Project Eyeball, 11 April 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Wednesday, April 11, 2001 80 CENTS
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      359 1 CHINA-U.S. STANDOFF “A new Cold War between the two powers will not benefit either country or the rest of the world, especially those of us who live in this part of Asia.” Dr Ang Cheng Guan of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies recounts air mishaps of the past
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      123 2 TOILET humour may be funny to most, but not when you’re at the butt end of the joke. After workmen fixing his 100 walked off with the handle of the flush, 49-year-old John Massen called the Bradford Council in Britain for urgent action but was told to hold on.
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      Lock icon PAP and Chee in war of words
      459 2  -  The cause: Re-registration of Open S’pore Centre under Chee’s father’s name By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE People’s Action Party (PAP) and the Open Singapore Centre (OSC) are caught up in a slanging match. And in the middle of this political fray is an
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      Lock icon Talking logistics
      60 2 Think Centre’s James Gomez (left) and Opposition member J B Jeyaretnam (centre) met up with Asst Supt Teo Chor Leng, from the Ang Mo Kio police division, at the Tio Chu Kang stadium yesterday to discuss the logistics of the Save JBJ rally, scheduled for April 28. The
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon HIV blood donor gets jail term
        134 2 A 30-YEAR-OLD blood donor, Neo Swee Chye, was sentenced to 15 months’ jail yesterday for not declaring that he had HIV. According to the Health Ministry, Neo had made a donation on June 25 last year. He had also made two previous donations in
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      • Article
        Lock icon Real work permit cards don’t crease
        112 2 NOT sure about the authenticity of a foreign worker’s work permit card. Try bending it in two. If it leaves a permanent crease, that means the work permit is a fake. The real ones, issued by the Ministry of Manpower, should flap right back,
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      • Article
        Lock icon COEs for private vehicles drop
        114 2 COE prices for May have fallen across the board, except for commercial vehicles. The small and big car COEs dropped by $3,368 and $3,350 to $32,100 and $31,580 respectively. The Open category saw a $2,372 drop to $31,508. For motorcycles, it dipped $96 to $959.
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      Lock icon World Watch
      367 3 JERUSALEM Israel fired missiles into the headquarters of the Palestinian naval police in the Gaza Strip and another security location. One officer was killed and 17 wounded, Palestinian police said. WASHINGTON US President George W Bush unveiled the fine print of his US$1.96 trillion budget, which aims to
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      236 3 Youth leader missing amid crackdown Wires KUALA LUMPUR In a crackdown ahead of a weekend rally to mark the second anniversary of Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction, the Malaysian authorities arrested at least four opposition leaders yesterday. And, Keadilan youth leader Ezam Mohamad Noor has reportedly gone missing.
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      37 3 Former US President Bill Clinton takes an elephant ride during a visit to the City Palace in Jaipur, India, on Monday. He’s there to raise funds for victims of the Gujarat quake in January. AP
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      Lock icon Mega still backing Gus Dur
      188 3 Reuters JAKARTA Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri still preferred President Abdurrahman Wahid to the coalition trying to oust him, claimed Nation Awakening Party (PKB) secretary-general Iskandar Muhaimin yesterday. “I am sure that there will be a solution in the middle of the month in which Megawati will
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon S’poreans not rude, say expats
        956 4  -  But they won’t make the first move By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg AS A rule, Singaporeans are not rude, say the bulk of expatriates interviewed by Eyeball. After all, when asked for help, they always respond readily. The problem is, come to think of it,
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      632 5 ‘Kindness Movement Unking n p with CDC V (April 5, 2001) SINGAPORE’S Kindness Movement has been spreading the word for the past four years, but has anyone been listening? Are Singaporeans more kind than they were four years ago? Eyeball readers share their thoughts: SELFLESS START
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    • Singapore
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        598 6  -  Ganga and Jamuna recovering after 96-hour record-breaking surgery By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg IT TOOK a marathon five days of complicated surgery the longest operation ever performed in Singapore and some 20 doctors working round the clock before success or was it a miracle was achieved here yesterday.
