Today, 20 July 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • Title Section
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    7 1 TODAY Friday July 20, 2001 MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Business as usual
      348 1 Reuters US-China trade relations to go back to norma WASHINGTON The US House of Representatives has voted by majority of a 90n votes to back President George W Bush's request to continue normal trade relations with China. Despite the recent spy plane dispute and concern over Beijing's
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      Lock icon Stocks rise
      45 1 Reuters NASDAQ Composite Index finished with a gain of 30.42 points, or 1.51 per cent, at 2,046.59. Dow Jones industrial average rose 40.17 points, or 0.38 per cent, to 10,610.00. Standard Poor's 500 Index rose 7.31 points, or 0.61 per cent, to 1,215.02.
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      Lock icon Nepal's premier quits
      121 1 Reuters KATHMANDU Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigned yesterday over a Maoist insurgency that has spread rapidly across the Himalayan kingdom. Analysts say his resignation could pave the way for peace talks between the government and Maoist rebels who have said they would hold talks
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Nichiren, no, no
      396 2  -  Cathleen Tung Japanese food products canned by cathle c n@ne wsto day. co m. sg SOME processed-food products from Japan, particularly those that contain meat, have been taken off the supermarket shelves since June. These products including canned food and frozen food from Japanese brands such as
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      Hello, this is a hoax
      187 2 "FORWARD this e-mail to eight friends, and you will get an Ericsson TlB two weeks from now. If you foward it to 20 friends, you will receive a brand new R320 WAP phone! Just remember to send a copy to Anna.Swelunder@ericsson.com for verification purposes." Sounds
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    • Article
      Wrong repeat
      120 2 LIAN Hui Chen was a repeat "customer" of the wrong kind. The 33-year-old woman went to Isetan in Scotts Road four times between January and June. Instead of paying for her buys, she shoplifted $1,177 worth of clothes. On two of the occasions, security officer Mr Tan Wee
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      Lock icon After 6pm, what?
      386 3 Emergency rule or business as usual WILL Indonesia be under a state of emergency rule after 6 pm today? Or will President Abdurrahman Wahid's threat to impose the rule prove to be nothing more than hot air? Suresh Kumar, emerging markets analyst with Standard and Poor's Intitutional
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      Lock icon CMS scraps plans for downtown check-in
      151 3 Channel News Asia THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore {CAAS) has scrapped its plans for a downtown checkin facility at an MRT station. Communications and IT Minister Veo Cheow Tong had said late last year that this was a possibility to make facilities more
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      Lock icon Its official: Government to take over United Engineers Malaysia
      203 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR It's official. The Malaysian government will launch a takeover bid of United Engineers Malaysia Bhd (UEM) as part of its moves to restructure the country's most debt-bur-dened conglomerate. A government agency plans to take over UEM as a
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      Lock icon Miss Ouch!
      252 4  -  Cathleen Tung Soldiers take their aches to her cathicen@newstoday.com.sg SHE works in a male-dominated environment. From her petite frame and gentle demeanour, she looks as if she could be easily intimidated. But Ms Archana Jain (above) has learnt how to handle her clients literally. "It was intimidating initially,
      WONG LI SHAN  -  252 words
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      Searching for a long-lost friend?
      154 4  -  Shazalina Salim HAVE you ever tried flipping through the Residential Listings to search for a Sing Tel subscriber, like a long-lost friend, whose name you are unsurp of? Now, with the help of the CD-ROM version of Sing Tel Yellow Pages' (SYP) Residential Listing, you
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    • Article
      Radiology over surgery
      93 4 RADIOLOGY is increasingly the treatment of choice for a series of women's conditions from fibriods to infertility. This and other radiology issues will be the focus of this weekend's Ninth Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology, where more than 700 delegates from 31 countries will attend. Chairman of
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      Bigger role for officers
      161 4  -  Jose Raymond GONE are the days when policemen deployed to answer public and emergency calls did just that answer calls leaving investigations and followups to other officers. Now, they are required to be more than just the first men at the scene of a crime. Officers
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      Making good in IT sector
      165 4  -  Cathleen Tung STOCK market dealer Tan Jit Kiat worked in the financial sector since he attained his degree in management studies more than three years ago. But his interest was in the IT sector. Now, he has just secured a position in the network support
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      108 4 READ 0N... Pinkerton syndrome? The cheering for Liverpool, and not Singapore, is disturbing/16 Partners in action Jet Li and Jackie Chan to work together next year/19 Charity film AIS fundraising for school exceeds expectations/20 Great act De Laurentitis hopes to team up again with Scott/21 Dino hunting season Dino movies
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Sacrifice pays off
      511 5  -  Shazalina Salitn SMRT displays works of students by sliazalina@newstoday.cnm.sg LAKESIDE MRT station will never be the same again for Mohd Nadiputra Mohd Nasir, Suhadah Hamzah, Wulan Firmansyah, Quek Jia Liang and Wang Ping Ping (left to right, above), whose ages range between 15 and 17. They now
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  • LETTERS
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      Developers, time to review pricing?
