Streats, 17 October 2002

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    12 1 Streats THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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    Lock icon Mr Dirty Dancing pushes the limits
    827 1  -  Hero of the heartlands By Yvonne Kwok THE man behind pole dancing in the heartlands is the most unlikely of heartlanders. He’s 30, US-educated and spends his Weekends at trendy nightspots such as Centro and Velvet Underground. Mr Kelvin Tan may look like the
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon Why me, asks S'porean
      247 2 Kidnap victim stripped and beaten HE was kidnapped, manhandled, forced to strip naked, robbed and shot at, but he’s finally home. Singaporean businessman Kue Kwee Kee, 58, held captive for two days, returned on Sunday. He told Lianhe Wanbao that he was grabbed from his car
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      Lock icon HE GAVE UP HIS PLACE IN LINE
      105 2 ONE KIND ACT Karen Choo I am seven months pregnant. Recently I walked from Shaw Tower in Beach Road to the Standard Chartered Bank at Marina Square under the noon-day sun and was dismayed to find a long queue at the bank. To
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      Lock icon Banner spat mars new S’pore-M’sia water talks
      331 2 SINGAPORE’S water supply negotiators were surprised to see a banner reading “Meeting on the price review of raw water” when they arrived at 9am for a meeting with Malaysian counterparts yesterday. They were surprised not least of all because they had objected to
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      Lock icon Pole axed – for now
      311 3  - Pole axed for now No ban, but beer promo act changed By Julie Sim ABC Extra Stout’s next roadshow will not feature the pole dancing which recently made the news. But this is not because of complaints or a ban, the brewer’s brand manager, Mr Kelvin Tan, 30, said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Thumbs up for inter-racial dating here
      176 3 INTER-RACIAL dating is okay for us and our kids, eight out of 10 Singaporeans surveyed said. Employing someone of another race would be no problem for the same proportion of respondents. But when it came to renting a room to someone of a different
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      Lock icon 'All bets are off'
      388 4  -  2003 GDP forecast is anyone’s guess By Chua Kong Ho ECONOMISTS peering into their crystal balls see only clouded prospects following last weekend’s bombings in Bali. The blasts have scuttled any pretence of certainty in Singapore’s economic growth. “All bets are off,” Deputy Prime Minister Tony
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      Lock icon Repentant robber
      79 4 AN armed man robbed a woman of her valuables and money in a lift at about 11pm on Monday night. Then he sought her forgiveness. Before he fled from the scene at Block 427, Yishun Avenue 11, he returned $lO to his victim, a systems analyst. He had
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      Lock icon Drug suspects held
      88 4 TWO men were nabbed by the Central Narcotics Bureau, but not before a violent struggle with CNB officers. They also rammed a CNB car with their own vehicle. The officers arrested a drug trafficker, 33, who was with an odd job labourer, 31, at the time, and
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      Lock icon Helmet hideout
      84 4 A DRUG trafficker who had hidden packets of heroin and ketamine in his crash helmet was caught by Customs officials at Woodlands Checkpoint yesterday morning. Eight packets of heroin valued at $118,750 and three packets of ketamine worth $26,500 were seized from the man, a Malaysian, who had
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      Lock icon Undergrads, stop griping
      166 4  -  By_ Yong Hui Mien UNDERGRADS who moan about the Government favouring foreign talent have been told to stop whimpering and to prove their worth. The rebuke comes from student leader Tan Feng Jun (above), 21, vicepresident of the National University of Singapore’s Political Association (SPA). She was
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      340 4 BUSINESS COURSES AT TYNDALE Trident University of Technology (U.S.A) Accredited by the International Council of Higher Education, Trident was ranked No.l by the 2000 Technology Training Resources survey of more than 70 leading U.S. Universities. http://www.trident.edu Human Resource Management Marketing Entry Requirement: 'O' levels and above mature students UNIVERSITY of
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon Shares rise for 4th straight session
