Today, 20 January 2003

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    8 1 TODAY Monday January 20, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Untapped goldmine
    903 1  -  Tan Hui Leng Spore far behind in generic drug manufacturing business by huileng@newstoday.com.sg WHO would have thought that with the Singapore juggernaut behind the pharmaceuticals industry, one segment of the industry would seem to have been neglected. Generic pharmaceutical products, or genetics, is a booming worldwide business. In
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Why did vessels collide?
      108 2 WHAT caused the collision between the RSS Courageous and the merchant vessel, ANL Indonesia^ This is the question that will lead off today's sitting of Parliament, the first of the new year. The unemployment situation also rides high on the list of concerns of MPs. Dr
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      After HDB ...
      425 2  - After HDB Jose Raymond SSC's sports clinic to be privatised by jose@newstoday.com.sg IT used to be an easy and cheap solution for students and members of the public. Get injured and head for the Singapore Sports Council's (SSC) Sports Medicine and Sports Science (SMSS) Division, which charges the lowest fees
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      Lock icon WORLD UNITES AGAINST WAR
      157 3 Agencies IN a united global show of anti-war sentiment, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets over the weekend in anti-war demonstrations fired up by speculation that a US-led strike on Iraq is drawing near. Demonstrators gathered in cities across the Americas, Asia, Europe
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      A chemical connection?
      423 3 NEW YORK A lawsuit by Gulf War veterans against companies selling chemicalweapon components to Iraq has revealed that a Singaporean company is among the suppliers. More than 5,000 veterans suffering from "Gulf War Illness" are plaintiffs in the suit, which accuses companies of helping Iraqi President Saddam
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      Medisave changes to lower medical costs
      238 4  -  Tan Hui Leng FOR cash-strapped patients like Mr Ng Tong Leong, medical bills can be a real pain. When he was discharged from hospital last month, the 63-year-old cleaner was racked with anxiety. His two-day stay in a B2 class ward at the National
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      Lock icon HOW THE FIGURES ADD UP
      140 4 CURRENT SYSTEM: Hospital bill (B2 class) $4,486 Medisave withdrawal limit under the current system: $600 [2 days x $300/ day) for hospital charges $799 for surgical operations $1,399 Out-of-pocket cash payment $4,486-$1,399= $3,087 *Patients covered under MediShield Basic can claim another $1,240 from MediShield, which
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      SingTel's new IDEA
      209 4  -  Grace Tay TELCO giant Sing Tel has embarked on a $2 million promotional blitz for its multi-platform service suite. SingTel's fixed-line, Internet, broadband and mobile users can now access a host of integrated data services and applications under its IDEAS suite. Users can even send SMS across
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      Deficit 'likely'
      470 4  -  Lee Ching Wern DPM also unveils revised ERS figure by chingwern@newstoday. com. sg SINGAPORE is "very likely" to run a small budget deficit this year, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (picture). Acknowledging that this is "unusual" for Singapore whose last budget deficit in 2001 came after
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      72 4 /Jhe GMAT Princeton a -r '^Review SAT .aa^F'mf Date 16 February 2003 (Sunday) Time 3.00-4.30pm Take a free SAT trial Venue Ang Mo Kio Community Library f es f on 22 February1 4300 Ang Mo Kio Ave 6 Ca// fQ regjster for Singapore *****2 a your test now. Website http://www.nlb.gov.sg
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  • HOME NEWS
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      New newater
      339 6 Nation will have desalinated water by 2005 BY 2005, Singaporeans will have another source of water The sea. A consortium comprising Hyflux Ltd and Ondeo has won the Public Utilities Board's (PUB) tender to supply the nation with 136,000 cubic metres (30 million gallons) of desalinated water per
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      One lucky lady
      101 6  -  Alvin Toh FIRST a free and easy vacation, then a windfall in the form of a Volkswagen Beetle. Housewife Erlin Mamangkay is one lucky lady. For booking a tour with her family to Japan through the SIA EZ Holiday promotion, she won a red-hot Beetle in the
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      Take a break at home
      224 6 A GUIDE book aimed at helping Singaporeans rediscover their own country has met with enthusiasm. Rediscover Singapore, a 64-page pictorial booklet distributed free with this week's issue of 8 DAYS (Jan 16 23), has struck a chord with many. Said media planner Denise Lim: "I'd
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  • LETTERS
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      Untold story of that Ren Ci clash
      947 9  -  Ms Chua Foo Yong MediaCorp explains in chronological order why PSC show was telecast at the same time WE write with reference to the recent and ongoing media coverage in your newspaper of TV programmes telecast on Jan 12, 2003. We are pleased
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      29 9 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax:65-*****217; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg
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      10 9 YMCA SI™E Education Centre Call: 6430 2222 2250 Email: edwinlim@ymca.org.sg
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      A fresh lease of life
