Streats, 5 November 2004

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  • 12 1 Streats FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004 website: www.streats.com.sg e-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MICA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 559 1  -  STI: 2010.65 W 6.78 r v Oil prices, US jobs top investor concerns By Chua Kong Ho ASIAN stocks retreated yesterday after US President George W Bush’s re-election on Wednesday sent oil prices higher. Concerns over possible interest rate hikes, resilience of the US jobs
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    • 48 1 Edwin Ko<r MODEL FIONA CHONG USED TO DREAD THE SEA, BUT NOW SHE IS AN AVID WAKEBOARDER PAGE 44 O cn O Od <r m wmmA mm PRO DREAM /e. AUSSIE FOLK SINGER MELANIE HORSNELL THINKS BIG, BUT SHE HAS YET TO SISSs FIND FAME m PAGE 34
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  • Morning Rush
    • 441 2  -  By Khushwant Singh SDP chief Chee keeps mum as Senior Counsel grills him on his sources of funding SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan had no answers yesterday when asked how he could afford to travel so much when he says he
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    • 188 2  -  By r Khushwant Singh THE Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that Pius Gilbert Louis, 52, the former owner of an acting school, will serve his six-year jail term for causing grievous hurt to his ex-wife’s lawyer, Ms Halijah Mohamad, on Feb 1,2002. Justice Chao Hick Tin
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    • 435 3 Some analysts fear violence may reach Bangkok -AFP BANGKOK At least seven people have been killed in separate attacks in Thailand’s restive south in the last 24 hours, police said yesterday, amid a spate of violence following the deaths of 87 Muslims last
      -AFP; AFP  -  435 words
    • 291 4 She’s leading Democratic contender for 2008 polls WASHINGTON With democratic candidate John Kerry defeated in the recent presidential polls, all eyes are now on Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton, one of the most powerful elected officials in the national Democratic Party and the leading contender
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    • 211 4 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON US President George W Bush won his second term in office with a solid mandate of 51 per cent of the vote, which made him the first presidential candidate to win a clear majority since 1988 a point Bush aides made
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    • 267 4 PRESIDENT S R Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday congratulated US President George W Bush on his re-election for a second term. In a letter to Mr Bush, President Nathan said that his re-election offers him the opportunity to extend the major achievements of his
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    • 200 4 Wire services WASHINGTON -US President George W Bush has begun preparing a secondterm Cabinet that will be dominated by powerful hawks such as Mr Donald Rumsfeld and Mr Paul Wolfowitz. The big name most likely to leave the Bush team is US Secretary of State Colin
      – Wire services; AFP  -  200 words
    • 322 6  -  By Sarah Ng More foreigners here taking up part-time courses MORE foreigners working in Singapore are taking part-time courses to further improve themselves, and one of them is Dutchman, Mr Johannes Wilhelmus Jacobus Brilleman. He is among the first batch of 14 students who will
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    • 291 6  -  By Sarah Ng MANY children have long enjoyed playing with Lego, the well-known plastic brick set used to build any imaginable shape, both for fun and education. But now, these toys are to feature in education in a bigger way with yesterday’s opening of
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    • 241 6 Sarah Ng MAJOR Ibrahim Bulat, 60, first witnessed abject poverty when he was training in Indonesia with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). As part of the course requirement, he spent time helping the poor in remote villages. This moved him so much that he
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    • 120 8 BUZZSTOP THE Samaritans of Singapore (SOS), woefully short of volunteers, have called for more people to help man its 24-hour hotline. The number of daily calls has surged from 20 a day in 1971 two years after the crisis group
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    • Article, Illustration
      45 8 Mr Noah Mark, 28, a Melbourne-based activist working with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, staging a protest outside the Australian High Commission in Singapore yesterday to denounce allegedly cruel practices in Australia's wool industry, including the export of live animals AFP
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    • 131 8 Devotees create disturbance RIOT pohce were called in when a group of 40 devotees created a disturbance outside Sri Marathadi Muneeswara Temple on Changi Road yesterday morning, The Straits Times reports today. The devotees had gathered to say prayers at the temple, which will
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    • 128 8 Changi facility to be ready by July THE first of two new adventure centres that will help toughen up students was opened yesterday by Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Manpower Hawazi Daipi. The facility, called the Dairy Farm Adventure Centre, occupies a I.3ha site
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    • 127 8 Palestinian officials deny claim -AFP PALESTINIAN President Yasser Arafat is in a coma and on life-support equipment in the intensive care unit of a Paris hospital, French medical sources said yesterday as confusion heightened over his condition. “He is still in a coma,” the medical
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    • 73 8 MR Vanu Gopala Menon, 44, has been appointed Singapore’s High Commissioner to Canada, it was announced yesterday. Mr Menon is concurrently Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. He presented his credentials to Canada Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson on Wednesday. Mr Menon, who was awarded
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    • 89 8 TWENTY-TWO suspected drug offenders were arrested early yesterday at two KTV lounges Ozone KTV and Pub and Las Vegas Karaoke Pub along Neil Road. The arrests were made following a raid by Central Narcotics Bureau officers. Of those arrested, five have tested positive for drug consumption.
