Streats, 8 May 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets ?uSssav' 8 May itltl’il Another quality publication of f|Jlf Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Commuters upset as women turn Japan's trains into mobile beauty salons Make-up on the move
    469 1 Y OU are on your way to work from Lay to City Hall. Or on your way home from Raffles Place to Pasir Ris. How would you react if a fellow commuter shaved her legs
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    Lock icon The risks of playing it safe
    260 1 betweenthelines Businessmen like Yong Voon Fee have the creativity to enable Singapore to go global. As he shuttles weekly between Singapore and Shanghai to tend to the offices of his five-year-old e-trading software company, entrepreneur Yong Voon Fee sees evidence of a looming crisis
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      84 1 Have you come across unseemly behaviour on the MRT? Share your views on fellow commuters. Call us at *****44 5566, faxusat74slo22 or email us at streats@sph.com.sg many die unapuiugeue, saying 11 m m '4 m 1 Pic WuLifen Catch up with our Weather Girls at Raffles Place MRT station between
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      Lock icon Taiwan, Peru ease requirements More destinations now visa-free
      371 2 YES! More destinations from Taipei to Machu Picchu are available visa-free. Taiwan said last month that it would ease visa requirements for Singaporean visitors. Since May 1, Singaporeans staying in Taiwan for less than a fortnight have not needed visas. And the
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      Lock icon SingTel pumps $365m more into Indian telco
      173 2 SINGAPORE Telecommunications will another US$2OO million ($365 million) in Bharti Group, the company said yesterday. The move raises SingTel’s total commitme 1 in the Indian telecoms group to US$65O milliof SingTel’s US$2OO million investment, with US$26O million from other investors, vtfj be used
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      Lock icon Million-dollar question
      102 2 morningsmile NASA interviewed professionals for a one-way trip to Mars. Only one guy could go. The interviewer asked an engineer how much he wanted to be paid. 1 million,"he answered. "And I want to donate it all to my alma mater." A doctor said: "$2 million. I want
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      Lock icon No demand for male massage therapists Masseurs here are a vanishing breed
      299 3  -  reports by 'KHUSHWANT SINGH massaging used to be a man’s job. Not any more. Fourteen massage centres, randomly picked from the Yellow Pages Shopping Guide, told Streats that they did not offer the services of masseurs. All of
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      Lock icon Hands-on men
      319 3 STREATS tracked down three freelance male masseurs who catered to a select group of clients. Mr Eddy Solomon, 40, has been in this business since 1996 and said most of his clients are men, but there are a few women. “They are mostly working women and I am
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        Lock icon Navy brass in town
        77 3 SIXTEEN warships from 13 countries are at the Changi Naval Base for the International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (Imdex) Asia 2001. High-level delegates, from ambassadors to chiefs of navies, will attend the meeting, which starts today. They are here at the invitation of RearAdmiral Lui
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        Lock icon ISO 9001:2000 for court
        116 3 THE Supreme Court has been awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification at the organisational level. The organisational ISO 9000 series certification is the latest accolade received by Singapore’s superior court. In 1999, it achieved the People Developer Standard. The Singapore Quality Class followed last year. In December,
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        Lock icon Bomb hoax: Teen in court
        138 3 A MAN who allegedly made two false bomb reports was charged in a district court yesterday. Mohamed Rafi Mohd Noor, 19, reportedly called the police twice last Saturday from Ward 44 of the Singapore General Hospital. The court was not told what he was doing
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      Lock icon They delivered the service
      64 3 onekindact. Lim Hoon Cheng I WAS posting some letters at the Kallang MRT postbox on April 28 when I accidently dropped an envelope containing cash through the slot I would like to thank Ashat Bin Osba and other Singapore Post staff who made arrangements that enabled
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      Lock icon Remembering Buddha
      113 5 BUDDHISTS all over the country flocked to the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Temple yesterday to celebrate Vesak Day, which marks the birth, death and enlightenment of Buddha more than 2,500 years ago. Later in the morning, President S R Nathan joined 1,540 guests at the annual
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      114 5 Our weather girl says Getting to work in the morning and going home in the evening will be a breeze as there will be a couple of hours of fine weather then. But it's best if you lunch in if you want to stay dry. Thunderstorms and showers are expected
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      Lock icon Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka...
