Today, 1 June 2002

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  • 8 1 weekendTODAY June 1 2, 2002 MITA (P) 248/03/2002
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  • 1052 1  -  Ng Boon Yian by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg PRESS statements are bland, factual and carefully-crafted creatures. Of late, many of them have flowed into our office in a steady stream, touching on the same subject Each offers a fresh nugget of information. Many contradict previous ones. Each one is a justification
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    • 49 1 i j^The French jjflEi are sun'c jHwi^J.. _jfV a destroyer W^^^fßt W Page 48 Dave Barry and his missus Pg 11 World's foremost humorist gets ready for his movie premiere Swiss standard of living? Pg 3 Yew Meng says Singapore will never get there Lif& U gr&fofrf Page 11
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  • NEWS
    • 329 2  -  Jose Raymond Agency says employer had complained about her by j o se@newsto d ay. c o m. sg CLAD in a light brown pair of pyjamas, sporting a bandage on his left hand and with burn marks on his arm and face, 18-month-old Leon Poh Yue
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    • 179 2 Channel NewsAsia FOUR companies are bidding to build Singapore's first desalination plant to supply the island with drinking water. SingSpring a consortium comprising US firm Ondeo and local firm Hyflux has made the lowest bid. It has offered to sell desalinated water to
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    • 124 2 AFP MANILA Philippine television on Friday served up a real-life hostage drama that ended with the suspect stabbing a four-year-old boy to death. The hostage-taker was later killed by police gunfire. Irate callers flooded the switchboards of radio stations to denounce what they said was police
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      821 3  -  Lee Yew Meng We'll never match Swiss standards by ye wm e ng@ newstoday. com. sg HAVE you noticed? No one talks about the Swiss standard of living any more. For those who came in late, Switzerland was the benchmark by which Singapore measured itself. We exchanged high
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    • 222 3  -  Elaine Quek SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan yesterday asked for an adjournment in his third application to admit Queen's Counsel (QCs) in his legal tussle with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He said he
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    • 193 3 Channel NewsAsia THE young German woman charged with consuming ketamine here will not challenge the drug charges against her. Yesterday, after speaking to her lawyer, she decided to plead guilty in three weeks' time. Julia Bohl, 23, is being charged with consuming ketamine, possessing
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    • 374 4 DrYaacob throws some light on the battle of the sexes ARE men from Mars and women from Venus? Surveys highlighted by the Acting Minister for Community Development and Sports, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, at the launch of a marriage exhibition yesterday have shed some light on this great
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    • 92 4  -  Chung Lyn-Yi MASTERCARD International, an official sponsor of the 2002 Fifa World Cup, has brought the exuberance of the World Cup to Singapore by creating a stadium-like atmosphere (picture) in the Orchard Road underpass. The ceiling has been covered with mini-footballs, and the poster
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    • 57 4 A SENIOR executive of MediaCorp Studios, Mr Krist Tsui, has resigned from the company. MediaCorp said Mr Tsui, the vice-president of Entertainment Productions, left to pursue other interests. During his one-and-a-half years with the company, he was in charge of the division responsible for producing game shows,
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    • 192 4 Reuters TAIPEI Taiwan's government moved on Friday to cement its control over China Airlines following last week's plane crash. Transport Minister Lin Linsan said he would become chairman of the state-controlled China Aviation Development Foundation, which owns 71 per cent of the carrier. The foundation's board
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    • 354 4  -  Elisa Chia by elisa@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the woman dubbed as the "Queen of Singapore Sitcoms" decided to join SPH MediaWorks' English channel, it was touted as something of a coup for the start-up. After all, Ms Andrea Teo was the brains behind some of
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        541 6 Don't forget the future cost of living IT'S never too early to plan for your child's university education. Your little tot may not be able to say more than "dada" and "gaga", but he'll be a fledgling undergraduate ready to conquer the world in 20 years. Will
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      • 163 6 WITH the 1,000 hours that your child spends in school every year, it only goes to show how important education is in nurturing your child. As a parent, helping your child enjoy learning would contribute to his success in school. Encourage your
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    • 411 8  -  Chan Chao Peh SM Lee laments the changing nature of Muslims by chaop eh@news tod ay.com. sg IT started as a stricter observance of religious practices and as a drift away from other communities. But, it has culminated in a situation where terror organisations like Al Qaeda
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    • 138 8 Channel NewsAsia US Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz, who is in Singapore for the Asian Security Conference, has warned that war is not the solution to the tensions between India and Pakistan. "War on the subcontinent will have potential catastrophic consequences which would do
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    • 119 8  -  Sarah Chua CITY Hall MRT station has emerged tops in the SMRT Inter-Station Competition 2001, winning the coveted "Station of the Year" award. It was judged based on a range of criteria such as customer service, cleanliness, station aesthetics, and number of commendations and
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    • 48 8 A MAN was charged in court this morning with criminal intimidation and possession of an offensive weapon. Kelvin Phang, a journalist with Today, was alleged to have committed the offences on Nov 18 last year. His case was postponed and will be heard again in July.
