Streats, 16 May 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 16 May 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon Retrenchment exercise How many times did we say the R-word?
    233 1 THE Business Times yesterday did a telling word count. Call it a retrenchment exercise. They wanted to how often the dreaded word appeared in a local context in The Straits Times and The Business Times from 1998 to last month,
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    Lock icon Retrenchment lifeline Cash if you lose your job
    622 1  -  Co-op gives workers hope in uncertain times by SONNYPHUA PICTURE this: One moment, you are smug as an iron rice bowl in a multinational company. The next, your company is acquired by another and you are laid-off as a result of “rationalisation”.
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    Lock icon Retail sales up
    75 1 momingwsA. WITH the exception of watches and jewellery, you spent more on goods in March, pushing the retail sales index up 21.7 per cent over February. The index is 21.2 per cent higher than for March 2000. The catering trade index for March also rose 9.2 per
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Cheaper drugs on the way if we have.. More transparency
      310 2  -  by'. SARAH NG YOU have diabetes or high blood pressure, and you need the drugs your doctor has prescribed every day. But they cost a bomb here, compared to overseas or on the Internet. Even your regular pharmacist has been
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      Lock icon Guns to 'spell' 1965 at National Day Parade
      219 2  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER THIS Aug 9, listen carefully during the traditional 21-gun salute. Instead of firing consecutively throughout the President’s Guard of Honour inspection, you’ll hear four batches of volleys in a sequence of one, nine, six and then five to mark
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      Lock icon GLC investments under security
      192 2 AN Australian telecom and a Hongkong-based bank: The overseas acquisitions of these by two government-linked companies (GLCs) will come under scrutiny when Parliament sits today from 12.30 pm. Finance Minister Richard Hu will be asked to explain the rationale behind SingTel’s purchase of Australian Cable and
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      Lock icon Oops!
      88 2 IN our May 15 issue, we reported that employers should contact Singapore Immigration and Registration (SIR) to cancel the work permit if their maid goes missing. This is incorrect. SIR has directed that employers call the Work Permit Department, Ministry of Manpower, instead. Yesterday, we said in the article
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      Lock icon Poly students unveil cool idea X-treme measure, anyone?
      452 3  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM LOOKS like Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s wish for airconditioned underwear, or, at least cooler clothes, may become a reality one day. Five final-year Ngee Ann Polytechnic students have developed a lightweight cooler vest to keep the body temperature at
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      Lock icon Silicon Valley spirit in the public service
      255 3 "IF it ain’t broke, break it.’That was the advice given to innovators and “technopreneurs” by Mr Steven Bong, head of The Enterprise Challenge (TEC) unit. Speaking at the TEC Roadshow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic yesterday, Mr Bong told a crowd of budding young
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      Lock icon Black-and-white wedding
      64 3 morningsmile. Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother: "Why is the bride dressed in white?" "Because white is the colour of happiness and today is the happiest day of her life," her mother tried to explain, keeping it simple. The child
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      Lock icon Woman stabbed to death at lift landing She went up for a pen
      311 4  -  by SONNY PHUA SHE met her husband downstairs just before midnight to sign some divorce documents. But she’d forgotten her pen, so she went upstairs in a lift to fetch one. That was the last time she
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      Lock icon Tables turned on stablehand 'cop'
      194 4  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH MAHMOOD Abdullah, 41, didn’t earn much as a stablehand at Singapore Turf Club. So he hatched a plan to top up his wallet. He got hold of a police logo and holster. Impersonating an officer of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), he
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      Lock icon Mad Max
      484 5  -  S'pore resumes love affair with Maxwell Food Centre hittneStreets with Diana Ser NEW shopping mall? Quick, must go look-see. Refurbished food centre? Quick, must queue. Show me the way to the ham chim peng. What is it about Singaporeans that drives them to a feeding frenzy and the
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      62 5 Our weather girl says There may be showers with thunder in the afternoon in various areas, but the temperatures will still soar to a scorching 33°C. Do drink lots of water to prevent dehydration. The tide will reach 2m at 7.05 pm, and the PSI stands at a healthy 43.
