Streats, 25 May 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 25 May 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 218 1 LONDON A Briton has won £500,000 ($1.27 million) thanks to a 30 pence (75cent) bet and Bayern Munich’s win in the Champions League final. The anonymous punter, in his 50s, staked his 15-event wager at record odds of 1,666,666-1 last August. Fourteen
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  • 406 1  -  Health ministry to revise danger and safe levels by SARAH NG JUST when you thought it was safe to tuck into your weekly ration of chao guo tiao, along comes news that your cholesterol isn’t as low as you thought. Think you’re safe at below 200 mg
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    • 52 1 m GSB for the Great Singapore Sale The Great Singapore Sale starts today. And Streats' contribution to the Great Singapore past-time will be to put some GSB into the GSS, Check out Just One Minute every day for the Great Singapore Bargain, where we highlight one great deal daily. SEE
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 420 2 YOU can’t take justice into your own hands and settle a serious crime privately by paying the victim some money as compensation, said the Chief Justice yesterday. Even if the victim agrees to settle the case out of
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    • 224 2  -  by STEPHANIE GOH A SPRIGHTLY great-grandmother of four was killed after being hit by a car on Wednesday. At about 7.40 am, 72-year-old Ara Yacob, a part-time cleaner at Mjd Ba’alwie, was walking across the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Kheam Hock Road and
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    • 88 2 morningsmile Horse walks into a bar, orders a beer, sits down and starts reading his paper. The bartender is a bit shocked by all this, but brings a beer over to the horse, who proffers a $lO bill. The barman figures the horse isn't that bright, so he
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    • Case steps up pressure
      • 243 3  -  by SARAH NG THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) will step up its drive for a task force to study the effects of handphone radiation. This move comes in the wake of a US Congress report which concluded that until current long-term studies offer
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      • 251 3  -  by EDWIN KOO FIRST higher petrol prices. Now higher movie prices. You might have wondered whether a cartel is controlling cinema ticket prices after witnessing the 50-cent hike by the four major players Shaw, Golden Village, Eng Wah and United Artists. Ticket prices
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    • 96 3 onekindact. Rukiah Hassan MY sister had a fit as we travelled on bus No IOS after boarding at IMM last month. The driver wanted to call an ambulance. Two gentlemen came to our aid and my sister recovered. There were plenty of other people on
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    • 280 3 A YOUTH punched a 46-year-old woman and then attacked an offduty policeman who chased and caught up with him. On Wednesday, at about 5.30 am, the 17-year-old approached factory worker Ms Luo Shufang as she went to wait for her company bus on the main road
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    • 192 3  -  by] ZUBAIDAH NAZEER PROPERTY agent Bok Thye Huat tampered with a cheque to get 10 times its value. Then he helped himself to extra commission when he was confronted and had to give a refund. A court heard yesterday that 48-year-old Bok had added an
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    • 293 4 A CONCERNED colleague who went to check on an expat who reported sick found that he had disappeared. And not only that, but also missing is $63,500 from the college’s cooperative society funds where the expat was
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    • 298 4  -  by, ZUBAIDAH NAZEER Police traced robbers through call one made to girlfriend HE stole a handphone and threw the SIM card away so he couldn’t be traced. But he was. Because he called his girlfriend first. Apparently driven by boredom, Muhammad Qadrin bin Abdullah,
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    • 162 4  -  by f KAREN CHEN Underwear thief terrorised Jurong West block for a year A POLYTECHNIC student, thought to be the underwear thief who has terrorised the residents of Block 681 C Jurong West Central 1 for a year, was detained by police on Monday. The 19-year-old allegedly
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    • 364 7  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM TODAY sees the start of the Singapore’s biggest shopping extravanganza. Yes, the Great Singapore Sale is back and you can look forward to six whole weeks of frenzied shopping with prizes slashed up to more than 70 per cent at hundreds
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    • 115 7 Starting tomorrow for six whole weeks till July 8, you can stop window-shopping and start serious shopping because the Great Singapore Sale is back for the eight year. There are discounts at over 5,000 different outlets and you will get more than you bargained for with
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    • 66 7 Our weather girl s ays Those staying or working in the northern and central areas will have to watch out for the showers in the late morning and early afternoon. Temperatures will range between 26 and 33°C, and the tide will hit 2.6 m at 1.26 pm. j ThePSlisata healthy
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    • Just a minute
      • 74 7 Senior citizens and housewives in the lower-income group in the north-east district can now pick up IT skills from as low as $5. Located at Block 943, Tampines Avenue 5, the training centre set up by the North East CDC offers a range of one-day courses, each lasting
