Streats, 4 September 2002

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  • STREATS local
    • 101 2 THE draft of the proposed Fair Trading Act will be finalised by the Trade and Industry Ministry (MTI) this week. MTI will then present it to a 12member committee, consisting of MTI officials, representatives from the Consumers Association of Singapore, Enterprise Promotion Centre and
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    • 111 2  -  3 Chua Kong Ho THE findings of an investigation into the cause of a structural collapse at a JTC flatted factory last Tuesday will be delayed for “a few weeks”. JTC had originally promised to release a report on the collapse of service corridors at
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    • 350 2  -  Tharman against shifting focus By Khushwant Singh WHENEVER there is a downturn in the electronics sector, the cry goes out to reduce our dependency on this industry. But Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam disagrees. Speaking at the opening of the GlobalTronics 2002 yesterday, the Senior Minister of
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    • 133 2 WHISPERING HOPE Nancy Sim These good people not only offered to buy lunch for a distressed woman, they also came quickly when I called, and put huge effort into finding her family. Recently I came upon an elderly woman at the void deck of Jurong West St
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    • 326 3 Private sector given access to traffic control technology SINGAPORE’S desire for jam-free roads has continually generated technologically innovative ways to improve traffic management on the island. But some of the new technology tested by the Government is now being farmed out to local private enterprises to
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    • 187 3  -  Sy_ ChuaKongHo CHERUBIC toddler Yeo Ming Hong will cross the Causeway into the arms of a foster family today, after spending nearly three weeks in a welfare home for children in Johor Barn. A Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) spokesman said they
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    • 198 4 TWO Ang Mo Kio men were killed instantly when the car they were travelling in crashed into a tree in Yishun Avenue 1 in the early hours of yesterday. The force of the impact smashed the Honda Civic into two large pieces and
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    • 319 4  -  Vice-consul to Chennai took gifts for favours B y Gary Lira A CORRUPT former vice-consul with the Singapore Consulate in India was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay a penalty of $535. Aloysius Michael, 32, wrongfully accepted items worth a total of
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    • 184 4  -  GaryLim SHE was young and petite and the molester thought she was easy meat. But the man soon learnt to his dismay that she was an off-duty police officer. After the incident, which took place in a bus, the officer chased the man, insurance agent
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    • Nabbed
      • 174 4 POLICE have arrested two Chinese nationals for the murder of 73-year-old Lau Liew Kong on Aug 21. Lau was robbed and later died of suffocation after he was bound and tied up in his Bedok North Street 3 flat. The robbers made off with
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      • 127 4 THREE women have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a series of break-ins in Bedok over the past two months. The trio, all unemployed, are believed to be behind seven burglaries. The first, a 3 3-year-old, was arrested at her home in Bedok North
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  • STREATS financial
    • 218 6  -  By_ Deepa Vijiyasingam WITH the new disclosure requirements in the US, there is now more opportunity for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to grant exemptions to companies with filing requirements. But whether the SEC will do so is not
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    • 414 6 STI: 1,454.92 5.76 Reuters THE Straits Times Index continued to slide for the eighth day yesterday as Chartered Semiconductor’s US$633 million (Ssl.l billion) rights issue continued to spook investors. The index staged a brief technical rebound in die morning, but finished down 0.39 per cent
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    • 261 6 Chartered’s issue only a stop-gap measure: analysts Reuters SINGAPORE Chartered Semiconductor’s US$633 million (Ssl.l billion) rights issue, its third fund-raising exercise in as many years, has minority shareholders fuming at having to prop up the firm. The issue by the world’s third-largest contract maker of microchips,
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    • 231 6 Reuters SHANGHAI China is hot property for Singapore developers. Capita Land yesterday said it will cash in on a growing China business to push up second-half net profit growth. On Monday, Keppel Land had announced plans for setting up a $2OO million to $3OO
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    • 27 6 •AS AT SEPTEMBER 3 US& 551.748 £:552.716 EURO; 551.726 Ss: 67.26 YEN Ss: RM2.174 Ss: HK54.463 Ss: 24.16 BAHT Ss: 5,056 RUPIAH '■s>; -p .•*> Wl
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 319 8 THERE have recently been several examples of poorer service from public bodies. To use the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system’s introduction as a benchmark, I remember that it was tested, retested and tested again until there was little doubt that all contingencies were covered and there
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    • 155 8 THE URA gave inadequate notice of changes in carpark fees. On Aug 2,1 finally managed to buy some of thenelusive $3.60 coupons from the URA headquarters in Maxwell Road. No mention was made there of the changes in fees, and I saw no
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    • 347 8 IN “Dwindling faith of GLC stakeholders” (Streats, Sept 2), a letter by Yak Chin Hua, he questions the capability of GLC managements, in the light of the Sing Tel share price falling below its issue price of $1.90. The Government sold the Sing Tel shares
