Today, 21 June 2001

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  • 5 1 TODAY Thursday j«« MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • 99 1 Passport to U PROJECT work will be included for admission into all Singapore universities from 2005. The Ministry of Education has taken this decision following a trial in all junior colleges and centralised institutes from January to last November. The trial involved independent research in study teams, which presented their
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  • 597 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Taoism overtaken by others as main religion of Chinese in S'pore by ki m@news tod ay.com. sg TAOISM is seeking "the way" to survival in 21st Century Singapore. For a religion that preaches "the attainment of everything and yet nothing" through "the course of nature",
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 373 2  -  Tan Hwee Yee It can be used here and in Malaysia by reporter@newstoday.com.sg A NEW card integrating the features of the Singapore CashCard and Malaysia's Touch 'n' Go Card will be launched in the market later this year. The card, called the Touch 'n' Go CashCard, is
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    • 217 2 WHEN the three-day COE Open Bidding System trial for Category E cars ended at 4pm yesterday, 3,294 bids had been placed. Of these, 671 bidders (the entire quota) will get the July COE for $28,471 each. That's $1,371 more than what resulted from the
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    • 140 2  -  Audra Lint THAT Singaporeans like to consume shark's fins and bird's nests must have encouraged Kanifa Sarbuteen Ali, a businessman from India, to take them into Singapore. The only problem is that Kanifa did not declare them to Customs, which landed him with a
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    • 208 2  -  Cathleen Tung THE petroleum price war has moved one step down the road, nearer to town. Since May 28, the Caltex kiosk at Dunearn Road, near Barker Road, has been offering an 11 per cent discount on its pump prices. This follows discounts that petroleum
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    • 92 2 Raymond ARSON is suspected in a series of fires which broke out in Ang Mo Ko Industrial Park 2 (picture) yesterday at about 5.30am. Two shophouses about 50m apart were gutted. A motorcycle some distance away from the shophouses was also destroyed. The shophouses, which belonged
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    • 129 2 KING Abdullah II of Jordan has called on Singapore to help turn his country into a major technological centre in the Middle East. Here on a two-day state visit, the King wants Singaporean businessmen to take advantage of his government's incentives and invest in Jordan. Citing
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    • 76 3 BANGKOK A man held a woman hostage near the city market yesterday during a twohour ordeal (above). The man later dragged the woman to a nearby police car and tried to make a getaway, but angry onlookers flung open the car door, pulled him out and beat
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    • 396 3 Wipe out money politics, stop fighting KUALA LUMPUR Wipe out money politics or risk losing political power, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi warned yesterday as he opened the annual general assemblies of Umno Youth and Wanita Umno. "Money politics has deviated the party from
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    • 119 3 AN unemployed man was yesterday sentenced to five months in jail for jumping onto the track of an approaching MRT train at Clementi MRT station on Feb 6. Tan Chee Hong, 34, pleaded guilty to jumping onto the station's eastbound track. It was his first
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  • LETTERS
    • 449 4  -  Chew Chee Meng And exempt buses from COE and ERP charges I REFER to the outrage in the media over the feeder bus fare hike. Residents in newer estates have fewer eating houses and provision shops in the void decks. Therefore, it becomes a necessity for
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    • 114 4 WE refer to the letter "Lower fees for local students, please" by Ms Wong Teck Tian (TODAY, Jun 12). We wish to clarify that the Master of Mass Communication course is a self-financing one, which means that the running of the degree programme is such that
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    • 259 4  -  Vadivu Govind THE spirit with which Project Primate is raising funds for "conservation" is commendable (Today, Jun 16). The students mean well but I would like to raise a few concerns. "Primate" in Project Primate is an acronym for "People Representing an Interest in Merging
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    • 114 4 Where do our come from? Apples, bananas, pineapples you name it, we have it. Singapore imports her fruits mainly from China, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand and USA Last year, the per capita consumption of fruits was 84.4kg. To ensure that our fruits are safe for consumption, the Agri-food Veterinary Authority of
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 192 6 CANBERRA Trade and defence issues dominated the discussions at the SingaporeAustralia Joint Ministerial Committee meeting which ended yesterday. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law Professor S Jayakumar, Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo, and Minister for Education and Second Defence Minister RAdm Teo Chee Hean
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    • 267 6  -  Pearlyn Tham by rep o rter@ ne wstoday. co m. sg COME National Day, national swimmer and Sportsgirl of the Year Christel Bouvron (picture), table-tennis ace Jing Junhong and novelist Ovidia Yu will be among 36 people chosen to take the Pledge during the
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    • 300 6  - 100 pages of ideas Najib Ahmad for travel agents to go into the future by reporter® newstoday. com. sg INSTEAD of cutting expenses and manpower during an economic downturn, travel companies should equip themselves with the relevant skills to embrace the business potential of the future. This was the key
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • $ Market Watch
      • 74 7 OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp is selling $3 billion worth of 10-year bonds to fund its bid for Keppel Capital Holdings, The bonds will be denominated in US dollars, Singapore dollars, pound sterling and euros. They have been rated "Al" by Moody's Investors Service, "BBB+" by Standard Poor's, and "A"
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      • 39 7 CIRCUITS Plus Holdings has posted slightly lower profit of $2.32 million for the year ended Mar 31, compared with $2.44 million in the same period a year earlier. Revenue was $23.93 million, down from $24.68 million.
