Project Eyeball, 13 June 2001

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    12 1 Project eyeball eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Wednesday, June 13, 2001 80 CENTS
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      338 1 SINGLE'S SAY TIME WELL SPENT? Sob Wen Lin wonders about the Government campaign to get parents to spend time with their kids lest they become a murderer instead of a doctor. See Page 14 GLOBAL EYE EYE FOR AN EYE lan Lim thinks that those who opposed Oklahoma City bomber
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      107 2 WHEN it comes to celebrating the last night of singlehood, girls aren’t much better than guys. A survey by webweekend.co.uk found that women are just as likely as men to be turned down by hotels, who said “girls are much worse than blokes” in the stag-and-hen party weekends. It
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon OCBC bids for Keppel
        692 2  -  Analysts say offer price of $3.38 a share on the low side By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation one of the Big Four unveiled yesterday an unsolicited $4.8-billion offer to buy Keppel Capital Holdings (KCH), which owns Keppel Tat Lee Bank Singapore’s smallest bank.
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        Lock icon Ex-banker is US envoy to S'pore
        59 2 UNITED STATES President George W Bush has nominated banker Frank Lavin as ambassador to Singapore. In a statement issued on Monday, the White House announced Bush’s nominee. Lavin formerly co-manager of the Bank of America’s multinational corporate group for South-east Asia and Australia has
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        Lock icon Cheap calls to foreign mobiles
        111 2 SINGTEL Mobile customers can now call visitors to Singapore who are registered with SingTel’s partner networks without incurring international call charges. Previously, callers in Singapore had to make an international call to contact foreign mobile-phone users in Singapore. The local direct-dial service launched yesterday is
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        Lock icon June is leave month for politicians
        76 2 TAKING leave during the school vacation month of June? You’re not alone. A check on the Government Gazette website (http://www. egazette.com.sg) revealed that 23 office bearers, including most of the Cabinet, Prime Minister Goh and Senior Minister Lee, have taken leave of absence in
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        110 2 FOR the next 10 days, the waters around Singapore will be abuzz with activity as 15 ships from 16 countries converge.on the Singapore Straits and South China Sea to participate in one of the regions’s biggest naval exercises. Hosted by the Singapore Navy, the
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        69 2 THOSE serving their National Service in the Singapore Police Force and Singapore Civil Defence Force will no longer need to carry around their flimsy, laminated identification cards. Instead, they will be issued smart cards similar to the ones the Singapore Armed Forces issues to soldiers.
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      357 3 LFr-_, More than 300 children marched through parts of the Jamaican capital on Monday to call for peace between rival gangs whose gun violence has killed more than 20 people in the last month. Some schools had been closed due to the violence. The marching students carried banners
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      342 3 10-year-old expelled after run-in with teacher felt bullied LONDON School bullying has claimed its latest victim. A 10-year-old black boy hanged himself after being expelled from school, following an argument between his mother and his teacher. Jevan Richardson’s family demanded an independent inquiry into
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      191 3 LONDON Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham and her husband David have joined the ranks of Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney in being listed in the new Collins Concise English Dictionary, reported BBC yesterday. But they’re going to have to keep a high profile if
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon NSP reveals GE plans
        1038 4  -  Opposition carving up single seats By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE Opposition has begun carving up the nine highly prized singleseat constituencies where Opposition members stand their best chance with the National Solidarity Party (NSP) the first to stake its claim. Not only has the party, which
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      Lock icon THE FOUR NSP CANDIDATES
      119 4 Sebastian Teo, 52 Vice-president of NSP. Graduated with an MBA degree from NUS, is married with 2 children and works as a business management consultant. (Kampong Glam) Steve Chia, 31 NSP secretary-general. Graduated from NUS in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Stood in the
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    • Singapore
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        359 5  -  Donations for family of burnt toddler still not enough By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg WEARING a yellow T-shirt and cargo pants, a man in his early 30s walked into the hospital’s burn unit. A perfect stranger. But five minutes later, the man who only identified himself as Ah
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        547 5  -  I.D.A. SURVEY Steven Ng WITH all the talk about dot this and Net that and IT the other, you’d be forgiven for thinking that most Singaporeans are infocomm-literate. However a survey conducted by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), shows otherwise.
