Today, 8 January 2002

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    9 1 TODAY Tu e s d ay 2002 MITA(P) 063/11/2001
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    Lock icon Perhaps your jabs didn't count
    285 1 Rachel Lo IF your child had taken a Hepatitis A vaccine over the past couple of years, he may still not be protected against the disease. There was a problem with the children's version of a Hepatitis A vaccine, Vaqta, and old batches have been
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    Lock icon For some, it' s still Christmas
    45 1 Reuters photo Some Orthodox communities celebrate Christmas Day on Jan 7, according to the Julian calendar. An Orthodox Christian lighting a candle in the Nativity Church in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Orthodox Christmas Eve, Jan 6.
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    Lock icon Osama-mania claims a life
    626 1  -  Rahul Pathak Can children be saved from cult figures? by rahul@newstoday.com.sg PERHAPS there is no glory in taking down a drab, all-too-human enemy. Perhaps, in the frenzied days that followed Sept 11, Osama bin Laden somehow got elevated to cult status. But the danger of this
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  • HOT NEWS
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      All about choices
      487 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan MOE addresses Secondary One posting controversy by kim@newstoday.com.sg WHY fix a system if it ain't broke? That's the position the Ministry of Education (MOE) took at a press conference held yesterday to address the recent controversy over the Secondary One posting exercise. While the door
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      Educator, academic, ambassador, philosopher...
      252 2 THE judge of the future will be more than a person who convicts, sentences and mediates in court. He will be an educator, an academic, an ambassador, an administrator and philosopher. Many already are, but in an interview in his annual report, Chief Justice Yong Pung
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      Credit card fraud busted
      71 2  -  Elaine Quek A SPATE of stolen credit cards and fraudulent transactions were solved with the arrest of a Malaysian man. The 34-year-old was arrested on Sunday at Funan IT Mall after he tried to use a stolen card to pay for two sets of CD-writers valued
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      Stem cells: No embryo factory, please...
      178 2  -  -Jasleen Randhawa IN THE United States, private research has no limits. The US has restrictions only on research conducted with public funding. Singapore, on the other hand, has guidelines for every research company to follow whether it is a government company or a private
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      One of 13 militants had links with a hijacker
      206 3 KUALA LUMPUR Long-term surveillance of one of the 13 men arrested in Malaysia threw up a definite link between him and a Sept 11 hijacker. The information was then passed on to US intelligence units, a report in the Asian Wall
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      Speaker to be quizzed
      410 3 He's a suspect in food scam, says A-G JAKAKIA Indonesia s justice system will be put to the test over the coming months with developments in two highprofile cases involving prominent and powerful individuals. Yesterday, the Attorney-General declared Speaker of Parliament Akbar Tandjung a suspect in
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      Lock icon Thais ban magazine
      83 3 Reuters BANGKOK Thailand has banned an edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review due to an article that spoke of strained relations between Thailand's King and Prime Minister. Police Major-General Tritot Ronnarittivichai said he had signed an order to seize copies of the Hong Kong-based weekly from
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      Lock icon Misuari sent back
      94 3 Agencies MANILA Malaysia and the Philippines have settled their differences over renegade Governor Nur Misuari. Misuari was handed over yesterday to Manila and was flown out of Malaysia in a Philippines C-130 military transport plane. In Manila, the former Governor awaits trial for inciting a rebellion in
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      Lock icon A moo-ving protest
      44 3 Reuters photo A cow with "No BSE" painted on its hide in a park in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto. Six cows were let loose, delivering messages of defiance and appeals for help, following Asia's first outbreak of mad-cow disease.
