Today, 18 January 2002, Afternoon Edition

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    12 1 TODAY f rid 21 y januar yiB' 2o 2 MIT/MmM II 2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Enron fires Andersen
      85 1 Reuters BANKRUPT energy giant Enron Corp fired accountancy firm Arthur Andersen as the company's auditors yesterday. "We can't afford to wait any longer in light of recent events," Enron chairman and CEO Ken Lay said in a statement. Andersen has come under fire for its handling of
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      Lock icon Will the Fed cut lending rate again?
      175 1 Agencies WASHINGTON Fewer Americans lined up for state unemployment benefits last week, while manufacturing has shown its first sign of recovery this year and housing remains strong, official data showed yesterday. But Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said last week that the reces-sion-wracked
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      Lock icon The man with the secrets
      559 1  -  Francis Kan And why Singapore needs this Australian francis@newstoday.com.sg THE "S" in MAS might easily stand for "secrecy" or "sensitivity". But in this new age of openness, the "A" could equally easily represent the Australian who has become the first foreigner to take up a
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon He owns a Lexus but stole a BMW
      206 2 Channel NewsAsia HE is a 44-year-old managing director at an investment company, earns about $250,000 a year and drives a Lexus. On Oct 9 last year, however, he decided to steal a BMW car at the Shangri-La Hotel. Chia Cake Han, a
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      Dear Halimah ...
      438 2  - Dear Halimah Kim-Kyna Tan UOB chairman writes about his painful dilemma by kim@newstoday.com.sg HIS hands bound by the need to satisfy his shareholders, United Overseas Bank (UOB) chairman and CEO Wee Cho Yaw made one of the most painful decisions of his career. Mr Wee (picture) took pains to spell
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      Banks, be clear: Case
      137 2  -  -Joy Frances THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) is asking banks to be more transparent with their credit card interest rate charges. It also wants them to use English that can be easily understood when listing terms and conditions for credit card contracts. "We take very
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      Hot spring will remain
      126 2  -  Leong Phei Phei THE hot spring at Sembawang possibly the only one left in Singapore will be left untouched by development. The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) yesterday said Singaporeans could continue to enjoy it within a fenced area after construction work begins on Sembawang Air Base.
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      Lock icon Using war to deter votes
      339 3 Campaign paints opposition asTaliban KUALA LUMPUR It's a long way from New York and Afghanistan, but a tiny constituency in rural Malaysia is feeling the Shockwaves from the Sept 11 terror attacks in a Perlis by-election fight Voters due to cast their ballots tomorrow are
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      Lock icon Fuel subsidies cut
      189 3 Agencies JAKARTA Slowly and nervously, Indonesia implemented an International Monetary Fund (IMF) demand yesterday when it cut subsidies for fuel. The move, effective from today, raises prices by an average 22 per cent of all types of fuel from kerosene used for cooking to petrol. Implementing the
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      Lock icon Manila arrests Al Qaeda men
      155 3 Reuters MANILA After Singapore and Malaysia, the Philippines has become the third country to make an arrest of suspected Al Qaeda members. Based on a tipoff from Singapore, Philippine police seized one tonne of explosives and arrested three men yesterday. Seventeen assault rifles were also
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      Structural problems cause of HK deficit
      136 3 HONG KONG Structural problems rather than short-term economic issues is the cause of the territory's budget deficit, a government task force report has found. A government source quoted by the Hong Kong iMail newspaper said that government expenditure had outstripped economic growth, leading to
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      WorldCard discounts
      138 4 SINGTEL WorldCard users can enjoy up to 20 per cent extra talk time if they buy the prepaid international calling cards from DBS, POSB and OCBC ATMs. The cards are available in three denominations, $10, $20 and $50, with extra talk time of 10, 15 and 20 per
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      Homes for the young
      211 4  -  —Jasleen Randhawa Newton 18 to launch at $1,000 psf WING Tai Holdings is hoping its newest freehold project Newton 18 will catch the fancy of young professionals. The 81-unit condominium in District 11 will be launched this weekend at an average price of $1,000 per square
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      Whaf s new at NTU
      93 4  -  Tan Hut Leng THE Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) School of Civil and Structural Engineering has changed its name to the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The school will place more emphasis on environmental issues on subjects such as construction and geotechnics. NTU's School of
