Project Eyeball, 27 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, December 27, 2000 80 CENTS
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      438 1 WORKERS MUST GO So say authorities, much to the relief of the man who owns two-thirds of the house they live in. The one-third owner had rented its portion out to foreign workers. See Page 6 PORTING OUR LIT Poet Felix Cheong wants the world, or at least foreign universities,
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      81 2 THANK God, Christmas is over. That’s what Santa Clauses in Germany are saying. This yuletide, most of them complained of parents asking them to discipline their children instead of just being, well, Santa Clauses. They were requested to tell the children to work harder at school, stop fighting and
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      Lock icon Tests must strengthen solidarity
      267 2 Muslims must unite, says minister THE solidarity of the Muslim community is increasingly under test with new challenges, such as the rapid changes in the field of information technology and issues of leadership. While these should serve to strengthen the community’s confidence, they should also unite
      Desmond Wee  -  267 words
    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon The best Xmas gift of all
        136 2 THERE are gifts, and there are Christmas gifts, but none better than being blessed with a child on Xmas day. That too, the first Christmas baby of the country. As church bells pealed past midnight, parents Chong Ka Keong and Tay Puay Luan were
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        Lock icon Night clinic at Jurong Polyclinic
        74 2 COME Jan 2, there will be a night clinic at Jurong Polyclinic. Located at the National Healthcare Group Jurong Polyclinic, the pilot project will operate from 7 pm to 9.30 pm from Monday to Friday, and will provide medical services, including-subsidised out-patient treatment for acute
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        Lock icon Wong re-appointed to PA Board
        157 2 MINISTER for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng has been re-appointed Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association (PA) Board of Management. Other re-appointees include Matthias Yao Chin, Minister of State without Portfolio; Chan Soo Sen, Pari Sec for Health and PMO; Associate Professor Yaacob Ibrahim, Pari
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        Lock icon Inmates granted home leave
        80 2 FOR the first time since its inception five years ago, 28 residents at the Taman Bacaan Female Halfway House were given 24-hours home leave to celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri with their families, a reward for their good discipline and conduct in community work. A resident leaving
        Clarence Chan  -  80 words
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        Lock icon Bomb detonation postponed
        78 2 Ap POOR weather on Tuesday forced Singapore navy officials to postpone the detonation of a 45-kg World War II bomb found lodged in the seabed off the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, officials said. The detonation was scheduled for noon yesterday, but navy divers had to wait due
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      Lock icon World Watch
      259 3 LPOYANG At least 309 people, including young revellers at a Christmas Day disco party, were killed when fire swept through a commercial centre. JERUSALEM A fierce gun battle erupted in the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli troops as their leaders face a deadline today for responding to
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      Lock icon Thaksin indicted
      326 3 Graft charge could end leadership bid BANGKOK The favourite to win Thailand’s general election on Jan 6, Thaksin Shinawatra, was yesterday indicted by an anti-graft body for concealing his wealth in asset declarations in the *****. If the indictment of the National Counter-Corruption Commission (NCCC) is confirmed by
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      Lock icon A season of grieving
      44 3 Pakistani police looking at bloodstained clothes at the site of a bomb explosion in a Lahore market on Christmas Day. At least 37 people were injured in three bomb explosions as Christians celebrated Christmas and Muslims prepared for Aidilfitri. Afp
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      Lock icon Suqiu blinks, drops demands
      84 3 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR-An influential Malaysian Chinese group has dropped its call for the government to stop favouring the politically dominant ethnic Malays. A statement on the website of the Chinese political lobby group Suqiu (http://www.suqiu.org) said that it supports the special privileges granted to Malays. The
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      Lock icon Malaysia to curb religious extremism
