Today, 19 June 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Collision course
      344 1 -AFP AOL, Microsoft talks collapse SAN FRANCISCO Technology and media titans Microsoft and AOL Time Warner yesterday inched closer towards open corporate warfare after the collapse of talks over co-operation on key future technologies. The pending feud could determine the broad terrain of consumer technology for the next
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      Lock icon A royal affair for Sweden
      91 1 AFP photo STOCKHOLM Swedish King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia (right) are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. Dressed in historical clothes, they are seen here with (from left) Princess Madeleine, Princess Lilian, and Crown Princess Victoria. The royal family were welcoming guests for the dinner
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      Motorist crashes into petrol station
      94 1 A CAR crashed through the glass doors of a petrol station, rammed into some merchandise and hit a motorcyclist. The 60-year-old man was arrested for drink driving. The driver had apparently paid after pumping petrol and was leaving the Mobil station in Ang Mo Kio
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      Lock icon Nasdaq down, Dow up
      109 1 AFP NEW YORK The Nasdaq composite was yesterday down 39.79 points, or 1.96 per cent at 1,988.64 points. And for the first time since Apr 17, it completed trading below the 2,000-point threshold. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to rise a marginal 21.74 points, or
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Links snap
      419 2  -  Najib Ahmad and guess who steps in? by.. reporter@newstoday.com.sg LIVING the way we do, so close together, fosters close community links. But sometimes, these links snap. Just look at these figures: Since the first Community Mediation Centre (CMC) was set up in 1998 by the Ministry of Law,
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      Shop online – without cards
      252 2  - Shop online without cards Cathleen Tung by.. re porte r@ »c w stoday. com, sg FOR those who have always wanted to shop online but were deterred by the lack of credit cards, good news is here you can now do it even if you do not have that piece
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      He threatened to expose girl's affairs
      177 2  -  Audra Lim by.. reporter@Liewstoday.com. sg A NANYANG Technological University engineering undergraduate yesterday pleaded guilty to threatening to expose a 15-year-old girl's promiscuous lifestyle. Tay We-Jin, 22, had met the girl, now 16, in an online chatroom on Oct 20 last year. She is the
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      Airport boutique – it's by Benz
      139 2  - Airport boutique it's by Benz Lee Ching Wern by.. reporter® newstoday.com. sg ASIA-PACIFIC'S first Mercedes Benz Boutique (right) opened yesterday at Singapore Changi Airport. Located north of the departure/transit lounge at Terminal 2, the new boutique is the world's first Mercedes Benz Boutique outside Stuttgart, Germany, the home of the
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      Lock icon First Chinese to join PAS committee
      124 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR In a bid to understand the Chinese community, Malaysia's opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) will soon appoint a Chinese-Muslim to the party's executive body, an official said yesterday. Mr Mahfuz Omar, youth wing chief, said: "This proves that PAS is a
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      Can Indon govt cope?
      284 3 Latest strike shows lapse in government JAKARTA Indonesian public transport operators angry over rising fuel prices went on strike yesterday, leaving thousands of people stranded on the streets. At least five people were also injured after police used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the
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      Lock icon India's monkeyman is all in the mind
      190 3 -AFP NEW DELHI A "monkeyman" who terrified residents of the Indian capital last month was nothing more than a product of mass hysteria, said forensic experts and psychiatrists. The Times of India said the experts had concluded that the monkeyman was a "mere
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      Beef question
      332 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Did you eat it during one of your trips? by.. phe ip hei@newstod ay. com. sg IF you have travelled or studied overseas during the past five years, and have inadvertently taken beef contaminated with mad-cow disease, there might be cause for concern. The disease,
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      S'pore, Australian leaders meet today
      81 4 SINGAPORE officials will meet their Australian counterparts today for a two-day ministerial committee meeting in Canberra. Foreign Affairs Minister S Jayakumar, Trade Minister George Yeo and Second Defence Minister Rear-Admiral Teo Chee Hean will meet with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Trade Minister Mark Vaile
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      Schizo who killed brother jailed
      253 4  -  Joy Frances A MAN who suffers from schizophrenia was yesterday sentenced to life for slashing his brother to death. The High Court heard that on Dec 8 last year, Ong Wee Teck, 39, went into the bathroom where his elder brother Mr Ong Wee Cheong,
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      Give way, please
      160 4  -  Lee Ching Wern by.. reporter@newstoday.com.sg MOST people know that giving way to alighting passengers is the key to improving traffic flow on MRT trains. However, knowing is one thing and doing another. From Jim 25, the SMRT will implement three types of waiting lines on MRT platforms
