Today, 13 July 2005

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    35 1 TODAY /AehiaCorp incorporating utrCStS Wednesday July 13,2005 todayonline.com I MICA (P) 103/07/2004 TODAY /A=nJj\CoßP en c -t—< CD o Q. O O c o o r-i t-^ o r^ o Wednesday July 13,2005 todayonline.com I
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    Lock icon Nathan tosses hat into ring
    859 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Incumbent president announces plans to seek a second term derrick@newstoday.com.sg AS WIDELY expected, President S R Nathan will seek a second six-year term of office. He announced at noon yesterday, in a press release, that he has submitted his application for a
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    Grilled over two days, NKF chief withdraws libel suit
    886 1  -  Tor Ching Li chingli@newsto day, com. sg THE end came suddenly. After being grilled for two full days, Mr T T Durai, chief executive of the National Kidney Foundation, was asked by the Singapore Press Holdings' (SPH) senior counsel Davinder Singh:
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      36 1 NEWSX\YIEWS Best defence PM Lee lauds latest partnership with US/2 Murder trial Accused in Huang Na case blames gangsters/6 Arroyo's fate Two experts weigh in on Filipino leader's Tuture/10 chipoff f,rf theblog GROlltflH Reuters in crosshairs/28
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      12 1 NKF stands by Durai: Page 3 Outcry over NKF disclosures: Page 18
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Longstanding ties seal US-S'pore defence deal
      660 2  -  Teo Hwee Nak Pact a natural continuation of excellent relationship: PM Lee in Washington DC Deputy News Editor hweenak@newstoday.com.sg A TWO-minute ceremony yesterday crystallised a longstanding defence relationship between Singapore and the United States, and paved the way for future military cooperation. At the
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      Progress made in trade, Iraq acknowledged
      186 2 IN A joint statement yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and US President George W Bush acknowledged the progress made in the war on terror. The two leaders also welcomed the successful election of the first Iraqi National Assembly, with Mr Bush expressing appreciation
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      NKF stands by Durai
      415 3  -  Lee U-Wen Says it is 'understandable' that some donors may now 'fall out' u-wen@newstoday.com.sg BEFORE the first day's hearing in the High Court on Monday, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) made an application for special damages totalling $3.24 million. This, claimed the non-profit organisation, was the
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      Lock icon UK police nab bombing suspects
      584 4 LONDON British police have carried out "a number of arrests" in connection with last Thursday's blasts in London as investigators said the explosives used in the attacks were made by a single bombmaker. British television news reports said the arrests were made during a police
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Newater at lower prices in the future
      218 6  -  -Jasmine Yin INDUSTRIES in Jurong, Tuas and Jurong Island will be able to use Newater when Singapore's fourth and largest Newater factory at Ulu Pandan is completed next year. The Ulu Pandan Newater factory designed, owned and to be built and operated for
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      Lock icon Took blames 'gang members'
      595 6  -  Wons Fei Wan Contradictory stories emerge during his questioning «X .M- t 1 feiwan@newstoday.com.sg AS THE search for Huang Na intensified following her disappearance last October, the man now accused of her murder told police he had seen two Malaysian men bundle the Primary 2 girl
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      Lock icon Hardwired to serve the community
      104 8  -  Down Quefc Showing that it's not just software, but also heartware, Microsoft in Singapore is encouraging its workers to volunteer three days a year. At the launch of its Employee Volunteer Programme on Monday, 20 Microsoft employees helped 15 children from Bethesda Care Counselling Services
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      Overhaul of Chinese teaching underway
      547 8  -  Lee U-Wen New curriculum will cater to different ability levels u-wen@newstoday.com.sg FROM January, Primary 1 and 2 students in 25 schools will be the first to experience a new Chinese Language (CL) curriculum. The 25 schools will be made known by the end of the
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  • world news
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      Will Arroyo survive?
