Today, 28 March 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    11 1 TODAY /\AediaCorp MICA (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating utT6£itS Monday March 28,2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Tougher Aids laws and the fear factor
      934 1  -  Tan Hui Leng Will stricter rules scare at-risk individuals off tests? huileng@newstoday, com. sg WHILE tougher laws putting the onus on individuals to keep the Aids epidemic in check may work, there are concerns and some confusion on how legislation would eventually be
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      Lock icon 'More foreign fighters' entering Iraq
      129 1 -AFP WASHINGTON Foreign fighters entering Iraq in recent months make up a growing percentage of insurgents battling US troops and the country's fledgling security force, a senior US military commander said yesterday. In an interview with CNN in Mosul, Iraq, General John Abizaid, the commander
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      Lock icon Kung Fu Hustle wins Best Film award
      179 1 HONG KONG Director Stephen Chow's action comedy Kung Fu Hustle won Best Film and Best Supporting Actor awards at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards last night but not the coveted Best Actor and Director prizes. Tony Leung (2046) beat Chow and Jackie
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      43 1 NEWSX\YIEWS Tisa Ng On persuading women to become mums/3 Coffee with Hairstylist Joakim Roos on his passion for coiffs/14 h 111 nn y Jll Pages 20 22 I KEEPING IT UNREAL h 24 KYRGYSTAN'S NEW LEADERS STRUGGLE TO END SPLIT HOT NEWS 2
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      13 1 World Cup qualifiers: Kaka comes to Brazil's rescue Other results/33 i fc^ —■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■taEs—
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      7 1 I i'KJ !11 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP GERRARD f
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  • hot news
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      Two new full Ministers
      495 2  -  Ansley Ng Vivian Balakrishnan and Raymond Lim promoted as expected ansley@newstoday.com.sg TWO Acting Ministers will be confirmed as full Ministers from Friday. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will be made Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and concurrently Second Minister for Trade and Ministry, seven months after
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      Lock icon Kyrgyzstan's new leaders struggle to end split
      234 2 -AFP BISHKEK The new leaders of Kyrgyzstan, brought to power by a lightning revolution in the Central Asian state, met with the head of Europe's leading security organisation yesterday as they struggled to end a parliamentary split that threatened a fragile return to
      -AFP  -  234 words
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        How to persuade women to become mums
        676 3  -  Tisa Ng They are inclined to stay single as long as the opportunity costs of motherhood remain high THERE is a book flying off the shelves in Japan. It is about losers. Nothing to do with casinos or gambling, it is about women
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      Parent rage in UK puts teachers at risk
      377 4 Many depressed and consider quitting, says report LONDON Thousands of teachers are abused by parents each year as the growing culture of school indiscipline goes beyond bad behaviour by pupils. In an exclusive report, the Observer revealed incidents in which teachers were
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    • Article
      Lock icon Commitment to help out'problem gamblers'
      261 4 Newsßadio 93.8 THE Government will commit resources to ensure there is a "systematic, institutional" way to deal with "problem gambling", should it go ahead with the casino proposal. This latest assurance came from Acting Second Minister for Finance Raymond Lim at a dialogue session with
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      $340m mall takes shape in Ang Mo Kio
      401 4  -  Jasmine Yin RESIDENTS of Ang Mo Kio will have one of Singapore's biggest neighbourhood malls in their midst by the first quarter of 2007. A 1.93-ha vacant site next to the Ang Mo Kio MRT station will be transformed into a $340
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon The next new face on CNA?