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    • 273 7 Citibank gives you the power to save for your child's future. We all want a brighter future. For our children, and for ourselves. But with low returns John Hancock that help maximize savings with guaranteed yearly cash payouts from traditional savings accounts, reaching a specific goal could take longer than
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  • LETTERS
    • 294 8  -  James Chi What our young people need to learn THE younger generation in Singapore is growing up in an increasing global environment. Many of us live, work and study alongside people from all over the world. To understand citizenship, young people need to learn about their
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    • 192 8  -  Andy Fong I AM concerned with the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) findings on why ez-link cards were "rejected" on buses. It said that the cards were tapped too slowly and that the readers had deducted the fares. This is not true from my experience.
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    • 91 8  -  Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff I REFER to the article, "Chee and Zulfikar claiming trial" (TODAY, May 30). The charge filed against me, which is of wilful trespass, is not about "causing disturbance". There is no evidence to support that claim. Instead, I have been charged for being
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  • WORLD
    • 134 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE bank write-offs of credit card debt increased 42 per cent in April. DBS Group Holdings, United Overseas Bank, Citibank and other lenders wrote off $8.4 raillion in April, compared with $5.9 million a year earlier. It was the largest monthly write-off of bad credit card debt
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    • 203 10 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO Old habits die hard when it comes to paying for online services. Consumers accustomed to free services and content on the Internet during the dotcom craze in the mid-1990s refuse to accept that certain services and content are now chargeable. A survey released on
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    • 1019 10  -  Ambiga Raju Suu Kyi suffered for her cause but has nothing to show for it by raambiga@hotmail.com A PICTURE of Myanmar's famous opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi used to grace my desk. She was everything I admired in a woman resolute, articulate and beautiful. She still
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    • LIFE IS GREAT
      • 254 11  -  Wong Kliiiig Chang 'Life is Great with Children' Photo Competition After weeks of film loading, film rewinding, shutter clicking, and more film loading, Great Eastern's "Life is Great with Children" photo competition has finally ended. Ten finalists were chosen,
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    • 212 12 -AFP SYDNEY The Catholic Church in Australia has become embroiled in a US style scandal of sex abuse, cover-ups and public pressure. A TV station has alleged that Sydney's Archbishop George Pell was involved in a cover-up. The scandal deepened after Bishop Pell called a
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    • 165 12 -AFP HONG KONG A British engineer is suing Singapore Airlines for HK5350,000 ($80,000). He alleges he swallowed a piece of glass as big as fivecarat diamond when he drank pineapple juice during a flight, a report said. The court heard that Mr Stephen Olding, 48, allegedly
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    • 66 12 Reuters PORTLAND (Oregon) A military helicopter slammed into Oregon's Mount Hood on Thursday as the crew tried to pluck six injured climbers from an icy crevasse that claimed three lives. One of the five crew members aboard the Black Hawk helicopter was critically hurt. The other
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    • 307 12 Agencies India plays down tension with Pakistan WITH so much talk about a possible nuclear war, no one dares say that the situation between India and Pakistan is stable. Except, that is, the Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes. After a meeting in Singapore on Friday with US Deputy
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    • 100 12 KELANTAN Malaysia's opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) wants to shed its image of being an extremist party in the run-up to the next general election. On Friday, the PAS unveiled its concept of an Islamic state and a memorandum aimed at winning the hearts of nonMalays,
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  • BUSINESS
