Streats, 8 August 2002

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    12 1 Streats •THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • Article
    Lock icon TOP 10 REASONS WHY WE WILL STAY
    84 1 1. This is where 1, my family and friends call home 2. This is a prosperous place 3. The government is stable, corruption-free and meritocratic 4. I feel safe here 5. I was born here 6. We have a peaceful multi-racial society 7.
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  • MORNING RUSH
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      Lock icon ‘8.4% GROWTH NEXT YEAR’
      102 1 SINGAPORE is expected to enjoy robust economic growth of 8.4 per cent next year, according to two economists. They also said that more jobs will be available from the fourth quarter this year. Inflation will remain low, at 1.4 per cent, next year despite the GST
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    Lock icon Heart and home
    696 1 S’poreans will stand up for country because of family and friends “THIS is my home, and my family and friends are here.” More than 90 per cent of the 200 Singaporeans polled by Streats gave this reason when asked why they would stand up for this country.
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      44 1 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, iM't ’.a I m u; k, V We miss friends, food and facilities PAGE 3 In S’pore, I hold my head high Why I came home PAGES 4-5 Foreign celebrities here tells us what they like and hate about S’pore PAGE 29
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon ‘Islam can exist in plural society’
      402 2  -  Muslims’ outreach programmes praised By. Zubaidah Nazeer LET’S work towards applying Islamic practices within the context of a pluralistic society, the Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs urged yesterday. Dr Yaacob Ibrahim was speaking at a National Day Observance ceremony organised by the Islamic Religious Council
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      Lock icon Jobless man charged with baby’s murder
      181 2  -  By Gary Lim THE man who allegedly threw a six-month old baby girl down a rubbish chute in Hougang was charged with murder in a district court yesterday. S D Saminathan, 41, unemployed, was charged with causing the death of the baby in the
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    • Article
      Lock icon COEs for large cars go up
      87 2 THE COE premium for cars above 1,600 cc rose $1,900 to $31,889 in the latest round of bidding, which closed yesterday. Open Category COE premium went up by almost as much to $31,899, from $30,501 last month. At the same time, the price of
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      Lock icon New parking coupons
      101 2 CURRENT parking coupons cannot be used from next month because of the rise in parking charges. New parking coupons reflecting the higher charges will be issued. Motorists can exchange their old coupons for the new ones from today but must top up the difference. There is no
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    • HAPPY 37th BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE
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        Lock icon Home is where the heart is
        141 3 You stay in a place because it’s where you work, live with your family and makefriends. But you choose to continue staying because of intangibles like 10ve... Til stand up for Singapore to defend our way of life! Ms Chrnh Ming Li, 22, sales
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        Lock icon We miss the friends, food and facilities here’
        392 3  -  Those who have left S’pore still think of their birthplace By Wendy Tan THEY may have left Singapore in pursuit of money, career or even love. But ask them what they miss most about Singapore, and the three F’s come up: Friends,
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  • STREATS vocal
    • HAPPY 37th BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE
      • There is no place like home
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          Lock icon In S'pore, I hold my head high
          127 4 Singaporeans i responded, strongly I when Streats asked why they would rather stay than migrate I WAS bom, bred and schooled in Singapore. For 60 years, I have proudly called this island my beloved home. There is no other place that befits this
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        • Article
          Lock icon That precious sense of belonging
          190 4 THE tug-of-war between a better life elsewhere and the emotional pull of one’s roots here is generally felt by some who are eligible for emigration. For the others, there is the sense of insecurity and inability to adapt. Then again there is a third group;
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          Lock icon Only when the good guys have left...