      79 5 Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka Worshippers filed past a reclining image of Buddha in celebration of Vesak full moon day at the Kelaniya Buddhist shrine near Colombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday. The day is regarded as the "thrice blessed day" by Buddhists as it is believed that the birth of Buddha-to-be Prince
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this month...
        99 5 From this month Men will find it easier to travel abroad. For youths 16 V 2 years and older yet to serve NS, an exit permit (EP) will be required only for overseas travel of more than three months, while full-time National Service men can get their EP at their
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      1320 4 ADVERTISEMENT Hair-raising damage It could save one a lot more than just lost plight beyond this psychological barrier. The misconstrued stigma COMMON hair problems like dandruff, oily hair, brittle hair, problematic hair conditions and chemically damaged hair are faced by almost everyone at any one time in their lives. But
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      Lock icon SPCA should show it cares
      266 6 THE first word that comes to my mind when I think of the SPCA is euthanasia (“Support the SPCA”, April 30). I believe that is what other animal lovers think of, too. Whenever I come across the SPCA donation box or someone approaches me with
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      Lock icon Planners take buses
      267 6 THE regular surveys we conduct to determine demand and travel patterns are observational surveys, hence Mr Jethro Quek’s assertion that he had never participated in any of these surveys “Planners should take buses”, April 26. However, we do conduct surveys which involve representative samples of commuters. We
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      Lock icon Terrible service
      197 6 I RECEIVED the AMK A Newsletter, April-June issue. I have to confess that this is the first time I have taken a serious look at the newsletter. And I was surprised at the range of activities organised by the residents’ committee. I was really keen on the “Line
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      Lock icon SPCA takes in 1,000 each month
      208 6 I WOULD like to thank the writer for her thoughtfulness and suggestions to help the animal welfare cause (“Support the SPCA”, April 30). The Society takes in over 1,000 unwanted animals every month unwanted or abandoned pets and strays. These numbers exceed the number
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      Lock icon Zyban is safe to use
      296 6 YOUR reports on Zyban (March 2 and April 27) have caused concern amongst its users in Singapore and we want to assure the public that Zyban is safe to use as a prescribed drug under doctor’s supervision. GlaxoSmithKline takes reports of adverse events associated with
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      Lock icon Get in touch with us: Comfort
      100 6 I THANK your reader,“Grateful Mum” for her letter singling out a Comfort cabby for the free ride he gave her daughter at midnight on April 8. I am glad that our Comfort cabby conveyed her daughter safely home. I would appreciate it if she
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      34 6 jiaveyoursay ’.Streats is pleased '.to publish your views.To be heard, email us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 82 denting Lane, l Singapore *****7. You should include '.your name,address and contact num•ber:
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      Lock icon Japan PM's first policy speech New century, new position
      271 8 Koizumi aims to setup new socioeconomic system TOKYO Japan’s new prime minister yesterday pledged deep structural reforms in his first big policy speech as premier. In a parliamentary address, Mr Junichiro Koizumi also outlined plans to semi-privatise Japan’s postal savings system
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      Lock icon Drop colonial ways, urges HK leader
      184 8 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong will suffer economically if people cling to the old colonial way of life and distance themselves from mainland China, a member of Chief Executive TUng Cheehwa’s Cabinet said. “A mindset focused on preserving Hongkong’s old way of life, as part of
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      Lock icon Former president's jail life Erap's studying Sun Tzu and law
      271 9 -AFP MANILA Jailed former Philippine leader Joseph Estrada is brushing up on military strategy and the law, reports said yesterday. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, which obtained the first face-to-face media interview with Mr Estrada since his arrest last month, said
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      Lock icon Dr M duets with wife
      124 9 -AFP, :ap KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his wife have raised RM350,000 ($168,000) for charity by singing a duet. The couple sang Come Back to Sorrento at a dinner on Sunday night, newspapers reported yesterday. Ik Dr Mahathir told
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      Lock icon Thai made wife ride nude
