Streats, 14 January 2004

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  • 10 3 Streats Wednesday, January 14, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p> m/03/2003
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  • 503 3  -  Four burnt beyond recognition after explosion rips through workshop, setting it ablaze Khushwant Singh A. WOMAN at the Toa Payoh industrial es tate in Lorong 8 yesterday said she w ill never forget the horror she witnessed moments after a deafening fiery explosion in
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    • 123 3 WHO Mamasan LEE PHUI FUN didn’t pay tax on $325,000 booking fees PAGE 8 PAGE 20 Bachelorette MAGDALENE PHANG says ‘So what if I’m single?’ Sexy singer JILL HSU is ‘just experimenting’ PAGE 30 SHARE YOUR PAPER Va V/ fly from JOHOR BAHRU one way from Travel Period: 15 Feb-11
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  • Morning Rush
    • 248 4 FROM Friday, nine newspapers in the Singapore Press Holdings’ stable will cost more on the new? stands. This will ne the rirst increase since 1995. The price of The Straits Times will rise 20 cents to 80 cents and The Sunday Times 15 cents
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    • 484 4  -  Tenants shaken by blast in Toa Payoh M Khushwant Singh A PRINTING shop worker, Mrs Ou Yong, 48, said that yesterday’s explosion in the Toa Payoh industrial estate was so powerful that she thought a building there had collapsed.
      Pics: Francis Lee  -  484 words
    • 339 5  -  US beef ban, strong As, costly grain drive up prices By Sharlene Tan HOUSEWIFE Shirley Tan is thinking of cooking beef stew this Sunday, but is unsure whether to go ahead with this given the current mad-cow disease situation. But while the Agri-Food and Veterinary
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    • 326 6 Founder Larry Ellison ‘reined in’ as longtime CFO is made chairman SAN FRANCISCO Business software maker Oracle named its long-time chief financial officer Jeff Henley as chairman, replacing its colourful co-founder, Mr Larry Ellison, who will remain the company’s chief executive. AP reported that Mr Ellison also
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    • 192 6 Reuters SEATTLE Clients who use Novell Inc’s SuSE Linux software will be indemnified against legal action, the business software maker said on Monday. This is the latest in a string of steps to assure users that Linux won’t become a legal headache. Novell,
      – Reuters  -  192 words
    • 249 8  -  By Sharlene Tan PEOPLE who think they cannot spare much money for charity, should listen to what crooner Kit Chan has to say. The recording artiste and World Vision volunteer said: “You think you can’t help? Think again. Even a donation of a dollar is
      Uanhe Zaobao  -  249 words
    • 419 8  -  First booking commission tax case in court By J Ho Lian-yi A PUBLIC relations manager of Tiananmen KTV and lounge was a picture of remorse as she pleaded guilty to two charges of tax evasion yesterday. Lee Phui Fun, 48, who also uses the name
      Uanhe Zaobao  -  419 words
    • 373 8  -  By Sarah Ng MADAM Azizah Abdul Samad (above) and Mrs Nancy Ong used to think that jobs in textile and garment factories are low-tech and low-paying. But they no longer think so, after having gone through a training programme that equips them with
      Uanhe Zaobao  -  373 words
    • 121 10 BUZZSTOP THE latest Straits Times Consumer Confidence Index shows that for the first time in over a year, Singaporeans have become more confident of their job prospects and the economy. The index shows that some Singaporeans have become so confident that more have
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 10 Mrs Janet Lim, 25, pointing to holes on her wall caused by renovation contractors working in her neighbour's flat on the other side. She discovered them in her Tampines Street 41 flat when she returned from work yesterday. Mrs Lim, who called Streats’ news hotline (tel 1800-844-5566), said
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    • 138 10 S’pore’s medical hub status A TEAM of 10 doctors from Shanghai, who visited the Parkway Group Healthcare’s hospitals on Saturday, left feeling impressed with the personalised care given to patients there. Their five-day trip here was supported by Singapore Tourism Board (STB), which hopes to
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    • 150 10 Rising crude oil prices Reuters OPEC’S president yesterday appealed for high-flying oil markets to stabilise as signals grew that sustained price strength will make it hard for the cartel to enact an expected supply cut next month. US crude has blazed to 10-month highs, topping
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    • 148 10 Go easy, says WHO -AP CHINA cleared a sick businessman yesterday of having Sars as the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that the country’s health-care system would be overloaded if everyone with cold or flu symptoms were treated as a potential Sars case. The businessman was
