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AFTERNOON EDITION
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Article355 2001-02-19 1 Ng Boon Yian - Ng Boon Yian The difference that upgrading makes in price by! boonyian@newstoday.com.sg FOR property watchers, Hougang Avenue 3 is one interesting street. It straddles an opposition ward and a PAP-con-trolled one. And even though the flats were built around the same time, their prices differ quite355 words
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Article, Illustration46 2001-02-19 1 AFP photo A YOUNG Mexican boy hands his Pokemon toy to parish priest Juan Ramon Hernandez during Mass. Last week, Hernandez had declared that Pokemon toys cause trauma to children, prompting hundreds of kids, along with their parents, to relinquish their Pokemon items.AFP photo - 46 words
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Article129 2001-02-19 1 Reuters LOS ANGELES Roger Clinton, half brother of former president Bill Clinton, was arrested early on Saturday in a beach community near Los Angeles on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, police said. He failed a series of coordination tests and was held, and– Reuters - 129 words
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Article105 2001-02-19 1 Reuters CAPE CANAVERAL Strong winds are keeping space shuttle Atlantis from coming home. The five astronauts aboard had their flight suits on, their helmets ready and all gear packed, but stiff Florida winds meant they had nowhere to go except around and around the Earth until the weather– Reuters - 105 words
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Article130 2001-02-19 1 AFP HOBART Four people died and 14 were injured as a tourist bus plunged 33 metres down a steep embankment in Tasmania's Cradle Mountain National Park. None of the 18 passengers, on a late night wildlife spotting tour of the mountain range, escaped injury. The touristsAFP - 130 words
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Miscellaneous66 2001-02-19 1 Keep the facts I Dr Fraud's catch I Poulsen will be happy in textbooks t j I with a point in Kuwait I On the couch, Amy Cheng confesses W Mattel s»a»s»V—e~" ™-i Reader says they are not K^^^ s'ie s on outs'(' er 4 uro'' so^s c nallono' coacn66 words
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HOT NEWS
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411 2001-02-19 2 Will it be compulsory? Do we have to take a test? IT SEEMS that couples nowadays are entering into marriage with their values all warped. In a survey done by the Registry of Marriages (ROM) last year, couples named the wedding dinner and finances411 words
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Article, Illustration271 2001-02-19 2 JERUSALEM While the US and British air strikes on Iraq were seen as unjustified by most countries in the Middle East except for Israel, the event shocked even allies of the two nations. But even more shocking than the bombing raid on Baghdad by two271 words
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86 2001-02-19 2 AFP. WASHINGTON The US Navy launched a toplevel inquiry into a collision between a US nuclear-powered submarine and a Japanese fishing vessel that left nine Japanese nationals missing and presumed dead. The court of inquiry is the Navy's highest form of administrative investigation,– AFP. - 86 words
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Article143 2001-02-19 2 -AFP. NEW YORK-Former US President Bill Clinton has defended his controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. In a lengthy statement to the New York Times on Sunday, Mr Clinton said the move was "in the best interests of justice". The ex-president also repudiated allegations-AFP. - 143 words
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175 2001-02-19 2 Bloomberg News. NEW YORK Wall Street chief executives probably need a dump truck to take home their pay. Chief executives at four of Wall Street's biggest firms saw their pay rise an average of 23 per cent last year. Merrill Lynch Co, the biggest– Bloomberg News. - 175 words
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Article, Illustration420 2001-02-19 3 Leong Phei Phei - Leong Phei Phei Who will look after the elderly when this happens? by ph eip he i<ff newstoday. com. sg WHEN young Singaporeans venture abroad for better job prospects, they leave behind their elderly parents. And more of them are doing so. Is this a signWEETECKHIAN - 420 words
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208 2001-02-19 3 Leong Phei Phei - Leong Phei Phei by ph eiph ei@ newstoday. com. sg STUFFY and smelly hawker centres will soon be a thing of the past. Acting Minister for the Environment and Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Lim Swee Say, announced yesterday that a208 words
