Today, 31 August 2002

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  • 347 1  -  Ng Boon Yian FINAL OF A TWO-PART SPECIAL ON DPM LEE SOMETIMES, when he is making a forceful point, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong raises both arms and punches the air like a triumphant boxer would. Exactly like his father would.
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  • 513 1  -  -Jose Raymond A $55-MILLION lawsuit againat the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation by a building material company, which went under because of what it said were the bank's reckless and indifferent actions, has been dismissed with costs. At the end of a 10-day hearing, which began
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  • NEWS
    • 1086 2 Continued from Page 1 influenced it. As an 11-year-old boy, he had accompanied SM Lee on constituency visits to rally ground support in the months before Singapore joined Malaysia. Being educated in Chinese schools such as Nanyang Primary and Catholic High, he is adept at
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    • 298 2 GENEVA Much to the disappointment of the United States and the approval of the European Union, the World Trade Organisation ruled on Friday that the EU could impose trade sanctions of up to a record US$4 billion ($7 billion) against the US. The amount
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    • 593 3  -  Ng Boon Yian A foot in Singapore, an ear to the ground in the US SUCCESSFUL businessman and former US ambassador to Singapore Steven J Green (picture) has been appointed Special Advisor to the Singapore Government, with effect from Saturday. His role will be to advise the
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    • 320 3 ARTISTS were assured that they had the freedom to explore, and that this freedom extended to subjects that society in Singapore viewed as taboo. "Some of the acts we see today can be quite shocking," Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts David Lim
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    • Article, Illustration
      453 6  -  Rosalyn Lim Minister urges students to look to India, China THE Third Generation (3G) of Singaporeans weaned on MTV, Disneyland and MP3 handphones need to pay attention to the awakening of the Asian giants India and China. Delivering his National Day lecture for the Economics Society at
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    • 85 6  -  ALVIN TOH ALTHOUGH shoppers have until Sept 29 to enjoy discounts at Tangs department store, more than 1,000 people stormed it last night at the start of its 70th anniversary sale. Before the doors opened at 7pm, shoppers were treated to a skit showing founder
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    • 153 6  -  Rosalyn Lim A BUS Task Force was set up in April to examine the kinks in the ez-link card system. Since the system was introduced, customers have complained about flaws such as erroneous readings. A solution has been found for the problem: The
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    • 216 6  -  Toh Boon Ngee DRIVERS who re-fuel at any of the 82 Esso and Mobil stations will now be able to use the new integrated Smiles Driver Rewards programme. The Smiles card replaces the Esso Tiger Stripes and Mobil Lifestyle Plus cards, both of which expire on
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    • 313 6  -  Tan Hui Leng SOME 1,000 tertiary students at a National Education seminar yesterday threw a slew of questions at Environment Minister Lim Swee Say. Among the questions about Newater, Singapore's newest water source, were: "Will I develop any adverse side effects
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  • COMENTARY
    • 855 4  -  Neil Humphreys Come on, Singaporeans, don't be shy. Let's do the UNLIKE those Coyote Ugly beauties down Mohamed Sultan Road, I can't dance. On a good night, I look like a break-dancing C3PO with rusty joints. Such talents are hereditary. My father was famous (in his local
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    • 815 16  -  Dave Barry X-Files type of fish makes good sport WE are about to blow a golden opportunity here. I'm talking about the Northern Snakehead, which sounds like the name of a rock band that eats live hamsters on stage but is actually a type of fish.
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    • 1029 17  -  Is Japan's fascination with punk linked to economy? by William Pesek Jr musicians to take their rage into the recording studio and raise hell on concert stages. History is rich with examples of angst-ridden music bombarding the airwaves during times of economic duress. During the
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 17 -AFP photo Eeeeeks! What's this? A modern-day Medusa? Nah, just a strange kat made of recycled cardboard and plastic by students of a Cape Town design school. Jt was displayed at a fashion show in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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    • 138 17 And the winner of the quiz gets a job Reuters HONG KONG Jobs are being offered as prizes in a new Hong Kong quiz show as the unemployment rate in the territory swells. Asia Television will put up an advertisement on the prizes on offer a week before the show.
