Streats, 26 May 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats MONDAY, MAY 26, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg iwita <p» 111/03/2003
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  • 706 1  -  SIA, other companies agreeable to letting no-pay leave staff do temp work elsewhere B y Khushwant Singh A LONGSTANDING rule among many companies which prohibits their workers from taking up temporary work elsewhere could be the latest casualty of these troubled times. Singapore Airlines has taken the
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    • 30 1 OPTING for rules JANICE WONG wants guidelines for opt-out schemes gm 16 PAGE for play Transfer fees may be introduced in S-League, its COO David Sim tells TAN KIIVI HAN
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    • 103 1 t i S READ US DAILY elsewhere wm IP 5r TSi ir jr- s be 3t, but, 3, it is might a y 3 i frt v> ft source, ild be •uld help ork to offset msed by 5 no-pay s a month, enchment. nd no income ssistance to should
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  • Morning Rush
    • 604 2  -  A charge for the new vims screen will apply from July 1, unless the user makes effort to cancel service By. Janice Wong SOME subscribers of Pacific Internet (PacNet) are unhappy over the way the company is selling its anti-virus service. PacNet is using the
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    • 258 3 PANAMA CITY -The China-Taiwan dispute flares at any given opportunity, whether it be a bid by Taiwan to join the World Health Organisation or even a beauty pageant as the photographs illustrate. Ms Chen Szu-yu, 25, who represents Taiwan and registered with the Miss Universe
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    • 490 4  -  Advertising industry leader clarifies his comments about Streats’ 800,000 readership By_ Choong Choon Yee A LEADER of an industry group quoted in a Today newspaper article which queried the surge in Streats readership said he was perturbed about the exclusion from that report of positive remarks
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    • 300 4  -  By. Janice Wong IT is rather unusual to see a women’s group involved in beauty pageants, given that many people see them as just flesh parades. But Ms Woo Choon Mei (pictured left), 48, and Ms Lee Li Hwa (right), 45 of the Singapore
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    • 142 8 BUZZSTOP AP PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said a recession was unlikely to hit Singapore, despite the blow Sars has dealt the economy. Mr Goh said he believed that Singapore’s economy could grow 3 per cent to 4 per cent once
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 8 A South Korean bartender creating a ball of fire as he sprays alcohol from his mouth during a national competition in Seoul on Friday. Fourteen bartenders took part in the contest. The winner will represent South Korea at the finals in Dallas next February AP
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    • 112 8 $350,000 purchase A RECORD was set recently for the single largest purchase so far recorded for American Express platinum cards issued in Singapore. According to a report in today’s issue of The Business Times, an Amex platinum card holder “very recently” splurged $350,000 in the Bvlgari
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    • 134 8 Write better Chinese THE girls from CHIJ St Joseph’s Convent have been helping the boys from Montfort Secondary improve their Chinese by writing letters. Secondary 3 students from both schools used Chinese software to exchange letters about topics that ranged from their favourite pop stars
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    • 146 8 Windfall for lazy investor AN investment of $BO,OOO in 1986 yielded more than $lOO million in 1997 for Mr Denis Low. Now it looks like Mr Low, 51, is set to do it all over again even though he has “lazyitis”, The Straits Times
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    • 88 8 AP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that he would consider reshuffling his Cabinet following a dramatic leadership change in the largest ethnic Chinese political group. He said that he needed to analyse the possibility of a reshuffle before announcing any decision, the national news agency
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    • 94 8 AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is seeking a solution to longstanding territorial claims by Brunei over the Limbang area sandwiched between Brunei and Sarawak before he retires in October, the New Sunday Times reported yesterday. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir held talks on Saturday in Penang
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    • 97 8 AFP BANGKOK’S governor has unveiled construction plans for an electric railway encircling the Thai capital in a bid to ease its infamous traffic congestion. Governor Samak Sundaravej said that construction on the proposed 82.5 km system, to cost an estimated 41 billion baht (551.68 billion) could start
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    • 104 8 PENANG police got a rude shock when they found that a road accident victim trapped behind the steering wheel of his car was naked. According to The Star yesterday, the police were baffled as to why the victim, identified as a 43-year-old resident of Petaling Jaya in
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • 321 6  -  By_ Zubaidah Nazeer TO CAT lovers, the current culling of stray cats, being carried out in this Sarssensitive climate, looks like a case of “Give a cat a bad name and hang it.” The Cat Welfare Society (CWS) told Streats yesterday that they were disappointed with