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Article, Illustration149 2001-02-19 3 EXPECT more modern and fresher programmes from Channel 8, said Mr Khiew Voon Kwang, the vice president of Network Programming and Promotions 8. Just like its golden yellow and red logo, which is full of life and dynamism. To tie in with the launch,WEE TECKHIAN - 149 words
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Article128 2001-02-19 3 LONDON A man called the Reverend Play Station 2 is building a temple dedicated to the Sony games console. Mr Carl Lindley, 23, changed his name by deed poll after he was dumped by his girlfriend Anna for spending all his time playing128 words
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Article92 2001-02-19 3 WALES A New York businessman is in Wales searching for treasure he thinks he buried in a previous life. Mr Jim Bethe plans to dig up a small patch of park in Swansea, where he claims he hid the chest 150 years ago when he92 words
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Miscellaneous119 2001-02-19 3 READ 0N... To the North Pole Singaporean aims For world's record in Grand Slam/7 Crew dumps 1,500 illegals Boat Ferrying them beached and abandoned on purpose/10 Will Singaporeans ever be able to think? We are a nation of technological and literary copycats/12 Picasso among Shaolins Former wushu champion to perform119 words
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LETTERS
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Letter331 2001-02-19 4 Suskeela Krishna - Suskeela Krishna Indian quake donation drive a huge success-listener I AM writing to congratulate the radio station Oli 96.8 FM for its efforts in the wake of the immense earthquake disaster in Gujarat, India. Within days of the disaster, Oli created a link at its website to331 words
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195 2001-02-19 4 Jean Lav - Jean Lav WE REFER to the article "Growing kitty in a jar?" (Today, Feb 12). Your report has caught the attention of many animal lovers. Members of the public have written to us to express their concerns that the misleading information published on the bortsaikitten.com website195 words
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Letter261 2001-02-19 4 X F Tham - X F Tham TEACHERS nowadays give homework by referring to workbooks. This may seem all right, but new syllabus workbook questions are very specific and require detailed answers, whereas textbooks nowadays are very general and do not always provide the answers. Students must look up261 words
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145 2001-02-19 4 S. Wong - S. Wong I REFER to the letter "Compensate us for late bills" (Today, Feb 15). I can sympathise with Namanithi for not getting any response from Power Supply regarding the matter of late billing. I moved into my new home in June 2000, and till145 words
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Letter156 2001-02-19 4 Adman Kassim - Adman Kassim I HAVE lived in Woodland Drive 14 for two years. Recently, my wife and I were returning home after grocery shopping when two black crows tried to snatch the ice cream stick she was holding in her left hand. My wife got the156 words
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Letter146 2001-02-19 4 Sanguni Muniandy - Sanguni Muniandy IF DBS wants to help needy senior citizens, it should raise the interest-rate for prime fixed deposit accounts to a minimum of three per cent per annum. DBS used to give a higher rate but now it has stopped. Senior citizens depend on146 words
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HOME NEWS
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Article, Illustration196 2001-02-19 7 Singaporean aims for world's record in Grand Slam SINGAPORE'S Mount Everest climber Khoo Swee Chiow will be off to the North Pole on Mar 6. He hopes to become the fourth person in the world to complete the Adventure Grand Slam getting to the top of196 words
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Article159 2001-02-19 7 UPGRADED at a cost of $4 million, the Siglap South CC aims to become an alternative arts training centre in Singapore. The Marine Parade CDC, which has sunk $100,000 into the Schoolhouse for Performing Arts, said the idea was actually suggested by a young resident during159 words
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Article82 2001-02-19 7 EDUCATION Minister and Second Minister for Defence, Rear Admiral Teo Chee Hean will visit China from today until Thursday at the invitation of China's Defence Minister Chi Haotian. The Defence Ministry says he'll also call on China's Education Minister Chen Zhili during his visit. Admiral82 words
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MARKET NEWS
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186 2001-02-19 8 -AFP BANGKOK Thai financial markets, which have been treading water as investors awaited the official release of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's cabinet, are expected to pick up steam in the week ahead. Yesterday marks the official start of Thaksin's administration, at the-AFP - 186 words
