Project Eyeball, 16 March 2001

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 Projecteyeball. eyeball,asial,com,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Friday, March 16, 2001 80 CENTS
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      442 1 MONKEY BUSINESS Meet The Gorillaz, the world’s first virtual hip-hop superstars. See Pages 18-19 c/ Get Machiavellian with Rune. See Page 12 STAR STRUCK Astrologer sues Pricewaterhouse Coopers for $141 million.. See Page 3 s? m Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Is S pore 9* media... Turning —[—i (11. l t Li
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      136 2 NEVER underestimate sailors when it comes to beer an Edinburgh landlord learnt the hard way. His offer of free pints to a handful of visiting sailors backfired when they called more than 100 buddies to join the party. Tom Ponton was expecting a few people from HMS Edinburgh to
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      Lock icon Cruising down S’pore River
      320 2  -  All systems go for boat transport system this year By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg BY THE end of the year, pub crawlers will be able to cruise to every nightspot along the Singapore River, from the lounges of the Fullerton Hotel, near the mouth, to Zouk disco
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      Lock icon Prepare for bumpy ride
      229 2  -  Denyse Yeo FORGET the robust economic growth last year. It just might be time to buckle up for what might prove to be a much rougher ride this year. You’ve heard this before. But nevertheless the cautionary note that the Singapore economy faces “significant uncertainties” was
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Cheer for big bucks at Big Walk
        107 2 THERE is a reason to cheer loudly at The New Paper (TNP) Big Walk 2001 to be held on May 20. The Cheerleading Challenge, sponsored by Asia One, is on for the first time, with the champion walking away with $5,000 cash. Get
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      • Article
        Lock icon More dancing cheek-to-cheek
        62 2 NIGHTSPOTS can soon pack in more patrons, when the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) institutes more relaxed fire safety regulations come April 1. Existing rules stipulate one patron per 1.5 sq m of floor space for pubs, and one person per square metre on the dance floor.
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        Lock icon Drama to teach creativity
        47 2 BASED on the simple principle that experience is the best teacher, the NAC Arts Education Programme (AEP) this year will employ drama to develop creativity in children. For enquiries on AEP activities, contact Fong Chong Suan, Arts Administrator (Arts Education) at 837 9553.
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      • Article
        Lock icon First desalination forum in region
        62 2 WE’RE surrounded by seawater, so it makes sense to turn that into something useful. On Mar 21, Singapore will host a desalination conference organised by the International Desalination Association, the first such event to be held in the region. Topics to be discussed include technology
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        Lock icon E-commerce security gets boost
        56 2 TO BOOST online security, 19 players from the infocomm industry have formed the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Forum Singapore to promote PKI. PKI is recognised as the most secure e-commerce platform, but a recent Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore exercise revealed a low PKI adoption rate,
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      361 3 OTTAWA The government plans to introduce what it said was among the world’s toughest legislation to combat child pornography on the Net. This will make it a crime not only to produce or transmit indecent images of children, but also to access them. I LONDON The government is
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      34 3 Hundreds of tractors jammed streets in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday as part of a nationwide protest demanding more government aid to offset rising fuel and fertiliser costs and falling commodity prices. Reuters
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    • Article
      Lock icon Astrologer sues for $142 million
      179 3 Consulting firm kept his flow charts of market activity AP KUALA LUMPUR An astrologer is suing the Malaysian branch of international consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for the return of documents he claims he can use to predict fluctuations in the stock market. Ramesh Chelliah and his
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      Lock icon ‘Mobiles speed up brain’
      190 3 AFP HONG KONG Forget all those health and cancer scares. Using a mobile phone might actually make your brain work better, a Hong Kong researcher says. Tatia Lee Mei Chun, a psychologist at the University of Hong Kong, asked 72 local teenagers to carry out a
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Clubs urge scrapping of Cinderella rule
        889 5  -  They want outright 3 am licence and more transparency from authorities By Karl Ho karl@sph.com.sg LIFE begins after midnight for clubbers, a vexing reality for new clubs, which have to make like Cinderella at midnight and close shop. Perhaps the time has come for
