Today, 27 November 2000

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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Farm bags three awards
      406 1  -  Hazel Tan Special achievement award a surprise *y hazelis'newstociay.com.sg ONE of the 10 most popular artistes. Of course. Most popular in Malaysia? No surprise. But when Farm Wong (above) was awarded a special achievement award at the Star Awards yesterday, there was a gasp of surprise.
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      Lock icon Israel minister and Arafat in secret talks
      137 1 -AFP JERUSALEM An Israeli cabinet minister held a secret meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday. Army radio said Tourism Minister and former army chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak met Mr Arafat in Gaza. Mr Lipkin-Shahak, who refused to comment on the reported
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      Lock icon Pollution alert as Chinese ship drifts
      125 1 -AFP LONDON Pollution experts stood by yesterday as a disabled Chinese cargo ship drifted dangerously close to the English coastline in strong winds. The bulk carrier Hebei Treasure, with a crew of 36, was disabled by steering problems off the Scilly Isles. Coastguards feared
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      Minister turns the tables
      394 2  -  Leong Phei Phei Silence greets Chee Hean's questions by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg WHEN a bunch of parents meet the Education Minister, it is not difficult to guess the direction the conversation will take. Are we putting too much pressure on our children? How will they cope? Are they
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      Lock icon Goodwill gesture? Cuba frees 7 Britons
      120 2 Reuters LONDON Cuba has released seven Britons detained in Havana last month on suspicion of breaching national security, the British Foreign Office said. The six men and a woman, who were arrested on Oct 8 on the communist-run Caribbean island, were said to have
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      Lock icon Medical info tops the list
      87 2 Reuters WASHINGTON More Americans surfing the Internet look for medical information than for sport scores, stock quotes or online shopping bargains, a group studying how the Internet affects people's lives revealed. An estimated 52 million Americans used the Internet to gain knowledge and treatment, improve
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      Lock icon High and dry 189S'poreans from Haadyai
      154 2 THE government has flown back 189 Singaporeans who were stranded in Haadyai following the floods there. The first batch of 149 Singaporeans returned on Saturday with the second batch of 40 arriving yesterday. Last evening, the Singapore consular officials were arranging for the rest
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  • RUSH NEWS
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      Lock icon An unlikely partnership
      311 3 Reuters Taiwanese nationalists meet Chinese communists BEIJING Locked in a struggle with President Chen Shui Bian, Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party is finding common cause with an old enemy the Chinese Communist Party. Since being toppled in elections in March, the nationalists have been cosying-up to their civil
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      Holland Close elderly folks get a treat
      111 3 THE Acting Environment Minister, Mr Lim Swee Say, yesterday announced that the Government will extend the project to improve the living conditions of the elderly to Block 1, Holland Close. The block has 364 one-room rental flats and was chosen because of the
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      Lock icon Longest tunnel ready
      76 3 -AFP OSLO -The world's longest tunnel is ready for use and King Harald V of Norway will officially open it today. The 24.5-kilome-tre Laerdel tunnel, blasted into a mountainside, will simplify road travel between Norway's two main cities, Oslo and Bergen, shaving off two hours off travelling
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      Lock icon One more to go as Bush, Gore wait
      160 3 AFP TALLAHASSEE (Florida) One more county in Florida, Palm Beach, is due to give its tally of a manual recount of votes in the US presidential election, early this morning. Earlier, Broward County handed in its final figure, which saw Republican candidate
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      Hand, foot and mouth scare hits tourism as travellers stay away
      163 3 THE number of visitor arrivals to Singapore grew by 5.2 per cent in October, and would have been higher if not for the negative publicity surrounding the outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), according to the Singapore
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      94 3 READ 0N... A Transparent Asia? Not yet, says PERC Post-crisis Asia still grappling with weak transparency/8 October manufacturing output... increases 18.8 per cent/8 Drugs, graft and illegals Threats to Thai national security/11 Price of Freedom Indian mobster buys way out of Thailand/13 Toy shop gifts-wrapped Stumped for Christmas toys? Hamsley
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Birth made easy
