Project Eyeball, 20 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. e3reball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, October 20, 2000 80 CENTS
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      179 1 Hot LINKS Heat is on private child-care centres The pressure is on centres to reimburse parents for the two weeks they were closed following the outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease. Now that the PAP Community Foundation says that it will refund parents $225,000, which will be about $lOO
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      266 1 MSB P 1 11 Alt WMAUWmmMES No need for nudity M Yen Ming Jiin The stage version of Mee Pok Man features scenes like these and some nudity. Eyeball reviews the performance, and finds that the baring of flesh did nothing to enhance the story. Instead, the strength of the
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  • News & Views
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      81 2 CECIL and Ann Gakowski had two sleepless nights because of a marathon love-making session. The only catch was, it wasn’t them. It was two amorous Australian carpet snakes on the rafters of their farmhouse. But after the second sleepless night, they had enough of the two-metre lovers thrashing overhead
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    • Article
      Lock icon WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
      86 2 IN OUR article titled “Is Local TV Racist” on Oct 16, Eyeball reported that the Singapore Broadcasting Authority had surveyed viewers, and found that they were concerned about racial stereotyping on local drama series. The SBA has clarified that it has not conducted any survey
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      Lock icon New rules may mar landscape
      577 2  -  URA guidelines raise concern By Sonny Phua sonnyp@sph.com.sg DON’T be surprised if Singapore’s conservation buildings start sprouting incongruous structures at the rear. That’s a possibility under the relaxed Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) guidelines announced yesterday. The revised guidelines lift the restriction on the control of
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      Lock icon PCF refunds $225,000 to parents
      287 2  -  CHILD-CARE CENTRES' CLOSURE G SIVAKKUMARAN THE heat is on for some private child-care centres. Pressure is mounting on them to reimburse parents for the two weeks they were closed after the PAP Community Foundation (PCF) announced yesterday it would refund parents $225,000. The $lOO to
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Nothin’ on the radio
        965 3  -  Listeners complain about lack of variety on the airwaves By Ronald Rajan ronrajan@sph.com.sg CALL it a case of “mixed frequencies”. Many Singaporeans feel that radio stations here are not hearing their pleas for more varied radio programming. Ironic, seeing that “communication” is the main business of
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        Lock icon Fake Fatboy Slim on the Net
        196 3 NAPSTER DOWNLOADS IMPOSTORS have been posting tracks to controversial MP3-swap-ping website Napster, claiming that they are Fatboy Slim. Fatboy Slim fans must have thought Christmas came early when several tracks from his upcoming album, Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars, popped up on
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      Lock icon Taxi, taxi, who’s the cheapest?
      1035 4  -  Survey finds little difference in fares By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg DAZED taxi commuters are trying to grapple with the free market, now that taxi companies are setting their own tariffs. The word on the street is that Tibs taxis are expensive. It has a different
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      78 4 charges: Current bookings from 6:01 am to 11:29 pm $340 Current bookings from 11:30 pm to 6:00 am $2.00 Advanced bookings (at least 1/2 hour in advance) $540 charges: All current bookings $3.00 J Advanced bookings (atleast 1/2 hour in advance)
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      Lock icon Panel member chides Malay director
      268 6 THE controversy surrounding Talaq’s staging in Malay and English has deepened with an e-mail sent by Hj E S Ebrahim Marican one of the members of South Indian Jamiathul Ulama (Siju) who was on the original preview panel to the Malay director of Talaq, Sabri
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      Lock icon Talaq still in limbo
      223 6 Tangle among the three parties involved in its re-staging IT IS a face-off in the best tradition of a John Woo movie. The fate of the controversial play, Talaq, is in question because all parties involved in deciding whether it will be re-staged are playing taiqi.
