Today, 19 October 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 6 1 TODAY Friday oc**»er 2001 MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 633 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Four new faces by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg I ONE after another, election- 4 related notices came in such a rush yesterday that before pun- I dits could start placing their bets on the polling date, it was announced as Nov 3. On a single day, the first
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    • 103 1 -AFP NEW YORK Wall Street ended mostly lower yesterday, although technology shares managed small gains, amid a weak outlook for companies reporting earnings and growing fears about anthrax weighing on the market. The Dow Jones industrials fell 69.75 points (0.76 per cent) to close at 9,163.22 and the
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 84 2 Channel NewsAsia EXTRA help is on the way for lower-income families living in HDB flats. The Government is stepping in with financial assistance of $5 million. The money will be distributed through the Rent and Utilities Assistance Scheme. Up to 4,000 families will be
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    • 174 2 Channel NewsAsia ALL first-generation hawkers who have given up their stalls in hawkers centres slated for upgrading will get a higher cash grant to ease their exit if they wish to give up their stalls. That's an extra $3,000 to $4,000 more for each hawker. The
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    • 766 2  -  Ravi Veloo Now that Cheng San is gone, which is the new political hot potato? by THE well of discontent has a way of springing a new leak every time you cap one. And if you believe that, the question to ask is: Now
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    • 337 3  -  Chan Chao Peh Opposition talk of hurdles logistics, money and Government 'hongbao' by chaopeh@newstoday.corn.sg THE much-touted Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) could limit its political ambitions to a single Group Representation Constituency. The four-party alliance is pinning its hopes on the Tampines GRC. Even that will
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    • 356 3 THE newly-drawn single-seat boundaries have hit the National Solidarity Party (NSP) badly. They had staked claim to three single-seats, but two Kampong Glam and Boon Lay have been merged into Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs). That leaves the party with just Chua Chu Kang, which
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    • 198 3 THE deposit each candidate has to make for the coming General Elections is $13,000 $5,000 more than in the last GE. In 1991, the amount was $6,000. Nomination forms, which have to be handed in at the 10 Nomination Centres between
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    • 144 4 FAMILIES of unemployed Singaporeans who were retrenched on or after Jan 1 last year can get a reduction of up to 50 per cent on their hospital bills from Nov 1. The move is part of the second offBudget package announced by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 291 4  -  Ng Hwee Koon It offers discounts to 16 spots by hwe ekoon ©newstoday. com. sg SINGAPORE Airlines is tempting would-be travellers to take to the skies again with ticket discounts of up to 50 per cent. It is slashing prices by 15 to 50 per cent
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    • 85 4 "It's just our way of saying thank you to the listeners," said Shareen who co-hosts Power Cruising, the evening drive-time show on Power 98. "It's the most exciting game on radio!" declared Tim, Shareen's partner-in-crime on the show. The pair are tasked with picking out three
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    • 240 4 GET ready for 15 weeks of pure fun! Against the backdrop of global gloom, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will carry on as usual with Celebration Singapore festivities. This includes the Christmas Light-up, River Hong Bao and Chingay beginning from Nov 20
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    • 87 4 Bernama JOHOR BARU Malaysian police have identified the four robbers, all Malaysians, who shot and injured three Singaporeans on Sunday. Johor Chief Police Officer Datuk Kamaruddin Mohamad Ismail said: "It is a matter of time before they are hauled in." The three Singaporeans are the managing director
      – Bernama  -  87 words
    • 200 4 SOME 300 Malay/Muslim young professionals and tertiary students are expected to attend a dialogue meeting with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on Oct 27. Mr Ahmad Nizam Abbas, an executive committee member of the Mendaki Club, which is organising the meeting said the idea
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    • 164 6  -  Leong Phei Phei by pheiphei^ news today.com.sg NONI juice is nutritious, but it does not claim to prevent diabetes or slow down the ageing process. That's the case for at least one distributor, Morinda International Hong Kong. The company also said yesterday that it is
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    • 105 6 MEDIACORP has garnered 25 entries 12 programmes and 13 performances in this year's Asian Television Awards. Commenting on the nominations, Mr Farrell Meisel, Group Chief Operating Officer of MediaCorp, said: "The achievement is a clear affirmation of our commitment to provide our viewers in Singapore and
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    • 299 6 Dr Lee on shortage of service sector staff RETRENCHMENT figures are expected to hit 25,000, up from 20,000 estimated earlier, said Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang in the opening address of the National Manpower Summit yesterday. Yet, the service sector continues to face a shortage of
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    • 266 6  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim by zackaria@newsto d ay.com.sg THEY tend to surf the Internet at least once a week, eat out in restaurants, and go to the beach at least once a month. When they shop, they go to Robinsons or Takashimaya departmental stores,
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    • 118 6 Lee U-Wen A DESPERATE employee pocketed over $2,600 from his company and was punished with a three-month jail term. The court heard yesterday that Mohamed Amin, a renovation works employee at Good Term Contractor, collected payments for four contracts in April this year. But
      – Lee U-Wen  -  118 words
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  • THE NEW WAR/BIOTERROR
    • 350 8 Agencies/BBC IN THE past week, global panic over anthrax has been escalating amid the discovery of new cases in the US and a host of new scares elsewhere. As in any crisis, facts tend to get confused with fiction. How many people have been infected with anthrax?
