Today, 26 December 2000

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    14 1 TODAY Xll G S (1 2LY December 26, 2000 MITA (P) I3_ n 2000
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    Terror in Indonesian churches
    66 1 AT least 18 bombs went off outside churches and homes of priests on a bloody Christmas eve in Indonesia. Fourteen people lost their lives and 95 were injured. The blasts were prefectly co-ordi- nated and took place in eight different cities. Our man in Jakarta examines
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    Pilots gave up passports to end jam
    546 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by kim@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the three pilots of SQ 006 returned home last week, there was a mixture of relief and some grumbling about how Singapore Airlines had dragged its feet. Today has discovered that the pilots almost got stranded in Taiwan
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    Lock icon Japan's shares surprise
    171 1 Bloomberg TOKYO -Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average posted its bigges gain in 21 months. The rally was led by Sony Corp. and othe exporters on optimism that a cut in US interest rates as early as next month will spur deman< for Japanese goods in the world's
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    First Asian world chess champion
    111 1 TEHERAN An Indian has smashed Russia's monopoly of the chess world by winning the world's chess championshi final. Viswanathan Anand, 31, became the first Asian to claim the world chess federation FIDE's title, easily outgunning Spain's Alexei Shirov. The Latvian-born Shirov resigned on the 41st
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon With an eye on WTO, China slashes phone charges
      152 2 -AFP BELTING From Jan 1, China will cut charges for international telephone calls and Internet access by up to 60 per cent. The official Xinhua news agency did not give reasons for the cuts. But last month, officials had spoken of
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      Mother goes berserk
      238 2  -  Shazalina Salim Slashes herself and 3 kids by shazalina@newstoday.com.sg A 40-YEAR-OLD woman (right) snapped suddenly at her office at the Changi Cargo Complex and slashed her three young children, who had accompanied her to work. Then she tried to end her own life by trying to slit
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      Christmas terror
      450 3  -  Budi Setiawan Ourch bombings in Indonesia spark fear and questions by in Jakarta INDONESIANS woke up yesterday to a trail of destruction left by a series of bombings near churches across the country on Christmas Eve. At least 14 people were killed and 95 others injured when 18
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      Lock icon Who says Estrada is quitting?
      126 3 -AFP MANILA The capital was abuzz over the weekend that President Joseph Estrada was thinking of resigning after a banker had linked him to a mutli-million-dollar secret account. The rumours forcec his top aides to spend Christmas Day denying them. Chief-of-staff Ronaldo Zamor said: I
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      One too many
      55 3 A DRUNK Thai worker celebrating at a nightclub on Christmas eve fell from the second floor of Golden Mile Tower at about 1 am. Khaseethong was roaring drunk and keeled over the second floor railing onto the ground floor. He suffered a cut above his left eye
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      Lock icon Body found on runway
      90 3 -AFP LONDON The body of a man was found on a runway at Gatwick airport outside London, the second found near the airport in 24 hours, police said. Police said the man found at Gatwick had likely died after falling from a hiding place in the
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      Lock icon Taiwanese envoy to meet Bush team
      196 3 Agencies TAIPEI Taiwan's chief China policymaker will visit the United States next month for talks with a new administration that is regarded as being more sympathetic to the island. Ms Tsai Ing-wen will brief the new adminstration of President-elect George W Bush on Taipei's
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      Lock icon Three bomb blasts injure at least 37
      168 3 -AFP ISLAMABAD At least 37 people were injured in three bomb explosions in Pakistan yesterday as the Christian minority celebrated Christmas and Muslims prepared for the Eidul Fitr festival, police said. A powerful bomb ripped through the crowded Delhi Gate market in Lahore,
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      Lock icon Thai tycoon will not quit politics over asset probe
      192 3 Reuters BANGKOK Thai prime ministerial front runner Thaksin Shinawatra of the populist Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) Party yesterday vowed not to quit politics even if he was indicted by the country's anti-graft agency. The National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC)
      – Reuters  -  192 words
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Heart man's heartaches
      462 4  -  Cathleen Tung Transplant patient hit by one health woe after another by WHEN he became Singapore's second heart transplant patient in 1991, Mr Krishnasamy Chandrasegaran expected a new lease of life. Instead, the hospital has been second home to this 45-year-old ever since. First, his new heart
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      Istana open
      94 4 THE Istana grounds will be open tomorrow from 8 am to 6.30 pm. Admission is free for Singaporeans and Singapore permanent residents while foreigners will be charged a fee of $1 per person. There will be a special display of selected gifts presented to the President and the
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      Package tour price hike pushes up CPI
      133 4 PACKAGE tours cost more last month than in October, marginally pushing up the Consumer Price Index. Contributing a 17 per cent weight to the Consumer Price Index, the miscellaneous category that includes such tours saw the largest rise compared to items like clothing
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      New men at the helm of govt committees
      120 4 AS part of the two-year term renewal, five out of 11 Government Parliamentary Committees will have new chairmen come Jan 1. Tasked with bringing focus to Parliamentary House debates, these chairmen will gather feedback to check and question their respective ministries until
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      Keep off Changi sea, bomb is going off
      138 4 A WORLD War II bomb that was discovered some 3.5 km off the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal will be detonated this morning between 10 am and 12 pm. Members of the public should keep away from the site off the Ferry Terminal
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      Go for politics with a small 'p'
      443 6  -  Ng Boon Yian That's what Singapore lacks, says research fellow by: boonyian@newstoday.com.sg MENTION the word "politics" and grand images of exciting elections, loud rallies and raucous hustings come to mind. But what Singapore really lacks is politics with a small 'p\ said Dr
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      Lock icon Hari Raya cookies destroyed as pre-dawn fire sweeps kitchen
      226 6  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim by: zackaria@n ewstoday.com. sg WHEN the fire raged in her kitchen already decked with festive cookies, Madam Kamariah Mohamad could only stand helpless. But, on Sunday night, help came in the form of $1,000 from the charity fund
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      Lemmings or great minds?
