Project Eyeball, 28 March 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball,asial,com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Wednesday, March 28, 2001 80 CENTS
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      427 1 Dare to Speak “Every week I dread the letters and forum postings about my column. Someone’s bound to say I’m stupid, extremist, immature, completely clueless, (take your pick) or on a good day, right about something. And that’s only my generation. God only knows what my elders are thinking.” Single’s
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      87 2 NO MORE pounding the streets on cold wintry nights. Instead, police officers in London are now being offered a dream assignment to do undercover work while dining at top restaurants during the weekends. Their job: To make sure waiters are not racially abused by customers. Not surprisingly, Detective Chief
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      Lock icon Now, ads are hitting the road
      429 2  -  Orchard Road junction emblazoned with food festival mural on the asphalt By Yishan Lam IT’S definitely not to help the traffic flow more smoothly, but a mul-ti-coloured advertisement has just been painted on the road over a yellow box at a busy junction along
      Wang Huifen  -  429 words
    • Article
      Lock icon New logo to assure online shoppers
      180 2  -  By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg THERE’S a new logo in town, the “TrustSg” seal, which tells online consumers that the site they’re shopping at is reliable and trustworthy. The TrustSg programme is the first initiative of the one-month-old National Trust Council, which aims to promote
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Tourism revenue up
        35 2 LAST year, tourism receipts reached a post-crisis high of some $ll billion, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. A record 7.7 million visitors came here last year, a 10.5 per cent growth.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Sharon Au runs foul of the law
        55 2 MEDIACORP artiste Sharon Au was caught using her mobile phone without the proper earpiece while driving last Saturday. Her phone has been confiscated. She will be charged in court. She faces a fine of up to $l,OOO or a jail term of up
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      • Article
        Lock icon New clinical research unit
        42 2 A NEW clinical trials facility at Singapore General Hospital was launched yesterday. The Pharmacia Clinical Research Unit will conduct 20 studies a year, involving between 300 and 500 volunteers, into areas such as arthritis, oncology and women’s health.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Case queries phone radiation
        48 2 THE Consumers Association of Singapore has called on the Health Ministry and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) to address two issues regarding mobile-phone radiation. One is to give their views on overseas research findings, and two, to assure that booster stations don’t affect health.
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    • Courts are too efficient,
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          Lock icon Speed ‘leads to attrition, tardiness’
          365 6 The speed of legal proceedings here means lawyers dont have time to prepare their cases properly and the stress is driving practitioners out of the profession, says the Law Society. UYEN VU (uyen@sph.com.sg) reports. THE wheels of justice are moving too fast for the comfort
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          Lock icon Cases on turbo
          195 6 Deadline targets are just what they are targets. In reality, though, the typical waiting period is even less. PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCES HIGH COURT ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION HIGH COURT APPELLATE CIVIL JURISDICTION COURT OF APPEAL Proceeding Target AWP* Pre-trial conference for suits where service has not been effected. 12
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          Lock icon ‘Courts should set pace’ to avoid backlog
          534 6 THE DEFENCE THE practice committees of the Law Society have been raising the issue of harried lawyers, among others, in a series of dialogue sessions with the Supreme Court over the past couple of years, said Naresh Mahtani, CEO of the Law Society
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          Lock icon SWIFT JUSTICE
          97 6 Time taken for conclusion of writs of summons from date of commencement to date of disposal. 1990 1L45 8.70 [4JQ I, 42.18 6 months or less 12 months or less 18 months or 24 months or less 120 months or less 1995 18.23 10.87 1 13.45 6 months
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      370 7 Ill-prepared parties forced to settle a CASE ONE accident-claim lawyer, who only wanted to be identified as Joe, said he has seen parties forced into settling because they were simply not ready to proceed to trial. In a recent example that involved a four-sided accident-relat-ed claim, the parties
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      303 3 PECROT A crowded commuter train slammed head-on into an oncoming locomotive close to the capital Brussels, leaving at least eight people dead and several injured as twisted carriages trapped survivors and victims for hours. WASHINGTON Nearly six in 10 approve of President George W Bush's job performance, according
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      Lock icon Building bridges
      424 3  -  Singapore and Indonesian navies Join in community work By Eugene Wee IN PULAU BENGKALIS, INDONESIA eugenew@sph.com.sg THERE may be occasional political tensions between Indonesia and Singapore, but these won’t sour the strong and friendly ties between the armed forces of the two neighbours, say Jakarta’s top brass. Indonesian
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      Lock icon HELP’S HUMAN FACE
      170 3  -  Eugene Wee PAK SIDIK has had hernia for the past five years. But there’s no doctor in his village deep in Pulau Bengkalis. So the 90-year-old Pak Sidik has been bearing the pain and relying on herbal remedies. Then word reached him about the joint community operation
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Think Centre’s Gomez gets ‘stern warning’ from police
        270 4  -  REPEAT RALLY WITHOUT PERMIT WILL LEAD TO PROSECUTION By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg “A STERN warning in lieu of prosecution.” That’s what political activist James Gomez got for organising a rally without a permit at Speakers’ Corner last year. “You have stated that
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        Lock icon Stopped cold by his clothes
        677 4  -  Khoo was ill-equipped for North Pole By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg ULTIMATELY, it was his gloves and jacket that failed him. In the extreme conditions, Khoo Swee Chiow’s gloves, jacket and trousers just couldn’t cut it and it resulted in him getting injured. “I found
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        Lock icon Vote recount rule means no recount?
