Today, 17 July 2004

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  • NEWS
    • 1140 2 Last week, Deputy Prime,* Minister Lee j Hsien LoonaJ made an unofficial visit to Taiwan, i which raised a storm of protest from.' China. A Chinese spokeswoman* said that it was serious enouglv to affect bilateral ties. Yesterday, Mr Lee answered all the questions
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    • 83 3 STAND UP FOR SINGAPORE IDOL TREVOR TAN SINGAPORE IDOL will hit the screens on Aug 9 at about 8.25pm, right after the live broadcast of the National Day Parade. It will subsequently be shown on Thursdays at Bpm and on Fridays, when there are results shows. The singing contest will
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 52 4 -AFP me Australian newspaper said on Friday that a former Perth school teacher suspected of leading the Australia branch of Jemaah Islamiyah has been found in West Java by Indonesian authorities. But Indonesia's top anti-terrorist investigator said there was no proof of the man's leadership of
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      • 61 4 -AFP Malaysia freed five alleged Muslim militants on Friday who had been detained without trial for three years, but imposed travel restrictions on them, said rights group Voice of the Malaysian People. The five, arrested in 2001 under the Internal Security Act, were accused of being
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      • 52 4 AFP The "People's Global Fund", which aims to encourage people to contribute at least US$l ($1.71) to fighting Aids, was launched at the closing of the global Aids forum in Bangkok on Friday. Thai Senator Mechai Viravaidya said the money would go to community organisations fighting
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      • 64 4 AFP East Timor's last Indonesian governor, Abilio Soares, would rather be shot than go to prison for crimes against humanity, his lawyer said after Soares refused to begin serving a three-year sentence. Soares was to be the first person convicted by a Jakarta human rights
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    • 169 4 Reuters NEW DELHI As many as 100 children were killed on Friday when a fire raged through a girls' school in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police said. Dozens of children were injured, some severely, a local official in Kumbakonam, about
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    • 35 4 aJ South Korean youths taking a mud bath during the annual mua festival at Daecheon beach on Friday. The festival aims to encourage the use of mud for skin care.
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    • 402 4  -  Jose Raymond Cause of death unclear; body found in hotel room A SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) pilot was found dead in his hotel room in Zurich on Thursday night The cause of his death has not been determined and Zurich police are investigating. The hotel
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    • 173 6 Channel News Asia BY January next year, there will be three different assessment schemes for private schools, all designed to weed out the fly-by-night operators. Next month will see the launch of the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case) Trust mark. Case will look at areas
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    • 152 6 AFP BAGHDAD Iraqi insurgents snatching lone hostages pushed the Philippines to advance its troop pullout and send a handful more home on Friday and a Saudi company to abandon work in Iraq. The announcements came as Iraqi police reported that a second corpse,
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    • 237 6 Dow Jones SILKAIR pilots will get an overall increase in total pay under a new collective agreement that runs until end-March 2007. The 90-odd pilots, who form the Silk Air chapter of the Airline Pilots Association of Singapore (ALPA-S), inked
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    • 670 6  -  Wong Fei Wan It would have sold Nat Steel for 'the right price', says Oei's lawyer FOR the right price, 98 Holdings would have sold Nat Steel, suggested tycoon Oei Hong Leong's lawyer. Senior counsel Michael Khoo's line of questioning on Friday seemed geared
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    • 560 8  -  Tan Hui Leng Three of the four 'Heavenly Kings' whip up Spore Heavenly Banquet at Suntec as part of Food Festival WHEN Mr Chris Hooi was a boy, the kitchen was his "detention centre". There, under the watchful eyes of their fathers, he and
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    • 275 8  -  -Kenneth Tan WHAT is the best way to introduce tourists to Singapore? According to a team of Raffles Institution students, the answer is to bring them on a trail of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's life. The students' idea of a heritage
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    • 179 8 Newsßadio 93.8 RECYCLING bins with advertising space will soon be a common fixture at food outlets here. The two-in-one concept aims to defray the cost of recycling. With four advertising display panels on each recycling bank, developer Otto Media said that 80 per cent
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  • HUMOUR
    • 755 10  - Singaporean women baldly go Neil Humphreys Where no Singaporean man has gone before RATHER admirably, my stepfather has never had any problems with being bald and has no time for the politically correct lunatics. "I'm not folliclechallenged," he'd say. "I'm bloody bald." When asked why he was bald, he'd always
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    • 138 10 News Radio 93.8 PARENTS will fork out slightly more for their children's monthly miscellaneous school fees, starting next year. Fees will go up by 50 cents to $5.50 for primary level, $1 to $8 for secondary level and $2to $11 for pre-university. Miscellaneous fees
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  • LETTERS
    • 449 11 WE refer to the letters, "Disappointing Gluttons Square" by Lim Boon Hee (July 12) and "For better or worse, Gluttons Square is unchanged" by Phua Hong Choo (July 14). The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) would like to thank the
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    • 375 11  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong China must not read too deeply into DPM Lee's visit to Taiwan I WAS taken aback by China's reaction to Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's "unofficial and private" trip to Taiwan. For whatever reasons, the Chinese authorities
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    • 196 11  -  Lim Boon Hee WHILE our local media played down Mr Lee Hsien Loong's private visit to Taiwan, the same cannot be said of the unfettered Taiwanese press. This is the difference between a so-called free press, which the Taiwan media professes to be for which a
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    • 114 11  -  Irene Yee I WOULD like to praise the management of Plaza Singapura for installing a boys' urinal in the ladies' toilet I was there recently with my three-year-old son and as my husband was not with us, I had to take my son to
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    • 187 11  -  Tan Choon Ming IN HIS letter, "Let's get real about ecotourism" (July 13), Mr Lai Yew Chan explained that enterprises in Singapore requiring the use of land must justify its commercial viability. We should perhaps stop reducing everything down to dollars and cents.
