Streats, 25 August 2001

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    18 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets as Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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    Lock icon Project eyeball
    584 1  -  50,000pre-schoolers to be screened to stem or stop short-sightedness by SARAH NG THE Government will take a close look at the window to your soul your eyes and eyeball ways to help you and your children see better. It’s called the National Myopia Prevention Programme and it was
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    Lock icon At bus stops, seeing is relieving...
    174 1 THE next time you’re waiting for a bus, don’t just squint into the distance. Check out this bus stop it shelter panel. It promises to help relax your eyes. Besides its novel three-dimensional effect, it has an important message for you i and your
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      32 1 Boy wonder This boy passed his O-level Maths and is now studying logarithms. And he's only six. Parents, wouldn't you just love to have a kid like that? PEOPLE/PAGE 10 Pic: AFP
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon The game is over
      347 2  -  He knifed player who had 'killed'him by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM IN an eerie replay of a popular computer game, 21-year-old Daniel Tan Thiam Soon knifed a 16-year-old youth in the back after his “counter-terrorist” character in Counter Strike, had been stabbed by the victim’s “terrorist” character. At about
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      Lock icon Guilty or not? Wife of SIA embezzler isn't telling court
      192 2  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM THE wife of an SIA employee jailed last year for embezzling nearly $35 million yesterday faced eight charges of receiving stolen property. Tan Lay Bee, 50, is also accused of helping her husband, Teo Cheng Kiat, conceal over
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      Lock icon Help for Malay laid-off workers
      190 2 RETRENCHED Malay/Muslim workers will receive more than just cash to help them out. They will get monthly grants of $9O to $4OO per family, but along with it, they must attend a halfday seminar to learn how to cope with retrenchment and information on training
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      Lock icon Promise to investors I'll wipe out terror groups, says Arroyo
      366 2 PHILIPPINE President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has vowed to “wipe out” terrorist threats in her country. Speaking to investors here she said she had already cracked down on the Abu Sayyaf group operating in the south of the country. Her aim:
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      Lock icon Eldershield scheme due next year Help for the severely sick
      217 3  -  All reports by Sarah Ng BUSINESSMAN Thomas Chan, 47, is worried for his future. He fears that when he and his 42-year-old wife grow old and need long-term health care, their only daughter would not be able to support them
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    • How Eldershield works: By the middle of next year, if you are...
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        Lock icon 40 to 69 with no disabilities
        174 3 You will be automatically covered for life under Eldershield. •You pay annual premiums from age 40 to 65, deductable from your Medisave account The exact amount will be announced later Those aged 57 and above at the time of the launch can pay their
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        Lock icon 40 to 69 with disabilities, or are over 70 years old
        92 3 •You are not eligible for Eldershield.You will instead be covered under the Interim Disability Assistance Programme for the Elderly (Idape) No premiums are needed If youi per capita household income (household income divided by the num- ber of persons
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        Lock icon Under 40 years with no disbilities
        33 3 You can still join Eldershield and pay your annual premium by Medisave or cash When you reach 40 you will be asked if you wish opt out
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      Lock icon Halo, what's that?
      81 3 A READER rang yesterday to alert us to this ring around the sun. Such a halo is formed when sunlight is refracted by ice crystals present in clouds 10,000 m above ground. “When the sun’s rays pass through these high clouds, they are refracted by the ice
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      94 3 Our weather girl says Remember the hot, scorching weather these past few days? Well, the good news is that it will be cooler today, with temperatures between 15°C ana 31 °C. The bad news: the rain is back, with thunderstorms and m showers in the late morning I ana early
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      Lock icon Check this out...
