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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday March 2, 2004* mita (P) 002/11/2002
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    SIA offers its side of the story
    681 1  -  Derrick A Paulo But it remains silent on pilots' biggest bugbear SINGAPORE AIRLINES yesterday finally broke its silence on its troubled labourmanagement relations that have, since last November, been the subject of much public scrutiny. In what is likely to be its only
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    Lock icon Bore of the Rings
    324 1  -  David Ngiau Comment FINALLY, Oscar made good on its debt to the muchloved Lord of the Rings (LOTR) films. At the 76th Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), the academy compensated for its snubbing of the first two LOTR at
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      41 1 NEWSX^/lEWS Campus tussle Universities vie for students, territory/3 Hub boost Vietnam's rise will also be Singapore's gain/15 Fitness flops Out of 8 S-League clubs, only Albirex pass test/31 PRO GOLF WANNABE Top junior Choo has big ambitions/30 SHARE YOUR FREE NEWSPAPER
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Blast blamed on gas drum
      327 2  -  Jose Raymond Probe shows contaminated oxygen cylinder led toToa Payoh explosion AN oxygen cylinder was brought onto the premises of D-Sign Advertising on the day of the deadly blast that killed four people and injured two. Yesterday, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said an investigation
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      Scrapping of SAT to hit test prep schools
      139 2 A YEAR ago, preparation courses for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) were all the rage, after it became a requirement for admission to universities here. But now that it has been scrapped, what will happen to the companies running these courses? High-Q
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      Lock icon Silvercabs roll into action
      97 2 Channel News Asia A NEW fleet of 50 taxis in metallic silver hit the road yesterday the latest addition to the public transport system. Premier Taxi the new kid on the block calls them Silvercabs. All are equipped with air purifiers and ionisers to offer a
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        The campus war is about to begin
        616 3  -  Tor Ching Li Entrance of fourth varsity will set stage for tussle for the best students livr-iN as Dingapore s uiree locai universities wait for details of the fourth, but first privately-funded and foreignowned university here to be announced within the next two
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      Abdullah primes Kedah state
      290 4 PM hopes to prevent it from being snatched away KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday took his unofficial nationwide election campaign to a state seen as the most vulnerable to being snatched away by the hardline Islamic opposition. Mr Abdullah, who is yet
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      Lock icon Putin names mystery man as PM
      174 4 Agencies MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday named a relative unknown, former tax chief Mikhail Fradkov, as his choice for Prime Minister. Mr Fradkov, 53, is a survivor of the post-Soviet turmoil with a number of top posts under his belt. His most prominent
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon New Constitution for Iraq
        66 4 AFP After three sleepless nights, Iraqi leaders yesterday overcame ethnic and religious divisions to agree on a temporary Constitution for Iraq. The basic Constitution, to be signed mid-week, negotiated a host of thorny issues that forced the US-picked interim Iraqi Governing Council to miss a Sat-urday-deadline.
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        Lock icon Thai curfew to be reversed?
