Today, 6 November 2003

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  • 12 1 TODAY todayonline.com o o veT <v O «j H MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • 767 1  -  Teo Hwee Nak When jobs slip away without benefits by hweenak@newstoday.com.se WHEN the big boys Singapore Airlines, PSA Corp and Singapore Press Holdings, to name a few get rid of staff, retrenchment packages are publicised, terms debated and anguished voices heard. But in some lower profile outfits
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    • 37 1 NEWSX\VIEWS joy frances asks... Why no new ideas for clean and green week?/3 pastor or not? City Harvest clarifies Ho Yeow Sun's status/4 anfield to woodlands Former Liverpool youth coach set to join the Rams/50 If! 1
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 188 2 -AP THE Government will continue to give third-party war risk insurance to Singapore Airlines and Changi Airport for another six months. Singapore, like the United States' Federal Aviation Administration and many other governments, has provided its flagship carrier and international airport with
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    • 371 2 Neither Govt nor SIA will bear expenses for Mrs Lee SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew is paying for all the extra expenses of Mrs Lee's medical treatment in London and for her flight home on a specially-fit-ted Singapore Airlines plane last Friday. Neither the
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    • 457 3 News Comment/ Joy Frances NEA pushes Singapore's OK campaign for Clean and Green Week DON'T expect this year's Clean and Green Week theme to be akin to last year's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle theme where television stations, newspapers and taxis splashed out a sustainable
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    • 155 3 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi continued to keep his country guessing yesterday when he refused to name his Deputy, while keeping the Cabinet he inherited from Dr Mahathir Mohamad intact The Premier, while announcing that he is taking over the Finance Ministry
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    • 157 3  -  Tan Hut Leng THE last three weeks of October saw a 30 per cent weekly increase in acute respiratory infections compared to that of August and September, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced yesterday. The figure was for those who sought treatment at polyclinics. Acute respiratory
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    • 361 4  -  Janice Lee Church clarifies her position in organisation by janice@newstoday.com.sg SINGER Ho Yeow Sun was one of the 10 artistes who received an award for being an outstanding young person in Copenhagen last night but she was far from jubilant She had been criticised for her choice
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    • 279 4  -  Ng Shing Vi HER lawyer sent a petition to President S R Nathan begging for a pardon despite the fact that pardons are typically requested for death sentences. But defence counsel N Kanagavijayan believes that the case of Nazimah binte Yaccob Mohd, who was
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  • 168 6 WHEN it comes to a healthier lifestyle, many believe that organic food is the way to go. But while the notion of having chemical-free fresh produce is appealing, such food does not come cheap. Organic food can be as much as three times more expensive
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  • 361 6  -  Joy Frances Upgrading plan for security industry by joy@newstoday,com.sg TO shed its jaga pintu (doorman) image and compete with international security companies, the local security manpower industry has drafted an upgrading plan to be rolled out over three years. The plan was devised under the
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  • Singapore Snippets
    • 56 6 COMFORT Cab has fitted 100 taxis with plastic shields to protect its drivers and passengers should Sars return. The taxis also come with automatic doors to prevent the spread of Sars through con- taminated door handles. Based on feedback, the company will decide whether to equip
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    • 51 6 THE COE for big cars dipped by $1,988 to $26,001 while that for small cars fell by $1,962 to $26,338. The open category COEs fell by $1,200 to $26,700 and COEs for goods vehicles and buses fell to $8,489. Motorcycle COEs saw a $78 drop to
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  • LETTERS
    • 236 8  -  Mrs S Tan THE commentary on Ms Ho Yeow Sun, "Just give that girl a break" (Today, Nov 5), was a breath of fresh air. Why are we putting down a local singer who has done the nation proud? Should we shoot down our
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    • 496 8  - It's the two 'hats' Ms Ho wears Adeline Goh not her red Armani gown, that's a bother I REFER to Ms Janice Lee's news comment, "Just give that girl a break" (Today, Nov 5), as well as recent talk about Ms Ho Yeow Sun's appearance in Hollywood. The article makes
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    • 336 10  -  Tan Suan Tiu EZ-Link must look at other ways to lower costs I REFER to the various letters on the EZ-Link issue (Today, Nov 5). I am heartened that many Singaporeans have contributed ideas on how EZ-Link's predicament could be solved. However, I wonder