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    • Budget Debate
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        450 4  -  Extra money will be used to improve teachers’ skills, says Education Minister By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg CLASS sizes are not going to get any smaller although part of the extra $4BO million going to schools this year will be used to train and keep
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        133 4 HOW much does it matter what we learn in kindergarten? The Ministry of Education (MOE) is very interested in finding out. Together with the National Institute of Education, it is conducting a study of 2,000 kindergarten kids in 46 pre-school centres to find out the
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        Lock icon Beware of degree mills
        119 4 PEOPLE who get degrees from unaccredited universities will have to look out for themselves. “It’s not practical, nor feasible, for MOE to regulate, or to restrict, the wide variety of external degree programmes that students in Singapore may wish to subscribe to,” said RAdm Teo Chee
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        Lock icon Singapore ranks 50, not 150, schools
        92 4 SINGAPORE’S school ranking system is “very mild and gentle”. That’s because we only rank the-top 50 secondary schools, and not all 150 of them, RAdm Teo told Parliament yesterday. Other countries, such as Britain, and many states in the US rank all of their
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        256 4 YESTERDAY, Acting Minister for the Environment Lim Swee Say told Parliament that the Ministry will focus on long-term sustainability. Among the moves announced were: The building of two new water plants to recycle waste water, at the Bedok Sewer Treatment Work and Kranji. But NEWater is not for
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Heading for Hollywood
        361 6 Eating Air, Chicken Rice War and Return To Pontianak to be screened at special LA show WHEN international films flock to the 14th Singapore International Film Festival (Siff) next month, three Singapore-made feature films will be making their way to Hollywood. Eating Air, Chicken Rice War and
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        Lock icon Getai-ing the Aids message across
        599 6  -  By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THREE brave souls were hauled onto the stage and asked three simple questions. Is Aids a homosexual disease? Can Aids be spread through coughing, sneezing or holding hands? Can a person with Aids be cured? Yes, yes and yes, all three
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        Lock icon Cyber cops to nail Net villains
        576 7  -  Local Internet security firm tracks down hackers By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg HE GAVE up his gun for a mouse. Still, he is very much a cop; only, instead of locking up criminals behind bars, 55-year-old Raymond Han boots cyber intruders out of companies’
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        Lock icon Easy money? Beware, it’s a hoax
        488 7  -  LETTER SCAM By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg THERE’S a US$45-million (Ss79million) treasure chest tucked away somewhere out there, and anyone who helps manage it gets a 15-per cent commission. Cool, did you say? It ain’t easy money, pal. CEOs here are being flooded with
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    • The World
      • IS THE HONEYMOON OVER?
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          Lock icon Gus Dur digs in, shores up support
          423 8 Wires EMBATTLED President Abdurrahman Wahid’s political fortunes took a turn for the better yesterday when two Cabinet ministers decided to stay in his government and leave the party of his most vocal political critic. It was the second blow this week for Amien
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          Lock icon Mega ready to bid for top job, says aide
          372 8 AFP JAKARTA Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri is finally ready to replace President Abdurrahman Wahid. There several indications. For one, her disillusionment with the President has grown, a senior official of her party revealed yesterday. Two, all Muslim parties plus the second-largest party,
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        Lock icon Manila gears up for street protests
        209 8 STAY ON ESTRADA'S ARREST ENDS NEXT WEEK AFP MANILA The Philippines is gearing up for protests once again. But this time they are likely to be pro-Estrada. President Gloria Arroyo’s administration is preparing for public disturbances that may follow next week when deposed president
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        Lock icon When a sub hit out of the blue
        474 9 Trawler captain recounts final moments for Navy court Wires PEARL HARBOR (Hawaii) The first impact knocked the rear of the Ehime Maru skywards. Captain Hisao Onishi felt a shudder and heard metal screeching. He noticed his instruments were dead. Then, through a
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      • Article
        Lock icon Why is the US military so accident-prone?
