Today, 14 December 2000

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    12 1 TODAY miimim us *****0 December 14,2000 II U 1" S Cl 3.V
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    Singaporean nailed by his own e-mail
    113 1 CALL it stupid. Call it crazy. A Singaporean man did do it. He stole a palm top, a handphone and credit cards from a trolley in Alexandra Road. Then he tried to extract money from the victim through an email only to get caught
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  • Article
    Bomb stuck to vessel
    47 1 A DREDGING vessel off the the coast of Changi East is now a hive of activity. A bomb was found stuck at the head of the vessel, Professor Gorjunov on Monday at 5.42pm. Two days later, operations to dislodge it were still ongoing.
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    Al Gore-d by deadline
    487 1 Not enough time for a recount, decides Supreme Court IT is now 99 per cent certain that George W Bush will be the next President of the United States. But it is 100 per cent certain that the world's most powerful man will have to live
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    In Singapore, of all places...
    394 1  -  Mahesha Thenabadu by_ HE has travelled through 21 countries in five continents to raise money for charity. But in safe-asa-vault Singapore, British biker Simon Milward awoke yesterday morning to find the front brake of his handbuilt motorcycle missing. Milward, who is in Singapore as part
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon China angry on US quotas
      97 2 Reuters BEIJING China reacted with indignation yesterday to a US decision to tighten import quotas on Chinese textiles. "We strongly demand that the US government reconsider its decision to reduce the quota, thus averting possible damage to China-US trade relations," Xinhua news agency quoted a
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      Lock icon Mothers as teachers
      321 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim They set up website to make schools fun for kids by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg IT all began when a group of mothers started grumbling about the primary school education system. And it culminated in the launch of a website. The mothers might even take on assistant
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      Middle finger cabbie jailed
      203 2 A CABBIE'S road rage landed him in jail yesterday. The court heard that on April 4 this year, at about 9pm on Yio Chu Kang Road, cabbie Low Eng Whye showed the middle finger as he overtook lorry driver Mr Hang Cheow Pong. Mr Han, 64,
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      Call centre boost
      133 2 IT'S an industry that's expected to grow to over US$5B billion ($100.7 billion) in the next three years. Yet customer service agents at call centres here don't see any future in their jobs. Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) hopes to change all that. NYP's strategy, through its School of
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      15-year-old held in drug swoop
      177 2 AN aggressive islandwide drug bust netted 201 suspected drug offenders on Tuesday. The youngest arrested was 15-year-old and the oldest 60. Two others in their 20s were also arrested at Serangoon North for trafficking ecstacy pills. Codenamed Operation Dragnet, the 19-hour operation led by Central
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      Lock icon 'Let Anwar go for treatment'
      466 3 Agencies Specialist spinal treatment not available in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR Jailed ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim should be allowed to travel abroad for a delicate spinal operation, his supporters said. They argued that the operation, if improperly conducted, could leave Anwar, 53, paralysed. Anwar has been
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      NTUC to distribute free textbooks
      207 3  -  Mahesha Thenabadu by_ NTUC Fair Price hopes to distribute used textbooks to over 8,000 needy students from various schools and welfare organisations. Over the past two weeks, the supermarket chain's annual community service project has collected a total of 100,000 books from the public. Unfortunately,
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      Open session on using CPF for investments
      246 3  -  Ng Hwee Koon by hweekoon@newstoday.com.sg COME Jan 1, the Central Provident Fund (CPF) will free up at least $12.3 billion from the Special Accounts for investment purposes. That amount is from CPF contributions of 1.6 million members up to June this year. Do
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      SMRT apologises for delayed train service
      90 3 THE MRT train service between Jurong East and Boon Lay was delayed for about 40 minutes yesterday morning. There was a point machine failure between the two stations from 7.45 am to 8.24 am, the SMRT said. Point machines are used to switch moveable
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      Forensic aid
      405 4  -  Shazalina Salim Expert to help set up ChaoTzee Cheng professorship by shazalina@newstoday.com.sg A WORLD-RENOWNED forensic expert is here to help set up the Chao Tzee Cheng Professorship in Pathology and Forensic Science. The professorship, launched early this year, needs $1.5 million so that the income generated from the
