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Title Section10 2001-01-18 1 TODAY IllirSClllV Januar y 18 > 20 °l MITA IP) 138/11/200010 words
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Article, Illustration370 2001-01-18 1 WOKE up to the sound of rain second night in a row. The air thicker, richer, fuller than when I dozed off. Not just any rain, but a fin de siecle rain the kind of rain that should have washed over us with the millennium370 words
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Article453 2001-01-18 1 Outrage in the streets, mayhem in the markets, but Estrada refuses to quit MANILA TWO former presidents took to the streets. Stockbrokers abandoned their booths and stormed out to register their protest. Senators resigned. Students, always spoiling for a fight, were already waiting to lend453 words
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Article, Illustration388 2001-01-18 2 Elaine Quek - Elaine Quek NTUC chief talks of wage hikes, CPF restoration and elections by elaine@n e wsto day.com.sg A TANTALISING possibility was raised by Mr Lim Boon Heng, Secretary-General of NTUC, when asked what goodies workers could expect with the general elections around the corner. "Employees may expect388 words
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Article78 2001-01-18 2 THE People's Action Party's central executive committee (CEC) has re-appointed Dr Tony Tan as party chairman and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong as its secretary-general. Brigadier-General Lee Hsien Loong continues as first assistant secretary-general. Among those co-opted to the CEC are MP for Bukit Timah GRC Dr78 words
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Article80 2001-01-18 2 NON-Constituency Member of Parliament J B Jeyaretnam made the third payment of $23,450 as defamation damages to eight people yesterday morning, after missing an earlier deadline. When he busted the Tuesday noon deadline, the plaintiffs had said they would ask the High Court to restore their bankruptcy80 words
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283 2001-01-18 2 Chin Wei Lin - Chin Wei Lin by weilin @new stoday. com. sg THE National Association of Travel Agents (Natas) has promised a thorough investigation into misleading advertising by four travel agencies highlighted by Today. Some agencies appeared to be misrepresenting information and were asked to283 words
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257 2001-01-18 2 SINGAPORE'S fourth university will place more emphasis on practical applications and technical training rather than research work, said Senior Minister of State for Education Peter Chen. Mr Chen is the chairman of the steering committee tasked to look into the possibility of setting up257 words
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Article403 2001-01-18 3 Zackaria Abdul Rahim - Zackaria Abdul Rahim Many other principals say prep classes not needed by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg THE first batch of students who will be affected by the new university admission criteria, which includes SAT 1 scores, may have only started school two weeks ago. But Today understands that403 words
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118 2001-01-18 3 A TOTAL of 181 suspected drug offenders were rounded up in an operation conducted by the Centra] Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on Tuesday. The 16-hour Operation Dragnet seized 584g of heroin, 20g of Ice, 2g of cannabis, 14 erimin tablets, lg of ketamine, 26 methadone tablets,118 words
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Article79 2001-01-18 3 -AFP JAKARTA Police here would soon use gas pistols that can paralyse a person for 10 minutes, for self-defence, if they were attacked. Mr Hadi Utorao, city public order head, said the 60 German-made Melcher gas pistols amounting to 1.2 billion rupiah ($220 million)-AFP - 79 words
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Article, Illustration92 2001-01-18 3 Agencies BANGKOK The legendary cigar-smoking 12-year-old twins leading the insurgent God's Army of Myanmar have been nabbed by the Thai authorities. Authorities said they will likely be sent to a refugee camp. Together with 12 other members of the minority Karen group, Johnny and Luther Htoo– Agencies - 92 words
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291 2001-01-18 3 Leong Phei Phei - Leong Phei Phei b y p hei ph e i@n ewsto d ay. c o ra. sg THE Health Ministry is to launch two major initiatives to encourage more Singaporeans to be vaccinated against the deadly hepatitis B virus. All students in Secondary 3,291 words
