Streats, 23 August 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets i THURSDAY 23 August 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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    Lock icon Ex-courtesy campaign chief defends S'poreans' behaviour You're fine, thank you
    543 1  -  by SONNYPHUA THE Prime Minister feels you’re not nice enough. But at least one man begs to differ. You’re fine, said Mr Noel Hon, the man who was tasked with making Singaporeans kinder and friendlier. Is he being polite? PM
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon CPF: 2nd chance
      102 1 SINGAPOREANS who missed out on the CPF Top-Up of between $5OO and $1,700 should put in at least $lOO into their CPF accounts by Oct 31 to receive the top-up. Also, elderly Singaporeans who missed out on the benefits of the MediShield Scheme for the Elderly (MSE)
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      Lock icon Green light for Singtel-Optus deal
      131 1 AUSTRALIA gave a conditional green light yesterday for SingTel’s bid to take over Cable and Wireless Optus, the country’s second-largest telco. The announcement by Treasurer Peter Costello clears a major obstacle for Sing Tel in its 14-billion bid. Mr Costello said he weighed both commerical
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      Lock icon Iris scans saves time
      102 1 IRIS-SCANNING technology is set to cut clinic waiting time at the new Singapore Anti-TUberculosis Association clinic in Woodlands. For the first time in Singapore, iris scanners are being introduced for patient registration. With this new technology, patients won’t need to bring an appointment card when they
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    Lock icon He's fine -without a heart
    106 1 He has no heart He has no heartbeat All Mr Robert Toolsbas is a "whirring"sound that comes from a self-contained artificial heart implanted into him seven weeks ago. He is the first person ever to be fitted with the device. When Mr Tools carffe to
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Labour law to be amended soon: Matthias Yao Execs can join unions
      269 2 UNIONS are opening up to recession-battered executives. Nearly one in three workers who were laid off in the first quarter of the year were executives. Unable to join a trades union till now, they often went to court
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      Lock icon Let's put more into the region: Thaksin
      127 2 LET'S push for more confidence and vigour in the region. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra met Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday with this upbeat message. Both leaders also “discussed developments in Asean and noted that the political scene in the region has
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      Lock icon New Singapore needs education revamp: Malays
      277 2  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH THE country’s education system needs to be. revamped if Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s vision for a New Singapore is to be achieved. The point was made by several speakers to D* Yaacob Ibrahim, Parliamentary Secretary (Communications and Information Technology) and
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      Lock icon Cock-a-doodle-don't!
      290 3 C ock-a-doodle-don't! ARRRRRRR! There goes that rooster *gain! Constant crowing by chickens reared in Several HDB estates is driving residents of U P the wall. “Every morning before dawn, the Foster will crow. Sometimes, late into the night, I am kept awake by its crowlfig,” complained a publisher who wants
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      Lock icon First hospital-CDC eldercare training plan launched New Hope for elderly sick
      313 3  -  by SARAH NG YOUR elderly relation can now look forward to better step-down care after he leaves hospital. All thanks to a new training programme for caregivers of the elderly, be they professionals, volunteers or family members, launched yesterday
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      96 3 Our weather girl says If you are fearful about how the thunderstorm in the late morning and early afternoon might wet your new Armani shirt, just i be thankful that we do not I experience extreme weather I conditions like droughts in I Africa or floods in Bangladesh, I and
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    • Just a minute
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        54 3 NTUC Elder Care is organising a series of Saturday public education workshops on issues affecting the elderly. Next Saturday's workshop is in Mandarin and is on healthy lifestyles for the elderly, common illnesses and their prevention, diet and exercise. At Marsiling Community Club, 2-5.30 pm. To register,
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        Lock icon Remember...
