Today, 17 November 2000

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    9 1 TODAY MITA (P) 138/*****0 i November 17, 2000 Friday
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    SIA loses $3.9m case
    524 1  -  Elaine Quek Embezzler's sister-in-law proves it's not his money by.. elaine@newstoday.com.sg WITH a mountain of evidence to refute and without a lawyer by her side, the sister-in-law of jailed embezzler Teo Cheng Kiat single-handedly turned tables on the mighty Singapore Airlines legal team. The book-keeper, who
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    Lock icon Umno Youth puts pressure, Dr Mahathir scraps plan
    239 1 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Dr Mahathir Mohamad's chosen successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will have to earn his spurs after all. Their party has dropped a plan that would have allowed the two leaders to lead their party into the next general elections, without
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      34 1 rife Why do you collect ducks? I**^ Do you back Vincent? m> Because I'm a Kwek No comment Interview with SMKT boss KWEK SIEW JIN Interview with Lions captain NAZRINASIR 17 l m%. I
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Heart drug gets okay
      209 2  -  Leong Phei Phei US study gives thumbs up to Lipitor by.. pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg FOR three years, this drug has been helping heart patients in Singapore.Yesterday, a study in the United States proved beyond doubt that Lipitor can drastically reduce the risk of heart diseases and strokes.The American
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      Lock icon Apec leaders call for trade talks
      207 2 -AFP BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Asia-Pacific leaders called, at the end of their two-day summit yesterday, for the launch of a new round of world trade talks in 2001. In a declaration, the 21-mem-ber Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) grouping said globalisation "holds the greatest opportunity
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      Be an angel to these HIV kids
      408 2  -  Ng Hwee Koon by.. hweekoon@newstoday.com.sg THERE are now nine HIV-infected children in Singapore who are treated at XX Women's Children's Hospital. And they are in great need of money. Of the nine, eight require financial assistance. The amount: A staggering $76,800 a year.
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      Expats run off without paying taxes
      306 3 HK Govt lost $48 million in three years. It will impose new rule on employers and foreign workers HONG KONG The Hong Kong government is going to get tough on its expatriate workers, after thousands were found to have left the country without paying
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      Lock icon Ideal Internet love affair gone wrong
      130 3 -AFP HONG KONG A Hong Kong man who thought he had found true love with a woman he met through an Internet chatroom ended up being tor tured by her for three days and nights, the alleged victim told police. A police spokesman said
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      Lock icon No ads on bus windows: Malaysia
      77 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian buses have been banned from carrying ads on their windows with immediate effect. Those who ignore the ban would be fined RM3OO. The Road Transport Department said the precautionary move followed a case where a bus passenger was raped and
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      Lock icon Senior citizens to learn first aid
      146 3 AFP PHOTO A "HOME-ALONE" senior citizen who gets scalded, feels faint or has breathing difficulties may panic and get himself into a bad situation. But now, with a pilot programme by Tanjong Pagar CDC and Singapore General Hospital, these citizens need not panic. A
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      Artistes in anti-piracy war roles
      117 3 MEDIACORP Studio artistes Jack Neo and Farm Wong will become anti-piracy ambassadors tomorrow at an exhibition to educate and raise public awareness on Intellectual Property (IP) issues. They will receive their appointments at the event, IP 2000 Intellectual Property Its Potential, by Acting Minister for
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      Justice calls
      19 3 THE Subordinate Courts has launched a new hotline to make the courts more accessible/The number is 1800-587-8423.
