Today, 15 February 2003

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    8 1 weekendTODAY February 15 -16 2003 MITA (p) 248/03/2002
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    Welcome to The Asha Grill
    665 1  -  Tor Ching Li (bring your own whine) by chingli@newstoday.com.sg POLITICIANS are "boring wankers", organised religion is "hypocritical", Anne Robinson is "pathetic", and contestants looking for a fun game show should "go join Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". Welcome to the no-holds-barred, in-your-face, rapid-fire world
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    THE MYTH
    1015 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Land shortage? Says who? by derrick@newstoday.com.sg WHEN a country with an area of just 680 square kilometres says that it is short of land, you believe it Singaporeans have heard and repeated this line so many times that it has become an unchallenged truth. Singapore.
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  • NEWS
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      No banned arms found in Iraq ...
      497 2 No banned arms found in Iraq Blix delivers mixed message to UN UNITED NATIONS Mr Hans Blix, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector, told the Security Council on Friday that no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. But he confirmed that an Iraqi missile, called Al Samoud
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      Lock icon Will China, Taiwan negotiators meet in Singapore?
      378 2 -AFP THE East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore said on Friday that it had invited two top-level negotiators from across the Taiwan Strait on the 10th anniversary of its historic talks. It was not clear, however, if the octogenarian negotiators
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      Dr M's love notes
      531 3  -  Derrick A Paulo by derri ck@newstoday.com.sg JOHOR BARU Singapore released its letters. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad (picture) unleashed his words. Travelling to Singapore's doorstep, the Malaysian Prime Minister, presiding over the groundbreaking of Johor's new CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine) site, seized the opportunity to
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      PSA transfers non-core assets
      389 4  -  Chan Chao Peh Businesses to go underTemasek subsidiary by chaop eh@newsto day. com. sg IN a move bearing some resemblance to its massive $3 billion "slimming" exercise in late 2000, port operator PSA Corporation said on Friday that it is transferring some non-core businesses under the
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      Lock icon Help! What is this bill for?
      246 4 S —Joy Frances CONFUSING hospital bills, replete with medical jargon and a lack of transparency about treatment fees have spurred the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) into action. On Friday, its president, Mr Yeo Guat Kwang, said its new Committee on the Transparency of
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      Lock icon No change to organ-donation policy for Muslims
      314 4 Lee Ching Wern SOME members in the Muslim community have asked for an inclusion under the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota), but Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang revealed yesterday that his ministry had no plans to change its current organdonation policy for Muslims.
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      Lock icon Mendaki aims to develop robust workers
      187 4 Serene Foo DO not get fixated on the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) and tudung issues, Mendaki CEO Rozlan Giri told journalists on Friday. He said one of Mendaki's primary aims, as underscored in its Policy Digest 2002, was to help the Malay/Muslim community build a
      — Serene Foo  -  187 words
    • HUMOUR
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        Lock icon 43% HAVE NO LOVE LIFE
        193 6 -AFP ALMOST half of Singaporeans do not have a love life because of the pressures of work, according to survey results released by Yahoo! South-east Asia on Friday. The responses were gathered through an online poll timed for release on Valentine's Day. The highlights: 43
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      • Article
        Better maid welfare
        157 6  -  —Janice Lee A GROUP of women calling itself "The Working Committee 2" (TWC2) is seeking to improve the welfare of domestic workers in Singapore. "We can't stay silent," said writer and social activist Ms Constance Singam, recalling the death of Indonesian maid Muawanatul Chasanah after months of
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        Lock icon Singaporean break-dancing
        879 6  -  Neil Humphreys by neil@newstoday.com.sg The definitive answer to the Iraq crisis THE United Nations is clearly wasting its time. A workable solution to the Iraq crisis won't be found in peacekeeping soldiers wearing blue helmets in the Middle East No, the answer is Singaporean breakdancers wearing bandanas in
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      40 4 Notice: (han?e of Title Kin? Cdiuard VII Hall Play is now titled "Epilo?ue" instead of "What Dreams Way Come". Please visit http://kevii.nus.edu.s?/hallplay/for more details on the new story. Tickets sold bearin? the previous title remains valid. Email: hallplayo2o36yahoo.com for queries.