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  • LETTERS
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      High impact
      347 6  -  Dr N Krishnamurthy Twin towers were designed to take hits MR Roger Mitton's commentary, "Towering tragedies" (Today, Jan 15), makes very interesting reading, as much for the emotional paranoia it evokes as for the lop-sided collection of random facts and the opinions it documents. Were the World Trade
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      Integrity of the ISA
      229 6 I REFER to recent reports of the 15 people arrested for their involvement in terrorism-relat-ed acts. For the first time, I am satisfied that the power of arbitrary arrest given to the Internal Security Act (ISA) can be properly used to safeguard the common interest and
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      Coloured archbishop and racism
      131 9  -  Narayana Narayana THE human mind finds it difficult to avoid stereotyping and it is impossible to find an individual who has never formed a pre-conceived notion or prejudice at some time. Your colourful picture of a colourful and coloured bishop (Today, Jan 15) with mitre would
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      Flash cards tested
      326 9 Error rate lower than that of old system WE refer to Mr Brent Chan's letter, "Flash posers" (Today, Jan 12). We would like to assure Mr Chan that we have tested the Ez-link Card system thoroughly. Over the past two years, we conducted a number of tests
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Wild fare
      752 10  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Seeing fish and lions with the President by kim@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a side to President S R Nathan that I got to see first-hand last Saturday. The doting grandfather and compassionate animal lover in him deeply impressed me. Organised by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), a
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      Lock icon A hard night's work
      323 11  -  Cathleen Tung To keep the MRT trains clean and gleaming by cathleen@newstoday.com.sg WITH strict laws prohibiting eating, drinking and smoking on board MRT trains, you'd expect them to be spotlessly clean. Well, you couldn't be more wrong. Cleaning the trains at SMRT's three depots is a
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Airbus to eliminate 6,000 jobs
      388 12 -AFP PARIS Airbus Industrie, rocked by a wave of cancelled orders last year, plans to eliminate 6,000 posts but without laying off full-time personnel, Airbus chairman, Mr Noel Forgeard, said yesterday. The group also announced that it had suffered a 44 per cent drop in
      -AFP  -  388 words
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      Lock icon On the mend?
      194 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S economy, suffering its worst recession in 37 years, may be on the mend if the latest December trade numbers are any indication. Non-oil domestic exports fell 16.7 per cent from a year earlier to $7.67 billion the smallest decline in seven months. The fall is
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      New Virgin service ... for free
      124 14 New Virgin service for free VIRGIN Mobile said it will help new subscribers copy their directories into their new mobile phones for free. "We're making it more convenient for consumers to switch to Virgin Mobile," chief marketing officer Norliza Kassim said. Customers can transfer 250 phone book entries onto Virgin
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      Asia's first
      64 14 BONDS, backed by alternative investment portfolios were launched yesterday by BNP Paribas and the Momentum Group, a specialist in alternative investment strategies. The bonds, which are capital guaranteed, are available in Asia for the first time. Singapore's strong presence of private banking investors provide the right clientele base
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      Your S$1 buys...
      28 14 US$ 0.5462 UK£ 0.3796 Yen 71.751 HK$ 4.2607 RM 2.0755 Euro 0.6187 Rupiah 5649.7 Baht 23.954 Peso 28.007 A$ 1.0586 I Rupee 26.302 Won 719.42
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      Lock icon No threat to ringgit peg yet: Economist
      234 14 AFP THE Malaysian ringgit's peg to the US dollar is under no immediate threat of being unhinged, but a review is necessary if the Japanese yen continues to slide, a top economist said yesterday at a forum organised by the Singapore Institute of
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      Siemens' new complex breaks ground
      168 14  -  Simone Erasmus STATE of the art office design, R D labs and an in-house gym are just a few of the features that the new $50 million Siemens complex will house. Siemens broke ground yesterday for the centre at MacPherson Road. It has appointed M+W
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      Subcontracting still the trend
      245 16 Small Stock Watch This is despite squeeze on profit margin LAST year, the global economy deteriorated and many of the contract manufacturers which have acquired other contract manufacturers showed signs of indigestion. Despite the setback, industry insiders believe that the outsourcing trend will continue to grow.