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    • 138 17 -AFP KAMPALA A wedding ceremony ended abruptly in southwestern Uganda when the bride realised that the man at her side was not the one she had been introduced to and that he was crippled and drooled, the state-owned New Vision newspaper said on Thursday. The paper said that
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  • LETTERS
    • 418 7  -  Steve Ckia Opposition must act as competitor to PAP I REFER to the article, "Who's killing the Opposition?" by Mr Ravi Veloo (Weekend Today, Aug 24-25). Mr Veloo has raised an important question: "What is its (Opposition) relevance here if Singaporeans don't want a difference?" He also
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    • 388 7  -  Sunny Goh I REFER to the Page 1 report, "Major editorial shake-up at SPH" {Today, Aug 30). I was quoted as saying: "I don't agree with critics who say that a pro-government paper is a yes-sir product of the PAP. So, it does not
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    • 163 7  -  David Tan I REFER to the article, "Beyond the aura" by Ms Ng Boon Yian (Today, Aug 30). Most politicians in Singapore are perceived in a negative light. However, when one has the privilege of meeting these politicians, especially those at the ministerial level,
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  • BUSINESS
    • 359 8  -  Lee Yew Meng Rule relaxation paves the way for more conversions NINETEEN hotels can seek conversion into other uses including condo development, following the relaxation of the policy to safeguard hotel sites. The policy change was announced jointiy by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and the
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    • 117 8 REGULATIONS may be on the way to safeguard Singapore's fastgrowing health insurance business. At the moment, there are no specific regulations covering the health sector under the Insurance Act. However, the Monetary Authority of Singapore wants legislation amended to prevent the possible mis-selling of health insurance products
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    • 326 8  -  Chan Chao Peh SINGTEL, whose share price has slumped to around half since it started its regional acquisitions, defended its costly overseas investments during the company's annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday. President and chief executive Lee Hsien Yang said these investments contributed twofifths of the
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    • 425 8  - Brunei A new offshore financial centre? Tan Lee Hock THE Brunei International Financial Centre (BIFC) is Asia's newest offshore regime. More than two years after its formation, it has attracted seven trust companies in the oil rich state together with a handful of investment advisory firms and mutual funds. Brunei
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    • 545 9  -  Chan Chao Peh M 1 to start 3G mobile system trials in October Ml, the second-largest mobile operator here, will star conducting 3G mobile system trials in October and customers can expect to start trials before the second quarter of next year. However, a full commercial launch
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    • 158 10 Hong Leong's finance arm gets licence HONG Leong Group's finance arm has obtained an Investment Adviser's licence, making it the first finance company in Singapore to be granted such a licence. With that, Hong Leong Singapore Finance (HLSF) can now provide corporate financial advisory services. These services range
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    • 116 10 Bloomberg THE country's biggest electronics maker, Venture Corp, said on Friday that first-half profit rose 35 per cent as sales climbed to a record. Net income was $75 million for the six months ended June 30, from $55.5 million a year earlier. Sales rose 33
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    • 124 10 Bloomberg CYCLE Carriage will stop selling vehicles made by Malaysia's Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd in Singapore from Sept 15. It did not give any reasons for its decision. "It's hardly a meaningful contributor to the bottom line," said Mr Winston Liew, an analyst at Daiwa
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    • 54 10 AFP TRAVELLERS going through Singapore's Changi Airport can download flight information using their wireless application protocol (WAP)-based mobile phones and personal digital assistants. The service, launched by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore at wap.changiairport.com.sg, follows Singapore Airlines' move to allow passengers to send
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    • Market Watch
      • 126 10 FRIDAY saw a quiet end to the trading week as investors wound down or closed their open positions ahead of the weekend. With a still uncertain Wall Street, few investors saw the incentive to throw more money into equities. The STI closed down 1.85 points to 1,488.50, only 318
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      • 55 10 Index Value Nikkei 225 9619.30 Hang Seng *****.87 All Ordinaries 3073.60 Taiwan Wrd 4764.94 Korea Comp 736,40 SEI Index 361.16 Jakarta Comp 443,67 Phils Comp 1103.36 Shemen 3 243.46 Mumbai 3181.23 Change Pis -0.84 -0.01 ■17.28 -0.17 -9.20 -0.30 -35.69 -0.74 +11.46 +1.58 -098 -0.27 +4.75 +1.08 -2.60