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      Jobs for grabs
      357 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim by Govt task force to help unemployed, employers zackaria@newstoday.com.sg A JOBS task force, headed by Minister of State (Manpower) Ng Eng Hen, will reach out to workers and employers to help unemployed Singaporeans get jobs. "There are 14,000 job vacancies," Dr Ng said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Tricon's blood drive
      186 4  -  Tan Hui Leng ABOUT 100 employees of Tricon turned up to give blood (picture) on Friday and yesterday. More employees of the company, which owns the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC fast food chains, are expected to donate blood today. Mr Hester Chew, vice-president and managing
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      Ecological edge
      346 5  -  Joy Frances Singapore plans to set up Environmental Academy by j oy@newstoday.com. sg AN Environment Academy is being planned to give Singapore an edge in the environment industry. Environment Minister Lim Swee Say (picture) revealed this at the opening ceremony of a five-day meeting among representatives of 35
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      Lock icon 3 banks form Caps
      71 5 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE'S big three local banks DBS, OCBC and UOB have formed a new company which will provide them with multi-currency payment and clearance services. Each shareholder owns a third of the $23 million joint venture Clearing and Payment Services (Caps). Currently, the banks
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      For a safe Thaipusam
      143 5  -  -Jasleen Randhawa THAIPUSAM, which falls on Jan 28, will be slightly different this year. The Hindu Endowments Board expects some 20,000 to 40,000 Hindus to participate in the festival, which is the feast for the son of Shiva, Lord Subramaniam. As a result, they are taking
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  • LETTERS
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      Parents' love, quality time worth more than material goods
      238 6  -  Kathleen Kwan I WISH to expand on Ms Rajeswari Sreenivasan's letter, "Don't rebuff the white-collar workers" (Today, Jan 5). It is true that the cost of living in Singapore has risen tremendously in a single generation. However, I also see a
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      Ode to nature
      531 6  -  Ee Teck Ee Share the Earth or we shall reign as lonely kings I REFER to Mr Ravi Veloo's commentary, "Bugs and slugs over people" (Today, Jan 3). It reminds me of the statement of a Japanese who loved whale meat: "The whales are like cockroaches of
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      Blunt poser
      303 8  -  Narayana Narayana Is there something about MVC that makes employers so reluctant? SOME time ago, officials lamented that employers had been cool to the Government's Monthly Variable Component (MVC) proposal and urged more of them to join the scheme. Going by your report, it would appear that few
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      Whaf s wrong with taking a break?
      259 8  -  Cecilia Lee I REFER to Mr Wong Teck Tian's letter, "Bad news when people give boring Chinese New Year a miss" (Today, Jan 7). Give us, stressed-out Singaporeans, a break! With the hectic jobs we hold these days and limited leave days, it
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      Cool, but it may be too costly for some
      231 8  -  Wong Teck Tian I NOTICE that more SBS and Tibs buses are being air-conditioned. There are very few non-aircon buses plying the streets these days. The first impression aircon buses gives is that our society is progressing towards higher costs. My
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      242 8 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND Australian University of the Year 2000-2001 Doctor of Business Administration Master of Business Administration Master of Professional Accounting Master of Counselling 0 UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA One of the leading Universities in Australia I Master of Marketing Communications I Date 23 Jan 2002 (Wed) I Time 7.30pm
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      30 8 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax: 65-*****17; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg
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      197 9 At ii»aa»oi.N t mi iw?ssoi Indications: Traditionally uied tor hoalUi. "onwchachc. malnutrition alw childbirth ami rcpil>iin)l nMnmual allmenti. Prepared with only the best ingredients, Eu Yan Sang's Gold Label Bak Foong Pills have been consumed by generations of women to help alleviate symptoms during their periods. What's more, regular use
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  • BUSIENSS NEWS
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      Short-selling made easy
      442 10  -  Francis Kan SGX new securities lending facility promises investors greater flexibility by francis@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Exchange's (SGX) securities lending facility will give investors here greater leeway to engage in short-selling a trading strategy practised in more sophisticated equity markets. A short-seller sells shares he does not own,
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      Lock icon Best quarterly show for home sales
      366 10 DEMAND for new private residential units in Singapore rose 13 per cent with 6,100 homes sold last year. Real estate agency, CB Richard Ellis, said the double-digit jump was spurred by increased activity in the fourth quarter ended December. In 2000, 5,406 units were
