Today, 20 March 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 TODAY We d n c s d ay •March 2°> 2°° 2 MITA(P) 063/11/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 193 1 Reuters WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged but shifted its stand on future actions to "neutral", hinting possible rate hikes later this year. Abandoning a 15-month warning about economic weakness, the Fed said the US economy is "expanding at a significant pace" but that the
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    • 77 1 Reuters LONDON The Commonwealth suspended Zimbabwe from the 54-nation grouping over President Robert Mugabe's controversial victory in elections that the West condemned but the country's African neighbours had approved. A Commonwealth committee made up of the leaders of Nigeria, South Africa and Australia suspended the southern African country
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    • 501 1  -  Jose Raymond A TODAY EXCLUSIVE As Fandi counts his losses and blessings by jose@newstoday.com.sg THE world of business is a great teacher, but a cruel one. It has taught Fandi Ahmad lessons about life, but he is still paying the tuition fees. The football-star-turned-coach, described as Singapore
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    • 138 1 6 USA Football UK Football AUSTRALIA Football Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge. To truly understand a country and its culture, you have to be part of it. Thats> why, at HSBC. all our offices around the world are staffed by local people: In fact you'll find we've got
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 233 2 Controller presented fake documents in $8m scam A FORMER financial controller who tried to help a company he previously worked for by cheating the Australia and New Zealand Bank was yesterday sentenced to 30 months in jail. Lim Kee Sing, 44, was found guilty of all eight charges
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    • 243 2  -  Tan Hui Leng by huiiengismewsto day. com. sg THE Media Corporation of Singapore (MediaCorp) will have a new chairman next month. Chairman and managing director of ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Kwa Chong Seng will take over the reins from Mr Cheng Wai Keung (picture) on April
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    • 235 2 Channel NewsAsia DEVELOPING Singapore's concept of opposition politics, moving into a new complex and witnessing leadership renewal taking shape these were some of the milestones Mr Tan Soo Khoon witnessed during his 13-year tenure as Speaker of Parliament. But the proposal for a shadow cabinet in the
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    • 152 2 JUVENILE delinquency and youth crime have been on the decline, even though recent violent crimes committed by youths paint a different picture. In December last year, for example, a 15-year-old boy was assaulted with hammers and a knife and a 20-year-old national serviceman was beaten by four
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    • 98 2 A FORMER cleaner was found dead in his Jurong West flat on Monday, with a sari and a sarong tied around his neck. The sari had also been used to tie his hands behind his back. Mr Kariachiappan Perumal, 78, who was found lying face-down on the
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    • 527 3 Is one too touchy, the other too bossy? KUALA LUMPUR It has been said that the key to a better tomorrow in Singapore-Malaysia ties is in the hands of the next generation of leaders, who carry with them little historical baggage. And a Malaysian from that
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    • 174 3 Reuters LONDON In the second multi-mil-lion dollar heist in less than two months at Heathrow airport, thieves yesterday hijacked a security van and fled with about US$3 million ($5.48 million) in cash. The robbery of the money, which arrived on a South African Airways flight,
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    • 463 4  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by kim(ffnewstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S most vocal feminist organisation now has a president with more bite than bark Ms Tisa Ng was elected on Saturday at the annual general meeting of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware). The former general manager of the
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    • 207 4  -  Chan Chao Peh HE takes over the reins of an ethnic self-help organisation at a time when the air is thick with talk about whether the different communities understand each other enough. The new president of the Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda), Mr K Shanmugam, said
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 606 6  -  Amy Tan Reuters Will downturn weaken our do-it-yourself mentality? by. AH Loh almost makes ends meet by carrying coffins and hauling fish. On a good month, the Singaporean widower takes home $400 to his four young children a pittance in a country where the average household income