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      Single mum fights back
      375 5  -  Leong Phei Phei She sets up group to help women like herself by.. pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg THE MPs were worried. Earlier this week, they debated whether single mothers needed help, or counselling or government support. No decision was taken. But at least one woman wasn't waiting for anyone
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      Whoops, maid's sneak lover boy caught by silent alarm
      146 5  -  Shazalina Salim by.. shazalina@newstoday.com.sg THE maid's boyfriend chose the wrong place to carry out his flirta tion. He sneaked into her employer's house, without realising that the house owner owned an alarm company. The intruder got no warning. Mr Philip Tan's
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      98 3 READ 0N... Single mum fights back One woman refuses to be overcome by prejudices/5 Shah Rukh's back Without two stars/6 Oct exports rose 16.4% Exports of $10.7 billion beat economists' estimates/9 Dead but alive Association of Dead People resurrects, 1000 victims/ 18 Laughter the best heart medicine People who laugh
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Off with a fine
      326 6  -  Elaine Quek Kent Road killer litter case by.. elaine@newstoday.com.sg THE retired nurse, whose potted plant fell on a child and killed her, was yesterday fined $10,000 for causing death by negligence. Lim Annie, 59, (right) wept when the fine was imposed. Her lawyer, Mr Pritam Singh
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      Have a regular saving plan
      401 6 A reader responds to Lee Yew Meng's report on the CPF Board's move to save investors who can't keep up with regular insurance premiums. I READ your article "Their Ss67m CPF loss". I was really surprised and sorry for those who lost their hard-earned money.
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      Shah Rukh – minus two top movie stars
      320 6 Shah Rukh minus two top movie stars THIS one has more twists than your average Hindi movie. Now, the on-again, off-again Shah Rukh Khan (right) concert is finally on again. With a fresh supporting cast. Replacing an older hunk, Sanjay Dutt, is a younger one, Akshay Khanna. In place of
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      October exports rose by 16.4%
      394 9  -  Chan Chao Peh Exports of $10.7 billion beat economists' estimates by.. chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINAGPORE posted higher than expected trade figures for October. Non-oil domestic exports, a key economic indicator, rose 16.4 per cent on a year-on-year nominal basis to $10.7 billion. This is higher than the
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      New OCBC Securities move to boost retail short-selling
      394 9  -  Lee Yew Meng by.. yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg RETAIL short-selling here will be given a boost with the launch of Singapore's first share borrowing facility by OCBC Securities. The move will allow retail investors to take advantage of market downside and deliver the borrowed scrips
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      Lock icon Singapore Exchange's IPO 15 times oversubscribed
      291 9 Bloomberg News SINGAPORE Exchange's share sale to professional investors was 15 times oversubscribed. Merrill Lynch Co, one of the underwriters.added that fund managers expect the company to see stable earnings growth. Singapore Exchange will be the third bourse in Asia to trade shares publicly.
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Mixed trading
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        Robust export numbers lift sentiment
        421 10 SINGAPORE shares ended mixed yesterday with light bargain hunting in blue chips lifting the STI index to close up 24.66 points to 1982.34. Market breadth was cautious with 144 gainers outpacing 118 losers and 305 counters unchanged. Volume was light at 316 million shares worth
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        Key index stocks sold down in featureless trading
        395 10 KUALA LUMPUR The benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index shed 7.7 points to close at 730, in a day characterized by notable selling of key index stocks. This was despite a decent performance put up by US markets overnight. Market participants complained of
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      Lock icon GM and Proton in alliance?
