Streats, 18 January 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 18 January 2001 Another quality publication of mS* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon In: CPF Top-up
      62 1 THE first CPF Top-Up payment for those aged 55 and above was credited into the CPF accounts of over 1.9 million Singaporeans on Tuesday. If you qualify, you will get a notification letter of the top-up amount, plus a withdrawal form, over the next two weeks. It
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      Lock icon MRT delay in Jurong
      59 1 THE eastbound MRT service between Jurong East and Clementi stations was delayed for 46 minutes yesterday from 6.11 pm. The delay was due to a defective train that stalled between the two stations. The train eventually was pushed to Clementi station and passengers were detrained. SMRT
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    Lock icon MOM kicked, scratched, whacked SON Why? He was naughty
    417 1  -  by I KAREN WONG MADAM Tan Geok Mui, 39, lives in a house in District 11, off Chancery Lane. She’s a lady of leisure. A housewife. Her make-up is as immaculate her dressing. Behind the pretty image, however, lurks a hateful,
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      86 1 J Cunrdj Sultry Media Works star Michelle Chia invites you to spend five days in a room with seven people for a new Chinese reality TV show. Details on Page 19. MediaWo V. We must be cautious and monitor closely what impact the r S economy son Singapore. If it
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon NTUC's grave expectations
      313 2  -  by 'WINSTON CHONG EXPECT to have to work harder to earn a living this year because, economically, we are in for a difficult year. So warned Mr Lim Boon Heng, NTUC Secretary-General and Minister without Portfolio at the unveiling ceremony of a logo to commemorate NTUC’s 40th
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      Lock icon Older workers fear slowdown, layoffs
      279 2 CLERKS, factory workers and bus drivers holed up for two hours at NTUC Trade Union House on Bras Basah Road at a talk-shop on Tuesday, expressed fears that an impending slowdown in the US economy would affect Singapore. If firms laid off workers those aged
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      Lock icon Another baby bonus for Jurong couples
      142 2 YOUNG couples living in Jurong received a $700,000 nudge yesterday to encourage them to make babies. A couple who conceives between Feb 1 and May 31 will receive a hamper worth more than $7OO each, filled with a stroller, a play pen and other
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      Lock icon Man, 69, with toy gun in hold-up farce
      343 3  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM HE lived 69 years crime-free. But last year, in a moment of desperation, William Keh tried to rob a money-changer with a toy gun. In court yesterday, Keh, 69, appeared without defence counsel and pleaded guilty to attempted armed
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      Lock icon He hacked off friend's thumb
      185 3  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM AS his friend tried to defend himself with a table, an angry man hacked his thumb off with a chopper. On Oct 3, Mr Chee Lei Hong, 40, got into a fight with his friend, Alphonsus Ng Hin Hock, 40, at the
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        Lock icon Pee-swop ex-cop jailed
        122 3 A DRUGS officer made a deal with a drug offender friend to switch the latter’s urine sample with a “clean” one for $lO,OOO. In the wee hours of Oct 17, 1998, Edward Lee Kok Fai, 26, broke into Tanglin police headquarters. He took two bottles of his
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        Lock icon Sock thief's last chance
        108 3 A MAN with a laundry list of criminal offences landed in jail again for the theft of two pairs of socks. Since January 1992, Goh Chye Teck, 34, has been convicted of various counts of theft, motor-related offences, drug abuse and possession of drugs. On Nov
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        Lock icon Cash stolen from clinic
        79 3 A DENTAL clinic on Towner Road was cleaned out by a thief some time between 10.30 pm on Monday and 7.30 am on Tuesday. The theft was discovered when the clinic was opened on Tuesday morning by the dental surgeon who found the back door ajar.