          156 4 I CHOOSE to stay because I believe there are still Singaporeans who are civilised and loving, with good moral character. I know many friends who are thinking of migrating, but I’m staying because I can’t leave behind those who have put in so
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          Lock icon I cannot bear to leave
          256 4 AS a kid, I used to resent my very strict father. I groused and grumbled to friends about his myriad rules and regulations. “Cannot do this, cannot do that.” “This is bad for you.” “This is good for you.” House rules abound. When some were
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          Lock icon Home is where the heart is
          468 4 Achievements like our world-class airport and transportation system are proof that Singapore is determined. Size does not matter. We can do pretty much anything if we put our minds to it! Mr Lim Seng Leong, 26, defence officer Were we 30 years younger, however,
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          Lock icon Why I returned to Singapore
          421 5 UNLIKE most Singaporeans who have emigrated, I left this country eight years ago not because it was stifling, expensive or repressive some of the reasons others cite. Nor was it because I wanted my son to avoid national service. I left simply because I was
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          Lock icon What can drive people away
          103 5 WITH the recent issues of fare policies and the current CPF policy debate, there is little cause for optimism, even if Singapore is out of the economic crisis. The chasm between the wealthy and the average Singaporean is widening in spite of the Government’s efforts.
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          Lock icon More relaxed elsewhere
          109 5 I THOUGHT about emigrating long ago but did not regard it seriously until my recent trips to Bali and Kuala Lumpur. Life is so peaceful, relaxed and stress-free in these places. And living costs are also much lower. That made me even more eager to leave here.
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      Lock icon Players must learn our anthem
      86 6 IF the gold medallists at the Commonwealth Games were true-blue Singaporeans, they would have tears streaming down their cheeks during the playing of Majulah Singapura. The leaders of our sports bodies should learn a lesson from the Manchester lip-syncing episode by our China-bom players. It
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      Lock icon We have broken their hearts
      245 6 SPORTS editor Peter Siow’s commentary on our Chinabom athletes “Results before romance” (Streats, Aug 6) and the views of others who agreed with him go to show how narrow-minded some Singaporeans can be. We are fast becoming a people with lots to comment on but
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      Lock icon We have to welcome foreign talent
      350 6 I WAS born and bred in Singapore but have been working in China for many years. I am back home for a holiday. Although many Singaporeans have become almost like PRs in China, I know of no Singaporean who wants to take up Chinese
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      140 6 Have ¥)ur Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. E-mail us at streats@spkcom.sg 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 financial
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      Lock icon STI up, but caution still reigns
      416 10 STI: 1,494.6927.94 Reuters SHARES closed sharply higher yesterday as Wall Street’s rally and some encouraging local corporate results calmed investors rattled by the recent rout in global equities, but caution still reigned. “Most investors are still in a bearish mood. There’s a lack of
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      Lock icon SingTel beats expectations
      342 10 Foreign investments help double Qj profit on y-o-y basis Bloomberg SINGAPORE Sing Tel said yesterday that its fiscal first-quarter profit fell less than analysts expected on higher earnings from investments in the Philippines, Belgium and Thailand. Net income fell 37 per cent to $377 million, or 2.1
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      Lock icon OUB takeover boosts UOB H1 net
      323 10 SINGAPORE Singapore’s top lender UOB said yesterday its half-year net profit surged 30 per cent from last year to $591.1 million, topping analyst projections. UOB’s $lO billion takeover of rival OUB last year was the main catalyst behind the surge in earnings, the bank
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      24 10 *AS AT AUGUST 7 US$: 551.771 552.722 EURO: 551.714 Ss: 68.19 YEN Ss: RM2.146 Ss: HK54.405 Ss: 24.01 BAHT Ss: 5,123 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon Global Crossing may accept Hutchison offer
      273 10 Reuters NEW YORK Three months after Global Crossing’s attorneys rejected a US$75O million (Ssl.3 billion) offer for its assets, the bankrupt telecommunications firm is poised to now accept an offer worth half that amount, sources said on Tuesday. Global Crossing, which filed for bankruptcy
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    • A new home renovation series on stylish HDB living. Brought to you by OCBC Bank
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        Lock icon Your paradise in the heartlands
        475 12  -  Sarah Ng MENTION dream home and images of exclusive condominiums or luxury mansions are likely to spring to mind. But your home haven need not be one that comes with a posh address. Said Mr Derek Wong, CEO of ID Connect, an interior design consultancy
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        Lock icon Hiring a designer
        170 12 Design strengths: Ask for his portfolio to ascertain his strength or inclination. A designer famous for his Zen projects may not be able to do a classical Victorian theme satisfactorily. 0 Experience: Ask to see some of his completed works. Designers good at producing drawings may lack
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  • STREATS medical
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      Lock icon Aspirin may ward off pancreatic cancer
      81 14 ap WASHINGTON Aspirin may be helpful in preventing pancreatic cancer. This week, University of Minnesota researchers reported a link between taking aspirin and reducing rates of pancreatic cancer by as much as 43 per cent. “This is an intriguing study,” said Dr Ernest Hawk
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    • Article
      Lock icon How beneficial is HRT for men?
