Today, 29 December 2001

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    7 1 TODAY Saturday December 29, 2001 t M[TA(P)W3/11/2MI
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    Lock icon Beauty and the Blaze
    71 1 Reuters photo. Aplanepasses in front of the setting sun which glows bright red due to the bushfire haze above Sydney. More than 100 summer bushfires continue to burn out of control on Sydney's southern and western outskirts as thousands of weary firefighters across New South Wales
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  • Article
    Lock icon Watching nothing
    139 1 Reuters LOS ANGELES Show them nothing and they will watch. A television programme showing only a yule log burning in a fireplace accompanied by a soundtrack of seasonal songs was the highest rated morning show in New York City on Christmas Day. Titled simply Yule Log, the two-hour
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  • Article
    Sing $ dilemma
    634 1  - Sing dilemma Francis Kan Forced to fall, but no accompanying benefits by franris newstoday. com. sg ONE country's self-interest is another country's discomfort. While a desperate Japan tries to climb out of its 10-year-long recession by letting its currency weaken, the Singapore dollar (Ss) has been left sinking and shrinking
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    RENEW PARKING COUPONS
    61 1 MAKE sure you change your old parking coupons or you could face a fine. Parking coupons valid for 1999/2000/2001 can no longer be used from Jan 1. Coupons can be exchanged at HDB Car Parks Section at Toa Payoh Lorong 6, URA Customer Service Centre at Maxwell
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  • Article
    Man arrested over little girl lost
    136 1  -  Tan Howe Yang THE mystery of the little girl who went missing from near her mother's durian shop on Dec 20 and reappeared 12 hours later may have finally been solved. A 48-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping the five-year-old girl from
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    Lock icon One great way to bathe
    43 1 -Afp photo Toilet facilities are scarce at Kandahar Internationa! Airport, Afghanistan, where 2,000 troops are stationed. Marines attached to this CH-53E helicopter me the "hell hole" door in the bottom of the craft as a private makeshift shower.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Forgotten to take your money back?
      367 2  -  Tan Hui Leng Redeem MendakiTrust units by Dec 31 or lose out by hu ile ng@n ewsto d ay.com.sg SOME three million Amanah Saham Mendaki (ASM) or Mendaki Trust Fund units are still unredeemed, and investors of these units stand to lose $748,819 if
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      So many new teachers, so little time
      255 2  -  Gillian Wong WITHIN the next five years, the proportion of experienced teachers in the workforce will be reduced from half to onethird. This is because more senior teachers will be retiring and a large number of young teachers will be recruited in the
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      SlA's special deal: Senior citizens fly for just $188
      148 2  -  Woo Sue-Ann SENIOR citizens travelling in a group of four may fly aboard Singapore Airlines for just $188, subject to terms and conditions. This special fare, launched yesterday, is applicable to one passenger, aged 55 years and above, travelling in a
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      Lock icon Holy war in Malaysia: 3 get death, 16 life
      209 2 AFP, Reuters KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian High Court yesterday sentenced three members of the Al Ma'unah Muslim sect to death by hanging for planning a holy war to topple Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The other 16 members also
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    • Article
      Untitled
      107 2 While the PAYM can boast of being the largest youth organisation in Singapore with 75,000 members, this is only 10 per cent of our youth population today. And of the Singaporeans who attend courses at the Community Clubs, only 15 per cent are 28 years old and below. Also the
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      More CROs, fewer agents for Income
      189 2  -  Elaine Qmk HALF of the 100 customer relations officers (CROs) that the NTUC Income is planning to hire next year will be above 40 years old. The move is to help older and lesser-skilled workers gain a foothold in the job market. Income's chief
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      Suharto fit as a fiddle?
      112 3 JAKARTA All smiles and looking as fit as a fiddle, former President Suharto (picture) left hospital yesterday after being treated for 11 days for pneumonia as criticism grew over possible government moves to drop graft charges against him. The 80-year-old Mr Suharto, who appeared focused,
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      Who's hurting whom?