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    • 98 8 MINISTER for Information, Communications and the Arts Dr Lee Boon Yang has appointed Mr Christopher Bangle, design director of the BMW Group; Sir Terence Conran, chairman of Conran Holdings, Conran Partners and The Conran Shops; and Mr Dick Powell, a founding partner of design consultancy
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    • 94 8 SEVERAL areas in Singapore experienced flooding yesterday following heavy rain between 2.30 pm and 4.30 pm. The floods occurred because the showers coincided with a high tide of 2.6 m, the Public Utilities Board and the National Environment Agency said yesterday. Some of the affected spots were
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  • Financial
    • 496 10  -  CEO: Overseas units to drive growth. Analysts: Optus may slow growth By i Chua Kong Ho SINGTEL reported a 62 per cent rise in net profit for the second fiscal quarter ending September, as growth in its overseas operations continue to make up
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    • 314 10  -  By r Chua Kong Ho AMERICAN Express International yesterday signed an agreement with Singapore Post to sell travellers cheques through the latter’s post offices from next month. The tie-up broadens Amex’s distribution in the suburbs and adds another stream of revenue for Sing
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    • 69 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Exchange Ltd, which operates the island’s securities and derivatives markets, yesterday said that it signed an initial agreement with FTSE Group to explore the development of indexes in Singapore and the AsiaPacific region. The indexes may be used to trade and benchmark financial
      – Bloomberg  -  69 words
    • 108 10 SINGAPORE Learning services provider Informatics yesterday reported a net loss of $26.7 million for its second quarter ended Sept 30. It came on the back of a 54 per cent decline in operating revenue from $36.2 million to $16.6 million for the corresponding quarter last year.
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    • 77 10 NEW DELHI India’s proposed Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) with Singapore has differences to be sorted out, the Financial Express reported on Wednesday. The Indian government wanted a minimum value addition norm of 40 per cent on items but Singapore wanted a 30 per cent limit
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    • 102 10 Bloomberg SEOUL Global sales of semiconductors will shrink next year as oversupply drives down prices, said market researcher IDC, which lowered its 2005 forecast for worldwide chip revenue. Industry sales will shrink 2 per cent to US$2O5 billion (*****.9 billion), compared with a May forecast for 7.5
      – Bloomberg  -  102 words
    • 422 12  -  By Janice Wong More delays may damage business, executives say THE dispute at Wee Poh Holdings continued yesterday with two suspended directors issuing a media statement calling for the construction group’s annual general meeting (AGM) to reconvene. They argue that further delay
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    • 261 12 Tate Lyle plans $297m sucralose plant in S’pore Bloomberg LONDON Tate Lyle pic, Europe’s biggest sugar-cane refiner, will spend £97 million (*****.4 million) to build a plant in Singapore to produce sucralose no-calorie sweetener for customers in Asia and Europe as concerns about obesity boost sales. The plant, to be
      – Bloomberg  -  261 words
    • 24 12 *AS AT NOVEMBER 4 US$: 551.663 EURO: 552.131 Ss: RM2.286 Ss: 24.72 BAHT 553.070 Ss: 63.98 YEN Ss: HK54.680 Ss: 5,470 RUPIAH
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    • 380 13 Trade unions urge Blair to resist companies’ call for slacker regulation Bloomberg LONDON The UK Trades Union Congress called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to resist calls by business leaders for slacker regulation and reduced worker protection, saying that USstyle labour markets would
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    • 319 13 Bloomberg SEATTLE Microsoft and Intel Corp are planning their first joint advertising campaign to promote personal computers that let home users record television and play music. The first phase of the “digital joy” campaign begins this Sunday and will cost “several tens of
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    • 428 15 Segal’s picks: Porsche, an Irish bank, free-thinking’ nations Reuters NEW YORK Mr Benjamin Segal has a thing for swanky German carmakers, Irish banks that coddle customers and countries unencumbered by social systems that sap the entrepreneurial spirit. They all make money. Applying his investment
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    • 49 15 A model displaying a new cardholder from credit card company Master Card. Each of the 13 designs of the Jewel Cards range is encrusted with a variety of glittering precious and semi-precious stones. Issuing banks will work out the price for the cardholders, the company said yesterday
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    • 143 15 Bloomberg NEW YORK A US judge ruled that Bear Steams Cos can’t tell jurors that a “Chinese Wall” existed between its promotion-oriented sales side and its analysts, said a lawyer suing the investment bank for its work for World Com Inc. Bear Steams publicly praised World
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    • 314 16 Bloomberg Sweetened offer by maker of low-priced wines Constellation gives it access to luxury market NEW YORK Constellation Brands Inc, the world’s largest winemaker, will acquire Robert Mondavi Corp for a sweetened offer of US$l.O3 billion (Ssl.7 billion) in cash, ending any plans to
