Streats, 21 February 2002

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  • 10 1 Streats THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 503 1 wire services ONE team was headed for a martyr’s death in Israel. Another was in Italy with large quantities of cynanide, suspected to have been meant to poison Rome’s water supply. Both teams are suspected
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  • MORNING RUSH
    • 171 1 THE Indonesian media’s reactions to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks about terrorist masterminds in Indonesia are “very puzzling,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in a statement yesterday. “Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that the masterminds of the arrested Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)
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    • 132 1 JERUSALEM The Israeli army yesterday killed two “suspected terrorists” just north of Kissufim in the Gaza Strip who were about to fire mortars into Israeli. Earlier, Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinians yesterday in reprisals for a Palestinian shooting ambush that killed six Israeli soldiers one of
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    • 40 1 Being a GW (Government-Linked Corporation) may in some markets. Bid I th ink in other markets there are actually considerable cachet to the Singapore brand name. Single!president and ibicfa.u'culhy l.i'i' Hsian Yang GLC YING YAivr JLrULilvx S\:v V\Gl 6 ST
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    • 27 1 U 8 at the same table? Hairstylist David Gan plays peacemaker to Channel 8 and Channel U stars at special dinner. Did he succeed? SEE PAGE 15
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  • STREATS local
    • 364 2  -  By Cara van Miriah SINGAPORE’S consumer watchdog has decided to handle complaints from credit-card members instead of merely passing these on to the Association of Banks in Singapore. This is because the consumers’ association is not confident about
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    • 387 2  -  By Diana Ser MEDIA giant Singapore Press Holdings has won round one of the print media war, but there is no room for complacency, the editor-in-chief of its English and Malay Newspapers Division, Mr Cheong Yip Seng, said yesterday. Speaking at an annual awards
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    • 139 2 Some of the winners are: Story: Salma Khalik, “No trouble getting a C-class bed now” (The Straits Times, Sept 7) Feature: Cheong Suk-Wai and Michelle Ho, “Keepers of the urn” (The Sunday Times, Nov 25) Headline: Swaran Kapur, “Zen Bushism” (The Business Times, May 23) News picture:
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    • The P&C of bankruptcy
      • 206 3 THE number of people being made bankrupt because they can’t repay their car hire purchase loans reveals one clear picture. Some Singaporeans have been over-stretching their personal budgets just to own a car. Today, bankruptcies from bad car loans are taking as high a profile as financial
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      • 236 3  -  By Karen Chen NOTHING tells the story of the tough times Singaporeans are going through than the plight of some heartlanders. The number of HDB flat dwellers asking for financial assistance in paying their monthly instalments has gone up 50
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      • 214 3 SINGAPORE was once an El Dorado where veritable fortunes were made from buying and selling property. Today, those who own private or public homes find themselves among the ranks of what is being dubbed the “asset poor, cash poor” class, Business Times columnist Lee Han Shih wrote. These
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    • 380 4  -  By Khushwant Singh FOR her wedding, the bride wanted something different from the standard studio poses. So when her photographer, Alvin Oh Keng Kee, 28, suggested Western-style photography, she agreed. The problem was, Oh didn’t explain what he
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    • 167 4  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH THE birth of Joyce Heng Kwee Huang’s triplets in Dec 1997 after three years of fertility treatment was an answered prayer. But the stress of raising them, while working as a primary school teacher took its toll. Worse, when she and her husband, army
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    • 217 4  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH A SURVEILLANCE officer with the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) found himself surveying a courtroom from a very unfamiliar position the dock. Sogamaran Gopal Ramachandran, 39, was charged yesterday on three counts of selling CPIB secrets. He had received $1,350 from Desmond Lee
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    • 284 4 CHIEF Justice Yong Pung How had some stem words for two prison officers on the wrong side of the law. They should maintain law and order in prison, and not take the law into their own hands to abuse and punish
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    • 238 4  - Smile you’re on lift TV By Karen Chen SING, scratch your crotch or squeeze that pimple at your own peril, now that some HDB lifts are fitted with closed-circuit televisions (CCTV). But better that than more crimes in lifts. Last year, while police figures show an 11.6 per cent fall
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  • STREATS financial
    • 436 6 STI: 1,729.35 13.38 Reuters SHARES clawed back most of their losses by the close yesterday, buoyed by technical buying after US equity index futures rose, signalling a rebound when Wall Street opens. The Straits Times Index closed down 0.77 per cent, or 13.38 points, lower