      95 6 Channel News Asia's Audition Me contest at Wheelock Place drew hordes of hopefuls yesterday. Here, Ms Farizah, 21, steps into the spotlight for her one-minute pitch. The contestants were given a minute each to speak in front of the camera on one of three
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    • Article
      Food waste to fuel
      462 6  -  Sheralyn Tay NTU team turns kitchen scraps into gas cheaply sheralyn@newstoday.com.sg IN LESS than two years' time, food scraps tossed out by restaurants, bakeries and food courts across Singapore could soon be turned into valuable natural gas, if all goes well for a project undertaken by
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      315 7 mm MMm\ wm'i^ m\k itA mk l^tf* HAVE YOU WON FREE RIDES? Each ride you take on SMRT trains and buses with m your ez-link card automatically gives you a chance m X to win free rides and a Nissan March in our Grand A^f^m\ Draw on 23 April 2005
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Taiwan warned
      327 8 AMnclsH Island is 'stirring new tension' with Beijing BEIJING China warned that Taiwan is stirring "new tension" with Beijing, a day after hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese marched in protest against the communist mainland's threats to take the self-ruling island by force. Vowing never to back down, China
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      Lock icon India may buy F-16 jet fighters from US
      165 8 AP NEW DELHI India is considering buying American F-16 fighter jets for its air force, just days after New Delhi protested against a United States decision to sell the same aircraft to India's neighbouring arch rival, Pakistan. Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee was
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    • Article
      Lock icon Millions may starve
      114 8 AFP BEIJING Due to the lack of donations and restrictions on aid distribution, the United Nation's World Food Program (WFP) announced that it will have to gradually stop supplying rations to 6.5 million North Koreans. "We're doing our best to mobilise support, but we need more help
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      Lock icon Probe into deaths
      81 8 AFP MANILA -The large number of murders involving Filipino journalists has raised alarm bells and now a global press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, plans to get behind the facts. Following the murder of newspaper columnist Marlene Garcia Ezperat, 45, who campaigned against corruption, Reporters Without Borders
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Ex-PM Callaghan dies
        67 8 AFP Labour Party stalwart Lord James Callaghan, who served as Britain's prime minister in the tumultuous late *****, died on Saturday on the eve of his 93rd birthday. Described as one of the giants in the Labour movement, Lord Callaghan, who was the longest-living prime minister in
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        Lock icon 15 hurt in Thai attacks
        40 8 AFP At least 15 railway workers, soldiers and police were in ured in two bomb blasts and an hour-ong gun battle in Thailand's restive south early yesterday, in an attack police blamed on Islamic insurgents.—
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        Lock icon Police defuse bomb in Manila
        44 8 AFP Philippines police defused an explosive device found near the Spanish embassy in Manila, as security forces were on alert after warnings of attacks over the Easter period. Officials rule out the Al-Qaeda-linked Muslim Abu Sayyaf guerrillas as suspects.
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        Lock icon International panel set to
        35 8 -AFP probe Lebanese leader's death The Lebanese authorities have agreed to an international panel to determine who killed former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, acceding to a demand from the anti-Syrian opposition.
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    • Article
      Charles must apologise to Camilla's ex: Bishop
      216 10 LONDON Britain's Prince Charles is obliged to apologise to the former husband of his fiancee Camilla Parker Bowles for having an affair with her before their wedding can go ahead, an Anglican bishop said. Bishop David Stancliffe of Salisbury in southern England said
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      Lock icon Tsunami killed more females
      382 10 SYDNEY FOUR times more women than men were killed in some villages hit by the Boxing Day tsunami, leaving a severe gender imbalance in the region, said Oxfam Community Aid Abroad International. The organisation compiled the first report on the gender implications of the quake that
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        So stiff he's free
        50 10 A 37-year-old Czech inmate was released from prison after he got a permanent erection. Blood was trapped in his penis and it was so painful that surgeons were forced to operate. Officials freed him as he would be better cared for by his wife, reported Ananova.com.
