Streats, 7 April 2003

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  • 9 1 Streats MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (/> id^/03/2003
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  • 716 1  -  Singaporeans have to learn to live with Sars By_ Magdalene Phang SINGAPOREANS will have to make adjustments to their lives as the severe acute respiratory syndrome problem will not go away any time soon. Saying this yesterday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong showed
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    • 103 1 ’l5 3 v ft /4ift JSF «s* W MT wr p?*. AJt. >■ J. J» •V'-J f£W pfes*. .^1 sK?j> I3| k£iy Wg It certainly won't help with Sars, but Sutee Suksomkit’s mask is no mere fashion statement either, reports TAN KIM HAN PAGE 30 SARS UPDATE KILLING TWO BIRDS
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • 440 2  -  PM suggests hiring unemployed to help nurses take temperatures at checkpoints By. Zubaidah Nazeer MORE than half of the 25 unemployed people polled by Streats said that they were prepared to accept the job of taking the temperatures of arriving passengers at Changi Airport. Prime Minister
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    • 370 2  -  By. Julie Sim HER husband harbours a niggling unease about her work of screening arriving passengers at Changi airport for Sars, but polyclinic nurse, Ms Ong Kay, says the job has to be done. She is one of the 100 nurses deployed to the airport
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    • 321 3  -  KL doctors sent to S’pore to discuss measures to curb Sars Reports by Paul Jansen WHATEVER disputes Malaysia and Singapore may have over other matters, they are cooperating on curbing the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak. Though both are sovereign nations with
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    • 105 3 THE Government has formed a ministerial action committee to tackle the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). It will be chaired by Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng. Working with him will be the following ministers: Mr Lim Hng Kiang (Health); Rear-Adm (NS) Teo Chee Hean
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    • 536 4 Guangzhou No 8 People’s Hospital handled ‘staggering’ number of cases Wire services GUANGZHOU A World Health Organisation (WHO) expert said yesterday that other countries had a lot to learn from the experience of China’s healthcare workers treating victims in the frontlines of the battle with Sars.
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    • 81 4 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Sars may cause Asia’s economies Hongkong, China, Singapore and others outside Japan to grow as much as 1 percentage point less than what economists previously forecast. The outbreak has prompted Morgan Stanley to cut its 2003 growth forecast for Asia outside Japan to 4.5
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    • 96 4 Bloomberg TOKYO Hundreds of Japanese have cancelled trips after their government told travellers last week to put off going to countries most affected by Sars. Falling travel demand in the world’s second-biggest economy is hurting travel agents and airlines. A decline in the 16 million Japanese who
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    • 104 4 Bloomberg HONGKONG Phone companies said that call traffic and Internet use surged as more people stayed at home to avoid Sars. Businessmen prevented from travelling and house-bound children playing online games contributed to a 30 per cent rise in broadband Internet traffic at Hutchison Global in the
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    • 61 4 Bloomberg JAKARTA T PT Garuda Indonesia, the country’s national airline, said it will cut flights to Singapore and Hongkong from today because travellers are cancelling bookings to avoid Sars. Garuda will cancel all flights from Medan in North Sumatra to Singapore from today and will reduce services
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  • GULF WAR II
    • BATTLE CENTRAL
      • 373 6 Wire services BAGHDAD “Gentlemen, we are now entering Baghdad International Airport, formerly known as Saddam International. Within few hours you will be seeing seeing coalition planes landing and taking off.” That was US army Captain John Whyte yesterday welcoming his troops to their prized
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      • 610 6 US forces’ lightning raid into Baghdad aims to demoralise Iraq’ Wire services BAGHDAD Dubbed Operation Thunder, the 25km incursion into Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday by US ground troops was swift and stealthy. It was “action replay” yesterday when the US army made
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    • LEADING MEN
      • 663 8 Jay Gamer to hold office till Iraqi leader is selected LONDON The last time General Jay Gamer of the US was posted to Iraq, the people didn’t want him to leave. But that was 12 years ago at the end of the Gulf War. Then,