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      Lock icon From this month...
      127 5 From this month Just a minute Dogs imported into Singapore must be implanted with a microchip before coming here. The chip will help confirm that the animal is healthy and has been vaccinated. It also protects the pet against loss or theft because it can be traced to its owner.
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      Lock icon Passenger says her rides are cheaper Has Tibs lowered its cab fare?
      363 6 TAXI users have noticed a reduction in Tibs’ fares, which was confirmed by a driver, but the firm denies making any cuts in charges. Management assistant Sun Cuiqin said a driver told her that “the fares had been
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      Lock icon E-trading volume slows
      240 6 PEOPLE here are trading on the Internet, but not as much as they could. The volume has yet to reach “critical mass”, Internet-measurement company Net Value said in a report yesterday on visitorship to finance and stockexchange sites. Dr Jack Loo, country manager of Net Value Singapore
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      Lock icon Pass it on
      65 6 onekindact. Michelle Tan I was touched by this lady who went the extra mile to return her read copy of the Streats back to the stands. In doing so, others got a chance to read it, too. Along the way are many dustbins filled to the brim
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Have you heard? Masako's really pregnant
      91 8 -APj AFP TOKYO A palace official confirmed yesterday that Crown Princess Masako was pregnant. The confirmation comes a month after officials said Masako was “showing signs” of pregnancy. Makers of goods ranging from prams to milk products saw their shares jump on hopes that
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      Lock icon No smoking allowed? Well eat outdoors
      189 8 SYDNEY Smoking bans are sending Sydney diners onto the streets, reports yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald. Since New South Wales introduced the Smoke-Free Environment Act in September, demand for outdoor dining has grown by up to 50 per cent. Parramatta in western Sydney had the
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      Lock icon China's Olympic bid gets a vote Murdoch backs Beijing for 2008
      291 9 -AP HONGKONG Media magnate Rupert Murdoch will support Beijing’s bid for the 2008 Olympics. Granting Beijing the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics would be a “wonderful thing’, he said yesterday, in a broadcast via videolink from New
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      Lock icon Boeing deal nosedives in China
      190 9 -AFP HONGKONG China has delayed a US billion dollar deal to buy 30 Boeing passenger jets in the wake of the collision between a US spy plane and a Chinese fighter, a report said yesterday. “Those are all on hold now,” said an official from
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      Lock icon Sarawak seizes birds' nests
      112 9 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Sarawak has made its largest-ever seizure of illegal birds’ nests, newspapers reported yesterday. The nests worth RMI.2 million ($516,000) were seized at the airport in Kuching on Sunday, a customs official said. The exporter had lied about the number of nests he was
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      Lock icon For the record
      44 9 webdtes This is the one-stop online record shop of the who, what, where, when, and why of Singapore. At recordsingapore.com, you can get to know 1,000 movers and shakers that built this island. Or know the story behind every street name.
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      Lock icon Philippines' Senate elections Arroyo's allies take narrow lead
      232 10 -AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo’s allies will win a narrow majority in the crucial race for 13 senatorial seats in the legislative elections, according to an exit poll released yesterday. The Social Weather Stations exit poll of 5,446 voters showed Mrs
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      Lock icon HIGH ON TEA:
      57 10 A Shan woman selling various kinds of tea at a morning market in Myanmar's north-eastern Kyaing Tong town on Sunday. Tea is one of many kinds of crops that the United Nations Drug Control and the Myanmar government introduced to the Shan people in this opium-rich area
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      Lock icon Gus Dur doesn't want to 'lose face'
      146 10 -AFP JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid is not willing to give up power not now, not in 2004. He said he would run again for president in 2004 because he does not want to “lose face”. “I am not scared of the special (assembly)
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Focus military strategy on China, says Pentagon study Mr Bush, here's how you should deal with Asia
      291 11 AP Washington 'must prepare for a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan' WASHINGTON The US should shift its military focus in Asia from the Philippines and other nations to potential hot spots like Taiwan,
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      Lock icon SMILE, MR PRIME MINISTER:
      32 11 Affie Burnside (left), Cherry Blossoms Queen from the US, with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during her courtesy call at the National Diet in Tokyo yesterday Pic: AFP
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      Lock icon Military strategy
      46 11 Philippines Report says US must renew military ties with Manila not to base forces there, but to allow frequent, rotating deployment Indonesia New strategy and bases in places like Guam will put US military in position to respond to situations in hotspots like Jakarta.
