Streats, 18 August 2001

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    17 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon Key words for the new decade Update, upgrade
    646 1 /0r habits of mind and our values have been formed in four decades of relative success. VJe must change them and move in new directions. FLASHBACK to 1965, the year of Singapore’s independence. Times were tumultuous. The external environment was bad. The
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Exports down 24%
      74 1 -AFP NON-OIL domestic exports plunged 24.2 per cent last month from a year before, the Government said yesterday. “External trade continued to be hit by the depressed global electronics demand, as well as the slowdown in the major economies such as the US, EU and Japan,’’the Trade
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      Lock icon HK trims civil service
      113 1 Reuters HONGKONG -The notion of the “iron rice bowl” is under threat as the Hongkong government trims public sector jobs because of the slowdown. Several government bodies have laid off staff in recent weeks, breaking the traditional belief that government jobs would guarantee lifetime employment. The
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      33 1 When the whistle goes off for the start of the English Premiership today, don't be left behind. Streats brings to you an easy-to-read guide, including tips on the likely winners. PAGES 18,19 20
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon New laws will protect old trees, scenic avenues Saved from the saw
      245 2 THE magnificent raintrees along Connaught Drive at the Padang will not fall prey to chainsaws, unlike those in Carpark G of Changi Airport. The future of Singapore’s Garden City heritage is being safeguarded thanks to new laws now
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    • Article
      Lock icon Bank unions size up the damage
      260 2  -  by SONNYPHUA THE decision by the DBS Bank to allow its takeover offer of OUB Bank to lapse on Aug 10 was greeted with relief by Ms Nora Kang, the president of the 3,100member DBS Staff Union (DBSSU). However, she is realistic, saying: “The
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    • Article
      Lock icon UOB extends offer
      71 2 -AFP UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) is closer to taking over Overseas Union Bank after winning approval from 67.48 per cent of shareholders. UOB yesterday extended the closing date of its offer, which was scheduled to lapse yesterday, till Aug 31. Analysts said the extension was to allow
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      Lock icon OCBC takes over KCH
      79 2 Reuters OCBC Bank Ltd has taken control of Keppel Capital Holdings after accumulating 92 per cent of its issued and paid-up share capital, it said yesterday. “Our priority going forward is to integrate the organisations fully in a swift and seamless manner,” OCBC vice-chairman and CEO
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      Lock icon Daylight ahead
      122 2 betweenthelines. Mir economy has slowed clown. Unemployment rate is on the way up. One question on our mind could be: Is there light at the end of the tunnel? At one recent function, someone commented that: "Of course, there is light at the end of the tunnel. But
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      57 2 onekindact Alvin Oh INJURED my leg on Aug 13 as I crossed Haig Road. Thanks to Aaron, a man who was kind enough to help me. If you wish to highlight a kind act, no matter how small, write in to Streats, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore
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      Lock icon There's always a job for high-fliers
      393 3  -  by KAREN CHEN TIMES are bad. But even when the economy is down, buildings still need to be painted, windows cleaned and neon signs put up or repaired. So Mr Mohammad (not his real name) can still happily perch on the ledge of some
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    • Article
      Lock icon Less than half do Net search: poll
      154 3 WORKING adults here are not boarding the Internet bandwagon as fast as the Government hoped for, according to the results of a survey published in Lianhe Zaobao yesterday. Forty-five per cent 184 respondents of the 408 surveyed said they hardly or never searched
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      83 3 Our weather girl says If only the sky could take a break like the rest of us during weekends and not work... Luckily, the showers, mainly over the northern, western and southern regions, will stop by early afternoon. Temperatures will be between 26°C and 33°C, with high tide reaching 2.9
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      150 3 Just a minute Five thousand tea drinkers are needed to put Singapore into the Guinness Book of Records tomorrow. The event is being hosted by Care Community Services Society and the Dairy Farm Group from 4pm to 9pm at Fort Canning Park. It offers light afternoon tea,
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    • Article
      Lock icon He searched SIR database for womens'details "Desperate' bachelor
      272 5  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM TEW Wei Li was 29, and his mother was pressuring him to find a girl and settle down, a court heard yesterday. The quiet, bespectacled man had made many tries at relationships, but had had no luck. He even joined
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    • news scan
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        Lock icon COE bids invited
        42 5 BIDS are invited from car owners for 686 open category certificates of entitlement (COEs) from Monday to 4pm on Wednesday. During the same period, 612 certificates for motorcycles and 332 for goods vehicles and buses will also be available.
