Today, 6 March 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    8 1 TODAY Thursday March 6 ,2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Upside-down world
      666 1  -  Rahul Pathak Today Comment History on its head and why this page appears the way it does by rahul@newstoday.com.sg SO here we are, caught in the tum-ble-dryer of history, flailing upside down in a world that seems to be turning in outlandish circles. Upside down like this page
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      CPIB probes former NTUC Choice Homes CEO
      255 2  -  Jose Raymond jose@newstoday.com.sg by THE former CEO of NTUC Choice Homes Co-operative Limited, Mr Lim Geok Hwee (picture), is under investigation by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. This was released in a statement last night by NTUC Choice Homes chairman Ng Ser Miang.
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      Worst is yet to come: PM
      550 2  -  Val Chua in Hanoi S'poreans urged to take initiative for own welfare by THINK you've seen the worst? The recent massive retrenchments from the public sector and rising unemployment rate may be just the tip of the iceberg for Singaporeans, hinted Prime Minister Goh
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      Lock icon US bombers to help keep peace in Korea
      226 2 Agencies SEOUL Following Sunday's aerial incident between American and North Korean planes, the Pentagon on Tuesday said it is sending 24 longrange bombers to the island of Guam in the Pacific to deter any aggression by Pyongyang in case of a war
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      Lock icon Unity and name-calling at summit
      194 3 Agencies DOHA Islamic nations yesterday declared their "total rejection" of a US attack on Iraq after an emergency summit of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Muslim leaders also called on Islamic states not to take part in military action against Iraq and
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      Wealthy and running dry
      379 3 TOKYO Water scarcity is an issue close to Singapore's heart and this was highlighted yesterday in the most comprehensive survey ever of the state of the world's fresh water supplies. Among the findings in a report by the United Nations, Singapore was 10th from the bottom
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      Lock icon No more Filipino maids for HK, for now
      107 3 Agencies MANILA Hong Kong residents may have to look for foreign maids of other nationalities as President Gloria Arroyo yesterday ordered the government to stop sending Filipino domestic helpers to the territory. The territory's government spurned Ms Arroyo's call to reconsider its
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      The library: Your third home
      524 3  -  Grace Tay gra ce@newsto day. com. sg Today photo by. NOT the cinemas. Not the country club. Not even the shopping malls. The National Library Board (NLB) wants to make the library the place you spend most of your leisure time, after home and work.
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      A rival's way
      602 4  -  Francis Kan HK raises taxes but stays competitive by francis@newstoday.com.sg RELEASED within five days of each other, the Singapore and Hong Kong budget statements were the latest salvos between two traditional rivals in their fight to lure foreign investment and talent to combat the economic slowdown. Although
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      COE PRICES
      62 4 CAR buyers are apparently adopting a wait-and-see attitude after last week's budget announcements. This was reflected in the fall in COE prices in all but one category yesterday. The prices are listed below: March 2003 Cat A I6oocc below $28,308 Cat B 1601 cc above $29,999 Cat C
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      Lock icon Yours sincerely, Osama...
      91 4 -AFP ISLAMABAD Handwritten letters from Osama bin Laden have been found in the possession of Sept 11-mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani security official said yesterday. "There is material like letters and other things, which strongly suggest Osama is alive and may be hiding in the region,"
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      MAS move on air fares
      269 6 PUTRAJAYA Faced with increasing competition from no-frills airlines in domestic routes, Malaysia Airlines is working on a new fare structure with lower fares, the Bernama news agency reported yesterday. "Now, with the introduction of nofrills airlines, a lot of airlines have been offering low fares.
