Project Eyeball, 29 December 2000

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Microfilm: NL22958
Total Pages: 28
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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, December 29, 2000 80 CENTS
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      306 1 SIOK FINE FOR TRAIN CRASH That’s peanuts $lO,OOO. That’s how much the Land Transport Authority is penalising the operator of the LRT trains that collided on Nov 19. That’s a mere slap on the wrist, say some. Our hands are tied, say the regulatory body, pointing out that that amount
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      109 2 THIS was one occupational hazard that the London Underground drivers were not prepared to put up with: Flea bites. So, they went to court and some won up to £5OO (551,288) in compensation for allergic reactions to being bitten. The drivers claim they were only taken seriously when a
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      Lock icon Hello Kitty, goodbye peace?
      420 2  -  Six new pairs on sale next week By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg WATCH out Singapore! The cat of chaos, Hello Kitty, is back in town. With scenes of fights, unruly crowds, and general mania still fresh in the public’s minds, McDonald’s which sells the feline is about
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Curbs on shady commodity traders
        149 2 THE problem of “bucket shops” cheating unwary investors may soon be a thing of the past. These firms invest in futures contracts in commodities on their customers’ behalf, taking a cut. However, some of these shady outfits employ unscrupulous tactics to earn commissions. They may
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      • Article
        Lock icon CPF Board sends revised rate tables
        65 2 FOLLOWING the Government’s decision to restore 4 percentage points to the employers’ Central Provident Fund (CPF) rate, the CPF Board has sent revised contribution rate tables to all employers this month. Taking effect from Jan 1,2001, the revised employers’ rate of 16 per cent
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      • Article
        Lock icon World War II bomb detonated
        67 2 A 45-KG World War II bomb, discovered 3.5 km off the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, was detonated on Wednesday. The process involved personnel from the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Police Coast Guard (PCG). Originally scheduled to be
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        Lock icon Fly like a kite
        53 2 Joseph Ang, n, and his mother getting ready for a ride on the Takult Kite Flyer at Downtown East. Disabled kids from the Children’s Charities Association (CCA) enjoyed free rides yesterday, and the CCA was given a cheque of $175,000 by the Singapore Textile Centre Merchants’
        Wang Huifen  -  53 words
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      Lock icon World Watch
      352 3 BOSTON Bomb-making chemicals, blasting caps and magazines on explosives have been seized from the apartment of software engineer Michael McDermott, who has been accused of gunning down seven co-workers at an Internet consulting company. WASHINGTON US emergency crews were working nonstop in the wake of a monster ice
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mahathir to quit before next polls
      480 3 Malaysian premier says ‘succession is determined’ Afp KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has again said he would step down before the next general election due by November 2004. In an interview with Bernama news agency on Tuesday, Mahathir who
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      Lock icon Cop vs cop
      41 3 Riot police restraining a uniformed cop during clashes in Mexico City on Wednesday, which left three officers injured. The cops were demanding pay bonuses and store vouchers granted to most public servants when the presidency changes hands. Afp
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon SLRT fined maximum $IO,OOO
        1026 4  -  Some say amount is insufficient By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg A $lO,OOO fine: That’s the penalty slapped on Singapore Light Rapid Transit (SLRT), for the collision of two LRT trains at Phoenix Station in Choa Chu Kang on Nov 19, which left five passengers injured. “They should
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Station upgrade planned
      181 4 THE bulk of the LTA’s recommendations mirrored those in the SLRT report, released on Tuesday. These included: Ensuring the power to reset the Vehicle Tracking Engine alarms does not rest with a single person, and a review and re-wording of operating procedures to avoid any misinterpretation by
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    • Singapore
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        561 6  -  The world is his domain By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg HE MAY be just 16 years old, but John Tan is already the most powerful Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatter in Singapore. As one of the chief cyber-cops in Internet chat, he can ban users
        Clarence Chan  -  561 words
      • Article
        Lock icon What pay? What glamour?
        616 6 CONTRARY to what most people might expect, the life of an IRCop is not a high-flying one. They don’t get paid and their jobs aren’t all that glamorous, say John Tan and another IRC operator Rickie Lim, 18, in an interview. Some excerpts: A lot of
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      50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5833 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription hotline 749-2577 Fax 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      21 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder in the late afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 1.56AM/2.6M 12.43PM/2.9M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/metsin
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  • Rewind 2000
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE...THE WORLD...TECHNOLOGY
      163 7 It was a Singapore Airlines jet that took off during a terrible storm in Taipei, but the grief from the loss of 83 people in FLIGHT SQOO6 knew no boundaries. Despite stories of heroism and bravery, the end result was loss, and the question of what really happened.
