Streats, 28 July 2001

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  • Title Section
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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 28 July 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Feedback Unit: S'poreans embrace the New Economy Swim or sink
    481 1  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH YOU'VE been urged often enough to embrace the New Economy. And you seem to have heard the Message loud and clear, going by the findings of a straw poll of 600 people by the Feedback Unit recently.
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon NTUC rebates stay
      94 1 THE NTUC Co-operative Board will recommend that the member rebate and dividend for the past financial year be maintained at 5 per cent each despite lower profits. The proposed rebate would work out at $2B million and the dividend $8 million. Chairman S Chandra Das said that
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    Lock icon Lonely cowboys, pushy mates, jilted suitors
    294 1 -AFP HANOI US Secretary of State Colin Eowell wooed Japan’s foreign minister. > Australian Foreign Minister Alexander downer took a dig at Malaysia. And Indian team leader K C Pant broke into a cheeky song for not being a member of the Asean Plus
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Proposed fourth university New university will be different
      313 2 SINGAPORE'S fourth university should have a different mission and structure from the three existing ones. The Committee to Review Upgrading Opportunities at Degree Level, chaired by Mr Peter Chen, Senior Minister of State (Education), recommended that the new university develop its own
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    • Article
      Lock icon S'pore aims to be global SME hub
      229 2 TO strengthen Singapore as an attractive global small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) hub, the partner Singapore programme has been launched. “Our objective is to position Singapore as the preferred destination for SMEs that are keen to tap the business opportunities in the Asia
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      Lock icon Wings and nests
      170 2 Singaporean youths must have wings and yet know where their nest is. Our youths today are well brought up and have the benefit of a good education. They enjoy the fruits of Singapore's peace and prosperity; and abundant opportunities. But they have not been exposed to the
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      Lock icon Nurses get shot in the arm
      186 2 Three new grades to be introduced NURSES will take over some work done by junior doctors and boost their careers without having to turn to teaching. A new clinical career track for nurses, announced by Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday, will let senior
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    • Article
      Lock icon Work stress
      66 2 morningsmile A MAN goes to see his supervisor in the front office. "Boss,"he says, "we're doing some heavy house-cleaning at home tomorrow and my wife needs me to help with the attic and the garage, moving and hauling stuff." "We're short-handed," the boss replies. "I can't give you
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      Lock icon Lesson on personality and style Thumbs up for Thumbs Up!
      350 3  -  by ADAM HASHIDY SHE was meek and shy. Till she discovered that she actually has a dominant personality in a test. As a result, 15-year-old Hong Li Ling, a student at Siglap Secondary School, became more confident and vocal, all
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      Lock icon Plan your bus ride the e-asy way
      208 3  -  by 'WINSTON CHONG the next time you plan to visit that a unt living on the other end of the ’§land, all you’ll need is her address to let the revamped SBS website do the re st of the work for you. Besides
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      97 3 Guys, here's a tip. Late morning and early afternoon will be a great time for a date as there will be thunderstorms over many areas, and you can show your thoughtfulness by having an umbrella ready for her. Better still, share the umbrella with her and
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        75 3 In a knowledge-based economy, the ability to retain and recall information quickly and effectively has become an important ingredient for success. Join Mr Lim Choon 800, deputy director for the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Centre for Quality and Innovation, as he talks about mind-mapping and the ability to
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        Lock icon Today...
        44 3 Due to the National Day Parade Preview, Stadium Road and Stadium Boulevard will be closed and SBS service 16 will be diverted to Mountbatten Road and Nicoll Highway between 2.45 pm and 10pm. Service 11 will also cease to run during that time.