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    • 163 6  -  Sarah Chua ADVENTURER Khoo Swee Chiow's journey across the North Pole has been waylaid by bad weather conditions. Now still enjoying the warmth of his hotel room at Resolute Bay in Canada, Mr Khoo was scheduled to leave for Ward Hunt Island, the first stop in his
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  • YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH
    • 653 7  - Money talks, but Elaine Quelj A Financial Planning Series for everyone Today Job satisfaction matters more, even in bad times IT is such a sinister word. One can either get crushed by the prospect of retrenchment or learn to live with it. With unemployment rates expected to reach six per
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    • 269 7  -  Frank Ng, CFP™ Financial Planning Advice for Working Adults Mr Frank Ng, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ with Great Eastern, has the following advice: Set up an emergency cash fund of three to six months of your expenses. If none exists, it can be created from your current
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  • LETTERS
    • 269 8  -  Lim Boon Hee with costly tuition an THE message Singaporeans get from the Ministry of Education is that Singapore's school system is one of the best in the world. Yet, I find it most disturbing when people in the system do not think so. I
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    • 321 8  -  KJTok I REFER to the column, "Hard-earned peace" (Today, March 15). I feel Mr Sunny Goh has been harsh towards the Chinese workers who allegedly lost their money to a remittance man. While I take great pride in the law and order of
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    • 285 10 It is a well-established fact that zinc plays an important role in maintaining a healthy immune system. This essential mineral is commonly found in almost every cell in a healthy human body and is required for the development and activation of white blood cells which help fight infections. A lack
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 166 11 THE Straits Times Index closed at its highest level for the past year yesterday. It rallied 22.11 points to close at 1808.41 breaking through the 1800 psychological barrier. The rally was led by Singapore Airlines (SIA) on optimism that there would be more traffic for its affiliate, Virgin
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    • Market Watch
      • 56 11 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index lost 3.2 points to close at 754.3 yesterday. Trading volume was modest, coming in at 316,000 lots. Market breadth firmed up towards the close and gaining issues overtook losers by 426 to 269 at the close, reversing the scoreboard reading at lunch break when
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      • 58 11 By volume Stocks '000 AirOieon 26,664 Ipco 23,289 Beycmlcs 23,117 Eastgale 21,347 O»noAvOH 21,256 Slocks '000 Poetent 18,779 Unifood 17,702 Strike 17,323 Floiris 15,555 Surfwe MT 15,536 By value Stocks Volue UOB 65,831,684 Venture 49,083,874 SIA 46,167,376 DBS 37,910,020 Chartered 34,077,100 Stocks Value SPH 21,108,735 Creative 50
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      • 83 11 March 19 Close Changi 23.700 0.701 IPH 100 23.600 0.701 IlA 14.900 0.501 IlA 200 14.900 0.501 JOB 14.800 0.401 Irealive 50 failure 22.900 0.401 18.700 0.2OI IBS 14.500 0.201 1.530 0.141 ki Prime 200U USS 4.740 0.121 3y percentage March 19 Close Change (epT&T W*****S 0.010
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      • 57 11 Index Value Change Its Nikkei 225 *****.82 +294.44 +2.56 Hang Seng Ul Ordinaries faiwan Wld *****.83 3405.60 5906.73 -7.81 +5.60 -65.38 -0.07 +0.16 -1.09 Korea Comp SET Index lokarla Comp 889.98 375.90 471.64 +20.27 4! 17 +1.97 +2.33 +0.31 +0.42 'hils Comp ihenzen B \6umbai 1390.94 237.63 3560.32
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      • 71 11 March 19 Greattosl Close Change 12.300 -0.100 F&N 7.850 -0.050 ISO 500USS 2.690 -0.050 NalSteel 1.320 -0.040 SGX 1.360 -0.030 UOLW0406I2 HuaKok 0.675 -0.030 0.110 0.030 IMC Int 0.215 -0.030 toffleslas 0.560 -0.025 By percentage March 19 HuoKok Close Change 0.010 -21.429 BBR 0.030 -14.286 TMCInt NOVENA
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      • 36 11 US$ 0.5475 UK£ 0.3833 Yen 71.8673 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.6198 topioh 5452.45 Baht 23.7751 Peso 27.9958 A$ 1.***** Indian Rs 26.6778 Won 726.227 C$ 0.8673 Yuan 4.5320 HZ$ 1.***** NT$ 19.1689
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      • 21 11 Bloomberg Gold usvu 292.300 Silver m/« 4.503 PfaNnmuU/B 517.200 Rubber onAs 123.50 Polm Oil RM/tcnre 1177 Breni crude usi/lomi 24.57
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    • 83 12 NETWORK i2i, a 50-50 joint venture between SingTel and the Bharti Group, has appointed Mr Ng Seng Sum as its new CEO. The company is a private cable development company that will build the world's largest cable network in terms of bandwidth capacity, with a total bandwidth of