      176 8  -  See Leong Kit FOR most Singaporeans, a home is the single most costly purchase of a lifetime. Our young couples today have to put up with smaller land areas, higher prices, 60-year home loans and sometimes, shoddy workmanship. Many are resigned to living in flats.
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      When every cent counts
      462 8  -  Narayana Narayana One-cent coins may be back in favour during recession I REFER to the letter, "1-cent trouble" (Today, July 11). It may well be true that "with Singapore's cost of living as the world's ninth highest (and hopefully we will not aspire to be Numero
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      Lock icon Recall of Pringles not safety-related
      248 8 Procter Gamble, Singapore IN response to the recent announcement that Pringles potato crisp has been recalled in Japan, we would like to provide several clarifications on this issue. In April this year, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) stated that products which contain,
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      Give them harsher punishments
      101 8  -  Richard Teo Yen Wei I REFER to the letter, "Unequal shame" (Today, July 19). Singaporeans are never afraid of being fined. They will grumble, but they will pay the fines. Basically, they will live with it, so long as it hurts them only in the pockets.
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      Woes of a learner driver
      165 8  -  Jenny Lee I REFER to the letter, "We'll try to be fair to all" (Today, July 18). The discrepancy in waiting times is not the only unfair thing facing a driver on test. Testers lack consistency in their ratings. Nowadays, the ability to drive is
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      119 8 Notice TENDER NOTICE TENDER NO. PO7/2001/01 Term Contract for Cleaning anci Grass Cutting to Properties of MeriiaCorp at Calriecott Broadcast Centre SITE SHOWROUND: Date: 23 July 2001 Time: 10.30 am Meeting Place: Radio Gate, Caldecott Broadcast Centre Tender documents shall be issued to local companies who are BCA Registered Card
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      What next?
      304 10  -  Lee Yew Meng DBS must decide today whether to move on OUB by yewmeng® newstoday.com.sg TODAY is D-Day for DBS Group Holdings to make a higher counter bid for Overseas Union Bank (picture), 28 days after it made its first move to take over Singapore's fourth largest bank.
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    • $ Market Watch
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        OUB first-half profit growth to fall
        96 10 OVERSEAS Union Bank (OUB) will probably report that first-half profit fell 0.7 per cent, as a faltering Singapore economy crimped earnings. It is expected to post net income of $290.1 million according to the average estimate of six banking analysts polled by Bloomberg News.
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        Your S$1 buys...