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      • 23 8 One more statue of Iraqi President Saddam this one in Basra coming down on Saturday pulled by a British tank AP
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      • 80 8 DOHA, Qatar In an unusual action for a unit engaged in combat, the Marine Corps relieved top commander Joe W Dowdy in Iraq on Saturday. Col Dowdy was in charge of the 1 st Marine Regiment, one of the three major Marine Corps ground units fighting near
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      • 66 8 -AP NEW YORK NBC News correspondent David Bloom, who had been reporting on the war from the Iraqi desert, collapsed yesterday and died from a blood clot, the national television network said. The 39-year-old anchor of the weekend “Today” show was travelling with troops about 40km south
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    • BATTLE CENTRAL
      • 439 10 US State Dept fumes as Rumsfeld-picked teams work on post-war plan KUWAIT CITY A British newspaper report described yesterday how hundreds of American planners are already working away in Kuwait to shape the future of Iraq. “It’s Washington DC brought to the Persian Gulf,” one US
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      • 320 10  -  By Deepa Vijiyasingam A TWO-YEAR-OLD Silicon Valley start-up, Keyhole, which makes three-dimensional interactive maps has seen more than a million hits on its website since bombs started dropping on Iraq. Major television networks such as CNN and ABC are using the
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    • COMMENT
      • 1015 13  -  By ADELINE WOON I JUST did what you’re never supposed to do. I went to meet people whom I got to know on the Internet. Not only that, but I took a long-haul 20-hour flight to do so. And stopped by Hongkong en route
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    • 187 14 SAKS starts with Hi -like symptoms sucfj as 1 ever, headache, sore throat dry cough, shortness of breath. Protect your family now. CLOROX BLEACH kills 99.9% germs. Including the virus that causes SARS. Because Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) begins with flu-like symptoms, don’t take any chances. There are things
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  • Morning Rush
    • 446 15  -  Businessman aims to forge more S’pore-India techno-trade links B]L Deepa Vijiyasingam JUDGING Singapore companies as too slow to collaborate with Indian counterparts, a Singaporean venture capitahst-cum-technopreneur has launched the India Singapore (Asia Pacific) Technopreneurs Association (Instar). Launched in September last year in India and
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    • 145 16 BUZSTOP NTUC Income is cutting the bonuses that it pays to holders of its life insurance policies by up to 50 per cent. Income chief executive Tan Kin Lian attributed the cuts to low investment returns, which reduced the surplus that is
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    • 142 16 Port Dickson tax evaders FOREIGNERS who own property in Port Dickson owe around 1.4 million in unpaid property taxes. And Singaporean house owners there comprise the largest group of property tax defaulters among foreign property owners. Port Dickson Municipal Council president Jemal Zainal Kasim said the
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    • 164 16 Ad for kidney A SERIOUSLY ill dialysis patient has become so frustrated after a 10-year wait for a donor kidney that she has advertised for one in a newspaper, Australia’s The Sunday Tasmanian reported yesterday. Gaile, a 59-year-old Perth grandmother whose full name was withheld, reportedly
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 16 Bank workers counting bundles of Myanmar currency in Yangon as reports circulated yesterday that Myanmar was facing a banking crisis. This has led to a strict limit on withdrawals, a suspension of cheque and credit card services, no lending and a huge shortage of currency AFP
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    • 143 16 HDB owners who switch to a cheaper commercial bank loan have no protection from their flat being repossessed if they fail to pay their other debts. According to a report in today’s issue of The Business Times, HDB said that if a credit card
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    • 85 16 THREE months ago, Sing Tel unveiled a match-making service called MyCupid. This allows subscribers to get dates by entering their profiles and personal preferences into their cellphones, says a report in today’s issue of The Straits Times. The MyCupid service has attracted an overwhelming response. Almost 2,000
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    • 98 16 LAT-WP A LAYER of mud at the bottom of the harbour in New York may hold answers to health problems of the people who lived near the World Trade Center at the time of the 9/11 attacks. Scientists have been probing a Icm deep blanket of