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      • Article
        Lock icon From under his nose
        52 5 A THIEF snatched a handphone from beside a man as he sat on a bench in East Coast Park reading at 11.30 am on Thursday. The 38-year-old project manager said the thief passed the phone to an accomplice on a bicycle. He pursued them, but they
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        Lock icon Lunchtime crime
        35 5 A MOTORCYCLE was stolen from a Choa Chu Kang carpark on Monday afternoon. The 27-year-old owner parked it at 2pm to go for lunch. It was gone when he returned an hour later.
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        Lock icon Expensive bite
        57 5 A DOG'S owner was fined $l,OOO yesterday over an incident in which his unleashed Labrador attacked a man near Goldhill Place off Dunearn Road. Mr Say Eng Sin, 60, reported its owner, Briton Benjamin Iversen, 31, after he failed to pay for medical treatment for the bite injury
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      Lock icon He kicked bins onto MRT track
      189 5  -  by /DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM A SECURITY guard who kicked two dustbins onto the tracks at Admiralty MRT station caused an incoming train to be delayed for more than seven minutes, a court heard yesterday. At about 10.30 pm on June 18, station manager Cheong Kong
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    • Article
      Lock icon The fast-moving arm of the law
      293 5 GREASED lightning is a term that comes to mind when looking at how the police despatched two big investigations this month. One was a kidnapping and the other an attempted extortion, both involving prominent Singapore families. On Friday, Aug 10, just as the cops
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      Lock icon Gomez's newsgroup has to register with SBA MHA jogs Gomez's memory
      529 4 Earlier this week, Parliament passed amendments to the Parliamentary Elections Act to set out rules for on-line campaigning by political parties during elections. Under the new rule, all websites that propagate, promote or discuss political issues relating to Singapore
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      Lock icon My half-yearly haircut costs $25
      95 4 I AGREE with Mr Chia Giap Meng (“Health minister’s reply insensitive’, Streats, Aug 17). Cancer or any other terminal disease is something nobody would wished for. I am one breast cancer survivor and I wish Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang to know that I only
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Japan government may step in to stop yen's rise Holiday plans upset
      222 6 Reuters Officials cut short vacations to contain damage TOKYO Japan may take action against “excessive” currency moves to combat the yen’s recent sharp rise on the US dollar. The rise forced foreign exchange policymakers to cut short their
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      Lock icon Holiday plans on track
      159 6 -AP TOKYO Mr Junichiro Koizumi’s vacation is well on its way. The Japanese prime minister yesterday left for an eight-day holiday in Hakone, a popular resort town southwest of Tokyo. He’s getting away from the summer and political heat to stay at a lakeside hotel and
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      Lock icon Offices shut as floods hit Manila
      191 6 MANILA Heavy rain triggered flash floods in Manila yesterday, leaving thousands of commuters stranded and forcing government offices to close for the afternoon. There were no reports of casualties or serious damage, but the Office of Civil Defence (OCD) is monitoring dams in the
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      Lock icon China jails Falungong 'members' for suicide bid
      174 6 -AP BEIJING Four alleged members of the banned Falungong sect were jailed here yesterday. One of them got a life sentence for organising a group self-immolation in Tiananmen Square early this year, China’s state news agency and a court official said. Beijing’s No
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      Lock icon M'sia opposition may split
      120 6 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s opposition alliance may split this weekend over allegations of Islamic extremism. The Alternative Front has been at the crossroads for months over a declaration by the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) that it would establish an Islamic state if it comes to power.