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    • 85 10 -AFP A MAJOR power outage in a key business centre in Kuala Lumpur left hundreds of offices, shopping centres and hotels without electricity for hours yesterday. “There is an electricity failure at the 33-kV power distribution centre in Raja Chulan Road,” said an official with the state-owned
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    • 101 10 Reuters BRITAIN’S worst mass murderer, Harold Shipman, was found hanging dead in his cell yesterday, prison officers said. Shipman, nicknamed Dr Death, was convicted in 2000 of murdering 15 of his patients and sentenced to life in prison. An inquiry later ruled he had murdered at least
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    • 91 10 Reuters POLICEMEN in north India are being encouraged to keep a hairy upper lip. They are being offered an extra 30 rupees (S$ 1.20) a month to grow a moustache to give them more authority, a newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Mayank Jain, a superintendent with the Madhya Pradesh
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    • 79 10 Reuters WHITE socks have been declared indecent by the Dutch Finance Ministry. A ministry official yesterday confirmed that a recent internal publication proclaimed that white sports socks “transgress the limits of decent dress behaviour” for ministry employees. The officials are also expected to wear dark blue or
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  • Financial
    • 444 12  -  Cathay Org’s budget hotel offers nightly movie screenings and Saturday BBQs -§v Sujin Thomas CATHAY Organisation Holdings will offer a “no frills, just fun” budget hotel with its move into the hospitality industry and the formation of its new subsidiary, Hangout Hotels. To be opened in April,
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    • 295 12 SINGAPORE Air Asia CEO Tony Fernandes sparked some confusion yesterday. He said in Bangkok in the afternoon that Thai Air Asia had received permission to begin flights in March between Bangkok and Singapore. But the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) issued
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    • 93 12 -AP SINGAPORE US computer maker Hewlett-Packard will spend US$l billion (S$ 1.7 billion) in Singapore over the next five years to expand and upgrade its manufacturing, the firm said yesterday. The Palo Alto, California-based company said in a statement that the investment will allow it
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    • 67 12 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia won’t change the ringgit’s peg to the US dollar, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday. “If fundamental changes happen... then of course we have to reconsider,” he said. “At the moment, it provides stability and also helps predictability.” Last week, Trade
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    • 112 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Capita Land Ltd, South-east Asia’s biggest developer, said that it is seeking three-quarters of its earnings from overseas investments in the next five years, compared with 55 per cent in the first nine months of 2003. The stock rose to a 20-month high. The developer
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    • 88 12 Reuters BANGKOK Accelerating economic growth in Asia is arousing interest in property deals, with Bangkok, Hong Kong, New Dehli and Bombay likely to be the hottest cities this year, a survey by consultants Jones Lang Lasalle showed. An “investment sentiment survey” of developers, property funds and
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    • 497 14 Export figures put focus on accuracy of official numbers Reuters MANILA Philippine economic data? Pass the salt, many analysts say. From the size of the debt pile to the economy’s performance, those who track the nation tend to view numbers flowing from government agencies with scepticism
      – Reuters; AFP  -  497 words
    • 237 14 -AFP YANGON Myanmar has imposed a sudden, six-month ban on rice exports in an apparent bid to curb public discontent by keeping prices down, sources said. The ban, effective from Jan 1, was discovered by traders only when their goods were blocked from
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    • 310 17 But Washington risks tensions with EU Reuters GENEVA US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick (right) is trying to breathe life into struggling WTO free trade talks, making it clear that he does not want 2004 to be a “lost year”. But Washington risks tensions with
      – Reuters; AFP  -  310 words
    • 375 17 STI: 1,861.56 19.07 Reuters SHARES finished higher yesterday as investors bought technology and property stocks such as City Developments on hopes of better prospects this year. The Straits Times Index closed up 1 04 per cent, or 19.07 points, at a day-high of 1,861.56. The
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    • 26 17 *AS AT JANUARY 13 U S$: 551.695 s s: RM2.242 553.128 Ss: HK54.580 EURO: 592.161 Ss: 22.96 BAHT Ss: 62.86 YEN Ss: 4,918 RUPIAH
