Streats, 17 March 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • 12 1 Streats Wednesday, march n, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph .com .sg mita <p) u.l/03/2003
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  • 557 1 Warning seems more structured than others, says French PM LATEST -AFP Paris An unknown Muslim group today threatened to attack France and its interests abroad, linking the threat to the government’s controversial ban of headscarves and other religious insignia in state schools, officials said.
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  • Morning Rush
    • 229 2 ap NABLUS, West Bank A 10-year-old Palestinian boy, who was arrested on Monday in the West Bank for carrying explosives, was being used by Palestinian militants as a suicide bomber, Israeli security sources said. Witnesses at the Huwara checkpoint near here said that
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    • 362 2  -  Heavy rain also helps check spread of blaze By Ho Lian-Yi A THUNDERSTORM which is believed to have sparked off a fire in one of Singapore’s most wellknown landscape firms might also have been the factor that saved it from total destruction. While The Nature
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    • 458 3  -  One collector paid $6,000 for $lO note, says MA& By_ Chua Kong Ho TWICE a year, currency notes bearing so-called “golden numbers” go under the gavel to the highest bidder. Avid note collectors will go to great lengths to research and obtain the rare
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    • 495 4 Dr Ding and team create chemical that can regenerate muscle tissue Wire services US researchers have found a way to turn adult cells in mice into more youthful ones in a breakthrough that could work miracles for medical science. Led by Dr Ding Sheng, the
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    • 467 6 LATEST AFP WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve policymakers today froze short-term interest rates at a 1958 low, determined to spur economic activity and escape a three-year jobs rut. The Fed clearly hopes that leaving rates so low offers the best chance that
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    • 91 6 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks ended higher today after the US Federal Reserve opted to keep interest rates unchanged. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 81.78 points, or 0.81 per cent, at 10,184.67 closing at about where it had spiked in the first few minutes
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    • 147 6 LATEST ■AFP OSLO Spanish police investigating last week’s Madrid bombings have found a link between suspected attackers and the founder of the radical Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, a Norwegian paper reported, drawing a strong denial today from the man’s lawyer. According to
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    • 137 6 LATEST LONDON Three men living in Cambridgeshire who masterminded a bogus recruitment business that earned them more than £4 million (S$ 12.3 million) in three years by providing workers from Eastern Europe for 30 farms and factories, have been found guilty,
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    • 122 8 BUZZ STOP AFP SINGAPORE is the most desirable place for expatriates to live in Asia followed by Hong Kong, a survey said yesterday. The Singapore Government “has gone out of its way to create a comfortable living environment for expatriates”,
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    • 170 8 Industry loses s2om a year to cheats ONG Keng Hock, 42, managing partner of Precise Auto Service, who was convicted last week of cheating NTUC Income of 1,600 and attempting to cheat the co-operative of $2,100, was yesterday sentenced to eight weeks’jail. This is
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    • 163 8 Mad cow safeguards ‘inadequate Bloomberg JAPAN will retain its ban on US beef imports because Monday’s offer to test more cattle for mad cow disease doesn’t go far enough to ensure the meat is safe, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda. Japan says it
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    • 75 8 British artist Marc Quinn posing beside a scaled down model of his Alison tapper Pregnant The work was chosen on Monday to fdl the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, which has been vacant for 160 years. Modelled after a UK artist who was born with no arms and
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    • 139 8 COUPLES here want children, and four out of five believe the ideal number is three, but they are deterred by lack of money, time and energy, a national survey indicates. Meanwhile, a separate study of singles showed that 40 per cent of women want
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    • 93 8 EMPLOYERS in S’pore plan to hire than fire in next quarter, according to a poll of 599 employers by US-based Manpower Incorporated. Some 12 per cent surveyed plan to increase staff levels against only 4 per cent who intend to cut back, giving a net employment outlook
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    • 93 8 AFP A DENGUE fever outbreak that has killed more than 450 people this year is beginning to wane in parts of Indonesia including the capital but is worsening in other regions, the health ministry said yesterday. Ministry spokesman Mariani Reksoprojo said recent data showed a daily decline