        53 4 Reuters On the day when nightclubs, bars, discos and massage parlours were due to have their opening hours shortened, Thai officials yesterday said the decision could be reversed. The Cabinet would be given a new proposal today which would allow existing establishments to open and
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        Lock icon Belgium's most hated man on trial
        86 4 AFP The long-awaited trial of "Belgium's most hated man", suspected child-killer Marc Dutroux, began yesterday nearly eight years after his alleged spate of abductions, rapes and murders of schoolgirls that shocked the world. The trial of the 47-year-old former electrician, who was arrest in
        – AFP  -  86 words
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      208 4 i eggS^ IgSfhs %i#f' A <e*^*«\°rfU-^h*»- t^l^rf^^ mtiiiiiiiiiifii Reported in The Straits Times on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 At a time when even the world's leading economy is stressing the importance of retraining, it makes sense to upgrade your skills while you're working. At Informatics, we offer you the widest
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      1340 5 COMPUTER ENGINEERING INFORMATION ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY r—~T\ l-lUIJII-m.I'I.IU.I'II'UI'IJJiM'IIJHi JnllUJTm^— f'l 11 l 1 :<^* ■■I I juiji j jnu jii m\ miiuj 11 mjHiJwgfft^^^^^ tSaeo* i-iiriiTiiiißTiiniU'hiihTiiihiifi'ii^iiiiiiiiriiii'iiHiiiai^^^^M 1111]; [>I>] il *IK*?\ [>] g l»i^;iliai>f:i|;|||'|'j tj|'miil|Yjii'n;|'i:i'l'llK'[tll>i*<:',iil^^^^^^ fuw^^^ Xhis course provides participants with a sound knowledge in air-conditioning and mechanical Real-world
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      Lock icon CNA beats BBC and CNN in Singapore
      463 6  -  Tay Tsen-Waye Just 5 years old, it already reaches 16 million homes in 18 territories JUST five years old and Channel News Asia (CNA) has managed to prove its sceptics wrong, said MediaCorp Group CEO, Mr Ernest Wong, yesterday at celebrations to mark
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      Golden couple of chess
      209 6 THEY may make a striking odd couple, but there was no time to gawk as 50 young chess players took on chess' unlikely husband-and-wife champs Qatari Grandmaster Mohamad Al-Modiahki, 30, and women's world champion, China-born Zhu Chen, 27. On Saturday, the duo faced off against Singapore's
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      Curriculum is too narrow
      129 8  -  Law Sook Loong WHILE I feel that the timing of Today's quiz was a huge egodeflator for students, the fact that current affairs is not on their minds suggests their disinterest in the world around them. I disagree with Ms Carmee Lim that they are too
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      Nose to the grindstone
      195 8  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng Students have no time to read, let alone keep up with current affairs I REFER to your report, "10 Als, but they don't know who Khaw Boon Wan is" (Weekend Today, Feb 28-29). There is nothing wrong with our brainiest 16 year
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      Scope of knowledge is too narrow among young people
      128 8  -  Liang Dingzi WHILE the five questions students were asked may not be representative (how many Singaporeans know who the President of Haiti is?), the quiz does raise concern that Singaporeans fall short in the breadth of their knowledge. My experience interviewing
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      Students deserve a hand for striving to get high grades
      131 8  -  Cheng Yoke Wah TO what extent does the score reflect what it set out to measure? If a student does not know the name of the chairman of Valuair, does that mean he is ignorant of current affairs? I would
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      Lock icon SPC ups stake in refinery
      206 10 Channel News Asia Buys BP's 33% stake in SRCfors23Bm SINGAPORE Petroleum (SPC) says it is buying British Petroleum (BP) Singapore's one-third stake in Singapore Refining Company (SRC) and one-sixth interest in Tanker Mooring Services. SPC, which is part of Keppel Corp, said that the deal
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      Lock icon HSBC pre-tax profit rises 37% to $24.5b
      131 10 -AFP HONG KONG Global banking giant HSBC Holdings said its 2003 pre-tax profit rose 37 per cent, boosted by a series of major acquisitions around the world. HSBC said profits before goodwill and tax were US$l4.4 billion ($24.5 billion), up from US$lO.5 billion
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        Lock icon Singapore
        134 10 Dow Jones SHARES ended slightly up in mixed trade yesterday after the Budget delivered on Friday failed to excite investors, traders said. The ST Index rose 3.10 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 1,891.73. Losers led gainers 277 to 87. Volume fell to 827 million shares worth $782 million,
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        ST Index: 1,891.73 +3.10
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        SGX most active
        55 10 By volume \EM-EVER Mo-Treat tfee Poh itraco JnitedTAC SingTel Chartered 'Food Celestial (otary Close 0.305 1.000 0.020 0.265 0.910 2.330 1.690 1.380 0.400 0.655 Change -0.075 -0.090 -0.020 -0.040 -0.020 -0.010 -0.035 -0.005 -19.7 -8.3 -7.0 -4.2 -1.2 -0.7 -8.0 -0.8 'OOO 70,025 37,306 30,712 20,696 20,496
