Streats, 10 July 2002

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    12 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • Article
    Lock icon SBS, SMRT deny profiteering
    140 1 SBS Transit and SMRT have refuted charges of profiteering. SBS Transit said that its return on equity for last year was $17.9 million, following a change in accounting standards in January 2001. It would have been just $14.3 million under the old system. Its dividend yield
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  • Article
    Lock icon Reasons of discontent
    662 1  -  Fare hikes Think of the people: Soo Khoon; Don’t undermine PTC: Boon Wan By_ Deepa Vijiyasingam A ROBUST but reasoned appeal was made by no less than 17 MPs yesterday for transport companies to be more reasonable. It was led by former speaker Tan Soo Khoon. MP
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    Lock icon DOWN, OUT & FED UP
    95 1 DOWN, OUT FED UP T/n's debate is not just about bus and Mill fares. It has alsi) to do with the slew of inereases in eharges of other publie sendees that hare taken plaee or are about to take plaee. l his l believe is the main eause of diseontent
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon Cleaners to upgrade
      205 2  -  By Wendy Tan THE skills of hawker centre and coffee shop cleaners will be upgraded through a new initiative launched yesterday by Environment Minister Lim Swee Say. Touring the newly upgraded Pasir Panjang Food Centre, Mr Lim said that cleaners will be taught more efficient ways of
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    • Article
      Lock icon Phone price hike under review
      121 2 Reuters A SINGTEL proposal to raise local call rates is being reviewed. A decision is expected in the third quarter of the year, Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts David Lim told Parliament yesterday. “In assessing the case for an increase, the key
      – Reuters  -  121 words
    • Article
      Lock icon He said ice cream; she knew what to do
      380 2  -  ?y. Khushwant Singh EACH time her step-grandfather asked if she wanted to eat ice-cream, she knew he meant he wanted oral sex from her. She was six when it first happened. The girl kept this dark secret for seven years before
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    • Article
      Lock icon More hirings than firings in Q3: poll
      277 3  -  Jobs outlook positive but cautious By Gary Lim MORE job openings than losses can be expected across all sectors in Singapore in the third quarter, according to TMP Worldwide’s Job Index Survey. Employers looking to recruit outnumber those expecting to cut their workforce
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      Lock icon 18 motorbikes gutted in carpark fire
      218 3 THREE rows of charred metal and melted rubber. This is all that’s left of 18 motorbikes parked at an open carpark near Block 74 Bedok North Road after a fire consumed the lot just after midnight yesterday. A car and a lorry parked nearby
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  • STREATS parliament
    • FARE HIKE DEBATE
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        Lock icon Words chosen to avoid confrontational approach, says Soo Khoon
        377 4  -  Review Deepa Vijiyasingam THE motion at the heart of the ongoing debate calls for a review of the PTC’s decision to increase fares. Former speaker Tan Soo Khoon, who led the charge of six MPs who had put in the motion,
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        Lock icon PTC needs to re-examine its formula, says NCMP Chia
        179 4  -  Reject Philip Lee REJECT the latest fare increases. They are revolting. This was how Non-Constituency MP Steve Chia felt about the July 1 increase in bus and train fares. He told Parliament that the PTC needed to re-examine its formula in
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      • Article
        Lock icon Not too late to hold on until the economy improves, say MPs
        231 4  -  Reconsider Philip Lee THEIR call was loud and clear: It is still not too late to suspend the recent transport fare increases. Hold on until the economy improves, the MPs said yesterday. They spoke about angry Singaporeans who
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      • Article
        Lock icon Reality – no free lunch, says Mah
        396 4  - Reality no free lunch, says Mah By_ Philip Lee FORMER communications minister Mah Bow Tan, who was involved in land transport policies here for 11 years, called on MPs yesterday to face the harsh reality of fare increases. Mr Mah, now the Minster for National Development, said bluntly that the
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        Lock icon Facts, figures and the X factor
        447 5  -  Not true that increase is to fatten profits: Boon Wan By Philip Lee YES, the fare increases could have been better timed. Yes, the decision to do this could have been better explained. But NO, said Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Senior Minister of State
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      237 5 Career Switch. New Trends. Job Transfer. About the Programme Singapore Professionals’ Executives’ Co-operative (SPEC) was formed to promote the economic and professional interests of professionals and executives. The Work Skills Training Programme (WSTP) is designed to help Singaporeans acquire useful skills in planning their careers, searching for jobs and dealing
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon Ex-bosses of WorldCom keep mum in Congress
      249 6 Wire services WASHINGTON Former top executives of World Com refused to testify to Congress on Monday about the company’s US$3.B5 billion (556.7 billion) accounting debacle as lawmakers called for tough penalties, including prison, for those responsible. Former chief executive Bernard Ebbers and former
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    • Article
      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      26 6 *AS AT JULY 9 US$: 551.761 552.715 EURO: 551.742 Ss: DM1.259 Ss: 67.34 YEN Ss: RM2.158 Ss: HK54.429 Ss: 23.49 BAHT Ss: 5,060 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon US accounting fears put aside
      420 6 STI: 1,645.26 23.98 Reuters SHARES rallied to a strong close yesterday as investors put aside US accounting concerns and picked up technology stocks like Datacraft Asia and blue chips like SLA. The Straits Times Index finished 1.48 per cent or 23.98 points higher at 1,645.26.