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      Lock icon Ban doning, stem cell study: Arroyo
      223 6 Wire Services MANILA The Philippine president opposes cloning and stem cell research and wants them banned. “This administration is opposed to human cloning,” Ms Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who will be in Singapore from Aug 24 to 26, told her weekly news conference yesterday. “I
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      Lock icon Bombs explode in Aceh on Independence Day Mass grave found; troops on alert
      259 7 -AP JAKARTA Hundreds of Indonesian soldiers were patrolling the streets of the provincial capital of Bandar Aceh yesterday after 16 bombs exploded overnight in the city and authorities unearthed a mass grave containing the bodies of 48
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      Lock icon Muslim girls spat at in Sydney
      175 7 SYDNEY Muslim women and girls have become the targets of threats and abuse in Sydney’s south-west following police reports that blame Middle Eastern men for recent gang rapes of white women. The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday quoted a spokesman for the Lebanese Muslim Association,
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      Lock icon Morgue staff cleared in body parts case
      188 7 -AP SYDNEY Staff at a morgue here did not act unethically when they plundered body parts and conducted unauthorised experiments on dead bodies, a state government-backed report released yesterday said. The independent inquiry found that while the maltreatment of corpses was illegal, it
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      Lock icon Military types not welcome
      145 7 -Reuters SYDNEY Australia will tighten screening of potential immigrants and compel them to reveal any military training as part of a crackdown on criminal gangs, officials said yesterday. Government officials are working on ways to stamp out criminal activity by Chinese and Iraqi immigrants. Immigration Minister
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      Lock icon Industry not convinced, but study echoes other research Don't phone and drive
      289 8 Reuters The World Health Organisation has confirmed that handphone use while driving increases the risk of traffic accidents, even when a hands-free kit is used, Singapore's Health Sciences Authority said on Thursday. DETROIT Results of a study released
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      Lock icon Beat him and you get the whole pizza!
      157 8 -AP ROME Thirty minutes’ chariot ride from the Colosseum, the Scuola Gladiatori Roma is tucked away at the edge of Rome. Students pay US$lOO ($175) for a two-month course of twiceweekly lessons and fighting gear, said the school’s president, Sergio “Nero” lacomoni.
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      Lock icon Brazil scraps 1916 law on virgin brides
      209 8 Reuters BRASILIA Brazil is to scrap a 1916 law that allows a man to dump his bride if she isn’t a virgin. Congress approved the new code’s main articles this week, concluding a long process of disputes and modifications since it was proposed
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Hot potato
        70 8 Reuters AN exploding potato led to 2,000 balletgoers being evacuated from London’s Royal Opera House. “It took a while to find the cause of the smoke,” said a fire brigade spokesman. “Eventually we found a small kitchen backstage and in a microwave were the remains of an exploded
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        Lock icon Double take
        66 8 BANK customers got a bonus when an ATM began dispensing double the amount they had requested. Money was loaded wrongly into the ATM at a Allied Irish Bank branch in Dublin. Cartridges containing £2O ($4O) notes put into the £lO note slot. “The ATM began giving out double
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        Lock icon Goodtime Grandma
        77 8 -AP AN 82-year-old Taiwanese prostitute nicknamed Grandma has been freed after being caught soliciting. The woman was arrested when she took a 52-year-old man to her flat in a red-light district of Taipei. Police said she was in good shape and with light make-up looks like a 70-year-old.
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        Lock icon Fan on high
        75 8 A CRICKET nut who couldn’t get a ticket hired a 13m crane to watch a match. Mr Stuart Jeffrey flew 14,000 km from Perth to London to see his team but the match was sold out. So he hired a crane for £l7O ($430), parking it outside
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        Lock icon Bloom raiders
        69 8 TWO women, aged 87 and 85, stole plants from historic gardens, reported Ananova. Police say seven plants were found in the old dears’ handbags after they were called to Aberglasney Gardens in Wales. The two were on a pensioners’ outing to the gardens. Mr Graham Rankin, director of
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        Lock icon Wee problem
        50 8 Reuters BRITAIN'S National Gallery is being gradually eroded by late-night clubbers urinating against its walls, and the city council has sprung to the rescue of one of London’s most famous tourist attractions. The council has now installed mobile urinals every weekend to“re-direct”bursting revellers in the Wee hours. Reuters
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      Lock icon Israelis losing faith in Sharon
      219 9 Reuters JERUSALEM Israelis are losing faith in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his handling of the Palestinian uprising, a public opinion poll said yesterday. A Gallup poll published in the Maariv newspaper showed seven out of 10 Israelis don’t believe that Mr Sharon will succeed
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      Lock icon Top Hollywood studios in video-on-demand venture Blockbusters online
      221 9 -AP LOS ANGELES-Top US movie blockbusters will soon be available on the Internet. Five major Hollywood studios targeting profits and piracy-bust-ing will unite to provide Internetbased video-on-demand. The joint-venture deal was announced on Thursday by Sony, Universal, Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros,
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      Lock icon Chedang in by the book
      186 9 -AFP NEW YORK Curl up with your favourite book or hundreds of them at a New York hotel. The Library Hotel turns its rooms into small libraries arranged by subject matter according to the instructions of book-loving guests. A stone’s throw in Manhattan from the
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      Lock icon Intravenous trips for this bull
      129 9 JAPANESE scientists have created the smallestever man-made object, which they hope to develop into a machine that might be sent on missions inside your body. In the shape of a bull, the object (left, magnified) is the size of a single red blood cell only
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      Lock icon Heard it on the grapevine
      56 9 webcites SICK of employing traditional search engines to no avail? Maybe it's time to ask the experts atAbuzz.com. Abuzz is a knowledge network where you can email other members to ask questions like 'What is the best club in LA?' It's a good way to
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      Lock icon Pornography-surfing navy commander fined C$200
      120 9 -AP ESQUIMALT, British Columbia A Canadian naval commander who used a military computer to surf pornographic websites was court-mar-tialled and fined Cs2oo ($235) on Thursday. Commodore Eric Lerhe, 52, was relieved of his command in June after he was charged under the National Defence Act
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      Lock icon Silly, silly Mr Bean. But he's got what it takes to be rich
      369 10 EmpText LONDON Who wants to be a millionaire? Mr Bean and theTeletubbies do. A list of Britain’s 100 richest media moguls published yesterday by Broadcast Magazine showed that canny celebrities have converted their creativity into multi-million-pound empires.
