Project Eyeball, 8 November 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, November 8, 2000 80 CENTS
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      313 1 m PHONE WARS Sing Tel and Star Hub have cried foul over an Ml move to entice customers over to its IDD service. See Page 14 ABSOLUT SINGAPORE You’ve seen the ads for Absolut vodka featuring great cities of the world. Now, Singapore joins the list. See Page 24 IS
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  • News & Views
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      89 2 MISSOURI Senate candidate John Ascroft has been campaigning hard in the run-up to today’s election to avoid the indignity of being beaten by a dead man. Ascroft is running against Mel Carnahan, who died last month. It was too late to remove Carnahan’s name from the ballot paper and
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      Lock icon Dirty tricks till the last minute
      238 2 Hacker defaces Bush website, links it to Gore’s Wires WASHINGTON The fight was close, so the tricks had to be dirty, right till the end. In a sign of the times, a leading Republican website was hacked just hours before Americans began voting to
      – Wires; Reuters  -  238 words
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      Lock icon Law firm cashes in on SIA crash
      206 2 PUBLICITY STUNT THERE’S only one word to describe the latest development in the SQOO6 saga distasteful. It’s been barely a week since the horrific tragedy in Taipei which saw 82 people killed and several others very badly burnt. But vultures have swooped down
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      Lock icon First village to vote in US picks Bush
      273 2 AP NEW HAMPSHIRE Republican George W Bush scored a symbolic yet overwhelming victory in the first ballot of the 2000 US presidential election in the sparsely populated, mountain hamlet of Dixville Notch. Held in the “ballot room” of the Balsam Grand Hotel,
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    • SIA FLIGHT 006
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        Lock icon New data on runway lights
        1089 3  -  Four sources should determine if Runway 05R was lit up or not By Eugene Wee and Wong Sher Maine in Taipei eugenew@sph.com.sg sher@sph.com.sg WHO will conclusively answer the million-dollar question:. Were the runway lights on or off when SQOO6 tried to take off? Initial interviews
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        Lock icon On the runway to disaster
        195 5 This is where the plane first hit a jersey block (the orange-painted concrete barriers). The pit is where construction work was being done to make the runway more level and even. Several of these pits dot the runway. As the plane turns at the end
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        Lock icon GPS technology may aid runway traffic
        568 4 It is similar to the navigational aids found in many cars Lat-Wp WASHINGTON Cars now come with navigational aids to tell them exactly which street they are travelling on, so why can’t planes have the same? Well, soon they too might have a small
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        Lock icon Changing seats saved their lives
        781 5 Couple made last-minute request AP PORTLAND As she boarded Flight SQOO6 to fly home to the US, Deborah Brosnan turned to the Singapore Airlines stewardess, and asked if she and her husband could switch seats. The American couple wanted to move from the middle of
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Education and training may help improve situation
        958 6  -  Complaints rife about poor quality of service in Singapore By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg THOSE jokes about waiters with attitudes aren’t funny anymore. Not just because we’ve grown up, but also because they indicate just how bad service can get. Take 26-year-old John Pereira’s
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      Lock icon ‘Spend more public cash on training’
      840 7 Neglecting HR development will mean everyone will lose out: BG Yeo THE challenge for Singapore is to spend more public money on education and training. At the same time, it should make sure talent stays within its shores. Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo
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      351 7  -  By Dawn Lee dawnlee@sph.com.sg MORE people are volunteering to work overseas with the Singapore International Foundation (SIF). It will be sending out 172 volunteers next year alone, as compared to the 375 sent over the last nine years. In fact, the figures would
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      Lock icon Art for PR scheme draws $28m in artefacts
      580 8  -  Scheme has been in place for five years By G Sivakkumaran and Sonny Phua gsiva@sph.com.sg sonnyp@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S museums are where arts meets business. Donate a piece worth at least $750,000, and the National Heritage Board will support your application for Permanent Residency
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    • Local LOG
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        151 8 DON’T dial and drive. That’s the blunt message from Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, to all motorists. Since July, all motorists caught using their mobile phone while driving have been prosecuted in court, whether they were first-time
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        85 8 HONG Kong’s telcom giant Pacific Century Cyberworks has launched a broadband network in Singapore. It plans to invest $25 million over the next three years to take advantage of the projected increase of Singaporean broadband users to 1.2 million by 2003. The broadband service on
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        Lock icon Court penalises patent violation
        133 8 A SINGAPORE biotechnology company, Genelabs Diagnostics, has been ordered to stop distributing medical kits meant to detect a new strain of the HIV virus the virus which causes Aids. In an Appeals Court ruling, it was declared that Genelabs Diagnostics had infringed on a patent of
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Calls to impeach Estrada soften
        324 9 Wires MANILA The main opposition party predicted yesterday that Philippine President Joseph Estrada would be forced out of office by the end of the year. But Estrada, taking strength from an opinion poll, insisted he would not step down over corruption allegations. The prediction by
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        177 9 Wires BANGKOK Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai’s government yesterday decided to dissolve parliament tomorrow and hold a general election on Jan 6, the first since the 1997 Asian economic crisis. The dates must now be approved by King Bhumibol Adulyadej, but that’s a mere formality.