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      Fun weekend for the kids
      114 4 THEY'RE not just licking stamps at the Singapore Post Centre. This weekend (Dec 16 and 17), make a trip to the futuristic building next to the Paya Lebar MRT station. It will play host to Funtasia 2000. There will be loads of children's activities, entertainment
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      Lock icon Michelle Yeoh kicks her way into 200 children's hearts
      204 4  -  Hazel Tan by: hazel@newstoday.com.sg MICHELLE Yeoh kicked her way into Singapore and partied with more than 200 children from several non-profit organisations at a Christmas party yesterday. Partly because she has a soft spot for children. Partly because of her second
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      Win tickets to Christmas musical
      149 4 CELEBRATE the spirit of Christmas with Caldwell Arts Entertainment's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Critics have called the musical a true and inspiring story about the real meaning of Christmas. It tells the story of a young, crippled shepherd and his mother, who are visited
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      104 4 READ 0N... Ailing Taiwan banks up for grabs Singapore banks unlikely to be keen on them/7 India's eunuchs as debt collectors They have a high success rate in getting debtors to pay up/8 Peru was Japanese prefecture for 10 years? Peruvians fume over news that Fujimori has Japanese citizenship/14 Bigger
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Is Speakers' Corner for demos?
      315 6  -  S. Ramamirthan I REFER to a report in TODAY (Dec 12) about Sunday's human rights gathering. On the occasion, the Secretary General of the Singapore Democratic Party, Dr Chee Soon Juan and several opposition members and members of Think Centre were reported to have taken
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      Not our employee
      101 6 PLEASE note that your report "Steam boiler fire: Three still in ICU" (Dec 12) is inaccurate. In paragraph four, you have stated that a fourth worker, Ng Kok Eng, is also in hospital in a general ward. Please note that we do not have such an employee
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      Kudos to scheme from NTUC Income
      112 6  -  Lin Pei KUDOS to NTUC Income for coming up with a scheme to assist members of the public, by checking the travel and identification documents and work permits of potential tenants, to ensure their legal status. Once again, Mr Tan Kin Lian, NTUC Income's
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      Singaporeans know it's JBJ's old song
      140 6  -  Lionel De Souza I REFER to the article in TODAY (Dec 12) captioned "JBJ Refuted". The abolition of the Internal Security Act (ISA) is apparently an old song which Mr JB Jeyaratnam enjoys singing whenever the general election is approaching. Gathering from recent newspaper
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Taiwan banks? Maybe not
      313 7  -  Lee Yew Meng Local banks may not buy out troubled counterparts By yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL banks are unlikely to jump in to buy financially troubled Taiwanese banks, the way they did in Thailand and the Philippines. Analysts said although the Taiwanese government has agreed to allow 100
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      Lock icon Japanese slide in confidence
      139 7 Bloomberg TOKYO Japanese business confidence stalled this quarter after two years of improvement and may slide in the first three months of next year. The Bank of Japan quarterly Tankan survey's main index showed confidence among large manufacturers was unchanged at 10 points in December. Economists
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      Lock icon India's eunuchs as debt collectors
      766 8 Bloomberg News The "third sex" has 60 per cent success rate getting debtors to pay MUMBAI In medieval India, eunuchs kept watch over royal harems so the king's consorts didn't fall prey to sexual advances from their guards. These days in Mumbai,they're protecting assets of
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      International chains still keeping grip on managing luxury hotels
      362 8  -  Chin Weilin By i INTERNATIONAL hotel chains still have a firm grip on managing five-star hotels, despite attempts by some of them to break free and become independent. Mr Robert Hecker, managing director of a hotel consulting agency, Horwath Asia Pacific,
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      Lock icon Nikon Corporation opens precision engineering centre
      268 9  -  Chan Chao Peh Photo courtesy of By chaopeh@newatoday.com.sg MENTION Nikon and one would associate it with cameras and other photographic equipment. But what is less known is that the precision equipment division of Nikon Corporation accounts for more than half of the net sales
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      Lock icon SembCorp Logistics launches share sale