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      Lock icon Unions support business body
      287 5 Federation will ease labour pacts between NTUCand govt UNIONS here have given the proposed umbrella body of business groups the thumbs-up. Especially as the proposed Singapore Business Federation (SBF) can make it easier for companies to implement labour agreements reached between the National Trades Union Congress
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      Lock icon Hepatitis B jabs for students over 13
      282 5 STARTING next month, all Secondary 3 students, Junior College 2 students and Centralised Institute 3 students will be immunised against Hepatitis B. Hepatitis B was included in the National Childhood Immunisation Programme in 1987. About 90 per cent of children under 12 have
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      Lock icon Cop fined for computer misuse
      79 5 CURIOSITY and boredom got a former cop slapped with a $3,600 fine yesterday. Ex-sergeant Yap Cheng San, 25, had logged into a police database and, without authorisation, checked on the personal particulars of some people who were not connected to his investigations. Between April and
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this month...
        62 5 The Jurong Polyclinic runs a night dink from 7pm to 9.30 pm on weekdays, it will give immediate outpatient treatment to patients with acute illnesses at polydink rates. But the clink won't provide maternal and childcare services, such as childhood immunisation and child developmental assessment, or the
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        Lock icon Remember...
        73 5 If you're studying at Nanyang Technological University, good news. You can now surf the Net at2oo times the speed of regular dial-up modems. With the latest wireless network installed, it's possible to log on to the NTU Intranet and on the Internet from anywhere on campus. So you can
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        39 5 Head down to HaKaren Art Gallery at Tanglin Shopping Centre and enjoy Mongolian artist Xue Dai's artworks which focus on the theme of childhood. Until Sat. 10.30 am to 6.30 pm. Admission is free. Call 735-9709.
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        Lock icon Our weather girl says...
        60 5 Our weather girl says I'm afraid you'll see more rain today. You can expect showers with thunder over most areas jn the afternoon and early evening, j Temperature will reach a maximunrm of 31 °C. High tide will hit 2.2 m at 6.50 pm. Your weather girl is Stryjmj&ader Cheryl
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      Lock icon We are a nation of gadget freaks
      342 8  -  by CLAIRE PORTER Our passion for the good life extends from handphones and handheld organisers to clothes and leather goods WE are a nation of gadget freaks it’s official! Singaporeans just can’t get enough of handphones, pagers and handheld organisers. That is the
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      Lock icon Helpful convent girls
      149 8 onekindact Rita Tong I was on my way home one day in a bus that passes by my daughter's school, Marymount Convent I spotted my daughter at the bus-stop near the school but was surprised when she did not board the bus. Later at home, she gave
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      741 4 See Hylam Street and Malay Street come alive this Chinese New Year. The usually bustling street-side transforms into a tranquil 'park within the city’. Surround yourself in a unique tropical haven, designed using plants and natural elements like stone and water, blended with traditional new year lights and decorations. Everyone’s
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  • Streatsmart column
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      Lock icon Will Gus Dur be sued for libel?
      234 6 betweenthelines. |S be accused of masterminding a series of bomb attacks which ied to the deaths ofseverai people is no laughing matter. It is understandable that Mr (Lt-Gen) Prabowo, or Gen Hartono, would want to seek legal redress. But the damage to their
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      Lock icon The germs are out there
      738 6 IN The Accidental Spy, which opens today Jackie Chan plays the unwitting pawn who gets caught in an international cloak-and -dagger struggle for control of a fictitious new killer germ anthrax 11. If Jackie Chan had waited till last week, The Accidental Spy could have
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      213 6 WHY-Series #OlO Do You Know FANCL recommends nourishing skincare Skin can be a sticky problem, especially if it tends to be oily to begin with. The solution may be as simple as applying milky lotion that acts as a moisture-retaining shield, nutrifying as it protects. But here’s something you should
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon God's Army twins may get asylum in Thailand
      253 11 Wire Services Rebel leaders and followers surrender to Thai border police SUAN PHUNG, Thailand Thailand will consider giving asylum to Johnny and Luther Htoo, the twin boy leaders of a mystical rebel movement from Myanmar who have surrendered with some of their
