Today, 1 October 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 6 1 TODAY MOndaY •October 1,2001 MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 150 1 THE Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) aims to raise service levels in Singapore to be among the top 10 in the world by 2005. To achieve this, it is embarking on a new initiative to develop skills standards for all key industries in the services
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    • 138 1 BANGKOK Thailand has joined forces with Malaysia to keep a close watch on the movement of suspected terrorists. Supreme Commander Gen Sampao Chusri said Malaysian authorities told Thailand that certain elements in their country had contacted separatists in four southern Thai Muslim-dominated provinces,
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    • 403 1  - Just three days ago Kim-Kyna Tan by! ki m ©newstoday.com. sg JUST three days before the plug was pulled on overseas voting, the Elections Department took pains to show a group of journalists the mechanics of registering online. That was last Wednesday. On Saturday, just a day after voter registration
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 32 1 few m\& ir ________^m J JL Harry Kewell inspires Leeds to comeback win over Ipswich. See page 31 Arts Xplosion, your eight-page fortnightly guide to the arts in Singapore. See centre pages
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  • GROUND ZERO/ ... POISED FOR ACTION
    • 434 2 British paper: Osama's bases are the targets LONDON Bases controlled by Osama bin Laden could be attacked today, a British newspaper reported yesterday. The attacks are designed to kill wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden and his forces. The raids will be launched in tandem with strikes against air
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    • 151 2 NEW DELHI His father and grandmother were both Indian Prime Ministers assassinated by terrorists. And yet, amidst fears of terrorism, Rahul Gandhi (picture) was detained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Boston airport, a website reported yesterday. Mr Gandhi, who is the son of former
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    • 93 2 NEW YORK A defamation lawsuit filed last week by Muslim gas station owners in Illinois may be the first of a string of civil rights, discrimination and defamation suits, the New York Times reported. A total of 625 anti-Muslim incidents have been reported to the Council
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  • GROUND ZERO/ STOPPING THE VIOLENCE
    • 282 3 Agencies Osama kin evacuated from the US WASHINGTON Twenty-four relatives of Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, fled the United States from fear that they might be subjected to violence. In the first few days after the terrorist attacks in the US, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to
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    • 286 3 WASHINGTON Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters came out in force, over the weekend, in Washington, San Francisco, Europe and Australia. They were calling on the US and its allies to restrain from military retaliation for the Sept 11 attacks. While polls in the US continue
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    • 436 3 tNTUC Income is a cooperative. We aim to provide quality service at afforable rates. M? N T U C #^^f J^^wE We °Perate efficiently to reduce our cost r and allocate about 98 percent of surplus to our policyholders. Cooperative A Rat tar I Ifn We am to build a
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 381 4  -  Ng Hwee Koon MAS search for elusive Osama-linked funds turns up nothing so far by h weeKoo ins1 newsio aay. co m. sg SINGAPORE banks have been looking for the names, accounts and fake names of Osama bin Laden and his associates as part of the international
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    • 108 4 IN this Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2001 of October, women who go for mammography at the following 12 organisations will get discounts ranging from 10 to 30 per cent: East Shore Hospital Gleneagles Hospital MEDI-RAD Associates Mt Alvernia Hospital Singapore Anti-Tub ere olos is Association
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    • 80 4 ALVIN TOH TODAY Sports reporter Stanley Ho and ex-national figure skater Sarah Lav tying the knot on ice -a first in Singapore at the Fuji Ice Palace injurong East on Sept 23. "Even though, I've been with Sarah for eight years, this is only my second
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    • 200 4 Yes, there will still be upgrading, but WHILE upgrading programmes that have already been announced will not be affected by the current economic downturn because the budget has already been allocated, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday that Singaporeans have to expect that the pace of upgrading may
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    • 77 4 £fc-> Taylors College High school and pre-university education Offers a one year Foundation Program for lO' Level candidates at its 3 campuses in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, leading to Ist year University studies in one of the 3 leading Universities: Monash University The University of Sydney The University of Western
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 31 4 Featuring Today... Russian things of beauty are a joy forever F^*sMbi»Jßip^ Search engines narrow your search on the Web '^ttHn Fans say a I is one of the friendlier boy bands
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  • LETTERS
    • 274 6  -  Simon Ng Yap Peng More key managers should have stints there I REFER to the report on "Taking up the China challenge" (Today, Sept 26). It is laudable that the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and the Trade and Development Board (TDB) will be setting up
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    • 222 6  -  See Leong Kit I REFER to the letter "Report was just salacious gossip" (Today Sept 29) and your balanced, wellargued reply. Some newspapers might have been tempted to "censor" or not publish critical letters, like the one written by Mr Yee Yang Shane. But
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    • 224 6  -  I REFER to the letter "Give us a good view" (Today Sept 24). I disagree with the writer's contention that having Victoria Junior College (VJC) near the sea and the relocation of Victoria School (VS) at Marine Parade are bad ideas.