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Article, Illustration644 2001-02-19 8 LIKE the previous week, the STI index closed last week two points or less than 0.1 per cent to 1971.6. This performance was very similar to the Dow Industrial which also closed the week virtually unchanged at *****.2 against a two644 words
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Article, Illustration448 2001-02-19 8 KUALA LUMPUR Last week saw the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) declining for the second week in a row as sentiment remained distinctively weak amidst disappointing banking results and an undersubscription of the Timedotcom initial public offering (IPO). The KLCI fell 10.1448 words
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Article, Illustration335 2001-02-19 9 AFP Experts see many challenges ahead THE initial links for a natural gas pipeline network across oil-dependent Southeast Asia are slowly being laid, but formidable challenges lie ahead, experts and officials said. Completion of a 656-kilometre pipeline that began delivering natural gas from Indonesia's West Natuna fieldsAFP - 335 words
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Article86 2001-02-19 9 AFP MANILA Philippines President Gloria Arroyo has ruled out seeking emergency assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the time being as the peso is stable, the presidential palace said yesterday. An IMF mission visited Manila last week and found out thatAFP - 86 words
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86 2001-02-19 9 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's leading manufacturing conglomerate Formosa Group has decided to invest US$3OO million (***** million) to build four petrochemical plants in China. The group also plans to open an office in Shanghai to manage the investment projects of its three flagship enterprises Formosa-AFP - 86 words
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326 2001-02-19 9 Bloomberg News PALERMO, Italy Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven{G-7) major industrial nations said the global economy will avoid recession, even as they called on the US and Japan to do more to ensure expansion. "Global growthBloomberg News - 326 words
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WORLD NEWS
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Article, Illustration227 2001-02-19 10 Agencies. Boat ferrying them beached and abandoned on purpose FREJUS French officials said a boat carrying up to 1,500 illegal immigrants was deliberately beached on the French Riviera. They said the Cambodian-regis-tered East Sea left Greece and made a stopover in Turkey before running aground nearAgencies. - 227 words
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104 2001-02-19 10 Reuters. TOKYO Japan's scandakainted Foreign Ministry used socalled "secret diplomacy funds" to buy French wines. The Ministry even circulated a manual on how to make sure no funds were left unspent at the end of the year, instructing Japanese embassies abroad to wireReuters. - 104 words
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Article100 2001-02-19 10 A BROWN mustard-like substance has fallen onto a Florida town. Cars, driveways and picnic tables on one Lakeland road keep being covered by the smelly substance. Neighbours and health officials have no idea what the substance is. Resident Demetra Kaltsos said: "I can't even go100 words
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Article204 2001-02-19 10 BANGKOK Academics and activists are disappointed with the new Thai Cabinet. They said it is "too far from perfect" because it includes undesirable politicians and businessmen with vested interests. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra earlier said his Cabinet would not be "perfect" but would not accept204 words
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153 2001-02-19 10 SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister John Howard said the federal government would take into account state issues to ensure victory in the coming general election. Mr Howard noted that in the Queensland election on Saturday in which his coalition party was defeated was based on153 words
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Article148 2001-02-19 10 Reuters. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police fired water cannon and teargas yesterday in Kedah to disperse hundreds of people protesting against the trial of opposition party leaders. A court official said: "More than 500 people are shouting "Reformasi" outside the court, (when) police fired water cannon– Reuters. - 148 words