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      • 55 7 Check out this Great S'pore Bargain The Great Singapore Sale is here again! Get Nike Play 400 series footwear exclusively at eWorldofsports outlets at two for $89.99 during this period. There are 22 different styled shoes for basketfall, tennis, running and cross training to choose from, where it can cost
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  • Streatsmart interchange
    • 339 5 I AM personally deeply concerned about Yvonne Kwok’s handling of the subject in her article (“Ruse or abuse of privilege”, May 24). In large, bold font her article is headlined “Ruse or abuse of privilege?”. The last I heard, Singapore was still a democracy, wherein freedom and entitlement
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    • 61 5 NO, he did not abuse a privilege. I think we Singaporeans sometimes take things too seriously. Life is short... and we should enjoy every moment of it. And yes, Kumar is pretty... I don’t deny it... although I’m a woman myself. So my advice to Kumar
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    • 90 5 THE extreme audacity clearly shows a blatant disregard for and an intention to make a mockery of Singapore’s political system, not just Speakers’ Corner. To make matters worse, he was dressed as a woman while using a political forum to talk nonsense. While Kumar may end
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    • 36 5 haveyoursay Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email us at j streats@sphxom.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. You should include your name, address and contact number.
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 682 6  -  hittnestrTets with Diana Ser LATELY, some people have been seeing red over green the lack of it, that is. Since it was announced two weeks ago that the 56-ha site at the old Turf Club will undergo a $2O million facelift and metamorphose into yet another
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  • a smart regional
    • 404 8 -Wire services PUTRAJAYA He knew what he was going to say. They knew that what he was going to say was not what they wished to hear. Yet, three opposition leaders Parti SeMalaysia Islam (PAS) leader Fadzil Noor, Keadilan’s
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    • 131 8 Reuters JAKARTA Westlife fans thronged the Irish boy band’s concert here yesterday, not letting the heavy police presence dampen their spirits. Organisers said over 2,000 security personnel guarded the 15,000-seat concert stadium to prevent a repeat of the March stampede in which four people were
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    • 275 9 BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra thinks the service on Thai Airways International “sucks”, and he’s happy when its flights are fully booked so he has the excuse to use a different airline. Dr Thaksin let rip at the national
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    • 64 9 webdtes The latest breed of tourist is called the "infiltrators'! They are a growing movement of urban explorers, adventurers who go where they are not supposed to and document their experiences online. One such site is infiltration.org, where the practice and risk of urban exploration
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    • 95 9 -AFP SEOUL China and South Korea will unite against Japan over the wording of a textbook which they claim whitewashes Japanese wartime atrocities. Chinese senior leader Li Peng and South Korean National Assembly Speaker Lee Man Sup yesterday agreed to work together
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    • 258 11 Reuters Beijing accepts Washington's proposal BEIJING The US spy plane stranded on China’s Hainan Island will be dismantled and shipped out in pieces. China’s Foreign Ministry yesterday said that it had accepted the US proposal. “The
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    • 125 11 Reuters WELLINGTON-A New Zealand beauty queen has offered to hand back her crown after pictures of her cavorting nude at an Australian sex exhibition were published on the Internet. Karlena Cornell, Miss Horowhenua, took part in an amateur strip contest at the Sexpo exhibition
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    • 182 11 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malay men could be missing out in the marriage market because they are not as well educated as the women. Johor state chief minister Abdul Ghani Othman has ordered his officials to study why only 30 per
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    • 197 12 -AFP BEIJING The Gus Dur saga continues, without an end in sight. Mr Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday urgently recalled close confidant and Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab from a Beijing trip. Mr Alwi, in the Chinese capital to attend a meeting of Asian
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    • 319 12 -AFP MANILA -There is no secret deal to give special treatment, or even a pardon, to former president Joseph Estrada, Mrs Gloria Arroyo’s spokesman said yesterday. Her supporters have denounced the government’s decision to build a bungalow for the former president at a
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    • 32 12 knowornot Capuchin monkeys in Venezuela know that millipedes, a 4-inch-long insect, secrete a natural mosquito repellent The monkeys massage the insects into their fur, covering themselves with the repellent
