Streats, 28 March 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2002 Hotline: 1800*844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • Article, Illustration
    442 1  -  New rider-friendly guides take the guesswork out of bus travel By_ Karen Chen COMMUTERS using the train and Tibs buses to and from their homes will find this routine more convenient along some routes from Monday. SMRT and Tibs have joined hands to produce helpful signs and
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  • MORNING RUSH
    • 257 1 -AFP BEIRUT An Arab League summit considering a major initiative for peace with Israel descended into disarray yesterday, jolted by a record number of no-shows, a pullout by the Palestinian delegation and a strong Saudi protest. The Palestinians withdrew after their absent leader Yasser
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    • 46 1 SINGAPORE will host the first cabinet-level contact between Japan and North Korea since July 2000, Japanese officials told The Straits Times yesterday. Japanese Health Minister Chikara Sakaguchi and his North Korean counterpart Kim Su Hak are scheduled to meet on Saturday.
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    • 50 1 p 'i* H «B «SI® 2SIK ISB 4 S&S §»i«w H M I w» Guards go ga-ga as playboy tycoon Tommy Suharto flashes a smile despite facing the death penalty for the murder of a judge. They were among 100 police officers on duty at the high-profile trial. PAGE 16
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    • 12 1 Collateral damage Arthur Andersen chief executive Joseph Berardino quits to mitigate damage
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  • STREATS local
    • Addenda to the President’s Address
      • 272 2  -  By, Sonny Phna A REVIEW of the Central Provident Fund scheme is on the cards. The Ministry of Manpower said this will be done to ensure members have enough savings for their housing, medical and retirement needs. But it added that the adjustments will
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      • 261 2  -  By Sarah Ng DEVELOPMENTS in education include the possibility of a fifth polytechnic and a fourth university, and the setting up of more technical institutes and junior colleges. The Ministry of Education also plans to increase places in secondary schools and establish state-funded
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      • 132 2  -  By_ Zubaidah Nazeer MULTI-RACIAL and multi-religious harmony in Singapore is a priority for the Ministry of Community Development and Sports. It will work with religious and community organisations to promote religious tolerance and to get more people involved in grassroots activities. It also plans to: Promote
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    • 353 3  -  Crossing borders is a good thing Wendy Tan GOOD science is infectious. Singapore’s gain of Japan’s renowned cancer specialist Yoshiaki Ito could lead to the exchange of medical knowledge between the two countries. Speaking to Streats at the end of a two-day biomedical symposium this week,
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    • 192 3 THE new campus of the Singapore Management University (SMU) will have underground connections, in the nicest possible way, of course. The city campus, at Bras Basah Park, will have public walkways beneath its buildings, which will also link up with the upcoming MRT station. Its
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    • 119 3 THE court hearing on the defamation case against Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan was conducted in his absence yesterday. Dr Chee did not show up for the session. He faces claims for aggravated damages from Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong
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    • 390 4 Nipple-nipped maid accepts $2,000 cheque from Kampong Übi CCC INDONESIAN maid Kusmirah Mujadi came here last March hoping to work hard, save enough money and go home to find the man of her dreams and start a family. Now, after escaping her employer’s cruelty with angry red
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    • 331 4  -  By Khushwant Singh YOU’VE run into cabbies who scowl at being handed a $5O note for a small fare. Rabindar Rai, 43, relief CityCab cabby and account executive with HewlettPackard, turned it to his advantage he would ask his victims to go
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    • 157 4  -  Reports by Khushwant Singh JEFFREY ANTHONY, 39, a driver, panicked when he saw a police road block along Tampines Avenue 7 at 2.30 am on Dec 5 he had drugs stashed in his right sock. He threw the drugs out, but police found the bag with
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    • 136 4 WHEN a 70-year-old retiree manhandled a 43-year-old businessman at a Hindu temple along Commomwealth Drive on Sept 17, all the action was caught on film. The fight started after morning prayers when Krishnan Reghunayakan, 70, accused Mr Kumarasamy Shanmuganathan, 43, of harassing a temple employee the day before.