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212 2001-01-18 3 FOREIGN Minister Professor S. Jayakumar yesterday called on the United Nations and contributing countries to develop a "new spirit of cooperation" to ensure that peacekeeping missions around the world are a success in the future. "All is not well in the world of212 words
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Article388 2001-01-18 4 Ng Hwee Koon - Ng Hwee Koon Good that they are scolding Government, says MP by hwe ekoon@newstoday.com.sg SHE wanted to be retrained, but for three years, she could not get into a class. Mdm Pang Nyuk Yoon, 49, was one of the participants at the two-hour Feedback Session388 words
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Article135 2001-01-18 4 MORE than 1.9 million Singaporeans got a little hongbao in their CPF accounts on Tuesday. Citizens aged 21 and above on Dec 31 received a top-up of between $500 and $1,700 in their CPF Ordinary Accounts. They must have contributed at least $100 to their135 words
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110 2001-01-18 4 SHE heard a noise outside her bedroom, but Ms Ling Ngok Ngok did not check it out. A short while later, someone tried to turn the handle of her door. When Ms Ling opened it, she came face-to-face with a stranger in110 words
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Article, Illustration42 2001-01-18 4 fiECTEBS photo Indonesian students carry a poster mocking Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid at the parliament compound injarkarta during a protest over financial scandals linked to the president, Indonesian police fired tear gas at about 3,000 students outside the parliament.– fiECTEBS photo - 42 words
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Article150 2001-01-18 4 Shazalina Salim - Shazalina Salim by sh a zali na@n e ws to day. c om.sg MEDIACORP'S Channel 5 has secured the exclusive rights to show the latest Mel Gibson blockbuster What Women Want on TV within the next few years, in a deal with Shaw Organisation.150 words
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Article177 2001-01-18 4 THE Tuesday tremors did not damage buildings here. All 22 buildings inspected by engineers from the Building and Construction Authority and the HDB were found to be structurally safe, reported Channel News Asia. Police said they received a total of 23 calls reporting tremors felt in177 words
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Miscellaneous110 2001-01-18 4 READ 0N... Doctor Fraud, meet another Dear Sickman Fraud.. ,./6 SembCorp eyes global dominance But will investors buy the pitch?/0 Red Cross 'yes' US body backs blood donation curbs becouse of mad-cow disease/12 Body beautiful It's all in the mind, yet we hanker for the western model/14 Comb me, rinse110 words
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Article326 2001-01-18 6 DEAR Sickman Fraud, I read your article with great interest, having once myself been a psychoartist before I got unfrocked for behaving quite properly with a lady patient who was on the couch. When I was "practising" (I never did get down to passing the exams),326 words
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Article115 2001-01-18 6 Michelle Goh Li Nah - Michelle Goh Li Nah MY sons missed their school bus one morning, and had to take a cab to school. It was raining heavily, so we waited at the taxi stand at the Queenstown MRT station. After more than 20 minutes of waiting, a Comfort115 words
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Article282 2001-01-18 6 WE refer to the letter "HFMD: Ministry should do more" (Today, Jan 11). We would like to assure Mr See Leong Kit that the Ministry of Environment (ENV) has a regular school inspection programme specifically to check for mosquito breeding. All schools are required282 words
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106 2001-01-18 6 WE refer to Mr Mohd Fadzil's letter (Today, Jan 13) concerning a family placing cardboards and other items at the void deck of Blk 247, Yishun Ave 9. The Town Council has issued a summons against the family living on the second floor106 words
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Article103 2001-01-18 6 John Wong Xiaohui - John Wong Xiaohui I REFER to the article on the new security features similar to those in private condominums to be used in new HDB new towns such as Punggol 21 (Today, Jan 15). The flats' lift lobbies would be fenced up and a smart card103 words
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BUSINESS NEWS
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Article393 2001-01-18 7 Chan Chao Peh - Chan Chao Peh Slip in non-exports raises eyebrows by ch a opeh ©newstoday. com. sg IN yet another indicator impending bad times, non-oil domestic exports (NODX) for December a key barometer of economic health fell 4.9 per cent to $9.2 billion from the same month393 words
