Project Eyeball, 22 September 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, September 22, 2000 80 CENTS
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      153 1 Hot LINKS mm .Jeans Are Caucasians needed to sell? Advertisers that are promoting lifestyles here in Singapore say customers prefer non-Asian models, such as the pair of girls in the ads for Giorc ano jeans (above). See Page 3 DBS jumps Into home-loan war DBS Bank succumbed to pressure that’s
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      332 1 as m a -jf. V s JOS Dominic Ong PEREC RUNS INTO TROUBLE IN SINGAPORE Add another chapter to the mystery that is French sprinter Marie-Jose Perec who has been called the Greta Garbo of athletics. The runner (left) walked out of the Sydney Olympics before dawn broke, flew into
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  • News & Views
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      69 2 THE mayor of a village on the French Riviera has issued a decree forbidding people to die. “It is forbidden for any person not in possession of a family vault to die on the village’s territory,” the order stated. Le Lavandou mayor Gil Bernardi said the town’s only cemetery
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      Lock icon TANYA, LIVE
      64 2 SHE’S been dubbed Singapore’s Sheryl Crow, but singing sensation Tanya is very much an artiste in her own right. The star was in the Eyeball newsroom yesterday for a webchat, and shared with us her thoughts on life in the big league, made-in-Singapore music and whether or not
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      Lock icon Escape from Sydney
      937 2  -  Sprinter Perec flees Games, lands in trouble at Changi, then flies home By Luke Pachymuthu and Adam Hashidy luke@sph.com.sg hashidy@sph.com.sg AS SPRINTS go, it was one hell of a run. One that took triple Olympic sprint champion Marie-Jose Perec right into the hands of the Singapore police.
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        Lock icon Asians don’t sell style... ...Caucasians do
        817 3  -  Advertisers promoting lifestyles say customers here prefer non-Asian models By Sandi Tan sandi@sph.com.sg THE ads declare: Give the man a beer! Give the man a Toi-ger! But viewers of Tiger Beer’s legendarily Neanderthal commercials know that the men who get the beers aren’t the
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      Lock icon When ‘I do’ becomes ‘I don’t’
      881 4  -  Divorce rate getting higher among younger couples By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THERE is a practical, very Singaporean reason why marriages here tend to break up between the fifth and seventh years. A new HDB flat can’t be sold before then, say lawyers. “The marriage
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      199 6 Eri Akbar Singapore ONE (s-one. netjsg) IT OFFERS movie trailers, music videos and virtual games. The hottest downloads include Faye Wong’s Eyes On Me, the Victoria’s Secret lingerie show, and the Midtown Madness 2 Demo racing game. Watch webcasts of the recent Auto Salon 2000 and
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      540 6  -  Users find Singapore ONE more like Singapore Yawn, but it has potential By Andrew Chin andre-wc@sph.com.sg YOU’VE heard of it. You’ve read about it. But do you actually use it? The answer, according to a sampling of surfers by Eyeball, is no. While subscribers
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      531 7  -  New player also gives free screen time to worthy causes By Eri Ackbar eri@sph.com.sg IF YOU champion animal abuse or any other worthy, non-money making cause, there’s a new TV station in town that wants to give your organisation screen time. Meet AlternateTV.com, the new
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      202 7 WOULD you rather have more content on Singapore ONE or have broadband access improved? We asked this in our online forum, and this is what you said: JUST keep it cheap, cheap, cheap. I can’t care less for decent content from local media companies.