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      182 5 IThe Aconda 32" widescreen DTV shows you what For a limited time, we will give you SsBoo as modern television is all about. Its Real Flat screen a trade-in for your old analog TV regardless delivers unparalleled picture quality and the of size, age or condition when you trade up
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  • LETTERS
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      Quiet, please
      342 7  -  Ananda Perera Third World behaviour in world-class libraries I REFER to the report, "Library's next target" (Today, Feb 14). There may be many reasons why some 40 per cent of the National Library Board's two million members have not visited libraries in the past 12 months. I go
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      Valentine's Day pressure
      170 7  -  Chitra Soundar THE sales pitch of the malls, greeting card shops and jewellery stores forces you to declare and reaffirm your love to your loved one during the Valentine's Day season. I love my partner but who says I have to prove it? And on Feb 14?
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      Guys who chicken out
      126 7  -  Chua Kheng Yeow YOUR report, "Moments of madness" (Today, Feb 13), seemed to imply that unwanted pregnancies are a problem concerning women. It did not mention the responsibilities of the men, who are also partly the cause of such problems. Any guy who wants premarital sex
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      142 7 KBZPBjE Love at Mercedes Mercedes gives you two good reasons to This weekend, visit our showrooms and begin fall in love this Valentine's. an affair with these two new additions to the Mercedes family. What's more, each visit earns Get cosy with her in the new A-Class Long you a
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  • BUSINESS
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      Premium no more
      305 8  -  Chan Chao Peh Investment-linked policies fall out of favour by chaop eh@newsto day. com. sg TOTAL premiums chalked up in the Singapore life insurance market fell nearly 30 per cent last year to $6.6 billion, as customers shied away from investment-linked policies in the prolonged bear market
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      Datuks charged for CBT
      176 8 KUALA LUMPUR Two former Tabling Haji senior general managers were charged in the Sessions Court yesterday with cheating and criminal breach of trust involving RM4OO million ($lB4 million). In addition, an unemployed man was charged with 15 counts of cheating, forgery and impersonation leading to an
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      Lock icon S'pore exports seen slowing
      121 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S exports in January are expected to show their smallest increase in seven months as the threat of war in Iraq curbed demand for electronics and other goods in the US, the biggest market for the country's products. Non-oil domestic exports are forecast to have
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      Lock icon Maybank Q2 profits to rise?
      104 8 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Banking Bhd is expected to report second-quarter profit rise of 16 per cent, as fee income increased and provisions declined, helping to counter a slowdown in loan growth, analysts said. Maybank, as Malaysia's biggest lender is known, is forecast to have
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    • Market Watch
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        Straits Times Index Intra-day Chart
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        SGX most active
        59 8 )y volume Feb 14 \Aedi(iS SingTel >T Engg SembCorp )BS Chartered Capitaland IT Int .eongHin laya Hldg Close 0.015 1.300 1.690 0.995 9.900 0.675 1.010 0.440 0.735 0.290 Change -0.020 -0.020 +0.015 +0.250 +0.005 -0.040 +0.005 +0.005 -1.5 -1.2 +1.5 +2.6 +0.7 -3.8 +0.7 +1.8 '000 11,865
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        World markets
        69 8 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 225 INDEX 8701.92 102.26 1.19 HANG SENG INDEX 9201.76 28.33 0.31 (VSX ALL ORDINARIES INDX 2804.40 -16.10 -0.57 IAIWAN: WEIGHTED INDEX 4493.99 -13.97 -0.31 KOREA COMPOSITE INDEX 575.24 -0.43 -0.08 THAI STOCK EXCHG OF THAI 368.71 -1.54 -0.42 JAKARTA COMPOSITE INDEX 399.52 4.04
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 US$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5702 0.3526 68.5871 4.4476 2.1669 0.5260 5082.25 24.5350 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 30.7559 0.9606 27.2956 686.311 0.8643 4.7200 1.0320 19.8546
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        Lock icon Commodities
        21 8 SGX Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oi 356.65 4.53 693.50 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent crude us$/borrel 171.75 1595
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        Singapore