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      • 74 7 CLIPSAL Industries (Holdings) and Hong Kongbased Gold Peak Industries have agreed to sell their entire eight per cent stake in PDL Holdings of New Zealand at NZ510.96 per share. The buyer is Schneider Electric SA of France. Clipsal is one of the major suppliers of
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      • 32 7 WILLAS-Array Electronics (Holdings), a Hong Kong-based components distributor, will launch its initial public offering today. It serves a customer base of more than 2,000 companies in Hong Kong and China.
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      • 81 7 ASIA Dekor Holdings, which sells laminated flooring in China, plans to make a private placement of 60 million new shares worth US$5.4 million ($9.7 million) to expand its production capacity. The shares at US9 cents each, are at an 11 per cent discount to the closing price
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      • 27 7 |US$ 0.5497 Rupiah 6205.8 UK£ 0.3946 Baht 24.854 Yen 67.701 Peso 28.611 HK$ 4.2871 A$ 1.0613 ARM 2.0888 Rupee 28.824 Euro 0.6455 Won 711.28
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    • 290 7  -  Ivay Tan Bank ties up with TD Waterhouse Group by i vay @newstoday. com. sg DBS Group Holdings has entered into a joint venture to provide regional online financial services as it seeks to assert itself in the regional Internet banking arena. The 50 per cent partnership with
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    • 518 8  -  Ng Boon Yian SIA and Air NZ stick to their position as Qantas fumes by boo ny i a n@n ews to d ay. c o m .sg QANTAS chief executive Geoff Dixon had lashed out at Singapore Airlines for making a backdoor bid
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    • 86 8 SINGTEL expects its new Internet Protocol broadband satellite service to break after one year of operation. Known as Digital Video BroadcastingInternet Protocol (DVB-IP), the service transmits voice, video and other Internet-based applications to multiple receivers through SingTel's ST-1 satellite. DVB-IP, which was developed at
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    • 123 8 AN average of 150 residential units are transacted each month in districts 22 to 28 of Singapore. Primary market transactions make up 60 per cent of the total volume. This is not surprising as there are many new residential projects being developed in this sector. A Singapore Institute
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    • 151 8 Bloomberg CAPITALAND sold about 40 per cent of the SunGlade homes it placed on sale last weekend at close to break-even prices. The developer had a private sale for 400 invited guests, with 216 units of its second condominium project this year on sale at
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    • 364 10  -  Ivay Tan ALVINTOH Criteria for top entrepreneur by j vay® newstoday. com. sg CRISIS management, strategy to transform the company in the new economy and the ability to remain profitable and maintain growth these are the new criteria that will be used to choose this year's
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    • 181 10  -  Sol Solomon by sniomcm@newstod3y.com.sg THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Sun Microsystems and the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), will set up the Java Wireless Competency Centre (JWCC) here to spearhead wireless technology development, JWCC will also nurture local enterprises by facilitating strategic alliances among wireless application and
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    • 185 10 LOCAL customer relationship management company, Global Express, has launched its new international loyalty rewards card for retailers and consumers. It is based on a model which the company calls IDICO, meaning: Identify customers individually. Differentiate customers by value and then needs. Interact with customers after categorising them
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    • MARKET NEWS
      • 333 10 SINGAPORE shares slipped on a lack of fresh developments that had fuelled the merger and acquisition plays recently. As prices failed to hold on to recent gains, traders lock in profits, which led the ST Index to fall 16.81 points to 1684.80. Losers outpaced winners 164 to 95 while
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      • 132 10 KUALA LUMPUR Uncertain economic and political outlook kept investors firmly by the sideline as they awaited the Umno general assembly starting today, where there are hopes that the Prime Minister will reveal the appointment for the vacated Finance Minister's post. Trading volume was thin with only 115,257 lots done.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 141 12 THE United States is a very different place from Europe, and the differences will grow. Demographically, Americans are increasingly Asian and Latino, less inclined when looking "home" to turn to Europe, Their affection for guns, religion, the death penalty and genetically modified crops seems strange to Europeans. Just as baffling
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    • 304 12 Pakistan's military ruler is now head of state ISLAMABAD In a significant development, Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf made himself President ahead of his Jul 14 summit meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Gen Musharraf took over from President Rafiq Tarar, 18 months before the
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    • 195 12 TOKYO Japan was jolted again yesterday when a woman stabbed a seven-year-old girl. It is the latest in a series of similar incidents since a schizophrenic man stabbed eight kindergarten children to death less than two weeks ago. Police said a 37-year-old woman used