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      Paying off debts
      66 4  -  Audra him A MAN who owed loansharks money decided to work for them to pay off his loans. Tan Kirn Heng, 22, became a debt collector for an "Ah Tee" who paid him $1,000. On Feb 15 this year, Tan harassed Mr Tang Sai Tat, 26, for
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      116 4 KTC achieved 100% pass rate for ACCA CAT Accountancy chartered Certified (l Oxford Accountant Brookes m,^^m^tk fVrtifief! University acca~~"x M^ Certified UK Professional Accounting n >-| V^ (1 ysar) J Technician a CAT \^t\^ Certificate (1 year) J C (6 months^ \Jj 1-t s~ ACCA I CAT I V Foundation
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      86 4 READ 0N... Ties that bind Singapore-Japan trade partnership will draw Asian countries closer/ 15 Action below! This Disney Film packs in a good deal of brilliant action/21 Optimistic living How a lawyer-author-poet finds time to inspire people and put zest in life/23 Colours of Xian A spread of 20 jiaozi
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      151 5 FOR MORE SAVINGS DURING THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE, use HSBC's CREDIT CARDS or Uss>\ \n\ore/ r e*«>*/ hsbg*> i Shopping Rewards. As a credit cardholder of HSBC. you 7l] get additional discounts of up to 20% over and I HSBC* above the sale price at Tampines Mall, Plaza Singapura and
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      Lock icon Woodlands' wrong beat
      487 8  -  Hussien Zainai Uncoordinated drumming spoils fun CONGRATULATIONS to Woodlands Wellington Football Club for securing its second major sponsorship deal in as many months. While the club chairman has promised new and better players with the sponsorship money, I feel that the club should channel some of its
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    • Article
      Whaf s in store for Sengkang
      313 8 I REFER to the letter "Sengkang needs more facilities" by Ms Elaine Lee (Today, Jun 12). Besides the Rivervale Mall and Rivervale Plaza, Sengkang residents can look forward to more commercial facilities coming their way soon. There is a large commercial complex, the Compass
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      Doctor was rude
      144 8  -  Woo Lai Heong ON Jun 6,1 took my six-year-old daughter to the National Skin Centre for eczema treatment. When the electronic counter displayed my queue number, I proceeded to one of the consultation rooms but was surprised to find another patient there. A young doctor looked at
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Export gloom sets in
      399 9  -  Ivay Tan Pessimism follows fall in May by.. ivay@ newatoday. co m. sg SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports (NODX) for May feli by nine per cent to $8.6 billion, which was worse than analysts' expectation of a 6.3 per cent drop. Analysts said this poor showing after
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      Lock icon Ad$ dip for SPH, blame Today
      107 9 Channel News Asia MEDIACORP'S Today newspaper is steadily biting into Singapore Press Holdings' print advertising volumes, according to OCBC Investment Research. It said in its latest report that while overall newspaper advertising expenditure in May was up one per cent to $65 million, the
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      Rising with *SEND tide
      354 10  -  Chan Chao Peh More revenue expected from data service by.. eh a opeh newstoday. com. sg WITH the rising use of *SEND services, Sing Tel Mobile expects revenue contribution from this data segment to increase from eight to 10 per cent by the end of the
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      SMS for Coke
      123 10 FROM Aug 1, Sing Tel Mobile customers can buy soft drinks from 200 F&N Coca-Cola vending machines island-wide, using SingTel's *SEND and SMS service. All they have to do is key in the relevant phone numbers and activate the vending machine. They will be charged for the
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      SenDo makes GSM offer
      162 10  -  Tan Hwee Yee by.. re porter® newstoday. com. sg BRITISH-based mobile company SenDo says it wants to offer the three GSM operators a range of its customised products and services. Mr Hugh Brogan, chief executive officer of SenDo, said the company can deliver the products within
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    • Market Watch
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        NOL's new funding
        66 10 SHIPPING firm Neptune Orient Lines announced yesterday it has set up a US$l billion ($l.B billion) medium term note programme. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, NOL said the funds will help refinance its existing loans and support its expansion plans. It added that it sees
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        DBS' technological investments
        75 10 DBS Bank Group has reduced the time horizon for its technological investments from five to 10 years to just one to three years. That is in response to ever-changing consumer needs, said its vice chairman and chief executive Philippe Paillart. Speaking at the CEO Technology Summit held
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        $270: million contract
        53 10 SEMBCORP Marine said that its Brazilian jointventure shipyard has secured its first major contract of $270 million. The contract to make parts for a floating oil refinery was awarded by an affiliate of US-based Kellog Brown Root Inc. Work is expected to be completed by the second
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        Strong rebound
        60 10 MAINBOARD-listed The Hour Glass, a retailer and distributor of fine watches and jewellery, staged a strong rebound for the year ended Mar 31. The group recorded a net profit after tax of $16.8 million compared to a loss of $7.4 million the previous year. This included $7.4 million
