Streats, 24 September 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 776 1  -  Wendy Tan A GRENADE explosion in the early hours in central Jakarta yesterday might have shattered the argument that the US is not a target of terrorists in Indonesia. National police chief Da’i Bachtiar said that four men in a car were
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  • STREATS local
    • 167 2 ICT (Communications, IT and Media sub-sectors) Position Singapore as a Digital Living Lab to test promising, cuttingedge solutions and technologies. Grow “creative clusters” where industry, government and research institutes build bubbling centres of innovation. Establish a government IP (intellectual property) office to see or license government IP to
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    • 320 2  -  ERC report on tourism: Relax, S pore Reports by Deepa Vijiyasingam IMAGINE partying till dawn at your favourite pub at Boat Quay. Or moseying down to Mohamad Sultan Road for some live entertainment, such as floor shows or live bands. In staid Singapore? Hardly likely, many have said.
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    • 189 2 IF you get good service, give a tip on top of the 10 per cent service charge, the Tourism Working Group advises. This is one way to help improve service standards here, the group says in a report. “If you go out to dinner
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    • 421 3  -  B v Cara van Miriah IT ALL sounds too good to be true. That’s what some nightclub operators said yesterday when told of the call by the Tourism Working Group to allow longer drinking hours, live music in some areas and
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    • 353 4  -  By Gary Lim JUST 24 years old and fresh out of technical college, Ms Rachel Howe Chin Ching’s first full-time job is to run her own business. She co-owns an Internet cafe at ITE East (MacPherson) with three other partners and
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    • 194 4  -  Zubaidah Nazeer SLIM 10 importer Health Biz has been slapped with eight fresh charges. Yesterday, Mr Semon Liu Kelun, 32, appearing on behalf of his firm, pleaded guilty to charges of failing to submit documents within two months of importing the diet pill.
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    • 130 4 IF you’re worried about being overcharged on a bus, you can stop worrying soon. From early next year, a new satellite tracking system will update fare stages automatically. This will eliminate any chance of a bus driver updating fare stages wrongly. Called the Vehicle
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    • 124 4 A TREE stopped a tour coach carrying 15 elderly Singaporeans from plunging down a mountain last week. The tourists, aged between 65 and 70 years old, were in China to visit their Hakka hometown and relatives. As they were travelling on a narrow mountain road from
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    • 117 4 Bemama KUALA TERENGGANU A Singapore woman drowned off Pulau Redang near here on Sunday. Ms Heng Siok Hoon, 30, was believed to have gone to the island with a group of friends two days ago, Terengganu CID Chief ACP Wan Mohamad Wan Abdullah said yesterday.
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    • 104 2 "FAILURE IS NOT A DEFEAT" You can overcome it! How? Let The World's 1st Failure Guru Guide You Date 28th September 2002 (Saturday) Time 7.00pm to 9.30pm Registration at 6.30pm sharp Venue Singapore Power Auditorium Singapore Power Building 111 Somerset Road (Opposite Somerset MRT) Cost $48.00/person (with Refreshments! For bookings
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  • STREATS financial
    • 417 6 STI: 1,415.82 5.21 Reuters SHARES, led by blue chips, ended lower for the second straight session yesterday as investors exercised caution due to the threat of a US-Iraq war. The Straits Times Index fell 0.37 per cent, or 5.21 points, to 1,415.82 a
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    • 358 6  -  Swift regime change in Iraq the key, says analyst ChuaKongHo A BLACK art, and the fastest way to ruin an oil economist’s reputation. That’s the business of oil price forecasting, said Dr Leo Drollas, deputy director and chief economist of the UK-based Centre of
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    • 269 6 Bloomberg SINGAPORE HSBC Holdings wants to set up more automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic banking channels as part of expansion plans here, the company announced yesterday. HSBC, which operates in 81 countries, is celebrating its 125th anniversary in Singapore this year. It was one
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    • 24 6 •AS AT SEPTEMBER 23 US$: 551.777 552.761 EURO: 551.745 Ss: 69.25 YEN Ss: RM2.138 Ss: HK54.388 Ss: 24.37 BAHT Ss: 5,088 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 103 6 Reuters AUGUST’S consumer price index (CPI) weakened more than expected as lower housing prices offset higher costs of clothing and health items over the same month of last year. The index was down 0.4 per cent and off 0.1 per cent from its July level, the Department
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      • 79 6 CROWN Central Assets’ $350 million management buyout offer (MBO) for Nat Steel is not a done deal, Temasek Holdings said yesterday. It remains open to considering other bids. “As an approximate 8 per cent shareholder of Nat Steel, Temasek would welcome any offer which maximises value for
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      • 50 6 AFP PRIME Singapore office rentals are at a nine-year low with no imminent recovery, a report said yesterday. The average rental for Prime Grade A offices in Raffles Place hit a low of $5.70 per 0.1 sq m this month, said property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle. afp
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  • STREATS financial
    • 467 8  -  Comment MATTHEW LYNN Bloomberg LONDON The club of Deposed Big Corporate Cheeses is growing. Mr Lukas Muehlemann, formerly the boss of Credit Suisse Group, is the latest and one of the least surprising additions to its rolls.