      159 3 Just a minute Ultimate TV Fanatics be at Bishan, Junction 8 at 3pm today. Hosts Lim Anna, Huang Wen Hong and Channel U artistes Kym Ng, Darren Lim, Constance Song, Lynn Poh and Bernard Tan will play games with you. These include The Ultimate TV Fanatic Memory
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      Lock icon Driving licence scam
      308 4  -  by SONNY PHUA 7 busted in first syndicate of its kind in Singapore POLICE have busted the first fake driving licence syndicate ever uncovered in Singapore. Seven men were nabbed in an 18-hour operation on Thursday. The seven, aged between 27 and 50, were picked up from
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      Lock icon China not on our blood donor list
      143 4  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH THE Health Sciences Authority says Singapore has never imported or registered any blood or blood products from China. It was responding to a report on Thursday that the Chinese Government had admitted that about 50,000 of its citizens had been
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      Lock icon SMRT staff reads mystery paper
      115 4 morningsmile. SEE the newspaper this man is reading? Look carefully: Can you guess what’s missing from the paper’s front page? Clue: It’s what identifies the paper. That’s right the paper’s masthead, bearing its name, has been erased. Now if you’re wondering which paper it is,
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        Lock icon Safe with $60,000 stolen
        88 4 THIEVES made off with $60,000 by carting away a safe in a pre-dawn raid on a money changer-cum-provision store. The thieves smashed their way through glass doors into the ground-floor shop in Tiong Bahru Plaza on Thursday morning. At about 4.30 am, security guards patrolling the
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        Lock icon Heroin worth $1.4m recovered
        99 4 A JOBLESS man was arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on Thursday morning for drug trafficking. The 42-year-old man, who allegedly operated near his flat in Block 123 KimTian Road, was arrested after CNB officers saw him leaving a bag in a drain near the
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        Lock icon Burglars take jewellery worth $3,800
        59 4 ON Wednesday evening, a second-floor flat in Block 51 Lorong 6Toa Payoh was robbed after thieves forced open the window grilles and entered through the kitchen window in the rear. When Ms Foune Lai Kwan, 68, returned home at about 10.15 pm, she discovered all
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        Lock icon Man, 81, killed by van
        77 4 AN elderly pedestrian died after he was knocked down by a van while crossing Penang Road on Thursday. Mr Seng Cheok Kew, 81, was on his way to buy lunch at about Ipm when he crossed Penang Road at the pedestrian crossing near Oxley road.
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      Lock icon Towards a competitive labour force No 2 for education, HR dimate: Perc
      324 5  -  by KAREN CHEN SINGAPORE has been rated second out of 12 Asian countries for its education and human resource environment. Hongkong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc) ranked South Korea as tops. The other countries, in descending order
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      Lock icon She's first Asian to win top US poetry prize
      222 5 SHE beat 2,500 other participants from around the world to become the first Asian to win the 2001 World Poetry Award. No Asian has won the award since it was established 10 years ago, and when Singaporean Sophie Leu went on
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      Lock icon Food court etiquette
      74 5 onekindact Siva Sai N I WOULD like to thank everyone who has the courtesy to not reserve a food court seat by placing a tissue packet on it while they go off to select their food. It seems we are in a minority. If you wish to
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      Lock icon Jail, caning for sex beast
      109 5 SOLAIYAN Arumugam, who attacked unaccompanied women in the Moulmein and Bendemeer areas, was yesterday sentenced to 20 years’jail. He will also get 20 strokes of the cane. He was convicted of raping two women and molesting another. On Mar 11 last year, the former driver
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      Lock icon 17 faces of the Singaporean
      226 5  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH I AM a Singaporean, you say, but what exactly is that? The answer is in a new book, The Singaporean Exposed: Navigating the Ins and Outs of Globalisation. It lets you see yourself from 17 angles, from the serious to the funny.
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      Lock icon US worries justified, says Jakarta intelligence chief Indon terror attack warning
      229 6 -AP JAKARTA Indonesia’s intelligence chief has confirmed US government warnings that American interests in Indonesia face possible terrorist attacks. The head of the National Intelligence Agency AM Hendropriyono was quoted by The Jakarta Post as saying that greater democracy
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      Lock icon Jumbo jet stuck in the drain
      242 6 KUALA LUMPUR It can’t have been the best of days for a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 jumbo jet at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) late on Thursday night. First, one of the engines developed mechanical failure and the plane had to be
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      Lock icon Whipping row
      63 6 -AP JAKARTA Indonesia has criticised a plan by Malaysia to whip illegal immigrants and warned that it could affect ties between the two countries. An Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman yesterday described the proposal as akin to “torture”. An estimated 600,000 illegal immigrants, mainly unskilled labourers, work in Malaysia
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      Lock icon Tax divorcing couples, says Aussie archbishop