      310 3 Tit-for-tat sanctions put the crunch on Pakistan's airline NEW DELHI Tit-for-tat economic sanctions between India and Pakistan, which some say is a prelude to a real war, will hurt Pakistan more than India. The Indian move of banning Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) alone would hit the Pakistani
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      Lock icon Snoopy's a bad influence on kids, rules China
      162 3 AFP BEIJING McDonald's has come under fire in Guangzhou. The southern China city's industry and commercial bureau said the fast food giant's Snoopy sales promotion was a bad influence on kids. The bureau said that a McDonald's promotion, which offered a toy
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      Lock icon Not Schumi, but as good
      119 4 MR JOHNNY Ng is the winner of the first prize in the Guess the Bottles contest. His son (picture) collected the prize a Michael Schumacher autographed photograph from Shell's general manager for retail, Mr Goh Joon Lian, on his behalf on Thursday. Winners of the
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      Free spree ... if you have Amex
      126 4  - Free spree if you have Amex Gillian Wong ALL American Express card-holders who used their cards from Nov 28 and on stand a chance to shop for free. American Express International will reimburse the amount up to a maximum of $500 of one charge slip every day until Jan 10.
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      Lock icon Accidental festival
      270 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Event began as a mini concert by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg WHAT was supposed to be a mini concert in school turned into a music extravaganza yesterday at the Youth Park, which hosted the Musicweed Festival. Chairperson Ms Claire Chun told Today that the public concert was held
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      Lack of time no excuse for not volunteering
      195 4  -  Foyen Wong TIME is not of the essence when it comes to voluntary service. Mr Lee Hong Chuan (picture), winner of Rotary Club of Singapore North's Young Executive of the Year award, said everyone should be able to make time to help
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    • Article
      Shaw fund to donate $14.3 m
      114 4  -  Gillian Wong THE Shaw Foundation has upped its annual charity contribution to $14.3 million from $13.5 million last year. It said the amount was increased because its income from property rentals was better this year. The money will go to 350 education, arts, social
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      127 4 To save on Live it up Singapore IOUFS, cut this out. Tour Coupon Nnimv IMr/Mra/M.) j I Tel: I/C FIN No.: Singaporean Permanent Resident Employment Pass Holder W I Address: Only original coupons will be accepted. For details, visit www.rtswcsio-smoapore.com I and click on the 'Singapore residents Live it up
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      88 4 IVSS NEO GARDEN RESTAURANT Kj^|^ Mini Buffet 58 per person (min 20 pax) 1) HK Mee Fried Rice 2) £o/i Han Chye I Mixed Vegetable 3) Sweet Sour Fish I Pork Rib S~yn 4) Paper Chicken I Curry Chicken Jj 5) Prawn Bali I Pork Chop I 6) Samosa I
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      54 5 i0"'" ':-TSt ■r Bb^ MasterCard is proud to work in partnership with HSSC, Maybank and Standard Chartered to set up the first Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) shared ATM network in Singapore.Yet another leap in the financial services v«_ industry, simply because no card is more accepted worldwide than MasterCard. Participating
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Cruise worthy of an admiral
      807 6  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Visit the Southern Islands in the grand M V Cheng Ho by kim@newstoday.eom.sg PELTING rain and choppy seas make a potent mix for a voyage to the palm-fringed Southern Islands. Undaunted, I decided to throwcaution to the wind and boarded the M V
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      69 6 Singapore Here's your ticket to huge loiir savings* Tour Coupon Nar*e:JMi/AWMz) j Tel: I/C FIN No.: f Singaporean Permanent Reiident Emp]oymefit Pc&j Hofder 1/ Addross: I Terms 5 Conditions opply. Only original coupons wfff be accepted. for details, visit www.newasiasingapore.com and dick on the 'Singapore residents live it up Singaporo'
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  • LETTERS
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      Spotting the MLM scam
      393 8  -  Liu Fook Tkim An association can help identify legitimate players I REFER to the article, "I didn't want to be a legal conman, says The Insider" by Richard Seah (Today, Dec 21). Network Marketing or Multilevel marketing (MLM) will continue to hog the news as it
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      Not all MLM schemes are bad
      209 8  -  Raymond Lint Boon Liang I REFER to the article, "I didn't want to be a legal conman, says The Insider" (Today, Dec 27). Multi-level marketing {MLM) is a business which exists in many developed countries. As with any industry, there are always some companies
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      Where's my ATM card?
      97 8  -  I USE Cashcards and ATM cards to pay for goods and services regularly. On at least three occasions, I have forgotten to retrieve my cards after the transactions. On each of those instances, the vendor also did not realise it. While it is my responsibility to
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      When four buses came at same time ...