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        Lock icon NTU’s e-learning system a big hit
        518 6  -  'SMART CLASSROOMS' IN THE PIPELINE By Farah Diba Tahar local@eyeballcom.sg THESE days Cheryl Tay doesn’t panic about missing a lecture. And the second-year materials engineering student needn’t rush to photocopy notes from course mates or hunt down lecturers across the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
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        Lock icon Driven by a dream
        417 7  -  Couple on round-the-world adventure By Y S Lam pedas@sph.com.sg BREAKFAST in Belgrade, lunch at Luxembourg and supper in Siberia. That’s the life that Americans Jim Rogers and Paige Parker have been living the last three years. And, no, they are not jet-setting CNN journalists, but adventurers
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Don’t complicate issue, says China
        806 8 US told not to call crew ‘hostages’ or disrupt trade ties Wires BEIJING China bluntly told the United States not to complicate a dispute over a US spy plane held on Hainan island by calling the 24 detained crew “hostages” and threatening to disrupt trade
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        Lock icon US can’t really push Beijing
        478 8 NYT WASHINGTON President George W Bush’s senior advisers have concluded for now that the most severe acts of retaliation they can threaten in the spy-plane standoff with China will not hasten the release of the 24 American crew members and may harm long-term interests in
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        Lock icon Learning a lesson from the past
        750 9 Air mishaps have happened before notes DR ANG CHENG GUAN (left). The coordinator of the Master of Science programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at NTU thinks both the US and China should end their standoff soon. ON 15 April 1969,
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        Lock icon HAINAN DEJA VU
        295 9 CHINA’S demand for an apology could arguably be justified once the facts of the collision are clarified.' But, this isn’t the first time the Chinese are involved in an air tragedy off Hainan island, reported Time Asia online. On July 23,1954, a Cathay Pacific passenger plane took
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        393 10 LIPOSUCTION SAVES NYT NEW YORK Human fat, often scorned, despised and ruthlessly vacuumed from bellies and backsides by liposuction, may have a redeeming feature after all. It appears to be a rich source of stem cells, prized by scientists for their seemingly magical power
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        Lock icon Stop ‘Star Wars’
        66 10 South Korean demonstrators shouting anti-US slogans near the United States embassy in Seoul yesterday. They were protesting against America’s National Missile Defence and Theater Missile Defence projects. The demonstrators called for an end to the Bush administration’s initiation of “Star Wars which they said they said will
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        Lock icon Anti-metric man loses court battle
        431 10 Vendor found guilty of defying EU law by selling wares in pounds and ounces AP LONDON Steven Thoburn decided to stand up for his imperial rights and fought against the system the metric system, that is. And lost. The 36-year-old fruit-and-veg-etable vendor dubbed the Metric
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    • Web@Home
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        Lock icon Killer Web image editors on a budget
        625 11  -  We check out alternative programs By Audrey Lim web@eyeball.com.sg IF YOU’VE ever had a serious go at designing a webpage, you’d know how critical it is to get your graphics right. Well-designed, fast-loading graphics can greatly enhance the look, feel and identity of
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    • EDUCATION EYE
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        715 12 In-house seminars, one-day programmes, workshops and overseas stints are now inseparable from the modem human resource lingo. More and more companies are sponsoring staff on training programmes. As the economy becomes more and more hooked to technology and globalisation, this is inevitable. Since it is no longer the
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Will economy really be that bad?
        480 13  -  GDP growth forecast down to between 3.5 and 5.5 per cent By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE prognosis was worse than expected: Gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year could be as low as 3.5 per cent. The outlook, issued by the Ministry of Trade
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        Lock icon G.D.P. UP BY ONLY 4.6%
        158 13  -  Francis Kan THE first harvest for the year is nothing to cheer about. Advance estimates released yesterday by the Ministry of Trade and Industry showed that gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of the year grew by a mere 4.6 per cent over
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        Lock icon MORE JOB CUTS LIKELY
        126 13  -  Francis Kan SINGAPORE can expect to see more retrenchments in the coming year, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) deputy secre-tary-general Matthias Yao said in a statement yesterday. The labour-movement chief was responding to media queries on the Government’s revised GDP growth forecast for 2001. “The threat
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        Lock icon S.T.L TURNS VOLATILE
        166 13  -  Nicholas Yong IT WAS a very volatile day in the markets yesterday. The benchmark Straits Times Index closed the day at 1,605.12 points, up 10.17 points. In the morning session, though, the index was down 0.65 per cent, or 10.39 points, at 1,584.56, its lowest level in
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        Lock icon MONETARY POLICY STAYS, SAYS M.A.S.
