Streats, 7 September 2000

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 7 September 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • Article
      Lock icon No longer No 1
      48 1 SINGAPORE has been “out-innovated” by the US from being the world’s most competitive economy. Singapore, which has been at the top for the five years, was pushed into second spot in the 2000 global competitiveness ranking released yesterday by Swiss-based World Economic Forum (WEF).
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      Lock icon Easy claims
      44 1 ALL 65,000 civil servants will be checking their pay and filing medical, dental, transport and other claims electronically via the PaC@Gov system by the end of next month. This is possible because of the $350,000 web-based application developed by the accountant-general’s department.
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      Lock icon Sporting Singapore
      48 1 A COMMITEE on Sporting Singapore (Coss) will promote a healthy lifestyle and help Singapore raise its sporting profile in the international arena. This was announced by Minister of Community Development and Sports Abdullah Tarmugi yesterday at the send-off for the Singapore team to the Sydney Olympics.
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  • Article
    Lock icon Private property perks from new co-op Rebates on your upgrades
    382 1 HERE'S some good news to make your morning better: Your dream home need no longer be a dream. You can get your private condo cheaper less than market prices and easier by joining a new housing co-operative to be launched
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      116 1 \v" asy claims .L 65,000 civil servants will be checkI their pay and filing medical, dental, nsport and other claims electronicalv/ia the PaC@Gov system by the end next month. This is possible because the $350,000 web-based application veloped by the accountant-general’s partment. Millions hooked on Amitab PAGE 14 Media Corp
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  • Streatsmart pictorial
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      Lock icon FIRE AT TELOK BLANGAH CRESCENT
      65 2 Report on next page Pic: The Straits Times Firefighters arrived to find a blaze along the corridor, the lift lobby and the staircase landing on the seventh storey of Block 3, Telok Blangah Crescent (above). At right, a construction worker carrying an elderly lady out
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      121 2 HOTLINE 1800 844-5566 FAX 745 1022 E-MAIL streats@sph.com.sg ADDRESS 82 Genting Lane, News Centre, Level 2 5(*****7) Look out for these treats inside! Food Delight Complimentary Spring Chicken at Shanghai Palace Seafood Restaurant! Slim &Trim Complimentary Fat Test and Trial Session Expressions! fpf i (j > ::V A hi-fi system
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Elderly flee from flats
      327 3 FIRE AT TELOK BLANGAH CRESCENT ABOUT 100 residents, nearly all senior citizens, fled from their one-room Housing Board rental flats after a fire raged through a corridor in their block near Bukit Merah yesterday. Some of them who had difficulty walking were carried to safety by
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      Lock icon More bouquets than brickbats for HDB
      222 3 WE'RE not complaining that much. In fact, we’re stopping to say thank you even more. A compilation of feedback letters received by the HDB between 1993 and 1999 shows that the number of complaints have fallen by more than half. Better yet, letters of
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    • Interchange
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        Lock icon SCV free-to-air channels: Should you pay?
        199 3 Background: The Sunday Times reported last weekend that broadcasters or viewers may soon have to bear part of the cost for free-to-air channels transmitted via the island network. JTpt fair for SCV to bear cost Yong Lum Sung, SCVpresident EVEN before the media liberalisation
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      Lock icon Teen liar told sad tales
      333 4 Judge reprimands her for taking advantage of kindness A TEENAGER who conned money out of strangers by playing on their sympathy with tales about her husband being hospitalised, was jailed for eight months yesterday. Farra Ismail, 19, unemployed, who cheated nine people of a total
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      Lock icon Cisco hero foils $83,000 robbery bid
      245 4  -  BY SARAH NG A FOREMAN managed to keep his company’s $83,000 safe from snatch thieves, thanks to a quick-thinking CISCO officer. Lance corporal Jimmy Ooi Poh Tiong, 27, foiled the attempted robbery outside a UOB branch at MacPherson Road on Tuesday at 2.15 pm.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Bukit Panjang serial house-breaker nabbed
      215 4 AN UNEMPLOYED man who has admitted to a series of burglaries and thefts in Bukit Panjang Housing Estate was arrested at 11.40 pm on Tuesday. He has admitted to 15 of 20 cases of burglary in the area reported between January and July this year,
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        Lock icon Jailed for rash acts
        179 4 A MAN, described as having “borderline intelligence” threw a stone at a car and a hammer at a lorry, damaging the windscreens of both vehicles. When a police officer tried to subdue Siah Lye Kwang, 26, a bartender, he turned violent and bit Sergeant Basheer Ahamed
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        Lock icon Man hurt in bike accident
        46 4 A CHINESE man sustained abrasions after his motorbike skidded in the early hours of Wednesday. The 55-year-old man had lost control of his vehicle while travelling along Guillemard Road towards Paya Lebar Road. Eye-witness can call the Traffic Police at *****18.