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    • 130 8 SHANGHAI Washington's fight against terrorism got a boost yesterday from the 21--member Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum. The draft statement, agreed to after a meeting attended by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, said any terrorist activity should be struck down. They agreed that the flow
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    • 177 10 WASHINGTON -The US has offered a US$l million ($l.B million) reward to anyone with information on the culprits behind the present anthrax scare. WASHINGTON -TheThree Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania is on high alert after receiving a "credible threat" against the installation. It suffered the worst
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    • 213 10 KABUL It's from the air to the ground soon for the US as air raids on Afghanistan entered the 12th straight day yesterday. After three days of ferocious attacks, particularly on the Taliban's main base of Kandahar, yesterday's daytime raids were relatively light, with only
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    • 313 10 Agencies Divided Indonesian Cabinet puts economic reforms on hold JAKARTA Indonesian VicePresident Hamzah Haz may have tried to play down his differences with President Megawati Sukarnoputri over the US military strikes in Afghanistan, However, the political strains between the two leaders have paralysed the Indonesian government, said
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    • 147 10 AFP SHANGHAI Singapore is ready to be a "spare tyre" if the World Trade Organisation decides to change the venue of its meeting next month, Trade and Industry Minister BrigadierGeneral (NS) George Yeo said. He was responding to remarks by US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick that
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  • LETTERS
    • 191 12  -  Fans Osman More needs to be done to correct media's misrepresentations of religion IT is important to understand that some media groups have misrepresented Islam for years. The religion has been perceived and understood by the non-Muslim majority largely by way of error. The fact that local
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    • 154 12 I REFER to the article, "The right bounce" (Today, Oct 16) which featured a summary of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's comments at the National University of Singapore Students' Union Senior Minister Forum 2001. While we respect SM Lee's views on notions of civic
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    • 192 12 Ministry clarifies: I REFER to your report "Handy cash" (Today, Oct 17) on the New Singapore Shares (NSS). Your report mentioned that the NSS would be credited into Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts. The statement is incorrect. The CPF Board is merely the agency to implement
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    • 315 12 WE refer to Ms Rosemary Tan's letter "The long, disturbing wait" (Today, Oct 10} and thank her for her feedback. As part of our continuous efforts to ensure that the transportation needs of our customers are met, we conduct regular surveys of our bus
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 209 14 SINGAPORE needs a larger pool of skilled people for the chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, said Mr Peter Chen, the Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Education. "The chemical and pharmaceutical industries have long been important industries for Singapore," Mr Chen said.