      422 6 STI: 1,439.05 9.37 SHARES closed higher yesterday for the fourth straight day on hopes that the local market had bottomed out, with tech stocks such as ST Assembly up sharply. The Straits Times Index gained 0.66 per cent, or 9.37 points, to close at
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      Lock icon Wall St wonders
      587 6 CEOs credited with restoring investor confidence in big companies Wire services SINGAPORE Top US company bosses have recently taken a lot of flak for mismanaging their books and causing markets around the world to suffer. Enron, World Com, Tyco and Andersen all became synonymous with malfeasance, lies
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      24 6 *AS AT OCTOBER 16 US$: 551.798 552.790 EURO: 551.764 Ss: 69.18 YEN Ss: RM2.114 Ss: HK54.338 Ss: 24.44 BAHT Ss: 5,124 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
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        Lock icon JTC OFFERS REITS
        54 6 Reuters ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT), a joint venture between JTC Corp’s Ascendas and Australia’s Macquarie Goodman Management, plans to raise $240 million to buy properties in Singapore. A-REIT will offer 272.5 million units between 83 and 88 cents each in November for a listing on
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        Lock icon DOCKERS BLAME LINES
        59 6 -AFP US West Coast dockworkers have filed complaints against their employers for allegedly blocking efforts to clear the backlog caused by the recent shutdown. But the shipping lines said in a statement: “This appears to be an effort to divert attention from the fact that work productivity
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      788 7 “Green ideas for MY HOME** CONTEST Show us what tips you have on how you and your family practise the “3Rs” at home Reduce, Reuse, Recyde.The guidelines for the tips/ideas generated must be related to: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Send us your completed entry form accompanied with 4R-size photos as proof
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon R-E-S-P-E-C-T, what it means to me
      581 8  -  Comment B 'J ADELINE WOON AFTER a month away, I knew I was back in Singapore when I found the toilet seat wet and there were no seat covers. It has always been a mystery why seats in the ladies’ toilet are wet when
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      Lock icon Do fees skew referrals for medical tests?
      149 8 I UNDERSTAND that when a patient is referred for medical tests, the provider of the tests may pay a referral fee to the party who gives the referral. I also understand that there is sometimes some doubt about what to check and to
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      Lock icon Bali attack was S-E Asia’s 9/11
      169 8 THE Australian media has dubbed the Bali nightspot bombing Australia’s 9/11. While it’s true that the injury and death toll comprised largely Australian nationals, it was pointed out to me by my Australian brother-in-law that it should really be considered Bali’s 9/11. The effect
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      Lock icon Childcare centres mindful of Muslim dietary needs
      273 8 I REFER to “Give us halal guarantee for childcare centres” (Streats, Oct 4), a letter by Ms Rafidah, and Mr Irwan Jamil’s response, “Muis childcare certification would be divisive” (Streats, Oct 8). Our licensing standards require childcare centres to cater for the various
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      Lock icon Oops
      54 8 IN our Page 1 map of the region yesterday, the area marked as the Pacific Ocean should have been indicated as the South China Sea. In yesterday’s report “Drug users nabbed in raid”, we should have attributed the raid to the Central Narcotics Bureau, not the police. We are
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      72 8 Have Your Say E-mail 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. We reserve the right to edit your letters Jxor brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that
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  • STREATS medical
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      Lock icon Alcohol in pregnancy affects baby It ups cancer risk
      306 10 LONDON Drink while you are pregnant and you may be increasing the risk of breast cancer in your daughter later in life. US researchers who did tests on rats found that the offspring of those animals given moderate to high doses
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      Lock icon What is glaucoma?