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    • 194 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Investment firm BIL International yesterday announced a return to profit after two years of hefty losses. It credited gains from asset sales at its hotel unit and the sale of shares in a Singapore beverage firm. BEL, controlled by Malaysian tycoon Quek
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  • STREATS medical
    • 206 10 LONDON For a woman, being overweight isn’t just bad for your health, it can spell trouble for your kidneys, too. Dr Nick James, a kidney cancer expert at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, said in a BBC News report on
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    • 212 10 AP NEW YORK Its name is based on the words for “men” and “life”, and its logo is a flame, meant to be “a primal symbol for sexuality and vitality”. Yup, that can only mean one thing the competitor to Viagra has got a name.
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    • 159 10 QHow do fibroids prevent one from having children? What are the available remedies? A Fibroids may affect fertility in many ways, depending on their size and location. If the fibroid is obstructing the fallopian tubes, then conception will be difficult. If the shape of the uterine cavity is
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    • 490 11 THEY'RE STILL GOING STRONG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. AND SO ARE WE. The Tembusu, Flame of the Forest, Kapok, and Rain Tree you see on this page have a combined age of more than 300 years. Against all odds, they have not only survived decades of urban > development but
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 208 13 I WOULD like to thank the Government for keeping our homeland peaceful by arresting the 21 Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorism suspects. People who want to create unrest are not part of Islam. I was very disappointed to learn that these people professed to be
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    • 260 13 AS a patriotic Singaporean Muslim, I was deeply shocked and hurt when I first heard about the arrest of 21 terrorism suspects under the Internal Security Act. I can’t believe that my fellow countrymen have again been implicated in planning such despicable acts.
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    • 310 13 I REFER to “Don’t force us to pay for MUP” (Streats, Sept 18), a letter by Mr Raymond Koh. Upgrading of Blocks 422-425, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 under the Main Upgrading Programme (MUP) was announced in October last year. This precinct was previously in
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    • 257 13 WHILE I agree with Michael Loh’s point in his letter “Be sensitive with invitations” (Streats, Sept 22), I want to add some relevant points. MP Ahmad Khalis Abdul Ghani (Hong Kah GRC), in reply to a question raised during a meeting of Malay community leaders,
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    • 70 13 Have Your Say E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 ToaPayoh North, Singapore*****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that you have
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    • 51 13 t iL, '5? you domg anything to save your job? mm Hanyang ms rmet ■22?%: e#s **3 'JS ’24 «4 In this new economy, you have to constantly prove your worth to stay employed. Keep yourself from being obsolete. Increase your market value by upgrading your skills and knowledge here.
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  • STREATS regional
    • 281 14 Thailand readies widespread reform of civil service ap BANGKOK The Thai parliament is set to pass a law to revamp the government and do away with automatic pay raises for civil servants. The law would allow for an increase in ministries from 13 to
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    • 52 14 The Star KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s government will pay out more than RMI billion (***** million) in bonuses to civil servants under Budget 2003 the largest payment since 1993. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced the payment of a month’s bonus or minimum RM 1,200 to civil servants last Friday.