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      Lock icon STE profit dips 1.6%
      427 6 Aerospace, marine units make weak contributions Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore defence contractor ST Engineering Ltd (STE) yesterday posted a slightly better than expected 1.6 per cent drop in first-half net profit to $164.49 million. With weaker contributions from its aerospace and marine businesses, revenue was down 1.4
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      Lock icon This gentleman prefers bonds
      177 6 ap WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who tried to sound warnings about “irrational exuberance” long before the stock market bubble burst, stuck to his no-frills investment strategy during last year’s recession. His financial disclosure report, released on Monday, showed that the Fed chairman, who
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Recycling companies negligent
      227 8 I HAVE been a keen supporter of recycling programmes both at work and at home. The company that handles the collection of papers at my office picks up the bags regularly. However, I can’t say the same for the one responsible for the collection at my block.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Trouble getting farecard refunds
      115 8 ON July 6 at about 12.50 pm, I went to the Ang Mo Kio bus interchange to get refunds for three farecards. But the ticket sales staff allowed me to make only two refunds. I do understand that due to long queues, customers are allowed only
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      Lock icon Eldershield: Where is my right to choose?
      270 8 WHILE I appreciate the Ministry of Health’s elaborations on the Eldershield scheme and understand its benefits, it is the reasoning behind the opt-out process that worries me. The term “opt out” is euphemistically rephrased as “auto-cover”. To most of us, when the Government
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    • Article
      Lock icon Woodlands pedestrian bridge on the way
      182 8 I REFER to “No pedestrian crossing for Woodlands kids” (Streats, July 2) by Ms Mary Tan. We appreciate Ms Tan’s feedback concerning Woodlands Avenue 5. We have consulted the Land Transport Authority (LTA) regarding her suggestion to have a signalised pedestrian crossing across this
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      50 8 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. E-mail us at streats@sph.amug or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. Include your name, address and contact number. Contributions should be no more than 200 words. Letters sent to other publications will not be published.
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  • STREATS regional
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      Lock icon Hudud to cover non-Muslims, too ‘PAS scaring away foreign investors’
      227 11 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR The fundamentalist Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) has vowed to extend die hudud and qisas laws (Islamic criminal laws) to cover non-Muslims if it ever takes national power. PAS acting chief Abdul Hadi Awang was quoted by
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    • Article
      Lock icon ‘Dictator’ label doesn’t bother me: Mahathir
      190 11 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Being labelled a “dictator” by the Western media doesn’t bother him, said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday. He said that as long as he could help develop the country and make the world respect Malaysia, he did not mind being
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      Lock icon FLOATING POPULATION
      33 11 Commuters riding a truck on a flooded road in Pampanga town, north of Manila, yesterday. Massive floods triggered by typhoon Chataan has so far claimed 27 lives in the Philippines Reuters
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon EXTREMIST HELD
        61 11 afp MANILA said Tuesday it had arrested a Filipino suspected of supplying explosives for an alleged plot by the Jemaah Islamiya extremist group to stage attacks in Singapore. Military and police personnel arrested Hussain Ramos, also known as Ali Ramos or Abu Ali, on Monday, after jailed Indonesian
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      • Article
        Lock icon KOREAN PARDON
        44 11 AP SOUTH Korea said yesterday it will pardon 4.8 million minor traffic offenders and write off demerit points. The measure, to take effect today, will wipe clean the records of people who were charged with minor traffic violations before June 30. ap
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      Lock icon DIRE STRAITS