    • 136 14 Bloomberg To privatise two subsidiaries JTC Corp is privatising two of its subsidiaries in two to three years. They are Jurong Consultants, a real estate consulting company, and Ascendas, which has $1.2 billion in assets in high-tech parks in the region. "We reorganised JTC last year in anticipation
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    • Market Watch
      • 115 14 INSTITUTIONAL investors did last-minute fine-tuning of their portfolios on Friday, on the last day of the MSCI Phase II re-balancing. The Singapore Exchange lifted the designated securities status imposed on Dayen. As a result, speculative demand sent the engineering company's stocks 50 per cent higher. The STI eased 11.59
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      • 55 14 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 *****.70 -4.33 -.05 Hong Seng Mi Ordinaries foiwan Wtd *****.94 3325.10 5675.65 -7B.67 -13.40 -60.54 -.69 -.40 ■1.06 Korea (omp SET Index Jakarta Comp 796.40 407.96 530.79 -19.21 +.55 +B.24 ■2.36 +.13 +1.58 Ptiils Comp Shenzen 8 Mumhui 1315.00 207.64 3125.73 -13.55
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      • 36 14 USS 0.5603 UKf 0.3822 Yen 69.474 HK$ 4.3700 RM 2.1290 Euro ***** Rupiah 4873.0 Buhl 23.727 Peso 28.154 A$ 0.9854 Indian Rs 27.476 Won 680.34 C$ 0.8581 Yuan 4.6371 NZ$ 1.1582 NT$ 19.049
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      • 75 14 Bloomberg By$ May 31 OUE CloseChange 6.600 -0.550 By percentage May 31 ClaseChange KohBrosW04!006 0.035 -22.222 Creative 50 18.000 -0.500 K,nnArinW*****7 0.070 -17.647 SPH 100 20.800 -0.5O0 Reed 0.050 -16.667 SIA 12.700 -0.400 KianHo 0.110 -15.385 SPH 20.900 -0.400 7.650 -0.350 LobroyMorW*****6 0.060 -14.286 Serr^DrfeCVrfflB228 0.065 -13.333
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    • 238 16  -  Chan Chao Peh SingTel, PacNet oppose merger between StarHub and SCV by ch aop eh @newstod ay. com. sg THE proposed merger between StarHub and Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) is facing opposition from competitors like SingTel and Pacific Internet. The merged entity, assuming the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA)
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    • 210 16 THERE are signs that the commercial real estate markets across Asia-Pacific are getting back to normal, according to property manager Jones Lang LaSalle. Given the increasing signs of recovery in the US and Asian economies except Japan, some market indicators are poised to improve in the
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    • 111 16 Bloomberg CREATIVE Technology has invested an undisclosed amount in a unit of George Lucas' movie company, a move analysts said may help Creative develop new home entertainment devices. It was invited to buy a minority stake in Lucasfilm's THX, which develops standards for audio in
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    • 56 16 GLORY Realty has won the Sinaran Drive "white" site with its winning bid of $100.8 million. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has awarded tenders for five conservation shophouses at Upper Cross and Mosque Streets at prices between $2.89 million and $4.1 million. All the land parcels were
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    • 535 18  -  Vasu Menon After two years of corrections by NOW may be a good time to start thinking about investing some of your CPF savings in the global tech sector if you have not already done so. Global tech stocks have corrected sharply over
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    • 867 20  -  Simon Tay by wee ke nd ©news tod ay.co m. sg SINGAPORE has grown strongly and consistently for almost three decades. Downturns were rare and seemed to be merely shortlived pauses on an endless, upward path. Even in the 1997 Asian crisis, Singapore's economy was
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 88 22 ■AFP BANGKOK Former Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's common law wife and her bodyguard have been convicted of assaulting three teenaged maids, court officials said on Friday. Ms Pakdiporn Sucharitkul and Sergeant-Major Suthee Thongkam were given four months' and a month's suspended sentences and a fine
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    • 123 22 Reuters LONDON Frenzied dog attacks have put five British children in hospital over the last two weeks, prompting calls for radical new measures against irresponsible owners. Dog experts say it is not the animals themselves that need training often attack-bred breeds that are becoming more popular
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    • 98 22 -AFP WASHINGTON US business productivity rose by 8.4 per cent in the first quarter, just a shade below the initial estimate of 8.6 per cent, the Labour Department said on Friday. The revision, expected by Wall Street, still shows stunning gains in the output of