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Article, Illustration223 2001-01-18 7 SINGAPORE'S trade is expected to increase at a "moderate pace" of seven to nine per cent this year. This will be less than half of the 22.9 per cent increase in 2000. The projection took into account several factors, said Mr Heng Swee223 words
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Article, Illustration506 2001-01-18 8 Lee Yew Meng - Lee Yew Meng Fortune Venture raises $653 million for hi-tech investments here by yewme ng@newstoday.com.sg FORTUNE Venture investment group, one of the Taiwan's top venture capitalist firms, has introduced that island's well-known entrepreneurial flair to Singapore. It has raised a total of US$3BO million (*****.6 million) forHEDYKHOO - 506 words
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310 2001-01-18 8 Chin Weilin - Chin Weilin by wei 1i n C"? Lie wstoday. co m. sg THE Canadian-based mould maker, Mold-Masters, opened its $5 million manufacturing plant here yesterday. The company, which is Singapore's first hot runner a speedy, highly productive process manufacturing plant in Southeast Asia,310 words
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Article100 2001-01-18 8 Bloomberg News THALES SA, Europe's No. 1 defence electronics company, is urging shareholders of Singapore- based Avimo Group to accept a takeover bid of $3.71 a share, adding that the offer is final. The bid values the company at $398.6 million. Thales said the offer closesBloomberg News - 100 words
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Article, Illustration630 2001-01-18 9 Bloomberg News But will investors buy the pitch? SEMBCORP Industries Ltd's Chief Executive Officer, Mr Wong Kok Siew, has passed his staff copies of pages from books on the management techniques of his hero, General Electric Company Chairman Jack Welch. Mr Wong's admiration for Welch doesn't– Bloomberg News; -AFP photo - 630 words
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438 2001-01-18 9 Bloomberg News SHANGHAI Chinese stocks, world beaters in 2000, are tumbling in the new year as regulators push their biggest crackdown on share manipulation since 1998. An index that tracks Shanghai B shares hard currency shares that foreigners can own fell 6.4Bloomberg News - 438 words
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MARKET NEWS
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Article, Illustration515 2001-01-18 10 Dampened by a drop in non-oil export numbers THE STI index broke the key 1900 psychological support level led by programme selling in index stocks but recovered before the close on shortcovering. Singapore's December non-oil export declined 4.9 per cent led by a fall in electronic exports, due515 words
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Article, Illustration517 2001-01-18 10 KUALA LUMPUR The market took a turn for the worse, following a quiet morning session, as selling intensified across the board yesterday afternoon. News of the personalities involved in the Cabinet re-shuffle, which turned out to be a minor one after all involving only the517 words
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Article416 2001-01-18 11 Reuters German spa rejects health warnings SCHLEMA (Germany) As Nato's Balkans veterans fret about health risks from uranium munitions, a generation old enough to remember the last great European war is happily paying for a bit of extra radiation exposure. Every day hundreds of elderly– Reuters - 416 words
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207 2001-01-18 11 -AFP ABUJA Nigeria has suspended operational staff who were on duty at Abuja airport last week when lights went out just as the President's aeroplane was landing. The failure of the lights moments before President Olusegun Obasanjo's plane touched down on a-AFP - 207 words
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WORLD NEWS
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Article441 2001-01-18 12 Reuters US body backs blood donation curbs because of mad-cow disease WASHINGTON The American Red Cross, one of two large blood collection agencies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it would support new blood donation restrictions because of growing concerns about mad-cow disease in Europe.Reuters - 441 words
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159 2001-01-18 12 Reuters LONDON Patients ready to have their tonsils removed faced a longer wait on Tuesday after UK surgeons halted operations ahead of deliveries of new equipment to cut the risk of transmitting the human form of mad-cow disease. Hospitals in south-west England in– Reuters - 159 words