      183 9 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Police are hunting a Thai who made his wife strip at knifepoint and made her ride nude with him around town on a motorbike, reports said yesterday. The 30-year-old labourer living in Kemaman, Terengganu, suspected that his wife had been cheating on
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      Lock icon Australian cancer centre admits violation of ethics Institute admits testing tissue without consent
      267 10 -AP Researchers got carried away, but it will never happen again, says institute chief MELBOURNE One of Australia’s top cancer institutes admitted yesterday that its researchers violated ethical guidelines by using breast tissue samples from patients without
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      Lock icon Mega ready to lead coalition government: Golkar chief
      182 10 -AFP Golkar will support vice-president if she makes a bid for power JAKARTA The long-running soap opera in Indonesia between President Abdurrahman Wahid and his vice-president is about to end. Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri is reportedly ready to lead a coalition of parties
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      Lock icon Fans – even in death
      88 10 Fans even in death justbelieveit. A casket-maker in the US has a range of coffins for the special-interest departed l One for car-racing fans has a label, The Race is Over, and is decorated with a chequered flag and whizzing cars. The company says: "the casket places the car racing
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      Lock icon WATCHING THE DAMAGE:
      46 10 Dayaks watching Madurese vacant houses they torched in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, on Sunday. Violence flared in the wake of killings of Madurese by Dayak people in February, which left more than 500 dead and created tens of thousands of refugees Pic: AFP
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        Lock icon Climber ill at heights
        106 10 -AP WELLINGTON One of the two men to first climb Mount Everest has got altitude sickness while doing charity work in the Himalayas. Sir Edmund Hillary, 81, who flew back to New Zealand to recuperate, said yesterday that recurring bouts of altitude sickness won’t stop him
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        Lock icon 4,500 drunk drivers held
        95 10 -AFP WARSAW Over 4 ,500 drunk drivers were nabbed in Poland this week. They had been drinking to take advantage of the stretch of holidays in Poland which included May 1 and Poland’s Constitution Day on May 3. But there were fewer accidents and deaths as
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        Lock icon Area code headache
        105 10 BOSTON -Technology is supposed to make life easier, but the simple act of making a phone call has become more complicated in New York and Boston. Facing a shortage of telephone numbers “number exhaustion” to use the industry term “regulators are adding area codes at a furious
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        Lock icon Million-dollar bikini
        49 10 SYDNEY A million -dollar, jewel-encrust-ed bikini is to make its debut at the Australian Fashion Week. Details of the bikini have been shrouded in secrecy. The sparkling creation is designer Jodie Packer’s secret weapon in Australia’s Assoo million (***** million) bikini wars, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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        Lock icon Asparagus on the menu
        53 10 Reuters BUSENDORF, Germany It’s the season in Germany when many in the country go asparagus crazy. Restaurants are suddenly awash with the vegetable offering asparagus soup, asparagus fritters and asparagus swimming in creamy sauce. Germans are very particular about their asparagus. Most will eat only the
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon US warning on China ties It'll get worse
      219 11 -AFP, AP WASHINGTON Top US officials have warned that ties between the US and Chinese militaries will get worse. “It’s not business as usual with China,” Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on television on Sunday. Mr Rumsfeld said he had stopped US
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      Lock icon Spy planes fly again
      61 11 -AP WASHINGTON In a move that is bound to make China angry, the US has resumed surveillance flights off China’s coast. An RC-135 reconnaissance plane, flying from Okinawa, flew a routine track along the northern portion of China’s coastline, an official said. The unarmed Air Force
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      Lock icon POPE MAKES HISTORY:
      38 11 Pope John Paul II became the first pope ever to enter a mosque on Sunday. His historic visit to the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus was part of his drive to improve relations with Islam. -AP
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      Lock icon 300 injured as roof crashes under weight of spectators Stadium collapse horror
      261 13 Reuters 30,000 people packed into stadium built to hold only 10,000 SARI, Iran Over 300 people were injured and one man crushed to death when metal awnings collapsed onto fans at a soccer stadium in north-east Iran on
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      Lock icon How healthy are you?
