Streats, 14 July 2001

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 14 July 2001 Another quality publication of gS* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 135 1 -AP THIS China supporter’s face tells it all. His city Beijing erupted in joy when the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Olympics to the Chinese capital yesterday. An emotionally-charged President Jiang Zemin led the celebrations in Beijing last night. The lOC picked China over rivals
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  • 170 1 morningriii/f -AFP KUALA LUMPUR -South -east Asia’s economic growth is projected to slow down to between 3 and 5 per cent this year but is expected to rebound in 2002, a top official said yesterday. Negative developments in the US and Japan markets this year have
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  • 631 1  -  by CALVIN LOW MAMAS don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys, went the old Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson song. If those country maestros were writing the song in Singapore today, they might well have
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 308 2 A FREE trade agreement (FTA) with the US could boost Singapore’s economic growth by as much as 1.4 percentage points a year, according to a report by UOBKayHian. UOBKayHian economist Tan Kang Yong assumed a
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    • 142 2  -  Samantha Croy Minister to cook for hospice patients as part of Social Services Volunteer Month MR Abdullah Tarmugi, Minister for Community Development and Sports will cook a meal for hospice patients as one of a group of volunteers. His contribution is just one piece of
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    • 238 2 -AFP A US investigation into the Silk Air crash altered crucial data before concluding that the pilot deliberately put the plane into a death plunge, an expert witness alleged yesterday. Denis Howe, a professor at the College of Aeronautics at Britain’s Cranefield University, also
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    • 74 2 morningsmile ON the first day of his job at a multinational company, he dialled the canteen and shouted: "Get me coffee quickly!” The voice from the other side responded: "Do you know who you're talking to, dumbo?” "No,”replied the trainee. "It's the managing director, you fool!"
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    • 355 3  -  reports by ADAM HASHIDY RESPONDING to a shoplifting report led police to 161 unapproved toy guns that look just like the real thing. The chief of the Arms and Explosives Branch, Assistant Superintendent Habhajan Singh, yesterday gave advice on how realistic an
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    • 94 3 onekindact Victor and Cecelia A BIG thank you to Mr Ng, driver of bus No 16. We boarded his bus at Suntec City stop, but only realised that it was not going to our destination, Bedok, after it reached Bast Coast bus terminal. Mr Ng was
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    • 97 3 A 12-YEAR-OLD student was caught shoplifting, but what really caught the attention of police was a pellet gun in his bag. He had already stolen items from a bookshop at East Point Shopping Centre and confessed that he also stole the realistic gun. Police
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    • 139 3 JOBLESS IT professionals, have fun while you try to find a new employer. That’s the aim of The Straits Times Recruit supplement’s first Pink Slip Party, which will be held on July 25 at the BAR nightspot on Robertson Walk. Such parties originated in the US
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    • news scan
      • 92 3  -  -Adam Hashidy A DRIVER, suspected to have been drunk, ran her car up a kerb and killed a man on Thursday night. The 34-year-old woman was driving along Kramat Road heading towards Cavenagh Road at 11.38 pm, police said. At the bend in front of
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      • 93 3 A FIREBUG and vandal had a busy night recently at the Blk 572 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 carpark. At around 3am on Thursday morning, this person, or persons, burnt 18 motorcycles and scratched five cars, including a Mercedes Benz, which had the Chinese character
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      • 115 3  -  -Sonny Phua CAN'T afford to carry on with your environmental research? Well, now maybe you can get back into gear. The Ford Motor Company announced yesterday that they and distributor Regent Motors are offering $55,000 to fund environmental projects in Singapore. Mr Dan Brieschke, Ford’s regional
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      • 63 3 DESPITE having been in and out of jail for 13 years, Mohammad Saifuddin bin Osman, 33, robbed again. On May 23 at 11pm, he and Noriskandar bin Ismail, 29, robbed taxi driver Ong Sim Foo, 57, of more than $4OO at knife point. He was saved
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    • 376 5  -  by SARAH NG THERE is no need for face masks yet. The haze situation is not likely to continue for long or become as bad as the one in 1997, assured the Environment Ministry (ENV) and the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) yesterday.