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Article, Illustration35 2001-01-18 12 A woman taking her dog for a walk on the frozen Staffel lake in Uffing, Bavaria, on Tuesday. Temperatures in the German region/ell overnight to minus 14 degrees Celsius.35 words
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Article83 2001-01-18 12 Agencies JAKARTA Police fired teargas yesterday at 2,500 protestors who gathered outside Parliament calling on Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid to answer corruption charges or step down. There were no casualties reports said, and the demonstrators briefly fell back before regrouping on a road running past– Agencies - 83 words
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Article144 2001-01-18 12 AFP KINSHASA -President Laurent Kabila was alive and well after he was shot by bodyguards on Tuesday, it emerged last night. The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo was "injured" in an attack and "transferred out of the country for medical treatment", Minister of Information DominiqueAFP - 144 words
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Article83 2001-01-18 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government announced yesterday the creation of a Women's Affairs Ministry in the first Cabinet reshuffle since the November 1999 general election. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, has been appointed to the post. Shahrizat is also the-AFP - 83 words
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134 2001-01-18 13 AFP HONG KONG Several senior officials are planning to quit the civil service after their boss, Chief Secretary Anson Chan, announced she is taking early retirement, a report said yesterday. Mr Gordon Siu, Secretary for Planning and Lands, and Mr Nicholas Ng,AFP - 134 words
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425 2001-01-18 13 Agencies Seoul warm to proposed changes by Pyongyang SEOUL South Korea confirmed yesterday that North Korean leader Kim Jong II was in China and said the visit indicated that the Stalinist nation was seeking changes, Yoiihap News Agency quoted a presidential spokesman asAgencies - 425 words
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Article, Illustration365 2001-01-18 13 AFP LONDON The American birth mother of the twin baby girls (right) at the centre of a transAtlantic adoption tussle admitted in a British newspaper yesterday that she had lied on adoption forms. Her admission could mean that the adoptionAFP - 365 words
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138 2001-01-18 13 Reuters SYDNEY The first sheep cloned in Australia has produced three healthy tambs at an early age, a first step towards the rapid reproduction of elite animal offspring, scientists said yesterday. Scientists at the South Australian Research and Development Institute col- lectedReuters - 138 words
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157 2001-01-18 13 NEW YORK A couple here are broadcasting their every move on the Internet and even have a webcam in their toilet bowl. Mr Josh Harris and Ms Tanya Corrin say they are trying to decide whether he prefers living in private or public,157 words
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COMMENTARY
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Article, Illustration663 2001-01-18 14 Geetan Batra - Geetan Batra It's all in the mind, yet we hanker for the western model by in New Delhi A TUG here and a pull there, how one wishes that the swimming costume would somehow grow just a bit to cover up more of the faulty flesh in sunnyReVTSSS photo - 663 words
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520 2001-01-18 14 Stephen Collinson - Rising China, unravelling Indonesia Bush faces busy time with Asia Stephen Collinson -AFP by in Washington WHEN Mr George W. Bush walks into the Oval Office for the first time as President, he will find his inbox filled with a large pile of Asian issues demanding his attention. The implications-AFP - 520 words
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RELAX
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Article, Illustration578 2001-01-18 15 David Ngiau - David Ngiau Tom Hanks' new movie has all the award-winning elements by david@news tod ay.com. sg at Away is an interesting film. And ankfully it works out well. I liked it, and it's definitely Oscar material not that the two have anything to do with each other of578 words
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Article, Illustration304 2001-01-18 15 Cast Away features two of the best examples of product placement in any Hollywood film in recent memory. First of all, Chuck is a systems engineer with Federal Express (left, bottom). And while stranded, Chuck opens and utilises the contents of the304 words