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    • Singapore
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        1873 8 Singapore went on an emotional roller-coaster ride this year, with almost-highs in the Olympics and rock-bottom lows when an SIA plane crashed on the runway in Taipei, eventually taking 83 lives. Eyeball relives the defining moments for the nation in the past 12 months. ttMVMURY The Net-savvy
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      • Article
        Lock icon DO YOU REMEMBER?
        151 8 Memorable quotes of the millennium year ‘The team is all revved up and ready to eyeball our readers with the launch issue on Saturday.’ Bertha Henson, Project Eyeball’s Editor, commenting on the launch of the paper on Aug 12 ‘ln spite of what she did to me,
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    • World
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        Lock icon Eye on the World
        1770 10 JAMUI-EY NEW YORK An Internet provider married an old economy entertainer. In the biggest merger ever, the world’s largest Internet service provider, America Online, bought media and entertainment giant Time Warner for US$l9O billion (*****.4 billion). The merger lets Time Warner deliver its programmes online and
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      • Article
        Lock icon DO YOU REMEMBER?
        119 10 Memorable quotes of the millennium year ‘You don’t have to get snippy about it.’ Al Gore to George WBush, on the latter’s reaction after Gore told him that he had retracted his election concession. ‘I am writing blind. It’s 13:15. All personnel from sections six, seven and
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon When broadband
        271 12 The broadband landscape in Singapore exploded this year: More access providers, more price plans, more content. It started with a bang, with the Qovernment's announcement that it would pump in $l5O million to jump-start the interactive multimedia broadband industry. The bidk of this will be used to subsidise
        Luz Ramos  -  271 words
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        Lock icon Gamers had it pretty good
        462 12 SCREAMERS HALF-LIFE: COUNTER-STRIKE COUNTER-STRIKE (below) stands unrivalled amongst first-person shooters with its mix of gameplay, replayability and simplicity. And that combination alone is enough to outshine other kill-’em-all releases this year. No wonder it is currently the most popular shooter played in LAN shops and
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        440 13 It all started with a simple peer-to-peer exchange software written by a college dropout, Shawn Fanning, who launched it last year. Starting in April, lawsuits were filed by Metallica, Dr Dre and many major record labels but they failed to keep the genie in the bottle. Napster-like spawns
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        Lock icon Gadgets to get your hands on
        369 13 So many peripherals, so little money. We identify the gaming gadgets worth splurging on. C ASEACE GEARGRIP THE little-known Gear Grip (left) would be perfect for gaming geeks on their way to a LAN party. Instead of carrying your CPU, monitor and accessories individually,
        Law Kian Yan  -  369 words
    • Mailbox
      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Red-hot chilli paper
          764 14 FOR Eyeball, the year started on Aug 12, a Saturday, when we went out there for all the world to see. We’re a product of media liberalisation, a milestone in Singapore’s history, when the Government decided to be more generous with its publishing licences to allow for
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      • Article
        Lock icon ‘Cant’t we wait till the plane lands to have sex?’
        63 14 ‘Airborne shag&delics’ (Dec 27) VIRGIN Group boss Richard Branson wants to help out Mile High Club hopefuls, by providing double beds and jacuzzis in business class cabins come 2006. It got Eyeball readers in a flap. Do we need to
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      • Article
        Lock icon LACK OF OUTRAGE
        164 14  -  DSUEN IT’S bad enough that one has to be strapped down in close proximity to strangers for many hours in a claustrophobic cabin. And now we have to tolerate other passengers huffing and puffing away within earshot? Do we need to blindfold and plug the ears of
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      Lock icon SPORTS...CLUBBING...MOVIES...BOOKS...MUSIC...THE TUBE...FASHION...ARTS...FOOD
      83 15 In the entertainment and sporting worlds, it wasn’t a good year to stay still. From MADONNA meeting the GUY of her dreams and whisking off to a Scottish wedding, to MICHAEL SCHUMACHER and his Ferrari team that simply couldn’t he caught on the Formula One tracks. Closer to
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    • EyeSport
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        Lock icon HITS & MISSES
        876 16 HITS MISSES It j summing-up time and rifling through our files, Eyesport found that there were quite a few sportspersons and teams that did exceedingly well while others fell far short of expectations. Here's our table of the top... TIGER WOODS JUST what do you say about Tiger Woods that
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        773 17 Success in the world of sports came in different colours this year. We had the dark green jacket ofVijay Singh’s first US Masters win in April, and the flush of red, white and blue at Wimbledon in June with Pete Sampras and Venus Williams stealing the show. Taking
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      • THE CHAMPS
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          Lock icon Schuey’s got grace under fire
          324 18 Everybody has had their turn at picking their athletes of the year or century. It’s now our turn and on top of Eyesports 5 honour roll are... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER EVERY time Michael ASchumacher gets into his Ferrari the German is in danger of y| dying.
