Streats, 6 August 2002

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    12 1 Streats TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • Article
    Lock icon Medals of honour?
    348 1  -  Hot debate over Commonwealth golds won by foreign-bom players By. Philip Lee FOUR golds, two silvers and seven bronzes. Little Singapore has certainly made some big waves at the Commonwealth Games. But not many are toasting the country’s golden haul. Instead, like the flame of the trick
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  • MORNING RUSH
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      Lock icon US STOCKS FALL
      82 1 Bloomberg, AP US stocks fell yesterday as the Institute for Supply Management’s index for retail, financial services, construction and other non-manufacturing companies dropped to 53.1 last month from 57.2 in June. The Dow declined 105.20 to 8207.90 at 1 lam in New York. The Nasdaq Composite Index
      – Bloomberg,; AP  -  82 words
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      Lock icon DOUBTS ON OSAMA
      55 1 Reuters PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf is unconvinced that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks. “I didn’t think it possible that Osama, sitting up there in the mountains, could do it,” General Musharraf told New Yorker magazine. “He was perhaps the sponsor, the
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      111 1 This man is leading Taiwan to disaster, says China PAGE 11 p Nfci m m m HERO OR ZERO Peter Sicnv ‘How would the Singapore-horn athletes feel y being reduced to supporting roles or spending time on the bench? 7 Sports editor «mna» Chjfi PAGES 8,20-21 ISSMĔ cashline. now turbo
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  • SIREATS local
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      Lock icon Post-grad hotel school to open
      354 2  -  Courses to focus on Asian hospitality, tourism By Yong Hid Mien TOGETHER with five companies, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is to set up a hotel management school offering post-graduate and executive development courses. To open in 12 months, the school will complement basic and
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      Lock icon Now even mak can jiang hua yu
      308 2  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer FOR years, Madam Maniseh Mohd Mahpol’s Chinese husband and three children aged eight to 17 had a language all their own Mandarin. The 43-year-old Malay housewife would miss out on their banter. But no more: In 12 weeks she will
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      Lock icon Andrea won’t host NDP
      172 2 THIS Friday, actress Andrea De Cruz will be watching the National Day Parade from home instead of co-hosting it no thanks to her recent liver failure after consuming Slim 10 pills, she told Lianhe Wanbao. A co-host of the 1999 parade, Andrea, 28, said she felt
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      Lock icon Blackout!
      429 3  -  By Chug Kong Ho TRAFFIC lights went dead, people were trapped in lifts and families sweltered in the heat. At least one town council’s switchboard was jammed with calls from residents. They were calling over yesterday’s 88minute power cut, from 10am to 11.28 am. A disruption in natural gas
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      Lock icon Dead baby in rubbish chute
      274 4 Mum reported child missing 2 hours earlier; it’s murder, say police THE early morning quiet at Hougang Avenue 8 was shattered by a scream at about 5.45 am coming from a threeroom flat on the ninth floor of Block 629 yesterday. The police received a
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      Lock icon Home-buyers get CPF headstart
      212 4 GOOD news for you if you’re set to buy a home this month on the private market. Even before new rules allowing CPF funds to be used to pay half of the required 20 per cent deposit on homes take effect on Sept 1, private home
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      Lock icon 9 months’ jail for RC killer
      303 4  -  Reports by Gary Lim HIS age, record of past social service, and being a first-time offender helped Quek Loo Ming, 56, escape a life sentence for causing the death of Madam Fong Oi Lin, 62, who drank bottled water that he had poisoned. Yesterday,
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      Lock icon Cabby fined $9,000, banned from driving
      119 4 CABBY Tan Hen Boon, 56, didn’t look out for oncoming traffic when he made a U-turn along Boon Lay Way on Sept 15, and caused the death of a motorcycle pillion rider, Mr Muhammad Hafiz Mohamed, 20 The motorcycle ridden by Mr Norishmam Mohamed
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon Asian stocks hit record lows