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      Lock icon M'sian DPM forgot to pay traffic fines
      162 11 AP KUALA LUMPUR Having a huge backlog of outstanding traffic tickets, Malaysian police are lowering the fines that errant motorists must pay, hoping to entice them to come toward, pay up and clear their records. One of the first errant motorists to come
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      Lock icon People on the march Thousands protest as Estrada cleared
      298 13 Supporters stage rally to counter anti-Estrada protests -AFP MANILA Tens of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets yesterday to condemn a decision by the Senate to effectively clear President Joseph Estrada of corruption charges. About 30,000 people gathered outside a
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      Lock icon 3,000 try to storm Indon parliament
      229 13 -ap JAKARTA Riot police fired warning shots and tear gas when about 3,000 anti-government protesters tried to storm the national Parliament yesterday. The demonstrators, many of them college students, demanded that President Abdurrahman Wahid quit over a series of financial and political scandals. Hundreds
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      Lock icon KL opposition plan mass gathering
      269 13 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition supporters said they would go ahead with a mass gathering on Saturday even if police refuse a permit for it. The 100,000-people rally is being organised by the National Justice Party, headed by Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the wife of
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      Lock icon KL creates new Women's Ministry
      262 14 Muchanticipated cabinet reshuffle turns out to be minor exercise KUALA LUMPUR -Our sisters across the Causeway have a new ministry to look into matters relating to women. The creation of the Women’s Affairs Ministry was announced yesterday in a cabinet reshuffle. The new ministry is
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      Lock icon Indon central banker blasts Gus Dur
      252 14 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s central bank governor, who was in court yesterday to answer a corruption charge against him, blasted president Abdurrahman Wahid instead. Mr Sjahril Sabirin said the charge was ridiculous and indicated that he had been intimidated by the President, popularly known as
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      Lock icon Is chop suey an authentic Chinese dish?
      54 14 knowornot It is an authentic Chinese-American dish, created either by a dishwasher in San Francisco around 1860 or by Chinese restaurant owners in Brooklyn in early 1900 s. As befits its origin, chop is an English word; suey is derived from the Chinese
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        Lock icon Prabowo denies bombing
        83 14 AP JAKARTA An ex-army general and son-in-law of former president Suharto yesterday denied involvement in Indonesia’s Christmas Eve bombings. “I’m always being slandered and made to be a scapegoat,” complained former Lt Gen Prabowo Subioanto, an ex-chief of the elite Strategic Reserve Command. He called a news
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        Lock icon M'sian hacker from Brazil?
        84 14 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Police have traced hackers who broke into the Malaysian Parliament’s home page last month to Brazil and France. The suspects’ nationality of the suspects is unknown, according to a report in The Sun. Police said they traced the hackers’ IP address, a number
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        Lock icon Anson Chan: More quit
        71 14 -AFP HONGKONG Several senior Hongkong officials are planning to quit the civil service after their boss, Chief Secretary Anson Chan, announced that she was taking early retirement, a report said yesterday. Ms Lily Yam, Secretary for Environment and Food, was one of those rumoured to be
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        Lock icon Music kills surgery pain
        86 14 Xinhua TIANJIN A piano solo played by French “romantic prince” Richard Clayderman, helped ease the fears of a patient on the operating table in a Tianjin hospital. The 30-minute surgery didn’t seem as horrifying, said Mr Gao, who received surgery on a bad case of piles.
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      Lock icon Unenterprising
      51 14 gofigure Singapore ranks 19th among 21 nations on the scale of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) index only ahead of Japan and Ireland. Only 2 per cent of its adults are engaged in entrepreneurial activity. Brazil ranks first with 16 per cent of its adults being
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Now, sex over the Net with a mannequin
      186 15 -AFP PARIS An Australian inventor has devised the ultimate in safe sex. Now you can have intercourse with a mannequin, whose responses are guided by a partner over the Internet and whose appearance can be programmed to resemble your favourite movie star.