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Article110 2001-02-19 10 ABC News LOS ANGELES Some 30 members of the Lithuanian Parliament are opposed to the opening of a theme park called Stalinworld. They said the park which houses the world's largest collection of Soviet statues, was in poor taste and should not be opened. The park– ABC News - 110 words
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COMMENTARY
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Article, Illustration737 2001-02-19 12 Siva Anantham - Siva Anantham We are a nation of technological and literary copycats by; In 1994, US economist Paul Krugman bruised the egos of some of East Asia's political leaders by suggesting that the "East Asian Economic Miracle" was anything but a miracle. He claimed737 words
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FILM REVIEW
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Article, Illustration520 2001-02-19 19 David Ngiau - David Ngiau Wesley Morris, by david@news today, com. sg Miss Congeniality is cleverly insidious. It starts out with a sniggering tone that doesn't seem to let up, but by its end, the film reveals its true heart and comes out singing a different tune. The process from– Wesley Morris, - 520 words
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Miscellaneous1059 2001-02-19 14 O_ Tang Quartet In Concert IYIUSICPCUI Now you can catch the Tang ty Quartet (left) in concert with JNi their professor, Paul Katz. He is well-known among concert-goers as the cellist of the Cleveland ments. Four nutty Korean chefs in a busy Quartet. He has performed at the kitchen create1,059 words
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RELAX
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Article, Illustration284 2001-02-19 21 Lim Kuan Chiang - Lim Kuan Chiang Former wushu champion to perform with famous monks next month by kuanchiang@newstoday.com.sg HE may not be displaying his martial arts skills on TV any more but you can still catch Picasso Tan in action next month. The former national wushu champion and ex-MediaCorp artiste284 words
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Article, Illustration214 2001-02-19 21 Philip Cheah - Philip Cheah "MENTION the word 'politics' and grand images of exciting elections, loud rallies and raucous hustings come to mind." So described a free morning tabloid. Of course, those aren't quite the images aroused when that word is thrown up. We think instead of defamation suits,214 words
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Article, Illustration727 2001-02-19 22 Dr Sigmund Fraud - Dr Sigmund Fraud x y MY subject this week, Ms Amy Cheng, floats above it all. She glides, just glides. Last week, she glided into my office. I was glad to have her on my couch, and it showed. But she would not pick up on myWEE TECKHIAN - 727 words
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Article, Illustration502 2001-02-19 23 Hazel Tan - Hazel Tan Thai star had to attend workshop, shave his legs and more by hazel@ne wstoday. c om.sg FOR two months, Chaicharn Nimpoonsawas (right) talked, walked and breathed like a woman. He went through a two-month workshop to learn how to be ladylike. He even had toERNEST CHUA - 502 words
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Article, Illustration186 2001-02-19 23 Timothy Lee - Timothy Lee by www. Digo.com.sg MOSE ALLISON Mose Alive!/Wild Man On The Loose (Atlantic/Warner Jazz/Rhino) LISTENING to Mose Allison is no mean feat. The "wild man" himself does not dabble in non-structures like his former label mate, John Coltrane, nor does he bear the explosiveness186 words
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Miscellaneous868 2001-02-19 24 QWL^hksh r^CV^i Jsß^iftj SCORPIO JS^^^^lliM PISCES Jlr t&Lr-i CANCER Ifif'? (Oct 24-Nov 22) !^jP(f*jj^"J^> (Feb 20-Mar 20) (f«S^fe2r oun22-Jul22) B/^nce you realise that even what seem pivotal Tj*or sOme me you've wrestled with differences /^\rdinarily you'd think through this week's V_/decisions are no more than temporary i. between colleagues or868 words
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Article, Illustration899 2001-02-19 26 After 14 seasons, Reggie's helping Indiana start all over again INDIANA Fans are yelling at Reggie Miller. These fans happen to be sitting in the MCI Center in Washington, but they could as easily be sitting in any of the 28 arenas the Indiana Pacers visit.Allspost photo - 899 words
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Article, Illustration292 2001-02-19 27 -AFP Pakistan inspired by Shoaib's blinding display Cricket AUCKLAND Pakistan cruised to victory by six wickets over New Zealand in the first oneday cricket international yesterday. Pakistan reached its winning target of 150 at the end of the 45th over, with Yousuf Youhana unbeaten on 30-AFP; AFP photo - 292 words