      161 8  - When four buses came at same time David Sok AN article concerning the poor service offered by SBS Bus Service 291 in Tampines was published in the media more than a year ago. Nothing seems to have been done in the time since to improve the situation. On Dec 22
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      SMS boon for deaf-mute
      91 8  -  Gok Kar Whee I HAVE seen some deaf-mute people communicating with one another using SMS on their handphones. Currently, most mobile phone plans of the local telcos (SingTel/Ml/StarHub) come with limited free talk time and SMS. I suggest that they allow the value of the free
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      Beware of monsters on our roads
      142 8  -  See Leong Kit I REFER to the report, "Children killed in crash" (Today, Dec 27). A five-year-old boy and his 11-year-old sister died after a lorry was involved in a collision with their family car. After seeing the badly-mangled car, one can only wonder
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      Small shops, big hopes
      440 9  -  Chan Chao Peh Neighbourhood electrical stores get share of business despite the big boys by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg JUST like many other retail trades, the neighbourhood stores selling household electrical goods are facing the brunt of lower consumer spending and the heat of competition from retail chain giants.
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      MAS' new e-platform
      78 9 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore will be launching an electronic applications facility on the Singapore Government Securities website on Jan 7. The so-called "SGS eApps" provides an electronic platform for sending information and government securities transactions between MAS and the 10 primary dealers in these securities. MAS
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      Lock icon Japan's jobless: 5.5%
      69 9 -AFP TOKYO Japan's unemployment rate rose to a new record high of 5.5 percent in November, with officials and economists saying the employment situation will get even tougher as many middleaged men are losing jobs. The number of unemployed grew to 3.5 million, the Ministry of Public
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      Your S$1 buys ...
      30 9 Your S$1 buys US$ 0.5402 I UK£ 0.3735 Yen 71.144 I HK$ 4.2122 I RM 2.0525 Euro 0.6139 Rupiah 5555.5 Baht 23.895 Peso 27.817 A$ 1.0640 Rupee 27.817 Won 706.71
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      Nokia banks on replacement market
      257 9 ON average, a mobile phone is being replaced every nine to 12 months and this short replacement cycle is keeping spirits up at Nokia, the world's leading handset maker, at a time of slowing subscription sales. "There is a big pool of replacement customers," said
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      179 9 Assorted Cold Dish Assorted Cold Dish With Lobster^""*' Fried Prawns With Crispy Oat Shark's Fin With Crab Meat Steamed Seabass In Thai Style Steamed Garoupa Fish I I &6L%% I Crispy Roasted Chicken Traditional 'Live' Prawn In Bamboo Steamer I Chilli Crab With Crispy Bun Chilli Crab With Crispy Bun
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Power deregulation in June
      132 10  -  Woo Sue-Ann LOCAL electricity generation companies (gencos) will be freed from price regulations in June the targeted date for the liberalisation of Singapore's electricity market. The Energy Market Authority (EMA), which regulates the electricity industry, will do this by using vesting contracts, instead of the current
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      Lock icon MAS guidelines for unit trusts
      144 10 Channel NewsAsut TWO new guidelines have been drawn up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (jMAS) to protect the interests of unit trust investors. Under the first guideline, the MAS urges fund managers to pay redemption proceeds back to their customers as soon as possible
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        169 10 THE Singapore market tone remained firm as most players were expecting the Prime Minister to announce better-than-expected economic figures in his New Year's Day speech, followed by the flash GDP estimates scheduled for the morning of Jan 2. A strong Wall Street closing overnight, especially within the tech sector,
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        Malaysia
        91 10 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) performed well yesterday, gaining another 3.92 points to 691.64, despite posting losses in early trade. It had lost ground initially before late institutional buying support pushed the index higher. However, the overall breadth of the market was mixed with losers beating winners by
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2007 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Fund No™ Bid Price/HAV Offer Price COM Globol lelecamm Indti Fund 0.578 COM Global Travel S Transport Index 0.722 COM Singapore Bond Fund 1.51 HSBC Japanese Growth Fund 4.26 HSIC tierItr-Americun Growth Fund 7.798 HSBC Pan-Euro Growth Fund 9.454 4.509 8.253 la.aos Mulli
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      HDB's lifeline for flat owners
      908 11 Schemes to help the financially distressed MORE HDB flat owners are turning to the Housing and Development Board (HDB) for help as the impact of the economic recession hits home. In the first 10 months of this year, some 11,219 financially distressed flat owners were
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Ghost of Osama
      381 12 Agencies Is he dead or alive? Or is he gravely ill? WASHINGTON Nearly all who have seen the full version of Osama bin Laden's latest tape have remarked at how ghostly he looks. Osama, who called for attacks against the US economy in the tape, had a
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      Lock icon Aussie authorities looking for bushfire arsonists
      273 12 Agencies SYDNEY "Driving to Christmas lunch yesterday I witnessed a number of motorists throwing cigarette butts out of car windows as they passed through areas still smouldering from fires the day before. Who needs arsonists when there are so many stupid people at large?"