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      Lock icon Driving – the natural way
      612 8  - Driving the natural way Motorists may opt to top cars up with natural gas soon By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg “FILL her up with gas, please.” This may soon be a familiar refrain in Singapore, where motorists ask for natural gas instead of petrol or diesel at the petrol station. In
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      Lock icon Tommy Koh’s book launched
      130 8 THE essays and speeches of Singapore’s Ambassador at Large Prof Tommy Koh on Asia-Europe relations have been compiled into a book. Titled Asia And Europe, the book has been jointly published by the Asia-Europe Foundation and World Scientific Publishing. It has been edited by reseacher Yeo
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      Lock icon Public dislikes slow officials
      159 8 PUT your hands up if you hate waiting at counters for a civil servant to attend to you. You are not alone, as a survey commissioned by the public service reveals. “It reveals that we are currently not maintaining customers’ expectations when it comes to counter-waiting
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      112 8 TRAVEL at the click of your mouse. That is what the e-Travel Fair, jointly organised by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) promises. The fair is part of a plan to assist local travel companies harness information
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      96 8 A 27-YEAR-old man died when his car went out of control and collided head on with a lorry. Lim Joon Peng was driving his car along Changi Coast Road towards Nicoll Highway at about 8.20 am yesterday morning when the accident took place. His
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      Lock icon Schools get pat from MOE
      131 8 SINGAPORE’S brand-name schools do not just produce students who top examinations. They also develop their students into sportsmen and artists. The Education Ministry’s list of awards for schools which excel in the arts and sports reads like a who’s who of the local school scene.
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      Lock icon You call this exercise?
      380 10  -  Dance Dance Revolution can make you fit, says the Sports Council By Karl Ho karl@sph.com.sg A LITTLE bit of Dance Dance Revolution three or four times a week can keep the doctors away. The downside? It costs about $2O each time, and you run the risk
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      484 11 Little harm done, no suspects yet Wires LONDON A “small missile” was fired at the headquarters of Britain’s highly secretive spy agency, the MI6, in central London. The agency is a high-profile symbol of the establishment and one of the most secure and closely guarded buildings
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      361 11 AMERICAN’S PLEA Wires JOLO Stop the massive military operation against the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippine jungle and head back to the negotiating table. That was the desperate plea from Jeffrey Schilling, the only American hostage held by the Muslim rebels. He confirmed that
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      Lock icon Soldiers may have killed UN workers
      370 13 Suspects have been identified JAKARTA Rogue elements of the Indonesian military may have the blood of the three murdered UN workers on their hands, underscoring worries that Jakarta is not in control of its military. Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman told reporters yesterday that several Indonesian
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      Lock icon Lights, mirror, check and check again
      89 13 Two Indonesian security guards carefully checking cars for hidden fire arms or explosives entering an underground parking lot of a ma jor shopping centre in Jakarta yesterday. The capital remains jittery and tense after the bombing, amid unrest over the on-again off-again trial of
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    • World WIDE
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        224 13 Wires JAKARTA Opponents of former Indonesian president Suharto clashed yesterday with police after attorney general Marzuki Darusman raised the possibility of dragging him into court. Riot police used tear gas to disperse about 200 protesters who threw rocks and petrol bombs near the former leader’s
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        177 13 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday told European journalists to stop being arrogant racists and be humble. Mahathir, who has long relished attacks on foreign reporters, returned to the fray in a speech at an international media convention entitled Role of
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        138 13 Wires TOKYO Suicides in Japan from job-related stress are on the rise and bank executives are among the most vulnerable. Middle-aged men faced with layoffs as their firms downsize to boost profits are also killing themselves in growing numbers. In the latest executive suicide,
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: www.earnings whisper.com
      169 15 THIS is the place for carefully predicted whisper numbers about hot Wall Street companies. In fact, some punters argue these numbers are much more precise than oft-published stock quotes. Just how does the site manage it? All we know is that the numbers
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      86 15 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PacCent ML CWOOI2I5 6,744,000 &5 NOL 6,678,000 146.0 GMG US$ 5,876,00 5.0 Top 3 Gainers CENTS SIA 200 1590 30 1.9 SLA 1560 10 0.6 JMH 400 US$ 500 10 2.0 Total number of gainers: 56 Top 3 Losers CENTS
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      47 15 House-hunting in Hanoi is gearing up as Vietnam's real estate market heats up in the hig cities after a lull in the past two years. Prices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have increased hy between 20 and 50 per cent recently. AFP
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      Lock icon DBS enters the home-loan war