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    • 58 12 JAPAN'S third-largest shipping group, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), has underscored its regional hub operations in Singapore. K Line intends to control two liner services and expand into Aframax tanker operations from Singapore, according to the Trade Development Board. As a result, it plans to increase employment
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    • 466 12  -  Francis Kan MAS moves to perk up trading in the currency by francis@newstoday.com.sg THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has further liberalised trading in the Singapore dollar to stimulate the country's capital markets, while not encouraging speculation against its currency. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, chairman
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    • 331 12  -  Val Chua by val@newstoday.com.sg WHEN it started two years ago, ID.Safe wanted to ride on the wave of e-commerce growth in Singapore. It made business sense then, as the firm issued digital certificates or e-IDs for secure online transactions. To much fanfare, it
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    • 3041 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Fund Name NAV/Bid Price Oiler Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) Aberdeen Se American Opportunities 0.747 0.785 Aberdeen Se Asian Fixed Income 1169 1.205 Aberdeen Se China Opportunities Fund 0.997 1.048 Aberdeen Se Continental Europe Eguity 1.009 1.061 Aberdeen
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    • 228 14  -  Val Chua SMALL- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a coveted target these days. IBM wants to penetrate this market with its lower-end server and storage solutions. That is why the US-based IT giant has inked a $100 million deal with local distributor, Digiland International
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    • 205 14 Bloomberg $446m payout to consultants under scrutiny STOCKHOLM Ericsson, the world's biggest phone-equipment maker, is being investigated by Swedish police over how it booked 2.5 billion kronor ($446 million) paid to foreign consultants, the National Economic Crimes Bureau said. The bureau will probe how Ericsson accounted for
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    • 233 14 Bloomberg BEIJING China's government accelerated investment in the first two months of the year as it pledged to pump money into public works and development projects to boost economic growth. Investment rose 24.5 per cent in the January-February period from a year earlier to 140.8
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    • 509 16  -  Chan Chao Peh LocalStreets' Online Storebuilder is more than just a concept by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg CALL his company a dotcom and LocalStreets founder and executive director George Chen would give you an indignant reply: "We are not." With the burst of the dotcom bubble, it is important for
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    • 271 16 AFP SYDNEY Australia has opted against taking the United States to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its decision to impose tariffs on steel imports. Tariffs of between eight and 30 per cent will apply to US steel imports from today
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    • 51 12 V Today is Naw-Ruz, the first day of Baha'i Era 159, which also marks the end of the Baha'i I fasting month. n A The Spiritual Assembly of the A j/ Baha'is of Singapore wishes all r Baha'is in Singapore a HAPPY NEW YEAR Dedicated to your comfort. ft Single-mindedly
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 214 18 Reuters BAGRAM AIR BASE (Afghanistan) The United States military was on the defensive yesterday over how effective the biggest battle of the Afghan war had really been. Although "Operation Anaconda" was officially completed and was declared an "unqualified and absolute success" by
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    • 315 18 Agencies Arafat still relevant JERUSALEM Although Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has described him as "irrelevant", Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat seems to have gained the upper hand in recent days. Israel yesterday said it had completed its withdrawal from autonomous Palestinian areas, hoping to clear a major
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    • 127 18 Reuters MANILA A new militant group has surfaced in the Philippines demanding separate federal states for the country's Catholics and Muslims, police said yesterday. The group, Indigenous People's Federal Army, came to light after planting two bombs in the Makati financial district. Speaking after police had defused
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    • 50 19 -AFP photo SOME 1,000 illegal immigrants, mainly Kurds, arrived on a cargo ship at Catania, Italy, on Monday. Port authorities have set up an emergency plan to house them in a sports centre, before transferring them to a reception centre in Apulia, the southern Italian mainland.
