Project Eyeball, 22 June 2001

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball,asial,com,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Friday, June 22, 2001 80 CENTS
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      359 1 mm?:: -1 m Wj rW Desmond Wee Subversive poetry Teng Qian Xi, an 18-year-old prize-winning poet, refused to read it in front of the Education Minister. We got curious so we’re publishing it on Page 6. Make forei talent GE big issue forum gripes about Singaporeans feeling sidelined. Eyeball says:
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      114 2 A THAI petrol station owner in Bangkok says that his business really took off after he decorated his roof with a C-130 military aeroplane from the Vietnam War. Charlie Choungrangsee says that business has boomed since he spent a year and one million baht (S$40,000) buying the plane from
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      Lock icon Transsexuals against NUH clinic closure
      412 2 Petition requests that sex-change operations be resumed TRANSSEXUALS in Singapore are refusing to accept news that Singapore’s last sex-change clinic has been shut. They have launched a petition to reopen it. The National University Hospital’s (NUH) Gender Identity Clinic was the last hospital here to
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Gomez fined $1,800 for drink driving
        131 2 JAMES GOMEZ, 36, former executive director of activist group Think Centre, was fined $l,BOO yesterday for drink driving. He was also banned from driving here for one year after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol. On Jan 10 at about
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      • Article
        Lock icon Infocomm sector sees healthy growth
        122 2 IT’S a rosy long-term outlook for Singapore’s infocomm industry, which is set to keep growing, despite the economic gloom. According to the second Infocomm Industry Survey (1999-2000) released yesterday by the Infocomm Development Authority the industry grew by 30 per cent last year to a
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      • Article
        Lock icon New hotel ranking system launched
        127 2 FORGET arbitrary five-star standards. There’s a new ranking system, Utell selections, that categorises hotels worldwide. It works by classifying hotels into three core categories luxury, superior and value and four niche classes style, resort, apartment and airport. Launched here yesterday at the Fullerton Hotel by
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        Lock icon ERP holiday rates ends today
        68 2 THE ERP rates for the June school holidays ends today and reverts to the April/May ERP rates from Monday. This revision is due to a change in the Land Transport Authority’s quarterly ERP review cycles. Instead of revising rates every quarter, new rates will now
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        154 2 CINEMA operator Golden Village will have to fork out over $1 million in rent it owes landlord Marina Leisureplex after the High Court threw out its claim that its lease is void and illegal. SOME 34 youth leaders from Singapore will be at Kuala Lumpur over the weekend on
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon SCV’s new pricing plan wins many converts
        891 4  -  Company gains 5,000 new subscribers BY Serene Goh sereneg@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE Cable Vision’s new MaxTV plan has a basic message: $2O for up to 10 channels. So why the anger, expressed on the Straits Times’ Forum page, that sports channels like ESPN have been
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE’S CABLE VISION
      230 4 SO YOU think SCV is inflexible? Well, things have definitely been getting better. Already it’s offering connections to specific sports channels for fixed periods of time at no extra charge, and it even telecasts some big boxing and cricket matches on a pay-per-view basis. YouPickTheFlick on Star
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    • The World
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        230 3 SAP PAULO A United Airlines flight bound for New York from Rio de Janeiro was forced to dump its fuel into the Atlantic Ocean and make an emergency landing here after an engine caught fire. None of the 160 passengers and 13 crew was hurt. JERUSALEM Israel’s diplomatic
        Bong Fortin  -  230 words
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        Lock icon Soya sauce warning
        322 3  -  Britain reports cancer causing agents Farrah Diba Tahar BRITONS may lose their appetite for Chinese takeaway food after the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Britain released a report warning consumers to avoid certain soya sauce products. The FSA conducted a survey of 100 samples last year, and
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        Lock icon Getting ready for the next step
        43 3 Members of East Timor’s Defence Force, established in February this year, demonstrate one of the exercises they undertook during their first training course in Aileu on Thursday to prepare for the future safeguard of the territory. Ap
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        Lock icon Aussie national anthem ‘more a lullaby’
        166 3 CANBERRA Boring, banal, outdated and meaningless such reactions would usually be enough to get something replaced, except when it is Australia’s national anthem, Advance Australia Fair. Sandy Macdonald, a government senator in the national parliament, has called for the 17-year-old anthem to be replaced
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        Lock icon WHAT HE SAID 0N...