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        Shares suspended
        62 10 SHARES of Inno-Pacific Holdings, a diversified Singapore restaurant operator, were suspended at the company's request yesterday. The shares rose 1.5 cents, or 11 per cent, to 15.5 cents before the shares were suspended. fsjut S:jrJ buys— US$ 0.5501 Rupiah 6208.2 UK£ 0.3922 Baht 24.943 Yen 67.919 Peso 28.593
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      Lock icon Scooping up China stocks
      435 12 Bloomberg Appeal lies in its huge market size ICE-CREAM vendor Tay Soon Huat took a break from scooping ice cream from the back of his motorcycle to crow about his profitable bet on China-relat-ed stocks. "The God of Fortune is finally answering my prayers," said Mr
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      Thai GDP shrinks 0.2%
      110 12 BANGKOK Thailand's economy shrank in the first quarter for the first time in more than two years as falling exports and a shortage of fresh bank loans prompted companies to cut back on production and investment. Gross domestic product shrank 0.2 per cent from the previous
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      Singapore
      328 12 Market news LOWER US market indices because of profit warnings on Friday and bad sentiment from May's non-oil export data kept Singapore shares from extending last week's gains. A light sell programme was balanced out by buy orders which edged the ST Index up 7.62 points at 1713.72 just
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      Malaysia
      114 12 KUALA LUMPUR Investors turned cautious and locked in gains from last week, very much undermined by the bleak earnings outlook in the US and the Japanese economy reporting negative growth for the first quarter. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) ended 4.6 points to 584.8 on relatively thin trading
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Ruler once more: Former Bulgarian king takes over power after 55 years
      218 13 Reuters SOFIA The last czar of Bulgaria returned to power yesterday after 55 years in exile not as king, but as leader of a political party. In true fairy tale style, Simeon II (right), who was deposed as
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      Bush doesn't travel light
      181 13 WARSAW As leader of the world's biggest democracy, you can't expect him to travel light. The scale of US President George W Bush's travelling entourage was revealed by the Sunday Telegraph over the weekend. On his tour of Poland, Mr Bush took 600 people with him.
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      Lock icon Moore named in Queen's list
      67 13 Reuters LONDON British actor and comic Mr Dudley Moore has been named in Queen Elizabeth ll's birthday honours list. Mr Moore, 66, who is suffering from a degenerative brain disorder, was made Commander of the British Empire (CBE). English Patient director Mr Anthony Minghella, fashion
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      HK's family of smugglers
      247 14 Relatives masterminded human trafficking HONG KONG A family-run human smuggling syndicate, believed to be responsible for smuggling more than 200 Fuzhou natives to Japan, has been busted by police in Hong Kong and China. Among the 21 people arrested in the joint operation are one of
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      Lock icon Eunuch convention
      113 14 AFP LUCKNOW (India) About 2,000 eunuchs from all over India are taking part in a mass convention to thrash out issues like careers in politics and disciplining their community's younger generation. India's eunuchs have faced centuries of oppression and derision. Their traditional sources of income are prostitution, begging,
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      Lock icon Arroyo: There will be no ransom talks
      201 14 Agencies MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo stressed yesterday during a visit to a southern town ravaged by the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group that there would be no ransom talks. She also vowed that military operations against the rebels would be ceaseless. Accompanied by
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      Lock icon Violent retaliation against Bangladesh bomb blast
      217 14 AFP DHAKA There have been violent backlashes on the streets of Bangladesh following the worst bomb blast in the nation's history, which left 22 dead. At least two staff of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairman Khaleda Zia were hurt when unidentified gunmen in taxis
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      Get more competitive
      166 14 LONDON A radical shake-up of the United Kingdom's competition rules, which will lead to a crackdown on price-fixing, looks set to benefit consumers. Chancellor Gordon Brown planned to introduce tough measures to rein in directors of companies who operate price-fixing cartels, the BBC reported. The measures are
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      Lock icon 'War criminal' can stay, says Australia
      177 14 AFP CANBERRA The Australian government has refused to bar Sri Lanka's newly-appointed high commissioner, despite allegations that he is a war criminal responsible for torture and mass murder. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer dismissed the allegations after a noisy demonstration by 400 members of Australia's
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Ties that bind
      642 15  -  Melina Nathan Singapore-Japan trade partnership will draw Asian countries closer by.._ JAPAN and Singapore are currently negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) to be concluded by the end of this year. It'll be a first for both countries. This is the first bilateral FTA for Japan, which