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    • 49 6 Change from yesterday TREATED AND DISCHARGED 165 +1 IN HOSPITAL 9 -1 (IN CRITICAL CONDITION 5) -1 DEAD 31 TOTAL NO OF CASES 206* INDEX CASES 7 SUSPECT CASES 1 UNDER OBSERVATION 2 -1 UNDER HOME QUARANTINE 552 +24 includes one case who died from non-Sars causes
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  • Financial
    • 602 10  -  Insurance industry trying to dictate terms, say motor vehicle repairers B v Chita Kong Ho IF you were injured in an accident because someone else was negligent, and the guilty party’s insurer insisted you go for injury screening before the treatment is tendered out to the lowest
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    • 164 10 PREPARE for rainy days. That was Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s message to taxi drivers when he launched the Taxi Operators’ Savings Scheme at the Orchid Country Club yesterday. “We must all build up our individual reserves, not only to prepare ourselves for rainy
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    • 501 12 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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    • 463 13 -AP WASHINGTON The way Europeans see it, the popular eggplant parmesan sandwich sold in the US is a fraud because that cheese can only come from the Italian city of Parma. It is more than just a food fight over words because the European
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    • 435 15 Glaxo’s Gamier leads German list of‘greedy executives -AP FRANKFURT “Europe’s greediest manager!” was the headline in the Bild daily last week, placed next to a picture of GlaxoSmithKline’s chief executive Jean-Pierre Gamier. “He earns more in a year than his employees do during their whole
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    • 434 15 -AP NEWARK, New Jersey In June 2001, Prudential Financial manager Mark Stump handed Mr Jim Scott a framed photograph. “Do you know who that is?” he asked his colleague of 14 years in the Quantitative Management department. Mr Scott glanced at the tall blonde woman and
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    • 24 15 *AS AT MAY 23 US$: 551.723 Ss: RM2.205 552.820 Ss: HK54.526 EURO: 552.019 Ss: 24.34 BAHT Ss: 68.05 YEN Ss: 4,805 RUPIAH
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    • 425 11 Invest for the future and protect your present with free SARS cover. War, SARS and depressed economy These are the 3 reasons to invest now. It may sound strange, but the best time to invest is actually when the markets are low. In simple terms it's like buying property or
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  • Comment
    • 656 16  -  By JANICE WONG YOU go to a restaurant. During your meal, the waiter serves a drink you have not ordered. If you take it, must you pay for it? No, not if you’re in the US. The country’s Federal Trade Commission allows the recipient of
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  • Vocal
    • 475 17 I REFER to the report, “Deadly drug” (Streats, May 23). Bayer and the entire biological products industry continue to express deep sorrow to the haemophilia community over the devastating impact of HIV and Aids. We maintain that we acted responsibly, ethically and humanely to provide life-saving
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    • 152 17 I STRUGGLED out of my wheelchair and was walking with the aid of my frame in front of NUH Kent Ridge pharmacy on May 8 when a kind woman, seeing me wobbling, came to my aid. She asked where I was going. I told her
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    • 65 17 WE would like to thank Ms Amily Lim for the feedback given in her letter, “Three top-ups in two days” (Streats, May 22), and we sincerely apologise for the inconvenience experienced. We would appreciate it if Ms Lim could contact us at 1800-7799-345 so that
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    • 40 17 IN last Friday’s I Feel Good in Singapore supplement in Streats, a photo caption on Pg 5 priced Cargo Everyday Cushion Covers at $ll2 for three. In fact, they cost $l2 for three. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 248 18 AS we try to battle Sars through diligence, personal hygiene and sanitising our surroundings, it seems that even our stray animals are not to be spared. First, a cartoon strip in the print media portrayed the animals as carriers of Sars. Now, we read about
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    • 90 18 I APPLAUD the Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) for getting rid of strays in Singapore. We should be thankful as the number of stray cats in Singapore is increasing by leaps and bounds. Sterilisation alone cannot solve the problem. Shopping malls, hawker centres
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    • 159 18 WE refer to “Gift voucher puzzle” (Streats, May 21), a letter by Jason Phoon. We would like to thank Mr Phoon for bringing the matter concerning gift vouchers to our attention. The Body Shop has introduced different vouchers and we regret that our staff at City
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    • 85 17 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg 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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  • Medical