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    • 335 14  -  Francis Kan Quarterly reports mandatory from 2003 by francis@newstoday.com.sg INVESTORS will soon have more timely information on the performance of companies listed in Singapore. This is because publicly-listed companies will be required to report financial results on a quarterly basis from January 2003 as part of Singapore's
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    • Market Watch
      • 104 14 FRONTLINE Technologies, an IT services company, said that it has acquired a 30 per cent stake worth U$ 10.14 million ($18.38 million) in Modern Devices (China) Group (MDCL), a Hong Kongbased company. MDCL provides IT services like infrastructure, system integration and consulting from its various offices in
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    • 461 16 Bloomberg Qantas eyes opportunity in the wake of industry slump Sydney Qantas Airways is in talks with Boeing and Airbus to spend Asl.s billion ($1.38 billion) on 17 new aircraft, making it one of the few airlines to be shopping for new planes. The Sydney-based carrier will
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    • 193 18 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has received an in-principle agreement from the CLS Group and CLS Bank International (CLS Bank) to include the Singapore dollar as an eligible currency of CLS Bank. Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) is a process that enables two
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    • Market News
      • 207 18 SINGAPORE'S key index stock beat a hasty retreat as investors used the US market's overnight weakness as a reason for profit-taking. The ST Index fell 35.33 points down to 1406.74 while the penny caps saw attempts to extend the previous day's gains capped by skittish investor sentiments. For every
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      • 54 18 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) again traded within a modest 4-point band. At the close, the KLCI was a marginal 0.8 points lower at 620.8. Volume traded was 203,110. At the close, losers led gainers by 420 to 182. Another 211 counters traded unchanged. Index-linked issues were mostly
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    • 346 20 AFP Singapore slips to fourth spot, says report GENEVA Finland has the most competitive economy in the world, according to a report published by the World Economic Forum. Looking at growth prospects for the next five years, the Global Competitiveness Report 2001 showed the United States
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    • 134 20 SINCE its launch on Friday, over 50,000 consumers have visited various Virgin Mobile stores and called its contact centre. Its website {www.virginmobik.com.sg) registered over three million page visits. "Virgin Mobile is shaking up the mobile industry and this overwhelming initial interest shows that consumers in Singapore
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    • 82 20 -AFP SHANGHAI The United States and China unveiled a plan yesterday to help their small and medium firms gain from opportunities created by China's World Trade Organisation (WTO) entry. Mr Yu Xiaosong, chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said the Chinese and US
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 245 22 Agencies Hand over killers, Arafat told JERUSALEM The war on terrorism took on a new meaning yesterday in the aftermath of Wednesday's assassination of right-wing Israeli Tourism Minister, Mr Rehavam Zeevi, by the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Israel said it would treat President Yasser
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    • 242 24 Terminally-ill Briton loses case LONDON In what is deemed as a setback for supporters of euthanasia, a terminally-ill British woman lost a landmark court battle yesterday to "die with dignity". Mrs Diane Pretty, 42, (picture) has motor neurone disease, an incurable and progressive illness that
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    • 173 24 Agencies TOKYO Japan's first possible case of the human form of madcow disease greeted the government yesterday just as it declared domestic beef safe to eat. A Health Ministry official said a teenage girl had been tested for the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) caused by
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    • 92 24 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will increase its flights to four Indonesian cities starting next March. Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik said flights to Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan and Denpasar would be increased. "It is being done as part of MAS's rationalisation pro-
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    • 266 26 Reuters Australia seeks help on boat people SYDNEY Australia is looking to the Pacific islands to play host to unwanted boat people caught by its navy. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock confirmed yesterday that Fiji had been approached as part of the "Pacific solution" to a stream of asylum
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    • 157 26 Agencies LONDON One of the world's most famous literary prizes went to an Australian for the second time on Wednesday. Novelist Peter Carey (picture) won the Booker Prize, Britain's leading fiction award, for his novel True History of the Kelly Gang. Lord Kenneth Baker, chairman of the
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  • What the regional papers said yesterday...
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 734 28  -  David Deßosa It may be helping US more than we know by in Connecticut SAUDI Arabia is doing its best to make itself look bad in the US media. And some in the press are only too glad to help. Some of the Sept 11
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    • 772 29  -  Serena Sim When the thin line between reality and a make-believe world gets blurred A VERY special group of people exists on this planet. After work or school, these people go home to an entirely different world. To outsiders, it is a make-believe world. It is
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  • TRAVELLER
    • 787 30  -  Mark Seah South Africa's breathtaking wide open spaces are awesome by SOUTH Africa this exotic destination in the southern hemisphere conceals a rich and vibrant culture, and offers the adventure-seeker more than what he expects. I visited the country recently with the delegates attending the Cathay Pacific International
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  • INTERIORS
    • 250 32 IKEBANA flower arrangements normally have three main branches, symbolising Heaven, Earth and Man. As a rule of thumb, the first branch, or Shin, is twice the height and length of the container combined. The second branch, or Soe, should be three-quarters the height of the
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    • 397 32  -  Audra Lim Sogetsu Ikebana gives you the freedom to create THINK floral arrangements and you would think of a riot of colours bursting forth, more often than not in a haphazard way. With Ikebana, however, you enter a totally new world of lines and subtlety
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    • 481 34  -  Lee U-Wen It reminds service staff to Greet, Smile and say Thank You by uwen® newstoday.co m. s g A SIMPLE smile and polite service go a long way to a pleasant shopping experience. So, next time you head for the stores, check out their GST.
