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  • 961 1  -  Val Chua Non-politician preferred but minister may have to double up AS SINGAPORE counts down to the leadership handover on Aug 12, speculation is intensifying over what will happen at the helm of the country's de facto central bank. Of particular interest is
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  • 295 1  -  Stanley Ho > Today Exclusive HE HAS scaled the world's highest mountain, braved the bitter cold of Antarctica and cycled thousands of kilometres to Beijing. Now, Singapore adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow has set himself another challenge of strength and stamina swimming from Singapore
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 155 2 A TOTAL of $13.6 million has been raised for the beneficiaries of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Children's Medical Fund through a three-week-long campaign. Phone lines for donations opened on July 1 and closed at 9pm yesterday, with a "special edition" charity show on
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    • 609 2  -  Ng Shing Yi Chong Seng's tenure sees rise of focused, profitable media giant MEDIACORP announced yesterday the appointment of Mr Ho Kwon Ping as its new chairman. The appointment takes effect on July 30, immediately after the company's Annual General Meeting (AGM).
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    • 708 3  -  Ted Galen Carpenter -KRT service |\IEWS£&DIDI&D^— Military moves back up tough talk onTaiwan WHEN United States national security adviser Condoleezza Rice stopped in Beijing on her recent trip to North-east Asia, she undoubtedly hoped that the North Korea nuclear threat would be the primary issue on
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 52 4 AFP French authorities yesterday evacuated some 4,000 tourists from the Eiffel Tower after receiving a warning that a plane was about to crash into the famous Paris landmark. The Tower was closed for two hours before police ascertained that the threat was
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      • 51 4 Reuters The Palestinian journalists' union yesterday ordered Gaza Strip reporters not to cover protests by militants and other shows of internal strife with threats of penalties for those who violate the rule. Human rights groups have called it a blatant attempt at
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      • 66 4 AFP China, still a developing country, has some of the world's highest living costs for expatriates, according to a survey of 144 cities around the world by the USbased Mercer Human Resource Consulting firm. The cost of apartments and tuition for
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    • 446 4 Agencies Iraq rebels want their captives' employer, as well as their countrymen, to leave Iraq BAGHDAD Rebels in Iraq threatened to kill one foreign hostage every 72 hours unless their employer shut down operations in the war-ravaged country where militants have kidnapped
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    • 241 4 AP WASHINGTON Just before the release of an official report on the 911 terrorist strikes, a video has emerged showing how some of the hijackers boarded the planes used in the attacks despite being pulled aside for extra security checks at the airport
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 289 6  -  Derrick A Paulo ALL roads lead to 469 Bukit Timah, it seems. Days after the National University of Singapore (NUS) took the historical route in its bid for the campus sited there, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has chosen to talk dollar sense
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    • 512 6  -  Tan Hui Leng S'pore-based firm aims to put power of acupuncture in a pill IF THE term "acupuncture" conjures up frightful images of twitching needles sticking out of your joints, a biotech company here may soon make this form of treatment a more palatable
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    • 364 6  -  Raymond Andrew YOU take public transport to the hawker centre. You order, pay and receive your food and change. Most people do this with little effort But that is not the case for 13-year-old Priyanka Bethsheba Rai and her schoolmates at
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  • LETTERS
    • 133 8  -  Shirley Aloysius I REFER to the letter, "Do more to cut costs, council" (July 21). We thank the writer for his feedback. The increase in service and conservancy charges is necessary to cover the increase in costs for the maintenance of the
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    • 214 8  -  Chong Chan Meng IN DBS Bank's letter, "Direct debit authorisation allowed only for Aviva policies purchased over the phone" (July 21), DBS vicepresident Alicia Chua wrote: "In general, DBS does not accept any verbal authorisations for direct debit or inter-bank giro. However, we
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    • 353 8  -  Leong Sze Hian How much is NLB making from Internet, printing services? THE national libraries charge three cents per minute ($l.BO per hour) for Internet use and 30 cents per page for printing from their computer terminals. The cost of printing in black and white on
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    • 231 8  -  Tan Wee Hoon I READ Tan Eng Hong's comment, "Gluttons Square needs a boost" (July 19), with interest and I fully agree with his views. Over the years, the Government has tried to relive or revive the "good old days" but in so
