Project Eyeball, 31 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebaU.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, October 31, 2000 80 CENTS
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      144 1 Hot LINKS IPO without the public offer It’s an initial public offer (IPO) minus the public offer. Instead, Qian Hu, the Sesdaq-bound ornamental fish breeder and distributor, will be offering 12.75 million new shares at 30 cents each but those shares will be marked for staff and private investors. See
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      324 1 P Ij A Palestinian throwing stones at an approaching Israeli tank during clashes at the Kami crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip. A month of violence has left 133 dead. H the responsibility (for attacks) is Syria’s. If we have to stop it, then let me say it
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      71 2 THIS is as weird as it gets. A bit like carrying snow to Alaska. A Lancashire company is taking sand to the Sahara to help build world-class football pitches for the Libyan football federation. Grass Science, from Bolton, was asked find out why the grass on Libyan football pitches
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      Lock icon Israel warns Syria over Hizbollah attacks
      588 2 Stop them or the military will take action, minister says Wires JERUSALEM The warning was as clear as it was blunt. Stop any Hizbollah attacks against Israel being launched from Lebanon, otherwise Syria the main power broker in Lebanon would face the wrath of
      – Wires; AP  -  588 words
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      Lock icon No concessions, Barak tells Arafat
      322 2 Wires JERUSALEM Emotions ran high yesterday as politically-charged and visibly-hostile members of Israel’s parliament the Knesset shouted down Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as he tried to address them. Even the Speaker of Parliament could not calm the House and bring it to order: He was
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon SCV’s Net TV trial wins few votes
        687 3  -  But despite slow start, iTV has huge potential By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IN CASE you were thinking of junking your computer now that Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) is offering its new Web TV set-top box, think again. The service will not replace your
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      Lock icon Acquitted father forgives daughter
      670 4  -  Man cleared of rape wants kids back By Dawn Lee and Foo Lyn Lee dawnlee@sph.com.sg lynlee@sph.com.sg SHE put him in jail for a year. Now he wants her to stay with him. That’s the heart of a father accused of raping his only daughter. All that
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      Lock icon False reports can land offenders in jail
      314 4  -  Dawn Lee and Foo Lyn Lee THOSE who cry wolf may end up in jail for filing false reports. This has happened before, and does not apply only to victims of sexual offences. If someone has made a false report against you, you
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      Lock icon Group tattoos catching on
      1161 5  -  They’re popular with kids seeking common identity By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg PARANG-WIELDING secret-soci-ety types with green dragon tattoos may be a thing of the past. Nowadays, young gangs of school kids may get group tattoos for a lark. But what may not be so harmless
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      Lock icon Pools re-open after a month
      460 6 PARENTS RELIEVED IT’S splash-time in the pool for'the kids again. Public wading pools and play areas for children opened yesterday after having been closed Tor nearly a month. The closure was meant to break the chain of transmission of the infectious hand, foot and mouth
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      539 6  -  Newcomers using Iull period in property market to learn the ropes By Sonny Phua sonnyp@sph.com.sg VINCENT Lim has taken the plunge into the real-estate industry. Till yesterday, he was an insurance agent. He is not alone. Figures from the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers
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      142 8 US a hot favourite WHERE are you most likely to meet Singaporeans on holiday? According to the Mastercard Asian Ideals’ survey, the popular getaways in the Asia-Pacific region are Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Other top destinations included Hong Kong, China, Korea and Thailand. And the United
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon The Tang (Dynasty) sale’s on
        211 8 FOR those who always wanted a Terracotta warrior to guard your home, there’s good news. Tang dynastic relics, which have been on sale to private collectors since the middle of this month, will go under the hammer today from 10 am at the Tang Dynasty
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        84 8 CHICKEN rice is going global. Our local delight will be turning up in countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. Twenty-seven Singapore companies took part in the world’s largest food exhibition, the Global Food Market Place, or SIAL 2000, held in Paris recently. And one
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        Lock icon Jeyaratnam faces bankruptcy
        145 8 VETERAN Opposition member J B Jeyaratnam is in the spotlight again. This time, he is facing bankruptcy and loss of his parliamentary seat as a non-constituency MP after the terms of his defamation payout were changed. Bankruptcy petitions, filed by eight successful claimants in a defamation suit,
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        80 8 SINGAPORE has been certified free of polio by the World Health Organisation (WHO) after meeting stipulated criteria. No cases of polio have been reported locally for at least three years, which is among the stipulations. Polio, a viral infection, is often recognised by signs of sudden floppy
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        Lock icon Want to be a millionaire?
