Project Eyeball, 17 November 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, November 17, 2000 80 CENTS
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      564 1 THANKFULLY, A DEADLINE j The US celebrates Thanksgiving on Nov 23, and Al Gore and George W Bush can’t ignore that as a J deadline to end the spat over votes. See Page 7 00 ID TS G&EN HAV YOUNG GUNS MUSIC GIGS GALORE It was concert season in recently,
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  • News & Views
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      87 2 AN AUSTRALIAN statue of Hercules might be banned from returning to Adelaide’s city centre because his penis is too big. The nude Greek had been moved because of misguided modesty in the 1960 s and now officials want him back where he was unveiled 100 years ago. But some
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      Lock icon Screaming welcome for Hillary
      483 2 LOW-KEY OFFICIAL RESPONSE -Wiewa HANOI US first lady Hillary Clinton drew crowds of screaming onlookers yesterday when she went shopping in this city, which the Americans once bombed. She touched down hours before her husband Bill was due to become the first American president to visit
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      Lock icon At long last, Netscape 6.0
      362 2 It loads pages faster and is easier to customise NYT NETSCAPE has released the long-awaited new version of its Internet browser, Netscape 6.0. The browser, which can be downloaded in about 30 minutes with a 56K connection, offers several ways to customise the organisation and
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    • Ground
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        Lock icon ‘Infertility is a disease’
        881 3  -  Let us withdraw more from Medisave, say patients By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg CAROL Loi is exhausted. Not only does the civil servant have to battle the medical conditions which have left her unable to conceive against a biological clock that is running down, she also has
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      Lock icon Teens have minds made up
      388 4  -  ABORTION By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg MAKING girls under 16 go for counselling when they want an abortion makes them feel they are not alone. What it can’t do, however, is change their minds. According to the Ministry of Health, most of the teenagers who
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      Lock icon Chieftains of the Net
      581 4  -  Teens control their own virtual towns By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg THEY’RE not even old enough to drive a car, but 15-year-olds Sanjeev Shanker and Tan Si Wei have more pressing things on their minds: managing the hundreds of people under their control as town chiefs of
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      442 5  -  Tan Tock Seng to launch site soon By Desmond Wong local@eyeball.com.sg EVER had trouble keeping track of your health regime? Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s (TTSH) upcoming online Health Enrichment System might be just the key for you to keep tabs on your well-being. The online Health
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon $10,000 fine for killer-litter death
        170 5 A 59-YEAR-OLD woman was fined $lO,OOO yesterday for causing the death of a five-year-old girl through negligence in the first “killer litter” death in Singapore in 16 years. Cheryl Goh died after a flower pot hit her on the head as she was walking near
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        191 5 THE sister-in-law of jailed Singapore Airlines embezzler Teo Cheng Kiat has won her case against the airline. SIA alleged that Tan Leh Kheng, 40, had wilfully assisted Teo in his fraud. However, Judicial Commissioner Chan Seng Onn discovered she had not “knowingly” accepted the embezzled money
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        Lock icon KFC to open coffeeshops
        167 5 FAST-FOOD chain KFC is branching out into the coffeeshop business. A news agency report from Kuala Lumpur said KFC would spend RM2O million (Ss9 million) to open a chain of coffeeshops in the region, as part of its diversification. Following a recent tie-up with US-based Seattle’s
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      Lock icon Kick-starting a fund-raising campaign
      52 6 Here's Roman Catholic priest Manuel Raul Ortega before saying Mass (right), and wearing a karate black-belt and fighting a pro-wrestling “demonic opponent with glam-rock make-up who calls himself Damian 666. Ortega fought to raise money for his church, the Santa Cruz church in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
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      Lock icon Israel in for a long battle, Barak warns
      300 6 ‘Can’t fight complex war with force’ Wires JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak geared his countrymen yesterday for a long fight with the Palestinians even as its helicopters attacked a munitions base of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organisation. Barak poured cold water on
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Special team to hunt for Tommy
        167 6 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian police said yesterday they had formed a special team in yet another bid to track down the youngest son of former president Suharto. “The team has been specially set up to find Mr Tommy,” national police chief Suroyo Bimantoro told journalists.