        151 8 SHARE prices in Singapore closed 0.41 per cent higher Friday on bargain-hunting in selected stocks but trading was subdued ahead of a key UN weapons report on Iraq late Friday night. The blue-chip Straits Times Index rose 5.15 points to 1,273.48, while the broader All-Share index slipped 0.04 points
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        SGX top rises
        72 8 )y$ Feb 14 Close Change iPH 18.100 +0.300 By percentage Feb 14 L&M Close Change 0.010 +100.0 iPHlOO 18.300 +0.300 Teledata 0.045 +28.6 JOB 10.600 +0.300 TSM 0.150 +25.0 )BS 9.900 +0.250 ihangAsia 2kHKS 5.600 +0.200 /enture 12.600 +0.100 PNEIndW*****8 Shining Ezyhealth 0.030 +20.0 0.065 +18.2 0.065
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        78 8 Bloom berg )y$ Feb 14 iTIETFlOO Close Change 13.040 -0.400 By percentage Feb 14 GulTechW*****7 Close Change 0.025 -28.6 ilA ilA 200 9.500 -0.200 9.550 -0.200 Liang Huat Rotol 0.025 -28.6 0.040 -20.0 :&N 7.750 -0.150 TyeSoon 0.080 -20.0 jreatEast 8.250 -0.150 Inno-Pac 0.025 -16.7 iingamasC 2kHKS
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      CHOSEN ONE
      887 9 Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi (picture) can see two onion-domed buildings from his office at Malaysia's Ministry of Home Affairs in Putrajaya, the country's administrative capital 25 kilometres south of Kuala Lumpur. One dome is that of the Putra mosque and the other is the Prime Minister's office. "Allah
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      Lock icon Trade deficit for China
      196 9 Bloomberg BEIJING China posted a trade deficit for the first time in more than six years as refiners stockpiled crude oil ahead of a possible US-led war on Iraq and consumers took advantage of tariff cuts to buy more imported cars. The deficit in January was
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    • Article
      Beyonics posts 17% profit
      125 9 MAINBOARD-LISTED Beyonics Technology Limited, an integrated manufacturing services provider, yesterday reported a 17 per cent increase in net profit to $10.1 million for the six months ended Jan 31, from $8.6 million in the same period last year. Despite a seven per cent decline in sales
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      Lock icon Dell's income rises
      142 13 Reuters NEW YORK Dell Computer Corp on Thursday said quarterly profit rose and shrugged off stiff competition and a looming US war with Iraq, saying it would meet analysts' expectations for the first quarter. Dell said net income rose to US$6O3 million ($1.06 billion), or 23 US
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      Lock icon Vodafone to expand?
      260 13 Bloomberg It may grant franchises to firms in Asia and Latin America MADRID Vodafone Group Pic, the world's biggest mobile-phone company, may grant franchises to wireless companies in Asia and Latin America to expand there without direct investment, an executive said. Allowing its name to be used
      – Bloomberg  -  260 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3265 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries:Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com iv.klk: LIPPER Date Name NAV/Bid Oder i Prite Prite 11 lerdeen Asset ft qnagement (Asia) 12 Aierteen Se -Amfficgn, Opportunities 0.53? 0.567 II A )erc een Se -Asian Righ Yield 1.241 1.279 11 A iert een Se -CTiina Opportunities 0.95 0.999 11 Aierteen
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  • SAVVYINVESTOR
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        Exceptional distort bottom lines
        444 10 THE corporate results for the last year are in full swing and prudent investors are seeking to stay on top of the the news. Each market day, a slew of companies emerge with preliminary statements on performance. Investors and analysts scramble to see if the companies
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        MONEY TALKS
        386 10  -  Mano Sabnani iM |mano@newstoday.com.sg A weekly column that focuses on investment opportunities arising from market trends and corporate developments Basically, in the case of Keppel, its core, recurrent performance for 2002 was actually better than what the Patmi numbers suggested, as last year's results had included huge one-time
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        What matters is recurrent earnings
        412 10 WHAT investors are interested in, is the recurrent earnings capability of each of these companies and that means the focus should be on Profit After Tax and Minority Interests, but BEFORE Exceptional Items. The revised accounting standards advocate that Patmi be presented both before and
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        Chartered sees light at tunnel end
        290 10 INDICATIONS are that Governmentlinked companies like CapitaLand and SembCorp are now more positive about their profit outlook than they have been for some time. Massive restructuring and disposal of poorly performing, or non-core, assets have been undertaken in the last two years. Road maps
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      WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ...