        105 7 STEPPING DOWN 1 law® to find it time t® step down. 1 want to step down t® please foref&i detractors*, Imt It Is not s© easy t® step down.’ THE REFORM MOVEMENT 'Far Sr«a benefiting from tie democratic process what is sees from reformasl is mob
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        Lock icon ...WHAT HE DIDN’T
        225 7 Ap PRIME MINISTER Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was quiet on three people whom many had hoped to hear about: 1 Daim Zainuddin, the powerful Finance Minister who recently resigned. It is speculated that he has fallen out with the PM and might be arrested soon. In
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        Lock icon Dr M lets fly
        456 7 PM takes no prisoners in Umno speech admonishing everyone Wires KUALA LUMPUR If it weren’t Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad delivering it, the opening speech at the United Malays National Organisation’s (Umno) annual convention yesterday would have been an outrage. But considering that it
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        Lock icon China demolishes houses at Buddhist centre
        311 8 MONKS AND NUNS FORCED OUT BEIJING Chinese authorities have launched a campaign against one of the most significant centres of Buddhist teaching in China, knocking down housing for monks and nuns and forcing several thousand Buddhist followers to leave the centre, witnesses said on
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        Lock icon Studies divided on effects of divorce
        290 8 BURY your thoughts about divorce and stay together for the kids’ sake? Well, some of the latest controversial studies say that should be the way, unless the marriage is abusive. Among findings to be presented today at “Smart Marriages: Happy Families”, a conference in
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        Lock icon Things could be verse, execs told
        452 8 Speaker uses poetry to inspire burned-out office workers Nyt SEATTLE When people see David Whyte’s name at the top of their conference agenda, usually identified only as a poet, they often wonder what he could possibly say that has to do with their careers.
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        Lock icon The long and short of it
        51 9 Afp People at both ends of the Earth celebrated the longest and shortest days of the year yesterday. In Britain, thousands gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice (top). In Australia, people dressed as Santa Clauses (right) to celebrate “Christmas” in the south.
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        Lock icon Bush’s popularity dips
        221 9 Nyt NEW YORK He impressed the world media on his maiden overseas trip, but President George W Bush is not scoring too high with Americans. Even his sweeping measure to cut taxes hasn’t helped his declining popularity, if a nationwide survey of 1,050 adults conducted by The
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        Lock icon From global cop to global attorney
        273 9 US called upon to try foreign cases Nyt NEW YORK America has often been called to and criticised for- in equal measure playing global policeman. Now, it is also being called upon to judge rights and wrongs all over the globe. A number of
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        Lock icon CASE HISTORY
        95 9 Aug2ooo: A federal court jury in Manhattan ordered former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to pay US$4.5 billion (SsB.l billion) in damages to people who were raped, tortured and killed in the Balkan conflict. Sept 2000: President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was served with a US$4OO million suit
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        Lock icon MAD is indispensable, says Powell
        247 9 WASHINGTON Challenging one of the Bush administration’s main arguments for the missile defence, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that mutual assured destruction (MAD) the basis of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War would be indispensable. He told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday:
        – Reuters  -  247 words
    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Courts could end up in court
        190 5  -  Consumers who ordered wrongly-priced PCs threaten legal action Eugebe Wee ANGRY customers who did not receive their orders for a Compaq laptop computer erroneously priced at $279 are setting their legal eagles on megastore Courts. At least seven unhappy customers have sent a joint
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        Lock icon 25,000 seized snake skins on the block