        77 8 WANT to win a million dollars? It will be possible when the local version of the famous game show, “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”, goes on air next year, pending approval. The Television Corporation of Singapore has won the rights to broadcast the game
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        Lock icon S’pore-Indonesia exercise
        74 8 THE Singapore and Indonesian armed forces will conduct their annual bilateral exercise from Oct 30 to Nov 9. Code-named Ex Safkar Indopura 12/2000, it will take place at Yogyakarta, Central Java. Officers and men from the 3rd Singapore Infantry Brigade and the 6th Infantry Brigade, Indonesian Army Strategic
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        177 9 Wires MADRID A car bomb exploded in a busy residential area of Madrid yesterday during morning rush hour, killing a Supreme Court judge, his bodyguard and driver, and injuring at least 35 others. The attack was attributed to Basque separatist group ETA. It
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        Lock icon Taiwan opposition fails to reach consensus
        143 9 Wires TAIPEI Rivals in a nasty presidential campaign just months ago, Taiwan’s top opposition leaders met yesterday for the first time since the election as their parties moved to impeach President Chen Shui-Ban or dissolve his Cabinet. If the opposition titans can overcome their
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        Lock icon Rupiah slumps after sacking of Ibra chief
        101 9 Reuters JAKARTA The Indonesian government sacked the head of its crucial bank restructuring agency (Ibra) yesterday in a move that will further delay efforts to repair the country’s broken economy. Analysts said that while the departure of Cacuk Sudarijanto had been widely tipped,
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        146 9 Wires MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada yesterday rejected repeated demands for his resignation, but offered his chief critic, Vice-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the top economic post in the country. Arroyo, however, has rejected the offer. “I will not resign,” Estrada said in a televised address
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      Lock icon Militants asked to explain anti-US moves
      205 9 US embassy in Jakarta remains closed Wires JAKARTA Indonesian police in the central Java city of Solo yesterday questioned four local militant Muslim leaders over a mass hunt there demanding that US citizens leave within 48 hours. “We’ve summoned those responsible and asked them
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    • 8 days to go
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        12 11 ’Percentage of Supporters Source: CNN/ GALLUP TRACKING POLL
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        54 11 MACOMB Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate who is pulling support from Al Gore among liberals in key states such as Michigan, has dismissed the Democratic presidential candidate as ineffectual. Nader said on ABC’s This Week: “If Gore cannot beat the bumbling Texas governor with that horrific record,
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        Lock icon It’s no dating game
        71 11 MICHIGAN Al Gore’s wife, Tipper, has tried to convince voters that the election was not “The Dating Game”. “You don’t have to fall in love with Al Gore -1 already did that,” she said. At a stop during their tour, one supporter yelled to her and
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        Lock icon Gung-ho Gore
        79 11 Wires MICHIGAN-While the Republicans mostly rested on Sunday, Al Gore and his running mate Joseph Lieberman blanketed TV talk shows, rocked Detroit’s black churches and motored through Michigan. Lieberman said: “George Bush is not ready to be president of the United States, the kind of president you need
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      Lock icon Just a few votes could tip the scales
      799 11 Gore, Bush throw everything into last, uncertain week of campaign NYT NEW YORK The most exciting US presidential race for two generations enters the home straight today with the two candidates storming neck and neck into the last frantic week of campaigning.
