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  • 7 1 TODAY _1TA(P)063.11.20(_1 J September 4, 2002 Wednesday
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  • 240 1 I*% Am The company said that Mr Boey, who was the former Chief of Army before joining Singapore Power as president and chief executive in 1995, is resigning for "personal and health reasons Mr Boey, who had undergone open heart surgery before, will
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  • 713 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Gulf widens between Spore and Malaysia by boonyian@newstoday.co__n.sg HIS Singapore hosts ordered nasi padang from his favourite stall in Zion Road for lunch on Monday. But Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar decided to give the lunch a miss. The missed date seemed to foreshadow
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 485 2  -  Rosalyn Lim Will a ban on smaller packets of cigarettes deter young smokers? by rosalyn@newstoday._o__.sg IS the fight against smoking a losing battle? The Government thinks it has a tough fight on its hands, judging from the slew of anti-smoking measures it has implemented since 1992. The
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    • 133 3  -  Lee Ching Wem FOUR Muslim groups in Singapore raised a few eyebrows yesterday when they called on the Government not to support any attack on Iraq and appealed for donations to help Iraqis rebuild their lives. "We appeal to the Singapore Government
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    • 295 3 Agencies FBI wants to question M'sian linked to Sept 11 suspect KUALA LUMPUR The US Justice Department has made a request to Malaysia to interrogate a Malaysian terror suspect, reported the Asian Wall Street Journal yesterday. The suspect is to be questioned in the US government's
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    • 81 3 WASHINGTON Commanders of the US Special Operations units, frustrated by the lack of results they have to show for their efforts, want to call off the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The units' leaders believe that the Al Qaeda leader was killed in the US bombing
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    • 72 3 AFP BEIJING Chinese police surrounded a school run by the German Embassy in Beijing yesterday, after 15 North Koreans scaled the walls in a bid to claim asylum. Uncertainty over whether the school is protected under the Vienna Convention prevented the police from entering the compound. This is
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  • HOT NEWS
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      345 5 HEADING for the city and want to avoid the congested routes? Simple: Get the information from your mobile phone, personal digital assistant or the navigation system in your vehicle. Or you may be looking for the nearest vacant parking lot, or the nearest Japanese restaurant, or
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    • 213 5  -  Ton Boon Ngee PRESCHOOLERS need to learn their ABC in school but their social skills should not be neglected. Professor Lilian Katz, an expert in early childhood education, told the audience at a three-day conference here that children around six years of age need to develop basic
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    • 164 5  -  Jose Raymond THE former Vice-Consul at the Singapore Consulate in Chennai, India, was yesterday jailed for six months for graft. Aloysius Michael, 32, was earlier convicted of taking bribes totalling about $535, as well as two bottles of wine four years ago. He received the items
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    • 190 5 Channel News Asia POLICE have arrested three Chinese nationals in connection with the murder of a 73-year-old man. Mr Lav Kiew Kong was robbed nearly two weeks ago in his Bedok North flat. He was tied up and later died of suffocation. The robbers
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  • LETTERS
    • 258 6  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming Public has right to know more about ACS case I AM an old boy of Anglo Chinese School (ACS). I am relieved that. Mr Kg Kny Chin has been reinstated as principal of ACS (Barker). However, I feel that the whole issue should have
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    • 144 6  -  S Ramamirtham TWO recent incidents have not cast the Indian community here in a good light. First, thousands of Indians locals and foreigners gave their support to a mega Tamil show that was held here recently. The proceeds went to film stars in India who are
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    • 128 6  -  David Kwok Ng Kan I REFER to how water in the tanks on a HDB block was contaminated with soap ("Soapy water from tap: Five boys arrested", TODAY, Aug 28). It was reported that young children had gained access to the HDB rooftop without any difficulty.
