Today, 15 September 2001

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  • 7 1 TODAY SatUrdaV •September 15, 2001. MITA(P) I3S/11/2000
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  • GROUND ZERO/ AMERICA PREPARES TO HIT BACK
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      507 1  -  Ng Boon Yian by b o onyian@newsto day. co ra. sg A PICTURE of how America's imminent military Strike will be executed on the ground is falling into place. The action could begin as early as this weekend or possibly next week. It could start with sustained bombing raids
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    • 455 1  -  Francis Kan by francis ©newstoday. com. sg A STOCK market that never fails to fall on bad news, but struggles to recover long after others have jumped back to their feet. Unfortunately, the Singapore market lived up to its reputation yesterday, falling
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  • Hot News
    • 315 2 Reuters Australian airline runs out of money to fly SYDNEY Thousands of passengers were stranded yesterday (picture) as cash-strapped Australian airline An sett Australia was grounded early in the day, prompting a three-hour strike at Sydney airport. Administrators appointed by Ansett's owner Air New Zealand said they had
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    • 207 2  -  Lee Ching Wern by ch i ngwern®ne wstoday. com. sg THE Singapore government will take action if someone tries to subvert its laws by hosting political web sites on foreign servers. "If a web site is set up specifically outside legal jurisdiction
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    • THE JITTERS CONTINUE/GROUND ZERO
      • 221 3 Agencies NEW YORK A rash of bomb scares have sent Washington and other US cities into a state of panic, police said on Thursday. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani warned people making the threats that they would be dealt with harshly. About 90 threats have been
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      • 447 3 Agencies Rush for results leads to hasty arrests at airports WASHINGTON -Authorities detained two groups at New York airports on Thursday, fearing that they intended to hijack a pair of jetliners and mount another suicidal terrorist strike on a US target, government officials said. But yesterday, the
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    • Ground Zero/ THE MUSLIM ELEMENT
      • 406 4 Manila 'tourist' may be jet crasher MANILA The apparent discovery of a plan to bomb the American embassy in Manila has added to fears of growing links between extremist elements in Asia and international terror groups. Philippine police said yesterday that an Omani they had questioned,
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      • 251 4 AFP WASHINGTON US President George W Bush got a powerful political boost from Tuesday's terrorist attacks, as the nation rallied to demand swift retaliation. Polls published on Thursday found an majority of Americans were anxious to see decisive military action taken against the terrorist plotters,
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      • 292 4 Adding fuel to fires of hate WASHINGTON Despite official appeals for tolerance, popular media personalities and the Internet are helping to fan the flames of hate against AmericanMuslim citizens (picture) in the US. More than 100 incidents have been reported against women and men wearing traditional Muslim dress. The US
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      • 147 4 Reuters WASHINGTON The Defence Department has asked President George W Bush to authorise the activation of tens of thousands of military reserve troops after terror attacks this week. But Mr Bush is expected to authorise up to one million such troops. Officials said
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      • 150 4 AFP WASHINGTON The US Congress is set to approve US$4O billion ($69.5 billion) in emergency spending. The money will be spent on recovery and clean-up efforts, as well as counterterrorism measures that are designed to prevent future attacks. Congressional appropriators and White House officials
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    • Article, Illustration
      355 5  -  Francis Kan Chan Chao Peh Most of company's 3,500 employees accounted for by and IT ranks as one of the giants of high finance. With some 63,000 employees spread over 28 countries, it serves as banker and financial advisor to governments and global corporations around the world. And
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    • 350 5 Agencies SINGAPORE Two Singapore Airlines planes landed at US airports after diverting to Canada while two others were allowed to leave for Singapore, the airline said yesterday. But further SIA flights into and out of the US remained on hold as Washington beefed up airport
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 358 6  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Local project to develop proteins that could treat diseases by zackari a@newstod ay.com .sg FIGHTING tooth decay could be as simple as chewing on an apple. But, this apple would have to be geneticallymodified to produce a protein that will target the bacteria that