        27 10 US$ 0.5482 UK£ 0.3876 Yen 67.658 HK$ 4.2756 RM 2.0830 rEuro 0.6299 Rupiah 6166.4 Baht 25.057 Peso 29.119 A$ 1.0673 Rupee 25.822 Won 714.81
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      Lock icon Hire, not fire
      268 12 Bloomberg Singapore-based firms remain optimistic MORE Singapore-based companies expect to hire people than fire them in the next three months, betting that the shrinking economy will grow again in the second half of the year, a survey said. Some 35 per cent of executives at 800 foreign
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      Lock icon Seoul revises forecast
      84 12 Bernama SEOUL The Korea Development Institute has revised downward the country's economic growth forecast by 0.3 percentage-point to four per cent this year. The revision was attributed to the slump in the US and Japanese economies, a slowdown in exports, declining domestic consumption and low investment in
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      Lock icon Retailers expect flat sales
      183 12 Bernama RETAIL sales this year, excluding motor vehicle sales, will likely be flat or lower year-on-year with the government cutting its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to 0.5--1.5 per cent, the Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) said. "At a time when many businesses are watching their
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      Falling consumer confidence
      178 12 CONSUMER confidence in Singapore has fallen sharply, according to the latest Mastercard Index Survey. The survey, which was conducted in June, measures consumer sentiment for the second half of the year. The results show that Singaporean consumers are most anxious about unemployment, the stock market and the
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        282 12 THE ST index finished just 0.98 points down at 1,626.84 or four points off its low-on-short covering and bargain-hunting yesterday. Some bullish sentiment was breathed into the market towards the close as the Nasdaq futures swung into positive territory with traders anticipating a better than expected set of results
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        Malaysia
        147 12 KUALA LUMPUR Market activities were focused on the second-liners yesterday. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index gained 1.8 points to close at 649.5 with buyers beating losers almost two to one, with another 167 counters unchanged. Trading volume was 708,539 lots. Whilst eagerly anticipating the announcement of United Engineers (M)
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Two teens detained
      325 14 On suspicion of cult activities KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have detained two suspected leaders of the teenage "Black Metal" cult that is allegedly dabbling in the occult, reports said yesterday. The Star and The Sun newspapers said the two, including a teenage girl, were detained in the
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      Lock icon Howard party wins, retains hope
      200 14 Reuters CANBERRA Australia's conservative government claimed victory yesterday in a cliffhanger by-election which is expected to put the ruling coalition back in the race for an election at year's end. After months of trailing the opposition Labor in opinion polls, Prime Minister John Howard's Liberal
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      Lock icon Jeffrey Archer guilty of perjury
      249 14 Reuters LONDON Disgraced British politician and best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer (picture, with wife) was found guilty yesterday of perjury and perverting the course of justice after a sensational trial. The flamboyant Archer, a peer in the House of Lords, was convicted on three counts of
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      Lock icon 'Not a single dollar to China'
      202 14 Reuters WASHINGTON Calling China's demands for US$l million ($l,B million) to cover its costs stemming from the downing of a US aircraft the "height of arrogance", the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block such a payment. The Bush administration has said
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      Lock icon Charged
      245 15 Reuters US airman in Japan accused of rape TOKYO -Japanese prosecutors have charged a US airman with raping a woman on Okinawa, in a case that complicated relations between the two countries. Timothy Woodland, a 24-year-old staff sergeant stationed at Kadena Air Base, allegedly raped an Okinawan woman in
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      Lock icon The stork's back at Downing Street
      200 15 Reuters LONDON It seems there were other things on Britain's finance chief Gordon Brown's mind recently, besides a general election. The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on Wednesday that he is to become a father for the first time at the age of 50.
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      Lock icon Court: Napster can resume business
      136 15 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO A federal appeals court yesterday gave embattled songswap service Napster Inc the green light to resume business over the Internet, overruling a lower court judge who had demanded more assurances on copyright protection. The court said Napster, which has been voluntarily offline
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Pinkerton syndrome?
      876 16  -  Ravi Veloo The cheering for Liverpool, and not Singapore, is disturbing by HOW sad. The way Singaporeans still go ape over English soccer teams, like visitors Liverpool, you would think this whole country is full of sarong-party girls. I mean, nothing reminds you more that Singapore was a
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      1347 17 Never Say Goodbye *In Conversation with Gerard Naam M Channel fl r 10.30pm HoiilNer, Channel News Asia, 11,34 am Surin, 9pm channel newsasia aspires to become a famous cartoonist, f- LiZpoolFooZallClukZ^ks" "about the VkJk A Jkj^, a pretty vet who belu yes in eternal dub: sensationai tasi season Tve never