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        145 6 AFP MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada’s landmark impeachment trial has been moved back three days to give Congress time to prepare, Senate president Aquilino Pimentel said yesterday. Pimentel said 22 members of the Senate would on Monday take their oath as jurors in the
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        Lock icon Tycoon’s election hopes at risk
        208 6 Reuters BANGKOK Telecoms tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, the leader in opinion polls ahead of a general election on Jan 6, asked yesterday for more time to clear his name as the deadline to submit evidence to a corruption probe loomed. Thaksin has until today to submit
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        Lock icon Umno ditches party election plan
        87 6 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s ruling party yesterday jettisoned a controversial plan that would have prevented party elections for senior posts from being held until 2005. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad had announced last month that Umno would hold internal elections once every five
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    • US Elections 2000
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        100 7 Wires ATLANTA Republicans launched a legal bid in the US federal appeals court in Atlanta on Wednesday night to end manual recounts in Florida that Democrats believe could swing the vote to Vice-President Gore. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said the full 12-judge
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        Lock icon Harris declares tomorrow D-day
        110 7 Lat-Wp TALLAHASSEE Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris froze Bush’s lead in Florida on Wednesday night and said she would declare a winner Saturday after the final overseas ballots were tallied. Harris said she considered and rejected appeals from four counties that sought to continue hand
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        Lock icon No double votes with this machine
        49 7 Cox News WEST PALM BEACH A new machine, called PBC 2100, that counts punch-card ballots could have prevented the 19,000 double-votes in Palm Beach County. If two candidates are chosen, the machine catches it and alerts the voter who gets a second chance.
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      Lock icon Thankfully, a polls deadline looms
      586 7 Candidates have till Thanksgiving before US public’s patience runs out Wires WASHINGTON Coming up is a deadline not set by an election official or the courts that Candidate Bush and Candidate Gore cannot ignore. It’s Nov 23 Thanksgiving. And the public mood is expected to
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      Lock icon Expat Jewish vote for Gore may hit Bush
      321 7 1,865 OVERSEAS VOTES STILL UNCOUNTED Lat WASHINGTON The Al Gore campaign is hoping that a surge of absentee ballots from Jewish voters living in Israel who tend to vote Democratic would counter the traditional Republican advantage with military personnel abroad. With just
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    • Apec SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon All dressed in blue
        87 8 IN WHAT has become a tradition at the Apec forum, leaders turned up in co-ordinated attire for their deliberations yesterday. They were all decked out in a blue thigh-length studded shirt with a strip of woven cloth, called a jong sarat, in silver or lilac down
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        53 8 APEC leaders agreed to give North Korea a limited role at their foremost economic showcase, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said: “South Korea has proposed that North Korea be involved in some sectors of the Apec process, and leaders have agreed that North Korea could participate in
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        Lock icon Dodging rumours
        43 8 PERUVIAN officials had a tough time dodging rumours that embattled President Alberto Fujimori plans to seek asylum in Malaysia at the end of the leaders’ summit. Asked about it, presidential spokesman Guido Loayza said: “I haven’t got anything to tell you.”
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        Lock icon Chinese caution
        46 8 Wires CHINA’S President Jiang Zemin warned the other leaders of Pacific Rim nations to beware of the hidden dangers of globalisation from greater wealth disparities to cultural imperialism. He said recent developments have further exposed the risks as economies get closer to each other.
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      Lock icon ‘Open skies’ deal may lower fares
      329 8 Landmark deal could replace bilateral agreements Wires BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Brunei) Jet-setters will appreciate this deal. A landmark multilateral “open skies” aviation agreement reached yesterday between the United States, Singapore, Brunei, Chile and New Zealand could mean cheaper flights. The agreement seeks to lift
      – Wires; AP  -  329 words
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      Lock icon S’PORE, U.S. TO START FTA TALKS
      116 8 AFP BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Singapore and the United States have agreed to start negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement and conclude the talks before the end of the year. “President Bill Clinton of the United States of America and Prime Minister Goh Chok
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      Lock icon Frequent fainters should eat before flying