      37 13 This man being winched to safety by a Taiwan Navy helicopter is one of more than 110 mainland Chinese fishermen rescued from their boat which burned off Kaohsiung city during tropical storm Nakri yesterday Reuters
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      Lock icon Brighter Asia outlook
      209 13 Reuters MANILA East Asian economies will grow m6re strongly this year than was forecast despite worries over the strength of the recovery in the US, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday. It said in its quarterly report that a surge in exports should help the gross
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    • Article
      Lock icon Beijing trying to cover up its hot topless men
      225 13 AFP BEIJING As temperatures here soar, a leading newspaper fired the latest salvo yesterday in a special summer campaign persuading the city’s menfolk to keep their tops on. Printing a photograph of two bare-chested men sauntering in the sunlight through a
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon President calls for stiffer penalties against Wall Street crooks Bush means business
      393 15 Wire services NEW YORK US President George W Bush yesterday called for stiff new penalties for corporate criminals amid the recent slew of accounting scandals. Promising in a speech on Wall Street, he said: “We will end the
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      Lock icon Soldier held for plot to kill Musharraf
      296 15 Wire services KARACHI Pakistani police have charged a military man with attempting to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf on April 26. Inspector Wasim Akhtar, of the paramilitary Rangers, appeared in court yesterday on charges of attempted murder, Karachi police official Azad Khan said. Akhtar
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon CONTROLLER AT FAULT
        63 15 AP DATA from flight recorders aboard two planes that collided last week over Germany show that a Swiss air traffic controller put the planes on a collision course by ordering the Russian pilot to descend at the same time that the plane’s own collisionavoidance system was urging
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        Lock icon CANCEROUS GRAFT
        55 15 -AFP AN Italian woman has accused a surgeon of giving her a cancerous liver transplant, newspapers have reported. Ms Rita Borrelli’s transplant was carried out seven months ago at a clinic in Modena in Italy. Doctors recently discovered that the liver, from a donor who died in a
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        Lock icon PORN SURFERS FIRED
        65 15 -AFP MOST sackings in Britain for misuse of the Internet are due to workers surfing pornographic websites, according to a survey published yesterday. A quarter of British firms have dismissed staff for Internet misconduct, with two-thirds of those associated with online pornography, it found. After cyberpom, web
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      Lock icon Arafat ‘may step down’
      182 15 Wire services AMMAN, Jordan Mr Yasser Arafat may step down in the coming weeks as part of an agreement with the US, Israel and Palestinian and Arab parties, a Jordanian magazine reported on Monday. The president of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Mr Ahmad Qurai, also known
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon They want to make magic
      536 16 Are they snobs, fame-hungry or egomaniacs?ln Fame The Musical, many characters appear to fit these stereotypes of artistes. But two real-life Theatre Studies students tell YVONNE KWOK that fame and glamour are the last things on their minds IF you want fame, join Star Search.
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      Lock icon Lacking soul and pushing stereotypes
      189 16  -  B y Colin Cheong ONCE in a while comes a musical with brilliance, splendour and passion. Fame is not one of them. It lacks soul and potency. The writing doesn’t have oomph and is riddled with cliches, stereotypes and feeble attempts to discuss serious social
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      Lock icon Studies are important, too
      133 16 POP singer Li Wei will try his best to complete his studies no matter how demanding his career is. “Although I’ve never been a very hardworking student, I feel that I should complete my studies,” said Li, one half of Taiwanese boyband We We, Taiwan’s China
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      Lock icon Wanted: Creative but politically correct DJs
      182 16  -  By f Cara van Miriah UFM 1003, the 24-hour Mandarin radio station, is on an islandwide hunt for DJs-cum-talk show hosts. It is seeking “very creative and new DJs-cum-talk show hosts for the station’s upcoming music programmes and talk shows”, said producer Nick Sim.
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      Lock icon Want to be a radio DJ?