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        Lock icon Tommy still hiding, claims death threats
        180 9 Wires JAKARTA The fugitive son of former president Suharto remained in hiding yesterday, with the police hot on his tracks amid claims from his lawyers that death threats had been made against him. Frustrated prosecutors said they had called on the police to launch
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        Lock icon US Embassy in Jakarta re-opens
        85 9 AFP JAKARTA The United States yesterday re-opened its embassy in Jakarta to the public after a two-week closure, saying that although a security threat still existed, protective measures had been upgraded. In a notice to US citizens, the embassy said: “Routine visa and passport services
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        Lock icon Bid to oust Chen picks up steam
        216 9 Rules on dismissal revised Wires TAIPEI Taiwan’s oppositiondominated legislature yesterday moved a step closer to dismissing President Chen Shui-bian after revising rules on ousting the island’s head of state. A Nationalist-led opposition coalition, which commands a majority in the 220-seat parliament, passed a
        – Wires; Reuters  -  216 words
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        161 9 Wires NEW YORK commonly used in cold and cough medicine, phenylpropanolamine (PPA), is being banished from medicine cabinets because it has been linked to strokes. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday began proceedings to have PPA banned after a Yale University study
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    • Life after President Clinton
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        Lock icon Big plans to stay on the world stage
        892 10 HIS FUTURE Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON It was a sparkling Labour Day afternoon, a perfect time to be on the golf course of the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, and President Bill Clinton was two-up on his friend and chief fund-rais-er,
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        Lock icon Time bombs everywhere
        923 11  -  HIS LEGACY By Robert Kagan kagan@ceip.org WE JUDGE American presidents by what happens on their watch, from inaugural day to the final farewell. That’s not entirely fair. When someone new steps into the Oval Office, at least part of his legacy has been set for him by
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.myscis sors.com
      185 13  -  Nicholas Yong THIS site claims to be Asia’s first business-to-business hub servicing the arts, music, film and publication industries. The site, which matches buyers and sellers within these industries, provides a medium for them to trade online. Membership is free. But if you
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      82 13 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Omlnd 50,079,000 374 1 1 *****,000 16 PCI 22,313,000 120 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Venture 1790 60 3.5 SIA 1650 50 3.1 SIA 200 1660 50 3.1 Total number of gainers: 132 Top 3 Losers CENTS OUE 705 60 7.8
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      Lock icon Today ‘won’t hit’ SPH
      754 13  -  Goldman Sachs cites rate card, content concerns over new newspaper By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg THE Media Corporation of Singapore’s first-ever newspaper, Today, debuts on Friday, but research analysts, such as top US investment bank Goldman Sachs, have forecast a rocky ride ahead for the new venture.
