Streats, 12 December 2002

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  • 8 1 Streats THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002 MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 320 1  -  Reports by Choong Choon Yee MORE people in Singapore have been made bankrupt and the sums involved have grown to an estimated $5.2 billion. The trauma the bankrupts suffer and there were 14,595 of them as at September is not just deep financial trouble, but also
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  • 440 1 THREE years ago, after he was declared a bankrupt following a business failure, a 2 5-year-old systems engineer found that no employer would hire him. He did freelance work and felt so ashamed that he never told his girlfriend. She is now his fiancee, and
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    • 89 1 aircais THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002 MITA (P) 240/03/2002 THURSDAY TECH GEOFFREY PEREIRA tries out the tablet PC and finds that it CAN WRITE, CANT HEAR PAGE 34 THE TROUBLE WITH RACE Must we state it on ICs to know who we are? Asks CHITRA RAJARAM PAGE 21 It wasn’t on
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  • Morning Rush
    • 291 2  -  Housewife gets 6 weeks in jail for abusing help By Dawn Wong A HOUSEWIFE who was unhappy with her daughter’s maid beat the worker on the head and body with a broom and kicked her on the face and body after she fell. A week
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    • 287 2 AN Indonesian baby bom with her intestines outside her abdomen has been successfully operated on by doctors in Singapore. Little Angelina, who was brought here after Indonesian doctors assessed her chances of survival as slim, was discharged from the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital yesterday
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    • 474 3 IT’S not the 5Cs that make people happy. Really happy, that is. Psychologists have discovered that what makes people truly happy costs nothing. Worldly possessions like the Singaporean dream of cash, a condo, a car, credit cards and country club membership are all passing satisfactions. “Materialism
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    • 773 4  -  No Media Works presenters and no telecast By YVONNE KWOK A WEEK after the Asian Television Awards, it’s still anyone’s guess if Singapore viewers will get to see the show on TV The event last Wednesday was hot telecast live, but everyone expected it to be
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    • 203 4 MUAR, Johor A six-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a car crash in which a Singaporean couple died early yesterday. The child miraculously escaped unscathed from one half of the wreck after the car broke into two and overturned. She told police that
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    • 99 6 BUZZSTOP AN Indian man holds the record of 1,226 letters published in newspapers, beating the previous record of 602. Mr Subhash Chandra Agrawal, 53, began writing letters to editors in 1967, reported news site Ananova.com. “When I was victimised, the newspapers seemed to me to
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    • 136 6 15 Scuds seized Wire services YEMEN yesterday demanded that the US and Spain hand over Scud missiles it ordered from North Korea. Foreign Minister Abu Baker Abdullah A 1 Kurbi summoned US Ambassador Edmund Hull in Aden and handed over a protest letter. “This cargo is
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    • 161 6 11 Terrorism DEPUTY Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony Tan said yesterday that countries have the right to defend themselves against terrorists, but the use of force should be subject to international law. Speaking to reporters in Manila after a courtesy call on President Gloria Arroyo at
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    • 48 6 SANTA CLAWS HIS LITTLE YELPER Don’t give animals as Christmas presents, says Hongkong’s Lok Hong association, which saves stray animals and uses them for animal therapy for the elderly and the handicapped. Seen here recently are association president Jackie Chan and her animal friends at a fund-raiser AFP
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    • 164 6 FESTIVITIES to mark the Year of the Goat next month will take visitors into the plush Concert Hall at the Esplanade Theatres On The Bay, where a song-and-dance troupe from Hunan province of China will put up the main show of the Singapore River Hongbao 2003.