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    • 118 4 STATE Coroner John Ng ruled a verdict of misadventure on the death of student Harry Chau Hon Wai, 14, on Dec 7. There was no negligence, the coroner added. While practising for the ESPN X Games Bicycle Stunt Competition at the Civic Plaza at Ngee Ann City at
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  • STREATS financial
    • 424 6 STI: 1,795.16 M 1.05 Reuters SHARES closed mixed yesterday with valuation concerns offsetting early optimism on encouraging news from Singapore Press Holdings and OCBC Bank. Shares of Keppel Corp recovered from an afternoon plunge on news minority shareholders had rejected a controversial proposal to
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    • 403 6 Bid to take KepTel private thwarted for now Small investors triumph Reuters SINGAPORE Small investors stood up to a government-controlled conglomerate yesterday and triumphed, blocking Keppel Corp’s attempts to take its telecoms business private. Industry watchers hailed the victory as a positive sign for retail investors who are often outflanked
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    • 249 6 Wire services SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) said yesterday it posted a 2001 net loss of US$57 million ($lO5 million) due to a downturn in world trade volume and excess industry capacity. The result was within expectations and comes after a profit of
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    • 22 6 US$: $51.844 552.631 EURO: $1.615 Ss: DM1.202 Ss: 72.05 YEN Ss: RM2.060 Ss: HK54.229 Ss: 23.49 BAHT Ss: 5,193 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 63 6 Reuters UNITED Engineers Ltd yestewrday reported a net profit of $14.1 million compared with $13.6 million previously. The rise came on the back of an 11 per cent increase in its turnover to $442 million for the full year to December 2001. United Engineers said it
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      • 93 6 Reuters PNE Micron Holdings, an electrodeposition coating specialist, is expected to offer around 60 million shares in its initial public offering (IPO), a spokesman said yesterday. He said the firm was looking to raise in excess of $lO millionin net proceeds mainly to fund its expansion in
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      • 67 6 -AFP GLOBAL auditing firm KPMG said yesterday it has reached a framework pact with the Asian affiliates of troubled rival Andersen to pursue merger talks. KPMG said its international chief operating officer Colin Holland had received commitment from Andersen’s Asian affiliates to reach agreement on a possible merger.
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    • 339 8 Reuters A RECENT fall in semiconductor orders from the region’s biggest customer, the US, does not dent predictions of a healthy recovery for Asia in coming months, analysts said. With the Chinese New Year holidays distorting the regional economic picture last month, analysts also
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    • 308 8 Interest rate hike unlikely Reuters WASHINGTON Federal Reserve officials said yesterday the US economic recovery is gaining strength and that inflation is not a concern, leaving room for the world’s most influential central bank to hold off on raising interest rates. New York Federal Reserve
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 8 Francisco Bileta getting his hair cut by hairdresser Hayde Paz in a barter deal. Because of Argentina's economic crisis, many Argentines are using the barter system. Every month more than 500,000 people gather at some of the 400 barter fairs around Argentina to exchange supplies and services.