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      Lock icon Resisting Homeworld Cataclysm is futile
      525 14  -  REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAME SEQUEL By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg RESISTANCE is futile three chilling words spoken by the bio-me-chanical monstrosities called the Borg in Star Trek. You’ll experience the same kind of dread when faced with a very similar nightmarish creature in Homeworld Cataclysm, the sequel
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      Lock icon Mi pulls IDD message
      629 14  -  IDA orders the move after SingTel and StarHub complain of unfair business tactics By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg MI’S intercepting voice-message on Sing Tel and Star Hub IDD services were taken off yesterday morning. The Info-Comm Development Authority (IDA) ordered the move as it investigates the complaint
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    • Single’s SAY
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        302 15  -  DSUEN ‘PM “not too harsh” with AMP’ (Nov 7) THOSE polled by Eyeball agreed with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s decision to say no to the Association of Malay-Muslim Professionals’ (AMP) collective leadership proposal: IT IS a good thing both the Prime Minister and Senior
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        Lock icon Respect pain of grieving friends and relatives
        402 15  -  Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu PERHAPS the most painful thing about tragedies is that time, like an impassive bulldozer, rolls forward unrelentingly sometimes dragging us along with our heels digging in the dirt. As closely as I tried to follow the news updates on
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      Lock icon MOH is trying to attract nurses
      254 15 EYEBALL forum poster MICHAELGIM wrote that health authorities ought to attract more local nurses, instead of taking in more foreign nurses and nursing students. Julia Wong, public affairs manager with the Ministry of Health, replies: NURSES’ salaries in the restructured hospitals were reviewed in
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      23 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder in the afternoon over most areas. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 9.05AM/2.5M 9.03PM/2.5M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      33 4 More on the safety issues facing pilots and airports: http://www.airdisaster. com/features/takeoff hazard/hazard.html A pilot’s view on the dangers during take-off. http://www.awp.faa.gov/ fsdo/art Qbrien.htm An article on the standarising of runway signs and markings.
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      28 11 Find out more about President Clinton’s foreign policy record: http:/Avww.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8514 A page dedicated to Clinton’s foreign policy failures. http://www.foreignpolicv2ooo.org/library/issuebriefs /readingnotes/fa walt.html An analysis of Clinton’s foreign policy highlights.
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      43 12 TO GET TO THE NEWS FAST Fresh Home News Hot Money and Sports News The Many Flavours of Asian News a A Rich Blend of Prime and World News Ah! The Aroma of Life! MyMoming My Straits Times Call 749 7233 for subscription
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon ‘Money for winning’ shock
      467 16 Barcelona accused of offering Milan cash to win tie with Leeds Wires THE big match has yet to start, but the mind games have already been set in motion. Rumours have been flying furiously in Europe that Barcelona has offered AC Milan millions of dollars to
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      Lock icon Will United fail the final test again?
      454 16 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Wires LONDON Don’t be too smug yet, Manchester United fans. Yes, today’s vital qualifier against Ukraine’s Dynamo Kiev is at Old Trafford where United has been invincible in English Premier League games since Dec 19,1998. Just this season alone, it has
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        70 16 Reuters ROME Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher is unlikely to test for Ferrari until the New Year because of surgery to remove a pin from the leg he broke at Silverstone last year. A Ferrari spokesman said yesterday that the German was expected to go into
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        72 16 Reuters STUTTGARTFinland’s Mika Hakkinen says Michael Schumacher will have to settle for second best next season. The McLaren driver failed to win his third successive crown as Schumacher ended Ferrari’s 21-year wait with his own third title. t Hakkinen said that his determination to regain the championship is
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        100 18 Reuters NORTH CAROLINA The Charlotte Hornets signed forward Jamal Mashburn to a contract extension on undisclosed terms yesterday. The Hornets acquired Mashburn on Aug 1 as part of the blockbuster nine-player trade with the Miami Heat involving Eddie Jones and Anthony Mason. But he didn’t regret the move.