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    • 301 34  -  Sophia Ang EVEN in an economic downturn, there are many service-related posts still vacant and waiting to be filled by Singaporeans. The reason is apparent. Many service providers, especially those in the frontline, find dealing with customers too much of a hassle. It certainly
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    • 464 35  -  Sophia Ang by sop hia @news tod ay.com .sg THE Greet, Smile and Thank campaign was created by the Singapore Kindness Movement Council to recognise the level of courtesy and service in stores, rather than just individual employees. From now until Nov 15, customers
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    • 28 32 Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku takes a disturbing look at young people gone wrong in his movie Battle Royale For the full review, turn to InCinema on pg 37
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 842 37  -  David Ngiau Director Fukasaku's Battle Royale takes a disturbing look at young people gone wrong FILM REVIEW Battle Royale r (A) (Kdw showing) THE Japan of director Kinji Fukasaku in Battle Royale has collapsed: There's 15 per cent unemployment and 800,000 students boycott school. Out of
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    • 485 38  -  Cathleen Tung Goldeneye babe prefers comedies to thrillers by c. a t li! pp 11 news t oday.com.sg DON'T mention the "B" word to Famke Janssen (picture). It miffs her. That was the impression I got reading previous interviews with the Dutchborn former model turned
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    • 263 39 Reuters/Variety New Emmys venue has space for fewer guests HOLLYWOOD The Emmys live on, but not for everybody. Now that they've finalised plans to shuttle the "kudocast" to Century City's Shubert Theatre on Nov 4, Academy of Television Arts Sciences officials will have to tear
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    • 164 39 Reuters/Varteiy SEOUL Miramax has won the battle for remake rights to South Korean hit My Wife Is a Gangster, becoming the first American studio to redo a film from the Asian nation. Gangster is an action comedy about a female mob boss who gets married to please
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    • 160 39 AFP NEW DELHI India's vibrant Bollywood film industry is witnessing a booming export growth and is expected to record a turnover of 9 billion rupees ($347 million) in 2001, up from four billion rupees last year, officials said on Wednesday. Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma
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    • 349 40  -  Sophia Ang He is on radio and soon he will be on TV. How does 'Super Dan' do it? ONE look at Daniel Ong's face says it all: the guy has no time. It is cra^y having to straddle two shifts five days a week, said
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    • 156 40 MediaCorp TV Channel 8 is still Singapore's most popular and most watched, free-to-air Chinese language TV channel, said a statement from the media company. Recent newspaper reports in Lianhe Zaobao (Oct 10) and The Straits Times (Oct 12) claimed that on Oct 5, Channel U
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    • 260 40  -  Sophia Ang HOW game are you at acquiring a new skill or attending a course? Would you be prepared to face any fears or insecurities to do so? A few MediaCorp artistes took up a course, and far from the chore they
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    • 135 40  -  ■Jenny Kong ANEW discovery in China may prove that the legend of Madam White Snake is more than just folklore. Excavation works at the thousand-year-old Lei Feng pagoda, which had collapsed earlier in Hangzhou, unearthed more than 10 snakes buried in the basement of
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    • 1191 41 A War Diary Abide with Detective Investigation All About Eve flannel u, NUOpm Mongoose Wilderness Me in the Silent Night Files IV Channel B,9pm In order to thank YmgMei for her M^L Channel S, 8.30pm help, Shan Mei decides to study in j -4 This programme PBKyM^PHHH^^^HPJVV London, leaving her
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 427 42  -  Rachel Lo by! rachel@newstoday.com.sg EVERY bar these days seems to be looking for that eclectic mix of East and West, not only on their menus, but also in their decor. At first mention, Asian Restaurant Bar seems to be another one of those wannabes. But this new venture
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    • 521 42 MUSIC Bds Jazztet Comprising Singaporean jazz pianist, arranger and composer Boni de Souza, with accompaniment by jazz veterans Victor Gaskin and Sanip Ismail on drums, this performance is bound to jazz up your lunch hour. Date: Today Time: Ipm Venue: Raffles City Shopping Centre, City Square Admission: Free
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  • SPORTS
    • 568 43 Reuters Tyson will fight either Lewis or Rahman for world belts in March Boxing NEW YORK -Although Mike Tyson (picture) says he needs two more bouts before fighting for the heavyweight championship, his handlers seem set on insisting he fight just once more before a title fight,
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    • 351 43 Reuters Cricket PORT ELIZABETH Stand-in Kenyan captain Steve Tikolo said his team's 70-run win over India ranks alongside their shock win over the West Indies in the 1996 World Cup. "This is right up there with the West Indies win in the World Cup," Tikolo told