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    • 799 22  - lights, camera, and no Dave Barry by we e ken d ©newstod ay.com. sg AWHILE back, I wrote a novel. It is not an important novel, the kind that explores, with nuance and subtlety, the complexities of the human condition. It's a novel where a guy falls face-first on to
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    • 979 23  -  Roger Mitton Malice in Blunderland: WHEN the question of truth in journalism is raised, my first thought is of Alice in Wonderland and her dialogue with the Mad Hatter. You will recall her telling him that she always says what she means or at least,
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  • WEEKEND FEATURE
    • 670 24  -  Shanoo Maharaj by In New Delhi IN Indian cinema's worst year, when 119 out of 120 Hindi films have failed, film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas, an epic film about doomed love, is set to make the biggest news. How big, you ask? For one, Devdas is India's
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    • 64 24 ACTION for Aids (AFA) will be holding Operation Aids Bazaar and Gig at the Youth Park on Saturday. It is part of Project Ariq Aids, which aims to raise money for AFA's medication subsidies fund. Local bands such as Fairy Goat Mudder, Full Pledged Munkees, Plain Sunset and
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    • 81 24 China bride wanted FANCY playing a China bride on TV? MediaCorp will start production on a new 100-episode drama tentatively titled Holland Village. You would fit the bill if you are a Chinese female aged between 21 and 25. Those interested should send in their resume with a recent photograph
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  • INTUNE
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      285 25  -  Asif Ansar lisa Cbia Album: The Eminem Show Artiste: Eminem (Aftermath Records) The Eminem Show's curtains go up with White America a buckshot reverberating with rage against the failings of American society. It's the same rage which makes Eminem relevant in pop charts drunk with the debauchery and hedonism
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    • 553 25  -  Asif Ansar by asif@newstoday.com.sg MUSICAL juggernaut Moby has an obsession with space and sci-fi: "I like the 2001: A Space Odyssey idea of getting on a comfortable space shuttle with arched windows, nice meals and have a nice look around up there," he said in an interview
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    • 471 25  -  Razali Abdullah by raz a! i@newsto day. c m. sg THE World Cup fever is on, everything else has reached a standstill and it will remain so for a month. Politics have taken a back seat. The people who rule France expect their fellow
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  • IN CINEMAS
    • 116 26 NEW YORK Motown legend Dionne Warwick has chas* tised her younger colleague Britney Spears (picture) for her suggestive dancing. "I don't approve of the way our children are forced into being looked at as Playboy bunnies. I think it's degrading," said the 61-year-old singer
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    • 217 26 Reuters/Variety WASHINGTON Last week's terrorist threat warning for the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge was issued after an Al Qaeda prisoner kept referring cryptically to Godzilla. FBI investigators interrogating Abu Zubaydah then rushed out and rented Godzilla, the 1998 remake of the Japanese monster movie
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    • 216 26 -Agencies NEW YORK It wasn't quite Bullets Over Broadway when Oscar-winning film-maker Woody Allen and his long-time producer pal Jean Doumanian squared off in a packed courtroom on Thursday. But there were no Stardust Memories either as each accused the other of making off
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    • 519 28 Ready or not -Agencies Has terrorism-themed Fears come too soon after 911? LOS ANGELES -Will postSept 11 America pay to see this in a coming movie: A terrorist cell sets off a nuclear bomb in a crowded football stadium, killing an untold number of people. During the crisis, US leaders
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  • HOMECHEF with MAGGI, the culinary expert
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      443 29  -  Pauline DLoh Poached in fish stock and topped with a bouquet of herbs OALMON used to be a rare fish on our dinner vJtable, but it is so common these days you can find it in the wet market right next to familiar favourites like threadfm, mackerel, snapper
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      177 29 WINNING LETTER: It's a boon to have recipes that are easy to follow and yet turn out to be palatable, nutritious and presentable. For career women like me, your weekly recipes saves me from having to slave in the kitchen, especially after a hard day's work and with