        133 13  -  Nicholas Yong NEVER mind the lowering of the GDP growth outlook the monetary policy stays put. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday broke its silence on the recent weakening of the local currency against the US dollar to say that it had not changed
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon Back in the fray
          85 13 HONGKONG-based Sunday Communications said yesterday that it would still bid for the fourth third-generation mobile phone licence in Singapore, a day after it had pulled out from the country’s first auction. Spokesman Stella Wong said the company is interested in bidding for the city-state’s fourth licence.
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          Lock icon SingTel bid
          111 13 A CONSORTIUM composed of private Indian telecoms group Bharti and Singapore T elecommunications (Sing Tel) has bid for a controlling stake in Indian state-run telecoms giant Videsh Sanchar Nigam, a senior Bharti official said yesterday. The Indian government is selling 25 per cent of its nearly 53 per
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          Lock icon Hong Kong deal
          62 13 SIA ENGINEERING, a listed subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, yesterday announced that it had bagged a $3O-million maintenance deal with Hong Kong-based regional carrier Dragonair. SIA Engineering will undertake project management for the cargo conversion of two Boeing 7475. The project would be carried out at the Taikoo
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    • Mailbox
      • Single’s SAY
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          Lock icon Happy to be bad enough to get by?
          799 14  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu OUR society has been having a war of words of late. Or rather, a war over words. Last week, Lianhe Zaobao columnists and other members of the Chinese cultural elite once again bemoaned the atrocious standard of
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        • Article
          Lock icon PAINT THE TOWN RED
          82 14 HOW do we attract more tourists and more money to Singapore? 41% Make our shops more interesting and less homogenous. 23% Lift censorship and make our island less squeaky clean. 17% Singapore is crowded enough already no more please. 11% Send out Miss Singapore Universe to
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      • Eye On The ARTS
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          Lock icon First, a firm base in English
          715 15  -  By Alvin Pang alvinp@sph.com.sg ISN’T the Speak Good English Movement (SGEM) a godsend for local writers in English? After all, as resident masters of the language in its most refined and expressive forms, they’d stand to gain most from the promotion of English in
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      22 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder in the late morning and afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 12.41AM/2.8M 1.41PM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      28 4 Do you think Singaporeans can become kinder and more gracious people? Is the kindness campaign the best way to reach out to rude Singaporeans? Tell us at httiK//eyeball.asial.com.sg
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      22 11 The Net has other freeware and shareware programs for for the home-based Web or graphic designer: http://singapore.cnet. com/download http://www.zdnet.com/ downloads http://tucows. cvberway.com.sg
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      51 12 Courses from Oklahoma City University, USA Offered at MDIS Master of Business Administration in International Business (with Concentration in Marketing) Master of Arts in Mass Communications Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications Advanced Diploma in Mass Communications Diploma in Mass Communications Diploma in Marketing Management Professional Certificate in Marketing Communications
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      39 12 (An advertising feature) MDIS Interactive If you have any queries on courses offered at MDIS and education in general, send them to edueye@mdis.edu.sg &MDIS founded 1956 Management Development Institute of Singapore Where lifelong learning begins A NOT-FOR-PROFIT PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Coach suspended
        72 16 AFP CANBERRA Gennadi Touretski, who coached Olympic legend Alexander Popov and Michael Klim, was suspended yesterday on charges of possessing performance-enhancing anabolic steroids. The Australian Sports Commission said the suspension, on full pay, was pending the outcome of a court case. Touretski has seen his swimmers claim 27
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        Lock icon Death probe
        43 16 Reuters DAYTONA BEACH (Florida) Nearly two months after Dale Earnhardt’s death, Nascar said the racing organisation would investigate the star’s fatal crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500. The results of the review will not be released before August.
