Streats, 1 November 2002

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    12 1 Streats FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • Article
    Lock icon No face, no freedom NO WAY
    757 1  -  Raise maid levy, says committee. Give locals a chance But would jobless S’poreans consider working as maids? By Yong Hui Mien SHE lives in a sparsely furnished one-room flat with her husband and is unemployed. Madam Chew, 63, is well and able. But she
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    Lock icon Hot soup over hot panties
    214 1 -AFP TOKYO Japanese men buying soiled panties is no big thing in Japan. They buy it openly, from sex shops to roadside vending machines. But those who like the novelty of getting it fresh off the girl will have to find their supply elsewhere now.
    -AFP  -  214 words
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon Corporate NON-Communications
      349 2  -  How important is PR? No comment By Choong Choon Yee WHEN it comes to answering questions about corporate communications, it seems that corporate communications executives are not too communicative. When Streats asked DBS Group’s communications office to comment on a Straits Times report about a $500,000 price tag
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      Lock icon Would you kiss someone like her?
      135 2 Seay or not? In an exchange in Parliament yesterday, the attractiveness of smoking was debated by an MP and the Health Minister Man magnet 'lfyou walk into some of our pubs and clubs, chances are they are smoke-filled and through the haze you would
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    • PARLIAMENT ISSUES
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        Lock icon Economy weaker, more uncertain
        124 3 SINGAPORE’S economy now looks weaker and more uncertain, Senior Minister for Trade and Industry Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday in Parliament. He said that the US economy is losing steam, Singapore’s major markets, such as Europe and Japan, are seeing slow growth, and the recent Bali bomb
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      • Article
        Lock icon CPF top-up limit
        66 3 THE CPF Board has set a limit on contributions to retirement funds by Singaporeans or permanent residents. Contributions, including voluntary sums paid by employers, are limited to mandatory amounts, or $28,800 in any year, whichever is the higher. Minister of State for Manpower Dr Ng Eng Hen
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        Lock icon Some resale flat rules eased
        84 3 HDB flats that were bought without CPF grants or HDB loans will be treated more like private properties from next year. People who bought their HDB flats on their own steam may sell them after a year, compared to two-and-a-half years for people who did
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        Lock icon $300 fine for underage smoking
        74 3  -  Reports by Sarah Ng UNDERAGE smoking will now carry a flat $3OO fine even for a first offence. Formerly, such offenders were fined $5O for a first offence and $lOO for subsequent offences. The stiffer fine will apply even to those caught chewing, buying or
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      Lock icon Maid – and loving it
      346 3  - Maid and loving it 18-year-old S’porean sees cleaning homes as a career By Zubaidah Nazeer TEENAGER Muk Peng Peng does with enthusiasm what many parents grumble that their children never do wash the dishes and tidy their rooms. What’s more, Ms Muk, 18, does these and more for a living,
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      Lock icon Australia: Singapore’s high risk rating ‘not alarmist’
      321 4  -  By Calvin Low AUSTRALIA has defended its decision to label Singapore a high security risk country following the Bali bombing, saying the move was not alarmist. The defence came as Mr Raymond Lim, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry,
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      Lock icon Right school, right stuff
      514 4  -  NUS science and maths secondary school? Why not, says whiz kid By Chong Choon Yee MATHS whiz kid Muhammad Adib Surani (picture), 14, surfs the Internet for hours every day like many other teenagers. And his parents happily let him do that. They know he is
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      Lock icon Dummy thieves
      64 4 THIEVES carted away 25 mannequins clad in Punjabi suits on display at a makeshift clothes store at the Deepavali Expo opposite Serangoon Plaza in Serangoon Road. The Punjabi suits, each priced at $125 and the mannequins at $3OO each, were stolen under the noses of sleeping workers between
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      Lock icon Maid charged
      73 4 AN Indonesian maid was yesterday charged in court with causing the death of an 18-month-old child. Nurchasanah San Murdi, 21, is accused of causing the death of Donna Yong Ee Hong by dropping the toddler on the floor after swinging her round. Donna died nine days after the
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      Lock icon Taipei-SIA tussle