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    • 316 6  -  SG’s new rotation fond offers investors diversity in global sectors By Deepa Vijiyasingam WITH the increasing interdependence of global markets, diversifying your portfolio by geographic region is no longer good enough there is a need to diversify by global sectors. That is the premise behind
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    • 347 6 Reuters SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES LTD yesterday posted a 51 per cent rise in 2001 net profit to $176.09 million boosted partly by its marine and logistics businesses and an exceptional gain of $43 million. Analysts said the results were within market expectations after allowing for the fact
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    • 22 6 US$: 551.827 552.615 EURO: $1,604 Ss: DM1.219 Ss: 72.86 YEN Ss: RM2.080 Ss: HK54.269 Ss: 23.90 BAHT Ss: 5,573 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 77 6 Reuters HEALTHCARE firm Osim International Ltd has posted a 42 per cent rise in 2001 net profit to $13.4 million on the back of stronger sales in key regional markets and a tax break. It said a tax facility helped to boost its 2001 net profit
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      • 97 6 -AP DAIMLERCHRYSLER reported a 2.18 billion euro ($3.49 billion) operating loss in 2001 for its Chrysler division yesterday, but said a turnaround plan had prevented even bigger losses. The US-German automaker the world’s fifth-biggest said it made a 39 million euro net loss in the fourth quarter,
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      • 52 6 -AFP SINGAPORE and Hongkong are exploring the idea of a bilateral free trade agreement. A statement from the Trade Ministry yesterday said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Hongkong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa had discussed the issue on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit last year in
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    • 209 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian port of Tanjong Pelepas now wants more cooperation with Singapore to improve business on both sides. Tanjong Pelepas (PTP) has rapidly developed into a serious competitor for Singapore by wooing high-profile clients in the past two years. PTP managing
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    • 314 8  -  By Deepa Vijiyasingam SINGTEL president and chief executive Lee Hsien Yang yesterday denied that being a government-linked company (GLC) had hindered plans for overseas expansion. On the contrary, having the GLC tag had been a boon
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    • 296 8 Reuters THE Malaysian bourse yesterday blocked the start of trading of 473.8 million new Technology Resources Industries shares worth RMBB7 million ($427.35 million), disrupting an exit avenue for new investors. “The deferment is necessary pending further clarification in relation to TRl’s application for
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    • 31 8 Champions League Nantes v Man U Liverpool v Galatasaray How did the English giants fare? Lianhe Zaobao Night scenes here as c captured on former Soviet spycam Lomo Lomo UP ((i'f®))
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 384 9  -  Samuel Cheah THE reason we gather together as a cohesive community is to share knowledge, culture, arts, etc, regardless of race, language or religion. We come together for mutual support. We come together purposely, to develop something good. For moments, instants when we feel truly
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    • 181 9  -  Mrs Chow SK AFTER reading “We’re on the green path, but walking real slow” (Streats, Feb 19), a letter by James Low, I feel compelled to point out that recycling is everyone’s responsibility. As a green volunteer with the Singapore Environment Council, I’ve decided
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  • STREATS medical
    • 456 10  -  By Elsie Ch’ng AN almost nicotine-ftee cigarette. Come spring, it’ll no longer be a figment of the imagination. At least not in the US, where Vector Tobacco will launch cigarettes with genetically-modified tobacco which are very low in nicotine. The
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    • 188 10 Reuters BRUSSELS Belgian researchers say that small particles, similar to those found in air pollution, can enter a person’s bloodstream from the lungs. According to the investigators, the findings could help explain the “poorly understood” relationship between air pollution and heart disease
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    • 97 10 QI took laxatives for six months. Will this stop me from getting pregnant? A AS you have stopped taking laxatives, your body should have a chance to recover from them. Your chances of pregnancy should be the same as before if you keep eating well and healthily. Taking
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  • STREATS regional
    • 811 11 No plans to attack N Korea, says Busn Reuters CHIANGRAI “One economy and two countries” was how Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong described the future of economic relations between Singapore and Thailand. He was borrowing a phrase from China, that of
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
      • 83 11 ap MALAYSIAN authorities seized half a million copies of pirated and pornographic compact discs and videodiscs during a raid in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The items worth about RM2.5 million 1.2 million), were confiscated from three premises, said Abdullah Nawawi Mohamad of the Domestic Trade and Consumer