      317 4  -  Leonii Phei Phei With the 'doula' at your side by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg LIKE all first-time mothers-to-be, Mrs Sherry Bilan, 34, was fazed and confused when she learned she was pregnant. "I wanted dearly to have a natural birth, but felt that the kind of information the hospital gave
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      All pay and no soft issues makes Jack less developed
      158 4 SINGAPORE employers focus too much on pay and neglect the softer issues. Interestingly, top employees thought the opportunity to develop their skills was as important as pay, according to a survey by leading consulting firm Watson Wyatt on 101 companies
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      Pros and cons of being Dr M's girl
      563 5  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Helps open doors; openness can be used against her dad by: kim@newstoday.com.sg "I ALWAYS say that the only thing about being the prime minister is that you always get the best seat wherever you go," said a woman who should
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      New network for the old to learn
      248 5 IN a world where globalisation is increasingly reducing the ability of governments to influence outcomes, network governance the linking of the public, private and people sectors is the way to go. This was the message from Dr Ow Chin Hock, Minister of State
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      Causeway arrest leads to platinum jewellery
      134 5 JOHORBAHRU-Johor Customs have uncovered the activities of a syndicate smuggling in platinum jewellery following the arrest of a man at the Johor Causeway, on Saturday. State Customs Director, Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid said the 26-year-old man, a permanent resident of Singapore, was detained while
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  • YOUR LETTERS
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      CPF explains insurance policy action
      376 6 Balance between investment risks and money for old age Reader Kelvin Teng had wondered if the losses of investors, who got burnt when they used their CPF savings for regular premium insurance policies, could have been minimised. CPF Board responds. CPF investors who had bought
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      We do keep tab on disease breakouts
      293 6  -  ALVTN TOH A reader had asked why the Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Task Force did not make the disease legally notifiable muck earlier. He said this could have helped to anticipate the epidemic and perhaps prevented deaths. The Ministry of Environment responds.
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon A transparent Asia? Not yet, says PERC
      416 7 AFP Post-crisis Asia still grappling with weak transparency PRESSURE by global investors on Asian countries to raise the level of transparency and strengthen corporate governance appears to have failed, a regional survey showed. Three years after the 1997 financial meltdown, Asian countries have
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      October manufacturing output increases 18.8 per cent
      357 7  -  Chan Chao Peh. by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg MANUFACTURING output for October increased 18.8 per cent over the same period last year, propelled by the heavyweight electronics cluster, says the Economic Development Board (EDB). The month's showing is better than September's growth of 14.3 per cent,
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      Lock icon Available: 85 jobs Applying: 6,800 Taiwanese
      135 7 AFP TAIPEI Some 6,800 Taiwanese applied for just 85 jobs yesterday at a steel firm as the island's unemployment rate hit a 15-year high. The state-run China Steel said reaction to the jobs advertisement was higher than expected. "I have a job right now
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      Lock icon Opec must wait before raising output, says minister
      152 7 Reuters DUBAI Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said yesterday that Opec must wait before hiking output further. However, he reiterated that his country and other producers would fill any supply gap arising from political disruption or natural disaster. Naimi said that
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      Ready to go up?
      387 8 With two pieces of good news, next stop could be 2,000 THE market finished last week's trading on a firm note buoyed by news that the Urban Renewal Authority is considering higher plot ratios for properties in the new downtown area Also in the news is
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      Selling pressure on a nervous market
      460 8 KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index fell 2.9 per cent or 21.5 points last week to 713.6. Sentiment remained weak throughout, mainly due to the United Engineers (M) asset restructuring deal which was seen to be negative to minority shareholders. Furthermore, the prolonged
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Plane wheel on fire
      72 10 AFP NEW DELHI A rear wheel of an Indian Airlines aeroplane caught fire on landing Saturday in the eastern city of Calcutta. Officials said all 219 passengers escaped injury. A rear wheel caught fire as soon the Airbus 300 from New Delhi to Calcutta touched down.
