Streats, 3 October 2000

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 3 October 2000 Mother quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • Article
      Lock icon Currency rules
      52 1 no longer need permission to images of the latest series of currency. But the Board of commissioners of Currency (BCCS) says e images should not be reproduced ln undignified ways. If you do not comply the board’s conditions, you face a ln e of $2,000 or three months
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      Lock icon Help needy kids
      53 1 THE Straits Times has launched The School Pocket Money Fund for children whose families seek help at 25 Family Service Centres (FSC) islandwide. About 60 children benefit financially from each FSC. Nine organisations have already pledged $105,000. Call 1900 914 0010 to donate at $5 a call,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Check, check, check
      47 1 REMINDER to landlords: Check your tenants’ original immigration and work passes and cross-check their particulars in the passes against that on their passports. Check with their employer, if he’s named. If in doubt, call *****00 (Singapore Immigration and Registration) or 1800-*****22 (Ministry of Manpower).
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  • Article
    Lock icon First, killer-litter. Now... Thriller litter?
    365 1 Teen show-offs see CWO as the 'in' thing Want to be a terror in a neighbourhood 9ang? Go ahead, show-off by getting a Corrective Work Order (CWO). Then you Caa get on TV with the infamous yellow Ve st of an offender and show your
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      94 1 eck, check, check BINDER to landlords: Check your mts’ original immigration and work ses and cross-check their particuin the passes against that on their sports. Check with their employer, if named. If in doubt, call *****00 lmmigration and Registration) 300-*****22 (Ministry of Manpower). New still ale? /X» inent) stion WE
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon WAR ON DREADED HFM DISEASE SOS Save Our pre-Schoolers
      628 2  -  by 'Sarah Ng You, the parents, have the power to win the war against the dreaded hand, foot and mouth disease. It has already killed four pre-schoolers. And 19 children have been diagnosed with the disease and are being treated at
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      Lock icon These are very serious charges; judge tells boy and his mother Boy, 14, bit and hit maid
      346 3 A SCHOOLBOY admitted in the Juvenile Court yesterday to h'ting the breast of his family [paid at midnight and punching hsr on the mouth. The 14-year-old also admitted that he had used a
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      Lock icon Walking high on yaba
      137 3 PLATFORM shoes have more than one use these days. On Sunday afternoon, two Thai nationals were arrested for carrying 4,948 yaba tablets hidden inside a pair of three-and-a-half-inch platform shoes. At about 3.05 pm on Sunday, the two suspects, a 44-year-old Thai man and a 27-year-old
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      Lock icon Singapore venue for Barings law suit hearings
      93 3 FORMER top banking regulator Koh Beng Seng will give evidence in the High Court for use in a pending billion-dollar British law suit involving collapsed British merchant bank, Barings, and two accounting firms. Four other men who were with either the Monetary Authority
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      Lock icon Sweating the small stuff
      400 4 NOISY neighbours. Flower pots and scattered shoes that block your way as you walk down the common corridor. Can’t stand them? It appears so. In fact, Singaporeans are less tolerant nowadays as living space gets smaller. So say mediators with the Community Mediation Centres (CMCs). They
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    • Article
      Lock icon Never too late to be kind
      145 4 onekindact. Kenny Er, 20, shipping clerk: I wish to thank a guy who works in the same company as me but in a different department We are not close but we've talked a little before. Today I was late for work and missed the
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      Lock icon Woman's boyfriend locked up her daughter and sister
      297 4 Verdict YusoffMuhammed, 47, was sentenced to seven years in preventive detention for criminal intimidation, and for confining the two women in his flat, against their wishes. HER husband and relatives came to take her home, but her boyfriend refused to let her
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        Lock icon Rider dies in collision
        117 4 A 33-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist died after he collided with a car on Loyang Avenue on Sunday. Mr Sinivas Naicker, s/o Diraviam, is believed to have been travelling behind the car in another lane, just before the accident happened at about 5.57 pm. The driver of the car,
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        Lock icon Gunshot kills cop
        116 4 A POLICEMAN died from a gunshot wound to his head on Sunday, minutes after he was found lying on the ground at the entrance to an armoury. Corporal Lee Yeow Piang, 28, was found by a colleague at the Special Operations Command armoury at Queensway Base at
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        Lock icon Man parades in briefs
        123 4 A MAN was arrested on Saturday morning for running around in his briefs in Fook Hai Building at South Bridge Road. At around 9am, the 30-year-old man suddenly stripped to his briefs in the lobby and started walking around shouting, reported Shin Min Daily News yesterday.