      58 13 webcites. NEXT time someone asks you'How are you?' think before you answer. Not many of us know exactly how healthy we are. Often due to long working hours, our bodies take the toll and then we start to panic Check out healthanswen.com and www.ezyhealth.com and learn
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      Lock icon Broccoli 'fights cancer'
      106 13 SYDNEY It’s true, brussels sprouts and broccoli are good for health. They contain compounds which inhibit the growth of colon cancer cells, say researchers from the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, the Sydney Morning Herald’s website reported yesterday. But Professor Allan Spigel- man’s team
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      Lock icon Actor Robert Blake entered restaurant to retrieve his gun Wife shot dead in car
      261 14 -AP LOS ANGELES Actor Robert Blake (right) could have been starring in crime thriller like this one. But this was no Hollywood set. This was for real. Mr Blake’s wife Bonny Lee Bakley, 45, was shot
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      Lock icon Erotic images help men bear more pain
      198 14 EROTIC pictures do the trick for men but are miserable failures with women. For women it’s pictures of cuddly puppies and babies. Sexy pictures of girls help men cope with pain, according to scientists. Images of pin-ups raised men’s pain threshold in lab
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      Lock icon Fugitive robber home at last
      364 15 Reuters, AFP London Ladies and gentlemen, announcing the arrival of jhe Great Train Robber, Ronnie biggs, in Britain. The frail 71-year-old man to uched down yesterday at the boyal Air Force base of Horthholt, north-west London, in a private jet chartered by the newspaper. There
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      Lock icon Actor Fardeen Khan arrested
      166 15 -AFP Bombay Good grief! Rising Bollywood star Fardeen Khan has been arrested on charges of possessing cocaine. He was remanded in the custody of India’s narcotics bureau u otil May 18 by a magistrate on Sunday. Two drug dealers arrested him were also remanded t° the
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      Lock icon Aussie MPs may go for military training
      141 15 -AP CANBERRA Members of parliament may soon be donning uniforms, hunkering down behind machine guns and braving assault courses to get a taste of military life. The government said on Sunday that it is looking at plans to send the members of parliament
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      Lock icon What three things would you give up to cut your expenses in these bad times?
      285 15 Just one question I'll wake up earlier to take the buses and trains to work. Recently I've also cut down on eating out, especially suppers after midnight movies. That way, I'll be able to cut
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      Lock icon Confessions of an exlectic performer
      526 17 She sings, she dances, she acts, she plays the saxophone. JEANETTE AW, who is on Channel U reality TV show Route to Glamour, gives her take on what it means to be an artiste TO BE or not to be, that is the question buried
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      Lock icon Mega in more ways than one
      471 18  -  tubby by' Yvonne Kwok SUNDAY was a good day. I got to watch three pretty good Chinese movies in a row God of Cookery, God of Gamblers 3 and Feel 100% all thanks to Channel U. It’s also thanks to Channel U that I
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      Lock icon Mummy returns US box-office record
      179 19 -AP the money returns. Movie-goers in the Us shelled out US$7O.l million (Ssl26 million) for The Mummy Returns, a record for a non-holiday opening weekend in North America. According to studio estimates on Sunday, the movie was just US$2 million behind the biggest all-time debut,
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          Lock icon CELEBRITY TRAVELLERS
          44 19 9pm, Channel U Kym Ng hosts this pro- gramme that takes well-known local a faces to foreign i lands with minimal m financial resources I to survive each trip. V Tonight, find out 1 how Life! deputy editor SumikoTan fared in Australia.
