Today, 19 September 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 7 1 TODAY Wednesday > September 19, 2001 MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      461 1 Reuters It will use trade, sanctions to build coalition WASHINGTON The US yesterday vowed to use the lure of trade relations and the threat of sanctions to compel other nations to join its campaign to root out and punish Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of
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    • 379 1 Agencies NEW YORK US share prices ended the day weaker with Dow Jones declining 17.30 points, 0.19 per cent, to 8,903.40 and Nasdaq giving up 24.47 points, 1.55 per cent, to finish at 1,555.08. The Dow gained ground earlier in the day,
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    • 59 1 AFP WASHINGTON Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri arrived in the US yesterday. Ms Megawati had strongly condemned the "brutal and indiscriminate" assaults on the US and said her country would join the global battle against terrorism. But she was expected to warn against hasty reprisals which could be
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    • 81 1 -AFP WASHINGTON A new computer virus named Nimda is spreading over the Internet and could be worse than the Code Red worm, US Attorney Genera] John Ashcroft said. The virus attacks Internet servers through e-mails. The National Infrastructure Protection Center had warned on Monday that a flood of
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  • GROUND ZERO/THE INTELLIGENCE FACTOR
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      582 2 Can US rely on Pakistan as an ally? WASHINGTON The United States' choices are limited, now that it is determined to strike Afghanistan for harbouring Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in last week's terrorist attacks on the US. And the choices boil down to Iran and
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    • 200 2 KABUL Islamic scholars gathering here to decide on the fate of terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden, refused yesterday to hand him over dead or alive to the United States. The ruling Taliban has previously hinted they might put Osama on trial in an Islamic
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    • 272 2 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police confirmed yesterday that suspects in last week's terrorist attacks on the United States had recently been in Malaysia. Police chief Tan Sri Norian Mai said investigations were carried out based on a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) list, which
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  • GROUND ZERO/TEST OF A LIFETIME
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      441 3 Confidence in Bush grows; war Cabinet in place WASHINGTON The crucial hours after last Tuesday's terrorist attacks did not reflect well on US President George W Bush. Save for a brief television appearance in which he appeared shaken even as he denounced the attacks, Mr Bush
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    • 147 3 Agencies. WASHINGTON Amid rising racial tension, judges in the US have postponed several trials of Muslims amid fears that they are unlikely to receive a fair hearing. In California, the case against an Egyptian immigrant accused of killing a child has been put on hold. In Georgia,
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  • GROUND ZERO/ LOOKING FOR A SILVER LINING
    • 153 4 Agencies JAPAN In a global effort to avert recession, two central banks yesterday cut their interest rates. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) cut its discount rate on its loans to commercial banks to 0.10 per cent from 0.25 per cent. The BOJ also said it
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    • 281 4 Agencies NEW YORK Much to the world's surprise, the Dow Jones and Nasdaq rebounded from yesterday's lows and began a cautious climb. The blue-chip Dow Jones was up 29.67 points and the technology-laden Nasdaq was up 15.38 points about two hours
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    • 457 4  - The impact in crass terms Francis Kan Spending for war could help the US, but consumer confidence may suffer by francis isriewsioaay. com. s g DARE we say this? The terrorist attacks in the United States could actually help certain sectors of the economy recover. It may sound crass to
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 146 6  -  -Joy Frances CHIEF Justice Yong Pung How called on judges yesterday to mete out maximum penalties to those convicted of outrage of modesty, rape and rioting as a deterrent. His comments arose during an appeal hearing of a man sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail
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    • Article, Illustration
      372 6  -  Lee U-Wen Hong Kah East boasts 1,000 cultural shows a year by v wen ne wstod ay. com. sg RESIDENTS of Hong Kah East have seen their living environment transformed in the last 10 years, with the upgrading of flats, covered walkways and sports facilities that
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    • 120 6  -  Audra Lim EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Cornelius Koshy from Tampines North Primary School can now walk to his school every day without worrying about the dangers of busy traffic thanks to community traffic wardens. A "Safe Drive Zone" initiative by the NorthEast Community Development Council and Pasir
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    • 207 6  -  Pearlyn Tham HELL hath no fury like a woman dismissed from her job. Two petite, gentle-looking women were in court yesterday for venting their anger unlawfully, after being told they had lost their jobs. Angela Mildthryth, 35, was a clerk with Yong Hup
