Today, 23 February 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    9 1 TODAY Friday February 23, 2001 MITAIP) ITS II 2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Bush note to China
      222 1 -AFP President concerned over help to Iraqis WASHINGTON US President George W Bush has said that he is concerned over reports that Chinese technicians had carried out fibreoptic work that could enhance Iraqi air defences. As he spoke, US jets struck Iraq again, hitting air defence
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      Lock icon US markets close lower
      124 1 Reuters NEW YORK Stocks fell yesterday as investor worries' over a fresh batch of bad earnings from the high-technology companies knocked the Nasdaq market to a two-year low. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index ended down 23.98 points, or 1.06 per cent, at 2,244.96 after plummeting as
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      Lock icon In 7 days – British target to contain foot-and-mouth disease
      139 1 In 7 days British target to contain foot-and-mouth disease Reuters LONDON Britain yesterday gave itself seven days to contain a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has triggered a world ban on exports of its livestock and animal products and plunged the fanning sector into a new crisis. Officials warned the public
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      186 1 IMSUMYOUI IMVftTMINI WITH GreotL'lNK w\,!« i ■!«IHjSSSI Via 1 4 n7b J;■ Relax. Your "someday" will arrive *!ri 'p^* Z a l°t sooner than you think. t m-m Saving up for your Ideal home could take a long time pay or CPF contribution each month. You can also top- because
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  • HOT NEWS
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      The animal
      296 2  -  Ng Boon Yian Will IPOS be too powerful? by.. boony ian® newstoday. com. sg WILL the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) be vested with too much powers? Sembawang MP, Associate Professor Chin Tet Yung, expressed his reservations in Parliament yesterday. With IPOS becoming a statutory board on
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      Child-safe Internet
      190 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by.. kim® newstoday. com. sg CYBER angels from the world over have gathered here to brainstorm new ways to protect junior's safety in cyberspace. To put spurs into this, Minister of Information and the Arts, Mr Lee Yock Suan announced fresh funds to the tune of
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      The ABCs of Hepatitis B
      96 2 Q: If lam /o ,>CJ[%. healthy, do I need to go for immunisation? A: Immunisation is the best measure to O protect one from hepatitis B infection. It is precisely the healthy who should go for immunisation to prepare the body to produce enough antibodies
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      Brunei baby gets cornea transplant
      117 2 Baby Muhamad Sheikh Ikhtiaruddin B Hamdan from Brunei was born with multi-birth defects, including a hole in the heart, and sclero cornea. The latter, a rare condition of no known cause, means that he was born without the protective transparent covering at the front of
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      First Chinese e-com MBA
      123 3 FIRST there was the Chinesespeaking campaign. Now, Australian university, Charles Stuart University, and local company Forte-IRI are teaming up to provide the region's first Master of Business Administration (MBA) in e-commerce in Chinese. Targeted at Chinese-educated professionals, the course aims at bringing them to the forefront
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      Want to bet?
      361 3  -  Danny Er He challenged his teacher, then his company by.. reporter®newstoday.com.sg THIS man has never shirked a wager. He was taking his "A" levels when he bet his Chinese-language teacher that he would score an A. It seemed a walkover for the teacher as Rix Chan (right)
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      Budget telecast
      57 3 TUNE in to Channel NewsAsia's live broadcast of Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu's budget statement, expected to begin after 4 pm today. Viewers can also post questions on the website www.channelnewsasia.com/sgbudget, and join host Melvin Yong later at 8.30 pm for the answers during a live panel discussion
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      Awardwinning clones
      257 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Ancient crab saved, research helped by... pheiphei@ne wsto day. c o m.sg A PIONEERING professor who cloned enzymes from a 400 mil-lion-year-old crab in an attempt to save them from extinction has been awarded for her work. After more than five years of research, Associate
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      One-arm bandit
      137 4 A ONE-ARMED hawker's assistant brandished a knife at a stall owner in Geylang when he was refused a meal. In July last year, after a few beers, Loy Kwok Van, tried to buy food at Mr Wong Juan Hwee's stall. Mr Wong refused to serve him unless he
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      Leading an e-lifestyle
      123 4 E-LIFESTYLE is set to takeover the daily lives of Singaporeans from all walks of life. That is the message from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), which will be holding its eFestival at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition centrefrom Mar 7 to 11. IDA expects
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      51 3 READ 0N... What the residents told me Residents in PAP wards are stuck/6 After all that fuss... Rapper Eminem picks up three awards /23 Rio shows his class in Belgium After 30 years, Leeds makes it to the quarter-finals .../36 Experience or youth? Who will be in Eriksson's first England
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  • LETTERS
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      Keeping the pigeons at bay
      191 6  -  him Wei Lee WE refer to the letter "Control the pigeon pests bird population rising in housing estates," by Mr Norbert Arianayagam Richard (Today, Feb 13). We wish to thank Mr Richard for his feedback. Our Council shares his concern regarding health hazards caused by
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      What the residents told me
      402 6 Potong Pasir MP Chiam See Tong responds I to our front page story Residents in PAP wards are stuck YOUR front page article "The politics of property" (Feb 19) is totally inaccurate as far as its report on Potong Pasir Estate is concerned. In the
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      Flats in opposition wards cheaper
      274 6 I And our reporter Ng Boon Yian replies FIRSTLY, let me apologise for the mistake in using the term "executive condominiums" it should have been "executive apartments". However, the source I spoke to still maintains that the executive apartments in the area hover around $400,000.