      462 14  -  Doctors warn of side effects By_ Wendy Tan HORMONE replacement therapy for men is safe. But only if you don’t have prostrate cancer, warned Professor Peter Lim Huat Chye, medical director of the Andrology, Urology and Continence Centre at Gleneagles Hospital. “If the cancer
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  • STREATS regional
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      Lock icon Indonesia’s unschooled workers
      187 19 70% of labour force has only basic education -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia lags behind its South-east Asian neighbours because it has failed to educate and train its people, Vice-President Hamzah Haz said yesterday. “It is a mistake of the past. We didn’t pay attention to our human resources
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      Lock icon Christian villages in Sulawesi attacked
      103 19 Wire services JAKARTA Unidentified groups have attacked two Christian villages in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province, straining a peace deal reached last December to end Muslim-Christian bloodshed. A nine-strong group attacked the mainly Christian village of Malitu in the Poso region early on Tuesday, shooting at
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      Lock icon Jakarta MPs fail to agree on syariah law
      207 19 JAKARTA The People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) failed to reach an agreement on adopting syariah (Islamic law) on Tuesday. But all 12 factions agreed on a second runoff in the presidential elections, reported the Jakarta Post. Referring to the significant opposition to syariah,
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      Lock icon PLA: We may use force
      280 21 Chinese media, army furious over Chen’s call Reuters BEIJING China’s military warned Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian of an attack if he presses ahead with a referendum on independence. This came even as Taiwan scrapped plans for a war game as part of an effort to
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon THAI GUILTY OF CYBER SLUR
        68 21 -AFP A THAI has been found guilty of posting defamatory messages on the Internet in Thailand’s first such ruling, The Nation reported yesterday. Thanet Songkran was given a two-year suspended sentence for posting a note on an Web bulletin board, which listed the phone number
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        Lock icon POWER CUTS MEAN MORE BABIES
        58 21 AP AN official in Lombok is blaming frequent power cuts for rising birth rates, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. Siti Nur’aini, who heads a government family planning organisation and is the wife of the province’s governor, said that the blackouts have given local residents little
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        Lock icon ANWAR ALLY GETS TWO YEARS’ JAIL
        50 21 AP A MALAYSIAN judge yesterday sentenced a key ally of jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim to two years in jail for leaking state secrets regarding high-profile figures in Umno. Ezam Mohamad Noor, youth leader of Parti Keadilan, was convicted under the Official Secrets Act. ap
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      Lock icon PREDATORS TURN PREY
      44 21 Dead tail-less foxes hanging on a fence of a farm near Ballarat town in Victoria, Australia, last Saturday. The government is offering a Aslo (Ss9) bounty to encourage the culling of foxes, whicn have cost the country’s farming sector millions ofdollars
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      Lock icon Vegetables costlier after illegals leave
      112 21 JOHOR BARU Malaysians can expect higher vegetable prices in coming weeks as their country’s farms face a labour shortage after the exodus of illegal workers under an amnesty programme which ended last month. Johor Barn Vegetable Wholesalers Association chairman Yeo Hang Pin told The Star
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      Lock icon Johor Straits study ‘ready by Sept 30’
      82 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR -A hydrography study on the impact of reclamation work carried out by Singapore in the Straits of Johor is expected to be ready and handed over to Malaysia’s government by the end of next month. Drainage and Irrigation Department head
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      Lock icon Orchard Tower murder accused to fight extradition
      215 21 ap MELBOURNE British businessman Michael McCrea, 44, and his personal assistant Audrey Ong, 22, will fight an extradition request from Singapore over charges of a double murder, a prosecutor said yesterday. Mr McCrea is wanted for two counts of murder in Singapore after