      110 10 Some say she will make it, but others think she is history PHILIPPINE opposition groups yesterday turned up the heat against embattled President Gloria Arroyo by preparing a massive rally to force her to step down following allegations that she stole the May 2004 election. The opposition
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      RICHARD GORDON
      351 10 So, what will unseat her? Another expose will finish her off, but it will have to be backed by real evidence not like this tape controversy. The telephone call she made to the election official was not the best thing for her to do, but you must remember
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      Lock icon FRANCIS ESCUDERO
      349 10 Do you believe there is a conspiracy to topple President Arroyo? No. All the opposition did was point out the shortcomings and vio lations of the law allegedly committed by the admin istration. This destabilisation conspiracy theory that President Arroyo has come up with is now being debunked
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Angry, naked tree abuser arrested
        68 12 Mr Dieter Braun from Recklinghausen in Germany has been arrested after a marriage guidance counsellor told him to run around naked shouting at trees, according to ananova.com. The 43-year-old said the "relaxation therapy" of venting his anger on the trees had saved his marriage.Other visitors
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        Italian survey uncovers naked truth
        87 12 While Italian men aren't all that bothered about looking at naked sunbathers, it seems Italian women see things a little differently. According to a survey done by the Italian Naturalist Federation, two-thirds of men don't care about nude male sunbathers, while more than 40 per
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        Granny prostitute to retire
        60 12 Berlin grandmother Renate Dolle, who has worked as a prostitute for 49 years, plans to retire when she turns 64 next year, Reuters reported. "I've got a lot of regular clients," she said, pictured wearing a red mini skirt. She said she charges 30 euros ($6l)
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      State hospitals make staff sick
      326 12 25 M'sian workers hadTß last year KUALA LUMPUR Only three of Malaysia's 135 government hospitals have air sterilising equipment, and last year at least 25 doctors, nurses and other hospital staff were infected with tuberculosis, the New Straits Times (NST) reported yesterday. This was just
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      Lock icon "Woman in the mask" identified
      380 14 She is a 24-year-old law graduate whose mother died just a month back LONDON The woman behind one of the most memorable images of last week's London Underground and bus bombings has been identified. The then unidentified woman dubbed the "woman in the mask" was
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      Lock icon Fiji military chief threatens government over amnesty Bill
      269 14 AFP SUVA Fiji's military commander Voreqe Bainimarama has reportedly threatened to remove the government if it passes planned legislation allowing amnesties for plotters of a 2000 coup in the South Pacific nation. Commodore Bainimarama said passing the Reconciliation, Unity and Tolerance Bill
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      Lock icon Seoul to give Pyongyang 500,000 tonnes of rice
      171 14 AFP SEOUL South Korea agreed yesterday to give impoverished North Korea 500,000 tonnes of rice, both sides said, days after Pyongyang announced it would return to six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear drive. The two Koreas also agreed at economic cooperation
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    Focus On The Family
    269 18  -  Dr James Dobson TbiMTs by..................... HANG IN THERE, PARENTS Someone once said that life is like giving a violin concert in public, and learning to play it as you go. Actually, that sounds a lot like raising kids. It seems that being a good parent is
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      Outcry over NKF disclosures
      32 18 National Kidney Foundation CEO TTDurai's revelations about how much he earned, in court on Monday, drew a slew of reactions from readers. Here's what some had to say:
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    • Letter
      Explain basis for CEO's bonuses
      151 18  -  i CORINNE FONG Letter from I DO not begrudge Mr Durai his monthly salary of $25,000, but I question his bonuses. The board must have had very good reasons to endorse these. What were they? The public has a right to know. If Mr Durai
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    • Letter
      Why claim privacy, if there's nothing to hide?