      555 11 WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Chartered Hold Chartered has outlined a fresh strategy to return to profitability quickly. Its strategy to target first source business is sound.The rationalisation of the existing wafer capacity and the building up of capacity on higher technology nodes also makes rational sense. Financial discipline is evident
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      Lock icon Watchdog
      300 11 Reuters Senate confirms new SEC chief WASHINGTON The US Senate has confirmed investment banker William Donaldson (picture) as chairman of the marketregulating Securities and Exchange Commission. He could be sworn in and be on the job by next week. Mr Donaldson, 71, was nominated by President George W Bush
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      222 11 Company Forecast EPS P/E Ratio PEG 1 2-Mth Price Target BOARDROOM LTD 0.05 9.13 0.21 0.68 CAPITAMALL TRUST 0.07 13.92 0.82 1.21 CHUAN HUP HOLDINGS 0.05 8.63 1.89 0.54 CSE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 0.04 9.78 0.10 0.55 DARCO WATER TECHNOLOGIES LTD 0.02 18.08 3.12 0.72 EASTERN ASIA TECHNOLOGY LTD 0.04 6.17
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  • PROPARTY WATCH
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      APARTMENTS/CONDOMINIUMS
      768 12 Project Type Tenure Date $('000) SqFt Psf District 19 AMARANDAGDN APT FH 17/12/2002 760 1163 654 CHUANPARK APT 99 29/11/2002 400 1173 341 COMPASS HT APT 99 10/10/2002 600 1410 426 CTLVIEW APT 99 17/11/2002 620 1259 492 GOLDENHILL PARK CDO APT FH 18/12/2002 878 1313 668 HOUGANG GREEN
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      First en-bloc sale this year
      720 12  -  Lee Yew Meng Owners to get an average of $500,000 to $900,000 by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg THE first major collective sale of the year involving the freehold and adjoining Queen's and King's Flats in Tiong Bahru has been signed for $82 million. The buyer is made up
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Drug war kill too high
      128 14 -AFP BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra admitted Friday that a staggering 352 people have been killed in the war on drugs he launched two weeks ago but defended the war against traffickers. The figure amounts to 25 deaths per day since the crackdown, but
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      Lock icon A PM for Palestine
      111 14 Agencies RAMALLAH (West Bank) Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said on Friday he would appoint a Prime Minister at the urging of international peace brokers who have demanded democratic reforms in his administration. Mr Arafat did not disclose whom and when he would name to the post.
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      Lock icon Give peace a chance
      102 14 Agencies MELBOURNE At least 150,000 demonstrators marched through Melbourne on Friday to oppose the looming US-led war in Iraq in the first of a series of weekend protests across Asia and Europe. The rally, which organisers said was the largest protest in Australia since the Vietnam
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      Lock icon How deep is your love?
      49 14 -AFP photo A couple kiss as they receive their marriage certificates underwater offKradan island in Trang province in southern Thailand. Thirty six couples celebrated their wedding underwa ter during Valentine's Day to set a new Guinness Book world record for the largest underwater wedding
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      Lock icon WILL IT HELP NAB CROOKS?