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    • 151 6  -  Connie Lim I REFER to the suggestion of creating a repository for babies ("No baby repository", Today, Aug 28). I feel uncomfortable about it as it would give the impression that it is legal for Singaporeans to abandon their babies. I agree that we should have
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 97 7 Channel News Asia HSBC Bank is renting about 100,000 square feet of office space at The Atrium@Orchard above the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station. That's more than one-quarter of the total net lettable area of 375,000 square feet of mostly office space in the two towers developed
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    • 247 7  -  Val Chua Chartered woes continue to hit market hy val@newstoday.com.Sj THE fallout from Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing's woes continued to pummel the stock market yesterday. Investors sold shares of technology counters and shares of tech-related companies within the Singapore Technologies (ST) group. Chartered shares fell 0.6 per cent
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    • 361 7 Agencies MELBOURNE Singapore Airlines (SIA) is considering a proposal to revive Australia's collapsed Ansett airline, an Australian television station reported yesterday. Channel Nine said a proposal to revive the Ansett brand was set to go before SlA's board. In response, an SIA spokesman said:
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    • 182 7 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airports Bhd is in talks with a closely-held company to develop Senai Airport in the southern Johor state into an air cargo hub. Talks are preliminary and Malaysia Airports, the sole operator of the country's 37 civilian airports, will make
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    • Corporate Briefs
      • 55 8 Capita Land is in talks with three European insurers to invest in a $200 million China property fund, said chief executive Liew Mun Leong. The fund, announced in July, will invest in the Singaporebased developer's projects in China and is expected to generate at least 15 per cent
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      • 39 8 Teclnvah Industrial's first half to June net profit fell to $2.52 million from $3.1 million in tbe same period last year. This is due to foreign exchange losses and margin pressures from its value chain business.
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      • 44 8 Chuan Hup Holdings chalked up first half profits of $56.3 million, from $51.2 million a year ago, despite a fall in sales. Operating performance improved because of lower costs, higher investment income and a turnaround in electronics manufacturing unit PCI.
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      • 34 8 Super Coffeemix Manufacturing reported earnings of $3.19 million in the six months to June, compared to $3.16 million previously, as foreign exchange losses mitigated the positive impact of marginally higher sales.
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      • 34 8 Nobel Design Holdings said its net loss for the first half to June fell to $1.1 million from a loss of $4.8 million a year ago, mainly due to cost-cutting measures.
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      • 33 8 Eastern Publishing said its net profit in the six months to June fell to $303,000, from $612,000 previously. This is because of foreign exchange losses and a competitive business environment.
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      • 31 8 Dayen Environmental said yesterday it has received a $62 million contract from the Public Utilities Board to build two turbine generators for a local water reclamation project.
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    • Market Watch
      • 125 8 AN early rally led by short covering petered out as investors used the strength to trim holdings. Despite the short-term over-sold levels, the market appeared to lack the positive catalysts for the purge of the current negative overhang. The Straits Times Index made an intra-day gain of 23 points
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      • 56 8 Im Index Value Change Pts Nikkei 225 9217.04 304.59 -3.20 Hong Seng ill Orrjinories Taiwan '.Vid mut 3095.40 4588.06 -106.30 +11.70 -56.5! ■1.07 +0.54 -1.2! Karen (onf SET Index 740.59 356.34 -11.39 -1.0! ■1.51 -0.29 Jakarta Comp 429.99 -10.00 2.27 Phils Comp Shenzen B 1090.09 243.35 -O.20 +0.74
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      • 36 8 USS 0.5722 IK 0.3631 Yen 67.199 HK$ 4.4631 RM 2.1743 Euro 0.5790 Rupiah 5058.2 Buhl 24,175 Peso 29.571 A$ 1.0415 Indian Rs 27.735 Wan 687.01 C$ 0.8906 Yuan 4.7360 N2s 1.2199 NT$ 19.645
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      • 21 8 Golduss/oi 3t _10_ Silver uss/or ..475 Platinum m/a 565.00 Rubber cHiK/lg 158.25 Palm oil _A™. 1517 Brent (rude B*__il 26.80
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      • 5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 58 8 By volume Sept 3 '000 '000 Gtproya 40,-86 D_toc.ft_.SS 16,295 PIIE litd W*****8 31,328 UniFood 13,379 Charteied 21,172 STEngg 9,393 BEL Intl 17,350 SlAssemb 7,644 Lints Is 16,873 Sing Tel 6,734 By value _pt3 Chartered 34,013,190 DBS 12,307,400 UOB 30,454,400 KepCnr 11,220,840 Venture 25,713,100 Dt.ltic.fl USS 11,128,650
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      • 74 8 k-pl 3 Close Change IBS It.SOO +0.100 (epCor 4.540 +0.100 3teaiE<is. 9,400 +0.100 Hi Land 3.240 +0.060 :SS 7.700 +0.050 SingTel 1.4B0 +0.050 Werh 0.110 +0.030 :iiuon5HW*****0 0.090 +0.025 )oi_>Far_n900USS OM +0.025 :ybenti 0.195 +0.025 By percentage Sept 3 Cfii™.SHW0312!0 Close Change 0.090 +38.462 Azlech 0.110 +3?
