Streats, 7 November 2000

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 7 November 2000 Another quality publication of gjfg Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 521 1 IF you think the sound of the MRT train this morning is loud, talk to Mr Karuna Regupathy. Better still, ask his wife. She will tell you that when Karuna goes to sleep, nobody else can.
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  • 84 1 momingrus/» PAY your car-park fees, get a plumber to fix a burst pipe or check out the coffeeshop nearest to your home as well as the bus service that will take you there all these and more at the click of a mouse. Starting yesterday, 54,500
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    • 50 1 SQOO6 pilots 'very distress' Qjaptain foong Chee Kong is a shattered man. All three technical crew are in a very distressed state. They cannot believe that this has happened. They are currently receiving peer support and counselling. Mr Rick Clements, Vice-President of Public Affairs for Singapore Airlines SEE PAGE 2
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 244 2 THE Association of Muslim Professionals has modified its initial concept of a collective leadership for the Malay-Muslim community to a “consultative” one, after Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong objected to the idea. But the self-help group said it would deliberate further on the exact form of such
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    • SQ006CRASH
      • 281 2 THE boyfriend of injured air stewardess Farzana Abdul Razak knows what pain is. When he was eight months old, Mr Romie Siam was badly burned after a rice-cooker fell on him. Now 26, the food and beverage supervisor at the Malay Village in Geylang Serai,
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      • 261 2 INTERNATIONAL analysts yesterday praised Singapore Airlines for its handling of last week's jetliner crash in Taiwan. They said the airline's sterling reputation and share value were likely to emerge relatively unscathed in the long run. In its 28-year history, SIA had never directly
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      • 145 2 SHATTERED, distressed and uncertain about when they can return to Singapore. And worse, they face the agonising wait over whether they will or won't be charged. Latest reports from Taiwan quote the Aviation Council chief Yong Kay as saying that there would be an international uproar
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    • 281 3 NATIONAL University Hospital patients can now access their medical records through the Internet. This service will be extended to all clinics, hospitals and centres in the west run by the National Healthcare Group (NHG) within a year. NHG pays special attention to community health
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    • 206 3 AN ex-police inspector with previous convictions was sentenced to nine months in jail yesterday on corruption charges stemming from bribes he accepted from a Geylang loanshark. Royston Sim Bok Huat, 38, who was formerly with the Criminal Investigation Department’s Secret Society Branch, had denied taking
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    • 109 3 morningsmile. Walking to a department store's fabric counter, the pretty girl said,"l would like to buy this material for a new dress. How much is it?" "Only 1 kiss per yard," replied the male clerk with a smirk. "That's fine,"said the girl. "I'll take 10
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    • 201 3 MINISTER for Trade and Industry George Yeo yesterday urged the Eurasian community to work harder on mastering a second language. Eurasian students, he said, perform well in most subjects at school, ranking second after the Chinese, and ahead of the Indians and Malays. They are
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    • 122 4 onekindact- Claire Teo, 28, complex manager ONE day, I was in a hurry to withdraw $l,OOO from the ATM machine as my boyfriend was waiting for me in his car. While dashing back to his car after withdrawing the money, I heard a lady shouting at me. When
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    • 226 4  -  by Karen Wong A 16-YEAR-OLD boy on the prowl followed a lone teenage girl into a lift and molested her twice. Yesterday in a district court, Yahiya Mohamed Kazali was sentenced to undergo reformative training after he pleaded guilty to two charges of molest.
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    • 205 4 FOR some reason, four months ago an electrician called Wong threw away some pipes belonging to a plumber. The angry plumber gave Wong a right talking to. In no time a raucous quarrel developed, which disrupted work in the construction site where they worked. Four
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      • 121 4 A MOTORIST who drove his car and two passengers into a canal yesterday was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol. The driver and his passengers, two sisters aged 32 and 33, suffered only minor injuries. The 36-year-old man lost control of
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      • 80 4 THE body of a man was found floating on a river in Sengang East Avenue on Sunday at 6.20 pm. Police located the body in Sungei Serangoon, after receiving a call from a member of the public at 5.06 pm. The deceased was slim-built and had
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      • 94 4 AYOUTH took advantage of a man’s generosity, and took off with his handphone as well. Huang Guo Liang, 17, approached the 23-year-old man and asked for water last Saturday at 2am. The victim let Huang into his house at Geylang Lorong 18 and gave him a drink.
