Today, 22 March 2001

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  • 9 1 TODAY MITA(P) I3S/II/2000 Thursday •M a rch 2 2,2ooi
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  • 97 1 PETALING JAYA A squatter district which was hit by racial unrest recently was the scene of two criminal attacks yesterday. Two men who were walking in Jalan Klang Lama were slashed by men on a motorcycle, said a police spokesman. In the first attack, an Indian
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  • 90 1 A CONMAN will be sentenced today after he was convicted of duping three people of some $87,000 over four years Lim Cheng Aik 51, met his victims though a friend in 1995. He claimed he was working with the HDB and said he could help them
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  • 102 1 TOKYO A massive rise in Tokyo share prices prompted a dramatic turnaround in Asian markets yesterday, overcoming negative sentiment following the lower than expected US interest rate cut. Share prices in Tokyo rocketed 7.5 per cent in their first reaction to a dramatic policy reversal by the
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  • 507 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Negligence suit against Dr Susan Lim dropped by d m newstoday. com. sg CLEARED at last. It's no wonder that Dr Susan Lim Mey Lee was beaming with radiance when Today visited her at her clinic in Glen eagles Medical Centre yesterday. Last August,
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  • 300 1  -  Chelsea Chua by repQrter@newstoday.com.s3 MORE flexibility in choosing the location of one's flat. A chance to think twice before deciding to queue up for aflat. These are among the benefits that home buyers can enjoy under the HDB's new flat allocation system, the Built-to-Order
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  • HOT NEWS
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      338 2  -  Leong Phei Phei Swee Chiow aborts North Pole expedition by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg FOR the first time in all his adventures, Mr Khoo Swee Chiow has failed. The national hero, who has conquered Everest, the Seven Summits, and Antarctica, has called it quits. At a press conference held yesterday,
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    • 226 2 IN his first ever reference to the possible timing of Singapore's next General Elections, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has indicated that he will hold it in either the second half of this year or the first half of next year, reported Channel
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      98 3 Today photo by WOULD you eat an abalone live as part of a Singapore Food Festival "Survivor" challenge? Two brave young man did, and enjoyed every bite. Mr Fu Siang Jeen (right) said it was "like eating a very large cockle, chewy and sweet, with a bit of
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    • 255 3  -  Shazalina Salim MRT stations to be upgraded in phases by sh azalma@n ewsto d ay.com ,sg ELEVATORS, ramps and toilets for the handicapped will be features of the new train stations in Singapore. And existing stations will also be fitted with these amenities to make trains accessible to
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    • 127 3 THE business community hopes the Government will make the tax system even more friendly to business. This was the crux of the dialogue session between MP (Bukit Timah GRC) Dr Wang Kai Yuen and more than 20 business professionals and tax experts. One
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    • 375 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Cost of desalination may drop, but not price of water by z a ckari a @ne wstoday. com. sg WHILE the water desalination process may get cheaper with better innovations, that doesn't necessarily cut the size of households' water bills. At the opening of
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    • 135 4 A TECHNICIAN carrying out maintenance work at Tiong Bahru Plaza had to be cut free yesterday morning when his leg was trapped in the escalator he was working on. Mr Chong Keng Lim (above), 30, had his right leg trapped between the base plate and steps of
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    • 86 4 AN eagle-eyed customs officer at Woodlands Inward Motorcycle Bay spotted a man who had slipped past immigration officials using his brother's passport. Last Christmas Eve, Muhamad Azhari bin Rais, 30, used his brother's passport to cross the Causeway into Johor Baru on the pretext of buying
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    • 110 4 SINGAPORE General Hospital will celebrate its 180th anniversary later this month with a showcase exhibition entitled "SGH through the Ages". Eminent doctors such as Dr Robert Loh, Dr Gwee Ah Leng, and Dr J J Murugasu will share their reminiscences of SGH in a special