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    • 107 10 I REFER to the letter "Empty taxis that whiz past" by Ms Christina Cecilia Cheang (Today, Nov 4). Last month, Comfort hit a high of over 36,000 bookings a day, 20 per cent more than average. Thus, one would see more "On Call" taxis. To
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    • 919 9 a I Advertisement Productivity up, operating costs down, thanks to IT manager's business decision. jj^ I 1 Star Hub Written by Felicia Tham i Mr Simon Foo, IT volume," says Mr Foo, A Manager of a Singapore- "we can now do so much Mffiffl A based software company, more on
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 309 12  -  Lee Yew Meng US dollar likely to decline a further 20% over two years: Economist by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg THE US dollar, which has fallen about 10 per cent from its early 2002 peak, may fall a further 20 per cent in the next two years, said Mr
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    • 214 12  -  Chan Chao Peh THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has unveiled the research houses and listed companies that are taking part in a scheme organised jointly with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which is designed to improve the coverage of stocks listed here. A
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    • 417 12 AFP Bloomberg Channel News Asia Dow Jones Jurong Technologies reported a net profit of $6,681 million, or 1.69 cents a share, for the third quarter ended Sept 30, up from $3,735 million, or 0.94 cents a share, in the year-ago period. The profit growth was achieved on the
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    • Market WATCH
      • 108 14 Agencies SHARE prices fell on concerns that the rally to a 19-month high yesterday has already reflected prospects for earnings growth. The ST Index closed down 16.26 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 1,777.25, ending a three-day, 4.6 per cent rally. Decliners outnumbered gainers 273 to 84, with 236
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      • 47 14 By volume Close Change '000 Sunray 0.480 119,472 BBR 0.040 102,125 CAMInt 0.110 -0.005 -4.3 26,387 Chartered 1.750 -0.050 -2.8 19,587 Goodpack 0.850 +0.055 +6.9 15,088 KXD 0.440 14,936 HiapHoe 0.030 14,594 STEngg 2.060 +0.040 +2.0 13,960 Sing Tel 1.780 13,038 SembCorp 1.310 12,808
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      • 79 14 iy Close Change )BS 15.100 -0.400 JukitSem 14.000 -0.300 IMH400USS 8.200 -0.300 iPH 19.400 -0.300 iPHlOO 19.400 -0.300 JOB 13.600 -0.300 DBS Bk6% NCPS10 105.300 -0.200 ilA 12.500 -0.200 ilA 200 12.500 -0.200 ip Land 3.740 -0.120 iy percentage Close Cl KingWan W*****4 0.010 Goldtron CPS*****6 0.025
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      • 37 14 US$ 0.5738 UK£ 0.3412 Yen 62.94 HK$ 4.4580 RM 2.1798 Euro 0.5008 Rupiah 4,864 Baht 22.90 I Peso 31.65 A$ 0.8080 Indian Rs 25.98 Won 678.3 C$ 0.7628 Yuan 4.7496 NZ$ 0.9326 NTS 19.48
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      • 21 14 Gold uss/oi 383.00 Silver uss/oi 5.04 Platinum uss/oi 755.00 Rubber centsAg 247.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,893 Brent crude uss/barrel 27.45
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      • 64 14 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI 10,837.54 12,438.92 3,255.80 6,142.32 805.51 813.49 -10.43 -1.80 -23.70 +33.33 +9.45 -2.50 -0.10 -0.01 -0.72 +0.55 +1.19 -0.31 SET Index lakarta Comp 673.70 635.817 +8.64 +9.327 +1.30 +1.49 Phils
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      • 68 14 iy Close Change Creative 50 18.700 +0.500 Venture 19.400 +0.300 Cosco lnvRCCPS*****43.080 +0.270 F&N 12.600 +0.200 GreatEast 11.400 +0.200 Thai Prime200USS 9.500 +0.100 HKLandUSS 1.630 +0.060 NOL 2.410 +0.060 SembLog 1.830 +0.060 Goodpack 0.850 +0.055 By percentage Close Change )anpacMedW*****90.015 +50.0 'DC Corp 0.155 +19.2 .HT 0.095
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    • 131 14 Bloomberg MILLENNIUM Copthorne (M&C) Hotels, which is 52 per cent-owned by Singapore's City Developments, said profit fell 57 per cent for the third quarter ended Sept 30 as its Asian hotels struggled to recover from the impact of the Sars outbreak. Net profit plunged to
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      407 16  -  Chan Chao Peh Sing Tel launches handset customised for its data services by chaopehWnewstoday.com.sg SINGTEL has become the first mobile operator here to sell a customised handset that allows users easier and faster access to the telco's package of mobile data and services. The chosen handset is the
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    • 182 16 Bloomberg Dow Jones Genting Bhd, Asia's biggest casino operator, may sell as much as US$3OO million ($522 million) of bonds convertible into its stock, bankers involved in the plan said. The timing and final amount of the Kuala Lumpurbased company's sale has not been set, said the bankers,
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    • 216 18 -AFP After repeated delays, 385 m shares to be offered to public BANGKOK Thai Airways International has won approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer 385 million shares to the public later this month, president Kanok Abhiradee said. The subscription period for the offering