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        Lock icon Finger found in chilli
        52 10 Reuters A patron of Wendy's, a fast food restaurant in California, found a human finger in a bowl of chilli after eating a spoonful of it. He spat it out, recognised it and vomited. Police are investigating whether the finger came from the raw materials supplied
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        Get up like clockwork
        72 10 Scientists in the United States have invented an alarm clock to get the drowsiest of sleepers out of bed. After the snooze button is pressed, Clocky, which comes with wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room. "When the alarm sounds again, finding
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      Focus On The Family
      233 12  -  Dr James Dobson TbiM^'s by......................... THE BATTLESHIP AND THE LIGHTHOUSE In the official magazine of the Naval Institute, Frank Koch reported on a very unusual encounter at sea. A battleship was coming in for maneuvers in heavy weather. Shortly after the sun went down, the lookout
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      Respect our Constitution
      537 12  -  CHIA BOON TECK] Let police interrogations be recorded or done in presence of a lawyer I Letter from I REFER to Mr Lionel De Souza's letter, "Keep accused incommunicado until police probe is complete" (March 23). Mr De Souza took issue with lawyers' calls for an accused
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    • Letter
      Moulding leaders
      149 12  -  LINDA LIM I Letter from I Chairperson, YP Women Protem Committee I REFER to the letter titled "Recruit more tolerant younger women, PAP" (March 19). I wish to clarify that the Young PAP Women (YP Women) will co-organise events with the Women's Wing which are open to all
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    • Letter
      Barbers should use disposable blades
      177 14  -  TEOKIANLAM I Letter from |CHRISTOPHER THERE has been much news about the rise in HIV/Aids cases recently. While the focus is now on the gay community, so little attention has been paid to educating the public on safety precautions to avoid being infected. I am
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      Lock icon His career's up in the hair
      695 14  -  JOAKIM This hairstylist's passion for coiffing has taken him to the top of his industry coffee with ROQS 34, master hairstylist AS A child, Joakim Roos' favourite pasttime was watching hairstylists work backstage at fashion shows. The Swede is one of Europe's top hairstylists,
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      74 12 ANOTHER LETTER ON PAGE 14 /rLL LOSE A LOT OF CUSTOMERS^ TRY TO SE.E THE BIGGER f MAKE AND SELL IF YOU GO AHEAD WITH THAT PICTURE. IN THE LONG RUN, I ASHTRAYS, LAW J SMOKING BAN FOR PUBS AND YOU STAND TO GAIN, AS V V__ NITE-CLUSS MORE AND
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      232 13 1/ M Hi 1 ■i let Airways, India's largest airline starts daily direct flights to Mumbai soon. With one of the world's youngest fleets at an average age that's below world's best luxuries, a sumptuous spread of gourmet meals and a Wm 5 years, this young Indian will be the
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      117 14 GCE '07 GCE 'A' LEVELS V at a comfortable pace In one of Singapore's oldest establishments O GCE 'O' Level GCE 'A' Level Preparatory Course English for Foreign Students Government School Placement Services Foreign Languages Exclusive Youth Membership Privileges* (Recreational Facilities, Gym, Swimming Pool) Award Winning Caring Teachers Former JC
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon AirAsia inks Airbus deal for 60 new aircraft
      188 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian budget carrier Air Asia has inked a contract to buy 60 new Airbus aircraft, a report said yesterday. It also has an option to purchase another 40 A 320 jets as part of its regional expansion. In a
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      Lock icon tiger Fare wars on
      323 16 Agencies Tiger Airways ups the ante with offer TWO weeks after parent Singapore Airlines offered an eye-pop-ping $98 return fare to countries like Hong Kong and Bangkok, Tiger Airways is dangling rock bottom fares of $9.98 one-way to all its 10 destinations solely for online customers.