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon Bush still deciding on Saddam: Rice
      145 23 -AFP MOSCOW US President George W Bush has not yet decided how to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday. “But the president stressed that the status quo is unacceptable and that a change of regime in Iraq
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon AMERICANS FLY FREE ON SEPT 11
        75 23 -afp A US domestic airline has announced it won’t charge anyone for flying on Sept 11. “We are saying ‘thank you’ to the American public and our valued customers for flying with us throughout this past year,” Spirit Airlines chief executive Jacob Schorr said
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        Lock icon BABY SURVIVES 17 HOURS IN BIN
        70 23 AP AN abandoned newborn girl survived 17 hours in a bin before she was found in good health, Florida police have said. The infant was discovered on Monday afternoon after neighbours heard her crying. St Petersburg Police spokesman George Kajtsa said they traced the
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      Lock icon 'Al Qaeda behind Hamas attacks’
      286 23 Palestinians accept Israeli pullout plan in principle Wire services JERUSALEM Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda network has given Hamas the go-ahead to recruit Palestinian militants and finance terror attacks on Jewish targets, Israeli officials have said. The Cabinet has been briefed on A 1
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      Lock icon CUTTING-EDGE SURGERY
      67 23 Twin Guatemalan girls joined at the the head were separated in a 22-hour operation on Tuesday. But one of them was taken hack for more surgery to stop bleeding on the brain. Doctors at the Mattel Children’s Hospital, California, say the one-year-old girls were in critical but stable
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      Lock icon US soothes ruffled Saudis after stern report
      226 23 Wire services WASHINGTON Strains in US-Saudi relations have resurfaced following a recommendation to a Pentagon advisory board that the Saudis be told to stop supporting terrorism or else. The Pentagon, State Department and White House distanced themselves yesterday from that idea and others
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      Lock icon Asian-like crisis in S America
      261 26 Lat-Am markets in turmoil: experts ap WASHINGTON -The conventional wisdom has been that South America 2002 is not Asia 1997-98 when financial crises spread like wildfire from country to country, toppling 40 per cent of the global economy into recession. But with the recent turmoil
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      Lock icon DOGGED RESISTANCE
      32 26 US President George W Bush trying to persuade his dog Bameu to walk up the steps to Air Force One at the Andrews Air Force Base in Washington on Tuesday
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      Lock icon IMF cuts GDP forecasts
      153 26 -AFP FRANKFURT -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has again cut its growth forecasts for the world’s main economies, the German financial daily Boersen-Zeitung reported yesterday. Quoting internal IMF forecasts, the newspaper said the Fund expected the US economy to expand by only 2.2 per cent this
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      Lock icon Luxuiy life for orphaned pets
      71 26 Reuters CHICAGO Soon pets in the US will have their own condominiums. But only if the pets outlive their owner. A New York company, Pet Estates in Melrose, has set up centres to cater to pets who have lost their owners. Pampered pets will enjoy
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  • STREATS people
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      Lock icon Cherie Blair, 47, loses baby
      260 28 Tragedy ruins family holiday Reuters LONDON Mrs Cherie Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and mother of four, has suffered a miscarriage, the premier’s office announced yesterday. The 47-year-old lawyer was taken to hospital on Monday, and is now back in their
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      198 28 Reuters WASHINGTON Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will soon share something in common with luminaries such as rock star Mick Jagger, the Gulf War’s General Norman Schwarzkopf and former US president Ronald Reagan honorary British knighthood. The British Treasury announced on Tuesday that Queen
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      252 28 Reuters CRAWFORD, Texas President George W Bush’s close confidante Karen Hughes was back at his side on Tuesday but on a less frequent schedule. It was only less than a month ago that she left the White House to go home to Texas.