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        Lock icon Eyles in business
        79 18 AFP LONDON Australian Rodney Eyles, one of the most influential players in world squash over the past decade, has retired from competition in order to help promote the Professional Squash Tour (PSA). The 33-year-old Eyles, who’s from Brisbane, has been a World Open champion, a member of
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        Lock icon Rookie of the year
        71 18 AP TOKYO Japanese baseball fans yesterday cheered news that Seattle Mariners reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki was voted American League rookie of the year. “This is very big for Japanese baseball,” said Masaru Madate, an official at the Professional Baseball Association of Japan. “What he accomplished was all
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        67 19 Reuters ST LOUIS It just got worse for the St Louis Rams. Star running back Marshall Faulk underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove loose cartilage from his right knee and is expected to be sidelined for two to three weeks. Faulk, one of the N leading candidates for NFL
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        Lock icon Ross resigns
        66 19 Reuters PONTIAC (Michigan) Sunday’s blowout by the Miami Dolphins was apparently too much for Bobby Ross to take and he resigned as head coach of the Detroit Lions on Monday. Lions chairman William Clay Ford said at a news conference to announce Ross’ stunning decision: “I think he
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        65 19 AP SALT LAKE CITY John Starks scored 14 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter and Karl Malone finished with 22 points as the Utah Jazz beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 98-92 in NBA action. Utah used a 29-15 run in the fourth quarter to seal their
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAT
      58 16 'We don’t choose our teams from the countries they come from. We choose them for the people they are. I was surprised at the level of racism when I came down from Scotland, because there just wasn’t any from where I came from.’ Sir Alex Ferguson,
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      Lock icon The hair up there
      200 17 FOR the fashion-challenged, there’s nothing like a new NBA season to keep you updated on the latest hip-hop trends. Remember baggy, knee-length shorts? Well, the NBA more or less started that one. Otherwise, we’d all be wearing thigh-high ones and looking like John Stockton. Black sneakers
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      Lock icon Hill-less Magic beat Supersonics
      525 17 McGrady back with a vengeance Reuters ORLANDO (Florida) Tracy McGrady returned from a onegame suspension and collected 31 points and four steals as the Orlando Magic ran the Seattle Super Sonics into the ground for a 110-99 victory on Monday. “We saw them getting a little
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      Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
      63 18 JAHANGIR Khan was named Pakistan’s Sportsman of the Millennium recently. The squash legend made his international debut at the age of 15 by beating the then world No 5 Lars Kvant at the World Championships. Khan, who is now the general manager of sports at Pakistan International
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      Lock icon For Lewis, Tua is not his biggest fight
      427 18 AP LONDON World boxing heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has admitted that he will find it difficult to motivate himself to carry on boxing, if a deal cannot be struck to allow him to fight Mike Tyson. Lewis, who defends his WBC and
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      401 18 Samoan has hardest punch after Tyson Reuters MOUNT Charleston (Nevada) David Tua was annoyed by a question about whether he was carrying too much weight for this weekend’s title fight against Lennox Lewis. So, after gobbling an assortment of vitamins carefully laid out for him on a plate,
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      25 19 ON THIS day in 1982, Welsh striker lan Rush found the net on four occasions in Liverpool’s 5-0 win over arch-rivals Everton.
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    • World of SPORT
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        Lock icon Bittersweet win
        493 19  -  Mickelson beats Tiger, but answers questions about Woods By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg EVEN after you’ve won, the questions fired at you are not “How did you do it?” or “How do you like the victory?” Instead, they are rather insensitive ones like “How did it feel beating him?”