      51 6 THE article about fund-man-agers behaving like lemmings and simply following each other around made interesting reading. But a more charitable reasoning could be found in that trusty old adage "Great minds think alike". Please do not spoil the mood by quoting the equally pithy rejoinder. Narayana
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      SBS drivers need lessons in patience
      198 6  -  Sebrina Tan IT sometimes appears to me that Tibs bus drivers, on the whole, are more courteous than SBS drivers. Is it just me or are there others who share this feeling? I don't want to generalise and I agree that SBS service is
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      91 4 READ 0N... Go for politics with a small 'p' That's what Singapore lacks, says research fellow/6 Where's the booze? A blue Christmas as Nasdaq rally comes a little too late/ 10 Dad's defence If my son is so dumb, why did Texans re-elect him governor?/12 Doctor Dog Canine comfort could
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      214 5 B*Pw Formidably united, we're now closer to our vision of becoming the choice financial services provider in the region and beyond. Overseas Assurance Corporation Limited will operate its life and general business as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Eastern Holdings effective from 23 December 2000, focusing on the distribution of
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Verbal sparring on US economy
      643 8 Bloomberg News Bush and Clinton camps differ on where it is heading WASHINGTON Now, whose lips do we read? President-elect George Bush's? Or out-going President Clinton's? Mr Bush's team is already talking about bad times for the economy. Even a recession was on the cards,
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      Lock icon J.P. Morgan, Chase face $1.3b Xerox exposure
      215 8 Bloomberg News NEW YORK After Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan complete their planned merger, the bank's loans to Xerox will total US$75O million (Ssl.3 billion), more than any other lender to the copier company, now shut out of credit markets. The two banks
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      Lock icon Standard & Poor's criticises South Korean banking U-turn
      254 8 Standard Poor's criticises South Korean banking U-turn -AFP SEOUL US credit risk appraiser Standard and Poor's criticised the South Korean government for writing-off the capital of six ailing banks and injecting them with public money. The government's move was "detrimental" to the country's reform drive, investor confidence and the stock
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      Where's the boost?
      810 10 IT was a bad week and a blue Christmas for the Straits Times Index which fell 45 points to close at 1903, down 2.3 per cent. The week started on a positive note with expectations of a US interest rate hike by the US Fed. Most of
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      Index-linked buying keeps KLCI mainly above 700-point level
      517 10 KUALA LUMPUR The undertone of the market throughout the last full week of trading in the 2000 year was weak. Various factors were at play. On the external front, the performances of Dow and Nasdaq left much to be desired, particularly the
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      Lock icon Dad's defence
      478 12 Reuters If my son is so dumb, why didTexans re-elect him governor? WASHINGTON US president-elect George W Bush's grey matter, or lack of it, has become as much a talking point as his controversial victory. On Sunday, his father, former president George Bush (right), broke his silence on
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      And the count goes on and on and on
      167 12 MIAMI That vote recount thing just refuses to go away. Despite the decision by the US Supreme Court to halt the Florida recount in the contested counties, American media organisations have commissioned their own counts. The result so far, with the
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      Lock icon Rescued from brink of death
      23 12 Reuters photo Rescue workers help a victim of a bus crash which left 20 people dead in Johannesburg.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Hawaiian plane slips off runway
      95 12 -AFP PAPEETE A Hawaiian Airlines DC-10 flight coming in for a landing at Tahiti's Faaa airport slipped off the end of the runway into a lagoon late on Sunday. The 136 passengers and crew on board flight HA 481 suffered only bruises. The DC-10, which
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      Thai politicians advertise their wares
      226 12 BANGKOK Thailand's newspapers have become the latest battleground in the public war of words between rival political parties. As the Jan 6 election fever hots up, the two front-runners have been basiling each other in large newspaper advertisements, reported The Nation. Last week, Thai Rak
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      Lock icon Cult leader ordered to pay damages
      122 12 -AFP TOKYO The leader of a bizarre footreading cult has been ordered to pay 157 million yen (552.4 million) in compensation to about 30 deceived followers. Hogen Fukunaga, 55, and his aides made the plaintiffs pay "training fees" by luring them using "deception and
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Boy, oh boy!