      426 11 -Bloomberg News General Motors may buy stake in Malaysian car-maker BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN General Motors Corp, the world's biggest automaker, said it is in talks with Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional or Proton of Malaysia on a possible alliance. "We've had some discussions," Mr Rudolph Schlais, president
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      SingNet introduces volume-based broadband service
      236 11 SINGNET has introduced volume-based plans for its broadband Internet service which will be available from today. These are in addition to its current time-based plans which were introduced in August this year. Broadßand offers customers highspeed surfing, faster downloads and multi-tasking such as surfing the
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      US air accord with S'pore, Brunei
      114 11 WASHINGTON The US has agreed to loosen restrictions on air travel with Singapore, Brunei, Chile and New, its first aviation agreement with more than one country. The move streamlines international aviation accords by reducing the number of negotiations between countries, the US Department of
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Enemy No 1
      429 14 China believes US out to block its rise in Asia BEIJING Uncle Sam has become the big, bad bogey in the eyes of many Chinese officials and academics. In government pronouncements, stories in the state-run press, books and interviews, the United States is now routinely portrayed as
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      Lock icon Peruvians 'jail' President Fujimori in protest
      79 14 REUTERS Photo Protesters gather around a display with the face of President Alberto Fujimori and former spy chief Vladimiro Moniesinos in a self-made jail during a protest againts President Alberto Fujimori's government outside the Justice Palace in Lima on Nov 15. Peruvian President Alberto
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      Lock icon French unsure which China produced radioactive watches
      244 14 AFP PARIS A watch that sparked an alert in France after its metal strap was found to be radioactive was manufactured in China, officials said Wednesday. They denied it was made in Taiwan. Carrefour, France's biggest retail firm and the second largest in
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      Lock icon Drunk creates havoc in mid-air rampage on Air New Zealand
      241 14 -AFP AUCKLAND A drunk Guatemala-born Australian wanting to kill Americans caused havoc on an Air New Zealand flight over the midPacific. It took three people to restrain him. The man, identified as Erickson Alfonso Morales, 30, had been taking prescription
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      Lock icon Lawless enforcers
      472 16 AFP, Reuters Three Los Angeles police officers found guilty of brutality LOS ANGELES In the first trial arising from the worst police corruption scandal in Los Angeles history, three police officers were found guilty of obstructing justice. The four-week trial exposed the inner workings of a special anti-gang
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      Lock icon A mind's eye view
      304 16 Reuters LOS ANGELES There really is such a thing as a "mind's eye" in which brain cells retain and recall specific visual images long after a person has gazed upon them. "Visual images can be generated in our mind's eye in the absence of actually looking
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      Lock icon Star swimmer with sharks to endorse watch
      55 16 REUTERS Photo Australia's Olympic swimming star lan Thorpe swims amongst sharks at the Sydney Aquarium yesterday. The Sydney Olympics triple gold medalist launched a special designed limited edition watch, of which there are only 100 available and exclusive to Australia, at the event.
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      Lock icon Russia has fastest-growing spread of AIDS
      117 16 -AFP MOSCOW Russia has the world's fastest-grow-ing number of new sufferers of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS, with 70,000 cases now officially registered. The head of a UN programme in Moscow, Arkadiush Mayshik, said that nearly 40,000 people have contracted HIV since
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      Blair rallies his faithful
      476 17  -  Neville Stack Thank-you letters for supporters before election by.. neville@newstoday.com.sg BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is to send hundreds of thousands of thank-you letters to supporters of his Labour party, saying the country was moving in the right direction but warning that the task is by
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      Lock icon Press clamours for arrest of Indian star's kidnapper
      258 17 AFP NEW DELHI The national rejoicing that greeted the release of kidnapped Indian film icon Rajkumar was reflected in the Indian press yesterday, but one message dominated get the kidnapper. Mr Rajkumar's release on Wednesday after 108 days in captivity monopolised the
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      Malaysians abuse computer scheme
      191 17 KUALA LUMPUR Thousands of workers have been abusing a scheme aimed at putting computers into Malaysian homes. The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) equivalent to Singapore's CPF scheme paid out at least RMI7I million (5578.4 million) to some 57,000 contributors to buy computers. But only 1,200 of
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      Dead but alive
      434 18  -  Shanoo Maharaj Association of Dead People resurrects 1000 victims of Indian land scam by.. in New Delhi ONE fine day, 24 years ago, Mr Lai Bihari found out that he was dead. Tthe 21 year-old farm owner (right) had woken up in the morning in his Azamgarh
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      Lock icon It's now okay to have many wives in South Africa
      308 18 AFP JOHANNESBURG A new law that recognises traditional African marriages, including polygamous unions, has come into effect in South Africa. The law will bring relief to African women who have for long been dicriminated against because their traditional marriages were
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      Lock icon Laughter the best heart medicine
      281 18 Reuters NEW ORLEANS Laughter may indeed be the best medicine. People who laugh more are less likely to have heart disease, US researchers said in a new study. "The old axiom that laughter is the best medicine appears to hold true when it comes to
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  • INTERVIEW
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      Lock icon Mr Smile
      820 19  -  Shazalina Salim The SMRT chief has been a people person since his days in the Navy by.. shazalina@newstoday.com.sg RIGID. Stern. No-nonsense. Those words spring to mind when confronted with a name like RearAdmiral (Retired) Kwek Siew Jin. But the one-time commander-in-chief of the Republic of Singapore Navy is
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  • COMMENTRARY
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      And the new President is ...