      507 6 Fears of US double-dip recession surface after last week’s poor data Reuters STI: 1,482.34 27.55 SINGAPORE Asian stocks faltered yesterday as doubts intensified over a US recovery, crucial to growth in the export-dependent region, with Taiwan’s woes exacerbated by the president backing a referendum on
      – Reuters; AP  -  507 words
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      Lock icon OCBC H1 profit down 30% to $301m
      286 6 Reuters SINGAPORE OCBC Bank reported a worse than expected fall of 30.4 per cent in first-half net profit on Monday due to a leap in provisions for bad loans. OCBC posted a net profit of $301.6 million for the six months to June
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      24 6 *AS AT AUGUST 5 US$: $51,757 552.748 EURO: 551.726 Ss: 67.86 YEN Ss: RM2.163 Ss: HK54.439 Ss: 24.02 BAHT Ss: 5,169 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon Double dip defined
      59 6 Reuters WASHINGTON A batch of gloomy data have raised fears a second recession could emerge before the first has faded into memory. Most economists are hopeful the world’s richest economy can avoid falling victim to a so-called doubledip recession, in which the economy suffers a renewed contraction
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      Lock icon NatSteel back in black with $25m net
      152 6 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Nat Steel Ltd, a Singapore- based maker of steel and concrete, said it turned to a profit in the first half of 2002 on higher earnings from its steel and electronics businesses. Profit for the six months ended June 30 was
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    • MONEY SCAN
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        Lock icon BIL DENIES SALE REPORT
        60 6 Bloomberg BIL International Ltd has denied a report that said it may sell its 46 per cent stake in Thistle Hotels, a UK operator of four-star hotels. BIL shares rose as much as 8.2 per cent after UK’s The Business newspaper reported that the investment company
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        Lock icon PSA THROUGHPUT UP
        46 6 -AFP THE PSA Group said yesterday its local terminals handled 1.48 million 20-ft equivalent units (TEUs) in July, the highest in nearly two years, despite growing competition from Malaysia. This represented growth of 9.9 per cent over the same period last year. afp
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Service is everything
      204 8 I READ with interest several recent articles in the media about the standard of service in the retail sector. My wife and I have been particulary conscious of service whether we are in Singapore or holidaying abroad. In fact, for us, good service is the prime consideration
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      Lock icon Not everyone is chivalrous
      130 8 WHILE the act of giving up seats to those in greater need, for example, pregnant women, is highly commendable, it is rather immature for a reader to suggest that students who don’t give up their seats have to pay the full fare. It is already common
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      Lock icon Shame on the MRT boors
      154 8 I AGREE with Ms Lina Nasa’s views in her letter “Pregnant and left standing” (Streats, Aug 5) about men who pretend to snooze to avoid giving up their seats in trains and buses. Once, I gave up my seat to a woman who was about
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      Lock icon It isn’t just about winning medals
      205 8 THE view that importing foreign talent will improve the playing standard of our local athletes is moot. Is this the view of all the national sports associations? The president of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association (SAAA), Mr Loh Lin Kok, was reported as saying
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      Lock icon Get our own to win our battles
      105 8 SINGAPORE’S golds at the Commonwealth Games would have been much more treasured by me if the winners were our own true blue, Singapore bom and bred citizens. Having the competition played by China-bom players is like getting fitter persons to complete the IPPT
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      Lock icon Only home team can bring pride
      78 8 I AM not proud at all of the achievements of the China-bom players in the Singapore team in the Commonwealth Games. Why? I am not for imports. What’s more, the matches were not won against powerhouses in the game. When the excitement and jubilation
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      20 8 From bunnies to birds, find them all in The Straits Times Classified <4 C.A.T.S. Buy It. Sell It. Find It.