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      Lock icon WHAT THE 3 SIDES SAY
      308 6 THENMOLI THENMOLI has offered to stage a preview on Monday night. But she is still waiting to hear if the two Siju members will be excluded from the preview party, as she has requested. She has also requested the presence of other Indian-Muslim women on
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      603 7  -  Government’s move may have spurred private sector on G SIVAKKUMARAN gsiva@sph.com.sg WHO’S playing catch-up with whom? In August, the Government announced that three days of paternity leave would be granted to civil servants. Now, local private-sector employers are trying to match this by offering paternity
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      Lock icon Topless act falls flat
      622 8  -  Bare flesh in Mee Pok Man does nothing to enhance play By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg WILL she? And how much? Those are perhaps the titillating questions on most people’s minds, after the media hullabaloo over young starlet Cynthia Lee’s decision to bare some flesh in
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      Lock icon WHICH BUNNY'S HOTTER?
      117 8  -  Tan Dawn Wei SAME story, different bunny. Michelle Goh was the original Bunny, in Mee Pok Man the movie, leaving Cynthia Lee with big shoes to fill in the play. The two women brought different personalities to the same character. Lee comes across too fresh-faced for a
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      Lock icon Execs 'put marriage above wealth’
      267 8  -  CONSUMER POLL By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg MIDDLE-CLASS Singaporeans value marriage above material wealth, if a new survey of top managers in Asia is to be believed. More than 90 per cent of 945 respondents agreed with the statement, “a happy marriage is the greatest wealth”,
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      Lock icon Suicide bomber kills 2, injures 21
      329 9 New Cabinet could have been target of foiled attack Wires COLOMBO When driver Nimal Jayantha saw a man being chased by two others near the city hall yesterday, he suspected the man was a snatch thief and was about to step forward and stop
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon $30 million to boost e-business
        138 11 WANT your business to go online? The Government will gladly chip in up to $500,000 to help you. Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong yesterday announced a $3O million programme to boost e-business in Singapore. The programme is called the eBusiness Industry Development
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        Lock icon Judge rejects Aussie player’s claims
        140 11 A JUDGE yesterday rejected an Australian soccer player’s claim that investigating officers had threatened and coerced him into admitting that he illegally fixed matches. Mirko “Miki” Jurilj said he had signed a confession on July 31. But he said he signed only after investigating officers
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        81 11 THE Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) received a plaque from Mitsui O.S.K. Lines yesterday as a token of appreciation for evacuating a wounded crew member from the tanker M V Diamond ryOn Oct 7, Mortel Jose had two fingers on his right hand severed
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Violence persists in Middle-East
        105 11 Wires JERUSALEM Tension and violence persisted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and even Bethlehem yesterday as Israelis and Palestinians sought desperately to restore normality and peace in the face of a deadline. The deadline expires this afternoon under their truce accord. An explosion which
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        109 11 Reuters SEOUL Britain yesterday announced plans to open diplomatic ties with North Korea for the first time since the creation of the communist state 50 years ago. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook unveiled the move as he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair travelled to
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        Lock icon Mahathir to get backdated pay rise
        107 11 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who lamented last month that he was underpaid, is to get a raise. Under a new parliamentary Bill to be passed, his monthly salary will be increased to 18,865 ringgit (558,637). The pay increase will be
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      Lock icon Smouldering rage
      35 11 Yang Soo-im, leader of an organisation of family members of World War II victims, burning a cartoon image of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori during a rally in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. AP
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      Lock icon 'Red report card’ for Gus Dur’s first year
      305 11 Legislators to deliver first-year assessment on Monday Wires JAKARTA He has been in office for one year, but the report card on President Abdurrahman Wahid has more brickbats than bouquets. People’s Consultative Assembly Speaker Amien Rais, a staunch Abdurrahman supporter a year
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      Lock icon Anybody’s guess