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    • 239 8 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, e-mail us at streats@sph.comsgor write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. Contributions should comprise no more than 200 words. Letters sent to other publications
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  • STREATS medical
    • 107 10 Reuters HONOLULU -Women who eat plenty of dairy foods may have a lower risk of ovarian cancer, study findings suggest. The study found that women with the highest intake of dairy products were 54 per cent less likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer than
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    • 147 10 Reuters BOSTON Berries may be “very, very powerful” inhibitors of cancer growth, a US research team has found. You should make berries one of your daily fruit servings, or at least try to eat berries two or three times a week, Dr Gary Stoner of Ohio
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    • 229 10 Reuters ORANGE COUNTY, California Women seem to experience more oxidation a process suspected of increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke and several other diseases than men, a new study shows. Vitamin C and other antioxidant vitamins can counteract this process. Oxidative stress is the
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    • 264 10 ass THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY-AUSTRALIA Australia's leading international University The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is Australia's leading international university with the largest on-campus enrolment of international students and over 200 sister university partnerships around the world. For four consecutive years, UNSW has been ranked as
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  • STREATS regional
    • Article, Illustration
      104 12 Reuters HONGKONG This woman (right) was among 8,000 elderly people who braved sweltering heat and torrential rain here yesterday to line up for a free bag of rice each and some money given out by a Buddhist charity group to mark the Hungry Ghost month. Some said they
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    • 169 12 -AFP SYDNEY Only one in 30 of Australia’s recent migrants, half of them from Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, believe the country is racist, a new survey showed yesterday. The study, commissioned by the immigration department and prepared by Adelaide’s Flinders University, found that
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    • 166 12 Wire services JAKARTA Separatist rebels are to blame for Saturday’s attack in Papua in which two American teachers and an Indonesian were killed, the government said yesterday. It condemned “the barbaric shooting by an armed separatist group... which resulted in the senseless death of an Indonesian
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
      • 78 13 l. AP PARTI Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) has pulled the plug on the premiere of a Malaysian movie after its director admitted she filmed an actor in the nude, officials said yesterday. Some 10,000 people had been expected at a screening of Embun at a
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      • 82 13 AP POLICE in the Philippines have filed charges of illegal explosives possession against a Malaysian and an Indonesian linked to bombings two years ago that killed 22 people in Manila. The men Malaysian Faiz Bin Abu Bakar Bafana and Indonesian Riduan Isamudin are said to be
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      • 53 13 AP SOUTH Korea’s government said yesterday that nearly 200 people were killed or missing in a typhoon that hit the country over the weekend. The government’s anti-disaster centre said that 113 people were confirmed killed and 71 others missing after Typhoon Rusa swept through eastern and
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    • 192 13 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that US officials would have to go through “the usual process of extradition” if they want to interrogate a Malaysian militant suspect linked to the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. The FBI
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    • 265 13 Charges are baseless, says Keadilan chief -afp KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will investigate allegations that members of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim’s party incited the armed forces to topple the government in 1999, a defence ministry spokesman said yesterday. “All we know is that the opposition
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    • 25 13 Chinese models dressed as camera batteries promoting their products during the CeBIT Asia 2002 in Shanghai. The infocomm exhibition ends tomorrow
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    • 143 13 ap KOTA KINABALU A Philippine delegation met Malaysian officials yesterday before starting inspections of detention centres where Filipino migrants were allegedly mistreated. The visit by the nine-member team, which arrived here on Monday, has led to a temporary halt in Malaysia’s expulsion of illegal
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  • STREATS global
    • 326 15 Baghdad wants comprehensive solution to crisis Wire services JOHANNESBURG Iraq said yesterday it was ready to discuss a return of UN weapons inspectors, but only in a broader context of ending sanctions and restoring Iraqi sovereignty over all its territory. “If you want to find a
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
      • 72 15 t. Reuters AL QAEDA and theTaleban have shipped gold to Sudan in recent weeks, The Washington Post reported yesterday, quoting European, Pakistani and US sources. The Post quoted the sources as saying that several shipments of gold left Karachi for either Iran or the
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      • 87 15 A MAN walking his dog has survived being hit by a British train doing more than 160kmh, the Daily Telegraph reported. John Scouler, 58, a retired joiner, suffered only minor injuries when he was hit on Saturday on the main line between Newcastle and
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    • 74 15 AP JOHANNESBURG Negotiators at the World Summit put the finishing touches on a global plan to improve the lives of the poor while preserving the environment. Late on Monday, negotiators resolved the last main sticking points in a 70-odd page action plan covering a slew of environmental and
