Today, 25 July 2001

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    6 1 TODAY WcdnCSdjiy July 25, 2001 wtMf)inn\am
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    9 men blow up 13 planes
    508 1  -  Jose Raymond Sri Lankan govt can't offer peace,Tigers will not call off the war and the bloodbath continues by jose@newstoday.com.sg ON the anniversary of the day that started one of the bloodiest conflicts in history, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam struck at the
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    Lock icon Lucent to cut 15,000 jobs
    215 1 Agencies NEW YORK Struggling telecom group Lucent Technologies announced yesterday it is to cut 15,000 to 20,000 jobs in the coming months, in addition to the 19,000 jobs it has already cut since the beginning of the year. The New Jersey-based company has also reported
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      13 1 Starting today, a weekly special on job opportunities see our appointments section inside.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      NTUC rescue
      358 2  -  Elaine Quek Co-ops to provide $6.4m in discounts, assistance by elaine@newstoday.com.sg NATIONAL Day celebrations are going to be that much sweeter with a $6.4 million assistance package, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Co-operatives announced yesterday. The package, comprising $4 million from NTUC Income, $2.05 million from NTUC
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      Aware in Parliament?
      182 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan CONVINCED that now is the time for women to stand up and be counted, the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) is putting up two women candidates as Nominated Members of Parliament (NMP). The two hopefuls have both been Aware members for more
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      Flexible mortgages?
      184 2  -  Lee Ching Wern by chingwem@newstoday.com.sg AFTER barely recovering from the recession two years ago, Singapore is headed for another downturn. With the unpredictability of the economic situation, Singapore should have more flexible banking and mortgage regulations. This call was made by feedback groups formed to examine the economic
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      Lock icon Hospital heritage
      51 2 ALVINTOH This bed from the 60s saved cholera patients from making multiple trips to the bathroom. That was be/ore effective medication was available for treatment of diarrhoea. This bed and other medical artifacts are on display at the Tan Tock Seng Heritage Museum which opens today. Today photo
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      Human smuggler jailed
      67 2  -  Cathleen Tung FOR $1,000, Kuik Lay Peng agreed to help an international human smuggling syndicate get a Chinese national into the United States. She received 12 months in jail for her crime. In March, she was to accompany Zou Yanbo, who was carrying a forged Singapore passport,
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      When will Gus Dur leave?
      359 3  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Family members 'have started packing their bags' by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg SHE has been appointed Indonesia's fifth President but Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri was still working from her vice-presidential office yesterday. Her sacked predecessor, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid, has refused to budge from the presidential palace,
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      Malaysian women to get equal rights
      205 3 KUALA LUMPUR They have been given a Women's Affairs Ministry. Their "sisters" already hold top posts in government. Now, Malaysia's women, whose votes can make a difference in a close election, are about to receive another "gift" from the government: A constitutional amendment which
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      Stone factor
      380 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Suspicious elderly, afraid of magic stones, snub study by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg A STUDY into the four most common disabling neurological diseases seen in the elderly has hit a snag the magic stone snag. It appears that the elderly, who have read or heard of cases in
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      Part-time pimp jailed
      115 4 HE was not a professional pimp, but a full-time taxi driver who seized the opportunity presented to him. So said Lim Soo Hiong's defence counsel when the 62-year-old was fined $16,000 and jailed three months for living on the immoral earnings through pimping. Lim was arrested in
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      Lock icon She's first in line
      41 4 WONG KHING CHONG The first baby to be born at the new Raffles Hospital with her parents, Mr and Mrs Foo Siangjeok. The hospital is giving the first 10 newborns a golden anklet each. Today photo by
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      Last batch of National Day farecards?
