Streats, 15 January 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p> 240/03/2002
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  • 824 1  -  Court to decide soon on tussle over value of Ong Keng Seng’s estate B v Conrad Raj IS the estate of wealthy Indonesian businessman Ong Keng Seng, who died without a will in Indonesia in 1974, worth a hefty $26 million or a staggering $263
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    • 80 1 3 sees glum faces among j the stallholder at the Chinese New Year Carnival at Bandar Street f I PAGE 4 a m m m Former General Electric boss lack Welch has a new role: Training principals for New York city schools I*** r 13-year-old Michelle Wie takes a stab
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  • Morning Rush
    • 420 2 NEW YORK Mr Jack Welch, the celebrated chairman who turned around General Electric (GE), is on a new mission. Nicknamed Neutron Jack for his tough management style, he will head the advisory board for a new academy aimed at improving the quality of New York’s
      Bloomberg News  -  420 words
    • ONE KIND ACT
      • 66 2  -  Vincent Goh I GOT more than a bargain at the $1 stall at the Tampines pasar malam on Jan 7. I bought one item from the stall, and left my wallet there. An hour after I got home, someone came knocking on my door, in the
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      • 84 2  -  Violet I HAD to quietly leave $lO in a man’s car in Bishan on Jan 7. It was 6.40 am, my children were late for school, and I asked the man to help and he drove us to school. He refused my money, so I just
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    • 307 2 Smaller households use natural resources less efficiently: study THE single lifestyle has become one of the most dangerous threats to the global environment, according to study by Michigan State University and Stanford University. Compared with the traditional nuclear family unit of five or
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    • 349 3  -  fy Caroline Marcus THE organisers of this year’s Chingay Parade are pulling out all the stops to usher in maximum prosperity for the Chinese New Year. The colourful annual event will be held on Feb 8, the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, at
      Pics: Francis Lee  -  349 words
    • 553 3  -  Infant centres are preludes to kindergarten By t Sarah Ng YOUR child may be only two months old. Still, it is useful to talk, read and sing to him. He understands more than he is given credit for, said both an American psychologist and a consultant paediatrician. Studies
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    • 390 4  -  By Deepa Vijiyasingam ITS entry into the hi-fi market in the early 1970 s couldn’t have been more humble. It made wooden boxes for speaker systems. But in Las Vegas last weekend, Eastech (Eastern Asia Technology Ltd), a Singapore-listed company, caught the
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    • 457 4  -  By Julie Sim GONG xi fa cai, the traditional Chinese New Year greeting about prosperity, may be ringing hollow with stallholders in Chinatown. Business has been so slow in the run-up to the festival on Feb 1-2 that at least one stall has roped in
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    • Article, Illustration
      144 4 AT least one stallholder at the Chinese New Year carnival appears happy enough with his business. Mr Hidekazu Nakamura, 45, from Kobe, Japan, has been busy making Japanese sponge cakes, known by the Italian name, castella. The cakes, made from honey, milk, eggs and a special flour, have
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    • 127 6 BUZZSTOP WHEN Mr Tan Wei Teck, 28, a network marketer, was surfing the Internet early on Monday, he found an e-tailer offering a Hewlett-Packard laserjet printer, usually sold at $3,854 before GST, for $66. He immediately ordered 180 of them. He called
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    • 40 6 Carrying kitchen utensils and even telephones, Indonesian women creating a racket during a demonstration near the presidential palace in Jakarta. The strike yesterday was against the increase in the prices of fuel, electricity and telephone charges AP
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    • 140 6 Bali bombings Wire services THE man thought to have parked the explosive-filled van that destroyed the Sari Club in Bali has been arrested with an accomplice in northern Indonesia. Ali Imron, the younger brother of prime suspects Mukhlas and Amrozi, was arrested by the investigating team
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    • 135 6 KL on resolving issues ASEAN members who have become belligerent have jeopardised the Asean way of resolving issues, Malaysian Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said yesterday. “I believe there has been an erosion of the so-called Asean way, where some states are becoming far more belligerent and
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    • 122 6 lIHDB division corporatises THE Housing Board will corporatise its Building and Development Division (BDD) in July. BDD is one of its three main divisions and employs about 3,000 workers. This step towards privatisation could mean that the HDB brand will venture overseas, The Straits Times
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    • 83 6 A SINGAPORE-registered tugboat moored off Bintan Island was hijacked by 10 pirates armed with knives and guns in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. All six crewmen on the MV Bina Ocean 2 jumped overboard. Five swam safely to shore, but the ship’s officer drowned. The ship’s master
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    • 96 6 DOCTORS have welcomed the two main changes proposed for the 1987' Human Organ Transplant Act. The first would allow livers and corneas, not just kidneys, to be harvested for transplant, and the second would allow them to be removed from every dead person, not just accident victims.