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      • 82 8 BLOOMBERG By$ Sept 3 Close Change Tbni Prime200ll5S 4,200 0.320 Venlore 12.200 -0.300 UOE 12 .BOO 4200 100 HKS 5.9O0 ..200 SPH 100 19.200 0.200 SPH 19.100 -0.200 SIA20D 11.300 -0.200 SIA 11.300 -0.200 JMH400USS 5.750 -0.150 STIETFIOO 14.910 -O.110 By percentage Sept 1 Close Change SembCorp
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    • 101 10 HONG KONG The SCMP Group, the publisher of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, said its first half net profit fell seven per cent compared with that of the same period last year. Profits for the six months ended June 30 dropped to HK$B6.l million
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    • 177 10 ■AFP SYDNEY Australia's economic growth rate has slowed to below four per cent and retail spending has dropped for the first time in 10 months, according to official figures released yesterday. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said gross domestic product rose 0.6 per cent
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    • 67 10 AFP TOKYO Share prices in Tokyo plunged to a 19-year low yesterday as fears over the short-term trend for the US market snowballed into panic selling, dealers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nikkei-225 index lost 304.59 points or 3.2 per cent to
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    • 2929 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Reuters FIGURES AT SPM YESTERDAY Enquiries.Coii 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.oaa@reut_F_.c_n_ Dale lutid Ncrnc BAV/Bid OH_i Pilie Pike Onlfl Fi Aberdeen Ajsel Management (Alio] LIO. .\L---1:__._l.i- ■■=-:-ii:-::ii- '_r_r.jr.__ 0.517 O.I1I WS __r3een Se _wion High V_Q F_ 1.191 T.M7 30/B A mtiImi. Ss -Cliina Dpnorunil s! Fc if 52
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    • 201 12 Bloomberg JAKARTA Asia Pulp Paper Co has paid US$6O million {$104.8 million) into a thirdparty account as part of a commitment to repay loans to creditors, a director at Asia's biggest defaulter said. "We have transferred the money according to schedule," Mr Gandi Sulistiyanto said
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    • 96 12 AFP CHICAGO UAL Corp, parent company of United Airlines, announced on Monday that Mr Glenn Tilton will succeed Mr John Creighton as chairman, president and CEO. The appointment, effective immediately, was made following a "unanimous vote" by the board of directors, the corporation said in
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 183 14 Reuters. Tokyo power company bosses resign as scandal erupts TOKYO In another example of corporate misdeed, the heads of scandalridden Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) have made a quick exit by announcing their resignations. Tepco, Japan's largest power utility, has come under fire for falsifying reports
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    • 123 14 JAKARTA Indonesian public officials who do not declare their assets by the end of the month will be punished, said State Minister of Administrative Reforms Feisal Tamin on Monday. Mr Feisal said he had sent letters urging government officials to comply with the requirement, which
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    • 108 14 AFP HONG KONG In an attempt to revive box office sales, cinemas in Hong Kong yesterday slashed ticket prices to HK$25 ($5.60) for shows on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the next eight weeks. Cinema tickets are priced between HK$3O and HK$7O, based on the location of
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    • 153 14 BANGKOK There is a lesson to be learnt in the recent flap in Thai-Taiwanese relations, said Mr Tej Bunnag, permanent secretary of the Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry. Although it was a Cabinet decision to sign a labour agreement with Taiwan, senior officials should know their limits
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    • 151 18 Reuters LONDON A lozenge-size microchip may be at the top of the shopping list for anxious parents who fear that their children may be kidnapped and murdered. A cybernetics expert, Mr Kevin Warwick of Reading University, said that, following the recent murder of two
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    • 271 18 Agencies BEIJING Women in China can breathe easier now with the introduction of a family-planning law that will prevent abuses in the enforcement of the one-child policy. In place for 22 years, the policy decrees that each family could only have one child in an
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  • COMMENTARY
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      598 19 A year after 911, how is Afghanistan doing? "YOU'RE heading back to Kabul because you expect more attacks," people say, noting the approaching anniversary of 911. No, I reply. Al Qaeda has been disrupted inside Afghanistan to an extent that any officers who may remain there are
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      186 19 EVEN before Sept 11, a rash of mysterious bombings hit Indonesia. But it was after Sept 11 that these bombings were said to have been connected to Al Qaeda. The terror is believed to be linked to religious extremists here with political ambitions to establish a pan-Islamic state across
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  • UPFRONT
    • 673 20  -  Kim-Kyna Tari Russell Heng returns with Comrade Mayor FOR someone who doesn't go out of his way to court controversy, Dr Russell Heng (picture) has had more than his fair share of it. The mild-mannered playwright is baffled as to why his works have been a magnet