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    • 208 6  -  -LeeU-Wen A RECORD of 387 companies have taken part in this year's Active Day. Of these, three-quarters represent companies from the private sector. Active Day, one of the main activities of this year's National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign, was organised by the Health Promotion Board (HPB) to help
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    • 233 6 AN average of 346,000 people read Today, according to media research firm AC Nielsen. Now here's the surprise. A separate survey conducted by Precision Research Services puts Today's daily readership as 516,000. "There are differences in the methodology used," said Dr Wong Toon Quee,
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    • 172 6 MANIR Hossain Abdur Rob had to sell his farm back home and borrow money from relatives just to work here. But, all that come to naught as the 33-year-old Bangladeshi worker was yesterday handed a seven months' jail sentence and three strokes of the cane for squeezing
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    • 234 6  -  Cathleen Tung YOU now can enjoy the taste of Australian food products without having to travel all the way Down Under. All thanks to the launch of the new Australian-themed store, Australia Pavilion (right), at NTUC FairPrice Bukit Timah Plaza branch. The new store is
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  • LETTERS
    • 398 8 Foreign talent hired only if there is real need MOM WE refer to the letter "Define 'topend' talent" (Today, Sept 10). Mr Cheng Shing Chow said that while "right-minded Singaporeans are unlikely to object to importing foreign talent to supplement our local top-end human capital", there was
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    • 144 8 I REFER to your report "Promoting Arts Education" (Today Sept 12). It was stated that up to five scholarships, worth $1,000 each, will be awarded to each junior college for the AEP and MEP from 2003. This is incorrect. It was stated in the press release
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    • 209 8  -  Ymuff Woozeer Reactions to Terrorist Attacks on America ONE can understand the anger, the fear and even the humiliation of the American people, in light of the terrorist attacks on Tuesday. But it is hoped that the Bush administration won't give in to
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    • 114 8  -  James Tan I REFER to the letter "Can the US still claim its superpower status after this?" (Today Sept 13). It is possible that US's federal and state agencies were not prepared for terrorist warfare. Right now, a lot depends on how the US handles the aftermath of
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    • 78 8  -  James Huang ON Tuesday night at 10.30pm, SPH TV Works showed a terrorist movie, The Assignment, when news of the terrorist attack on the US had already become a top headline news around the world. I thought this was highly insensitive. Scenes of terrorism and
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 1336 9  -  Ivay Tan Impact of US tragedy on Singapore's real estate market will surface later by i vay® tie wstoday. com. sg PROPERTY players are staying on the sidelines and adopting a "wait and see" attitude while waiting for events in America to unfold. However, unlike sliding stock markets
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    • 351 10 Bloomberg KL govt-owned Danasaham buys UEM KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government has succeeded in taking over United Engineers Malaysia (UEM), the country's biggest builder. This gives it control of UEM's parent, Renong, the nation's biggest corporate debtor. The move marks a first step in the government's effort to
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    • 252 10  -  Donghyun Park by THIS year, America's second quarter GDP growth showed signs of entering negative territory while Western Europe's growth was barely above zero. East Asia has been hit harder than other regions as it so heavily depends on exports, especially in electronics to
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    • Market News
      • 177 10 SHARES here continued to flounder in the wake of more margin calls and fund redemption selling that sank the STI 38.37 points to close at 1400.30. More stocks pushed into new 52-week lows as fears of a Wall Street crash when it opens Monday. Consensus was growing that the
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      • 72 10 MALAYSIA'S stock market continued its decline, undermined by further redemption selling on mutual funds and fear of a sharp fall on Wall Street when it resumes trading next week. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) touched a low of 641.18 just before lunch, but rebounded slightly to close the