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      Lock icon JP Morgan courts gay grads
      173 13 LONDON Wanted: Gays and lesbians to work for top-notch American investment banker. That could well be JP Morgan’s next appointment advertisement. The leading US investment banker is now courting bright gay and lesbian candidates from universities, making it an equal opportunities’ employer with a difference,
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      Lock icon The pen(is) mightier than the sword
      56 13 Shenkung Master Tu Jin-shuh (left) supervising the efforts of Chiu Chiu Shenkung Association practitioners to pull a six-wheeled truck with their penises in Taipei on Sunday. It was the first time these practitioners attempted to haul a truck, although others have made successful lifts
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      Lock icon Snoopy bosses dig into hard drives
      678 13 Big US firms hire experts to look for clues to wrongdoing LAT-WP LOS ANGELES News of your employer rifling through your e-mail inbox may be old hat. But have you heard the latest? Snoopy employers in the United States are now copying employees’ entire
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      Lock icon Fish farm’s IPO goes private
      539 15  -  No public tranche for Qian Hu shares By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg AN INITIAL public offer (IPO) without a public offer! Looks like ornamental fish breeder and distributor, Qian Hu, has decided not to fish in troubled waters, what with the recent stream of under-subscribed IPOs.
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      Lock icon Tech stock darlings fall out of favour
      378 15 BACK TO VALUE-INVESTING NYT NEW YORK Spencer Nauman bas changed his mind on technology, but it wasn’t easy. Last year, like so many others, he bought the racehorses of the bull market America Online, Microsoft, Nokia, Yahoo. Nauman is a 29-year-old student and
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.dream motor.com
      179 15  -  Nicholas Yong IF PETITE Porsches and magnificent Mercs are what you see in your dreams, what better place to look for them than in cyberspace? Here is a site that lists hot deals on everything from bikes to speed boats and aircraft. The
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      85 15 Straits Times Index (STI) j Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS GES 31,819,000 136 K1 Ventur 24,622,000 19.5 Omlnd 22,817,000 283 Top 3 Gainers CENTS V- SIA 1720 30 1.8 SIA200 1720 30 1.8 SPH 2470 20 0.8 Total number of gainers: 142 Top 3 Losers CENTS OCBC 1080 40
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      Lock icon Mac version of Napster now available
      276 17 NEW SOFTWARES Reuters MACINTOSH users can finally get their own version of the popular Napster program. And it might have been worth the wait, as the Mac version includes a few new features that aren’t yet available for those who use PCs. Napster founder
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      Lock icon Phones for the future
      82 17 QPRS phone hy Ericsson (far left): The Qeneral Packet Radio Services (QPRS) is slated to he launched in Singapore at the end of this year. Promising a data transfer rate of up to US khps, QPRS phones will allow users to send e-mail and download still
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      Lock icon ‘Software secrets could have been stolen’
      463 17 Despite Microsoft’s assurance, expert says hacker may have done damage AP NEW YORK The hacker who broke into Microsoft’s computer system had high-level access to it for 12 days not up to five weeks, as the company had first reported and his illegal activity
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      273 17 LAT-WP LOS ANGELES The Internet was supposed to be a great marketing tool. Advertisers would be able to track the number of people who viewed their online ads and who actually clicked on them to purchase their products or sign up for a
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      Lock icon Italian villages become ‘genetic parks’
      429 18 DNA RESEARCH LONDON Ten remote villages in southern Italy will turn into a “genetic park” this week, where scientists can harvest the racially pure inhabitants’ DNA to identify the causes of disease, reported the Guardian. Isolated for centuries by mountains and forest, the villagers’ genetic
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      Lock icon Enzer the age of digital cordless phones
      546 18  -  It’s a bit more expensive but the quality compensates Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg ALL the excitement these days is over WAP, GPRS and 3G. Yet, there’s still some life left for the humble cordless telephone at home, thanks to digital technology. Here’s a look
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      Lock icon Energy vampires
      803 20  -  SALON.COM By Christine Schoefer Salon ON HALLOWEEN, our dark sides rise from their hidden corners, and ghosts, demons and witches roam the nighttime streets. Fortunately, these unsavoury creatures disappear before sunrise. All, that is, except a particular kind of Dracula the energy vampire who wanders about every day
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      Lock icon Learn how to discipline
      261 20  -  JTEH ‘Parenting not a matter of course’ (Oct 30) THE parents of today may be CEOs and IT whizzes at work, but they falter when it comes to raising kids. This has implications for the next generation of Singaporeans. Do Singaporean parents need parenting school? How
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      Lock icon Pride in work dictates quality of service
      885 21 Quality of service here not np to par, says PM (The Sunday Times, Oct 29) PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said recently that the quality of service in Singapore is not up to scratch when compared to other countries. What are your experiences?