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  • INFO TECH
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      SME target
      320 16  -  Sol E Solomon Oracle software aims at that sector by.. solo m o n@n c wsto d ay. c o m .sg ORACLE Corp launched its Oracle9i Database with a strong emphasis on the SME market. According to the vendor, the new clustered database software is designed to
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      Local office for SeeBeyond
      118 16 PROVIDER of eßusiness Integration (eBI) products, Seeßeyond, officially opened its Singapore office last week. The decade-old vendor originally catered to the healthcare industry, but subsequently extended to the financial and manufacturing industries. Seven per cent of its total annual revenue is from Asia- Pacific. In Singapore,
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      R&D for network security
      279 16 AS much as 20 per cent of the revenue of Network Associates goes to research and product development activities. Network Associates is a provider of network security and management software. Its brands include McAfee anti-virus, PGP encryption, Gauntlet firewall, Magic Help Desk applications, and the Sniffer
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      Exhibition and conference
      55 16 COMMUNICATIONS technologies such as 3G, bluetooth, broadband, wireless and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) will dominate the annual CommunicAsia exhibition and conference, from today till Jun 22. Spanning 75,000 square metres at the Singapore Expo, the event is organised by Singapore Exhibition Services and hosted by the
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      For a win
      106 16 WANT a handheld PC that allows you to have Internet access while on the move? The HP Jornada 540 Pocket PC series is equipped to allow you wireless access to the Internet using a mobile phone with infrared capabilities. Since the PDA uses Microsoft's Pocket PC software
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      The Office presenter tool
      420 17  -  Lori Grunin Incorporating new features and enhancements by.. WITH PowerPoint 2002 from the Office XP suite, Microsoft has incorporated significant new features and enhancements, such as support for multiple master layouts, anti-aliased text, and a pre-senter-specific view. At the same time, the Redmond company has also
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      Check out what's cooking on Suria
      166 19 HEALTHY. Economical. Hearty. These three words just about sura up the new season of Suria's 29-episode cooking series, Masak Apa (What's Cooking), which started its run last Monday. This season, zany celebrity Chef Wan continues to share with you healthy cooking tips. Homemakers will
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      Lock icon Millionaire raises $155,000 for charity
      138 19 The celebrity version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire has raised $155,000 for charity. The money will be divided equally among five local charities Assisi Home and Hospice, Breast Cancer Foundation, Jamiyah's Children's Home, Ronald McDonald Children's Charity, and the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association. Shown
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      Lock icon Li-lin and Sharon – the faces of Pomellato
      51 19 Li-lin and Sharon the faces of Pomellato Today photo by MediaCorp artistes Wong Li-lin {left) and Sharon Au have been picked by Italian jewellery brand Pomellato as its celebrity spokespersons. The glittery twosome were present at the launch of Pomellato's 2001 collection at the Hilton Hotel on Friday. WONG KHING
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    308 21  -  Rachel Lo FILM REVIEW Atlantis (Now showing) by.. by.. rach el@newsto d ay. com. sg During what's left of the June school vacation, do catch the new Walt Disney animated picture Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Atlantis reunites producer Don Hahn and directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, the
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      480 22 Reuters/Variety Disney says bye-bye fairy tales, hello adventure LOS ANGELES No talking teapots, no dancing dogs, and not a song to be heard. Disney's summer animated blockbuster Atlantis: The Lost Empire is an action-adventure film more akin to the world of video games than the fairy tales that
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      Optimistic living
      581 23  -  Joy Frances Life is great! A series celebrating living life to the fullest How a lawyer-author-poet finds time to inspire people and put zest to life by. joy <j» newa to d ay. co m. sg A TALENTED poet and author, he jugiigles 16-hour days as a corporate
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      650 24  -  Lan De Cotta He knows the nightlife because he owns part of it ian@n ews to d ay.c om. sg When Dean Shahul (right) walks along the entertainment corridors in Singapore, he is often greeted with a smile and hushed past long queues. And it's not because
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      If you're looking for classical music with a touch of rock, try Four Play
      320 24  -  Francesca Seah by.. franc c sca@ne wstoday. c om.sg Expect an electrifying performance from Four Play, a Sydney-based electric string quartet which is probably the first string quartet to have inspired body surfing. How many other
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  • SEE FOOD
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      432 25  -  Karman Tse A spread of 20 jiaozi to keep you chowing by.. ka rman newstoda y. c om. sg If you have a nose for the latest news on food in town, then you must have read all about, if not already indulged yourself in, ANA Hotel's
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      Unagi dumplings?