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon He prefers jail to fine
        103 11 CANBERRA Bill Smithies would rather go to jail than pay a fine for not voting at the 1999 republic referendum. Smithies, 66, of the Canberra suburb of Curtin, said compulsory voting was mindless and he hadn’t cast a vote since 1987, The Australian website said
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        Lock icon Carted back in time
        81 11 -AFP COLOMBO Bullock -drawn carts will replace cars at the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens to save the flora from noxious exhaust fumes. The ban was imposed when it was found that vehicle fumes were harming the plants and trees in the 59 ha gardens built in 1816,
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        Lock icon Emu dies in war games
        68 11 -AP BRISBANE An emu, one of Australia’s national symbols, was shot dead by US Marines during war games in Queensland state, authorities said yesterday. Operation Tandem Thrust, a military exercise involving more than 27,000 US and Australian military personnel, was briefly halted last week after
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        Lock icon Rise of the 'superlice'
        70 11 SYDNEY A plague of head lice in Australia has made health officials examine the misuse of insecticides which threaten to create “superlice”, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Dermatologist Dr Rodney Sinclair, from the University of Melbourne, said he believed the domination of the chemical permethrin in
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      Lock icon Indian military dogfight Squabble over nuke button
      215 13 -AFP NEW DELHI India’s army, navy and air force are squabbling for control of India’s nuclear arsenal, according to defence sources. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s government earlier this year opened up competition for the new post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
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      Lock icon Effect of mad cow could last decades
      116 13 -AFP LONDON The human form of mad cow disease could become an epidemic lasting decades, a British medical expert said on Monday. A team of scientists based at Imperial College, London, has uncovered data on variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD) which has raised
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      Lock icon 50,000 jobless Indians in US
      83 13 SEATTLE Indians are returning home from the US after being sacked en masse, reported The Times of London yesterday. “There are at least 50,000 Indians in the US without jobs,” said Ravindra Singh, 26, a software engineer. “The hire-and-fire policy leaves you shocked and traumatised,”
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      Lock icon A recovering Japan may drain US economy
      944 14 JAPAN'S new prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has pledged to make whatever changes necessary to get the country moving again and clean up its financial mess, no matter how painful. This is what President Bush has said he wants. But if Koizumi succeeds, he
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      Lock icon Berlusconi is Italy's comeback kid Rich man is PM again
      372 16 Wire services ROME Mr Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of Italy’s conservative coalition, boasts one of the larger fortunes in the world, an ego to match and a suntan that never fades. His sprawling empire is worth at least US$l2 billion
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      Lock icon Why is an easy mark called a sucker?
      105 16 knowornot The bottom-scavenging fish known as the sucker, purses its "lips" to draw in the garbage it eats. The early settlers of America saw lots of these fish and soon they were indiscriminately using the name as well for other fish that
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Will he make it big again? Ex-tycoon turns 'corporate doctor'
      337 17 Reuters TOKYO Rich man, poor man. Rags and riches. Mr Kazuo Wada has experienced them all. The man, whose Yao- i han retailing empire i went bust four years ago, I used to enjoy the luxury I of a chauffeur-driven
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      Lock icon What do you think of the new Maxwell Food Centre?
      313 17 Just one question After a $3.2 million makeover and almost nine months, the Maxwell Food Centre reopened yesterday to crowds of adoring fans. We asked them: It's a bit dim and stuffy. But I don't think there's room for more
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      Lock icon VIPs' brothers in trouble No, I'm not having affair, says Jeb
      176 17 Wire services MIAMI Florida’s Republican Governor, Mr Jeb Bush (top right), is an angry man. Stung by rumours of an adulterous relationship with a state employee, the younger brother of US President George W Bush, has declared: “I love
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      Lock icon Was Clinton's brother illegally targeted?