      308 8 DON'T TRAVEL LIGHT Reuters NEW ORLEANS Here’s another good reason to avoid airplane food: New research suggests that eating before boarding a plane may prevent fainting or heart attacks while flying. A small study reported on Wednesday that a pre-flight meal and sports drink
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY
      180 9  -  Nicholas Yong www.legalhelp. com.sg IF YOUR life is in a mess for whatever reason and you need to consult a lawyer, head to this site for some free legal advice. It’s advice you can heed, because it’s given by experienced lawyers. Head first towards the
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      Lock icon Non-oil exports grew 16.4% last month
      518 9 Higher figure prompts analysts to revise forecasts for full year SINGAPORE’S export figures have bettered the promise they had shown earlier. According to figures released by the Trade Development Board (TDB) yesterday, non-oil domestic exports in October grew by 16.4 per cent year-on-year to
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      Lock icon SGX’s IPO ‘fairly-priced’
      570 9  -  ‘SOLID, NOT SPECTACULAR’ PERFORMANCE EXPECTED By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg IN THESE days of fly-by-night stocks, here’s one with pedigree. The Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday unveiled its initial public offer (IPO), joining an elite group in the Asia-Pacific whose other members include Hong Kong and Australia. The shares
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      Lock icon Sing Net goes for volume deals, too
      389 11  -  BROADBAND ACCESS Teo Yen Fen PACIFIC Internet’s volume-based broadband access plans may have been greeted with scepticism when they appeared last month, but it seems they were on to a good thing. Hot on its heels is Sing Net Broadband’s three volume-based plans
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      Lock icon Monkey’s brain runs robot arm
      160 11 Reuters BRAIN signals from a monkey in a North Carolina laboratory have been used over the Internet to control the movement of a robot arm at a university 1,000 km away, US scientists said on Wednesday. They believe the experiment could form the basis of
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      Lock icon Passwords and number blunders
      421 11  -  Firms hard at work to develop convenient but crack-proof solutions Andrew Chin WHAT Selena Huynh did is best put down to sheer bad luck, the probability of a recurrence akin to striking gold in Singapore. But it has illustrated a common problem in this complicated modern
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      Lock icon Phweet! Go get ’em, boy!
      358 12 Those hot new gadgets, we mean Sony Aibo ERS-210 No, it’s not a dog like the first cyberpet, Aibo. Sony just calls the ERS-210 a robotic pet, and it’s been modelled after a lion cub. And unlike the first Aibo, which cost ¥250,000 (554,025) and
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      Lock icon Genetic studies in Japanese schools
      318 12 RESEARCH PUSH AP TOKYO Japanese junior- and high-school students will be learning about genetic engineering, as the Education Ministry aims to nurture the country’s science students. The new rules take effect from next spring. Officials emphasised that safe experiments, with no threat to humans or
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    • Eyeball SAYS
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        Lock icon Why can’t Estrada just go?
        685 13 LIKE any actor worth his salt, Philippine president Joseph Estrada should know that it’s time to make his exit, whatever the outcome of the Senate impeachment trial. Because even if his friends in the Senate and he has a considerable number manage to acquit him,
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        Lock icon Don’t go online just for profit
        300 13  -  PITOMNIK ‘Reclaiming Internet Eden’ (Nov 16) NINETY-NINE per cent of dotcoms will go up in smoke over the next few years, says USA Network Inc CEO Barry Diller. Eyeball columnist Michael Dwyer says he’s glad the 828 dotcoms are dropping like flies it means
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      Lock icon Give tax breaks to help the infertile
      959 14 Fertility help: Govt tackles pregnant issue (Nov 15) FINALLY, the Government is listening to the plea of the infertile. Minister Lim Boon Heng told Parliament that the Ministry of Health is reviewing the Medisave withdrawal limits for assisted conception procedures. SUBSIDISE COSTS WHEN
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      11 2 The fastest way to download Netscape is from Singapore One: http://fun.s-one.net.sg.
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      32 2 Qood morning! 4 t Showers with thunder are expected in the late morning and afternoon affecting most areas, partly cloudy thereafter High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 3.33AM/2.7M 2.09PM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      116 3 Want to know how many sperms it really takes to make a baby, or what happens when a human egg hatches? Just ask. Introducing Stork Options, our new weekly column where surfers can ask Dr Christopher Chen reproductive questions. Chen made medical history by delivering in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) triplets and
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      29 7 Track the latest in the presidential contest at http^/eyebalLasiaLcomjsg http:// www.tdo.com/ news/local/1116.1oc. highcourt.htm Is the Florida Supreme Court independent? http://www.telegraph.co. uk/et?ac=*****66I *****83&rtmo=LxvLxL7d &atmo=mmmmxwzR&pg= et/00/11/16/wpres516.html More on the long wait.