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    • 113 4 TO help parents cope with the new secondary syllabus that involves project work, self-help group Mendaki is organising a seminar for parents. Said Mendaki's Manager (Education), Madam Sharif ah Sakinah Ali Alkaff: "The seminar is to help parents understand what this project work is about and how
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    • 163 4 A CORRUPT safety supervisor was convicted yesterday of taking money from foreign construction workers at the company where he worked, in return for cushy job placements. Izal bin Isa's duties at Tiong Seng Contractors included nominating workers for tests by the Construction Industry Training Institute
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    • 104 4 READ 0N... Opportunity for oil Education Ministry responds to the three anornalies/6 It's training says captain Tragic sub surfacing accident was in preparing crew/12 No takers for Sonia? She is clueless about complexities of Indian political and social reality/ 14 Soul unconvincing Too much emphasis on the look of film,
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  • LETTERS
    • 1089 6 Education Ministry responds to the three anomalies I REFER to Mr Anil Bhatia's commentary "Let's cut our young some slack" (Today, Mar 5), which outlined three "anomalies" in our system. I would like to clarify the issues and inform your readers about some of the policies and
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 412 7  -  Mainly because of stable inter-bank rate in Singapore Ivay Tan by i vay@ n e ws to d ay. c n m .sg LOCAL banks are unlikely to cut their prime lending rates despite the 150-basis point cut by the US Federal Reserve since
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    • 132 7 SPH AsiaOne's net loss has ballooned to almost $9 million at half-time up some 284 per cent from a year ago. That's despite turnover soaring 148 per cent to over $4 million, due to higher revenue from Internet advertising and web publishing. The Internet arm
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    • 205 7  -  Chin Wei Lin by weilin@n e wsto d ay. c o m .sg ONLINE stockbroking made easier that's what a new palm-sized gadget (picture) called TradeNOW hopes to do. With his personal identification number (PIN), an investor can complete a transaction in
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    • 81 7 LISTED stockbroker UOB-Kay Hian has turned in 45 per cent lower full year net profit of some $51 million. This, on the back of a 40 per cent fall in turnover to around $180 million. It's yet another tale of a broking house bearing
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    • 379 8  -  Bloomberg Falling forecasts likely to hasten mergers by KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian banks, forced to merge into 10 groups by a central bank that plans to let in more foreign competition, may find falling profits hasten the tie-ups, analysts and bankers said. Banks here, reeling from the
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    • 83 8 SANTAK Holdings, a Singapore-based maker and distributor of electronic components, is raising $4.7 million in an IPO launched here yesterday. It will sell about 20.6 million shares at 23 cents each. A total of 18.5 million shares will be sold to large and institutional investors. The public
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    • 74 8 PARKWAY Holdings, Asia's largest hospital operator by market value, said 2000 profit fell 40 percent to $23.5 million, hurt by losses at its Heart Hospital in London. Sales rose one per cent to $377.8 million. "The company believes its core health-care operations will show improvement over 2000,"
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    • 214 8 CONSUMERS in Asia are increasingly moving their money out of deposits into mutual funds, according to the Citibank Consumer Wealth Review, released yesterday. The finding mirrors the US trend, where current growth rates of retail deposits is four per cent compared to more
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    • 74 8 NATSTEEL said profit in 2000 rose to $949.7 million from $83.2 million a year ago, because of the sale of its stake in NatSteel Electronics. Sales climbed 2.8 per cent to 551.44 billion from 551.41 billion. The company said it earned $1.13 billion from the sale, announced
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    • 324 8 Bloomberg ASIA Pulp Paper's creditors, lining up at Singapore courts to recoup some of the US$l2 billion (5521.2 billion) owed by Asia's biggest seller of corporate junk bonds, are already wondering what they can retrieve here. The company's headquarters appears barren.