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    • 138 29 Fragrant pink ginger ONE of the most under-used herbs I have found is the wonderfull/ aromatic pink ginger blossom (see picture above),You'll probably recognise its smell as that distinctive fragrance in njjak, the local fruit and vegetable salad served smothered in pungent black prawn paste.That the
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    • 189 29 Ingredients: 1 packet MAGGI Tom Yam Paste 2 teaspoons MAGGI Ikan Bilis Stock Granules -2 salmon steaks, cleaned -1 tablespoon each: sliced lemon grass (white part only) tMESST shced seeded red chillis chopped sprmg onions diced large brown onions diced celery 1 bunch coriander
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  • EATOUT
    • 497 30  -  Jeffrey Tan Chicken rice with a difference at Balmoral Plaza by jefft a n@n ewsto d ay.com.sg T^HERE'S chicken rice. And then A there's good chicken rice. And when it also comes with cold crab, it gets better. At Big Bird (no, it's not
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    • 376 30  -  Pauline D Loh by pauline@newstoday.com.sg ACUTE teapot sign hangs out from the wooden window shutters and it's just the thing to attract the attention of tourists being given their mandatory tour of Singapore's Chinatown. But Yum Cha, this latest teahouse in the main artery
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    • 458 31  -  Karma n Tse Discover an array of seafood dishes at affordable prices at Punggol Bay IN CELEBRATION of its third anniversary, Punggol Bay Live Seafood Village has come up with a lunch menu that will put a smile on the faces of many Singaporeans. Especially those who are
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      354 31 Eastern and Western Flavours at PrimaDeli CELEBRATING its 10th anniversary this year, PrimaDeli has launched a delightful range of buns and pastries a clever culinary mix of eastern and western flavours. With treats HkeTomYam Pita, Tom Yam Puff and more, the new PrimaDeli delights will redefine the pleasure of
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    • 28 30 Where; The Big Bird, 271 BtTirnoh Rd, #01-07, Balmoral Plaza, Singapore *****8 How: Call Tel: 6734 6022 What: Chicken rice, cold crab, chicken feet, chicken porridge, seafood noodles
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    • 49 30 Where: Yum Cho Restaurant, 20, Trengganu St (off Temple Street) #02-0, Chinatown, Singapore *****9 How: Reservations: Tel: 6372 1717 What: Bird's nest custard tart, big pork bun [dai bao) charsiew bun, bunny pastry (pandan filling), little chick pastry (durian filling), xtao/ongbao, yam puffs and the usual dim sum assortments.
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    • 22 31 Where: Punggol Bay (Yishun) Live Seafood Village 369, Sembawang Road #01-03/04 Sembawang Cottage Telephone: *****055 Lunch hours: Ham-2.30pm Dinner hours: 5.30pm -11pm
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  • FAMILY MATTERS
    • 893 32  -  Theresa Tan by theresa_tan(Sellemng.i-oni.sg BEFORE I started writing this weekly column for Today, my editor asked me to give an insight into juggling motherhood and hill-time work. As any working mum will tell you, it's not so much juggling as it is walking the tightrope. All
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    • 113 32 tlfl 511 Sail Blilk? I r> p^—^v^r^n KiSi'mil ■&I9II! mm^StamMßSSil mil ISsiSSsMSSSiMajSt I J(\ i °r^ (h-) -^BBsii Send Daddy a note this Father's Day to remind him JB I Simply complete the sentence below in 50 words or less and e-mail your entries, including k parents' names, I/C, address
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    • 433 34  -  Grace Tay by grace® n ewsto d ay.co m .sg DOES your little girl turn into a karaoke talent each time her favourite cartoon theme songs come on? I guess you'll be hearing her trill that catchy war whoop, "Powerpuff saves the day the Powerpuff Girls!",
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    • 288 34  -  -Low Ski Ping "MAKE haste, make haste, we're off to rescue waste sang the children to the tune of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' Hi Ho Hi Ho at the Act 3 workshop. If you think it was a load of rubbish, you
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    • 613 34 Mimefest 2002 Enquiries: Call the museum at Watch out for award-winning 6332 4075 or 6332 3558 mime acts at the various malls. MimeFest 2002 presents local as Just for Kids! My Collection well as international performers Workshop from the US and Germany. Organised in conjunction with the Date: Until Sunday
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  • MOTORING