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    • 105 6 THE large piece of wreckage from the RSS Couageous, which was involved in a collision with a container ship, has finally been raised. It was hauled up at 8.14 pm after spending 11 days on the seabed. But the question of whether the body of missing Second
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    • 91 6 THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) wants to match the unemployed to contract jobs. The NTUC Job Link Centre, which placed 1,001 jobless workers in permanent jobs last year, is sourcing for contract jobs to add to its job bank. It will also encourage job-seekers to take
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    • 208 2 University of Sunderland UK’s Best New University for Research 2002 The Times Good University Guide The Best New University in England-2001 The Guardian Newspaper University Guide One of the Top 5 New Universities in England for Computer Science -TheTimes Good University Guide May 2002 B.Sc (Hons) in Business Administration Achieve
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  • Financial
    • 679 9  -  Sales of the gadgets doubled last year, seen holding steady in 2003 By_ Choong Choon Yee WHAT did you most hope for under your Christmas tree last year? Chances are it was a digital camera. It was at the top of the gift wishlist of most
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    • 103 9 SINGAPORE Keppel Fels Limited a leader in the construction of offshore rigs has won a cash bonus for delivering a project on time and within budget to Atlanta Offshore Limited an US fullservice provider of offshore production platforms for the oil and gas industry. The 11-month project
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    • 71 9 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Inter-Roller Engineering has said that it won contracts worth $25.3 million to redevelop baggage handling systems at Singapore’s Changi International Airport. Inter-Roller will make alterations to the baggage systems at Changi Airport’s two terminals. The project will contribute to the company’s performance in 2003 and
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    • 75 9 -AFP WASHINGTON Confidence among US chief executives rebounded in the last quarter of 2002, showed a survey by the Conference Board, a private research group, released on Monday. The group’s measure of business confidence, based on a survey of chief executives, rose to 58 points in the
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    • 113 9 Reuters SINGAPORE Sing Post is looking to raise a syndicated bank loan of up to $250 million, banking sources said on Tuesday. Sing Post, a unit of Sing Tel, has sought indicative proposals from a group of banks for a three-year loan facility to help it improve
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    • 423 10 More car for your cash as prices dip YOUR money can now go a long way these days, especially if it is a new car you want to buy. Now, you can drive away with a new Jaguar X-Type for just
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    • 280 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom has said that it is still lobbying the Government to extend a 2004 deadline for the introduction of high-speed wireless services. It wants the Government to extend the deadline because of concerns about limited demand. The Government, which requires Sing Tel
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    • 115 10 Reuters LONDON Oil prices weakened yesterday after Mexico said it would increase crude exports, adding to an Opec production hike, while traders speculated that UN talks might help to end a supply-choking strike in Venezuela. London Brent crude futures stood at U 5530.07 a barrel,
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    • 382 12 Indon funds gained average 38%; Philippine funds were worst performers Reuters HONGKONG Mutual fund investors in Asia got the best returns from Indonesia in 2002 with an average gain of 37.9 per cent, while Philippine-focused funds were the region’s worst performers during the year. Funds investing
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    • 176 12 Bloomberg CUPERTINO, California Apple Computer has criticised Microsoft’s agreement to pay as much as US$l.l billion (551.91 billion) to settle lawsuits alleging the world’s largest software maker broke California anti-trust and competition laws. Microsoft agreed to pay the sum in vouchers of US$5 to US$29
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    • 292 12 Bloomberg BEIJING China attracted a record amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, as companies shifted production to the world’s most populous country to take advantage of a growing domestic market and cheap labour. Foreign investment in factories, supermarket chains, and apartment