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        Lock icon Aunt faces murder charge
        127 4 A TODDLER died while in the care of his aunt on Thursday, apparently of a ruptured lung and other internal injuries. His aunt and legal guardian, Sumarni Pono, 33, was charged yesterday with the murder of two-year-old Juhainy Jailani. The boy, an only child, was found
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      Lock icon Runaway crane came crashing into porch
      128 5 A FAMILY of six had the shock of their lives when a crane crashed through their garden wall into their porch on Saturday. At around 6pm, the family were in the living room of their terrace house at 116 Eng Kong Road, near Bukit
      Pic: Shin Min Daily News  -  128 words
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      Lock icon Long walk to school
      252 5 SBS Outsiders Making U-turn STUDENTS of Serangoon Secondary School face a long walk to school every morning because there is no public bus that stops nearby Since the school moved to its new premises at Upper Serangoon View in late June, students have had to walk
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      Lock icon More help for busy parents
      119 5 NTUC to set up 25 childcare centres WORKING parents with preschool kids and couples thinking of starting a family are to have more childcare help. One of Singapore’s largest childcare providers, NTUC Childcare Cooperative, plans to open 25 centres over the next five years in
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this week...
        48 5 This month is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In Singapore, one in 16 women is likely to have breast cancer in her lifetime. You can reduce the risk by not smoking, eating prudently and exercising. Also, conduct self checks and go for your regular screenings.
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        Lock icon Remember...
        40 5 If you're thinking of taking a holiday this year end, then don't forget to log onto the online travel fair website at http://www. ecelebrationsingapore.com /etravelfetravel.html, where you can check out the goodies offered by 15 companies. Until Oct 7.
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        49 5 If you're into ceramics, then don't miss Claytivity 2000 A Ceramic Exhibition by Potters. Today's the last day for you to be wowed by the diverse ceramic designs by Studio 106 members. From it 11am to 8.30 pm at The Gallery@Paragon. It's free. Pic: Charles Ng
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      125 5 Our weather girl says Today's another wet day. There will be showers with thunder in the afternoon affecting most areas. And you better start making a habit of taking your umbrella wherever you go. Short showers with thunder are expected on five to six days, and the Sumatra squalls are
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  • Streatsmart column
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      Lock icon Matter of space
      218 6 betweenthelines umber crunching is what planners are trained to do. But politicians need to feed into computer models the emotional data, as it were. Hard as these are to quantify, quality-of-life factors are not unimportant. As an example, even as family size becomes smaller, everyone's notion of
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      Lock icon Baby bonus? Tell me how to be a good parent first
      620 6 I HAD planned to get married at 30. But Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong convinced me otherwise. I toyed with the idea of tying the knot earlier at 26 instead. He nearly held sway too. When PM Goh announced
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Sect protests bring heavy security to Beijing
      269 8 -AFP Truckloads of policemen throng Tiananmen Square BEIJING Beijing’s Tiananmen Square was under tight surveillance yesterday after a spectacular protest by the Falungong group marred communist celebrations. Hundreds of police and agents patrolled the vast square after Falungong said it would keep protesting.