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      33 11 For more details on Sing Net Broadband’s volume-based plans, log on to http://www.singnet. com.sg/product/ broadband/flashmain. html Do Sing Net’s plans offer value for money? Post your thoughts on our forum at http^/eyebalL asial.com.sg
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      71 12 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET HELEN, OUR LITTLE LUCY IS SO LUCKY TO HAVE A FRIENI7 LIKE YOU AT WORK. THANKS, MRS. PETR ALIA. HO!“! SWf?l o SO WHY ISN'T SHE MARRIED? IS IT HER ATTITUDE? IS IT HER SMART MOUTH? I KNOW IT S SOMETHING! THAT PARNEC 7 GIRL!
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Germans stopped
        84 15 AP LONDON Dennis Rommedahl ended Rudi Voeller’s perfect record as Germany’s team coach yesterday as Denmark scored a 2-1 victory in Copenhagen. The Germans tumbled to two strikes by Rommedahl, who plays for Dutch club PSV Eindhoven. He collected a long pass from deep to race clear and
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        Lock icon Fiery clash
        79 15 SEVILLE The Netherlands scored a 2-1 win over Spain but had fiery striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink expelled for a violent clash with Fernando Hierro. The Real Madrid star, who was also sent off at the same time, had given Spain the lead in the 66th minute but Hasselbaink
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        Lock icon Daum: ‘I’m clean’
        69 15 Reuters FRANKFURT Christoph Daum, designated as Germany’s new soccer coach until he failed a drugs test, told Bild newspaper yesterday he passed a second test in the US. “This shows clearly, I’m clean,” Daum said. He fled to Florida last month after the first test was positive,
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        Lock icon Azhar quizzed
        98 16 AFP HYDERABAD (India) Former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin, accused of match-fixing by federal investigators, appeared before an inquiry commission yesterday, witnesses said. Azharuddin walked into a local hotel through a rear entrance to meet K Madhavan, the anti-corruption officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in
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        Lock icon Soccer chief banned
        69 16 Reuters BUCHAREST-The president of Rapid Bucharest is banned from any involvement with the Romanian first division club for six months for forging a player’s transfer contract, the country’s soccer federation said yesterday. “FRF has banned Rapid president Gheorghe Dinu for six months after the club produced contracts
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        Lock icon England’s chance
        89 18 Reuters LONDON England has the best chance to make a dent in the dominance of the powerful southern hemisphere nations when the world’s top rugby teams clash over the weekend. On Saturday evening at Twickenham, England takes on world champions Australia, a team it has not beaten since
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        Lock icon The full monty
        79 18 Reuters LONDON Meanwhile, the English rugby squad have stripped for a 2001 calendar, in aid of charity. On a cold day in October, captain Martin Johnson and his men bared their all at Twickenham for the Raw Talent calendar. The money raised from the black and white
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        Lock icon NBA WRAP
        205 17 76ers 107 Cavaliers 98 GEORGE Lynch scored 23 points and Allen Iverson added 22 as the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 107-98 and remained undefeated. Celtics 116 Wizards 109 IN BOSTON, Bryant Stith scored a season-high 29 points as Boston snapped a four-game losing streak by beating
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      46 15 “YES, he did, but there’s always arms raised in games and things happen off the ball. But the referee doesn’t see them or chooses not to see them.” David Beckham when asked if Italy’s Gennaro Gattuso had swung his arms at him.
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      Lock icon Young guns
      336 15 For a young side playing its first international match, England did pretty well against Italy, though it lost by a solitary goal The players stood tall against the real men in football, as ZAKX AMRULLAH (zaki@sph.com.sg) points out, especially the... BECKHAM was under intense scrutiny in his first
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      Lock icon FROM ZERO TO HERO
      183 15  -  Zaki Amrullah AT THE 1998 World Cup in France against Argentina, David Beckham was sent off after he lunged out at a theatrical Diego Simeone. Both players had been involved in altercations prior to the incident. The following year, at the Maracana stadium during a World
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      Lock icon Chile may miss out on World Cup after 2-0 loss
      290 15  -  Reuters RIO DE JANIERO At the next World Cup, football fans may miss out on the Za-Sa show as Chile’s hopes for World Cup qualification suffered a huge dent with the 2-0 defeat at the hands of Argentina. Ivan Samorano
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      41 16 “I THINK Jenson (Button) could be the man of this decade, once Michael (Schumacher) hangs up his hat. Juan Pablo (Montoya) may match up to Jenson...Whatever happens, I won’t lose any sleep over it.” Frank Williams, owner of BMW Williams