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      Lock icon Nightly race against time
      425 7  -  Shazalina Salim Less than 5 hours to check and repair tracks islandwide by.. shazalraa@newstQday.com.sg TRAINS run for 19 gruelling hours daily without fail. That leaves the maintenance team less than five hours to conduct thorough checks on the tracks. The tracks are inspected every two nights
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      123 6 vV^frguably The Best Dim Sum In Town. Savour Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant's exquisite Dim Sum. Bite into fresh 7 quality ingredients. Marvel at the innovation and culinary skills of Hong Kong Dim Sum Chef Cheung Kin Nam. Pick and choose from the variety of items which start from just $3.00.
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      Furious selling
      508 8 More losses than gains as Wall Street casts its shadow IT was carnage on Wall Street as renewed worries on the economy overcame bargain hunters who got swept aside by furious selling that brought the Nasdaq back to two-year lows. With the tech-laden index falling more than 10
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      Lock icon Malaysia unveils plan to strengthen capital markets
      272 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Thursday announced sweeping plans to strengthen and open up its capital markets in an attempt to raise tens of billions of dollars over the next decade and lessen dependence on banks to fuel growth. The Capital Market Master Plan
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    • Article
      Economy grew 9.9 per cent in 2000, MAS maintains monetary policy
      247 9  -  Chin Weilin Chan Chao Peh by.. and RAMPING up strongly after the regional financial crisis of 1997 to 1998, it was a sterling 9.9 per cent growth for the Singapore economy last year. All key sectors enjoyed healthy growth.
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      Lock icon Crystal ball ...
      214 9 Crystal ball Bloomberg News Lower personal taxes, more public works? THE government might provide more money to consumers in next year's budget to counter a possible economic slowdown, analysts said. The budget for the year starting Apr 1 will be unveiled this afternoon. "This budget will attempt to stimulate demand
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      Great Eastern's profit rises 32 per cent
      106 9 GREAT Eastern Holdings' pre-tax profit for 2000 rose 32 per cent, which includes the assets and liabilities of Overseas Assurance Corporation (OAC), which merged with it last December. Contributing factors included a rise in premium income, which rose by 17 per cent, and
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Dead passenger flies into S'pore
      140 10 HONG KONG A 51-year-old American man died on a flight to Singapore but nobody on the United Airlines plane noticed it. The unidentified man from New Jersey fell ill towards the end of the flight from Hong Kong last Friday, reported the South China Morning
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      Lock icon Bloodbath yet again
      223 10 Agencies Dayak and Madurese in brutal clashes JAKARTA The perennial rivalry between two ethnic groups in central Kalimantan has exploded into a full-scale bloodbath again, with mutilated corpses and heads scattered in the streets. Brutal clashes between Dayak tribesmen and Madurese settlers in Sampit city since Sunday
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      Hong Kong's ranking falls
      124 10 HONG KONG An influential survey has downgraded Hong Kong's ranking as an international business centre from third to 12th place, behind Singapore. The survey was conducted by the Economist magazine's Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey says there are several factors acting against Hong Kong's future as
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      140 10 MO \jkc Tour Singapore Wtiffi fk States Represented vf/7 t\W iCt Alabama, Arizona, Saturday, Feb 24 If/ f ynft/SS /ff/ rf\"\l'?M California, Colorado, Exhibition t|f J WLu Connecticut, 11 a. m. to 4p. m. VI 1/ I W Delaware Georgiabhi Maa m MI JJ 1 ITr Illinois. lowa, Kansas, Pan
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      382 11 Spice up every LESSON. HOME ECONOMICS TEACHER TRAINING SCHEME H /<»l icSti yf\ &L*^ *!liu &F^" ir-^l"':^ JBBK-"''- academic knowledge and Gross Salary of $1,633 /"|d jflfi^ W^LJ Sti'l^BP^S. pedagogical (i.e.teaching) per month ($1,849 with NS) i^j* X 'iMiW Js^Jm"l JJ^IIJOM^y Homo Economics teacher. 4-year prog ram me, your grass
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  • COMMENTARY
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      How to beat Net porn
      634 12  -  Ravi Veloo by.. HOW to keep your child safe from predators and porn on the Internet? Singapore has drawn experts from around the world to discuss just that in the first international convention on online safety, called Safe Surfing 2001. You may wonder why you
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      44 12 Puerto Rico in May, the top three I I winners will be offered contracts by MediaCorp to join the vibrant world of media and broadcasting. Wr~ -^b t H j rTj| jL; ,W t |1 i V r lfc 1 V Independently produced by
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  • INFOTECH
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      Stay alive
      653 14  -  Lawrence Low How to avoid getting fragged out in Counter-Strike by YOU have seen Counter-Strike players going at it in LAN shops. Here's how you can beat the best of them. Okay, maybe not the best, but the passable ones among them. For a start, holding down the
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    • Article
      Handhelds losing ground
      29 14 Palm and Handspring saw a decline in their share of the handheld mari ket in January, losing to devices I running Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system.