      -AFP  -  269 words
    • know or not
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        Lock icon Blinking signals
        40 8 Research has shown that the harder you are concentrating, the less you blink. For example, drivers blink less in city traffic than on highways, and do not blink at all as they are passing trucks at high speed.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Seeing stars explained
        53 8 You "see stars" when you receive a blow to your head or after doing a somersault What's happening is that the sudden movement increases the pressure in your eyes' blood vessels. That triggers the nerves in your eyes, fooling your brain into thinking that you are seeing
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      Lock icon Protesters outside parliament in Jakarta demand the cancellation of the fuel price hike
      15 8 Pic: AFP
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    • Article
      Lock icon Wealthy businessman shot dead
      124 8 KUALA LUMPUR A 37-year-old man was shot to death by two gunmen in Malaysia on Sunday afternoon. Mr Yap Chin Fock, an owner of several pubs and restaurants, was driving back to his restaurant near Cheras with his wife at around 4pm. At Jalan Mas 3,
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      Lock icon Thais face fatal rat disease
      134 8 -afp BANGKOK A deadly disease spread by rat urine is rapidly infecting an increasing number of Thais, health officials said in a report yesterday. The disease, leptospirosis, has reportedly affected 4,889 people and led to 165 deaths over the past month. Charan Trinvuthipong of the
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        Lock icon Family killed in crash
        107 8 TANAH MERAH, Kelantan A Malaysian three-tier family of five died in an accident on Sunday morning when their vehicle crashed headlong into an oncoming lorry. The accident happened at around 10.45 am at the 48.5 km point on the stretch of road from Machang to Jeli,
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        Lock icon 59 miners await rescue
        112 8 Reuters BEIJING Kept alive on rice porridge and milk poured down a long iron pipe, some of the 59 Chinese coal miners still trapped underground after a deadly explosion wait to be rescued. “Most of them are still alive,” said a mine official. “We hope they
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        Lock icon Dalai Lama no to break
        114 8 -AFP TAIPEI The Dalai Lama is against Taiwan declaring independence, saying the move would further isolate Taipei. He said he would advise President Chen Shui-bian rtot to seek independence for Taiwan when he visits the island again later this year. “So-called “Independence” does not have
        -AFP  -  114 words
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        Lock icon Filipino hostages freed
        143 8 Reuters MANILA Government forces have freed all 12 Filipino evangelists held for more than three months by rebels on Jolo island, Philippine defence secretary Orlando Mercado said yesterday. But the rebels still hold American Jeffrey Schilling, three Malaysians and another Filipino. Mr Mercado said he had no
        – Reuters  -  143 words
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Fighting continues despite ceasefire calls
      223 10 -AP Four days of street battles leaves 31 dead, over a 1,000 injured JERUSALEM Palestinian and Israeli leaders called on each other to cease fire after four days of clashes while their armed forces seemed to be preparing for even greater hostilities. The street battles
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        Lock icon 7 die in church explosion
        75 10 -afp DUSHANBE, Tajikistan Seven people were killed and 50 were injured when an explosion ripped through a church in the capital of Tajikistan. The blast hit the church, run by a Korean Christian mission, as worshippers attended a weekly service on Sunday. The church had
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        Lock icon Mad cow report ready
        146 10 -AFP LONDON The report on Britain’s mad cow crisis was handed in to the British government yesterday. It will single out those who failed to react properly to BSE and its fatal human equivalent, variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD). The BBC reported on Sunday the report
        -AFP  -  146 words
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        Lock icon Bush angers religious right
        105 10 -AFP WASHINGTON Two leading US rightwingers have expressed doubts George W. Bush could become president this year. Pessimistic remarks by influential TV preacher Pat Robertson and right-wing radio commentator Alan Keyes mean Mr Bush may not have a lock on his core constituency. Mr Robertson and
        -AFP  -  105 words
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        Lock icon Yugo protest blitz takes off
        125 10 -AP BELGRADE -The start of a protest blitz by the opposition yesterday could test its resolve to drive Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic from office. Road blockades snarled traffic outside the capital, Belgrade, just after dawn. The protests clogged roads near the suburbs of Zemun and
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Money grows on Faye's head
      212 11 HONGKONG pop diva Faye Wong has always given people the impression that nobody can tell her what to do. But now, she is actually meekly following instructions not to cut her hair short. It was reported that her 19-year-old beau, heart-throb Nicholas Tse, loves girls
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      Lock icon Home may-not-be-so-sweet home
      197 11 Ho me may-not-be-so-sweet home MEDIACORP'S Big Brother Li Nanxing did well in Sunday’s charity event-Affairs of the Heart. His daring stunt of letting five sharp and pointy spears carry his body weight, risking the possibility that the spears could Pierce his body, brought in donations of $130,725. Before his performance,
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      Lock icon Cheers for Michael J. Fox
      162 11 -AP WORCESTER, Massachusetts Michael J. Fox and Elizabeth Hurley were among the celebrities who played a benefit ice hockey game in honour of six firefighters killed last year in a warehouse fire. The game on Sunday raised US$2OO,OOO (*****,000), which will be split between the
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      Lock icon Snoopy statue auction raises $1.4m
      210 11 -AP BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota An auction of Snoopy statues has fetched U *****,000 (Ssl.4 million) to help fund memorials to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. Peanuts fans from across the country paid US$2OO each just for the right to bid on the 40 statues sold by Sotheby’s
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Stars WANTED and unwanted
      44 13  -  persolmfty speaking by Lawrence Chau Last week I whipped out the Top Five list of my most favourite and horrid interviewees of all time. This week I continue the list Flip the page to find out who else i hate.