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      Lock icon Russia to stand by Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty
      129 15 -Reuters MOSCOW A top Kremlin official said yesterday that Russia and France were committed to upholding a major 1972 disarmament treaty and urged Washington to state its intentions on proposals to develop a missile defence system. Sergei Ivanov, secretary of the increasingly influential
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      Lock icon Wrong leg cut, man dies
      144 15 -AFP LUGANO A Swiss court has launched an investigation into the death of an 80-year-old man after a surgeon amputated the wrong leg. The surgeon at a Lugano hospital went to the local police station after he realised he had cut off his patient’s healthy
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      Lock icon Who made the Net? Clinton, of course
      309 16 Reuters US president says his policies enabled Internet to grow WASHINGTON First it was Vice-President Al Gore who claimed it was he who invented the Internet. Now, it’s his boss, President Bill Clinton. In a last-gasp claim to fame, Mr Clinton’s team said
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      Lock icon Eat fish to reduce risk of stroke
      189 16 AP CHICAGO A study of nearly 80,000 American women adds to evidence that eating fish may be healthy. The study has suggested that even modest amounts can significantly reduce the risk of the most common type of stroke. While much of the previous
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      Lock icon Iraq triumphed in Gulf War: Saddam
      215 16 AP BAGHDAD Speaking in apocalyptic tones, President Saddam Hussein marked the Gulf War’s 10th anniversary yesterday by declaring the conflict a glorious moment in Iraqi history. But he ignored the economic devastation the country has suffered during his rule. Mr Saddam’s description of the
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        Lock icon 'Ginger' could be scooter
        79 16 -AFP WASHINGTON A mysterious invention that has stirred wide interest in the media may be a scooter propelled by a clean-burning engine, according to an Internet news site. The project, dubbed “It” and “Ginger”, is being developed by Mr Dean Kamen, a renowned inventor. Wired, an
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        Lock icon Power emergency again
        63 16 -AFP LOS ANGELES Officials on Tuesday declared another statewide “Stage Three” power emergency in California’s continuing energy crisis, raising anew the possibility of rolling blackouts across the state. The Stage Three emergency the second in a week was declared after operating reserves fell below 01.5 per cent
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        Lock icon Bush to visit his roots
        84 16 AP AUSTIN, Texas President-elect George W Bush was to begin the last lap of his marathon journey to the White House yesterday, visiting his West Texas boyhood home before flying to Washington for his inauguration on Saturday. Upwards of 10,000 people are expected to throng
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        Lock icon Kumbh Mela: no photos
        109 16 Reuters ALLAHABAD, India Organisers of India’s festival banned photographs of bathing areas near the Ganges and Yamuna rivers after pilgrims complained of being snapped in the nude. Mela Commissioner Sadhakant said on Tuesday that journalists who violated the rule during the Maha Kumbh Mela in the
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      Lock icon Sir John Mills finally marries in church
      222 17 Reuters, AP LONDON Oscar-winning actor Sir John Mills, 92, celebrated 60 years of marriage to playwright Mary Hayley Bell, 89, in a long-awaited church service on Tuesday. The couple had had a registry office wedding in 1941 while he was on 48-hour leave
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      Lock icon Cannes dream comes true for Jodie Foster
      152 17 ap PARIS Acclaimed American actress Jodie Foster will head the jury at the 54th Cannes Film Festival in May, festival k officials announced on E Tuesday. Foster, who has a French mother and speaks perfect French, “has received the highly. est honours. It
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      Lock icon Ta Mok in poor health, says lawyer
      265 17 Reuters PHNOM PENH Khmer Rouge military chief Ta Mok left prison for the first time since his arrest two years ago to be treated for high blood pressure. His lawyer Benson Samay took him to a clinic on Tuesday and then returned him
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      Lock icon 20-year-old weds 77-year-old virgin
      137 17 Reuters TEHERAN A 20-year-old Iranian man has married a 77-year-old virgin in a village in the east of the country, newspapers said yesterday. They said Mr Hesam Khalili had wed septuagenarian Fatemeh Jamshidi Khakhi in the village of Gonabad in Khorasan bordering Afghanistan. Ali Pourhossein, a
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      Lock icon Oasis star accused of groping BA girl
      231 18 OASIS frontman Liam Gallagher has been accused of drunkenly groping a British Airways stewardess on a flight to Brazil, Peoplenews.com reported yesterday. The woman, 30, claimed that Gallagher first asked her about her sex life and then made an offensive gesture at her.