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    • 39 8 Has your child taken a vision break? J Look r^TI faraway \J Z f H for 5 minutes •^rV\# i_ after every jj •\i 30 minutes of *yi > reading or using j LV^^,. Vthe computer./ jf j f y^
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 417 10  -  Tay Tsen-Waye Insurer to hire 100 staff who will be deployed at the bank MAYBANK will offer Prudential Assurance's life insurance and savings products exclusively at all of its 22 branches in Singapore from today. This means it will no longer distribute life insurance services
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    • 66 10 Temasek Holdings, the biggest shareholder of South Korea's Hana Bank, bought another 48 billion won ($7O million) worth of the bank's shares, raising its stake in the lender to 9.31 per cent. The public tranche of the initial public offering of shares in BTelecom International Holdings was 40.5 times
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    • 316 10 A REVIEW of the financial practices at Informatics Holdings has raised concerns about its results in previous years, the education services provider said in a statement to the Singapore Exchange yesterday. Informatics said that it had received the full report from PricewaterhouseCoopers
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    • 266 12 Agencies Push into financial services means more pricey hires SINGAPORE Post (SingPost) said it paid more in salaries in its last fiscal year partly because it had begun hiring higher-priced staff for its push into financial services. The company, which has opened two pawnshops and
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    • 122 12 Channel NewsAsia DEVELOPERS launched about 30 per cent more private residential property units in the second quarter than in the first quarter. Of the 1,376 units launched in the second quarter, 83 per cent were non-landed freehold units. The remainder comprised The Springside's landed
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    • MarketWATCH
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      • 90 12 SHARES fell yesterday on profit taking following a weak close on Wall Street on Wednesday. The ST Index closed down 1 0.2 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 1,862.97. On the broad market, losers outnumbered gainers 213 to 72. Traded volume totalled 478 million shares worth $421 million. Debutant
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      • 61 12 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Value Cl Pis 11,285.04 -148.82 12,320.21 -74.90 3,505.50 -22.60 5,387.96 -21.17 .hange -1.30 -0.60 -0.64 -0.39 Korea Comp 742.63 -10.69 -1.42 KLCI 839.37 -1.51 -0.18 SET Index 650.12 -5.70 -0.87 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 761.51
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      • 26 12 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 396.40 Silver uss/oi 6.395 Platinum uss/oz 821.00 Rubber centsAg 214.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,513 Brent crude uss/barrel 37.20 Information provided by
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      • 58 12 )y volume Close Change '000 femtech Ihina Paper Jio-Treat kiaPharm chartered losco Corp .inks Is linaCast \utron W*****3 linqTel 0.515 0.350 0.825 0.610 1.160 0.880 0.390 0.285 0.135 2.260 -0.015 -0.025 +0.045 -0.040 +0.020 -0.010 -0.015 +0.010 -4.1 -2.9 +8.0 -3.3 +2.3 -3.4 -10.0 +0.4 86,653 25,192
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      • 74 12 By Close Change DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 108.200 +0.200 IMH400USS 12.000 +0.100 XBC 12.700 +0.100 Robinson 5.850 +0.050 WaPharm 0.610 +0.045 :yberVill 0.280 +0.030 Hartford 0.480 +0.030 WITech 0.200 +0.030 PFood 1.110 +0.030 SembLog 2.080 +0.030 By percentage Close Change IRE Corp 0.035 +75.0 El Nets 0.015
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      • 73 12 iATSvcs Close 1.940 Change -0.450 F&N 13.600 -0.300 /enlure 16.100 -0.300 jealive 50 17.100 -0.200 DBS 15.200 -0.200 KepCorp Bukil Sem 7.250 13.000 -0.150 -0.100 :iTYDEV 5.600 -0.100 3realEasl 11.200 -0.100 lariline C&C 6.200 -0.100 By percentage Close Goldtron 0.015 Change -25.0 LKN 0.035 -22.2 SATSvcs 1.940
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      • 36 12 US$ 0.5833 UK£ 0.3168 Yen 63.805 HK$ 4.5478 RM 2.2157 Euro 0.4755 Rupiah 5,284.1 Baht 23.884 Peso 32.643 A$ 0.8159 Indian Rs 26.959 Won 677.69 C$ 0.7707 Yuan 4.8282 NZ$ 0.9109 NTS 19.801
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    • 286 16 Dow Jones It has so far financed current account shortfall well THERE is no sign that the United States will have difficulty financing its currentaccount deficit in the near term, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist said yesterday. "The US deficit has been
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    • 157 16 Bloomberg CONGLOMERATE Keppel Corporation said its marine arm has received two contracts valued at $66 million to build ships and upgrade an oil rig. Keppel will upgrade a rig for Ensco International Inc, an offshore oil and natu-ral-gas drilling company based in Dallas, over
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    • 217 16 Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S biggest bank, Maybank, may bid for a stake in Bank Permata Indonesia's seventh-largest bank by assets as it seeks to increase overseas profit, a spokesman said. Maybank will "evaluate the information memorandum (on Permata) accordingly" when it becomes available, the spokesman
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    • 23 12 Has your child taken a vision break? J «^T\ /Fight myopia.\ I)/ I Give your j y^V.^y V eyes a break, y AflC,
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  • ENTERPRISE