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    • 82 14 Three bikini babes at Sanya beach in Hainan province, (from left) Feng Qiaoqiaojrom Hebai province, Hu Qiaoyu from Shangdong province and Fan Yue from Jiangsu province, will take part in a beauty contest on Saturday. More than 80 women from the mainland and Taiwan will vie for the
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    • 227 14 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) is considering legal action against Time magazine over an article alleging its leader was involved in terrorism, one of its lawyers said yesterday. The article in Time’s edition dated Sept 23 said that MMI chairman Abu Bakar Bashir,
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    • 80 14 AF TAIPEI Taiwan will ban its citizens who are married to mainland Chinese or have other close family links in China from serving in sensitive government positions, it was reported yesterday. The restrictions came in a set of rules on employment for high government posts submitted to the
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    • 81 14 AFP BEIJING More than 100,000 people will be laid off by the end of the year as their companies shut down to make way for China’s Three Gorges Dam, state media said yesterday. The workers are from more than 500 technologically backward firms in the dam area, which
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    • Article, Illustration
      354 15 PSI in Spore hits years highest level to date THE haze in Singapore reached a PSI level of 66 yesterday the worst reading so far this year. The 24-hour Pollutants and Standards Index measures air quality on a scale of zero to 500. A reading between 50 to
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    • 164 15 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government will ask Singapore for details about an alleged plot by the A 1 Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group to incite unrest between the two countries. Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday said that the threat needed
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
      • 41 15 Reuters TWO North Koreans who sought political asylum at a German school this month have left China after German diplomats struck a deal with Beijing, a Western diplomat said yesterday. “They have left China,” the diplomat Said. Reuters
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      • 45 15 AP HUNDREDS of office workers evacuated one of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur yesterday in a surprise fire drill the first since a bomb scare a year ago. The Tower occupied by commercial tenants was evacuated at around 9am. ap
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      • 36 15 AFP A QUEENSLAND University research team has received funding to develop a life-saving spray or cream from the venom of the deadly Australian brown snake that attacks its victims by clotting their blood. afp
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    • 175 15 PORT DICKSON There’s a new drug addict in Malaysia every 29 minutes. That is about 50 new addicts a day or 1,490 a month, said National Drug Agency deputy director-general (eradication division) Rosli Mohd Ali, adding that the figure is giving authorities
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    • 167 14 LATEST CRAZE (Relief) Nothing like Eu Yan Sang Herbal 1 Soothies to smoothen the day. Made from natural ingredients like loquat leaves, menthol and honey, it’s the perfect remedy for soothing your throat and keeping your body in harmony. Herbal Available at all leading supermarkets, pharmacies, convenience personal care stores
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    • 162 15 The Rice Table The centrepiece of Indonesian cuisine is the 'rijsttafel', a phase coined b\j the Dutch which literally means 'rice table' Developed by the Dutch the story goes that they first approached Indonesian food with a great deal of caution, first sampling one dish and than another until a
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  • STREATS global
    • 43 16 Trees being bent by the wind in Puerto Progress, Mexico, as Hurricane Isidore approaches the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday. More than 70,000 people have been forced to leave their homes following orders for all coastal communities to evacuate AP
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    • 49 16 ■AFP COLOMBO A Sri Lankan driver claimed his bus hit an elephant walking along the road because he could not see it, a press report said here yesterday. The Daily News said the accident last week underscored poor driving standards and urged the authorities to investigate. afp
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    • 43 16 KATHMANDU Government troops have killed at least 76 Maoist rebels in different parts of the country, a Defence Ministry official said yesterday. Meanwhile, one person was injured yesterday after two bomb attacks on education department offices, police Said. Wire services
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    • 52 16 afp ABU DHABI City hall workers have been left with red faces after installing red, amber and blue traffic lights in the United Arab Emirates capital. Gulf News reported that the traffic police department had to work hard to convince the municipality to change the lights imported from
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    • FLASHPOINT IRAQ
      • 247 16 Condoleezza Rice spells out position Wire services WASHINGTON US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was quoted on Sunday as saying that if the UN was unwilling to take “strong action” against Iraq, Washington would have to take care of the problem. Ms Rice told