      932 14  -  Alan Eisner Reuters. BRAIN FINGERPRINTING I by news@newstoday.com.sg A TECHNIQUE called "brain fingerprinting" which seeks to probe whether a suspect has specific knowledge of a crime, could become a powerful weapon in national security, its inventor believes. Mr Lawrence Farwell, a Harvard-edu-cated neuroscientist who founded
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      BEST OF THE PRESS
      158 15 The World Press Photo 2002 awards were announced on Friday. The jury selected winners in nine categories from among 55 photographers from 18 countries. OVERALL WINNER This photograph of a boy mourning at his father's grave after an earthquake in the Iranian province of Qazvin on
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      Lock icon More arrests over terror in UK
      157 15 Reuters LONDON British police have arrested four more people in a crackdown on terror suspects. Police said the quartet were arrested under the flight path into Heathrow airport They are being held under the country's anti-terror-ism legislation. Britain's busiest airport has been ringed by
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      Shuttle harmed by hot plasma
      148 15 WASHINGTON The extreme heat observed on the shuttle Columbia's left side during its fatal re-entry to Earth could have been caused by hot plasma getting inside the spacecraft, said investigators. Plasma typically envelops a fastdescending space shuttle. This is significant since questions have centred on
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      Lock icon S Korean President apologises
      305 15 Agencies SEOUL It was the crowning achievement of his career but yesterday, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung was forced to apologise for events that have tarnished a landmark summit with North Korea Mr Kim's apology concerned the secret transfer of US$2OO million ($350.6 million) to
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      Lock icon Gl gets 30 years for sodomy
      151 15 Reuters SEOUL A US soldier who sodomised a South Korean soldier has been jailed for 30 years by a military tribunal. The ruling by the US military court comes at a delicate time for Washington as it seeks Seoul's help in resolving a crisis
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A MID-EAST MIRAGE?
      1574 16  -  )r Hussin Mutalib in v^airo by I weekend@newstoday.com.sg Many Arabs believe the US will not attack Iraq IT is amazing how people's perceptions on critical issues of the time vary in a given place, in a given region. Such is my conclusion, tentative as it might be,
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      Lock icon Drop, hurrah! drop...
      768 17  -  Dave Barry by weekend@newstoday.com.sg WE have discovered the secret of happiness. Our lives are filled with joy. We have joy morning, noon and night, so much joy that I don't think we can take any more. Our secret? Potty training. As you veteran parents know, potty training
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      Lock icon Be my Valentine for life
      112 18 WEE TECKHIAN IT was a day of proposals and two couples made them public on Valentine's Day yesterday. At a roadshow at Caltex House, Mr Bernard Tay, an assistant manager with Nokia, popped the question to his 26-year-old girlfriend, Ms Veron Lim, a property agent
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      Convincing
      797 18  -  Felix Cheong Good storytellers are good con men and we're suckers for both I by felix@newstoday.com.sg THE time has come for me to come clean, to admit what I've long thought of as a career blip: I was a con artist once. Between 1992 and 1993,1 made a career
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      43 17 fr/e? S^sh Price of roses on Valentine's Day Price of roses the day after Syed is a freelance animator and illustrator. Suresh is the co-creator of Mr Kiasu and other comic strips. He recently authored a book entitled When I was in Uniform.
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  • weekend WATZUP?
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      Untitled
      226 19 You might not think of it as a con job but what director M Night Shyamalan has effectively done is no more than what master illusionist David Copperfield has always done on stage. That is, misdirect your attention while something more subtle and important takes place in the same space,
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    • DAILY BREW
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        Lock icon Marry my mom
        91 19 Reuters THE American television network, NBC already hot on the trail for talented kids and senior citizens, is now looking for a few good moms to marry off. It will launch a new reality series, Who Wants to Marry My Mom?, in a fiveepisode instalment in the
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        Lock icon Worm uses Zeta-Jones lure
        98 19 -Reuters A COMPUTER worm supposed to contain sexy photos of Oscar-nominated Chicago star Catherine Zeta-Jones (picture) has surfaced. But, instead of showing compromising shots of celebrities including Zeta-Jones, Britney Spears and Shakira, it actually installs a program that could allow someone to take over your PC.