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        92 18 LOCAL shares fell for a third day yesterday on losses in major global indices and anemic profit announcements by major US corporations. The STI tumbled 29.7 points before recovering to close 14.03 points down at 1660.51. Market breadth improved with two rises to every fall, while 291 counters were
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        Market Movers
        73 18 Top Gainers Close Creative 50 Venture DBSBk6%NCPSI0 WBL Corp APB Breweries ICB GreatEast DalacrflUSJ GeneMedix MFSTech 17.70 14.50 101.40 2.01 4.84 4.78 11.30 2.36 1.48 0.355 +0.50 +0,50 +0,20 +0,13 +0,10 +0,10 +0,10 +0,09 +0,07 +0,06 Top Losers Close SPH SPH100 SIA SIA200 OCBC UOB CITYDEV Thai Prime200US$
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        Malaysia
        97 18 THE slump on Wall Street overnight, compounded by the extended selling on chip stocks, affected the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. The KLCI hit a low of 692.45 but recovered to close 2.75 points down at 697.87. Total turnover stood at 304,431 lots and the overall market breadth remained
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2083 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Fund Nome Bid Prke/NAV Offer Price Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd Aberdeen China Opportunities Fund 0.926 Aberdeen Global MNC Fund 0.644 Aberdeen Global Technoloqy Fund 0.552 Aberdeen OK Blue Chip Fund 0.721 Aberdeen American Opportunities Fund 0.748 Aberdeen Continental Europe Equity Fund 0.964
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Backlash
      292 20 Agencies US gets flak for Guantanomo captives GUANTANOMO (Cuba) The US is suddenly at the receiving end of criticism over human rights abuses, something it is more used to heaping on other countries such as China. Concerns have been raised by the United Nations (UN), the Red Cross and
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      Lock icon Healthy ritual
      100 20 Reuters LONDON Sitting around the family dinner table has been linked to good mental health for young people, a study said. Youngsters who used mental health services had less than five family meals a week on average and healthy peers dined or lunched with relatives six times, a
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      Lock icon Koizumi confident
      154 20 -AFP TOKYO Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday tried to allay fears that Japan's economy may crash by the end of the fiscal year in March. "The Koizumi government will never let the March crisis or any unnecessary confusion happen," he told a business meeting in Tokyo. Yesterday, news
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      Lock icon Don't cry for me ...
      56 20 Don't cry for me AFP photo A jobless man being symbolically crucified on Wednesday on one of the main streets of the Quiaca, 300km north of Buenos Aires. A dozen unemployed Argentinians were tied to lamp posts and public telephone line posts in symbolic crucifixions to protest the government's failure
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      Lock icon Drug violence
      110 20 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Angered by police attempts to detain coworkers for drug abuse, some 400 Indonesian textile workers staged a violent protest in Negri Sembilan state yesterday. A narcotics officer said the workers rioted after urine tests for drug abuse were conducted on 200 workers in a textile
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon US in quagmire
        289 22 Agencies MANILA Despite its victory in Afghanistan, the US does not believe that wiping out the kidnap-for-ransom Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines will be easy. While their firepower is never in doubt, the US has just walked into uncertainty, Time magazine said. Philippine Defence Secretary, Mr
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        S'porean ecstasy trafficker sentenced to hang
        160 22 PENANG Koh Tiang Hock, a 33-year-old Singaporean labourer, was sentenced to death by hanging by the High Court here yesterday for trafficking in Ecstasy pills. Koh was found with 801 grammes of the party drug strapped to his body as he prepared to leave
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        What the regional papers say today ...
        135 22 What the regional papers say today The Star/Malaysia Reject politics of hate, people told Voters in Indera Kayangan have been urged to reject the politics of racial and religious hatred, as it would lead to disunity. The Jakarta Post/Indonesia Bali braced for unrest, all remains calm Following Wednesday night's fuel
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Singapore brew ...
      736 25  - Singapore brew Anil Bhatia by anilbhatia@consultant.com A DISCUSSION by notional professors, in a kopi-tiam setting. The participants: Prof M Kamikaze, a Japanese academic. Prof A Bannerjee, an Indian intellectual. Prof Lee Ah Beng, Singapore business lecturer. Prof Ashby Stills, an American professor in business. Prof Lee: Gentlemen, welcome to this
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  • UP FRONT
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      First Lady of Radio
      882 26  -  Pauline DLoh t One hour with Chua Foo Yong MediaCorp Radio continues to rule the airwaves with this woman at the helm FUN. Open. Caring. FOC. This is MediaCorp Radio's "mission statement", but you may just as well use the same words to describe its CEO.
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      Choreographers, dance your dream
      283 26  -  Rachel Lo by ra chel@newstoday.com.sg A CHANCE for aspiring choreographers to dance their dream. That is what the Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT) is offering with its Singapore Young Choreographers Dance Platform 2002. The programme is open to those below 40. Young choreographers have been asked to
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  • LIME LIGHT
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      Lock icon Will the real Amy please stand up?