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Article659 2001-01-18 16 Edmund T Shern - Edmund T Shern Woo hoo! Asian stars are making their mark in Hollywood and in a big way by edmund@paprika.com.sg Let's face it. These days it's cool to be an Asian. Not too long ago, I remember couch-potatoing in front of my TV zoning out to659 words
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Article, Illustration519 2001-01-18 17 Edmund T Shern - Edmund T Shern NOT SAY I WANT TO SAY... It started out just like an innocent hair-cut but I was weak by ecimund@paprika.com.sg Alright, forget that mugshot on the left. As is customary for us Chinese folks just before the Chinese New519 words
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Article, Illustration297 2001-01-18 17 IPS She's one of Hollywood's highest paid and most ambitious actresses who now commands £8 million(Ss2o.4 million) per film. Sharon Stone (left), who looks nothing like her 42 years, can thank 1992's Basic Instinct for makingIPS - 297 words
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Article, Illustration415 2001-01-18 18 Douglas Tseng - Douglas Tseng Jackie Chan pushes himself to the limit yet again in his latest film HIM REVIEW The Accidental Spy (Now showing) byi In his latest festival magnum opus, Jackie Chan (above) plays Buck Yuen, a gym equipment salesman who harbours a fantasy of being a jet-setting secret415 words
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Miscellaneous1255 2001-01-18 19 /ft Possessed: 11.40 am, 1,55pm, 4.20, 6,50. Wonder Boys: 11,30 am. 1.50pm, 6.50, Bio-Cops (M): 10.15 am, noon, 5.45, 7.30, 9.30 |7k^_ 9.20 9.15 For Bad Boys Only <M>: 1,45pm, 3.45pm, 7.30 Vertical Limit: 11am. 11.20,11.40, 1.35, Vertical Limit; 10.30 am, Ipm, 1.05, 4, Lavender (M): 10.35 am, 12,35pm. 9.251,255 words
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Miscellaneous699 2001-01-18 20 Channel 5,10 pm Channel 8, 9pm Jh* L^ik t»cv ss convinced that her dentist Iteming and Zhang Yan gloat over M H^^ violated her while she was at ia--1 «(^B' deaths °f "I(I 2^ oh brothers his clinic. Problem is... the dentist while the employees worry the bank is Bobby's699 words
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Miscellaneous516 2001-01-18 21 f^. Dance Theatre of Harlem _ff_t The Dance Theatre of Harlem, America's first outm' 1 X J standing classical ballet company of black dancers, ji 9_J__ started out as a ghetto experiment that quickly reached f~"*** i A, it ._..j _|Hr^__k world-class level. It was created by Arthur Mitchell, a516 words
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Miscellaneous242 2001-01-18 21 MORNING 6.00 am Headlines 6.02 Asia and Beyond 6.30 Business Breakfast 7.00 The World Today Business Breakfast 7.30 Headlines Singapore Update 7.34 Knowing Asia 8.00 Channel News Asia Today Business Breakfast 8.30 Business Breakfast 8.34 The Asian Editorial 9.00 The World Today Business Breakfast 9.30 Business Breakfast 9.34 Asia and242 words
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Miscellaneous791 2001-01-18 22 MediaCorp RadiO 65 HOUrS _jHL____^at| fcB^' Nicholas Lee (above, left) and Pierre Png (right), Radio Charity Marathon Studioartistes This year, MediaCorp Radio commemorates 65 If (jr^' ~v "^tfl^^ mv Cheng, EJ and Melody Chen. MediaCorp years of broadcasting with a year-long plan of activ- __EpfN_m Studio artistes The first major791 words
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Article, Illustration691 2001-01-18 23 Rosalind Png - Rosalind Png Compiled by rosalin d@ne wstod ay. com.sg Exotic Turkish Experience Today till Jan 27 (no show on Jan 24) Folk Dance (right) 4 pm and 7pm Junction 8 Atrium, level 2 Oil Wrestling 8 pm Junction 8 Open Plaza, level 2 Junction 8 goes Turkish on691 words
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Article, Illustration359 2001-01-18 25 Inspires Miami to Bth consecutive home win NBA Miami 93 Detroit 85 MIAMI Anthony Mason scored 23 points and grabbed a season-high 18 rebounds as Miami beat Detroit 93-85 yesterday. His 19th double-double of the season, combined with Dan Majerle's hot outside shooting, gave the Heat its eighthAILSPOgT photo - 359 words
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259 2001-01-18 25 NBA HOUSTON Hakeem Olajuwon has told The Houston Chronicle he would welcome a trade or a chance to be waived for the sake of his beloved Rockets. "I just want what's best for the team and for everybody," the giant centre told259 words