      217 6 -AFP SYDNEY One of Australia’s most senior Catholic bishops has made a call for a divorce tax to be imposed on separating couples. Archbishop George Pell said the current legal system made it too easy for couples to divorce and he called for changes
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      Lock icon Rapists get off lightly
      180 6 SYDNEY The gang of teenage rapists which attacked two schoolgirls here have received only light jail terms, provoking outrage. The youths received sentences yesterday of between 18 months and six years for the assaults, in which they raped the victims for more than five hours. The
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      Lock icon Serial event pest nabbed
      111 6 -AP BRISBANE A man known in Australia as the “Serial Pest” for disrupting public events was remanded in custody yesterday. Peter Hore faces one charge of behaving in a disorderly manner earlier this month for allegedly disrupting a fashion parade. The incident was the latest in
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      Lock icon M'sia may post 2-3% growth Economy up says Dr M
      268 7 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has predicted that the economy could still grow by 2 or 3 per cent this year despite global uncertainties. Reacting to second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figures released on
      -AFP  -  268 words
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      Lock icon Taiwan brainstorms
      76 7 -AP TAIPEI -Taiwan’s leader kicked off a three-day economic meeting yesterday that Taiwanese businesses hope will jump-start the economy and ease restrictions on investing in rival China. Since Taiwan’s economy began sliding last year, President Chen Shui-bian’s inexperienced new government has struggled to boost confidence and develop new
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      Lock icon FREE SEX:
      49 7 FREE SEX: A condom mascot offering leaflets to Thai teenagers yesterday during a promotional campaign by condom manufacturer Durex to educate Thai youths on how to use condoms to fight Aids. Thailand is grappling with one of the region ’s worst Aids problems Pic: Reuters Pic: Reuters
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      Lock icon Thai sex-dtange tour package
      154 7 -AP BANGKOK For those in search of some sun, sand and surf and a sex change Thailand’s tourism promoters are planning a special package tour to Phuket. This resort island in southern Thailand has seen a recent boom in private clinics offering sex-change operations and plastic
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    • Article
      Lock icon How are new objects found in outer space named?
      71 7 knowornot The rules are set by the International Astronomical Union. And the rules are: Stars named by Greek, Roman and Arab astronomers in ancient times retain their names. Newly discovered stars receive not names but numbers, based on their coordinates. Theme
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Antique condoms for sale
        54 7 CONDOMS 64 years past their use-by date are up for sale, on ebay.co.uk. The packets of sheaths boast names like Neverrip and Phantasma, the Daily Record yesterday reported. One of the packets warns “Not to be used after March 1937”. Another brand, New Protector, states “For
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        Lock icon Sweet over stars
        77 7 WOMEN prefer pudding to Brad Pitt according to a test by a British supermarket chain. Volunteers were tested with heart monitors to compare reactions to food and sexy stars, The Sun reported. When shown a raspberry creme brulee, heart rates shot up to 142 beats a minute.
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        Lock icon Cow finds hay-ride wallet
        63 7 -AP A WALLET lost on a US farm turned up a year later in a Japanese cow’s mouth. “I lost it while I was fluffing hay,” said Mr Justin Henderson, 18. The hay was exported to Japan. “One of our cows lapped up a strange thing,”
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        Lock icon Tenant, 65, in $8m suit
        58 7 -AP A TENANT is being sued for more than US$5 million ($8.7 million) for impersonating another man since 1964 to keep a rentcontrolled flat. Retired city worker Aldo Vigliarolo, 65, has four months to quit the US$55O-a--month ($963) flat, the Daily News said. Its rental
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  • Streatsmar global
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      Lock icon Israel on rampage In Hebron Palestinian houses bombed
      235 8 Reuters HEBRON, West Bank The Israeli army yesterday blew up two houses in a thrust into Palestinian-ruled Hebron. The army, which withdrew after three hours, said that the houses on a strategic hilltop had been used by gunmen firing at a Jewish
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      Lock icon Arafat's new 'friends'
      248 8 Wire services BEIJING On the final stop of his Asian tour, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday met China’s President Jiang Zemin and the country’s number two Li Peng, state media reported. Mr Li is chairman of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress. The veteran Palestinian
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      Lock icon Venezuela on dengue alert
      253 8 -AFP CARACAS -Venezuela is now on a dengue alert. Calling the epidemic“an emergency”, President Hugo Chavez has urged Venezuelans to fight the illness by getting rid of pools of water. Dengue fever, which is caused by the Aedes mosquito, has plagued many countries recently. Singapore, Thailand
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      Lock icon Men, if you want a long life, get a wife
      81 8 LONDON Middle-aged men who live alone tend to die earlier than married men, reports the Daily Telegraph. They are also more prone than married men to diabetes and rheumatism, said a study released by the British Office for National Statistics.