      101 10 HEALTH FACT GLAUCOMA is an eye disease in which the fluid pressure in the eyeball is too high, damaging the optic nerve. It accounts for 40 per cent of blindness in Singapore. Some sufferers have no symptoms, while others experience eye pain or redness, headaches, vomitting, blurred
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      Lock icon HEALTH FORUM
      219 10 QThe doctor has advised me to avoid red meat, beans and high-protein food, to reduce uric add. What food contains high protein? Is 70 of uric add high? How long do I nave to avoid all this food? A Meat, poultry, fish, nuts, dried beans, eggs, milk and
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      Lock icon Food for the brain
      464 25  -  Health begins with Sun^ ani By_ Jill Lim MANY parents try to help their children do better in school by loading them with tuition sessions and assessment books. But they should not neglect a more basic way to boost brain power: good nutrition. A diet with
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      289 10 4 UNIVERSITY OF V|M| WOLVERHAMPTON maMsrby 19 Oct ‘O2 "sth Largest University in UK" iP|jjjS|p9l for any degree Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Final Year Degree Programme Limited Seats! iFllrtil'Kl Mechatronics Limited Seats! H KI Mechanical “Obviously, we benefited a bt front the course; me received pay increment, carter promotion, Msc.
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  • BALI BLAST
    • THE SUSPECTS
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        Lock icon DIE-HARD BALI LOVERS
        252 13  -  YongHuiMien GERMAN tourist Ms Meike Fuehrer is hell-bent on going to Bali, terrorist bomb attacks or no. She and her boyfriend, Mr Bemd Schroeder, 38, boarded Garuda’s 6.25 pm flight to the resort island on Monday, two days after the massacre that killed nearly 200 and injured
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        Lock icon Ex-airman being questioned Bomber or not?
        417 13 US paper: He confessed to building bomb. Indonpolice: He didnt confess. Wire services JAKARTA A former air force officer has confessed to building the Bali bomb, the Washington Post reported yesterday. But he was shocked at the huge loss of life and regretted his
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        Lock icon Bashir to be questioned Bali? No comment
        243 13 AP JAKARTA Mr Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged leader of A1 Qaeda-linked extremist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), has said that he would refuse to answer police questions about the nightclub bombing on Bali. “I will not answer any questions about the Bali bombing,”
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        Lock icon Eight staged Bali attack using two vans: report
        181 13 -AFP KUTA Eight bombers in two vans staged the deadly Bali attack, a newspaper reported yesterday. Citing police and intelligence sources, the usually reliable local daily Koran Tempo said the bombers may have used remote-control devices to blow up the two tourist
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    • THE VICTIMS
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        Lock icon US DEADLINE FOR MEGA
        248 15 JAKARTA Oct 24 that’s the deadline US Ambassador Ralph Boyce has set for Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her advisers to act on terrorist cells and organisations in the country, reported the New York Times (NYT) yesterday. The newspaper said that Washington had repeatedly warned Jakarta
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        Lock icon Clues in a slipper or nose stud
        513 15 Desperate relatives find it hard to identify victims Wire services TURQUOISE blue slippers. A purple navel ring. A stainless steel bracelet. A nose stud. These objects are fixed in the minds of bewildered relatives of the victims of the Bali bomb massacre as
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        Lock icon Indon A1 Qaeda camp on tape
        93 15 JAKARTA A videotape obtained by CNN shows an A 1 Qaeda training camp in Indonesia, the existence of which has never been publicly acknowledged by Indonesian officials. The tape was found in Afghanistan in what is considered by experts to be A 1 Qaeda’s
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon Dark-skinned and dangerous
      351 16 Police preparing composite of sniper What witnesses told police: One thinks he/she saw one white male. One thinks he/she saw two dark-skinned males. Two think they saw one dark-skinned male. WASHINGTON US investigators are preparing a sketch of the killer sniper that is terrorising Washington. Witnesses describe
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      Lock icon Saudi women in a bind
      218 16 ap RIYADH In Saudi Arabia, men and women are segregated by an unwritten |but stringent code. But when it comes to buying lingerie, women often find themselves having to discuss their most intimate details with strange men. The reason is that in most stores, only
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      Lock icon Pentagon to help with police sniper patrol
      213 16 -AFP WASHINGTON Police tracking a sniper who has killed nine people in the area received US military help on Tuesday as the latest victim was identified as an FBI analyst out shopping with her husband. The Pentagon said that it agreed to provide
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      Lock icon US economy in good shape, says Fed governor
      168 16 -afp NEW YORK The US economy is on the right track and is recovering, although slowly, Federal Reserve Board governor Ben Bemanke said on Tuesday. “There is little risk of deflation,” he said. “I believe prices are in a good range.’ He
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      Lock icon Pro-Taleban PM for Pakistan?