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 103 21  -  Yee Wei Zhen MEDIACUKP TV Channel B's new show, The Wing of Desire, is one big melodrama. Starring Ivy Lee, Jacelyn Tay and Edmund Chen, the story begins with halfsisters Jiaxuan and Danchun witnessing the deaths of their mothers at different locations simultaneously. Years later, Jiaxuan (played by
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    • 92 21 THESE are the winners of a pair of tickets to the President's Star Charity Show on Sunday: Geraldine Chia (*****70 A) Koh Keng Soon (*****97F) Elsie Lim (*****69F) Ng Shi Hui Karen (*****99Z) Yeo Siew Cheng Molly (*****73 A) Tang Gek Keang (*****35F) Ng Shi Ni (*****51F)
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    • 385 21  -  Pearlyn Tham by pe arlyn@n ews to day.com.sg THE new Nokia 3510 is good news for those who have conquered SMS and want to move on to MMS. MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, enables you to go beyond sending text messages to others. With MMS, you
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    • 151 21 Photo courtesy of. THERE is something for both the young and the old on Friday at Bpm. Pop lovers can expect to be wowed by Hong Kong Heavenly King Aaron Kwok (picture), 36, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, while nostalgia fans can take a walk down
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 389 23  -  Yong Shu Chiang What happens when Peranakan ladies get thrown into jail? by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg THOSE were awful ways for parties to end. Police banging on the door, placing people under arrest and hauling them off unceremoniously into the night. It might not have been funny then
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      • 43 23 Drama Festival Web Chat As part ofthe Drama Festival, screen couple Chen Hanwei and Jacelyn Tay from The Hotel will be having a Web chat with fans. Log on to www.cfianne/S.com.sg/dromafest today from 7.30pm to B,3opm.There will also be a live webcast
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      • 164 23 The Heeren*. Shops celebrate Mid-Autumn Fest From now till Sept 21, celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with The Heeren's shops. Receive a free box of sambal mini mooncakes (hatal) or a free lantern with every $80 spent* in a maximum of two receipts. Heeren Shop Club members need to spend
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      394 24  -  David Ngiau Charming Lb and Stitch is Disney, version 2002 FILM REVIEW Lh ani Stitch (Now showing) AT SOME point or another, we've all known (or will know) what it's like to be an outsider. And there will be those who are too different to ever fit in.
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    • 429 24 Reuters/Variety VENICE When the right-wing coalition of Silvio Berlusconi shook up the Venice Film Festival last year, and ousted its director Alberto Barbera, supporters of the media mogulPrime Minister proclaimed the Lido event was a has-been that needed Hollywood films and glamorous stars.
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      303 25 Reuters/Variefy Its box office honeymoon is far from over HOLLYWOOD Indie sensation My Big Fat Greek Wedding (picture) hit No 2 at the North American box office over the four-day Labor Day weekend with an estimated gross of US$l4.6 million ($25.5 million). But it wasn't enough to beat
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    • 367 25 Reuters LOS ANGELES Do celebrities get more favourable treatment than ordinary people when they have a brush with the law, or do prosecutors looking to set an example handle them more harshly? The case of actress Winona Ryder, charged with stealing about US$4,BOO ($8,180) worth
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    • 195 25 weeks 1 Lilo and Stitch 1 2 Eight Legged Freaks 1 3 1} XXX 2 4 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 1 5 About a Boy 1 6 2) Three 2 7 3 Unfaithful- NC-16 3 8 5 Signs 4 9 9) Guns and Talks (Korean) 3
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    • 1522 26 On TV David Blame Magic \\\\.^i ILJ| Drama Festival Good —p,.^^——. Sept 11 One Year On Sept 11 One Year On The Wan Channel 5, Bpm 1I 91 Morning Sir dmnnel B, 10.30pm Insight Special CKA, 9.30pm Fall of the WTC CNA, 7.32 jim David Blame started practising j: I
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  • SPORTS
    • 757 28 Tennis US Open live today on Ch 24, 7am and 10.30pm NEW YORK He may not put the fear of God into opponents anymore, but in his five-set victory over Greg Rusedski on Monday, Pete Sampras proved why he still draws comparisons to the almighty. The winless
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    • 403 28 Agencies NEW DELHI India's cricket chief said yesterday he will persuade the sport's world governing body to alter contentious sponsorship contracts provided the top Stars sign up for next week's Champions Trophy. Sourav Ganguly's men are against the clause which
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    • 399 29  -  Jose Raymond by jo se@ne wsto day. c o m .sg IN A huge boost for Singapore football, S-League tide sponsor for the last two years, NTUC Income, is set to continue its sponsorship for the 2003 season. One of Singapore's main insurance companies, NTUC