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      Lock icon China gets US nod
      238 12 Reuters CRAWFORD (Texas) Taking the final step to normalise trade relations between the US and China, President George W Bush on Thursday signed legislation granting China Permanent Normal Trading Relations (PNTR) status. The move, effective from Jan 1, 2002, will give China the same low-tariff levels
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      Lock icon Indon rail officials quit
      110 12 -AFP JAKARTA A mass resignation was tendered by top officials of Indonesia's railway company, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), yesterday following a train collision that killed at least 30 people on Christmas morning. KAI president Badar Zaini, on behalf of the board of directors, submitted the
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      Lock icon Debate over dog meat
      79 12 -AFP SEOUL Defying international pressure to end the age-old habit of eating canines, a group of 20 lawmakers yesterday introduced a Bill to make it legal to sell dog meat. The Bill, to be debated early next year, calls for dogs to be recognised as livestock.
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  • COMMENTARY
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      How will they perform?
      943 13  -  S Ramesh Will the Opposition play a constructive role in shaping policy? by THE inaugural session of Singapore's 10th Parliament is not due till March 25, the day President S R Nathan will open the sitting with a policy speech charting the Government's programmes and priorities
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      474 13 rp^tMEW SMS HITS fa™sj A. Happy new year! Celebrate with us! M4M,,^l^oO-9t2-28!2 l *****94 I |^7JTTCTI¥7Wjr7IHnB| a^^^"PT"-T?T?^B^l *****24 I 229 0994 Can't get you out of my head *****15 Bef(He I fal Ii n Love I la navi 3j Srid e;. :1 A™ 's^S^Sfci !Ml4*S I" Th« End/ Lhnkin Part
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon No insulting stuff
      707 14  -  Serene Foo Film-making joint venture aims to tell a good stoiy THE budding local film industry was given a boost recently with MediaCorp and Hong Kong's eSun Holdings Limited launching a joint venture for a HK$2OO million ($47.5 million) five-year film fund to produce Chinese-lan-guage films. The
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      MY SAY Why not a durian Christmas tree?
      478 14  -  Edmund TShern by edm u nd@pa prika .com .sg CALL me a grinch. There's no escaping them. It's blaring non-stop on discerning taxi drivers' CD players ("Original Artist" CD available at all good pasar malams), at the hawker centre near my office
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Peace, brother
      564 15  -  Low Shi Ping Too much world unrest, says new boyband by ship ing@newstoday. com. sg HAVE you heard? There is a new boyband in town. Brought together by MediaCorp Music, Peace is the latest to join the ranks of Singapore's Dreamz FM and Taiwan's F4 and Tension. Few
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      Lock icon Ronan Keating joins Aids battle
      271 15 Channel NewsAsia BRITISH pop star Ronan Keating was in Thailand's Chiang Rai province recently as part of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) project to spread the message on the dangers of Aids. He was there to film a documentary on Aids which he feels
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      Growing Up takes you to the 80s
      369 15  -  Gail Wan LAST Sunday marked the return of the longest-running nostalgic drama series in Singapore Growing Up. Now in its sixth season, the Best Drama Series award winner (1999 Asian Television Awards) on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 has progressed from its 1996 debut
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  • HEALTH
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      Lock icon Eat healthy, start early
      517 16  -  Rachel Lo Educate your child on healthy eating habits as most obese children grow into obese adults by rachel@n ewsto day. c om.sg HAVING healthy eating habits increases the chances of a child growing up healthy. With the number of obese children on the rise in
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      Lock icon Marijuana addiction among US teens on the rise
      266 16 -AFP WASHINGTON The number of US teenagers admitted for treatment for drug or alcohol abuse increased by 20 per cent from 1994 to 1999, with six in 10 seeking help for marijuana addiction, according to US health officials. Some 60 per cent
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      Lock icon Want to control blood sugar levels? Cut down stress
      426 16 -Reuters WASHINGTON Stress reduction techniques such as relaxation and breathing exercises can work as well as some drugs to control the effects of diabetes, researchers reported. Nearly one-third of diabetes patients who regularly practised the techniques lowered their blood sugar levels
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  • FAMILY