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        SGX top rises
        77 10 IMH 400USS Close Change 9.850 +0.400 F&N 14.500 +0.300 OUE >IA 6.750 +0.200 11.800 +0.200 >PH 18.800 +0.200 Haw Par lardine C&C ihang Asia 2kHK$ CerebosPac ISH 5OOUSS 5.050 +0.170 6.300 +0.150 7.500 +0.150 3.020 +0.120 5.000 +0.120 By percentage Close Change ChODBeCW*****61USS 177.900 +28.5 Twinwood 0.060
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5893 UK£ 0.3154 Yen 64.2958 HK$ 4.5868 RM 2.2422 Euro 0.4717 Rupiah 4980.849 Baht 23.1526 Peso 33.2057 A$ 0.7615 Indian Rs 26.6559 Won 693.297 C$ 0.7862 Yuan 4.8774 NZ$ 0.8575 NTS 19.6612
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        Commodities
        22 10 Gold uss/oi 398.800 Silver uss/oi 6.750 Platinum uss/oz 892.500 Rubber centsAg 229.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 976.50 Brent crude uss/borrel 33.49
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        Lock icon World markets
        64 10 SGX, Bloomberg Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI Vah *****.12 *****.65 3389.90 6888.43 Closed 882.07 lue i i I Change Pis +229.20 +11.62 +17.40 +137.89 +2.83 +2.08 +0.08 +0.52 +2.04 +0.32 SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 705.25
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        SGX top falls
        73 10 )y Close Changi lhai Prime200US$ 11.000 -0.601 IITYDEV 6.550 -0.151 jeative 50 17.800 -0.101 IBS 14.600 -0.101 JOB 14.000 -0.101 tenture 21.400 -0.101 Jio-Treat 1.000 -0.091 Hidas 0.680 -0.091 table 3.960 -0.081 By percentage Close C GulTech W*****7 0.030 SeeHS 0.170 Globa 0.020 Goldtron 0.020 AEM-EVER 0.305
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      Lock icon Transcending boundaries before technology
      1041 12 How 01am rose to be a leading global supply chain manager "CONTINUED focus on building our core strengths while creating opportunities across geographic, product and value chain adjacencies is the key to our success," says 01am International's senior managing director, Mr A Shekhar. This simple business
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      As good as IT gets
      467 13  -  Tor Ching Li More-for-less financial solutions for SMBs from HP's Smart Finance Service GET to use nine PCs for the cost of three? As the Hewlett-Packard (HP) tagline goes: Everything is possible. Aptly coined the Smart Finance Service, this suite of financial solutions from HP
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      Lock icon Optus to use competitor's network to push broadband
      394 14 Bloomberg Move allows SingTel's Aussie unit to target another 2.8 million homes OPTUS, SingTel's unit in Australia, is counting on demand for high-speed Internet links to spur sales, said Mr Martin Dalgleish, managing director of consumer sales at Optus. Its new service
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      231 14 Channel News Asia DBS Thai Danu Bank may merge with two other Thai banks as early as June to create the country's fifth largest lender. According to Reuters, Sommai Phasee, the chairman of the Thai Military Bank and the Industrial Finance Corp of Thailand, said the three parties will
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2924 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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      Lock icon China aiming for market exchange rate for yuan: Premier
      414 15 Bloomberg CHINA'S Premier Wen Jiabao said the country is working towards letting market forces decide the value of the yuan the first clear statement that the government aims to end the currency's nine-year fixed link to the dollar. The government wants
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      A boost for Singapore's logistics hub
      536 15  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Vietnam's rise as a manufacturing base may boost cargo volume to Spore, say industry players EVEN as Singapore's logistics and transport sector maintains steady growth the Government expects 8 per cent expansion this year and 2,600 new jobs to be created
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      734 11 Cjp Singapore Institute f^k of Commerce w Creating Learning Opportunities SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE (or "SIC" as it is more popularly known) was founded in 1947. It boasts of being the first "Business" School established in Singapore. Over the last half a century, more than 30,000 aspiring individuals have upgraded
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Aussies to probe Iraq intelligence
      364 16 Agencies Govt does U-turn after parliamentary report SYDNEY Australia yesterday agreed to launch an independent inquiry into prewar intelligence after a parliamentary report found the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was overstated by Australian security services. Australian Prime Minister John Howard had
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    • ELECTIONSwatch
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        Lock icon Taiwan's Chen trails rival: poll
        45 16 AFP Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian failed to lead in the first public poll published yesterday despite Saturday's 500 km human-chain protest against China. Mr Chen was three points behind the nationalist Kuomintang Party's Lien Chan, who polled 38 per cent.