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    • 701 17 NTUC Fair Price Active Senior 1 ASCI Ibrahim bin Bulat, 60 Major Ibrahim Bulat’s long history of serving the community spans a wide range of causes, from arts and welfare related ones, to promoting the interests of the Malay community. Today he continues to be an active volunteer with his
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  • Comment
    • 779 18  -  By PHILIP LEE IT is noble to utter this lofty resolution: Let us be tolerant and friendly during this Good Neighbour season. Indeed, everyone would even say that we should be thus disposed all the time and not just because we will have a new event
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  • Vocal
    • 246 20 I REFER to a recent press report about 100 dogs living in filthy conditions. The article mentions: “(The) farm is licensed under Mr Lawrence Kuah Kok Choon to breed birds, but not dogs... “Mr Kuah has past convictions for importing animals without permit and
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    • 262 20 WE refer to Mr Jaafar Mohamad’s letter, “Tall 4-year-old charged bus fares” (Streats, Oct 28). We would like to inform public transport users that the existing height limit for children to travel free is in accordance with a gazette issued by the Public Transport
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    • 136 20 WHAT is the essential purpose of asking people to apply for automatic Giro top-up for ez-link? It is to save people the hassle and inconvenience of topping up their ez-link cards for travel. It avoids the hassle of having insufficient funds at the bus stop when
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    • 197 20 I WANT to express my deep appreciation and thanks to Dr Anthony Loh Voon Heng, the principal of Bukit Merah Secondary School, who retired recently. Dr Loh demonstrated his kind and caring nature, even for drop-out students, by giving them a chance and accepting
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    • 192 22 AT age 55,1 have $40,000 in my CPF savings that I am told I can use for the purchase of property. It is unlikely that I will ever be able to buy a property for which that kind of money would serve
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    • 149 22 I AGREE with the points Mr Teo Kueh Liang made in his letter, “Cut cabbies’ costs to boost road safety” (Streats, Nov 2). I find the daily rental fee of about $92 per day extremely high. Coupled with the fuel cost, which can be $3O or
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    • 102 22 IN the report “Case: Standardise hospital billing” yesterday, we quoted Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang as speaking as Minister for Health last year. This is incorrect. Mr Lim was speaking as Minister for Health in 2002. The sub-headline for the report, “Quick fix for prettier smile”
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    • 396 22 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at StreatS@sph.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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  • Global
    • 311 24 KUALA LUMPUR In a bid to stamp out money politics, Umno is promising to protect informants, even those who have received money in the recent party polls. Board chairman Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen said that all the identities of those who
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 24 Japanese children crawling under their desks at an elementary school in Nagaoka, northern Japan, as a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 shook the area yesterday. The same area was hit by a deadly tremor last month. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries
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    • 84 24 -AFP LONDON A British television channel is looking for volunteers for a documentary which will look into dead bodies during the process of decomposition, it said on Wednesday. Dust To Dust, the first project of its kind in Britain, will be monitored by leading scientists who hope
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    • 239 24 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Indonesia was the most dangerous country in the world for seafarers during the first nine months of this year, an international piracy watchdog said yesterday. Out of a total of 251 pirate attacks worldwide. 70 took place in Indonesian waters, said the Malaysia-based
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    • 219 24 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir yesterday told a court that his terrorism trial was a joke and mocked prosecutors by challenging them to file more bombing charges against him so the “thrill” was complete. He accused Jakarta of bending to US President George W
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    • 158 26 LONDON -A British government-appointed group reviewing university degrees classifications has recommended that it be abolished, the London-based Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. The 200-year-old system, which classifies graduating students into firsts, upper seconds and so on, came under growing public scrutiny as more first and upper second degrees
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    • 371 26 Steel plant to slash output as part of pre-Olympic clean-up Reuters BEIJING China’s capital, host of the 2008 Olympics, is in “a state of emergency” because of air pollution, state media said yesterday. The situation is so bad that one of the city’s biggest polluters,