        496 9 AP WASHINGTON A US sub fatally collides with a Japanese vessel. A Navy warplane accidentally bombs soldiers during exercises. Half the missiles aimed at radar targets near Baghdad miss their mark. Missiledefence tests keep going awry. These mishaps are unconnected, say analysts, but
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        Lock icon Air controller's testimony could shed more light
        321 9 Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON Vital clues about Monday’s fatal training accident in Kuwait are expected from the forward air controller who directed the fighter jet to hit his own position. Air Force Staff Sgt Timothy B Crusing’s call to abort an air strike
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Blind could ‘see’ with their tongue
        248 11 New postage stamp-size device allows image outlines to be felt BLIND people could one day use their tongue to help them “see”. Scientists have developed a “tongue display unit”, a 144-elec-trode device which collects images from a video camera. By stimulating the highly sensitive
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        Lock icon Euphoria missing at US Internet show
        286 11 UNCERTAIN FUTURE Reuters LOS ANGELES The patient is not dead, but the prognosis is unclear. That appeared to be the main sentiment on Wednesday as a muted annual Spring Internet World one of America’s major Internet shows opened quietly without the bells and whistles
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        Lock icon Sony bets on mobiles as future game platforms
        267 11 Reuters TOKYO Fancy a bout of Tekken Tag to go? A round of NBA Live on the road? Then turn on your cell phone. Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the game-making unit of Sony, hopes to turn phones into its own version of
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        Lock icon Slash and see the blood run red
        361 12 Rune may be simple, but its Vikings are a violently engaging lot CONAN the Barbarian is a wimp. If he were a character in Rune, a third-person action game set in the world of Vikings, he would be slain in no time. You
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon PULLING THE PLUG ON GORE
        303 12 THERE may be lots of games released every year, but some titles aren’t brought into Singapore by local distributors. One such title is Severance: The Blade of Darkness. Local distributors have just decided not to bring it in, as it is likely not to pass
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    • Business
      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon Leeson’s lectures
          73 13 THE man who lost £B5O million (552.15 billion) through rogue trading and in the process brought Barings Bank to its knees, is back dishing out financial advice in a series of sell-out talks to businessmen. An Audience With Nick Leeson has already sold out in some cities. Half
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          Lock icon Staff study
          81 13 THE local biomedical sciences sector just got another shot in the arm, this time to ensure it isn’t short of qualified staff. The Biomedical Sciences Manpower Advisory Committee will study the industry’s manpower needs and ensure they are met in the long term, said Philip Yeo, chairman of
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          Lock icon STI looks up
          82 13 LAST-MINUTE buying pulled Singapore shares to a slightly higher close yesterday but sentiment remained weak on worries over the local banking sector and Wall Street’s performance. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI), which closed at its lowest level since April 1999 on Wednesday, rose 0.09 per cent
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          Lock icon Fores portal
          29 13 ONLINE foreign exchange portal Currenex yesterday launched its Asian operations in Singapore. Thirty-five international banks and some MNCs, including Master Card and Intel, use the Currenex platform.
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        Lock icon Time Dot Com ‘is a Time DotBomb’
        593 13 Malaysian govt agencies said to have bought overpriced shares in telco firm NYT KUALA LUMPUR The company is called Time Dot Com. But the Malaysian telecommunications operator has had such a bad start on the stock exchange that one businessman lamented it should
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      • Article
        Lock icon Global markets down, But fund managers upbeat
        306 13 Text; Nicholas Yong Graphics: Bong Fortin OUB Optimix Funds Management -a joint venture between INQ Investment Management and OUB Asset Management launched its new Optimix Sure Fund yesterday. DBS Asset Management also re-launched its UP (guaranteed Fund last Tuesday, while SQ Asset Management
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon Journalists are too young
        761 14  -  By Seah Chiang Nee messageboard@littlespeck.com SEX, sleaze, sensationalism were some of the charges thrown at the media in Parliament. When I read them, my first reaction was: “Are we talking about Singapore?” I must say I have mixed feelings about such subjective calls. Few people really
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      • Article
        Lock icon The news is in what you don’t get to see
        755 14  -  By Chua Chong Jin tcjchua@ntu.edu.sg IN THE wake of the liberalisation of the media here, what you don’t see says more than what you do about whether there is indeed a decline in standards of journalism. And on this basis,
