Project Eyeball, 2 November 2000

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    • 253 1 r X.& r a the shock of the terrible crash of Flight 006 begins to turn into mourning, the questions on people's minds are: How did this happen? Who made the fatal choice? Who’s at fault? That is what everyone is Asking in the aftermath of Tuesday night’s horrific Cr
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  • SIA FLIGHT 006
    • 503 3 Paul Eric Roca 58th busiest airport In the world The Chiang Kai Shek international Airport, the 58th busiest in the world, was opened on February 26,1979. It is situated in Tayuan Town, Taoyuan County, about a 40-minute bus drive from downtown Taipei City.
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    • 1514 2 EMM, BMMf WHO’S to blame? That’s the question which will be on everyone’s lips today after the horrific crash of Singapore Airlines Flight SQOO6 at Taipei’s Chiang Kai Shek airport on Tuesday night, which killed 79 and injured 56. Even as news bulletins broadcast reports of men,
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    • 984 4 Survivors’ joy tinged with sorrow for those who didn’t make it CHOK Fook Kiong thought that his honeymoon had come to a fiery end. The 28-year-old UOB sales executive wasn’t expecting more than a bit of heavy weather when SQOO6 took off. Then, he said, “the whole
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    • 1134 6 Families sombre, angry and desperate nr snfGumE MOST of the 28 Singaporean families of those on board flight SQOO6 had gathered at Changi Airport by morning. The mood at the holding area was sombre as they waited for a storm-delayed flight to Taiwan. Some were silently crying;
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    • what happens next
      • 472 8 THE INVESTIGATION GETTING to the bottom of what happened to the Singapore Airlines jumbo jet in Taipei will not take as long as the three-year investigation into the Silk Air tragedy in Palembang, Indonesia. This assurance was given by Communications and Information Technology Minister
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      • 493 8 THE SHARES THE plane crashed in Taipei. The scrip felt the shocks. The result: Nearly $365 million in investor wealth has been wiped out overnight. On a day when the bulls charged, shares of Singapore Airlines plunged 4.5 per cent, or 80 cents intra-day, to
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    • 261 9 PM ‘shocked and depressed’ Reuters PRIME Minister Goh Chok Thong said in a statement yesterday: “I was shocked and deeply distressed to learn soon after midnight the crash of SQOO6 in Taipei. “I extend my heartfelt condolences to the families of those who died in the tragedy.
      – Reuters; Reuters; AP  -  261 words
    • 251 9 EYEBALL FORUM AT OUR Web forum http://eyefoniin.asial.com.sg Eyeball readers have been posting condolence messages: FIND THE COURAGE I SEND my condolences and sympathies to the families of those who perished in the air crash of flight SQOO6. I hope you find the fortitude to live life to
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    • 378 9 THE MESSAGE BOARDS OTHER posters brought up issues like passenger rights. Ernimk asks: “Is there an option for passengers? “If I am a passenger on a flight about to take off in bad weather, do I have a choice of not wanting to board that flight and
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    • 86 36 TOP LEFT: Rescue M workers carrying a body bag from the wreckage. Officials have confirmed 79 deaths in Tuesday night’s crash. Reutkrs TOP RIGHT: Be fore 1 boarding a flight from Singapore to Taipei yesterday, one of the 37 relatives and friends of the passengers and
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  • 673 7 Survivors recount horror on board THERE was rain and there was fire. And there was a miracle for 48 passengers, who escaped a burning plane with minor injuries but will never forget the horror on board SQOO6 as it broke into pieces and exploded. “I
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  • News & Views
    • Local LOG
      • 106 10 SPH unveils names of new channels SPH Media Works has unveiled the names of its two free-to-air channels, to reach viewers by next May. The English channel will be called TV Works and its Chinese counterpart, Channel U. At a trade launch yesterday, Media Works also
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      • 123 10 WITH a motto of “Clean and Green. That’s The Way We Like It”, the Environment Ministry (ENV) is working with town councils, NGOs, grassroots organisations and private-sector companies to boost community participation in this year’s Clean and Green Week (CGW). Held from Nov 5
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      • 143 10 A PRO-BUSINESS approach to preserving Singapore’s heritage has seen the Preservation of Monuments Board introduce a new category that would enable historically significant buildings realise their commercial potential. Under the National Monuments (Category 2), a post-war commercial highrise building that’s at least 30 years old qualifies to
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    • 344 11 EMBASSY NOT OPEN Wires JAKARTA Indonesia’s embattled president said yesterday that he still enjoyed Washington’s support even as the US embassy in Jakarta decided to extend its partial shutdown until tomorrow. President Abdurrahman told reporters at the presidential palace yesterday: “There was an
      – Wires  -  344 words
    • 440 11 Shimon Peres and US trying to arrange high-level talks with Palestinians Wires JERUSALEM A Palestinian teenager yesterday became the latest victim of the deadly clashes in the Middle East even as a flurry of diplomatic efforts got under way to re-establish peace. At the