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      • 36 10 US$ 0.***** UK£ 0.***** Yen 67.6397 HK$ 4.***** KM 2.***** Euro 0.***** Rupinh 5061.32 Rohl 24,1258 Peso 29.6440 A$ 1.***** Indian Rs 27.7340 Wan 687.319 C$ 0.***** Yuan 4.7323 NZ$ 1.***** NT! 19.5811
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      • 5 10 Straits Times index 10-Day Chart
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      • 55 10 By volume Aug 30 C'liliiyC! TPV SembCoip 8IL Inll QinnHu '000 54,860 20,64B 14,502 13,772 12,402 NotSleel Strike florco lliiikcr SlarCrusUSS '000 10,897 7,751 7,495 7,112 6,928 By value Aug 30 Olirayn U08 DBS NalSleel SembCtnp 30,137,215 29,247,7SB 25,360,982 19,660,310 17,013,600 Chartersc 1 TPV Sli OCBC QinnHu
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      • 80 10 By$ Aug 30 HOB (lose Change 14.400 +0.3O0 By percentage Aug 30 Fit links dose Change 0.055 +37.500 DBS 12.500 +0.300 PDCCorp 0.190 +35.714 Venture 11.600 +0.200 fiolol 0.OB0 +33.333 GreolEast APB Breweries 9.000 +0.200 5.200 +0.150 '■):..!K Surface MI 0.170 +21.429 0.415 +15.278 Chemlnd 0.900 +0.115
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      • 76 10 Bloomberg By$ Aug 30 SPH Creative 50 SPH 100 SIA Close Chaage 19.300 -0.500 15.200 -0.3O0 19.400 -0.300 11.700 -0.2O0 By percentage Aug 30 Close Choage LHT 0.060 -29.412 PMDntn 0.080 27.273 SembCorp DBetW0302 280.020-20.000 Eosycdl 0.035 -15.000 5IA200 5TIFTF100 JSH *****SS 11.800 -0.200 4.300 -0.120 15.500
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    • 224 11 Bloomberg SHARES of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing dropped to a record low on speculation that the company may sell shares at below $2 each to raise funds for equipment for a new factory, analysts and traders said. Shares of the world's third-largest supplier of made-to-order
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    • 213 11 Reuters HOTEL PROFITS DOWN: The property developer, City Developments, which also owns hotels in London and New York, said first-half profit fell 27 per cent as income from that business declined. Profit for the six months ended June fell to $70.7 million from a restated $97.1 million a
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    • Article, Illustration
      661 12 Bloomberg Want Want investors lose their appetite WANT Want Holdings' rice crackers and gummy sweets attracted stock investors until it offered them something less appetising dog food. The snack food maker 2001's best performer on the Straits Times Index is languishing at second from the bottom this
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    • 249 12 Bloomberg FLEXTRONICS International, which builds electronics for other companies, said sec-ond-quarter sales and profit, excluding certain costs, will be in line with forecasts. Chief executive Michael Marks told analysts and investors that profit, before some expenses, in the period ending in September will be
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    • 118 12 Channel News Asia NTUC Healthcare and NTUC Denticare will merge into one entity come October. Labour chief Lim Boon Heng announced this on Friday at the health co-operative's 10th anniversary celebrations. The co-operatives were set up to provide competitively-priced medicine, as well as medical and
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    • 51 12 SINGAPORE has become the Asia-Pacific headquarters of Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence (BI) software. The Republic will also spearhead the company's Asia South operations. The new office will provide sales, marketing, professional services and support of Business Objects' analytic software across the
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  • WORLD
    • 896 13  -  Andrew Lynch What consenting adults do should never get into the public domain HONG Kong has a cock-eyed view of sex. At least, that's what you'd think after the collapse of a bizarre court case last week. In the dock were a mousy, British former
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    • 187 13 Reuters LISBON A gory death for the bull is going to be a common sight in a Portuguese town as the first legal bullfight ending with the bulls being killed has just been held there in 74 years. The Portuguese town of Barrancos had held
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    • 298 13 AFP LILLE (France) Throw out those slimming pills. They will not help you lose weight. Books are what may be the next miracle cure for women fighting obesity. According to a French study published on Thursday, women who read a lot
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    • 325 14 Agencies 'I've got a lot of tools and I am a patient man/ says Bush on attacking Iraq LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas) Amid growing domestic and international opposition to the unilateral decision to attack Iraq, US President George W Bush has indicated he was not
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    • 43 14 Bbvtehs photo Filipino mothers and their children arriving at a detention camp in Sandakan, in Malaysia's Borneo state of Sabak on Friday. A Malaysian official has denied that several infants died in detention centres housing illegal Filipino workers awaiting deportatiotUhinZjabah.