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    • 91 15 -AFP BAGHDAD Israel could commit a terrorist act in the US and make it look like it was by Iraq’s hand to spur Washington into a military campaign on Baghdad, the Iraqi newspaper run by Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, Uday, said yesterday. “With the US administration having failed
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    • 47 15 An Afghan hoy being held by his father and a health worker as he is immunised against polio outside a clinic in Kabul yesterday. The lastest round of the national immunisation against polio will target some 5.9 million children under the age of five Reuters
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    • 119 15 -afp JERUSALEM The Israeli Supreme Court yesterday gave the go-ahead for the expulsion to the Gaza Strip of two relatives of West Bank militants, judicial sources said. The nine-member bench of Israel’s highest court however refused to approve, for lack of evidence, the expulsion of
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    • 383 15 i 9/U -AFP PARIS The global civil aviation sector sustained a crippling body blow from the Sept 11 attacks in the United States and is still licking its wounds a year after the catastrophe. The sector posted a net loss of US$l2 billion
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  • easy STREATS
    • 729 18  -  By_ Yvonne Kwok Vanness WuJianhao dreams of a Hollywood role and of returning to Los Angeles. But for now he’s happy riding F4’s popularity VANNESS Wu misses home. The F 4 boyband member looks set to stay in Taiwan for some time. But thoughts of basing himself
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    • 127 18 Wire services LANCE Bass’ dream of travelling to space has ended. Russian officials yesterday called off a trip to the International Space Station, scheduled for Oct 28, because Lance hasn’t paid up, the ItarTass news agency reported yesterday. Lance, of pop group N’Sync, returned to
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    • 111 18 IT’S not cool to have diarrhoea, especially if you are a sex kitten. Norika Fujiwara is so protective about her elegant image that she lied about why she was hospitalised. The Japanese actress and ex-Miss Japan, rumoured to be Hongkong singer Aaron Kwok’s girlfriend, was warded
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    • 82 18 FAYE Wong’s daughter, Dou Jingtong, started primary school on Monday by playing hide-and-seek with the media. The five-year-old arrived at one of Hongkong’s most exclusive international schools in her mother’s Mercedes Benz. But she went home with one of the maids in a school bus,
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    • 59th Venice Film Festival
      • 213 20 Reuters THE talented Mr Ripley returned to Venice on Monday, 20 years older and more successful than in Anthony Minghella’s 1999 blockbuster, and appealing to what star John Malkovich called people’s darker side. Liliana Cavani’s Ripley’s Game, showing out of competition at the Venice Film Festival,
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      • 130 20 ACTOR Harrison Ford has lashed out at critics who say that his portrayal of a Russian submarine captain in “K-19: The Widowmaker” is demeaning and “soulless”, reported PageSix.com yesterday. The film’s producers were very respectful while making the true-life story. He insisted over the weekend in Venice. “When
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    • 129 22 IT’S officially springtime in Sydney. The upside-down place has just left winter behind and had been looking forward to becoming a sun, sand, swimming, surfing stereotype again. Sept 1, however, arrived in a hail of ice, rain and J thunder, “with ugly weather bruising the beaches”,
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    • Just a minute
      • 45 22 Banks in Singapore have implemented the Cheque Truncation System (CTS). Dishonoured cheques will no longer be returned in their physical forms to customers. An Image Return Document will become the legal substitute for dishonoured cheques under CTS. Details at www.abs. org. sg/index_faq.html
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      • 112 22 There’s a magic show at Health Zone today from 1 lam-12pm, and a clown performance at 3pm-4pm, where you can find out about healthy living the fun way. It’s at Level 2, Health Promotion Board, 3 Second Hospital Avenue. Tel: 1800-435-3616, e-mail HPB_Health_Zone@hpb.gov.sg. It’s open 9am-spm from
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        110 22 AARON KWOK LIVE IN CONCERT Singapore Indoor Stadium Sept 6, 8pm Tickets $139, $109, $89, $51, at sistic.com.sg The prince of Chinese pop returns with a three-hour concert to woo his fans again. Besides the hits he will unleash, the other highlights are his dramatic costumes f and stage
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      • 62 22 BIBIKS BEHIND BARS Kallang Theatre Sept 12-13, Bpm Tickets $4l, $3l, $2l at sistic.com.sg Not all bibiks get along with one another; well, not when your nyonya neighbour is secretly running a gambling den next door. The play is a presentation by The Peranakan Association and new songs have
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      • 67 22 RHYTHM OF DANCE University Cultural Centre Sept 6,3 pm and Bpm Tickets at $lO, call *****041 The Rhythm of Dance by the NUS Chinese Dance seeks to break new ground by combining New Age music with Chinese dance movements. Don’t be surprised, because the performances are meant to change
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      • Article, Illustration
        58 22 THE SINGAPORE SCI-FI MOVIE FESTIVAL 2002 Fort Canning Green Sept 18-21, Bpm to 10pm Tickets at $lO, at ticketdmrge.com.sg Have a picnic in the park and immerse yourself in an alternative reality. Explore the final frontiers where science is limited only by your imagination. The fantastic line-up includes sci-fi
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 42 23 10pm, Channel i Heroin is stolen from a police warehouse and non-addicts start to show up dead from massive overdoses, all showing the same puncture wounds to the forehead. There is an alien presence on the streets. Stars Dolph Lungren.