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      Lock icon Silk Air cancels flights to Davao
      96 6 Channel News Asia SILKAIR has cancelled its flights to Davao city in the southern Philippines following Tuesday's explosion near the airport which killed 21 people and left over 150 injured. The affected flights are those scheduled for today and Saturday. Silk Air says the
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      Lock icon Close proximity
      37 6 No, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is not about to strike US President George W Bush. The two have joined French President Jacques Chirac and Mrs Laura Bush at the Wax Museum in Madrid. AFP photo
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      Single logon to the world
      366 6  -  Sol E Solomon IMAGINE your PDA or laptop connecting to roaming wireless networks anywhere in the world with a single logon and password, just like your mobile phone. That's what the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Intel are hoping to achieve, through their
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      Lock icon Act to avoid sanctions
      152 6 AFP MANILA Philippine legislators yesterday passed a strengthened Anti-money Laundering Act that they said should help Manila escape the imposition of sanctions later this month. After a five-hour debate, Senate and House of Representatives delegates drafted the final version of the Act that should be signed
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      Back to basics
      171 8  -  David Soh Poh Huat IN view of the recent MRT accident along Lentor Avenue, I hope that the authorities will now go back to dealing with basic issues. We have to question whether the fencing around the MRT track is enough to hold off vehicles that veer
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      Lock icon Driver did well
      205 8  -  Narayana Narayana Today photo by. MRT accident raises questions over automated trains THE quick reflexes and presence of mind of MRT train driver Francis Rodrick Julius prevented a disaster on Monday night when he applied the master controller handler. The train slowed down sufficiently to avert tragedy.
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      Always finding fault
      91 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming THE MRT accident was unexpected but the train driver did well to bring the train to a safe halt and did his best to ensure that all in his care were safe. Newsradio 93.8 reported, however, that the inconvenienced passengers were griping because
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      Why didn't her friends help?
      127 8  -  Surma binte Sulaiman I REFER to the article, "$57 between girl and her results slip" (Today, March 5). The Balestier Hill Secondary School student was not allowed to collect her results slip because she had not settled her outstanding school fees, which totalled a mere
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Prime no more?
      399 10 Office rents likely to fall further in next six months Lee Yew Meng yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg PRIME office rents in Singapore fell an average of two per cent to $5.46 per square foot (psf) last month and they are now lower than the November 1999 trough, says property consultancy
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    • Market Watch
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        Straits Times Index- Infra-day Chart
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        Singapore
        61 10 SINGAPORE share prices closed 0.27 per cent lower yesterday, mirroring Wall Street's decline, dealers said. The STI slipped 3.46 points to 1,265.5. Apart from conglomerate SembCorp Industries, which gained four cents to $1.05, other notable blue chips were flat to lower. DBS Group lost 20 cents to $9.20, UOB
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5767 UK£ 0.3619 Yen 67.7924 HK$ 4.4978 RM 2.1908 Euro 0.***** Rupiah 5114.19 Baht 24.5333 Peso 31.5773 A$ 0.9341 Indian Rs 27.4856 Won 691.551 C$ 0.8485 Yuan 4.7732 NZ$ 1.0232 NTS 19.9582
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        World markets
        49 10 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 8472.62 -7.60 -0.09 HANG SENG 9109.18 -72.71 -0.79 ILL ORDINARIES 2749.70 -37.30 -1.34 LAIWAN WTD 4418.11 -81.58 -1.81 KOREA COMP SET 560.26 359.90 -16.32 -4.65 -2.83 -1.28 JAKARTA COMP 391.18 -4.19 -1.06 PHILIPPINES COMP 1009.68 -16.31 -1.59 SHENZHEN B 205.63 -1.07 -0.52
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        Commodities
        22 10 Gold uss/oi 353.95 Silver uss/oi 4.66 Platinum uss/oi 697.5 Rubber cents/kg 182 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 620 Brent crude uss/barrel 36.89
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        SGX most active
        55 10 fy volume March 5 Chartered iembCorp SingTel [Tint )atatrftUSS TO 'at Cent .eongHin itarCrusUSS joldtron Close 0.695 1.050 1.330 0.435 0.665 0.940 0.220 0.740 0.260 0.010 Change -0.020 +0.040 +0.020 -0.005 +0.010 -0.015 -0.005 -2.8 +4.0 +1.5 -0.7 +1.1 -6.4 -1.9 'OOO 13,021 11,111 8,279 7,588 7,323
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        SGX top rises
        75 10 March 5 IMH 400USS Close Change 5.900 +0.100 Venture 13.500 +0.100 >( Global 0.880 +0.060 DUE 6.000 +0.050 Robinson 5.650 +0.050 >ingamasC2kHKS SembCoip 2.600 +0.050 1.050 +0.040 Hiai Prime200USS 4.900 +0.040 Noble 1.610 +0.030 3&W Group 0.250 +0.030 jy percentage March 5 tonaW*****6 Close Changi 0.045 +0.02^