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    • 189 14 KUALA LUMPUR In what can be interpreted as a gradual shift in its stance, the United States is of the view that former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is no longer a thorny issue in its relations with Malaysia. The US Ambassador to Malaysia, Ms
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    • 260 14 Agencies TOKYO North Korea's economic talks with Russia, the decision to host the Japanese Prime Minister next month, agreeing with South Korea on relinking the rail road, allowing athletes to participate in the Busan Asian Games all these developments point to Pyongyang's attempts
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    • 190 14 Agencies LAGOS Contestants in the international annual Miss World pageant have made a stand against what they called the "inhumane" and "cruel" punishment of a Nigerian single mother. Some contestants in this year's Miss World pageant have threatened to boycott the contest,
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    • 178 14 -AFP LARKANA (Pakistan) The decision to disqualify former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's (picture) nomination for the October election has been slammed as hypocritical. It was announced on Friday that Ms Bhutto's nomination has been disqualified on the grounds of her conviction
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    • 274 15 Proposal calls for all factions to unite under Arafat LONDON Light could flicker again at the end of the tunnel and see a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if rival Palestinian militant groups achieve a breakthrough in their negotiations. After six months of regular meetings aimed at
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    • 194 15 -AFP JAKARTA The dropping of graft charges against a central bank governor may contribute to the stability of the rupiah. "This is the result of patience for all of us at the central bank. Hopefully, we will be able to perform better duties
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    • 255 15 AFP NEW YORK Americans have been told that watching repeated television footage of the Sept 11 attacks could be harmful. Repeated exposure to graphic television images of the terrorist attacks on the United States last year could lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to two
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  • weekend FEATURES
    • 887 18  -  Shanoo Maharaj Kolkata sees a hush-hush jetset for charity RICKY Martin, Penelope Cruz and Melanie Griffith have been there. Now, the buzz is that Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, and footballers David Beckham and Raul are planning a visit. No, it isn't a tourist line-up for some new-found
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    • 569 19  -  Elisa Chia SINGAPORE'S favourite actor-film-maker Jack Neo hogs newspaper headlines ever so often. Recently, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong lauded Jack's film Not Stupid for its constructive creativity in his National Day Rally speech. Mr Goh's wife had even suggested that the 42-year-old be given
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    • 152 19  -  Yee Wet Zhm PRESIDENT SR Nathan officially launched the President's Challenge 2002 on Thursday. The launch ceremony, held at the Istana Lawn, marked the start of a week-long series of community-based activities that include Sharkathon!, Soccer Mania, the President's Challenge Dance-A-Thon, CD Skills for
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    • 92 19 WE are giving away 10 tickets to the President's Star Charity Show. Write your name, age, identity card and contact number at the back of a postcard or envelope and mail it to: Today President's Star Charity Show, MediaCorp Press Ltd, Robinson Road Post Office, PO Box 1707,
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  • FASHION AND BEAUTY
    • 732 20  -  Karman Tse -Grace Tay THESE days, the spa is a woman's ultimate haven. What better way is there to loosen tense muscles and nagging body aches, and give the congested mind a piece of therapeutic calm? If nothing else, it's a good way to pamper yourself
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    • 285 20  -  -rearlyn lham IN the world of make-up, purples, reds and blacks may be sophisticated. But beiges? Yes, even beiges especially if they belong in Ayura's autumn/winter makeup palette Sophisticated Rich Beiges. This season, Ayura appeals to the chic and luxurious side in us with well-defined
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  • HOMECHEF with MAGGI, the culinary expert
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      295 21  -  Whether it be chicken, lamb or beef, home-made is best BURGERS have always been a universal favourite with kids, all ages. There is something about a patty of mince that brings out the holiday mood in all of us, together with the icecream and milk shakes. Hamburgers are
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    • TAKE A TIP TODAY
      • 224 21 Buying mince how to choose MINCE is extremely easy and it is also an economical cut, although not as much as it used to be. When buying any mince, always check the sell by date on the package. It must have been just packed, the same day. Don't even bother
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      • 78 21 Ingredients (serves four): 2 tsps MAGGI Seasoning 400gn. chicken mince chicken thigh fillet, cubed bOgm corn kernels 1 tbsp corn flour 4 multi-grain rolls 1. Mix all ingredients together and stir till mixture binds. 2. Lightly flour hands and shape patties. Fry in lightly oiled pan till golden,
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      • 117 21 Ingredients (serves four): 2 tsps MAGGI Seasoning 300gtn iamb or topside mince 1 brown onion, finely chopped 1 egg white 1 tblsp MAGGI Extra Hot 4 multi grain rolls 1. Mix all ingredients together and stir till mixture binds. 2. Lightly flour hands and shape patties.