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    • 92 8 Bloomberg CHINA has contained all 49 bird flu outbreaks among its poultry and ended the final two quarantines prompted by the disease, agriculture ministry spokesman Jia Youling said yesterday. Officials will continue to take preventative measures against avian influenza because the virus may be spread
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    • 96 8 AP A FACTORY worker in Missouri who claimed that his lungs were ruined as a result of mixing flavouring oils used in microwave popcorn was awarded US$2O million (5534.2 million) by a jury. Mr Eric Peoples, 32, was the first of 30 former workers at the GilsterMary
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  • Financial
    • 435 10  -  China firm’s new IPO prospectus has additional information on its history By Choang Choon Yee AFTER a widely-publicised delay that was apparently sparked by a poison pen letter, FibreChem Technologies’ mainboard initial public offering (IPO) is back on track. The China-based textile fibre maker yesterday
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    • 341 10 ■AFP SINGAPORE Fed up with unsolicited e-mail messages offering everything from enhanced penises to instant college degrees, Asia-Pacific countries are joining the US-led war against spam. The flood of annoying e-mail messages has become a serious problem for Internet users but experts said that little
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    • 89 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Capita Land Ltd, Southeast Asia’s biggest developer by sales, said that it formed a joint venture with Mr Ahmad Tajuddin Bin Ali, former chairman and chief executive of Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Malaysia’s largest power company. The joint venture, which will manage properties in Malaysia and
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    • 87 10 Reuters SINGAPORE HSBC Holdings pic, the world’s second-largest bank, is interested in buying Thailand’s Bank of Asia in a move that would accelerate consolidation in Thailand’s banking sector, a banking source said yesterday. Dutch banking group ABN AMRO is selling its 80.77 per cent stake in
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    • 76 10 AFP BANGALORE Hewlett-Packard yesterday opened a “bazaar” in India’s technology hub Bangalore to develop new ideas in the rapidly growing cellphone industry. The Mobile e-Services Bazaar will serve as a forum where coders and IT entrepreneurs within HP and from other companies can discuss new concepts
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    • 83 10 AFP TOKYO US technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co plans to start selling several models of Linux-based desktop personal computers in 12 major Asian countries this June, a Japanese news report said yesterday. Shipments could reach one million units in the first year in regional markets including
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    • 707 13  -  ETFs, or exchange tradedfunds, are investment vehicles designed to track specific indices or fixed baskets of securities TODAY’SFOCUS 1 Why(ETFs) are a good option for those who want a diversified portfolio? 2 What is streetTRACKS? Streats Exchange By Choong Choon Yee ANY investment gum will tell you that
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    • 337 14 Looming deadline for anti-terror law Reuters SINGAPORE Asia’s two busiest ports, Singapore and Hong Kong, expect to meet a July 1 deadline to comply with a worldwide anti-terror law despite a sluggish response from ship owners and terminal operators. Singapore lies across the piracy-prone
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    • 163 14 Reuters BANGKOK Asian property stocks showed signs of slowing last month after several months of strong gains, with investors cooling on Hong Kong developers but starting to latch onto hopes of a Japanese economic upturn. Asian property securities tracked by Global Property Research rose 3.9 per
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    • 396 16 Cheaper and cleaner fuel cause shift to CNG vehicles, boosting sales Bloomberg HONG KONG Mr Zhou Jun, who drives a bus on the No 1 route through Beijing’s Tiananmen Square each day, sees the benefit of his company’s switch to natural gas-powered buses in
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    • 319 16 Reuters SHARES, which broke a sixday fall on Monday, fell again yesterday on worries over the sustainability of the economic recovery. The Straits Times Index edged down 0.65 per cent, or 11.91 points, to 1,826.32. Losers beat gainers 171 to 135, with turnover edging up to 611
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    • 24 16 •AS AT MARCH 16 US$: 551.705 553.085 EURO: 552.102 Ss: 64.27 YEN Ss: RM2.228 Ss: HK54.569 Ss: 23.15 BAHT Ss: 5,038 RUPIAH
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    • 558 17 Bumper grape harvest will lead to oversupply, squeezing prices further AFP AUCKLAND New Zealand winemakers will next week start picking 30 per cent more grapes than they have ever produced before, but the surfeit is already giving them a hangover. They face static wine
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    • 470 19 Japan’s military review will hurt local arms makers, but high-tech firms will benefit from IT-sawy army Reuters TOKYO Keen to boost its military capabilities and global security profile, Japan is undertaking the most drastic review of its forces in five decades a move that analysts