    • 669 18  -  Tor Ching Li Mother-son team to take family business overseas SINGAPOREANS tend to take many of life's little luxuries for granted clean streets, potable water and yes, delectable nonya kuehs to suit any occasion and palate available at 38 Bengawan Solo outlets island-wide. For the past 25
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • 553 20 Valuations not excessive relative to growth prospects: First State FIRST State Investments launched an emerging markets fund called First State GEM Leaders recently. The fund is rated "five-star" by Mercer Investment Consulting. Mr Alistair Thompson, a fund manager of the Global Emerging Markets
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 89 22 Agencies LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday labelled a newspaper report that that he had drawn up plans to send British troops to Sudan as "premature". The Guardian newspaper yesterday reported that Mr Blair had asked officials to draw up plans for
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    • 656 22  -  Craig Ower NEWS&ttfflin&ll^— Darfur disaster looms, but has Iraq inured us to humanitarian causes? THIS year marks the 10th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. That a decade has passed already may come as a surprise to some. How quickly life moves on! Yet, about
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 58 22 Reuters United States soldiers can now get facelifts, breast enlargements, liposuction and nose jobs for free, paid for by the taxpayers, the New Yorker magazine reports in its July 26 edition. It quoted an Army spokeswoman as saying: "(Our)
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      • 56 22 AFP A Swedish study founa many teens in the Nordic region take no interest in politics, believing they cannot make a difference. Kids in Nordic countries do believe in democracy "but when democracy works well, they may not see how they personally can contribute," said Mr
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    • 292 26 AFP Security situation still unstable but Pak Lah vows to send a worthwhile force PARIS Just two days after his pledge to send a military medical team to Iraq, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi sounded less certain. At a press conference in Paris where
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    • 208 26 Agencies JAKARTA Ahead of next Monday's release of the results of the presidential elections, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri touted Indonesia as having the world's best record in convicting terrorists. Locked in a tough battle with her former minister for the country's top post,
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 54 26 The leader of Malaysia's conservative PAS (Parti Islam SeMalaysia) Opposition party, Mr Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, was in intensive care at a hospital in his Kelantan state after a heart attack early yesterday, reported Bernama. He was said to be stable but
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      • 54 26 Indonesia has launched a major vaccination programme to eradicate bird flu, which is lingering in some districts after an outbreak earlier this year. Officials said the flu killed 3,161 birds in three districts on Java island in May and killed another 1,760 in June
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      • 42 26 AFP A lesbian couple in Ontario has filed for divorce in what is believed to be a first since homosexual marriages were made legal in several Canadian provinces. The couple cited irreconcilable differences in their request for a divorce.
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  • HUMOUR
    • 961 28  -  mr brown With such a cool name, S'pore's elite national security agency will strike fear into the hearts of terrorists AUG 12 is a day that many a Singaporean will be talking about over the next few weeks. It is the day that Singapore will
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  • 541 30 HAVING a drink has taken on new meaning in Singapore. These days, the choices are myriad, and go far beyond choosing between a red or a white. For example, you need to consider: Would it be Old World or New World? A sweeter gewurztraminer
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  • 327 31  -  Ted Chen LAST evening, guests who had signed up for a wine rdinner organised by NTUC FairPrice got an unexpected bonus they received a one-year free membership to a wine club. The-local supermarket chain operator was celebrating the laundjjaf its Just Wine Club, which was formed
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    • 218 34 TALK about occupational hazards. MediaCorp actress Huang Biren (picture) had to be rushed to the hospital three times while filming An Ode to Life twice for insect bites, once for an arm injury. The actress joked that it was all due to a
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      423 34  -  Jeanine Tan IT WILL be a harmonious mix of local and foreign in the upcoming TV movie, House of Harmony, which involves production houses from Singapore and Germany, as well as MediaCorp artiste Fann Wong and Hong Kong actress Maggie Q. House of Harmony is a $7-million coproduction
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    • 296 34 David Chew WHEN a legendary pianist such as Wilhelm Kempff chooses you to continue his musical legacy, you know you're in a different league. Gerhard Oppitz, who performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor, Op 37 on Friday and Saturday at the
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    • incinemas