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      55 8 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email us at streats@sph.com.sg or 'write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. Contributions should comprise no more than 200 words. Letters sent to other
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  • STREATS medical
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      Lock icon Protein’s role may lead to cure for disease Cancer’s little helper
      373 10 GLASGOW -In a breakthrough study, scientists have found out more about how cancer spreads in the body, BBC Online reported yesterday. A key protein helps to loosen tissue round a tumour, letting cancer spread in the body, said the
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      Lock icon 6 months for mums to lose kilos
      186 10 Reuters LA CROSSE, Wisconsin Women who gain excess weight during pregnancy or don’t shed kilos after birth risk having extra kilos for many years, a new study shows. “Excessive weight gain and failure to lose weight six months after pregnancy were identifiable predictors
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      Lock icon HEALTH FORUM
      143 10 Ql’m 37. I’ve been told to get hepatitis Bjabs before I try to conceive. How long should I wait after the last jab before Itryforababy? A The company that makes the hepatitis B immunisations has recommended that pregnancy should be avoided for at least three months. However, there’s
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  • STREATS regional
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      Lock icon China extends war games near Taiwan
      308 11 Beijing says Chen leading Taipei to disaster Reuters, AFP BEIJING An infuriated China said yesterday that Taiwan President Chen Shuibian’s backing of a referendum on formal independence will cause severe damage to crossstrait relations and lead the island to disaster. Said a top Chinese
      – Reuters,; AFP  -  308 words
    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon MAN DIES AFTER TAKING DIET PILL
        55 11 A MAN in Japan has died of a heart attack after taking a Chinese-made health food supplement containing the banned appetite-controlling substance fenfluramine. The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the man took kijindojustsushi-kono capsules, which are not banned by Japan’s Health Ministry. The man had
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        Lock icon KOREAN MEET DOWNPLAYED
        54 11 Reuters SOUTH Korean President Kim Dae Jung said yesterday that any improvement in ties with Pyongyang should also lead to better relations between the North and the US and Japan. He said that the meeting must produce tangible results, but that Seoul should not have unrealistic expectations
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        Lock icon TALE OF TWO SYDNEYS
        71 11 Reuters A BRITISH couple are getting over the shock of landing on the wrong continent after the tickets they bought for a holiday in Sydney took them to a town in Canada. Emma Dunn and Raoul Sebastian, both 19, who booked their tickets over the Internet
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      Lock icon MONEY SPINNER
      33 11 A dummy of Spider-Man hanging above a Chinese woman promotes the film in a Shanghai cinema yesterday. China is seeing a rise in the number of foreign films being screened AP
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      Lock icon Thai ‘cop kids’ hit the streets
      99 11 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand’s first batch of police “student informers” has hit the streets, with a mission to report suspicions of crimes involving drugs and sexual assault. Police Major Thana Kositwanichphong from the Juvenile Aid department said a group of 80 high school students aged
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      Lock icon Referendum backing
      65 11 -AFP TAIPEI Most Taiwanese would support a referendum to decide the country’s future, but many said such a move was not urgent given current relations with China. Sixty-two per cent of the 810 people polled by the TVBS network on Sunday favoured President Chen Shuibian’s call for a
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      Lock icon M’sia mega sale to lure S’poreans
      107 11 Bernama JOHOR BAHRU The Malaysian Mega Sale Carnival August 2002 is expected to attract about one million Singaporeans to Johor, said State Tourism and Environment Committee chairman Chua Soi Lek. He said this figure could be achieved as 943,777 Singaporeans visited Johor during the
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon Bush delayed plan to hit Al Qaeda: report
      181 13 LONDON US President George W Bush approved plans to “eliminate” Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda terror network the week before Sept 11, after delaying proposals drafted by the Bill Clinton administration for eight months, The Times reported yesterday. Under the Clinton
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      Lock icon SEPARATION AHXIETY
      51 13 Mr Wenceslao Quiej smiling while lifting up his conjoined twin daughters Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa at the Mattel Children's Hospital in Los Angeles on Sunday. The twins will he separated in an operation expected to take about 10 hours and involving more than 50 medical personnel
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon URUGUAY’S $2.6B LOAN
        112 13 Los Angeles Times THE US made an emergency US$l.5billion (552.6 billion) loan to Uruguay on Sunday in a bid to halt the country’s banking crisis and limit the possibility of another Argentina-style economic collapse. The loan was described as a “bridge” or short-term loan until the International
        – Los Angeles Times  -  112 words
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        Lock icon SCHOOL SHOOTING
        95 13 AFP GUNMEN attacked a Christian school in Pakistan yesterday, killing five people, including two guards and a cook, police and interior ministry officials said. The unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets on the Christian high school in Murree, a popular hill resort town 40km north-east of Islamabad, at noon, local
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        Lock icon HOT-FOOTED TROUBLE
        79 13 AP A CANADIAN teen on a flight from Toronto to Pittsburgh has been arrested for using a lighter on his shoe, authorities said. The 17-year-old told police he was burning loose material off his tennis shoes as the US Airways plane taxied into Pittsburgh International Airport on Saturday.