      310 13  -  Mik Zarzuela The Dow is a confused and divided market. Over the next few trading days, earnings reports from technology Hue-chips will set the tone of the day and fuel sentiments. Some of the big results after trading on Wednesday: Apple Computer missed the mark. It posted weaker-than-expected
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      Lock icon Shaky Dow hasn’t bottomed out yet
      363 13 More selling and more bargains coming, say analysts Wires NEW YORK The bottom feeders aren’t finished yet. That was the warning from US analysts yesterday as they recovered from the wild gyrations of the US blue-chip index on Wednesday. For the first time since
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      101 13 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active f II VOLUME PacCent 31,438,000 Chartered 19,136,000 Nat Elec 17,178,000 Tap 3 Gainers CENTS i 140 1 725 I 310 I CENTS V* 1 DBS 1900 90 5.0 it SPH 2430 70 3.0 u UOB 1270 70 5.8 j Total number of
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      357 15  -  NO MODULES READY YET By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg WHEN a new technology is ready, companies are quick to jump on it. So this week, both Acer and IBM unveiled notebooks with special slots for Bluetooth modules. Bluetooth technology eliminates the need for cumbersome
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      Lock icon Ailing Xerox may sell research lab
      369 15 Cash shortage, competition hit copier giant NYT LEGEND has it that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs put a mouse on the first Macintosh after a visit to Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, known affectionately as Parc. Parc may soon fall into other hands Xerox is
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      Lock icon Tiny cards that are big on storage
      415 16  -  KRDL teams np with US firm to produce nanotech-based memory cards By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg BEFORE long, your MP3 player may be storing thousands, not dozens, of songs. And you’ll be able to take snapshots on your digicam without having to download to
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      213 16 AP HONG KONG The government proposed Thursday to introduce a multi-functional electronic identity card that critics worry could invade people’s privacy because it contains far too much personal data. The government hailed the introduction of the smartcard technology by 2003 as “a significant step forward
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      292 16  -  Mac OS X By John Lui johnlu.i@sph.com.sg LOOKING at Mac OS X for the first time, the thing that pops to mind is: “Where did all my disks go?” The desktop is now a clean swathe of colour, free of disk icons. Access to files
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    • Eyeball SAYS
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        Lock icon No shame if parents need help
        644 18 LAST week, Eyeball took a look at how some parents aren’t exactly a great advertisement for parenthood. Maybe we were too harsh. Because it’s clear from what has happened over the week that parents today have much to handle, on top of juggling work
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      Lock icon Dress code should be flexible
      258 18 ‘Watch oat! It’s the dress cops!’ (Oct 19) CLOTHING cops at Ngee Ann Polytechnic are booking students for wearing bermudas or slippers, and for dyeing their hair in “unnatural colours”. Offending students have to cough up $4O if they break the dress code twice. Is
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        Lock icon Spell it out without stammering
        657 20  -  By Mark Malby malby@sph.com.sg Singapore is talking sex this week, or rather, talking about how sex is not being talked about. Three Eyeballers give their take on sex education. IN THE canon of extreme sport sky-divers and spelunkers and Kinabalu mountain bikers I’m surprised that
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        Lock icon We discovered it all by ourselves
        615 20  -  By June Wan junewan@sph.com.sg SEX education didn’t happen in school. And for me, it started when I was four. I saw my nanny having sex with her husband, although I didn’t know then what all that activity was about. Most in my generation discovered
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        Lock icon It’s more fun to find the facts on your own
        791 21  -  By Desmond Wong SEX education. Without it, we’d All turn into a bunch of salivating sexual deviants, forever cursed to seek out the most depraved carnalities to satisfy our unnatural urges. At least that’s the message I seem to get,
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      26 2 Qood morning! Showers in the predawn hours and early morning over many areas. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 4.35AM/2.4M 3.16PM/2.7M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      70 4 Not sure which taxi to flag, log onto http://eyebalLasial.coin.sg and follow the travels of Tan as he shuttles between home, work and his girlfriend’s place and see which taxi is the most expensive. Are some taxi companies using the fare liberalisation to take their passengers for a ride? Should taxi
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      42 15 Acer’s Travel Mate 350 and IBM’s Think Pad X2O come at different processor speeds and are available now. To get more information on these products to help you decide if you should get one, check out.their manufacturer’s sites at http://www.acer.com.sg and http://www.ibm.com.sg