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    • 310 6  -  Ananda Perera AS birthdays go, this one is special for Channel News Asia (CNA). It has good reason to be proud of being Asia's youngest regional news station and reaching its 12 million-viewership target in just a year. This is no mean
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    • 94 6  -  Tan Kok Tim I REFER to the letter "Is the Calm Misleading?",(ToDAY, Sept 29) by Prof Hussin Mutalib. The uneasy calm will continue to be misleading, unless all religious heads and their congregations come forward to pray for all religions. The prayers should apologise for the atrocities
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    • 120 6 Reach us at TfoiMY v 7 C 7 Letters New Products To advertise Want to get something off your chest? Showcase your new product. Let your business associates know who's on 280,000 copies are printed daily, Monday Write to us with your views. Give us your Send us a concise
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 368 7 -AFP Five potential buyers waiting in the wings SYDNEY Ansett's administrator expressed confidence yesterday that the grounded Australian carrier could be revived, as a much scaled-down version resumed operations amid fanfare at the weekend. Administrator Mark Korda said five potential buyers are now awaiting the outcome
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    • 95 7 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRBC) plans to sell its media business and shut its loss-making pay-TV unit as part of a debt reorganisation plan, the Edge magazine reported. MRCB, as the diversified group is known, may sell its stake in newspaper publisher New Straits
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    • 86 7 Bloomberg SYDNEY Cathay Pacific Airways may have to cut staff and close some routes as air traffic declines after the terrorist attacks in the United States, Mr Tony Tyler, executive director for corporate development, said on Channel Nine's Business Sunday programme. "Airlines are cutting back routes
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    • Market Watch
      • 85 7 GARMENT manufacturer Heshe Holdings incurred a net loss of $13.9 million for the full year ended June 2001, compared to a loss of $4.9 million a year earlier. This was on the back of $52,2 million in turnover, down 12 per cent over the previous year. The
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      • 85 7 SPORTING goods retailer eWorldofSports.com has reported a $1.9 million interim net loss, compared to a profit of $726,000 in the same period last year. Turnover was also down, slipping 3.6 per cent to $14.4 million. The closure of non-performing outlets has led to a decline in
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      • 87 7 AUSTRALIAN property developer Australand launched the final phase of its freehold Sydney development, Balmain Shores, simultaneously in Singapore and Sydney over the weekend, after having sold out the first three phases. Prices for the units, expected to be completed next year, start from A 5377,900 ($355,670)
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      • 29 7 Your S$1 buys USS 0.5661 LIKE 0.3850 Yen 67.437 HK$ 4.4155 I RM 2.1516 Euro 0.6218 wmmmmmmmmmmm IRopiah 5484.6 Baht 25.187 Peso 29.070 A$ 1.1482 Rupee 27.095 Won 737.26
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    • 475 8 -AFP There are not enough jobs for thousands of NUS, NTU graduates LIKE many Singapore students, and many more throughout Asia who saw Singapore as an employment beacon, Li Wei Ping is learning the harsh reality that a degree in 2001 does not guarantee a job.