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      Lock icon Mahathir 'getting desperate'
      366 10 Reuters KUALA TERENGGANU An influential Malaysian Islamic opposition leader said yesterday that a crackdown by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s government' on alleged Muslim extremists was scaremongering to shore up dwindling support, Mr Abdul Hadi Awang, deputy president of Parti Islam seMalaysia (PAS), also took a swipe at
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      Lock icon Well done, Mega. So far...
      222 10 -AP JAKARTA Fifty -six years I after Indonesia’s founding V leader proclaimed an end to m colonial rule, his daughter and A the nation’s fifth president, Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri, yesterday received the old independence flag in an emotional ceremony. Her mother sewed the red-and-white flag
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      Lock icon Darryl goes back to school
      444 11  -  by SAMANTHA CROY DARRYL David has a resume that would leave most people awestruck. He’s been a television commentator at sports events like the South-east Asia games and Asian Games; he’s reported for ESPN and The New Paper, hosted game shows and other events and
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      Lock icon Tamil stars in town Mad about Madhavan
      542 12  -  by AMBIGA RAJU TAMIL movie’s hottest new star, Madhavan, can be bad news for you if you have teenaged daughters who’re into Tamil movies. At least five young girls cut classes to gatecrash a press-only event yesterday at the Marina Mandarin. One die-hard
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      Lock icon Reality radio on new station
      305 13  -  by i DIANA SER YOU'VE heard of reality TV. Now it’s time for reality radio. UFM 1003, the new Mandarin radio station, to bring the popular genre to r adio when it goes on air on Oct 3. The search is on for a “mysterious
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      Lock icon This beauty's looking for love
      348 13  -  by 'KAREN CHEN SILKY black tresses, porcelain skin, full lips, large dreamy eyes. Top Korean actress Kim Hee Sun is certainly a beauty, even if she looks a tad older than 25. It’s no wonder that even North Korean leader Kim Jong II is said
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      Lock icon Russell croons
      61 13 Actor Russell Crowe (left) and his band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts performing on Thursday during a taping of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno at the NBC studios in Burbank, California. With him are bass guitarist Garth Adam (centre) and lead guitarist Dean Cochran. Crowe is currently
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          Lock icon SWEET LOVE 100%
          47 13 Saturday, 10.30 pm, Channel U May and her three boy housemates find themselves out of a job and open a bar. ln the course of things, the three boys re-examine their love lives. Starring Shu Qi, Julian Cheung (above), Andy Hui and Eric Kot.
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          Lock icon ARMAGEDDON
          37 13 Sunday, 2.30 pm, Channel U An X-Files-style thriller set in the future. In Hongkong, a meeting of businessmen and global players ends in tragedy as one of them is murdered. Starring Andy Lau and Michelle Reis.
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          Lock icon DIVINE RETRIBUTION
          37 13 Sunday, 10.30 pm, Channel 8 Xingxia is being misled by Taotian and Saisi into believing he is doing well in the stock market. Zhang Qiang and Ding Ye try to warn him but are unsuccessful.
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          Lock icon HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL
          43 13 Sunday, 10pm, W Entertainment (SCV 56) A millionaire gives six strangers a chance to make $1 million each. All they have to do is make it i through j the night 1 in a haunt- ed house. Geoffrey Rush.