      469 18 Islamic alliance may join coalition to form govt Wire services ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s next prime minister could be a pro-Taleban cleric. This may happen if Pakistan’s newly powerful Islamic parties’ alliance, Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), gets its way. The MMA, which made unprecedented gains in last week’s general
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      Lock icon Saddam voted back in by 100%
      123 18 Reuters BAGHDAD Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won a perfect 100 per cent of votes in a referendum for a new term in office, official results showed yesterday. “Our leader President Saddam Hussein, may God preserve him and look after him, has won 100 per
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      Lock icon US to China: Guard tug-of-love mum
      181 18 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States has asked China to provide police protection to an American woman locked in a child custody battle with her Chinese ex-husband, officials said on Tuesday. Mrs Camille Colvin, from New York, and her ex-husband, Mr Guo Rui, have been
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      Lock icon Abu Sayyaf leader set to give up
      139 18 -AFP MANILA A top leader of the Abu Sayyaf group, Mr Hamsirahi Sali, wanted by the US for the deaths of two American hostages, said yesterday that he planned to surrender. Mr Hamsirahi said that he was ready to lay down his arms,
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      Lock icon 5 JI men held in M’sia
      125 18 AP KUALA LUMPUR Police yesterday said that they had arrested five suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI). Inspector-General of Police Norian Mai said the five men had been in contact with militants in neighbouring countries. Mr Norian said that the arrests meant that “just
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Forget Oscar, it’s a Sandler movie
      504 20  -  YVONNE KWOK Mr Deeds Directed by Steven Brill. Starring Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder Rating: 2 out of 4 IF you’re the type who has been drugged by snobs into believing that Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is the best movie ever made, and if you
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      Lock icon Christina riles the Thais
      108 20 -AP ONE of pop diva Christina Aguilera’s latest music videos has Thais decrying not its explicit dancing and revealing costumes but a Thailanguage billboard in the backdrop that alludes to the country’s sex industry. Mr Saharat Wannachomphu, marketing director for BMG Thailand Co, the local distributors
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      Lock icon Chic to be Greek
      130 20 IMAGINE chatting about Greek blokes with the Queen! Canadian writer and actress Nia Vardalos, the woman behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding, did just that when she sat next to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited Canada last week. According to the Sydney Morning Herald on
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      Lock icon Battle of the boobs
      122 20 IT was a battle of the boobs at the British National Television Awards on Tuesday, said the Daily Mirror, with “mighty Pamela Anderson” for the US and Brit East Enders star Kacey Ainsworth in something similarly cleavage-revealing. However, the newspaper added scathingly that Anderson couldn’t answer
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      Lock icon Nicholas avoids jail
      341 22 HONGKONG Nicholas Tse has escaped a jail term and will have to do 240 hours of community service instead, a Hongkong court ruled yesterday. Magistrate Allan James Wyeth said he spared the 22-year-old Hongkong singer because of his age, clear record and his having served 14 days
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      123 24 BREATHE a sigh of relief-, the PSI dropped yesterday I to 56 from an alarming 92 1 on Tuesday. In parts of KL and southern Peninsular Malaysia, however, people cannot see further than skm through the haze. This is half normal visibility. Smoke is blowing there
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    • Just a minute
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        105 24 What are our young designers up to? The annual Visual Communication Design Forum showcases practical design works and will update you onthe latest trends and practices in the design industry. Till Oct 21, NAFA Selegie Gallery (1A Short Street, tel: 6338-7827), 9am-spm. Free. The Health Sciences Authority
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    • Happenin’
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        Lock icon EXHIBITION
        50 24 XIAO SHU AND ZHAO LEI Friday till Oct 21,10am-7pm Nayang Academy of Fine Arts Middle Gallery (111 Middle Road) Beijing artists Xiao Shu and Zhao Lei have been invited by NAFA to display their works in Singapore. This joint exhibition showcases some of their Chinese brush paintings and calligraphy.