      343 28  -  Cathleen Tung by reporter@newstoday.com.sg ONE moment, she's the gentle and over-protective mother of a young boy. The next, she's donning a doctor's coat, delivering babies and some snappy words along the way. We're talking about Amy Cheng (picture), who plays Karen, the long-suffering
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      Be a sport with CNA
      209 29  -  -Low Ski Ping COME tomorrow, Channel NewsAsia (CNA) will launch a series of sports programmes. From 2pm to 7pm, sports buffs can spend weekend afternoons catching up on sports news, highlights and golf tournaments. Leading sports magazine programme Trans World Sports and world golf championships
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      Big in Singapore
      143 29  -  Low Shi Ping HONG KONG comedienne Lydia Sum (right) has proven to be a big hit with local audiences. Almost half a million viewers tuned in to the debut episode of Living with Lydia on Tuesday. In addition to Lydia, the cast includes television veterans Koh Chieng
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      32 28 Black Hawk Down gets the thumbs up Turn to Page 37 for the review While some time away with the hilarious Corky Romano For more on the movie, turn to Page 39
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      62 30 Hanoi can get stifling hot in the summer. So,go during September and October, when the weather is ideal, or November to February, when the temperature ranges between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius. •Take US dollars as the currency is an accepted standard. But buy Vietnamese dong when you
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      674 30  -  Jennifer Chen The city's opening up to tourists, yet remains genuine by j ennif er@newstoday.com.sg IF you want to cross the road in Vietnam, step into the traffic, walk boldly forward and pray because pedestrian crossings are non-existent and no vehicle will stop for you. Traffic flow is
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      424 33  -  Janice Lee SSO and SDT hail contemporary composers by'* janice@newstoday.com.sg DANCE music these days is often divided into two types the classical scores of ballets and the pumping music heard at nightclubs. People tend to forget the powerful music of our times but the Singapore Symphony
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      Jugs, tits, melons and bras
      117 33 WACOAL is using "tits" in advertisements for its new seamless brassiere, which gives wearers a smooth silhouette. If you are wondering what the word refers to, take a look at the model's shoulder (centre picture) and the railing beside her, and you can find a
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      High-flying bird
      564 37  -  David Ngiau Black Hawk Down swoops to assault your senses by david@newstoday.com.sg AT 144 minutes, Black Hawk Down will have you staggering out of the cinema. For the first half-hour, we watch the dark clouds gather. Then, the storm breaks and we're plunged into an urban nightmare that
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      Four injured in film's fiery scene
      128 38 FOUR crew members working on contorversial rapper Eminem's (picture) movie, 8 Mile, were injured in a fire during filming last week. A scene in which a house was set ablaze left a crew member with first-degree burns and three others with minor burns after
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      Depp's drinking den in London
      112 38 HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Johnny Depp is expanding his empire of drinking dens by opening a trendy bar in the heart of London. Depp is a partner in The Column with former British soccer ace Lee Chapman, reported www.imdb.com. Depp has already run the hugely successful Man
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      $42,000 for a date with Theron
      105 38 AN American man has paid $42,000 for a dinner date with South African actress Charlize Theron (picture) of Sweet November fame. Entertainment website www.imdb.com reported that Josh Judd topped the bids in a internet charity auction on website Ebay. Com for the meal with
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        Lock icon Saints shocked
        333 39 -AFP While Chelsea, Spurs, Bolton and Blackburn advance English FA Cup Rotherham 2 Southampton 1 Saints join Leeds and Derby in the Premiership casualty list LONDON Southampton became the latest Premiership club to crash out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle when it lost 2-1 to
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        Lock icon Babbel gets new deal
        116 39 AFP MUNICH Liverpool defender Markus Babbel, who has been out all season with the debilitating Epstein-Barr disease involving an inflammation of the nervous system said yesterday he is to extend his deal at the club until 2006. "The club has huge confidence in me," Babbel told
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        Lock icon Lazio might want Veron back
        245 39 Agencies ROME Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti hinted yesterday that he might attempt to lure Argentinian midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron back to the club from English Premiership champion Manchester United. Cragnotti was furious after watching Lazio's season effectively end yesterday following a 3-2 defeat to AC
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        Lock icon Figueres makes history
        115 39 Reuters MADRID Figueres became the first third division side to reach the semi-finals of Spain's King's Cup yesterday as a goalless draw at home to Cordoba earned it a 2-0 aggregate win over its division two opponent Figueres was joined in the last four by Real Madrid,
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      Lock icon When stars come out to play