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      Lock icon Down, but not out
      558 16  -  Rookie fighter Tua’s courage and humility deserve praise By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg CHEERS IT IS so rare that boxers get showered with accolades. So, today we pull out the stops and praise rookie championship fighter David Tua. The fact that he’s not from either America or
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      Lock icon ON THE BOX THIS WEEKEND
      174 16  -  Zaki Amrullah Event: Johnnie Walker Classics, Day 3 Kickoff: Supersports (SCV Ch 20), Saturday, Nov 18, from 1.30 pm onwards Players to watch: Obviously, the golfers to watch include the world’s No 1 player Tiger Woods. But Woods will have his work cut out for
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      831 17 National Basketball Association Some of the teams have made amends after a faltering start in the new NBA season but some, well..they’re still trying. ADAM WASHTOV (hashidy@sph com.sg) reviews a week of b-ball action and puts the teams in their places in this week’s NBA Power Rankings. Player
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      76 18 RUGBY Sevens world champion Fiji has been grouped together with Korea, Argentina, Russia, Kenya and Ireland in Pool A for next year’s sevens World Cup tournament? The defending champion already seems to have the upper hand to qualify for the next stage. Korea, a quarter-finalist at the
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      Lock icon Aussie heads off Tiger
      471 18 Surprise first-day leader in Bangkok AFP BANGKOK If a lead in the first round were all, Australian Wayne Smith would have walked off the US$l.3-million (552.26-million) Johnnie Walker Classic being held in Bangkok. And a lead ahead of even Tiger Woods! The 39-year-old Smith, who plies
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      Lock icon Reihana to the rescue
      429 18 FRANCE VS NEW ZEALAND RUGBY TEST AFP PARIS He’s already the All Blacks’ record try scorer. This weekend, Christian Cullen will reach another milestone as he wins his 50th cap in the second Test with France. While the 24-year-old, scorer of 42 tries in 49 appearances,
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  • Unwind
    • Food
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        Lock icon A load of crab
        751 19 *Tis the season to be crabby. C rustaceMf^m* all shapes and sizes arc clawing their way into restaurant menus. AMlIEllCATAH (tanaw@sph.com.sg)ms the report. CRAB season is N s upon us as menus at restaurants are a-crawling with the leggy crustaceans. v Concorde’s > 3 Xin Cuisine
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        Lock icon CRAB IS ALL IT’S CRACKED UP TO BE
        457 20 FOR unusual culinary spins on the humble crustacean, Sharkey’s Seafood restaurant at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sentosa Resort has laksa, tom yam, and a herbal soup crab. But if it’s chilli crabs, pepper crab, crab tung hoon and Foo Chow cold crabs you’re after,
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        Lock icon Style beats substance
        454 21 Merge The Lifestyle Cafe wins ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) over with its casual ambience, free Internet access and great desserts, despite its lacklustre food. KAY, so the food is nothing to write home about. But we’ll still put Merge on our A-list of hang-outs. Is it because we
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon For the tart at heart
          52 21 FANCY a toothsome morsel? Swensens’ tarts are just the thing to satisfy you. The crusty little boats are filled with smooth cream. They are the signature creations of Emerald Bakery at Swensen’s new 24-hour outlet at 251/253 Holland Village, and cost $l.BO apiece or $5
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          71 21 IT’S all about women power and you ladies out there wouldn’t want to miss the 6 th Annual Raffles Wine and Food Experience. The four-and-a-half day event is titled Celebrating Ladies Of Epicurean Style. There will be an ensemble of female Michelin star chefs, lady vintners and other
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          102 21  -  Angelica Tan Lau Goh Teochew Chye Tow Kway 23 Zion Road Food Centre Open: 5 pm to 11.30 pm on Mondays to Saturdays and 9.30 am to 2.30 pm and 5 pm to 11 pm on Sundays. IT WAS formerly stall 23 at People’s Park Complex, the chye
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        Lock icon Oodles of strudel
        264 22 Fret not if you cant get your favourite apple strudel from Perth. A slew of bakeries have opened in Singapore and are offering new-fangled variations of the traditional Austrian dessert. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) reports. THERE is no need to trouble that auntie/neighbour/ friend’s sister to bring home
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        Lock icon Dessert pip-stops
        259 22 RITZ APPLE STRUDEL AND PASTRY 833, Bukit Timah Road #Ol-10 Royal Ville Tel: *****70 Opens: 10 am to 9 pm Price: $18.50 per roll. Taste: The apple filling was too mushy and too tart. The topping of coarse sugar gives the pastry added crunch, but the finished strudel