    • 139 35 QWEDISH car manufacturer vJSaab hopes that its 9-3 will be able to challenge class-lead-ing rivals such as the Audi A4 and BMW 3 Series in the junior executive car segment. The new model is named "Sport Saloon" and it replaces the current hatchback 9-3 a
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    • 135 35 HOPING to be the next Michael Schumacher? A good step towards improving your skills at the wheel would be to attend a track driving course, like the one being organised by Stamford Tyres. Co-sponsored by tyre manufacturer Continental, the course will be held at the Johor Circuit
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    • 170 35 Leave it in 'D' at the lights ONE of the most frequent-ly-asked questions by drivers of automatic cars is: Should I put the transmission in *N' or leave it in 'D' when I stop at a traffic light? These days, most car manufacturers recommend leaving it in
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    • 30 35 Cat A 1600cc below $35,000/$33,401 Cat B l6otcc above $40,001/$38,001 Cat C Goods vehicles/buses $24,801/$24,002 Cat D Motorcycles $402/$283 Cat E Open $40,001/$38,399
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    • 160 35 LOCAL Audi distributor Premium Automobiles promoted horsepower of a different kind by sponsoring a race at the Singapore Turf Club last week. The Audi Quattro Cup was one of eight races run and it carried $100,000 prize money. Before the race, a parade of Audi cars
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    • 1547 36 Weekend TV i Programmes Saturday A 8.30 24 Hours in 24 Minutes ,30 Making of Spirit S.OO Taiwan Number I 9.00 Prime Time News -Stallion ofCimarron %*> 9.30 Singapore Stories (r) 2.00 Lois and Clark -The New EVENING 10.00 Singapore Tonight Adventures of Superman 6.30pm Singapore Today MORNING channelNewsAsia 10,30
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    • 1605 37 Highlights i weekend CATTTPHAY in his backyard. He is u UN CABLE OrlX UXVJL//T.I DT h C th f and connection. However, they encounter one THE BEST OF DREAMS: the heat seilfnc relation serious attack a£ter another- EventuaUy, they Nick Flicks: Bye-Bve Kenan INDRA SAHDAN DAUD, NATIONAL shir, book "Men
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    • 318 38 Meehan Streak Today's Joke (WTBE-PERMITTEPI I[~ 1 p«— ~~~1 \*£l DUMNG >™' men were taken m REFLECT upon I NO GOOD CAN i Y^^*/ captive by the enemy. THE GRAVITY OF my COME of IT. j PERMISSION GRANTED. J X.— The gen eral of the enemy army ordered Hurricane". The
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  • SPORTS
    • 326 39 -AFP ATLANTIC CITY Former world heavyweight champions Evander Holyfield (picture) and Hasim Rahman carry their dreams of regaining boxing's biggest prize into their ailAmerican showdown on Saturday. Holyfield is 35-7 with two drawn and 25 knockouts, but only one win, two losses and two
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    • 525 39 Celtics and Lakers confident about elimination game LOS ANGELES Both teams are trailing three games to two in their conference final series. And Saturday, both will have the opportunity to tie the series up once again on their home floors. The Celtics and Lakers on the verge
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    • 438 40  -  Jose Raymond Despite poor record, coach confident against Malaysia by jose@newsto d ay.com .sg FORGET about Singapore's poor record against rival and neighbour Malaysia in the annual Singapore-Malaysia Test series. This year, it will be a different story. What's more, national coach Hyacinth Wijesinghe expects the senior
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    • 165 40  -  Jose Raymond THE Singapore national Under--17 netball squad will travel to Johor Bahm to play three matches with state teams on June 1-2. This will serve as its final tune-up before leaving for Kuala Lumpur to play in the MalaysiaSingapore Test Series 2002 from June
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    • 438 40  -  Jose Raymond Comment by jose@newstod ay.com. sg HE HAS spent one two-year term in office. And Saturday could be his last day in the hot seat. For Singapore Sepak Takraw Federation (Perses) president Abdul Halim Kader
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    • 478 41  -  Stanley Ho World champ and bride-to-be celebrates success by stanley@newstoday.com.sg EVEN after the plane had touched down at Changi Airport last night, national bowler Jennifer Tan (picture, left) was still floating on top of the world. It had been 72 hours since her World Bowling
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    • 143 41  -  Stanley Ho LAST night's NTUC Income S-League action saw two high scoring results. At Hougang Stadium, struggling Sengkang Marine fell to a 2-4 home defeat at the hands of a resurgent Tampines Rovers. National midfielder Nazri Nasir (picture) rediscovered his goalscoring touch with a brace