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    • 228 8 Bloomberg SYDNEY Harvey Norman Holdings, Australia's biggest furniture and electronics retail chain, will put expansion in Asia on hold until business at its Singapore unit improves, chairman Gerry Harvey said yesterday. "We're not having a wonderful time in Singapore," said Mr Harvey
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    • 310 8 Reuters ZURICH Swissair needs several billion Swiss francs to survive and was in urgent talks with the Swiss government and its main creditor banks yesterday to seek fresh funds and avoid bankruptcy. "We're working on a solution but we don't have any details yet. "The
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    • 351 9 -AFP Analysts predict 9th Fed cut this year to 2.5% WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve policymakers are set to slash interest rates tomorrow to limit the most devastating economic consequences of the terrorist onslaught, experts said. It would be the second cut in just 15 days. "They want to
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    • 242 9 -AFP WASHINGTON Governments around the world are digging in to protect their economies from a feared worldwide recession after the Sept 11 terrorist onslaught on the United States. As the US slashes interest rates and readies a multi-billion-dollar economic stimulus package, overseas authorities,
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    • Market News
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        126 9 LAST week, the Singapore market took its cue from New York, with the STI Index rising 6.8 per cent to close above the 1300 level at 1320 on bargain hunting and short covering. This bounce is not unexpected, and a bounce back to 1350 is expected before the index
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      • 105 9 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index rebounded 1.2 per cent last week to 615.34, following gains from Wall Street. Near-term stock market performance will likely be driven by external factors such as the volatility in US stock markets and the latest development in the global war against terrorism. Closer to
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    • 341 8 lUST THINK what it would mean to you if you could only double your reading comprehension speed. IF you're a student you would learn twice as much as you do now ana get better grades in your exams. In business and ire professions, with the ever-increasing mass of written material
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 308 10 Leaders act as PAS urges proclamation of Islamic state KUALA LUMPUR The ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) went on the offensive yesterday after a challenge from the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) to officially declare Malaysia an Islamic state. Umno Secretary-General Tan Sri Khalil Yaakob announced that
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    • 117 10 -AFP BANGKOK Lower income people will be able to visit a doctor for just 30 baht (551.19) with the launch of a nation-wide cut-price healthcare scheme today. The scheme, which had been touted by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a major part of his policy platform
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    • 178 10 Agencies NEW DELHI Senior Indian politician from the main opposition Congress party, Mr Madhav Rao Sdndia, was killed yesterday when his plane crashed north of New Delhi, sources in the opposition Congress party told Star News. Mr Scindia and "a small number of
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    • 75 10 AFP photo Record-mad Malaysia marked another feat when 33 chefs baked the world's largest mooncake weighing a hefty 2,348 kgs, costing RM56,000 ($26,000 and has a circumference of 3.1 metres and a height of 25,4 centimetres. Malaysian ministers led by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (fourth
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    • 66 10 AFP JOHANNESBURG Retired Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mr Desmond Tutu has apologised to gay people for the suffering the church's teachings has caused them. The Sunday Independent newspaper said Mr Tutu on Wednesday told a conference on homophobia that nobody who was
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    • 71 10 Reuters BEIJING In a sign of its growing trust in Hong Kong, Chinese officials yesterday said they would let in more journalists from the territory. They said they would allow these news organisations to set up long-term news bureaux in the capital. "Hong Kong and Macau have returned