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        Lock icon PERFORMANCE
        87 24 THE SPIDER AND THE TIGER Tomorrow at Bishan Town Centre Amphitheatre, Block 510, Bishan Street 11 Saturday at Chinatown Complex Pavilion Stage, Block 335, Smith Street First performance 7-30pm-Bpm, second performance 8.30pm-9pm A retrenched man decides to perform on the street with his soon-to-be-retrenched Indonesian maid. The maid takes
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        45 24 BEHIND FORBIDDEN CITY Saturday, spm-6pm library @esplanade Free Award-winning lyricist Stephen Clark shares some interesting facts about the Empress Dowager, which he found while researching for Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress. He will also speak about the creative process in writing the musical.
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        Lock icon CHARITY
        78 24 COFFEE CHARITY DRIVE Saturday, 6.30am-11.30pm FJ Square at Block 108, Punggol field and Block 263, Compassvale Street In line with its official opening, every cup of coffee and tea goes for five cents. FJ Square will pay the price difference with proceeds going to charity. DJs from Class 95
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        Lock icon MUSIC
        74 24 FASCINATING RHYTHM Friday, Bpm Victoria Theatre Tickets at $2l from Sistic Thomson Jazz Club’s annual gala of jazz music concert will showcase the ensembles of Thomson Jazz Club (now in its 10th year) and Thomson Swing Band with special guests Jitterßugs Swingapore. The second half will feature Singapore’s premier
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        Lock icon THE DREW CAREY SHOW
        92 26 9pm, Channel i A depressed Sharon shows up at the Warsaw after breaking up with her boyfriend and Drew lets her come to his house for a beer. He promises to be a gentleman, but she suddenly jumps him. Sharon leaves before Drew wakes up, and
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        Lock icon THE AMAZING RACE 3
        88 26 Bpm, Channel 5 On the programme’s website, it says cryptically that “several teams set out to hunt down and extinguish one specific team”. Only an idiot won’t know it’s the hunky twins, Derek and Drew. Every team hates them and in the first episode, brothers Ken
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        Lock icon A KINDRED SPIRIT
        37 26 7pm, Channel U Biaobin and Aunt Shan accompany Liangyou to Vietnam to seek Fen, only to discover that she has died. Liangyou thinks that the son he had with Fen may still be alive.