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    • 426 41 New CEO sees future of semiconductors in multimedia technology ap DALLAS After two consecutive money-losing years, Texas Instruments (TI) rebounded in 2003, thanks largely to its dominance in making chips that drive more than half the world’s cellphones. But even though Tl’s stock price
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  • StreatsSmart Money Your personal finance biannual special
    • 395 23  - How money wis e are you By Janice Wong A survey on Streats readers show some interesting facts about Singaporeans' financial savvy PEOPLE buy what they know from those whom they trust, going by a survey of Streats readers’ investment habits. Topping the familiarity list is fixed deposits (38 per
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    • 664 24  -  Investment experts offer tips on where the biggest profits may be found By Choong Choon Yee IF you are looking to invest your money in stocks, Asia might be the way to go. That is the advice of experts whom Streats spoke to. They said
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    • 563 28  -  Raising a child is costly, so banks and insurers offer packages that help parents plan for the future By Chua Kong Ho MAKING babies has never been a hotter topic, with Singapore’s declining birth rate taking centrestage in the recent Parliament Budget debate. Of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      651 30  -  Banks can sometimes be cheaper than remittance agents when it comes to transferring money By_ Ch iui Kong Ho MONEY transfer is big business globally. The World Bank estimates that as much as US$95 billion (SSI6I billion) is remitted annually and that this figure will continue to grow.
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    • 435 32  -  If budding companies know the where and how, it isn’t difficult to get financing By_ Janice Wong FINANCING for fledgling small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is not as anaemic as is perceived. Mr lan Macdonald, president of Hong Leong Finance, which markets itself as an SME specialist,
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    • 239 32 LOCAL ENTERPRISE FINANCE SCHEME Introduced in 1976, Lets is a fixed interest rate financing programme administered by Spring Singapore and offered through 16 participating financial institutions. To be eligible, a company must be at least 30 per cent locally owned, have fixed assets not exceeding $l5
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    • 594 34 While Singapore is riding a new IPO wave, there are some underlying concerns, says WONG WEI KONG LET’S not mince words here: The biggest illusion in the market today is the IPO. Things on the surface look hunky-dory, or at least positive. As it has
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    • 596 36 There are many home loan packages in the market, so how do you find one that offers the best deaf SO you have finally found your perfect home. Next up is getting a loan to buy that home. With so many home loan packages on the
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    • 536 38  -  Buying insurance is vital to managing healthcare costs, especially with new diseases cropping up, say experts By Choong Choon Yee PREMATURE death, permanent disability, critical illness, medical expenses and accidents. These are life’s contingencies that anyone might have to deal with one day. Very often, the monetary
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    • 1166 27 NTUC Income Advertisement Excellent business results for 2003 NTUC Income to distribute additional $lOO million to policyholders "We are sharing the good results by distributing an additional $lOO million for our policyholders through bonus increases, absorption of 5 per cent GST, reduction in motor insurance premiums and other benefits." Tan
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  • Comment
    • 594 42  -  By CONRAD RAJ HOW many shopping malls does Singapore need? Apparently at least'one more. This is the calculation of the Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF), which recently announced the revival of its long stalled Ang Mo Kio Town Centre development. Granted it has scaled down its
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  • Vocal
    • 224 44 IT’S true that the trend towards ang moh-Singaporean girl partnerships has become alarmingly obvious in recent years. An increase in foreigners has given local women ample opportunity to compare Caucasian and local men and then highlight the faults and problems associated with local men. There is
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    • 165 44 MR Michael Saunders posits that ang mohs mix only with ang mohs because of a perceived negative attitude of Singaporeans towards them. My view is that in modem Singapore there is very little interaction between the ang moh community and Singaporeans because most expatriates
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    • 348 44 THE letter, “Local women marrying Caucasians an alarming trend” (Streats, March 15), by Mr Seah Leong Khai, prompted a letter of response, “There’s good in ang moh culture” (Streats, March 16), by Mr Michael Saunders. Personally, I do not find local women marrying