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      Lock icon Devalued
      512 11 Bloomberg Argentina lowers currency value by 29% BUENOS AIRES Argentina has devalued its peso by 29 per cent, scrapping a decade-old peg to the US dollar to ease an economic crisis that toppled two governments in 10 days and forced the nation to stop repaying its debt The peso
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      Lock icon China to boost euro holdings in its reserves
      267 11 -AFP BEIJING China was preparing to boost the amount of euros in its forex reserves to diversify its holdings against the US dollar, press reports said yesterday. "It's better to put all our eggs in various baskets rather than a single one,"
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      Lock icon $3b plan
      361 12 -AFP Malaysian Airlines to raise fresh capital KUALA LUMPUR Loss-making Malaysian Airlines (MAS) unveiled yesterday plans to raise over RM6.I billion ($2.96 billion) by disposing its catering arm and leaseback property assets. Managing director Mohamad Nor Yusof said the additional capital would be used to repay debts, take
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      UNTI TRUSTS & FUNDS
      1998 12 UNTI TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Fund Nome Bid Prke/NAV I Offer Price Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd Aberdeen China Opportunities Fund 0.946 Aberdeen Global MNC Fund 0.678 Aberdeen Global Technology Fund 0.582 Aberdeen OK Blue Chip Fund 0.762 Aberdeen American Opportunities Fund 0.771 Aberdeen Continental Europe Equity Fund
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        177 12 LOCAL shares resumed their climb yesterday on hopeful recovery forecasts. The blue-chip dominated rally had since spread to the broader market and has attracted the enthusiasm of retail investors. The ST index roared 17.28 points up to close at 1,695.95, short of the psychological 1,700 level. For every stock
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        Malaysia
        86 12 THE Malaysian market ended stronger yesterday with the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) up 3.6 points 697.1. Volume was robust at 634,653 lots. There were 544 gainers against 222 losers. Menang Corporation, a prop-erty-based company that is also in the midst of a debt restructuring scheme, jumped 24.5
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Headed for failure
      358 14 Agencies Blair hoped to facilitate talks but India, Pakistan refuse to budge ISLAMABAD British Prime Minister Tony Blair could well be wishing that he had never started on his current India-Pakistan mission. It was meant to boost Britain's image but is increasingly becoming a fiasco. Yesterday, Mr
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      Lock icon Gordon Brown's baby seriously ill
      91 14 Reuters LONDON The daughter of British finance minister Gordon Brown, born prematurely on Dec 28, is gravely ill after suffering a brain haemorrhage. Mr Brown and his wife Sarah have maintained a bedside vigil at the side of Jennifer Jane, who was born seven weeks
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      Lock icon An empress? Why not?
      107 14 Agencies TOKYO Japan's oldest royal, Princess Takamatsu, has voiced support for a woman ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne. Princess Takamatsu, the 90-year-old widow of the late Emperor Hirohito's younger brother, welcomed the birth of Princess Aiko, born last month to Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito
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      What the regional papers said yesterday . . .
      171 14 What the regional papers said yesterday The Star /Malaysia Students held for 'spying' Security workers caught nine people occused of spying for opposition porties at a Barisan Nasional operations room here. The Jakarta Post /Indonesia Malaria outbreak kills 54 An outbreak of malaria killed 54 out of some 10,000 people
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      Lock icon Virgin in trouble
      133 14 Reuters BEIRUT The entertainment retailer, Virgin, has run into trouble in Lebanon after police raided the British-based retailer's store and seized hundreds of its films on DVDs last week. The authorities said the DVD films, as varied as Some Like It Hot and The Nutty Professor, offended
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Splitting hairs
      589 15  -  Amal Jayasinghe AFP They shook hands, but did they 'meet'? by A SOUTH Asian meet closed in Nepal on Sunday with India-Pakistan tensions testing the limits of the English language and diplomats dabbling in definitions to put their spin on the summit. The focus throughout the summit was
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      Lock icon The aftermath of Sept 11 and hopes for a safer world
      403 15  -  Melissa Hyak Channel News Asia by THE New Year is here. While those who subscribe to the practice of making resolutions look forward to more turning points and milestones, one particular day last year continues to dictate how the
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      68 15 n\t\ Nik's goodwood I restaurant bar great fun I 17D&E Lorong Liput (Holland Village) need not be Singapore *****1 Tel: 875 0375 pvnpnsivp" I OPEN 12noon-11pm DAILY eApensive Home-Style Lunch Buffet 12 noon 4pm I Soup Salads Pasta Italian Sauces. I Mashed Potatoes Fries Chicken I Meatballs Chefs Specials Meats
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  • UPFRONT
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      Give me space to love
      613 16  -  Shanoo Maharaj Land of the Kamasutra pushing for free sex and love zones for courting couples by THEIR logo is a pair of hearts pierced with arrows. Their message is Love is the fuel of life. Sounds mushy? But the Lovers Organisation for Voluntary Exhibition