      73 4 Reuters TAIPEI Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration said yesterday that it planned to seek compensation from SIA over a crash two years ago that it claimed caused NT$3 million (S$ 152,999) in damage to Taipei international airport. More than 80 people were killed when the Los Angelesbound SQOO6 exploded
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      Lock icon New club owners
      74 4 CINEMA chain Eng Wah Organisation, which failed recently to acquire the ailing Pinetree Club, has bought the Fort Canning Country Club. The 120,000 sq ft property at Fort Canning Park is owned by National Parks. Eng Wah secured the financially-troubled club for slightly more than half of
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      179 2 s POLICY LOAM Within 1 Hour At the lowest interest rate of 5.5% p.a. Tel: 6788 1122 Visit: streats.income.com.sg Email: cs@income.com.sg NTUC Income life insurance policyholders can call us Just give us a call and we will credit the money to your for a policy loan*. bank account in 1
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon Banns are read at NatSteel
      488 7 Ang Kong Hua, Ong Beng Seng announce ‘engagement’ SINGAPORE The Nat Steel pre-takeover drama reads like a love triangle. In the last month, The Business Times has used the phrase “jump into bed” thrice in Nat Steel-related articles. Yesterday, those words cropped up again. The
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      Lock icon Market mixed on tepid figures
      397 7 STI: 1,463.37 Hi 4.41 Reuters SHARES brought the curtains down on a robust October by closing mixed yesterday as tepid economic numbers induced profittaking in some blue chips before late buying lifted banks. Investors were cautiously optimistic that the market had found a bottom and
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      25 7 *AS AT OCTOBER 31 US$: 551.767 552.75 S EURO: 551.744 Ss: 69.32 YEN Ss: RM2.150 Ss: HK54.413 Ss: 24.49 BAHT Ss: 5,223 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon Transparency ≠frequency, says Dhana
      235 7 Transparency frequency, says Dhana Wire services SINGAPORE Mandatory quarterly reporting for listed companies encourages short-term trading, Mr S Dhanabalan said yesterday. “I am dismayed that we in Singapore have decided to impose this practice on listed companies,” said Mr Dhanabalan, chairman of Temasek Holdings. “We seem to have tilted in
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      Lock icon Supermarket squeeze
      342 8 It’s not only in S pore that small, shops are sidelined Bloomberg BANGKOK Mr Wanchai Sri-Preaning, who sells eyeglasses at his family’s shop in Chanthaburi, Thailand, spends his free time taping posters to buildings on the main road into town. The message: A planned Tesco pic shopping centre
      – Bloomberg; Bloomberg  -  342 words
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      Lock icon Independent operator
      437 12 Krawcheck, chief of Citigroup’s new research unit, is a no-nonsense woman Bloomberg NEW YORK Ms Sallie Krawcheck, whose seat at the right hand of Citigroup chief executive officer Sanford Weill makes her one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, got her new job by speaking her mind.
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      276 9 Wire-less Connection Y>. Y VS k -h G W \YV 'yoHv Wmmm invent Flawless Solution Memory Stick, Cyber-shot Sony Cyber-shot teams up with HP Photosmart 130 When 2 big names, each pioneers in their own fields and 2 widely used products come together, you get 1 simply irresistible package! Capture
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      320 12 i lm e 5 S ■ZZ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2002 6.00 pm onwards. Co ;.rv2s Lawn FREE admissimrc A?. ,>,15 3-0 mo A mind-blowing line-up. program and venue! Txfjiesosf omeever, CHYMES w>■ Pong some 0' me t-es: jazz aristas n As® Jeremy Monle'iro Quartet '~~'a\c' a. aoo 2 "sc C
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  • STREATS medical
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      Lock icon Cold hard facts
      328 14 THE influenza “season” is all year round in Singapore but generally, the peak periods are November to December and April to June (following the winter season in the northern and southern hemispheres). Influenza, like the common cold, is caused by a virus. Many viruses, in fact, such
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    • Article
      Lock icon HEALTH FORUM
      125 14 Qlam reaching 40 and have lots of prominent veins on my thighs and feet. Will running worsen my condition? What exercises are best for me? A Varicose veins are unlikely to get worse with running. Standing for prolonged periods would be more likely to make them worse. You
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      235 14 AUDIO VIDEO ASIA 2002 an event brought to you by www.audiovideoasia.com ber 2nd, 2002 from 12:00pm to 9:oopm ber 3rd, 2002 from 10:00am to 6:oopm The Raffles City Convention Centre 14 Swissotel Stamford (former Westin Stamford) ease proceed to main event venue at The Stamford Meeting Rooms (Be Among The
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Just no time to make babies
      446 17 THE report “Just no time for fun” (Streats, Oct 31), about how young people have no time for leisure activities once they start working, reveals a very foreboding future. I look upon this as an issue which has a direct bearing on Singapore’s survival.