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    • 143 29  -  Stanley Ho THE Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has sent Balestier Central's Centre-of-Excellence under-16 coach Mohd Zainuddeen for an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) youth licence coaching course from Sep 1-15. Zainuddeen, widely tipped to be the national under-16 coach next year, has joined FAS staff coach
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    • 377 29  -  Stanley Ho by Stanley® newstoday. com. sg THE Singapore national under-23 football team was hammered 7-0 by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in an international friendly match at Shah Alam Stadium in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The Cubs, who were down 2-0 within the first
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    • 89 29 Project KickOff for boys MORE than 200 boys from Project Kick-Off a street soccer mentoring programme initiated by the Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) will participate in a soccer carnival this Saturday. Project Kick-Off aims to instil positive habits in under-per-forming boys through playing sports. The event, to be held
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    • 87 29 LONDON Irish Ryder Cup star Padraig Harrington will have to wait until the weekend for the results of tests on his ankle and neck, Harrington twisted his ankle during the Dutch Open in July. When he thought he was over that he ricked his neck in the USPGA
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    • 85 29 SYDNEY A ballot system for high demand tickets to next year's Rugby World Cup in Australia was announced by the Australian Rugby Union yesterday. Members of the rugby community such as players, officials, referees and junior players will have first access to its allocation on Oct 14, followed
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    • 45 29 SYDNEY Former Wallaby coach Greg Smith died in a hospice yesterday from a brain tumour, the Australian Rugby Union said. He was 52. Smith was the Australian coach from 1996-97. In 1996, during the Wallabies' European tour, the team won all 12 games.
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      531 30  -  Kelvin Phan{f But coach and bowler say everything's fine now by] kelvin@ncwstoday.com.sg WAS IT a personality clash or a disagreement over training methods? Or was it due to mounting pressure? The questions remained unanswered over an incident during last Sunday's training session for the Asian Games-bound national
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    • 371 30 English Premier League Liverpool 2 Newcastle 2 Owen scores first of the season LIVERPOOL Alan Shearer put Newcastle's late show which earned it a point at Anfield yesterday down to the spirit within the club, reported Football36s. com. Shearer, who scored his side's
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    • 70 30 JOHANNESBURG Three high profile African footballers who supported Sepp Blatters successful bid for re-election to the Fifa presidency have been dropped from the Confederation of African Football's (CAF) structures. Roger Milla, Abedi Pele and the Ivorian-born French international Basile Boli have been removed from CAF's football committee, while
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    • 47 30 PARIS -Robert Pires aims to return to action for Arsenal in the Champions League match against Auxerre on Oct 22, he told sports daily L'Equipe. He suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury in March and missed the World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan.
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    • 46 30 LONDON Chelsea revealed yesterday it has signed three young players before the transfer deadline on Saturday. They are Jean Yves Anis, a 21-year-old right-back from Rennes, 18-year-old Mauro Oscar Coelho Da, a central defender from Porto and Ajax's Mbark Boussoufa, an 18-year-old Dutch striker.
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    • 56 30 CLAIREFONTAINE Arsenal striker Thierry Henry will miss France's opening Euro 2004 qualifier against Cyprus in Nicosia on Saturday, French team officials said yesterday. Henry will be replaced by Liverpool's new signing Bruno Cheyrou. Coach Jacques Santini already has to do without striker David Trezeguet, goalkeeper Fabien Barthez and
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    • 60 30 BEIJING Striker Qu Bo is set to lead China's strikeforce at the Asian Games in South Korea after a dream move to Tottenham Hotspur was halted by work visa problems, state media said yesterday. He was a surprise omission from the under-23 squad announced last week, with
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    • 492 31  -  Razali Abdullah United and Keane will prosper, and that's ridiculous Comment by razali@newstod_y.com.Sß IF THE opening few weeks of the English Premiership season has been all about Roy Keane, then next week promises a refreshing change. The saga is almost complete. Some time this week, the Football
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    • 325 31 Agencies MANCHESTER David Beckham (picture) admitted yesterday that Roy Keane was wrong to elbow Jason McAteer at Sunderland on Saturday but said Manchester United's players will stand by their captain. Beckham said the referee had no choice but to show Keane a red
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    • 300 31 -AFP MADRID Real Madrid got its Spanish league campaign off to a winning start with a 2-0 victory over Espanyol on Monday, but the European champion did little to impress new recruit Ronaldo. With the Brazilian sitting in the directors
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