    • 244 20 LONDON Women suffering from rheumatoid arthritis who experience depression are that way because of social stress rather than because of arthritis, a British study has found. A research team from the University of Manchester found that stress from divorce or caring for a sick relative were
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    • 137 20 LONDON Cats were previously thought to cause health problems for asthmatics but a study has now pointed the finger at dogs. BBC News Online reported last Tuesday that a team from the Penn State College of Medicine studied how 809 adults with asthma reacted
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    • 111 20 Q Unpolished rice comes in different colours such as yellow, brown and red. Are they equally nutritious? A The difference in the colours of grains is due to the different colour pigments in the bran of the grains. In terms of nutritional value, they are similar. Mr Lim
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    • 263 20 Don’t Gamble on Your SAT'GMAT'GRE’TOEFL To avoid the risk of being rejected by their choice University, thousands of students and MBA applicants come to High Q (Singapore) every year for help in getting a high score. Since 1983, High Q has guided over 250,000 students worldwide to improve their scores
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    • 152 21 your her world 4 m mum august 2003 $6.20 INDEPENDENC s l HsMgMi SEX TOYS V S'V THE FASHION ISSUE isiMMHBiiB SBIWM ■y. i’ A as H -*vio J&&' ,i' J* •IE V 1 'GHES FROM ALLURE CHARIX Don V the Wedding Show of the Year Venue: The Island Ballroom,
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  • Global
    • Article, Illustration
      46 22 A queue of Iraqis waiting for salary payments being reflected in the sunglasses of a US soldier outside a bank in central Baghdad on Saturday. Hard-pressed utilities workers were expecting their first wages from the government since the US-led offensive in Iraq Reuters
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    • 499 22 BAGHDAD Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and members of his family are likely to prove very difficult for the Americans to lay their hands on. Thousands of safe houses such as the one that London’s Daily Telegraph discovered at Arasat A 1 Hindi last
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    • 490 23 Test results on the herd where one cow had BSE may be available today -ap TORONTO Canadian investigators placed three more Alberta farms under quarantine on Saturday in search of North America’s first case of mad cow disease in a decade. Alberta Agriculture Minister Shirley McClellan
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    • 128 23 BEIJING An 85-year-old Chinese woman has successfully sued a neighbour who claimed she was not a virgin. The elderly spinster, Ms Zeng, was awarded 2,000 yuan (Ss4l7) compensation and the neighbour was ordered to apologise, Ananova.com reported on Friday, quoting China Daily. The lawsuit had been
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    • 366 23 -AFP TUBAS, West Bank Mr Azem Daraghma always dreamt that his daughter Hiba (pictured), a talented and calm teenager, would obtain a diploma in English. Instead, she blew herself up in a suicide attack that killed three others last Monday. “She used to
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    • 208 24 n I SS a» A PRODIGY S ,UNTS SfH,' -V ia*! -a:-', m m m m. i Wk ss Hi s SYDA (2003) is all about encouraging and celebrating the spirit of creativity. It is the only nation-wide competition that exists currently to provide a platform for young playwrights and
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  • EasyStreats
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      597 25 YVONNE KWOK details the quirky habits of the two highly effective hosts of Channel ITs newest variety show, Top 10 WITH two “gila” (crazy) hosts such as Adrian Pang and Kym Ng, it’s hard not to go “gila” on the sets of Top 10, Channel U’s newest variety
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    • 123 25 Wire services IT’S been a good week for wedding gown designer Vera Wang (pictured). She got more mileage this week when former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s bride, Judith Nathan, 47, wore a Wang gown designed at their wedding on Saturday. But Ms Wang’s bubble was
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    • 155 25 -AP A RHYTHMIC mix of belly-dancing and Middle Eastern flair propelled Turkey’s Sertab Erener (pictured) to the annual Eurovision Song Contest title in a tight battle that came down to the last vote on Saturday. Belgium took a close second, followed by Russian duo Tatu,
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    • 597 26  -  Maintaining its high culinary standards is how one finedining Italian restaurant is seeing through the bad times By Gregory Leow THE past three months have seen nine high-profile restaurants close due to the sluggish economy and Sars. But Senso head chef Diego Chiarini is confident that
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    • 115 27 THERE was one desperate little cloudburst amid the heat of yesterday afternoon, and today will be much the same. Temperatures: 26°C-34°C. High tides: 2.2 m (8.09 am) and 2.3 m (8.52 pm). The New Paper reported on Friday that someone saw a brief waterspout off the
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 50 27 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Former basketball star Dennis Rodman is Simon, an Interpol agent called into action when his friend’s daughter is abducted. To track down the kidnappers, he seeks the assistance of a pair of monks (John Pinette and Ricky Harris) who are experts in computer sleuthing.