      160 17 -AP TORRANCE, Califor- nia Tape recordings indicate that former I first brother Roger I Clinton was illegally targeted by officers f who arrested him on charges of drunken driv- ing and disturbing the peace, his lawyer told a judge on Monday. Clinton, 44, was arrested
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Eyes wide shut
      687 19  -  If you were watching this year's Miss Universe, you might have noticed that TV Works'new host, Brook Lee was the presenterannouncer. But she didn't get to watch the show. Brooktells us why WOfKSf JVi/Miil^r by YVONNE KWOK DON'T ask Brook Lee how the Miss Universe Pageant 2001
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      Lock icon Cannes Film Festival 'Don't sell out to Hollywood'
      201 20 Reuters CANNES British director Ken Loach has lambasted his compatriot filmmakers, saying they are selling their souls to Hollywood. “The climate generally in Britain is to make films that look across the Atlantic and I think that’s disastrous,” Loach told BBC radio
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          Lock icon AD WAR
          60 20 9pm, Channel U The unwelcome guest Peter Callihan becomes executive creative director, the post both Takeshi andYuhua had coveted. Takeshi is especially unhappy as he was the one who had secured the Times Watch $3 million deal. The duo make a stink in Pang’s office, only to learn
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          Lock icon HEROES IN BLACK
          64 20 9pm, Channel 8 Song Dou, who used to be a brave commander, now masquerades as a timid and drunken constable. When he hears about the common folk being drained dry by the local magistrate, he steals from corrupt officials and redistributes “the loot” to the poor. Stars
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          Lock icon HAUNTED SCHOOL
          71 20 10pm, Central It’s the last day of school before summer the traditional season for Japanese ghost stories. The children scare each other with tales as they walk to school. Then one boy playing with a basketball accidentally knocks the head off a spirit figure, and a second grader
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          Lock icon THE CORRS: LIVE AT WEMBLEY ARENA
          66 20 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) If you haven’t actually seen them, you’ve probably heard their hits. And you can hear them again in their “live” performance at Wembley Arena just before Christmas What Can I Do, Breathless, So Young, Dreams. With 13 cameras and a
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      Lock icon Goh-ing places
      313 21  -  by DIANA SER IT IS official. Asian is in, as is evident in Singapore’s very own Michelle Goh at the Canadian 2001 Leo Awards last Saturday. The Mee Pok girl was the only Asian at the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars and get this she got to present
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      Lock icon We just wanna have fun
      506 23  -  Music and free drinks do not a great club make It's time some innovations were added to give clubbers value for their money ihewitch's hour by Cara van Miriah IT is the best of times. It is the worst of times. In the night club
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      Lock icon Behind the scenes at TV Land
      347 24  -  by YVONNE KWOK YESTERDAY'S rehearsal for TV Land, TV Works’ launch musicals was an eyeopener in more ways than one. Not only was it a first-hand look at what’s in store for viewers, it was also an opportunity to catch the TV Works artistes
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      Lock icon Works Weekly out on sale
      83 24 AUTHORITATIVE, upfront and current. That is what Works Weekly (WW), MediaWorks’ new weekly entertainment lifes-tyle magazine aims to be. Debuting at the newsstands today, the new mag is a guide to what’s on TV and radio, with a good dose of gossip and news on
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      Lock icon I'll lend you my ears, hands and teeth'
      177 26 Daniel was reportedly paid a seven-figure sum in Hongkong currency for 16 hours of filming for the shampoo ad ADVERTISERS, if you want to endorse any product for ears, hands or teeth, keep Hongkong heartthrob Daniel Chan in mind. The singer-actor has
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      Lock icon Ruby and Qiong Yao on bad terms?