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    • 104 18 Bloomberg HUTCHISON Whampoa's port unit, Hutchison Port Holdings, and its main rival, Singapore's PSA Corp, may form a joint venture to bid for the management and operation of Yangshan port near Shanghai, Hong Kong's Standard newspaper reported yesterday. Hutchison Port managing director John Meredith
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    • 81 18 -AFP SHANGHAI China Yangtze Power, the listing vehicle of China's massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam project, opened its 10 billion yuan ($2.1 billion) offering of A-shares to retail investors yesterday after its institutional tranche was fully subscribed. The retail block of the initial public offering
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    • 669 20 Domestic demand and improved corporate performance will help the market perform THE HSBC Indian Growth Fund has outperformed its benchmark for the year to date, rising 45.01 per cent while the S&P/IFC Investible India Index gained 37.94 per cent Since its launch in March 2000, the
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  • INFO TECH
    • 383 22  -  Francis Chin Check out Sanyo's digital cameras and photo printers by francis.chin@newstoday.com.sg IT LOOKS like a gun and handles like one. Sanyo, known locally for its window air-conditioning units, has launched a digital video camera that is no bigger than a hand and shoots up
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    • 230 22 FASTER action and more life-like characters are what Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor offers gamers. The 3.2 GHz chip helps deliver enhanced graphics an important consideration for more realistic game play through faster frame rates and more detailed graphics rendering. "Designed
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • global roundup
      • 93 24 Reuters A North Korean diplomat set off sparks at the United Nations by referring repeatedly, in English, to the Japanese as "Japs" during a General Assembly discussion of its nuclear programme. "The japs are now turning the whole society to the right to resurrect militarism and fascism with
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      • 75 24 Reuters A Turkish man was stabbed to death after hawking T-shirts depicting US rap superstar Eminem because a man mistook the sales pitch as an insult to his mother. A knife fight broke out in an Istanbul suburb after 1 9-year-old Dilaver Akkurt, whose mother's
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    • 279 24 Agencies Global concern mounts over peace process with LTTE COLOMBO Sri Lanka's political crisis deepened yesterday as President Chandrika Kumaratunga declared a state of emergency a day after she sacked the Defence, Interior and Information Ministers and suspended Parliament for two weeks. In declaring a 10-day
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    • 316 26 Reuters He now backs Iraqi-led force conditionally WASHINGTON DC In a reversal, Iraq's US administrator, Mr Paul Bremer, has decided to give conditional support to the creation of an Iraqi-led paramilitary force that would help hunt down insurgents, The Washington Post reported yesterday. It quoted a
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    • 171 26 -AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian admitted yesterday that he had become the caretaker head of the Jemaah Islamiyah 01) network, but insisted his aim was to dissuade members from violence. Prosecutors at the trial of Abu Rusdan said he was appointed acting
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    • 137 26 -AFP BRUSSELS US President George W Bush is still checking his diary over attending a Nato summit in Turkey next year, a US official confirmed on Tuesday. This came on the heels of a report that the Nato event clashes with his twin daughters' graduation
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    • 468 28 Dean faces Democrats 7 ire Agencies But US presidential hopeful denies 'Confederate flag' remark was racist MASSACHUSETTS Democratic presidential hopefuls on Tuesday attacked one of their own, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, for racially-insensitive remarks he made in an effort to woo blue-collar Southern voters. Mr Dean, the front-runner in
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 918 30  -  Dharmendra Yadav For those who believe in 'good' and 'bad' toys, and their educational values by news@newstoday.com.sg HAVE you noticed how people in Singapore have a fascination for buying "educational" toys for young persons here? Recently, I visited a neighbourhood toy shop to buy
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    • 147 30 Study at home or abroad! '-Meet admissions directors of leading graduate and postgraduate institutions from Singapore and around the world: SINGAPORE POSTGRADUATE FAIR Saturday 22 November lpm spm The Pan Pacific Hotel 7 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square Presenting a complete AtoZ of Masters and PhD subjects, especially: Law, Specialist Business
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  • WATZUP?