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      New price scheme, maybe
      43 14 Oracle charges licence fees for unlimited users, does not distin- guish between full time and occai siona! users and enforces a mini- mum per user policy. However, all this could change when Oracle DEj on-Tap is launched in Asia.
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      TOP PICKS OF THE WEEK
      139 14 i Symantec Antivirus for Palm OS J With LiveUpdate, this anti-virus program is designed to protect Palm devices from viruses, Trojan S horses, and worms. 1 Donkey Kong Jr. 77j is /s a Pa/m adaptation of the j classic Nintendo game. I ZoneAlarm TTji's Internet
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      Bringing condo dwellers together
      368 16  -  Sol E Solomon Site takes advantage of the Internet to build communities by... solomon@newstociay.com. sg A WEB site that caters specifically to the local needs of residents within a condominium development, while it brings the rest of the world to them. That's how Mr Khoo Peck
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      Hungry for some real gadget thrill?
      273 16 THE Cool Gear Action 2001 gadgetry show will make its inaugural appearance at Funan the IT Mall on March 17 and 18. Organised by ZDNet Asia (www.zdnetasia.com), the Web site designed for people looking to buy, use and learn more about technology, this event
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      Video editor
      84 16 ADOBE Systems Inc has released Premiere 6.0 which allows users to quickly and easily edit digital video on a desktop and publish it to the Web in multiple formats. For DV (digital video) editing, the software provides built-in support for a large selection of devices. Enhanced editing tools
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      100 14 Powered by handheld mobile digital audio multimedia wireless technology handheld mobile digital audio multimedia wireless technology TODAY will publish a supplement on 17 March 2001 in conjunction with ZDNet Asia's Cool Gear Action 2001 M, TS^JLJ y*Jss jL^xtsi&fi^ If technology's latest and newest gadgets are t """M. j&m><WfWds&b.Wk& "**<*% jo^jß
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      650 17 PC _^H and Shanthini Moorthy in the Drivetime Rhapsody A J Newsßadio 93.8 FM will be broadcasting "live" as during which you can listen for your lively Class 95's Dance Party the Budget is released in Parliament. favourites, popular Broadway tunes and movie 8-10 pm From 7to 8 pm, there
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      780 18 HH Sabrina Demon's Baby I Budget Speech L^ Channel 5, 7pm Channel 8,10.30 pm Channel NewsAsia, 4pm A lore story about the beautiful "C^ Finance Minister l)r Richard Hu will be delivering his Li daughter of a chauffeur who falls for In the late Qing Dynasty, five H l^^r l,
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  • RELAX
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      12 survive
      533 21  -  David Ngiau Four booted out as series moves into new phase by.. david® newstoday. co m. sg With Survivor 2 moving into a new phase today, let us review past events and ponder the future. The casualties so far: Day Three: Debb Eaton, 45, single, prison warden from
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      Thai volleyball team with a story to tell
      294 21  -  David Ngiau by.. davi d® newstoday. com. sg As I noted in my feature on The Iron Ladies yesterday, it's a plot we are probably quite familiar with. You know, Major League, Sumo Do Sumo Don't and The Replacements, a bunch of
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      Lock icon After all that fuss...