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        70 3 To promote awareness, acceptance and respect of Singapore's different racial groups, Central Singapore CDC and five self-help groups are organising a Racial Harmony Day Carnival today. Look out for a play based on Singapore's history and a mini-fair on the customs and practices of the various ethnic
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    • Article
      Lock icon False marriage certificate discovered after 23 years Forgery got her an HDB love nest
      285 5  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM ADMINISTRATION clerk Lee Chin Phong, 54, was found out more than two decades after she forged a marriage certificate that enabled her to get a love nest with her married boyfriend. In November 1978,
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      Lock icon He fought with girlfriend, took woman hostage
      273 5  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam A 26-YEAR-OLD hawker, who held a woman at knifepoint at a shopping mall in Hougang for almost one hour on April 28, was yesterday jailed for nine months. Kingsly Chia Kok Cheng held Madam Anna Lim, 29, hostage at the Cupid
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      Lock icon Wheeler-dealers
      233 5  -  by KAREN CHEN HIDE your cashcards, laptops and cameras if you leave them in the car and remove the wheels. No, you wouldn’t think of that, would you? But thieves did. Mr Liu Delong, 25, was informed by police early yesterday morning that he had become the owner of
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    • Article
      Lock icon Patient passengers
      61 5 onekindact. Michael Lee I WANT to thank everyone who gives up their seat on the MRT to my wife when she fetches our two children home. She and the children board the train at Newton Station bound for Woodlands. I am also grateful to passengers who are so
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      Lock icon Valuables taken from two cars
      129 5  -  Karen Chen ON Wednesday at 4.10 pm, a 27-year-old driver parked his car along Jalan Berseh and went to a nearby food centre. Fifteen minutes later, he returned to find marks that indicated a forced entry on the driver’s door lock. His $2,000 Compaq notebook
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  • Streatsmart interchange
    • Little gain from Man U visit, wrote Streats' Peter Siow on Thursday
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        Lock icon He was right
        226 4 Deliberate humiliation I'M not a football fan, but after reading a lot of articles about Liverpool and Man U, I think Man U came here to make Singapore look like fools. Firstly, they fielded Barthez as a striker, then they kept our poor Team Singapore players waiting
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      • Article
        Lock icon He was wrong
        495 4 No aain for lousy players THIS article annoyed me. What is this talk of humiliation and not taking Team Singapore seriously? Fabien Barthez is an international goalkeeper for a team that’s won many trophies. Why kick up a fuss about Barthez coming out as a substitute striker?
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    • Article
      Lock icon Drop lame excuses; get your act together
      188 4 A deal is a deal. Honouryour contracts, Red Devils THE given reason for Man U players not turning up was that they were “tired”. The team “did all it can to make up for it by giving stuff away” (Yvonne Kwok’s “Red Devils
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      34 4 hayeyoursgy Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, e-mail us atstreats@sph.comsg 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 regional
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      Lock icon Her provincial visits cast doubts on hands-on leadership Cabinet line-up on hold as Mega leaves town
      299 6 -Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s new president left for the provinces yesterday, leaving the task of forming a cabinet hanging and reinforcing perceptions that she will not be a hands-on leader. Since being appointed president on
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      Lock icon Officials threatened after crackdown on illegal VCDs
      250 6 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR Senior Malaysian officials have received death threats from gangs involved in the illegal video trade after cracking down on pirated and pornographic discs. Mr Muhyiddin Yassin, the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, was the most prominent target, receiving
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    • Article
      Lock icon Korean history texts don't say enough
      211 6 -AP SEOUL A debate is emerging about the history taught in South Korea’s schools. Middle and high school history textbooks include only one sentence on the sexual enslavement of Korean women by Japanese soldiers during World War 11. Nor do the books explore Koreans’
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      Lock icon Arroyo's spouse faces graft probe
      164 6 -API MANILA President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday moved to probe allegations that her husband received bribes. The bribes were allegedly in exchange for her clearing a telecommunications franchise deal, which was earlier rejected. In her nationally televised weekly news cop? ference, Ms Arroyo said she
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      Lock icon TOUCHING BASE:
      48 6 TOUCHING BASE: Mami Nakahira, an opposition Liberal League party candidate, wearing a sash bearing her name, greeting a grocery shop owner yesterday while campaigning at Sugamo Jizo Dori Shopping Street in Tokyo Japanese go to the polls tomorrow to elect the 252seat upper house members Pic.AP
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      Lock icon Thai PM's corruption case Thaksin's fate to be decided soon
      272 7 Reuters BANGKOK Thailand’s Constitutional Court yesterday said its 15-member judge panel was “very close” to reaching a verdict on Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s asset concealment case. Court president Prasert Nasakul told reporters he could not fix a date for the
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      Lock icon 77 foreigners charged after brokerage raid