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Nikkei spurs rise
      • 428 9 THE market opened lower yesterday following the 50-basis point cut by the US Federal Reserve Board. The ST Index momentarily fell below the psychological 1,700 level but ended higher, powered by the Nikkei 225's stunning 7.42 per cent or 912 points jump. Growing expectations
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      • 410 9 KUALA LUMPUR Once again, the Malaysian stock market confounded market watchers with a spectacular rebound in afternoon trading. It turned around from being 17.3 points in the red at 12.30 pm to gain 6.7 points at the end of the day! The benchmark Kuala
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    • 92 9 Markets Movers Top Gainers Close Top Losere Close +1Top Volume Volume TENAGA 12.700 0.80 CSA 6.900 -1.05 MAYBANK 22,158,000 TELEKOM 12.000 0.70 MPS 13.900 -0.90 AMMB 7,941,000 NESTLE 20.500 0.50 BAT 36.250 -0.75 TIME 5,147,000 POWERTK 4.780 0.4B AMOLEK 21.500 •050 TIME-WC 5,100,000 TANJONG 6600 0.40 1.430 -0.42 TIME-WA 4,657,000
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 451 10 What kind of legacy will the Nobel Peace Prize winner leave? SEOUL South Korean President Kim Dae-jung didn't say a word in the Cabinet meeting he presided over at Chong Wa Dae on Tuesday. It was quite unusual for Mr Kim, who is often said to
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    • 182 10 -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers sank a Dvora-class gunboat, killing at least seven sailors in the bloodiest sea battle during a three-month unilateral truce, defence sources said. Three navy gunboats were involved in the pre-dawn exchange of fire off the coast of
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    • 234 10 -AFP BOMBAY Indian screen legend Amitabh Bachchan has been listed as the country's most powerful film star by the Internet website Forbes.com. Mr Bachchan, 58, led in almost every category, ahead of current movie heartthrob Hrithik Roshan as well as top actors Aamir
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    • 82 10 BANDA ACEH Indonesia is preparing to launch a fresh attempt to quash separatists in Aceh, Defense Minister Mohammad Mahfud said yesterday, a day after two helicopters carrying a minister and aides were shot at in the province. Mr Mahfud said the shooting showed that the separatist Free
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    • 106 10 AFP photo -AFP WASHINGTON US President George W. Bush has declared war on ringing cellular phones. Wrapping up a brief Oval Office appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Mr Bush snapped "Who's in charge of the cell phones?" to a hapless press aide after the
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    • 414 11 Agencies Ten dead after explosions rock Brazil's 40-storey platform MACAE, Brazil The sight of the world's biggest oil platform sinking off Brazil's coast on Tuesday brought tears and anger from those who had held on to a slim hope that they would be able to
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    • 223 11 Agencies THE HAGUE The dreadful foot-and-mouth disease has found its way to Holland. Dutch Agriculture Minister Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst told parliament yesterday that the first case was detected in four cows on an eastern farm in Olst. The animals had been slaughtered and all livestock within
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    • 140 11 HONG KONG A plan to kidnap James Bond star Pierce Brosnan was foiled by Israeli secret agents, reported the South China Morning Post. South American drug barons schemed to seize the Irish-bom actor while he was filming his latest thriller, The Tailor of
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    • 129 11 Reuters BEIJING To fight rampant corruption, China yesterday banned the spouses and children of government officials from starting a range of businesses from property development and consultancy to saunas and karaoke bars. "Those who are already involved in those businesses should quit or their parents
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    • 143 11 Reuters BEIJING China carried out 1,200 executions in 1999 but this figure and the over 2,000 death sentences for the year represented only those acknowledged by China, said human rights group Amnesty International. "These minimum figures for 1999 reveal a state which sentences to
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    • 289 12 Reuters Tragic sub surfacing accident was in preparing crew HONOLULU The "emergency blow" that caused the Feb 9 collision between USS Greeneville and a Japanese trawler was not done solely to entertain civilian visitors. Submarine captain Commander Scott Waddle (right), who unexpectedly took the witness stand
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    • 125 12 Reuters VATICAN CITY A damning report that some priests and missionaries were forcing nuns to have sex with them has hit the Vatican. Acknowledging the report that also revealed other cases of rape and forced abortions, the Vatican said the issue was restricted to