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        Vote for nobody in India
        82 16 India's Election Commission is planning on offering a choice of not voting for any of the candidates during polls, reported the Times of India. Election chief Krishna Murthy said the proposal for voting "none of the above" had been submitted to the government. An all-party
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        MCA to field mixed team
        76 16 The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) team for the upcoming election will be a mixed one, comprising old, young and new faces. MCA president Ong Ka Ting said candidates would be selected from a range of age groups, reported Bernama. He said new candidates were likely
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      Lock icon Aristide in Africa as foreign forces arrive
      268 16 -AFP BANGUI Ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide has arrived in the Central African Republic after fleeing his Caribbean island state amid bloody rioting. South Africa's Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said yesterday it would consider a request for political asylum from Mr
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      Lock icon China slams HK democracy group
      100 16 Reuters HONG KONG Beijing has for the first time singled out a pro-democracy group in Hong Kong as unpatriotic, amid a campaign to dampen growing demands for more freedom and voting rights in the city. "Look at some legislators in Hong Kong, the leaders of
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      Rings Rules
      687 18  -  Yong Shu Chiang Its 11 Academy Awards spell victory for the fantasy film genre IT WAS a coronation befitting what's arguably the best screen adaptation of all time. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was the big winner at yesterday's Oscars, collecting all 11
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      Old Hollywood glamour returns to the Oscars
      309 19 I THE glitzy glamour of the Hollywood of 9 old think sexy, feminine and elegant was back in fashion at yesterday's I Oscars. From pastels to bold shades of the I rainbow, colour came back with a i vengeance at Hollywood's ultimate I
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        Lock icon THE WINNERS
        259 20 Best Picture LOTR: The Return of the King Best Actor Scan Perm, Mystic River Best Actress Charlize Theron, Monster Best Supporting Actor Tim Robbins, Mystic River Best Supporting Actress Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain Best Director Peter Jackson, LOTR: The Return of the King Best Original Screenplay Lost in
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        HOW DID OUR PUNDITS FARE?
        123 20 IN Weekend TODAY, Deputy Features Editor David Ngiau, Reporter Yong Shu Chiang, film-maker Cheah Chee Kong (aka CheeK), Singapore Film Festival founder ana chairman Geoff Malone and MediaCorp Raintree Pictures CEO Daniel Yun took a shot at calling the Oscars in eight categories. The results
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        Sticky pudding rice
        292 21  -  Pauline D Loh Steam glutinous rice for a delicious and healthy alternative MOST commercially-available nuomi ji, or lor mai gai, these days tend to be gluey dark brown messes with often unidentifiable lumps of meat pressed on top. If you get the better ones, you may even
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        KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
        177 21 STICKY RICE FACTS GLUTINOUS rice is also known as sweet or sticky rice, and the best quality comes from Thailand where it is grown in the north and northeastern hill regions. Unlike regular rice, this variety prefers a dryer growing habitat. The "stickiness" of the rice comes from
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        RECIPES
        342 21 STEAMED GLUTINOUS RICE WITH CHICKEN TOPPING (Lor mai gai) Ingredients (serves four to six): 200g glutinous rice 250g chicken pieces (mid-wings and thighs) 6 dried shiitake mushrooms (soaked), stalks removed 2 Chinese sausages, sliced on the diagonal I bunch spring onions, chopped I bunch coriander leaves, for garnishing I
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        Lock icon Mammography misconceptions
        571 22  -  Lynette Leong A positive test is not a 'death sentence' ONE would imagine that most women would know a fair bit about breast cancer and mammography. After all, one in 20 women in Singapore may develop breast cancer during her lifetime. However, despite the fact that information on
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        Lock icon Weight linked to breast cancer
        301 22 Reuters GAINING weight may be a serious risk factor for breast cancer, the American Cancer Society said last Wednesday. A cancer society study found that women who gained 10kg to 14kg after the age of 18 were 40 per cent more likely to get breast
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      453 27  -  TANYO-HINN Mental strength sees Kamal become Olympic torchbearer STANDING on the spot for nearly 12 hours over two days, enduring the hot sun and pouring rain, his right arm holding aloft a lkg torch, Kamal Akhtar was almost a spent force physically. But he kept reminding himself