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    • 84 5 Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia will meet in Jakarta on July 19 to discuss additional assistance for Indonesia. Singapore has been providing satellite pictures of hotspots and fires detected in Sumatra to Indonesian officials since 1997. In the worst scenario, ENV has a Haze Action Plan for
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    • Just a minute
      • 59 5 With Boundary Road and Upper Serangoon Road junction being upgraded into a multi-tier flyover, Services 70 and 103 will be amended to ply along Boundary Road and Yio Chu Kang Road. Service 136, on its return trip, will be extended to U-turn at the Boundary Road junction before
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      • 71 5 Treat yourself to a refreshing evening of comedy with madcap host Najip Ali and TV Works presenter Imran Johri as they bring you Malaysia's premier stand-up comedian, Harith Iskander. His show, Happy Hours, has played to packed houses for the past four years. Six-man a cappella group
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    • 75 5 It's going to be one of those hazy, rainy days, perfect for curling up in bed with a good book. Showers are expected in the late morning and early afternoon over most parts of Singapore. Temperatures will reach a high of33°C. High tide will hit 2.3 m at
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 280 6 -AFP SYDNEY Energy drink Red Bull popular with shiftworkers, sportsmen and partygoers is under investigation over fears it may be linked to three deaths in Sweden. People who mix the drink with alcohol or drink it after strenuous
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    • 122 6 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian consumer pressure group yesterday called for computers to be kept away from young children, saying children would suffer if computers replaced human contact. “We’re calling for a moratorium on the use of computers in early childhood and the lower primary
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    • 239 6 SYDNEY Credit card statements could soon carry warnings just like those on cigarette packets. The messages will caution people about the time it takes to repay their debt if only the minimum payment on the amount due is made. Under the plans, lenders may also
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 6 A train lying on its side yesterday after jumping off the tracks in central Taiwan's Miaoli county. More than 40 passengers were injured in the accident, the cause of which is under investigation by authorities Pic: Reuters
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    • 224 6 -AP CIREBON Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said he would go ahead with his threat to declare a state of emergency unless lawmakers abandoned their drive to impeach him. Speaking at an Islamic boarding school in West Java province, yesterday, he repeated his demand that rival
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    • 373 7 -AFP WASHINGTON Relations between the US and China have improved since the spy plane crisis, a top US official said on Thursday. “I’m happy to report that I think US-China relations are improving tremendously,” US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice said after
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    • 232 7 Reuters South Korea threatens to boycott cultural exchanges over 'distorted' history TOKYO Japan has rejected South Korea’s demand for major changes to a history textbook that critics claim whitewashes Tokyo’s wartime atrocities. “We are not considering making any more revisions,” said deputy foreign ministry spokesman Chikahito
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    • 192 7 Reuters BANGKOK Thailand will not limit work permits for foreigners to the present 160,000 a year. The policy change is aimed at giving protection to nearly a million illegal foreign workers in the country. “I don’t expect 100 per cent success from the new
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    • 141 7 With photo evidence, it will be easier to convict offenders, says municipal chairman SIBU, Sarawak Litterbugs here are going to find it more difficult to get away. The municipal council will use cameras to catch them in the act, said its chairman Robert Lau
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    • 291 9 -AFP PARIS France’s highest court of appeal ruled yesterday that a child bom disabled has the right to financial compensation if the mother did not get the opportunity to abort her pregnancy. The controversial judgment