        275 5  -  SALE MAY FETCH $100,000 YVONNE KOH SOME 25,000 confiscated snake skins will go under the hammer today in a public auction at the Ministry of National Development Complex’s Tower Block at Maxwell Road and they are expected to fetch about $lOO,OOO. The snake
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        Lock icon Teen poet speaks her mind
        353 6  -  Site wants to use verse to encourage critical thinking BY Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE Education Minister was the guest-of-honour, but that didn’t stop 18-year-old Teng Qian Xi from letting everyone know how she felt. Before she read her poem on friendship entitled Where Fish Could
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        Lock icon ‘TOO SUBVERSIVE’
        162 6 THIS is the poem Teng Qian Xi didn’t get to read in front of Rear-Adm Teo Chee Hean because it was too “subversive”. CASUALTIES OP THE EFFICIENT WORLD (on Singapore’s bilingual policy and the Speak Mandarin Campaign) TWENTY-TWO years ago, my parents began to limp along a road
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        Lock icon S’pore donor helps out Bali orphanage
        408 6  -  ANONYMOUS BENEF ACTOR DONATES S$22,500 BY PONG CHEN YEN local@eyeball.com.sg IN SOME ways it was just another weekend for the 26 abandoned Indonesian children in the small town of Singaraja in northern Bali. They were huddled together, praying for the rain to stop. The
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon DOING IT YOUR WAY
        243 10 Other bad guy games that have come before: DUNGEON EEEPER (1997) You are the epitome of evil in this game. Command monsters to build dungeons, and trap pesky heroes in them. It’s then that the fun really begins. Torture the good guys any way you please.
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        Lock icon Be the Bane of the Mob
        443 10 Most computer games put you in the squeaky clean shoes of the good guy. How boring, says STliVt>N KG (stevenng@sph.com.sg), who checks out the recently released Qangsters 2, which promises to bring out the thug in you, and other earlier ‘bad-guy s titles. MAKE
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        45 10 Minimum system requirements CPU: Pentium ***** MHz Memory: 64 MB RAM OS: Windows 98/Me PROS: Refreshing idea Added concept of time CONS: Repetitive gameplay Simplistic combat Rating: 3 out of 5 Game courtesy ofEidos Interactive. Find out more about the game at http://www.gangsters2.com
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    • Business
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        Lock icon OCBC sticks to bid
        451 11  -  Despite rising share price, it rules out upping offer for Keppel Cap BY NICHOLAS YONG nicyong@sph.com.sg “IN THE Singapore market, there’s been a lot of talk, and that’s all that’s been talk. We believe that money talks loudest.” That was Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) Bank’s chief
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        Lock icon Not a flight of fancy
        45 11 The aviation industry’s biggest names have congregated at the world s biggest air show, the 44th Paris-Le Bourget Air Show at France, from June 16 to 24* The European Airbus currently leads its American Boeing rival in new orders. Afp
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      • Article
        Lock icon Slump is great for Web auctions
        429 11 GOOD NEWS FOR BARGAIN HUNTERS Lat NEW YORK Economic pain and dotcom suffering can mean joy for online auction fans. A tide of new sellers and a burst of online competition has lopped 25 per cent off the average price of collectibles sold on
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon StarHub-SCV merger gets SBA nod
          57 11 THE Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) yesterday gave its consent to the planned merger between telecommunications’ operator Star Hub and cable company Singapore Cable Vision (SCV). The union between the two companies has now been fully cleared by the Government after the plan received the go-ahead
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          Lock icon ‘No conspiracy’ In expansion drive
          57 11 THE Singapore Government yesterday denied the existence of a conspiracy in the overseas expansion drive of local firms after Australian carrier Qantas hit out at the Republic’s business ambitions. “The Singapore Government does not interfere in the decisions of Sing Tel and Singapore Airlines,” the
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          Lock icon STI closes 1.13% up
          40 11 SINGAPORE’S main share index ended yesterday flat with gains by banks on renewed merger speculation neutralising weakness in some blue chips. The benchmark Straits Times Index closed 0.07 per cent, or 1.13 points, higher at 1,685.93.