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  • BUSINESS
    • 948 14 Dow Jones Dramatic libel suit shakes up local corporate scene THE dramatic libel action of a Singapore tycoon has shaken up the local corporate scene by dragging in the names of some of the establishment's top executives and institutions. For more than a week, the
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    • 423 16  -  Tav Tsen-Wave Sector expected to hit twice manufacturing output target next year WITH Singapore's biomedical sciences sector likely to reach its manufacturing output target of $12 billion for next year one year ahead of schedule, the Government is aiming to double output to $24 billion in
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    • Market WATCH
      • 4 16 ST Index 1871.47 +3.91
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      • 165 16 Dow Jones SGX, Bloomberg SINGAPORE shares closed a tad higher on Friday, propped up by China plays but technology sector worries kept investors cautious ahead of the weekend. Strong growth in Singapore's non-oil exports in June railed to revive investor sentiment battered by the recent barrage of downgrades on
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      • 54 16 iy volume Close Change 'OOO Daka Chartered Cosco Corp China Paper GuangzhaolFB Citiraya Bio-Treat NOL Techcomp ACCS 0.160 1.240 0.865 0.410 0.255 0.595 0.930 2.350 0.380 0.680 -0.030 +0.005 +0.010 +0.015 +0.005 +0.010 -0.025 -2.4 +0.6 +2.5 +2.6 +0.5 +0.4 -6.2 84,60: 25,67; 24,48' 23,51i 15,29' 14,16'
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      • 77 16 )y$ CITYDEV Close 5.700 Change +0.100 By percentage El Nets Close i 0.015 Changi +50.1 Creative 50 16.900 +0.100 Goldtron 0.020 +33.: FSN SIA 13.600 11.000 +0.100 +0.100 Sunlight MAE Engg 0.020 0.070 +33.: +27.: UOB 13.600 +0.100 BBR 0.025 +25.1 CITYDEV 3.200 +0.060 Hua Kok 0.030
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      • 73 16 ly$ Courts Sp Close 0.550 Change -0.150 By percentage GMG Close 0.025 Changi -0.011 DBS 15.300 -0.100 MediaS 0.015 -o.oo: SIA200 Venture 10.900 16.600 -0.100 -0.100 Courts Sp PNE Ind 0.550 0.020 -0.151 -o.oo: Haw Par 4.840 -0.080 FDS Nelw 0.120 -0.02: AVJennings 1.720 -0.070 Inno-Pac 0.025
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      • 60 16 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.00 Change Pis +26.86 +0.24 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.20 3531.00 5502.14 +119.79 +4.90 -40.66 +1.00 +0.14 -0.73 Korea Comp KLCI 809.45 842.65 +4.05 +12.91 +0.48 +1.61 SET Index Jakarta Comp 646.11 756.09 -0.65 +10.75 -0.10 +1.44 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1551.23
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      • 21 16 Gold uss/oi 404.200 Silver uss/oi 6.635 Platinum uss/oz 815.000 Rubber centsAg 221.01 Palm Oil RM/tonne 444.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 37.88
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      • 36 16 US$ 0.5857 UK£ 0.3161 Yen 64.311 HK$ 4.5687 RM 2.2258 Euro 0.4741 Rupiah 5251.13 Baht 23.9069 Peso 32.7896 A$ 0.8104 Indian Rs 27.0113 Won 680.1289 C$ 0.7752 Yuan 4.848 NZ$ 0.9002 NTS 19.8629
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    • 164 18 Dow Jones THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) will farm out to private fund managers up to $5 billion annually from next year. The GIC, set up in 1981 to manage Singapore's reserves, said on Friday that it has already
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    • 432 18 Agencies Govt raises forecast up from 8-10% SINGAPORE'S key exports in June rose sharply year-on-year, underscoring an export-led economic recovery that sets up the Republic to be one of Asia's fastest growing economies this year. Official data released on Friday revealed that non-oil domestic
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    • shoptalk
      • 163 20 Lux has introduced a new range of shower creams to suit your every mood. The Lux Skin Mood Spa range has six soothing and refreshing variants to perk you up or help you destress. The Awaken Spa uses orange peel to create that tangy fruity fragrance and to
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      • 92 20 Enjoy mountain-fresh air in the home with the Serumi Air Clinic. This is an awardwinning air purifier that not only cleans the air in the room, it also releases a high amount of negative cluster ions to help neutralise the pollutants in the air. The
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    • 163 20 -AFP FRANKFURT Sony Music and BMG, currently awaiting the green light from Brussels to merge, are planning to axe a quarter of their joint workforce, or 2,000 jobs, once the tie-up is approved, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The music subsidiaries of