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    • 91 6  -  -Joy Frances A 26-YEAR-OLD secret society headman was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment and eight strokes of the cane for possession of a gun during a robbery. Lim Peck Hui bought an automatic gun and bullets in Kuala Lumpur for RM$7,OOO ($3,192) with the intention
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  • LETTERS
    • 256 8  -  Narayana Narayana Terrorist Attacks on United States Complaints about the US won't change things THERE can be no doubt that the dastardly kamikaze attack on the World Trade Center in the United States has shocked the vast majority of people all over the civilised part
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    • 159 8  -  Celine Hong I REFER to Mr James Tak Tze Sin's letter "A time for reflection" (Today, Sept 17). He asked readers not to forget the grief of the wars which the US supported against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. To him, US intervention and support in these wars
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    • 326 8  -  Shoba Haridas I REFER to the letter by "The musings of an angry American" by Mr Bill Dook (Today, Sept 17). I am not even going to touch on the offensive and sexist contents of the letter. Instead, I would like to raise a few points
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    • 261 8  -  See Leong Kit I REFER to your report "Cheap service, yet few takers" (Today, Sept 10). Prevention is certainly better than cure. Regular health screening is certainly "preventive medicine" as well as "insurance" against future hefty hospital bills. Currently, Medisave funds can be
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    • 112 8  -  Pang Kian Tiong I GUESS failure is still unacceptable in Singapore despite all the pronouncements that it is. If not, why have headlines like "Jos beaten", all stressing the fact that the nation's representatives at the KL SEA Games were not winning more medals? The
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    • 118 8 Reach us at T>i >\Y i Letters New Products To advertise Want 10 get something oIT your chest? Showcase your new product. Let your business associates know who's on 280,000 copies arc printed daily, Monday Write to us with your views. Give us your Send us a concise description including
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 312 10  -  Chan Chao Peh Scheme to help private technology start-ups by ch a o penw ne wsioaay. com. sg THE Economic Development Board (EDB) is setting up a $50 million venture fund to give budding innovators a leg up in starting their business in the current slowing
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    • 172 10 POSB cards good take-up THE POSB MasterCard has received more than 30,000 applications since its launch on Aug 9. Of these 17,000 applications were for the credit card, and 13,000 were for the debit card, said DBS Bank, which owns POSB. "This strong demand for POSB's first-ever credit and debit
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    • Market Watch
      • 112 10 MORE than 98 per cent of Optus shareholders had taken up SingTel's takeover offer when it closed on Monday at 7pm Sydney time. Slightly over 53 per cent of the Optus shareholders opted for SingTel's offer of a combination of SingTel shares, cash in US dollars and
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      • 104 10 UOB KAY HIAN Holdings, a wholly owned broking arm of United Overseas Bank, offered to buy the retail operations of BNP Paribas Peregrine Securities (Thailand) to build its business in Thailand. The acquisition is the first big step in UOB Kay Hian's long-term
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      • 91 10 US-BASED leader in customer contact operations, COPC International Inc, has set up its Asia Pacific headquarters here. Mr Peter Bloom, the company's president and co-founder, said: "The region has seen a dramatic growth in customer contact centres as companies adopt them as cost-effective tools for
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      • 54 10 SEMBCORP Utilities has completed its hazardous waste incineration plant on Jurong Island. The $20 minion plant can process 70 tonnes of hazardous waste a day. About 80 per cent of the fully automated plant's installed capacity has been committed to incinerate waste for customers in the
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      • 27 10 Your S$1 buys US$ 0.5760 UK£ 0.3927 Yen 67.539 HK$ 4.4927 RM 2.1888 Euro 0.6228 Rupiah 5515.2 Baht 25.442 Peso 29.607 A$ 1.1551 Rupee 27.651 Won 746.26
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    • 380 12 Channel News Asia $7.6b wiped out from market capitalisation THE battering of Singapore stock prices, mergers and acquisitions, delistings and privatisations all these have hit hard the market capitalisation on the Singapore Exchange. Market capitalisation (market price multiplied by the number of shares issued) shrank to $341.2 billion
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    • 178 12  -  Ivay Tan PRUDENTIAL Unit Trusts yesterday launched Singapore's first open-ended protected unit trusts with daily dealing targeted at investors seeking low investment risk amid the current volatile economic environment. The PRU Protected Global Titans Fund (in Singapore dollars) and the PRU Protected Global Titans Funds
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    • Market News