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    • 159 41 AFP CHITTAGONG A young Bangladeshi football fan, who supports Argentina, died after electrocuting himself on Friday as he tried to fix his favourite flag on his home roof, police said. Mokhlesur Rahman, a 17-year-old factory worker in the Sugandha district, died instantly after a bamboo pole with
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    • 64 41 MORE than 100 residents of Ayer Rajah constituency turned up at the Ayer Rajah Community Club to watch Friday's opening World Cup tie between France and Senegal. They watched the match, which was telecast live on a huge television screen. Senegal stunned defending champion France
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      323 42 England v Sweden Prediction: IX2: England should be a good bet. 1/2 Goal: Sweden at 1 1/2 goal) is not attractive enough. No bet. Total Goals: 1 or 2 goals should be a safe bet. England David Seaman Danny Mills Ashley Cole Rio Ferdinand Sol Campebll PaulScholes Owen
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    • 368 42 -AFP NIIGATA Emotionally drained Ireland will be seeking to prove there is life after Roy Keane when it launches its World Cup campaign against powerful African champion Cameroon on Saturday. After the trials and tribulations of the Keane saga, Mick McCarthy's Republic
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    • 209 42 Match 2 Rep Ireland v Cameroon 1 June 2.30pm IX2 (1) Rep Ireland $3 60 (X] Draw $3.40 (2| Cameroon $1.80 1/2 Goal Rep Ireland (+1 1/2] $1.28 Cameroon (-1 1/2) $3.15 Match 3 Uruguay v Denmark 1 June 5.00pm IX2 (1) Uruguay $2.75 (X) Draw $2.95
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    • 630 44 Reuters HIGASHIURA England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson (picture) is urging his players to show their fire on Sunday when they begin their World Cup campaign against Sweden. After two damp squibs in friendly draws with South Korea and Cameroon, Eriksson told reporters on Friday it was time
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    • 898 45  -  Rohit Brijnath NOT since Bill Clinton fell down the stairs of Greg Norman's house, tore a knee tendon and hogged headlines has a nation gone out so far on a limb. Camilla-Parker Bowles could turn up at Buckingham Palace in a thong,
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    • 29 46 S Gulam Deputy Editor Team: England S Murali Sports Editor Team; A dark horse Leonard Thomas Sports Coordinator Team: Brazil Razali Abdullah Sub-editor Team: Italy
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    • 627 46 -AFP YOKOHAMA Argentina is on a hiding to nothing to win the World Cup for the third rime because the media and the home fans will accept nothing less, coach Marcelo Bielsa (picture) admits. The South Americans are most critics' joint favourites along with defending champion France to
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      586 47  -  Leonard Thomas by eonard@n ews t o d ay. com.sg A BIT boring eh, the opening ceremony to this year's World Cup finals. Yes, the message of peace to the world and all that was sterling stuff, especially for the world game. The jeering of Sepp Blatter
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    • 25 47 Kenneth Goh Sub-editor Team: Portugal Neil Humphreys Sub-editor Team: France Stanley Ho Reporter Team: Spain Terry O'Connor Guest Writer Team: Argentina
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      712 48 Agencies The day the worst team in the World Cup SEOUL Pele, who is supposed to know about these things, called Senegal the worst team in this World Cup. He was proven spectacularly wrong last night as the hitherto unknown Senegalese created arguably the greatest upset in
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    • 229 48 PARIS Top seed Lleyton Hewitt of Australia and defending champion Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil advanced to the fourth round of the French Open on Friday as a bomb scare brought play to a halt on court number one. Hewitt eased past Dutch 30th seed Sjeng Schalken
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    • 118 41 LEAGUE MATCH DATE "FULL-TIME ]x 2 1/2 GOAL TOTAL RESULTS GOALS WCUP FRANCE VS SENEGAL 31/05.'02 0-1 SENEOAL SENEGAL (Hlfl) I S.LEAGUE SENUKAN UMA RIN EVSTA M PIN ES 31/05/02 2"4 TAMPIMES TAMPHES (-110) <i S.LEAGUE HOME UNITED VS WOODLANDS 31/05/02 HOMt UNITED HOMH.'NII HI) (-11/2 j 5 4 "Fill/-
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    • 401 44 I Weekend's Fixtures (on SCV Ch2s-28) Saturday: Group E: Ireland v Cameroon 2.00pm HPJ WKU HH HPJ (preview) 2.30pm (LIVE); Group A: Uruguay v Denmark -4.30pm (preview) 5.00pm (LIVE); V mmWj m %™m\ WMM "Mm V J P/jjP^l| "W Va Vmm Group E: Germany v Saudi Arabia 7.00pm (preview) 7.30pm
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