      252 26 LTAWAINESE stars, listen tup. I You should I rue the day Wyou ever get f into starmaker Qiong Yao’s bad books. yjr The famous author has the power to decide who’s in and who’s out of her shows, that is. “I won’t hurt
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      Lock icon Love is thicker than blood
      315 30 WHILE actor Billy Bob Thornton rubs elbows with other glitterati in Cannes to promote his new movie, The Man Who Wasn’t There, his wife, Angelina Jolie, is way across the Atlantic, in Canada filming Life or Something Like It. But the lovey-dovey couple has found
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        Lock icon Spurs finishes off Mavericks
        428 31 Reuters SAN ANTONIO Texas The past two NBA champions San Antoinio Spurs and Los Angeles Lakers will clash in the Western Conference finals. Eariler, Spurs finished off the Dallas Mavericks in five games with a *****rout on Monday. Tim Duncan (right, white jersey) scored 32 points
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        Lock icon France favourite for World Cup: Dunga
        132 32 Reuters TOKYO Brazilian World Cup star Dunga believes France is in pole position to retain the trophy in just over a year’s time when the tournament comes to Japan and South Korea. Dunga, Brazil’s captain when it beat Italy on penalties in the 1994
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        Lock icon Gombak's Merzagua quits
        71 32 •SOCCER GOMBAK United striker Merzagua Abderazzak has left the S-League club. The 34-year-old Moroccan, who played in the 1994 World Cup, is believed to have resigned after struggling with a calf injury. He was voted as the M-League’s Most Valuable Player from 1996 to 1998 and arrived
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        73 32 •BOXING NEW YORK New heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman will defend his titles in August in Beijing against Brian Nelson of Denmark, promoter Don King announced. Rahman, who won the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Council titles by knocking out Briton Lennox Lewis last month,
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        72 32 •GOLF TULSA, Oklahoma Tiger Woods (above) has said that he would use experience rather than familiarity as he prepares for his title defence at the 2001 US Open at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa. Woods, speaking via satellite during the annual USGA media day, said
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        548 33  -  by TAN KIM HAN WANT to be among the elite footballing nations in the world? Easy. Simply despatch your best players to Europe for a playing stint. That is the surefire way to success according to Asia’s Coach of the Year Philippe Troussier (right), who is
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        284 34 HE was left out of the national squad time and again. But now with No 1 goalkeeper Rezal Hassan (injury) and No. 2 Yazid Yasin (unavailable) not in the squad against New Zealand on May 22, Adi Saleh may finally get his much-await-ed chance to
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        621 35 Reuters DORTMUND, Germany Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier will hope his own words don’t come back to haunt him after today’s Uefa Cup final against little-known Spanish side Alaves. “On some occasions the will to win is more important than the skill to win,” Houllier said
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        64 35 ALAVES: 1-Martin Herrera; 2-Cosmin Contra, 5-Antonio Karmona, 6-oscar Tellez, 7-Detfi Geli; 14-Jordi Cruyff, 15-tvan Tomic, 16-Hermes Desio, 3-lbon Begona; 19-lvan Alonso, Navi Moreno. REFEREE: Gilles Veissiere (France). LIVERPOOL 1 -Sander Westerveld; 23-Jamie Carragher, 2-Stephane Henchoz, 12-Sami Hyypia, 6-Markus Babbel; 17-Steven Gerrard, 21-Gary McAllister, 16-DietmarHamann, 15-Patrick Berger; 9-Robbie Fowler,
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        345 35 GARY MCALLISTER (left) is set to be asked to mastermind Liverpool’s bid for an historic Cup treble today (tomorrow Singapore time). As he prepares for the Uefa Cup final against Spain’s Alaves in Dortmund, the 36-year-old Scot said: ‘We’re close to making this an incredible season,
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        104 35 ALAVES 1 st Round: Bt Gaziantepspor (Tur) 4-3 on aggregate 2nd round: Bt LlHestrom (Nor) 5-3 on agg 3rd Round: Bt Rosenborg (Nor) 4-2 on agg 4th Round: Bt Intemazionale (Ita) 5-3 on agg Quarter-final: Bt R Vailecano (Spa) 5-1 on agg Semi-final: Bt Kaiserslautern (Ger) 9-2
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