strictly for the sadist who likes to see people embarrass themselves in public.
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          64 33 12, Mohamed SultanRoad OFFICIALLY relaunched earlier this week after a $100,000 renovation, the club is now divided into three parts: A mini-bar for pubbers out front, the main bar in the middle where people can jive to the beats of in-house groovemeister DJ Jaz, and a lounge area
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        270 34 Wong San’s new clothes MADE over and looking spiffy with bar-top dancers and a repositioned DJ console, Mohammed Sultan’s grand dame, Wong San’s, is back. Retaining its familiar Susie Wong bordello vibe, it attracted sweaty bodies that swayed to Top 40 tunes
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      29 27 Thirsting for more info on the Hong Kong film industry? Books on the subject are plenty. We review some of the best. Log on to http^/eyeball-asial.coraLsg for our recommendations.
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      723 35 Tube Talk Movies The Beast 11:35 pm Cinemax (Channel 59) This movie is adapted from Peter Benchley’s gripping novel of the same title. It’s a violent and clichedriven war drama, notable for its novel twist as it tells the tale of a Russian tank and its crew that got lost
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    138 36 Breakdancing. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to t the sidewalks, the 1980 s phenomenon is back. Read fl about how it’s reached the counter culture and find out W where to pick up breakdancing 1 Jsj|t on the Internet. We have video of
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      974 36 Your thoughts? Today’s polls: Are Singaporeans suffering from feedback fatigue? http://eyeball.asial.com.sg Who are today’s jerks sports? Give us your vote. http://eyeball.asial com.sg Eveball/Sports Roadmap to the Net: Tips on how to avoid Internet investment scams (Page 11): http://www.Sec.Gov/ consumer/cyberfr.htm Recreate dishes from your favourite US food outlet (Page 16): http://www.copvkat.com
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