Streats, 9 November 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIO** f leyainbar 2001 Another quality publication of JT Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon I spy...
    331 1 US drops leaflets to scare Taleb an Wire services WE'RE WATCHING YOU. That’s the chilling message the Taleban got yesterday through leaflets “bombarded” by US airplanes. The warning was driven home by a picture of Taleban spritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar’s number plate taken from an unmanned Predator
    – Wire services; Pic AFP  -  331 words
  • morning rush
    • Article
      Lock icon Indon gets $5.6b
      102 1 -AP JAKARTA Key foreign donors yesterday agreed to lend Indonesia another US$3.l billion ($5.6 billion) to keep it afloat. The Consultative Group on Indonesia announced the decision at the end of a two-day meeting during which it warned Indonesia to get its house in order fast or
      -AP  -  102 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Chip outlook up
      69 1 -AP SAN JOSE -The semiconductor industry should show improvement next year, with, global sales growth seen at 6 per cent, and accelerating to 21 per cent in 2003 and 2004, a key industry group said yesterday. “The industry will begin to recover in the fourth quarter of
      -AP  -  69 words
    • Article
      Lock icon SingTel profit down
      71 1 -AP SINGTEL yesterday reported net profit of $1.2 billion for the six months ended Sept 30 an 8.7 per cent drop from the same period last year. Net profit during the same period last year was $1.3 billion. SingTel’s earnings were at the high end of analysts’
      -AP  -  71 words
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Pay cuts, layoffs expected More jobs worry
      453 2 Pay cuts layoffs expected More jobs worry THE worst is yet to come. Deeper pay cuts and retrenchments are on the way. Bonuses, too, won’t be spared, with most companies expecting revenues to dip over the next six months. But most employers are biting the bullet for now with a
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    • Article
      Lock icon Swiss drug giant to open research centre
      276 2 -AP SWISS drugs giant Novartis will open a tropical disease institute here a boost to Singapore’s aim of becoming a biomedical research centre, the company said yesterday. The $220-million tropical disease research centre will develop drugs to treat and perhaps cure tuberculosis and
      -AP  -  276 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Party clears Chia for NCMP seat
      98 2 STEVE CHIA'S party has given him the goahead to accept the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) seat. The National Solidarity Party’s decision was taken at a late-night committee meeting on Wednesday. The NSP will submit its recommendation to w the Singapore Democratic Alliance, which
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    • Article
      Lock icon Oops
      51 2 IN Wednesday’s and yesterday’s Just A Minute column, we reported that MDIS Lifelong Learning Centre was offering a “free English workshop”. The title of the free workshops, conducted in English, is “Discovering Your Child’s Thinking and Learning Patterns”. They are not workshops on English. We are sorry for the
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      Lock icon Policeman preyed on vulnerable foreigners while he was on sick leave Dirty cop gets time
      324 3  -  reports by KHUSHWANT SINGH A POLICE officer on sick leave had sex with a Thai prostitute staying here illegally in return for not arresting her and stole money from foreign labourers. Police Corporal Mashardi Abdullah
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      Lock icon Tampines firebug jailed for 12 years
      211 3 SYED Anwar Syed Mohamed Amin Albarakbah left a $200,000 trail of destruction across Tampines in an arson spree that spanned six months. Syed Anwar (left), 40, unemployed, set fires on 28 occasions from April to September. He set fire to stacks of newspapers left
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    • news scan
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        Lock icon $lO saving costs $7OO
        104 3 AFTER drinking into the early hours, a hawker decided to save himself a $lO taxi fare a decision that cost him $7OO. MrTanTeowYeow, 61, drank with friends until 4am on Wednesday at Tekka Centre. Rather than pay the $lO taxi fare to his house at Lorong
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        Lock icon Easy $2,000 for thief
        83 3 A 35-YEAR-OLD Indonesian maid is $2,000 poorer because she kept her PIN number written on a piece of paper with her ATM card. The maid left her employer’s Stirling Road home at 9am on Wednesday 9am to remit money to Indonesia. She went to two banks,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Fuming over lost smokes
        69 3 A 24-YEAR-OLD sales representative had $5OO worth of cigarettes stolen from his van when he parked it overnight. He parked the van in the basement carpark of Blk 270 Queen Street at 11.15 pm on Tliesday. When he returned the next day at 7.30 am, he
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    • Article
      Lock icon Steps to a school near you
      400 4  -  MOE scheme makes transfers easy by 'SARAH NG IF you have moved house and want to transfer your child to a primary school nearby, the Ministry of Education will help. It has launched a service to free parents from the hassle of checking schools
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    • Article
      Lock icon Dishonesty at Honesty
      106 4  -  Khushwant Singh IDA ASIAH SALLEH worked as a sales consultant for the Honesty Management Service Centre. But she was far from honest. From April 2 to Aug 16, she stole $17,200 of her firm’s money. Yesterday, she told the court that she took the money because she
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    • Article
      Lock icon Lost wallet returned
      43 4 onekindact. Tan Chiew Hiang Thank you, staff members of the Braddell SMRT station, for bringing my lost wallet to my residence on Oct 29. A single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth. Watch out for more details.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Maid beater now gets jail
      298 4 MAID-BEATER Chong Siew Chin will get back her $4,500 fine and go to jail for 12 weeks instead. The deputy public prosecutor yesterday won an appeal for a prison term. Appeals Court Chief Justice Yong Pung How agreed that Chong’s attack on her maid and
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      Lock icon Free Clean and Green Week books and CD for kids Green lesson for tiny tots
      388 5  -  bY WINSTON CHONG DON'T be surprised if your five-year-old child gives you a lecture on the benefits of recycling. From February next year, the Ministry of Environment will distribute a set of three Captain Green
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        64 5 Find out how to motivate your children to their his best in their studies and daily activities. There's a free workshop in English at the West Coast Community Club at 2 dementi West St 2 tomorrow from 2.30 pm to 4pm. It is part of the Ministry
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      • Article
        Lock icon Remember...