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      • 48 27 10.45 pm, Channel U Pengfei is suspected of murdering Fengxia and when he escapes from detention, everyone firmly believes that he is indeed the culprit. When he comes across Jixiang and Renjie, he shoots them and is knocked down by a vehicle while trying to escape.
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    • Happenin’
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        68 27 FANTASY OF CARMEN Tomorrow and Wednesday, Bpm DBS Arts Centre (20 Merbau Road, Robertson Quay) Tickets at $66, $5l and s36from Sistic (call 6348-5555) Flamenco dance legend Yoko Komatsubara (right) choreographs and produces The Sol de Espana Dance Company in a dancestory about a woman so pure to her
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      • 63 27 MINDPOWER Tomorrow, 2pm Thai Village Restaurant (26Amber Close, #Ol-00, Sea View Hotel) Tickets at $5l from Ticket Charge (call 6296-2929) Mindpower is a board game that lets participants discover how their brains work so that they can improve their learning, thinking and creative skills. By using both sides of
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    • 74 27 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191-Please check with organisers for latest status of events. a bad thing when you see the rewards that come from it. them. Start a trend of generosity that will magnify as it goes around.
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 438 27 Yourdailyhoroscope Jp AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEBIB by Kelli Fox at Astrology. < PISCES FEB 19 -MAR 20 Penetrate the confusion with your own strange sense of order. Original ideas seem unwelcome, but you’re about to change that. Put your two cents into the pot and see if there’s enough to buy everyone
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  • Sports
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      672 28  -  Transfer fees maybe introduced in S-League to protect smaller clubs By' Tan Kim Han S-LEAGUE clubs may soon have to pay transfer fees if they want to poach footballers from other clubs. The transfer system aims to compensate smaller clubs financially when their talented, home-grown youngsters move
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    • 304 28 Reuters CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL Juventus v AC Milan MILAN Italy will glow with pride when Juventus and AC Milan meet in the Champions League final in Manchester on Wednesday (Thursday morning, Singapore time), but the rest of the world is simply hoping for a spectacle
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    • 390 29 -AFP NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL New Jersey 102 Detroit 82 (New Jersey wins best-of-seven series 4-0) EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey Jason Kidd (above) and the New Jersey Nets ran right past the Detroit Pistons and back into the National Basketball Association finals. Kidd collected
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    • 829 30 Top seeds Hewitt and Agassi face fearsome opposition in Paris Reuters PARIS Top-and-tailing the French Open draw, Lleyton Hewitt (below) and Andre Agassi know they face a mammoth task this week as a legion of Latin baseliners look to bury the favourites in Roland Garros clay. Former
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    • Article, Illustration
      461 31  -  Schoolteacher appointed new sailing head of Sports School By- Adam Hashidy THE future of Singapore sailing rests on his shoulders but James Tan (right) hardly feels the weight. Instead, the newly appointed sailing general manager of the Singapore Sports School, which will open its doors next year, is
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    • SOCCER
      • 88 31 >. AFP MADRID Two goals from Ronaldo helped Real Madrid beat Valencia 2-1 on Saturday and regain the leadership of the Spanish First Division, at least for 24 hours. The Brazilian’s brace means that Real now have 71 points from 35 games, with three games left
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      • 64 31 CANADIAN 2 For 1 Pizza Soccer Academy will be organising a soccer camp for boys and girls aged between four and 14 from June 23 to 25. Members will have to pay $lBO and non-members $2OO. The cost includes a set of Diadora jersey, shorts, socks, a CPSA
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    • 34 29 great marnm Bob Hope turns 100 on Thursday. ONG SOR FERN reveals 100 things about the entertainer. /,V > 'J FH Jf i J :v VW V mf: I p Vi ■> *4Wfc In Life! tomorrow
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    • 37 30 TheStraitsTimes esaa INCLUDES News, views, and hot gossip An all-Italian Champions League final. Will it be Juventus or AC Milan that emerges triumphant? Rob Hughes picks the winner in his preview. Only in The Straits Times tomorrow.
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 77 31 IN THE LIVING ROOM BASKETBALL: NBA Western Conference finals, Game Four: Dallas Mavericks v San Antonio Spurs (ESPN Ch 23, 8.30 am) SOCCER: Nationwide Division One Play-off final: Sheffield United v Wolverhampton Wanderers (Super Sports Plus Ch2l, 9.55 pm) TENNIS: French Open Day One (Super Sports Ch 22, spm) DELAYED
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