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    • 129 8 Reuters BUENOS AIRES “Green fever” seemed to be highly contagious as thousands of Argentines lined up for blocks to buy US greenbacks before their pesos lost even more of their value on Tuesday. Nine financial institutions agreed late on Monday with the central
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    • 222 8 Reuters TOKYO Japan’s Parliament yesterday approved a trimmed-down national budget for fiscal 2002, giving a lift to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s efforts to overhaul the economy and rescue the nation’s finances from years of wasteful spending. Parliament’s upper house made the 81.23 trillion yen ($1.12
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    • 135 9 '■'S UK Relaxed THAILAND Rude Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge. To truly understand a country and its culture, you have to be part of it. That’s why, at HSBC, all our offices around the world are staffed by local people. In fact you’ll find we’ve got local people
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 174 10 THE Singapore Government has challenged allegations made in an article on the recent tudung controversy here, written by Seth Mydans and published in the New York Times on March 3. It also appeared in Malaysia’s New Straits Times. In a letter to both newspapers,
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    • 348 10 We publish in fall the Singapore Government’s reply CONTRARY to Seth Mydans’ (NST, March 3 2002) claim, the Government does not seek to quash the cultural identities of the different ethnic groups in Singapore. On the contrary, it respects each community’s wish to practise its own
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  • STREATS medical
    • 280 12 Contraceptive increases cervical cancer risk LYON Women who. take the birth-control pill for several years and have a common viral infection are more likely to get cervical cancer, according to a new study. Researchers found that when human papillomavirus (HPV) is combined with the Pill, the
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    • 66 12 HEALTH FACT CERVICAL cancer is the fourth most common cancer among Singaporean women. Women who have sex before they’re 20 or those having multiple sex partners have a greater risk of cervical cancer. Sexually transmitted infections also increase a woman’s chances of developing cervical cancer. What are the
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    • 199 12 ap PERTH Some people who take aspirin to ward off heart attacks may not be getting all the benefits they thought they were. A study in the latest issue of the journal Circulation found that as many as seven in 10 patients showed some resistance to aspirin’s bloodthinning
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    • 144 12 Reuters NEW YORK Comparing an elderly patient’s report of his or her own mental ability with information from a close relative could help doctors identify those who are at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s, according to researchers. Patients with mild mental impairment who reported
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    • 961 14 Planning ADVERTISING FEATURE Your Lifeline For The Future “Where am I now financially? What would I like to achieve? How do I get there?” These are questions people often ask themselves concerning their financial circumstances and what they hope to achieve. If you want to reach those goals, financial planning
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    • 610 15 LIFE IS A FASHION RUNWAY AND YOU'RE THE STAR! Make up! Dress up! And zip down to Jurong Point. You might just “catwalk” away with exciting trips and more in the STARfashion 2002 celebrations from March 19 to 3 JURONG POINT Our Kind Of Place I Jurong West Central 2,
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  • STREATS regional
    • 328 16 -AFP JAKARTA Judges were shown firearms allegedly found in an apartment complex owned by Tommy Suharto, youngest son of Indonesia’s former dictator, as his trial resumed yesterday under tight security. Tommy, the first close member of the Suharto clan to appear personally in
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    • 254 16 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s Speaker of parliament Akbar Tanjung will retain his post despite his current corruption trial, his deputies have agreed. Three of the four deputy speakers decided that Mr Akbar should keep his post and that they would fill in for him while he is
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    • 233 16 KUALA LUMPUR A 240 km stretch of highway between Parit Buntar and Tanjung Malim in Perak will receive some extra attention from the Malaysian highway police. The robbery hot spot, the Utusan Malaysia newspaper reported yesterday, will be patrolled around the clock. It
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    • 147 16 AFP BANGKOK Thailand has sealed off part of its northern border with Myanmar and sent in several hundred troop reinforcements after a series of clashes with ethnic fighters, military sources said yesterday. The Third Army, which patrols Thailand’s troubled far north region, closed the border on