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      Lock icon Fire alarm on 747
      88 10 AFP PAPEETE An Air France Boeing 747 was forced to make an emergency landing yesterday on the South Pacific island of Tahiti 40 minutes after take off following a fire alarm, civil aviation authorities said. Flight AFO7I Papeete-Paris via Los Angeles with 347 passengers on board
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      Lock icon Drugs, graft and illegals
      235 10 -AFP Threats to Thai national security' BANGKOK Thailand's top security official has called for a clampdown on illegal immigrants from Myanmar, saying they now rival the drug crisis and corruption as a threat to national security. The comments yesterday came in the wake of a jailbreak
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      Lock icon Build memorial, says Bruce Lee's widow
      206 10 Kfi !TEKS photo AFP HONG KONG-The widow of Chinese mar-tial-arts legend Bruce Lee has called on the Hong Kong government to provide a memorial in honour of the man who transformed the image of kung fu movies. Mrs Linda Lee Cadwell said the government
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      Lock icon Militants break ceasefire and kill 4 Indian soldiers in Kashmir
      242 10 AFP SRINAGAR (India) Four Indian soldiers were killed yesterday in an ambush by suspected Muslim militants in Kashmir, shortly after the Indian military confirmed a month-long ceasefire. A police official said the rebels attacked a patrol of the elite counter-insurgency
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      Lock icon Peru sacks 15 army generals
      300 11 AFP Move aimed at ensuring impartiality in electoral process LIMA In a first, dramatic act just hours after being sworn in, Peru's new cabinet fired 15 army generals. It hopes the move would ensure the military's "impartiality" in a period of political uncertainty caused by
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      Lock icon Cambodia visit put off
      107 11 -AFP HANOI Vietnam's President Tran Due Luong has postponed a state visit to Cambodia this week "due to unexpected reasons". The visit, which had been due to begin tomorrow, was postponed "until further notice," said a brief statement carried by the official media yesterday. The decision
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      Nations fight over dead queen
      117 11 KABUL 2,500 years after she died, a member of ancient Iran's aristocracy is at the centre of a three-nation tug-of-war. Afghanistan's ruling Taleban movement has added its claim to a mummy seized by the Pakistani authorities during a police raid on a house in Pakistan,
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      Lock icon Dotconman arrested
      99 11 -AFP BEIJING Beijing police arrested a "dotcon man" who made his money on the Internet by chatting up young girls online and then robbing them once he got them out on dates. Wang Zhiyuan, a 25-year-old student who returned to China with a Singaporean degree, used the nickname
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      Lock icon My aide's home broken into: Arroyo
      172 11 -AFP MANILA Philippine Vice President Gloria Arroyo yesterday accused the government of harassment after armed men tried to break into the home of her chief of staffs. The men allegedly tried to pass themselves off as agents of the National Bureau of Investigation when
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      'I bribed my way out'
      242 12 Indian fugitive says he paid *****,000 to escape Bangkok Controversy continued to surround the escape of Indian fugitive Chhota Rajan from a Bangkok hospital. Rajan claimed to have paid 25 million baht (*****,000) to a police general in exchange for his "walk" from custody, according
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      Lock icon Victims to be told of attackers release
      210 12 AFP LONDON Victims of serious crimes in Britain are to be told when their attackers are due to be let out of jail a move partly prompted by a nearfatal assault on ex-Beatle George Harrison. In an article for the Sunday People, Home
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      Lock icon Fujimori: I might contest April polls
      138 12 Reuters TOKYO Peru's ousted president, Mr Alberto Fujimori, says he is innocent of allegations of cor ruption and may even return home to stand as a candidate in general elections in Peru in April. "There are many allegations but they are all incorrect...," Mr
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      A little booze is good for your brains
      91 12 TOKYO Wisdom comes with age but the odd glass of wine may also give senior citizens a boost in brain power. Those over 40 who drink moderate amounts of wine or Japanese sake rice wine scored better in 1Q tests than teetotallers
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      Lock icon Dhaka garment factory fire kills 46
      89 12 -AFP DHAKA Fire swept through a four-storey garment factory near the Bangladesh capital killing at least 46 people at press time, mostly women, in a distressingly familiar tragedy, police said. One survivor said the main gate of the factory was locked, a common complaint
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      Lock icon Aids fears grip Pakistan
      127 12 xr i > -AFP KARACHI An explosion of Aids is forecast, because of the flood of cheap heroin into Pakistan, Pakistan has claimed success in wiping out poppy crops but little is being done to stop intravenous drug abuse or educate people about Aids. Out of
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      Lock icon Elton John's clothes to come out of the closet
      126 12 Reuters. LONDON Flamboyant British pop singer Sir Elton John will sell off 20,000 items of his clothing for charity. Sir Elton, who has become almost as famous for his outrageous outfits and spending binges as for his music, will open a
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      Lock icon Outrage over talks
      274 13 Reuters No climate accord: US, EU blamed THE HAGUE The United States and European Union faced international outrage yesterday after triggering the collapse of UN climate talks. Activists and poor nations poured scorn on the failure of the richest countries to stop squabbling over the cost of
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      Americans see bucks in coffee Chinese see stars in protest
      363 13 BEIJING A Starbucks has opened in the Forbidden City and it's causing a stink in Beijing. It could be called globalisation run amok and bad taste, even American cultural imperialism, reports the Washington Post. It is certainly an irritant to
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      Lock icon Haircut while you protest
      39 13 Reuters photo. SEOUL South Korean union leaders from the state-run railway corporation getting their hair cut during a joint anti-government rally in Seoul yesterday. The union members demanded the corpc ration stop its restructuring plan.