        79 3 Since last month, the Medisave contribution ceiling and retention sum have been $26,000 and $21,000 respectively for CPF members. The contribution ceiling is the maximum savings a CPF member can have in his Medisave Account. Any excess will be automatically transferred to the Ordinary Account. The retention sum is
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      Lock icon Filipino jailed for detaining girl on SIA flight He groped her in toilet
      261 5  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER SOMEONE smaller does not necessarily make an easier target. That was what James Dumaraog Siray, 41, a Filipino seaman working in the United Arab Emirates, learned when he tried to trap a 12-year-old girl
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      Lock icon Jealous husband beats up wife's companion
      158 5  -  by] ZUBAIDAH NAZEER CARGO-HANDLER Abdul Shameer Abdul Kader, 26, went green with jealousy when he spied his wife with another group of revellers at a music lounge on March 26. Yesterday in court, district judge Wong Keen Onn saw red and Abdul Shameer ended
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      Lock icon Cellphone safety still in doubt: Case
      225 5  -  by 'KHUSHWANT SINGH Hang on, said Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) president DrTeo Ho Pin yesterday. The jury is still out on cellphone safety. Obviously worried that consumers might be dialling away with gay abandon after last Thursday’s reports that there was no conclusive
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      Lock icon No permit yet for SDP Rally
      151 5  -  by 1 SARAH NG THE Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) is planning a National Day Rally atYio Chu Kang Stadium this Sunday but has yet to get a police permit for it. The reason: The opposition party needs to deploy 13 Cisco officers to manage
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    • news scan
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        Lock icon Caught out by a call
        149 5  -  by Zubaidah Nazeer HE made off with $9,000, an $BOO cellphone, and $l2O wallet. Then the phone rang. He answered it, panicked, and got caught. Azni bin Abdullah, 39, entered the women’s toilet on the first floor of the World Trade Centre on Aug 13
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        Lock icon Coroner clears doctor
        116 5 A CORONER'S inquiry yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of heartpatient Mr Tjon Anthony Reginald, 58, after hearing testimony from the pathologist who did the autopsy and another medical expert. The coroner found Dr Kenneth Benton, a consultant physician with Changi General Hospital was
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  • Streatsmart interchange
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      Lock icon Wisdom from the past
      240 4 Yesterday, we ran two stories on tiie service gap-howa salesgirl showed no initiative and two taxi-drivers who did. Today, readers offer theiropinions iltfc I HAVE been living in Singapore for over 10 years and while the service standards in Singapore are definitely lower than in many
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      Lock icon It comes from the heart
      102 4 IF the Hongkong salesgirl, who went out of her way to wait at the taxi stand to pass the item to the lady who bought it, did so out of her own free will, then she deserved to be praised 100 per cent. But if
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    • Article
      Lock icon Not all staff have such liberty
      101 4 I DO not think it was fair to highlight one negative example of a salesperson who did not go the extra mile. Did anyone think that maybe she couldn’t? Not all employers give their staff that liberty. That has to change. If that salesperson
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    • Article
      Lock icon Fantastic service, HDB
      202 4 MY HDB block in Clementi Ave 3 is undergoing interim upgrading and by accident, the water pump was turned off reducing water inflow by almost half. I discovered this very late on a Thursday evening. By Saturday, nothing had improved. I screamed down the line at Grace,
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    • Article
      Lock icon It's different for a Caucasian
      82 4 HAVE you ever given a thought that should you be a Caucasian the situation would be different? I have often seen the frowning faces on many sales staff when customers who have no intention of making a purchase approached them to enquire about a product.
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Australia the new economic engine, says Costello 'We'll lead the world'
      196 6 -AFP Australian economy bounced to grow 1.1% in the first quarter SYDNEY Treasurer Peter Costello said Australia’s economic growth would lead the world next year but conceded it was not immune to deteriorating global conditions. Mr Costello, who is
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      Lock icon Missing UK teen found dead
      133 6 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A search team yesterday found the body of 17-year-old British girl, Elbe James, who was lost for a week on Borneo island. Elbe had disappeared during a trek on the picturesque Mt Kinabalu last Thursday. “Her body was found at 10.21 am.
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      Lock icon Korean transport minister fired
      150 6 -AP SEOUL President Kim Dae Jung fired his transport minister yesterday after the US downgraded South Korea’s aviation safety ratings. Mr Kim Yong Chae, 68, head of the state-run Korea Land Corp, replaced Mr Oh Jang Sup as the minister of construction and transportation. Last Friday,
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      Lock icon Mufti pledges his organs
      157 6 KUALA LUMPUR Six religious leaders, including a mufti, have jointly pledged to donate their organs for transplants in a public ceremony. Mufti Datuk Hashim Yahya joined chief Buddhist priest Ven Dr Sri K. Dhammananda, Rev Dr Solomon Rajah of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, M.