      207 18  -  SHEN GUANDE I Letter from! WHAT disgusts me is not Mr Durai's salary package, but the fact that the non-profit organisation has failed in its duty to the public to disclose its financial details, including the salary of its chief executive. Mr
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    • Letter
      Don't make patients bear brunt of fall-out
      113 18  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from. WHILE I cannot blame some people who may be perturbed, I hope the court case will not have a negative impact on public support for the NKF. NKF has brought much relief to many with kidney disease
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    • Letter
      NKF must account for every cent
      217 18  -  KOHSIEWYEN Letter from I DO not believe it is wrong for NKF to have $189 million in reserves if it can demonstrate proper stewardship of its funds, such as by developing a technology or medication for those in need of it But its chief
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    • Letter
      A better benchmark for remuneration
      76 18  -  WILLIAM FU Letter from I FIND it strange that a non-profit organisation's CEO's performance bonus is tied to the generosity of the donating public! Perhaps a more appropriate measurement for performance bonuses would be to gauge how efficiently it deploys the funds collected. For example,
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    • Letter
      Give money to dialysis foundation instead
      107 18  -  SOON SZE MENG I Letter from MANY may be reconsidering giving to the NKF. There is another organisation, the Kidney Dialysis Foundation (KDF), which aims to provide subsidised haemodialysis treatment to needy patients and attends to needy people with end-stage kidney disease. KDF staff
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      Time for a trip —justto blog it
      617 19  -  Mr Miyagi Ridiculous? But you will want to experience more to write about it A FEW months ago, a fellow blogger asked me if I wanted to take a road trip to Malaysia. I asked him why the sudden need for a trip,
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    • Letter
      And now the 'medical benefits' of blogging
      162 19  -  LIM THIAM POH Letter from I REFER to "Don't blog in the heat of the moment, talk it out instead" (July 8) by Nelson Quah, whose contention is that bloggers have other meaningful ways to solve their problems than to blog about it
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      Cumbersome, but only drills work
      263 20  -  SOH MING WAH At least, we will know how to react to terror Letter from IN RESPONSE to Mr Herbert Teo's comment "Appoint train marshals from among commuters" (July 11), that few commuters know what to do in a catastrophe, I would like to suggest
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      sayagain
      54 20 Singapore is surrounded by a Malayspeaking regional community and now the Government is looking to the Middle East market So, focusing on Mandarin as a second language for all is not a good idea. Sherry Ali, in response to two readers who argued for giving non-Chinese more opportunities to
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    • Letter
      Animal cruelty has sinister implications
      278 20  -  i CHRISTINA ENG I Letter from Vice-President, Cat Welfare Society WE REFER to the letters "Stop 'sick' treatment of animals" (July 8). The Cat Welfare Society applauds the writers and their friends for their compassion and efforts to save the kittens. We would also like
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Valuair's new hope
      344 22 Dow Jones A private investor may offer $50 million for a controlling stake in the airline, director says VALUAIR may yet find another partner to help it tackle intense competition and rising costs following the breakdown of recent merger talks with rival Jetstar Asia, according to a
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    • Market WATCH
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        Singapore
        50 22 SHARE prices closed mixed on profit taking after strong gains on Monday, but technology stocks bucked the trend following another strong overnight performance on Wall Street. The ST Index fell 5.6 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 2,235.59. Advancers led decliners 254 to 209, while 908.2 million shares worth
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 22 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5904 0.3358 66.018 4.5919 2.2434 0.489 5757.6 24.781 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 33.167 0.7899 25.718 614.547 0.719 4.8862 0.8704 18.854
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        Lock icon ST Index – 2,235.59 -5.6
        25 22 ST Index 2,235.59 -5.6 Dow Jones $794.7 million were traded. "There wasn't any (local) market-moving news today so some profit-taking took place," a trader said.
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      • Article
        SGX most active
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        World markets
        60 22 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.14 Change Pis +17.35 +0.15 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.95 4262.10 6358.81 -10.29 -2.00 +59.95 -0.07 -0.05 +0.95 Korea Comp 1043.88 +3.45 +0.33 KLCI 915.72 +6.40 +0.70 SET Index 648.98 +8.16 +1.27 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1129.11 1868.94 215.16 +5.65
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 22 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Gold us$/oz Silver us$/oz Platinum us$/oz 427.90 Rubber cntsAg 278 7.140 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1416 873.00 Brent crude us$/barrei 57.42
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    • business news
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        Banks cheque-out on Saturdays
        470 24  -  Chow Perm Nee 5-day clearing week from next May will delay cheques deposited on weekends pennnee@newstoday.com.sg DROPPING a cheque into the quick cheque deposit box on Saturday and expecting it to be cleared the following Monday will soon be a thing of the past Come May
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      • CORPORATEbrief
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          Bonus for Sing Tel customers
          53 26 Sing Tel is offering free incoming and IDD calls to 1 3 destinations for its prepaid mobile phone customers. On top of that, the telecommunications company will not charge its customers for the first three minutes of each call made on Sun- days to another
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          OCBC's ratings rise
          28 26 OCBC's long-term credit rating has been upgraded to AA- from A+. Fitch Ratings has raised it due to the bank's falling ratio of non-performing loans.