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        Lock icon Lewis set to fight
        82 16 AFP LOS ANGELES Ukrainian heavyweight Wiadimir Klitschko said here on Monday that world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis had agreed to fight either him or his brother Vitali later this year in a yet to be decided venue in the United States. Wiadimir has a 36-1
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        Lock icon Cleared of drugs
        47 17 PARIS Two-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong said on Monday that results of urine tests taken during last year’s race had cleared him and his US Postal teammates of using illegal drugs. Lance Armstrong’s urine sample did not contain any banned substances. AP
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      • Article
        Lock icon Suker to quit
        57 17 LONDON-After 17 years of professional soccer, Croatia’s World Cup hero Davor Suker revealed on Monday that he is giving himself “one more year” before hanging up his soccer boots for good. “I can’t manage it anymore at my age: so much travelling and stress, so many victories
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        Lock icon Goalless draw
        19 17 LONDONMiddlesbrough and Sunderland fought a ferocious Premier League match that ended in a goalless draw on Monday.
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        Lock icon Campbell out?
        49 17 LONDON Tottenham captain Sol Campbell could miss England’s World Cup qualifying game in Greece this June. He sustained serious ligament damage, after injuring his right ankle in the match against Arsenal on Sunday. With a similar injury in his left ankle, doctors have ordered him to rest.
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        Lock icon AS Roma slips
        30 17 Wires FLORENCE (Italy) AS Roma lost 3-1 at Fiorentina on Monday and the third league defeat in 25 matches reduced their Serie A lead to six points.
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      Lock icon Wizards’ boss thinks Jordan will return
      280 16 Reuters WASHINGTON It first came from a sportswriter. Then a former coach. Now, Michael Jordan’s boss is saying he thinks the NBA legend will be back on court next season. Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin predicted that Jordan would return to the National Basketball
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      Lock icon Sixers make mincemeat of Celtics
      424 16 They’re now tops in the East AP PHILADELPHIA It took a little longer than expected, but it’s finally official: The Philadelphia 76ers have home-court advantage throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs. Now, the team’s sights are set on the best record in the NBA. Allen Iverson
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    • Article
      Lock icon Did Dacourt lie to FA panel?
      223 16 TESTIMONY ON VIEIRA’S FOUL Reuters LONDON The hits keep coming for English soccer, and one wonders how much more it can take. This time around, Leeds United was again at the centre, with Olivier Dacourt being asked by the Football Association (FA) to clarify
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      Lock icon Aikman calls it a day
      464 17 Quarterback bids tearful farewell to a sport he’s played since he was seven Ap IRVING (Texas) Troy Aikman, 34, was a gritty football player who never admitted pain, even when his body was breaking down. But on Monday, as he announced his retirement, Aikman cried.
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      147 17 MFL: Log on to Sports Illustrated for the hour-long speech that football player Troy Aikman made to friends and family, and catch the one thing you would never have seen on any given Sunday during football season tears from one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks. http://www.sportsillustrated. cnn.com/football/nfl/ news/2001/04/09/
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Travelling in a box
      744 18 ‘You get to go to all these places in the comfort of your own home, with your popcorn. You re not sweating in 38 degrees C in the middle of India. Samantha Chin, frequent traveller and fan of TV travel shows The adventurous have latched on
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    • Travel
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        Lock icon SERIAL TRAVELLING: HOSTS WITH THE MOST
        690 19  -  Serene Goh WONDERING which country to visit tonight? Here’s what you can expect on the tube. Lonely Planet CHANNEL: Discovery, SCV Channel 12 ETA: 6 am and 5 pm daily. TOUR GUIDES: lan Wright, with comparatively unfunny regulars such as Megan McCormick and Justine
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        Lock icon Neon-stripped Bali
        908 20 Is Bali all pristine beaches, swaying palms and glorious surf? Not quite, as ASDF ANSAR (asif@sph.com.sg) discovers. POR centuries, the Balinese have looked away from the exotic beaches that frame their island, believing that monsters and demons lurked among the waves. Instead, they have turned their gaze inland,
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      • Travel DIARY
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          Lock icon High-tech parade
          66 20 AFTER more than 500 performances, the Main Street Electrical Parade at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is being replaced with a high-tech parade, SpectroMagic, to be led by Mickey Mouse. The parade’s highlights include 38 floats, holographic images and 600,000 lights. A cast of Disney characters star in