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    • 178 21 4^^) Mailßox WINNING LETTER: We are working grandparents and have to fix dinner for our married children every day. Previously, we often run out of ideas on what dishes to prepare. However, ever since this column was published in the newspapers, I always look forward to them. My children told
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  • EAT OUT
    • 785 22  -  Hedy Khoo The best stalls can be found at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 THE Chinese revere them as a symbol of longevity. They come in a variety of texture, size and taste. They are often your next best staple after rice. They are the humble noodles and
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    • FOODNOTES
      • 118 22 Hungry and no time to eat? Weider-in-jelly may just be the idea! solution for busy people. Touted as a nutritional meal replacement,Weider-in-jelly is not only formulated for professional athletes. Students and office workers with no time for lunch could also use a handy packet. Consuming
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      • 114 22 At the Pan Pacific hotel's Hai Tien Lo Cantonese Restaurant from now until Sept 30, diners get to enjoy exquisite tastes of seafood and champagne in one dish! Award-winning Chef Simon Ho, who hails from Hong Kong, has created the innovative dish and it is going to
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    • 417 23  -  Serena Sim Mouth Seafood Restaurant breaks the mould It had to be a matter of time before someone put one and one together and came up with something like Double Boiled Black Chicken Soup with Durian (picture). Wait a minute. Did I just say
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    • 251 23 -Eat Out Today THERE are few authentic Hakka eateries around and most offer simple cooking, and not what Chinese culinary scribes call "big table" food. B's Gourmet is no different. Previously at Bugis Square, the outlet has since moved to Joo Chiat Road, about halfway between Dunman
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  • MOTORING
    • 607 24  -  Colin Yong Dion gets a facelift, loses weight, gets more power just to tempt you a little WHEN car manufacturers treat their models to mid-life updates, the aesthetic changes amount to body colours, bumpers, lamps, those sorts of things. Looking at the Dion you believe it
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    • 357 24 IT was 50 years ago that a Mercedes-Benz engineer came up with the idea of creating a car with a rigid passenger cell and crushable bodywork in the front and rear. In an accident, such a car will absorb much of the impact,
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      132 26 IF you are stuck for ideas on spending your year-end break, a fly/drive trip to Australia may be the answer. Driving holiday specialist Wheels For Fun is organising two trips during the school holidays in November and December. Participants will fly to Adelaide, from where they will
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    • 107 26 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced earlier this week that, with immediate effect, car owners can bid for new registration numbers for their existing vehicles. Previously, the bidding for new registration numbers was limited to buyers of new vehicles. The new ruling also means that
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    • 120 26 TODAY'S motoring tip FROM Sept 1, the revised charges for public car parks will come into effect. The new rates are 50 cents per half hour for normal car park lots and $1 per half hour for those within the CBD. Motorists who have unused coupons
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  • In CINEMAS
    • 873 27  -  Yong Shu Chiang Los Angeles Spy Kids 2 director finds a place for his talent by joining showbiz ROBERT Rodriguez had pretty low expectations for himself when he was younger. As a kid, he'd spend hours indulging in his favourite hobby drawing. At school, he'd
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    • 381 27 -Reuters NEW YORK Two days before the anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks, a trio of film-makers will offer a glimpse of the lives of Afghans after the US and British bombing raids began on the wartorn country last October. Afghanistan Year 1380 documents the
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    • 477 28  -  Neil Humphreys David Ngiau David Ngiau -Jonice Lee Serene Foo David Ngiau Janice Lee David Ngiau Yong Shu Chiang David Ngiau David Ngiau Yong Shu Chiang The Weekend Today InCinemas round-up About a Boy. Hugh Grant's a rich bachelor who won't grow up. Following a glut