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          Lock icon HOUSESITTER
          24 13 Sunday, Bpm, HBO (SCV 60) Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn pair up to bring the laughs hard and fast in this dreams-can-come-true ribtickler.
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      Lock icon This Asian girl is angry
      576 14 She may look all sugar and spice, but Kim has vitriol to spout to those who misunderstand Asian-Americans -Reuters NEW YORK Think Charlie Brown in pigtails. Think South Park with Asian-Americans. Think Hello Kitty cute packaged in a girl with an acid tongue. Put that
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      Lock icon No more monkey business, vows Burton
      205 14 Reuters LONDON Planet of the Apes director Tim Burton is adamant there will be no sequel to the blockbuster I movie. “The idea of doing a sequel I’d rather jump out of the window, I swear to God,” Burton told I Britain’s IndeI pendent
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      Lock icon Norton, Watson join Hannibal's feast
      214 14 -AFP LOS ANGELES Edward Norton and Emily Watson may join Universal Pictures’ Red Dragon, a movie version of the first book by Thomas Harris to introduce tasteful cannibal Hannibal Lecter. Anthony Hopkins who won a best acting Oscar for Silence of the Lambs (1991) is
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        Lock icon Woods tied for 100th place Worth the Waite
        449 16 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP -AP DULUTH, Georgia The marquee threesome in the first round of the 83rd PGA Championship provided two fabulous story lines on Thursday at the Atlanta Athletic Club. It was good news for local favourite David Duval, and the worst possible
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        Lock icon Egmar the saviour Home breaks jinx
        440 17  -  by 'TAN KIM HAN NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Tanjong Pagar 0 Home United 1 for five years, Home United has never won at fortress Queenstown. Last night, thanks to a last-gasp goal from Egmar Goncalves, Home finally battered down the walls at Tanjong Pagar’s Queenstown
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        Lock icon Agassi proposes to Graf
        85 17 TENNIS Reuters LONDON Andre Agassi says he has proposed to Steffi Graf and they will definitely get married. He said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph yesterday: “The actual question has been dealt with. I have asked her to marry me and we are committed
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        Lock icon James confident of quick recovery
        78 17 I SOCCER -AFP LONDON Injured England goalkeeper David James said yesterday that he has not given up hope of making next year’s World Cup finals, and is confident he will play a part in West Ham’s Premiership campaign at some point. The former Aston Villa
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        Lock icon Calm before the storm
        1525 18 Reuters LONDON Manchester United begins odds-on favourite to win the English Premier League for an unprecedented fourth successive season and for the eighth time in 10 attempts. But for departing manager Alex Ferguson the traditional blue riband competition is a mere sideshow. Still the most physical
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        Lock icon Weekend schedule
        65 19 Reuters Today: Charlton Athletic v Everton; Derby County v Blackburn Rovers; Leeds United v Southampton; Leicester City v Bolton Wanderers; Liverpool v West Ham (Live on ESPN Ch 23,10 pm); Middlesbrough v Arsenal (Live on Star Sports Ch 24,9.50 pm); Sunderland v Ipswich Town; Tottenham Hotspur v Aston
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        Lock icon Have a ball – and a babe
        474 20  - Have a ball and a b abe THE curtain lifts on the English Premiership today. Who will be crowned champion? Streats journalists Peter Siow and Tan Kim Han take a long, hard look at their favourite teams and give their two cents'worth. by Peter Slow THERE'S a new season and
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        Lock icon Winning isn't everything
        250 20  -  by Tan Kim Han I HAVE often asked: How do you measure success? A teacher once told me that success is not measured entirely by winning. Huh? But isn’t winning everything? If it is, then Manchester United’s phenomenal success in recent years must surely make it the
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      9 12 end goods Lianhe Zaobao despite slowing sat** In DP
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      72 12 Win a Watch 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
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      514 16 m If ifs your birthday today, you share it with a LeoKui Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 The forces of change are on a hair trigger. Aquarius should take aim before squeezing off the first shot. Not all of your targets appreciate their starring role in your sights.
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      67 17 Inthelivingroom BADMINTON: Singapore Open, s-fmals (City TV, 230 pm). GOLF: PGA Championship, Day 3 (Super Sports Ch 22, tomorrow, 2am). MOTOR RACING: Formula One: Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying (Star Sports Ch24,7pm). RUGBY: Tri Nations Championship: Australia v South Africa (Star Sports Ch24,spm). SOCCER: NTUC Income S-League: SAFFC v Tampines Rovers
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