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    • 94 12 -AFP LONDON Britain's most eminent scientific body said in a report that there should be a worldwide moratorium on human reproductive cloning, because it is "unethical, dangerous and irresponsible". The Royal Society encouraged therapeutic cloning, where tissue is cloned but never allowed to develop into a foetus,
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    • 161 12 OTTAWA The commander of Canada's Pacific military fleet has been suspended after voluntarily admitting using a military laptop computer to view sex pictures. But debate is raging whether he has become a victim of political correctness. Several former military officers, both male and female, rallied
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    • 56 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Nine workers died when fire broke out on a ship under repair in a Malaysian dockyard yesterday. The blaze occurred at Pasir Gudang in Johor, police said. An official of Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering, quoted by Bernama news agency, said at least
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    • 255 14 Agencies HAVANA Cuban President Fidel Castro has denounced talk of Chinese arms shipments to Cuba as "lies". Mr Castro was responding to a recent report in The Washington Times which said American intelligence officials had traced at least three Chinese military shipments
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    • 148 14 TAIPEI Taiwan has test-fired three of its US-made Patriot missiles in the first of a battery of trials for the defensive weapons system. Private cable television stations said the military fired the missiles from a base in the southern Pingtung county. Rival China was holding war
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    • 77 14 Reuters SAN JOSE (California) A man who threw a dog into the middle of heavy traffic causing its death has been found guilty and faces three years in jail Andrew Burnett, 27, caused an international outcry over the incident when he threw the dog onto
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    • 457 14 PICTURE EXCLUSIVE Copyright News of the World Surviving baby surprises with speedy recovery MANCHESTER Just 10 months ago, little Gracie Attard's life hung in the balance. Born joined at the spine, abdomen and arms with her twin sister Rosie, she faced a marathon 20-hour operation in
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 791 16  -  Judith Tan Poison-pen writers, nuisance callers they're just cowards I RECEIVED a poison-pen letter just the other day. And like any poison-pen letter, it was not signed. Am I surprised? Not at all. A poison-pen letter serves to break down the confidence of the person on
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    • 548 16  -  Melina Nathan by THE end of the Cold War has seen the re-emergence of the region as the unit that matters in international relations. In part, this is due to the number of regional projects such as the European Union, Nafta, Mercusor
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  • INFOTECH
    • Article, Illustration
      350 18  -  Tan Hwee Yee Siemens launches three new trendy mobile phones by reporter® newstoday, com.sg IT is the young and trendy that Siemens is after with its latest strategy in Asia-Pacific. At the global launch in Singapore of three new Siemens phones this week, the German phone maker
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    • 62 18 LYCOS Asia has launched its Chinese e-mail address service for users in Hong Kong and China through a tie-up with i-EMAIL.net, a multi-lingual messaging provider. The service offers the option of using Chinese user-names in traditional and simplified Chinese characters for e-mail addresses when one signs
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    • 157 18 LESS than a year after the introduction of the FinePix 40i MP3 digital camera, Fujifilm is back with a new improved version the FinePix 50i. Equipped with a 2.4 megapixel Super CCD sensor and up to 3.75x digital zoom, the new Fujifilm camera comes lighter
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    • 150 18 MAKER of removable storage devices, lomega, has launched a new removable drive that boasts storage capacity of as much as 20GB. Aimed at users who need high capacity removable storage, the Peerless drive system, with 10GB and 20GB capacities, is based on IBM Travelstar's 20GN 2.5 inch notebook
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    • 91 18 SEAGATE Removable Storage Solutions LLC (RSS), a manufacturer of removable storage products, unveiled DiskStor, a new USB external hard drive. It comes ready to use, complete with full-featured ACDSee digital photo management software and Datakeeper data management software for secure on-the-fly protection of important files and
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    • BREAKING NEWS
      • 86 18 KPMG Consulting Asia has teamed up with Microsoft and Compaq Computer to set up an e-sotution centre in Kuala Lumpur. The e-business consulting firm will invest about KM3 million (551.43 million} annually into tk centre which is designed to roll out ready-to-market offerings for the financial
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      • 108 18 Vint Cerf, known as the father of the Internet, has got his eyes on the stars. The senior vice president for Internet architecture and technology at telecommunications company, WorldCom, is working on a proposal to create a network of Internets for communication between planets, satellites, asteroids, robotic spacecraft
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      • 21 18 AudioCatalyst It allows you to convert ,mp3 files from your favourite CDs and listen to tracks on the playlisi editor.