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      Buy me the toy shop, daddy
      180 13 LONDON Britain's most famous toy shop, Hamleys, may have found the perfect answer for a rich parent who can't decide what to buy his little darling this Christmas how about the whole store? Sunday Business newspaper said the company, best known for its flagship
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      Lock icon Hungry thieves leave notes
      123 13 J AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian trader whose shop in Muar was broken into was amused by the antics of burglars who left him notes and took time to cook a meal before fleeing, the Sunday Stai reported. The burglars scribbled a note saying "Not enough,
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      Secret campaign
      343 14 Indonesia hatches plan to keep resource-rich province under its rule JAKARTA Indonesia is running a secret campaign to stop the rich and restive province of Irian Jaya breaking away, using a combination of bullying, clandestine operations and persuasion, internal documents show. A Home Affairs Department plan, obtained by
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      Lock icon Ousted Milosevic bounces back
      130 14 BELGRADE Slobodan Milosevic has staged a defiant political comeback, winning re-election as leader of Serbia's Socialist party and denouncing the mass uprising that forced him from power. An unrepentant Mr Milosevic accused the West of genocide against Serbs, said that Yugoslav media organisations were controlled by
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      Lock icon Hong Kong gears up for knowledge economy
      262 14 AFP HONG KONG A radical overhaul to upgrade the quality of the local workforce is the key to ensuring Hong Kong's future prosperity in the burgeoning knowledge economy, the region's Chief Executive has said. Speaking at a Hong Kong Management Association forum on
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      Lock icon Pinochet backs 'forgiveness' Mass
      181 14 -AFP SANTIAGO Former dictator Augusto Pinochet expressed his "support" for a Mass in order to seek divine forgiveness for his human rights abuses. However, opponents said talk of forgiveness should not detract from the ongoing judicial process Pinochet faces for human rights violations. Father Joaquin Alliende,
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      Lock icon Passenger safety at stake
      74 14 AFP LONDON Officials warn of big trouble if Britain's air traffic control service is privatised. Millions of jet passengers could be placed in danger. The government wants to privatise 51 per cent of the National Air Traffic Service. Ministers say the plan will bring much-needed investment.
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  • Commentary
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      Look back at PM's difficult journey
      1017 15  -  By Raj Yasil Despite that, he has surprised many, including himself I FIRST met Mr Goh Chok Tong in late 1982. The meeting was arranged by a mutual friend. I went to see him at his very spartan office at the Ministry of Defence.
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      us polls: S'pore to the rescue?
      811 16  -  Sisyphus Ballots... or tabs We could teach them a thing or two about chad chucking DRY ICE by IF one goes by how a Singapore English language daily has been playing it, one would think that the topic of greatest interest these days is
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  • Showcase
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      Christmas Chestnut at Chijmes
      717 18  -  Rosalind Png Compiled by rosal ind@newstoday.com. sg Hark the Jingle Red-Nosed Chestnuts Today till Nov 30 8 pm Chijmes A comedy production staged by comedy duo Scan and Jonathan. The show pokes fun at well-known classics. The show does spoofs of Les Miserables, The Phantom of
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • RELAX
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      Tom Hanks is here, there and everywhere in Castaway
      278 22 TOM Hanks, Tom Hanks and Tom Hanks. That's what his next film, Castaway, is all about. Due for release at Christmas worldwide, this is Hank as modern day Robinson Crusoe sans Friday (picture). Holly Hunter plays the fiancee, left high and
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      Private Ryan Revisited
      622 22 Tom Hanks talks about Band of Brothers, a sequel of sorts to Saving Private Ryan If anybody can erect a memorial to World War II veterans, Tom Hanks can. And if anybody can top Saving Private Ryan, it would have to be Tom Hanks. He, HBO, and
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      Dr Fraud's Couch
      511 23  -  with Dr. Sigmund Fraud On the couch this week: Glenn Ong drfraud@newstoday.com.sg Occupation: DJ and host of "The Ego Trip" on the Perfect 10, 98.7 FM MY subject this week, Mr Glenn Ong, deeply worries me. While he's not entirely a neurotic basket case, he does have
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      I married two men
      633 25 Teri Kuchcinski tells the horrific story of one woman's tragic marriage TT7HEN Keith and Ellen first met, VV it seemed that for once, Cupid's arrow had scored a direct hit. Career-girl Ellen's family and friends were delighted that she had finally met a good man. Keith
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    • Article
      Does your partner have a Jekyll and Hyde personality?