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    • 74 12 -AFP GENEVA A new luxury airline aimed at business travellers will be launched on Jan 20 in Geneva, the airline company, Club Airways, said on Monday. The carrier initially will offer flights serving Paris and London. Service to other European cities is planned. The flights will
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    • 104 12 Bloomberg BEIJING -The owner of Three Gorges Dam plans to sell 35 billion yuan (557.3 billion) of shares over seven years, China’s biggest attempt to fund a government project on the stock market. China Yangtze Power Corp will sell about five billion yuan of shares a year
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    • 120 12 Bloomberg BEIJING China Life Insurance Co joins two rivals planning to sell shares overseas for the first time, funding expansion in a market that grew by 50 per cent last year as the government pares cradle-to-grave benefits. China Life, the biggest Chinese insurer, asked Credit Suisse First
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    • 483 14 Boosting spending in a slump may hurt Intel Bloomberg SANTA CLARA, California Intel Corp chief executive officer Craig Barrett’s US$4.7 billion (558.17 billion) investment last year in new plants and equipment for making computer chips is starting to look more like a gamble, investors said. Mr Barrett
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    • 441 14 STI: 1,401.37 15.32 Reuters BANK shares and select blue chips such as Sing Tel pushed the key stock index to close at a fresh six-week high yesterday, but dealers said the gains may not hold. “The index was held up by banking stocks and Sing Tel
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    • 24 14 *AS AT JANUARY 14 US$: 551.734 552.775 EURO: 551.830 Ss: 68.59 YEN Ss: RM2.192 Ss: HK54.499 Ss: 24.60 BAHT Ss: 5,112 RUPIAH
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    • 240 14 Bloomberg NEW YORK Mr Henry Blodget distinguished himself as an analyst by predicting how high Amazon.com Inc’s share price would go. Now ÜBS Warburg LLC wants to distinguish itself as a firm by tempering similar forecasts. The investment-banking unit of ÜBS AG, Switzerland’s biggest bank,
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    • 461 17 Inheritance tax can help narrow economic gap and avert formation of‘aristocracy, they say -AFP WASHINGTON Despite a growing fervour for tax cuts, some of the wealthiest Americans are fighting for a different cause: keeping a tax that could cost them the most, the federal estate
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  • Comment
    • 674 19  -  By LEE HAN SHIH The Business Times SO the Government is indeed thinking of acquiring the land on which the Kwong Wai Shui Hospital sits on. It is either this or that the Ministry of Health (MOH) works incredibly slowly. According to an
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    • 58 19 anhe Zaobao Zhang liyi was already a "little heroine during her childhood days tt -H- AiL <>;r BuzzUS if you know something we don’t We talk to unusual S'poreans Former banking man who sells nasi lemak Sunday, Jan 12 Cabby who has investments worth $1 million Monday, Jan 13 Hotline:
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  • Vocal
    • 264 21 IN one fell swoop, the Human Organ Transplant Act may be amended to allow almost every other organ, in addition to the kidneys, to be harvested from all the dead (“Livers, corneas may be included”, Streats, Jan 14). The Act would probably be amended
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    • 190 21 WE refer to Mr Neil Wilkinson’s letter, “Give more traffic-signal advance warnings” (Streats, Jan 9). The green time for each approach at a signalised traffic junction varies at different times of the day. This is to cater to varying traffic conditions. We adopt the internationally
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    • 206 21 I REFER to the articles “SIF offers 1.75% in Ist year” by Chua Kong Ho (Streats, Jan 7) and “Rate cuts bait HDB buyers” by Janice Wong (Streats, Jan 3). Competition among the banks has driven the interest rate to as low as 2.6 per cent
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    • 189 21 I AM disappointed to see that the library has become a place for social gatherings. Loud laughter, chattering and deafening cellphone ring tones greeted me as I entered the children’s section at the Tampines Regional Library one afternoon. The noise came from a few groups of
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    • 74 21 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at sfreafs@spti.com.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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  • Medical