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        79 10 DV VFDG March 5 Close Change GrealEast 8.300 -0.250 SPH 17.900 -0.200 SPH 100 17.900 -0.200 DBS 9.200 -0.200 STIETF100 12.800 -0.100 BukilSem 10.200 -0.100 DBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.900 -0.100 Haw Par 3.400 -0.060 franspat 1.150 -0.060 By percentage March 5 L&M Close Changi 0.005 -o.oo: Penguin
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      Lock icon Stores shutdown
      212 11 Bloomberg Robinson closes Suntec, Bukit Bintang branches ROBINSON Co said it closed two retail stores in Singapore and Malaysia this year to cut costs and consolidate its businesses. Robinson closed one of its three Marks Spencer stores in Kuala Lumpur as business at the outlet slowed and rentals
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      Lock icon S Korea-S'pore FTA on track; meeting in April
      112 11 -AFP SINGAPORE and South Korea said yesterday they have completed the first round of exploratory talks to establish a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). The inaugural two-day meeting of the joint study group in Seoul saw the two sides agree that a
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      Lock icon SembCorp in China water plant venture
      94 11 Bloomberg SEMBCORP Utilities, a unit of SembCorp Industries, has teamed up with three partners to invest US$lO million ($17.3 million) in a waste water treatment plant in China. SembCorp, Singapore Utilities International, Shanghai Sanyu Environmental Protection Technology and Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park Co will
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      Lock icon Haw Par profit falls 43%
      88 11 Bloomberg HAW Par Corp, known for its pain-relieving Tiger Balm ointment, said 2002 profit fell 43 per cent after it recorded a one-time $30.5 million charge for an investment in Camerlin BVI. Haw Par's profit fell to $18.1 million from $31.7 million a year earlier.
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      Lock icon Expected boom for Asia, but...
      179 11 AFP ASIA is likely to sprint ahead of the rest of the world this year but the lingering uncertainty of a Middle East war and a slowing US economy can derail the region's growth engine, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said yesterday. Excluding
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      Lock icon $1mtohelp retailers
      152 12 Bloomberg THE Singapore Government will spend up to $1 million to help local retailers as an uncertainty over the pace of Singapore's recovery from a recession in 2001 is discouraging consumers from spending. The Singapore Retailers' Association will help raise at least $1 million from the retail industry,
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      Eastech net profit up 81%
      133 12 EASTERN Asia Technology (Eastech) said on Wednesday that full-year net profit to December rose 81 per cent on strong global demand for digital audio video products. The company, which lists Dell and Sony among its customers, said net profit was $24.4 million, or 8.2 cents
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      New hot spot
      548 12  -  Val Chua in Hanoi PM urges Spore businessmen to invest in Vietnam by val@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREAN businessmen should grab the investment potential of Vietnam, instead of rushing into countries already open to others, urged Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. "Being an emerging economy, coming from a very
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      Lock icon Millennium's revenue per room falls 2%
      223 12 Bloomberg MILLENNIUM Copthorne Hotels Pic, the UK hotelier that owns half of New York's Plaza and is 52-per cent owned by Singapore's City Developments Ltd, said revenue per room in the first seven weeks of this year fell two per cent after lowering rates
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      Lock icon Back in the black
      291 14 Bloomberg Cathay Pacific profits from Asian growth and US port strike HONG KONG Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Hong Kong's biggest carrier, chalked up a profit in the second half as economic growth in most of Asia lifted passenger demand and a US port strike boosted cargo
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4181 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Date Fd Name NAV/Bid Oiler Price Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) 4/3 Aberdeen Sel-American Opportunities 0.532 0.559 4/3 Aberdeen Se-Asian High Yield 1.255 1.293 4/3 Aberdeen Se-China Opportunities 0.93 0.977 4/3 Aberdeen Se-Continental Europe Eqty 0.701 0.737 4/3 Aberdeen Se Global MNC
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      Lock icon Faster route to a degree
      791 16 YOU have just received your O- or A-Level results. You must now decide which academic path to follow to achieve your professional ambition. In today's demanding society, internationally recognised tertiary qualifications enhance your opportunities to be competitive in the job market. Mainstream schools in Singapore
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      BURSARIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
      247 16 MDIS has upheld its tradition of giving and sharing with the community since 1996. This year, it plans to give out about $350,000 in bursaries and scholarships. The amount has risen gradually from $60,000 in 1996. Since then, MDIS has disbursed over 159 scholarships and 1,526 bursaries