      605 40 Reuters The Sundance Film Festival hits midpoint with parties and offbeat films PARK CITY, Utah The Sundance Film Festival ended its first week with its usual mix of stars, parties, Hollywood deals and, as always, offbeat independent movies that left audiences cheering and groaning
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        Lock icon Juventus survives late scare to reach Cup semis
        246 43 Reuters ROME Juventus survived a late rally from Atalanta to reach the Italian Cup semi-finals this morning as it set up an attractive tie with AC Milan. The Turin giant lost 2-1 on the night, but went through 5-4 on aggregate thanks
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        Lock icon Perfection
        746 43 LONDON Perfection is a term more usually associated with Nadia Comaneci or Torvill and Dean than Muhammad Ali. But as the legendary former champion celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday, this myth was exposed yesterday in the Times of London. On Nov 14, 1966, in a lesser-known but historic bout
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        Lazio's season almost over
        81 43 ROME Italian giant Lazio's season was effectively ended yesterday after a 3-2 defeat against AC Milan in the Italian Cup quar-ter-final second leg at the Stadio Olimpico. Trailing 2-1 from the first leg, Lazio went further behind on aggregate after just four minutes when Jose Mari
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        Hope Classic's lead shared
        79 43 LA QUINTA, California Jay Haas and Brandel Chamblee both hit nine-under-par 63s yesterday to share the first-round lead at the Bob Hope Classic being played on four different courses in the Californian desert. World number two Phil Mickelson and Jerry Kelly, who won last week's Sony
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        Southampton out of FA Cup
        75 43 LONDON Premier league side Southampton was dumped out of the FA Cup by Rotherham yesterday as the first division club pulled off a shock 2-1 home third round win. A great diving header by Richard Barker and a breakaway by John Mullin had Rotherham 2-0
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        Wizards routed
        63 43 EAST RUTHERFORD NBA legend Michael Jordan suffered the worst defeat of his career as the New Jersey Nets handed a 111-67 beating to the Washington Wizards yesterday. It was Jordan's first appearance in New Jersey since coming out of retirement and a crowd of 20,049 turned out The
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      Let's learn from the mistakes
      645 45  -  S. Gulam Comment by gulam@newstoday.com.sg THE favourite phrase in the SLeague today is: Let's move on. Well, why not? The last thing Singapore football needs today is prolonged controversy. But when a Cup final produces an 8-0 scoreline, and the losing side is the country's
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      Lock icon The old Robin just needed to perch
      387 45  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg WHEN 58-year-old Robin Chan failed to turn up for the afternoon session on the first day of the AFC "A" Licence coaching course, many assumed that the man had given up. But yesterday, the former national coach made his
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      Opening bogey doesn't slow Lam
      329 45  -  Kelvin Phang DESPITE running into trouble with his opening tee shot, Singapore's Lam Chih Bing recovered well to share the lead with Myanmar's Kyi Hla Han in yesterday's Accenture Champion of Champions tournament. The 25-year-old shot a two-under 70 at the Laguna National yesterday for
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      Taufik in Singapore to sign contract
      143 45  -  Stanley Ho MINUTES after Indonesian shuttler Taufik Hidayat arrived yesterday in Singapore, he announced that he was in town to sign a contract with the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA). When asked whether his transfer wrangle between the SBA and the Indonesian Badminton Federation had
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      Club's COE woes
      685 46  -  Jose Raymond After two years, problems still plague programme by jose@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a key component in Singapore's quest for World Cup qualification in 2010. But after two years in existence, the Football Association of Singapore's Centre of Excellence (COE) programme is still plagued with many difficulties.
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      Lock icon FAS: Patience please
      371 46 IN response to queries by Today, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has defended the programme despite the persistent niggling problems. It also said that it is confident that the situation will improve. Explained Goal 2010 project director and national coach Jan Poulsen (picture): "The FAS will
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon Arsenal defiant
        536 47 Agencies The Patrick Vieira saga But Real will get Vieira if it wants him, warns agent LONDON Patrick Vieira is committed to Arsenal despite speculation linking the France international with a move to Real Madrid, the club's manager Arsene Wenger said yesterday. "It is important to know when
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        Zola offered coaching role
        224 47 LONDON Claudio Ranieri has promised Gianfranco Zola a future coaching role at Stamford Bridge. Zola, 35, has 18 months left on his contract at Chelsea after being persuaded to sign an extension last season when he had appeared to be on the verge of returning to
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        Lock icon Shearer tipped to return
        92 47 Reuters LONDON Bookmakers have been forced to slash the odds on striker Alan Shearer returning to the England line-up for its World Cup opener against Sweden from 25-1 to 8-1. Punters rushed to stake a string of bets of up to £40 ($105.45) a time on
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