      676 10  -  Lee Yew Meng Speedy renewal of older HDB estates with smaller units in Sers project by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) appears to be accelerating its renewal plans to meet rising demand for new flats in mature estates. With the inclusion of the
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      High risks, huge gains
      543 12  -  Vasu Menon Indonesia, Thailand funds were among last year's star performers by news@newstoday.com.sg INDONESIA and Thailand have been labelled as risky markets, yet funds invested in these markets did exceptionally well last year. According to data from Lipper, Indonesian and Thai funds registered here were among
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      Lock icon TSMC's China plans reviewed
      265 12 Reuters TAIPEI Taiwanese regulators are scheduled to wrap up questioning on Wednesday on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) application to build a plant in China, a newspaper reported yesterday. Officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs are set to question TSMC on issues such as technology
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    • Market Watch
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        STI weekly chart
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        World markets
        55 14 Index Nikkei 225 Value 8690.25 Change Pis 81.08 0.94 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9614.59 3024.70 4907.78 -128.64 -5.60 -35.51 -1.32 -0.18 -0.72 Korea Comp SET Index Jakarta Comp 636.46 367.16 401.65 -12.23 -3.32 4.54 -1.89 -0.90 1.14 Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai 1081.60 205.33 3370.39 7.15
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        Your S$l buys
        36 14 USS 0.5771 UKE 0.3579 Yen 68.004 HK$ 4.5011 RM 2.1931 Euro 0.5408 Rupiah 5119.2 Baht 24.664 Peso 30.940 A$ 0.9741 Indian Rs 27.656 Won 677.24 C$ 0.8862 Yuan 4.7769 NZ$ 1.0454 NTS 19.890
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        Commodities
        14 14 Gold uss/oz 356.80 Silver uss/oz 4.810 Platinum uss/oz 619.00 Brent crude uss/barrel 32.96
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        Lock icon Singapore
        192 14 SGX Bloomberg IT WAS a case of playing catch-up for the Singapore market early in the week, with the STI putting on more than four per cent to rise momentarily above the psychological 1,400 level. The rally resulted from across-the-board buying of index stocks, which suggested asset allocation changes.
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      Lock icon Not India
      251 14 Bloomberg US firms cite red tape, instability NEW DELHI American companies in India will invest just enough to keep their businesses running this year, the American Chamber of Commerce said, citing bureaucracy, political instability and a drought that is hurting growth. Half the companies surveyed by the American
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      Diversified hedge funds
      237 14  -  Val Chua ARE YOU worried that your single hedge fund might be too volatile? A fund of hedge funds (FOHF), which spreads the risks of single strategies by investing in a basket of 20 to 30 hedge funds, could be the answer. ABN AMRO Asset Management, for
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      Lock icon Business moves
      38 18 Reuters photo A Japanese tourist in native American attire joins a festival in Manila's financial district ofMakati yesterday. The festival aims to promote Makati City as a tourist destination and the Philippines as a business hub.
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      Lock icon Ready or not, here comes 3G
      151 18 AFP SINGAPORE operators have another two years to launch third generation (3G) mobile services. But, there are concerns that the deadline could undermine efforts to promote usage of the new technology, which is meant to bring high-speed Internet access to mobile phones and personal
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      TAL growth fuelled by gas
      431 18  -  Carmen Lee Growing company's stock a good buy by news@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS become increasingly difficult to find stocks on the local bourse with assured earnings as well as attractive valuations two key criteria for selecting stocks in view of the present economic uncertainty and market
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      Designer optimism
      268 18  -  Grace Tay by grace@newstoday.com.sg DESIGN Studio Furniture Manufacturer Ltd, a high-end furniture manufacturer, is not deterred by the current soft private condo market which it supplies to. It furnishes an average of 4,000 to 6,000 private residential property units a year. As at Oct 31, last year, the
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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      909 21 attractive prizes! Visit Academy of Fine Arts <_B www.singaporeartsfest.com (NAFA) celebrates Cultural CCA A tk^k^r for more information. Medallion recipient Pan Yue m^ W* pBB^ Closing date: April 30 Hong's achievements in fl Price: Free Beijing Opera, which span WRITERS UNLIMITED a^^ WW Registration: Log on to over eight decades.
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Crippled city
      234 29 Agencies Canberra without water and electricity CANBERRA The Australian capital is like a city under siege, with its streets, property and infrastructure devastated by what is perhaps the country's worst bushfire disaster. Thousands were evacuated from their homes on Saturday as three blazes merged into one which blanketed
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      Lock icon N Korea rebuffs UN on nukes
      259 29 AFP SEOUL North Korea yesterday rejected moves to resolve the nuclear crisis through the United Nations, saying the dispute could be resolved only by direct negotiations with the United States. The Stalinist state said it would not allow the US to "internationalise" the dispute.