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      500 29  -  Janice Lee Los Angeles After ID4, Godzilla and The Patriot, producer Dean Devlin gives us Eight Legged Freaksl ITS plot is a simple and cheesy one: A truck carrying radioactive waste swerves and crashes when its sleepy driver spots a rabbit in the middle of the road. But the
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    • 228 29 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD More than a dozen of Hollywood's top directors have been sued by a tiny Colorado video chain that rents films with the sex, violence and blue language edited out. The action by Clean Flicks of Colorado, filed in a federal court on
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    • 218 30 Reuters NEW YORK -Rapper Eminem walked off with four MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday, including one for Video of the Year, in a show I bookended by rousing performI ances by Bruce Springsteen I and a rare appearance by rockI ers Guns 'N' Roses. Eminem also
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    • 500 30  -  David Ngiau The World of Music, Arts and Dance comes to town WOMAD Singapore 2002 opened last night and will end tomorrow. I wasn't there for the opening night. I was stuck in the newsroom writing this. But will I be at the festival tonight? Definitely. It's
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    • 189 30 And what does Worn ad's ambassadors of the "world" think of Singapore? "Singaporeans are friendly people," Zimbabwean percussion-player Chartwell Dutiro told Today. "But with so many different cultures here, I expected more mingling!" Chartwell, 42, a member of the band Senaghazim, has been in Singapore for two weeks
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    • 110 30 AFTER a six-year hiatus, veteran singer Sandy Lara made a comeback in Hong Kong recently with hugely-successful concerts. On Nov 23, she will be entertaining audiences here with a two-hour show, featuring familiar hits. Sandy promises to rework the concert programme to include hits that
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      212 30  -  -Yee Wei Zhen Janice Lee Album: Here we Gol (EMI) Artiste: ARASHI Orchestral music and boy bands are misfits. So you would not expect the opening song. Theme of ARASHI, lo kick off with orchestral music. The whole album's perky nature resonates with the youth of the singers, whose
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    • 143 30 PEACE fans, rejoice! The group is the latest addition to the glitzy line-up of celebrities who will be performing at the Singapore Hits Awards tomorrow. Wang Deyuan, however, will be absent because he will be busy filming the drama serial, Tke Unbeatables 3. He will be
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    • 1789 33 IIGHLIGHTS I fl On Cable SA.TURDA. I During the Lime of Trans-Saharan trading, the piece is the final major work, of an artist TAMTT STrVFRSCRFFN- strategic location along the caravan route whose career spanned half a century. HEAR ME OUT IBINfCTBIM enabled it to prosper. Dah, a young Saturday, 6.30pm,
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  • SPORTS
    • 846 34  -  Rohii Brijnath If sport is replete with heroes, what do we ca11... LEANDER PAES, his voice crackling across oceans, repeats himself. "There is something," says the tennis player from the US Open, "inadequate about the English language." We are talking about the definition of courage, of heroism, words
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    • 301 34 Reuters DUBAI The Indian cricket board is resigned to the country's top players boycotting the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy following a row over sponsorship, an official said on Friday. "I don't see any possibility of the players signing the agreement
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    • 634 35 NEW YORK World number one Lleyton Hewitt booked a controversial US Open rematch here on Thursday while seeded former Grand Slam champions Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Carlos Moya and Albert Costa were eliminated by arch rivals. Reigning US Open and Wimbledon champion Hewitt eliminated Israel's Noam Okun 7-6
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    • 536 36  -  Kelvin Phang THE highly-anticipated clash between Singapore's table tennis queen Li Jiawei and tournament favourite Zhang Yining of China lived up to its top billing on the opening day of the sixth Women's World Cup on Friday. The 21-minute Group A encounter had enough high-speed rallies, deceptive
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    • 194 36  -  Ray Chen IN THE first match between Singapore's women's national hockey team and its Hong Kong counterpart, played on Friday at the Delta Sports Complex, the home side came from a goal behind to win 2-1. Singapore captain Niu Lei equalised in the 57th minute after a