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      • Article
        Lock icon CAR-FREE AND CAREFREE
        74 15 WOULD you leave your wheels at home on Car-Free Day? 41% I’m already car-free, 24/7,365 days a year. 20% Why bother? I’m not sure one day will make any difference. 19% Yes, I want to do my part, however small, for the environment. 12% Too much personal
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      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Go ahead, watch us work
          744 15 THEY SAY: Why not set up a press watchdog to see that journalism standards don’t slip as new players in the media compete for readers and advertising revenue through salacious means. WE SAY: Word is, you’ll get what you want. The idea is being given
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      22 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder in the afternoon over most areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 3.00AM/2.6M 4.26PM/2.2M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      25 6 http://www.avert.org More info on Aids and HIV targeted at the younger lot. http://www.unaids.org Details the United Nations’ special programme to combat Aids and HIV. < Tm
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      92 11 JEN, OF THE INTERNET THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS, HELEN. NO PROBLEM. r USING THE INTERNET TO HELP BRING POWN THE REPRESSIVE PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT IS A GREAT K7EA! I JUST HOPE ONE PAY WE CAN ACCeSS ALL THOSE OPPRESSEP PEOPLE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. ANP I CAN CREATE HSLENNCSTAM! O
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Serena supreme
        53 16 Reuters INDIAN WELLS (California) Serena Williams crushed Lindsay Davenport 6-1 6-2 in the US$2.O5-million (553.6-million) Indian Wells Masters Series quarter-finals on Wednesday. Williams, beaten by fello w American Davenport at last year’s US Open, committed only 14 unforced errors. Serena played an almost flawless game, committing just 14
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        Lock icon Arsenal qualify
        48 16 AFP PARIS Bayern Munich and Arsenal became the last two qualifiers for the Champions League quarter-finals yesterday. Arsenal progressed as runners-up in Group C because they had a better overall record against French side Lyon. Other results: Anderlecht 2 Real Madrid 0; Lazio 3 Leeds 3
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        Lock icon Spurs win
        65 16 AP SAN ANTONIO-Derek Anderson scored a season-high 30 points to lead the Spurs to a 106-100 overtime win over the Minnesota Timberwolves yesterday as San Antonio stretched its winning streak to eight games. Other results: Washington 103 Detroit 96; Charlotte 100 Vancouver 95; Cleveland 87 Orlando 97; Miami
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      Lock icon Schumacher’s new goal
      577 16 It’s to win six straight races, and he has the equipment AP SEPANG (Malaysia) The last time Michael Schumacher was at the Sepang International Circuit, he wore a wig in Ferrari’s trademark red, celebrating the Italian team’s first double driver-and-constructor titles in a generation. At this weekend’s
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      Lock icon WHO’LL GET THE BOOT?
      185 16 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR So who’s in and who’s out? Jaguar Racing’s team boss Bobby Rahal has announced that Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa will drive for the 2002 FI season. Will Briton Eddie Irvine or Brazilian novice Luciano Burti get the axe? “Pedro will be driving
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      Lock icon ON THE BOX THIS WEEKEND
      153 16 BASKETBALL What: Philadelphia 76ers vs Sacramento Kings When: Saturday, 8 am, Live (ESPN, Ch 23) Why bother: The fixture features two teams that will be making waves in the playoffs. With Allen Iverson out injured, can Philadelphia prove that they are not a one-man team?
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      Lock icon A chance to get back in groove
      870 17 Bay Hill could prepare Woods for Augusta Reuters UNDAUNTED BY PPBA1 DEBACLE ORLANDO Tiger Woods goes into this week’s Bay Hill Invitational in the unusual position of being reminded of what he’s done wrong lately, rather than what he’s done right. Woods, the
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      106 17 SOCCER: Drugs, guns, kidnapping, prison and that amazing scorpion kick...crazy Colombian keeper Rene Higuita has announced he’s hanging up his gloves, but not before Football365 pays a tribute to his finest hours. The 34-year-old most famous for his audacious “scorpion kick” save at Wembley in 1995 has been
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  • Unwind
    • Music
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        Lock icon PLANET of the PAES
        971 18 They are legends in their own Web space, having already conquered UK radio. RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph com.sg) reports on The Qorillaz, the world's ‘first virtual hip-hop superband\ THERE has been a lot of monkeying around in the studio of hip-hip impresario Dan “The Automator” Nakamura. Fresh
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        Lock icon HEY HEY, WE’RE THE MONKEES: BEING PLASTIC CAN BE ENDURING AND PROFITABLE