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Article, Illustration399 2001-01-18 26 S. Murali; Mad Har - S. Murali Mad Har Indonesian golfer sizzles with six birdies and one bogey Champion of Champions by murali® tie wstoday. com. sg HE HAS a sparkling record in Indonesia, although Maan Nasim is not a name that many Singaporeans would have heard about. But theWONG KHING CHONG - 399 words
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Article, Illustration293 2001-01-18 26 – S. Murali - S. Murali ALTHOUGH Lam Chih Bing (left) did well to make it to the final stages of the Japan Tour qualifying school, he has recently learned that he might only get one start all year. According to Japan293 words
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Article, Illustration602 2001-01-18 27 Gunners' title hopes wrecked, says Vieira LONDON Patrick Vieira admitted that his desperate bid to clean up his bad boy image has wrecked Arsenal's title hopes. The French hard man has gone 21 games without getting booked, and has earned praise from boss ArseneAllsport photo - 602 words
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Article, Illustration545 2001-01-18 28 Kelvin Phang - Kelvin Phang Kenyon pledges Asian tour will be not be a hit-and-run affair by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg MANCHESTER United will bring a full-strength squad for this year's Asian Tour and help develop football in the region. This was promised bythe club's Chief Executive Peter Kenyon (picture) at yesterday's545 words
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427 2001-01-18 28 Q. Is the club held ransom by the wage demands of his star players? Will it give David Beckham a new contract worth a reported 160,000 pounds (S$408,000) per week as reported in the British press? The end of his427 words
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Article, Illustration381 2001-01-18 29 Reuters Eighth seed does not want to talk about her poor record MELBOURNE The top guns of men's tennis are safely through to the next round of the Australian Open, but male fans are probably more excited that poster girl Anna Kournikova is still in the tournament.– Reuters; Allsport photo - 381 words
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240 2001-01-18 29 Kelvin Phang - Kelvin Phang BY 2pm today, Thai international Kiatisak Senamuang will be a fullyfledged Singapore Armed Forces FC player. The talented striker, who has just spent a miserable year with Huddersfield Town in England, will sign a contract today at the D'Ma Pavilion Hotel240 words
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Article101 2001-01-18 29 Reuters SYDNEY BRIAN Lara launched a one-man assault on Australia's bowlers before rain ruined West Indies hopes in their limited overs international in Sydney. Lara cracked an unbeaten 116 off 106 balls to give the tourists an outside chance of victory before the heavens opened toReuters - 101 words
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Article, Illustration823 2001-01-18 30 Explains that match-fixing scandal forced him out of Geylang mid-season Over the past two days, Geylang players Brian Bothwell and Billy Bone broke their silence on the incidents that led up to the match-fixing scandal that rocked the S-League last year. Today, we bring you ant WONG KHING CHONG - 823 words
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Article, Illustration360 2001-01-18 31 S. Gulam in Dubai - S. Gulam in Dubai Poulsen stresses one-touch football in Lions'training by gulam@newstoday.cotn.sg GELEK has been the magic word for Singapore footballers for as long as I can remember. The longer they held on to the ball, the more they dribbled, the better they were thought to360 words
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99 2001-01-18 31 STEVEN Tan and Hafizat Jauharrai, both of whom were left out of the match against Al Nasr due to injuries, have recovered. But Jan Poulsen has not decided whether to field them tonight against FC Energie Cottbus, a Division99 words
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Article, Illustration323 2001-01-18 31 -S. Gulam - -S. Gulam IT'S the dreaded figure for footballers. It's a signal for many things, including the planning for retirement. Captain Nazri Nasir (above) turned 30 yesterday. But he didn't show any anxiety or worry, though he323 words
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Advertisement21 2001-01-18 28 Q&A Here are the excerpts of the Q&A session where Man United's Chief Executive Peter Kenyon fielded questions from the press.21 words
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Miscellaneous35 2001-01-18 32 Man United Our man in Dubai promises .1 S. Gulam explains it will bring Ex-Geylang coach Vest breaks why gelek kings are its stars his silence over his resignation a thing of the past 3135 words
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