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        794 29 She was a bright student from a top girls’ school On Monday, exactress Michelle Low lost her court appeal and will go to jail for 18 months in S’pore’sfirst case of cocaine possession. DIANA SER pieces together a portrait of the 28-year-old THE setting that day
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        327 29  -  Foreignbom celebrities give a different perspective on the things S’poreans takefor granted -DianaSer Apple Hong (Malaysia), PR, Channel U artiste Likes: “Singaporeans’ sense of nationhood. I was in Korea during the World Cup and the kind of patriotism I witnessed was really moving. I think I can
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      124 30 Reuters THREE members of British pop group Oasis have been hurt in a car crash while on tour in Indianapolis, US, the band said on its website yesterday. Singer Noel Gallagher, bass player Andy Bell and keyboard player Jay Darlington were taken to hospital
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      130 30 -AFP HE splurged on a giant party. But the “special guests” stood him up. Not surprising really, none of them even know the host. Saudi millionaire Mohamed Bin Isser A 1 Jaber threw a big bash on Monday in Portugal. He invited top Hollywood stars
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      115 30 CHICKEN rice a great way to celebrate National Day. Mandarin Singapore thinks so, too. It is offering its famous Chatterbox Chicken Rice at half price on National Day to those whose birthdays fall on Aug 9. And the lucky National Day babies, whose year
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      465 34 Reuters EVIDENTLY, the major US television networks believe that crime does pay. In a glut of cop and detective shows not seen since the heyday of 1970 s hits like Kojak, S.W.A.T. and Police Woman, prime time will be awash in crime when the new
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      203 34 Wire services BUSTY blonde Anna Nicole Smith’s reality show is proving a ratings winner. But not for the reasons the exPlayboy Playmate wants. She has stunned viewers with a string of dumb outbursts, London’s The Sun reported yesterday. She even admitted: “I know nothing about nothing.” Anna, 34,
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      267 35 TAIWAN’S R&B prince Jay Chou may just have committed himself to a visit to the army surplus store. He has declared that he will buy his former mentor and boss Jacky Wu a tank if Jacky’s new album sells more than 300,000 copies. It was a
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      213 35 MUSIC industry sources said that Britney Spears is going home to mother in Louisiana, the US state of the blue bayous that Linda Ronstadt sang about. Britney is still cut up after the split from Justin Timberlake, is “exhausted” and wants to quit
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      484 36  -  Stephanie@ the movies By STEPHANIE GOH SIGNS Directed by M Night Shyamalan Starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones WHO does M Night Shyamalan frighten? An astonishing many, going by the rave reviews and eye-popping box-office moolah that The Sixth Sense reaped
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      131 40 IT’S a big day for many. On the eve of ours, the Ivory Coast celebrates its liberation from France in 1960, Bhutan its cutting loose from Britain in 1949 and Afghanistan its farewell to those same colonials in 1919. Oh, and in 1963 Ronald Biggs and
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        72 40 BABY WANTS CANDY Chijmes Hall Aug 14 to 17, 8.30 pm (Wednesday to Saturday) and 10.30 pm (Friday and Saturday) Tickets at $45 (includes one drink) Call Ticket Charge at 6296-2929 Create your own comedy with these actors from one of Chicago’s best loved improvisation troupes, Baby Wants Candy.