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    • 177 46 I REFER to Mr Yak Chin Hua’s letter, “Housing is convenient but not good gauge” (Streats, March 11). Mr Yak asked why the Government cannot access details of individuals’ and households’ incomes through the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras). Iras does not have
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    • 142 46 THE Government may allow a casino in Singapore in a plan which may include linking the mainland to the southern islands. More than 15 years ago, I suggested that we work with Indonesia to link Singapore to Batam and Bintan. It was reported in
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    • 83 46 DIDN’T the Monetary Authority of Singapore last year reject an application from Nagacorp, a Cambodian casino,operator, to list on the SGX, citing money-laundering risks? Can there really be social good for Singapore if we establish a casino here? Any financial gain could be at the cost
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    • 100 46 I REFER to the report, “Discontent now at Tanglin Club” (Streats, March 16), which also refers to the dispute at SICC. A difference in rights of members of the two clubs was not mentioned. A SICC member can always sell the membership and join a
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    • 41 46 IN the commentary, “Complement me, don’t complete me” (Streats, March 16), Tom Hanks was named as the star of the movie, When Harry Met Sally. This is incorrect. The lead actor was Billy Crystal. We are sorry for the error.
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  • Global
    • 461 48 Aussie chief links Spain blasts to Iraq war SYDNEY Australian police chief Mick Keelty was yesterday feeling the heat over his comments that the country’s backing of the Iraq war has made it a terrorist target. Just after finishing a live TV interview on Sunday,
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    • 177 48 -AFP BANGKOK -The Thai government was yesterday investigating the disappearance of a top Muslim lawyer representing Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror suspects. Mr Somchai Neelapaijit, chairman of Thailand’s Muslim Lawyers Association, went missing on March 11 after leaving his home for a meeting. Police said that
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    • 94 48 LONDON A bank’s blunder reportedly converted a home owner to an ex-home owner in her absence. An error in the address of a Glasgow flat made by the Royal Bank of Scotland led to the repossession of the wrong property in the same block in January,
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      52 50 A resident of Dubbo, New South Wales, walking through a swarm of locusts yesterday. The Australian Plague Locust Commission has sprayed more than 200,000 ha of land in an effort to control the pests’ breeding, but some farmers have already lost up to 80 per cent of their
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      • 287 50 DPM Najib slams PAS’ plan to allow no-holds-barred campaigning PEKAN, Pahang Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak yesterday said that the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) president should not have said that he intends to scrap laws banning character assassination during election campaigning. Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi
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      • 97 50 Reuters PEKAN, Malaysia Malaysian opposition parties are complaining that the creation of new seats, and boundary changes made last year, favour parties in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. “The reality is that every incumbent government makes the system in their favour. This is also
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      • 120 50 AFP KUALA LUMPUR With the Anwar Ibrahim issue fading into the background, his wife-tumed-politician Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is waging a lonely battle to keep his cause alive. Dr Wan Azizah’s National Justice Party (Keadilan), formed shortly after former deputy premier Anwar was sacked in 1998,
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      • 106 50 IPOH Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is leading the Barisan Nasional charge in Ipoh Timor told a 4,000-strong crowd there that Chinese support for the government was getting stronger. Accompanied by MCA president Ong Ka Ting, Datuk Seri Abdullah said that besides BN’s ability
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      • 194 50 JAKARTA Indonesian political parties with an Islamic agenda are seeking to edge towards pluralism in the run up to the general election by taking in more non-Muslim legislative candidates. The Jakarta Post reported yesterday that parties such as the National Awakening Party (PKB), the National
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    • 118 52 LONDON The number of first-class degrees awarded by a group of UK universities has increased by half over the past five years, prompting some to accuse universities of being too lenient. The Russell Group, which includes Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham and Bristol, records an increase in
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    • 340 52 AP TAIPEI Before housewife Huang Yuhua, 60, moved to Taiwan, she was a Communist Party member in China who taught children that Taiwan’s Nationalist Party was just a bunch of looters and thieves. She later emigrated when she married a Taiwanese man. Now a