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    • 141 17 Reuters NEW YORK Mr Jeff Stein, deputy chairman of KPMG, has been removed from his position, the accounting firm said on Monday. It added that it will also carry out staff changes in its tax services department. This comes just weeks after KPMG was criticised
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    • 473 18 Fashion shows, trade exhibitions and a batik-themed street carnival to drive demand at home and abroad -AP KUALA LUMPUR Decked in batik blouses and sarongs, four teenage girls stride down a fashion show catwalk, seemingly straight out of a village. Statuesque models follow in a
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  • Comment
    • 915 20  -  By MAGDALENE PHANG ENOUGH is enough. So I love travelling, I drive my own car, I live in my own home and I’m single. So what? That doesn’t give people with children the right to label singles like me and married graduates who are not
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    • 426 20 Air Transport Training College, I the training arm of Singapore Institute of Aerospace Engineers, invites applications for the following courses: MASTER OF Business Administration (Aviation Management) Master program offered jointly by Royal Melbourne Institute of Techno! (RMIT) and Air Transport Training College (ATTC) MBA (Aviation Management) is well received in
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    • 456 21 w tl/litOuMl y JnliUnn I s O I ITCH I O 1 0 S 1 21 Jan 2004 ce^ V DID YOU KNOW? jV* *5? The largest Lantern Festival CD celebration took place in the early part A ■J r' of the 15th Century, during the reign CD of Emperor
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  • Vocal
    • 432 22 I AM distressed by the opinion expressed in Jill Lim’s commentary, “Hurrah for Mars, now get back to Earth” (Streats, Jan 13). I am not a fanatic obsessed with scientific discoveries or breakthroughs. But I appreciate history and I see the danger of endorsing an
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    • 274 22 SPACE missions have relevance to Earth in other areas apart from the issue of finding water. The existence of water now or some time in the past may indicate that life existed on the planet. If so, it would have wide implications for many
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    • 183 22 I WAS surprised to read the report, “Not all tax defaulters are poor” (Streats, Jan 13), and also perplexed by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore’s (Iras) inability to collect taxes from those who can afford to pay but do not. A case in point is
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    • 226 22 I REFER to Ms Jean Tan’s reply, “MOM has new measures to improve maids’ welfare” (Streats, Jan 5). I would like to question why the foreign domestic worker (FDW) levy needs to be channelled into the Government’s consolidated fund. It is wrong to use money
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    • 85 22 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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  • Global
    • 319 24 Bush pursuing undesirable dream of US Supremacy, says billionaire Soros Reuters WASHINGTON Billionaire fund manager George Soros, who plans to spend millions of dollars to try to prevent George W Bush from being reelected in November, said on Monday that the US president was pursuing an
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    • 80 24 AP Mr Lucas Tomas, 22, lying on the grass with Quique, a lion, at the Buenos Aires zoo in Argentina on Sunday. Mr Tomas scaled a wall and jumped into the lion’s pit where he held out his jacket like a bullfighter’s cape and challenged the
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    • 210 24 MONTERREY, Mexico US President George W Bush seemed to indicate on Monday that he was intent on invading Iraq long before the Sept 11 attacks triggered a more aggressive US foreign policy. Mr Bush was speaking during a visit to Mexico, in his first
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    • 216 24 LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a crucial three weeks ahead. In Parliament on Monday, he was accused of having something to hide over the report into the death of government weapons expert David Kelly. The report is due at the end of
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    • 319 26 Most Islamic teachers want illegal schools registered, says minister BANGKOK The Thai Education Ministry is seeking to regulate illegal private Islamic schools in the country’s south, according to a newspaper report. More than 100 of the schools exist in Songkhla, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces
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    • 59 26 A copy of a baby's footprint, taken after its birth in 1925 at Beijing's Concorde Hospital. The hospital is researching whether there is a link between a baby's development in the womb and illness as it ages. It will study those born there from 1921 to 1941, and