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    • 159 19 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's Deputy Premier Chavalit Yongchaiyudh yesterday stepped down from his role as overseer of the Anti Money Laundering Office (Amlo) to take responsibility for an asset-probe scandal. His resignation came less than a day after he said he would look into punitive measures against
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    • 243 19 Agencies SEOUL The hostility between North Korea and the United States is set to intensify following Washington's proposed sale of a defence system to South Korea. The sale of the US$l.2 billion ($2.2 billion) Aegis warship system was seen as a prelude to joint military exercises
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    • 109 19 AFP PHNOM PENH Prince Norodom Sirivuth, the half-brother of Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, has been listed as a terrorist and cited for arrest. Prince Sirivuth's nephew, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said the government had a list of people who were alleged members of the outlawed, US-based Cambodian
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    • 117 20 -AFP JAKARTA Japan has urged police in Bali to crack down on sex attacks on Japanese tourists following a recent increase in the crime. The Japanese Consul based in Bali, Mr Kaoru Hata, said if the situation worsened, appropriate measures would be taken, including a
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    • 206 20 KARACHI The weekend attack on a church in Islamabad has not only dented Pakistan's efforts in fighting terrorism, it has also dealt a severe blow to the economy. "This sort of thing frightens everyone, not only foreign investors but also domestic," Mr Zahid Zaheer, secretary-gen-eral of the Overseas
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    • 130 20 AFP HOUSTON The relatives of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children, have pointed the finger at her husband, Russell, for his role in the tragedy. The killer mum was sentenced to life in prison on Monday. Her family members told ABC television that Mr
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    • 71 20 HONG KONG China will introduce a social security tax to deal with an ageing population and the increasing number of unemployed people. The Hong Kong iMail quoted sources from an official publication as saying that preparations for the tax were underway. Currently, only 17 out
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 803 22  -  Hwee Goh Public mud-slinging won't help Singapore-Malaysia relations by I COULD almost discern a shrug, even an exasperated look, when the Singapore media spoke to Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as he wrapped up his trip to Malaysia last week. "I don't see a sudden dramatic
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    • 181 22 What the regional papers said yesterday The Star/ Malaysia Under one roof The Federal Government has taken over the implementation of low-cost housing projects from the states under a 1.404 billion ringgit strategy to build and finance 40,000 units over the next five years. Bangkok Post/ Thailand PM's probe claim
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    • 40 22 During my lifetime, M most of the problems the M world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe, and the solutions, from outside it. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on European problems in general.
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  • UPFRONT
    • 537 24  - Gifted with a daughter Elisa Chia by elisa@newstodav.com.sg SANDY Lam likes to describe her four-year-old daughter Xi'er as "a gift". Her unplanned pregnancy, which forced her to retreat from show business, may have cost her to fall in the popularity ratings at the peak of her career but she said
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    • 391 24 Today Foreign Desk GENEVA Her outspoken views on human rights violations have earned Mrs Mary Robinson (picture) few friends in some countries. And they will be the ones who will not miss her when she steps down as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in
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  • PORTFOLIO
    • 474 26 Build a portfolio at a lower cost with Share Builders Plan INVESTING in stocks and shares may bring in good money, but some people are hesitant as there are risks involved, especially if you time the market And it often requires a sizeable sum of money.
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    • 210 26  -  VasuMenon THE US economy is headed for a strong recovery which augurs well for Asian bourses. Some economists are predicting a four to six per cent growth for the US economy in the first quarter. Fund managers continue to overweight Asia but they are selective about the markets
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  • CITYSTYLE
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      22 29 Miss Singapore Universe 2002 finalists get to v I Nuraliza Julia Belinda Kan man i V SiaoYen Jeslynn i—^^^ Joanne
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 137 30  -  Janice Lee REHEARSALS for the finals started about two weeks ago and Miss Singapore Universe contestants have been feeling the pressure. They needed a boost And, last weekend, the boost came in the form of Thai boxing (picture) and yoga classes. Darren DeSilva,
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    • 487 30  - It's been so long now Elisa Chia Shucheng takes the lead role in Vive La Famille by elisa@newstoday.com.sg IT was 1971 when he burst into action in the world of television, recalled Chen Shucheng (picture). And he has not looked back since then. More than 30 years in the business,
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  • INCINEMAS
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      286 31 SPIKE Lee is bitter about Ali, the Oscar-nominated biopic about champion heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali. In a recent interview on BET, an American cable channel aimed at African Americans, writer-director Lee said that he was passed over for Ali because Will Smith, the film's star, had objections to
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    • 196 31 Reuters/Variety PARIS France is sending a mission to Afghanistan armed with VHS cassettes of film classics, including shorts by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the Lumiere brothers. The mission is organised by state-backed film preservation group La Cinematheque Francaise. Cinematheque director Peter Scarlet,
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    • 787 32 -Reuters/Variety Will it be Russell or Denzel at the Oscars? LOS ANGELES He may be moody, rude, prone to outbursts of temper and a drink too many after the cameras have stopped rolling. But there's no question that Russell Crowe can act, not just act up.