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    • 327 19 China unemployment triples to 10 per cent: report Wire services BEIJING Over 200 retired car factory workers blocked traffic in Beijing yesterday, the latest in a series of labour protests in China. The retirees stood outside Beijing Automobile Works, disrupting traffic on a major road alongside the
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    • 186 19 SYDNEY Australia now has a union for strippers, but not many are likely to join. The Striptease Artists Australia will also cover table-top dancers, peep-show artists and topless barmaids. It hopes to push for better wages and conditions. The union plans to first
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  • STREATS global
    • 206 20 LONDON The British government is suspected of fabricating a scare story to justify sending 1,700 of its marines to fight in Afghanistan. In an off-the-record briefing, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s senior foreign policy adviser David Manning told newspapers last week that US forces
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    • 223 20 AP MERCED, California A divorced former sheriffs deputy shot his five-year-old daughter and three stepchildren dead while his ex-wife was out jogging, then committed suicide. John Hogan, 49, apparently had entered the house on Tuesday after his ex-wife, Ms Christine McFadden, left
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    • 165 20 Reuters SARASOTA, Florida A German man was found guilty on Tuesday of killing his ex-wife hours after both appeared on TV in a taped episode of the Jerry Springer talk show, which reveals shocking personal conflicts. Ms Nancy Campbell, 52, was found beaten
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    • 37 20 This young Afghan girl is not a victim of war hut of natural disaster. A powerful earthquake struck on Monday and is feared to have killed 1,800 people. More people died in aftershocks yesterday AFP
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
      • 140 20 -AFP PARIS When an egg is hard-boiled and spun on its side, it rises vertically to stand on its end. But why? Scientists at Britain’s University of Cambridge and Japan’s Keio University say they have figured it out. When an egg is spun on its side, its
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      • 73 20 -AFP WASHINGTON US President George W Bush has asked Congress for USSSO million ($92 million) to help bankroll a new army designed to free Afghanistan from the grip of warlords, the State Department said on Tuesday. If appropriated, it can be used “to help train and equip
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    • 161 20 AFP JERUSALEM Two international observers, a Turkish man and a Swiss woman, were shot dead by a man who appeared to be a Palestinian policeman in the southern West Bank late on Tuesday. Another Turkish observer who was wounded in the shooting, Mr Huseyin Ozarslan,
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    • 346 23 Reuters NANTERRE, France A lone gunman went on the rampage at a town council meeting in north-west Paris yesterday, killing eight and wounding 30 less than a month before a presidential election where crime is the crunch issue. Police said they had
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    • 330 23 -afp NEW DELHI Photographs of a beaming Indian prime minister flashing a victory sign dominated the front pages of newspapers here yesterday after the government managed to pass a tough anti-terrorism law through a rare joint session of Parliament.
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    • 175 22 •s L teNlteitafci -^r'" Venue Sun Plaza Atrium Date :28 March 7 April 2002 Time 10am -10 pm Welcome To the Land of Smiles. In conjunction with the Food Festival, we invite you to experience an enchanting culture of Thailand at Sun Plaza. Thailand's rich tradition in various cultural highlights
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  • 590 24  -  Feast your eyes on artwork made with real food at this year’s Food Festival By Diana Ser YOU would think a 2 1 -yearold like Muhamad Ezzam knows better than to play with his food. With his paint brush dipped in dark and warm melted chocolate, the secondyear
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    • 241 25 Ilgfljjj m m. K SINGAPORE FOOD FESTIVAL 2002 FOOD ART IN THE CITY 29 MARCH TO 30 APRIL Food, glorious food, takes centrestage this season and in our City, the menu promises you a feast. For the appetiser, fabulous shows ttiat elevate everyday food to creative works of art and
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  • STREATS people
    • 468 26 It’s to help the firm survive, says Berardino Reuters NEW YORK Joseph Berardino, the chief executive of Andersen, resigned yesterday in a move designed to help the embattled accountant survive as it looks to settle criminal charges over its handling of Enron Corp’s audit. Mr Berardino, CEO
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    • 374 26 T AP BEIRUT- The year was 1982, the setting the besieged Lebanese capital. Mr Yasser Arafat, then a Palestinian guerilla leader, was dug in amid the ruins. Mr Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s defence minister, hopped between rooftops and front-line positions as his army closed in.