      170 7 Reuters BANGKOK Seventy-seven foreigners were yesterday charged in a Bangkok court with working in Thailand without permits, after being detained in raids on two illegal stock brokerages. Two other foreigners were being held pending further investigation, and may face charges of fraud and illegal
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      Lock icon MAD DASH:
      56 7 MAD DASH: Teenagers rushing in yesterday to buy the latest Japanese comic books as the doors open for the Hong Kong Comic Fair at the Convention and Exhibition Centre 27. Thousands of comic fans lined-up for hours, with some queuing overnight to buy the books at the fair
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    • Article
      Lock icon Now, you can get a brewing degree in Perth
      190 7 -AP SYDNEY The Perth university that recently launched a surfing degree has brewed up a course in beer-making. Edith Cowan University announced yesterday it will begin offering beerbrewing degrees from next year, becoming the second Australian university to start such a
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Iranian man killed 19 prostitutes 'I did it for God'
      314 8 -AP TEHERAN A man suspected of killing of 19 prostitutes said on Thursday he would have gone on killing if he hadn’t been caught. Hanaei, a 39-year-old construction worker from Mashhad, was arrested in the city in north-eastern Iran on
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      Lock icon Haggling mania sweeps Germany
      203 8 Law allowing haggling comes into force BERLIN German shoppers have been getting into fights after a law allowing them to haggle for the first time in 70 years came into force, reported Ananova online news service. The 1933 Rebates Act banned haggling, forcing customers to pay
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    • Article
      Lock icon New drugs may end painful periods
      219 8 Reuters LONDON Two new drugs could ease menstrual pain, according to US researchers. The pills, which suppress menstruation and ovulation and block the effects of the female hormone oestrogen on the lining of the womb, have been successfully tested on rhesus macaque monkeys, they
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Cruel cat owner fined
        81 8 A CANADIAN woman has been fined for cutting off her cat’s testicles in a DIY home neutering operation. The 22-year-old used a knife to perform the procedure on her fully conscious pet, Tigger. The Edmonton woman was fined Csloo ($117) for cruelty, but been allowed to
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        Lock icon Dog poo under scrutiny
        119 8 AN angry botanist used satellite-mapping technology to track dog poo piles so he could make their owners clean up, Britain’s Sun newspaper reports. Patrick Murphy of Boulder, Colorado, found himself before a judge after videtaping owners and their pooing hounds. But a jury decided he had
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      • Article
        Lock icon No longer home alone
        87 8 BRITISH parents are being put under more financial strain by their children refusing to fly the nest, a study showed on Thursday, The Mirror website reported yesterday. The number of young adults living with parents has gone up by a fifth since the *****, a survey
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      • Article
        Lock icon Blooming lawn loo
        95 8 -AP FOR three weeks, pink tulips have sprouted from the bowl of the spray-painted neon pink lawn toilet outside a block of flats in a Pennsylvania town. Mr Joseph Taviani, who owns the toilet and the property, said lawn toilets draw on the town’s name. “When you
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      • Article
        Lock icon Oysters to order
        73 8 THE Americans want oval oysters which produce beige-coloured meat. The Japanese want round ones with white meat. And a marine scientist in Penang said: “We have the technology to cultivate such species.” The Star reported yesterday that Universiti Sains Malaysia marine research station director Assoc Prof Dr
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    • Article
      Lock icon Negative effects lessening; says new study 'Net helps you widen social netwoks'
      375 9 PITTSBURGH Despite what you have been hearing these past few years, the Internet may not make you lonely. A US researcher says the Internet helps most users to expand their social networks, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday.
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      Lock icon BREAKING BARRIERS:
      55 9 Residents helping to knock down a security wall at the Japanese embassy in Lima on Thursday. The destruction of the wall, built illegally to prevent possible terrorist acts, was ordered by the municipality where the embassy. Sentiment against Japan has grown since former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was
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    • Article
      Lock icon No spanking, court warns parents
      273 9 -AP Children handed back after parents agree to stop belting; hitting them TORONTO Seven children have been handed back to their parents after the latter agreed to stop belting them and hitting them with sticks. Social workers and police had taken the children from their
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      Lock icon Thai tycoon wins fight against extradition
      127 9 -Reuters LONDON A Bangkok financier blamed by the Thai authorities for the collapse of the baht currency in 1997 won his fight against extradition from Britain yesterday. In March, a British court that ruled Mr Pin Chakkaphak, 51, should be returned to Thailand to
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      96 8 Y&u Vvferi’t Believe Vpur Eyes:! The World's, jwost Powerful llVuStfdrtsp Public Lecture by Dr Seckel Singapore Science Centre. Only on Sunday, 29th July, 2.30 pm 4.00 pm. Armed with the world’s greatest collection of illusions, world-renowned scientist, Dr Al Seckel is here! A leading authority in brain perception, he has
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Nina, the comic star
      218 10 -AFP HONGKONG Asia’s richest woman Nina Wang has got herself a new career as a comic book star. Mrs Wang, the flamboyant head of Hongkong’s leading private property developer, Chinachem Group, had wanted a comic based on her own life, the Hongkong iMail reported. The tycoon,
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      Lock icon Who's that man in parliament?