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        Lock icon Drug syndicate busted
        152 4 A DRUG syndicate rented a variety of vans, cars and motorcycles to use for its drug deliveries, in a bid to evade police surveillance. But it did not work. On Tuesday, Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers stormed the syndicate’s Ang Mo Kio hideout and seized 2.35 kg
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        Lock icon Nurse charged
        126 4 A WOMAN was charged in the Subordinate Courts yesterday in connection with the death of five-year-old Cheryl Goh Jia Qi. Cheryl was killed instantly after being hit on the head by a falling flower pot on April 30 at Blk 54, Kent Road. Annie Lim, 59, a nurse,
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      Lock icon Shoplifting main juvenile crime
      381 5 Number of arrests on the rise SHOPLIFTING seems to be a favoured crime among juveniles one in two is arrested because of it. The proportion of juveniles arrested for shoplifting grew from 41 per cent of the total crimes committed by youths in 1997 to 55
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      77 5 Our weather girl says Hint's going to be warm and slightly hazy, with temperatures reaching up to 33 degrees Celsius. Heck the haze, I'm going to catch some rays today. But if you're hanging around the northern part of Singapore, don't forget your umbrella. There could be isolated showers in
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    • Just a minute
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        57 5 The Singapore Learning Festival 2000 is on. So go pit your brains against others in Singapore's first Mind Sports Olympiad from today till Sept 10 at the Singapore Expo. There are medals and cash prices worth $50,000 to be won. The fee is $l5 -$ll5, depending on
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      • Article
        Lock icon From today...
        41 5 Are you eating healthily? If not, start now! The National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign begins today and is on until Oct 5. The focus of this year's campaign is to eat more fibre and less fat to prevent heart disease.
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        71 5 Remember The September school holidays end this weekend. Parents, take the chance to take your family to the Singapore Zoo, the Jurong Bird Park and the Night Safari. You have up to Sept 10 to buy the multiattraction ticket, which costs $27.60 per i adult and $14.20 per child. That
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      Lock icon He's the Man
      528 6 SO THE past few weeks saw more high profile defections of Mediacorp staff to SPH Mediaworks. This time round, the cross-over was of some of the biggest stars the Chinese variety scene has ever known Kym Ng, Bryan Wong, Guo Liang, Darren Lim... And I’m still counting.
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      76 6 won't catch me advising kids against Harry Potter. It's not just that few children are quite as impressionable. More importantly; where do you stop? Kids occasionally act out Superman fantasies leaping out of tall buildings and dying grisly deaths. Should we ban all "flying-people"stories? Sorry, but it's
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon UN Secretary-General Annan's Challenge to the world
      280 10 Reuters 150 kings, presidents and premiers meet at historic UN summit UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged the largest ever gathering of world leaders to protect their people from misery and develop an agenda to eradicate poverty, wipe out disease and forge
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      Lock icon N Korea team returns home after security checks
      200 10 -AFP SEOUL North Korea yesterday vowed reprisals against the US for security checks that led its nominal head of state to pull out of the UN Millennium summit in New York. The North Korean delegation led by Kim Yong-Nam, head of the
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    • web cites
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        Lock icon Showing at a PC near you
        56 10 It's a site movie fans shouldn't miss. Movielist.com claims to house the most updated selection of movie trailers in cyberspace. There are no forums no polls, no chatrooms just hundreds of movie trailers for your viewing pleasure. But you'll need Quick Time player to
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        Lock icon Sneak, sneak previews:
        60 10 Can't wait to watch highly-anticipated movies such as Matrix 2 and Star Wars Episode 27 Check outAint-it-cool-news.com, where you can bone up on the latest gossip and rumours, and even view secretly-taken photos of the film sets. Don't dismiss these nuggets as pure fiction. They could be
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      Lock icon Racial 'minorities' now a majority in California
      176 10 -AFP MONTEBELLO, California Nine hundred new Americans mill in the bright morning sun, waiting to raise their right hands and take the oath that will make them citizens. Like the rest of the US, California is changing under the relentless flow of immigration,
      -AFP  -  176 words
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        Lock icon Telecom workers strike
        70 10 Reuters NEW DELHI Over 300,000 employees of India’s state telecom department began an indefinite strike yesterday to demand job security when the agency is corporatised next month. Union officials said the impact of the strike by the three main unions at the Department of Telecom Services would
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        Lock icon Canadian churches 'sorry'
        94 10 Reuters ST JOHN'S (Newfoundland) Four major Canadian churches apologised on Tuesday to natives in Newfoundland and Labrador for centuries of suffering they had endured at the hands of church officials. “We ask your forgiveness,” James MacDonald, Catholic archbishop of St John’s, told a crowd of about 150