      517 20  - And the new President is Jonathan Capehart Amid controversy, Gore shows he is the better man by.. in New York NEW YORK If you think of it, the drawnout November election is the first crisis for the 43rd US president. Texas Governor George W Bush and Vice-President Al Gore (picture)
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      Lock icon Bush cousin does a boo-boo
      195 20 Reuters NEW YORK The reputation of Fox News Channel has been marred by an executive who abused his position in the coverage of the US presidential election, according to the New York Times. On that fateful night of Nov 7, Mr John Ellis played a
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      Lock icon Malaysia -free anti-smoking gum
      119 21 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's health ministry is offering free herbal chewing gum for 45 days to help smokers kick the habit. The "nicotine polacrilex" gum will be given to those undergoing therapy to help alleviate withdrawal symptons, the ministry's cancer and tobacco unit principal assistant director
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      Lock icon Britain -free fruit in schools
      159 21 -AFP LONDON Millions of British schoolchildren are to receive free fruit each day under a new government initiative. Within three years, the government plans to provide every four to six-year-old free fruit including apples, bananas, pears, kiwi fruit and satsumas every day. Health Minister Yvette
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      Lock icon The new challenge
      668 21  -  Linda Sieg Reuters Kato seeking 'people power' to oust Mori by.. in Tokyo A WOULD-be reformer in Japan's dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is pursuing a unique and risky strategy of appealing to "people power" in his struggle to grab the nation's top job. Public opinion and
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      152 20 f During a press f %JSft conference on \^mm J morality, a reporter asked Philippine President Joseph Estrada about marriage. Reporter: Sir, how many women do you believe a man must marry? Estrada: 16 Reporter: Why? Estrada: Because the priest says: Four richer, four poorer, four better, four worse. Read
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  • SHOWCASE
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      Let the music begin
      816 22  -  Rosalind Png Compiled by rosalind@newstoday.com.sg Hilary Hahn Plays Shostakovich Today and tomorrow 8.15pm Victoria Concert Hall This is part of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra presents Master Series. The rousing Prince Igor Overture by Borodin sets the stage for Shostakovich's darkly tragicomic Violin Concerto No. 1. American
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      119 22 NOW SHOWING "The actors are zany and entertaining... COlOUrfUl fun." WhangYeeUng.i!i "The supporting cast of foul-mouthed jVJ parents and madcap relatives MT^Mrfea? AY ...Is delightfully spontaneous m m rnm^m M^— ...playing off each other with 'AT IMS' comic gusto..." mm^ II Helml Yusof. Ulel The Slr«)U limes MB?^A.^^ AT deliciously
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      1024 25 8.00 Kaalathaal Azhiyaatha 7.00 Magazine Asian This program is a chronological ON CABLE ON RADIO Kathaigal (Ep.s): This is a touch- Football Show description of Mr Kirn Dae Jung's W Entertainment (Ch 56) RSI Hour on Newsradio 938 ing love story narrated by the hero 8.00 Extreme 16MM political life
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Lucky Phyllis'
      7 26 Tumv photos by WEE TECKHIAN
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      Failure only spurs Phyllis on to better things
      484 26  -  Hazel Tan by.. hazel@newstoday.com.sg FAILURE is good, says Phyllis Quek. It keeps her going. She should know. She was ousted from the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes at the Star Awards last year, a trophy she brought home two consecutive years
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      star is shining
      449 27 Wining and dining the LUX star'can prove nerve-wracking NOT everyone gets to wine and dine a beautiful star under romantic lights and music. If you did, you would be able to understand what two male contest winners experienced last Friday night. They were at Snappers in Ritz
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      Jinho Kim celebrates Romanian pianist's last recital