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    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        148 16 AFP SGX, Bloomberg SHARE prices are expected to trade in a narrow range next week in the absence of fresh leads, with higher interest rates and volatile oil prices likely to weigh on sentiment, dealers said. Investors will want to see the local February industrial output figures due today
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 16 US$ 0.6084 UK£ 0.3252 Yen 64.7229 HK$ 4.7452 RM 2.3119 Euro 0.4695 Rupiah 5729.45 Baht 23.7251 Peso 32.9835 A$ 0.7886 Indian Rs 26.6204 Won 617.0834 C$ 0.7411 Yuan 5.0353 NZ$ 0.8521 NTS 19.161
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        Commodities
        21 16 Gold uss/oz 425 Silver uss/oz 6.940 Platinum uss/oz 862.500 Rubber ant/kg 218.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1402 Brent crude uss/barrei 54.50
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        Lock icon Pakistani regulator to investigate stock decline
        197 18 Bloomberg PAKISTAN'S stock market regulator said it will investigate what led to the longest losing streak on the Karachi Stock Exchange in more than two years. The benchmark index fell by almost a quarter in a seven-day decline until last Friday amid concerns about
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        Lock icon China to end govt bailout of state firms in four years
        221 18 AFP BEIJING China will end the practice of bailing out bankrupt state-owned enterprises (SOEs) within four years. It will start forcing them to sink or swim according to market rules. "In four years, SOEs will follow market rules and
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        Lock icon New scandal in China Bank
        326 18 AFP Former bank typist arrested for embezzling $9.6 million BEIJING A former typist at the Bank of China (BOC) has been arrested for allegedly embezzling US$6 million ($9.6 million) in the latest scandal to hit China's troubled banking system, state media said yesterday. Police arrested
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        Lock icon D-day approaches for Wolfowitz
        255 19 AFP World Bank board to consider him for president WASHINGTON Neo-conservative nominee Paul Wolfowitz will be considered by the board of the World Bank on March 31, as the multilateral lender seeks a new president. The directors met last week with United States President George W
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      • market BUZZ
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          In search of a purr-feet beauty
          150 19 WHETHER you have a pedigree or a household cat, show off your darling kitty by signing up for the Purina Championship Cat Show 2005. Not the competitive type? You can still attend the show to admire the beautiful cats on display. Plus there is
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          Carrie on being a radio deejay
          169 19 ATA Management Development Institute of Singapore's (MDIS) event last Thursday, MediaCorp Radio DJ Carrie Chong an MDIS mass communications graduate herself spoke to a group of 40 students on what it takes to succeed in radio deejaying. Carrie, who was voted the friendliest Perfect
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    • the business of learning
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        CV does it
        595 20  -  John Bittleston SUCCEED GETTING YOUR CAREER INTO SHAPE: PREPARING YOUR CV It's a catchy advertisement to sell yourself bittleston@btinternet.com emuj I with, MAKE no mistake, most resumes/curricula vitae (CV) turn prospective employers off. They are unreadable, boring, badly presented, and, worst of all, irrelevant Some aspiring employees
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        Charles F Kettering
        17 20 Engineer and inventor High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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        Lock icon Corporate peacemaker
        727 22  -  Ng Shing Vi iVm mf" I He straightens out workers who blame others for their own faults news@newstoday.com.sg FOUNDER of management consultancy The Arbinger Institute, Mr Jim Ferrell, has a funny story to tell. It happened to be true too. At an American university, students of a premed,
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      372 20 Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit (Oct 2004) ipJ The University of Birmingham U.K. THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM This MBA Programme is fully taught in Singapore (part-time) by lecturers from the University of Birmingham, U.K. Information Evening Date: 29 Mar '05 (Tue) Time: 7.15 p.m. HMPff^B Speaker: Professor Jim Slater |D^^US