      44 16 WHAT: The UFM 1003 Fight Club preliminary WHERE: Near Bishan MRT and Bishan Junction 8 WHEN: July 13 TIME: spm to 7pm REGISTRATION FEE: $5 (Bring resume and a recent photograph) For more information, log on to www.ufrnloo3.com
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      Lock icon Dicky Cheung to monkey around
      121 18 COMEDIAN-ACTOR Dicky Cheung Wai Kin could be the next big Chinese name in Hollywood. Columbia Pictures has invited him to star as the Monkey God in an international version of the Chinese classic, Journey to the West, said Hongkong’s The Sun. Dicky said: “I’m thankful
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      Lock icon Going all the way for good food
      406 18  -  By t Yvonne Kwok THEY claim not to have done a single promotion or advertised in the past two years. A quick check with our advertising and classifieds departments confirm that Green Island Tours has indeed not done so, at least not with
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      141 20 THIS time last year, the word of the moment was “haze”. There were more than 100 hot spots, and smoke rose from Northern t Sumatra and winds carried the haze to Kuala Lumpur. Singapore suffered a little too, but not as badly as in 1997, when
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    • Just a minute
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        101 20 Learn the basics of henna art in a day. This one day course teaches you how to mix henna, make cones and create your own designs. Participants will receive course notes and all the necessary items to get started. Tonight and every alternate Wednesday, 7.30pm-9.30pm, Classroom 1,
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    • Happen in'
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        Lock icon EXHIBITION
        61 20 CERAMITIVITY: THE SECOND STATEMENT University Cultural Centre Gallery Studio Friday till July 20, llam-Bpm Free Feast your eyes on over 180 ceramic works and quality art pieces displayed at this special exhibition in honour of the late sculptor and potter, Dr Ng Eng Teng. Most items on sale, so
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        Lock icon PERFORMANCE
        77 20 ORANG ORANG Sculpture Square Friday and Saturday, Bpm Tickets at $l6 and $ll (concession) Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 Zai Kuning is the main man in this three-part performance that focuses on vocal and drumming improvisation. Based loosely on a mixture of Malay, Korean and Japanese rhythm, Zai found
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        Lock icon MOVIE
        61 20 SINGAPORE CHINA FILM FESTIVAL GV Grand Saturday till July 19 Tickets at $lO Visit www.chinafilmfest.com for more information This inaugural festival of China-made films will showcase 10 animated, epic and contemporary movies. These include the Mongolian epic, Genghis Khan and The Gua Sha Treatment, a movie about a Chinese
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        Lock icon CONCERT
        199 20 PRESIDENTS YOUNG PERFORMERS SERIES Victoria Concert Hall Friday and Saturday, 8.15 pm Tickets at $3B, $2B, $22, $l7, $l2 Call Sistic at 6348-5555 Two gifted young Singaporeans will open the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s second season. Grace Lee, 18, was Violin First Prize winner of the 2001 National Piano and
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        Lock icon PURE FUN
        38 22 Bpm, Channel U Explore the wonders of New Zealand with Ericia Lee and lx Shen, playing publishing company staff sent there to write a travel guide. The duo visit Auckland, Rotorua, Napier, Dunedin, Queenstown and Christchurch.
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        Lock icon EL MARIACHI
        40 22 10pm, Channel i El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar. Unfortunately, the town he picks has another visitor... a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. This cult film was a winner at Sundance 1993.