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    • 471 20 Reuters 9.6% GDP growth in Q2 lower than expected BEIJING China's second-quarter economic growth weakened more than expected, according to data released on Friday, suggesting that the government may be achieving a soft landing for the economy. The country's gross domestic product was 9.6 per
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    • 135 17 Attractive new SI66K design. A The Novita Steamer J203 is your answer to greater convenience 1 when it comes to straightening I PROMOTION I out those creases. It is well I designed to take on any type of Jf fabrics to make sure that all m your clothes are taken
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  • wh?chPROPERTY
    • 491 22  -  Kevin Tan Property specialists give their views on the best investments to make in Singapore, Malaysia and WITH regional economies growing at a steady pace, property prices are getting stronger amid rising demand. For investors with funds of about $2 million, which are the best investments to make
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    • 40 22 Located in a cul-de-sac in an exclusive neighbourhood, the property comes with a large swimming pool with a Jacuzzi and an extremely well-maintained interior. The house, at 107 Sixth Avenue, has four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
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    • 158 22 OKAY, at an asking price of $3.3 million, it is expensive and, yes, it is probably too big and lush for most folk. But there is no harm dreaming. Besides, who knows what sort of creative loan packages your kindly
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    • 271 23 Thailand, as prices strengthen and demand rises as Sony and Panasonic. That has helped boost property prices by well over 30 per cent in some instances in greater Bangkok, said analysts. "Clearly, many other big players are considering joining in as they see much better savings
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    • Article, Illustration
      119 23 Rare mortgagee flat in Crystal Court MORTGAGEE properties do not come around often. Even rarer is a mortgagee property that appears in the choice residential belt of Orchard Road and its environs. Well, here is one of that rare breed, with an asking price comparable to that which
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      765 24  -  Gurmeet Singh RELAXING BEAUTIES Cosy up tor forty winks or a peaceful read on the new member in the family furniture LOOKING to add that holiday feel to your home? Borrow an idea from your recent trip abroad to that sunny island to jazz up your home. Daybeds
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    • 81 24 GREAT HOME IMM Enjoy great deals on electrical appliances when you shop at IMM. Spend $600 at selected shops on July 1 9 to 22 and July 26 to 29, between noon and 7pm, and you can purchase a DVD home theatre system for just $1 0. Other
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  • WORLD
    • 290 26 Reuters DALLAS The low-fare US carrier Southwest Airlines likes to say it is the airline built on love thanks to its open seating policy, where customers are free to choose their seats. Many a romance has
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    • 987 26  -  Siddharth Srivastava WHEN A COUNTRY IS in New Delhi HOW should the world's largest democracy which is the bedrock of the global information-technology revolution react, when faced with news that its defence minister has been "strip-searched" not once, but twice, in the United States? Is it
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 659 28  -  Alfred Aloysius say I LANDED in Freetown, the Sierra Leone capital, one April afternoon after flying 25 hours across the globe. The airport was distinctly "Fourth World" a far cry from the carpeted luxury of Changi Airport In the United Nations' annual Human
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      748 28  -  Dave Barry The art of keeping pets for your child PETS are good. They teach children important lessons about life, the main one being, sooner or later, life kicks the bucket With me, it was sooner. When I was young, my dad, who worked in New York
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 27 28 The tour will be followed by lunch and then^s K? V\ v3jr straight to the operating theatre f*ll Y Medical tourism, a possible growth industry for Singapore
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  • wh?chGADGET
    • 376 30  - Work out the storyline Francis Chin and Canon's latest digicams will do the rest SHOOTING a personal movie is easy with Canon's new palm-sized MVX 20i and 25i digital camcorders, but getting an interesting storyline into your movie needs more than handling the camera skilfully. For a three-minute improvised movie
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    • 278 30 THE exotic Blu-ray optical disc that can store up to 50GB is becoming a reality with Philips Electronics' newly-developed optical pick-up unit (OPU). The OPUBI can read and write CD-R/-RW, DVD+R(DL)/ +RW and the Blu-ray Disc (BD). Philips said the OPU can be