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      30 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder over most areas in the predawn hours and morning. Partly cloudy thereafter. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 1.41AM/2.8M 00.50PM/2.9M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      226 3 -MW* am.*. Ifflwp fma SCV’s Tham with the ultra high-speed modem that lets subscribers watch cable TV and surf up to 30 times faster than a dial-up 56K one. TV SURFING On SCTTS interactive TV trial now, yon can: Surf the web. You won’t get broadband speeds, but 128 kbps
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      56 11 Catch more of the heat and dust of the US presidential race at these sites: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTIQN/2000/ resources/rothenberg/gen.elex.html The story so far and an overview of what’s at stake. http://www.usinfo.state.gov/iournals/ itdhr/1000/iide/cs6l4.oB.htm Picks on the funny bone of past American presidents. http://www.vouthvote2ooo.org A non-partisan website that tracks the election from the point
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      109 12 g'l'gasiaone E=imarkets www.asiaonemarkets.com pm s V: Before investing in renewable rodent energy, log on to asiaonemarkets.com Asia’s new one-stop investment site has all the tools you need to make smarter investment decisions. Brought to you by SPH Asia One and The Business Times, it gives you credible and up-to-the-minute information
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      46 13 Want to know more about snooping? Check out these sites: http:// www.amanet.org/research/ pdfs/monitr surv.pdf The American Management Association’s survey on workplace surveillance. http://www.forbes.eom/forbes/2000/0501/ *****58a.html A Forbes round-up of companies that provide Internet usage monitoring tools. http://www.epic.org Explore the latest news and issues related to electronic privacy.
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      35 17 All you Macintosh users out there, head over to http://www.Napster.com/ mac to download the new file sharing application. The Stufflt format of the file is 1.3 Mb, while the Bin Hex one is 2 Mb.
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      63 18 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET VOUG. DID I EVER TELL YOU I ONCE SAW ROBGRTO CLEMENTE CATCH A FLY BALL ON HIS BACK! HO VEAH! LAST NIGHT OH ESPN CLASSICS' IT WAS INCREDIBLE! SO? I SAW WALTER JOHNSON STRIKE OUT SIX ST LOUIS BROWNS IN A ROW! RUT I'LL BET
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        53 23 AFP SYDNEY Out-of-favour Manchester United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich has been called up for Australia’s international with Scotland on Nov 15 in Glasgow. Bosnich, who withdrew from the recent three-nation tournament against Dubai for personal reasons, has been shunned by United, which is trying to offload him on loan
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        Lock icon Chilavert moves
        69 23 AFP BUENOS AIRES Paraguay’s international keeper Jose Luis Chilavert said on Sunday he would be coming to France to settle a move from Argentinian club Velez Sarsfield. Chilavert said his trip was motivated by a concrete offer made to him by a French club, which he refused to
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        112 23 AP RAWALPINDI (Pakistan) Police used tear gas and steel-tipped batons to beat back thousands of rowdy cricket fans who tried to storm the stadium where the third and final one-day international match between Pakistan and England was being played. Some of the fans were holding tickets to
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        49 23 Aston Villa’s Paul Merson, calling for a recall to the England side: “I don’t know how many players are playing better than me. If my head’s clear, I can play against the best in the world. If not, then I wouldn’t look good in a Third Division side.”