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 928 11  -  Ravi Veloo US terrorist attacks: One writer sifts through the murky arguments by_ WHEN the World Trade Center collapsed in smoke and deadly rubble before the eyes of a disbelieving world, it sent a global pulse of suspicion that haunts us yet today. Even the Government here,
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  • UPFRONT
    • 526 12 Finelycrafted works of art once owned by Russian royalty are now on exhibition by_ SianEJay THE Faberge Egg has a decadent mystique about it that puzzles many. At worst, these extremely expensive baubles were an icon of excess of the last Russian aristocracy. At best, they represent
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    • 397 12  -  Jeremiah Bullfrog My Say SOMETHING I find really endearing about young children is that they are so easily pleased. I remember giving my daughter $10 once as a "going away" present. She was then only six years old. She
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

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  • LIVINGLEARNING
    • 644 14 XCI Consulting Getting information rrom the Web can be a lot easier with better use or search engines SEARCHING the Internet is no simple task. With well over a billion Web pages on the Internet, you could spend a lot of time following links from one page to
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    • 533 19  -  Lan De Cotta me city can be quaint when it wants to, artful when it bothers and sassy on occasion by ian@n ews today.com. sg LIKE any other cosmopolitan city in the world, Sydney's first impressions appear intimidating: tall buildings, traffic jams and people always in
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    • 175 15 NAC-M1 -jUJ z" WORLD RHYTHMS H THE NAC-M1 concert series is back to entice you with three consecutive Sundays of explosive world iasfflH 58 rhythms. Come and be mesmerised ||gHBHMBfIBIH by hip-hop, reggae and Brazilian rhythms, one of Europe's finest big T bands with its own unique jazz ■~J Jk
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1121 16 MUSIC THE AFTER EIGHT Date: Oct 9 PAN TRIO EAST NAC EXXONMOBIL SERIES A CHAMBER Time: Bpm The Pan Trio, comprising CONCERT IN THE PARK CONCERT WITH A Venue: Victoria Concert Hall flutist Jin Ta, cellist Yu Jing BALLET IN THE PARK DIFFERENCE Price: $20, $30, $40, $50 and pianist
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 814 17 WALKING INTO THE Tan. The artist uses his FABULOUS FABERGE, 21ST CENTURY GRAND sense of touch to create OBJETS DART FROM THE EXXONMOBIL CAMPUS ART EXHIBITION sculptures from wires FORBES MAGAZINE CONCERTS HELLO This exhibition showcases Date: Sept 20 Oct 7 COLLECTION, NEW YORK YOUNG LOVERS: A 45 2D and
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 999 18 such as Tan Kay Nguan, Venue: IPAM, Civil www.millenniumindiashow.corri Tay Bak Koi and Belinda College Auditorium, North for details. .jjO^ Chu will be on display at Buona Vista Road Date: Oct 9-16 this exhibition. SONGS 2001: A Price: $50 Time: Various times KDate: Oct 6 -21 SONG WRITING Enquiries: Call
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  • EATOUT
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      544 20  -  Karman Tse Enjoy a leisurely afternoon lunching and reading at Bon GoOt by karman@newstoday.com .sg WHO would have expected a restaurant named Bon Gout (pronounced bongoo) to be Japanese? A lunch companion had anticipated a mini meal oifoie gras and French onion soup until we were but a
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    • 156 20 Celebrate Oktoberfest At Pauloner Brauhaus Paulaner Brauhaus brings to Singapore, for the second time, an authentic Oktoberfest celebration from Oct 4 to Oct I I. Come and join the fun in this absolutely unique, worldfamous festival also known as the "Superbowl of Beer" which takes place in Munich at
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    • 532 21  -  Shirley Van Having spicy Peranakan fare will banish your Monday blues THE Blue Ginger Restaurant has been making a strong statement for Straits Chinese or Peranakan cooking ever since it first opened in 1995. Situated in the heart of Tanjong Pagar, it now has a new
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 596 22  -  Rachel Lo Yin Diesel s star is rising rast and rurious TALKING to Yin Diesel, you'd never guess that he's on the verge of becoming Hollywood's next big thing. Under the hot Californian sun, right on the back lot of Universal Studios, Diesel is utterly relaxed.