        895 8  -  It would only be allowed if top candidate’s edge is 2% of votes cast or less By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg GOING by the past few General Elections, you can’t forget about anticipating a dramatic recount of votes in the coming polls. A new Bill
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        347 8 ELECTRONIC voting may be tried out in one or two places in the coming general election. And, it promises to be as simple as using a traditional paper ballot. This could well be true, given that it is not new in the Netherlands
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    • The World
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        185 9 KUALA LUMPUR Smarter isn’t always better. Malaysian travellers are learning that the hard way- new high-security smart passports are causing problems with foreign customs. Businessman Danny Tang Wai Tho was stuck for over an hour at Macau Airport because authorities there suspected his new passport
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        Lock icon Police complaint against Samy Vellu
        437 9 Minister linked ethnic unrest to opposition, which is under police scrutiny AP IN A tit-for-tat move, an opposition party has lodged a police complaint against Malaysian Works Minister S Sarny Vellu for saying that ethnic Indians were attacked in the recent-ethnic violence because they were
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        Lock icon ‘Impeach Gus Dur, regardless’
        356 9 HARDLING MPS DETERMINED ADP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid could consider saving his breath in Parliament today, as hardline MPs yesterday vowed to try to impeach him no matter what he says to defend himself of corruption charges. “The bottom line is, what we get (today)
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        Lock icon JFK shot by two gunmen, not one, says study
        234 10 96.3% CHANCE Reuters LONDON There were two, not one, gunmen who were involved in the assassination of United States President John F Kennedy in 1963, a British forensic scientist has concluded. Based on an analysis of echoes on recordings from the
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        Lock icon The two faces of Bush’s team
        351 10 United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are likely to lock horns in the Bush administration. Rumsfeld heads an ideologically conservative Pentagon and Powell leads a more moderate State Department. Both have provided President Qeorge W Bush with conflicting
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        Lock icon THE ARBITERS
        90 10 VICE-PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY VICE-PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY has collected his own foreign-policy specialists. He is seen as leaning more towards Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. Cheney served as Secretary of Defence under Bush’s father, former President George Bush. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER CONDOLEXSZA RICE PROJECTING herself as a policy coordinator rather than a
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    • Tech
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        360 11  -  Female robot can dance and speak, but not on her own By Steven Ng ‘HUMAN’ ROBOTS Two human-like robots are currently being developed here: Cyberella (right) This 1.7-m, 80-kg robot, is designed to dance and speak sort of. Her “body” contains computercontrolled vision and position
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Computer glitches are here to stay
        870 12  -  Technological change and lack of good IT staff to blame for recent spate By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg THE recent spate of high-profile computer glitches has left lingering doubts in the minds of many. Whatever happened to quality assurance? A check by Eyeball turned up
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        Lock icon Microsoft promises brighter, simpler Win XP
        355 12 BETA 2 RELEASED ANAHEIM (California) Tired of your Windows operating system? Then get ready for a much brighter interface, with more graphics and colours, as well as built-in support to simplify tasks such as online photo printing and the management of music files. These
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    • Business
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        318 13  -  Readers of Time and Fortune say we’re most ideal for business and trade By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg IF IMAGE were everything, Singapore would easily be Prince Charming. The Republic has come out tops in a survey of “country image”. The Country Images 2000 survey
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        Lock icon Daylight piracy
        36 13 Filipinos browsing through pirated video CDs in Manila yesterday. The Philippine government vowed to clamp down on illegal traders after warnings from US firms that Manila was fast-becoming the piracy capital of Asia. AFP
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        Lock icon Salon hands readers tough choice
        479 13  -  TWO SCHEMES TO RAISE FUNDS Cox News Service ATLANTA Salon.com, the welb respected but financially strapped online magazine, announced a new business model last week that gives readers two options that are less than ideal. But Salon must do something to make money. The first
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon Auction not needed?