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      204 21 SCHOOLS BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 5^ iNCltlVllfl Who can blame him? He is at the cho°' Biological Sciences in NTU. I Hll The 4-year course in Biological Sciences leading to a Bachelor of Sciences (with Honours) degree is no end of challenges and excitement to him. HG Wants tO knOW... His professors
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      206 23 U NTAN C V IBUSINESS I df Heng Shwu Jiun, Grace Tan Ai Ling, .^T'' Woo Yam Yam (from left to right) g j. Winner, International L'Oreal I A Marketing Award, Paris, 2003 -.■>*■ ,"N 1 V; -'°JM^ Winner, L'Oreal Marketing Award, >\>' j Singapore, 2003 I IfS^BmM^ 1 Product
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      Lock icon The voyeur playwright
      776 24  -  David Chew Nothing beats flesh and blood characters for dramatist Chong david.chew@newstoday.com.sg RESIDENTS of Punggol beware! Local playwright Chong Tze Chien is a voyeur who enjoys looking into people's homes with a pair of binoculars. He finds it more interesting than watching TV. "Yes, I love being
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      Lock icon This R&B rookie knows his roots
      215 24  -  Mervin Tay THE music scene in China is taking on a more international outlook and Chinese singers are seeing the importance of going regional. This was Chinese singer Ben C's (picture) take on developments back home. The 22-year-old Zhuhai native was in town to
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      IN ADDITION
      180 24 Jen-Brad split is official Hollywood's golden couple Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are officially calling it quits after four-and-a-half-years of marriage. Aniston filed for divorce on Friday, citing irreconcilable differences with Pitt. The couple married on July 29, 2000, and have no children. Eric Moo in concert One
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    • incinemas
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        Lock icon Behold Baby Brayden
        235 25  -  Meryin Tay Zoe and Philip's month-old son unveiled at star-studded party mervin@newstoday.com.sg THE "royal baby" made his first public appearance on Saturday to lots of "coos" and "ahhs" from well-wishers at a party held at the Laguna Country Club. Queen of Caldecott Hill Zoe Tay, 37, and
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      • Article
        Sun returns to light up event
        219 25  -  Clarence Lim ZOE Tay wasn't the only local celeb off on a maternity break. Pastor-turned-pop artiste Sun Ho has also been absent from the media spotlight since January to give birth to son Dayan. She decided to return to the spotlight last Tuesday, for
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        692 26  -  CMLim 'Housewives' food' in a food@newstoday.com.sg French food isn't only about caviar, foie gras, oysters and escargots. In fact, these items are blatantly missing from the five-starter-five-main-course menu at French bistro, Aioli. Aioli opened in November and specialises in nibbles and wine from Provence in the south
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      110 34 RANCHO MIRAGE, California Sweden's Annika Sorenstam (right) took a major step in her quest for a Grand Slam sweep and a piece of LPGA history, seizing a five-stroke lead at the Kraft Nabisco Championship in the third round on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Top-ranked Sorenstam took command
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      104 34 BANGALORE A blistering half-century from opener Shahid Afridi and Younis Khan's solid 84 not out allowed Pakistan to set India a challenging 383-run target, in the third and final Test yesterday. Afridi (58) completed his 50 off just 26 deliveries, the quickest by a
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      95 34 LONDON Chelsea winger Arjen Robben may be out for the rest of the season, after sustaining a calf injury in Holland's 2-0 win over Romania on Saturday. Robben, 21, limped off after only 21 minutes of the match in Bucharest. Holland coach Marco van Basten said:
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      565 34 AFP He posts a 25-under-par total for win, as Monty and Mardan enjoy different fortunes GOLF Indonesia Open JAKARTA Thailand's Thaworn Wiratchant romped to a sensational five-stroke victory yesterday, in the US$l million ($1.64 million) Enjoy Jakarta Standard Chartered Indonesia Open, after shooting a final round seven-under-par 63.