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          Lock icon SPIN
          68 19 Bpm, Channel 5 It’s the season finale and our bunch of grads are getting ready for the school prom and the rest of their lives. Ju-Li plans on leaving Australia, MK wants to leave school and work off his debts, and Sky wants to leave Singapore altogether. Will the
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          Lock icon CLEOPATRA
          53 19 10pm, Central This is the 1963 movie that starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. A sprawling and spectacular love story, helmed by Joseph L Mankiewicz, it depicts Cleopatra’s manipulation of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt to save the Egyptian empire. Sterling performances and
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          Lock icon DETECTIVE INVESTIGATION FILES IV
          49 19 10.30 pm, W Drama (Ch 55) The team from Detective Investigation Files is back and viewers can see Sunny Chan, Louis Koo, Jessica Hsuan, Lee Shan Shan and Charmaine Sheh back as a bunch of dogooder cops who solve mysterious crimes and cruel murder cases.
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          Lock icon 12 STOREYS
          92 19 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Watch out for this locally produced movie, set in a HDB estate, which won acclaim at various international film festivals. Director Eric Khoo explores the lives of three households in Block 173: a hawker with a mainland a Chinese wife; a lone-
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      Lock icon Yany gets on with life
      365 20 by CARA van MIRIAH LAST November, she made headlines when she flashed her breasts during a body-art show at Venom Disco. On April 28, she was fined $l,OOO for indecent exposure. Under the glare of publicity once again, Khairani Abdul Khalik, or Yany, as she
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      Lock icon Say a prayer for Jacky
      485 22  -  He charmed audience at Sunday night's Channel U launch show. Jacky Cheung talks candidly about the nose ailment that threatens to affect his singing career by DIANA SER AS the famous Jacky Cheung song My Heart Cuts Like A Knife goes, this must really hurt
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      Lock icon Wriggling lizards They can stomach these
      266 24 TO become a star of tomorrow, first ask what you have to swallow. This, apparently, should be the catchphrase of Hongkong ATV’s variety show, Super Manager, in which each episode attempts to discover the next big thing in showbusiness. In the first episode, contestants
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      Lock icon Singapore food Gigi can't stomach this
      190 25 GIGI Leung would never be able to survive in Hongkong ATV’s variety show, Super Manager. While the star wannabes in the show were bold (or silly) enough to swallow dead mice and live lizards, the singeractress only needed Singapore food to knock her out.
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      Lock icon Unwanted attention
      213 25 Un wanted attention SULTRY Taiwanese actress Shu Qi is truly one charming woman. So much so that French director Leos Carax fell in love or was it i lust? with her at first sight. m The 41-year-old director, known® for his films Boy Meets Girl and Bad Blood and who
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        Lock icon Gombak's Diallo Abdoulaye is a... Quiet achiever
        510 28  -  by TAN KIM HAN HE is only 18, but he is already quietly climbing up the SLeague goalscorers’ chart. And Gombak United’s Diallo Abdoulaye (left), who is the Bulls’ leading scorer with five goals, is only a Prime League player. The left-footed midfielder,
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        Lock icon Sacramento gets... Shaq treatment
        389 29 -AFP LOS ANGELES Shaquille O’Neal was too big an obstacle for the Sacramento Kings to overcome. O’Neal had 44 points and 21 rebounds, and saved the game with the last of his seven blocks, as the Los Angeles Lakers held on for a 108-105 victory over
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        Lock icon New rule could change Nakata's future
        321 29 -AFP TURIN, Italy The Italian football chiefs’ landmark decision on Friday to scrap the limit on non-European Union players, could change AS Roma’s Japanese mid-fielder Hidetoshi Nakata’s (right) future. His first-team opportunities had been limited by previous rules that allowed only three non-EU players
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