      532 15  -  Move widely seen as a reversal of its earlier position By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg PEER pressure is hard to resist. Yesterday, DBS Bank succumbed to the home-loan war that’s been raging among local banks and slashed its own interest rates across all tenors. This is
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      Lock icon A style statement
      549 16  -  Apple’s Cube doesn’t just look pretty, it works well too By Eugene Wee eugene-w@sph.com.sg BEFORE you plunk your hardearned money on Apple’s new G 4 Cube, I suggest you first give your interior designer a ring. He probably won’t be able to tell the difference between RAM
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      Lock icon Making the Cube feel at home
      112 16 IT’S possibly the sexiest computer ever designed, so it deserves an equally well-designed home to match its drool-worthy looks. Interior designer S K Yeo, who has designed homes around the iMac theme, tells you how get your home decor hip to be square. The
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    • Tech FILES
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        182 16 NYT UNITED Parcel Service is trying to solve one of the thorniest questions in e-commerce: What to do with items that customers buy online but wish to return. Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, estimates that 23 million online buyers will purchase US$64 billion (Sslll
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        126 16 LAT-WP WITH eight world swimming records set and another equalled in the first three days of the Olympic Games at Sydney’s Homebush Bay aquatic centre, a seldom-pondered question has arisen: Is it the pool? Experts have speculated that it may have something to do with
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    • Eyeball SAYS
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        Lock icon Head abroad to make it big
        690 19 EVERYONE wants to be a pop star. Just turn on the TV and look at the hordes of Aussie sheilas flocking to become the next Spice Kangoorettes. (Oops, pardon me, they’re called Bardot.) Back home, local lasses Stefanie Sun, Fann Wong and Tanya are
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      Lock icon Don’t judge local music without listening first
      451 20 ‘Local music is dying* (Sept 18) ‘Does local music rock? 9 (Sept 19) AFTER reading all the replies about whether local bands are worth saving, I am greatly disturbed that none even talk about the potential of some of the better local bands.
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      Lock icon Why is flexibility only for the elite?
      327 20 ‘HUS gifted programme’ (Sept 20) IT IS good to note that our local university has adopted the US model of being more flexible in undergraduate education, with the aim of providing a broad-based education proving increasingly important in the 21st Century. But if
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      273 20 SECRETIVE ‘Mandarin film festival off target’ (Sept 21) I THINK there are a few reasons why the Mandarin Film Festival backfired. The movies were screened at inconvenient times in an inconvenient location (GV Grand). These films were so dated and esoteric that they would only be
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      53 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 ey ene-ws@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 le isure@eyeball. com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription hotline 740-2333 Fax 734-3017 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting
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      23 2 Glamour queen she might be but Marie-Jose Perec is not Ms Popular. Click onto httjK//www.eyebalL asial.com.sg for a taste of her notorious streak.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      33 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy and slightly hazy. Showers in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern, western and eastern Singapore. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 5.56AM/2.2M 4.52AM/2.4M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      31 3 Do you think Asian Singaporeans have an inferiority complex? Why do they prefer to see Western faces selling products targeted at them? Log onto asl&Lconusg and tell us what you think.
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      24 4 Is divorce becoming perhaps too easy today? Tell us your views, or share your own experiences, at http^/eyebalLasial. com.sg/Eyeball/News. Or e-mail us at feedback@eyebalLcomjsg
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      33 6 What sort of services would you rather have on Singapore ONE? L Video-conferencing 2. Telecommuting 3. Entertainment 4. Mirrors of popular software sites Click on httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg to take part in our poll.
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      86 7 t t f t 1c one T2mail allows users to use any phone to send and reply e-mail in multi-languages without the use of a computer or Internet access. Our unique messaging service bridges the gap between the Internet and Telephony to bring greater mobility to users. Find out how
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      13 10 How exerting is the Dance Dance Revolution? Find out at httpV/eye Hall agialconusg
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      30 11 Find out more about UK’s secret service agency, MI6: http://www.fas. org/irp/world/uk/ mi6/index.html For its history and structure. http://www. universal exports.net/ This is the fan site of a fictional MI6 spy.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sydney 2000
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        Lock icon Krayzelburg does the double
        608 22 Swim records take a dive, so does Russia’s Khorkina Wires SYDNEY Finally, someone not from Holland has won two individual gold medals in swimming. America’s treble world recordholder Lenny Krayzelburg completed his Olympic backstroke double yesterday, winning the 200m back in an Olympic record of 1:56.76.