      116 3 Afp KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is planning to strengthen laws to curb religious extremism. Minister for Legal Affairs Rais Yatim, quoted by The New Straits Times, said the Cabinet had authorised a review of the effectiveness of existing laws against those who misuse religion. The review
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Airborne shagadelics
        1159 4 Inflight coitus, anyone? Join the infamous Mile High Club. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) gives the lowdown on copulating on the, er, fly, and Virgin Airways' plans to accommodate lust in the air. HAVE your air-gasm if you must, but find some other post-coital downer instead of a cigarette, especially
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        Lock icon Join the club, just do it on an airplane
        261 4 SO, HOW do you join the Mile High Club? According to the official website of the club, http://www.mile highclub.com, the status is only conferred on those who’ve had sexual intercourse “at an altitude of no less than 5,280 ft (a mile
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      Lock icon HOW TO GET AIR PLAY
      153 5 AFRAID of flying and getting frisky in front of others? Well, some considerate companies have organised personal Mile High Club possibilities: Private Jet Charters http^/www.privatejet rha rtftr«jMiiyinll«ililghi»lnh.litanl Three packages: The Quickie offers an hour’s flight (US$599 or S$l,048); The Young Lovers includes a four-course dinner
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      Lock icon WHO’S ALREADY DONE IT
      109 5 TORI SPELLING (right) said that the wildest place she’d ever made love in was “an airplane, which means I’ve joined the Mile High Club”. “The weird thing is, nobody even turned their head when we went into the bathroom. Maybe they were all drunk or something.”
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      Lock icon Charged with attempted murder
      572 7  -  MUM WHO SLIT WRISTS, STABBED KIDS BY WONG SHER MAINE sher@sph.com.sg CHILDREN will be children. Never mind that their own mother had stabbed them in their tummies with a 15-cm knife on Christmas Day. But when Eunice Yip, five, and Joel Yip, two, opened their eyes
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      Lock icon Case calls for lower fuel prices
      555 7  -  Oil firms yet to reflect cheaper crude BY FRANCIS KAN francisk@sph.com.sg THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has called on oil companies in Singapore not to play a “wait and see” game when it comes to lowering pump prices. The consumer watchdog released a
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      Lock icon Tech’s spills and thrills
      858 10  -  A look at the technological marvels that saw reality this year BY JOHN LUI johnlui@sph.com.sg A COMMON roadside weed sprouted all over the world’s press in December, when it was announced that, for the first time, a plant’s genetic structure had been mapped in a £5O-million
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Errant LRT train operator stays on
        818 6  -  Man responsible for collision to be retrained BY JOANNA LIM joanna@sph.com.sg THE controller responsible for last month's collision of two Light Rapid Transit (LRT) trains would not be sacked, but would undergo retraining. So said Rear-Adm Kwek Siew Jin, president of Singapore Mass Rapid
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        Lock icon Part-owner’s tenants told to move
        452 6  -  WILKIE ROAD HOUSE WITH TWO MASTERS BY Uyen Vu. uyen@sph.com.sg CHIA TECK SIAN can now look forward to his home no longer being turned into a workers’ quarters. The foreign workers who live in his house, without his consent, have been told they have three
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Black Christmas bleak Aidilfitri
        686 8 Jakarta deploys 18,000 police after bombings Wires JAKARTA Sobered by the Christmas Eve mayhem and fearful of more attacks, cautious Indonesian authorities called on Muslims to stay at home to celebrate the start of the two-day feast of Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Instead of the usual rowdy
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        Lock icon Muslim guard dies saving Christians
        239 8 CHURCH BOMB Afp JAKARTA A Muslim security guard, who died trying to protect Christian churchgoers from one of 33 bombs planted at churches and delivered to priests’ homes across Indonesia on Christmas Eve, has been hailed a hero for trying to protect religious harmony. Riyanto
        – Afp; Bong Fortin  -  239 words
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        Lock icon A TRAIL OF BLASTS AMD BODIES
        192 8 Wires JAKARTA Bombings are, unfortunately, nothing new in Indonesia. Dec 19: A series of bomb explosions occurred in Aceh’s capital, Banda Aceh, ahead of President Abdurrahman’s visit on Dec 19. A bomb also exploded only about 300 m away from the central mosque where
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        Lock icon Attacks barbaric, says Gus Dur