      • 262 12 SINGAPORE shares rose briefly in the morning yesterday after a concerted rate cut by the central banks of America and Europe that supplied sufficient liquidity to the system. The ST index ended the day 10.15 points down at 1324.30 amid reports of more margin calls and forced selling. Turnover
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      • 209 12 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) rebounded convincingly yesterday morning from Monday's sharp 5.5 per cent drop, or 35.5 points. Regional markets were up, "relieved" that the Dow Jones did not fall more than 10 per cent upon re-opening after its four-day suspension. Instead, it fell in a controlled
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 275 13 Koreans agree Agencies On more talks after latest meeting SEOUL Talks and simply more talks. That's the agreement reached by ministers from both North and South Korea after four days of meetings. A statement issued yesterday made no mention of key issues, including the anti-terrorism declaration that Seoul had sought,
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    • 144 13 The havoc that Nari left behind Reuters TAIPEI The Taiwan government yesterday released NT$l.l billion ($55.13 million) in emergency funds to help places worst hit by Typhoon Nari. The Council of Agriculture said Nari caused more than NT$79 million in damage to agricultural, fishery and livestock products and equipment. One
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    • 113 13 Bernama MIRI Opposition parties contesting the Sarawak state election next Thursday were yesterday warned of legal action if they focused on character assassination during the hustings. "The Sarawak United People's Party special task force on legal matters will monitor what the opposition parties put in their pamphlets
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 592 14  -  Robert Evans in Geneva Reuters China's entry into the WTO draws mixed feelings by] Ab clinking champagne glasses hailed China s clearance of the last real barrier in its marathon bid to win entry to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), fears were voiced on what the move
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    • 468 14  - When silence is golden S Ramesh by_ THE terrorist attacks in the US might have been thousands of kilometres away from Singapore. But that distance did not prevent yet another test to Singapore's multi-racial fabric. The Government wasted no time in categorically condemning the terrorist acts. But that obviously did
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  • UPFRONT
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      737 15  -  Philip Cheah Boy band which made it big yesteryear are back in a book BigO editor PHILIP CHE AH talks to Quest founder-member Henry Chua about the time when they were household names, long before Kit Chan or Stephanie Sun even sang their first songs. FOR three years,
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    • 445 15  -  Serena Sim A MAN and a woman meet on the Internet and, over time, they fall in love. Physical appearance is not an issue, they agree, so they exchange intimate emails but not photographs. Six months later, they are ready to
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  • PORTFOLIO
    • 711 16  -  Vasu Menon Economic fundamentals are weak, especially alter last weeks events in the US LAST Tuesday's terrorist attack in the US and the subsequent sharp fall in stock markets worldwide, have left many wondering if they should stay away from stocks or capitalise
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  • INCINEMAS
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      287 17 Reuters/Variety SYDNEY Planet of the Apes, The Others and Moulin Rouge, the latter movies starring Nicole Kidman (picture), provided compelling box office diversions, and some relief for a sombre global mood. In some markets, attendances were no worse than normal for this time of the year. Last week
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    • 183 17 VARIOUS news services report that Yasmine Bleeth, the famed Baywatch pin-up, was arrested last week on suspicion of drug possession and driving while intoxicated. Bleeth, who went through rehabilitation last year for an undisclosed addiction, reportedly lost control of her rental car on Wednesday night
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    • 139 17 Reuters/Variety TOKYO After seizing the crown as Japan's highestgrossing home-grown film, Spirited Away is on track to become the country's all-time box office champ. The ghost-fairytale cartoon has clocked up a phenomenal U*****.85 minion, overtaking Princess Mononoke, which had stood as Japan's biggest-earner with a
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • LIMELIGHT
    • 327 18  -  Fenny Kong New movie will explore the issue ot school pressure by, j e nnyffi'news today.com. sg EMI, EM2 or EM3? This is every parent's worry and every child's nightmare. Local comedian Jack Neo is back on the big screen with a new movie after a two-year break.
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    • 215 18  -  Jenny Kong by. j e nny @news tod ay.com. sg MEDIACORP artiste Terence Cao (picture) is shedding his good guy image for a tough fighting villain in Media Corp TV Channel B's new primetime drama serial, The Challenge. This will be the first time he
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    • 88 18 IT'S strange what people will do for money. Remember Kimmi shrieking when she had to devour some squirming worms during one Survivor ll's episode? Well, how does crunching up live, juicy, stinky beetles sound? Or would you prefer sharing a small chamber with 300,000 creepy crawlies?