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      Phua Chu Kang lives to celebrate 100
      552 16  -  -ElisaChia LOCAL sitcoms come and go, crushed by the viewing habits of Singaporeans pampered with a diet of the best of foreign fare such as Ally Mcßeal. But two local sitcoms have bucked the trend and achieved success, gathering fans in Singapore, JB
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      Lock icon Meet Sharon Au, who grants wishes
      394 17  -  -Low Shi Ping WHAT is your wish this year? For eight members of the Movement of the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (Minds), it was to have dinner with popular MediaCorp artiste, Sharon Au (picture, centre). Their wish came true through SingTel's The Gift of
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      TIMEOUT THREE-DAYLISTING
      396 17 PARTICIPATE JobStreet.com's Industry Nites 2002 A unique opportunity to listen, discuss and network with company representatives.The theme is Infocomm. Date: Today Time: 7pm to 8.15pm Venue: library@orchard (Ngee Ann City) Entry: Free Enquiries:Write to sg@jobstreet.com and include the word "Infocomm" in your e-mail. THEATRE Beautiful Thing This play
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      308 17 TAKE heart, PCK fans. After tonight's episode, a fifth season is in use of her matchmaking skills to generate an income, the pipeline, says executive producer and directorJenniferTan. Chu Beng and Margaret have to chip in for the household And next season, Singapore's favourite contractor will be bat- expenses and
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  • INFOTECH
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      Focused change
      380 18  -  Sol E Solomon Former service provider promises customers more by solomon@newstoday.com.sg HAVING been successful as a management service provider (MSP), NetTasking has since sold that part of its business so that it can now concentrate on helping MSPs. And so, it has changed its business model since July
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      IBM introduces mainframe-inspired servers
      187 18 A FTER a three-year development effort, IBM is now shipping its .T"\.eServer xSeries 360, the first Intel-based servers featuring the new lA-32 Intel Xeon Processor MR The eServer x360 also marks the debut of IBM's mainframeinspired Enterprise X-Architecture technology, which helps customers consolidate Intel servers and
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      CNETAsia Breaking News
      221 18 asia. cnet. com/newstech/today Pornographic vulnerability A NEW Trojan horse is redirecting Internet users to pornographic websites by exploiting an old vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). The JS/Seeker-E script can arrive by e-mail. It can also be embedded onto a Web page. When a user opens the
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      Specially for small and medium firms
      159 18 HEWLETT-PACKARD has expanded its Intel-based server offerings with the launch of the HP Server tc2loo (picture) targeted at small-and-medium businesses (SMB). The product is configured with the Intel Pentium 111 I.I3GHz/512K8 cache processor with a SCSI hard disk drive. It comes with registered ECC
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      Be bioinformatics-trained
      176 18 GENOVATE Solutions will soon offer training for the bioinformatics sector, beginning with training in Bio-XML, BioJava and Bio-Perl. This makes it the first in the region to offer advanced training of this sort It will launch the bioinformatics training programmes for Singapore in the middle of this month
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      The portal advantage
      793 19 A unified platform linking partners and customers is as crucial as speed to market IN the initial rush to embrace the Internet, organisations came under intense pressure to quickly move each of their business processes online. This led to a multitude of projects with distinct teams, different
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      Companies go for more secure Web hosting hardware and software
      472 19 A LION'S share, or 131,417 websites surveyed, have moved from less secure hosting software to the Apache program. At least 4,500 of these sites run on Cobalt servers, given that this hardware/software combination provides more secure e-commerce, the Netcraft Web
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  • INCIEMAS
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      Lock icon Box-office milestones for Potter, Rings
      613 20 Reuters/Variety Magic and fantasy prevail as Crowe's Beautiful Mind hits No 2 on charts LOS ANGELES The little denizens of Hobbiton continued to make a big splash at the North American box office as The Lord of the Rings movie led the field for the
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      Lock icon Guiding light
      414 21 -AFP Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon shows the way HONG KONG Film-makers in the territory are planning to produce more films this year to cash in on last year's Oscar success and a jump in local box-office takings, producers said yesterday. "We will see up to 150 films being
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      Gross Green is plain boring, says Barrymore
      133 21 LOOKING back at her six-month-old marriage to Tom Green, Drew Barrymore says it was all a big mistake, doomed from the start On Dec 17, MTV comedian Green filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences", while his friends blamed her drinking and erratic behaviour.