        385 9 President vows punishment for Christinas Eve bombers; Pope condemns act in world address Wires JAKARTA Indonesia was bursting with outrage and desperately hoping for calm after the bloody Sunday night bombings. President Abdurrahman Wahid pledged harsh measures against those responsible for a chain of Christmas
        – Wires; Yen Meng Jiin; Ap  -  385 words
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        Lock icon Singaporean holiday-makers not worried in Batam
        262 9  -  BY G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg NO WORRIES! That’s what Singaporeans visiting Batam seem to be saying despite the bomb blasts over the Christmas holiday at the Indonesian island. At least four bombs went off in churches across the island, injuring about 30 people. Still, Singaporeans
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Sony to push e-money in Japan
        314 11 OCT 2001 LAUNCH Afp TOKYO An electronic money system that could make paying in cash a thing of the past is to be developed by a group of 11 Japanese companies, it was announced on Monday. The system, named “Edy”, uses a Sony-developed card
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Elephant ride
        53 12 Artificial elephants, representing the symbol of Thailand’s Liberal Democratic Party, take a ride through the town of Nong Song Hong during campaigning for rural votes on Saturday. Thailand’s politicians are turning to traditional rituals and even magic to try to ensure success in the nation’s general election on
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        Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT www.need cars.com
        164 12  -  NICHOLAS YONG HERE are car classifieds that make better sense than those published in newspapers. You need to shell out dough only if your ad is effective! The site allows you to look at pictures of cars for sale on the site complete
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        Lock icon M’sian banks need more time
        652 12 Scramble on to meet central bank’s Dec 31 deadline to complete mergers Ap KUALA LUMPUR Azmi remembers the promotion letter he received in 1999. “I started out as a clerk and never expected to be made an assistant bank manager,” he said. His glee was
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        Lock icon Price index rose 2% in Nov
        480 13  -  Oil prices blamed for inflationary trend BY Francis Kan And Kicholas Yong francisk@sph.com.sg nicyong@sph.com.sg Source: Dept of Statistics THERE’S a villain on the prowl. He could wreck your plans for a budget holiday or, worse, send the price of that HDB flat you are
        Source: Dept of Statistics; Bong Fortin  -  480 words
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        Lock icon Bulls&Bears
        87 13 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Poh Lian 8,387,000 33.5 PacCent 8,236,000 90.0 Tat Hong 8,086,000 29.0 Top 3 Gainers CENTS City Dev 770 15 2.0 Nat Brond 293 13 4.6 Gene Medix 225 10 4.7 Total number of gainers: 86 Top 3 Losers CENTS Thai
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        Lock icon Where the customer is not yet king
        624 13 SHOPPING IN FRANCE Nyt PARIS Thank God that sales assistants elsewhere are not trained in France, where shopping can be a nerve-wracking exercise. Ask Yannick Bichon, whom you could mistake for just another 30-something customer seeking a year-end bargain in a large mall
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        Lock icon We’re fat, we’re stupid – so sue us
        933 14  - We’re fat, we’re stupid so sue us DAVE BARRY Miami Herald Tribune GUESS what: Americans are too fat. This fact was discovered recently by a panel of concerned experts and reported extensively in the news media, as though it were a shocking revelation. The truth, of course, is that we
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      • Single’s SAY
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          879 15  -  BY SOH WEN LIN w enlin@brandeis.edu GOING over old photo albums the other day, I had a startling realisation about my childhood. I wasn’t a fat kid. Sure, I wasn’t a beansprout, but I wasn’t anywhere near not being able to see
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      24 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder over many areas in the afternoon. High: 31C I Low: 23C Tides: 12.52AM/2.6M 11.35AM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      23 6 Are you reassured by the recommendations? Or are you still apprehensive about travelling on the LRT? Tell us what you think at http://eyeforum.asial.com.sg
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      34 8 For an insight into the conflicts bedevilling Indonesia, visit these sites: http:/ www.paxchristi.nl/ indonesiass.html A perspective on religion in Indonesian society. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/ english/events/ Indonesia/special report/ newsid *****0/*****2.5tm The fragile archipelago -a BBC special report.