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      Lock icon Workers beyond the call of duty
      117 8 LONDON Bosses who phone their staff at home to talk about work matters could face legal action under human rights legislation, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. They risk being sued for an invasion of privacy unless such phone calls are specifically laid out in
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      Lock icon Accord a Cold War relic, Bush tells Putin US to scrap missile treaty
      324 9 -AFP CRAWFORD, Texas The US will pull out from a key arms pact to forge ahead with its missile shield plans, President George W Bush said on Thursday. “We will withdraw from the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty
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      Lock icon Passenger wins $2m for flight trauma
      169 9 Reuters BILLINGS, Montana A woman here has been awarded US$l.25 million ($2.18 million) to compensate for emotional trauma suffered during a Delta Air Lines jet’s emergency landing. Ms Kathy Weaver, 44, was awarded the damages on Wednesday after fellow passengers testified that they believed
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      Lock icon Man tries to take Liberty, gets stuck
      171 9 -AP NEW YORK A daredevil Frenchman trying to land by parachute on the Statue of Liberty’s torch got caught on the gilded flame. He had to cling there for 30 minutes before police pulled him to safety and slapped on handcuffs. Thierry Devaux,
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      Lock icon Quake'overdue1 in India, say geologists
      148 9 Quake'overdue 1 in India, say geologists -AFP Washington -The lives of millions of people living in northern India and nearby countries could be at risk from a major earthquake which could hit y hit the region in coming years. In the latest edition of the US magazine Science, researchers said:
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      Lock icon Why do you go, president asks Nigerian prostitutes
      189 9 -AP ABUJA, Nigeria -Trying to end the traffic of women bound for prostitution abroad, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo personally quizzed 33 young women recently intercepted on their way to Europe. Among the Nigerian leader’s questions during the meeting on Wednesday in the
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Boy, he's a genius
      429 10 K first it was just addition and subtraction. Now I am on to logarithms and can use a slide rule. I have also discovered a new number sequence which has been recorded in an encyclopaedia. Arran, 6, the youngest to pass GCSE, which is the equivalent
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      Lock icon Q: Was it a sexual relationship? A: I won't give details
      292 10 Wire services MODESTO, California That’s what ABC’s star reporter Connie Chung bluntly asked US Congressman Gary Condit over the disappearI ance of former intern Chandra Levy. Her persistent questioning saw the 53- year-old Democrat from central Cali- fornia ac-
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      Lock icon Yany is dancing again
      431 11  -  She's back on stage, determined to put the breast-baring past behind her. She is doing things 'the right way'now by < CARAVAN MIRIAH YANY has returned to the dance floor. But it’s only shimmering leotards now, no more flashing pierced nipples at tattoo conventions. Khairani Abdul
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      Lock icon Oops, right answer! So TVB pays up
      276 12 Reuters HONGKONG'S dominant broadcaster TVB has paid HK$ 1 7 8,0 0 0 ($40,000) to a losing contestant on a popular quiz show after mistakenly kicking him out of the game. Student Gary Chan was eliminated during the final round of The Weakest
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      Lock icon MCS newbie gets star backing
      218 12  -  by SAMANTHA CROY HE may be new to the local TV scene, but 29-year-old Allan Wu already has a major star backing him. Mrs Rosie Phua, Irene Ang herself, was at a a ceremony yesterday to sign on Allan as the latest addition to the
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      Lock icon Is the marriage over?
      196 12 POOR Shizuka Kudo. Just when the protest from Takuya Kimura’s fans over their shotgun marriage died down, along came another devastating piece of news: Her 28-year-old heartthrob of a husband could be seeing another woman. A younger woman, to be precise. Reports said that a “young
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      Lock icon Mick Jagger pin-up for over- 50s
      398 13 Reuters LONDON Mick Jagger once sang “What A Drag It Is Getting Old”. On Thursday, he was the front-page spread in a magazine for over-50s. Amid the Saga Magazine advertisements for retirement homes and orthopaedic beds, the wrinkly rocker extols the virtues of Enigma,
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      Lock icon 'Julia stole my hubby'
      162 13 RUNAWAY Bride star Julia Roberts has run away with a married man, claims his wife. The Oscar-winning star is apparently having an affair with cameraman Danny Moder, who dumped his make-up artist wife Vera and moved out of their home, the Daily Record yesterday cited US
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon 2GE+HER
          28 13 12.30 pm, Saturday, TV Works A new boy-band mockumentary that takes a poke at teen groups. Features a fictional boy band and its troubles in the business.
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          Lock icon MAKING HEADLINES
          31 13 9pm, Sunday, Channel U Jie Qi meets with an accident and Guo Gong beats up the culprit and then resigns. Tang Ning is told she needs surgery. Final episode.
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          Lock icon DIVINE RETRIBUTION
          34 13 10.30 pm, Sunday, Channel 8 Xingxia is beaten in the stock market by Saisi and Taotian and his company folds. Ding Ye becomes mentally unstable and Zhang Qiang tries to cure him.