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    • 257 53 BETHESDA, Maryland Researchers may be moving closer to a vaccine for Sars. A new US study has shown that laboratory mice can produce antibodies that will fend off an attack by the Sars virus, raising the possibility that humans who once had Sars will not
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    • 198 53 LONDON Cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in China and the former Soviet Union are rising at an alarming rate and pose a global problem, the World Health Organisation said yesterday. Liaoning and Henan in China, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, parts of the Russian
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    • 124 54 ADVERSARIES would have a field day questioning the title of a documentary that has premiered at a film festival in Austin, Texas. Bush’s Brain was screened on Saturday night at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival. The movie, based on the 2003 book by
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    • 77 54 ACTRESS Gillian Anderson played a Dana for nine years, for The X-Files. Now, she’s going to play another Dana for a play in London, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, by Chicago playwright Rebecca Gilman, about a painter who has a mental breakdown. In an interview with
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    • 96 54 JANET Jackson will make her first appearance on US TV since the accidental exposure of her breast on TV early last month. She will appear on the nationallytelevised live show Good Morning America on March 31, but there will be a five-second delay on the broadcast.
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    • 122 55 IT’S back to the big screen for actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who spent six years g with HBO TV series Sex and The City. She will star opposite her real-life husband, Matthew Broderick, in the new romantic comedy, Strangers With Candy, J| reported Ananova.com yesterday. Parker,
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    • 284 55  -  By_ Zubaidah Nazeer FLAMBOYANCE, style and “Dirrty” are why two guys are participating in the Christina Aguilera look-alike contest tomorrow night at Zouk. One of them is Munaji Salamat, 23, a part-time dancer who has been learning dance since he was six and who
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      662 57 Luxurious ships are a great way to travel, says JILL LIM as she discovers her sea legs ONE of the joys of a cruise is having the fresh sea breeze in your face. Enjoying it without having to mingle with the masses is even better. Yes, I have
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    • 67 57 AFP SINGER Whitney Houston has entered a drug rehabilitation facility. Her publicist Nancy Seltzer said in a statement that Whitney “thanks everyone for their support and prayers” but she declined to offer any other details. The Grammy Award winner, 40, said on TV in Dec 2002
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    • 115 57 POP impresario Pete Waterman will leave Pop Idol, the British original to TV hit American Idol. Waterman, who launched the careers of stars such as Kylie Minogue and Rick Astley, said that three years of “solid” television work and a desire for a break had prompted
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    • 132 57 COME Friday, you may see bands of students roving around Singapore, apparently lost and referring to maps. But don’t stop to give them directions. They are simply going through the Geo Trail round of the Singapore Press Holdings Geography Challenge 2004. These 80 students, in
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    • 346 58  -  By Robin Ganguly TO be fair, Disney on Ice Beauty and the Beast does have its moments, such as when Chip the cup and other enchanted objects welcome Belle (Beauty) to the Beast’s castle. The finale is lovely, too. The sight of Beauty in a resplendent
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    • 176 58 DON’T miss the Young Parents Fiesta, from tomorrow to Sunday, at Suntec Singapore Ballrooms 2 and 3. There will be stalls and exhibitors, health talks, song and dance items, storytelling sessions and fun activities such as a baby crawling contest, young model search and a parent-child lookalike
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    • 120 59 One thing that sets Napa Valley wines apart from the rest is something respected viticulturist Paul Skinner calls the “Mercedes” effect. In a study of the effect of weather on wine grapes in Napa Valley, he says the consistent onset of summer weather conditions there encourages
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      • 68 59 ENCOUNTERS WITH MODERNISM Tomorrow till June 6, lOam-Jpm Singapore Art Museum $3 admission An exhibition of 80 works by 70 artists, showcasing works by two generations of avant-garde artists such as Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons among others, many of which will be
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      • 45 59 8.30 pm, Channel U Fei Yuqing’s special guest tonight is Sky Wu. It should be a three-decade walk down memory lane with Fei Yuqing’s songs from his hey-days in the ’7os and ’Bos and Sky Wu’s halcyon days of the ’9os.