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      Lock icon Hutchings shown the door
      292 19 TIME FOR CHANGE, SAYS BRADFORD CHAIRMAN Reuters BRADFORD Bradford City chairman Geoffrey Richmond has defended his decision to sack manager Chris Hutchings after just 12 league games in Charge of the English Premier League club. The inexperienced Hutchings and his assistant Malcolm Shotton were both fired
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  • Unwind
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        Lock icon AIR SAFETY AWARENESS: It’s up to you
        1050 20 THERE are always a few tense minutes before an airplane takes off. When everyone’s eyes are focused on a book, or on the runway but rarely are eyes trained on the safety demonstration video. Many passengers, such as Ben Quah, 25, told Eyeball
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      • Travel SHELF
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          Lock icon Hop into Tasmania
          75 22 SPEND nine days in Hobart, Tasmania, and the heart of the historic town of Richmond. Part of the tour is getting to play with kangaroos and Australia’s most treasured animal the koala. Be sure to bring along your videocam to capture the magnificent view along Cataract George
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          60 22 FOR a quick getaway from the city, why not hop onto Star Cruise Virgo and head for a 3D/2N cruise to Phuket, including Langkawi island, Kuala Lumpur and Port Dickson or just a high-sea weekend cruise to nowhere. Prices ranges from as low as $229, $149
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          Lock icon Chill out at Bintan
          55 22 THIS is just one resort that you can’t resist. This resort in Indonesia offers you total relaxation with their outdoor jacuzzi, sea sports and wilderness. Prices are from $2OB for a twin-sharing hotel package for a 2D/IN, return ferry transfer and return seaport tax. For further
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          Lock icon Phuket to the fore
          59 22 GOLF fanatics out there, don’t rack your brains for your next holiday getaway. Thailand’s Blue Canyon Country club (Phuket) offers a 3D/2N stay from $373. The lure includes two 18-hole golf course, caddie fees, full use of sauna, jacuzzi and steam rooms. To find out more
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          Lock icon A Sapporo winter
          52 22  -  Hera Chua WINTER holiday makers, take note. Head for sapporo, the largest city in Hokkaido, Japan for a 6D/4N stay. Be sure to carry loads of film to capture the winter scenery. Tradewinds Tours and Travels offers this package from $1,788. Contact *****13 or tradewinds.com.sg. Valid until
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        Lock icon Insure peace of mind
        206 22 Fatalistic? Perhaps. Prepared? Definitely. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) considers the whys and wherefores of taking out travel insurance before you hit the road, or the beach. TRAVEL insurance satisfies several categories of people. Those who bear a Jongian fear of flying will appreciate every morsel of security
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        448 22  -  June Wan TRAVELLING tomorrow? No insurance? Never fear, in these technologically-sawy times, travel insurance is just a call or a click away. OCBC OCBC Cardmembers get free Travel Personal Accident Insurance, which provides coverage for travel accidents while travelling overseas in a public conveyance for up to 90
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        Lock icon Games on the go
        288 23 There's big fun to be found in small packages. We're not just talking about Qameßoy and your Nokia 8210's built-in games, (food of Monopoly's a great excuse for making friends with that good-looking Swede in the aisle seat in Row 34. So it doesn't matter whether
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      • Travel DIARY
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          95 23 WITNESS a gruesome one-on-one fight to the death, gladiator-style with difference all the participants are robots! The place to be is Las Vegas’ All American SportsPark Pavillion. From Nov 16 to 19, four weight classes of copper-veined, gas- and electric-powered contenders will slide, saw, ram and short circuit
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          Lock icon Brit art brats
          105 23 GET your dose of this year’s freshest crop of YBAs (that’s Young British Artists, for the uninitiated), as unearthed by the Turner Prize 2000. The controversial art prize, awarded in the past to Tracey “My Bed” Emin and Damien “Formaldehyde Boy” Hirst, is up for grabs again.