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon It means exposure, diversity, new ideas
        808 12 We want to be a what? (June 20) PRIME MINISTER GOH CHOK TONG wants us to become a “vibrant cosmopolis”. He coined the term recently when he described his vision for the Singapore of the future. Some say it means getting more foreign talent
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        Lock icon VARIED HOPES
        110 12 I’LL count Singapore as a “vibrant cosmopolis” when... 28% -It will never be anything more than an empty slogan. 24% -There’s room for different voices and experimentation, creativity and risk-taking to flourish. 15% -1 feel a proud sense of belonging to a dynamic, globally respected home. 15% -We
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      • Article
        Lock icon Wait to buy, condo prices will fall further
        299 13 ‘Condo: Over $500,000. Freebies: Over $50,000’ (June 18) FACED with flagging sales, property developers are enticing buyers with sweeteners in a bid to sell condos. Some examples: unit trusts, shopping vouchers, schemes that let you pay the instalments after you get the
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      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Put the foreign talent question to the people
          672 13 DON’T get us wrong. A “vibrant cosmopolis” sounds like a wonderful idea in principle, but the details are a bit hard to pin down at this point. What we do know is this: Our future society will be a globally connected and
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      23 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 12.35PM/2.6M 11.26PM/3.0M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      49 4 SCV’s website, http://www.scvmaxtv.com.sg, has an online calculator for the most value-for-money options, or call the customer service hotline 873-8888. Do you think SCV’s new plan is still not flexible enough? Have you got a suggestion for a new way to package the channels? Log onto asial.com.sg and tell us.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Kaiser on film
        61 14 Afp BERLIN German football hero Franz Beckenbauer is set to be immortalised in a film, Gala magazine reported on Wednesday. German director Tomy Wigand wants veteran actor Heiner Lauterbach, 48, to play the role of the man who earned the nickname “The Kaiser” for his commanding defensive
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        Lock icon Ronaldo’s visit
        67 14 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Injured striker Ronaldo visited Brazil’s training camp on Wednesday but turned down invitations to train with the team and travel with it to Uruguay for next month’s World Cup qualifier. Ronaldo, who is due to return to action in August after being out for
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        Lock icon Barca sign Toldo
        34 14 Wires BARCELONABarcelona have reached an agreement with Fiorentina to sign Italian international goalkeeper Francesco Toldo. “We’ve finalised an earlier provisional agreement,” said Barca meeting in Barcelona between officials from Knfrh c’liiKq
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        Lock icon Deadline set
        40 14 Wires oi of the race to sign hi mind by July 5. in rested. Arsenal has also m ea dramatic coup by greeing to a £5 million (5512.5 mi ion) fee for Ipswich and England goalkeeper Richard Wright.
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      Lock icon Disappointed but not down
      450 14 WOODS UPBEAT ABOUT BUICK CLASSIC CHANCES HARRISON (New York) Tiger Woods vowed there would be no let-down for him at the Buick Classic starting today, despite admitting that he disappointed himself at the United States Open. “You have to put it away and start the whole
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      Lock icon Where’s the desire?
      441 14 Japan coach Troussier bemoans players’ reluctance to go West Reuters TOKYO Japan coach Philippe Troussier has blasted his players, admonishing them for turning their backs on gaining experience in Europe for the comforts and adulation -of home. Japan finished as runners-up in the recent Confederations Cup, but
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      80 14 SOCCER: AS Roma won its first Serie A title in 18 years after a 3-1 triumph over Parma last week. For a review of the club’s achievements, check out http://www.soccerage.com/ en/13/*****.html. SOCCER: The fixtures for the new Premier League have been released. Log on to http://www.football365.com /content/news/main/ default.htm
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    • Article
      Lock icon Swiss give Schumacher tax break
      232 15 Ap VUFFLENS-LE-CHATEAU (Switzerland) Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher may earn millions as one of the world’s best-paid athletes, but Swiss tax authorities regard their prize resident as a foreigner without income. Schumacher, a German who has lived in Switzerland for several years, takes advantage of
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      Lock icon Barrichello has the blues