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      • 43 59 10pm, Channel i A mad doctor (Boris Karloff), bent on taking revenge on those who sent him to prison, journeys to the ruins of the Frankenstein castle where he finds the frozen bodies of the Frankenstein monster and the wolfman.
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    • 556 60  -  Japanese golfer lets his caddie’s wife travel with them on the tour By Gary Lim HE is a rookie on the European Tour, yet he travels in style. Japanese Nobuhito Sato’s entourage includes his wife Yuko, caddie Takahiro Obata and his wife Kaori. His travelling companions
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    • 249 60 ZHANG Lianwei (right) is hoping a successful title defence of the Caltex Masters this week will be the launch pad for his American dream. The self-taught Chinese ace, who defeated then world No 2 Ernie Els by one stroke last year, is set
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    • 710 61  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT WHEN you talk about golf in South Africa, one name springs to mind: Gary Player. He is a sporting legend, who shared the pristine greens and hallowed fairways with two of the greatest names in golf: Arnold Palmer and
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    • 184 61 AFP COPENHAGEN A 39-year-old Dane who spent 169 days on the ocean has become the first Scandinavian to sail nonstop around the world. Sailor Jan Moeller arrived here on Monday evening in his 40-foot, open class single-hull sailboat entitled the 3M Innovation. He said: “I am
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    • 473 62 Man U legend Bryan Robson feels younger players have to prove themselves quickly LONDON Manchester United legend and former England captain Bryan Robson (right) has said that Alex Ferguson took a big gamble this season and lost badly. Robson felt that the United manager’s decision to
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    • 269 62 LATEST -AFP FA CUP Tranmere 1 Millwall 2 BIRKENHEAD, England First Division Millwall edged one match closer to next season’s Uefa Cup today when they defeated Tranmere Rovers 2-1 in their FA Cup quarterfinal replay at Prenton Park. First-half goals from Tim Cahill and the
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    • 96 63 FOOTBALL afp PARIS France’s Nicolas Anelka made a late bid to regain his place in the Euro 2004 squad on Monday when he apologised to national coach Jacques Santini and his team-mates. The apology comes 16 months after the 25-year-old refused to join the squad after being called
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    • 77 63 BASKETBALL AFP LOS ANGELES -Kobe Bryant shook off a shoulder injury to score 38 points, 24 of them in the fourth quarter, as the Los Angeles Lakers staged a dramatic rally to beat the Orlando Magic 113-110 in overtime on Monday. Shaquille O’Neal had 27 points and 22
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    • 50 63 ATHLETICS ■AFP BUCHAREST Romania’s reigning 5,000 m Olympic champion Gabriela Szabo will not defend her title in Athens this year, she announced on Monday. The 28-year-old triple world outdoors champion claimed that she lost interest in the sport and that she will be taking a six-month break. afp
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      579 63  -  Women’s football team can reach SEA Games final, predicts coach ?y. Tan Kim Han THE women’s football team can reach the South-east Asia Games final. This bold assessment was made by former national striker Ho Kwang Hock (right), the newly appointed women’s coach charged with preparing the
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    • 64 63 TAMPINES Rovers chalked up the biggest win of the S-League so far this season by beating Tanjong Pagar 9-0 at Tampines Stadium last night. Noh Alam Shah (55th, 65th, 76th, 84th min), Mirko Grabovac (12th, 51st, 68th min), Steven Tan (40th min) and Ismail Fitrey (88th min) found the
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  • Page 63 Miscellaneous
    • 53 63 IN THE LIVING ROOM FOOTBALL: Asian Olympic qualifier: Iran v Korea Republic (Star Sports Ch 24, 8.25 pm). EPL: Liverpool v Portsmouth (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 3.55 am). TENNIS: Masters Series: Pacific Life Open, 4th rd (Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 4am). DELAYED TELECAST Spanish Primera Liga highlights (Channel i,
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