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          238 18 VENUS WILLIAMS HOW can anyone forget how Venus Williams charmed us at Wimbledon? She wooed us with her nervous smiles, titanic serves and iron will on Centre Court. But, most of all, she showed us that there is a child in all of us, even in Wimbledon champions.
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    • Books
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        Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: Books
        514 21 A geeky boy reduced adults to their knees, begging Oliver Twist-like for “s’more A blind assassin pulls off a perfect hit. And assorted folks of deeds and letters cant keep their mouth shut whaTs more, getting paid obscene sums of money for it. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) checks
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        337 21 APOCALYPTIC fever prompted politicians to get things off their chests. Patriotic Singaporeans made a beeline for the party line when Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew put out the second volume of his memoirs, From Third World To First The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. It flew out of
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: Clubbing
      835 19 With big raves, huge gigs, foreign DJs and new clubs, KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) says 2000 has been nothing if not a hedonistic year for the Singaporean clubber. ZouKsfar out, on land or at sea CLUBBING fashionistas became euphoric beach bums for what was arguably the most far-out
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: Movies
      807 20 Prosthetics, wirework, talking animals and Asian fighting machines were the flavours of the year in Hollywood. SANDI TAN and TAY YZSK KEAK (pedas@sph.com.sg) sum it up. Vanishing into make-up EVEN if you blink really, really hard, you won’t be able to see Jim Carrey (The Grinch, right),
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: Music
      1024 22 Whitney has problems, Eminem rules and the Beatles are alive. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) finds that rock and roll is still living up to its tumultuous ethos. Teen pop on top of the airwaves FORGET the Stone Age, welcome to the Under-Age. Love ’em, hate ’em but
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      Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: The Tube
      924 23 This year saw a fat gay Survivor become a millionaire, Buffy and her fiends kick TV ass and local productions fly high, reports JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) after months of channel surfing. Survivor tops TV ratings THE definitive Y2K TV trend has to be the übiquitous phenom
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      Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: Fashion
      667 24 Time to flesh out the new look MODEL Gisele Bundchen proved what men have always known: Women with breasts and bottoms are more delectable than stick-thin ones. As Puff Daddy noted: “They’ve (models) got meat on their bones in 2000. Men want something to hold on to!”
      Alphonso Chan  -  667 words
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      Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: The arts Animal lovers wage chicken vice war
      849 25 Mark Richmond dropped his pants, Talaq got banned, Desdemona was panned. Not surprisingly, says TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg), the arts was a boiling cauldron of controversies. Talaq stand-off IT WAS a classic arts versus authority stand-off that made headlines even
      Yen Ming Jiin  -  849 words
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      Lock icon TOTAL RECALL: Food
      715 26 The return of European fine dining, the profusion of hip eateries and a burgeoning love affair with juices 2000 has been a delicious year for the Singaporean foodie, says ANGELICA TAN (angelica@sph.com.sg). Theme up HARD ROCK CAFE or Planet Hollywood T-shirts may be a tad passe and
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  • Tube Talk
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      199 27 CHAT MOUSE Reflections on life Never raise your hands to your children. It leaves your groin unprotected. I’m not into working out. My philosophy is no pain, no pain. I’m in shape. Round is a shape. I’m desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. I’ve always wanted
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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      432 27 Movies Hotting Hill 12.45 pm, 11.40 pm Cinemax 59 A romantic comedy in the tradition of Four Weddings And A Funeral albeit not as charming, or funny. William Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns a travel bookstore that isn’t doing so great. However, everything changes when the world’s most famous movie star
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