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  • TIMEOUT
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      Ekachai brings spicy tale to stage
      441 18  -  Jenny Kong by j c nny @n c wstod ay com. sg RENOWNED theatre director Ekachai Uekrongtham may have reached great heights in his career but deep inside, he is still the humble, earnest director who is very much attached to his roots. One
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      Planet Hollywood's sizzling deal
      143 18 BARBECUES seem pretty much out of the question, considering the brain-frying heat we're experiencing of late. Unless, of course, it is to take place in the comfort of an air-conditioned niche in Planet Hollywood. The only thing that will be sizzling hot at the movie-themed restaurant
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      342 18 THREE-DAY LISTINGS MUSIC FAMILY/KIDS appear under a traditional OCTOBER CHERRIES NEZHA circus big top tent It fea The October Cherries was This Mandarin production hires circus favourites from Singapore's premier record- by The Finger Players will clowns to acrobats to aniing band of the late 60s and showcase rod puppetry,
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon Partners in action
      314 19 Reuters/Variety Jet Li and Jackie Chan to work together for the first time next year NEW YORK Revolution Studios has made deals that will pair international-action stars Jet Li and Jackie Chan in an action film for the first time. The duo, who will also serve as
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      Charity film
      160 20 AIS fundraising for school exceeds expectations A lumni International Singapore (AIS) xiorganised a charity preview of Jurassic Park 111 on Wednesday night for children from the Canossian School for The Hearing Impaired {top, right). The AIS, a graduate organisation consisting of 14 major alumni associations in Singapore, had
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      Lock icon Laos action if Thai film goes ahead
      302 20 AFP BANGKOK Laos on Wednesday threatened retaliatory measures against Thailand if it went ahead with the making of a historical film depicting a Thai heroine's battle against Laotian invaders. "The Laotian authorities will react with measures that will depend on the extent of
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      Great act
      264 21 De Laurentiis hopes to team up again with Scott LONDON Director Ridley Scott, who was Oscar-nominated this year for Gladiator, is on producer Dino De Laurentiis' wish list for Alexander The Great. Dino De Laurentiis, who worked with Scott (left) on Hannibal, told journalists at the Giffoni Film
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      Lock icon $150m setback for Coppola
      290 21 Reuters LOS ANGELES Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola lost his bid on Wednesday to reinstate US$BO million ($146.33 million) in damages he won against Warner Bros studio in 1998. The jury verdict in his favour was reversed shortly after his win. The California state Supreme Court in
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      Lock icon Race to the North Pole
      171 22 Reuters NEW YORK Taking a page from the reality hit series Survivor, giant-screen company Imax is mounting R2P, a race from the equator to the North Pole that will be used as the basis for an Imax feature to be released in early 2003. In
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      Lock icon ODB jailed on drug charges
      216 22 Reuters NEW YORK Russell Jones, the rap artist known as ODB (left), was sentenced Wednesday to two to four years in prison on drug possession charges. The State Supreme Court also recommended that Jones, whose stage name is short for Ol 1 Dirty *****, be
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      Lock icon He got in, but some say 'keep out of his concerts'
      447 22 Agencies SYDNEY Confusion in Australia over whether controversial rapper Eminem's planned tour would proceed ended Wednesday when the singer was granted permission to enter the country. The Australian government said it had granted the Grammy-winning singer a visa after
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      331 23  -  Sophia Ang Star Search winner Michelle Liow enjoys being in the imelight and looks set to shine in showbiz by sop hia@ne ws tod ay. com .sg HAD Michelle Liow Ying Ying (picture) been less pragmatic and a little more attentive to her heart, she could
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      278 24 Reuters/ Variety DAVID Hayter is proof that the avoidance of a Writers' Guild strike was fortuitous. Exactly a year ago, Hayter watched as X-Men opened and became a hit, after he'd been paid U5535,000 ($63,906) for a script on which he received sole credit. Hayter has
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      456 24  -  Jeremiah Bullfrog ON THE LILY PAD with WHEN I was a lot younger, I used to do some tricks with my yoyo. The thing was, you never could get a yoyo to do a good trick with a new string it would always "stick" and the
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      366 25 Make movies or hunt dinosaurs? Let your child choose WITH Jurassic Park 111 comes Toys "R" Us1 dinosaurs week. Children will get a chance to meet spinosauruses and velociraptors, up close and personal, as the toy mart unveils life-like and interactive figurines of these giant lizards, along
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      672 26  -  Lan De Cotta When the city celebrates the homecoming of the Olympics, its history will be retold by ian@ne ws today, com. sg AT the height of activities in Moscow last week co vote which city would host the 2008 Olympic Games, the name on everyone's lips