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      322 27 -AFP MELBOURNE World 400 m hurdles champion Jana Pittman and Australia's fastest sprinter Patrick Johnson are notable absentees in the initial track and field team for the Athens Olympics announced here yesterday. Tough selection criteria imposed by Athletics Australia meant that Pittman
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      604 28 Tiger wins after fan's taunts disrupt opponent's rhythm GOLF World Match Play Championship CARLSBAD, California Two things were clear at the WGC-World Match Play Championship. First, if you are going to play match-play golf against Tiger Woods, prepare to lose. Woods defended his title with
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      291 28 NBA New Jersey 83 LA Lakers 100 NEW YORK In a game in which Shaquille O'Neal (picture) and Kobe Bryant didn't need do a lot, the Los Angeles Lakers showed why they still might be the team to beat in the
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      1096 29 Agencies i McClaren makes his mark with first trophy win CARDIFF As Sir Alex Ferguson was lambasted in the British media yesterday, there was a certain irony that his former understudy was praised as one of the best managers in the Premiership. In the last
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      284 29 Agencies LA LIGA Real Madrid 4 Celta Vigo 2 MADRID Real Madrid midfielder David Beckham feels he is back to his best after helping the Spanish champions beat Celta Vigo 4-2 in La Liga on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The England captain had a
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      462 30  -  TAN YO-HINN But Singapore's best junior wants to make Caltex Masters cut first MOST teenagers do now know what their career paths are. But Choo Tze Huang, who turned 17 on Feb 14, knows exactly what he wants to do. Singapore's No 1 junior golfer's aim:
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      311 30  -  Tan YoHinn TABLE TENNIS World Team Championship SINGAPORE'S national women's team hardly had the best of starts when they lost the first game. But instead of pushing the panic button, they held their nerve to eventually emerge 3-1 winners over Taiwan in their opening
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      106 30 LONDON The current Ferrari team are the greatest ever to race in Formula 1, according to their arch-rivals, WilliamsBMW yesterday. Michael Schumacher's team were paid the compliment on the eve of the new season, which starts this weekend in Melbourne, in which the German is
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      542 31  -  STANLEY HO Seven S-League clubs face fine after failing to meet new fitness level WHEN Albirex Niigata run out with host Tanjong Pagar in the first match of the 2004 NTUC Income- Yeo's S-League season tonight at the Queenstown Stadium, it should have marked the start of
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      378 31  -  KOHWEI LING NOT many local footballers can boast the kind of credentials Nazri Nasir possesses. Part of the 1994 league and Malaysia Cup double-winning team, Nazri was also captain when Singapore won their firstever international trophy the 1998 Tiger Cup
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        68 31 DUBAI Dubai hope to have a spectacular sports city operating by 2007, ahead of a possible bid for the 201 6 Olympic Games. The US$2 billion ($3.4 billion) city will host the first Manchester United soccer school outside Europe, a golf course designed by South African
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        First PGA Tour title for Slocum
        77 31 TUCSON, Arizona American Heath Slocum claimed his first career PGA Tour title when playing partner Aaron Baddeley bogeyed the final hole at the US$3-million ($5 million) PGA Tucson event on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The two were tied for the lead heading to
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        Houllier defends misfiring Owen
        72 31 LEEDS Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier came to the defence of Michael Owen (picture), after the England striker missed several chances in the 2-2 draw with Leeds United on Sunday. "It happens," said Houllier, of Owen's misses. "Ruud van Nistelrooy and Thierry Henry both go through the
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        Kapil Dev to groom bowlers
        74 31 CALCUTTA Former India captain Kapil Dcv will accept a new role of coaching his country's fast bowlers, starting with a training camp before the national side leave for Pakistan next week. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya said yesterday that
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        53 31 LONDON World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe was beaten into second place over 1 Okm in Puerto Rico on Sunday, in her first race of the year. Kenyan-born Dutch athlete Lornah Kiplagat defeated Radcliffe by four seconds in driving rain and high winds. Kiplagat clocked 30
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