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        Lock icon Ferrari auction
        109 24 Reuters LONDON Looking for a new set of wheels? A rare racing Ferrari is expected to sell for a record US$lO million (5517.5 million) when it goes under the hammer in Switzerland in December, auctioneers Bonhams and Brooks said. The 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta Competizione won the
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        Lock icon Wilson returns
        123 24 Reuters WELLINGTON Former All Blacks winger Jeff Wilson has returned to rugby after a five-month break and is likely to play in the Super 12 competition next year, the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRFU) said. Wilson, 27, mothballed his rugby career in May, saying he was not retiring
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        49 24 IN 1994, Roberto Baggio secured Juventus a 1-0 win over AC Milan in the Italian soccer league with a header. And Gianfranco Zola, now with Chelsea, scored for Parma in its 1-0 win over Roma to take his club to the top of the Serie A.
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        Lock icon Teddy’s demand
        138 25 AFP MANCHESTER England striker Teddy Sheringham wants Manchester United to give him a new, two-year contract. Sheringham’s agent, Barry Nevill, contacted United’s chief executive Peter Kenyon on Friday to open negotiations. Nevill told Kenyon the 34-year-old is interested in staying at Old Trafford and would like a two-year
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        59 25 AFP WASHINGTON Tampa Bay rolled to a 41-13 rout over Minnesota on Sunday, ending the Vikings’ run as the only unbeaten team in the National Football League. Quarterback Shaun King passed for a career-high four touchdowns, and Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks set the tone for the
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        79 25 IN 1989, Alain Prost said: “Formula One is already very risky, and if I take more risks, there is always a chance I’ll kill myself. Ayrton has a small problem. He thinks he can’t kill himself because he believes in God.” Prost made the comment after authorities
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        94 26 AP COLORADO Denver Broncos quarterback Brian Griese was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, the Colorado State Patrol said. Griese, 25, was stopped by a trooper for driving 80 mph in a 65 mph zone in Denver on Saturday night. The quarterback was arrested
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        76 26 AP SYDNEY A Russian Paralympic swimming coach, Alexandre Givaev, 44, accused of indecently assaulting a female police officer, had the charges against him dismissed in court yesterday. The police officer had been assaulted in a Paralympic village dining room on Oct 23. The officer was the only person
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        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
        61 26 THE first Englishman to play for a German club was Arsenal midfield stalwart Tony Woodcock. He began his career in 1973 with Nottingham Forest and won a couple of titles. In his three seasons with Arsenal, Woodcock scored 56 goals. He ended his career with German side
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      Lock icon The kings of Asia
      411 23  -  Japan’s Nanami and Saudi Arabia’s Nawaf sizzle in Asian Cup final By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THERE was no Hidetoshi Nakata to light up the Asian Cup, but just like in all big tournaments, unknowns made their way to the centrestage. This time, it was Japan’s Hiroshi
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      Lock icon Great player, terrible manager
      279 23  -  BRYAN ROBSON HAS TO GO By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg AS A player, he was England’s dream come true. As a manager, he’s everyone’s nightmare. When Bryan Robson kicked around, it helped that he was tough and uncompromising; failure was never an option. Those same qualities in
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        Lock icon Head and shoulders above the rest
        524 24  -  Powerful and prolific, Heskey is the Premiership’s man of the moment By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg IF FRANK Bruno reckons that another Big Black British hope is in the making, he’s probably right. But he would be wrong to think that this big fella comes
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      281 24 UNKNOWN JAMES WALDORF WINS AFP LAKE BUENA VISTA (Florida) James “Duffy” Waldorf was considered an also-ran before the final round of the National Car Rental Classic here on Sunday. He was six shots behind leader Steve Flesch, who was expected to put up a tough fight against
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      Lock icon NBA inside stuff: Midwest Division
      720 25 Here’s the cream of the Midwest, as the NBA season tips off tomorrow. LUKE PACHYMUTHU (luke@sph .com.sg) takes you through the Midwest Division today, giving you the inside stuff on all the teams. Teams Key additions Key subtractions Strengths Weaknesses Projected finish San Antonio Shooting