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      433 27 Reuters Denilson stars as coach Scolari among four expelled Copa America Brazil 3 Paraguay 1 CALI Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari and his assistant Flavio Murtosa were among four men sent off as the defending champion beat Paraguay 3-1 yesterday to reach the Copa America quarter-finals. Peru joined
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      206 27 Cricket BRADFORD Cricket umpire Roy Higgins was really caught out when he took charge of a match and all 22 players were called PATEL. Higgins and the scorers were stumped as batsmen called Patel were caught by Patel off the bowling of...Patel! Baffled Higgins, 52, admitted:
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        492 28 Prospect of further raid fuels takeover speculation LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson's millionaire friends, JP McManus and John Magnier, are expected to buy more shares in Manchester United next week to become the largest shareholders in the club, increasing speculation that they are preparing for a
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        138 28 Reuters NBA SACRAMENTO Chris Webber, the most sought-after free agent in the NBA, will re-sign with the Sacramento Kings later this week, the player's advisor said yesterday. "He had a chance to go to a lot of other teams. He chose Sacramento, Fallasha Erwin
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        260 28 LONDON Patrick Vieira' s agent Marc Roger flew into Madrid last night for talks with Real president Florentino Perez about the France midfielder joining the Spanish champion, reported Soccernet Roger, who was behind Nicolas Anelka's controversial move from Highbury to the Bernabeu two
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        247 28 -AFP Tour de France PERPIGNAN When the going got tough, Lance Armstrong got going. And that spells trouble for the American star's rivals as the Tour heads to the Pyrenees today. With back-to-back stage wins in the opening two mountain skirmishes, defending champion
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      758 29 Will Open bethel breakthrough.^, major for star duo? LYTHAM David Duval (picture, left) and Phil Mickelson {picture, right) have a lot to prove at the 130 th British Open. One of them has the chance to step out of Tiger Woods' shadow and finally take
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      43 30 JOSE RAYMOND NTUC Income marketing manager Frank Chang (left) presenting a $300 cash voucher to the seventh winner of the NTUC Income-ToDAY Fan of the Week, Mohd Idham Abdul Rahman, at dementi Stadium yesterday. Today photo by
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      388 30  -  Stanley Ho by Stanley tiewstoday. com. sg PITY Woodlands Wellington. Besides losing games and precious league points, the club looks like it's losing fan support fast. At last night's NTUC Income S-League match against Geylang United at Bedok Stadium, only a handful of Rams' fans turned up
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      398 30  -  Jose Raymond THIS time last year, 18-year-old 'keeper Lionel Lewis was playing second fiddle to Shahril Jantan at Geylang United. But 12 months on, the polytechnic student looks likely to be included in the U-23 squad which will lead Singapore's quest for
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      315 31  -  Stanley Ho BRITISH media reports earlier in the week suggested that Liverpool would make close to £8 million ($2O million) from its week-long trip to Singapore and Bangkok, although IMG's managing director Mark Adams denied that sum when Today contacted him yesterday. And sources here revealed
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      104 31 THE Singapore national U-18s left today for a tour of Northern Ireland and Denmark. They will spend nine days in Belfast participating in the Milk Cup and will match up against the U-19 teams of Scotland, Mexico and Northern Ireland. In Denmark, they will take part
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      106 31  -  Jose Raymond SINGAPORE'S national team left last night for the Asian Netbal! Championships in Colombo despite reports that violence has erupted in Sri Lanka's capital. Protesters and opposition members numbering between 20,000 to 30,000 battled police in the streets of Colombo after president Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended parliament last
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      140 31 THE proposed golf charity event to support Unicef, involving Manchester United's stars on July 25 has been cancelled. A media statement released yesterday by MasterCard International read: "...recent changes in personnel on both the coaching and playing side (Manchester United has a new assistant manager in Jimmy
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        488 32 -AFP No more playing catch up British Open LYTHAM Scotland's Colin Montgomerie moved into uncharted territory when he found himself leading after the first round of the British Open yesterday. The 38-year-old shot a sixunder 65 to equal his lowest ever round in the Open recorded seven
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        359 32 BANGKOK Liverpool's young England internationals Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen yesterday gave club and country a massive lift from opposite sides of the world, reported Soccernet. Owen continued to show he was back to his best with two more goals as last season's treble cup winners
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        194 32  -  Jose Raymond The Singapore netball team is safe in Sri Lanka, despite being at the centre of civil unrest in the country. The team is there to participate in the Asian Netball Championships, which involves seven other nations. The 18-member strong squad arrived in
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