      120 9 Bloomberg News SEMBCORP Logistics, a unit of SembCorp Industries, said it will raise $203 million in a share sale to help fund the purchase of a stake in Kuehne Nagel International AG, Europe's biggest sea freight company. It will sell 24.3 million new shares at
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Rise on ruling
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        US Supreme Court decision raises Bush hopes
        625 10 SINGAPORE shares rebounded after some initial weakness on news that the US Supreme court reversed Florida's Supreme Court ruling on a hand recount for disputed presidential ballots in Florida. The announcement in late morning caused the Nasdaq Globex futures to trade limit up
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        UEM woes still plaguing the market and index
        516 10 KUALA LUMPUR Regional markets closed higher, encouraged by the fact that the tussle over the US presidency could be coming to an end when the US Supreme Court overruled the decision for recounting votes in the key Florida state. However, the mood
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon The big escape
      294 11 -AFP from group executioners JAKARTA A human-rights worker has given a chilling account of narrowly escaping a group execution in Aceh in which four people were shot dead. Mr Nazaruddin, 22, a volunteer worker with the Rehabilitation Action for Torture Victims in Aceh (Rata), said the executioners
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      Lock icon Poisoned by war chemicals
      129 11 AFP HANOI Fifty-five students have been poisoned over the past few days by chemicals left over from the Vietnam War. The students, from a school in Dong Nai province, were hospitalised with respiratory infections, vomiting and diarrhoea. Aged between 11 and 14, the students had been
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      Lock icon Murdoch's birthday gift
      120 11 AFP SYDNEY Tycoon Rupert Murdoch has given his son, James, a birthday present he won't forget a seat on the board of his family's US$7O-billion (5564.3-billion) global media empire, News Corp. James, who turned 28 yesterday, is Mr Murdoch's youngest son and has attracted little of the
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      Question mark over plane-copter
      190 11 NORTH CAROLINA The fate of a US military aircraft that flies like a plane but lands and takes off like a helicopter hangs in the balance after the second fatal crash this year. The commandant of the US Marine Corps has grounded all MV-22 Osprey aircraft
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      Indonesian boat to Australia sinks, 167 gone missing
      264 12  -  Ng Hwee Koon By hweekoon@newstoday.com.sg IT was a disaster waiting to happen. Like so many thousands before them, some 167 illegal immigrants left Indonesia clandestinely for Australia only to go missing. The journey to Ashmore Islands, 240 km away was not long
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      Lock icon Singson fails to sing...
      411 12 Agencies Bank apologises for 'stalling on information' MANILA Much was expected when the star witness in the impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada took the stand yesterday. But it proved to be an anti-climax. Provincial governor Luis Singson's testimony sounded like a broken record, repeating only
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      Lock icon Malaysian cabbie stabs would-be robber to death
      145 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR An elderly Malaysian taxi driver turned the tables on two knife-wielding robbers, stabbing one of them to death and forcing the other to flee, police said yesterday. The driver, aged 61, escaped with four stitches in his hand after the
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      Lock icon First crack at plant's genetic code: Supercrops on the way?
      248 12 AFP PARIS An international group of scientists announced yesterday they had cracked the first genetic code of a plant, an achievement that could throw open the gates to a new "green revolution" of supercrops. The object of their study is
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      Secret poll operation
      272 13 Thai agents looking for violations BANGKOK Undercover agents are on the prowl in Thailand's 400 constituencies, looking for evidence of vote-buying. Their mission is to investigate politicians who offer gift items and <ish to villagers and commit other forms of electoral violations in the run-up to next
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      Lock icon The tycoon and his 'knight' story
      130 13 AFP HONG KONG Tycoon Li Ka-shing has likened Hong Kong to a "knight in rusty armour" in search of wisdom but with the courage to change for the better. Speaking at the unveiling of Open University institute, to be named after him, Mr Li
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      Lock icon Out, one badly burnt boy in Istanbul
      57 13 Reuters photo FIREMEN help a badly burned unidentified boy out of the window of a five-storey apartment building on fire in central Istanbul on Tuesday. Two people were killed, nine residents injured and five firefighters had to be sent to the hospital. The
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      Lock icon Peru was Japanese prefecture for 10 yrs?