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    • 196 9 Blackmailed by pair in US county jail -AP CHICAGO -Two men have been charged with running an extortion racket over the telephone from inside an Illinois jail. Prisoners Kenneth Scott, 30, and Mason M Johnson, 21, called victims at random from Cook County Jail until someone agreed to accept a
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    • 42 9 CLOSE TO THE ACTION: A bull running past a fallen man during the seventh bull run of the San Fermin fiesta in Spain's Pamplona yesterday. Hundreds of thousands are taking part in the week-long event Pic: ap PicAP
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    • 112 9 .-AFP PARIS Male smokers’ risk of heart disease quadruples if they have a certain gene, British scientists say. In tests conducted on men aged from 50 to 61, a specific variant of the gene, known as Apo-E4, was found to dramatically boost smoking’s
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      • 82 9 BERLIN A furious driver jumped from his car after a crash and found a dog at the wheel of the other vehicle, The Mirror reported yesterday. Police officers worked out that the dog had released the handbrake when it jumped from the back seat into the
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      • 106 9 QUEBEC CITY An elderly man was recovering from a savage attack by his pet cat, which drew four carloads of police, two ambulances and an animal control officer. Mr Gerard Daigle, 80, lost a pint of blood and needed stitches after his catTouti, which means Tiny, launched a
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      • 95 9 GRANADA Spanish police were sent in circles when they found what they thought was the body of an abandoned two-month-old foetus in the street. They sent it for a post-mortem while they made investigations to find the mother, Ananova online news reported. While police called
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    • 31 9 Swearwords, half-naked bodies, killings. Will local movie A Sharp Pencil, starring Mark Richmond, 1800- Beatrice Chia and Lim Kay Tong, get past the censors? 7MB I WTfiW e-mail us at tnp@sph.com.sg
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    • 295 10 WASHINGTON Missing intern I Chandra Levy was jl| expecting the I I child of her ConIJ gressman lover, I Mr Gary Condit, y according to the National Inquirer magazine. Ms Levy, 24, who had worked as an intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was
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    • 244 10 Reuters BANGKOK Think you fit the bill? Then maybe you could try your luck. State-owned airline Thai Airways is seeking a person with the criteria at right to act as company president, according to an advertisement in the Bangkok Post
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    • 246 10 LONDON She is a lesbian. Her age? Fifty-one. But this infertile American woman was desperate to become a mum. Six months ago, her wish came true thanks to science and her brother. Who is also the father of her bundle of joy. Shocked? But that
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    • 189 10 Reuters CHAMPAGNE-MOUTON, France American ex-hippie guru Ira Einhorn has left hospital after cutting his throat to avoid extradition to the US to face trial for murder, hospital officials said yesterday. They said Einhorn, 61, was discharged from hospital late on Thursday. A Reuters photographer at
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    • 574 11  -  Can this old favourite rise from the ashes to make an impact on local TV viewers once more? by by Yvonne Kwok FRESH faces, viable talent these seem to be the aim of the two rival English channels here. TV Works has The Big Break. Now
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    • 313 11 ONE person who is looking forward to the return of Talentime is veteran local performer and club operator, Kuo Po, a finalist in 1984’s event. Although she wasn’t placed, the former assistant general manager of Europa Holdings, said that the experience was beneficial. “For some
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    • channel scan
      • Must-see TV...
        • 34 12 Saturday, 7pm, Channel U The stars learn to dress Lup and present their best side. Watch them [compete in another round of challenges 'where they make themselves stand out 'like celebrities.
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        • 25 12 Saturday, 9.30 pm, Channel U Students from the NUS Engineering Club Polytechnic take on the challenge of setting up dominoes within 72 hours.