      91 4 THE National Day farecards that go on sale today may be the last of their kind. And it's not because they are unpopular since the first National Day edition was released in 1995, the farecards have never failed to be sold out before Aug
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      Dragon boating gets popular
      185 4  -  Lee U-Wen by uwen@newstoday.com.sg OUTWARD Bound and bootcamp, move over. Dragon boating is the new tool for staff development. The Singapore Dragon Boat Association (SDBA) has noticed a growing interest among schools and corporations to use dragon boating as a way to build teamwork and staff
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      Target: $3m for charity
      153 4 THIS year's President's Challenge, to be launched on Aug 29, hopes to raise at least $3 million for 37 beneficiaries. The President's Challenge is a week-long series of activities and events to get Singaporeans to cultivate the habit of caring for the less privileged. Grant Communications
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      97 4 READ 0N... S$ at 1-month high Market expects MAS intervention to prevent weakening of dollar/7 More training in hard times Informatics achieves a 39% jump in profit/ 10 Missed chance Gus Dur could have been a great leader if /15 All that hype A local film on truth, new love
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      954 5 THE DELL MONEY BACK GUARANTEE I.® NOT SURE ABOUT BUYING DIRECT... NOW YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE! V Buy a Dell™ PC and you know you are buying a computer that delivers you awesome speed, power and performance. If however you feel differently, return your computer within 30 days and you'll
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      The China expert
      1148 6  -  Sking Yi JVg How much substance is there in Life! editor's diatribe against Today reporter? HAVING read Straits Times Life! editor Richard Lim's July 22 Sunday Plus column in the Sunday Times, I am compelled to respond to his views on China and the "Western-educated elite" in
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon S$ at 1-month high
      310 7 Bloomberg Market expects MAS intervention to prevent weakening of dollar THE Singapore dollar climbed to its highest level in a month on expectation the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will not tolerate declines and may intervene to buy the currency, analysts said. The Singapore dollar gained
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      Lock icon Amex earnings down 76%
      101 7 -AFP NEW YORK American Express confirmed that its sec-ond-quarter earnings were 76 per cent lower than the US$74O million ($1.3 billion) reported for the same period last year. The company reported earnings of US$l7B million, with a 13-cent earning per share, in line with estimates that
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      Lock icon UOB gets an A+ rating
      301 8 Bloomberg Lender is now on a par with rival DBS UNITED Overseas Bank Ltd has been assigned an A+ longterm rating, the fifth-highest investment grade, by Standard Poor's (S&P), putting the lender on a par with rival DBS Group Holdings Ltd, the country's largest bank.
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      Lock icon Sports insurance on the way for China Olympics
      126 8 Bernama BEUING The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) is studying the possibility of setting up a sports insurance broking firm to organise the underwriting of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, the Business Weekly reported, citing a CIRC official. The country
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      Lock icon Keppel finance arm sale approved
      174 8 Bloomberg KEPPEL Corp shareholders have approved the sale of Singapore's biggest diversified group's finance arm to Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. But Keppel gave no details about its next move. Keppel Corp, which is the biggest shareholder of Keppel Capital Holdings Ltd, with 36.7 per cent of
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    • Market Watch
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        Below expectations
        92 8 FIRST half profit at SembCorp Marine fell 6.6 per cent to $39 million. Analysts had expected the company, which is Singapore's biggest ship repairer, to turn in around $46 million in profit at half time. In announcing its results, SembCorp blamed weaker earnings to a drop in exceptional
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        Electronic payments
        57 8 A NEW online system for electronic payments, eGIRO, by Banking Computer Services (BCS) which operates the Singapore Automated Clearing House (Sach), replaces the Interbank GIRO (IBG) system used for 17 years. Now, all processes between the banks, thenbranches and the Sach are transmitted electronically and securely using the
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        Exposed to settlement risk
        103 8 A MONETARY Authority of Singapore (MAS) survey of 39 banks in the Singapore foreign exchange market showed that banks here tend to unnecessarily prolong their exposure to foreign exchange settlement risk. These banks account for over 90 per cent of Singapore's total foreign exchange transactions in
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        Wipro's regional HQ in Singapore
        72 8 THE regional headquarters of IT company, Wipro Infotech, a division of Bangalore-based Wipro Limited, has been set up in Singapore. Aiming to be among the top 10 IT service providers in the Asia-Pacific within three years, the company has already garnered an order book of
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        Your S$1 buys...