      378 27  -  David Ngiau by.. david@newstoday.com.sg KOREAN pianist Jinho Kirn (right) is in town to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dinu Lipatti's last-ever recital. I can almost hear you ask: "Dinu who?" Well, that's precisely why Jinho wants to do this concert. "I'm doing this
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      Electric dreams
      394 28 GENERAL Motors used the Millennium Motor Show as a major platform to promote its zero emissions HydroGen 1 'fuel cell' car, which expels nothing but water. The system is currently being evaluated in a fleet of test-bed Opel Zafira MPVs by GM. Once it is perfected, and production
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  • TECH NEWS
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      Comfort is the key to winning
      603 30 Game champion gives tips on keyboard and mouse configuration FOR the sake of efficiency and comfort, keyboard and mouse configuration is crucial to your performance in the virtual arena. As for the keyboard, most people use the directional arrow keys for their basic movements.
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      Win as you learn and get entertained atthe National Library
      388 30  -  Sol E Solomon by r solomon@newstoday.com.sg REMEMBER when it was only hard copy books that you could pore over at a library? Well, with the electronic age, things have changed at the National Library Board (NLB). In fact, two new
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      Get hip with music
      181 31 Go ahead, download and enjoy the music DATA management vendor, lomega Corporation, has launched the Hip Zip player, a sleek new digital audio device that combines affordable music storage with support for licensed digital downloads of copyrighted music. It is the latest offering from lomega's strategic
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      More options for Creative users
      192 31 EXISTING users of Sound Blaster Live! and the NOMAD line of digital audio players can now enjoy commercial digital audio and music downloads currently available on the DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology and Microsoft's Windows Media Format (VMA), using the new Version 2.1 of Creative
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      345 33 -AFP NEW DELHI -John Wright took charge as Indian cricket's first foreign coach yesterday, diving head on into unchartered territory that resembles a snakepit. The former New Zealand captain will not only have to contend with a mediocre national team, but also ensure quick results to tide over
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      175 33 Reuters KARACHI Pakistan officials said they had lost a £10-million ($25 million) television deal as a result of India's decision to cancel a threeTest tour. The Indian government refused to sanction the tour, the first to Pakistan for 11 years, and Pakistan hinted
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      231 33 Reuters SEOUL Fifa president Joseph Blatter said yesterday that he expects to visit North Korea next year to discuss the possibility of the communist nation hosting a match in the 2002 World Cup finals. But the head of football's international governing
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      Lock icon Aussie swim star quits
      445 34 Reuters Perkins to go into sports marketing and broadcasting Swimming SYDNEY Australian swimming great Kieren Perkins (right) announced his retirement yesterday, eight weeks after his emotional farewell at the Sydney Olympics. Perkins, 27, said he had decided to swop his goggles for a new life in
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      347 34 Reuters NBA SIXERS 107 CAVALIERS 98 PHILADELPHIA George Lynch felt the time had come for him to lead the Philadelphia 76ers, even if it meant not playing his normal game. He scored a season-high 23 points and Allen Iverson added 22 as
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      13 35 In full flight. Ariel Ortega bamboozles the Chilean defence. AFP photo
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      222 35 Reuters SAO PAULO New Brazilian coach Emerson Leao ended his first match in charge with a chorus of abuse ringing in his ears. An injury time goal by defender Rogue Junior scraped a 1-0 win over Colombia, but Brazil struggled
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      Lock icon Depleted Argentina too strong, keeps five-point lead over Brazil, Paraguay