        416 19  -  Ronald Rajan DESPITE their avowed allegiance to hip hop, a genre that sets great store by the dubious credo of “keeping it real”, The Gorillaz are about as authentic as their simian predecessors The Monkees, as well as
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      • Music NOTES
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          101 20 COUNTER CULTURE 2001 will take you on a journey into the music heartland of Singapore, featuring Sherene’s Closet, Dancing Nancies, Plain Sunset, Ossuary, Fish Tank and other bands at Ngee Ann Poly on March 24. Themed soft...MoDeßaTe ...LOUD!, the event will be broadcast from 2.30 pm to 9.30
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          Lock icon A capella awards
          109 20 THE Fourth Harmony Award 2001 will be hosted by American Harmony Sweepstakes idol The House Jacks on June 22. The award recognises local talent in a capella singing and hopes to provide newcomers with stage opportunities. It also seeks to broaden the scope of appreciation for the
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          Lock icon Fygi live
          64 20  -  Lim Hui Ling THE Grand Ballroom of The Ritz-Carlton Millenia will host An Elegant Evening With Laura Fygi on March 26. Fygi’s stunning debut in 1992 was compared to Natalie Cole’s Nat King Cole album by music magazine Jazziz. Mark the date on your calendar. Tickets cost $l5O,
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        Lock icon Never say die
        759 20 POP ROCK JUST PUSH PLAY Aerosmith (Columbia) ONE word tie-dye and a whole lotta howlin’. Between the odd geriatric ballad for movies involving asteroids, and reviving old material to sing with pop princess Britney Spears at the Super Bowl, these old boys have been fighting that plague
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        Lock icon Heavyweights take the easy road
        725 21 REPTILE Eric Clapton (Warner) SOMETHING is disturbing about Eric Clapton proudly covering James Taylor and Stevie Wonder tunes. And more disturbing is while he’s doing MOR, Slowhand’s old magic like Wonderful Tonight is now the staple of NsyncPlusAl Backstreet boybands. The big question is: Where
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      • Article
        Lock icon Head down to Youth Park for a dose of Headpoppaz
        385 21 THE Headpoppaz website features the image of a young Che Guevara, young and passionate. Though Che is the pin-up boy for every would-be revolutionary, after more than six years, The Headpoppaz is more than a would-be group. Describing their sound
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    • Food
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        Lock icon Treat food right
        647 22 NYT When do you throw out that frozen steak? Should you eat butter that’s three weeks in the fridge? Find out in this handy guide to food storage. HEN it comes to food, the W fresher the better. Long-term storage robs foods of flavour and nutrients, though
        – NYT; Bong Fortin  -  647 words
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        Lock icon RECIPE OF THE WEEK
        454 22 NOTHING quite beats Grandma’s cooking. And culinary maestro Violet Oon is out to make sure that time-tested recipes will not be forgotten. For the Singapore Food Festival, she will be conducting a series of six cooking classes from April 10 to 21. To be held at
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        Lock icon Get a kick from these crabs
        411 23 Its decor is unpretentious, its food mouth-watering. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) samples the culinary offerings ofEO Seafood Centre out west. Restaurant: EO Seafood Centre Where: 301 Ulu Pandan Road What: An unexpected find. Not because it is buried in some godforsaken nook, but because not
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        Lock icon SHOPPING CART
        243 23  -  Angelica Tan Campbell’s Chunky $3.15 from Daimaru Supermarket BAKED potato with cheddar and bacon bits. Boy, when they say bacon bits, they really mean bits. Heck, what we found were just stringy red fibres passing off as bacon bits. But were it not for the lack of bacon,
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon Taste of Thailand
          164 23 TONGUE-TINGLING treats from Thailand are the highlights of this promotion at Scotts’ Cafe Vienna in Royal Plaza. The spicy spread includes yam pla dook foo (crispy catfish salad with a spicy fresh mango sauce), kaengkiew wangai (green curry with chicken), tom yam gung (spicy prawn soup with
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          Lock icon Pasta promotion
          106 23 IF YOUR Italian is limited to spaghetti and linguini, now’s the time to expand it. Try farfelle, penne, zid, cannelloni, tortelli and other pasta creations by guest chefs Sangiorgi and Costa at Grand Hyatt’s Pete’s Place. On the menu are raviolini di zucca con burri e parmigiano (home-made
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          Lock icon Hawker’s pick
          98 23  -  Angelica Tan Mackerel Otah 267J00 Chiatßoad 7 am to 7 pm daily THERE’S otah and then there’s mackerel otah. These spicy fish cakes wrapped in banana leaves are embedded with large chunks of mackerel, giving it extra bite. While it is commonly available now, Mackerel Otah was one
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      24 21 For information on all the groups, sample music and video interviews with Headpoppaz and Zero Sequence, log in to our music website httpV/eyeball.asial. com.sg/gigz
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