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      Lock icon ElderShield claims an obstacle course
      291 17 THE Minister of Health, and the CEOs of NTUC Income and Great Eastern Life (GE) insurance companies, have all been positive on Elder Shield. Many Singaporeans signed up on the basis of that sentiment, but many who read the small print, read between the lines
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    • Article
      Lock icon Please recognise our part-time degrees
      288 17 THE Government has been encouraging us to further our studies to ensure our continued employability. But what is the point of studying locally for a foreign degree in evening classes if those degrees are not recognised in Singapore? On one hand, we have the Government
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      Lock icon Oops
      39 17 IN our report “OBS aiming for 100% ofNatSteel, just ‘5O plus 1’” (Streats, Oct 31), the headline should have read “OBS not aiming for 100% of Nat Steel, just ‘5O plus 1’”. We are sorry for the error.
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      72 17 Have Your Say E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Pay oh 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
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon A royal wife’s trauma
      265 18 ONE week after her arrest, Datin Seri Raja Noor Mahani, 60, was released by a magistrate’s court on Wednesday. Immediately, she put her hands up in prayer, uttering a “doa” (a thanksgiving recitation). She left hand in hand with her husband, Raja di-Hilir Perak Raja Datuk
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    • Article
      Lock icon Swear, if you are a true Muslim
      391 18 Bashir’s challenge to Indon government -AFP JAKARTA Detained Indonesian terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir yesterday dared a top minister and the police chief to take an oath saying his detention had nothing to do with foreign pressure. “If the coordinating minister for political,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Get the bad apples: Gus Dur
      95 18 SYDNEY Most Indonesians favour a crackdown on militant groups that have brought te, former president Abdurrahman Wahid, also known as Gus Dur, said on Wednesday. The Jakarta Post yesterday said that Mr Abdurrahman had urged the government to welcome foreign involvement in the search
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      Lock icon US issues travel warning on Thailand
      170 18 Wire services A A A A BANGKOK-The US government yesterday issued a travel warning to US citizens visiting Thailand, saying there is a risk of attacks similar to the Bali nightclub bombing that killed at least 184 people. US citizens should be careful in
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Homosexuality ‘rife’ in British navy in 1960s
      330 21 Reuters LONDON British sailors who arrived in Singapore in the 1960 s would head downtown to seek the services of male prostitutes and “lady boys” as soon as their ships docked. “Not infrequently this ends up with them sleeping with male prostitutes... who
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      Lock icon Message from a murderer: I'm not mad
      496 21 AP TUCSON, Arizona It took 22 pages and the murder of three of his professors, but killer Robert Stewart Flores has had the last word. A day after the nursing student went on a shooting rampage at the University of Arizona, a newspaper
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon This Israeli minister loves to rile the PM
      167 21 ap JERUSALEM Labour leader Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, it seems, loves to pick fights with prime ministers he works with. As communications minister in former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak’s government, Mr BenEliezer went against Mr Barak in calling for a halt to peace
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      Lock icon Message from a rebel: More horrors to come
      281 23 -afp MOSCOW Hard on the heels of the Moscow hostage drama in which over 150 people died comes a warning from Chechen rebel president Aslan Maskhadov of even greater horrors. In a videotape prepared for AFP before the Moscow incident, he said:
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      Lock icon Arabs dislike America but not democracy
      164 26 AP CAIRO-A rare survey of public opinion in the Arab world has found that most Arabs dislike the US but not because they reject Western democracy and values. The survey which questioned 3,200 people in eight countries was conducted by American pollster James Zogby,
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      Lock icon Actress dead... all because of a nude photo
      335 26 -AFP KATHMANDU Nepal’s film community is demanding action against the press after a budding 24-year-old actress killed herself over a nude photograph of her published in a tabloid. Ms Shrisha Karki, a former model and TV actress who was just beginning to
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Jazzing it up with Jeremy
      828 28 > v:-., Jazz musician Jeremy Monteiro, who recently icon the Cultural Medallion. Singapore’s top arts honour, discusses the local jazz scene and more with GREGORY LEOW What is jazz? NOW that’s a hard one. Said Jeremy Monteiro: “You can’t define it in just a few
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      Lock icon CDs far Jazz 101
      79 28 NEW to jazz and not sure where to start? Some easy ways to get swinging aside from checking out Chi Jazz would be through CDs. Jeremy Monteiro recommends Oscar Peterson’s We’ve got Requests and Ella Fitzgerald’s Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Alternatively, check out the
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      Lock icon Marry for money? Who, me?