    • 230 31  -  -ElisaChia NICK Shen (left) fans, if you have any memorabilia autographed by your idol, you may want to get his latest signature. You see, he has changed his name his Chinese one, anyway. Acting on the kind advice of two geomancers,
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    • Article, Illustration
      494 31  -  Jeanine Tan This charming Bollywood star may well be a household name here soon WE WERE dining at the Rang Mahal restaurant at the Pan Pacific Hotel and the waiters kept coming up to our table to speak with Bollywood actor-model Jas Arora (picture). And Jas, the
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    • DVDS
      • 360 32  -  Yong Shu Chiang Watch Arnie in, possibly, his last movie Terminator 3 Alliance ####£r THE "Governator", as actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is now nicknamed, took a 12-year break before returning in his signature role as a killer cyborg sent back in time. Now it looks as if
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      • 217 32  -  Yong Shu Chiang HVN tthftra This is the sequel that Yin Diesel deemed he was 2 big 2 bother with. The Fast and the Furious was a sleeper hit in 2001 that helped solidify Diesel's burgeoning fame after his star-making turn in Pitch Black. But director
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    • 223 33 'Charity fatigue hits duck race FEWER people have adopted rubber ducks for the Great Singapore Duck Race 2003 and this is due to "charity fatigue", race organisers said. "The current economic situation, together with the effect of Sars, has resulted in not only an increase in charity fund-raising projects, but
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    • Article, Illustration
      323 34 Janice Lee talks to the finalists for the Advertiser of the Year in the Hall of Fame awards Levi Strauss Asia Pacific Bartle Bogle Hegarty We needed to communicate the product proposition of boldness in a fresh and visually-arresting fashion. We felt the best way to do this
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      • 415 36 -AFP Tom Ford trails a legacy of perfection at Gucci andYSL PARIS US designer Tom Ford, who on Tuesday announced the end of his reign in April next year as the creative force behind Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), helped transform the Italian luxury group into
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      • 468 36  -  Cathleen Tung WHILE mums-to-be are usually very excited about shopping for junior's outfits, getting clothes for themselves can be frustrating. An increasingly-bulging tummy, swollen feet and sagging breasts these are common complaints we hear from pregnant women who complain about
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      • 435 37 Plucking out grey hair can traumatise the roots and stunt hair growth ARE you only in your 20s, but are often mistaken for a middle-aged "uncle" or "auntie" no thanks to your head full of grey hair? Do you frequently colour your hair, hoping to correct the
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 314 38  -  Serene Foo Follow-up starring Shu Qi to be partly filmed here by serene@newstoday.com.sg READY for a second look at The Eye} Riding on the horror film's box office success last year, distribution rights for The Eye II have been pre-sold in
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      • 110 38 THE Savonlinna Opera Festival offers a special treat at the Esplanade Concert Hall tonight and on Saturday evening. Accompanied by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, it will present Puccini's final masterpiece, Turandot, a love story set in China's imperial courts. In it, Prince Calaf (Raimo Sirkia) wants
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      • 483 40 Reuters Ken Russell's latest film is a twisted version of Elephant Man LONDON The studios can keep their money, British director Ken Russell (picture) said. What counts is imagination. Which is fortunate for the oldest enfant terrible in the film world because imagination is the one thing
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      • 185 40 Letter man becomes a dad at 56 Reuters LOS ANGELES Late-night talk-show host David Letterman told his studio audience on Tuesday that he has become a father. At the age of 56. Letterman said during taping of his Late Show with David Letterman that his long-time girlfriend, Regina Lasko, had