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    • 150 32  -  Low Ski Ping A GROUP of students from Temasek Hall, at the National University of Singapore (NUS), are "airing their dirty laundry" at the GV Grand cinema this week. After eight months of planning and filming, the students premiered their film, Dirty Laundry, on Monday evening.
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    • 288 43 English Premier League Tottenham 0 Charlton 1 No sign of an end to Spurs' free-fall LONDON Tottenham centre-back Ledley King has been criticised by manager Glenn Hoddle (picture) for the "stupid" goal which cost it the game with Charlton yesterday. Hoddle hit out after the match, which
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    • 326 43 LONDON Andy Cole will quit Blackburn at the end of the season just five months after his £7 million ($lB million) move from Manchester United. In a shocking development, the Online Sun yesterday reported that the England striker, 30,
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    • 190 43 Reuters TBILISI The father of AC Milan player Kakha Kaladze has threatened to commit suicide if his younger son Levan is not released by kidnappers, a family friend said yesterday. Frustrated by the lack of progress in efforts to find his missing son, Karlo Kaladze threatened
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      • 823 44 AFP Reds boss watches from the touchline as his side beats AS Roma to qualify Champions League Gp B Liverpool 2 AS Roma 0 Litmanen and Heskey both score in Owen's absence LIVERPOOL Liverpool booked its place in the last eight of the Champions League at
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      • 204 44 Agencies Champions League Gp B Galatasaray 0 Barcelona 1 Luis Enrique's strike is enough ISTANBUL Barcelona beat Galatasaray 1-0 in a tense game this morning, securing its place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and ending the Turkish club's long unbeaten home streak. Galatasaray had the
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      • 222 44 -AFP Champions League Gp A Boavista 0 Man United 3 Red Devils top their group OPORTO Manchester United thrashed Boavista 3-0 in Portugal to win its Champions League Group A outright and earn an easier draw for the quarter-finals. Laurent Blanc, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
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    • 577 45 Agencies A case of deja vu as theTiger show gathers pace PONTE VEDRA BEACH Tiger Woods (picture) was down the same road a year ago. En route to winning the US Masters, the world No. 1 was without a victory in 2001 until the Bay Hill
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    • 61 45 KABUL An Afghan cricket team is to play a side assembled from the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul today, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said. "It is to prepare them when they go for the Chiang Mai Sixes in Thailand," he said. Last
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    • 97 45 HANOI Ho Chi Minh City police have given cash rewards to officers who took part in a raid on a Chinatown football restaurant in which more than US$lB,OOO ($33,000) was seized from underground bookmakers, the commercial capital's police daily said yesterday. A total of 53 people were arrested
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    • 92 45 WELLINGTON New Zealand's Lou Vincent played in the first Test against England just five days after undergoing a "small" heart operation, he revealed yesterday. "I went under the knife on Friday and felt I would be alright by the Wednesday to play. It was only a
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    • 95 45 LONDON The face of Formula One may be about to change significantly as team bosses and key figures meet to decide how best to cut costs. It remains to be seen whether the International Automobile Federation (FIA) meetings in Paris, scheduled for yesterday and today, will
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    • 802 46  -  Kelvin Phang SSC adopts new approach to NSA review, but will it deliver results? SINGAPORE sport is now taking a more business-like approach towards evaluating National Sports Associations (NSA). At yesterday's NSA review at the Singapore Sports Council (SSC), business terms littered chairman Ng Ser Miang's
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    • 288 47  -  Jose Raymond HOME United's comfortable 3-1 win over Sembawang Rangers yesterday in the opening round of the NTUC Income Singapore Cup tournament must have been a relief to its English coach Jason Withe. Until yesterday, many were wondering why a club touted as the favourite for
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    • 125 47 Reuters GUWAHATI Dinesh Mongia hammered an unbeaten 159 for his maiden one-day hundred as India crushed Zimbabwe by 101 runs to win the one-day series 3-2 yesterday. Mongia struck 17 fours and a six in his 147-ball knock and shared an explosive 158-run fifth-wicket stand with Yuvraj Singh,
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    • 225 47 Reuters ZURICH Sepp Blatter, who has come under fire in recent weeks over allegations of financial mismanagement and vote-rigging, said yesterday that he expected to remain as president of world soccer's governing body Fifa. "I am very confident that in a year,
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