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      1950s: More sex then
      174 29 LONDON They may have been pitied or seen as caged birds but the stay-at-home wives of the 1950s had more sex in their marriage than their modern counterparts, The Sunday Times reported yesterday. "People don't have as much sex as they used to," said Dr John
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      Lock icon The Al Qaeda link
      127 29 Agencies LONDON Britain's most senior policeman has said that militants with links to the Al Qaeda network are at large in Britain and working with established terror groups. Sir John Stevens, head of London's Metropolitan Police, said in an interview with Sky News that British police
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      Lock icon The Hu team
      270 30 Reuters Party chief appoints allies to boost power BEIJING Seen as a move to consolidate his power, Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao appointed five of his allies to key provincial and parliamentary posts over the weekend. The five Mr Li Keqiang, Mr Li Chengyu, Mr Ji
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      Lock icon A new type of corn?
      74 30 Reuters photo A child checking out an inflatable corn cob carrying the slogan "We do not want this" in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, during a campaign against genetical-ly-modified foods. China's Agriculture Ministry has extended its temporary import rules on such foods to Sept
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      Lock icon Come clean, Iraq
      306 32 Agencies UN call after discovery of arms documents, warheads BAGHDAD They are not "smoking guns" but the discovery of documents relating to uranium enrichment and 11 empty chemical warheads are putting pressure on Iraq to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors. Chief UN disarmament experts Hans Blix
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      Lock icon Debt woes
      114 32 -AFP JAKARTA As the Indonesian government prepares to meet its largest donor group, police fired warning shots to disperse protesters who were against the meeting in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta yesterday. More than 200 protesters had demanded that the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI), which is
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      Lock icon Visa conundrum
      178 32 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand yesterday denied that a group of Taiwanese parliamentarians had failed to obtain visas for a visit here due to pressure from China, saying they had applied too late for them. The 19-member Taiwanese delegation, led by Vice-Speaker Chiang Pin-kung, had planned to leave for the
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      Crowding, incest link
      158 32 KUALA LUMPUR Couples should consider their income and living conditions, and space out the births of their children, in order to avoid incest and abuse, said the wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Datuk Seri Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali said overcrowding can
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      234 29 C\D/2" Singapore Sculpture Oflwarcf Ksreafe <& Jlppredaie Organised by Supported by V The City Developments Limited (CDL) Singapore Sculpture Award aims to recognise |<f3Lj CITY DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED and encourage creativity in youth and local artists in the field of Sculpture, HtKj as well as promote the appreciation of this art
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Mega does it her way
      734 33  -  Patrick Smith Aceh pact hailed but more challenges lie ahead by in Connecticut news@newstoday.com.sg AFTER a year and a half in office, President Megawati Sukarnoputri deserves vastly more credit than criticism as she leads Indonesia through economic and political changes. There was a lot of
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  • UPFRONT
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      Still Mr Boombastic
      450 34  -  Janice Lee Shaggy returns to do what comes naturally and sing, too by. jani ce@newstoday.com. sg IT'S not easy being a woman, especially when faced with interviewing superstar reggae artiste and legendary ladies' man, Shaggy (picture). So, I was relieved to learn that my one-on-one interview was
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      Win Shaggy tickets
      140 34 SHAGGY will perform at Fort Canning Park this Sunday at 6pm. Tickets are available at $61 from Ticket Charge at 6296 2929 and at $71 at the door. For a chance to win a pair of free tickets to the concert, "Party in the Park with Boombastic,"
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      MTV show on Friday
      86 34 THE 2003 MTV Asia Awards will be held on Friday at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Among Asian stars expected to attend are CoCo Lee, Jay Chou, Stefanie Sun, Siti Nurhaliza, Anggun, Aishwarya Rai, David Tao, D2B, Ella, F4, He Yao Sun, Ogie Alcasid, Palmy, Parokya Ni
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      453 36  -  Elisa Chia Ken and the Spore connection by elisa@newstoday.com.sg IT'S easy to take Ken Zhu, our Taiwanese friend from the red-hot F4 outfit, for a Singaporean. Other than sprinkling the interview with Singlish words like lah or leh, he mentioned Singapore brands such as the streetwear
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      145 36 ASIAN news and information provider Channel News Asia (International) is extending its broadcast service to Taipei from Feb 1. Channel News Asia, together with five other foreign networks, will launch its service on Eastern Television's (ETTV) new digital platform, ETTV Digital Channel, which brings overseas foreign-language news channels