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    • 249 26 JAKARTA Indonesia views Australia’s decision to consider buying naval destroyers equipped with long-range anti-missile systems as aggressive, a news agency report said yesterday. The Australian Associated Press quoted Mr Djoko Susilo, a member of the Indonesian parliament’s commission for security, defence and foreign affairs,
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  • Medical
    • 289 28 AP WASHINGTON People who think that ephedra, also known as ma huang, has helped them lose weight are looking to new ingredients with names such as guarana, bitter orange and green tea extract to replace the soon-to-be-banned dietary supplement. But there’s little proof yet that ephedra alternatives
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    • 99 28 QCan a person with a slipped disc climb stairs (120 steps daily) as a form of exercise? A Yes, if the person does not encounter any pain or discomfort while doing so. Dr Teh Kong Chuan, director, Sports Medicine and Sports Science, Singapore Sports Council The answers provided
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  • EasyStreats
    • 595 30 Taiwanese singer Jill Hsu has moved from sweet to sexy in just over a year, GARY LIM reports HER transformation from a sweet young thing to a sex siren came in just more than a year of the release of her debut album. “Just experimenting,” came
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    • 132 30 Reuters ABOUT 100 Indian Muslims, including clerics and scholars, demonstrated in Mumbai on Monday to denounce Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie’s holiday visit to India. They shouted slogans such as “Hang Salman Rushdie”, “Kill Salman Rushdie” and “Expel Salman from India now”. The Booker Prize-winning author was
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    • 86 30 THE finale for the HBO series, Sex and City, is reportedly a terribly hush-hush affair, but it will probably be an emotional one. There are just six episodes left to be shown in the US, and the one shown on Sunday had the sexy
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    • 116 30 THE cast of hit sitcom, Friends, which will see its final episode aired in the US in May, have been given a staggering US$2 million (553.39 million) each to film a special 90-minute reunion, which will be shown in the US in November. Said
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    • 129 32 Reuters AFTER 20 years as one of TV’s most beloved and enduring snobs, Kelsey Grammer will soon be leaving his Frasier persona behind for good. NBC announced on Monday that Frasier, which won Emmy awards for best comedy for five years in a row, will
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    • 294 32 Wire services CALIFORNIA After several hours holed up in a posh Beverly Hills hotel, Michael Jackson’s closest advisers announced on Monday that the singer’s finances were going to be “just fine”. Jackson is out on bail of US$3 million (Sss.l million). Reports earlier last year had hinted
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    • 247 34 Reuters ZURICH Chocolate and cheese are possibly the best known Swiss culinary delights, but in a longstanding tradition in some rural parts, puppies and kittens spice up the menu. While in most of Europe, eating man’s best friend is prohibited, the Swiss bar only the trade
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    • 132 34 Reuters LONDON Beyonce Knowles (right) and Christina Aguilera will go head to head in a “Battle of the Divas” at the Brit Awards, the British record industry’s ultimate accolade, with Kylie Minogue also in the running. But conspicuously absent from the shortlist are Britney Spears and Madonna.
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    • 171 34 BILL Nighy (right), who many say stole the show in Love Actually he plays an ageing rocker doing a Christmas remake of the song Love is All Around You is set to star in the long-awaited film version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. The
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    • 111 36 It’s supposed to be summer in Australia, but people in New South Wales are being told to brace for hailstones. The Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday that the weatherman expected the hits to be severe, with damaging winds, heavy rain and possibly large hail. He advised
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 50 36 10pm, Central Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until taken under the wing of an older and wiser detective, Sato. Together, they track the culprit.
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      • 47 36 9pm, Channel U Haoxue decides to take the initiative in pleasing Xueqi and buys him tea. However, a client’s wife makes a fool of her, resulting in her embarrassing Xueqi once again. She learns computer skills from Chaoming but ends up spoiling Xueqi’s computer.