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    • 184 26 AFP BEIJING Thirty-somethings are doing well in China’s emerging capitalist society, making billions on retailing and the Internet, according to a list of the country’s richest people issued yesterday. Top of Forbes magazine’s list of the 200 richest Chinese was the chairman of investment company
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  • Medical
    • 254 28  -  By Ashleigh Sim IS your baby having trouble sleeping well? All he or she may need is a few minutes of massage. A study of babies between nine and 15 months old conducted by Dr Judy Owens, associate professor of pediatrics from Brown Medical School and
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  • my HOME YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME-OWNING
    • 521 30  -  WfcfcA retailer Jannie Tay is hoping that Singaporeans who want a change of pace in their golden years will flock to her Oyster Cove development in Australia Reports by, Janice Wong AFTER four years, watch retailer Jannie Tay’s Oyster Cove development in Australia was marketed in
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    • 502 32 Once a budding pianist, Vinoly is now a world-renowned architect. But music is still a strong influence on him Bloomberg NEW YORK When he was 17, Mr Rafael Vinoly locked himself in a room for a whole week to make a painful career choice: whether to
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  • EasyStreats
    • 566 34 Young Australian folk singer Melanie Horsnell tells GREGORYLEOW about her dream of turning professional MELANIE Horsnell has made it as a singer/songwriter... sort of. The 25-year-old Australian’s debut album, The Adventures 0f..., which was released late last year, has won critical acclaim in Europe. She has
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    • 71 34 -AFP AUSTRALIAN singer Kylie Minogue launched a new range of sexy underwear at a fashion show in London on Wednesday. Her hosiery line, LK legs, featured fishnet stockings, peek-a-boo knickers and suspenders. She already has a best-selling line of lingerie called Love Kylie. Minogue, who was
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    • 101 34 THE last roadshow for Family Festival 2004 will be at Bukit Panjang Plaza from today to Sunday, 1 lam to 9pm, with activities such as face painting, balloon sculpting and giveaways. You can register for contests to be held during Family Festival, such as the Home Makers
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    • 128 34 -AFP HONG Kong actor Andy Lau said yesterday that one of his toughest acting jobs was transforming himself from a hunk who makes girls swoon to an “ugly” character for his new film, A World Without Thieves. He plays a conman with shoulderlength hair and
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    • instyle
      • 517 36 Kiehl’s cult American skin and body care, loved by Hollywood superstars, opens in Singapore SUSANNA ANG reports ON the face of it, there’s nothing particularly interesting about a bottle of Kiehl’s shampoo, bath lotion or, for that matter, anything else put out by Kiehl’s. They all
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      • 93 36 CASIO Computer Co has introduced three new GShock watches. Part of the Cockpit Series, they have faces designed to resemble the instrument panels of racing cars. They also incorporate Casio’s Super Illuminator ultra-bright LED lights. The watches are water-resistant to 200 m. Casio has also released 10
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      • 91 36 IMMERSE yourself in the classic scents of lavender and rosewater with Crabtree Evelyn’s new range of home products, such as their linen wash, suitable for cashmere, silk and wool; padded hangers that prevent clothes from slippng off; carpet refresher powder for rugs and carpets; scented drawer
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    • 214 38  -  By Janice Wong FOR the first time, currency collectors can bid online through eßay for limited edition notes issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The first note of MAS’ first commemorative banknote issue is expected to draw the most attention.
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    • 328 38  -  By Yvonne Kwok IN a bid to interest more students in the creative arts and to offer them an opportunity to gain commercial exposure, Videovan Entertainment Industries, The Chinese High School (TCHS) and the Media Development Authority (MDA) are organising a film art competition that will
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    • 460 40  -  Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? These recipes fur stylish nutritious yummy meals are easy to do and cost $10 or less for four servings Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW HERE’S a dish that never fails to please and is so
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    • 105 42 High-resolution satellite images of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region was available on the Hong Kong Observatory website from yesterday. It is hoped the public can then better A appreciate weather changes as they will be able to easily visualise cloud, fog, haze and
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        50 42 10pm, Channel i Bilko is in charge of the motor pool at an army base. He’s also a good-natured conman who provides gambling facilities for the soldiers. When an old enemy from his past shows up and steals away his fiancee, he puts his skills to creative use.