      – Wires; AP  -  440 words
    • 146 11 Wires WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia and Kuwait became the newest Middle Eastern countries in which US armed forces were put on the highest state of alert known as “Threat Condition Delta”, following fresh indications of terrorist threats, US officials said
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    • 474 12 Presidential candidates dispense with civility in ad campaigns AP WASHINGTON The mudslinging looks set to get worse as the US presidential race draws to a close: George W Bush yesterday had a tough new ad accusing Al Gore of “bending the truth”, while Gore
      – AP; AP  -  474 words
    • 319 12 SMEAR ATTACK ON NADER Wires NEW YORK Ralph Nader is a growing thorn in Democratic Party candidate Al Gore’s side and has been a target of a smear attack by a high-profile Gore supporter, reported the villagevoice.com. The nasty rumour is that Nader campaigners had
      – Wires; AFP  -  319 words
    • 6 days to go
      • 230 12 Wires Mock election NEW YORK The “largest mock election in history”, also known as “the single largest online vote of any kind”, gets under way at CNN Center and across the United States tomorrow. Called the National Student Vote 2000, the e-polls will go on at http://www.youthevote.net
        – Wires; Source: CNN/ GALLUP TRACKING POLL  -  230 words
    • 155 13 But talks on missiles proceed Reuters TOKYO North Korea said yesterday in a harshly worded statement that the United States military made 150 reconnaissance flights over its territory in October. This coincided with the start of a new round of talks on Pyongyang’s missile
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 13 Britains recent run of bad luck with its railways continued with a mail trains locomotive ramming into a coal train in southern England yesterday and then running into a road bridge. Only the mail train driver was hurt. AP
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    • World WIDE
      • 191 13 AFP SANAA Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has pointed the finger of blame at Israel’s intelligence service Mossad for the Oct 12 bombing of the USS Cole that cost the lives of 17 American sailors. “If I refer to Mossad, and it is probable
        – AFP; AP  -  191 words
      • 118 13 Reuters SYDNEY A China Eastern Airlines Airbus with 210 people aboard skidded off the main runway at Sydney Airport yesterday after landing. However, no one was reported injured. Television footage showed the aircraft upright and with no apparent damage. The aircraft’s front wheels sank into
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      • 145 13 Reuters LISBON All 48 Russians aboard an Antonov 26 plane that exploded over northern Angola were believed to be dead, Portugal’s Lusa news agency reported yesterday. The aircraft was carrying 42 passengers and six crew when it exploded on Tuesday night near the northern
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      • 104 13 AP BELLEMONT (Arizona) A freight train collided into another carrying hazardous materials in northern Arizona, causing three locomotives to burst into flames. One person was missing and at least three were injured. The train in the front was carrying a small amount of hazardous material but
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      • 141 13 AFP LONDON British food safety watchdogs called for urgent tests yesterday to check if sheep had been infected by mad cow disease. The government said Britain could impose a total ban on the consumption of British lamb if sheep were found to
        – AFP  -  141 words
      • 183 13 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian prosecutors yesterday said they wanted to jail Hutomo Mandala Putra or “Tommy”, the youngest son of former president Suharto today, despite his appeal against an 18-month sentence for corruption. “The summons that was sent to Tommy (on Tuesday) had ordered him to
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    • Article, Illustration
      93 14 Straits Times Index (STI) j Top 3 Active I VOLUME CENTS Omind 76,172,000 340 Nat Elec 52,912,000 750 Nat Steel 49,862,000 298 Top 3 Gainers f CENTS V- Nat Elec 750 294 64.5 Venture 1880 180 10.6 Chartered 865 105 13.8 1 Total number of gainers: 284 Top 3
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    • 176 14 BANKS may fall beside one another to hand out loans to blue-chip corporates, but is there anyone at all to take care of the not-so-big and well-known? No fear, when you have fm2biz.com around. The site’s USP is a promise to source alternative financing
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    • 372 14  -  CPF restoration fair: Boon Heng By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg BOSSES, stop whining about the four percentage point restoration to the employers’ Central Provident Fund contribution rate in January. This was the blunt ticking off that Lim Boon Heng dished out yesterday, saying it was high time that
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    • 37 14 Qerd Niebaum, president of Borussia Dortmund, wrapping a scarf around the Frankfurt bourse’s famous symbol, the bull, on Monday. Borussia is the f irst Qerman soccer club to be listed on the bourse. Reuters
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    • 290 14 RARE MOVE Nyt KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said it was planning to borrow money in euros, a rare move in Asia that will be closely watched by other countries. If successful, Malaysia’s bond issue would be only the second time that an Asian government borrowed