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    • 84 16 PEOPLE in China get to watch a wide range of TV programmes every day, fed through thousands of interesting channels across the country. A recent report by the State Council Development Research Centre showed that China has more than 2,000 television stations all governmentcontrolled offering viewers 4,000
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    • 94 16 ANTI-SMOKING lobbyists in New Zealand were outraged when shops were found to be selling toy cigarettes and cigars that emit a white, smoke-like substance when puffed. Made by Chinese company Ming Shing, the packaging has no information about the ingredients, but warns it could be a
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  • Financial
    • 589 18 Jennie Chua deemed the right woman for CEO job Bloomberg SINGAPORE Ms Jennie Chua brought Singapore the Miss Universe pageant and the World Dental Congress when she worked for the tourism board in the 1980 s. Since last Wednesday, Ms Chua, 58, has been facing
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    • 236 20 UOB, DBS, OCBC will cope in medium term, says Moody’s -AFP SINGAPORE The ratings outlook for Singapore banks will remain stable in the medium term, but downward pressure on ratings is likely to increase over the longer term, US-based Moody’s Investors Service said. In its recently
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    • 425 20 The stock recommendation is the average of all the recommendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There Is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not every stock is followed by all the 29 brokers. Their recommendations are placed on a 1 to 5 points scale and
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    • 23 20 US$:S$1.779 S$2.791 EURO: S$1.910 S$: 67.41 YEN S$: RM2.136 S$: HK$4.384 S$: 24.23 BAHT S$: 4,999 RUPIAH •AS AT APRIL 4
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  • Comment
    • 795 21  -  By CONRAD RAJ I ABHOR bureaucracy. So when I came across Thomas Tham’s entanglement with government red tape, I felt sympathy. He related his woes in a letter to The Straits Times forum page. Mr Tham, a businessman whom I have
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  • Medical
    • 318 22 Reuters NEW YORK Getting enough folate in the diet and taking a folic acid supplement may “significantly reduce the risk” that women will give birth to a child with a cleft lip or palate, a new study has found. “The effect of the use of
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    • 121 22 Q Could menopause be the reason that women in their 50s start to lose hair? A Oestrogen level drops at the onset of menopause. As a result, there is a relatively higher level of androgens, or male hormones. This may cause hair to drop. Moreover, when oestrogen levels
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    • 46 22 Flat Rental for Foreigners Whole HDB Flats Low Rental sss Don’t Miss This Opportunity h/p: 9100 9203 6885 5325/6/7 6885 5315/6/7 Korean dramas are big business these days, with the South Korean tourism board cashing in on their location shoots. SAMUEL LEE reports from Jeju Island.
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  • Vocal
    • 239 23 THE breach of patient confidentiality at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) would seem like a comedy of errors if it were not for the fact that people’s rights and dignity were at stake. Professor Simon Shorvon and his senior partners in the
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    • 113 23 I REFER to Mr Leong Sze Hian’s letter, “Why does URA charge a fee?” (Streats, April 1), in which he asks why URA charges $520 to turn homes into offices. URA is currently carrying out a review to expand the home-office scheme to more areas.
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    • 300 23 I REFER to the letters, “Give us double-deckers” by Ms Abigail Tay (Streats, March 27) and “Ez-link overcharging continues’ by Mr Yong Kong Meng (Streats, March 25). We are glad that Ms Tay has noted that the frequency of services 156 and 159 increases during
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    • 168 23 AS a Secondary Three student, I disagree with some of the views given by Mr Han Jiamin in his letter “Students learn little through presure tactics” (Streats, April 4). Pressure is an inevitable facet of life, but pressure and competition propel us towards excellence. Excessive
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    • 64 23 I REFER to Sing Post’s plan to go public and its bid to tempt investors (Streats, April 1). My understanding is that Sing Post has exclusive legal rights to distribute letters and provide related services. It has been protected from competition. Now that Sing Post is
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    • 124 23 MY friend had MRI and CT scans done at Changi General Hospital but was refused a follow-up consultation because her referral letter from a polyclinic had lapsed for a year after her first consultation. She was not informed of this limit in the first place.