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        Exhibition by Filipino artist
        97 19 A COLLECTION of paintings by world renowned Filipino artist Benedicto Cabrera, widely known as Bencab, the Golden Boy of Philippine Art, is on display at Jasmine Fine Arts in Paragon Mall until Friday. The artist, whose work spans the last four decades, was at the launch
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      Phoenix Rising
      1052 20  -  Serene Foo Raymond To just fell into writing and is now one of HK's hottest playwrights by serene@newstoday.com.sg HE is the playwright whose acclaimed work Mad Phoenix, about the legend of prodigal Cantonese playwright Kong Yu Kau, has been lauded as one of his best offerings to date.
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    • IN TUNE
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        Eunice is great with keys, too
        395 21  -  Chen Sze Kai Wheel of Fortune star to front band at JamX show by szekai@newstoday.com.sg YOU may know her as our very own Vanna White from the local Wheel of Fortune game show. You may even know that she was Miss Singapore Universe in
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        Lock icon Osbourne cancels London appearance on terror fears
        221 21 Reuters/Variety LONDON Rock tearaway Kelly Osbourne (picture) has cancelled a planned performance at one of Britain's biggest music award shows, fearing a terror attack on London while she is there, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. The spikyhaired singer, who was due to belt
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        Unfazed by legal woes
        199 21 DESPITE his arrest on additional child pornography charges last month, Grammy-winning singer R Kelly (picture) seems to be doing well on the music front He has written a No 1 song for teen boyband B2K and recorded a hit of his own with Ignition. The Associated
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        Lock icon Torn between three loves
        648 22 -Reuters/Variety Miramax has three films vying for Oscars.The hard part is deciding which one to push for LOS ANGELES After the Oscar nominations have been announced, now comes the hard part On Tuesday, Miramax Films earned more Oscar nods 40 than any movie studio, and headlines
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        Lock icon Angola's dormant film scene begins to stir
        226 22 -AFP LUANDA (Angola) The torment of Angola's civil war, which finally ended less than a year ago, is at the heart of a feature film currently being made in the capital, Luanda, to give new life to a long-dead industry. Uma Cidade Vazia
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        256 23 -Reuters Malaysia bans film for 'unhealthy elements' KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian movie censors have banned superhero movie Daredevil, a Hollywood film based on a cartoon character who is a lawyer by day and a vigilante crime fighter at night, a newspaper reported on Friday. The ban, however,
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        99 23 Reuters/Variety TORONTO Director Atom Egoyan's Ararat received five statuettes, including best film, at Canada's 23rd Genie awards in Toronto on Thursday. The film, which deals in part with the Armenian Holocaust early last century, drew prizes for actress (Arsinee Khanjian), supporting actor (Elias Koteas), original
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        708 24 Recommended films Tadpole He's a I S-year-old. He's in love with his 40-year-old step-mom (Sigourney Weaver). He's seduced by her best friend.A sophisticated, witty comedy,Tadpole keeps from sinking to cheap gags and will still have you in stitches.— David Ngiau Bollywood Hollywood: It's PrettyWoman meets Bollywood.A dotcom millionaire
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        562 26  -  Katrina Karim Gourmet Clay pot Food Palace has wide range of goodies to shout about I by eatout@newstoday.com.sg ANEW food court has opened at Thomson Plaza as part of the mall's recent facelift Barely a year old, Food Palace, located on the ground level, offers a good
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          289 27 Back on the Food and HeritageTrail -TeoSiokKuan THE Central Singapore Food and Heritage Trail is back, together with the Singapore Food Festival 2003. Last year, this popular event won the high-profile International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) award for the Best Community Outreach Programme. General manager for Central Singapore Community
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          242 27 Feast away all weekend -Justine Moss BOOKMARK Gourmet Pleasures In The City on your Singapore Food Festival 2003 calendar. This foodie delight, presented by Citibank, promises to be even bigger and better this year. Singaporeans will be spoilt for choice by some 50 stalls at Plaza Singapura from April 4
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          251 27 Katrina Karim THE World Gourmet Summit our annual culinary and beverage showcase by master chefs and vintners returns this year from March 30 to April 12. Among the attractions will be classroom sessions with master chefs and black tie dinners at top local hotels featuring
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        351 27  -  Jeffrey Yang by eatout@newstoday.com.sg French White wines Alsace wines are overlooked regularly by all but wine enthusiasts and collectors.This is such a shame considering that alongside the dry whites of Germany, Alsace wines are the best foil for Asian cuisine. The grape varieties of Alsace Riesling,