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      Lock icon Stars... Come my way Stay away!
      526 14  -  jCrl r|ill I speaking by Lawrence Chau MARIAH CAREY Yeah, yeah, so Carey’s gotten carried away with the chords and cleavage. The girl still hits the high notes in my books. I only got to chat with the former hat check girl from afar
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      Lock icon Making Nonsense
      506 16  -  f< fcy A/on no k’vA/oL' by Yvonne Kwok }l DON'T know about you, but every time I tune into a new TCS 5 production, I approach it the same way you would approach a rectal examination with great and about as much enthusiasm. P With Making Love, the
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
          57 16 10pm,Tcs 5 Buffy is plagued by her room- a mate, Kathy, who listens to > incessantly A to Celine Dion and Cher I After a terri- I tying night- 1 mare, when Buffy dreams that her soul is 1 being sucked out, our Slayer begins to
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          Lock icon JUARA 2000
          61 16 9.30 pm, Suria From the more than 100 hopefuls who attended the auditions, 25 bands andls songs were selected to compete in this talent show featuring the best of local Malay music. Established local musicians, Zubir Abdullah Nuradee will also compete with each other for the Original Song
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          Lock icon ALTERASIANS
          63 16 11 pm, Central Featuring a medley of three stories by local short story writers Catherine Urn’s Or Else, The Lightning God, Simon Tay’s Iris’ Rice Bowl/Drive, and Claire Tham’s Lee, each story traces the journey of its main character on their differ- A ent paths to enlightenment Stars include
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          Lock icon TILL DEATH DO US SCARE
          72 16 10 pm, VV Entertainment SCVS6 Alan Tam stars as a down-and-out deejay who is match-made with a widow by the woman’s dead (L husbands, no less. Drama ensues when the couple E fall deeply in love IE and the spirits find out that the W
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          Lock icon CURIOUS PLAY
          67 16 6pm, Axn Action SCVI9 One of the more interesting anime offerings on TV at the moment, the story follows the adventures of a Japanese schoolgirl (what else) who is sucked into a magical book where she is transformed into the Maiden of Suzuku, the saviour of the land.
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      Lock icon Excuse me, why are you still single?
      301 18  -  If everything had gone according to plan, Steven Lim would be married by now. So what happened? by 'Deepa Vijiyasingam rrhis is W the start of a daily feature in which we ask the most pertinent (or impertinent) k question of a isjthe
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    • easyStreats sports
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          Lock icon Man U profits fall
          110 22 Reuters LONDON Manchester United Pic, the world’s richest soccer club, yesterday reported a slide in full year profits to just over £l6 million (Ss4omillion) as player costs rose. However the club made no mention of a widely expected £3OO million deal with US sportswear giant Nike.