          89 13 SINGAPORE may not need to auction its four third-generation (3G) mobile licences after all, as the bidders Sing Tel, Mobile One (Asia), Star Hub Mobile and Hong Kong’s Expert Asia may be bidding for separate spectrums, Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo CheowTong said yesterday. The Infocomm
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          91 13 THE Straits Times Index fell 38.8 points, or 2.3 per cent, to close at 1,679.39 yesterday, down nearly 13 per cent since the start of the year. Sing Tel shares tumbled 14 per cent to close at $l.BB -a record low on heavy volumes of 106.8 million
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          54 13 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced a $1.4-billion fiscal package yesterday to help Malaysia weather the United States economic slowdown. Specific measures include cutting workers’ Employees Provident Fund contributions from 11 per cent to 9 per cent and abplishing a $23.59 tax on credit cards
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          Lock icon HK contract
          59 13 DEFENCE conglomerate Singapore Technologies Engineering has won a $lOO-million contract from the Hong Kong Fire Services Department to set up a resource mobilisation system. The system, to be completed in 2003, will cover the command, control and communication aspects for fire and ambulance services in Hong Kong. ST
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    • Mailbox
      • Building on youth
        • Single’s SAY
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            Lock icon Defining the term apathy
            955 14  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu AS MUCH as I frequently nitpick about the policies of our country’s paternalistic governing party, I couldn’t agree more with the statement by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong regarding the need for young Singaporeans to put some effort into helping this
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      • Eye On The ARTS
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          Lock icon Change yourselves
          533 15 ‘Crisis isn’t the only teacher* A ‘We’re what we’ve been trained to be’ (March 23) PRIME MINISTER GOH CHOK TONG renewed his call to Singaporean youths to come forward and contribute their ideas and efforts to the community, instead of focusing on their own interests and being “mere
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        • Article, Illustration
          Lock icon Enough with the excuses
          600 15  -  By Alvin Pang alvinp@sph.com.sg IT’S the same old story. Elders label the young a self-centred, apathetic lot. Youngsters answer back, fault the system’s hypocrisy or ask for some slack. Sounds like a bad re-run. Or am I missing the plot? When Eyeballers Fiona Voon and Gail
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      • Article
        Lock icon MOBILE INSURANCE
        100 15 OOPS, lost your mobile phone again? How’d you like it if phone companies here offered you insurance for your mobile phone? 40% I’d rather phone operators provide a service for tracking down lost or stolen mobile phones. 21% Okay, if it’s not too expensive and bothersome to apply
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      21 2 Do you the think the replacement of the yellow box with an ad mural is a welcome innovation? Tell us http^/www.eyebalLasial.com.sg
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      27 2 Qood morning! m Showers with thunder in the pre-dawn hours and early morning over many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 12.46AM/2.8M 1.13PM/2.8M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      50 4 Vertical Limit was a show—Yours is tlie real tiling. 5 one of the many messages from strangers that warmed Khoo Eyeball caught up with Khoo at home. Watch him talk about his harrowing experience in detail plus, his personal thanks to readers for their words of support at tattpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg
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  • EDUCATION EYE
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      18 5 What does your employer value? The pursuit of academic excellence is... Source: STUDENT-tink (Feb 2001 issue)
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      Lock icon An MBA-holder earns 27% more than any other Masters holder.
      297 5 From an interview with Professor Shafa According to surveys done in Europe, the USA and the Far East, the quality of an MBA is known to employers and students alike. A recent business survey also published that an MBA-holder earns
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    • Article
      Lock icon Why Go For The Sixth C?