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Another blast rips Philippines
      230 17 Agencies MANILA The Al Qaedalinked Abu Sayyaf may have claimed responsibility for the airport bombing that killed 21 people, but the government yesterday blamed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's largest Muslim separatist group. The authorities arrested five MILF members and tightened security at
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      Lock icon The cleanest
      317 17 Agencies Zhu's act will be hard to match BEIJING When Mr Zhu Rongji took over as China's Premier in 1998, he asked for 100 coffins 99 for enemies of reform and one for himself. Such comments and actual action earned him a reputation as a no-non-sense champion of
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  • COMMENTARY
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      If Pyongyang crosses line
      915 18  -  Dr Khoo How San by news@newstoday.com.sg SHOULD North Korea cross the so-called "red line" in the nuclear standoff with the United States, some commentators are already suggesting that the latter may be forced to unleash an Israeli-style surprise air strike on Pyongyang's key nuclear facilities. There
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      153 19 Efl Share Moments. Share Lifel" Bigger Size Smaller Price All your biggest memories can now be captured in large size at a small price! From now to 31st March 2003, you can print 5R at any Kodak Express outlet and enjoy 45% bigger size at only 50$ a print. What's
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  • WATZUP?
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      Ice show hots up
      731 20  -  Elisa Chia Monsters, Inc and Lilo and Stitch planned for Disney On Ice, producer Kenneth Feld tellsToDAY in an exclusive interview NOT The Jungle Book, Tarzan nor The Lion King. While these three Disney hits will premiere in Singapore tomorrow in the Disney on Ice Jungle
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    • DAILYBREW
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        Back to school with BDays
        116 20 BDAYS has come up with its first "back to school" issue, in time for the March holidays. It turns its spotlight on local stars, who relate stories about their time in school. Who would have thought that Tay Ping Hui was his school's notorious "god
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        Lock icon Versace and Aguilera team up
        115 20 Reuters DONATELLA Versace brought down the curtain on Milan's fashion week on Tuesday with clinging mini-skirts and block-print leggings inspired by front-row guest and the label's new star, US pop pin-up Christina Aguilera. Teeny skirts and drainpipe trousers in creams and caramels were matched with
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        Madonna's new fan – Saddam
        73 20 Madonna's new fan Saddam IRAQI leader Saddam Hussein (picture, left) is apparently the newest fan of the queen of pop, Madonna (picture, right). The Sun of Britain reported that Iraqi radio is spewing more tunes by the material girl than any other Western pop act Saddam is probably pleased with
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      Lock icon Behind the real scenes
      229 22 Reuters LONDON A documentary released by Michael Jackson (picture) to hit back at a controversial TV film about his life was watched by an estimated 2.4 million British viewers during its first airing in the UK. The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were Never Meant
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      Roots! Rhythm! Blends!
      464 22 Come explore our culture, lifestyle and customs SINGAPOREANS will be spoilt for choice at this year's nine-day Heritage Festival, which starts on March 15. This year's theme of Roots! Rhythm! Blends! will explore the evolution of the culture, lifestyle, customs and practices of our ethnic communities. The
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      Join the sizzle with Li Lin
      169 22 THINGS are heating up on MediaCorp TV Channel B's first reality show Discover Australia. Tonight, Kangaroo team's Farhann Ali gets hot under the collar over a paddling incident with celebrity contestant Allan Wu. Opposing team Koala also gets into a fix in a kayaking
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    • CITY STYLE
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        Essential for mums-to-be
        484 23  -  Cathleen Tung by cathleen.tung@newstoday.com.sg LEGEND has it that Queen Cleopatra seduced Mark Antony with its help. Today, we use it for massages as well as to soothe minor ailments. Aromatherapy the use of essential oils derived from plant extracts has evolved from an ancient art used in
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        Sleep tight after a Bedtime Bath
        187 23  -  Cathken Tung WHEN was the last time you slept like a baby? Chances are, with the stress and pressure we face at work daily, not many of us can claim to have the long hours of peaceful slumber that babies enjoy. Still, all of
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        Celebrate with Ardour
        118 23  -  LEE Hwa Jewellery pays tribute to women on International Women's Day on Saturday with the Ardour Ring. With a brilliant solitaire diamond set in white gold, the ring will be on sale from Saturday till the end of March. Said Ms Magdalene Eng, brand manager of Aspial
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon The McCarthy era, part II?