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        782 28  -  Cindy Tong by news@newstoday.com.sg WHEN it comes to homes, most interior designers agree that big isn't always better. After all, smaller homes appear cosier and make a practical choice if yours is a small family. With careful planning and the correct design elements, it's easy to
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        581 29  -  Sadiah Ahmad by sadiah@newstoday.com.sg ON Hari Raya Haji, there was a sumptuous reunion feast for my family. The "guests of honour" were my sister, her husband and their three children from Kuala Lumpur. When my sister tied the knot with a Malaysian engineer more than 15 years
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        735 29  -  Dan Tynan by news@newstoday.com.sg BEING a new parent is a lot like being a teenager again. You're ruled by hormones in this case, mostly your mate's. Thanks to sleep deprivation and fatigue, breast-feeding, postpartum depression, or all of the above, her libido (and
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        625 30  -  Colin Yong Mitsubishi's new supermini offers style and practicality by colin@newstoday.com.sg MULTI-PURPOSE vehicles (MPVs) and recreational vehicles (RVs), which started out as a craze in Japan, are all the rage around the world now. Car manufacturers are scrambling to produce so-called "crossover" vehicles in every segment of
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        292 30 AUDI, BMW and Mercedes-Benz will launch models at the 2003 Geneva Motor Show on March 6. Audi's latest offering is an A3 (picture), which looks similar to the previous model but rides on an all-new platform. The petrol engine unit ranges from 1.6 litres
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        127 30 INFLUENTIAL British motoring magazine What Car? recently awarded its security accolade to Lexus for the fourth year running. The Japanese manufacturer remains the only car company to achieve the maximum score in the magazine's annual Security Supertest In the latest test, the Lexus IS, LS and
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        256 32  -  Colin Tan WHEN Beethoven died, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple of days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard a strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got a priest to come and
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        233 32 A BLONDE had just gotten a new sports car and was out for a drive when she cuts off a truck driver accidentally. Upset, he motions for her to pull over. When she does, he gets out of his truck and pulls a piece of chalk from
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      953 33 In-form Bryant is taking Mike's place LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant has averaged 42 points over seven games, a Michael Jordan riff that has blown life into the Los Angeles Lakers' four-peat effort It doesn't have to be about Jordan, of course. It could be simply
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      345 33 SAN DIEGO Tiger Woods made an abbreviated return to the PGA Tour on Thursday, playing the first nine holes in one-under 35 as rain and fog disrupted the first round of the Buick Invitational. The world's
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      958 34  -  Rohit Brijnath Warne's positive dope test caps a tumultuous week for cricket J by weekend@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS been of those cricketing weeks when heroes turn out to be small men, and little men embrace the heroic. It has been a week when World Cup matches have
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      303 34 NEW YORK What does a player at the top of her game, who had 13 worldwide wins last season, do for an encore? If she is Annika Sorenstam (picture), she packs her bags for Texas and accepts an invitation to play alongside the men
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      311 35 LONDON Part of the enduring fascination of the Six Nations championship stems from the contrasts in style and approach of the contestants. Since the late 1980s, England's annual clash with France has assumed mythic proportions, pitting Anglo Saxon discipline against Gallic panache. Paradoxically, the result of Saturday's
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      600 35 -AFP World champion aware of threat posed by legendary batsman Cricket World Cup Group A Australia v India Live Saturday, 4pm, Ch37 (Pay-per-view) CENTURION Australian captain Ricky Ponting has an obvious game plan to win Saturday's World Cup clash against India here get Sachin Tendulkar
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      317 35 -AFP JOHANNESBURG Jonty Rhodes' enforced withdrawal from the World Cup not only forced South Africa into a tactical rethink on Friday, but it also paved the way for the reopening of some old wounds within the game
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      Lock icon Red Hot Ernie
      626 36  -  S Murali in Perth by murali@newstoday.com.sg Classy South African blazes ahead to lead prestigious pack at the Johnnie Walker Classic NEWS just in: In an amazing twist of events, Ernie Els is no longer leading the A52.85 million ($3 million) Johnnie Walker Classic. Really. I'm serious. C'mon,
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      450 36  -  S Murali in Perth by murali@newstoday.com.sg ALMOST 10 years ago, in his first tournament as a professional, Mardan Mamat won a $300,000 Jaguar for scoring an ace at the Singapore Open at Tanah Merah. On Friday, playing in one of the
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      95 36 IN CELEBRATION of the famous Johnnie Walker Blue Label, the first player to register a hole-in-one on the par-three, 17th hole at Lake Karrinyup Country Club in either the third or fourth round will win the "Blue Celebration" sapphire and diamond necklace valued at over A5150,000 ($156,000).