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          Lock icon UEFA SUPER CUP – BAYERN MUNICH VS LIVERPOOL
          39 13 UEFA SUPER CUP BAYERN MUNICH VS LIVERPOOL 2.30 am (live), 2pm (R), Saturday, ESPN (SCV 23) Pits the winners of Europe’s top two club competitions from the previous season against each other in a one-off encounter on neutral turf.
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          Lock icon STAR WARS: EPISODE 1- THE PHANTOM MENACE
          61 13 9pm, Sunday, Star Movies (SCV 58) As imminent conflict brews between the powerful Trade Federation and the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his A apprentice Obi-Wan i Kenobi travel toi Naboo to warn the I queen of the galactic
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    • easyStreats sport
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        Lock icon NBA star's advice to Asians Work on your speed
        511 16  -  by 'Tan Kim Han HONGKONG If basketball be the food of love, play on. Tim Thomas did just that. Every chance he had, he would bounce the ball. Anywhere and everywhere. Today, the Milwaukee Bucks’ forward is an NBA star, whose
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        Lock icon Nazri's class shows in Warriors'victory
        405 16  -  NTUC INCOMES LEAGUE Balestier Central 2 SAFFC4 by ADAM HASHIDY A FEW months into the S-League, a lacklustre Nazri Nasir lost his captain’s armband to Croatian Nenad Bacina. It hurt the Singapore Armed Forces FC midfielder’s pride, but he chose to keep the pain to
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        Lock icon Advantage attackers
        383 17 Position on quick free-kicks not new -AFP PREMIER LEAGUE LONDON Dead-ball specialists will be in the spotlight once again this weekend after a week of uncertainty over a rule which benefits attacking teams at free-kicks. The intention is to give the initiative to the attacking side by allowing
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        Lock icon Weekend schedule
        38 17 TODAY: Arsenal v Leicester, Blackburn v Tottenham, Everton v Middlesbrough, Fulham v Derby, Ipswich v Charlton, West Ham v Leeds, Southampton v Chelsea TOMORROW: Aston Villa v Manchester United, Newcastle v Sunderland MONDAY: Bolton v Liverpool
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        Lock icon Fulham enters race for Cole
        355 17 -Wire services LONDON Fulham has entered the race for Manchester United’s unsettled striker Andy Cole (right) after Old Trafford revealed it would listen to offers for the hitman. Cole is unhappy after being dropped in favour of Ruud van Nistelrooy, and United chief executive Peter
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        Lock icon Indra in semi-finals
        64 17 > BADMINTON SINGAPORE'S top -ranked shuttler Indra Wijaya reached the semi-finals of the Asian Badminton Championships in Manila yesterday when he beat world No 15 Agus Hariyanto of Hongkong. Indra, ranked 29th in the world, beat Indonesian-born Agus 15-6,15-3. The 27-year-old joins China’s Xia Xuanze and Lin
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        Lock icon Fergie wary of Deportivo
        83 17 SOCCER LONDON Alex Ferguson has singled out Spanish club Deportivo La Coruna as the danger team after the Champions League draw was made. The first group stage draw in Monaco paired United with French side Lille, Deportivo laCoruna and Greek outfit Olympiakos. He told the BBC:
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        Lock icon $140,000 to play with Tiger
        81 17 ►GOLF Reuters HONGKONG Fancy playing one hole with Tiger Woods in China? That’ll cost US$BO,OOO ($140,504). Mission Hills, a golf club in southern China, is offering a rare chance for duffers and experts alike to pit their skills against Woods during his visit in November,
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        Lock icon A day of sporting fun
        288 18  -  by PETER SIOW LOCK up your homes tomorrow, pack the family into the car or bus and head for sunny Sentosa. Why? Because the Singapore Sports Carnival 2001 will provide you and your family with a day of sporting fun and entertainment. From dawn to
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        Lock icon REWIND
        113 19 R EWIND SINGAPORE may boast a former world No 1 in the late Wong Peng Soon in the *****, but its shunters'performance at the Southeast Asia Games comes nowhere dose to that of the Thomas Cup maestro. It had to wait a long time before Wong Republic its first badminton
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        Lock icon The great divide
        569 19  -  J,, by Lim Han Ming THEY say if you want a rainbow, you have first to put up with the rain. In Singapore shuttler Gerald Ho’s case, the road to the pot of gold in next month’s South-east Asia Games at the Malawati Stadium begins with first-round
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