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      Lock icon Typhoon hits Tokyo
      136 7 Six deaths so far Wire services TOKYO Typhoon Pabuk bore down on central Japan yesterday after claiming five lives and forcing the evacuation of more than 7,000 people from coastal areas. About 50,000 people in central Japan have also been told to leave the area. Six people
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      Lock icon No 'ice' sold here
      70 7 -AFP SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands Owners of garment manufacturing factories here refuted US allegations yesterday that they were giving their workers “ice” to boost productivity. The claim was made in a report by the US Department of Justice which alleged the factories were importing methamphetamine, or
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    • Article
      Lock icon Ophthalmologist, optometrist, optician – what's the difference?
      64 7 Ophthalmologist, optometrist, optician what's the difference? knowornot The ophthalmologist is an eye doctor. The optometrist can examine your eyes, and make glasses for you if you need them or give you an eyeglass or contact lens prescription that someone else can fill. But he's not an MD and can't operate
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      Lock icon New way found to tap cheap energy
      109 7 -AFP PARIS A team of Japanese and British physicists has devised a new way to achieve nuclear fusion that would produce cheap, abundant and safe energy. Nature journal reported that a 20-member team led by Mr Ryosuke Kodama of Japan’s Osaka University has
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Penguin to publish 200 e-books
      70 8 LONDON TWo hundred e-books are to be published online by book giant Penguin next month, BBC Online reported. The move will represent the biggest digital booklist yet published in Britain. The list will include Penguin classics like Jane Austen’s Emma and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Customers
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      Lock icon FBI busts gang which 'won' $23m McCheats held
      271 8 -AP THE FBI and McDonald’s have smashed a criminal ring which rigged Monopoly and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire games in the US. Federal agents say the ring fixed winners of US$l million ($1.75 million) and other bigmoney prizes, who then
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      Lock icon Journal taken for ride
      216 8 -AP CHICAGO -The Journal of the American Medical Association says it was fooled into publishing a medical student’s phoney account of an elderly Alaskan villager walking out onto the frozen Arctic Ocean to die. Mr Shetal Shah had presented his bleak essay, published on Oct 18,
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      Lock icon 'Sex used in Tehelka expose'
      143 8 Reuters NEW DELHI -The Indian website Tehelka which exposed Indian defence authorities taking bribes, said it had also filmed army officers demanding sex with prostitutes. The website’s editor-in-chief, Tarun Tejpal, said it has footage that shows military brass asking for sexual favours. He said his
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      Lock icon $14b offer takes total package to nearly $40b IMF ups Argentina loan
      230 9 -AP WASHINGTON The Inter national Monetary Fund said it will lend Argentina an extra US$B billion ($l4 billion). This will boost the total IMF offer to Argentina to US$22 billion, up from the current level of US$l4 billion,
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      Lock icon Prophet cartoon gets green light
      177 9 -AFP CAIRO Mohammad, the Last Prophet, a cartoon film on the life of Prophet Mohammad got the goahead this week. Islam’s highest authority the Cairo-based AlAzhar- gave permission after it was agreed that the image of the prophet’s paternal uncle would be deleted from the
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      Lock icon MAKING A COPY:
      37 9 Workers standing in front of a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha in north Bombay. The original Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan was destroyed by the ruling Taleban militia in March to prevent idolatry. Pic: AFP
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    • Article
      Lock icon Toddler's body found, Soltys still on the run
      154 9 -AP SACRAMENTO A note on a photograph led police to the body of a three-year-old boy, the son of a man on the run suspected of killing his pregnant wife and four relatives. Nikolay Soltys and his toddler son had been missing
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Anything for a raise
        104 9 Reuters A MAN cut off a testicle to get a pay rise. “I did it to protest about my lousy situation,” Eduardo Veliz, 36, told doctors. Witnesses said Mr Veliz, a labourer, was shouting that he wanted to see the leader of Peru’s Congress. “When he
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      • Article
        Lock icon Cellphone as a pacifier
        77 9 CELLPHONE rudeness takes many forms. A “besotted mother” tried to placate her screaming baby by playing all her phone’s ringing tones, over and over again in a restaurant. Mr Cameron Cooper was among the diners treated to a concert of Old MacDonald Had A Farm and
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        Lock icon Keyed-up pianist flees
        105 9 A PIANIST was so fed up of the noises coming from the audience that he left the stage in the middle of his performance at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Sunday. “It was Fantasia in C minor with cellphones, beeping watches and coughing and sneezing accompaniment,” Ms
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        Lock icon Teeth thinner than hair
        90 9 TINY “teeth so small they can bite into a single blood cell have been developed. The jaws fit into a tiny channel blood cells flow down, which is just a third of the width of a human hair, Ananova reported. The machine, which could be used
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Man with no heartbeat
      372 10 -AP LOUISVILLE, Kentucky His is the face that represents hope for heart patients all over the world. Mr Robert Tools, a former telephone company employee, is the first person with a self-contained artificial heart. The 59-year-old man made medical history when the titani-um-and-plastic pump the size
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      Lock icon Beazley 'lied to score political point'
      229 10 -AP CANBERRA Labor opposik tion leader Kim Beazley (left) was fighting against claims i yesterday that he had lied I about his daughter’s treatI ment at a hospital to gain f political mileage. Mr Beazley told a party meeting on Tuesday that his daughter,
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    • Article
      Lock icon What do you do when you receive good service?