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        • 70 12 Saturday, 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) Orphan mouse Stuart (voiced by Michael J Fox) searching for love and a place to call home finds it in a mansion on Fifth Avenue. Picked out of a list of candidates for adoption by Mr and Mrs Little (Hugh Laurie and Academy
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          72 12 Sunday, 9pm, STAR Movies (SCV 58) The desire to find something real and connect with something or someone is what drives Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), an American backpacker who arrives in Thailand with adventure on his JO- He hears of a f remote island par- i adise, and sets
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    • 168 12 MOVE over Sammi Cheng. Here comes local singing queen Stefanie Sun. The singer’s sophomore album, My Desired Happiness, led the top 10 Mandarin record charts of CD Rama, HMV, Music Junction and Sembawang Music for the first half of this year. Hongkong heavenly queen Sammi
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    • 230 12 IN a blatant show of defiance to the thugs who bashed him up, Hongkong actor Eric Tsang has decided that he will attend the upcoming Miss Hongkong beauty pageant tomorrow. The actor apparently was told by the attackers who thrashed him at a pub last Friday
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    • 212 12 LOS ANGELES A former Who Wants to Be A Millionaire contestant filed a suit on Tuesday against the show’s producers and ABC network. He was disputing a US$l6,OOO ($29,000) question that he was told he answered incorrectly, reported Hollywood Online. Richard Rosner claimed that the answer to the
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    • Article, Illustration
      162 12 SCREEN legend Marlon Brando has shocked the cast and crew of his latest film, The Score, with his bizarre and unpredictable behaviour, reported People News. The 77-year-old, who plays a homosexual criminal planning the biggest heist of his career, repeatedly clashed with director, Frank Oz, the former Muppets
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    • 737 13 Will movies like Shrek and Final Fantasy spell the end of mega-bucks flesh-and-blood stars? -AP LOS ANGELES Actress Aki Ross does not exist, but her movie career is blossoming. The computerised 27-year-old stars in sci-fi adventure Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the first feature-length film
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    • 193 14 PEARL Harbor had its world premiere on the USS John C Stennis, a nuclear aircraft carrier. And now Jackie Chan’s Rush Hour 2 is set to top it. How far will it go? As high as the sky, it seems. The sequel to
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    • 177 14 CATE Blanchett is slated to star in a movie based on Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace. Working Title Films has bought the rights to book specifically with Blanchett in mind. The project is based on the true story of 16-year-old housemaid Grace Marks who was tried
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    • 121 14 WANT to know what Kokomi Kimura, the daughter of J-pop kingTakuya Kimura and singer-actress Shizuka Kudo, looks like? Shizuka, who’s ready to start work after the birth of her daughter two months ago, is considering exhibiting two paintings in Japan next month. The subject of her
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 317 15 -AP COPA AMERICA Brazil 0 Mexico 1 nil CALI, Colombia The nightmare never seems to end for Brazil. The four-time World Cup champion was unrecognisable in a 1-0 loss to Mexico on Thursday as it opened its title defence in the Copa America Championship. Going into the
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      • 399 15  -  by TAN KIM HAN FROM sorrow to joy. That more or less sums up Gombak United Surachai Jatturapattarapong’s emotional passage in the SLeague this season. First, he hurt his knee horrendously in a pre-season training session and had to spend countless hours on the
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      • 70 15 OLYMPICS -AP MOSCOW Just days before he steps down after 21 years as lOC president, Juan Antonio Samaranch was made honorary life president of the organisation. At the opening of the 112th lOC general assembly yesterday, Samaranch was also awarded the gold Olympic order the lOC’s
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      • 55 15 •ATHLETICS SINGAPORE sprinter Mohamed Shameer Ayub chalked a personal best of 10.66 seconds in the 100-metre heats at the 2nd Westel World Youth Athletic Championships in Hungary on Thursday. But he missed out on the finals, clocking 10.78 sec in the semi-finals. Overall, he was placed