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      • 30 10 Your S$1 buys US$ 0.5760 UK£ 0.3909 Yen 67.926 HK$ 4.4931 |RM 2.1887 I Euro 0.6270 Rupiah 5246.3 I Baht 25.487 Peso 29.554 |A$ 1.1139 I Rupee 27.552 Won 746.69
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 307 11 HK station accused of rigging HONG KONG Some disc jockeys are said to have taken bribes to specifically promote artistes of Emperor Entertainment, controversial Next Magazine alleged in its latest issue. The allegations prompted immediate denials from RTHK, the government-run radio and television network, as well as
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    • 123 11 AFP BEIJING China is set to beef up measures to ensure that the capita] is well-prepared in the event of an earthquake, The China Daily said. High-rise buildings, power stations and roads in Beijing would have to be installed with "anti-earthquake devices", which would strengthen structural safety, according
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    • 117 11 Bernama KANGAR The federal government is losing revenue of up to RMI.3 million ($594,000) because luxury cars from Singapore are being smuggled into Malaysia, an official said yesterday. Perlis Director of Customs, Md Hassim Pardi, said Singapore's luxury cars that were older than five years
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    • 235 11 LONDON Britain's main opposition, the Conservative Party, elected a man, previously best known for destabilising his own government, to take on Prime Minister Tony Blair in the next election. Mr lain Duncan Smith (picture), who has a military background, was frequently at the heart of parliamentary
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 893 12  -  David Ngiau Why we, too, have been attacked by those kamikaze terrorists THE recent attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on us all. Whatever the reason for the attackers' resentment, principally American political arrogance, it would seem, cannot justify the barbaric
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  • UPFRONT
    • 479 13 Today Foreign Desk Young Japanese who do not want to leave home TOKYO Girls in the Land of the Rising Sun just want to have fun. And they do by living off their parents. Derided as "parasite singles", these working women in their 20s and 30s continue to
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    • 420 13  -  Edmund T Shern 'TWERE are two types of X people in Singapore, the can'ts and the nevers. I think I'm biased. But then I'm no A.I. so maybe that's my privilege. Some would think it's human nature, but perhaps it's because I've lived here all
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    • 273 13 Singapore's Top 10 Chinese Programmes (Sept 2-8) Singapore's Top 10 English Programmes (Sept 2-8) HBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBfIBBBfIBBBBBB BBHHHHHHHHHHnHHHHHH^HHraiLn No. Programme Channel Rating Programme Channel Rating 1 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 8 16 1 President's Star Charity 2001 5 9 2 Three Women and a Half 8 14 2 Phua Chu
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  • WEEKENDSTYLE
    • 183 14 Featuring finalists of Ford Model's Supermodel of the World Singapore 2001. Watch out for more next week. Times may be depressing but the Metro Big Sale can perk you up some. Give the economy a boost and save money, tool With discounts of up to 70 per cent,
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  • HEALTH
    • 837 15  -  Rachel Lo Don't pooh-pooh this ancient treatment. It may bring relief for that backache Acupuncture, a traditional Chinese medical procedure that involves twirling and exerting pressure on small pins inserted into various parts of the body to stimulate the "energy points", has over 2,000 years of
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    • 377 15  -  Rachel Lo MANY people suffer from sinusitis. In the United States alone, about three in 1,000 people are affected by sinusitis. And the numbers are increasing every year. Sinusitis is an infection of the sinuses. Each person has four pairs
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  • FAMILY
    • 931 16  -  Rachel Lo Do you know if your child is being called names, teased or hit? by rachel@n e wsto day. c o m .sg BULLYING is very common. It is almost an integral part of growing up. Everyone would have seen or experienced some kind of
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    • FAMILYEVENTS
      • 73 16 This course is targeted at young children and youths between the ages of 8 and 18. Structured and conducted by Mrs Joanna Wong, it will teach the four major compoInents of Chinese opera: Singing, acting, speech and dialogue and martial art. Date:Jul 29 Oct 14
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      • 68 16 A country without snow? Not any more. At Snow City, there is a 60-metre slope for tobogganing, skiing, snowboarding and an exhibition area for low-temperature science. IDate: Tuesdays to Sundays (closed on Mondays, except school and public holidays) Time: I Oam 9pm Venue: Snow City, next to Science