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      Lock icon Congolese president 'shot by bodyguard'
      278 18 AFP KINSHASA President Laurent Desire Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo was injured in an attack, said a government spokesman yesterday. He said Mr Kabila’s son, General Joseph Kabila, would assume day-to-day control of government business pending his father’s recovery. The announcement has not
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      Lock icon Reality TV, Singapore style
      447 19  -  by KAREN CHEN YOU want to dig your nose, but you can’t. You want to break wind, but you can’t. Because a television camera is watching your every move for a period of five days. Plus, you have to share the enclosed space with at least
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      Lock icon MediaWorks gets Red Devils exclusive
      252 20  -  by Yvonne Kwok MEDIAWORKS has beaten Sportscity and SCV’s Football channel to become Manchester United’s local official channel for their 2001 Asian tour. Man U fans will be able to catch exclusive telecasts of the team’s Asian exhibition matches on TV Works, as well as
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      Lock icon Stars save a trite plot
      454 22 Stephanie at me movies You can reach Stephanie Goh at gohcys@sph.com.sg FEEL-GOOD movies work their magic especially well during the yuletide season. ’Tis a pity Nicholas Cage’s turn as the Family Man arrives a few weeks late, opening at that time of the year when
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon ANCHOR WOMAN
          69 22 10.30 pm, Channel 8 Long’s teacher visits Masheng to inform her that she’s worried about Long’s lack of plans for his future. Meanwhile, Masheng manages to secure an interview with the boss of a bank that’s laying off its workers. Midway through, news arrives that a former bank
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          Lock icon DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM
          74 22 10pm, Central This documentary traces the roots of Dance Theatre of Harlem, America’s first outstanding classical ballet company of black dancers, and how it started out as a ghetto experiment that quickly reached world-class level. Today, the almost exclusively black company is known for its warmth
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          Lock icon EVER AFTER
          71 22 11am, Star Movies (SCV 58) Drew Barrymore and Anjelica Houston star in this fairy tale given a modern < twist. Danielle is A a well-educated 16th century woman who also happens to be beautiful and lively. She captures the heart of a prince after beaning him with an
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          Lock icon HEARTSTRINGS
          63 22 5.15 pm, VV Drama Born into poverty, Hui vows to lead a better life and be a good doctor. However, his principles and professionalism are compromised i when he is framed i by Jie, his rival, in a 9 manslaughter I case. Hui becomes a fugitive, running W from
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          Lock icon WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE
          62 22 9pm, V V Drama (SCV 55) This Chinese New Year, V V Drama brings you closer to your dreams with a brand new drama. Three street kids are brought together at a party after 18 years. Li Xiang then thinks of a plan to set up
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      Lock icon Last man standing
      537 23  -  by ARTI MULCHAND EVER wondered why Mr Tan upstairs goes red after just one beer? Or why James next door can put away shot after shot of vodka and still walk a straight line? Or why your ex-girlfriend reversed your car into a wall after two martinis?
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      Lock icon Even Fann can't liven up your evenings
      193 24 WEDNESDAY nights are just not happenin’. And they’re becoming a big mid-week headache for MediaCorp’s top management. The local dramas screened during the 10.30 pm slot every Wednesday are not raking in the hoped-for ratings. SNAG, The Voices Within, As You Like It,
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      Lock icon Should students be allowed to dye their hair?
      313 29 Just 1 one question. Definitely! If you force them to dye their hair black after they've dyed I it blonde or something, they'll just I go to their hairdresser during the I holidays, and get their hair I recoloured all over again.
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