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    • 863 16 Users to pay dues under new system Wires NEW YORK Napster users w.ill soon have to pay monthly dues of, perhaps, U 554.95 (558.70) to access each other’s hard drives. Free downloads of MP3 files will still be available, but they will be
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    • 244 16 ‘It’s over Napster sold out’ Reuters LOS ANGELES News that entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG BTGGga.D has forged an alliance with song-swop service company Napster drew mixed reviews from users of the popular free service. “It’s over Napster sold out”, said one user called Metalgear on a Web-based forum. Napster’s service,
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    • 441 18  -  Experiment to provide broadband services begins By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg THE humble power line can replace your telephone wire or Singapore Cable Vision’s (SCV) cables as an alternative medium for broadband Internet access by the end of next year. Singapore Power Telecom’s and
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    • 414 18  -  MOBILE-COMMERCE GETS BOOST By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg MOBILE-COMMERCE got a shot in the arm recently when the Mobile Electronic Signature (mSign) Consortium approved the first version of an interface standard for electronic businesses. With mSign’s standard interface in place, businesses will now have a common
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    • 160 18 GROOVE Networks has run into its first problem just days after its launch last Tuesday, according to an MSNBC report. Groove’s software has a bug that has prevented some users from sharing their contact information with others, rendering the software virtually useless. Groove is designed
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    • State of the NET
      • 779 20  -  By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg I THOUGHT purebre d honesty didn’t exist on the Internet. So it was that a 19-year-old surfer, nicknamed Gist, bowled me over when she revealed her darkest secrets and deepest thoughts with strangers on the Internet
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      • 337 20 Rnde dudes (Oct 31) WHY do some expat men’s ways grate? Are Caucasian male expats yobs or is it local men who are just hung up and insecure? Eyeball readers react. IT’S COVERT THERE is no overt racism in Singapore only “soft” racism when
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    • 421 21 DBS moving towards a five-day work week (The Straits Times, Oct 31) SINGAPORE’S biggest bank, DBS Group Holdings, is trying to help boost our fertility rate -by cutting the work week by a half day. DBS said the “focus on family” is a stimulus
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    • 476 21 And the nominees are—(Oct 30) THE Booker Prize, like other literary awards, has been plagued with accusations of bias and questionable judgement. An Eyeball reader gives his take. THINK LOCAL WHY do we persist in paying attention to external literary awards while neglecting our own local
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
      • 93 23 Wires BERLIN German footballing legend Lothar Matthaeus has expressed interest in becoming a coach. Matthaeus took note of the achievements of his former playing mates and expressed his desire to be involved in coaching too: “We saw with Rudi Voeller, Andreas Brehme and Matthias Sammer that there were
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      • 78 23 Wires LONDON World chess champion Garry Kasparov held challenger Vladimir Kramnik to a much-needed draw in the 14th game of the 16-match world chess championships yesterday. But with just two games to go, he conceded he would probably lose his crown. Kasparov must now win both remaining games
        – Wires; AP  -  78 words
      • 160 26 Wires LONDON Leeds United became the most high-profile Premiership club to be bundled out of the Worthington Cup yesterday, after being beaten by struggling First Division side Tranmere Rovers 3-2 at Prenton Park. Super-sub Andy Parkinson sent Tranmere into the fourth round with his goal in the
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      • 98 26 AP PHNOM PENH Cambodia’s biggest sporting event, the annual boat race, will go a little international this year. One Burmese boat will race along with nearly 400 local competitors. About 1.5 million Cambodians are expected to converge on Phnom Penh for the Nov 10-12 boat race, the highlight
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      • 125 24 AP NEW DELHI-Former cricket captains of six countries were among the names reportedly contained in a government match-fixing report that India’s prime minister ordered his Sports Ministry to make public yesterday. Details of the report, which says that top players from the leading cricket-playing countries took bribes from
        – AP; Reuters  -  125 words
      • 107 24 Wires BANGKOK-A Thai university will give Tiger Woods an honorary doctorate of philosophy in sports science to honor his talents and excellence in golf, a university representative said yesterday. Woods has agreed to accept the degree from the Kasetsart University in Bangkok, said assistant professor Wallee Phattarophas
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    • 49 23 GARRY Kasparov started playing chess at the age of six. The Azerbaijan-born Russian was also the youngest world chess champion at 22. Now 35, he is a highly successful businessman and aspiring politician back in his home country, and has been touted as future Russian president.