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      119 26  -  English Premier League By Adam Hashidy (hashidy@sph.com.sg) Bong Fortin Arsenal storms to the top of EyeSporfs weekly Power Rankings with its anything Manchester United can do, we can do better attitude E-mail us at http://eyebaH.asial.COin.Sg with your comments. ,r~s s Ui P^y 81 of the Week: Stan “The
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    • Fashion
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        791 27  -  The Rettangolo by Bvlgari. Qot time on your hands? Dont waste it on anything less than the swish timepieces watchmakers are creating these days, i JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) 1 keeps watch on the industry, and she discovers how precious W time can he. ATCHES. They’re generally ignored
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      • Wear & TEAR
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          87 29 ALREADY a darling to the stars, Tom Ford has now come into his own. The Gucci/Yves Saint Laurent designer was named Superstar of the Year at the International Fashion Group’s Night of Stars. Another luminary at Fashion Group’s shebang was Star Wars director George Lucas, who was acknowledged
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          71 29 AN EXHIBITION on Vivienne Westwood at the Visionaire magazine gallery in New York has been closed because visitors have been filching the exhibits. The exhibition, entitled Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren And The Birth Of Punk (1971-1979), featured some valuable and unique items of clothing. Ironically, this is like
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          Lock icon Victoria’s $38m bra
          66 29 LEAVE it to lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret to produce the world’s most expensive bra. Preciously priced at a staggering £l5 million (SS3B million), the glittering garment is a ruby and diamond-encrusted creation which comes with matching panties. And for the person who eventually buys them, the special
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          56 29  -  Angelica Tan CLOTHES maketh the man...and woman. A Washington weekly paper has given Hillary Rodham Clinton a dressing down for her fashion sense. The paper thinks the Congressional hopeful will not be able to adequately represent Seventh Avenue after Newsweek printed a story showing her wearing the
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        Lock icon Tomgirls
        740 29 NYT CATHY HORYN (pedas@eyehall .com.sg) charts the androgyny uprising as designers increasingly celebrate the delicious dichotomy of having bras and breasts under cummerbunds or a sharp pantsuit. O LOOK at Steven TMeisel’s fall advertisements for Versace and Max Mara, in which the women are displayed as prettily as Canton
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Five-star glitter
          541 31 For those who haven t gotten enough of the looksome five, JGANMARIETAM (jeanm@sph.com.sg) endeavours to get to the bottom of their wardrobe. OT’S been a frenzied week of Bardot blitz, but the girls still manage to look swanky in the flesh a s they do shaking their stuff
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      • Simply ESSENTIAL
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          Lock icon Montblanc’s princesses
          80 31 BLUE blood coursing through vein or not, every woman has a right to feel like a princess. That is Montblanc’s tune, played out with its Fairy Tale Collection. The True Princess Tourmaline comprises ladies’ jewellery, writing jewellery, watches and accessories in subtle white metal for up-to-date royals. Men
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          Lock icon Key to glowing skin
          87 31 CLE de Peau Beaute (“the key to beautiful skin” in French) is the aristocrat of skin care and cosmetic lines, with the most expensive cream in the world under its fold. Once the counter is set up in Takashimaya next month, women (and men, of course)
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          Lock icon Cellvital’s 20% lift
          62 31 TURNING back time has never been so simple. Estheva Spa now offers the Cell Shock Face Lifting Complex, a gravity-defying treatment which promises immediate lifting of 20 per cent in 30 minutes, continuous hydration, and superior revitalisation with Stabilised Active Cells called Cellvital. At $270 per 30
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          Lock icon Racy Dunhill
          67 31  -  June Wan PETROLHEADS alert! Grand Prix fans who didn’t make it to Sepang can still keep up the race hound look, jewellery-wise, at least. Dunhill’s Grand Prix Collection is a set of hallmarked sterling silver cufflinks featuring a chequered flag, a wire wheel “spinner” and a number one
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    • Gender
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        Lock icon Rude dudes