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        Lock icon 'I'll move out if Bush wins'
        82 10 DEAUVILLE, France US director Robert Altman, in France to promote his latest film “Dr T and the Women”, said on Wednesday he would move to France if George W. Bush won the American presidential election in November. Altman, a four-time Oscar nominee whose films
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        Lock icon Scientist 'not a threat'
        74 10 Reuters DENVER Lawyers for imprisoned nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee asked an appeals court on Tuesday to free him on bail, saying the public interest was not being served by keeping him in jail. On Friday, just minutes before the former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist
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        Lock icon Fawlty Towers tops
        69 10 Reuters LONDON Manic comedy show Fawlty Towers was the best British TV programme ever made, according to a poll published yesterday by the British Film Institute. The classic farce about rude, incompetent hotel owner Basil Fawlty, written by and starring John Cleese, was the top choice of
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      Lock icon Canadian cops quack open drugs case
      285 11 Reuters Officials suspect the duck eggs, u Chinese delicacy, Were chosen to conceal the heroin because of theirstrong Pong TORONTO Cracking more than 100,000 smelly duck eggs helped the Mounties pull of one of the largest drugs busts in Canadian history, police said. Authorities
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      Lock icon US docs, boffins tops
      150 11 Reuters Washington Most Americans think medicine, science and teaching are the most prestigious professions but few hav a high opinion of accountants, bankers, journalists or union bosses, according to a poll reteased on Tuesday. Lawyers have lost a lot of prestige over the past two decades,
      – Reuters  -  150 words
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      Lock icon Foreign aid
      38 11 Qofigure How many foreigners are there in Singapore? There are about 700,000 foreigners in Singapore, compared to 3.2 million Singaporeans. But Singaporeans and foreigners alike, one out of 10 is a volunteer. National Volunteer Centre survey
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      Lock icon Trauma of divorce can last 25 years
      240 11 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO The trauma of divorce hits many kids well after their parents separate, hobbling them as they seek to form close relationships of their own, says a study released on Tuesday. Judith Wallerstein, of the University of California-Berkeley and author of
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        Lock icon Probation for stalker
        81 11 Reuters LOS ANGELES A man who spent 15 years sending lewd, threatening letters to actress Brooke Shields was sentenced on Tuesday to probation and counselling after agreeing to stay away from the star for the next decade. Accountant Mark Bailey, 42, pleaded no contest to stalking and
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        Lock icon Dome gets lifeline
        80 11 Reuters LONDON Britain’s cash-strapped Millennium Dome won a £47 million (Ssll7 million) bailout on Tuesday and was forced to replace its top management for the second time in four months. Opposition politicians slammed the Dome as a national embarrassment and demanded government heads should roll. The Dome,
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        Lock icon Kashmir toll 34,000
        94 11 -AFP SRINAGAR (Kashmir) Nearly 34,000 people have been killed in violence linked to the decade-old Muslim separatist insurgency in Indian Kashmir, according to a police document seen yesterday. The latest official update on the death toll from the insurgency put the number of people killed at 33,854,
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        Lock icon Cannibal horror
        89 11 -AFP PARIS Scientists probing the ruins of a 12th-century village in western Colorado have made a gruesome discovery: the site hosted a cannibal feast before it was suddenly and mysteriously abandoned. “The findings are the first confirmation of suspicions that before documented history, some Indians consumed human flesh,
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        Lock icon Dinosaur discovery
        108 11 -AFP PARIS Fossilised bones dug from a remote rocky outcrop in Thailand have revealed that one of the world’s biggest dinosaurs the sauropod was also one of the most successful, roaming the planet for much longer than thought. The bones found by a hunter looking for flying squirrels,
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Lennon quit first
      173 12 New Beatles book sets record straight IT wasn’t Paul, after all. In a new book, the surviving Beatles reveal that it was John Lennon, rather than Paul McCartney, who was the first to quit the band, spurring their breakup in 1970. In The Beatles Anthology excerpts of
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      Lock icon Battle moves to
      155 12 THE Radio Corporation of Singapore (RCS) is following Media Corp Studios (MCS) in getting its artists to sign longterm contracts, reported Lianhe Wanbao. RCS is apparently worried that a rival radio station will be set up and lure their talents away. The DJs whom RCS wants to
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      Lock icon Split over breasts
      131 12 SPICE Girl Mel B’s marriage broke down because she underwent cosmetic surgery that stopped her from breast-feeding her Kh. baby, her estranged husband Jimmy Gulzar said. The 33-year-old dancer said Mel B, 27, had flown to Los Angeles three months after giving birth to their i daughter
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      Lock icon Close contact