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      • Off TRACK
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          Lock icon Tough for Dream Team
          121 22 AFP LITHUANIA gave the United States basketball squad the toughest fight any f “Dream Team” has ever faced in Olympic 1 f competition, before the Americans took a 85-76 victory yesterday. The US collection of National Basketball Association stars never put away the 1996 Olympic bronze
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          Lock icon China upsets Indonesia
          88 22 Reuters CHINA’S Zhang Jun and Gao Ling recovered from a first-game disaster to beat Indonesia’s Tri Kusharyanto and Minarti Timur and take the Olympic badminton mixed doubles gold medal yesterday. The Chinese second seeds scored just one point in a nine-minute opening game but fought back brilliantly
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          Lock icon US loses again
          113 22 Reuters ‘'AUSTRALIA’S Peta Edebone cracked a two-run homer in the bottom of the 13th inning to hand United States, the defending Olympic champion in women’s softball, its third loss in a row yesterday. With the Americans leading 1-0 and Australia’s Sally McCreddy on second and two out,
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          76 23 Reuters SOUTH Korea extended their dominance of Olympic women’s team archery yesterday, winning their fourth straight gold medal. The team of Kim Soo-nyung, Kim Nam-soon and new Olympic individual champion Yun Mi-jin defeated Ukraine by 251 points to 239 in the final. The victory gave Kim Soo-nyung,
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          Lock icon Davenport out
          53 23 AP DEFENDING champion Lindsay Davenport withdrew from the Olympics yesterday because of a foot injury, ending a bid by the United States for a medals sweep in women’s tennis. Further tests were planned to confirm a suspected stress fracture. She said she could be sidelined for the rest
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          Lock icon Syringe hazard
          68 23 AP HOUSEKEEPING services for four Olympic teams at the athletes’ village have been suspended after two cleaners were stuck with syringes. Athletes and officials from the teams had repeatedly ignored pleas by cleaning staff to dispose of syringes safely, said Maurice Holland, general manager of the village. “We
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      • Time OUT
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          Lock icon Greeting the lord of the ring
          681 23  -  Everyone should have an Olympic moment, and with Ali, they do By Jon Saraceno USA Today “YOU’RE the greatest!” The anonymous shout comes along a narrow street inside the bustling Olympic Village. Muhammad Ali says nothing. Not because he is unable to, as many
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      • Inside the RINGS
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          Lock icon Getting tickets is a pain
          250 23  -  By John Crean sports@eyeball.com.sg SPORTS nuts abound in the Olympic city of Sydney. Visitors from around the world are in town hunting tickets for the A to Z in Olympic sports, from archery to yachting (trivia question: Is there a sport that begins with Z?).
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      • THE HOT LIST
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          665 24 THE BEST THIS man is worth his weight in gold. Every single gramme. Ever heard of the name Halil Mutlu? “Who is he?”, you may ask. Get this he’s the one everyone calls the “Little Dynamo”. You may think that the 1.5 m pint-sized, 56 kg Turkish fellow is
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          Lock icon Lows
          372 25 THE UPSET WELL, there’s Pieter van den Hoogenband’s victory over lan Thorpe in the men’s 200 m freestyle. But, then again, “Hoogie” has been around for a while and it’s hardly a surprise that he’s found gold in Sydney. There’s also Taufik Hidayat’s defeat in the men’s singles badminton
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          Lock icon Yawns
          309 25 THE CONTROVERSIAL THIS was tough, it could have gone either way. The Romanian weightlifting team and the Jamaican relay team shared the spotlight with their troubles earlier this week. But French track star Marie-Jose Perec went AWOL yesterday after being confronted by a long-time stalker. She surfaced in Singapore
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        Lock icon THE STUNNING
        342 25  -  Serene Goh SVETLANA KHORKINA THERE is nothing quite as alluring as an athlete rapt in concentration. And nothing quite as stirring as watching them in their element. If pheromones could travel across broadband, the Russians certainly found away to do it. Our vote for sexiest woman Olympian this
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      • Cheers &. JEERS
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          Lock icon S’pore paddler keeps medal hope up
          319 26  -  JING BEATS SUN FOR UNEXPECTED WIN Zaki Amrullah CHEERS UNDOUBTEDLY, Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband should be named Athlete of the Games. Or perhaps that accolade should go to his swimming teammate Inge de Bruijn. Then, there are others who deserve mention like
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        Lock icon Eat air, mortals!