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      • 35 18 Snipltz Custom-make segments from video clips. Since this software does not create new video files but creates special data files to show just the portions of clips you want, it saves hard disk space.
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      • 33 18 PopAgent Get e-mail alerts with a flashing tray icon, an audio file or entertaining MS Agent characters that pop up on your desktop to tell you how many new messages were found.
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      • 34 18 This tool analyses and displays your system hardware's specifications and performance. Run benchmark tests on your CD-ROM, hard drive, CPU and video card, save them and then use them for comparison purposes.
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      • 32 18 Dweep Challenge yourself and try to figure out bow to navigate past obstacles to save baby Dweeps. Use mirrors, bombs, torches, hammers and fans to guide Dweep safely through 35 levels.
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    • 509 19  -  Reuben Lee It can store 10,000 pictures by WITH higher capture resolutions and video recording capabilities found in digital cameras nowadays, the biggest problem most users face is limited storage space. The BMB or 16MB memory card that comes with most cameras is no longer sufficient. While
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    • 274 21  -  Sophia Ang Here's the Singapore version with Edmund Chen and Ivy Lee by s o phia@ne wsto day. c om. sg You have seen Fox Mulder kidnapped by UFOs and Dana Scully assaulted by supernatural beings. Now, Singaporeans will have their own version of The X-Files. Only
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    • 200 21  -  Sophia Ang by so ph ia@ tie wstoday. com. sg Moses Lim is Tan Ah Teck, Koh Chieng Mun is Dolly, Andrew Lim is Paul, Nicholas Lee is Ronnie, Vernetta Lopez is Denise. Singapore's funniest family is back. When Under One Roof first hit
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • STARTALK
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      558 23  -  Hazel Tan Fann enjoys cooking, but who does she cook for? Did you know? ADD a new title to Fann's portfolio queen of SMS (short message service). Her highest record? Up to 1,600 messages a month. "It's the greatest invention for me. SMS is very useful. I
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  • RELAX
    • 498 24 Jack and Jill's cautionary tale of competition Once upon a time, in a fictional village far from here, a character by the name of Jack owned a thriving logging business. Jack was the sole supplier of wood to the villages in the area. He insisted that he
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    • 257 25 Reuters Stephen Chow hopes to score with new film HONG KONG Comedian Stephen Chow, known as Hong Kong's answer to rubber-faced Hollywood star Jim Carrey, is hoping to tap into Asia's passion for kungfu and football with the release of his latest film Shaolin Soccer. Featuring an unusual
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 310 26 Reuters James Cameron's underwater exploration footage to be involved in project? Titanic director James Cameron (left) is considering making a 3-D Imax movie from a footage he's shooting for ABC on underwater exploration. At the same time, the director, who announced the broadcast project last month, is
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    • 401 26 Reuters DVD may be the first format to present the Star Wars saga in the proper story order. Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace will be the first of the pictures on DVD when it's released on Oct 16.