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      • 103 15 •CYCLING Reuters BAR-LE-DUC, France American Lance Armstrong lost ground on two of his main Tour de France rivals on Thursday as two US Postal riders fell in a team time trial on a slippery 67kilometre course from Verdun to Bar-le-Duc. Armstrong is now in 15th place
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      • 608 18  -  by LIM HAN MING I'M a Liverpool fan who has never been to Anfield. Selhurst Park, home to Wimbledon FC in London, was the closest I have come to the Reds’ home ground. That was two years ago, when I watched a Premiership game between
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      • 201 18 PIN-UP boy David Beckham will be in Singapore. So, too, the other glamour boys of Manchester United such as Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Jaap Stam and Fabien Barthez. All, except the newly signed Juan Sebastian Veron of Argentina,
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      • 460 19  -  by 'TAN KIM HAN NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Sembawang 1 Geylang United 1 IT was a match Geylang United was widely tipped to win. But it did not. In the end, it had to settle for a 1-1 draw, which was enough to send the Eagles
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      • 208 19 AFTER nearly a month of waiting, Brazilian Alex Miranda (left) has finally received his international transfer certificate (ITC). But the Tampines Rovers attacking mid- fielder is not likely to be in the travelling party for today’s S-League match against Home United at Bishan
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    • 74 12 QJ Every week photographers from Streats will wander all over Singapore Bf to catch you reading the paper. The reader's picture will be published each Saturday. And if it is your picture, you will win a limited edition Streats watch. But you must call 1-800-844-5566 and give us your name,
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 482 13 Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Qmtm MAY 21 JUN 21 LIBRA SEP 23 OCT 22 Today you are haunted by the ghost of something you’d rather forget. Perhaps the scent of change in the air disturbs you into reaching backward. The past seems
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    • 110 14 N) 'T-n «tn; ;:;s urm f S I i/C WIN! n A one-year London Research Centre spa membership worth $2,000. Hurry, from July 9-14, there's one winner every day! There are differences between the pictures. Q)Four (2) Seven Nine Call 1 900-9 TI-0005 by midnight tonight with your answer. ®in
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 65 15 Inthelivingroom GOLF: European PGA Tour: Scottish Open at Loch Lomond, Day 3 (Super Sports Ch2o, 9pm). MOTOR RACING: Formula One: Great Britain Grand Prix, Qualifying (Ch24,Bpm). RUGBY: Rugby Union International, 3rd Test: Australia v British Lions (Star Sports Ch24,spm). SOCCER: NTUC Income S-League: Home United v Tampines Rovers (City TV,
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    • 183 16 GIORDANO Moon, i t upm Moulin Rouge 10.30 am, 1.15 pm, 6.45, 9.30 Final Fantasy 11.15 am, 1.30 pm, 4, 6.30, 8.45,12.15 am Evolution 10am, 4.40 pm, 7 Swordfish 9.20 pm, 11.35 Crocodile Dundee in LA 10.30 am, 12.40 pm, 2.50, 5.05, 7.15, 9.25, midnight Jurassic Park 3 3.30 pm,
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    • 1668 16 El Bug is [.--lIUJ UA Bugis Junction 337-9655 Final Fantasy 11am, 1.30 pm, 4.30, 6.45, 9,12.05 am Moulin Rouge 11am, 3.45 pm, 6.30, 9.15 Crocodile Dundee In LA 12.30 pm, 2.45, 5, 7.15, 9.30,11.45 Jurassic Park 3 2.15 pm, 11.15 UA Beach Road 391-2550 Final Fantasy 12.30 pm, 4:45,7, 9.15,11.30
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    • 85 17 BECKS ***** 1. i s.** i '-w <O- »o W m w. <■ MfiTi b:U'i Ml .i JT MANCHESTER UNITED i i VEE ETmiTk Lll >l l u JULY 22 JULY 24 JULY 29 VOUHf» $l2 fi*rr^3 Who will do best against the bestP You choose. Will it be Malaysia,
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    • 123 18 Call us and win prizes Can you name the 11 players to start for Liverpool against Team Singapore on Monday? If you can, call 1900-911-0005 and key in the players'jersey numbers (given above), starting from the smallest number. Each call costs 20 cents. Contest deadline is on July 15 (midnight).
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    • 143 19 A WIN personally autographed Liverpool shirts! Reebok is giving away 6 authentic red Liverpool team shirts: Michael Owen No 10 shirts personally autographed by Michael himself mmmßnmmßĔm fir Robbie Fowler No 9 shirts personally autographed by Robbie himself League Cup shirt autographed by the whole team WHAT TO DO To
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