      231 10 PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea Komo Magarima MP Alfred Kaiabe caused a stir when he stepped into the parliament chamber earlier this week. He went back to his roots and appeared in traditional attire, winning an applause for his fashion statement. Speaker Bernard Narokobi actually
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      Lock icon You're too fat, Philip tells boy
      249 10 Reuters LONDON Queen Elizabeth’s gaffe-prone husband, Prince Philip, was report- ed yesterday to have told t a boy he was too fat to J be an astronaut. Several British news- papers said Prince V Philip, 80, made remark when Adams, 13, said he wanted
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Goodbye, Wendy
      483 11 In a surprising move; TV Works parts ways with artiste Wendy Jacobs after only six months. YVONNE KWOK has the full story EMBARRASSMENT, bitterness, anger and, not least of all, confusion. This is how Wendy Jacobs is feeling after TV Works chose to take her off its list
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      Lock icon TV Works responds
      271 11 IT was a hard decision to make, said TV Works creative director Dick Lee. “Every single artiste is precious to me. They’re my people. I feel bad that it has to be this way,” said Dick, his tone subdued. He stressed that it was changes in the
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      Lock icon A family that plays together
      391 12  -  by' by Cara van Miriah FOR many, family day means spending quality time catching up on the week’s events, dining together or going for a picnic by the beach. For the Sandoshams, family bonding means jamming together in a studio along East Coast Road. Veteran
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon RKO 281
          79 12 Saturday, 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) After striking gold on Broadway and radio, 24-year-old whizzkid Orson Welles goes to Tinsteltown to make his first and greatest film Citizen Kane. The proposed movie, originally known as studio production RKO 281, is a biography of media magnate William Randolph Hearst (James
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          Lock icon GETTING BY
          86 12 Sunday, 11 am, Channel U How does a family survive in one of the most expensive countries in the world Japan? Come and find out in this touching yet hilarious Japanese family drama. This is a story about how a couple with five young children try all ways
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          Lock icon MAKING HEADLINES
          44 12 Sunday, 9pm, Channel U Guogong and Jieqi’s relationship takes a turn for the better but Jieqi seems to l be always calling J off dates because I of work. Mean- I while, Tang Ning and Weiming spend a romantic Christmas eve together.
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          Lock icon MUSIC OF THE HEART
          75 12 Sunday, 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) A true story of a young teacher who fights against the board of education in her bid to teach underprivileged kids in a Harlem school the beauty of music through the violin. In her struggle she loses everything as
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          Lock icon THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
          112 12 Sunday, 9pm, STAR Movies (SCV 58) Thomas Crown is a self-made billionaire who can buy anything he wants, but there are some things that money can’t buy and Crown is someone who has run out of challenges. When a thief walks out of a New York
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      Lock icon Irresistable treats
      361 13  -  by CARA van MIRIAH THEY were treats Streats readers couldn’t resist. Since Wednesday, readers with Coffee Club Xpress redemption coupons in hand were treated to Mango Tango Freezes, cakes and pastries at Coffee Club Xpress outlets at Paragon and Orchard CineLeisure. “The response has been overwhelming for the
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      Lock icon Paul to marry girlfriend
      168 13 Reuters LONDON Former Beatle Pau McCartney and his girlfriend Heathei Mills said on Thursday they will mariy “some time next year”. McCartney, 59, got down on one knee to propose to Mills, a 33-year-old mode and charity worker, during a shor break in Britain’s Lake District
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      Lock icon Mariah in hospital
      91 13 Reuters LONDON Pop star Mariah Carey has been admitted to hospital for “extreme exhaustion”, her spokeswoman said in a statement on Thursday. The US singer checked herself into a hospital late on Wednesday night, the statement said. Carey suffered exhaustion from filming two movies, Glitter and Wise
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      Lock icon Andy nervous about sex scenes
      125 14 THINK that when it comes to the filming of sex scenes, only female stars get the jitters? Hongkong heavenly king Andy Lau proves you wrong. The heartthrob was a bundle of nerves when he had to steam things up with Taiwanese actress Lin Xilei in