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    • Article, Illustration
      703 28  -  That should he the title of Jack Neosfollow-up to his hit movie. And he need look nofurther than the male beauty pageant industryfor inspiration, if the finals of the Mr Singapore 2002 on Tuesday night were any indication By_ Yvonne Kwok LAST Saturday, the girls took centrestage
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      223 29 SHE can act, she can direct. But how many of you remember that Hongkong celebrity Sylvia Chang can also sing? The talented 47-year-old, after laying off singing for eight years, is ready to remind you of her vocal abilities. At the end of the year, she, with her
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    • 138 29 -afp LONDON In a victory that could set a new legal benchmark over press intrusion, British supermodel Naomi Campbell won a landmark lawsuit yesterday against a newspaper that snapped her leaving a drugs rehabilitation meeting. A High Court judge ruled Campbell had been entitled to
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    • 313 30  -  Yvonne Kwok WHEN you tune into Channel U’s latest telemovie, Pass It Forward, look carefully at the on-screen kiss between Adam Chen and co-star Gabby Lee. Because what you think is passion on his part might be a grimace. The 26-year-old was wearing an ornament that was clipped
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    • 283 30 Reuters LONDON- Are Robert De Niro and Queen going slightly mad with a futuristic new musical packed with the group’s greatest hits? “I think it is going to be terrific, a kind of magic”, De Niro said after flying in from New York for
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    • 89 34 Just like the past few days, there will be thunderstorms in the late afternoon in the northern, western and central areas. You can expect this to continue over the long weekend, so take a brolly along if you’re going to be out and about. Temperatures will
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    • Just a minute
      • 47 34 Don’t just sing in the shower, audition for the Singapore Youth Choir. You have to be between 17 and 28 years old. Auditions are on Saturday, 3-6pm, YMS Arts Centre, 54 Waterloo Street. For more information, call 6332-5815 (Monday to Friday) or e-mail admin@syc.org.sg
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      • 51 34 What are the implications of 9-11 on Singapore? TTie Think Centre will hold a public forum entitled Post-Sept 11: Implications for Singapore. Speakers include Sinapan Samydorai, president of Think Centre, and James Gomez. On Saturday, at the cafeteria-function room of Oxford Hotel, 218 Queen Street, 2-5pm. It’s
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      • 39 34 Now that Eu Tong Sen Street has reopened, the bus stop outside the former CID Complex is back at its original location outside People’s Park Complex. The bus stop outside Furama Hotel is now at People’s Park Centre.
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    • Happenin’
      • 48 34 FOOD ART IN FASHION Raffles City, City Square Saturday and Sunday, 2pm and 7pm Free Students from the Lasalle-SLA College of the Arts offer food for thought: A dress inspired by pasta, accessories made from vegetables and other food fashion will take to the runway this weekend.
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      • 49 34 SHAKUNTALA OF THE MAHABHARATA University Cultural Centre Hall Thursday to Saturday, Bpm Tickets at $lB, s2sb and $3O Call Sistic at 6348-5555 This is an authentic Sanskrit drama that is highly visual, musical and spiritual. In English, it tells the story of Shakuntala of the Indian epic, Mahabhrata.
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      • Article, Illustration
        91 34 THE ACTORS’ CONCERT University Cultural Centre Theatre, NUS Sunday, Bpm Tickets at $25 are available from Project Shop Blood Bros at The Paragon and Woof!works Gallery at Robertson Walk. This is an effort by Singapore’s top theatre talent to raise funds for the Association of Singapore Actors (ASA). A
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      • 160 34 LOVE CONCERT 2002: DAYS OF XINYAO Kallang Theatre Friday and Saturday, 7-30 pm Tickets at $5l, $36, $26 Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 Before Kit Chan and Stefanie Sun, there were the Xinyao (Singapore folk tunes) singers. For two days, old timers like Yan Liming and Hong Shaoxuan will
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      • 53 34 PUZZLE OF LIFE NUS Theatre Friday and Saturday, Bpm Tickets at $ll, $l6 and 21 Call Sistic at 6348-5555 Dance Ensemble Singapore presents eight new dance creations adapted from the stories of a selection of key female figures in Chinese history, literature and legend, and which explore love with
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 58 37 Midnight, Channel i Malibu Adjacent is hosting a peace conference between China and Africa, and Notch has been banned from it. That isn’t a problem, until Notch’s old army secret ops buddy shows up and wants to go. It’s even more of a problem when Notch
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      • 60 37 10.30 pm, Central Steve bumps into his dream celebrity, Mariella Frostrup, in the bar. But it is not the dream encounter he hopes for, as she pours her drink down his trousers. Jane and Sally’s attempt to befriend her gets him into more trouble. You could do worse than
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