          – Reuters  -  110 words
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          Lock icon Inter Milan shocked
          92 22 Reuters MILAN Inter Milan suffered a shock 1-2 defeat to Reggina and champion Lazio were held to a 2-2 draw by newly-promoted Atalanta on the first Sunday of the Serie A season. But rivals AC Milan and AS Roma both began with comfortable wins, while Fiorentina and
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          Lock icon Barcelona loses again
          78 22 -AP MADRID Spanish powerhouse FC Barcelona lost again, in a rainy 2-0 match against reigning first division champion Deportivo La Coruna, which gained the season lead. After a soggy first half without advances by either team, Brazilian defender Donato scored in the 64th minute to give Deportivo
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          Lock icon Police arrest four
          76 22 -AP SYDNEY Police arrested four people during celebrations following the Olympic Games closing ceremony, but said that overall the hundreds of thousands of people crowding the Sydney streets had behaved well. Four people were arrested after assaulting police and throwing “missiles,” a police statement said. Separately, three
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          Lock icon Rivaldo injured
          61 22 AP RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil) An ankle injury will sideline Brazilian star Rivaldo (left) for next week’s World Cup qualifying game with Venezuela, the Brazilian Soccer Confederation said. The Barcelona striker was hurt last Tuesday in a 0-2 loss to AC Milan in the European Champions League. Team
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          Lock icon Heike's 'Marion' bonus
          128 23 AP BERLIN Germany’s Heike Drechsler (right), now basking in the praise of being one of the best long jumpers ever; figures the ‘Marion’ bonus is going to sweeten her retirement in two years. That’s because Drechsler is receiving more attention from the world for outleaping Marion Jones
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          Lock icon Media slams Susanthika
          143 23 .-AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s state-run media yesterday slammed the island’s controversial Olympic medal-winning sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe, accusing her of trying to disown her motherland. The Daily News said Jayasinghe had been talking out of turn when she complained a Sydney press conference was called “to fete the
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          Lock icon Capriati ends title drought
          80 23 -AFP i LUXEMBOURG Jennifer Capriati (left) beat Bulgaria’s j Magdalena Maleeva 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 jto win the US$l7O,OOO (*****,000) WTA event here on Sunday. Third seed Capriati started nervously and although she had cramps towards the end of the match managed to beat the seventh seed
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          Lock icon Vietnam plans celebration
          106 23 AP HANOI (Vietnam) Vietnam will hold a massive celebration, including a parade through downtown Ho Chi Minh City, to honour its firstever Olympic medallist Tran Hieu Ngan who returns home tomorrow, an official said. An official delegation of 600 people plus thousands of fans will greet Ngan
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        Lock icon $1.25m for a gold medal
        342 22 Wijan Ponlid, Thailand's hero, is in for a windfallafter winning the boxing gold at Sydney Reuters BANGKOK Thailand is planning'a massive welcome, complete with an elephants procession and a 200-table banquet, for Wijan Ponlid who won a boxing gold at the Olympics, news reports said
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        Lock icon Why Ethiopians were on a high
        324 22 Ethiopia's gold medal tally was only bettered by the US. The secret: highaltitude training Reuters SYDNEY Intensive high-alti-tude training in the month before the Olympics is the key to Ethiopia’s record haul of four gold medals at the Sydney Games, according to team officials.
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        Lock icon Is the heat really on?
        208 23 Reuters ManU supremo Alex Ferguson admits that Arsenal is the team to worry about LONDON Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson tipped Arsenal to be his side’s main title rival this season after watching the Londoners beat his champion side by a goal. A stunning 29th-minute
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        Lock icon No future shock
        242 23 The Olympic soccer tournament fits perfectly into the pyramid that reaches all the way up from the Under-17 World Cup SYDNEY Fifa and the lOC may discuss the finer points of Olympic soccer but there is no debate about its future in the Games after a superb
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        Lock icon Scolari turns down offer to coach Brazil
        181 23 AP RIO DE JANEIRO, (Brazil) Brazil may name the successor to sacked coach Wanderley Luxemburgo but fans’ favourite Luiz Felipe Scolari is out of the running. The CBF chief Ricardo Teixeiera axed Luxemburgo on Saturday. No official announcement was made but Teixeira’s aides
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