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    • 531 23 Clobbered 101-72 by 76ers Wires THE Knicks had fallen behind Tuesday night, 44-32, to the 76ers with 4 min, 15 sec left in the second period of their season opener when the fans let loose with their displeasure. Things got progressively worse for the Knicks,
      – Wires; AFP  -  531 words
    • 289 23 SHAQ1, TRAILBLAZERS 0 Wires OOPS! He’s done it again. Shaquille O’Neal scored 36 points on 14-of-20 shooting from the field, pulled down 11 rebounds and added five assists and four blocked shots, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 96-86 victory over the
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    • 678 24  -  Race and politics were no barrier to Muhammad Ali and Angelo Dundee By Jon Saraceno USA Today WASHINGTON On that night, in a city that almost seems to revel in rancour and political divisiveness, there was none. Not inside this room, anyway. Any possible divide
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    • 39 26 WATFORD manager Graham Taylor, after the 3-0 hammering at the hands of an under-strength Manchester United: “It shows that their second, third or fourth sides could still finish in the top six of the Premiership.”
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    • 618 26  -  But Eriksson could do England good By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg This “loss-of-face-factor” has done nothing to ease the tension. Not that English coaches are sec-ond-grade trainers, but surely, there are foreigners too who are capable of leading the country’s team to glory. Kevin Keegan failed, Glenn Hoddle
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    • Tee TIME
      • 396 26  -  CONTROVERSIAL E.R.C DRIVERS By John Crean pettime@sph.com.sg OLD golfers never die, they start using revolutionary new equipment to resurrect their flagging careers. Veterans Sam Torrance of Scotland and Ireland’s Eamonn Darcy are appearing on leaderboards again at the grand old ages of 47 and
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  • Unwind
    • Movies
      • 1479 27 CHINESE director Chen Kaige once described Wong Kar Wai as a tailor “who can cut out a dress only after seeing the entire piece of cloth on display”. It’s not a bad analogy since the cult Hong Kong filmmaker does have an unconventional way of
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      • Cyber SNITCH
        • 101 29 ON THE Web now is a site created by a rabid fan (or fans?) of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark, campaigning for a big 20th birthday blast for the snakes and booby-traps adventure movie. Go to www.indy2o.com and see the work of the
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        • 110 29 AFTER leaving his role as Brandon Walsh on TV’s Beverly Hills *****, Jason Priestley’s got locked into something quite unexpected. He now co-owns and is the spokesman for a plastic padlock cover company. Go to www.padlockcover. com if you don’t believe us. The site sells the plastic
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        • 22 29  -  Sandi Tan That’ll do, Pig. That’ll do.’ Rhys Ifans in The Replacements, echoing the farmer in Babe
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      • Article, Illustration
        707 29 Reviews: Sandi Tan LOSER, PG Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Greg Kinnear AFTER Clueless, writer-director Amy Heckerling goes for Loser. What’s next? Moron? Let’s hope it’s not downhill from here. Many critics and moviegoers have a soft spot for the woman who made us put down our slingshots
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      • 900 30 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE PG Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan AFTER taking on Argentina and the sand dunes of China, Wong Kar Wai sets his ravishing new film in a crumbling apartment block in 1960 s Hong Kong. In The Mood For Love explores the
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    • Clubbing
      • 925 31 Although Kuala Lumpur s most famous club, The Back Room, has shut its doors, the citys dance scene is growing, as big names and even bigger clubs hit town. EILEEN SIBADOGIL (pedas@eycball.com.sg) investigates. RT director Sham Jallaludin still gets misty-eyed when talking about the
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      • 552 33 MOVEMENT No 2, Jalan Bukit Bintang, ***** Kuala Lumpur E-mail: fskl@tm.net.my Tel: (03) 2694 9488 Open: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays The mnsic: Not restricted to any particular genre. The general guideline: “Nothing commercial,” says resident DJ and manager Gabe defiantly. “We keep the crowd happy by
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      • 167 34  -  Interviews by Ronald Rajan Pictures by Law Kian Yan EMI (Singapore) celebrated the upcoming launch of the Spice Qirls’ Forever (out on Nov 6) at the Siam Supper Club on Friday. The shindig was open only to a select few, who were treated to
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      • Pick of the CLUBS
        • 53 34 Zouk TERY Lee And Double Helix present The Joint —a party to follow up the dazzling Room 117. The city’s music hungry can this time around soak themselves in the sweetness of R&B, bluesy jazz, or rough, hardened hip-hop. The show is on Nov 10, Friday,
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        • 247 34  -  Siti Hadija Phuture COME down to Phuture and join Tony Tay as he makes a return to the club on Saturday night. Before Tay took a month off to serve the country and do a gig at Maniac Love in Tokyo, he had gained a good following at
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 368 35 Tube Talk Ross, Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Joey and Rachel: Six Friends who stay together through thick, thin, and just plain funny. Movies BawangPntih 9.30 pm Suria Channel A Cinderella story about Melati, a beautiful and kind-hearted girl who is ill-treated by her stepmother and stepsister. When Melati is sought after
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