      530 31  -  Adam About Town ADAM H^SIIIDY WHEN a female reader suggested recently that the Government pay local men a dowry to marry Singaporean women, there was a huge howl of protest from the fairer sex. They shrieked and screamed. It was as if a cockroach had
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      Lock icon Take a bow
      398 32  -  Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? Judi Lows recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals that are easy to make and cost $lO or less forfour servings imll see you through these tough times Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW BUTTERFLIES, that’s what
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    • STREATS beauty
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        Lock icon The kindest cut
        302 35 You don’t need to go for reconstructive surgery to change the way you look. The right haircut can make all the difference Hair Affair brought to you by Dove Hair Care IT pays to get your hair cut right. If you have a face that’s too round,
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      136 36 HI. I’m Gillian Isabel Siow, your November weather girl. New Delhi, which is hosting the 185-nation UN Climate Change Convention this week, says it is wrong to press poor nations to cut down on producing gases that J add to global warming. Developing countries struggling to
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out..
        127 36 Here be dragons. Fourteen teams from community clubs, clans and wushu associations meet at Lot 1 Shoppers’ Mall today and tomorrow at 7.30 pm for the National Dragon Dance Championship 2002. Dragon dance traces its origins to the Sui and Tang dynasties in AD 581-906. It was
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    • Happenin’
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        Lock icon DANCE
        61 36 RAISE THE RED LANTERN Till Sunday, Bpm Esplanade Tickets at $l2O, $95, $BO, $6O, $45 and $3O from Sistic Dazzling giant red lanterns, stunning visuals, exquisite costumes and graceful dance sequences bring internationally celebrated film director Zhang Yimou’s famous movie to the stage. This production is a collaboration between
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        Lock icon MUSIC
        108 36 KEIKO MATSUI Nov 4, 8pm Kallang Theatre Tickets at $66, $56 and $46 from Sistic She is the only woman to have dominated Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz charts for the last 25 years. Her dreamy compositions have a jazz influence but feels closer to world music that’s part Kitaro, part
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        58 36 LEARNING EXPO Till Sunday, 10am-Bpm Suntec City Halls 601 and 602 Free If you’re into serious studying, you can find out from exhibiting institutions of learning about a whole slew of academic programmes. If not, you could still learn something from motivational talks and presentations on hobbies and crafts.
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        Lock icon DEEPAVALI
        79 36 OPEN HOUSE Monday, 12pm-6pm Singapore Philatelic Museum (238 Coleman Street) Admission charges waived on Deepavali Catch an Indian puppet play (3pm-3.30pm), Amrita Rescue The Sim, which is an adaptation of an Indian folktale. As a punishment to villagers who have become unkind and selfish, a god orders the monster
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        Lock icon MY MVP VALENTINE
        45 38 10.30 pm, Channel U Chengfeng regrets breaking up with Xi and patches up with her. Gaoxi is saved by the Qi Sui players from being assaulted by a group of schoolmates and is persuaded by Coach Dong to join the basketball team.
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        Lock icon CO-ED CALL GIRL
        40 38 Midnight, Channel 5 Thanks to a roommate’s practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a sleazy Malibu escort service. Stars Tori Spelling, whose father Aaron was the original purveyor of prime-time sleaze.