        76 26 Singaporean skateboarder Sulaiman Ahmed, aka Man Toyol, 26, ramping up some serious air play on Wednesday in preparation for the Oct y-8 Singapore Asian Xtour at the Youth Skate Park, Qrange Road. More than 200 participants from all over the world are expected to compete in in-line
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        Lock icon Keown saves Arsenal
        510 26  -  Gunners fight back against Shakhtar By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg I HAD heart attacks yesterday while watching the Arsenal-Shakh-tar Donestk match on television. Having written off the Ukranian side’s chances, I prepared myself for a glut of goals from the boots of Nwanko Kanu, Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry
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  • Unwind
    • Food
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        Lock icon Dish it out
        671 27 If you cant bake, let alone braise, help is at hand. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) says just enrol in one of the countless cooking classes springing up all over the island. ■PJpiH O YOU have no clue W how to boil an egg, let alone bake a cake,
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        Lock icon WHAT’S COOKING?
        344 28  -  Angelica Tan CULINARY classes are a dime a dozen in Singapore, and the syllabus ranges from teaching you how to make tiramisu or pig’s trotters in black vinegar. Some are held in posh hotels, others take place in your humble HDB community centre. A word of caution though:
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon A Taste Of California Wines
          105 29 CALIFORNIA is a pretty blessed country for wine growers. With nearly 2,000 kms of Pacific Ocean coastline and countless mountain ranges bordered by warm inland valley as well as its famous Californian sunshine, conditions for cultivating grapes are nothing if not ideal. If you are
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          Lock icon Fiery Szechuan at Westin Stamford
          131 29 IT WAS Chengdu, the capital of Szechuan, which gave us the famous Ma Po Doufu (spicy tofu And till Oct 1, you can sample this and other delights from Chengdu at The Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza’s Szechuan Court. Among them: Chengdu hot and sour
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          Lock icon Taste of Tuscany at Mandarin
          158 29 TUSCANY is well-known for its picturesque valleys, hills and quaint hillside villages. And as famous as the scenery is the Tuscan cuisine flavoured with olive oil, garlic, mushrooms, truffles and lots of fresh beans. If you’d like a taste, make your way to the Top
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          Lock icon Game for a wild time?
          129 29 GRAND Hyatt’s Mezza9 will indulge your culinary fantasies with the Wild Times promotion. Forget chicken and pork. The menu features wild venison and razorback boar from Australia and New Zealand and not so wild mushrooms from France. For starters, there’s the smoked venison, thinly sliced
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          120 29  -  Angelica Tan Ol-174 Marine Parade Market and Cooked Food Centre Opens: 11 am to 9.30 pm Closed on Tuesdays WHAT’S hot, wet and luscious with cockles? Why, char kway teow, of course! Well, at least the version from this stall at Marine Parade comes
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        510 30 Chef Chiarini teases tastebuds with his traditional Italian dishes culled from Abruzzo to Veneto. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) indulges in the delicate flavours. E THOUGHT it was Wa new furniture stop for modish furniture the white wood-framed glass doors revealed nothing but a dining table surrounded by chairs. But
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        367 30  -  Angelica Tan COOKING produces the best results if you follow your nose and tastebuds. That is the opinion of some of Singapore’s best-known culinary pundits. They believe an over-reliance on recipes kills creativity. Just master the basics of cooking and have a sound knowledge and understanding of
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        616 31 TV didnt kill the radio star, and neither has the Internet. Radio stations that broadcast on the cyber-waves have taken the World Wide Web by storm, and anyone can be a spin-star, finds ERIAKBAR (eri@sph.com.sg). T’S on 24 hours. It’s free, in more ways than one.