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    • 591 17  -  Rachel Lo Bring out the sporting talents of your kid with Toys"R"Us toy sports equipment DO you want your kid to be the next Tiger Woods or the next Michael Jordan? If you have lofty dreams to make your child a future athlete, you have to
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  • MOTORING
    • 500 18  -  Colin Yong The new Toyota people-mover is bigger and more powerful PICNIC. Prairie. Stream. Voyager. Odyssey. Notice how car manufacturers like to give their MPVs names that allude to freedom, long journeys and being at one with nature? In reality, the majority of these vehicles, in Singapore,
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    • 124 18 THE action-packed car thriller, The Fast and the Furious, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, isn't due in cinemas until Sept 27. But, motorsport fans can catch some live local racing action today. United International Pictures and the Singapore Motor Sports Association are organising The Fast
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    • 175 18  - Grrr talk about- luck! Colin Yong For Mr Wong Swee Meng, 51, the visit to Cycle Carriage's "Roads of Life" roadshow last weekend, was time well spent. The National Parks Board assistant manager was the only person who could correctly guess the number of mobile phones stuffed into the Kia
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 99 19 Reuters RABAT, Morocco Sting has cancelled his 50th birthday party in the wake of the terror attacks on the US, local authorities said. The British rock star had been expected to hold the party at the luxury Amanjena hotel in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on
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    • 141 19 Many New Yorkers are still without TV in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, reports Studio Briefings. As of Thursday, New York's only major free-to-air TV news outlet broadcasting was WCBS-TV, a CBS-affiliate station. An estimated 30 per cent of New York City's
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    • 463 19 Reuters Hollywood deal-making has come to a standstill, for now LOS ANGELES There were no explosions in Hollywood on Thursday, and there may not be for a while. From movie studio executives to producers, agents and publicists, the town's players switched into soulsearching as the flow of deal-making
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    • 251 19 -Reuters/Variety TOKYO It was a non-event in the US and a low-voltage performer in the rest of the world, but the Japanese-pro-duced Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (right) is getting a lavish launch in its home market Saturday. Leading indie distributor Gaga is
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    • 162 20 SOME say that money can buy you anything. WeD, that was at least what movie star Gwyneth Paltrow {Shakespeare in Love, Great Expectations) found out. According to World Entertainment News Network, during a recent shopping trip in Los Angeles, the Oscar-winning actress (picture) spotted
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    • 183 20 They say love is blind ACTOR Tom Sizemore has found his true love in the most unlikeliest of women: the "Hollywood Madam" herself, Heidi Fleiss. Sizemore is often seen in tough-guy roles. Among his better-known turns were as Sergeant Horvath in Saving Private Ryan and Sergeant Earl Sistern in Pearl
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      462 22  -  Jenny Kong Fann and Christopher earn praise of Taiwanese veterans by j e any (3>newstoda y. com. sg IF you think local actors pale in contrast to foreign ones, Channel B's blockbuster serial Madam White Snake may just prove you wrong. This cross-national collaboration between MediaCorp and
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    • 280 22  -  Audra Lim by audra@newstoday. com. sg /CAPITAL Radio 95.8FM will be organising a of charity events in support of their adopted charity, the Society for the PhysicallyDisabled (SPD). All proceeds will go to the SPD. The first of two major events is the
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    • 356 22  -  Jenny Kong by j enny ©newstoday. com. sg 'T*HE Diva sings, hosts, and now, she's X. into acting too. Anita Sarawak (picture, with husband, Mohammad Mahatir) will make her first foray into serious acting during a long stint with MediaCorp's
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1464 23 The Amazing Race The Heroic Trio Andy Hui and Tanya TV S-Leng«e Singapore Armed Ji Channel 5,1 Opm Channel (J, 10.30pm Special Channel B,2pm forces VS TatijOlKj Pagar, Live 4hH Iffi fAmta MikJ, Cft«( (Maggie Cheung) Although the title chase looks a J ■jifc and Ching (Michelle Yeoh). -■:^M straight
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 476 24  -  Sian E Jay by WHEN French architect Jean Pattou picks up a brush to paint his peculiar perspective of some of the world's most famous buildings and architectural landmarks, he is demonstrating the importance of art in architecture. If the artist can create a fantasy