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        Lock icon Chat up your future boss online
        551 6  -  Employers to logon at NTU e-fair By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg ONLINE recruitment fairs may not be a big deaj these days. But Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) career e-fair promises something quite innovative: An online chat with your potential employer, even before you send
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        209 6  -  Suzanne Ong CAN’T think of an unusual-yet-practical lucky draw gift for your company’s dinner and dance? Well, it seems that City Cab has a popular solution: Taxi vouchers that come in denominations of $lO and $5. The $lO City Cab vouchers the first and
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        Lock icon Some pay over $1,000 for a lucky phone number
        238 6  -  Fiona Voon SOME businessmen are bidding more than $l,OOO, in Net auctions, for auspicious mobile phone numbers. An Eyeball check of the StarHub’s Golden Numbers e-auction site, set up last August, showed that it has been a hit with mobile phone
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Gus Dur still faces impeachment
        443 7 REVAMPED CABINET WILL NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE Wires JAKARTA There is no evidence that President Abdurrahman Wahid’s revamped Cabinet will ward off his impeachment. Nor are analysts exactly overjoyed with his decision yesterday to appoint deputy Central Bank governor Burhanuddin Abdullah as the new Coordinating
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        Lock icon Hunt for Abu Sayyaf stepped up
        402 7 Likely that American has been killed army Wires ZAMBOANGA (Philippines) President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo stepped up military efforts yesterday to find and decimate the Abu Sayyaf bandits who claimed to have beheaded an American they had kidnapped from a tourist resort. Late last night,
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        Lock icon SWORD OF TERROR
        308 7  -  Farrah Diba Tahar ABU SAYYAF is the smallest and most radical of the Islamist groups fighting to establish an Iranian-style Islamic state in the southern island of Mindanao. The group, whose name means “Bearer of the Sword”, split from the Moro National Liberation Front in 1991, the
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        577 8 Keep Marlboros handy and don’t mention the war, Salon tells President Qeorge W Bush who is on his first trip to Europe. Igcnesal tips DEAR George W, Relax, you’ll find Europe very much like America. There are McDonald's everywhere, American movies
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        452 8 US President must convince sceptical EU heavyweights about his policies Wires MADRID US President George W Bush couldn’t resist showing off his Spanish in a television interview aired as he arrived in Madrid yesterday. Unfortunately, he made at least one big gaffe: mispronouncing the Prime Minister’s
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        319 9 AP MORAGA (California) It was a classic case of sacrificing a few for the greater good. Some 62 years ago, Mary Tudor instructed a handful of children at an lowa orphanage in a lesson they would never forget she taught them to stutter. The experiment
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        429 9 Blair fires 18 ministers and gives himself, Cabinet bumper pay rises Wires LONDON Fresh from his landslide election win, British Prime Minister Tony Blair must be feeling very confident. He showed it by firing 18 ministers and then giving himself and his Cabinet bumper pay rises. In
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        Lock icon EUROPEAN ROYAL WEDDING JITTERS
        94 9 In Holland, Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Maxima Zorregiueta were engaged earlier this year. The bride’s father has bowed to objections over the Princes political pastas a minister in Argentina’s dictatorship from 1976-1983 and is staying away from the nuptials. Reuters Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and
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        243 9 FRENCH PRESSURE PARIS Plans for France’s wedding of the year between the royal prince, Jean d’Orlans, and German aristocrat Duchess Tatjana d’Oldenbourg have been cancelled because of a quarrel dating back to the 17th century, reported The Times of London yesterday. Prince Jean, the due of Vendme,
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    • Technology
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        57 11 Unveiled yesterday, DiMAGE 7, Minolta’s latest digital camera, comes with a 2/3 -inch 5.24 million pixel CCD on its image sensor and a 7.2 to 50.8 mm/F2.8 to 3.5 zoom lens equivalent to a 35 mm camera with a 200 mm zoom lens. It hits the market on
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        Lock icon Peerless lives up to its name
        235 11  -  Eugene Wee IN THE world of portable-data storage, the lomega Peerless could just be what its name suggests. Launched yesterday, it packs up to 20GB of data into a disk that fits into your shirt pocket and is capable of transferring the data at