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        442 31  -  Eri Akbar “DO YOU think you’re better off alone... Ooh, talk to me,” sings Alice Deejay, with the bass going dum-dum-dum in the background from a flat in Tampines. That’s where Andrew Ng Hong Yong spins his stuff for the world. He’s the house
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        683 33 POP ROCK WHITE LADDER David Gray (EastWest/Warner Music) SOFT-ROCK saint David Gray has finally struck pay dirt with his fourth album, White Ladder. The 30-year-old Manchester-born troubadour, who paid his dues as a support act for Radiohead and Dave Matthews, actually considered quitting music after
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        254 33 THE KICK INSIDE Kate Bush (EMI) A NARRATIVE of a young artist’s experiences, Kate Bush’s 1978 debut The Kick Inside contained her stunning first single, the eerie Wuthering Heights (written while she was a 16-year old who’d never even read the Emily Bronte novel) which
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          94 34 THE screeching diva is being sued by a pair of songwriters who claim that her hit Thank God I Found You borrows heavily from One Of Those Love Songs, a track recorded by Xscape in 1998. Seth Swirsky and Warren Campbell filed a lawsuit against
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          70 34 SOURCES tell MTV News that the Boys will deliver Black And Blue, their third studio album, to stores on Nov 21. Fans will get a taste of it on Oct 3 when the first single, Shape Of My Heart, hits radio. The Boys team up once again with
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          137 34  -  Jeanmarie Tan MATCHBOX Twenty guitarist Adam Gaynor is “horrified” that his beloved green Taylor acoustic guitar was stolen at the band’s Monday night show in Gainesville, Florida. “Every time I touch that guitar, it feels like magic,” he told MTV News. “I have over 30 guitars, but
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        623 34 MAROON The Webb Brothers (Warner Music) JUSTIN and Christian Webb are the sons of legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb (who penned the immortal Wichita Lineman). With influences ranging from Elvis Costello to Beck and the late Jeff Buckley, they released their debut album Beyond The Biosphere
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        168 34  -  Ronald Rajan HOLLER BT SPICE GIRLS THREE years on, they’ve survived marriages, had a couple of kids between them, lost a member and took the solo road. But there’s just no place like home, for the Spice Girls, who return with their latest music video,
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        122 34  -  Ronald Rajan MADDY ABOUT YOU BYSHERENITS CLOSET, FROM THE ALBUM KEPT SECRETS http://www.audioload.com Time: 3 min 1 sec SHERENE’S Closet are Gerald Stahlman (guitar), Ivan Lee (bass) and Kamal Mahtani (drums). Formed in 1998, the trio specialise in deft punk-edged power pop in the vein of
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      284 35 Points to ponder... If you throw a cat out of the car window, does it become kitty litter? If you choke a Smurf, what colour does it turn? Is it okay to use an AM radio after noon? What do you call a male ladybug? What hair
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      612 35 Movies Top Secret! 8.30 pm Cinemax 59 Val Kilmer makes his debut in this spoof on the spy-movies genre. He’s Nick Rivers, an American rock star who goes to Europe on a goodwill tour and becomes involved with the Nazis. Created by the people who did Airplane and the Naked
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      141 36 LONDON English football star David Beckham (right) is certain he doesn’t want to be a crisp snack on a platter. His lawyers have written to the UK Patent Office to Jggk block an application to trademark crisps called “Smoky Beckham,” reports The Times of London. Walkers
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      148 36 SIZZLING Salma Hayek (right) may beat the luscious Jennifer Lopez (left) to the silver screen with her take on the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Hayek’s film has moved ahead in getting its casting act together. Her studio, Miramax, is in talks
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        108 36 FARRAH Fawcett is outraged that Joe Eszterhas suggested in his controversial book American Rhapsody that she once relieved herself on the lawn at a swanky Hollywood party. The 53-year-old actress is threatening to “slap his face”, reports IMDb.com. She fumed: “I’m so upset. I’m shy.
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        148 36 A SECRET fear has plagued actress Goldie Hawn for decades that she is a lesbian. She was scared that might mean having to give up her longtime love Kurt Russell, reports IMDb.com Hawn said: “I remember thinking to myself, ‘Oh no, maybe I am a
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