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      • 52 42 9pm, HBO To take out the future leader of the resistance John Connor (Nick Stahl) and ensure the reign of the machines, Skynet dispatches T-X (Kristanna Loken) a female cyborg assassin. Connor soon discovers that his cyborg guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is no match for
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        55 42 PLAY A PART IN SINGAPORE’S HISTORY Till Nov 26,10am-12pm andlpm-4pm, Tuesdays to Saturdays Call Katong CC at 6345-8258 or Mounthatten CC at 6344-7387 to register Volunteers of all ages are welcome to participate in the excavation of Fort Tanjong Katong. Discover Singapore’s hidden treasures and you may just find
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      • 61 42 A TRIBUTE TO BRAHMS Tomorrow, Bpm, Victoria Concert Hall Tickets from $2O to $5O at Sistic This concert by the Singapore Lyric Orchestra presents a representative selection of vocal and piano music drawn from the relatively familiar to the rarely-heard. The programme includes famous solo love songs and duets,
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    • 83 42 SINGAPORE INCORPORATING "vretHcn ’lssicm 'O4 Venue: Coastes, Siloso Beach, Sentosa Date 6th 7th November 2004 Wakeboard Association (Singapore) A weekend beach extravaganza showcasing Asia's best wakeboarders in competition. Other highlights include free public wakeboard trials, ultimate frisbee demo by the Singapore Ultimate Players Association, Celebrity (Local Asian) wakeboard demos tug-of-war,
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    • 516 42 Break fast: 6.51pm. Yourdailyhoroscope Jp AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com It’s too easy to end a project or relationship that isn’t going well. The real challenge is to create instead of destroying. The two processes are remarkably similar. Choose well you have to live with this
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    • 278 44  -  By Tan Kim Han INDRA Sahdan Daud has decided to put off surgery to remove loose joint tissue around his right ankle in order to play in the Tiger Cup next month. Yesterday, the 25-year-old Home United striker went for a medical review and
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      440 44  -  Fiona is not just an FHM model, she’s an avid wakeboarder, too By Gary Lim FIONA CHONG (left) used to fear the sea. The 2003 FHM Heartland Honeys winner would shudder at the thought of sharing the water with creepy crawlies beneath the surface. But thanks to
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    • 580 46  -  Forget foreign <j players, Lampard is Chelsea’s mainstay Soccer smart By GARY LIM FORGET Didier Drogba, Aijen Robben, or Damien Duff. Frank Lampard (above) is the man who makes star-studded Chelsea tick. The England international has been in sparkling form this season, helping the Blues narrow a
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    • 544 46 Tomorrow Aston Villa (10) vs Portsmouth (9) Head to head: Villa won 32, Portsmouth 22, Draws 18 Previous league meetings: Jan 6, 2004 Villa 2 Portsmouth 1; Aug 16, 2003 Portsmouth 2 Villa 1 Last 6 league matches: Villa DWLDDD; Portsmouth WDWDLL Team news: Villa Laursen doubtful, Delaney,
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    • 235 47 -AFP LIVERPOOL Without injured stars Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and Djibril Cisse, Liverpool proved on Wednesday night in Spain that they are blending into a winning team under Spanish manager Rafa Benitez. Their 1-0 Champions League win at Deportivo La Coruna silenced the doubters, and
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      525 47 Van Nistelrooy deserves to be rated among Europe’s all-time greats, says Ferguson Wire services MANCHESTER Ruud van Nistelrooy’s (pictured) reward for the four-goal display that got Manchester United's Champions League campaign back on track was a suggestion from his manager that the Dutchman now deserved to be bracketed
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    • 127 47 BASKETBALL AFP EAST RUTHERFORD Shaquille O’Neal wasn’t in top form for his debut with Miami Heat on Wednesday, but that didn’t stop the Heat cruising to victory over New Jersey Nets in the NBA. Nursing the sore hamstring and battling foul trouble, the superstar centre wasn’t his
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 96 47 PAYA Lebar Kovan FC is in the S-League. The S-League strategic business unit confirmed yesterday that the Hougangbased club’s application was approved. They are the first new local entrant in the league since Gombak United and Sengkang Marine made their debut in 1998. Their home ground will
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      • 64 47 FOOTBALL fans in Singapore will be in for a real treat when the Barclays English Premiership trophy arrives here for a tour from Nov 12 to 14. The tour, organised by Tiger Beer, official beer of English champions Arsenal in Singapore, will give EPL fans the
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  • Page 47 Miscellaneous
    • 40 47 IN THE LIVING ROOM BASKETBALL: NBA: Miami Heat vs Cleveland Cavaliers {Ch24, 9am). GOLF: The Tour Championship, day 2 (Channel i, tomorrow, lam). FOOTBALL: EPL preview (Channel i, 12mn). TENNIS: Q-final 2, Q-final 3 Q-final 4 (Ch 24, 11 pm).
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