      762 13  -  Ravi Veloo Why does sticking up make a person a stick in the mud? by SOME heroes come in everyday clothes, no cape, no cowl, no sizzling superpowers so my salute to Charlena Low of Choa Chu Kang, who is one such ordinary hero to me. She's
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      Hello delicious, call me anytime
      423 13  -  Neville Stack by nstack@esatclear.ie DO you feel socially obliged to carry a hand phone, even though nobody ever rings you up? Do you need to eat? If the answer to both those questions is Yes, then help is at hand. Or at least in the
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Rock DJs!
      548 14 Singapore's annual street party, Countdown 2001 ,is back! 1 1 RCS DJs tell Cathleen Tung what they'll be wearing, and their hopes for the new .year. JEAN DANKER Perfect Ten 98.7 FM Jive Drive, Top 20 Countdown What she'll be wearing: "Most probably pants and heels." New Year
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    • SHOWCASE
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        Meet the stars, help the poor
        632 15  -  Rosalind Png Compiled by rosalind@newstoday.com.sg Comfort Group's 30th Anniversary Concert Tomorrow 7 pm Singapore Indoor Stadium The stars are in town. Meet them up close and support charity. Emil Chau, Andy Hui, William So, Farm Wong (top right) and Tay Ping Hui (right) will
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      Lock icon Chingay2001
      393 20  -  Mahesha Thenabadu Get ready for an evening of colourful street parade by: Come 2001, expect to see the ethos of Singapore's heritage hit the streets in a whole revamped showcase. Chingay Parade will literally thread a different route next year, through City Hall. The public is invited to bring
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      Lock icon For old time's sake
      502 21  -  David Ngiau Bits and Bytes gets together again after 1 2 years for a one-night show by I david@newstoday.com.sg The Four members of Bits and Bytes may not have performed together for nearly 12 years, but all it took for them to get back in tune
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      SHARED MEMORIES
      85 22 Yap Yok Foo is a retired chartered accountant whose interest in recent history sees him most days at the Malaysian National Archives, reading newspapers from the time when Malaya was the region now known as West Malaysia and Singapore, and both were administei as a British colonial possession.
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      Heaven and Hell in a shell
      1060 22  -  Yap Kok Foo The durian king of fruits or bane of the nasally-challenged by OF ALL the fruit that the tropics offer, none matches the durian for arousing the greatest passion and the most adverse comments and reaction from newcomers to the region. Like
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      Doctor Dog
      845 23  -  Neville Stack Canine comfort could be the answer to a variety of unexplained ills by: nstack@esatclear.ie When you're feeling out of sorts, maybe you don't need to call your doctor. Just call your dog instead. Picture the scene. You are slumped in your armchair, weary, lethargic and uninterested
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      708 17 Salam Lebaran Dare to Strike A/emt r ..f l^. Suria, 10 pm Channel 8, 9 pm A star-studded extravaganza! An exchange of fire takes place. MORNING Celebrate Hari Raya with stars Shichang escapes while Dihui and 6.00 am Headlines from Malaysia and Indonesia. Wang Shen almost shoot each 6.02 Asia
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  • TECH NEWS
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      Get ready for the world of m-commerce
      439 24  -  Sandra Vaughan Satisfy wireless users to succeed in the next wave by WITH wealth built up over the last 20 years, the PC economy is now worth a total of about US$4 trillion (Ss7 trillion). But when you put together all Internet companies,
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      DLT, DDS top the Asia-Pacific tape market
      275 24 IN THE Asia-Pacific region, Digital Linear Tape (DLT) and 4mm-Digital Data Storage (DDS) are the most prominent types of tape storage sys- terns, according to the latest tape storage technology migration survey by research company, IDC. "Enterprise tape users are gener- ally loyal,"
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      Lock icon Going Finatiq over customer service
      744 25  -  Sol E Solomon An online bank sees this and security as its trump cards by solomone.newstoday.com.sg FINATIQ is an online site that provides individuals with financial services such as fixed deposits and unit trusts. Come 2001, the full-licence bank should roll out other financial products
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      Fast and safe encryption
      184 25 E-BUSINESS security provider Cylink Corporation has introduced Cylink Link Encryptor HSSI (CLE HSSI). Boasting encryption rates of up to 52 M-bits per second (Mbps) for high-speed data communications, the CLE HSSI (High-Speed Serial Interface) supports the X.509 digital certificate and 1024 bit DSS digital signature industry
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      Nortel simplifies networking