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        557 11 Windows XP offers telephony features NYT MICROSOFT’S new Windows XP operating system for PCs goes further than ever in commandeering the capabilities of one of the most widely used desktop tools: the telephone. The ability to use the personal computer as an “intelligent” phone has
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    • Web@Home
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        497 12 Tired of crawling through tedious article after article on the Web? Well, let others do the work for you on their weblogs, says YVONNE KOH (weh@ eyeball .com.sg). SURE, the Internet promises instant information, but, more often than not, surfers have to sift through a slew
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    • Business
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        471 13  -  Better pricing and lower price/earnings ratio giving boost By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg ALMOST half the companies which listed this year on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) have seen their share prices plummet below offer prices, but good showings from recent listings may indicate a turnaround in the
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        Lock icon Bank stocks not spared effects of weak market
        445 13  -  THREE OUT OF BIG FOUR SUFFER DROP By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg IT’S not just newly-listed stocks that have performed poorly. Bank stocks which closely mirror the state of an economy have also been badly bruised since the start of the year. Big
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        Lock icon Spotlight on Malay SMEs
        53 13 Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Abdullah Tarmugi (right) during a visit, yesterday, to turnkey test solutions provider SNR System during the Malay SME Week, which features a series of activities for Malay SMEs. The event was launched by the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry on
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      • Business BUZZ
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          66 13 SINGAPORE share prices closed 0.5 per cent lower yesterday, dragged down by overnight weakness on Wall Street, dealers said. The benchmark Straits Times Index fell 7.60 points to 1,678.38. The top gainer of the day was Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), which closed up 2.8 per cent at
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          95 13 SINGAPORE’S economy is expected to grow by about 3.6 per cent this year and 5.6 per cent in 2002, a Reuters poll of 10 research houses shows. This compares with the Government’s official forecast for this year of 3.5 to 5.5 per cent. The Government had earlier set
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      • Single’s SAY
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          Lock icon It’s never child’s play
          761 14  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu IMAGINE, if you will, a regal-looking child dressed in army fatigues and carrying a toy gun. Do you see the future protector of an ancient mountain kingdom? Or the potential mass murderer of his own royal family? Theories on why the
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        265 14 ‘Prince fired indiscriminately’ (June 7) ON SUNDAY, King Gyanendra gave the commission probing the massacre of the Nepalese royal family four extra days to complete its report. Pressure on the inquiry has been heightened by the emergence of eyewitness testimony identifying former Crown
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      • Global EYE
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          Lock icon Right to life comes with conditions
          717 15  -  By Ian Lim ianlim@sph.com.sg HUMAN rights group Amnesty International described Monday’s execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh as a triumph of vengeance over justice, which justified “killing (as) an appropriate response to killing”. I beg to differ. McVeigh’s death, in my view, was
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        Lock icon Net BUZZ
        168 15 MCVEIGH has been described as a poster child for the death penalty. I want to point out that I have little sympathy for McVeigh as a person, and none for what he did. But our justice system should be something based on more than revenge. What have we
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      25 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder in the late morning and afternoon, affecting most areas High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 2.50AM/2.5M 4.50PM/2.1M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      43 3 Parents and family members can turn to Web resources to combat school bullying. http://www.bullving.co.uk Bullying Online claims it has received more than 6,000 e-mails for help since it started two years ago. http://www.successunlimited.co.uk/ hnllv/index.htm A resource site about the various forms of bullying.