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        Lock icon MERMAIDS
        54 38 10pm, Channel i The story of the turbulent relationship between a flamboyant mum (Cher) and her two daughters (Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci) who just want a normal, stable life. The family has moved 18 times in the last 15 years, usually whenever mum senses she might have to
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        Lock icon Harry Potter actor becomes cinema usher
        118 38 AFTER filming the second Harry Potter movie, Chris Rankin, 18, who played prefect Percy Weasley found himself another job as a cinema usher. When Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets opens in the UK on Nov 15, he will be selling popcorn in
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      441 38 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Face the music or, better still, take your seat in the orchestra. Loners won’t accomplish anything until they decide to cooperate. The more people you add, the more possibilities lie before you. by Kelli Fox at Astrulogy.com PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Your gestures are big. Your
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      589 41  -  At 17, Xu matches Li Jiawei in popularity stakes By, Adam Hashidy WATCH out guys, there is a new babe in town with a killer smile. And she comes armed with a table tennis bat. From the look of it, China-bom paddler Xu Yan (right)
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      290 41  -  By Tan Kim Han TWO top footballers Adi Saleh and R Sasikumar are set to join Singapore Cup champion Tampines Rovers next season. Goalkeeper Adi is training with the national squad for next month’s Tiger Cup, and Sasikumar, a former international, will shore up the easternbased
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      542 42  -  Soccer talk By TAN KIM HAN WHEN he steps onto the pitch for the London derby this Sunday, Junichi Inamoto (right) will be highlycharged. Not least because the Fulham midfielder was released by Double champion Arsenal five months ago. But the Japanese international will need all his wits
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      474 42 TOMORROW Birmingham City v Bolton Wanderers Head-to-head: Birmingham won 32, Bolton 40. Draws 30. Previous meetings: April 13, 2001 Bolton 2 Birmingham 2 (Div 1); April 11, 2001 Birmingham 1 Bolton 1 (Div 1) Last six matches: Birmingham WLLWDL; Bolton LLDLLD Team news: Birmingham Vickers, Grainger, Cunningham injured;
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      256 45 Group A: P PSV Eindhoven (Ned) 3 (Bruggink 34, Rommedhal 48, Robben 64) Auxerre (Fra) 0 Borussia Dortmund (Ger) 2 (Gilberto Silva 37-og, Rosicky 62-pen) Arsenal (Eng) 1 (Henry 18) Group B: p Liverpool (Eng) 0 Valencia (Spa) 1 (Rufete 34) Group C: AEK Athens (Gre) 1 (Lakis
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      542 45 Samba has Seaman struggling for rhythm Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Dortmund 2 Arsenal 1 IF any more proof was needed that David Seaman (above) and Brazilians do not go together, Gilberto Silva’s own goal provided it. The Arsenal goalkeeper was chipped by Ronaldinho at the World Cup, another
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      263 47 Crowd laughs at Jordan for missing a dunk AP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Raptors 74 Wizards 68 TORONTO Michael Jordan played so poorly he got laughed at. Morris Peterson scored 20 points and Jordan went scoreless in the second half and even missed a dunk as Toronto Raptors opened their season with
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      486 47 Chinese star flops in NBA debut AP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Pacers 91 Rockets 82 INDIANAPOLIS Chinese Yao Ming (right) had a miserable debut in the NBA. He took only one shot and missed and his team-mates at Houston Rockets clearly felt sorry for him. One by one, they filed
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      77 47 Chicago Bulls 99 Boston Celtics 96 Philadelphia 76ers 95 Milwaukee Bucks 93 Orlando Magic 100 Miami Heat 86 New Jersey 105 Atlanta Hawks 94 Detroit Pistons 86 New York Knicks 77 Dallas Mavericks 119 Memphis Grizzlies 108 Cleveland Cavaliers 98 LA Clippers 96 Minnesota Timberwolves 83 Denver Nuggets
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        83 47 SOCCER Reuters LONDON The first suspected case of nandrolone abuse by a professional English soccer player is being investigated by the Football Association. The FA said it was probing the case which appeared in a report to be published by UK Sport’s anti-doping programme yesterday. It covered drug
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        107 47 TENNIS AP LOS ANGELES Serena Williams has gone Hollywood with a guest spot on Wednesday night as a kindergarten teacher on ABC’s My Wife and Kids. The World No 1 player told the Los Angeles Times: “I’ve never considered tennis as my only outlet.” She said she had
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        92 47 MOTOR RACING -AFP MELBOURNE Australian millionaire Paul Stoddart says he is confident his Minardi team will compete in Formula One next year, despite having to sell his commercial airline operation. He said he expected to sell his European Aviation airline, because he could no longer continue to prop
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      288 45 HONOLULU UNIVERSITY MBA PREVIEW Organized by Supreme Business Education Centre Speaker: Mr Richard Kew, Director Date 6 November 2002, Wednesday Time 6.15 pm-9.00 pm Venue No. 1 Sophia Road #O6-30 Peace Centre For Registration, pis call Tel: *****876 (Eric/Karen) 3 Education Bursaries worth SGD 1,000 each 6% COLEMAN EDUCATION GROUP
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