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      109 36 THE verdict is out: Stefanie Sun (picture) received the highest amount of performing royalties in 2001, according to the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore Ltd. For her achievement, the songbird was named Top Local Artiste of the Year in the eighth Compass Awards at the
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      630 37  -  Violet Oon On Lunar New Year's Eve, the grand family Reunion Dinner is for all to indulge in the most luxurious and auspicious of dishes by_ FEASTING deliciously is one of the top draws of the Lunar New Year. Even better still is the fact
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      478 38  -  Katrina Karim A Chinese restaurant which is not exclusively Eastern by katrina@newstoday.com.sg THESE days, you don't have to go to a Western restaurant to eat good Western food. It seems that, of late, Chinese restaurants are adopting a more cosmopolitan view on how traditional Chinese menus are
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      269 40 It begins today Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES Nobody is comfortably predicting what will happen when Hollywood's awards season kicks into high gear at the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Although the awards have long been known for humour, good cheer and a bubbly celebrity audience, this year's ceremony has an added
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      227 40 Best Motion Picture Drama About Schmidt Gangs of New York The Hours The Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers The Pianist Best Film Musical or Comedy About a Boy Adaptation Chicago My Big Fat Greek Wedding Nicholas Nickleby Best Actor, Drama Adrien Brody, The Pianist
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      393 43 AFP HONOLULU Aaron Baddeley plundered the front nine and held on coming home yesterday for a two-stroke lead over Ernie Els after the third round of the Sony Open. Baddeley, a 21-year-old PGA Tour rookie, in his first event as a tour member, had three birdies and
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      84 43 BEIJING Former Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Everton and England midfielder Paul Gascoigne has so far failed in his quest to find a new football club in China, with state media yesterday reporting one coach had turned him down for being too unfit Gascoigne, one of the most creative English
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      340 44 AFP MADRID Louis van Gaal will carry on as Barcelona coach for the time being at least despite his team going down 4-2 at home to Valencia amid angry scenes on Saturday. However, his position is precarious especially after hundreds of fans vented
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      120 44 -AFP MELBOURNE Australian tennis coach Brent Larkham threatened to punch tennis great John McEnroe over remarks he made during his Australian Open television commentary, according to the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper. Larkham was incensed over comments McEnroe made during the broadcast of his brother Todd's
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      518 45  -  Stanley Ho Catch him in action, for Silberbauer's tipped for great things by stanley@newstoday.com.sg A DENMARK international reportedly worth four million euros ($7.4 million) will be on parade at Bishan Stadium tonight. Michael Silberbauer, a 21-year-old winger from Danish giant Aalborg Boldspilklub, will skipper the Denmark Olympic
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      322 45  -  Stanley Ho FROM the joyous way the players celebrated after the match yesterday, one would have thought that the Pakistan women's hockey team had scored a victory over host Singapore at the second Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Women's Cup. In fact, Pakistan was hammered
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      140 45  -  Stanley Ho YESTERDAY'S Aviva Bowling Grand Slam Finals saw two Malaysian bowlers lock horns in the women's final. After shrugging off their respective semi-final opponents with ease, Malaysian's Shalin Zulkifli and Lai Kin Ngoh went head-to-head and served up a great game. There was little
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      183 45 -AFP ADELAIDE The confident Michael Clarke, unflappable in his first one-day international, guided Australia to a four-wick-et win over England in a trinations series one-day clash yesterday. Floundering with 104 for six wickets in the 37th over, Australia finished with 153 for six with 15 balls
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      489 46  -  Stanley Ho MHBIHgfJfigBMS^fIJBI^M by stanley@newstoday.com.sg THE secret is out. Emile Heskey has been hailed as the hero after scoring the winner against Southampton to snap Liverpool's 11-game winless run in the Premiership. But Reds' legend lan Rush, thousands of kilometres away as he guests for ESPNStarSports
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      257 46 Agencies MANCHESTER Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson praised his team's never-say-die attitude after its injury-time victory over Chelsea on Saturday. Juan Sebastian Veron set up fellow substitute Diego Forlan to drill the ball past Carlo Cudicini and keep
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      506 47 -AFP English Premier League I Arsenal 3 West Hani 1 lOioDU'i-f regain fivefoini had LONDON Thierry Henry's hattrick saw champion Arsenal re-estab-lish a five point lead at the top of the Premiership with a 3-1 victory over West Ham last night. But the build-up to both of Henry's
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      170 47 -AFP LONDON England striker Michael Owen insisted yesterday that while he enjoyed horse racing, he was not a reckless gambler. Former Republic of Ireland international Tony Cascarino has said one England player wrote out a cheque for £30,000 ($84,000) in order to cover his World Cup card-school debts.
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