      505 5 Singaporeans who love accumulating a string of designatory letters behind their names were in for a shock last week. Headhunters revealed that an MBA was not as valuable as work experience in their recruitment criteria, saying that there were many young MBA holders who
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      111 5 ygjjgip fl Seminars/Wo April 2001 Speed Reading Dr Daniel Theyagu Organisational Effectiveness (CREST Programme) Mr Eng WhyeTeck eading The Performance Mr Henry Tan g Innovation and Creativity in the Workforce Mr Jeffrey Tay -April 6 vl April 16 Financial Management for SMEs Dr John Ho -April 17 18 Stress Management
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      175 7 Are you binding yourself with a long subscription at current high fixed rates while the rest of your competitors are paving their future with better rates and more versatile internet facilities? Are you putting your company’s reputation at risk by contravening the term and condition just because you need to
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      101 9 Attenti&ni Attention! ■-<■■■■■ All home owners, renovation designers and contractors We specialize in country-style tiles for the kitchen, bathroom and living room. Visit our air-conditioned warehouse and showroom which offer a wide selection of local and imported tiles from USA, Italy, Spain, Belguim, etc including ceramics, marble and granite. All
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      47 11 fiGStcC PHH-, HELEM IS OF OOMTROU! OUT WHATT? SHE PO NOW? 1 My Cl\BU T CAMT RUM HEUEM'S SOFTWARE AMP SHE WOM'T HEUP! i see. IT'S RIPkUJLOUS* THEY weep help? we shoulp GIVE IT TO THEM! MOT SEMPIMG HELEN MIGHT BE POtNG THAT, OOOH. YEAH. v-* 0:
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Kuerten out
        72 16 Reuters WASHINGTON Top seed Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil was knocked out by Thomas Johansson of Sweden 6-3,4-6,6-4 in the third round of the Ericsson Open tennis Tournament in Miami yesterday. This marked only the third time in the tournament’s 17-year history that the top seed has not advanced
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        Lock icon Open still on
        47 16 Lat-Wp PONTE VERDA (Florida) The head of the governing body for the British Open said he believes the third major championship of the golf season will go on as scheduled from July 16 to 22 despite the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the country.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Move to Memphis
        67 16 Reuters NEW YORK-The Vancouver Grizzlies and the Charlotte Hornets have applied for permission to move to Memphis, Tennessee, effective for the 2001-2002 season, the NBA said on Monday. NBA results: Philadelphia 90 Milwaukee 78 Chicago 104 Denver 109 (OT) Phoenix 104 LA Lakers 83 Utah 90 Dallas
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      Lock icon What slump?
      695 16 After back-to-back wins, Woods eyes the Masters USA Today THE mantelpiece over the fireplace at Tiger Woods’ home has six trophies from various major victories, but he says there’s room for one more. Especially if it’s a replica of the clubhouse at Augusta National. The Masters, from April
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      145 16 FORMULA ONE: This Australian site pays tribute to the heroic failures of FI and is among the best of its kind the fan-based ones that mock the sport and bring a little humour along the way. Read about FI’s least successful teams and drivers and check out the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Ferrari unhappy with Barrichello
      204 17 His days with the team could be numbered after his scathing remarks against Schumacher THERE’S bickering in the ranks, and it’s clear that Ferrari isn’t too pleased at the way Rubens Barrichello has “thrown his toys out of the pram”. Especially when it’s scathing remarks made
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      Lock icon Watch for Figo, warns Van Gaal
      279 17 WORLD CUP UPDATE AFP PARIS Beware of Luis Figo. That was Dutch coach Louis Van Gaal’s warning to his players, as the Netherlands prepare to face Portugal in the pick of European World Cup qualifiers today. Well, he should know. After all, Van Gaal
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  • Unwind
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon MACAU: The new Territory
      1214 18 Macau has always evoked images of smoky casinos and litter-lined streets. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) flew out in search of roulette tables, but ended up distracted. CHANCES are, you’ve been to Hong Kong, the Fragrant Harbour. But Macau? Probably not unless you have VIP privileges with
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    • Travel
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        Lock icon GOING MACANESE: MUST EATS
        258 19  -  Tan Dawn Wei IT HAS been said that Macanese food is the original fusion food. It’s not surprising, considering the Portuguese have been in Macau for more than four centuries, and Portuguese-Chinese inter-marriages have been taking place since those early days. Can’t get Portuguese sausages? Just
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      • Travel SHELF
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          72 20 STAR Cruises has special itineraries catered to teenagers’ (aged 12 to 16) tastes. Those on Super Star Gemini can enjoy, among other things, mocktail discounts, computer games, poolside crazy competitions and pizza parties. Teens on the Super Star Leo can select activities like golf, coconut bowling and circuit
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          Lock icon Taj at Mumbai
          84 20 FIVE-STAR Taj Mahal is not the national monument you know it to be, but the best known high-class hotel in downtown Mumbai. An old-world charm surrounds this grand hotel, which recently unveiled its new lobby with a giant mural. It also boasts of a new bar and
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          Lock icon Gardens Year 2001