      • 354 36  -  YONG SHU CHIANG Noir treatment elevates standard man-versus-machine thriller FILM REVIEWby Robot TECHNOLOGY, sleek and ice-cold logical, breeds both wonder and fear. New films such as The Stepford Wives, a darkly comic thriller about men replacing their wives with machines, and I, Robot, about humanoid robots
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      • 246 36  -  BY DAVID CHEW FILM REVIEW FUNNY doesn't quite describe Connie and Carla. The film, which comes across like a mix of Thelma and Louise and l he Hiracage, is a riotous, rollicking adventure resulting from a mix-up with gangster-hoodlum types. Connie (Nia Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette)
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        280 38  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW^ FEW films pack so powerful an emotional wallop as The Return, an impressive debut by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. A stirring, deeply-felt family drama about two boys whose absent father was just a face staring back at them in a photograph. One day,
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    • 404 55 Striker returns to Everton, transfer deadline looms LIVERPOOL Wayne Rooney returned to Everton for the first time since Euro 2004 yesterday, and according to the GuardianUnlimited, he is set to reject the club's offer of a new contract. He underwent a second scan on his broken metatarsal,
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    • 152 55 Reuters MARSEILLE France under-21 international Matthieu Flamini (right) is set to join Arsenal from Olympique Marseille, despite the French club's attempts to stop him leaving. "There still are a few details to settle but the deal is as good as clinched. Flamini will join
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    • 425 55  -  JOSE RAYMOND AT THE first Asian Youth Netball Championships, held in Hong Kong in 1994, Singapore emerged champions. Four years later, in India, the Singapore under-21 team just failed to defend their title, coming in second, after losing to Sri Lanka in
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      580 56 Agencies UAE's de Mos claims S Korea's 2002 World Cup run was a fluke ASIAN CUP, GROUP B South Korea v UAE JINAN, China United Arab Emirates coach Aad de Mos has dismissed South Korea's run to the 2002 World Cup semifinals as a fluke, ahead of the
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    • 412 56 -AFP ASIAN CUP, GROUP A China 5 Indonesia 0 BEIJING The Chinese dragon is starting to breathe fire at the Asian Cup and coach Arie Haan couldn't be happier. The host nation roared back to form on Wednesday, scorching Indonesia
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    • 275 56 -AFP BERLIN Germany have turned to former strikers Jurgen Klinsmann (picture) and Oliver Bierhoff to lead them to the 2006 World Cup finals, which will be held on German soil, reports said yesterday. Klinsmann has told German football federation (DFB) president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder that he would
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    • 100 56 AFP LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson will have to start the English Premiership without Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina defender Gabriel Heinze, after they were called up by their countries for next month's Athens Olympics. Ferguson had hoped Ronaldo's efforts in Euro 2004 and Heinze's
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      • 82 60 BUDAPEST World silver medallist Laszlo Cseh (picture) of Hungary has undergone an operation on a broken metatarsal in his right foot, though the 1 8-year-old is expected to resume training for next month's Athens Olympics. Cseh, who finished second to Michael Phelps in the 400m individual medley
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      • 42 60 ATHENS The Athens Olympics (Aug 1 3-29) athletes' village was officially turned over to Games organisers yesterday, 22 days before the opening ceremony. The village, which will host 1 6,000 athletes and officials, cost 240 million euros ($506 million).
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      • 64 60 MILAN France striker David Trezeguet has signed a new fouryear contract with Serie A club juventus. The 26-year-old, whose original deal with Juve was due to expire at the end of next season, had threatened to leave in protest over his salary, but a deal has
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      • 64 60 go GLASGOW Diego Maradona junior, the son of the 1 986 World Cup winner, will not be joining Dunfermline Athletic, after rejecting a contract offer from the Scottish club. The striker, 17, is on the books of Italian second division club Napoli, whom his father helped
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      559 60 Agencies Brazil squeeze past Uruguay to set up tantalising Argentina date COPA AMERICA, SEMI-FINAL Brazil 1 Uruguay 1 (Brazil won 5-3 on penalties) LIMA Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira described his young team's penalty taking as majestic, after they won their shootout against Uruguay in Wednesday's (yesterday
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    • 248 60  -  STEFANIE LOH NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE Geylang 0 Tampines 2 THEY may be fighting for the title, but Tampines Rovers FC are showing no sign of nerves. Visiting Bedok Stadium last night, for their NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League clash against Geylang, the Stags carved out a valuable 2-0
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