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      • 544 43  -  Choo Ai Leng With great merchandise at bargain prices, Woodbury Common will not disappoint by tr a veller@newsto day, com. sg MANY Singaporeans are unabashed about their passion for shopping when they go overseas. Sightseeing, it seems, comes second after the hunt for bargains and designer
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          58 44 Take a scenic tram ride to Victoria Peak (right) the highest point in Hong Kong. After that visit Golden Bauhinia (Wan Chai) where the handover took place in 1997. Don't leave out Repulse Bay, one of Hong Kong's most picturesque beaches; the Chi Lin Nunnery in the New Territories
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      • 325 46 Join it for exciting cruises to neighbouring destinations for the next two months A "SUPERSTAR" is set to make Singapore its home port for the next two months. Until the end of the year, Star Cruises' Superstar Gemini is operating cruises to neighbouring areas from Singapore.
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      • 96 46 THE best of Malaysia's tourist attractions will be on display at Suntec's Hall 402 next week. The Natas Mesmerising Malaysia Fair 2003 will be held there on Nov 15 and Nov 16. The fair will be open to the public from 10am to 9.30pm on
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    • 437 49 Crowd heckles Bryant, Lakers win NBA basketball Milwaukee 107 Los Angeles 113 Bryant hits 31 points MILWAUKEE When the Los Angeles Lakers come to town, fans of their opponents should take note: The more you heckle Kobe Bryant, the better he will play. The Lakers superstar was
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    • 351 50  -  Stanley Ho Rams set to sign former Liverpool youth coach by stanley@newstoday.com.sg WOODLANDS Wellington is set to recruit a coach from one of the world's most famous footballing academies Anfield. English Premiership side Liverpool has been in contact with the S-League club, which has been looking
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    • 244 50  -  Tan Yo-Hinn HAILING from New Zealand, it is no surprise that she is a huge rugby and All Blacks fan. But fortunately for Singapore, Kate Carpenter's (picture) first love is netball and she is ready to focus her efforts on the round ball, rather than
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    • 436 51  -  Tan Wee Boon Ex-world champion down with food poisoning by weeboon@newstoday.com.sg FORMER world bowling champion Jesmine Ho failed to turn up on Day Three of qualifying for the Santa Claus Open 2003 at Victor's Superbowl yesterday. Ho was part of the second squad of bowlers
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    • 355 51 -AFP HOUSTON Tiger Woods sees himself as the man to beat for US PGA Player of the Year honours, but he probably must win here at the Tour Championship to secure the most votes from his peers for a
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    • 1003 52  -  Rohit Brijnath Mesmerised from afar in Calcutta, enthralled up close in Melbourne WHERE to begin, how to explain obsession, how did it happen that a Calcutta boy who thought Wellington was a duke fell in love with the All Blacks, how to convey the sheer
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    • 539 54 Scot claims Keane's the best he's managed Champions League, Group E Manchester United 3 Rangers 0 Forlan scores fourth goal in four games MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson has guided, coached and cajoled the likes of French maverick Eric Cantona, Welsh wizard Ryan Giggs and England's old Captain Marvel Bryan
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    • 443 54 ROME Chelsea defender John Terry branded Lazio's Sinisa Mihajlovic a "disgrace" for his provocative antics in a fractious Champions League clash here which the English side won 4-0 on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Mihajlovic was sent off early in the second-half
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    • 211 54 LIVERPOOL -Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, with one eye on the Manchester United fixture in the Premiership at the weekend, gambled by resting Michael Owen for the Uefa Cup tie at Steaua Bucharest tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Liverpool, buoyed by its 2-1 victory at Fulham on
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