          67 20 TO CELEBRATE Gardens Year 2001, expect garden events to take place throughout Britain, starting next month. For starters, tulip weekends will be held on April 27 to 29 and May 5 to 7 near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. From May 25, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew will
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        • Article
          Lock icon A visual Venezuela
          63 20  -  Lim Hui Ling THE diverse geography of Venezuela is indeed a visual palette of hues for the traveller. Mountains, coasts, plains, deserts and beaches the South American country has just about everything for the discerning traveller. British Airways and Qantas have flight offers to Caracas, Venezuela -for
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        Lock icon Picasso in lust
        780 20 NYT The artist Picasso was a man whose art and work were deeply influenced by an erotic thrust In Paris, Erotique Picasso is a new exhibition offering a carnal glimpse of what feminist Qertrude Stein described as the mans “dirty side”. ALAN RIDING reports. ARIS Pablo P
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    • Arts
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        Lock icon Oh Boy! Buddy is brilliant
        570 21 June Wan The audience became one with the cast, creating an atmosphere that was electrifying. It was more than a mere musical, Buddy The Musical was an old-fashioned rock V roll concert. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) reports. HERE’S magic in Tany performance in which the cast
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        Lock icon Classics with a twist
        466 21 Dawn Tan THERE’s a painting by LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts graduate Alan Oei which we’re wondering if we should publish so we decided not to. At first glance, it looks like Italian master painter Caravaggio’s Supper of Emmaus until you see the Absolut Vodka bottle
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        Lock icon Poems to adorn G@llery Evason
        466 22 Singapore’s poetry scene gets a shot in the arm with Q@llery Reasons Poetry Retreat programme. Local poets are billeted in its luxurious surroundings for two days this May, in the hope that that would fuel their creative juices. CLABACBOW(clarac@sph.com.sg) reports. PORGET about using paintings to
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      • Arts DIARY
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          Lock icon Christie’s auction
          154 22 BLOCK off April Fool’s Day and head down to The Grand Hyatt for Christie’s Spring Auction. While most of the works are by South-east Asian painters, featured also are pieces by 20th-century Indian artists like a painting of crows by Anjolie Ela Menon. Standing out from the lot
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          Lock icon Vietnamese art at SAM
          125 22 OVER 20 contemporary works of Vietnamese artist Tran Trung Tin, who works mainly in oil and gouache on newsprint, is on show at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) until May 13. His paintings portray Vietnam the country’s suffering and people in apparently naive strokes, portraying the
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        • Article
          Lock icon Just passing
          102 22 BE INSPIRED by the Mandarin multimedia theatre show, Passing, presented by the Singapore Broadway Playhouse, on March 27 and 28. The production will explore the struggles that torment our normal lives in numerous fragments of speech, actions and scenes. Interaction is promoted between players and audience as two
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        • Article
          Lock icon Lenses of youth
          66 22 A PREMIERE of short videos depicting women will be on show at The Necessary Stage Blackßox on April 21 and 22. Lenses Of Youth is a showcase of videos made by youngsters. It’s an initiative of filmmaker Jasmine Ng (Eating Air), and acclaimed playwright Chong Tze Chien.
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    • Living Well
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        Lock icon For the love of art
        697 23 Landscape architect Peter Tan does not restrict himself to the environmental aesthetic alone. The walls of his home attests to his passion for art, which he masterfully blends with classical Chinese and contemporary furniture. ANDSCAPE L architect Peter Tan is happiest multi-tasking. Peter Tan and
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      50 21 Buddy The Musical is at the Kallang Theatre until April 1. Tickets for evening shows, at 8 pm, from Tuesdays to Sundays, are at $5O, $65, $B5 and $l2O. Matinee shows, at 2.30 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, go for $4O, $6O, $BO and $lOO. Tickets are available from Sistic.
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Celebs strut their stuff on the catwalk
      106 24 CELEBRITIES turned models at the Hip Parade on Saturday night, making it not just an event to cull ideas on the latest streetwear, but also a chance for some star ogling. LEST: KeaganKang and Vivian Lai decked out in black and pink from
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      Lock icon Insomnia closing doors after weekend gigs
      290 24 Karl Ho INSOMNIA Cafe, the laid-back clubbing haven and pretence-free platform for jocks and musicians will be put to sleep because it is not making money. The double-storied shophouse-club on New Bugis Street will draw the shutters down after two events this weekend: Techkroniq
      – Karl Ho  -  290 words
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      161 24 Chat Mouse The real meaning of... ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. BEAUTY PARLOUR: A place where women curl up and dye. CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people. CHICKENS: The only creatures you eat before they are
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      116 24 Win GET OVER IT Movie Preview Tickets! t i I l l l I l I i I l t I I I i i I I I I I G 13 tit How’s a guy fresh from a break-up supposed to survive in a world where ex-girlfriends continue to
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