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      Rude Leo has co-star in rage
      173 21 ONE not-so-fine day on the set of Martin Scorsese's epic, Gangs of New York, Leonardo DiCaprio (picture) was having a bad day. However, the young star's rudeness rubbed his co-star, David Hemmings, the wrong way and the veteran actor now hates his guts. "That
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      84 20 1 (1) The Lord of the Rings US$23 million 2 (8) A Beautiful Mind US$l7 million 3 (2) Ocean's Eleven US$ll.B million 4 (3) Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius US$ 9.2 million 5 (13) The Royal Tenenbaums US$ 8.8 million 6 (4) Ali US$ 7.6 million 7 (5) Vanilla Sky US$
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  • Life Is Great
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      Lock icon Dream big dreams
      666 22  -  Elaine Quek 3 As 2002 unfolds, leave the baggage of the past behind and live each day with optimism IT was an eventful year that we left behind as we entered 2002. Local and world events, both of epic proportions, marked the beginning of this century. In
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      602 24 Golf Mercedes Championships El Nino blows hot in Maui KAPALUA Spain's Sergio Garcia (picture) said he wanted to win the money title on both the US PGA Tour and the European PGA Tour in 2002. He's off to a good start. Garcia sank a 12-foot
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      Toronto has no answer to the Kobe-Shaq tandem
      478 24 NBA Toronto 89 Los Angeles 109 Lakers prevent a season sweep by the Raptors TORONTO The Toronto Raptors learned how big a difference Shaquille O'Neal makes. Kobe Bryant scored 31 points and O'Neal added 24 in a dominant all-around performance as the
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      341 24 -AFP KAPALUA Fresh off an eight-under-par 65 in the final round of the Mercedes Championships, Tiger Woods departed yesterday for the New Zealand Open, saying threats to disrupt the tournament would not deter him from competing in the Australasian Tour event. Just days before
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      228 25 Reuters BEIJING Soccer referees fingered for taking bribes in a scandal that rocked China's embattled football association could become the league's first to face criminal charges, state media said yesterday. The official China Daily newspaper quoted China Football Association (CFA) executive vicechairman Van
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      103 25 Reuters LONDON Norwegian international John Carew has flown back to Spain to rejoin Valencia and must now wait to complete his move to premier league Fulham, British newspapers reported yesterday. Carew, 22, passed his medical at Craven Cottage, but the two clubs have failed to agree
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      Lock icon Seba coming good
      582 26  -  Leonard Thomas While his critics blast away, the Little Witch is doing it his way FA Cup third round Aston Villa 2 Man Utd 3 Red Devils' late three-goal blast slays Villans Iby leonard@newstoday.com.sg A LILLE player who came up against Manchester United in the first phase
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      Lock icon Cardiff in the dock after trouble at Ninian Park
      474 26 Reuters FA Cup third round Cardiff City 2 Leeds Utd 1 Ugly scenes mar shock of third round LONDON Cardiff City could be forced to play future home FA Cup ties away from its Ninian Park ground following the ugly crowd
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      Forlan eyes Man Utd
      209 26 BUENOS AIRES Diego Forlan has sent a 'come and get me' plea to Manchester United. He wants to leave Argentinian club Independiente and head for Europe, partly because of the economic crisis in the country, reported BBCSport Online. Forlan has struck 12 goals in 18 matches
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      Cubs caught drinking
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      Karathu is no slave driver, but he's a stickler for professionalism
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      164 27 Reuters ZAGREB Croatia's Miroslav Blazevic is undecided about returning as Iranian national coach after being offered US$4 million ($7.2 million) for a four-year contract, a Croatian daily newspaper reported yesterday. "I have had several sleepless nights, trying to weigh money on the one side and my
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      62 27 -AFP KANDY Muttiah Muralitharan and Charitha Buddika shared eight wickets to help Sri Lanka thrash Zimbabwe by an innings and 94 runs in the second Test for its seventh successive win here yesterday. The host clinched the three-Test series with its second victory against the tourists, having won
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