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      451 11 ill 1111 III!} warn m J E-playthings V-/ s *£\i P/e f <tse mert e m im s Si <5 m Christmas might he over, hut there are always reasons to get new gadgets for the techie at heart. This week, Eyeball features the Siemens SL4S MP3 handphone, the Microsoft
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      62 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET AOAJN TO PLACATE YOU, PHIL, m EUGAGMO IU R6GR6ATIOH,.. WHAT SORT OF RECREATION IS THIS? WAIT. YOUHE NOT HACKMG INTO SOMEONE'S COtAPUTER SYSTEM, ARE you? SORRy, MISS. ITS OUR NSW POUCY TO ON ty HIRE SIRIS WITH R6AUV 010 Fogr. mY mp. MAYS E. 4TS
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      34 13 To find out more about the November CPI figures, go to the Department of Statistics website at http:// www.sing stat.gov.sg/CURRENT/ current.htm To find out more about the concept of inflation, head to http://www. encyclopedia.com/
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Raise for Campbell
        92 16 Reuters LONDON Tottenham Hotspur skipper Sol Campbell will be offered £40,000 <S$101,000) a week to stay at White Hart Lane, tabloid reports said here on Monday. New Spurs owner Daniel Levy is hoping he can persuade England star Campbell to sign a new deal early next year.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Whopping offer
        106 16 Reuters LONDON Barcelona has offered David Beckham £140,000 a week to join them, a report said here on Monday. The offer would make the Manchester United star the highest-paid footballer in the world. The London tabloid Mirror said Beckham would get £5 million a year in Spain and
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        Lock icon Taking on Mike
        93 17 Ap LONDON Boxer Lennox Lewis says he may retire after facing Mike Tyson in the ring. “I am only thinking about one fight next year, and that’s with Mike Tyson,” he told BBC Radio on Sunday. “Once I get Tyson out of the way, I will probably
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        Lock icon Faulk’s record
        39 17 Wires NEW ORLEANS Marshall Faulk set an NFL record for touchdowns in a season and rushed for a career-high 201 metres as the St Louis Rams beat the New Orleans Saints 26-21 to squeak into the playoffs.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Shockwave leads
        38 17 Ap SYDNEY-The maxi yacht Shockwave led the 56th Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race out of Sydney Harbour in perfect summer conditions yesterday, but the 82-boat fleet was bracing for the gale-force winds forecast for later in the race.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Parcells may stay
        183 18 Nyt NEW YORK His contract as the New York Jets’ director of football operations ends on Jan 31, but Bill Parcells sounds as if he’s leaning towards staying on, possibly for three more seasons. “I haven’t really decided,” Parcells said on Monday. “I’ll think it over for
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        Lock icon Marrow escape
        76 18 Ap TACOMA A special Amtrak train carrying Seattle Seahawks’ fans slammed into a house that was being towed by a semi tractor-trailer rig. None of the 90 passengers was seriously injured. About a dozen people -two from the truck, the rest from the train were treated and released
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        Lock icon Dan Turk dies
        80 18 Ap WASHINGTON Dan Turk, a former centre who played with his brother on the Washington Redskins during a 15-year NFL career, has died of cancer at 38. Turk died on Saturday night at his Ashburn, Virginia, home. His death was announced by Washington coach Terry Robskie after
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        Lock icon It’s now official
        65 19 Afp MELBOURNE Spin bowler Shane Warne was officially recognisec yesterday as Australia’s most successful Test wicket-taker. Before the start of the Boxing Day Test, Warne was presented with the ball he used to take his 356th wicket against New Zealand in Auckland last March, which pushed him
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        Lock icon Don’t laugh it off
        84 19 Afp NEW DELHI-Laughing may soon become an Olympic sport, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reportedly giving serious consideration to a request from the Laughter Club International. According to Tuesday’s edition of the Asian Age, Bombay-based Laughter Club president Madan Kataria has' sent the lOC a
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        Lock icon ‘Balance draft’
        109 19 Ap THE worst eight teams in baseball would be able to select players from the top eight in a new “competitive balance draft” proposed by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig. The teams with the eight highest winning percentages over the previous three years would be able to
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      Lock icon ON THIS DAY
      26 16 IN 1996, turning out for Leyton Orient against Brighton, Peter Shilton became the first player in English football to make 1,000 league appearances.