      192 12 BOTH Aaron Kwok and Andy Lau have been indulging in some monkey business recently during their trip to Thailand. Aaron shares screentime with his animal friend in his new Pepsi advertisement, shot in the jungles of Thailand. The Heavenly King was reportedly quite taken in with the female
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      Lock icon Business first, sentiment second for Jazreel
      184 13 SHE let her bridal photo session go to another couple. She even let another bride take the wedding gown that was designed for her. But all for a good reason. She is actress turned bridal boutique owner Jazreel Low. Jazreel, 32, was the secondrunner
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      Lock icon Nanxing D24
      247 13 "NICE and cheap, come and buy my durians quick.” This is probably what MediaCorp’s “Big Brother” Li Nanxing would be saying had he followed on his impulse and became a durian seller. Nanxing, currently in New Zealand filming the MCS blockbuster Dare to Strike, laughingly told a Lianhe
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      Lock icon Clint blasts BBC
      106 13 CLINT Eastwood is not happy with the BBC. “They want to mess with my life,” the film icon declared in London, narrowing his eyes in deadly fashion. Officials at the corporation want to change a documentary that has been made about the Oscar-winning film-maker’s work. “Suckers,” Eastwood
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      Lock icon Sharon in sequel
      79 13 SHARON Stone has confirmed that she plans to make Basic Instinct 2 within the year, possibly with director Paul Verhoeven. “We have a script that’s not completed. It’s f not going to happen in the next five minutes, but in the next year, though I don’t know
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      Lock icon Who doesn't want to be a millionaire?
      451 14 -ap Versions of this popular British quiz are on TV in 31 countries around the world and 19 more could have itsoon IF THERE'S one thing the makers of the British quiz show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, got wrong, it’s this.
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      Lock icon This man is a TV star
      45 15  -  teliu tubbv by Yvonne Kwok He made a million bucks (that's more than Jennifer Aniston, Friends'co-star makes each episode) in a TV show. Flip the page for a new programme coming to our TV screens this month Pic: AP
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      Lock icon Sane living in a sex-crazed world
      634 17  -  personality r spealing by Cnristepher Wee On May 27, PM Goh Chok Tong lamented the erosion of family values as Singaporeans scramble to get to the top of the material pile. Hence the rising number of singles, divorces and single parents. Fresh-faced model and
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      Lock icon Anita set to have own show
      341 18  -  e y Yvonne Kwok PCK The Musical will be telecast this Saturday on TCS 5 at 7.30 pm. ANITA Sarawak, singer, fashion designer and savvy businesswoman may soon be adding the title of talkshow host to her resume. Yesterday Anita, here to perform at
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        Lock icon Do it my way
        315 21 Guess her job, win a Swatch! Name: Kwek Puay Sang Age: 25 Gets on MRT at: Becfok Gets off at: Raffles Place lam... A control freak and I like things done my way. I believe that things work out better if they are done my way
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          Lock icon Agassi may skip Games
          105 26 AP NEW YORK- Andre Agassi (left) is expected to skip the Sydney Games because of concern over health problems suffered by his mother and sister Also, two-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is considering withdrawing from the cycling competition following an Aug 29 accident in
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          Lock icon Freeman can use flag
          93 26 -AFP SYDNEY International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan-Antonio Samaranch said yesterday that he would be pleased to see Australian Cathy Freeman run with the Aboriginal flag if she won the 400 metres in two weeks. He said he did not like to see athletes using the
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          Lock icon Thompson injured
          58 26 -AFP SYDNEY American Olympic swimmer Jenny Thompson (right) had to abandon her morning workout yesterday when she injured her thumb in training. The 27-year-old suffered minor bruising when she smacked her right hand into the wall during training. Her hand was wrapped in ice and she was told
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          Lock icon Torchbearer burnt
          68 26 -AFP CANBERRA Leaking gas from the Olympic torch flared up yesterday, causing a minor burn to a young bearer on the torch relay, organisers and police said. Flames burst from the torch 12-year-old Tahnee Clydesdale was holding as she tried to light it from one held by the
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          Lock icon Award for Kissinger
          61 26 -AFP SYDNEY The former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger would be made a member of honour next week. Kissinger, who as head of the lOC commission investigating the Salt Lake City gifts-for-votes scandal urged lOC members to reform, would be only able to attend the Olympic
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        Lock icon Ma's runners axed
        382 26 -AFP BEIJING China cut 40 athletes and officials from its Olympic team for the Sydney Games yesterday, among them seven rowers and six runners trained by coach Ma Junren all of whom failed blood tests. Coach Ma whose “Ma’s Army’ of women runners stunned the track world
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        Lock icon She's set to do a Rocky in the pool
        295 26 -AFP SYDNEY- Eight world records in the space of a few months, several re-breaking her own earlier benchmark. Feats of strength in the gym, where she hauls her 55kg frame up a rope, hand over hand, no use of her legs.