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    • 281 13 -AFP HONGKONG Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji told a highlevel Hongkong delegation to China’s western region that those who invest there could become the territory’s richest people. Chief secretary DonaldTsang is heading a 282-member group, including 18 senior government officials and 71 heads
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    • 111 13 -AFP TOKYO China executes more people than the rest of the world combined. While the total number of executions remains a state secret, Amnesty International recorded at least 1,263 executions in 1999 and 2,088 death sentences that year. In response to a dramatic rise in
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    • 78 13 -AFP WASHINGTON Northwestern parts of China are turning into desert, creating huge dust storms that cloud the sky in east Asia and even reach the US. Official estimates show 2,330 sq km of land going to desert in the provinces of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Quinghai,
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    • 94 8 111 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Law Degrees Sc Diplomas 6 da left to take advantage of our 54th Anniversary celebration offer to mark our founding year 1947, and pay an incredibly low $1947 fees for our Law degree and diploma courses. SIC is the largest private Law School in Singapore offering
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  • Streatsmart global
    • weird world
      • 67 15 Reuters SYDNEY “There’s a crocodile under my house” and 13-year-old Faith Williams wasn’t kidding. When she went to check on her barking dogs, she saw the tail of a three metre saltwater crocodile sticking out from under her house in Darwin in the Northern Territory. A
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      • 106 15 JAKARTA -Thousands of people have been filling a small street in central Jakarta, hoping for a glimpse of Jesus. Residents said the images first appeared in the home of a Muslim man married to a Christian, reported CBN.com. Two weeks later, new reports flooded in
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      • 76 15 -AP BENSALEM, Pennsylvania Tic, Tac and Toe, three chickens that travel America’s statefair circuit playing tic-tac-toe against humans have been missing for a week and a half after they were apparently removed from their cages at the Pennsylvania Fair in suburban Philadelphia. The chickens draw long
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      • 76 15 -AFP SYDNEY Rugby league players have only a remote chance of contracting HIV from bloodied shirts, the Australian national rugby league’s head doctor said yesterday. Dr Hugh Hazard said players stood more risk of contracting the virus in private rather than during matches. He said
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      • 101 15 LONDON Fruit and vegetables are good for you, but apples and tomatoes are even better. Researchers from Nottingham University quizzed 2,633 adults who had lung problems, reported BBC News Online. They found people who had the greatest lung capacity were those who ate more than five
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    • 284 15 -AP Wire services WASHINGTON President George W Bush extended a carefully measured welcome to the Dalai Lama on Wednesday despite complaints from China. Mr Bush said he supported the Buddhist leader’s efforts to begin talks with Chinese leaders about preserving Tibet’s religious and
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    • 162 15 LONDON Mountain biking causes serious and potentially fatal injuries, according to a BBC Online report yesterday. Doctors from the trauma unit at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in western England studied data on over 80 injured bikers. Head and neck fractures, long bone fractures and rupture
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    • 272 16 Reuters, AP BURLINGTON, Vermont Senator James Jeffords has delivered a big blow to President George W Bush’s Republican Party. Announcing his decision from his home state of Vermont, the moderate Senator said: “In order to best represent my state of Vermont,
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    • 38 16 A shopping trolley of the future that makes the U-turn in the aisle a hassle no more. Designed by students in England, a prototype of the trolley was released by supermarket chain Safeway yesterday Pic:AP
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    • 136 16 -Wire services THE defection of Senator Jeffords will have a big impact on President Bush’s ability to push through his agenda. Once in power, Democrats would set the legislative agenda in the Senate. Several analysts predict that a major casualty could be plans for the
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    • 249 17 -AFP Kathmandu a 15-year-old schoolboy, who last year lost three fingers on a failed mission to conquer Mount Everest, has become the youngest person to reach the world’s highest peak. Temba Tsheri, a Nepalese high school student, reached the
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    • 174 17 London Books are better than computers at helping schoolchildren to pass tests, research has suggested. Children attending schools which had invested in good computing resources did show an improvement in national SATS tests for 11-year-olds, BBC Online reported yesterday. But the link between spending on books
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    • 134 17 -AP WASHINGTON Corrections officers strip-searched five Washington DC middle school students last week on a jail visit arranged by two teachers who wanted to show a group of misbehaving children what would happen if they got arrested, The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. The decision