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    • 70 12 -AFP BLOOMINGTON A manhunt closed down the largest shopping mall in the US as police tracked down a missing fugitive. More than 200 police combed the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, in pursuit of Anthony Zappa, who escaped them twice. A security camera showed the
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    • 146 12 SHANGHAI English road signs that don't give directions are a common sight in Shanghai, China's economically bustling city. "In an investigation by the Shanghai Language Commission last year, we found over 800 non-standard road names in Pudong New Area," said Mr Zhang Jian, deputy
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    • 107 12 AFP JAKARTA Police in Jakarta have declared a third person suspect in the fatal stampede by teenage fans during an appearance here of the British pop group Al. "We have declared the owner and manager of the Disctarra Megastore in Taman Anggrek Shopping Mall
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    • 206 12 Reuters WASHINGTON Transcripts of an emergency US Cabinet meeting after President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 were released recently. The transcripts, released 20 years after the attempted assassination, revealed testy exchanges among Cabinet members, debunking the legendary claim of
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    • 308 13 Reuters NEW YORK A restaurant busboy allegedly masterminded the largest identity theft in Internet history. His alleged victims included director Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. Police said high-school dropout Abraham Abdallah (right), 32, skillfully used library computers in Brooklyn, New York,
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    • 202 13 ATLANTA A recent study found that women with breasts much smaller or larger than a C-cup are viewed by the men as less professional. The New York Times reported that the men in the study conducted by the University of Central Florida (UCF)
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    • 183 13 Reuters HONG KONG Police have arrested a gangster for allegedly demanding protection money from a film company shooting a sequel to Jackie Chan's action movie Rush Hour on location here. Police said that the 30-year-old man, allegedly a secret society member, was arrested in a Tuesday police ambush
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    • 181 13 Date: 24 25 Mar 2001 (Sat Sun) V ,^Bj Time: 5:30 7:oopm V ■ft Venue: Field in front of Singapore History Museum Whafs Bush Music? Ji Jijflti i Have you experienced music produced using home-made instruments I^St^L such as iagerphone, Sea-chest bass, concertina and bushbourine? •^^^gHW^W^P^^^^B^fc^mM Wonder no more! Come
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 513 14  -  Zafar Agha She is clueless about complexities of Indian political and social reality by in New Delhi INDIA'S Congress is in for bad times, and its fortunes continue to slide more as can be seen by the recent snub it was given by power-brokers in Tamil
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    • 551 14 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia cannot afford to antagonise anyof the three multilateral agencies which are providing it with much-needed loans, said The Jakarta Post. In an editorial, the Post explains why: After the rebuke from the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) last week,
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  • Relax
    • 597 15  -  Koh Shu Ching Three nights of musical artistry, as some of the world's best jazz musicians and Singapore's players keep you grooving by Rep ortej^newstci d ay. c o m.sg Tazz lovers can look forward to I jazz giants Eldee Young, Ernie Watts, James Moody, Tuck
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    • 673 21  -  David Ngiau Too much emphasis on the look of film, too little on story and plausibility by da vid@n e wsto day, co m. sg Making a good film that features Satan humanity's all-time biggest, baddest bogeyman is never going to be easy. Devil flicks have to work
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    • 242 21 Hmm... Eager-to-please Vianne Miramax? Parodying antagonistic, meddlesome producers and studio bosses is nothing new in films as a way embattled directors hit back. I know that this is a long shot here, but consider this: that the character of Vianne Quliette Binoche) in Chocolat is really a thinly-veiled lampoon of
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    • 260 22  -  Rachel Lo Catch gravity-defying feats in the dancers' debut performance here by ra cliel ne wstoday. com. sg Don't try this at home. Leave it up to the Lindy Hop Ensemble to do highflying acrobatic feats while swing dancing to jazz, pop and bebop music.