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      • 87 4 A 26-YEAR-OLD Thai worker died suddenly in his hostel room on Sunday morning, shortly after he shouted at the top of his voice. Janthasri Kreithong, a worker at Jetlee Shipbuilding Engineering Pte Ltd, was heard shouting at about 2.30 am on Sunday by other workers staying
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    • 29 4 IN the report “SlA’s s7m offer: Enough... Not Enough’ on Page 3 yesterday, the figure in the headline should have been $700,000. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 327 5  -  by Stephanie Goh Police seize 100,000 discs; nab 47 in swoop on housing estates PIRATED CDs may soon be a thing of the past. First, shopping centres like Sim Lim Square which were hotbeds of pirated software were cleaned up. Now, neighbourhood pasar
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    • 60 5 Our weather girl says Chances are you'll have to lunch indoors today ‘cos there'll be showers in the afternoon and early evening islandwide. Temperatures will hit a searing 33 degrees Celsius and high tide will reach 2.3m at 8.05pm. Weather girl from Carrie Models Outfit from Giordano Raincoat from Sreats
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    • Just a minute
      • 52 5 Senior citizens will have to fork out 10 cents for off-peak LRT rides. From today, concession fares for senior citizens will increase to 60 cents. Off-peak hours are from 10am to 4pm and after 7pm on weekdays, after 10am on Saturdays, and all day on Sundays and
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      • 29 5 This is Clean and Green Week. So do your part by keeping your neighbourhood clean, looking after public areas and the environment. You, too, can make a difference.
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      • 49 5 If you're into nature, head down to WOODWORKS Gallery at Robertson Walk and check out The Myrtle Breathes exhibition by Scottish artist Margaret Tray nor. She explores the spiritual connection between Man and Nature and uses luminous colours. On till Saturday. Admission is free. Call 887-0010.
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    • 84 2 Sthjts HOTLINE 1800 844-5566 FAX *****22 E-MAIL streats@sph.com.sg ADDRESS 82 Getting Lane, News Centre, Level 2 5(*****7) CIRCULATION Customer Service *****77 MARKETING Naiini@sph.com.sg Vivian: 740 2067 Adeline: *****27 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS cats@sph.com.sg RECRUITMENT ADVERT ISMENTS recruitment @sph.com.sg Look out for these treats inside! Word Game Have loads of fun with our
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    • 177 4 Quest For Many couples today find it more tricky having a child than their peers did a decade ago.So find out how you can better your chances at conception, come join us for a series of talks on fertility and reproductive health. Visit www.healthanswers.com.sg to take part in our fertility
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 165 6 betweenthelines way Dr Cheong (Choong Kong, SIA vice-chairman and CEO) handled an indignant relative of a victim, a Mrs Tani, was admirable r his extended kindness, impressive. And when faced with a distraught and grief-stricken Mr Tan, Mr Rick Clements took a generous and noble
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    • 749 6 THE economy of the future is somewhat different,” he explained. “You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.”
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    • 213 6 FANCL products are so popular among Japanese"" consumers V It was in 1980 that FANCL was founded in Japan. The founder Kenji Ikemori simply wanted to help consumers suffering from skin problems resulting from preservatives, disinfectants, and various other chemicals contained in many, if not all, of the cosmetic products
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 279 7 -AP \je don't know anything about that -Mr Estrada's chief aide Ronaldo Zamora denying reports that negotiations were under way for a graceful exit for the president MANILA A congressional committee began deliberating yesterday the impeachment of Philippine President Joseph Estrada, as noisy groups shoved and
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    • 143 7 -AFP PERTH A man died after an attack by a shark off a Perth beach yesterday, police said. The man, aged 49, is believed to have been the victim of a great white. The attack, about 30m offshore, was at Cottesloe, one of Perth’s
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      • 95 7 AFP HONGKONG A senior Chinese official has called on the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa to administer Honkgong better than its former British colonial rulers. “The world is still watching over you to see if you can run Hongkong well. All the people in
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      • 140 7 -AFP SEOUL While North Korea’s propaganda machine tells the people about the triumphs of communism, its leader Kim Jong II is setting up an institute to study capitalism, an official of the South’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), told a meeting of overseas Koreans
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      • 82 7 Reuters PERTH, Australia Australian police are investigating links between a motorcycle gang murder in a tiny outback town and two explosions in the town on Sunday night which destroyed a house and damaged a store. The explosions in Ora Banda, 500 km north east of Perth
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    • web cites
      • 59 8 It's hard to imagine that the Heaven above has a hand in determining how heaithy and wealthy you are. The ancient oriental studies of Chinese astrology and geomoney are explored in Astrofengshui.com, where common questions are answered and various topics are discussed. Learn about your'Eight Characters'and how
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      • 62 8 Owning a piece or real estate or upgrading to a bigger one has always been the dream of many Singaporeans. Online help is available with the likes ofPropertybuyer.com where besides trading of houses, there are also information on how to finance the new property, renovation, and other