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        Lock icon Man U back on top
        271 27 -AFP Premiership champion drubs lowly Bradford to take the lead for the first time this season LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson may have changed his line-up but the result was still predictable as Premiership champion Manchester United thrashed Bradford 6-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday to
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        Lock icon Venus rises from fall
        238 27 AP The thirdseed moves into a semifinal meeting with top seed Martina Hingis tomorrow NEW YORK Venus rising? On Tuesday, she fell. Not from the women’s draw at the US Open, where third-seeded Venus Williams defeated eighth-seeded Nathalie Tauziat 6-4,1-6, 6-1, for her 24th consecutive victory.
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          Lock icon Victory for Laiseka
          81 27 -AFP ORDINO ARCALIS (Spain) Spain’s Roberto Laiseka (right) of the Euskaltel team won the 165 km 11th stage of the Tour of Spain between Alp and here on Tuesday. Spain’s Angel Casero of the Festina team captured the leaders gold jersey from compatriot Santos Gonzalez of the
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          Lock icon Wembley sold out for finale
          84 27 Reuters LONDON England’s crucial opening World Cup qualifier with Germany will be watched by a sell-out crowd at Wembley. All 78,000 tickets have been sold for the last competitive fixture before Wembley is rebuilt as Kevin Keegan’s side take on the 1996 European champion. The
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          Lock icon All eyes on Figo
          117 27 AP BARCELONA All eyes will be on Luis Figo, (left) the world’s most expensive player, when Spain’s league season kicks off this weekend with his new club Real Madrid and former side Barcelona promising a more committed fight for the title. The big two in Spain
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          Lock icon Leicester wary of trip
          94 27 Reuters LONDON Leicester City met Uefa officials yesterday to try to persuade the governing body to change the venue of its Uefa Cup first round, second leg against Red Star Belgrade. The two clubs are due to play in Belgrade on Sept 28, just four days
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          Lock icon Champion PSV held
          57 27 Reuters AMSTERDAM Champions PSV Eindhoven continued its indifferent start to the season when it was held to a 2-2 draw at home by Willem II Tilburg in the Dutch first division on Tuesday. PSV, who faces Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League next week, has dropped five
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        • Today's must-see TV...
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            Lock icon ONCE AND AGAIN
            59 16 10.30 pm, TCS 5 For those of you who haven’t watched this a Golden Globe nominated series, this is your chance to do so. A school carnival proves a catastrophe when Lily is assigned to the bal- m loon booth with Rick’s ex-wife Karen. Watch Mount Vesuvius
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            Lock icon CITY BEAT
            50 16 Bpm, TCS 8 Lelo n g lelong! This is your last chance to catch the complete cast of Kim, Bryan, f Lina and Sharon in action before their big split. V This episode features our spirited hosts romping through Beach Road for a taste of its hearty fare.
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            Lock icon SECRET OF THE HEART
            42 16 9pm, TCS 8 Tonight’s dramatic episode sees Jiaxiong about to be prosecuted by Shupei for assault. But fate intervenes when Shusheng discloses to Shupei that Jiaxiong is his son. Hongkong dramas don’t get any more tortured than this.
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            Lock icon MUSIC LOVE STORY – LEO KU
            35 16 MUSIC LOVE STORY LEO KU 7pm,TVBS (SCV 54) One of Hongkong’s four little Heavenly a Kings combines music with a tender love story to give you an extended music video. Strictly for Leo Ku fans.
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            Lock icon HATE ON THE NET
            59 16 10.30 pm, BBC World (SCV 13) Discover the chilling ways in which hate groups make use of the net to spread their message. This programme travels to the US and Canada for interviews with the people behind these web sites, like the members of the Ku
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        Lock icon Life is a game show
        535 16 iiftby Yvonne Kwok keeps you abreast of the best and worst on TV, every Tuesday and Thursday kwoklyy@sph.com.sg WANT entertainment? Forget Ally Mcßeal. Friends? It’s history. And so are all the sitcoms and dramas you’ve ever watched. The next big wave in programming is reality
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