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      Say goodbye to rainy-day blues
      335 17  -  Fisher Paykel Spare your guests the sight of drying undies PUTTING your wash out to dry on a bamboo pole puts you at the mercy of the elements. And when it rains you'll be in want of dry clothing. And not all of us have
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  • WEEKENDSTYLE
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      Lock icon Party's still on
      180 18 Glowing with their recent win at Talentime 2001, Cherry Chocolate Candy get into party gear to welcome the New Year Parly on, but don't forget to update your wardrobe Jaime Teo and Sharon Lee (winner and second runner-up of Miss Singapore Universe 2001) show off the latest
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  • MOTORING
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      Renault's viagra
      504 20  -  Colin Yong It costs as much as a Nissan Cefiro and has more power than BMW's 320i TUST try telling the man in the I street that this compact, three-door hatchback has the same engine capacity as that of a Mercedes-Benz E2OO and that it costs as much
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      Two legendary marques, two new cars, but we just have to wait
      316 20 OPEL has released the first photographs of its new Vectra (above), which will be officially launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March. The current Vectra has been on sale in Singapore since 1996, so its replacement will
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      Brand new at-traction
      492 21  -  Colin Yong All-wheel drive is becoming more common on road-going cars. How useful is it really? by colin@newstoday.com.sg wheels begin to slip. More serious off-readers like the new Range Rover, on the other hand, have permanent AWD. While old-fashioned AWD systems in off-road vehicles often require the
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      Rally drivers prove AWD's advantages
      323 21 A TEAM of three former rally drivers was recently in Singapore for the Audi Driving Experience, an event designed to demonstrate the advantages of the quattro all-wheel drive system that is available on Audi's new A6 models. Quattro was introduced by Audi over 20 years
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon In conversation with Crowe
      1652 22  -  David Ngiau Cameron Crowe on Vanilla Sky, helping mum and sis reconcile, Cruise as a woman TTt7RITER-DIRECTOR VV Cameron Crowe was born in Palm Springs, California, in 1957. At the age of 15, Crowe started writing for music magazine Rolling Stone. Sounds familiar? The writerdirector's Almost
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      Andy's dance far from a dream
      391 23  -  Serene Foo by s erene@newstoday. co m. sg ANDY Lau can no doubt whirl and jiggle but slick dancing moves alone don't make a movie. At most, it could pass off as an enticing music video. And for a subject as tantalising as ballroom
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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      1472 24 A* Billy Madison Aa«w» Seudier -Hotelier Mount Estate iPH^IR^HH Writyudaota Channels,7.3opm Ri I K Channel B, 3.3opm W.n 9pm Vasantham Central. 4pm l\Zl's'l 1 tLOTI u arrives in Fikri approaches the Channel NewsAsia Bm l> the Las Vegas and man ages estate management to I Dr Ram Prasad Ghayal 28year-old
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  • Kids'TimeOut
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      Love and second chances
      433 25  -  Low Shi Ping Hans Andersen's The Little Match-Seller revisited by shipingS>newstoday.com.sg The paradox of our time is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers. THIS line from an e-mail currently making the rounds in cyberspace is how director Liu Qizhou felt about our modern society.
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      Silent Night postponed
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      360 30 -AFP MILAN Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni told Piacenza striker Dario Hubner yesterday that he could be on the plane for the 2002 World Cup finals if he continues his goalscoring form into the new year. Hubner, who only made his Serie A debut at
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      89 30 Reuters COLOMBO Kumar Sangakkara and Tilan Samaraweera made centuries as Sri Lanka piled up 586 for six declared on the second day of the first test against Zimbabwe yesterday. Wicketkeeper Sangakkara, batting at three, made 128 and number seven Samaraweera an unbeaten 123 before the
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      359 31 Reuters MANCHESTER Blackburn Rovers has made an official approach to Manchester United in its bid to sign out-of-favour striker Andy Cole (picture), the Old Trafford club said yesterday. United chief executive Peter Kenyon told the English champion's website that discussions had taken place with its
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