      399 14 AFP Peruvians fume over news that Fujimori has Japanese citizenship LIMA Peruvians have long known that their disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori is half-Japanese. Still, news that he has Japanese citizenship ah" these years still came as a shock and an embarassment to many
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      Lock icon Mori sues magazine over his 'severely damaged credibility'
      324 14 -AFP TOKYO -Japan's embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has sued a magazine for alleging he had close links to a convicted murderer with ties to farright gangsters. "Prime Minister Mori filed a libel suit with Tokyo district court late yesterday against the
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      Lock icon Central Java hit by killer landslides
      78 14 -AFP JAKARTA Seven people were killed and seven others were buried and feared dead in two separate landslides in central Java, disaster relief officials said Wednesday. Six of the dead were buried in mud in the village of Banjarasri late on Monday, said disaster
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      Lock icon China tested intercontinental missile
      107 14 Reuters WASHINGTON China last month "successfully" tested an intercontinental missile that it has been developing since the late 1980s. The test was conducted while US Army General Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was visiting China. Pentagon spokesman Kevin Bacon said: "I believe
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      Lock icon Blair charms Britons -for the polls
      213 16 AFP LONDON Watching a video at home with his family, a quick flick through a biography of Charles de Gaulle and getting up at night to look after his teething baby that is a typical night for British Prime Minister Tony Blair," reported The
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      Lock icon Children 'sabotaged'
      380 16 Reuters Unicef warns that unaided toddlers will suffer later in life UNITED NATIONS Failure to protect and educate the world's youngest children is sabotaging the quality of life of entire nations, says a new UN report. The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) is calling for an annual US$BO
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      Lock icon Aristide again Haiti President
      97 16 -AFP PORT-AU-PRINCE Former populist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was officially proclaimed Haiti's President on Tuesday, according to the official Monitor newspaper. The 47-year-old former shantytown priest, who won 91.69 per cent of the vote in balloting boycotted by opposition groups, will succeed President Rene Preval on Feb
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      Lock icon Monopoly a.k.a. The Simpsons
      52 16 Reuters photo HOLLYWOOD The Simpsons will be "playing" a new board game soon. Fox Licensing and Merchandising has struck a deal with USAopoly for a new version of Monopoly based on the comic characters. The game will be launched at a toy fair in New York
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      12 Nepalese smuggled into Malaysia
      105 16 KUALA LUMPUR -The Malaysian immigration authorities have detained 28 people in connection with a gang allegedly smuggling Nepalese into the country via Thailand, a newspaper reported said yesterday. A Myanmar citizen, aged 28, reportedly behind the racket, was arrested on Monday along with 24 Nepalese,
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Who needs a cloned beauty anyway?
      713 17  -  Sudha G Tilak Mass producers of beauty queens have forgotten to install a most important component: the thinkpad by In New Delhi THE tiara adorns the perfect product with an imperfect thinkpad. I am not going to beat my non-silicone breasts over this. If
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Bigger than Faye?
      610 18  -  Hazel Tan Today photo by Coco boasts she is not just popular in Chinese-dominated countries by hazel@newstoday.com.sg HOW big a star is Coco Lee? According to the singer herself, she is "bigger than Faye Wong", or so she was quoted as saying in a local English tabloid
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      Lock icon The man who stole Christmas
      752 23  -  Rick Anthony -UPS Jim Carrey on his grumpiest, greenest character yet by: HE hops, skips and jumps his way across the big screen as The Grinch. Jim Carrey pushes the envelope once again, creating one of the most memorable characters to hit the screen in
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      Lock icon Everybody! Get in Line!
      813 24  -  Joan Bungar No barn. No hay. No fiddlers. No harvest moon. by_ They were not dancing in a barn. There were no screechy fiddles or couples twirling arounc with their elbows hooked. Conspicuously absent were bales of hay, chicken poop and shrieks of "yee-ha!" Instead, they
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      Lock icon Wahlberg will handle The Truth
      167 25 Reuters HOLLYWOOD Mark Wahlberg has committed to star in Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie, a remake of Stanley Donen's 1963 thriller Charade. Thandie Newton will co-star with Wahlberg; the two will respectively assume the roles played by Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant The Charade
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      Lock icon New circus with beauty, no beasts
      620 26  -  Cathleen Tung New concept Taipan Circus from Switzerland has no animals, no fixed routines, and blends the classical with the modern by i A CIRCUS with no animals and no fixed routines Just human performers in stunning costumes under dazzling lights and beguiling music.