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      Lock icon Man U beats Villa, stays on top
      459 16 Gunners hammer Leceister City 6-1 Wires LONDON Manchester United maintained their eight-point lead in the English Premiership with a 1-0 win over Aston Villa yesterday. Ole Gunner Solsjkaer, United’s baby-faced assassin, scored against the run of play in the 84th minute. The Norwegian
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      49 17 “TRYING to add onto the 131 have. And Jack’s record, that’s Jack Nicklaus, has got the 18 (Grand Slam titles). So that’s always been a kind of fantasy of mine to break that record. Why not?” Pete Sampras, on what drives him on in tennis
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      Lock icon Wallace sizzles in Blazers’ win over Lakers
      777 17 Gets 33 points, stops game-tying shot Ap LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant was almost past the room where the referees dressed for their post-game Christmas dinners, when a voice stopped him. “Kobe, did you see the replay?” It was Michael Smith, one of three
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      Lock icon Titans in defence
      805 18 Tennessee at its defensive best ensures home-field advantage in playoffs Wires NASHVILLE Credit the NFL’s best defence for taking the Tennessee Titans into the playoffs in style. The Titans turned four thirdquarter turnovers into 24 points to beat the Dallas Cowboys 31-0 on Monday night and secure
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      Lock icon World C’ships without champs
      359 19 Top players opt to stay away from Match Play event JACKSONVILLE (Florida) Instead of bringing together the best in the world, the field for the Match Play Championship in Australia looks like the rest of the world. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, David Duval, Davis Love 111
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      Lock icon STAYING AWAY
      10 19 TIGER WOODS PEEL MICKELSON DAVID DUVAL DAVIS LOVE
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      Lock icon Bad running and pitch slow down Kiwis
      206 19 ONE-OFF CRICKET TEST Afp WELLINGTON New Zealand’s woeful running between the wickets forced them to surrender an opening day advantage in their one-off cricket Test against Zimbabwe here yesterday. It was a remarkably slow day with just 190 runs scored for four wickets
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      34 16 Will Liverpool capitalise on Leicester’s loss and climb to third in the League standings by beating Middlesbrough? Find out about this and how the other teams fared in Premiership matches played yesterday at http://eyeball.asial.com.sg
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  • Unwind
    • Travel
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        1147 20 I y l:v:i I ty vJ I-C1 /---r smHmMml Ml Irail ■T: T 1: PEAR is beautiful, swirling all around in brilliant glowing green fronds and dancing shafts of light. I’m face down in Packsaddle Lagoon, a seductively winsome lattice of lily-patterned coves, lush green-fringed creeks and vast, vast expanses
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        Lock icon THE CROCODILE HUNTER
        490 21 MALCOLM DOUGLAS has to be more crocodile than human. The Aussie has survived 30 years of shooting, catching, filming and farming these dinosaur throwbacks, with a few ugly scars to show for it. It all started when he was a toddler his pet monitor lizards were bigger
        Pictures: Stephen Rothwell  -  490 words
      • Travel DIARY
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          Lock icon Wild Bahamas
          104 22 FUN doesn’t end after Christmas in the Bahamas it runs until Jan 1 in the city of Nassau. It’s again time for Junkanoo -a wild, Afro-Bahamian mega party, which starts at 2 am and goes on until dawn. All communities of the Bahamas take part in Junkanoo and
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          Lock icon HE wonderland
          74 22 HONGKONG has been turned -for the first time into a winter wonderland until Jan 2. The harbour-front site of Expo Promenade is now the setting of a traditional European Christmas complete with beautiful trees, wooden chalets, special lights and dramatic snow effects. You can also pick up traditional
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          Lock icon Spiritual retreat
          79 22 IF YOU want to try some mind food this festive season, head down to Eskdalemuir, a small town in Scotland, and join abbot and retreat master Lama Yeshe Losal for a meditation retreat course (Dec 23 to Jan 2) at Kagyu Samyu Ling. Lama Yeshe will share his
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        Lock icon Knight on a bike
        862 22 Simon Milward is on a quest to raise money by motorbiking around the world. He talks to JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) about smugglers' markets and clean underwear. NIGHTS come in I strange guises these days. Simon Milward 35 and English is on a Camelot-style quest to raise
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    • Arts
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        Lock icon Bringing our writers to the world
        611 23 Felix Cheong is bent on promoting Singaporean literature overseas. The 35-year-old poet tells CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) how he plans to export local writing to foreign universities. CALL it the Felix Cheong Project, if you will. After all, the man is taking on the export
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        Lock icon AND THE WINNERS ARE...