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        64 40 VIOLIN EXPLORERS’ SERIES: DVORAK’S VIOLIN CONCERTO Victoria Concert Hall Today and Saturday, 8.15 pm Tickets at $3B, $2B, $22, $l7, $l2 Call Sistic at 6348-5555 Korean-American violinist Jennifer Koh, Gold Medallist at the 1994 International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition and guest soloist in SSO’s tour of Germany in 2000, returns
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        62 40 NO DOUBT/CRANBERRIES Singapore Indoor Stadium Aug 13, Bpm Tickets at $l5O, $lOO, $7O Call Sistic at 6348-5555 Call it two for the price of one two of pop music’s hottest bands will be in town for a one-night only concert. After a cancelled concert here in 1996, Dolores O’Riordan
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        63 40 EXPANDING ART: CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ARTISTS Sculpture Square (Middle Road) Till Aug 25, llam-6pm Free This is an exhibition of installation art works by Filipino artists Cecilia Avancena, Sid Hildawa and Garardo Tan. The works may be visually small, but they embody complex ideas, said curator Judy Freya Sibayan. “Each
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        147 40 VIKRAMORVASIYAM Victoria Theatre Saturday and Sunday, 7.30pm Tickets at $20, $15, $12 Call Sistic at 6348-5555 This is a love story from the ancient Sanskrit theatre written by the great Kalidasa, court poet of King Vikramaditya who ruled Ujjain in the 7th century. King Pururava, a mortal, falls in
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        65 40 Roads around the National Stadium will be closed to traffic from 2pm to 9.30pm tomorrow for the National Day Parade. Parts of Nicoll Highway and Mountbatten Road will also be closed from 7.35pm to 8pm to facilitate the fireworks display. All car parks around stadium will also be closed
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        94 40 HSBC customers and shoppers at CapitaLand malls can look forward to a free copy of The Business Times tomorrow. As part of its 125th anniversary celebrations, HSBC is giving away BT to all its customers at the Specialists Shopping Centre, Takashimaya, Suntec City and Bugis Junction branches.
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        74 41 10pm, Channel i When Steve Clark moves with his family to Cradle Bay and enrols in the local high school, he’s not sure where he fits in. He looks like one of the jocks, but they don’t seem quite right. When he befriends two of the less desirable
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        50 41 llpm, Channel 5 Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) is a British doctor at a New York hospital who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads him to the door of eminent surgeon Lawrence Myrick (Gene Hackman).
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        200 41 Reuters HOLLYWOOD filmmakers shooting a Will Smith-Martin Lawrence sequel are the bad boys of south Florida this week as they tie up the main road between downtown Miami and Miami Beach for a movie scene that has motorists in a road rage. Drivers found
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      166 34 appy 37th Birthday, Singapore SINGAPORE'S CHOICE Redßull will be celebrating with all Singaporeans at these following venue|: 9 I/ 250 4 s Bth August only For the first 3,700 shoppers at CARREFOUR (Suntec City), get your free can of SINGAPORE’S CHOICE from 12 noon onwards. Redemption booth located outside the
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      248 38 m ic*e The Rice Table The centrepiece of Indonesian cuisine is the 'rijsttafel', a phase coined by the Dutch which literally means 'rice table'. Developed by the Dutch the story goes that they first app roached Indonesian food with a great deal of caution, first sampling one dish and than
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      388 39 LEISURE FOOD, EHTERTAI ENT A t -~y It’s our Nation’s birthday and we congratulate Singapore and all Singaporeans. And what better way to celebrate this special ocassion than to do it the Singaporean-way at Cathay Cineleisure. So come on down and enjoy th< activities lined-up just for you! Lucky Draw
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      456 41 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20 -FEB 18 For Aquarius, the final days of this week are about people. Friends, loved ones and co-workers all require highly specialised attention. You may have to give a lot to keep the peace or maintain the status quo. PISCES fry
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        84 43 Our athletes have done Singapore proud. They have demonstrated Singapore’s potential at international sporting competitions. From what I have seen and heard, it was a simple A+B+Cformula, that is, our athletes had the right 4 aspirations right boldness’and right 4 commitment’. If we continue with thisA+B+Cformula,