        891 32 What makes some clubbing Caucasians seem so obnoxious? KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) examines if it's just a male thing, or something to do with having had a colonial past. COUPLE of weeks Aback, I saw a group of Caucasian blokes getting jiggy with it at Lush.Like Vikings at a
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon Biking blues
          88 32 THE results of a recent study in Austria give official weight to a long-held belief: Biking is bad for your testicles. The survey was conducted on 45 mountain-biking males by researchers at an Innsbruck hospital. According to them, 96 per cent had “scrotal abnormalities” including cysts and twisted
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          Lock icon Singing streaker
          100 32 TRANSYLVANIA might be the home of several vampire and werewolf legends, but last week the populace there was confronted with a new terror a nude woman caught running around an apartment block singing at the top of her voice. According to news sources, the woman who was identified
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          Lock icon Monty python
          82 32 SOUTH African Antoine Rossouw was getting tired of the prostitution business in his neighbourhood. His solution: A one-metre-long baby Burmese python called Monty. Rossouw says he takes Monty everywhere he goes. According to him, the last thing a hooker needs is for a ophiciophobic customer to flee in
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          Lock icon Time for love
          57 32  -  Ronald Rajan TIME of the month? How about an SMS message to remind you? Register on the website www.zappybaby.de, and busy women can get a mobile phone message when they are most fertile. The service, which was introduced on Oct 18, sends messages such as: “Achtung! The
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        Lock icon Coupling is cool
        1107 33 LAT-WP Just when you d gotten used to being single. In the US, at least, that's a myth Hollywood would like to perpetuate. Reality bites, as JENNIFER FREY (pedas®eyeball.com.sg) finds out, the truth is oh say it isn't so! marriage is back in vogue. LOOK out, Singletons.
        – LAT-WP; AFP  -  1,107 words
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        553 33 THE aisle is a path many celebrities are choosing to walk down these days. Here are our picks of the most melodramatic nuptials that have happened or are going to in recent times. DARVA CONGER AND RICE ROCKWELL NURSE Darva Conger, 34, beat 50 others to marry millionaire
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      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      387 35 THESE quotes were reportedly taken from actual employee performance evaluations in a large US corporation: “Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom...and has started to dig.” “His men would follow him anywhere... but only out of morbid curiosity.” “I would not allow this employee
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      421 35 i I m 1 m mm a V Park, he busied himself by paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock in thrillers such as Coma. A busy doctor (Genevieve Bujold) stumbles upon a hush-hush conspiracy. To save her from the authorities who believe that dead women tell no tales, fellow doctor (Michael
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      Lock icon Schmoozing for a good cause
      56 36 Elizabeth Taylor (left) and Michael Jackson greeting a well-wisher at the Carousel of Hope Ball benefiting childhood diabetes research over the weekend in Beverly Hills. The ball, held by philanthropists Marvin and Barbara Davis, is billed as the world's premier charity gala, and it is
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Find man a bride, earn thousands
        123 36 AN AMERICAN bachelor is offering US$lO,OOO (5517,400) to anyone who can introduce him to his future wife. Rod Barnett has set up a website to help in his bid to find the woman of his dreams http://www.lok4awife.com. Prospective brides are invited to submit a
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        80 36 Wires CHRISTINA Applegate, who played teen slut Kelly Bundy on Married...With Children and headlined the sitcom Jessie, will star with Cameron Diaz in The Sweetest Thing. It will be all about their search for real love and the trouble finding and keeping it...Teen diva Christina Aguilera needs
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      Lock icon Big news: Sporty OK with weight
      247 36 LOOKS as if another Spice Girl has an eating disorder. First was Ginger Spice’s revelations in her best-selling book, then came the Posh Spice’s reed-thin figure, now Sporty Spice (right) admits her problems with bulemia and anorexia. Despite photos of the “well-rounded” Spice in
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      Lock icon Thorpe sheds trunks for Armani
      124 36 WHAT does hunky Australian swimming sensation and Olympic gold medallist lan Thorpe (left) do to unwind after stepping out of the pool? Well ladies, he slips into something a little more comfortable. “Trunks are so small, you feel vulnerable,” he told The New York Times.
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