        247 23 THE other recipients of the Singapore International Foundation’s Singapore Internationale award are not coming up with grand schemes like Felix Cheong, but rather are advancing in increments. SINGAPORE LITERATURE SOCIETY THE Singapore Literature Society got the largest share of the $48,000 given out this year: $15,000
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      • Arts DIARY
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          Lock icon The Spirit Soars
          117 26 SINGAPORE Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with Showtime Performing Arts Centre, is holding an audition for young talents for a major music and dramatic production. The Spirit Soars hopes to be an artistically charged performance involving drama, poetry, dance, movement and music. It is scheduled for March 13
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          Lock icon Sentosa wins award
          69 26 SENTOSA’S new musical fountain show Spirit Of Sentosa clinched third place in the Outdoor Show category at this year’s prestigious International Laser Display Association (ILDA) 2000 Awards held in Stuttgart, Germany. Sentosa’s was the only Asian entry and permanent attraction to win an award in this catergory.
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          Lock icon Dance with the best
          134 26  -  Hera Chua THE founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Lin Hwai Min is touted as the most brilliant choreographer in Asia. Recently, he was even acclaimed as “The Best of the Best” at the Sydney Olympics Arts Festival. This master artist will be in Singapore to
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        Lock icon Asian touch for the home
        771 26 Tara Melwani talks to TAN DAWN Will (dawntan@sph.com.sg) about balance and her new home furnishing store, TARAhome. nALANCE. This word popped up more than a few times the morning I met Tara Melwani at her new 2,500-sq-ft homeware store, TARAhome at Forum The Shopping Mall.
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    • Living Well
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        Lock icon Family living
        759 24 Designers gave this semi-detached home a much-needed facelift, but they did it with the family, complete with young two children, who would live in it, foremost in their minds. THREE years ago, Edward of Urbane Environment was given free rein while designing his brother’s maisonette. Then, it was
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        Lock icon ‘Forget No Arts Day, were still performing’
        473 25  -  A CAPPELLA CHOIR IN CONCERT BY Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg AT LEAST one group will be giving this Friday’s No Arts Day short shrift. Es’Choir will be singing its lungs out at the Victoria Theatre. This six-year-old local a cappella group had already
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      20 21 The Malcolm Douglas Broome Crocodile Park can be contacted at: Cable Beach Road, Broome, Australia, WA 6725; telephone: (618) 9192-1489.
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      255 28 CHEEKY Sir Elton John spiced up the last ever TFI Friday —by tugging down Posh Spice’s trousers to show off a new tattoo on her bottom. Sir Elton, 53, a guest on the British show’s finale, pulled at her waistband to
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      100 28 MADONNA and new hubby Guy Ritchie (above) spent their wedding night...looking after baby Rocco. The four-month-old screamed the house down at the glamorous Scottish castle where the couple held a star-studded reception on Friday night. Guests, including Ali G and Gwyneth Paltrow, partied
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