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        Lock icon ITSY BUSY SINGAPORE
        54 22 8.30 pm, Channel U Hainanese chicken rice? The Singapore Girl? The multiple award-winning Changi Airport? Which of these truly represents Singapore? Be it food, places of interest, a national phenomenon or buildings, there are many endearing things special to the four million of us, and we look
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        Lock icon Lara gives the skinny on food
        148 22 AP THE notoriously skinny Lara Flynn Boyle loves food even processed junk food and snacks. “I love Slim Jims, Hot Tamales, banana cake,” said the 32-year-old actress. “I love pie a la mode oh God, nothing like it. Roast beef, peas in mashed potatoes,
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      Lock icon Chill out
      92 22 RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS By The Way FANS will remember their funk-rock-rap and the 1991 single Under the Bridge most fondly. But the band has shed the jerky raps that were once its signature rhythm. Now, it sounds more like an alt-rock Aerosmith. Even though By the Way
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      75 22 ®«L Going global Chinese High to set up overseas £4 fr iISS EXCLUSIVE How to score in PSLE the new ml® ItiL Check out our special exam-smart series by teachers from Raffles Girls’ Primary School Today Mock English paper, and answers to Monday's questions Friday Model answers pointers MISSED OUT
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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      461 22 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You may be confused, but at least you’re not alone. These are difficult circumstances for everyone. Instead of being overwhelmed, take it step by step. Simple repairs add up to a big fix. *2, PISCES FEB 19 -MAR 20 Once
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  • STREATS sports
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      413 25  -  Clementi midfielder Fahmie attributes soaring career graph to his wife By. 'Adam Hashidy HE got married last Sunday, but the good tidings did not end there. Yesterday, Fahmie Abdullah was named in the Singapore line-up to face Malaysia in next Tuesday’s friendly international in Kuantan. It
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      211 25  -  By. 'Adam Hashidy SHOCKED and disappointed. That was how Mohamed Noor Ali reacted when he learnt yesterday that he was not in the line-up for the friendly against Malaysia next Tuesday. It was the first time in five years that the national team stalwart
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      66 25 GOALKEEPERS Shahril Jantan (SAFFC), Rezal Hassan (SAFFC) DEFENDERS: Razif Mahamud (Sembawang), Aide Iskandar (Home), S Subramani (Home), A Siva Kumar (Woodlands), Nasiruddin Sawardi (Woodlands), Rudy Khairon (Tanjong Pagar) MIDFIELDERS: Nazri Nasir (Tampines), Zulkarnaen Zainal (Woodlands), Azhar Baksin (Geylang), Goh Tat Chuan (Woodlands), Fahmie Abdullah (Clementi) FORWARDS: Egmar
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      286 25 AFP LONDON British chain Woolworths yesterday reported a growing demand by men for nail varnish after England soccer captain David Beckham was pictured with painted pinkies in a lifestyle magazine. “We have seen a large surge in men coming in and asking for nail polish,”
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      448 26 Venables outlines first important task at new club Leeds Wire services LONDON New Leeds boss Terry Venables wants to keep Rio Ferdinand (right) at Elland Road. The defender, who had an excellent World Cup, is believed to be targeted by Manchester United and Arsenal. But
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      72 26 AFP BANGKOK Leeds will embark on a tour of China, Australia and Thailand, Thai sporting executives said yesterday. The squad will start its tour on July 24 with an exhibition Jj match in China, then head to Australia before arriving in Bangkok on July 27, Siamsport
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      233 26 -AFP REIMS, France Australia’s Robbie McEwen won yesterday’s third stage of the Tour de France in a sprint at the finish line of a 174.5 km trek through the flat wheatfields of eastern France between Metz and Reims. McEwen, of the LottoAdecco team, clocked 4hr, 13min
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      380 26 -AFP SAARBRUCKEN, Germany Australian riders have wasted no time in making their presence felt in the Tour de France. Despite similar back injuries, Australians Robbie McEwen and Baden Cooke (right) went hell for leather at the second stage finish line here on Monday. McEwen’s
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        92 27 BOXING -AFP LONDON Britain’s world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has again indicated he may be about to retire from boxing, having achieved everything he wanted to in the sport. The WBC, IBF and 180 champion has ruled out a fight with WBO champion Vladimir Klitschko, saying it
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        67 27 ASIAN GAMES PUSAN, South Korea The group draw for water polo for the 14th Asian Games from Sept 29 to Oct 14 was made yesterday. Singapore faces a tough campaign after it was drawn with defending champion Kazakhstan and runner-up Uzbekistan in Group B. Iran and
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        70 27 COMMONWEALTH GAMES AP KUALA LUMPUR Thirteen Malaysian athletes scheduled to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester beginning on July 25, have been stricken with dengue fever, team officials said yesterday. The outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease has been traced to the Bukit Jalil national sports centre in
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        43 27 HOCKEY SINGAPORE Hockey Federation president M Lukshumayeh was returned unopposed to office for a third consecutive term at its annual general meeting yesterday. New office-bearers: Santokh Singh (vicepresident), K Ramamorrthy (vicepresident), Fiona Chee (assistant general sec) and K Rajaram (assistant treasurer).
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      434 27  -  Reserve bodybuilder ready for Asian Games debut B'y_ Lim Han Ming FIRST, he’s in. Then, he’s out. Now, he’s in again. But he may still be left out in the cold. What a roller-coaster ride it has been for national bodybuilder Rano Izhar Rahmat (below) in his
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