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      273 34 AP PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida Tim Herron birdied six holes in succession to take the lead at 11-under, as the second round of The Players Championship neared its conclusion, at press time. Briton Luke Donald had earlier joined Lee Westwood and Joe
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      574 35 Reds' skipper says no deal done with Chelsea, he's staying at Anfield MANCHESTER Speculation has been rife over the last two weeks that he will be off to Stamford Bridge, after Ashley Cole said current Premiership league-leaders Chelsea used him as bait in trying to "tap up"
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        94 35 MANCHESTER Manchester City chairman John Wardle insists the club will resist any approaches for Shaun Wright-Phillips. Winger Wright-Phillips, 23, is rated at £20 million ($61.5 million) and his sale would help ease City's £62 million debt. "We will do everything in our power to keep him here, he
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        84 35 LONDON Arsenal striker Jeremie Aliadiere has revealed he would relish a move back to France with Paris St Germain. The 21-year-old has had an injury-trou-bled season and has made only 14 Premiership appearances in five years at Highbury. He said: "I am in contact with PSG. I
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        124 35 BIRMINGHAM Birmingham City manager Steve Bruce has warned neighbours Aston Villa that they could soon lose their tag as the top club in the Midlands. Bruce says Birmingham now have the profile and spending power to put their arch-rivals in the shade. Bruce is undefeated in six
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        772 29 Tampines playmaker lets his feet do the talking as he aims for a spectacular 2005 IN HIS debut season in the S-League in 2003, Aliff Shafaein scored 11 goals in 33 matches to become top scorer for the Young Lions. But the
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        403 30  -  Eric Ding HOME United's poor start to the 2005 S-League season has raised question marks over whether they are a spent force. The Protectors finally posted their first win of 2005 in a 4-0 mauling of newcomers Paya Lebar Punggol FC at Bishan Stadium last
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        111 30 TAKING time off after a second successive battering in as many weeks in the S-League, Woodlands Wellington FC joined more than 160 participants in kicking off the North West Pedal Power Club, yesterday morning. Organised by the North West CDC, together with several Constituency
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        448 31  -  JOSE RAYMOND Balbeer puts Balestier Khalsa's rise down to discipline, fitness and coaching jose@newstoday.com.sg THERE'S an "on-top-of-the-world" feeling at Toa Payoh Stadium these days. And why not. After last week's set of matches in the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2005, Balestier Khalsa are in second spot, just a
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        385 31  -  Eric Ding SINGAPORE football received a double boost last week. First, it was announced that RHB Bank were the new sponsors of the Singapore Cup. RHB Bank cited the expected growth of football in the country after the magnificent Tiger Cup triumph as
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          63 31 AT LEAST that's what struggling Sinchi FC vice-chairman Wang Jinhui thinks. "It seems that my team, which are led by an experienced coach and are packed with former China internationals and nine Chinese Super League players, cannot win matches," he said. "Maybe Chinese football isn't as
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          58 31 IN A joint effort with Safra radio, SAFFC players took a break from football for some car-washing last Saturday. Led by their Danish coach Kirn Poulsen, the Warriors washed 42 cars in the space of two hours, at the Caltex station located along Dunearn Road. They raised
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          54 31 SINGAPORE'S top referee Shamsul Maidin boosted his chances for a firstever World Cup appearance, following a flawless display when he officiated the qualifying clash between Iran and Japan in Tehran, last Friday. The four-time S-League Referee of the Year was recently shortlisted for the 2006 World
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          91 31 AS PART of the Step With It, Singapore! programme, players from Home United Football Club will join over 4,000 primary four students in a mass workout, held at the Ministry of Education Co-Curricular Activities Branch, this morning at 10am. It is the first of many activities
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          90 31 GEYLANG United Football Club, together with their partner South East Community Development Council, are offering a weekend football programme for kids. Led by former Singapore international Lim Tong Hai (right), this enrichment programme is targeted at children aged 7-1 3. Each participant will receive a goodie bag
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        1068 32 Agencies 1998 world champs in real danger of missing out on next year's jamboree WORLD CUP QUALIFIER France 0 Switzerland 0 PARIS Not many would have predicted it, but the unthinkable could well happen. Faltering France, the 1998 world champions, have left themselves a mountain to
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        359 32 WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Israel 1 Ireland 1 TEL AVIV Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr admitted his side should have won their World Cup qualifier here, after seeing Israel grab a late, late equaliser in a 1-1 draw on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time).
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          496 33 AFP Midfielder's goal seals win for lacklustre Brazil WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Brazil 1 Peru 0 GOIANIA, Brazil A late goal from AC Milan's attacking midfielder Kaka gave world champions Brazil a 1-0 win over Peru in their South America zone World Cup qualifier this morning.
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          439 33 -AFP WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Mexico 2 USA 1 MEXICO CITY Mexico continued a home-field mastery of arch rival United States this morning, taking a 2-1 victory that snapped the Americans' 16-match unbeaten streak. Jared Borghetti headed home a goal in the 30th minute and Antonio
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