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        Lock icon US$356 million for Enron ex-employees
        191 26 AFP HOUSTON (Texas) United States energy giant Enron said it had agreed to pay US$356 million ($6Ol million) to former employees who lost their pension plans when the company failed in 2001. Enron reached agreements to settle a governmental action by the Department of Labor
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      • Article
        Lock icon SPH profits down; one-time gains absent
        429 26 -AFP Revenue should move with recovering economy MEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) said yesterday its net profit for the third quarter ending May fell 73.3 per cent to $98.6 million from a year earlier. The decline was magnified by hefty one-time gains from
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    • the business of enterprise
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        Local firm eyes Reuters perch
        487 28  -  Valeric Law Spore provider of financial information aims to overtake the big boys valerie@newstoday.com.sg HOME-grown firm Next View and its partners are set to take on Bloomberg and Reuters in the market for real-time data and analysis. The six-year-old firm supplies the real-time equities and
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        Smaller firms feel neglected: Poll
        233 28  -  Christie Loh GOVERNMENT agencies continue to court the corporate Goliaths to the chagrin of smaller businesses, said companies polled by independent research firm Frost Sullivan. The Pro-Enterprise Index found that the civil service was perceived as most friendly towards the large firms while giving little
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        ENTERPRENEURSHIP EVENTS THIS WEEK
        127 28 Thursday Blue Sky Finance Forum at Raffles City Convention Centre. Learn about the financing options for your firm. And join in the debate on Singapore's experience driving entrepreneurship. Panelists include businessman Kwek Leng Beng, and Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and Second Minister for
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      642 30  -  Mervin Tay news@newstoday.com.sg Project SuperStar judges' jargon deciphered r* OULD it be judges' critique of Project SuperStar that is alienating viewers from agreeing with their judgments? Since the competition began nearly a month ago, viewers and contestants have had to deal with abstract comments such as "you
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      419 32  -  Vinita Ramani Bollywood star to film here, showcase Singapore vinita@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU happen to be strolling along the Singapore River, Chinatown or the Esplanade sometime between September and November, you may spot a film crew with cameras pointed at a group of Indians dancing up a storm.
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      186 33  -  Joyce Lin BACK in Singapore to shoot a music video in collaboration with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), singer A-Do looks visibly plumper. He attributes this to the local food that he helps himself to whenever he returns to Singapore. The music video is
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      341 33  - Writers bloc David Chew Local literary festival pulling out all stops to draw visitors by the thousands david.chew@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL writers have often lamented that the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) is a poorer cousin of the larger, bet-ter-funded Singapore Arts Festival. But this year's SWF, which runs from Aug 26 to
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        87 33 One of Singapore's pre-eminent composers, Prof Bernard Tan, will launch a CD at Conrad Centennial Singapore today at 5.30pm. Tan has written a symphony, two overtures, four sinfoniettas and many choral works. His Piano Concerto premiered in January 2002 and was performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and
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        78 33 The action speaks volumes more than any dialogue could in a mime performance. This weekend, two mime performers from The Whiteface Group will perform at Millennia Walk, Level One. Teerapap and Ratchai, from Thailand, will contort their bodies in slow-motion and demonstrate their "cooking" skills. They
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      262 34  -  —Joyce Lin SPEAKING to reporters four hours before their concert yesterday, Good Charlotte member bassist Paul Thomas said that they were "pretty excited" about playing here for the first time. The American pop-rock band's concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last night was part
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        348 35  -  -Jeanine Tan THEY had a prime slot as the opening act at American pop-punk band Good Charlotte's concert last night, but local rock band Ronin pulled out at the last minute. The band confirmed the cancellation early yesterday morning at about
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        291 35 Agencies Marvel Comics adaptation leaps ahead of War of the Worlds LOS ANGELES Comic book superheroes the Fantastic Four came to the rescue of the ailing North American box office last weekend after knocking War of the Worlds out of the top spot,
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      523 44  -  CUBBYLEONG Sports School prodigy Stefan, 15, hopes to leap past 15 metres cubby@newstoday.com.sg ALL he needs is just another seven centimetres to qualify for November's Southeast Asia (SEA) Games in Manila. But Stefan Tseng is gunning for more, about four times more in fact Two