    • 249 22 Night-time heartburn Reuters NEW YORK Night-time heartburn is common among people with obstructive sleep apnoea, but a device used to treat the sleep disorder may ease patients’ heartburn as well, according to a new study. Sleep apnoea is most commonly due to upper airway obstruction, and
      – Reuters  -  249 words
    • 226 22 Q Would high protein food and protein supplements help me gain weight? All foods and drinks /> i (with the exception of plain water) contain energy, or calories. Energy in food comes from its carbohydrates, protein and fats. Weight gain occurs when the energy in the food you
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    • 122 22 Reuters NEW YORK Women with a history of depression are 20 per cent more likely to enter perimenopause sooner than women who have never suffered from depression, said reseachers from Boston’s Harvard Medical School. Perimeno'pause refers to the years before a woman’s last menstrual period, when
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  • Global
    • 586 24 Was news guru outFoxed? Q. Wire services NEW YORK Mr Walter Isaacson (above), the CNN chief who tried to modernise the network as it fell behind Fox News Channel in the ratings, said on Monday that he was quitting to take a job at a think tank. The CNN’s news
      – Wire services; AP  -  586 words
    • 300 24 KUALA LUMPUR -A bogus datuk who sold fake doctorate scrolls to businessmen here has convened his last “graduation”. He has been arrested. The 36-year-old man, who allegedly styled himself Sir, Col, Datuk, Dr and Prince, chomped on cigars and was chauffeured around in a limousine,
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    • 199 24 -afp MANILA The family of the late Ferdinand Marcos issued a public apology on Tuesday after one of the former dictator’s grandsons was caught up in a bar brawl that left a young man in hospital. House of Representatives member Maria Imelda “Imee”
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    • 348 25 LOS ANGELES During the production of the 1997 movie Mimic, representatives from the American Humane Association were on the set to ensure that a herd of cockroaches was well taken care of. At the same time, in studios in the San Fernando Valley,
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    • 518 25 Wife of European Central Bank president stirs diplomatic controversy Wire services AMSTERDAM The wife of the European Central Bank president, Mrs Gretta Duisenberg, has apologised for saying last week that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories was worse than the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
      – Wire services; Reuters  -  518 words
    • 119 25 BEIJING In an attempt to stop the rapid Westernisation of the city, Beijing has banished Kentucky Fried Chicken from the historic Beihai Park. A spokesman for the Beijing Garden Bureau said that the fast-food outlet was “out of keeping with an imperial garden”, reported
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    • 119 25 -AP BEND, Oregon Commuters would be well advised to take a shower before boarding the bus in Bend, Oregon. Anyone who “emanates a grossly repulsive odour that is unavoidable by other Bend Extended Area Transit customers” won’t be able to get into a bus
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    • 118 27 LONDON In an extremely rare medical occurence, a Croatian woman who slept with two men at the same time has given birth to twins with different fathers. Ananova.com reported yesterday that the 2 3-year-old student, who was identified only as MB, gave birth
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    • 152 27 SYDNEY A blind man allegedly downloaded information for building a bomb from the Internet at a public library and then had it translated into braille. Andrew James Neems, 24, needed a walking stick and help from bailiffs to make his way to the dock
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    • 45 27 To wash away her sins, a Hindu woman takes a holy dip in the Ganges river, off Sagar island in the Bay of Bengal yesterday. About 250,000 Hindu monks and pilgrims arrived on the island for the Makar Sankratnti festival Reuters
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    • 280 27 Electromagnetic fields affect birds’ reproduction LONDON House sparrows are declining in mysterious numbers and the cellphone is said to be the culprit. Electromagnetic waves emitted by handsets may affect the birds’ ability to reproduce or navigate, reported the British Daily Telegraph yesterday. The number of house
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  • EasyStreats
    • 685 29 Hollywood script-rmiting gum Robert McKee is coming to Singapore to conduct one of his renowned Story Seminars the first in Asia. He explains the importance ofthe screenplay and shares some tips for Singaporean writers in an interview with GREGORYLEOW ASK any film buff to