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    • 237 8 Reuters JAKARTA Most Indonesians who responded to a survey want their President sacked. The poll result, released yesterday, came just one year after President Abdurrahman Wahid was swept to power on a wave of democratic euphoria. Sixty-five per cent of respondents in the Tempo newsweekly
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    • 190 8 -AP TAIPEI Lawmakers stuck to their threats yesterday to seek a recall of President Chen Shuibian, despite his apology to the head of Taiwan’s largest party. Mr Chen’s televised apology on Sunday was designed to soothe the opposition, which has accused the president
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      • 123 8 -AFP BEIJING China vowed yesterday to keep up strict controls to keep its vast population under 1.4 billion by the year 2010. State Family Planning Commission Minister Zhang Weiqing warned China’s large population could remain a major obstacle to economic development if it was not kept
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      • 106 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he is disappointed with the Dong Jiao Zhong’s opposition to the vision school concept. “If you want me to say that, I will say that. I am disappointed,” he said when asked to comment
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      • 67 8 -AP JAKARTA Rain-triggered landslides killed at least 52 people and buried dozens of houses on Indonesia’s main island of Java, officials said yesterday. Villages in Central Java Province were hit Sunday after two days of heavy monsoon rain, said Ms Ani, government spokesman in the town
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      • 71 8 Reuters NEW DELHI Eleven people were reported killed and about 25 injured in sectarian clashes in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. All India Radio said yesterday that the clashes between Shia and Sunni Muslim groups took place on Sunday evening at Mubarakpur near Azamgarh
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      • 95 8 Reuters COLOMBO A Sri Lankan man was seriously injured when he jumped naked into a lions’ enclosure at a zoo. The man was apparently offering himself up as a feast for the big cats. “The man... had written a letter before jumping into the enclosure
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    • 279 9 -AFP Teens in light plane lost contact with air traffic control after take-off SYDNEY A teenage pilot said he was “still shaking” yesterday after being guided to safety by the crew of a commercial jet through a mountain range as torrential rain fell.
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    • 149 9 Oana-Antara JAKARTA Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra’s legal counsel, Nudirwan Munir, said yesterday he will not surrender his client to the prosecutors until he is given the original copy of the presidential decree which contains the president’s rejection of Tommy’s appeal for pardon. “I will
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    • 90 9 Stalagmite v stalactite BOTH are elongated deposits of minerals at points where slowly dripping water enters a void. Stalagmites build from the bottom of this cavity; stalactites hang from above. When the same dripwater source creates both; they may meet and form a column. Oscar trivia BY
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    • 160 9 AFP SHANGHAI A Shanghai businesswoman has been jailed for 15 years for paying two men to beat and kill an employee who defected to a competing company, a court official said yesterday. Xu Zhen, director of the Shanghai Changheng Cosmetics Co, was
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 9 Sharp unveils the world's smallest portable mini disc recorderplayer with a long-playing mode. The MDMT77, measuring 71.9x16.8 x 78.7 mm, can record and play up to 320 minutes onto a conventional 80minute MD. The gadget goes on sale in Japan on Nov 10 for 46,000 yen (Ss74l). Pic:
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    • 110 9 -AP SYDNEY A Japanese backpacker died after rolling over in his sleep and falling out of a second floor window. Mr Atsuo Funakoshi, 26, of Kyoto, was sleeping in a top bunk near an open window when he rolled over and fell down onto the
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 255 10 -afp WASHINGTON The main US presidential candidates displayed their funny sides on Sunday, appearing on one of America’s most popular comedy shows. Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore, virtually tied in the latest Reuters poll, on Sunday forced their weary bodies
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    • 110 10 Reuters WASHINGTON About 100 million Americans are poised to cast a damning vote on the US political process tomorrow merely by staying home. Despite a presidential contest that could be the closest in decades, US voter turnout will be low perhaps with less than 50
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    • 140 11 iustbelieveit. Reuters KFAR SHOUBA, Lebanon Lebanese children captured an Israeli cow on Sunday which had wandered over the tense international border and said they would only hand it back in exchange for goats of theirs which had walked over the border to Israel. Witnesses
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    • 292 11 Wire Services LONDON Surgeons began a lengthy operation yesterday to separate conjoined twins whose fate had been the subject of a legal battle. Only one of the twins is expected to survive. A statement from St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester confirmed that the surgery had begun,
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    • 144 11 Reuters NEW DELHI -A regional party pulled out of India’s ruling alliance at the state level yesterday following differences over who will rule a new eastern state. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party which spearheaded a movement to create Jharkhand out of the state