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    • 452 16 Ringtones It’s a heartache ***** I will love you all my life Let’s twist again California dreaming Mamma mia Money money money My way Only you Red red wine Pretty woman Staying alive Sugar sugar The great pretender I saw him standing there Amazed Can’t help falling love ***** Endless
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 186 19 THE co-founder of Singapore technology start up company elipva has been sacked after being exposed as a fraud who made up most of the credentials that won him international respect. Dennis Lee had claimed to be one of the world’s leading artificial-intelligence
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    • 207 19 -AFP LONDON Ffion Hague is blond, beautiful and seldom speaks. The Dream Wife, right? And Britain’s Conservative Party chief William Hague feels lucky to be married to her. And that’s why he won’t use her as an “asset” to win votes. Mr Hague
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    • 203 19 A recent letter to Straits Times'Forum page complained that voice mail is a waste of time and lack the human touch. Just 1 one question. It should not be banned. At least, there is a chance the person might get back to you. RosalynUm,
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  • easy STREATS
    • 456 22  -  by DIANA SER LAST WEEK, Andrea De Cruz, the former Showbuzz host and star of Making Love gave up her independence and joined Media Corp. Now, Celeste Chong, formerly managed by actress Irene Ang’s Fly Entertainment, is rumoured to be considering offers from both
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    • 221 22 GOLDEN handcuffs. A bidding war. A premium on talent. These are the new buzzwords in the TV industry. Last year, rumours were rife that ZoeTay, the Queen of Caldecott Hill, was offered a hefty pay rise to continue her reign there. With competition, the actors’lot will
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    • Stephanie @ the movies
      • 423 23 The Mummy Returns Directed by Stephen Sommers Starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, The Rock, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo What it's about: Handsome couple kicks Mummy's ass to get back naughty son who's been kidnapped to Egypt WHEN was the last time you actually saw
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      • 303 25 Pure schtick or effortlessly slick? What are the I reviewers'and moviegoers'verdict on The Mummy Returns? Read 0n... Reviewers' takes With its splashy gazillion-dollar special effects and resolutely upbeat mood, this is just the movie to bring out the kid in you. Turn your nose up at that last
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      • Reelity bites
        • 136 25 THE Mummy Returns might be registering enviable ratings worldwide, but ChowYun Fat is not impressed. He turned down the role of the villain in The Scorpion King the prequel to the blockbuster The Mummy Returns opposite Dwayne Johnson, aka WWF wrestler The Rock. According
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        • Article, Illustration
          168 25 LOOKS like the superheroines will be giving Spider Man and his superhero pals a run for their money. Fans of Wonder Woman (played unforgettably by Lynda Carter in the 70s hit TV series) will be glad to know that a feature version is in the pipeline. According to
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        • 84 25 STEVEN Spielberg might not be directing any more Jurassics, but he’s still keen to produce the mammoth hits. According to New York Daily News columnist Eric Mink, Steven Spielberg is planning to produce a Jurassic Park IV. It will be directed by Joe Johnston, like Jurassic Park
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    • 231 26 NOT content with getting the star wannabes on their show to down baby mice, lizards, and worms, ATV’s Super Manager decided to promote their show by getting the average man in the street to eat grasshoppers too. Their bevy of potential starlets dressed skimpily in revealing
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    • 161 26 JULIAN Cheung may be all lovey-dovey with girlfriend Anita Yuen in real life, but he’s dead set against carrying their relationship on screen. Well-known Taiwanese producer Yang Peipei wanted to cast the couple in her latest drama serial, Guan Chang Cha Ban Sheng (loosely
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    • 124 26 HONGKONG singer-actor Edison Chen is one confident lad. At a press conference in Shanghai on Wednesday to promote his new shampoo ad, the 20-year-old announced that he would be retiring at 32. “I think that’s the best time to retire, as everyone will then
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    • 351 28  - All star show from U by DIANA SER THE folks at Channel U are a hardworking bunch. You see them Bryan Wong, Kym Ng, Guo Liang and Quan I Yifeng a few times a week. Starting this Sunday, you will get to see them all on U’s first ‘live’ variety
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 82 28 Bpm, TV Works Passengers of a tugboat take refuge in a supposedly abandoned Russian research vessel to wait out a storm in the middle of the Atlantic. Little do they know that the crew has been killed by an alien life form which looks at humans as a virus
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        • 80 28 11 pm, TV Works Hooray for David Boreanz! Finally, Singaporeans get to watch the moody good-looker in his own series, which is, if you’re a Buffy fan you’ll know this already, a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Reprising his role as the vampire with a conscience, Angel left