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      26 6 Do you think having an online chat with your potential boss even before you decide to send in your resume would help? Tell us at http://eyeball.asial.com.sg
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      51 6 THE preferred mobile phone numbers at Star Hub include the ones that end with 8888, or numbers that are easily remembered, like those ending with 1111. These numbers are auctioned off in two price tiers $4BB and $BBB, for the more popular ones. Star Hub’s Golden Numbers auction site http:/
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      53 7 For more information, visit the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism at http://www.ict.org. i l/i nter- ter/orgd et.cfm?orgid-3 Special Delicous “«ee Steam B C otv Monday to Saturday (Sun PH close) 5.00 pm to ll.oopm Hejiayi Food Catering Pte Ltd 1 Liang Seah Street (Opp. Bugis Junction) #Ol-05/06 Singapore *****2 Tel:
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      31 8 More on the dynamics of Bush’s Europe visit at: -http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/ europe/newsid_l37Booo/*****45.5tm An analysis of the trans-Atlantic rivalry. http://www.time.com/time/ world/article/0,85 99,*****1,00.html Time rates the hot-button issues. ats-yoKE t m? r ittfeS f
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      144 12 THE urn ROLLDN It’s free, playful, and DIY. Try your hand at weblogs, and let the good times roll. DOs Slim is attractive. Resist the urge to blog everything that comes across your path. Be a curious and avid surfer. Interesting opinions are an added advantage. Update website regularly for
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  • Eye Sport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        187 16 SINGAPORE’S only athlete who earned a gold medal in track and field events at the 1999 South-east Asian (SEA) Games announced his surprise comeback yesterday. James Wong, 32, the national record holder for the discus, shot put and hammer events, is looking to bring back another gold
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        96 16 UEFA CUP winners Liverpool will play a Singapore Select side on July 16 at the National Stadium. The match organisers will give away 2,000 tickets, worth $40 each, to those who present Carlsberg Green Label promotional liners and crown caps (with inner liner) and Special Brew liners only.
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      Lock icon WAR OF WORDS
      824 16 Lakers-Sixers court battle becomes personal as O’Neal, Mutombo trade barbs Wires PHILADELPHIA First it was Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson, jawing with each other at the end of Game Two of the NBA Finals. Now, it’s Shaquille O’Neal going at it with Dikembe Mutombo. You know it’s
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      210 16 FORMULA ONE: The flap over Juan Pablo Montoya’s comment to Jacques Villeneuve he apparently told the Canadian driver he had “already killed someone this season” continues. Montoya is in trouble with his team, and the other drivers are outraged at his comments. It’s a big change from the
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      Lock icon 'Idiotic’ error cost Coulthard every race
      551 17 McLaren boss blames poor team work Wires A “FUNDAMENTALLY idiotic human error” put an end to David Coulthard’s streak of scoring points in every race so far this season. Those were the words of McLaren’s managing director Martin Whitmarsh when asked about the fiasco
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      510 17 SWEDISH COACH ‘PERFECT ANTIDOTE' Wires LONDON Last week, Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard asked: “Why can’t we go on and win the World Cup?” His remark came just after England had beaten Greece 2-0 in a crucial World Cup qualifier before
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  • Unwind
    • Travel
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        Lock icon GIVE Death the finger
        1667 18 New Zealand. Probably the only place in the world where you can jump off a perfectly good bridge after breakfast and be back at the hotel for lunch. STOVE LOH (pedas@sph.com.sg) gets some hang time in between meals and lives to tell about it. F YOU’VE
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    • Living Well
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        645 20 Forget curves. When it comes to elegance in home entertainment, flat-panelled TVs have become the choice among discerning enthusiasts. DAWN WONG (funeyeball,com.sg) shows you the sets that are making headway as design items in homes. Television sets no longer have to be bulky and boring. These days,
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    • Arts Fest
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        833 21 This years Late Nite Series continues its reincarnation into a venue for young and experimental theatre groups. In doing so, TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports, its organisers hope not only to attract a hipper audience, but also spot Singapore’s next batch of bright young things.