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          Lock icon Amanresort is No 1
          58 20 A NEW Zagat Survey of Top International Hotels, Resorts and Spas has crowned Amanresorts as No 1 in the chain category. The list was compiled by nearly 12,000 people, who spent 365 nights in the last year, say, getting spa treatments in an open-air Arabian tent
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          Lock icon Paris and the East
          78 20 PARIS’ Musee Guimet, which has one of the world’s finest collections of Asian art, has re-opened after a five-year, US$4B-million (SsB4-million) overhaul. Set in an elegant 19th-century building on Place d’lena in the 16th Arrondissement, the museum was refurbished to better display some 3,000 pieces of
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          94 20 AP NOW that the Hong Kong International Film Festival is on until April 21, film buffs should make their way there. Some film offerings include A Century Of Chinese Cinema-Look Back In Glory, Asian Vision, Hong Kong Panorama to Global Images. The event draws the best from
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        Lock icon Take a bow
        1277 21 Ditch those ivories. Spread your legs for the hippest instrument in town, the cello. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports on this musical trend. THE cello is sinking its spike into floorboards all over Singapore. Forget the piano and the violin, the hottest musical instrument to pick up
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        Lock icon 02: Not suffocated
        654 22 It’s a sigh of relief this time around for playwright Elangovan. His new play, Oxygen, was passed uncut by Pelu, despite it being, he thinks, less ‘mild s than Talaq. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports. CONTROVERSIAL playwright Elangovan thought that Talaq was “mild” compared to his latest
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        Lock icon All the President’s artists
        360 22  -  Tan Dawn Wei THE President’s putting his weight behind another event. This time, it’s The President’s Young Talents Exhibition organised by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). It was conceived as part of an initiative to present and promote young emerging artists in Singapore. This inaugural year
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    • Living Well
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        Lock icon Shophouse to townhouse
        427 23 Careful conservation and inspired planning give this charming, old shophouse a touch of the contemporary. T WAS good taste that saved this elegant, 80-year-old, pre-War building near Newton from demolition. “We thought this house had definite character because of its historical value,” said Chan Wai Kin of
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      105 21 A good resource on the Net is the Internet Cello Society at http://www.cello.org There, you’ll find information for cello learners at various levels. Useful advice includes an introduction to the parts of a cello, tips on getting started and practising, and sound samples from the cello repertoire. There is also
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      53 22 The exhibition will be launched by President S R Nathan today and will run till July 1. Open from 9 am until 6 pm (Tuesdays to Sundays) and 9 pm (Fridays). It’s closed on Mondays. Admission is $3 for adults, $1.50 for children and senior citizens. Free admission every Friday
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Jolie’s Lara Croft to rescue U2’s The Edge
      85 24 ANGELINA JOLEB (left) will appear in the U 2 video for Elevation, reports MTV Asia. The video’s premise begins with Bono (pointing at right) finding that guitarist The Edge (in the No 3 jersey) has been kidnapped. Heroine Lara Croft (Jolie) will
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      159 24 Chat Mouse Life in a monastery A GUY decides to enter a Trappist monastery and is told that once every five years he will be allowed to utter two words. After the first five years, he is finally approached by the monsignor and he says: “Bed hard”. The monsignor tells
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      Lock icon Contract prevents model from marrying DiCaprio
      57 24 LEONARDO DICAPRIO and Gisele Bundchen (left) will not be hearing wedding bells anytime soon because of a clause in her modelling contract that stalls the supermodel from marriage until 2004. IMDb.com reported that the couple wanted to wed this summer, but they’re forced to
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      Lock icon Mad Minogue
      77 24 BE CAREFUL of Kylie Minogue’s wrath. It seems that the sexy singer is no pushover. On Sunday, the final night of Minogue’s British tour, boyfriend James Gooding was told off in public. MTV Asia reported that Gooding kicked up a fuss when he was refused entry to her
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        61 24 NEW LINE CINEMA has come under fire for giving mirrors with the Blow logo to an audience during an advance screening. Blow revolves around drug-dealing with Johnny Depp heading the cast. Critics say the gimmick went too far as it glorified drug paraphernalia. But unfazed New Line
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        Lock icon Meanwhile...
        35 24 Wires FRIENDS’ Courteney Cos Arquette loves purchasing and decorating homes. Her latest is a beach-front house in Malibu, California. The three-bedroom luxury pad measures 420-sq m and cost the actress US$lO million (SslB million).
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