      324 10 Just one question We have heard so many complaints about poor service in the retail trade and people are so often ready to share their bad experiences. But... Well, nothing much really. It's quite rare to get good service. Compared to
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  • easy STREATS
    • Stephanie @ the movies
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        Lock icon Goodbye clean, hello sin
        424 11 Good girl turned devilish sex bomb Jennifer Love Hewitt is having too much fun to return to her teen scream queen days SOMEHOW you knew it was coming. With an eye-popping ensemble such as Jennifer Love Hewitt’s (heartbreakingly delicate face, enviably luscious curves), it was only
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        Lock icon Tailor of Panama
        98 11 Stephanie's choice Directed by John Boorman Starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis SUIT Pierce Brosnan up and you'll get one handsome devil. Taking full advantage of this appeal, he entices with his snazzy yet snide portrayal of ruthless Brit spy Osnard who preys on hapless
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        72 11 Golaugh Directed by Brett Ratner Starring Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John lone, Zhang Iryi ONE can't stop talking. The other can't stop moving. Loud, black guy returns to team up with Chinese gongfu machine, and the results are nothing short of chortling good fun. Jackie Chan, as
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        Lock icon Angel Eyes
        74 11 Gocry Directed by Luis Mandoki Starring Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel J LO plays cop again. The dramatic costumes and makeup (from The Cell) might be out of sight, but the emotional dilemmas that come with the job remain. Thankfully, she meets Catch, a man who's lost his wife
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        Lock icon Full Time Killer
        60 11 Gothrill Directed by Johnnie To Starring Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Kelly Lin, Simon Yam TWO professional killers with different ideals pit themselves against each other, and only one can emerge alive. Its action and eye candy galore, and fans of Jap hunk Takashi Sorimachi (GTO, Beach Boys)
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        Lock icon Planet of the Apes
        67 11 Goromance Directed by Tim Burton Starring Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, btella Warren LOVELORN ape (Helena Bonham Carter) and lovelorn savage girl (Estella Warren) swoon over buff astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who ends up on the hostile planet by accident. But if you're looking for
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      Lock icon Chin Han: Kit's a kisser
      217 12 VETERAN actor Chin Han’s perfectly at ease when it comes to kissing scenes which his younger colleagues in upcoming Channel U serial Cash is King may find daunting. A perennial male lead in many romantic melodramas in the 60s and 70s, Chin Han told Lianhe
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      Lock icon Kenny wants gag order on ex
      140 12 FOUR years after Kenny I Bee’s much-publicised diI vorce from his socialitebusinesswoman, Teresa Cheung, 37, in 1997, they are still at each other’s throats. In the latest saga, Cheung told a Hongkong variety show on Monday that their marriage was already on the rocks
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      Lock icon Not-so-secret agent
      191 12 MIS has failed to keep this mission top secret details of the 20th James Bond movie has been leaked on the Internet, reported London daily the Mirror. The suave British spy’s new mission? To find his missing dad. Original 007 Sean Connery who turns 71 next week is
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      • Today's must-see TV
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          Lock icon PARADISE
          54 12 9:3opm, TV Works With Don Fernando’s death Anna (Lum Mei Yee, left) discovers the truth, but w will she tell Jasmine? Logan returns, harbouring sel crets of his own but Jasmine 1 doesn’t give him I a chance to I explain. Meanf while, Ramon and Anna are r seen
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          Lock icon THURSDAY MOVIE ACTION: K-9
          41 12 7.30 pm, TV Works Narcotics officer Dooley (James Belushi) gets a new partner instead of the new car he asks for. Turns out his partner is good at sniffing out criminals he’s a police dog named K-9.