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  • SPORTS
    • 550 27 With only one signing confirmed, United's domination has been questioned MANCHESTER First, Kieron Dyer looked certain to join from Newcastle, but nothing happened. Then, Argentine ace Juan Veron was due to fly in for a cool £24 million ($6l million) but instead faces a lengthy
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    • 109 27 Reuters TOKYO Japan internationals Shinji Ono and Junichi Inamoto look set to leave their J-League clubs for a move to Europe, Japanese newspapers reported yesterday. Ono, closely monitored during the recent Confederations Cup by officials from German club Borussia Dortmund, is on the verge of
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    • 416 27 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Veteran striker Romario described Brazilian football as a mess yesterday as the national squad was forced to train with nearly half of its players still missing. "It's the same old mess. I hope that this time
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    • 535 28 South African's skill and mental steel no longer in any doubt US Open TULSA Retief Goosen's victory on the Oklahoma plains on Monday owed a lot to his own courage. To revisit the scene of his misadventures the previous night, when he and Stewart Cink both missed putts
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    • 488 28 Buick Invitational HARRISON Tiger Woods was not expected to arrive at the Westchester Country Club, site of this week's Buick Classic, until late yesterday. But Woods did not have to be at a golf tournament to dominate the
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    • 432 29  -  S. Murali Alcatel Singapore Open Mardan is going into this tournament better prepared than ever before by murali@ne ws tod ay. com. sg HISTORY, familiarity and form suggest that Mardan Mam at (right) could do well in the Alcatel Singapore Open at Jurong Country Club
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    • 304 29 Asian PGA FORMER Thai soldier Thongchai Jaidee, back in Asia after competing in the US Open, will head into battle at the US$3OO,OOO ($540,000) Alcatel Singapore Open today without the benefit of a practice round at Jurong Country Club. The 31-year-old Thongchai only
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    • 120 29 -Reuters SYDNEY Australian Sports Minister Jackie Kelly joined critics yesterday in attacking Netball Australia (NA) for announcing a ban on pregnant players. Kelly said she agreed with the Australian Medical Association (AMA) which has called for the ban to be overturned. "It's up to the female and
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    • 513 30  -  Jose Raymond Coach Siva and three players given termination letters by sports @news today, com. sg ON SATURDAY, Tampines Rovers hit rock bottom in the S-League, literally. Three days later, in what can only be called an emergency meeting of the Tampines technical committee, swift and
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    • 130 30 Match 1: Gombak v SAFFC Bukit Gombak Stadium 21 June 7.30pm IX2 (1) Gombak $6.80 (X) Draw $5.20 (2) SAFFC $1.25 1/2 Goal Gombak 1 1/2) $2.20 SAFFC (-1 1/2) $1.55 Total Goals 0 goal $28.00 1 goal $12.00 2 goals $6.00 3 goals $4.20
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    • 189 30  -  Stanley Ho A WHOPPING $3,000 is there for the taking. That is what potential SLeague 'Giant-killer of the Week' wannabes Gombak United and Woodlands Wellington will stand to collect if they beat their highly-fan-cied opponents in this week's clashes. The Bulls, lying
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    • 244 30  -  Stanley Ho IMAGINE Shamsul Maidin blowing for a penalty against Penang in its M-League clash against Sarawak. It is not as far-fetched as you may think as local S-League referees will soon be involved in an exchange programme with their M-League counterparts. Tomorrow, Jeffrey Beh,
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    • 265 31  -  Stanley Ho Lion City Cup Lyngby 2 Singapore U-18 0 LYNGBY FC followed up Monday's 5-1 hammering of Japanese team Wakayama with a 2-0 victory over the Singapore Under-18 team at Bedok Stadium last night. The young Lions were struggling all night
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    • 58 31 Timothy YeoThen and now... EX-NATIONAL sprinter Timothy Yeo returned from the US yesterday and caused several raised eyebrows. Gone was the clean-cut Timothy. Instead, the 24-year-old University of California student sported braided shoulder length hair with a moustache and a little goatee. "It is my Snoop Dogg look," he said,
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    • 131 31  -  Kelvin Phang GARY TAN failed get a third national record in as many days at last night's South-east Asia Games swimming trials at Toa Payoh. The 19-year-old fell short by just 0.19 sec in his bid to break David Lint's 1988 mark
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    • 79 31 ANGLO-Chinese-School's (Independent) Under-13 and Under-14 rugby teams got a special treat on Tuesday. Standard Chartered Bank's Head of Global Markets, Lee Boon Huat, and rugby greats Eric Rush, Jeremy Guscott, David Duckham and Willie Mcßride presented medals and special awards to the players for winning
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    • 128 31 Reuters WELLINGTON Australia moved a step closer to next year's World Cup finals when it beat New Zealand 2-0 in the first leg of the Oceania group final yesterday. With the overall winner going on to face the fifth-placed South American team for a place in the
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    • 184 32 LONDON Cricket's governing body has instructed all member coutries to deliver detailed reports into how each combats potential crowd problems, revealed BBCSport.com. The International Cricket Council has asked each country to compile a report by the end of July following the crowd trouble that
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