        29 8 h US$ 0.5500 |UK£ 0.3874 LYen 68.262 |HK$ 4.2896 [i RM 2.0899 [Euro 0.6308 Rupiah 5439.1 Baht 25.139 Peso 29.451 A$ 1.0829 Rupee 25.920 Won 719.63
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      Lock icon More training in hard times
      389 10 Bloomberg Informatics achieves a 39% jump in profit INFORMATICS Holdings Ltd may be one of few Asian computer industry stocks to gain from an economic slowdown that's putting many out of work. Hard times mean more customers for the training firm's schools in Singapore, Japan,
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      Extra month for Optus to consider SingTel bid
      193 10 C&W Optus shareholders will now have yet another month till Sept 3 to decide whether or not to accept SingTel's takeover bid. This is the second time the deadline has been extended the first being an extension to Aug 3 from July
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      Lock icon Amazon.com beats prediction
      59 10 -AFP SEATTLE Online retailer Amazon.com reported second quarter losses of 16 cents per share on US$66B million ($1.21 billion) in sales, beating analyst predictions for per-share losses and sales revenues. It was expected to lose 22 cents a share, on sales of US$677 million, according to consensus
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      Lock icon Bharti's $385m investment
      144 10 Bloomberg NEW DELHI India's Bharti Group plans to invest as much as US$2l2 million ($385.63 million) to offer fixed-line phone services in four new regions, the Business Standard reported, citing Mr Cherian Kuruvila, chief executive at Bharti Telenet Ltd, which runs traditional phone networks. The group already
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    • Market news
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        Singapore
        318 10 SINGAPORE shares ended flat but were mostly off their lows after trading in a narrow fluctuating band in a lacklustre session. The STI finished 3.46 points up at 1630.85 or 12.3 points off the session's low. Prices had made a recovery after lunch in tandem with the Nasdaq futures
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        Malaysia
        149 10 DESPITE a weak start, the Malaysian market finned up in the afternoon, thanks to a sudden revival in interest on the restructuring and potential takeover plays. At the spm close, the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index managed to trim its losses to a mere 0.7 points to close at
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon China jails scholar for spying, just days before Powell visit
      193 12 Agencies BEIJING A US-based scholar accused of spying for Taiwan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. A Chinese court handed 39-year-old Gao Zhan (picture) the sentence after a four-hour trial. The verdict came ahead of ahead of a
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      Newsman sent to 'Siberia' over slip-up
      243 12 NEW DELHI A word of caution for journalists: be careful what you ask Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf or you may find your career heading in an unexpected direction. Masood Malik, a reporter with the Urdu daily, Nawa-e-Waqt, hac asked the general why it
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      Lock icon Summit's real gain
      115 12 Agencies NEW DELHI-"A degree of understanding" this was how Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee described the results of the recent summit with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. This is despite both countries' inability to issue a joint statement from the July 15-16 summit when it got bogged
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      Lock icon Helping hand
      343 14 -AFP Asean maps out plan to develop poorer nations HANOI Addressing the differences in development between member countries became the main focus of the annual Asean foreign ministers' meeting yesterday. The ministers adopted the Hanoi Declaration, which pledged to narrow the gap between the better-off and the not-so-better-off
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      Lock icon They patted Great White sharks
      183 14 Reuters ADELAIDE Authorities might ban people going near dead whales in the sea after sightseers climbed onto one and patted Great White sharks as they tore away the flesh of the animal's carcass (picture). "These creatures are not toys," an angry South Australian Environment Minister
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      Dentures for preachers
      98 14 JOHOR BARU Legislators have been urged to buy dentures for elderly Islamic preachers who have problems reciting verses from the Quran due to gaps in their teeth. Mr Hainzah Ramli, state religious affairs committee chairman, said several imams in Johor had been relieved of their duties at
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      Computer virus poised to hit Europe
      189 14 LONDON Europe is bracing itself for the latest computer virus which has the power to send one's most embarrassing documents and pictures to every name in one's electronic address book. SirCam is a nasty strain which first appeared last week and is spreading rapidly
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      Lock icon Mandela has prostate cancer
      104 14 AFP" JOHANNESBURG Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been diagnosed with microscopic prostate cancer. However, his spokeswoman said the tumour was very small and should not reduce his life expectancy. The Foundation said doctors performed a biopsy on Mr Mandela, who turned 83 last week,
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      Lock icon Man arrested for terror of the Outback
      165 14 AFP SYDNEY A man fitting the description of the gunman wanted for the presumed murder of an English tourist and the abduction of his girlfriend in the Australian outback was arrested yesterday. The shooting of Mr Peter Falconio, 28, and the abduction of
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Missed chance
      693 15 Gus Dur could have been a great leader if The Jakarta Post comments on the passing of the Abdurrahman Wahid era THE removal of President Abdurrahman Wahid (picture) on Monday has brought to a close one of the most extraordinary episodes in contemporary Indonesian history. A highly respected
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      Lock icon What price, Bush-Putin friendship?