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    • 573 44  -  Leonard Thomas Once-unfashionable Galicians are one of the best sides in Europe by leonard@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a long-held belief in football that you never go against the bookies if you're interested in a flutter. For they seldom get it wrong. Well then, the
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    • 467 44 AFP LONDON Norwegian international Ronny Johnsen is expected to be out for five weeks after collecting a hamstring injury in the Champions League tie against Deportivo La Coruna, manager Sir Alex Ferguson said. Injury-prone Johnsen was forced off after
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    • 350 45 Reuters PACHUCA Pele, who legend has it, learned the game juggling grapefruits with his feet on the streets, cut a ribbon yesterday to launch Mexico's new football university for a fresh generation of talent. Pele contrasted his training to the Pachuca university's
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    • 739 45 Reuters Italian aristocrat confident of improving game after game TURIN -Juventus midfielder Pavel Nedved says the Turin side just needs time to fulfil its potential, after the Italians beat Rosenborg 1-0 in a Champions League group E match yesterday. Juve came in for
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    • 214 45 LIVERPOOL Gerard Houllier could be back at work at Liverpool in three months, according to chief executive Rick Parry, reported BBCSport.com. And Parry confirmed again there will be no temporary appointment to cover Houllier as he recovers from emergency heart surgery. Houllier
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    • 465 46  -  Kelvin Phang NTUC Income S-League Home United 1 SAFFC 2 by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg LIKE Fabien Barthez after Man United's Deportivo debacle, Home United goalkeeper Adi Salleh will probably have nightmares after his performance at Bishan Stadium last night. His two horrific blunders resulted in
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    • 269 46  -  Jose Raymond IF HOME UNITED had won its last two matches at Bishan, it would now be on the verge of lifting its second S-League championship crown in three years. But coming out winless against Geylang United last week, and SAFFC last night now means
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    • 129 46 FLORIDA In morning darkness yesterday, Tiger Woods and Mark O'Meara were headed to the first tee at the Magnolia Course when two security guards asked for identification. Woods, perhaps the most recognisable athlete in the world, held out his driver's licence, but that wasn't enough. They
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    • 327 47  -  Jose Raymond by. jose@newstoday.com.sg IN AN astonishing revelation, Jurong FC's vice-president Krishnan Suppiah said yesterday that the club had considered pulling out of the S-League. Said Suppiah: "Yes, there was some talk by a few management committee members a few months back about pulling out of
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    • 90 47 THE Asian All-Stars, made up of players from Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore, showed vast improvement to post its first triumph in the ongoing International Netball Extravaganza, beating Wales B 45-37 at Toa Payoh Sports Hall last night. It was the team's best effort so
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    • 62 47 BALESTIER Central will be conducting trials to pick players for the following age-groups: Under-16 (born in 1986 and 1987), Under-18 (born in 1984 and 1985). The trials will be held on Saturday, Oct 20 between 2pm and 4pm at the Toa Payoh Stadium. For further details, contact Mohd
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    • 189 47 The SLeague announced yesterday that the Singapore Cup final and fixtures for Round 33 of the NTUC Income S-League have been rescheduled in light of the General Elections on Nov3. The Singapore Cup final was originally scheduled on Nov 3 too, and a new date will be
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    • 97 47 EX-LIONS' striker Steven Tan will don national colours again. The 31-year-old retired from international duty earlier this year. He was among the players selected by national futsal coach Tay Peng Kee for next month's Tiger 5s futsal tournament. Some of the other big names in
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    • Of Barthez's failings and the ghost of Stam
      • 496 48 Reuters, Soccernet Missing six haunt the Blues Uefa Cup Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2 Chelsea 0 I Chelsea must win by three goals at home in return leg to advance TEL AVIV The refusal of some of Chelsea's leading players to travel to Israel came back to haunt the London
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      • 238 48 Reuters Uefa Cup second round first leg results (selected) Legia Warsaw 1 Valencia 1 Bordeaux 2 Standard Liege 0 FC Copenhagen 0 Ajax 0 Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2 Chelsea 0 Utrecht 1 Parma 3 AC Milan 2 CSKA Sofia 0 Fiorentina 2 FC Tyrol 0 PSG 4 Rapid
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      • 377 48 AFP LONDON Australian striker Mark Viduka and English midfielder Lee Bowyer scored two goals apiece as Leeds beat French club Troyes 4-2 at Elland Road. But Patrice Loko gave Troyes hope for the second leg with two away goals, Troyes suffered
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