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      46 16 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF TOE INTERNET what floor please? me and the other machines just wanted to say how much we admire you. excuse me... are you heien nichols? ALL RIGHT, TURKEYS! SHOW YOURSELVES! WHA-? UH, YES W *zx when the reuoiimon comes, we with 22 m
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon LOOKING BACK ON FORMULA ONE 2000
      649 23 The final race of the year blasts off in Sepang this weekend, hut to most fans, the season is already a done deal The only thing left to fight for is the constructors' title, and that's a two-horse race between Ferrari and McLaren as
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    • Short CIRCUIT
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        Lock icon Changes for 2001
        186 23  -  Zaki Amrullah Changes to race schedule THE Malaysian GP has been re-scheduled as the second race next season. The British GP has also been changed from April to July while the Austrian race will now be raced in May instead of July. Technical regulations AMONG the many
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        Lock icon Doubtful Rubens
        108 24 YOU’D think that with the drivers championship already in the bag, Ferrari’s Rubens Barrichello would be a bit more optimistic about Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix. During an appearance at the second annual race with Michael Schumacher go-kart competition, at the Sepang go-kart circuit yesterday, he didn’t sound too
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        Lock icon Trying their luck
        111 24 SOME people will do anything to get close to Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher. Two German journalists tried to get past a security barricade at the Sepang gokart circuit using their German identity cards. They probably thought that Malaysia’s security officers are not as well trained as those elsewhere.
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        Lock icon Salo rocks
        98 24  -  Luke Pachymuthu MIKA Salo is a modest man who likes to keep a low-profile. But that’s hard to do, especially if you’re into rock and roll. Salo, who drives for Petronas Sauber, is also a guitar enthusiast. “It’s nice and relaxing to play in the hotel room. It
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      Lock icon Life on a slow team
      333 24  -  By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg MIKA Salo made his Formula One debut with Lotus at the end of the 1994 season. Through the years, his career has been restricted to the smaller teams, although he has been a stand-in for Ferrari and BAR Honda. With Red
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      Lock icon Ferrari aims for a sweep
      667 24 Both Schumacher and Barrichello want to be on the podium AFP SEPANG If Japan proved to be a bad outing for McLaren, Sepang is unlikely to be any better. That’s if Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher and his Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello turn out
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    • FESTIVAL OF GOALS
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        Lock icon Man U’s big guns bombard Eindhoven
        357 25 Wires LONDON Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson wheeled out his big guns for this return match, and the results showed as he and his boys bombed PSV Eindhoven 3-1. Ferguson made changes in the team, which lost 3-1 three weeks ago. Back came
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        Lock icon THE JUICE
        239 25 Mik Zarzueia Manchester United vs PSV Eindhoven IT WAS OVER WHEN. Paul Scholes’ blast into the PSV net crashed the roof in on further Dutch aspirations. UNITED’S LAMENT If only Ronny Johnsen had not rapped the crossbar... PSV'S LAMENT If only United had played their reserve squad, just
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        Lock icon Rivaldo keeps Milan at bay
        385 25 Reuters MILAN- Rivaldo scored three times at San Siro stadium on Wednesday as Barcelona held AC Milan to a 3-3 draw in a Champions League match, keeping alive qualification hopes for the Spanish powerhouse. The Brazilian put Barcelona ahead in the 19th minute with a
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    • Cheers & JEERS
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        Lock icon Mourning shows rare courage
        371 26  -  He’s focused on fighting the kidney ailment By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg CHEERS KUDOS to Alonzo Mourning and the Miami Heat. Earlier in the week, with the next NBA season looming just ahead, Mourning revealed that he's fighting for his life. Mourning, who led the US to
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      Lock icon Marino evicts cybersquatter
      371 26 WIPO VERDICT ON DOMAIN NAME AP GENEVA Dan Marino, the NFL’s career leading passer, has won control of the Internet Web address danmarino.com in a United Nations arbitrated cybersquatting dispute, a UN spokesman said. Samar Shamoon of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) said the ruling went
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      36 26 AT THE ATRIUM EVERY SATURDAY at 4PM, the atrium at PARAGON comes alive with the sound of MUSIC Talented ACAPELLA groups, JAZZ bands, STRING quartets and more will enthrall you w'ith their music. See you there!