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    • 164 18  -  Sophia Ang E" VANGELINE De Souza never imagined that former school buddy Tan Yen Yen could look like that. In Evangeline's words, Yen Yen, 23, an insurance adviser, "desperately needs" to update her looks. "Yen Yen needs a more feminine touch and a professional appearance. "We
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    • 62 18 TOUCH Entertainment presents i i/lf\j®§m°F Love a magic musical A a daughter *0 in search of fulfillment 1 29 September 2001 Singapore Indoor Stadium, Bpm Ticket prices (exclusive of $1 SISTIC fee): $18, $28, $38 Book through: SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg SISTIC Hotline: 348 5555 Tickets also available at all SISTIC
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 367 20  -  Joy Frances by joy@newsto d ay. c am .sg ARE you curious about what the land of leprechauns has to offer? Look no further than a pub off Boat Quay for a glimpse at the other green island. Molly Malone's is an Irish country haven for
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    • 222 20 WOULD you like to dine in a traditional open-air Chinese courtyard, feasting on French delicacies while lively gypsy music fills the air? Make your way to French restaurant L'ecole Gourmande this week for an extraordinary dining experience as the internationally acclaimed band Opus 4 entertains
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 161 20 Three-Day MUSIC Concert by Stella Ng, Pam Oei and Peculiar Remedies Part of a series to celebrate the graduation of the class of 2001 at NUS. Date: Today Time: Bpm Venue: University Cultural Centre, NUS Price: Comp I i m entary Ticketing: Sistic.Tel 348 5555 DANCE The White Sensation This
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  • JOBBEAT
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      550 21  -  Gurmeet Singh financial planners help clients meet lite qoals BOTH Elly Goh and Ashokh Menon made a decision in 1997 to undertake an RMIT degree course to transform their insurance specialist roles for a more all-rounded profession of being financial planning practitioners. "We were the first batch of
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    • 413 21 ANY company wanting to keep its clients happy for the long-term, needs to place value in its customer service staff. That extends to treating customer service staff as well as its clients, but even firms that do so may find their customer service
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  • SPORTS
    • 906 25  -  Rohit Brijnath His Airness would be making a grave mistake by coming back EVERYONE who watches sport is a General Practitioner at heart. Every time an athlete ages and his form declines, but he refuses to stop, we get out our stethoscopes, put them against the
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    • 105 25 Jordan's back ooops sorry, its a mistake AFP WASHINGTON Michael Jordan made a brief, unspectacular 90--minute return to a National Basketball Association roster here yesterday thanks to a clerical error by the league. Jordan's name was inaccurately listed on the active roster of the Washington Wizards on the NBA.com website
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    • 266 25 Reuters NEW YORK Amid prayers, songs and police, America's national pastime made its way back yesterday following six days of national horror and grief left by the terror attacks on Manhattan and Washington. In Philadelphia, where the Phillies were hosting the East divi-sion-leading Atlanta Braves and in Pittsburgh,
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 313 26 Reuters Champions League Juventus 3 Celtic 2 TURIN Celtic manager Martin O'Neill strongly criticised the last-minute penalty that allowed Juventus to beat the Glasgow side 3-2 in their Champions League group E match last night saying his team had been "robbed". German referee Hellmut
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      • 198 26 Reuters BERLIN Germany's Schalke 04 will be forced to field a depleted side against Arsenal in its Champions League match-up today (early tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Schalke made a poor start to its first Champions League campaign, losing 2-0 at home to Panathinaikos last week,
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      • 664 26  -  Leonard Thomas Borussia Dortmund v Liverpool by ]co nard@n c wsto d ay. co m. sg RARELY have German football teams ever been afraid of just an individual in the opposition camp. In the 1970 World Cup, much attention
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    • 514 27  -  Stanley Ho NTUC Income S-League by st anley@ne wsto day. co m. sg EIGHT months have passed since he escaped death in a terrible motorcycle accident that halted his professional and international football career. But the good news is, ex-national and Tanjong
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    • 287 27 LONDON English Premiership players are facing a fresh disciplinary crackdown, according to reports yesterday. This comes after ugly incidents marred several games over a weekend when sport paid its respects following the terrorist attacks in America. The worst came at
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    • 237 27 NEWCASTLE Alan Shearer said yesterday he is still a great admirer of Manchester United's Roy Keane, despite their blazing row at St James' Park on Saturday, reported BBCSport.com. Keane was sent off for the ninth time in his Old Trafford career
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    • 141 28 4FP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has decreed Saturday a public holiday to mark Malaysia's first-ever overall championship in the just-concluded South-east Asia Games. The premier was quoted in yesterday's New Straits Times as saying that the public holiday was
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    • 22 28 NTUC Income Picture of the Day Sarochinee Sawakckim of Thailand is a contortionist extraordinaire. -AFP photo m
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