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    • 81 36 Reuters MUNICH Jamie Spence and Richard Bland shared a three-shot early lead in the BMW International second round on Friday as Britons dominated the leaderboard. Spence carded an eight-under-par 64 to move alongside Bland (66), who was second overnight, on 13-under-par 131. Defending champion John Daly birdied the
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    • 357 36  -  Stanley Ho IT WAS supposed to be a dress rehearsal for next Tuesday's NTUC Income Singapore Cup semi-final showdown. But Sengkang Marine and Tampines Rovers went at each other with such conviction on Friday to produce scintillating action worthy of
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    • 205 37  -  Kelvin Phang BUCKS' captain Martin Williams will be hoping that his team has learnt from last week's defeat to Singapore Cricket Club (SSC) in the Singapore Rugby Union National Rugby Championships (NRC) on Saturday. Trailing 3-21 at half-time, Bucks roared back into contention, only to
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    • 54 37 SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS Kimi Raikkonen pushed Ferrari down the timesheets as McLaren led the way in Friday's practice for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix. Raikkonen lapped the longest circuit in the championship in one minute 47.196 seconds. *Saturday: Qualifying, live on Ch 24, 7pm *Sunday: Belgian Grand Prix, live
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      503 37  -  Jose Raymond Veteran coach may walk out on the Rams WOODLANDS Wellington could lose the services of renowned Malaysian coach M Karathu (picture) at the end of the season. This is because the 59-year-old former Malaysian national coach has received several coaching offers from S-League clubs and
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    • 267 37  -  Stanley Ho BEFORE next year's SEA Games kicks off in Vietnam, expect to see some new faces in the Singapore national under--23 football team. According to coach P N Sivaji, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is monitoring the Singapore Combined Schools
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    • 714 38  -  Neil Humphreys McAteer should run for cover English Premier League Sunderland v Man United Live, Saturday, Ch23, 9.55pm WHEN Jason McAteer was asked about Rcy Keane's autobiography recently, he said: "I'd rather buy a Bob the Builder CD for my two-year-old son." It's certainly true that
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    • 236 38 MADRID Atletico Madrid opens its first season back in the top flight with one of the toughest matches on Sunday a trip to play Barcelona. After two seasons in the wilderness of the second division, Atletico has undergone a major and
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    • 201 38 -AFP LONDON Sunderland called a press conference on Friday to announce a major double transfer involving Rangers forward Tore Andre Flo and Ipswich Town's Marcus Stewart and the duo could feature in the club's home clash against Manchester United on Saturday. United itself received a
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    • 117 38 AMSTERDAM Liverpool striker Jari Litmanen is returning to his former club Ajax Amsterdam next month after being sidelined in the English Premier League. The deal with Ajax is initially for four months, with a year-and-a-half extension to be considered in January. The 31-year-old Finnish international spent seven years
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    • 827 39  -  Leonard Thomas Crucially, talent-laden Blues are missing a true leader English Premier League Chelsea v Arsenal live on Ck23, Sunday 11pm EVERY champion team has one. Call him a general, the manager's voice on the pitch, or the example for everyone else to follow, the captain of a
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    • 169 39 Reuters MILAN Inter Milan is back in talks with Real Madrid over the possible sale of Ronaldo to the European champion. Inter president Massimo Moratti told the Italian news agency ANSA that the clubs had opened discussions again in Monte Carlo after the meeting of
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    • 90 39 LEEDS Ireland international Robbie Keane is set to join Tottenham Hotspur in a £7 million ($l9 million) move from Premiership rival Leeds United. The two clubs have agreed a fee for the striker, who will complete his move to White Hart Lane ahead of Saturday's transfer deadline provided
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    • 291 39 Match 1 Birmingham vs Leeds 31 Aug 7pm IX2 (1) Birmingham $4.60 (X) Draw $3.50 (2) Leeds $1.60 1/2 Goal Birmingham (+1 1/2) $1.45 Leeds (-1 1/2) $2.45 Team news: Birmingham: Striker Paul Devlin will be back after serving a three-match ban after being red carded in a
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