        74 5 Instead of hoarding small change, help get them back into circulation. The Singapore Mint has a free community service to help you exchange your coins for crisp dollar bills. You can also exchange your old and mutilated notes to the I current 'Portrait' notes. For tomorrow and Sunday, the
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      78 5 Our weather girl says TGIF! But if you think the skies will give us some respite, think again. There will still be thunderstorms in j the morning over 1 many areas. And it 1 will be partly cloudy for the rest 1 of the day. Temperatures will range between 24°C
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  • Streatsmart column
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      Lock icon Where 'lovely' can't cut it
      431 6 WOMEN have certainly established their place in politics. But something’s missing. The talent is there, but their husbands must be understanding, Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister Without Portfolio and newly elected MP for Jurong GRC, said in March. Mr Lim’s point is underscored by the
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  • WAR
    • ...tactics
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        Lock icon US will need to build up forces during winter: Experts Spring action
        250 7 Reuters WASHINGTON The US will have to deploy thousands of troops in a spring offensive to drive the Taleban out of power, military experts said yesterday. Washington will use the harsh winter in Afghanistan to build up their
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      • Article
        Lock icon Airline grounded
        58 7 Reuters Ariana, the 55-year-old national airline of Afghanistan, has fallen victim to the US air strikes. "We understand that the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority has sacked all Ariana personnel, about 1,300 people, effectively putting the 55-year-old Afghan airlines out of business," UN spokesman Hasan Ferdous told reporters yesterday.
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    • the fallout
      • Article
        Lock icon Gulf War changed Osama: ex-Saudi spy chief A rebel is born
        371 9 Reuters RIYADH Osama bin Laden turned extremist after Saudi Arabia invited US troops to end Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, says former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki A 1 Faisal. He said Osama had offered to organise an army
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      • Article
        Lock icon Charles hit (with flower)
        77 9 -AFP A woman angry over Britain's role in the US-led strikes in Afghanistan hit Prince Charles with a red carnation as he greeted flag-waving children in the Latvian capital Riga. He had just laid flowers at Latvia's Freedom Monument with President Vaira Vike-Freiberga and was mingling
        -AFP  -  77 words
      • war diary
        • Article
          Lock icon Fourth US carrier
          40 9 THE Pentagon will send a fourth aircraft carrier battle group to waters near Afghanistan by the weekend. The battlegroup, headed by the San-Diego-based carrier USS Stennis, is being deployed to provide additional aerial firepower in the campaign.
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          Lock icon Taleban chief dead
          38 9 NORTHERN Alliance says a key Taleban commander Gulgarai has been killed in US bombing raids near the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The rebels are advancing towards the city after heavy bombing helped weaken Taleban defences.
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        • Article
          Lock icon 85 Pakistanis killed
          40 9 A PAKISTANI extremist group battling Indian forces in Kashmir said that 85 of its fighters were killed in Afghanistan. The members were killed in the last couple of days during US air attacks on Mazar-e-Sharif, it said.