      404 25 THE purpose of this article is not to urge you to leave should you find yourself in a relationship with a person suffering from BPD. That is a decision that only you can make. So let your instincts and knowledge of
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      Lock icon Liberated beauties
      537 26 Brainy Miss World hopefuls test the theories Miss France (left) was worried the judges' questions might not be tough enough while Miss Czech Republic feared a two-minute final interview was too short to reveal each entrants' "true intellectual depth". Such are the preoccupations among contestants for Miss World
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      Oh I HATE movie premieres!
      389 27  -  Koh Chieng Mun What lies behind the glitz and glamour of movie nights ABOUT a decade ago, I decided to have a go at making a living out of acting. It was a difficult task and I struggled. But in al my years as an
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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  • Sports
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      Lock icon A pitiful sight
      885 29  -  Rohit Brijnath To see geniuses falter is sport's most tragic face by: rohit@newstoday.com.sg ALL men lose, even champions. But rarely are they embarrassed, their feet kicked from underneath them, their halos twisted, their ability mocked. When that happens, you want to turn your face away, switch off
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      Windies may send SOS for expert
      408 30 BRISBANE West Indian captain Jimmy Adams admitted that his team may send out a mayday call to former motivational expert Dr Rudi Webster. The Windies, once a great force in the game of cricket, plunged to a new low. They suffered their third defeat
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      Lock icon Among the top
      531 30 Reuters Game's great sides have nothing over current Aussies, proclaims Waugh Cricket BRISBANE The current Australian team compares favourably with those generally regarded as the game's greatest. And that assessment comes from none other than Aussie skipper Steve Waugh (right). It follows the conclusive thrashing of the
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      Lock icon The Real deal
      693 31 Sir Alex agrees his side is not favourite for Champions League LONDON The many who question Manchester United's right to be quoted as favourite to win the European Cup may be interested in knowing that the man directing the challenge from Old Trafford has no quarrel with
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      Lock icon US women retain Fed Cup
      608 33 Americans crush Spain 5-0 to avenge 1998 defeat Tennis NEVADA The United States gained a measure of sweet revenge for a gut-wrenching Fed Cup defeat to Spain in 1998 by sweeping to a 5-0 victory to capture the 2000 Fed Cup title on Saturday. Lindsay
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      Garcia nets $260,000 on first day of Skins Game
      343 33 Golf CALIFORNIA Sergio Garcia was liking the Skins Game a whole lot better the second time around after claiming four skins and US$l5O,OOO ($263, 850) on Saturday, the first day of the two-day, four-player special event. The 20-year-old Spaniard, playing in
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      Lock icon Young Kiwis earn wings
      503 34 All Blacks end the year on a high note with win over Italy Rugby Italy 19 New Zealand 56 GENOA A convincing 56-19 victory on Saturday over Italy in the final test match of its European tour ensured New Zealand ended its trip to the northern
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      Lock icon Sixers held in check
      414 35 Reuters Spurs curb Iverson and romp home winners NBA Spurs 96 Sixers 76 SAN ANTONIO Spurs reaped the rewards of keeping the league's leading points scorer Allen Iverson in check with a 96-76 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. San Antonio's total domination took the edge off
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      520 35 Reuters NBA Houston 91 Miami 80 MIAMI Bad starts have been unfamiliar to Pat Riley. Until now. "I said it all pretty much the other night we definitely hit a wall early in the season," said Riley, who with Miami's 91-80
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      584 37 Chelsea has not improved since manager Ranieri's arrival Everton 2 Chelsea 1 LONDON Claudio Ranieri was probably thumbing through the pages of his Italian-English dictionary last night for the most suitable words to explain Chelsea's latest abysmal failure to win away from Stamford Bridge. Gutless
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      Champion Manchester United keeps on rolling
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      560 38 Reuters US Open champion is just one of a host of young challengers LISBON The young guns of tennis are priming themselves for a showdown with the sport's old guard at the season-ending Masters Cup in Lisbon this week. Marat Safin, Gustavo Kuerten, Magnus Norman and Lleyton Hewitt
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      Lock icon Baddeley can be next Norman
      205 38 Reuters MELBOURNE Robert Allenby begged the Australian public on Sunday to leave Aaron Baddeley alone as the teenager takes aim at the United States PGA Tour next year. Baddeley, 19, won his second successive Australian Open on Sunday, taking on and beating Allenby by two
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      Lock icon Tendulkar stars again for India
      223 38 Reuters INDIA Sachin Tendulkar stroked an unbeaten double century to take India to a commanding first innings total of 609 for six declared in the second and final test against Zimbabwe on Sunday. At the close of the second day's play, Zimbabwe was 59 for
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