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    • 87 6 -AP THE White House on Tuesday reminded Iraq and other hostile countries that the US is prepared to use nuclear weapons in response to any chemical or biological attack. In a statement on countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the US underscored long-standing policy that it
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    • 97 6 SEX pictures for kids, but not what you’re thinking. Rather, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) will show teenagers pictures of body parts distorted and disfigured by sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as gonorrhoea and syphilis in a 10-page booklet called Teenagers Ask. The booklet will be
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    • 103 6 HISTORY went up in smoke yesterday as a row of conservation shophouses on Pahang Street, near Jalan Sultan, were gutted or damaged by fire at about 3.30 am yesterday. Only four of the seven pre-war shophouses were occupied, and no one was hurt in the fire, although one
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    • 95 6 Reuters FRAUDSTERS trying to steal credit card information from online auction house eßay’s 55 million users set up a website that mimics the firm’s, an Internet watchdog said yesterday. The scam involved e-mails that asked recipients to log on to a Florida-based website, ebayupdates.com, and re-enter data
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  • Financial
    • 402 8  -  HDB clarifies request for feedback from participants at loan fair By ChuaKongHo A HOUSING and Development Board (HDB) request for feedback from institutions participating in its loan fair appeared to have caused some confusion yesterday. Streats understands that there was some concern among some of the institutions that
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    • 276 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore and Australia are expected to begin formal discussions on an “open skies” agreement within the next few months after informal talks yesterday. Aviation authorities met to discuss a pact between the two countries which could pave the way
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    • 64 8 -AFP WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve policymakers on Tuesday extended an era of 41-year low interest rates to support the sluggish economy, saying it may already be escaping a soft patch. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues voted unanimously to keep the federal funds target rate,
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    • 108 8 Bloomberg VIENNA Opec needs to cut oil output by as much as two million barrels a day, or 8 per cent, or risk causing a “collapse” in prices next year, said Mr Ali A 1 Naimi, the Oil Minister for Saudi Arabia, the Organisation of Petroleum
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    • 93 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Sing Tel has said that it won a contract to provide as many as 310 pay phones along three new rail lines. It will be the exclusive provider of phones for three years on the lines run by DelGro’s SBS Transit, it said. The
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    • 87 8 SINGAPORE SembCorp Waste Management and its business units have been renamed. To embrace a single unified brand image, the holding company will now be known as SembCorp Environmental Management Company (SembEnviro). Also, waste collection and disposal subsidiary Semac Pte Ltd will now be SembWaste Pte Ltd. SembWaste
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    • 464 10 Remisiers bear the brunt as punters stay away from stock market SINGAPORE The country’s economic troubles have hit dealers and remisiers hard, forcing them out of their jobs. From a high of 1,129 in May last year, the number of dealers crashed to just 900 in
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    • 406 10 STI: 1,374.38 7.28 Reuters SHARES finished weaker in the broader market yesterday, but gains in defence and blue chip counters helped cushion market losses. The Straits Times index ended 0.53 per cent, or 7.28 points, higher at 1,374.38 from an intraday low of 1,369.31.
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    • 24 10 *AS AT DECEMBER 11 US$: 551.764 552.773 EURO: 551.779 Ss: 69.88 YEN Ss: RM2.098 Ss: HK54.422 Ss: 24.59 BAHT Ss: 5,046 RUPIAH
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    • 243 10 Reuters WASHINGTON Four years after describing Malaysia’s decision to peg its currency to the US dollar as a “retrograde step”, the International Monetary Fund yesterday said that the peg is a “stability anchor” of a rebounding economy. The IMF predicted
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    • BUSH'S NEW ECONOMIC TEAM
      • 311 14 Wire services WASHINGTON “As my mother used to say, it is time to pull up our socks,” Mr William Donaldson said on Tuesday “Confidence in the US corporate and financial industries has been seriously eroded during the past few years,” said Mr Donaldson, nominated
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      • 470 14 Reuters WASHINGTON Mr George W Bush is for cutting taxes. But his choice for top US economic adviser is against that policy, according to critics. The White House is scrambling to shore up support for Mr Stephen Friedman’s appointment as National Economic Council chairman after Republican conservatives
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      • 115 14 Wire services WASHINGTON US treasury secretary nominee John Snow is willing to forego a lucrative severance package from railroad giant CSX Corp. Defusing any controversy over the potential payments, Mr Snow said that he had informed the CSX board that, if approved by the
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    • 55 14 Reuters NEW YORK Merrill Lynch handed layoff notices to about 10 per cent, or 100 members, of its investment banking staff last week, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The cuts came ahead of yearend bonus payments. The 100 employees may receive less in severance payments than they
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    • 77 14 Bloomberg LONDON UK workers took twice as many days off because of work-related illness in the past year compared with 1995, the Financial Times said, citing a study by the government’s Health and Safety Executive. The survey found that 33 million days were lost due to work-related
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    • 78 14 -AFP TOKYO Two of Japan’s debt-ridden trading houses, sixth-ranked Nissho Iwai and eighth-ranked Nichimen, will merge in April. Operations will be integrated by March 2004. The merger will result in some 4,000 job cuts by next March and another 4,200 by March 2005, creating annual savings of 80
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    • 81 14 Bloomberg BERLIN The German Cabinet is likely to approve a draft law extending shopping hours on Saturdays in a bid to revive consumer spending as unemployment reaches a fouryear high. The proposed law, allowing shops to open until Bpm on Saturdays instead of 4pm, requires the approval of
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    • 614 16 ‘Little princess’ ttims spotlight on $26 billion family feud NEW YORK A slip of girl is now threatening to turn the spotlight on the breakup of a US$l5 billion (5526.4 billion) empire. The story centres on Chicago’s Pritzker family, which also owns the Hyatt hotel