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    • 123 29 THF. response to Robert McKee s Story Seminar, organised by the Screenwriters Association (Singapore), has been good. So far. two-thirds of the 300 tickets available have been sold. Daniel Chan, 31. president of the association, told Streats: "Tins has been the result of a joint collaboration
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    • 598 30  -  By Julie Sim ONE believes in singing in his briefs. Another takes a roll of toilet paper whenever he goes to the recording studio. These are some of the idiosyncracies of Taiwan’s latest pop sensation, quintet 5566, so called because they are five
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    • 228 30 The Bard returns to Iran after 25 years IRAN will get a touch of Shakespeare later this month when Scotland’s Dundee Repertory Theatre Company goes there to give four performances of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Their performance, organised by the British Council as part of Iran’s Fajr International Festival, will
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    • 85 30 RAPPER and musician Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, and R&B singer Ms Dynamite have the most nominations for the Brit Awards 2003, announced yesterday, for best album, urban act and breakthrough artistes, and best male and female artiste, respectively. Robbie Williams, though, was snubbed
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    • 108 30 ELVIS Presley’s That’s All Right has been named the song that shook the world, never mind that it’s 50 years old now and was recorded for his mother. The track, his first release, was chosen by experts and musicians as the most influential track yet
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    • 132 30 THE rumours that David Caruso got actress Kim Delaney kicked out of TV series CSI: Miami, which just won a People’s Choice Award for best new TV drama, are absolutely untrue, executive producer Ann Donahue said in a USA Today report. “It was
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    • 366 31 Attitude You Wear Dress up your jeans to make them ultra-fashionable TIRED of your usual jeans? Or perhaps you’re in the mood for something different? Well, the good news is that denim jeans are one of the best items in your wardrobe for customising. Denim is
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    • 244 32 Reuters LOS ANGELES Rapper Eminem swept the American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Monday, winning all four categories in which he was nominated, including favourite male artist, but he was one of several key winners who did not appear at the event. Other
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    • 86 32 IT was eye-stopping fashion from British For one thing, the male models strutted down the catwalk wearing fake breasts under figure-hugging knitwear, reported The Daily Telegraph of Australia yesterday. And while it may look impossible today, some fashion commentators think it may just catch on albeit
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    • 168 32 FIFTY-YEAR-OLD actress and model Isabella Rossellini has revealed she does not need a man, insisting: “I’m single and very happy that way.” The former face of Lancome, who was axed by the cosmetic giant when she turned 40, once described her beauty as a “curse”. She
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    • 76 32 BUFFY fans, start counting down. Producer CBS has plan to kill off the cult American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer because of poor ratings. It said the series is not expected to return for an eighth run. And while star of the show, Sarah Michelle
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    • 110 34 HEAVY rains spread floods to more of Malawi, in southern Africa, destroying homes and sweeping away crops in a country already struggling with serious food shortages. The floods have killed at least seven people and tens of thousands have been made homeless this month as rains
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    • Happenin’
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        110 34 LADAKH THE LIVING HERITAGE Today, 7pm~9pm Asian Civilisations Museum (39 Armenian Street) Free Journalist Sat-Paul Sahni takes you to Ladakh. Deep in the Himalayas, it has been virtually closed to the world for more than a century. Catch a glimpse of the region’s landscapes and monasteries. Tl MESH ARE/TRAVEL
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      • 50 34 BURSTING SPRING Until Feb 15; llam-7pm, Monday to Friday; 12pm-6pm on Saturday Art Seasons (5, Gemmill Lane) Free Gao Hui Jun is inspired here by vases, playthings that serve only to be admired by others. Their fine porcelain can be shattered easily, reminding us of the fragility of beauty.