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    • the frontline
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        Lock icon US mistakes deepen support for Taleban Costly errors
        286 10 QUETTA, Pakistan Afghan refugees entering here say that the US airstrikes have failed to diminish support for the Taleban. Many Afghans feel that the US bombing campaign has hurt civilians badly. “The Americans said they would only target Osama bin Laden’s bases,”
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Afghans didn't throw kids into sea: Aussie navy chief Howard's howler
      222 11 -AP CANBERRA It emerged yesterday that Afghan asylum seekers did not throw their children into the sea in a protest over their rejection by Australia, as the government had said. Navy chiefVice-Admiral David Shackleton clarified yesterday that the navy
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      Lock icon She cooked lover, served him up to kids
      137 11 -AP SYDNEY A woman brutally killed the man who had rejected her and cooked parts of his body to serve, with vegetables, to his children. New South Wales state Supreme Court Justice Barry O’Keefe jailed Mary Knight, 45, for life yesterday, and
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    • Article
      Lock icon Sued for striking to back women
      204 11 -AP SYDNEY A paper manufacturer is suing a group of male employees who went on strike after the company refused to give female staff a pay rise, a union said yesterday. On Monday, 80 men withdrew their labour indefinitely at paper company Carter Holt
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    • Article
      Lock icon He kills wife's lesbian lover, self
      96 12 -AFP BANGKOK A Japanese shot his wife and her lesbian lover and then killed himself by setting his house ablaze after discovering the affair, Thai police said yesterday. Kasuo Uno, 62, killed his wife’s lover in the attack that took place near Chiang Mai
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    • Article
      Lock icon Tycoons buy Ansett
      231 12 Aussies to payAs3.6b for airline -AP Talks with SlAnowto take stake in carrier MELBOURNE Ansett is to be sold to two Australian businessmen, administrators running the grounded airline said yesterday. Singapore Airlines (SIA) has a consultancy role to develop a new business plan for Ansett. Mr Lindsay
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon BA chief brands Hollywood stars 'pathetic' and 'gutless' 'Real stars are flying'
      223 13 Reuters LONDON -The chief of British Airways said Hollywood stars are “gutless cowards” for being afraid to fly since the Sept 11 attacks, the Mirror reported yesterday. “They want everyone to see their movies and think how big
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    • Article
      Lock icon CIA may take over other intelligence agencies
      110 13 Reuters WASHINGTON The CIA should take over all intelligence agencies based at the Pentagon, a top panel will recommend, the Washington Post said yesterday. The largest overhaul of the US intelligence community in decades is aimed at cutting rivalries within a huge bureaucracy
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Tiny town's teen mayor
        70 13 -AP IN what began as a class assignment, a teenager has been elected mayor of a tiny town in eastern Pennsylvania. Mr Jeffrey Dunkel, 18, ran unopposed and received 43 votes in Tuesday’s mayoral election in Mount Carbon, population 100. “When I started asking questions, they
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      • Article
        Lock icon Drug-driving
        61 13 POLICE in Japan let a handcuffed drugs suspect get back in his car and escape after they’d arrested him, Ananova reported. They had arrested the man in Aichi on suspicion of possession of stimulants. He told them he had a stash of drugs in his car, but as soon
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        Lock icon Asteroid odds
        60 13 Reuters WE are much less likely to be wiped out by a big asteroid than we thought. The odds are only about one in 5,000 that an asteroid big enough to wipe out civilisation will hit Earth in the next 100 years, a team at Princeton University reported
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      314 14 SINGAPORE mil m action To make your visit to the fair inspiring, Daimaru will be bringing in two craftsmen to wow you with their artistic skills. Mm Today to Sunday: Catch potter Morihito Yoshikane at work from Nov 16 to 18: Mr Yoshiharu Shinohara will show off his delicate wind-chime
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Go Kappou without going kaput
      350 14  -  by KAREN CHEN EVER heard of kappou (pronounced cup-poh)? No, it doesn’t mean “frog” in Hokkien (though it does sound like it) nor powdered soup dissolved in a cup. Kappou is actually a high-end Japanese restaurant, a place where kaiseki ryori is served. Kaiseki ryori
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      Lock icon Jacky takes the rap
      451 15  -  HK's God of Songs talks of his first rap number by YVONNE KWOK ONE of the most talked about songs on Jacky Cheung’s latest album, Jacky Fever, is a fast-paced track on which the Hongkong Heavenly King raps for the Very first time. But banish the
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'Piracy hurts'
      107 15 SAID Jacky of rampant record piracy in Asia: “Piracy is like breaking people’s rice bowl. It hurts. “The biggest problem is that people don’t think there’s anything wrong or uncool about it... “With this promotion, I hope I can influence some people who are think- ing of buying
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      Lock icon Crepe expectations
      309 16  -  two shoes by' Wileen Chang Give us a call Everyone seems to know where the best food can be found. So, why not share your j secrets with us? And if your recommendation is good, we'll give you a limited edition Streats watch. You can reoc/i me at:
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      Lock icon Man of his word
      435 17 HE raised a few eyebrows when he gave Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon a pass to honour a pledge made to his wife. The man’s done it again. This time, he passed on a role in The Matrix sequel to star in The One. “I wanted to
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon GHOST TAXI
          67 17 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Gilnam is a diligent and hardworking taxi driver who plans to propose to his girlfriend, Yoojung, after he passes his private taxi permit exam. He’s on his way to meet Yoojung when his taxi falls off a cliff. He’s killed, but his spirit
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          Lock icon ALL ABOUT EVE
          49 17 10.45 pm, Channel U The judges have difficulty deciding between Yingmei’s and Shanmei’s programmes. Finally, Xiangze decides to use ratings as a means of comparison between the two. Shanmei emerges as the winner butYingmei is furious with the results and spreads rumours about Yingmei and Xiangze.