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        489 43  -  Li Jiawei to take pledge at National Day Parade By_ Lim Han Ming FRESH from her Commonwealth Games triumph, Li Jiawei (below) has another big task at hand: To take the Singapore pledge at the National Day Parade tomorrow. No wonder the China-born table
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        182 43 7 felt very strongly for our athletes because they were competing very hard for Singapore at the Commonwealth Games, despite facing all the psychological pressures. Here in Singapore, all of us should have been with them and cheering them on.’ Rear Admiral (NS) Teo Chee Hean,
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      419 44  -  Sports body needs massive overhaul, admits bowling boss 'Adam Hashidy IT was a close fight. Jessie Phua (right) won the presidency of the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) by just one vote yesterday. She pipped former Member of Parliament Chng Hee Kok to the post by
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      318 44 Reuters MILAN Inter Milan was left in confusion yesterday after Ronaldo said he wanted to leave the club, but his agent said he was staying. Agent Alexandre Martins had told Real Madrid last week that the 25-year-old was anxious to leave Inter
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      526 45 Veron admits poor form in past year left him a wreck Reuters LONDON Manchester United and Argentina midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron has admitted that his poor form over the past year has left him feeling a physical and emotional wreck. Veron joined the Premier League
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      272 45 Reuters SANTIAGO Chilean officials are planning to hand out an exemplary punishment to a referee who kneed a player in the leg. The referee then sent him off for playacting during a First Division match. The incident happened as Audax Italiano players surrounded
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      317 45 -afp LONDON Arsenal’s Nigerian striker Nwankwo Kanu (below) sprained his ankle in a 2-1 warm-up win over Barnet on Tuesday night. He is expected to be out for two weeks. It was another blow for manager Arsene Wenger. Francis Jeffers is already out for the
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        103 47 SOCCER -AFP LONDON Brazil’s World Cup winning midfielder Juninho was unveiled as “the final piece in the jigsaw” after his return to Middlesbrough on Tuesday. Juninho, 28, joins George Boateng and Geremi as the third new signing in two days. Manager Steve McClaren said he was delighted that
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        97 47 GOLF Reuters GRAND BLANC, Michigan Tiger Woods will be playing his first PGA Tour event in the US for eight weeks when he tees off in the opening round of the Buick Open today. The world No 1 has not competed in a regular tournament in
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        104 47 BASKETBALL -afp PHILADELPHIA Dikembe Mutombo was traded from Philadelphia 76ers to New Jersey Nets for forward Keith Van*Horn and Canadian centre Todd MacCulloch in a major National Basketball Association (NBA) swap here on Tuesday. Mutombo, a 2.18 m centre from Congo, gives Nets a dominant big man.
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      350 47  -  FAS official Quah feels fewer teams will increase competitiveness Tan Kim Han THE 12-team S-League may be reduced to 10. The move has been prompted by both financial difficulties and poor performances of some clubs. Quah Kim Song, the Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) competitions director,
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      60 47 Tanjong Pagar defender Choketawee Promrut gets the better ofGombak’s striker Diallo Abdoulaye (left) in an aerial duel in last night's S-League match at the Bukit Gombak Stadium. Tanjong Pagar won 4-2 with a double from Thai striker Sutee Suksomkit. In the other match at the Toa Payoh
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      206 47  -  Tan Kim Han SACKED Home United coach Jason Withe is considering legal action against the club for terminating his one-year contract yesterday. He said: “All I can tell you is that I am consulting my lawyer regarding my termination.” Home club manager Noordin
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      44 47 IN THE LIVING ROOM GOLF: EPGA The Celtic Manor Resort, Day 1 (Super Sports Ch 22, 10pm). SOCCER: Real Madrid Centenary: Real Madrid v Roma (Super Sports Ch 22, 7.55 am). DELAYED TELECAST TENNIS: Masters Series: Cincinnati, Day 3 (Star Sports Ch 24, 6pm).
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      448 48 ADVERTISING FEATURE Career switch to IT brings better pay and prospects Graduates with an IT educational background are still in high demand among employers. William Lee, a graduate from Informatics Computer School with a Diploma in Information Technology is enjoying a higher pay check and better job prospects since he
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