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      • 188 16 Wire services LONDON A former Iraqi general, Nizar A 1 Khazraji, said yesterday that he was willing to lead a coup against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but warned that US intervention would have “dark” results. Gen A 1 Khazraji, who served in the Iraqi army
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      • 122 16 LONDON -Vehicle toll evaders in London will have their cars towed away after the third offence, The Times newspaper reported yesterday. Under new traffic rules, motorists will have to pay a £5 (5513.8) daily toll when they enter parts of London. Cameras monitoring a
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    • 159 18 Israel stops demolition of Arafat’s HQ buildings Reuters RAMALLAH, West Bank Israeli troops dug in around Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s West Bank headquarters yesterday after halting demolition of his presidential complex following international censure, even from the US. Troops stood guard yesterday in the levelled
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    • 86 18 afp KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has written to US and European leaders after besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat telephoned him on Friday with a plea for help. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir, who is in Copenhagen for the Asia-Europe Meeting, said
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    • 134 18 Xinhua COPENHAGEN Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji yesterday called for Asia and Europe to open a new phase for cooperation. Mr Zhu made the statement in his speech at the opening ceremony of the fourth summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem). Because the current international situation is undergoing
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    • 157 18 Wire services BERLIN Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats (SPD) held onto power in Germany’s closest postwar election, but the chancellor will face a tougher opposition at home and the task of rebuilding ties with the US after a campaign that angered Washington. Justice minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, an SPD
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  • easy STREATS
    • 617 20  -  Tellytubby By YVONNE KWOK They have the same type of light-hearted segments arid boring speeches, but the Emmy Awards is more interesting than the Oscars to Singaporeans, thanks to its sneak peeks. If only the editing yesterday had been a bit better... WHEN I was hired
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      280 20 Best drama series The West Wing Best comedy series Friends Best variety, music or comedy series Late Show With David Letterman Best miniseries Band of Brothers Best made-for-TV movie The Gathering Storm Best variety, music or comedy special America: A Tribute to Heroes Best actor, drama series Michael
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    • STREATS travel
      • 749 21 YOU’VE eaten to your heart’s content, shopped till you nearly dropped and feasted your eyes on Macau’s wonderful historical monuments. What’s next? Time to put yourself in relax mode. And there’s an excellent way to let yourself go when you’re in Macau. Head for the spa. Macau’s many
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    • 227 22 Black predominated at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles yesterday, hut the Emmy Awards also saw its share of glamour and glitter, with women beautifully dressed (and some not quite so beautifully dressed). We be shown hardly any men here but take our word for it,
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    • 118 24 IN the *****, a young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 US corporations, including some of the biggest. All turned him down. In 1947 after seven years of slammed doors he got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to
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    • Just a minute
      • 103 24 All stressed out? Dr Angelina Chan, a psychiatrist at Changi General Hospital gives tips on how to assess your stress level and manage it. On Thursday, 7pm, library@orchard (#O5-22/26, Ngee Ann City podium block, tel: 6838-5188). The talk is free. Trying to get fit? Try brisk walking.
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    • Happenin’
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        52 24 LANTERN FUN-TASY Chinese Garden Till Sunday Tickets at $l3, $9, $7, $5 Lantern Fun-tasy promises to take you on a spectacular journey of dazzling lights and sounds. In a truly magical experience, visitors can expect an East meets West ambience where Mickey Mouse and his toon friends will make
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        99 24 AMEI Singapore Indoor Stadium Nov 17, Bpm Tickets at $l4B, $l2B, $9B, $6B from Sistic A*Mei is bringing her stage presence and power-packed performances to Singapore. You can look forward to an evening of spectacular and rousing performances from this Taiwanese pop queen. VONDA SHEPARD Raffles Convention Centre Oct
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      • 53 24 CLOSE-IN MY FACE Marine Parade Community Building Theatrette Now till Oct 6,3 pm and Bpm Tickets at $l6 at Sistic This play is based on real-life stories and experiences in the heartlands. It explores the relationship between neighbours and highlights issues faced by the residents such as littering, crowshooting
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        47 24 CARMINA BURANA Victoria Theatre Oct 11 and 12, Bpm Tickets at $3l, $26, $2l, $l6 from Sistic This colourful musical work is presented by Nafa’s dance department and is their first collaboration with Nafa’s music department. This dance piece is I about love I and moods.