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    • news scan
      • 82 12 Reuters LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas President Bill Clinton will meet Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Thursday and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak next Sunday. “The goal is to assess the situation on the ground and begin to find the way back to the negotiating table,” said
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      • 88 12 Reuters LONDON A local anaesthetic, a small drillhole in the skull and a syringe full of new cells may one day be all it takes to cure brain damage. Scientists are developing a new kind of “brain repair kit” using implants of mass-pro-duced cells to patch
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      • 74 12 Reuters LONDON British police are on high alert after intelligence showed that extremists opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process are operating in mainland Britain, the Times reported yesterday. Asked about the report, a London police spokesman said: “We wouldn’t discuss any security measures that
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    • 219 12 -AP JOSHUA TREE, California In what may be the first such case in the US, a man is accused of murdering a 15-year-old with an overdose of the drug known as liquid ecstasy. An impromptu rave party in the Southern California desert five years ago was
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    • 60 12 Several geese on Sunday running in the annual Goose Palio in Mirano near Venice. Almost 130 geese covered a distance of 419 metres. The owners were not allowed to touch the birds, only guiding them with a stick. This year's race was won by a goose called
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    • 130 12 Disney World rider steps out dies AP ORLANDO A tourist visiting Walt Disney World was killed after he stepped off a ride. The man was on the Splash Mountain ride when he suddenly stepped out of his boat and was hit by another craft, bearing down on him at speed.
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    • 49 12 gofigure. Durex survey What is the global average age for youths to lose their virginity? The average age is 15.9 years, which is the same in Singapore. Malaysians are slightly more conservative 17.7 years. Globally, three in 10 people found their first sexual experience disappointing.
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 187 14 -afp LEIPZIG, Germany German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was booed at a trade union congress as he tried to defend his government’s plan to part-priva-tise the pensions system. Schroeder, who also heads the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), was addressing more than 500 members of the Public
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    • 165 14 -ap LONDON Author Salman Rushdie hit back at critics who say he is ungrateful to Britain although it spends money to protect him against an Islamic death edict. Iran’s late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued the edict against the author for allegedly committing blasphemy
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    • 83 14 BOND girl Michelle Yeoh has been nominated for Best Actress in the 37th Golden Horse Awards next month. She was picked for her role in Lee Ang’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. However, co-star Chow Yuen Fatt did not make it to the Best Actor list.
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    • 100 14 FORMER Category 111 starlet Ewong Yung Hung is leaving Hongkong show biz to get married. The sexy actress will be engaged to her Japanese boyfriend on Sunday. Yung, 30, said she is disappointed and frustrated with the Hongkong entertainment scene. “Maybe my standards have increased,”
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    • 287 15 -AP NEW YORK Madonna gyrated on stage for hundreds of fans lucky enough to score free tickets to a rare live performance. But the Sunday night event was far from a concert, as Madonna sang just a handful of songs from her new album, Music,
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    • 181 15 -ap BATON ROUGE, Louisiana “Singing governor” Jimmie Davis, who wrote the smash hit, You Are My Sunshine, in the late ’3os, died on Sunday. He was believed to be 101. Davis parlayed smooth talking and singing into a political career, serving as governor from 1944-48
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    • 125 15 BERNARD Tan is sick of playing baddie roles. In TCS 8 drama serial, The Voices Within, he played a cop who tried to rape Ah Lian, played by Taiwanese actress Annie Yi. In another serial, Knotty Liaison, he was the heartless husband in a marriage
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    • 115 15 AMERICAN-BORN, Taiwan-based singer Wang Lee Horn was upset that his name had appeared on an Internet homosexual name list. Nasty remarks about his sexuality were also made on the website, according to a Taiwanese report. The boyish singer-songwriter moved to set the online record
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    • 398 18  -  by by Cara van Miriah FACE it, Ladies’ Nights are known to pack the house with women, or babes, more than ladies. Almost 98 per cent of entertainment outlets today are offering free drinks to women. Actually, Ladies’ Night has become a daily affair. However,
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    • easyStreats tv
      • 532 19  -  Tellytubby gives MediaCorp's long-awaited gongfu serial, Lu Xiaofeng, the thumbs-up, and wonders whether its Taiwanese star, Jimmy Lin, has a missing twin wfaby /Yv/nnno by' Yvonne Kwok IT'S amazing what a moustache can do for you. I realised this only after watching Friday night’s
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      • channel scan
        • 58 19 7pm, TCS 5 More work for the angels as a black man is found mur- dered and Monica tells the townsfolk. Instead of taking action, they decide to hush it up i as Rosa Parks, the I mother of the civil I rights movement, is visiting.