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          Lock icon THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
          57 17 Midnight, Central I Two ordinary people. A chance meeting. An extraordinary romance. Academy Award winners Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep star in this love story about a bored housewife and her illicit affair with a wandering photographer that re-kindles her love for life. Based on
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          Lock icon MISS WORLD 2001 – YOU DECIDE
          50 17 MISS WORLD 2001 YOU DECIDE Bpm, TV Works I Designed as a preview programme to the Miss World Finals, this show will not only give viewers a chance to know the 100 contestants, but it will also give them a unique opportunity to vote via telephone for their three favourites.
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      Lock icon Your liver? No thanks!
      216 18 WHAT is the best gift a die- hard fan can give his idol? A 50-year-old jobless man from China wanted to give his liver to Hongkong veteran singer Roman Tam, 51, (left) who has liver cancer, reports Hongkong’s Apple Daily. The fan, known only as Mr
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      Lock icon Britney behaving badly
      218 19 THE antics of Britney Spears’ entourage at a New York bar early on Wednesday morning left much to be desired, according to the New York Post. The group demanded special treatment at B Bar’s weekly Tbesday night Beige party and then left without paying the bill. “The
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      Lock icon He's King of Scales
      165 21 Reuters LOS ANGELES It’s official. Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed King of Pop, is the King of Sales this week, but music industry insiders predict he will soon lose the crown to pop teen queen Britney Spears. Jackson’s first album of original music in six years, Invincible,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Another Mulder and Scully movie
      124 21 X-PHILES watch out for a second toovie based on the hit TV series. Creator Chris Carter is said to be close to signing a deal with 20th Century Fox to [hake the movie, and David Duchovny -«nd Gillian Anderson are expected to star. The film
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Unsung heroes and heroines
        414 23 tpABOUT two years ago, I went to a sports lawards presentation at the Singapore 1 Sports Council (SSC) theatrette. No, it was not organised by the SSC, but by the Singapore Sports Council for jthe Disabled (SSCD). f Before you think they are one and the
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Jordan no match for Celtics
        335 23 Wire services NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS Boston Celtics 104 Washington Wizards 95 BOSTON Michael Jordan was Unable to carry Washington in the last seven minutes as the Boston Celtics held off the Wizards’ 104-95 with a rare balanced attack. Jordan scored 32 points on Wednesday, the most
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        Lock icon Woeful Brazil slips to another defeat Gasping for air
        770 25 Wire services WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Bolivia 3; LA PAZ, Bolivia Brazil’s 2002 World Cup qualification nightmare hit a new low here yesterday as it crashed to a 1-3 defeat against Bolivia. In a match played 3,600 metres above sea level, Brazil
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        Lock icon Eriksson: Dream of World Cup glory
        338 25 MANCHESTER Sven Goran Eriksson gave his England side a public dressing down on Wednesday night then urged the players to dream of World Cup glory next summer. The ice-cold Swede lined up his 26 players ahead of tomorrow’s Old Trafford friendly with his native
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        Lock icon Conde may replace 'Captain Courageous' Nazri to leave Warriors
        434 27  -  by LIM HAN MING GOODBYE, Warriors. Nazri Nasir will skipper Singapore Armed Forces FC for the last time against Thai champion Tero Sasana FC in the second leg, first-round match of the Asian Club Championship on Sunday. The Warriors had lost
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      • Article
        Lock icon Tiger mania in China
        133 27 •GOLF -Reuters HONGKONG Tiger Woods will play in China for the first time this weekend, with golf fever sweeping the world’s most populous country as growing affluence drives a faithful following. Woods will play an exhibition game tomorrow in the southern city of Shenzhen, facing professionals
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      • SOCCER
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          Lock icon Japan holds Italy
          129 27 -AFP SAITAMA, Japan Japan’s World Cup preparations received another boost here on Wednesday when it forced Italy to come from behind to claim a 1-1 draw in the Kirin Challenge Cup friendly. Second-half substitute Cristiano Doni equalised shortly into the second-half after Atsushi Yanagisawa had given the
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          Lock icon Mascots in brawl
          130 27 Reuters LONDON Bury’s impressive 3-0 home victory over Cardiff City in the English Second Division was overshadowed by an altercation on the pitch between the two clubs’ mascots. Bury’s Robby the Bobby, named in honour of Bury-bom Sir Robert Peel, founder of the modern police force, clashed
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