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    • 362 16 Bloomberg LONDON Martin Currie Investment Management director Ross Leckie, 45, got a U *****,000 (*****,000) bonus this year from Hollywood. The executive at the Edinburgh-based money manager got the windfall after selling the rights to his novel Hannibal, set during the Roman empire, to Revolution
      – Bloomberg; Bloomberg News  -  362 words
    • 244 18 Bloomberg BUDAPEST Budweiser beer will not be legally restricted to production in the East European city Budweis. The beer’s maker, Anheuser-Busch Cos, announced that it had won a ruling in Hungary blocking a Czech brewer’s bid to do just that. The Hungarian Patent
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    • 201 17 ut a Celebrate this season at Pizza Hut with the new Christmas pizza its layered with succulent slices of chicken ham, fresh bell peppers and topped with rosy cherries on juicy pineapple rings for a scrumptious feast, f Lavishly sprinkled with roasted almond flakes to give a crunchy surprise in
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  • Comment
    • 648 21  -  By CHITRA RAJARAM Tamil Murasu WHO are we really? Indian, Chinese, Malay, Eurasian or Others as reflected in our identity cards? Or are we simply Singaporeans? If that is the case, is it necessary to reflect one’s race in our identity cards? Why does one have
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    • 236 21 FANCL know s 008 Why doss my skin age? Notice that your skin is not as supple and healthy as before, and seems to have lost its firmness and radiance? Sadly, these are the signs of aging skin but what causes the skin to age? The problem is more than
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  • Vocal
    • 377 22 I REFER to the reply from the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Mrs Chan Jee Kun (“MOE: We hope you’ll return one day”, Streats, Dec 11) to Ms Angeline Teoh’s letter telling of her reasons for and her sadness about leaving the teaching profession (“Education
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    • 88 22 AS some Singaporeans may or may not know, a great conspiracy unfolds each night here on our streets just before midnight strikes. Every evening, between 10.30 pm and midnight, you will be hard pressed to get one of the many taxis to stop for you. I recently
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    • 170 22 I RECENTLY found night dining at the Satay Club at Clarke Quay to be very stressful. I went there with my guests from overseas to try to enjoy some traditional Singaporean food. As we approached the club entrance, several men
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    • 144 22 I’VE had enough. Enough of staying up till the wee hours of the morning. Enough of feeling like I’ve gone stiff and am six feet under when I wake up It’s painful to watch your favourite television shows, and it’s even more painful to
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    • SLEEPER CABIN?
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        174 22 AFTER reading “Sleeper cabin?” (Streats, Dec 11), I’d like to report another instance of lack of consideration. Rejoice, dear smokers! SMRT seems to be providing a new service for you. I have encountered people smoking in the last cabin of the MRT train twice now. In one case,
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      • 114 22 YOUR article “Sleeper cabin” (Streats, Dec 11) reminded me of many occasions on which I have seen people put their shopping items onto a train seat and refuse to give it up, sometimes pretending they are asleep. Yesterday, I saw a different example of lack of consideration for
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    • 74 22 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at $treatS@sph.GOm.Sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh 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
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  • A Special Christmas bulletin from Suntec City Mall a world of experience Christmas @ Suntec City
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      507 25 LISTEN TO LIVE MUSIC AND TAKE PART IN A VARIETY OF FUN ACTIVITIES THROUGH THE WEEK AT SUNTEC CITY MALL. Christmas just isn’t Christmas without music and lots of fun. And Suntec City Mall has a fun-filled line-up of performances and activities from now until Christmas Day.
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    • 379 26 VISIT SUNTEC CITY MALL’S GIFT GALLERY FOR THAT ELUSIVE OR EXCLUSIVE BUY! Looking for a gift that’s different or special? Head for the Gift Gallery at #O3-025 Suntec City Mall, between Towers 2 and 3. You’ll find a dozen booths selling hand-made jewellery, books and all kinds
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    • 506 26 feasting suntec Super soups Can’t decide what to eat? Soupworks at #B I -005 cuts out the guesswork by letting you sample their soups for free. The menus change every week. And each week, you’re sure to find a clear soup, a hearty soup-stew, a vegetarian soup and one or
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    • 97 27 Cool skateboard. $29.90 at Royal Sporting House #Ol-161. Hip, sporty Oakley backpack. $9B from C.E.D.S. Sportswea j rat #Ol 074. A Just wear ’em! $79 from Terminal One at #Ol-151. Pretty watches. $39 each from Precious Thots at #Ol -103/105. Decorate-your-jeans kit. $53.90 from
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    • 292 28 IF YOU ARE LUCKY YOU COULD BE SAILING TO LANGKAWI/PHUKET AND MALACCA/KL ON A WONDERFUL SIX-DAY VACATION FOR TWO. Five lucky Suntec City Mall shoppers will each walk away with a Star Cruises package worth $2,600. The winners of the 2nd to 6th prize of the
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  • Medical
    • 127 29 Reuters NEW YORK Smokers are almost twice as likely to develop Hodgkin’s disease, a type of cancer that strikes the body’s immune defences, new research indicates. And the risk appears to increase with the amount that people smoke and how long they have been
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    • 306 29 Reuters NEW YORK On top of all the other problems related to being very overweight, researchers now report that obesity can increase the risk of developing cataracts, the world’s leading cause of blindness. Cataracts occur when proteins in the eye’s lens begin to clump together, forming
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    • 109 29 I What are the %C I side-effects of potassium citrate? A Potassium citrate is normally used to relieve the discomfort in mild urinary tract infections. Side effects include mild increase in loss of water from the body (diuresis), increased potassium level in the body if high doses are
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    • 625 30 Health begins with sufll> eani Are bananas fattening? Are isotonic drinks healthier for everyone? We examine some misconceptions about food FOR something that we do so much of, eating is still clouded by many misconceptions. We look at some common food myths: Myth: Food eaten late
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  • Global
    • 542 31 Mukhlas’ arrest will bring Hambali out in the open JAKARTA It was his overconfidence that finally proved his undoing. Mukhlas, alias Ali Ghufron believed to be the inspiration and financier of the Bali operation had underestimated those on his trail, said Time magazine in its latest issue.