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    • Happenin’
      • 77 36 X-MEM SHOW Tomorrow till Feb 15, llam-6pm on weekdays and 12pm-6pm on weekends Sculpture Square Chapel Gallery (155, Middle Road, tel 6333-1055); Free Zai Kuning presents installation works inspired by the late Kuo Pao Kun. He will be employing three bodybuilders to shoulder a big log of wood weighing
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      • Article, Illustration
        67 36 KAM NING PLAYS BERNSTEIN Saturday, 730 pm Esplanade Concert Flail Tickets from $l2 to $74.75 from Sistic Singaporean violinist Kam Ning takes centrestage in Leonard Bernstein’s lyrical and rhythmic Violin Serenade. The programme also includes the Singapore premiere of Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, Op 20 and Tchaikovsky’s Suite No
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    • 707 35 A m TRUE STORY I gained a better bustline in weeks. Article courtesy of The New Paper on Sunday, December 14, 2003 morning.' \ook into the mirror and see a larger, fuller and firmer bustime y developing- Wow Rufin Wong Like Rufin (featured in The New Paper), thousands of Singaporeans
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 465 36 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 An outsider steps into your picture and brightens it. The stars encourage unconventional methods and innovative thinking. You’re free to go after what you want and what you need. Repetition isn’t always the most effective method
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      521 38  -  Two Nigerians start training with national squad %y_ Darren Goh TWO Nigerian youngsters Kazeem Babatunde and Nwokolo Greg Godwin joined the Young Lions football squad for their first training session yesterday. But Babatunde, 20, and Godwin, 18, are no Johnny-come-latelys. Both have won a few championships back home.
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    • 298 38 Wire services LONDON Chelsea defender John Terry revealed how a pep talk from Roman Abramovich inspired Sunday’s 4-0 Premier League rout at Leicester on Sunday. Chelsea’s multi-billionaire owner spent 40 minutes talking to the players individually following last week’s home defeat to Liverpool but
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    • 506 40 Midfielder Butt to leave Manchester United in search of first-team football Wire services MANCHESTER England midfielder Nicky Butt appears set to leave Manchester United after asking manager Alex Ferguson for a move. Ferguson told The Sun: “Nicky Butt has asked to leave, it is a very
      – Wire services; Reuters  -  506 words
    • 267 40 Wire services LONDON Liverpool striker Emile Heskey (below) knows that his “future is on the line” as he prepares to fight Auxerre striker Djibril Cisse for a place in the Anfield line-up. Heskey’s contract expires at the end of next season, and
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    • 220 40 .-AFP BEIJING Chinese football sensation Dong Fangzhou (below) has joined Manchester United in a deal worth £3.5 million (Ssll million), Dalian Shide club’s general manager Lin Lefeng said yesterday. He said: “The contract was signed last Saturday here in Dalian. The price was £3.5
      .-AFP  -  220 words
    • 523 42  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT WHEN Singapore’s No 1 golfer Lam Chih Bing slipped after an openingday seven-under 65 but still managed to win almost $14,000 at the Okinawa Open last month, his fans harboured hopes that a bright new year lay ahead for
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    • 265 42 Reuters NEW DELHI Golfers are planning to take over the running of the Asian Tour because of what they describe as poor promotion by organisers, an Indian professional who is part of the effort said yesterday. Amandeep Johl said a new Singapore-registered body
      – Reuters  -  265 words
    • Article, Illustration
      501 45  -  MacArthur, Barker to participate in future Singapore Straits regattas s*/ Lim Han Ming Ellen macarthur, the solo round-the-world yachtswoman, and Dean Barker, the captain of Team New Zealand a t the 2003 America’s Cup, may sail in future Singapore Straits regattas. This is one of the ways to
      Ashlelgh Slot  -  501 words
    • 284 45 Reuters NBA CHAMPIONSHIP New York 121 Dallas 127 (OT) New YORK Allan Houston tried to lake the heat off struggling coach Don Chaney after an overtime blunder sent the New York Knicks to another defeat °n Monday. With 28.5 sec left and Knicks
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    • 101 45 GOLF AFP WASHINGTON American superstar Tiger Woods picked up U *****,000 (*****,000) for his fourth-place finish in the season opening PGA Tour event, propelling him over the US$4O million mark in career earnings. Woods finished the Mercedes Championship in Kapalua, Hawaii, at 15-under 277 to tie South Africa’s
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 124 45 Wire services LONDON Chelsea star Juan Sebastian Veron and his girlfriend were robbed in their home by a machete maniac. Terrified Veron handed over £50,000worth (S$ 156,000) of gems after the robber held a machete to his throat. Veron, 28, said last night that waking to see the
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      • 100 45 -AFP LONDON Manchester United are expected to make an improved offer for Fulham’s Louis Saha after the London club turned down an £8 million (Ss2s million) bid last week. The Sun newspaper quoted Saha’s agent Branko Stoic as saying that United manager Alex Ferguson will
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