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      • 129 11 AP THE Thai Cabinet has approved an Interior Ministry proposal for smart identification cards to curb fraud and cut bureaucracy. Government ministers agreed on Tuesday to introduce an “e-card” with a magnetic strip that could include information such as social security and health records, said Somsak Nirathong,
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      • 165 11 AP TOKYO A court ordered Nomura Securities Co to pay 56 million yen ($765,644) in compensation to 13 women who accused the brokerage of sexual discrimination in promotion and pay. The women had demanded 667 million yen including back pay in a lawsuit filed with the Tokyo District
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    • 158 12 -AFP MANILA The Indonesian, Fathur Rohman A 1 Ghozi, suspected of being an explosives expert for the A 1 Qaeda terror network in Southeast Asia will not get off the hook despite the dropping of a key charge against him, a Philippine official said yesterday. Citing
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    • 408 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Indonesia yesterday angrily rejected international criticism that it is failing to act against extremists and pledged commitment to the fight against terrorism. Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayada singled out charges by Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew as provocative and warned
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    • 23 12 With American help, this Filipino soldier, wields an M4AI assault rifle, hoping to neutralise the rebels Reuters I
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  • STREATS global
    • 289 13 A PENTAGON office that was created after the Sept 11 attacks may distribute incorrect information to influence public sentiment and government policy overseas. The US military has long engaged in information warfare against hostile nations, but the new Office of Strategic Influence proposes to broaden
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    • 168 13 US pilots don’t want to bomb mud huts. So reconnaissance soldiers of US Army Special Forces Team 555 working in Afghanistan quickly learned to call such targets something different when they called in an airstrike. A mud hut where Taliban soldiers slept might have
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    • 302 13 -AFP LONDON The A 1 Qaeda terrorist network is far from destroyed and is preparing a new phase of activity, Western intelligence officials warned in interviews with the Financial Times yesterday. “A 1 Qaeda is not destroyed. It’s still a very serious threat and it
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    • 165 13 Reuters WASHINGTON Military success in Afghanistan has made it tougher to track fragmented terror groups still out there, a US defence official said. Damage to Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda has cut the immediate likelihood of a major attack like that of Sept 11,
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
      • 107 14 Reuters FLAMBOYANT Saparmurat Niyazov, leader of Turkmenistan, has decreed that all Turkmen who reach 62 years of age will get a holiday and bonus pay for a sacrificial feast to honour the age at which the Prophet died. “The rite of reaching the age of the prophet was
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      • 101 14 Reuters A TOP British judges has ruled that pimps should pay tax because pimping is not “inherently unlawful”. Mr Justice Jacob told London’s High Court on Tuseday that the only two activities exempt from Value Added Tax (which is similar to GST) were drug trafficking and counterfeiting.
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      • 71 14 Reuters “HITLER” won a prize for “most original mask” at a carnival in Germany. Now the man who wore the mask faces charges of glorifying the Third Reich, police said yesterday. The man donned the mask for a celebration in the town of Gehren. “It still has
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      • 108 14 A CELLPHONE thief was caught when the owner’s husband rang her and heard her order a Big Mac. Steve O’Brien’s wife’s mobile was stolen from a shop in Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. When he heard the thief place her order, he went to the nearest McDonalds and kept ringing
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    • 369 14 AP WASHINGTON Seven women who lost men they love in the Sept 11 attacks are suing terrorists and their supporters. “I have to take some kind of action,” said Tara Bane, whose husband was killed in the
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    • 64 14 A crowded train travelling from Cairo to Luxor caughtfire yesterday, killing at least 373 people, including some who died as they jumped from the speeding train. The toll is expected to climb. The cause of the fire is thought to have been a burst gas cylinder in the
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    • 209 14 JERUSALEM Israel launched fierce attacks by air and sea yesterday, killing 15 Palestinians and firing a missile near Yasser Arafat’s office. A Palestinian raid which killed six Israeli soldiers the night before drew the retaliation by Israeli aircraft and warships on Palestinian installations across the West
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    • 274 14 Reuters WASHINGTON Lawyers for the families of an Australian and two Britons held by US forces in Guantanamo filed a lawsuit on Tuesday saying their indefinite detention without trial violated the US Constitution. Filed in a US District Court in Washington, the petition
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  • easy STREATS