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Article, Illustration283 2001-02-19 27 AFP Athletics POCATELLO Olympic Champion Stacy Dragila cleared 4.70 m on Saturday, breaking the women's indoor pole vault world record she set here eight days ago to raise the mark for the third time in 15 days. Dragila, who trains hereAFP; Reuters photo - 283 words
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Article, Illustration265 2001-02-19 28 But arch rival Real just keeps on winning Primera Liga MADRID Barcelona slumped further behind in the Spanish league title race on Saturday following a 3-2 home defeat by reigning champion Deportivo La Coruna. The ever-dependable Raul Gonzalez, meanwhile, ensured Real Madrid's bandwagon continued to roll.Reuters photo - 265 words
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Article222 2001-02-19 28 MANCHESTER Dwight Yorke is facing the biggest decision of his career this summer when Manchester United offers him a new four-year contract. For Chelsea is ready to make a £10 million (Ss2s million) move for Yorke at the end of the season, The Sun222 words
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Article, Illustration220 2001-02-19 28 AFP Serie A AC Milan 3 Bologna 3 ROME A last-gasp goal from Luigi Sala saved a point for AC Milan in a thrilling 3-3 draw with Bologna at the San Siro. The result leaves the Milanese in joint fifth with Udinese, which earlier beatAFP - 220 words
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Article, Illustration598 2001-02-19 29 Once-great club has lost much of its shine English FA Cup LONDON Tottenham Hotspur. A famous name with a succession of famous players Blanchflower, Greaves, Mackay and Mullery, Jennings, Chivers and Peters, Coates, Gilzean, Villa, Ardiles, Hoddle and Archibald, Lineker, Gascoigne and Waddle. Not a badAj.lspokt photo - 598 words
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301 2001-02-19 29 Reuters Six NaNons LONDON England broke three Six Nations records after recovering from an early hiccup to beat Italy 80-23, while Ireland kept out a late French rally to secure its second successive victory 22-15. The most exciting finish of the day wasReuters - 301 words
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AFTERNOON EDITION
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Article, Illustration583 2001-02-19 30 S. Murali - S. Murali Lions can do better in Kuwait, even if Poulsen doesn't think so by; murali@newstoday.com.sg ONE point. According to recent press reports, that is what Jan Poulsen said he would be happy with from his next three matches in Kuwait. And if he was quotedJOSE RAYMOND - 583 words
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157 2001-02-19 30 -AFP Serie A MILAN Italian first division leader AS Roma defeated bogey team Lecce 1-0 yesterday to stay six points clear of second-placed Juventus, which prevailed by a similar scoreline at Bari. Roma have not won the title since 1982-83. It did not break through until-AFP - 157 words
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Article112 2001-02-19 30 Reuters English FA Cup Arsenal 3 Chelsea 1 LONDON Chelsea's season came crashing down at Highbury last night when Arsenal dumped it out of the FA Cup. The Blues, already out of the Premiership race and Europe, were hoping for another good cup ran to salvageReuters - 112 words
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Article, Illustration398 2001-02-19 31 S. Murali - S. Murali by murali@newstoday.com.sg THE organisers of the inaugural Singapore Caltex Masters, which starts on Thursday, must be dancing a jig. Their two biggest drawcards announced their form with superb wins yesterday. Double major winner Vijay Singh showed his class at Saujana Country Club,398 words
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325 2001-02-19 31 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Fijian heavyweight Vijay Singh fought off the heat, monsoon rains and Irish Ryder Cup star Padraig Harrington to take the Carlsberg Malaysian Open yesterday in a nail-biting play-off. In the sudden death finale, the two players matched each other blow-AFP - 325 words
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207 2001-02-19 31 Reuters MELBOURNE Britain's Colin Montgomerie won the Australian Masters by one stroke yesterday and said afterwards that an overnight change to a heavier putter had paved the way for his final round three-under par 69. The consistent Montgomerie, with earlier rounds of– Reuters - 207 words
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AFTERNOON EDITION
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Article, Illustration229 2001-02-19 32 Manchester City boss Royle fumes over penalty decision English FA Cup Liverpool 4 Man City 2 LIVERPOOL Manchester City manager Joe Royle blamed a "ridiculous decision" by the referee to award a penalty against his side as the crucial factor in the defeat at Liverpool in yesterday's fifth-round tie.229 words
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