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  • Unwind
    • Food
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        Lock icon BREAD Lines
        641 27 Baguettes are no longer exotic and white slices are just plain boring. Singaporeans have cultivated a passion for ciabattas, sourdough and other breads, thanks to a new breed of bakeries. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) has the story. AN DOES not live on bread alone, but neither L J can
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        Lock icon Anyway you slice it, bread is big
        350 28 IF YOU are one to appreciate the difference, check out these bakeries and their bestselling loaves. Simply Bread 01-03 Guthrie House (1, sth Avenue); telephone: 466-7767. 01-94 Milennia Walk; telephone: 334-3568. 01-02 Commerce Point, 3, Phillip Street; telephone: 557-2855. What: As its name
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        Lock icon Mocktails and mirrors
        549 29 Nik b* Hanis Int’l Cafe is a place which even boasts a menu of mocktails, says ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg). Its quirky decor and interesting menu make it a good spot for the Muslim gourmet. THE pickings are slim if you are Muslim and a gourmet in Singapore.
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon Dainty dumplings
          81 29 OH-SO-CUTE are the Lao Bian dumplings from Shenyang at Amara Hotel’s Tivoli Coffee House. Artistically crafted into adorable figurines, these award-winning morsels are as good to look at as they are to eat. The abundant fish dumplings, for instance, are shaped like cartoonish goldfish. There are 17 varieties,
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          Lock icon Tempting Thai
          94 29 DIM sum is given a spicy twist at Hotel Inter-Continental’s Pimai Thai Restaurant. Among the Thai favourites are crisp prawn toasts flavoured with Thai herbs ($5), golden-fried prawn balls stuffed with yam ($6.50) and curry-flavoured fish cakes served with plum sauce ($6). Also try the deep-fried wonton stuffed
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          Lock icon Hawker’s pick
          128 29  -  Angelica Tan Punggol Big Prawn Noodles Blk 503, Ol-14 West Coast Drive Hawker Centre Open: 8 am to 8 pm daily YOU’VE heard of Punggol mee goreng. Now, a Punggol Big Prawn Noodle stall ha's surfaced at West Coast Drive Hawker Centre. Stallholder Robert Teo hails from this
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    • Music
      • Music GOSSIP
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          Lock icon S Club Jo to marry mechanic
          85 31 S CLUB 7 blondie Jo O’Meara is getting married to her boyfriend of three years, and is now proudly sporting a three-carat diamond ring, courtesy of mechanic Lee. The Reach For The Stars chart ace said: “l am very excited. “I’m the happiest I’ve
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          92 31 LATIN heartthrob Ricky Martin has decided his bon-bon is too flat and he is turning to the experts for help, according to MTVAsia.com. Martin, famous for his hip-wiggling dance routines, has been trying everything from rock climbing to special exercises in order to make his backside
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          100 31  -  Jeanmarie Tan ROCKER Jakob Dylan has scoffed at suggestions that his band’s new album deals with his relationship with his dad legendary folk singer Bob Dylan. The Wallflowers frontman said people should not take his lyrics too seriously after critics suggested the band’s third
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        740 31 Pop's latest product is coming to town. JEANMABIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) primes you for their online chat with Eyeball readers next week, getting behind the beaming smiles and scanty threads. PIVE Aussie babes, pop music, and tart couture. Forget rock ’n’ roll, Singapore has gone Bar-dotty over the Aussie
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        754 32  -  POP ROCK Ronald Rajan BLACK MARKET CRASH Placebo (Virgin) PLACEBO returns with another selection of provocative power pop. This time, frontman Brian Molko seems to have toned down his drag act in an attempt to come across all “mature” and “serious”. But something’s missing, and we get
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        141 32  -  Ronald Rajan GREYHOUND STATION By Flu, from the album Anywhere Else Time: 4 min 22 sec (http://www.audioload.com) FOUR-PIECE indie outfit Flux will be Hong Kong’s entry in the finals of the All-Asian leg of the Yamaha Band Alert Competition 2000 with their song Backfire. Featuring Argentinian