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      Swim school's fine
      406 37  -  Tan Yo-Hinn by yohinn@newsto day. com. sg THE managing director and manager both insist the Aquatic Performance Swim Club (APSC) is in good shape. Even if top national swimmers Mark Chay, Leslie Kwok and Gary Tan have left the stable. According to APSC manager Wendy Lee-Ang, wife
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      206 37 Stanley Ho THE International Rugby Sevens Singapore Series kicks off only in April, but fans will have a taste of what's to come starting this weekend. Round one of the National Rugby Championships (NRC) Sevens Series will kick off this Saturday at Yio Chu Kang Stadium
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      102 37 Eyes and hands on the ball THE Malaysian duo of Ng Eng Hwai and Png Chun Jinn are Asia's top foosball exponents. This after they overcame their Hong Kong counterparts 7-2 to win the Grand Finals of the ESPNStarSports Asian Foosball Tournament on Friday. Held at Mojo, the winners from
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      166 37 Reuters LONDON The days of the Golden Goal, brought in as an alternative to what were becoming-all-too-prevalent penalty shootouts, are numbered. Euro 96 was the first major tournament to be decided by the method. This week, Uefa announced its replacement the "Silver
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      247 37 AFP HANOI A leading Vietnamese professional football club threatened on Friday to disband following a row with its governing body, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), over transfer fees. Doan Nguyen Due, chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai, one of the richest clubs in the VLeague, said he would
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      99 37 FRESH from its triumph in the SembCorp Power Gas Challenge Cup last month, Woodlands Wellington is eyeing another trophy when it entertains S-League new boy Sinchi FC for the 2003 Chairman's Cup on Saturday. Held at Woodlands Stadium, the game will kick-off at 7pm and the
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      384 38 LONDON When Terry Venables takes his place in the Selhurst Park dugout on Sunday, you could forgive Crystal Palace fans for not giving him a rousing reception. The Leeds manager will bring a little more with him than a struggling team intent
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      81 38 MOST think the race for the English Premier League title is between Arsenal and Manchester United. And if you want to watch the two best teams in England do battle in a red-hot atmosphere, come down to the Tiger Football Night for the FA Cup fifth
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      Smart Bet Ready For Winning Return
      150 39  -  JOHN BELL Horse Racing HORSE of the Year Smart Bet makes his return to racing in tomorrow's $150,000 Chairman's Trophy (S'pore Gr.3, 1800m) at the Singapore Racecourse and all indications are that the Mohd Yusof-trained gelding will start his new preparation on a winning
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      961 40  -  Leonard Thomas -AFP PIETEKMAKITZBUKG Chaminda Vaas created a World Cup sensation on Friday when he grabbed a hat-trick with the first three balls of the match to fire Sri Lanka to a 10-wicket romp over Bangladesh. The 29-year-old left-arm seamer also took a fourth wicket later
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      45 40 Jordan is being phased out/33 The dangerman/35 No one will stop Els now/36 Bryant is in the mood and Aussies identify India's master S Murali says the Johnny Walker ready to replace the NBA legend blaster as the key Classic is as good as over
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