        295 24 -Reuters LOS ANGELES Hollywood actors, facing a backlash for their opposition to a war against Iraq, have raised the spectre of Cold War McCarthyism in an appeal to avoid returning to one of their industry's darkest hours. A slew of hate-mail has been directed at
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        Lock icon Dude, a film made for us!
        172 24 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Two producers, who spent the fall semester of 1999 posing as transfer students at Auburn University in Alabama, are making a film about their experience. Back to College began as a combination of Hollywood burnout for Randall Emmett and George Furla and
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        Maid for J Lo
        555 24  -  Janice Lee 9 Cinderella-type role fits the star perfectly Maid in Manhattan FILM REVIEW THERE is absolutely nothing original about this Cinderella-type story. Maid in Manhattan, written by Kevin Wade, is as hackneyed and predictable as the love life of its star, Jennifer Lopez. But there's
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        Stirring lessons
        457 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang The Emperor's Club FILM REVIEW that inspire and educate long after graduation by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg 14 NYONE who's ever been to school will probably have asked this question at one ■Am Apoint: How will what I learn in the classroom help me in life? If you
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        Beaufort is now Sentosa Resort and Spa
        146 28 BEAUFORT Hotels, the luxury hotel group, owned by Hong Kong-based developer HKR International, has relaunched and renamed the Beaufort Singapore (picture) as The Sentosa Resort Spa. The move, announced at a ceremony at the resort officiated by Minister for Trade and Industry George
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        Cannes of Asia?
        310 28  -  Justin Moss Bangkok film festival has ambitious plans By tr a veller@newsto day, com. sg THE time will come when the seedy notions of the Thai capital will be a thing of the past, at least if the recent Bangkok International Film Festival is anything to go
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        Style files
        322 29  -  Pauline D Loh Melbourne's sense of style in food and fashion is only one of its many attractions by pauline@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the chefs look as good as the food on my plate, I know I've arrived at gourmet paradise. And it's called Melbourne. The last time I spent
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        SIX SENSES, MELBOURNE
        209 29 FEDERATION Square is 11 Melbourne's newest conversation MM piece. The arts and entertainment centre has a huge outdoor screen that highlights current events such as the Australian Tennis Open and Jazz festival. SNIFF the aroma of freshly brewed coffee j\'' in the city's laneway (cafes from fashionable^
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        Executive Gourmet Retreat heads for China
        1404 31  -  Pauline DLoh We're planning the perfect get-away to the Middle Kingdom, where we can feast both eyes and stomachs in Imperial style OLD Beijing with its monumental Great Wall and impressive Imperial cuisines. Dreamy Hangzhou, where the poets have drawn inspiration for a thousand
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        HAPPENING
        68 31 EXECUTIVE GOURMET RETREAT SA(UIC) Mega Travel Sale To find out more about the SA(UIC)/TODAY Executive Gourmet Retreat, visit the SA(UIC) Mega Travel Sale at Suntec City Exhibition Hall 4 on Sunday, March 9 from 10 am to 9pm. Admission is free. Presentation: Executive Gourmet Retreat by TODAY deputy editor
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        Mediterranean magic
        543 33  -  Gurmeet Singh Set sail for a luxurious and sensual journey on this enchanting sea By traveller@newstoday.com.sg THE Mediterranean is one of the world's exotic cruise vacation spots and the Golden Princess is one of the premier liners that ply this popular route. The ship, which sets sail from
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      52 35 LL Mm i OOITIG visit us at Singapore Buddhist Welfare Services/NKF Dialysis Centre, from 2.00pm to 5.00pm, on Sunday 9 March 2003, at Blk 114 Hougang Aye 1, J t^ to learn more about kidney disease, dialysis, and organ donation. M BaXf.Cl For more information, call 6351 5408 or visit
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      1308 35 TV Wedding Planner eh 8, i 0.30 P m L*.. p^^ j§& Belly Dance Arts Central, io P m JWjfj P'fi I Tne Ascending Dragon For Tom, a 29-year-old executive, there ■Pjjl^y fc^fc This week, ballerina Cheah Mci Sing enters h^^^&wfikWM£ 'r Channel News Asia, 8.30pm seems io ie «o
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      Lock icon Air Jordan has landed