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    • 85 23 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at Sti‘eatS@S|l!l.COfW.S|g or write to The Editor, Streats. News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be
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  • EasyStreats
    • 108 24 FRENCH actress Juliette Binoche, 39, who plays a journalist in the film, Country of My Skull, currently shooting in Cape Town, South Africa, has decribed the experience so far as “emotional and demanding”, reported The Guardian. The film, co-starring Samuel L Jackson, covers the Truth and
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    • 84 24 LIV TYLER, following in her father’s footsteps, has made a move into music. She is singing in a duet, Shots Is Fired, with former Lemonheads singer Evan Dando for his single, Stop My Head, due out in May. The actress’ father, Steve Tyler, is the
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    • 109 24 THE highly-anticipated sequel to 1999’s The Matrix will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, when it will also be released worldwide, as well as in Singapore. The Matrix Reloaded stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishbume and Carrie-Anne Moss from the first movie, and
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    • 670 24  -  Yvonne Kwok THESPIANS would give an arm and a leg to talk to this man. And avid theatre goers will probably be more than willing to fork out a pretty penny to see Sir Derek Jacobi on stage in the flesh. The 64-year-old, who was personally
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    • Article, Illustration
      567 25  -  n I a' Ln A J B v Sharon Soh DURING the second week of the World Gourmet Summit 2003, two female guest chefs will come together at My Humble House to offer diners a taste of their culinary, and artistic, skills. One of them is Jenny Parton,
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    • 495 26 Streats will be holding four culinary workshops starting next week and were kicking off the series with paella. GREGORYLEOWteIIs you more about the Spanish rice dish ALMOST every country has that one dish that identifies it straightaway: sushi for Japan, fish and chips for England, and,
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    • 106 27 FRENCH Polynesia’s Partula snails, vital to our knowledge of evolution, have been nearly wiped out, the New Scientist says. i The snails exist nowhere else and have lived on an island time capsule, a “living lab”. Their death knell was sounded in 1974 when a snail
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 60 27 10pm, Channel i Andy and Tracy seem to have the perfect life good jobs, a happy marriage and a new house they want to fill with children. When Tracy suddenly needs emergency surgery, super-surgeon Jed Hill an old friend of Andy’s saves her life. But his hasty decision during
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      • 56 27 Bpm, Channel U In this new weekly interactive game show, hosts Quan Yifeng and Bryan Wong lead contestants around HDB estates to seek help from the residents to gather required items. If they come knocking at your door, be sure to help as you will stand a
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    • Happenin’
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        85 27 READ THE SMALL PRINT Wednesday till April 20; 11.30am-8pm, Monday till Saturday and 12pm-5.30pm on Sunday Utterly Art Exhibition Space (208, South Bridge Road, level two) Free Does size matter? Find out at the Printmaking Society’s annual exhibition which features 20 of its members’ works that are confined to
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      • 47 27 COFFEE MORNING Today, 10.30 am The Esplanade, Recital Studio Tickets at $ll from Sistic Start the week on a nostalgic note. TCR Music Station will perform Chinese classic tunes from the 30s to 60s, featuring popular oldies by artistes such as Bai Kuang and Zhou Xuan.