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          Lock icon On your guard
          100 23  -  Clara Chow IF YOU’RE not into the heat wave of the Indian desert, or the pulsating high-energy of rave culture, you can steep yourself in the avant garde theatre of Argentinian troupe De La Guarda. Having relocated themselves to the arid neon Las Vegas, the troupe, which
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    • Arts
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          Lock icon Lessons in harmony
          85 24 MY NAME Is Nadra is a moving production based on an event that happened in Singapore back in the *****. The play tells the tale of a Dutch girl adopted by a Muslim family during one of the worst racial riots of the time. Staged by D’RAMA
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          Lock icon Be the next Romeo
          104 24 SINGAPORE Dance Theatre is presenting the romantic tale of Romeo And Juliet. In conjunction, Symphony 92FM is conducting a love poem contest. Come up with a legibly written, or typed, poem in less than 60 words, and no more than four lines, to enter. You could
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          Lock icon Ace guitarist entertains
          90 24  -  Siti Hadijah COME join Uruguayan guitarist Eduardo Fernandez for a musical feast. Acknowledged as one of the best in the industry, Fernandez will perform various pieces ranging from classical to pop music. The talented maestro will display all four Lute Suites, in commemoration of the 250th anniversary
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        Lock icon Absolut-ly fabulous
        538 24 City slickers Absolut intends to match Singapore’s spirit with the spirit in its bottles. SAM I-SHAN (pedas@eyeball.com.sg) finds out more about the vodka icons next ad. UNLESS you’ve been in hiding for the past 20 years, you’ve probably seen an Absolut Vodka ad, using the shape of its
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        Lock icon Power and the passion
        450 25 Irish traditional dancing set JUNE WAN’S (junewan@sph.com.sg) feet a-tapping. At Riverdance The Show, ye olde style met nouveau for an evening of high-energy synchronicity. KAY now, what’s stiff, ramrod straight and goes up and down very fast? Give up? A Riverdancer. Disbelievers call them stiff-backed leprechauns
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        Lock icon Poetry fit for a nation
        579 25  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg TWO years, $lOO,OOO and countless revisions later, Singapore’s most ambitious anthology of poetry finally emerges. Not short on quantity, Rhythms: A Singapore Millennial Anthology Of Poetry features a meaty collection of 101 poems. “Although 100 is a perfect score, the
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        Lock icon Clues to a colourful past
        606 26 Last year a couple found over 30 paintings by the late artist Dr Chen Wen Hsi in their attic. Some of them have been cleaned up and are now on display. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports that organisers hope the works will shed light on
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        Lock icon AN ARTIST OF NOTE
        154 26 ORIGINALLY from Shantou in Guangdong province, Chen Wen Hsi (right) ranks beside other notables like Liu Kang, Cheong Soo Pieng and Chen Chong Swee who were pioneers of the Nanyang school of painting, which combines rustic Asian settings with European artistic influences. Chen is probably the
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      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      148 27 THE blonde’s medical dictionary: Artery: Study of paintings. Bacteria: Backdoor to the cafeteria. Barium: What to do when treatment fails. Bowel: Letter such as A, E, I, O, or U. Caesarean section: District in Rome. Cat scan: Searching for Hello Kitty. Cauterise: Make eye contact with her.
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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      482 27 Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy finally confronts the evil Mayor. Movies No Way Back 2pm# TCS 5 An FBI agent (Russell Crowe) is blackmailed by the Mafia to exchange a Japanese prisoner for his kidnapped son. Helen Slater and Etushi Toyokawa co-star. No Escape, No Return 9 pm Star Movies 58
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      249 28 SEEMS as though everyone’s dropping something on the sets of the new movies Pearl Harbour and Catch Me If You Can. Those on the set of Pearl Harbour got an eyeful of actresses Kate Becbinsale (above right) and Catherine Kellner during shooting for the World
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      79 28 KATE Winslet (right) is overjoyed with being a new mother, reports The Mirror. Said Winslet about Mia Honey Threapleton: “She’s my most amazing production yet, absolutely gorgeous. And she’s transformed my life.” “I’m a lot less hectic than I was,” she said. “I’ve stopped smoking, and
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      114 28 BRITNEY Spears wild child or sweet young thing? She was recently snapped partying hard in Germany, looking more than a little dishevelled. And who can forget that saucy striptease performance she gave at September’s MTV Music Video Awards? Now, it turns out that the 18-year-old
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      70 28 THE King’s army uniform is up for sale, complete with the stain where he leaned against a newly painted window. The uniform dress jacket of Elvis Presley (above) could fetch U 5536,000 (5563,198), auctioneers said. The uniform was given to him in the US for his posting
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        125 28 Wires EMMY-WINNING actress Camryn Manheim. co-star of ABC’s hit legal drama The Practice, is expecting a baby in April and plans to raise the child as a single mother, People magazine reports on its website. The news comes a week after Ellenor Frutt played by
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