      179 25 NORTEL Networks released an enhanced version of its Alteon Web OS content networking software. Designed to provide enhanced network management capabilities that simplify and speed the provision ol services for enterprises, ebusinesses and Web hosts, the software also improves the performance and availability of Web sites and
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon I may quit after Tyson fight
      348 26 Reuters Crunch match will be highlight of Lewis' underrated career Boxing LONDON World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis (left) says he wants one last fight then he will seriously contemplate retiring. And the only fight he will consider is against Mike Tyson. Speaking to BBC
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      Lock icon Brain injury to boxer could force rule changes
      230 26 Reuters I LONDON Boxers could be forced to undergo mandatory weigh-ins prior to official ones following the brain injury suffered by Paul Ingle. The former IBF featherweight champion needed surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain after being knocked out
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      Lock icon Time for cricket to play catch-up
      889 27  -  Rohit Brijnath Technology would rid the game of some gamesmanship by rohit@newstoday.com.sg CRICKET'S slow. I mean in the time it takes to finish one Test, we could have finished the World Series, holidayed to Ulan Bator, and swum four of the world's longest straits.
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      Lock icon Marion Jones
      314 28  -  Kelvin Phang Our AtoZ series on great sporting performances of 2000 continues today with the likes of Maid Marion, Pistol Pete and Ronaldo Giving a five-star show SURE Marion Jones failed in her "Drive For Five" quest, but her performance at Sydney 2000 is still one of the
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      NBA Champs
      176 28  -  Kelvin Phong NUMBER ONE. Numero Uno. The LA Lakers finally. The 1999-2000 NBA season will be remembered as the year that Lakers' superstars Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant finally reached the promised land. For three seasons, the dynamic duo failed to get that elusive NBA championship ring. But,
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      Olympics
      104 28 OLYMPICS. Sydney 2000. Considered the best games ever. Why? One supposes after the organisational nightmare of the Atlanta Games, Sydney was welcome relief. But there was more. Relatively drugfree and peppered with sizzling performances, the Sydney Games was a sight to behold. The Queen of the Games was never
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      Lock icon Pistol Pete
      350 29  -  Kelvin Phang He's now the greatest grass-court player by: kelvin@newstoday.com.sg PISTOL Pete Sampras may had a quiet year by his standards, but he is the undisputed king of the slams. While US Open winner Marat Safin of Russia won seven titles and French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten finished
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      Queen
      195 29 HOLLAND'S Inge de Bruijn was the undisputed swimming queen at this year's Sydney Olympics. The "stunning 27-year-old blonde won three Olympics individual titles in the space of five days, setting world records in all three events. On Sep 17, she won the 100 m butterfly title in a new
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      Ronaldo
      108 29 BRAZILIAN superstar Ronaldo made headlines for the wrong reasons in April when he collapsed in dramatic fashion just minutes into his comeback game. The Inter Milan striker fell to the ground clutching his knee, just seven minutes into his first competitive Serie A match, since an operation five months
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      Lock icon It's Gunnar be hard, but do it again, Ole
      747 30  -  S. Murali Three strikers out, but Solskjaer can keep the Devils humming Aston Villa v Man United by muraJi@newstoday.com.sg HE IS their Solksjaer. Their only Solskjaer. He keeps them happy, when skies are grey. And so goes the famous ditty about
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      Rebel seeks solace
      481 31  -  S. Gulam Frustrated, fed-up Spore striker is resting, training and holidaying in Bogor by gulam@newstoday.com.sg FOR the past one week, the question on virtually every football fan, player, official and reporter's lips has been this: Where is Ahmad Latiff Kamaruddin (right)? Surprisingly, no one seemed to have
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      It's on. India finally agrees to play in Pakistan
      426 31 Cricket DELHI The Indian cricket team is going to Pakistan for a short series of two Test matches and five limited overs one-day matches, starting January 8, reported tehelka.com. General Tauqk Zia, chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), announced this yesterday,
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      Lock icon I'll keep my boys
      259 32 Reuters Ferguson confident of retaining his stars LONDON Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson (right) reckons his top stars will never move from Old Trafford. He is confident that the Premiership champion can come up with lucrative packages to keep all its big stars happy. Andy
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