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      PS2, I love you
      553 27  -  Edmund T Shern NOT SAY I WANT TO SAY Don't know what to give the man or boy of your dreams? What about a boy toy? THIS Christmas is going to be sooooo easy for the women out there. Why? Because buying any guy a Christmas
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      Lock icon De Niro to set up home in London – just like Tom Cruise and Madonna
      227 27 De Niro to set up home in London just like Tom Cruise and Madonna Reuters LONDON Film star Robert De Niro is reported to be the latest big Hollywood name to cross the Atlantic to buy a home in London. Fittingly for De Niro, who starred as a boxer in
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      Lock icon Say neigh
      654 28  -  Maurice Png Horse-riding is loved by disabled children and adults as therapy for body, mind and soul byj The thirteenth horse has been adopted but there is one more to go, for this year, at least. Is that a mathematical problem sum? No, it's just sponsorship figures that
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      Why do Tamil actresses keep committing suicide?
      505 28  -  Janaki Venkataraman by_ CHENNAI actress Viji Aswath's recent suicide throws up the issue of whether the film industry is a death trap for actresses. Why do so many movie actresses, especially Tamil ones, kill themselves? The latest victim of this tragic trend is
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      Kiss and tell
      403 29  -  Hazel Tan Actor Simon Came spills the beans on sexy Liz Hurley by hazel@newstoday.com.sg HORSEY. An English rose, That's how the man who claimed he had a wild, passionate three-night fling with sexpot Liz Hurley described her. Actor and martial arts expert Simon Came has become the
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      965 19 Christmas horse for the season Compiled by Rosalind Png The Substation Garden Asian Boys Vol. 1 R(A) rosalind@newstoday.com.sg The play is based on a true Cambodian story. The Tomorrow till Dec 17 Pol Pot government accuses Bophana of being a 8 pm (Thursdays Saturdays); Glenn Singer and The spy for
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      Lock icon Kings held at bay
      591 31 Reuters Hawks get fifth win of season NBA Hawks 107 Kings 99 ATLANTA Jason Terry, who briefly lost his starting job earlier this season, enjoyed the best game of his career as the Atlanta Hawks surprised the Sacramento Kings. Terry scored nine of his careerhigh 38
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      Lock icon Raptors spoil Thomas' Toronto return
      252 31 -AFP Toronto 104 Indiana 90 TORONTO Vince Carter scored 33 points and Charles Oakley added a season-high 22 as the Raptors spoiled Isiah Thomas' return to Toronto with victory over the Indiana Pacers. Carter buried five three-pointers, including three in a five-minute span of the
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      I'm a bargain, says the $441 million man
      731 32 After signing the biggest contract in sports history, shortstop Alex Rodriguez held a press conference yesterday, where he spoke on a variety of topics, including what he plans to do with the money and whether he is worth all the fuss. We
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      Lock icon Woods most powerful man in sport
      253 33 Reuters Golf superstar is the second athlete after Michael Jordan to top the 10-year-old list ST LOUIS Tiger Woods (left) has been named the most powerful person in sports for the year 2000 by the Sporting News magazine. Woods is the second athlete to
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      And the rest of sports' power brokers, according to Sporting News
      313 33 2 Paul Tagliabue (Commissioner, National Football League) Tagliabue has consolidated the league's many businesses into a single entity, the more the NFL looks like the Empire's invincible Death Star. This year he had to deal with a handful of
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      Lock icon NO, I wasn't at the wheel
      243 34 -AFP Superstar Ronaldo denies that he was caught drink-driving MILAN Brazil and Inter Milan striker Ronaldo denied yesterday that he failed a drink driving test after a late visit to a top-class restaurant. Spanish press reports said the incident occurred as Ronaldo emerged from
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      189 34 AFP I don't want to leave Roma ROME AS Roma's out-of-favour Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata will not be leaving the Italian capital for Manchester United, the player's management company announced Tuesday. Earlier reports in the British press had suggested the best player Japan has ever produced was on the