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        769 33  -  POP ROCK Ronald Rajan Tan Dawn Wei VANGUARD Finley Quaye (Epic) THE raggamuffin Ghanian-American-Scottish wonderboy may have hit a home run with his 1997 debut, Maverick A Strike, but he’s sadly in danger of warming the bench for the rest of his career. Famous for
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        223 33  -  Ronald Rajan THIS VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO The Velvet Underground (Polydor) HERE are some of the things that must be said about the Velvet Underground. First, singer Lou Reed’s jaded, junkie observations at the dawn of the Summer Of Love changed the course of pop
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        594 34 Coldplay is quite possibly the hottest band in Britain today. RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) talks to guitarist Jonny Buckland about fame and the name game. MAGINE this. You’re 23, just fresh out of school. Yet, people are already referring to you as the new Radiohead. You’ve been nominated
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        269 34  -  Tan Dawn Wei FAYE Wong doesn’t want you to be put off by the seemingly abstract themes in her latest album, Fable. They are really just love songs. Take the five tracks penned by renowned Hong Kong lyricist Lin Xi. All explore the theme of love
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      24 28 X Log on to http://eyebalLasial.coin.sg for more great loaves at other bakeries. Yeap Cheng Guat also I demonstrates how to bake sun-dried tomato-and-cheese stromboli.
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      29 29 Find out where you can dine on Muslim food in style at http://www.eyeball.com.sg From buffet lunches to food courts, Thai favourites to Western staples, you needn’t go halal hungry.
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      156 30 Dale: Oct 21 22, Saturday Sunday Time: 11am 9pm Venue: Takashimaya Square, Basement 2 Preview: Oct 20, Friday spm 9pm try your luck one of these fabulous prizes at the daily $lO,OOO diamond necklace and earrings from Flower Diamond other prizes lane France Bodyline vouchers worth $3,50( Aodusnatura furniture set
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      38 31 What really happened to Chantelle Barry? Is Sophie a natural blonde? If you have questions for Bardot, log on to http://eyebalLasial.com.sg next Thursday, Oct 26, from 12.30 pm to 1 pm, for a live chat with the flvesome.
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        158 35 INTERNET PARKING NOTICE Offender: Tan Butt Ache Date: 20 Oct, 2000 Time: 3 am Offence number: Uniform Internet Code 1-2-3-4 (A) Details of the offence: During our routine sweep of the Internet we, the Internet Police, have discovered that you have been on your chair in front of the computer
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      577 35 Movies Greedy 7.30 pm TCS 5 Two cousins try to win the favour of their uncle, an old millionaire, with the intention of getting his money after his death. They find themselves in competition with a British blonde who’s the elderly man’s new companion. Michael J Fox, Kirk Douglas and
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      208 36 COMING to a cinema near you Posh and Becks, The Movie. That’s right, Andrew Morton, who just released a controversial book about the Manchester United star and his Spice Girl wife, is in talks with Sky Movies to turn the book into a big screen
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      126 36 TALK about delusions: John Travolta (left) insists that his box-office flop, Battlefield Earth, is set to be a cult classic like Blade Runner, reports IMDb.com. Travolta admits that he was disappointed with the critical panning the film has received, but was not surprised. “I
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        51 36 POP’S battle of the year is set for Nov 6 when The Spice Girls and Westlife slug it out in the charts. Their new albums Forever and Coast To Coast come out on the same day, along with Fatboy Slim’s Halfway Between The Gutter And The
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        104 36 Wires CHART.IZE Theron said she wouldn’t have picked up acting if not for a knee injury that quashed her ballet career.. Michael Douglas said the birth of son Dylan has made him happy and he has no problems being an older father. “You are only as old
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