      526 23 Reuters Rapper Eminem picks up 3 awards but loses album of the year to Steely Dan In one of the biggest upsets in Grammy history, Veteran jazz-rock duo Steely Dan won the album of the year Grammy on Wednesday for Two Against Nature, defeating controversial favourite
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      Lock icon The ideal human
      680 24  -  Neville Stack OFF BEAT Built to last but he could look like a grotesque monster by.. nstack® es a tclear. is I "*he trouble with genetic engtX neering is it doesn't go far enough. Instead of fretting over whether genetically-modified crops are safe to eat or musing
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      Two more out!
      651 26  -  Jeanne Leong 'Mad Dog' Hershey and Olsen 'the weakling' don't survive the Outback by.. jeanneje o ng^s pe. sony. com.sg It was about time! In a move that many say was long overdue, 52--year-old Maralyn "Mad Dog" Hershey (the old "fogey") and musician Mitchell Olsen (the weakling)
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  • style
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      JACKET REQUIRED
      425 27 Bosses everywhere will heave a sigh of relief Casual finally gets ousted of the boardroom with this season's return of the Jacket. From loose-fitting military coats to slim-cut girlie jackets, it's a brand new relaxed mode for executive dressing. FOR girls who have been living in their capris
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  • travel
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      Lock icon Sun, Sea & the Gold Coast
      1238 28  - Sun, Sea the Gold Coast Chan Chao Peh by i chaopeh@newstoday. com, sg THIS is another world.The minibus makes another 270-degree turn on yet another roundabout. Shane, our tour guide for the evening from Aries Tours, says with a straight face: "We reckon that there are male and female roundabouts
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        166 34 RECENTLY-RELEASED sales figures from Japan have confirmed the Toyota Corolla as the best-selling passenger car there last year. The strong market performance of the latest model, introduced late in the year, enabled it co edge the Vitz (Echo) supermini into second place by just over
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      274 34  -  Damelli Phan Q m lam driving a 1993 Hyundai ESantra 1.6 GLS. Every > morning when I start the engine, I have to warm up the engine for about five minutes, before I can drive off. When I gently step on the accelerator to move off, the car
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      288 35 NBA Spurs 99 LA Lakers 101 SAN ANTONIO The Los Angeles Lakers won without Kobe Bryant, and with Shaquille O'Neal scoring lower than usual. Six Lakers supplied double-figure scoring to complement O'Neal's 22 points as Los Angeles beat the San Antonio Spurs 101-99 yesterday,
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      278 35 Boxing LONDON Lennox Lewis brought his showdown with Mike Tyson a step closer by sending the American a provisional contract to fight later this year. Britain's WBC and IBF world heavyweight champion answered Tyson's taunts he was not prepared to clash by instructing his lawyers
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      223 36 LONDON His players had already made an emphatic enough statement, but David O'Leary could not resist a parting shot at his vanquished rival when he bumped into Aime Anthuenis, the Anderlecht coach, as they passed last night. Riled by some disparaging prematch comments, the Leeds
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      Lyon defender Edmilson dents Gunners hopes
      407 36 Arsenal 1 Lyon 1 LONDON Arsene Wenger felt the bitter blow of Arsenal's inability to hang onto a lead for a second consecutive Champions League home game as its qualifying hopes was plunged back into doubt. The Gunners were poised to leave themselves one
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        670 37  -  Leonard Thomas by leonard@newstoday.cora.sg NO one, save for Tord Grip, has any idea who will be in Sven Goran Eriksson's first England squad. Tonight, England's first foreign football coach will reveal a list of names of
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      587 38  -  S. Murali Warren Bennett's perseverance has seen him overcome a serious neck injury by.. murali@news to d ay. com. sg SIX months ago, it hurt so bad that Warren Bennett considered quitting golf. The injury was literally a pain in the neck, but for Bennett, it
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      475 38  -  Kelvin Phang Kuwait 1 Singapore 0 by.. kelvin@newsto day.com. sg DESPITE a 1-0 loss to host Kuwait yesterday which ended Singapore's pre-World Cup qualifying hopes, caretaker coach Jan Poulsen was still a happy man. The result means the Lions stayed
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      462 39  -  S. Murali Last seven EuropeanTour events have been won by "foreigners" by.. mural i@ tie wstoday. com. sg IT is quite an amazing statistic but Europe has yet to register a "home" win on the European Tour. But Irishman Padraig Harrington could end all of
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      212 39 WHILE the professionals went on a tear at the Bukit course, one man who helped "tweak" most of their clubs was featuring at an exhibition at the other end of Singapore. Barry Harris, who was named as the World Clubmaker of the Year in
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