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      132 34 Reuters I won't go to West Ham, says Soma LONDON Norwegian defender Ragnvald Soma turned down a move to premier league West Ham because players in England drink too much, the Evening Standard newspaper reported on Tuesday. "All the drinking at the English clubs doesn't tempt me," the under
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      Lock icon Young players exploited
      497 35 Reuters Unscrupulous agents capitalising on young soccer hopefuls' naivete BRASILIA Brazilian congressmen hit out at "greedy, unscrupulous agents" on Tuesday at the way they treated a 16-year-old. The youth told the congressmen how he was abandoned alone in Belgium by a man who had promised to find
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      Lock icon Frenchman Lizarazu receives extortion demand from Basque terror group ETA
      228 35 AFP PARIS French international defender Bixente Lizarazu (right) has become the latest extortion target of Basque separatist group ETA, a police official said here on Tuesday. The Bayern Munich defender, who was born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz around 20 km from the
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      Lock icon Ganguly will miss final game
      308 36 AFP. Indian captain slapped with one-match suspension Cricket RAJKOT Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly will miss the fifth and final one-dayer against Zimbabwe tomorrow after being penalised for on-field behaviour. Ganguly had a one-match suspension imposed by match referee Barry Jarman for putting the umpires
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      Lock icon Groundsman is man-of-the-match
      271 36 Reuters JOHANNESBURG South African captain Shaun Pollock and his New Zealand counterpart Stephen Fleming (left) are pondering over the surprising decision to hand groundsman Chris Scott and his staff the man-of-the-match award. The award recognises their efforts to ensure that at least part of the third test
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      Lock icon Roman challenge
      394 37 Reds get dreaded draw NYON Liverpool found it was on the wrong end of the stick when it was drawn to meet mighty Italian challenger Roma in the Fourth Round of the Uefa Cup yesterday. Liverpool knew that its fate was at the mercy of the gods when
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      Lock icon Fifa and EU close to transfers deal
      336 37 Reuters BRUSSELS World soccer's governing body Fifa said yesterday that it was close to agreement with the European Commission on revamping disputed soccer transfer rules. Speaking ahead of a meeting with commission officials, Fifa general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen said he was optimistic about
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      Lock icon Basketball player shot in the head
      135 37 BELGRADE Yugoslav basketball player Haris Brkic was in a critical condition after a unidentified assailant shot him in the head, local media reported yesterday. The assailant approached Brkic and fired two shots in his face at point-blank range wit a small-calibre handgun when the
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      Lock icon Lazio left licking its wounds
      231 38 Reuters Italian Cup Udinese 4 Lazio 1 UDINE Holder Lazio crashed out of the Italian Cup after a 4-1 quarter-final second leg defeat to Udinese on Tuesday, ending the match with nine men after two second half dismissals. The defeat is the latest setback for
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      Wednesday crashes out of Worthington Cup
      427 38 Worthington Cup Birmingaham 2 Sheff Wed 0 BIRMINGHAM Sheffield Wednesday manager Paul Jewell was banished from the touchline at St Andrew's last night after a row with referee Jeff Winter as his team sank to defeat, reported Soccernet. Jewell was given his marching orders
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      Ref rains on fans' parade
      209 38 LONDON Referee Graham Poll made around 20,000 enemies last night when he abandoned the Worthington Cup quarter-final tie between Manchester City and Ipswich because of a waterlogged pitch, reported Soccernet. He called a halt to the game in the 23rd minute after Paul Dickov had
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      Pele or Maradona? Depends how old you are
      526 39  -  S. Gulam Questions like this can rarely be answered to everyone's satisfaction PELE or Maradona? Who's the Player of the Century? Fifa (the football's world govering body) may have chosen to play it safe by giving the awards to both players. But
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      Now it's the pitch
      379 40  -  S. Gulam Another blow for clubs as fields are to be repaired by gulam@newstoday.com.sg THE year 2001 is going to be a memorable year for the SLeague. For all the wrong reasons. First, there was the cut in subsidy, a blow the S-League clubs have yet
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