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    • 39 22 by the Lindy Hop Ensemble Where: Victoria Theatre When: March 27, Bpm Tickets: $30, $40, $50 available from YMCA Singapore (Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station) Students and NS personnel will get 20% concession off the normal price
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    • 238 22 How can Maths, History and Science be taught using drama? Associate Professor John O'Toole from Brisbane's Griffin University showed a group of artists and educators how to do just that at the National Arts Council's Art Education Programme 2001, at Orchard Hotel on
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    • 900 23  -  Carolyn Wong ADVERTORIAL by axn_mklg@s pe.sony.com To all those who have pooh-poohed the level of reality on Survivor and the integrity of the show, here's reality coming right back at ya! Playing to win. Jealousy. Backstabbing. Getting a reward for being tough and ruthless. If this isn't
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    • 597 24 Snip, colour blow WHAT do fashion guru Donna Karan and supermodel Christie Brinkley have in common? At some point in their lives, they both had celebrity hair stylist Shunji Matsuo taking care of their crowning glories. In his 22 years of hairstyling experience in New York from the 70s to
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    • 685 25  -  Serena Sim Me, I have to master Japanese right now, and fast by sere na@ne wsto day. c om.sg Next week, I'm off to Japan on an editorial assignment. I think my editor picked me to go because she knew I had started taking basic Japanese lessons two
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    • 678 25 ON THE LILY PAD with Jeremiah Bullfrog I am told that my son weeps quietly when he thinks no one is looking, because he misses me and the things we used to do together. And my daughter has declared, at a very tender age, that she
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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    • 1301 18 US 5 CineitiaX TCM VmF MUSkBeOt present you with his latest (Ch 59) (Ch "171 r~T* 1 Laura Fygi songs and dance. The Sounds of the Experience an elegant evening Date; March 2-4,8 pm Yesterday's Children 31 Days of Oscar; Supremes with the Dutch crooner. She Venue: Singapore Indoor 9
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  • SPORTS
    • 626 26 New York condemns Cleveland to worst home defeat in team history NBA Cleveland 75 New York 110 CLEVELAND Ah, Houston, we no longer have a problem. Allan Houston broke out of a scoring and shooting slump with a career-high 39 points Tuesday night, leading the New York Knicks
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    • 472 26 AFP DALLAS Chinese centre Wang Zhi Zhi could become the first Asian player in the NBA's Dallas Mavericks next week, possibly in time for a showdown against ShaquiUe O'Neal in Los Angeles. Chinese officials have told the Mavericks that seven-foot-one Wang
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    • 639 27 Reuters If you think Eminem is filthy-mouthed, you haven't met John Rocker Baseball ORLANDO Mickey Mouse would not have been amused. Disney World, billed as the friendliest place on earth, turned uncharacteristically ugly last week thanks to an appearance by the most reviled man in North
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    • 519 27 The Players Championship ST AUGUSTINE Every time Robert Gamez steps up to the tee at the diabolical 17th island- green hole at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass, gallery veterans poke their pals and regale them with the tale of Gamez's
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    • 225 28 Reuters Cricket MADRAS Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh completed his second consecutive 10-wicket match haul to leave Australia battling to save the deciding third test against India yesterday. The young bowler took five for 82 as Australia closed the fourth day on
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    • 436 28  -  Stanley Ho Adilson aiming to stop Sembawang from recording another upset Sembawang v Tampines (Yishun Stadium, 7.30pm) SHOOT on sight. That is the instruction new Tampines Rovers' striker Adilson Jose De Paula (right) received from his coach A. Sivalingham. The US$B,OOO-a-month ($14,000) replacement killer of the Stags will
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    • 324 28  -  Scott O'Donell Clementi v Marine Castle (Clementi Stadium, 7.30pm) CLEMENTI will be hoping its first home match of the season will draw a big crowd to see its new Japanese signing Michiaki KaJrimoto weave some magic against the Dolphins of Marine Castle. Kakimoto, who had
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    • 425 29 Swede dismisses the idea of a split in the England camp LONDON Sven Goran Eriksson (right) will challenge his Manchester United contingent to remould the national side in the image of the English champion. The coach believes grafting the footballing DNA from Old Trafford on
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    • 290 29 LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson will decide today whether he needs a replacement for injured goalkeeper Fabien Barthez. The France No.l underwent a second scan in two days yesterday on his troublesome thigh, reported Soccernet. The Manchester United manager will await the results before deciding whether
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    • 135 29 PARIS Eric Cantona swore and threatened fellow guests on a French television programme after being invited to discuss and promote beach football. The Manchester United legend was appearing on the soccer chat show Cote Tribune, along with radio commentator Christian Ollivier and journalist
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    • 136 29 LONDON Gheorghe Hagi will retire from playing professional football at the end of the season. The Romanian currently plays for Galatasaray. "I need some rest after all these years. And then I want to become a coach," said Hagi. Hagi's retirement
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    • 161 29 AFP ZURICH Football's world governing body Fifa threatened to suspend Greece from all football on Tuesday unless the Greek government acceded to its ultimatum to change its sports law and stop meddling in Greek Football Federation (HFF) affairs. The Greek Government was given a deadline
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    • 1026 30 How to draw English Premier League fans to support the S-League? S Gulam asks National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan what his plan is Question: Minister, there is so much interest in the English Premier League. How can the S-League win these fans over? Minister Mah: In
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