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    • 260 26 The first session of the Streats Culinary Workshop will feature paella from Viamar Spanish Restaurant, and dishes such as gazpacho. Date time: April 19 (sat), 3-spm. Fee: $2O for one, $3O for two people. Venue: Viamar, located at Esplanade Mall, #Ol-10/12, tel 6423-0900. Look out for the advertisement and registration
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    • 186 27 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 GOODWOOD PARK’S CONTINENTAL DELIGHTS DELIVERED TO YOUR DOORSTEP. Children will adore the yummy clown pizza and spaghetti from the Coffee Lounge. And no adult can resist Gordon Grill’s great culinary masterpieces like Duck
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 421 27 Yourdailyhoroscope JjP AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 ARIES MAR2I -APR 19 A happy body stimulates an active mind. Anticipate what’s about to happen and be on hand to get it started. Whatever your message, you’re skilled enough in the communication arts to deliver
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  • Sports
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      509 28 Ferguson feels Brazilian free to play because of Real’s powefjj Wire services LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson wants Real Madrid defender Roberto Carlos (right) to be banned for an alleged attack on a referee. United faces the Spanish giant in the first leg of a Champions League
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    • 326 28 MADRID Real Madrid’s Steve McManaman insists his team is bigger than Manchester United on and off the field. “This is the biggest club in the world, without a doubt,” the midfielder was quoted as saying by the Sunday Mirror. “We’re the biggest club with the biggest
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    • Article, Illustration
      430 29 Arsenal manager Wenger insists momentum is in his team’s favour -AFP BIRMINGHAM Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (below) refused to accept the momentum in the Premiership title race had swung in Manchester United’s favour, despite seeing it draw level with his side at the top of the table.
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    • 247 29 -afp LONDON West Ham manager Glenn Roeder insisted that there was no dispute between himself and controversial striker Paolo di Canio after the fiery Italian failed to even make it to the bench for the Hammers’ 1-1 draw away to Southampton. Roeder said there
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    • 416 30  -  Home United’s Sutee wears it to protect his fractured cheekbone By Tan Kim Han SINCE last week, Home United striker Sutee Suksomkit (below) has been wearing a mask. But it has nothing to do with severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). If you look at the black plastic
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    • 286 30 -AFP LONDON Portsmouth has moved to within two victories of securing a place in the Premiership. A 2-1 victory over Walsall on Saturday night left it three points above Leicester City with six games to go, and manager Harry Redknapp admitted: “If we don’t
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    • SOCCER
      • 110 30 -AFP MADRID Relegation-threatened Rayo Vallecano nearly pulled off the shock of the season in the Spanish league derby match against Real Madrid. But three late goals in the last five minutes gave leader Real Madrid a 3-1 victory on Saturday. Real stared defeat in the
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      • 86 30 -AFP ROME League leader Juventus strengthened its grip on the Serie A title by defeating local rival Torino 2-0 in a bad-tempered derby clash at the Delle Alpi stadium on Saturday. An own goal by Gianluca Comotto and a late header from Alessio Tacchinardi settled a scrappy contest
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      • 104 30 TAMPINES Rovers won the Mikasa Women’s Challenge Cup after beating Home United before guest-of-honour President SR Nathan at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Tampines edged out the defending champion 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in full-time. However, it was Home striker Tina Affida Nasmi,
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    • Article, Illustration
      468 31  -  Bowling maestro beats Englishwoman Penny to enter World Masters semis By Lim Han Ming SPORTSMAN of the Year Remy Ong (above) is on course to win his first world bowling title. Ong defeated Kirsten Penny of England 428-388 in two games to reach the semi-finals of the
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    • 208 31 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Dallas 108 Orlando 90 DALLAS With Tracy McGrady not fully fit, the Orlando Magic was overwhelmed by the Dallas Mavericks. The NBA’s leading scorer at 32.4 points per game, McGrady did not start on Saturday owing to a strained torso muscle. By the time the
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 45 30 IN THE LIVING ROOM BASEBALL: Major League: Oakland Athletics v Anaheim Angels (ESPN Ch 23, Bam). SOCCER: EPL: Fulham v Blackburn Rovers (Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 2.55 am). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Spanish League: Deportivo La Coruna v Real Sociedad (Star Sports Ch 24, spm).
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