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          Lock icon FIREWORKS
          27 12 10.30 pm, Channel U Kang Xu tells Zhixian not to give up her writing and Zhong is furious when he discovers Zhixian has resumed her writing.
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          Lock icon THE WEST WING
          22 12 11 pm, Channel 5 Bartlet plots a military mission to rescue federal drug agents taken hostage by Colombian terrorists.
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          Lock icon GOGGLES: GTO
          39 12 10.30 pm, Channel 8 Vchiyamada is criticised by the students’ parents when he covers for Teshigawara as the maths teacher. The former blames his misfortune on Chizuka and is even more determined to get rid of Chizuka.
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon S'pore quartet to clash with region's best The power of four
        338 17  -  by TAN KIM HAN THEY call themselves the “Amazing Four”. And for a good reason, too. The four cagers amaze their rivals with their slick movements and high scoring percentage. Two months ago, they ruled the court at the
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      • SOCCER
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          Lock icon 'Show no fear'
          115 17 Reuters LONDON England coach Sven Goran Eriksson is urging his players to show no fear when they walk out to face Germany in their crunch World Cup qualifier on Sept 1. England, which trails Rudi Voeller’s Group Nine leader by six points, needs a victory to stand
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          Lock icon Mauro Silva recalled
          56 17 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Midfielder Mauro Silva, who pulled out of the Copa America minutes before the Brazilian squad boarded the plane for Colombia, was recalled on Tuesday for the World Cup qualifier away to Argentina. He was among 14 foreign-based players named for the match in
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        Lock icon Tyson bout put off
        66 17 BOXING -AFP COPENHAGEN Mike Tyson’s scheduled clash with Denmark’s Brian Nielsen has been postponed after the American boxer injured his back in training, Danish fight promoters confirmed yesterday. Tyson was due to fight Nielsen in Copenhagen on Sept 8, but the bout has now been put
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        Lock icon Inept refereeing mars exciting encounter Winter blows up heat
        757 18 -Wire services PREMIER LEAGUE Arsenal 1 Leeds United 2. LONDON Leeds manager David O’Leary hailed his team on Tuesday after its fighting 2-1 win over Arsenal, but could not hide his dismay at the two red cards his side received from
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        Lock icon 'Fowler not hot yet'
        366 18 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Liverpool 4 FC Haka 1 -Wire services LONDON Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier will adopt a “soft” approach to Robbie Fowler’s (fight) comeback. The striker scored the first goal in Liverpool’s 4-1 in the second leg of the third qualifying round Champions League win oVer
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        Lock icon Dark horse among thoroughbreds
        542 19  -  er:6ow,erle^ by LIM HAN MING MY first bowling assignment was the Whitebox Youth Challenge at Victor’s Superbowl two years ago. Then, I interviewed rookie bowler Lee Yu Wen, who emerged out of nowhere to take top spot. That was the first |r victory of his fledgling
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      156 12 Be II E-mail your answer to streats@sph.com.sg by 10pm the same day Here's what Michelle Chia, Channel U artiste and star of The Yang Heroines, has to say: ilways wear black. Very, very black. I think if you want to make your eyelashes stand out more, the best colour to
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      370 13 i whiV vvn The story is about Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything, from girl problems to gang fights, from baseball matches to flower arrangement classes. Most of all,
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      268 14 The story today Qiu Qingbo wants Xuan Yuan San Guang to guess the number of purple-gold nuggets in his pouch. Xuan agrees but he wants Qiu to wager his beautiful wife. "If you lose, I'll have her. If you win, you can have my three wives," Xuan says. Qiu is
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