      241 15 AFP ROME With Russia and the US at odds over issues such as the "Son of Star Wars", President George W Bush's new-found bonhomie with his counterpart Mr Vladimir Putin over the weekend has surprised many. Now, some Western analysts are wondering whether Mr Bush will
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      135 15 Illll.WfWfW Mn Anthony PTV Bobbins Anthony Robbins, The World's No. 1 Success Coacfi, will be in Singapore this August to conduct his worldfamous UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN weekend for the first time. We invite you to attend a FREE fiW** SEMINAR THIS WEEK to experience yf.\ first-hand how Anthony Robbins1
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      1445 16 /A=diaCorp /AsdiaCorp Love From a lie <v ll t #Taxi 1 Channel newsasia Channel U, 10.30pm Arts Central, opm Chong is unable to get Fay to sign the V The sleeper hit of 1998 by French divorce papers. To make things worse, producer and director Luc Fay steals Chong's wedding
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  • TIMEOUT
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      Lock icon Singaporeans do line-dancing, cowboy-style
      534 17 -AFP SUNSET on a Saturday and the Roch family of cowboys saddle up and ride into town, proving East shall meet West, at least through Shania Twain as country line dancing takes off in Asia. Foot stompin' American West entertainment has been embraced in the East,
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  • INCINEMAS
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      From print to screen, but not in his lifetime
      158 18 DISNEY studios seem to be committed to bringing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy novels to the screen, reports British newspaper The Guardian. Meet The Parents director Jay Roach has been tipped to direct, while big names like Jim
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      Lock icon No. 1 isn't on the way
      248 18 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES Hollywood couple Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt want children someday, but not now. "She's not pregnant," Aniston spokesman Steven Huvane told Reuters on Monday, adding that Pitt was misquoted. "He never said that." A spokeswoman for Pitt likewise denied there was
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      Back to Zorro, this time with hubbie in tow?
      154 18 CATHERINE Zeta-Jones is planning a return to the film that launched her into the limelight, reports The Guardian. The Welsh actress will be teaming up with co-star Antonio Banderas for the sequel to the 1998 the movie The Mask OfZorro. Columbia
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      All that hype
      233 19  -  Rachel Lo A local film on truth, new love and the ad industry by rachel@newstoday.com.sg In what's turning out to be a quiet year for Singaporean film-making, a film by National University of Singapore students will be the second local production this year when it hits our
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      Lock icon Producer loses patience with Kidman
      154 19 Reuters/Variety COPENHAGEN Talks for Nicole Kidman (left) to star in Lars von Trier's US$9-million ($16.37 million) Dogville have broken down, according to the head of Zentropa Entertainment, the film's producer. However Kidman's representatives at Creative Artists Agency are mystified by the news and say the
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      Lock icon Talk show host O'Brien sorry for not cutting out racial slur
      267 20 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES NBC late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien has apologised for not bleeping out a racial slur uttered by a comedian on his programme. O'Brien said that he took responsibility for airing the epithet. "The ultimate responsibility
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      Lock icon More sex, more lies, more videotapes...
      194 20 STEVEN Soderbergh (picture) is planning a sequel to his sensational debut feature film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The director's 1989 debut Sex, Lies And Videotape won the top Palme d'Or prize at Cannes in 1989, the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival,
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Tough cookie
      392 21  -  Hazel Tan Nnadia sheds her sweet girl image by hazel@newstoday.com.sg It's nice to be good, but it's more fun to kick some butt. And Nnadia Chan Chung Ling is giving her sweetie pie image a serious makeover. For the first time in 12 years, the 27-year-old is going
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      Yvonne and Priscelia sign on with MediaCorp
      251 21  -  Sophia Ang by sophia@newstoday.com.sg FIGHTING the "mid-twenties crisis" is not easy, especially when one is presented with various opportunities. At this crossroad stand Yvonne Lim (picture, left) and Priscelia Chan. Both artistes have given serious thoughts to their future. And after much conflict
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Legend Lillee blasts Stewart
      407 25 Former Aussie great calls for England man's head Cricket LORD'S Alec Stewart was the first wicket to fall on Sunday, leg before wicket to Glenn McGrath. Thus began a batting collapse which saw England's last six wickets fall for the addition of just 39 runs in
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      545 28  -  Jose Raymond Club irked by match official's 'crazy' gesture by jose@newstoday.com.sg CLEMENTI Khalsa has filed a complaint against assistant referee S. Ragavachari over an incident which took place after the SAFFCClementi encounter on July 12. It alleges that Ragavachari made a gesture with his finger, which suggested that
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        313 31  -  John Merrit PROEVENTS Management (S) would like to clarify the facts regarding one-on-one interviews with Manchester United players and pitch-side access for photographers during the team's public training session on Monday. Your article on page 28 (Today, July 24) incorrectly alleged that you were never informed, until Monday
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        262 31 WERE we informed that we would not be allowed to take pictures pitch-side? No. The media accreditation fact sheet sent to us by Pro-Events Management had no instructions on the access allowed to photographers during the training session. There was no mention that only Media Works would have
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      226 32 -AFP FUKUOKA lan Thorpe added another chapter to his burgeoning legend here yesterday when he shattered his 800m freestyle world record, sharing the night with American Michael Phelps, who smashed his 200m butterfly mark. The Australian's swim was all the more remarkable in
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