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      273 44  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN AN attempt to look after the development of national swimmers better, the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) have hired David Tay as their new high performance manager. Today will be Tay's final day as general manager of the Singapore Sports
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      366 44 -AP LEBANON, Ohio Michelle Wie faded down the stretch again and shot a 6-over-par 76 on the first day of strokeplay at the men's US Amateur Public Links on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Playing in front of a huge gallery, the 15-year-old
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      646 45  -  LAN LYE Mardan leaving no stone unturned in his second outing at hallowed course When I stood on the first tee on Sunday morning for my first practice round, I said to myself, /finally, I'm at the home of golf. It's everyone's dream to
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      389 45 -AFP ST ANDREWS Jack Nicklaus will play his final competitive rounds of golf at the British Open in the company of old rival Tom Watson tomorrow. It was 28 years ago that the two Americans produced the glorious "Duel in
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        452 39 AP German legend comes out of retirement to take on Kournikova's team HOUSTON Steffi Graf is returning to the tennis court for the first time in six years, but she insists it isn't a comeback. The 22-time Grand Slam singles champion is interrupting her retirement to play with
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        113 39 AP GRENOBLE, France The Tour de France suffered a doping casualty yesterday. Russian rider Yevgeni Petrov has been thrown out of the race after failing a blood test. The Lampre rider, 45th overall, failed a random test designed to check abnormal red blood
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        338 40 AFP CYCLING Tour de France COURCHEVEL, France Lance Armstrong regained firm control of the Tour de France and the yellow jersey here yesterday on a gruelling first day in the Alps which left all of his main rivals trailing. Alejandro Valverde, of the Baleares team,
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        470 40 Agencies Ghana international says it's over with Lyon LONDON Having failed to lure the big-name signing he craves so far this summer, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho finally looks poised to end his frustration, with the acquisition of Michael Essien. Lyon midfielder Essien the most sought after
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        290 41  -  CUBBYLEONG Seahorses return to old habits as they chalk up loss No 16 NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2005 Albirex Niigata 2 Paya Lebar Punggol 0 cubby@newstoday.com.sg ONE week after celebrating their first S-League point of the season, when they held the Young Lions 2-2, Paya Lebar Punggol FC
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        654 42 Agencies But Welsh minnows won't be overawed byAnfield heroes CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, IST QUALIFYING ROUND Liverpool v Total Network Solutions LONDON John Lawless bears a Liverpool tattoo on his arm. The left winger also raced back from the Champions League Final in Istanbul in time to take up
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          115 42 LONDON He had wanted to stay at AC Milan, but Hernan Crespo has pledged to score for Chelsea after reporting for training at Stamford Bridge yesterday. "I want to do great things for the fans, I want to score many goals" the Argentina international told
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          74 42 LONDON Tottenham Hotspur are set to make a £5 million ($l5 million) bid to sign Real Madrid star Guti. Spurs want an attacking midfielder to partner Michael Carrick and the Da/7y Mirror said they were closing in on 28-year-old Guti. Spurs boss Martin Jol, who had
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          69 42 LONDON Newcastle United signed Inter Milan's Turkish international Emre Belozoglu yesterday. The 24-year-old former Galatasaray midfielder moved to Inter for the 2001-2002 season and helped Turkey to third place in the 2002 World Cup. He was also a key part of the Galatasaray team that
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          38 42 LONDON Portsmouth have signed French defender Gregory Vignal from Scottish champions Rangers on a twoyear contract. The 23-year-old utility player was on loan at Rangers last season from Liverpool, who released him this summer.
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        456 43 Agencies Club chairman admits Vieira could be allowed to leave LONDON Patrick Vieira's days at Highbury could be numbered, according to media reports yesterday. Arsenal have always considered their central midfielder to be irreplaceable, but chairman Peter HillWood admitted for the first time that Juventus have
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        238 43 Agencies LONDON Chelsea can buy Shaun Wright-Phillips (picture) if they are willing to pay £23 million ($69 million) for the winger. Manchester City announced yesterday that they are not willing to listen to any bid that does not match that figure. If the
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        348 43 Agencies LONDON If a Premiership club fail in their quest to sign former World Player of the Year Luis Figo, then the obvious alternative is gangly striker Peter Crouch. That appeared to be the line of thought at Anfield yesterday. Liverpool
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