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        Lock icon UNFORGIVEN
        83 26 10pm, Channel 5 This is a big WWE (the organisation formerly known as WWF) event featuring grudge matches that have been brewing, if you’ve kept an eye on programmes like Afterbum. Will the Undertaker thrash the stuffing out of The Next Big Thing? Or will Brock’s evil manager drag
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        Lock icon Eminem’s new challenge: Serious acting
        383 26 Los Angeles Times HIS music and videos are theatrical enough, but can rapper Eminem carry a movie? Not just any movie, but a gritty drama written, directed and filmed by people with no rap background. It looks like Eminem might just swing it. 8 Mile
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      Lock icon Chill out
      107 26 ACOUSTICA Various artistes IF you are a fan of stripped-down frills-free acoustic music, this aptly-titled collection is for you. It features 17 artistes such as Badly Drawn Boy, Stereophonies, Muki, Alfie, Aimee Mann, Beth Orton, South, Neil Halstead, Heather Nova, Chocolate Genius, among many others. Aside from some
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      262 23 SPOT THE DIFFERENCE Can't tell? Now, you can differentiate Energizer AA and AAA batteries made for the Singapore market from parallel imports and fakes. Simply look out for the "Guaranteed in Singapore, Your Safer Choice!" logo on packaging. This logo is your answer to: 3tfaiife Your Safer Choice! Guaranteed Safety
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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      478 24 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.t AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 When you hear good advice, act on it. Symbolic gestures play well in the media but otherwise have little practical use. The Pisces moon neutralises the cosmic effects that usually work in your favour. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 You’re beautifully
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      Lock icon The Roy Keane gamble
      803 28 Man United risks further punishment if it decides to appeal against ban, fine Wire services LONDON Manchester United is debating whether it should appeal against the record £150,000 (S $405,000) fine and five-match ban handed out to shamed skipper Roy Keane (right). If it decides to
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      291 29 AP BUSAN Indian runner Sunita Rani was stripped of her Asian Games medals yesterday after failing to pass doping tests, the organising committee said. Rani had tested positive for nandrolone, a steroid which assists muscle-building, in urine samples taken after winning the gold medal in
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      487 29  -  Football official donates $7,800 to ST Pocket Money Fund By_ Lim Han Ming HE makes a pittance as a football referee. Every now and then, he has to face a hostile crowd. Yet S K Kennedy thought nothing of donating his $5,000 cash reward on Tuesday for
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      343 29 Reuters LONDONBrazil’s World Cup-winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari says he is keen to work in Europe one day as he considers an offer to take charge of Mexico’s national team. He said: “The idea is to work outside Brazil. Mexico have a very well organised
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      444 30 Manchester United eyes year-end transfer market to beef up team MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson may step up the chase for Julien Escude or Nicolas Burdisso when the transfer window opens at the end of the year. The Manchester United manager’s pursuit of France Under-21 international Escude looked set
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      274 30 AP MADRID Arsenal right back Lauren Etame Mayer said he believes European club champion Real Madrid has the best team on the continent, but his side could still beat it. The Cameroon international said in an interview with the leading sports dailyMarca yesterday: “When
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      133 31 ‘lt’s for the others to keep up and improve their game, it’s not our fault. In all honesty, I would rather he critidsedfor being dominant than being too slow.’ Michael Schumacher ‘These insane proposals put Formula One’s image at risk. I don’t think they’ll go forward because
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      629 31 Fl bosses propose radical changes to halt Ferrari’s domination AP LONDON Michael Schumacher was unstoppable, ending the Formula One season in Japan as he opened it in Australia with a predictable victory. Now the real action begins off the track: how to slow down Schumacher and
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        107 31 SOCCER Reuters LONDON Robert Pires scored for Arsenal in a friendly on Tuesday as he took another step towards rehabilitation from the knee ligament injury that kept him out of the World Cup, a British daily reported yesterday. The Frenchman played in a 5-1 win over Second Division
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        118 31 BASKETBALL -AFP BEIJING China’s NBA top draft pick Yao Ming said yesterday he could leave the country to join Houston Rockets as early as next week. “Oct 21 would be the soonest I could leave, as long as I get my visa,” Yao said as he
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        76 31 HOCKEY THE inaugural International Development Workshop for hockey will be held in Singapore at the Concorde Hotel from today to Oct 19. A total of 30 officials from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia will meet to discuss the development of hockey in their respective national associations. The workshop
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      46 31 IN THE LIVING ROOM GOLF: EPGA Cisco World Match Play, Day 1 (Super Sports Plus Ch2l, 9.15 pm). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Euro 2004 qualifier: Northern Ireland v Ukraine (Channel i, 12mn). TENNIS: Masters Series, Madrid: Early round coverage, Day 3 (Star Sports Ch 24, 8.30 pm).
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