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        • 35 19 9pm, Suria Local music gets a leg up with this talent contest. Six bands and five composers compete in this grand finale hosted by Zack Zainal and Haney Hadad. Who will win?
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        • 109 19 9pm, Animal Planet (SCV 30) Animal Planet’s No 1 lure is Steve Irwin, host of Crocodile Hunter, who is known for his thick Australian accent and khaki outfits. What sets this apart from other animal documentaries is the sense of danger and excitement that Irwin brings to the
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          61 19 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) An international terrorist group infiltrates a TV station in Hong Kong and threatens to release the deadly Sarin nerve gas. Brash young cop, Kent, is assigned to k take them out, but first he has to 1 team up with an equally hardly
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          96 19 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) A toy company is about to sell a line of Good Guy dolls and the first one off the assembly line is none other than Chucky, the demonic doll possessed by the spirit of dead serial killer Charles Lee Ray. The evil crea-
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    • 508 21  -  personality speakinq by Lawrence Chau AFTER spending three months in Los Angeles and Toronto, I returned to see Singapore gearing up for the release of another local movie, Chicken Rice War. I haven’t seen the film yet but I do hope it doesn’t turn out
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    • 265 22 Just one iquestionu "I'D have to go with Al Gore. He was part of the Clinton administration and I think he's done a pretty good job.” Undergraduate Rakinder Kaur, 22 "GORE, of course. Bush doesn’t impress me much and his
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    • easyStreats sports people
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        270 28 El Mouaziz writes same plot in New York win Reuters Kewyork Abdelkhader El pljaziz of Morocco has run Uy two of the world’s major marathons London and New York but he kept coming back until he had won them both. Abdelkhader, 31, pushed jjiaway from the lead pack
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      • 113 28 -AFP NEW DELHI Indian revenue officials will soon ask five national players charged with match fixing and corruption to pay up huge taxes. Officials from the Income Tax Department said they will “soon proceed” to collect dues from the five former captain Mohammad Azahruddin, Ajay
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      • 241 28 -AP BERLIN A German magazine reported on Sunday that Germany’s disgraced and dropped national soccer coach may have been fallen foul of a drugs incident before. Christoph Daum, who was dropped recently after failing a drug test, may have been forced to step down from
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 429 29 -AP ROME Udinese defeated Lecce 2-0 on Sunday to earn an undisputed lead in the Serie A standings for the first time in the 90-year history of the northern club. Udinese’s leadership also extended the surprising domination of provincial teams
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      • 453 29 LONDON If Peter Taylor decides to shuffle the cards for his first selection as England’s caretaker manager, no one should bet against a surprise call-up for Paul Merson and David James. A moment of sublime skill from Merson, 15 seconds from time, was enough
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      • 445 29 Reuters, AP KIEV Dynamo Kiev faces a serious injury crisis ahead of its final Champions League Group G tie against Manchester United tomorrow with three of its key players out for the season. Dynamo’s vice-president of football operations Josef Sabo said on
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      • 373 30 -AP PHOENIX After sitting out the final minutes of a game the night before for what Phoenix coach Scott Skiles perceived as too little effort, Clifford Robinson made sure he stayed on the floor against the Houston Rockets. It was good for the Suns that he
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      • 489 30 -New York Times ATLANTA After a summer of inhaling Tiger Woods’ exhaust fumes in golfs Major championships, Phil Mickelson decided not to waste his best remaining opportunity at East Lake Golf Club. Suffice to say, the return of the “Streakbuster” was impressive.
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