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    • Article
      Lock icon 10,000 Hamas supporters celebrate suicide attack
      258 13 -AFP GAZA CITY More than 10,000 Palestinian supporters of Hamas marched through Gaza City on Sunday evening to celebrate a suicide bombing by the radical Islamic group which killed 10 Israelis and wounded many. Three separate demonstrations led by trucks mounted with loudspeakers converged
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      Lock icon US special forces to go on manhunt
      251 13 Pentagon will seek countries’ permission -AFP WASHINGTON The US will ask some foreign countries to allow US special forces to attack terrorist cells on their territory, the Washington Times reported yesterday. Quoting two senior US officials with knowledge of the Defence Department’s new
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  • STREATS people
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      Lock icon Arroyo trots out the bad guys
      183 14 -AFP MANILA President Gloria Arroyo had her picture taken with seven handcuffed gangsters yesterday to demonstrate her government’s determination to stamp out organised crime. Mrs Arroyo visited the justice department to present the suspects, all wearing orange prison shirts, to the television cameras. She
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      Lock icon Tommy turns religious
      282 14 Jailed playboy tycoon seeks Islamic instruction -afp JAKARTA Former playboy tycoon Tommy Suharto will spend his time in jail studying Islam after abandoning his appeal against a 15-year jail sentence for murder and weapons offences, a report said yesterday. The youngest son of the former president will
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      Lock icon Jiang rethinking retirement plans: report
      244 14 BEIJING Despite his promise to retire, President Jiang Zemin is manoeuvring to stay in power for another five years when the Communist Party holds its 16th congress. The new Politburo line-up had seemed fixed at the start of the year, but word is spreading that
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Fun on the Fringe
      340 17 Wire services THE world’s largest arts festival kicked off in Edinburgh on Sunday, promising more off-beat comedy, two Hollywood stars and a performing duck. For stand-up comedians, the Fringe Festival offers the ultimate challenge to tickle the fans and tempt talent scouts. From as far away
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      Lock icon Top director answers call from home
      258 17 DIRECTOR Stanley Tong is moving his movie empire from Hollywood to Shanghai, his hometown. Why? Because a top Chinese official said he should contribute what he has learned from the West to China’s growth. Beijing’s chief World Trade Organisation negotiator and Foreign Trade Vice-Minister
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      126 18 AT 8.15 am on this day in 1945, a Monday, the atom bomb Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima from the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay. The bomb a exploded 610 m over t the city, killing an about 140,000 people. After the US dropped a
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Remember...
        66 18 When hanging up the national flag, do not place another flag or emblem above or to the left of it. If you intend to get a new one, don’t throw the old one down the rubbish chute. It should be sealed in a black bag or handed to a
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        32 18 Find out how can you take advantage of free software online to cut your operating expense from Harish Pillay, president of the Singapore Linux Users’ Group. Tonight, 7.15pm-8.15pm, library@orchard.
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    • Happenin’
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        Lock icon EXHIBITION
        149 18 THE LIVIN’ LENS Exhibition Gallery, Tampines Regional Library Till Saturday, 10am-9pm Free This is a photographic exhibition with a difference: 15 heartlanders, including a cabby, a housewife and a professional photographer, get together to present their snapshots of life. View ordinary places and everyday objects through their lenses. It
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        Lock icon ENTERTAINMENT
        76 18 BABY WANTS CANDY Chijmes Hall Aug 14-17, 8.30 pm (Wednesday to Saturday), 10.30 pm (Friday and Saturday) Tickets at $45 inclusive of a first drink Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 or book online at www.ticketcharge.com.sg We can’t tell you what the story is because everything the characters, the plot,the
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        Lock icon MUSIC
        176 18 IN DEFENSE OF THE BASS VIOL Guiness Theatre, The Substation Tomorrow, 8pm Free Shaun Ng presents a concert of unaccompanied music on the viola da gamba. In 1740, Hubert Le Blanc published the Defense de la Basse de Viole. This document discusses the competition of the viola da gamba
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      133 18 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 s YOUR MORNING RIGHT ANDKEEP THE PRICES BOLDIN Red Bull (at: 6 25% OFF at SPORTS CONNECTION STORES Show your Redßull 6-bottle promotion cluster pack and enjoy some of the best buys. Rules
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  • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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      Lock icon MR ACCIDENT
      50 19 10pm, Channel i ‘Writer/director/producer/comedian Yahoo Serious stars as Roger Crumpkin, a maintenance man at an egg factory. When his employers might be adding something to their eggs to make them more addictive, Roger dons the yolk of social responsibility and sets out to scramble the factory’s nefarious schemes.
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      Lock icon ALLY MCBEAL
      47 19 10pm, Channel 5 If you didn’t get enough of Matthew Perry on Friends last night, catch him again tonight. Claire shocks everyone by announcing her marriage to a man she’s only just met. Meantime, a handsome young lawyer comes to the firm to seek employment.