      683 36 Getty Images- WASHINGTON Michael Jordan's minutes kept climbing, even after he turned 40. Yesterday morning, his body revolted and sent him out of the game in the second quarter. Jordan departed with spasms in his lower back, just when the Washington Wizards had taken their biggest
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      Police could charge Villa striker Dublin for head butting incident
      406 36 BIRMINGHAM West Midlands Police have refused to rule out prosecuting Aston Villa striker Dion Dublin yesterday. The striker was sent off for butting Birmingham's Robbie Savage in a stormy second city derby, which saw more than 40 supporters arrested on
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        Lock icon Silvestre keeps title hopes alive
        703 37 Agencies French defender scores crucial winner MANCHESTER The quick-think-ing of David Beckham and a rare goal from French defender Mikael Silvestre kept Manchester United's title challenge alive with victory over Leeds this morning. Beckham's quickly-taken free-kick caught the Leeds defence napping and presented Silvestre with
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        Lock icon Boro deals hammer blow to Magpies
        322 37 AFP MIDDLESBROUGH Newcastle's hopes of forcing its way into the Premiership title race were dealt a hammer blow by northeast rival Middlesbrough this morning as it went down to a 1-0 defeat Cameroon wingback Geremi's header just after the hour mark was enough to
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        Lock icon Lazio secures quarter-final place
        310 37 AFP KRAKOW Lazio booked its place in quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup this morning after beating Wisla Krakow 2-1 here in their rescheduled fourth round, second leg tie. Goals from Fernando Couto and Enrico Chiesa settled the contest after Marcin Kuzba had given Wisla an early
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      City crisis
      79 38 MANCHESTER Manchester City was plunged into boardroom turmoil yesterday when chairman David Bernstein, a key figure in the club's recent revival, quit his post The dramatic move comes against a background of deep divisions over the extent of the board's financial backing for manager Kevin Keegan's drive to
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      Quit, Hoddle
      116 38 LONDON Glenn Hoddle has been advised to walk away from his job as Tottenham manager rather than 'carry the can' for the White Hart Lane board. The shock call has come from the re-formed Tottenham Action Group (TAG), which claims Hoddle has not been backed in the transfer
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      Cup delayed?
      85 38 ZURICH Fifa president Sepp Blatter was set to postpone the Under-20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates because of the possibility of war in Iraq, Fifa officials said yesterday. Blatter will meet an Emirates delegation here this week when he is expected to take a decision on
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      Reds blow
      59 38 LIVERPOOL Liverpool suffered a double blow last night when central defender Stephane Henchoz and striker Emile Heskey were ruled out of Gerard Houllier's immediate plans with injury. Henchoz faces a lay-off of four to six weeks because he needs minor surgery on his calf. Heskey is likely to
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      Lock icon No place is guaranteed
      675 38  -  Stanley Ho Young Lions must avoid complacency, says coach Sivaji by stanley@newstoday.com.sg IN LESS than three weeks, Singapore will play host to Macau and Pakistan in Group E of the 2003 Asian Cup preliminary round. And as part of their preparations, the Lions played the Republic
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      Lock icon Warriors keeper Shahril determined to atone for mistake
      419 38  -  Stanley Ho S-League SAFFC v Jurong Choa Chu Kang, 7.30pm AS HE watched the match video of his performance against Home United last Saturday, SAFFC goalkeeper Shahril Jantan felt utterly ashamed. For the 22-year-old Tiger Cup custodian made an absolute howler in
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      Lock icon Keane wants Fergie's job
      585 39 Agencies MANCHESTER Since his hip operation, he knows his playing days are numbered so he wants to utilise his uncompromising temperament to take over the most famous sporting hot-seat in the world. Never one to downplay his ambitions, Manchester United captain Roy Keane has set his
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      333 41 i. i fi| mmm *M_M __i_^+^^^ Just because the economy is depressed doesn't mean you have to be. All you need to do is reposition yourself with additional skills and knowledge, and when things turn around, you'll find yourself more marketable than you ever thought possible. Isn't it comforting to
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