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    • SHOPPING GUIDE
      • 92 31 NIXON'S latest Coolpix 4100 is a light and compact 4-megapixel camera with a bright 1 .6-inch LCD monitor. The easy-to-read menus feature large characters and colourful icons for idiotproof operation. All controls are at the back of the camera for easy access. With a high-quality 3x optical
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      • 103 31 IF YOU are into serious digital photography (as in 5 megapixels and beyond), then get the San Disk IGB Extreme Compact Flash storage card. It offers a minimum 9MB/sec write speed for fast image capture, and 1 OMB/sec read speed for viewing and data transfer.
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      • 118 31 IMATION'S IGB USB 2.0 jg Swivel Flash Drive is I about the size of an AA battery and weighs 28g. It can fit onto a supplied lanyard, or slipped into a I pocket. It reads at I BMB/sec and write data I at 7MB/sec.
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      • 85 31 THE external lomega USB 2.0 desktop 160GB hard Jisk drive should satisfy the most voracious ippetite, at least for now. Designed for the _9sktop PC with a 7200 £PM performance and "touchrree oacKup sorrware, the new drive gives users a simple and complete solution for managing
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    • 191 31 RATHER than wait for the Blu-Ray optical disc with its promise of 50GB capacity, the next best thing we can do is get Verbatim's Double Layer Recordable DVD (DVD+R DL) that offers 8.5G8, almost double the existing 4.7G8. The Verbatim disc is backward
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  • plus
    • 682 32 WORD had it that there was going to be a twist at the "world gala premiere" of House of Flying Daggers the latest Zhang Yimou epic starring Andy Lav, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Zhang Ziyi. But we were not prepared for this. Said to be the first
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    • Article, Illustration
      56 34 TREVOR TAN MediaCorp artiste Chen Liping jumping up to grab the ingredients from the dangling strings to pass it to children during the rehearsals for a segment of the NKF Children's Medical Fund Charity Show on Sunday. The kids would then pass the ingredients to Moses Lim, who has to
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    • 341 34  -  Eveline Gan Jeff Chang and Sky Wu will perform at the CMF Charity Show this Sunday FOR buddies Jeff Chang and Sky Wu, holding a concert together is a dream come true. "The best thing about holding a concert together is that we can share the
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  • incinemas
    • 165 35 AFP LOS ANGELES Hip-hop king Andre 3000 and actress Alicia Silverstone have been voted the "World's Sexiest Vegetarians" in a poll conducted by an animal rights group, officials said on Thursday. More than 12,000 people cast their votes in the 2004 version of the annual online
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    • 136 35 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES On Sept 11, the family, friends and fans of John Ritter will commemorate the first anniversary of his death. A week later, he will compete in the best lead actor in a comedy series category at the 56th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
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    • IN CINEMAS ROUND-UP
      • 27 36 A hyped-up summer blockbuster but Spider-Man 2 is even better than the first. Easily the best comic bookbased film of this year. Yong Shu Chiang
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      • 25 36 Local film-maker Jack Neo's new and timely film about gambling is unpretentious, dramatic, with winning dark humour. Stars Mark Lee. Serene Foo
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      • 28 36 Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film, set in 1968 Paris, has politics as a backdrop to a strange menage a trois. It's daring, outrageous, disgusting and memorable. YSC
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      • 33 36 HARRY POTTER THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN YSC The third Potter film, by new director Alfonso Cuaron, is a darker, smoother brew. But our hero's continuing journey has lots of fun and adventure yet
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      • 35 36 BROTHERHOOD TAEGUKGI About two brothers' love for each other during the Korean War of the 1 9505. Driven more by the emotional than the political, the film's still not above rousing nationalistic sentiment. Jeanine Tan
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      • 30 36 YSC There are flashes of brilliance in this semi-allegory about Hong Kong's collective psyche. But staying with the start-stop plot is difficult. Stars Louis Koo and Aaron Kwok.