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      Lock icon Do the funky chicken
      104 19 AP HE helped break-box office records as Mini-Me in Austin Powers in Goldmember. Now, Verne Troyer, the 81-cm-tall actor who plays the mini-clone of Dr Evil, will try to help break another record when he leads the world’s largest chicken dance and kazoo band at a
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    Lock icon Chill out
    127 19 THE CHARLATANS Live It Like You Love It www. charlatans, net IF you are a fan of The Charlatans, you’ll be happy to know that their eighth album is a live recording of their greatest songs. It includes their singles The Only One I Know, North Country Boy
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      451 19 Yourdail AQUARIUS JAN20-FEB 18 The Cancer moon brings you a thin, flickering attention span. If you have internal discomfort, treat yourself better immediately. If you’d rather be elsewhere, just make your excuses and go there. by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Great things happen around water. Whether
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  • STREATS sports
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      Lock icon Results before romance
      833 20  -  Foreign talent is just a short cut to success, like going out to buy medals Comment by PETER SIOW Sports editor WOW! Thirteen medals, including four golds in the just-ended Commonwealth Games in Manchester. The haul puts the combined booty of past efforts truly in the shade.
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      Lock icon What officials say
      100 20 if you ask me, the policy of bringing in foreign talent needs to be studied in depth. Can these athletes serve as role models for our Singaporean children when they have not gone through the mainstream education system like our kids have?’ Ivy Singh-Lim, president Netball Singapore
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      Lock icon FOREIGN TALENT DEBATE
      23 20 From left: Jing Junhong and Li Jiawei: Li and Duan Yongjun: Li Li: Zhang Xuellrig. Jiawei. Jing. Tan Paey Fern
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      Lock icon XVII Commonwealth GAMES
      163 21 GOLD 4 Table tennis: 1 Women's team Jing Junhong (F), Li Jiawei (F), Zhang Xueling (F), Tan Paey Fern (S) 2 Women’s doubles Jing Junhong (F) and Li Jiawei (F) 3 Mixed doubles Li Jiawei (F), Duan Yongjun (F) Badminton: 4 Women’s singles Li Li (F) SILVER
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      113 21 7 guess Yong Joo and I were not experienced enough. But we will improve by sparring regularly with the foreign-bom players’ Local-bom doubles specialist Khoo Kian Teck, who was named as a reserve with his partner Chua Yong Joo in the mixed team final. Tm 100 per
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      371 21  -  By. Adam Hashidy f IT’S hard to feel proud of Singapore’s four- gold achievement at the Commonwealth Games. That was the general consensus of l Singapo- reans that Streats spoke to. Said Aaron Chiew, 26, a business consultant: “We have to thank China. If not
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      327 21  -  By Lim Han Ming ON the surface, the foreign talent scheme seems to be bearing fruit. Singapore ended a 40- year drought by winning four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games all thanks to foreign-bom athletes. But are we sending out the right message?
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      673 22 Wire services MANCHESTER lan Thorpe says he has ruled out the possibility of matching Mark Spitz’s record of winning seven gold medals at an Olympics after finishing with six golds at the Commonwealth Games. The Australian teenager, who also won
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      Lock icon Du Toit dreams of Olympic glory
      321 22 -AFP MANCHESTER Onelegged South African swimmer Natalie du Toit (left) was named as the outstanding athelete of the Commonwealth Games. The 18-year-old from Cape Town won gold medals in the 50m and 100 m disabled freestyle events, breaking two world records. And in a
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          116 23 Reuters LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is increasingly concerned about the fitness of some of his England internationals with only a week to go before the club’s important Champions League qualifier. Jaded midfielders David Beckham and Paul Scholes are giving the United boss the most cause for
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          160 23 Wire services MADRID Steven Gerrard was the star of the show for Liverpool as it beat AC Milan 2-1 in the Real Madrid Invitational tournament. He set up both goals, including a header for Czech striker Milan Baros for the second goal. Liverpool’s opening goal came through
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          66 23 BOTTOM club Gombak United’s coaching woe continues. In a press statement issued yesterday, club chairman John Yap announced that head coach Jimmy Pearson has resigned. He will return to Perth, Australia, to attend to his ailing wife who is in hospital. The club has appointed Karnes Bidin,
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      372 23  -  Sports body under investigation by Commercial Affairs Department &L Lim Han Ming THE Singapore Sports Council (SSC) announced yesterday that it has suspended binding to the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) with immediate effect. This is because the STBC is under investigation by the Commercial
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      345 23  -  By- Adam Hashidy THE days of wine and roses in the English Premier League will continue. Entertainment will not be compromised. That was the assurance given by the league’s chief executive officer Richard Scudamore (right), in light of the current financial turmoil affecting European
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