      167 25 WHAT better way to keep a tradition alive than to keep it a novel event? You may already have noticed by now that Duan Wujie, better known to us as the Dragon Boat Festival, is just around the corner. This year, the Tung Lok Group of restaurants, in
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  • SPORTS
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      Last spotted in Singapore, Marie-Jose Perec had since gone missing
      326 27 GUADELOUPE Marie-Jose Perec is missing. Despite all attempts to find her, no one has any idea where the triple Olympic champion is living these days. It is as if the 33-year-old has vanished into thin air, reported The Guardian. The
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      377 27 Pitch invasion becoming a persistent problem Cricket LEEDS The ghouls of Edgbaston returned yesterday when a mass pitch invasion by Pakistan supporters caused England to forfeit its one-day match here. The interruption, caused by hundreds of fans waving flags and placards, brought a premature halt to proceedings
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      Buoyant Sixers head into a period of uncertainty
      377 27 NBA PHILADELPHIA One day after bowing to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals, the 76ers' spirits appeared uplifted. Instead of thinking about Shaquille O'Neal as they gathered at the First Union Center yesterday, they reflected on all the awards they
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      Lock icon Sceptics silenced
      657 28 Reuters But Capello admits failure spurred him as Roma takes league title Serie A MILAN A grimace or a growl is the usual expression on Fabio Capello's (right) face, but after his AS Roma team claimed the Italian league title there was, for once, a broad grin. Roma's
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      Woods is making everyone feel small, even when he's out
      711 28 US Open TULSA Even when Tiger Woods (right) is out of contention, he stilJ makes everyone around him seem small. No wonder he talks about his opponents in the diminutive, as in Brooksie, and Goosie. Long past the point when
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        1158 29 -AFP TULSA, Oklahoma South African Retief Goosen (right) threw the US Open championship away on Sunday. But yesterday he returned to Southern Hills and snatched it back with a convincing playoff victory over Mark Brooks. Goosen shot a level par 70 while the 40-year-old Brooks
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        Cream of young talent on show, but where is Poulsen?
        271 30  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg WITH an array of future national players on display at the 18th Lion City Cup, one would expect the man who is designated to chart Singapore's route to Goal 2010 be present at the stadiums, watching
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        Big Baihakki shines for Cubs
        322 30 Lion City Cup Singapore U-18 0 St Stephens 0 WITH their shaven heads, one couldn't really tell one Singapore Under-18 boy from another, just by looking. But one lanky lad who shone among the 'botaks' was Baihakki Khaizan. The tenacious defender was the star performer
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        Lock icon Thuram joins Juventus
        77 30 -AFP TURIN Juventus has signed French international defender Lilian Thuram (above) from Italian first division rival Parma, the Turin club confirmed yesterday. Thuram, who has signed a five-year contract, reportedly turned down offers from Lazio and Manchester United in order to sign for the Serie A runnersup.
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        Lock icon France off to flying start
        118 30 -AFP BUENOS AIRES European champion France beat Iran 5-0 yesterday to get off to a flying start in the June 17 to July 8 World Youth Football Championships. Goals from Auxerre's Djibril Cisse, with a hat-trick, and clubmates Philippe Mexes and Herve Bugnet put France
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        Gerard wins
        67 30 NATIONAL triathlete Gerard Yeo won the Farmart National Duathlon Championships on Sunday in his first race since a serious car accident. Gerard, brother of swim queen Joscelin Yeo, completed the skm run-30km mountain bike-skm run in lhr 45 mins 28 sec. It was his multi-sport race for the
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      From one Open to another
      327 31  -  S. Murali by mnrali@newstoday.com.sg JUST last week, Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee (below) and South Korea's Anthony Kang were locking horns with the likes of Tiger Woods, David Duval and Vijay Singh at the US Open. And in a few days' time, the two Asian stars will
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      Lock icon Citizen Dong?
      452 31  -  Jose Raymond China-born athlete could represent Spore in XL Games by. sports newstoday. com. sg THIS week marks the second year China-born athlete Dong Enxin has been in Singapore. And it is looking more and more likely that the 19-year-old will be the first of the six athletes
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        226 32 LONDON Sir Paul Condon, head of cricket's anti-corruption unit (ACU), revealed yesterday that match-fixing still exists on the international stage. Speaking at Lord's after the International Cricket Council (ICC) had accepted his report recommending ways to stamp out matchfixing, Condon said the game's
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