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        • 60 28 10.30 pm, Channel U About Romance is one of the top 10 variety programmes on CTV (Taiwan). Since it was first telecast, it has attracted many people to participate and become the talk of town. Hosted by popular comperes Hu Gua and Gao Yiping, the programme is innovative
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    • 176 31  -  mime. two shoes by Wileen Chang PrimaDelihas a treat in store for durian lovers IF you are a durian fan, then you are familiar with D 24. Unlike other durians, D 24 is revered for its creamy, bittersweet, succulent and smooth textured flesh. And now thanks
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    • 154 31 Swensen has a special offer going AS a kid, my school holidays were incomplete without a trip to Swensen’s. So, for next month’s school break, why not treat your kids to Swensen’s Summer Sensations. For $14.90, the Summer Sensations Meals come with soup-of-the-day, a choice of
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 467 35 -AP LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Lakers is 24-5 since Derek Fisher (below) returned to the team after missing the first 62 games with a stress fracture in his right foot. It carries a 17-game winning streak into Game 3
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      • 122 35 -AFP NEW YORK The Philadelphia 76ers completed an unprecedented sweep of the National Basketball Association’s four major awards on Wednesday when Larry Brown was named the league’s Coach of the Year. Allen Iverson earlier won NBA Most Valuable Player honours, while Aaron McKie was
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      • 530 36 LONDON David Beckham (left) will wait until Alex Ferguson’s replacement is named before committing himself to a new contract at Manchester United. The 26-year-old England captain said on Wednesday night that he does not expect to sign an extension
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      • SOCCER
        • 96 36 Reuters MANCHESTER Kevin Keegan has been appointed as the new manager of Manchester City, the English first division club said yesterday. The former England coach will sign a five-year contract. Said City chairman David Bernstein: “I am delighted we have been able to bring Kevin
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        • 83 36 -AFP HONGKONG Forty people were arrested in the latest crackdown on illegal football gambling in Hongkong, police said yesterday. Police raided 87 venues across the territory on Wednesday night and yesterday morning. They focused mainly on entertainment premises, seizing betting slips worth HK$4.l5 million ($950,000) and
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      • 108 36 •golf -AP VIRGINIA WATER, England -Vijay Singh, who spent six years in Europe before finding fame in the US as a PGA and Masters champion, was awarded honorary lifetime membership on Wednesday on the European tour. Vijay, who toiled as a teaching pro in Borneo
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      • 533 37  -  by' TAN KIM HAN Woodlands 2 SAFFCI HIS team lost the second match in a row. But the frown on Fandi Ahmad’s face is not getting deeper. The Singapore Armed Forces FC coach saw his Warriors lose a onegoal cushion and eventually
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      • 345 37  -  by LIM HAN MING GLENN Hoddle and John Gorman (below) are just inseparable. If you look at Premiership, there isn’t a closer managerial bond than the Tottenham Hotspur duo. Together, they have weathered many storms in their managerial careers. The only time they worked
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      • 110 38 -AFP MILAN Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld sounded a new rallying call to his victorious troops, urging it to raise its sights from European competition and target world domination. Hitzfeld was not going to rest on his laurels after the Champions League win. Asked how he
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      • 115 38 Reuters MUNICH -Tens of thousands of Bayern Munich fans (above) packed the team’s hometown in the early hours of yesterday to celebrate victory. Sounding their car horns, chanting football slogans and singing songs like “We are the champions”, Bayern fans let off fireworks, packed bars in
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      • 151 38 Wire services MILAN Bayern Munich vice-president KarlHeinz Rummenigge basked in the glory of his side’s win, and said that the penalty shoot-out finish was worthy of a Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The former Bayern Munich and German international striker led a chorus of praise for goalkeeper
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      • 92 38 -Reuters MILAN French international Bixente Lizarazu completed a rare hat-trick after starring in Bayern Munich’s victory. The little left wingback became the first player in 25 years to hold winners’ medals for the World Cup, European championship, and European Cup at the same time. Lizarazu won the
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      • 546 39 Reuters MILAN Goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, Bayern Munich’s hero after saving three penalties against Valencia, said that he felt under huge pressure in the shootout. He said: “The pressure was unbelievable. I can’t explain it, but I think it was a combination of luck,
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      • 368 39 -AFP MILAN -Valencia’s disciplinarian Argentinian coach Hector Cuper showed his soft side on Wednesday night after the defeat he gave them two hours to get over it. Philosophised the Latin American: “Football is like life. “Sometimes you hit the bottom, but you have to find the moral
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