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        Lock icon THAT LATE NITE SHOW
        229 21 Show: War Game By: FUNdaMENTAL Multi-disciplinary What’s it about: While kids in first world countries live out their violent fantasies in electronic gaming, there are kids in other countries who are professionally trained in warfare where killing is no mere game, and the war and violence
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        Lock icon Tech steals the scene here
        547 22 What s stunning about Les Deux Mondes war play Lietmotiv is its visual effects. 1 hey are so well done that they almost overwhelm the actors themselves. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) takes a look at how multimedia works for and against this production. THERE’S no
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        Lock icon FESTIVAL PROFILES
        372 22  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg Who: Composers, musicians and choreographers from four continents in collaboration. Driving force: Herbert Gantschacher, artistic director of Austrian music and theatre company Arbos thought up the project. The idea took flight two years ago when he met Argentinian composer Martin Bauer and National
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    • Asiabeat
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        Lock icon Big shoes to fill
        724 23 CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph .com.sg) meets Shui Ling who plays the role made famous by Zhang Ziyi in the TVBS serial of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and asks her the big question: How do you measure up? HANG ZIYI is a tough act to follow. As Yu
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      • Arts DIARY
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          Lock icon See on show
          105 23 WORKS from artist See Cheen Tee’s family collection will figure in an exhibition at The Gallery from June 22. Full-time artist See was born in 1928 and died in 1986. An arts teacher at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa), he went to Muar, Johor, for
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          Lock icon Substation on film
          170 23 THERE’S a distinct smell of celluloid wafting through The Substation this month. “Moving Images: Local Flavour 12” will screen at the Guinness Theatre on June 20 at 8 pm, as part of The Substation’s regular local film showcase. Also, grab the chance to speak to the Filmmakers
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          Lock icon Shim Sham Shimmy
          94 23  -  Dawn Wong THE Lindy Hop Ensemble will hold a special course to teach the Shim Sham Shimmy -a celebrated anthem of tap and jazz steps at the YMCA of Singapore. This dance routine can be done in your own style and beginners are welcome. The Shim Sham
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      27 23 Log on to http://ey eball.asial.com.sg to read our review of the epic Shang Yang by the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, which opened last night at Kallang Theatre.
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      63 23 Catch Shui in: Crouching Tiger, Bidden Dragon. June 12 to July 27, Mondays to Fridays at 8 pm on TVBS (Ch 54). Legend Of The White Hair Maiden. till Sept 23, Sundays from 9.45 pm to 11.30 pm on W Drama (Ch 55). Tears In Heaven: June 24 to Sept
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  • The Back Page
    • Chat & Mouse
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        Lock icon Birds of a feather
        281 24 JIMMY went to a bankruptcy sale of a carnival and purchased a parrot. The parrot was fully grown and was billed as the smartest in the world, with an astounding vocabulary. The only problem was the bird had not been treated well and had a very
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      • Article
        Lock icon Last request for a dance
        48 24 AN ELDERLY couple would constantly argue about everything. The woman often ended the arguments by stating vociferously: “I’ll dance on your grave...I’ll dance on your grave!” Well, sure enough, the man died first. His last request was that he be buried at sea.
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      Lock icon Giant lizard attacks Sharon Stone's hubby
      228 24 SHARON STONE’S husband (left) was attacked by a huge lizard at a zoo. The Komodo dragon, which has serrated teeth designed for ripping flesh, clamped down on Phil Bronstein’s foot, crushing his big toe. The San Francisco Chronicle executive editor was rushed to the
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      Lock icon Is rice on the menu? Survivor chef gets TV show
      106 24 THE chef who finished third on Survivor: The Australian Outback is getting his own cooking show. Keith Famie, who was criticised by fellow contestants for his sub-par rice-cooking skills, will be the host of Taste The Adventure, a cooking show
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Brosnan again sets wedding date
        100 24 JAMES Bond star Pierce Brosnan will marry Keely Shaye Smith (right) on Aug 4 in Ireland. The couple have opted for a Roman Catholic ceremony to be followed by a reception in Ashford Castle in County Mayo, ranked one of the top 50 hotels in
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        97 24 Wires A CANADIAN radio station has invited US President George W Bush’s twin daughters, fresh from run-ins with the Texas law over underage drinking, to head north for a weekend of legal boozing. The Edmonton, Alberta, station has offered to foot the bar tab and airplane tickets for 19-year-old
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