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 73 34 Bpm, Channel i Clyde helps Will prove that a client has been framed for a robbery at the strip club where she works, and discovers evidence that will doom Cabretti’s bid for District Attorney. Terry seems to be taking the case of Kathleen’s client accused of the mercy killing
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      • 73 34 Bpm, Channel U Following the success of the first season of this reality docudrama, Channel U looks like it is highlighting more real-life primes. The second season’s debut episode tells the story of an 18-year-old maid, Mona. Her employer often does not give her enough food,
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    • 484 34 by Kelli Fox at AMrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 N K 5* N If one person doesn’t understand what you’re doing, move on to someone else who really does get it. It’s so much easier to act than it is to explain. The right music turns your work into your
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  • Sports
    • 108 35 REIGNING British Open champion and world No 2 Ernie Els will be the biggest draw at next week’s US$9OO,OOO (Ssl.s million) Caltex Masters. To be held at the Laguna National Golf Country Club from Jan 23-26, the South African will tee-off against the likes of defending
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    • 707 35  -  Southampton legend Le Tissier will test his putting skills at the Caltex Cup Celebrity Challenge here B]l <Adam Hashidy MATT Le Tissier (right) is no stranger to Singapore. In 1987, the Southampton legend who is known as Le God to his fans, was part of the
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    • 566 36  -  Singapore Badminton Association flies in former Indonesia No 1 to help Susilo By 'Adam Hashidy THE Singapore Badminton Association is doing all it can to help Ronald Susilo achieve his targets this year. To begin with, it has flown in former Indonesia No 1 and recently-retired Marleve
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    • 348 36  -  By. Tan Kim Han TAMPINES Rovers’ veteran coach Chow Kwai Lam (above) yesterday joined in the all-familiar gripe on the poor state of football pitches. His team has been training for the last two weeks on an uneven plot of land about
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    • 383 37 -AP AIEA, Hawaii Michelle Wie (right) believes female golfers not only belong on the PGA Tour, but will one day dominate the sport. And the 13-year-old from Hawaii is trying her best to prove it. Wie shot a 1-over par 73, but
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    • 561 37 Liverpool legend Rush feels Manchester City will be right place for striker Wire services LIVERPOOL lan Rush believes Robbie Fowler’s (left) signing could be the catalyst for a Manchester City bid to qualify for Europe. The legendary Liverpool striker, who played alongside Fowler at Anfield,
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    • 500 38 -AFP LOS ANGELES Dirk Nowitzki possesses the long frame of a centre and lightning quick reflexes traditionally reserved for a guard or a forward. The rare and dangerous combination has the 24-year-old German, with the flowing blond locks, being tagged as the next Larry Bird.
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    • SOCCER
      • 154 39 -AFP LONDON England has backed away from a row with Everton by leaving Wayne Rooney out of its World Under-20 Championship side. Everton boss David Moyes had put himself on collision course with the Football Association by insisting that the 17-year-old would not travel with England’s squad
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      • 107 39 Reuters LONDON Chelsea chairman Ken Bates says that the Premier League club will stand by Iceland striker Eidur Gudjohnsen, who lost £400,000 (Ssl.l million) in five months at the casino after getting sucked into a gambling habit. Bates told British newspapers yesterday: “We are here to help Eidur
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      • 48 39 S-LEAGUE club Home United will be holding trials for its under-18 team at Thomson Road’s Police Academy this Saturday from 4.30 pm to 6pm. Those interested must be born in the years 1985 or 1986. For more information, please call the Home United office at 6352-5611.
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    • 532 39 Clijsters seen as biggest threat to Williams sisters Wire services MELBOURNE Kim Clijsters (left) believes a Christmas holiday season spent training with boyfriend Lleyton Hewitt could pay dividends for her at the Australian Open. The fit-looking Belgian fourth-seed waltzed into the second round here yesterday after breezing
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    • 353 39 Reuters MELBOURNE Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten warned that his confidence was on a real high after a convincing 6-4, 7-6 (10-8), 6-3 victory over Moroccan Hicham Arazi in the first round of the Australian Open yesterday. The triple French Open champion, who won the Auckland Open
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