    • 617 15  -  Artistes from both ‘camps’were at David Gan’s bash. They laughed and talked and spoke well of each other. But were they willing to be photographed together? No lah, too sensitive, ’asFann Wong said m B y Stephanie Goh THEY came, they ate and they insisted they were
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    • 226 16 TAIWANESE politician-turned-reluctant-pom-star Chu Mei-feng will soon take centrestage here in Singapore. She is confirmed for a three-day concert at the Golden Mile Theatre at Beach Road on March 15, reported Lianhe Wanbao yesterday. But the Confessions of Chu Mei-feng Concert will be more
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    • 171 16 TALK about being unlucky. Even before she has completely recovered from an injured spine when a recent a car stunt went awry, Hongkong singer-actress Cecilia Cheung got into another car accident. But this time, she escaped unscathed. Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday that Cecilia was in
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    • 146 16 -AP BANGKOK Gongfu star Jackie Chan suffered a minor injury while performing a stunt during a movie shoot outside Bangkok on Monday. He was injured on the face and taken to a hospital where he was kept for four hours. He was back
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    • 437 17  -  Stephanie@ the movies STEPHANIE GOH FROM HELL Directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes Starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, lan Holm JOHNNY DEPP does drugged-out dude with deadpan expression again. Only, this time the character he plays in Jack the Ripperesque times is just plain
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    • Article, Illustration
      78 18 HIGH TIDE TODAY SUNRISE/SET MOON RISE/SET 4.03 am: 2.5 m 7.16 am 1.38 pm 5.30 pm: 2.0 m 7.21 pm 1.16 am Forecast details in at 5.10 pm TODAY: Partly cloudy and occasionally windy with passing showers over many areas in the afternoon. OUTLOOK: Isolated afternoon showers are expected
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    • Just a minute
      • 86 18 Worried about getting retrenched? This talk will tell you how to remain relevant in a changing job market. Tonight, 7pm to Bpm at Bedok Community Library, 21 Bedok North Street 1, tel: 332-3255. Admission is free. Register at the counter 15 minutes before the talk starts. Now
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      • 46 18 The next time you return from abroad with too much chewing gum or packets of undeclared cigarettes and feel guilty, look for the Amnesty Bins. The bins are at the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints, Changi Ferry Terminal, Singapore Cruise Centre and Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal.
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    • Happenin’
      • 85 18 DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Omni-Theatre, Singapore Science Centre Till May 19,10 am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm and Bpm Tickets $l6 (adult) and $ll (children) Call Sistic at 348-5555 One of Walt Disney Studio’s best and the only animated feature ever to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty
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      • 150 18 RUSSIAN NIGHTS 2 Victoria Concert Hall Today and tomorrow, 8.15pm $38, $28, $22, $17, $12 Call Sistic at 348-5555 German cellist Jan Vogler performs the dark yet witty First Cello Concerto by Dmitri Shostakovich, first composed for Mstislav Rostropovich and now one of the most frequently performed cello concertos
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      • 90 18 CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS Laguna National Country Club Till Sunday, Bam onwards $lO per day (Thursday and Friday), $25 (weekends), $4O (all four days) Call Ticket Charge at 296-2929 The purse for the second Caltex Singapore Masters stands at US$9OO,OOO ($1.65 million) this year. Golf greats like Nick Faldo, lan
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      • Article, Illustration
        48 18 PEGGY HSU HMV, Heeren Saturday, 4pm Free Meet Taiwanese songbird Peggy Hsu in person at this autograph-cum-mini concert. Only 20, the singer-songwriter has been bowling over critics, including top Taiwanese hosts Matilda Tao and Jiao Jiao. Bring along her CD Balloon and you may get her autograph
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      • 75 18 Purple Train Demonstration Date: Feb 21 Time: 7pm Venue informatics Dhoby Ghaut Campus Tap into PurpleTrain.com’s proven enhanced-leaming methods for the multi-tasking adult today, and achieve your postgraduate and undergraduate qualifications with the University of Wales online. Preview Talk: School of Business Accounting by Thames Date: Feb 21 Time:
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 45 19 9pm, Channel U Nan forces Nong to admit that he never truly loved her. Feeling suicidal, she refuses to return home with Lan as she told Nong the whereabouts and secrets of the map. She dies in Feng’s embrace.
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      • 43 19 9pm, Channel 8 Xiaoyu is outraged when she discovers the bugging device in her room. She then convinces Tianbao’s father to be her guarantor and borrows $30,000, intending to cheat him and disappear with the money. Tianbao swears to find her.
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      • 50 19 9pm, Cinemax (SCV 59) Denzel Washington stars as South African activist Stephen Biko, who was murdered by his country’s security police in 1977. Kevin Kline plays his friend, newspaper editor Donald Woods, who risked his life to escape from South Africa and tell Biko’s story to the world.