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      370 23  -  Sophia Ang Boy band returns to Singapore with new album by sophia@ne wsto day.com.sg WHAT makes a boy band? The boys, the music, and, of course, the fans without whom the boy band boys would just be boys. British act al is one such band, and they
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    • 126 23 CITY TV's latest Korean offering, Beautiful Days, is all about rising above the heartaches and sorrows of failed relationships. Watch how the four leads, played by popular names like Lee Byung-Heon, Ryu Shi-Won, Choi Ji-Woo and Lee Jung-Hyun, get over their heartaches and compete
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    • 123 23 NO, he isn't dating Lilin, says Tay Ping Hui. The MediaCorp hunk, who was recently voted King of Television in a poll conducted by The New Paper, quashed rumours that he was romantically linked with his current co-star in The Reunion. Talk on the
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1414 24 A* City Nights BeautHul Days City TV, 9p Monday Mega Movie Footnotes Dare to Dance Arts Centra!, ilpm Ltang Meimei and Tee Na- jm. z^fe iMHHHiV'II! This documentary follows Jung are the feigning singing _i Dumb and Dumber is the story of two ™J ex-Riverdance stars, jean Channel News Asia
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  • SPORTS
    • 513 26 NEW YORKBernard Hopkins' (right) nickname is "The Executioner". And yesterday, he executed the perfect game plan, knocking out Felix Trinidad in the 12th round to become the undisputed middleweight champion of the world, reported USATODAY.com. Hopkins, who was landing rights all night, unleashed a mammoth right that
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    • 259 27 Reuters Giants' slugger on the doorstep of history Baseball SAN FRANCISCO -Barry Bonds moved to the doorstep of history with his 69th home run during the San Francisco Giants' 3-1 National League victory over the San Diego Padres yesterday. In the bottom of the sixth inning,
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    • 225 27 Reuters Golf SAN ANTONIO Defending champion Justin Leonard shot a 68 yesterday to take a twostroke lead into the final round of the $3 million ($5 million) Texas Open. The 29-year-old American put himself in a good position to became the first repeat
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    • Article, Illustration
      824 28  -  Scott O'Donell Today photo by by s c o tt@ne wstoday. c o m.sg WHILE there is no doubt that some of Team Singapore's athletes underachieved at the recent SEA Games, the Singapore Billiards and Snooker Council's (SBSC) decision not to renew coach Gregg Tugby's contract came as
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    • 462 28  -  Jose Raymond by jose@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S pair of Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing missed out on the chance to take on the world's elite after a disappointing final round in the Davidoff Nations Cup yesterday, held at the Royal Selangor Club in Malaysia.
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    • 231 29  -  Jose Raymond NTUC Income S-League NTUC Income Giant-Killer of the Week by j o se@newsto day. c o m. sg LAST Thursday, when Sembawang Rangers went into the halftime break in its clash against the Warriors, the score was tied at 1-1. Hopes ran high that
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    • 252 29  -  Jose Raymond by j o s e@ne wstoday. c o m. sg EX-LIONS coach Barry Whitbread (right) has turned down the job offer from the Vietnam Football Federation. For now. Explained the Englishman, in an interview with Today from Liverpool, where he is
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    • Article, Illustration
      1065 30 Red Devils serve up pure football theatre LONDON Not many games bring seasoned journalists to their feet, yet the buzz around the White Hart Lane press room after one of the Premiership's greatest ever displays suggested that this was something very special. And it was. Brilliance comes in several
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    • 184 30 AFP TURIN AS Roma coach Fabio Capello said yesterday that he believed that the 2-0 victory over Juventus had finally put the Serie A champion back on course after a poor start to the season. Last Saturday afternoon, Roma were winless both domestically and
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 550 31 Reuters Premier League Ipswich 1 Leeds 2 LONDON Leeds United returned to the top of the English Premiership table yesterday after recovering from a goal down to beat Ipswich Town 2-1 at Portman Road. It is now three points clear with 17 points from seven games,
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