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        354 22 BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU DAY “LE BEAUJOLAIS Nouveau est arivee!” Translation: Party time! More accurately, it means the Beaujolais Nouveau has arrived. In fact, about 65 million bottles of the new vintage of red wine of the Beaujolais district (half the year’s output of the wine district in France) were
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        Lock icon The gigs are up
        1328 23 The freezing English cold and rain failed to keep the die-hard fans away as some of Britain s biggest acts Robbie Williams, Mel C and Mansun played to capacity crowds recently. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) braved the weather and caught the stars in action. THE Eurythmics’
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        513 24 R B’s determined diva Young Debelah Morgan takes time out from her schedule of mall concerts to tell RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) all about her love for Rb’B and her never-say-die spirit. DF YOU don’t succeed at first, try again. That’s American R&B diva Debelah Morgan’s credo. In a telephone interview
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          127 25 PHILEAS Fogg may have traversed the globe in 80 days in Jules Verne’s classic novel, but the Backstreet Boys will do that in 100 hours for the global launch of their new album, Black Blue. Yup, the world’s most popular boy band will tour six continents in
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          90 25 NO, POP princess Britney Spears didn’t pierce her other nipple but she did get nominated for two American Music Awards. The singer, who apparently has a pierced nipple, is nominated in the Best Female Singer and Best Album in the Pop/Rock categories. She still lags
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          115 25  -  Hera Chua A CELEBRATORY night out in town has resulted in Phil Byrne, a former tour manager for the London pop quartet All Saints, being charged for making bomb threats. The 42-year-old Scotsman was arrested in connection with a series of threatening calls made to
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        792 25 CLASSICAL THE CLASSICAL COLLECTION, PART I Vanessa-Mae (EMI) AFTER five albums hyping her image as a scantily clad bombshell violinist who made classical music sexy, Vanessa-Mae’s latest release is a refreshing back-to-basics outing that oozes innocence. Her most ambitious to date, Vanessa-Mae has put together
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        878 26 POP ROCK SOUNDLOADED Ricky Martin (Sony) WAS it just last year that this mass of wriggling mucho machismo first opened the door for Latin pop to show the world how to live la vida loca? While it’s easy to dismiss this follow-up to his phenomenal debut last
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        155 26  -  Ronald Rajan SCARED SCARRED By Humpback Oak, from the album Ghostfather Time: 3 mins 44 sec (http://www.audioload.com) THEIR 1994 debut, Pain Stained Morning has been heralded as one of the classic releases in the history of local music. That year, Singapore-bred quartet Humpback Oak swept a
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      190 27 YOU know you drink too much coffee when... You speed walk in your sleep. You answer the door before people knock. You correctly predict the last three digits of the latest COE bid. After you move into the neighbourhood, your kopi dam goes IPO. You’re the employee
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      334 27 Movies First Comes Love 1 pm Star Movies 58 A heartless businessman helps a woman save the museum home of the poet Longfellow from closure. In the process, he finds himself e-evaluating his life. Starring John Stamos, Annabeth Gish and Robert Stack. A Civil Action 8 pm Cinemax 59 When
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      Lock icon Martin joins fight against Aids
      242 28 Reuters STOCKHOLM He may be crooning about shaking bon-bons, but Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin (right) will be preaching a more serious issue come World Aids Day on Dec 1. The Latin heartthrob will be fronting an MTV campaign and documentary to educate teens about the
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      159 28 Reuters GERMAN übermodel Claudia Sctaiffer (right) as been picked to model skimpy underthings in Swedish clothing chain Hennes Mauritz’s notoriously revealing holiday advertising campaign this year. Controversy is expected to follow when billboards in Europe and the US will be plastered with Schiffer in her
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        56 28 LONDON Sir Elton John told London’s High Court that he once spent £40 million (S$99.5 million) in 20 months. “I like to spend money,” John told the court, where he is fighting a £20 million legal battle with accountants PriceWaterhouseCoopers over money which he
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        32 28 OXFORD, England Michael Abram, who stabbed George Harrison because he believed he was possessed by the former Beatle, was confined to a mental hospital by Judge Michael Astill
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        58 28 Wires CARNIE Wilson of the pop group Wilson Philips will be stripping for Peta’s anti-fur campaign. Wilson, who dropped 50 kg through surgery, will follow in the naked footsteps of Pamela Anderson, Kim n»««ng»w and Naomi Campbell...Thieves took S$870,450 in jewellery from the London home of Kate Moss, including
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