      425 15 Drivers gear up for assault on Nurburgring Wires Source: Benetton Formula 1 NURBURGRING (Germany) Rubens Barrichello is a dissatisfied man. This weekend’s European Grand Prix at Nurburgring marks the halfway point of the 2001 championship season, and it’s time for several drivers and teams to reflect
      – Wires; Source: Benetton Formula 1; © Graphic news; Afp  -  425 words
    • Article
      Lock icon On THE BOX
      150 15 What: World Cup qualifier Australia vs New Zealand (second leg in Sydney) When/Where: 12.55 pm on Sunday (live on SCV Ch 22) Why bother: Oz goes into this match leading their neighbours 2-0 after Wednesday’s first-leg win in Wellington. The Kiwis must win the second leg to
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Pub grub
      709 17 A good pub offers more than just a hearty pint and convivial company. It is also a culinary experience. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) reports. N A pub, a basket of chicken wings goes a long way. Visit any watering hole these days, and it’s not surprising to see guys
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      Lock icon PICK OF THE PUB FOOD
      55 17 At Molly Malone’s, try this ultimate fry-up to soothe your hangover. Pictures: Clarence Chan Chip butties, a yummy French fry sandwich, is served at The Yard. Chunky chilli crab dip and chips go well with a pint at Muddy Murphy’s. The Penny Black’s chicken quesadillas
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    • Food
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        Lock icon FORGET CHICKEN WINGS, TUT THESE TREATS
        633 18 PUB grub with booze: It just tastes better. Eyeball tells you where to go, and what to order if you’re into chasing your beer with some tasty nibbles. THE YARD Where: 294 River Valley Road What: Chip butty Price: $5 Yum quotient: Essentially a
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        Lock icon Creative Cantonese claypots
        388 19 Cantonese-style home cooking brings JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) back to Palm's Asian Brasserie at the Copthorne Orchid Hotel. Restaurant: Palm’s Asian Brasserie. Where: Copthorne Orchid Hotel, 214 Dunearn Road. What: One of Singapore’s oldest coffee houses is still a hot spot despite its age and less-than-trendy location. Popular
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      • Salut to WINE
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          Lock icon Age not absolute measure of quality
          486 19  -  CLINTON ANG pedas@sph.com.sg AT A wine tasting last week, I was recommending a 1999 Australian Merlot to a gentleman. Without tasting it, he looked me in the eye and said that the wine was too young and that he preferred a 1995 vintage. He
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    • Music
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        Lock icon Cult-ured rock
        915 20 It i time once again for rock V roll deviance as The Cult returns to what it does best. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) joins in the worship. OF YET another hard rock renaissance is on the way, then The Cult one of the most important bands of the
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        Lock icon DOWNLOAD OF THE WEEK
        112 20 June Wan MONSTERS nr THE PARASOL Queens Of The Stone Age From the album Rated R Time: 3 min 40 sec http://www.qotsa.com THE band that rose like a phoenix from the ashes of metal outfit Kyuss has outlasted tepid success, thanks to a mighty fanbase and
        – June Wan  -  112 words
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        Lock icon Out of Air
        694 21 10 000 HZ LEGEND Air (Virgin) IN ALL honesty, after a stunning debut album like Moon Safari, anything less from Gallic lounge lizards Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel would be a great letdown. The CD opens with Electronic Performers, a stutter-stepped track with Level 42 piano and
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        Lock icon DESERT ISLE PICKS
        87 21 IRINGAN Media Works actress IRIN GAN is s currently starring in Channel U’s Making Headlines, a gritty drama serial. Jesns And Mary Chain’s Darklands: “My favourite album, and April Sky is my favourite track. It’s more than 10 years since it was released I’m still not tired
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        Lock icon CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
        225 21  -  RONALD RAJAN IN THE decade of decadence, Duran Duran sure knew how to live the pop life. Briefly the biggest band on the planet (around 1984), they exuded a cocky sophistication that can only come with spectacular success (over 50 million records sold and then
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        Lock icon Rockin’ the free world
        723 22 Be a pop pilgrim this summer. RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) tells you where to fly to for white hot music festivals. ummer’s here! While the rest of the world is out partying, concert-starved Singaporeans are probably wondering what the fuss is about. Bkw j Ahh, if only
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    • Arts Fest
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