      846 35 Reuters South American World Cup Qualifiers SANTIAGO Ariel Ortega inspired Argentina to a 2-0 away win over Chile when he scored a stunning individualistic goal in its World Cup qualifier yesterday. Ortega also set up the pass for Claudio Husain
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      537 37 New captain refuses to retaliate TURIN New England skipper David Beckham won praise for showing maturity in the face of provocation in yesterday's 1-0 defeat to Italy in the Stadio Delle Alpi. Gennaro Gattuso appeared to throw a punch at Beckham who was claiming a penalty after
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      Lock icon French whip the Turks, Hasselbaink sent off against Spain
      361 37 Reuters LONDON Reigning World Cup holder France showed an experimental Turkish side no mercy when it won 4-0 on a night of international friendlies. The 9,000 Turks who turned out for the friendly in Istanbul saw the French scoring through David
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      504 38  -  Leonard Thomas The Tiger Man Series Kiatisak, the player they call Zico fby leonard@newstoday.com.sg HE'S not called Zico for nothing. Kiatisak is a hero to millions of Thais. Two months ago, the best 12 teams in Asia gathered in Lebanon for the Asian Cup. Among them was Thailand,
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      Lock icon New coach triumphs
      443 39  -  Leonard Thomas Danandjaya leads Indons to final after 3-2 win over Vietnam by.. leonard@newstoday.com.sg WITH little fanfare, the Indonesians sacked coach Nandar Iskandar in the aftermath of the 1-4 thrashing by the Thais in the Tiger Cup. Assistant coach Danandjaya was left in charge of the side
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      Thailand cruises into the Tiger Cup final
      218 39  -  S. Gulam by.. gulam@newstoday.com.sg AS expected, the Thais ended the great Malaysian run to breeze into the Tiger Cup final last night with a 2-0 win. They will face Indonesia, who upset Vietnam in the other semi-final, tomorrow for the US$BO,OOO ($125,000) championship
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      Gendut leads race for the Golden Boot
      151 39 BANGKOK Indonesia's man of the moment, Gendut Christiawan, is in the driver's seat to win the Golden Boot award in the ongoing Tiger Cup 2000. The current tournament top scorer with five goals. It was his golden goal that sent Indonesia into the
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      311 40  -  S. Gulam Do you support coach Vincent? That is sensitive. No comment. by.. gulam@newstoday.com.sg VINCENT Subramaniam has said his piece. "I'll quit only if, among other things, my players lose faith in me," the national coach told Today yesterday. So we asked the players' representative, captain Nazri Nasir,
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      Smith takes the early lead at Classic. Woods three behind
      328 40 BANGKOK Australian Wayne Smith held off a late roar from Tiger Woods to take the first round lead at the star-studded Johnnie Walker Classic yesterday. The 39-year-old Smith took advantage of an early tee time to shoot seven-under-par 65 at
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      535 47  -  Colin Yong Ruggedness meets luxury in the Lexus RX3OO, but are those two qualities a mismatch? By... When is a new car an old one? When it's the Lexus RX3OO. You might find it strange that Borneo Motors, the local Lexus distributor, is suddenly trumpeting the
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      179 48 The range-topping A 8 4.2 quattro has just been stretched. A long-wheelbase version of the limousine was recently introduced at the Singapore Millennium Motorshow, and apart from a longer body, it boasts a lengthier list of equipment, too. In addition to 1 30mm longer wheelbase and 70mm
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      95 48 Absolute Publishing The all-new VI 2 Vanquish is Aston Martin's new flagship model. Aiming to join the supercar league, it spits a whopping 450bhp and 556Nm of torque out of its naturally-aspirated 6.0 litre VI 2 powerplant. The super coupe is claimed to
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      399 53 Sydney played host to the Olympics but the harbourside city had other thrills as well, as Sharon Au and national swimmer Leslie Kwok (above) discovered Down Under YOU don't really know a person until you've travelled with them. Take Sharon Au (left) for instance. On City
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