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Woods to tee off at made-for-TV match Nothing is small about Bighorn
        366 16 -AP tial $600,000 prize money for each of B the winning pair was too alluring to B pass up. '||B “I realised that if Annika and I both turned something like this down, they would either find two
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        Lock icon After winning 50m, he clinches 100m Ervin 'thorpedoes' Ian
        405 17 FUKUOKA, Japan Giant-killer American Anthony Ervin eclipsed the 100 m duel between Australian lan Thorpe and Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband winning the World Championship final by O.lsec. Adding to the fireworks, Australia’s Geoff Huegill broke his own world record by
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        Lock icon A pool of protests
        270 17 Reuters FUKUOKA Germany wants Olympic champions Australia to be disqualified from the men’s 4x200 metres freestyle relay for a faulty take-over in the heats. Christa Thiel, president of the German swimming federation, said yesterday that one of the Australian swimmers had started before his incoming team-mate
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        Lock icon Houllier slams Eriksson's 'stupid match'
        315 18 AMSTERDAM Gerard Houllier fired the first warning shot across the bows of England coach Sven Goran Eriksson yesterday, as he branded the next international match “stupid”. The Liverpool manager is frustrated and alarmed that England’s next game comes even before the start of the domestic
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        Lock icon Barlow's talk of the town
        393 18  -  Australian goalkeeper emerges from shadow by LIM HAN MING HE slipped into the S-League like a thief in the dark. Nobody knew much about Clementi Khalsa’s new Australian goalkeeper Grant Barlow (above, with girlfriend Jessica Merchant) when he arrived last month. Now, he’s the talk
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        Lock icon Return of Tan Kim Leng Warrior fails to spur team
        505 19  -  by TAN KIM HAN r NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Central 3 SAFFC3 A FAMILIAR face made his first appearance in the SLeague last night. After an absence of almost three months following a hole-in-the-heart operation, Singapore Armed Forces FC’s Tan Kim
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      • Article
        Lock icon Armstrong tightens grip
        76 19 •CYCLING -AFP MONTLUCON, France The Tour de France’s 18th stage will give Lance Armstrong the first chance in days to increase his lead in the race. The 29-year-old US Postal team leader is sitting with a comfortable s.osmin lead over arch rival Jan Ullrich of Germany the
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      • Soccer
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          Lock icon S'pore-Thailand tie on Aug 13
          78 19 SINGAPORE will host Southeast Asia Games champion Thailand in a friendly match on Aug 13. Said Thailand’s team manager Virat Chanpanich:“This will be our last warm-up game before we fly off for our World Cup qualifiers.’ It is grouped with Iraq, Iran, Bahrain and Saudi
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        • Article
          Lock icon Leboeuf leaving Chelsea
          86 19 -AFP LONDON French defender Frank Leboeuf says it is time for him to leave Chelsea and return to France. The 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner earlier this week signed for home town club Marseille in a £1.2 million (s3million) move. Leboeuf said the arrival of
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      76 12 Every week photographers from Streats will wander all over Singapore 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, l/C number
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      56 14 Lianhe Zaobao China agencies from recruiting freelancers to S'pore JSUSSIfcir 1 m I jfe I For Subscription, call 388 3838 Soccer outsiders Senegal, the surprise World Cup qualifier from Africa, and the men who helped it get there 11 Iw&A Your afternoon reading V Seen anything, heard anything? Contact»»; ■T
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      482 14 m A r birthday to share it wit/f iscilla Chan I Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 The line between professional and personal blurs in an inappropriate way. Whatever happens will happen in front of an audience. Put your heart into a project, and maybe you’ll have a reasonable
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      150 16 tsspotthedifference Karrie Webb The Show 21 st to 29th July 2001 The S'pore Expo W: 21 st to 29th July 2001 iascr S pore Expo Just tick your answer to the question below, complete your particulars and send this contest entry to: Streats Spot the Difference Contest (July 28), Mega
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