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      • 111 19 HARRY POTTER has worked his magic at the box office to become the second highest grossing film of all time, overtaking Star Wars Episode I last weekend. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, based on JK Rowling’s bestselling children’s book, has earned more than US$926
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    • Article, Illustration
      102 19 BLU Shangri-La Hotel Orange Grove Road Tel: 737-3644 www.shangri-la.com BLU is perhaps one of the most stylish bars in Singapore the others being Equinox and Centro. It offers a beautiful view of the city skyline from its location on the 24th floor of the Tower Wing. If you
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    • 217 19 Seminars MCSE CCNA™ 21 Feb (Thu), 7pm 26 Feb (Tue), 7pm Informatics Computer School Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station #BI-01 MCSE 25 Feb (Mon), 7.30 pm Informatics Professional Development Centre Suntec City Tower 1, #O6-03 Reply Slip (STREATS Happening/21 February 2002) Please fax this slip to 334 1946 or send it
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 464 19 Your by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Transformation or reversal happens when you least expect it. A similar miracle happened to you about a month ago. Break out of your frozen image into a highly active state. An old story was really a prophecy. PISCES FEB 19-MAR
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  • STREATS sports
    • 485 20  -  By. Adam Haskidy NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Geylang United 3 Home United 0 NEVER say that Aleksandar Duric is not a man of his words. Or that he fails to let his boots do the talking. On the eve of yesterday’s
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    • 313 20  -  By Tan Kim Han TITLE-CHALLENGER Singapore Armed Forces FC has received a major boost on the eve of its opening S-League match this season. It has secured Thai midfield dynamo Terdsak Chaiman (above), who is on loan from Thai champion club BEC Tero Sasana for
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    • 515 21  -  By- Lim Han Ming HIS sixth and last victory in a major came in the 1996 US Masters. And he has been winless on the PGA tour since the Nissan Classic in 1997. But Nick Faldo
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    • 49 21 When: Feb 21-24 Where: Laguna National Golf and Country Club Star names: Nick Faldo, lan Woosnam, Jean van de Velde Tickets: $lO (today and tomorrow), $25 (Saturday and Sunday), s4o(season), $l5 (season for juniors). Admission free for children under 12. Available at all Ticket Charge outlets.
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    • 672 22 Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Bayer Leverkusen 1 Arsenal 1 LEVERKUSEN, Germany Arsene Wenger kept his emotions in check after Arsenal had a Champions League victory stolen from it, and saw Ray Parlour controversially sent off. Wenger would have been excused righteous
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    • 220 22 Reuters MADRID Real Madrid coach Vicente del Bosque praised his side for clinching a 1-0 victory over Porto despite being far from its best. He said: “Sometimes we have won games in more brilliant fashion, but today we got the points in the most practical
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    • 109 22 GROUPC k Real Madrid (Spa) 1 (Solari 82) W Porto (Por) 0 Sparta Prague (Cze) 0 Panathinaikos (Gre) 2 (Karagounis 39, Konstantinou 71) GROUPD k Bayer Leverkusen (Ger) 1 (Kirsten 90) Arsenal (Eng) 1 (Pires 56) k Juventus (Ita) 0 Deportivo La Coruna (Spa) 0 GROUP C P
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    • 468 23  -  By'. Tan Kim Han WILL Singapore soccer get the nod for September’s Asian Games in South Korea? Probably not. For the young Lions the coming Asiad is an under-23 competition have not done anything to deserve the trip.
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    • 236 23 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP LA Lakers 108 Boston Celtics 109 LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant’s apparent game-winning jumper at the buzzer was waved off as Boston Celtics handed Los Angeles Lakers its first three-game losing streak under coach Phil Jackson. After Antoine Walker banked in an off-balance three-pointer with
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    • SPORTS SCAN
      • 141 23 BADMINTON MELBOURNE Singapore got off to a bright start in the Asian/Oceania zone qualifiers of the Thomas and Über Cups yesterday. The men’s team boosted its chances of qualifying for the semi-finals when it beat fourth seed Hongkong 4-1 in Group A. It had earlier lost
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      • SOCCER
        • 93 23 Reuters LONDON Croatia striker Alen Boksic scored one goal and made another as Middlesbrough eased its relegation fear with a 2-1 victory over Fulham in the Premier League on Tuesday. The three points lifted Steve McClaren’s side five places to 11th in the table, above local rival
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        • 85 23 Reuters TOKYO Chelsea is preparing an offer of around U 5524.5 million ($45 million) for Parma and Japan midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata, according to reports in an Italian newspaper. The Corriere dello Sport said on Tuesday that Chelsea had made a formal approach for the 25-year-old Nakata, who
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