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    • Tune in TV & MOYLE NEWS
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        70 26 10pm, Channel i A reprise of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic.A young woman, Marion Crane was brutally murdered in a shower at the Bates Motel. When an insurance investigator who is trying to track her down failed to return after a visit to the Bates Motel, Marion’s boyfriend and sister go
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      • 88 26 10pm, Channel 5 We see ghosts... again. In this local TV version of Sixth Sense, Ling Shi-Ying (Carol Tham), is a reformed juvenile delinquent who discovers she has the power to communicate with the dead. They seek her out to help resolve those problems that still tie them to
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      • 121 26 THERE’S a new assassination device. Microscopic and injectable, it lies dormant inside its victim until activated and then kills in an instant. In the new espionage movie Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever, two elite operatives wage secret war to obtain this device. One is
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      109 26 SEVEN AND THE SUN Back to the Innocence A LITTLE point of interest: The initial single, Walk With Me, made its debut on NBC daytime soap opera Passions instead of MTV But that’s not to say that this New Jersey group is a cheesy bunch of musicians who
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    • 54 24 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 The van l( J vanishing art of t' Me, 3S VIEW OF CHINA Hotline: isoo-7 33 44 55 e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg 0 Lianhe Zaobao iff»© tiL Life sciences catching on O private commercial schools
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 476 26 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20 -FEB 18 Your longsuffering patience is rewarded. An older family member reveals data that explains everything. Now that you have the means to change your world, start with yourself. What’s stopping you? PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 The glow fades as your satisfaction
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  • STREATS sports
    • 534 28 After World Cup success, South Korea cannot afford to slacken pace AP SEOUL After becoming the only Asian nation to reach the semi-finals in a World Cup, South Korea expects nothing less than the gold medal in men’s soccer at this year’s Asian Games in Busan
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    • 280 28 Reuters BUSAN North Korean athletes and officials arrived here yesterday to take part in the Asian Games, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of contacts between the rival states. In the first part of the largest delegation North Korea has sent to the South,
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    • 329 29  -  'Adam Hashidy FOOTBALLER Fandi Ahmad and swimmer Joscelin Yeo are household names because of their sporting ability. They are also sporting icons and Singapore needs more of them to be a successful sporting nation. These heroes will point the way to a brighter future
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    • 457 29  -  Since Chow took over, Tampines has gone from strength to strength By Tan Kim Han FOUR months ago, Tampines Rovers coach Chow Kwai Lam lambasted his players for their miserable performance “When you have rubbish, you have to make do with the rubbish that you have,” he
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    • 163 29 DANIEL Bennett, last season’s S-League Player of the Year, became a Singapore citizen yesterday. The 24-year-old England-born defender, who is currently playing for English Third Division club Wrexham, will now be able to represent Singapore in December’s Tiger Cup tournament. Bennett said in a statement:
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    • 498 30 Blanc, Neville back in squad against weakened Leverkusen CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Bayer Leverkusen v Man United LEVERKUSEN Manchester United goes gunning for revenge tonight (2.30 am, tomorrow) when it takes on Bayer Leverkusen for a Champions League reunion with the side which beat it in last year’s semi-finals. Leverkusen
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    • 259 30 Reuters LEVERKUSEN, Germany A serious defence problem and a disastrous start to the season do not mean Bayer Leverkusen cannot upset Manchester United yet again tonight (2.30 am, tomorrow), says the troubled German club’s coach. Said Klaus Toppmoeller: “We are clearly the outsiders.” The German side
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    • 123 30 Today (2.30 am, tomorrow) Group E Newcastle (Eng) v Feyenoord (Ned) Juventus (Ita) v Dynamo Kiev (Ukr) Group F Bayer Leverkusen (Ger) v Manchester United (Eng) Maccabi Haifa (Isr) v Olympiakos (Gre) Group G Lens (Fra) v Bayern Munich (Ger) Deportivo La Coruna (Spa) v AC Milan (Ita)
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    • 115 30 BAYER LEVERKUSEN v MAN UTD IX2 LEVERKUSEN 3.40 DRAW 3.40 MANCHESTER UTD 1.85 1/2 GOAL LEVERKUSEN (+ll/2 Goals) 1.30 MAN UTD (-1 1/2 GOALS) 3.05 TOTAL GOALS 0 GOAL 11.00 1 GOAL 5.80 2 GOALS 4.20 3 GOALS 4.10 4 GOALS 4.70 5 GOALS 6.60 6 GOALS 10.00
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    • 530 31 Newcastle boss Robson feels break will do veteran striker good CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Newcastle United v Feyenoord LONDON Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer may be dropped for the crunch Champions League clash against Dutch side Feyenoord tonight (2.30 am, tomorrow), according to manager Bobby Robson. Shearer has
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    • 342 31 Reuters MILAN AC Milan defender Alessandro Nesta, one of the new arrivals who have raised expectations of success at the Italian club, believes tonight’s Champions League clash with Deportivo Coruna is the moment of truth for Carlo Ancelotti’s side. Milan has made an impressive
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