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    • 110 31 JAKARTA Mr Achmad Mihdan, the lawyer of alleged Bali mastermind Imam Samudra, has claimed that “an eyewitness saw something fall from the sky just before the explosions at Kuta’s Sari and Paddy’s bar on Oct 12”. He also expressed his scepticism over Samudra’s ability to
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    • 291 31 SHAH ALAM Two men arrested in conjunction with the kidnap and rape of a teenager have been released on police bail because of a question of jurisdiction. The 18-year-old student was kidnapped in Shah Alam, Selangor, but raped in Tampoi, Johor.
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    • Article, Illustration
      389 32 Veerappan now has $724k price on his head Wire services NEW DELHI When it comes to ruthlessness, legendary Indian bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is without equal. The Indian police have now upped the ante with a 20 million rupee (*****,000) reward for the capture of the elusive forest
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    • 328 32 Reuters GENEVA The Swiss humanitarian group that brokered a ceasefire in Indonesia’s restive Aceh province said on Tuesday that it was turning its sights on a new hotspot Myanmar. It announced that it will seek a go-between role between Myanmar’s military government and
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    • 143 32 -AP BRISBANE A federal lawmaker was kicked off a Qantas flight on Tuesday for arguing with a government official travelling on the plane. But Mr Bob Katter, an independent legislator from north-east Australia, was unrepentant yesterday, telling Australian Broadcasting Corp Radio: “If I had to
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    • 128 32 LONDON A woman has earned the right to live free in a £1 million (Ss2.B million) house in an expensive neighbourhood after squatting there for 12 years. The Daily Telegraph reported that under the 1987 “right of adverse possession”, the freehold to the house and
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 613 34  -  Tablet PCs are the latest gadgets, but while they are good at reading handwriting, they can’t quite recognise what you say into them By GEOFFREY PEREIRA The Strait Times HANDWRITING and speech recognition capabilities are key features that Microsoft’s operating system (OS) builds into the new tablet
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    • 210 34 WHAT is the new tablet PC, how is it different from other computers and what is new about it? The quick answer: It is a laptop souped up to include a tablet a drawing and writing pad which doubles as a computer screen. You can draw or
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    • 241 34 MICROSOFT recommends wearing a headset microphone if you want to use the tablet PC’s speech recognition facility. But most people would want to talk directly into its built-in microphone. Doing this, however, returns unsatisfactory results. One problem was that it kept on typing “at” or into
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  • EasyStreats
    • 707 39 It's good to see Daniel Day-Lewis back and acting again but how didMaitin Scorsese manage to get him back into movies and more importantly, will he stay? IT’S been five years since his last film, The Boxer, and he was prepared to wait 10 more for the right
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    • 106 39 BEND it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha has managed to rope in top Indian actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai (left) for her Bollywood version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The British director has described the film, to be retitled Bride and Prejudice,
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    • 80 39 -AFP A US judge ordered Seattle-based Internet company Internet Entertainment Group to pay Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson and her ex-husband Tommy Lee U *****,000 (Ssl.3 million) in damages for selling a video of their honeymoon sexual escapades. The 1996 film of the couple camping
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      461 45  -  Singapore’s poor display poses no threat to Tiger Cup rivals By Tan Kim Han TIGER BEER CHALLENGE TROPHY Singapore 2 Philippines 0 THE Lions will not win the Tiger Cup. Based on last night’s final warm-up match against the Philippines, they might not even achieve their semi-final target.
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