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      • Article, Illustration
        57 23 10pm, Central At the heart of this romantic French movie is a tale of a love thwarted by death. Tolouse Lautrec was a painter who had an intense affair with Suzanne Valadon, the provincial beauty who sat for many of the great painters of the day, including Degas and
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      • 197 23 ap LOS ANGELES British director J Lee Thompson, whose more than 50 films included the original Cape Fear, The Guns of Navarone, Planet of the Apes sequels and nine Charles Bronson movies, has died. He was 88. Mr Thompson, who spent summers in Canada, died
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    • 53 21 1- r-j.i fe: rfs» «1 S§ s SH SI g@ft A i C/I i 1 V c W --i&nH eiling of the winning team tha i the Asian Dance Competition lowdown in Philippines. )me and witness t ill represent Singa The Big V Da 7 j* Official Apparel By nised.By
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    • 105 22 The Art Of Northern Indian Delicacies elish the best of North India’s 1/ cuisine at The Captain’s Bar (Level 4) of The Oriental, Singapore. This exotic buffet is available for lunch only at $2l from Monday to Friday. To enhance your dining experience, we present you a glass of beer
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 439 23 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fo;r at Axtrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20 -FEB 18 Mixed emotions reflect badly on the mixer. The Leo moon threatens to overwhelm you with too much of a good thing. Clearly, this experience is an opportunity to learn. PISCES FEB 19-MAR2O Seek external discipline when your mind wanders.
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  • STREETS sports
    • 671 24 I He will miss 19 games while he recovers, including the Champions League group stage !f Likely to miss key Premiership games against Manchester City and Newcastle I But he may be back in time to face title rivals Liverpool and Arsenal in December X T* ii/tii
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    • 247 24 SINGAPORE’S Under-23 team crashed 0-7 to United Arab Emirates Olympics yesterday afternoon in a football friendly at Kuala Lumpur’s Shah Alam Stadium. The young Cubs hardly had a look-in at UAE Olympics’ goal as they were pinned deep in defence for long periods. They
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    • 186 24 LONDON Manchester United will not win the Premiership this season with wayward skipper Roy Keane in his current state of mind, says former England player Mark Lawrenson. “United rely so heavily on Keane to drive them on that it is hard to imagine them
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    • 551 26 Delighted Robson hails Toon Army’s fightbaek Wire services ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Liverpool 2 (Hamann 54, Owen 73 pen) Newscastle 2 (Speed 81, Shearer 88) LONDON Newcastle boss Sir Bobby Robson praised his team after it clawed back a two-goal deficit at Liverpool. His team was outplayed by Liverpool
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    • 163 26 LONDON Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira yesterday vowed not to alter his style of play despite failing to get his sending off against Chelsea overturned. He was shown two yellow cards during the 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge for fouls on Gianfranco Zola and
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    • 409 27 Think like Germans, Eriksson tells England players Wire services LONDON When Sven Goran Eriksson produced an England team that whipped Germany in it own backyard, the Swede changed the expectations of a nation. Still, Eriksson admits that unless he can make his players think like Germans, they will
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    • SPORTS SCAN
      • SOCCER
        • 61 29 AFP MADRID Real Madrid got its Spanish League campaign off to 'a winning start with a 2-0 win over Espanyol on Monday. But the European champion did little to impress new recruit Ronaldo. Real failed to add to goals by midfielder Ivan Helguera in the 34th
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        • 69 29 CATCH former German World Cup star Karl-Heinz Riedle and Singapore greats Fandi Ahmad and VSundramoorthy in action at the Padang tomorrow. All three will be taking part in a charity game organised by the Singapore Cricket Club as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations. The annual
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    • 205 29 Reuters NEW YORK -Lleyton Hewitt’s (right) title defence picked up momentum on Monday as the world No 1 crushed 14th seed Jiri Novak 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 to speed into the quarter-finals of the US Open. After a gruelling five-set third round win over American James Blake
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    • 570 31  -  Woodlands’ rampaging predator is hungiy for goals By Tan Kim Han AGU “Lion” Casmir wants to be a Singaporean. While he has yet to rule the animal kingdom with an iron fist, the Nigerian striker certainly has a roar that is becoming louder and louder each
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous

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