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    • 313 36  -  Zul Othman JOHN Chiong (picture) is a man on a mission. For the three years running, this events manager from Awakening Productions has been the man behind Baybeats, the Esplanade's hugely successful alternative and free music festival. As Baybeats' event producer, John has brought together some of
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    • 644 37  - 'Sugar water experts Cathleen Tung More varieties now on offer for dessert lovers in Singapore OUI BESIDES dim sum and congee, the Cantonese are well-known for their desserts, or tong shui (literally "sugar water"). These include red bean soup, green bean soup and delicious pastes made from sesame, peanut, walnut,
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    • 437 38  -  Colin Yong FIGURES released last week by the Motor Traders Association of Singapore have validated the scene on the streets the Toyota Corolla Altis is Singapore's favourite car. More than 5,600 units were sold in the first six months of this
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    • 629 39  -  Sheldon Trollope Audi s high-tech aluminium-bodied A 8 now comes with a smaller engine THERE was a time when there was only one luxury car to own, one watch to wear and one cognac to be seen drinking if you wanted to let others know you had arrived.
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      • 114 39 Building on the success of the five-door Colt, Mitsubishi has previewed this three-door model in an attempt to woo younger buyers. The new car, called the Colt CZ3, will be launched at the end of this year and sold initially only in Europe. However, the new
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      • 117 39 Citroen fans rejoice! The first official photos of the new C 4 show that it makes a welcome return to the French manufacturer's quirky styling roots. Set to replace the aged Xsara, the C 4 will be officially introduced at the Paris Motor Show in
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    • 343 44  -  Alvin Chua A GOAL and a man down, Home United looked dead and buried, in their NTUC IncomeYeo's S-League match against Geylang United on Friday, at Bishan Stadium. By the end of the 90 minutes, though, the defending champions claimed a 4-2 victory to retake top
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    • 546 44 AFP Despite weather, Fijian keeps in touch with early leaders GOLF British Open, second round TROON, Scotland Vijay Singh began to close in on the overnight leaders, with a second round 1-under 70 in blustery conditions at the British Open Championship here on Friday. It put him
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    • 97 44 POLITICIANS will do battle this weekend on a football pitch, rather than in parliament Football Association of Singapore president Ho Peng Kee has convinced other MPs to form a team to take on a side of former national footballers. They will clash as part of the
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    • 140 44 MADRID Real Madrid may offer striker Fernando Morientes to Arsenal as bait to lure Patrick Vieira to the Bernabeu. Real want to land Vieira in a £30 million ($95.5 million) deal, and hope manager Arsene Wenger's longtime admiration of Morientes, 28, could be a sweetener in any
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    • 713 45 -AFP TRI-NATIONS RUGBY New Zealand v Australia WELLINGTON The All Blacks engaged in deep soul-searching ahead of the opening Tri-Nations rugby Test of 2004 against the Wallabies here on Saturday, as they sought to recapture their mental toughness while taunted by Australian accusations
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    • 282 45 Agencies Laker guard now calls the shots in team affairs, but was it a hostile takeover? Bryant's re-signing above all else and feared it would weaken the organisation. Three weeks later, Jackson said of his own departure: "They wanted to make some moves to
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    • 828 46 AFP Agencies Call it resolve or just plain guts, but embattled Jones books her ticket to Athens in fine style SACRAMENTO Monday evening in Sacramento, Marion Jones (picture) made three pathetic attempts in long jump qualifying at the US Olympic Track and Field Trials, finished seventh in
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    • 151 46  -  Dan Pek FOLLOWING a lacklustre second round, Singapore's top junior Choo Tze Huang (picture) stormed to joint 4th place in the 2004 Callaway Golf World Junior Championships at Torres Pines on Thursday (Friday morning Singapore time). Aiming to finish in the top five of
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    • 200 46 PIURA, Peru Mexico, fresh from their first competitive win over Argentina, will attempt to add another prize scalp, when they face Brazil in the Copa America quar-ter-finals on Sunday (Monday morning, Singapore time). Mexico coach Ricardo Lavolpe has promised his team will take the
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    • 752 47 Agencies It's a brave target, but Spitz' 32-year-old gold medal record looks safe LONG BEACH, California Michael Phelps claims his only ambition at the Athens Olympics is to win one gold medal, but he's not fooling anyone. When an athlete enters himself for eight Olympic
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