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 274 24 Three-Day Listing MUSIC Buena Vista Social performance. Bruch's Violin Club Omara Enquiries; Call The Concerto No I Portuondo Concert Substation at 337 7800 Violinist Natalia Lomeiko 2001 takes centrestage in this This Cuban diva will charm SSO: New Music Forum popular concerto by Bruch. you with her sonorous and This
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 170 25 ill sT3T>im The newspaper that you are holding is the latest to hit the streets of Singapore. It aims to give readers all the news that matters. If you have what it takes to be part off our team, we would like to invite you to join Today as: i
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  • SPORTS
    • 814 26  -  Leonard Thomas Struggling Liverpool must start getting their act together fast Everton v Liverpool by leonard@newstoday.com.sg SINCE the end of the *****, some things have almost always remained unchanged in English football. Tottenham Hotspur would always flatter to deceive in the championship race. Manchester United would
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    • 176 26 Wire reports ROME Fabio Capello strongly hinted that he is available to take over the reins from Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United's manager yesterday. "In football, it is impossible to foresee the future. I will wait to see what will happen," he told
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    • Article, Illustration
      586 27  -  Stanley Ho NTUC Income S-League Home Utd 4 Balestier by stanl ey@ne wsto day.com.sg JUST what the doctor ordered. Home United's emphatic 4-1 win over Balestier Central last night has now put the pressure on Geylang United in the championship race. And that will surely whet the
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    • 182 27 -AFP PARIS The fate of the Ryder Cup following the terrorist blitz in New York and Washington is likely to be decided by Tiger Woods. The 25-year-old world number one is due to arrive in Paris on Monday for the Lancome Trophy, but as yet
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    • 229 27 Reuters MONZA Kimi Raikkonen crashed his Sauber in free practice for tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix yesterday, shortly after the announcement that he was joining McLaren in 2002. The 21-year-old Finn braked, swerved left into the crash barriers in the opening session and ripped the nose and front
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    • 323 28  -  S. Gulam by in Kuala Lumpur gulam@newstoday.com.sg The Majulah Singapura was heard for the first time at the Bukit Jalil Stadium last night, thanks to Singapore's Ironman James Wong, He arrived in KL only the day before the event, took just
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    • 350 28  -  S. Gulam Singapore netballers shocked in the final by hungrier Malaysians by gulaTn@ncwstoday.com.sg BESIDES waterpolo, it was seen as one of the safest golds for Singapore. But Singapore's fortunes in this SEA Games is such that even the safest golds seem to be melting away. Yesterday's
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    • 610 29  -  S. Gulam by in Kuala Lumpur gulairi@newst.oday. com. sg AFTER all the controversies, after all the talk, after all the grouses, the time has come for the 4xloom relay team to deliver. Deliver what, you might ask? I posed the same question at yesterday's press conference. Coach
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    • 364 29  -  S. Gulam by in Kuala Lumpur gulam@newsto day. c m. sg AT 32, he was written off as a has-been. He was tagged as an old man who refused to go away despite six golds under his belt
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    • Article, Illustration
      433 30  -  Kelvin Phang by in Penang kelvi n@ne wstoday. com. sg IF SINGAPORE'S bowlers do not strike gold in today's Masters finals, national coach Ron Hoppe could well lose his job. Since 1987, the Republic has won at least two golds at the biennial Games and collected five
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    • 473 30  -  Kelvin Phang by kelvin@news tod ay.com. sg RON Hoppe had promised to make them better bowlers by changing the way they bowled. But instead, the adjustments may have backfired. Critics will certainly point the finger at national coach
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    • 504 31 -AFP Host's chance of winning overall title at risk KUALA LUMPUR Defending champion Thailand ruled in athletics and shooting yesterday to move within striking distance of denying Malaysia its first-ever Southeast Asian Games overall title. But a gritty Malaysia home team, cheered by sellout crowds and Prime
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    • 392 31 CONSIDERING Team Singapore's performance so far in these Games, yesterday must have seemed like it was raining gold medals. After some disappointing results over the last few days, there were smiles at last in the camp as five gold
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