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  • 14 1 TODAY T h U r S (1 2L\ February 7, 2002 MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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  • 520 1  -  Tan Hui Leng Francis Kan Can FairPrice fend off latest rivals? by and IN its 30 years of existence, the supermarket with a heart has seen rivals, big and small, come and go. But today, NTUC FairPrice faces its biggest challenge yet, in the form of
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    • 26 1 FA Cup 4th round replay West Ham v Chelsea Can the Hammers wreck the Blues' FA Cup dream? Call after 6am today for the full-time result
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    • 50 1 i\ I HOWARD IN JAKARTA/3 Australian Prime Minister's $1 million gift to Indonesia CABBIES FIGHT BACK/2 as MRT goes to Changi Airport IN PRAISE OF CHINA WOMEN/6 Reader says some are better than local girls BID FOR GLOBAL CROSSING/10 A case of strange bedfellows? BADMINTON BLUES/42 Ban Taufik, says Indonesia
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    • 500 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim as MRT goes to Changi Airport by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg THE long-awaited MRT train service to Changi Airport begins tomorrow, with the first train leaving the airport at 5.31am. According to Singapore MRT, a single fare ticket will cost $1.40 from City Hall to the Changi
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    • 235 2  -  Elaine Quek THE woman who allegedly sent white powder in an envelope to an ex-col-league said she has not read a single newspaper or watched TV news in 15 years. Yong Yuet Mei, 42, took the stand yesterday and claimed that she
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    • 43 2 CASHCARDS were all some thieves had in mind yesterday. They smashed the windscreens of 10 cars parked at Block 114A, Geylang Lorong 3, and ran off with just cashcards. The police said that there was no report of other missing items.
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    • 101 2  -  ]ashen Randhawa A SENGKANG Primary School boy was killed in an accident involving a car in Ponggol Road on Tuesday afternoon. The impact threw Muhammad Suhaizan Omar, 12, into the air. He landed on a pedestrian who was walking along the centre road divider. The 38-year-old private school
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    • 62 2 NBA-type tournaments, pop concerts, large seminars and dinner shows are some of the events that can now be held at the Singapore Expo. Last night, it officially launched its latest tiered-seating and mobile staging system. PSA Singapore Expo pumped in $2 million to create the new features, which
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    • 123 3 Tudung: What Dr M's aide said KUALA LUMPUR The religious adviser to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said some quarters in Malaysia were provoking him to criticise the Singapore Government on the tudung issue. "Criticise what? Is there any element of religious degradation? Is it compulsory for a
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    • 326 3 Agencies Howard pledges aid, Amien softens stance JAKARTA An Asl-million ($930,000) flood relief aid and a softening in the tone of at least one of two key parliamentarians brought the smile on President Megawati Sukarnoputri's face yesterday. Both Canberra and Jakarta also pledged to forge warmer
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      61 3 SINGAPORE'S former President, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, has been discharged from hospital in time to celebrate the Chinese New Year at home. Mr Ong was admitted to the National University Hospital on his birthday two weeks ago. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1992. Sources say that
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    • 68 3 -AFP BEIJING From next month, local TV stations will broadcast a wanted list of corrupt Chinese officials on the run. Prosecutors are preparing a programme, called Ruling China by Law, which will inform the public about officials who have ended up on the "wanted" list, Xinhua said. To
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      391 4  -  Tan Hui Leng Elevator company recognised for work excellence by huileng@newstoday.com.sg IN Singapore, where virtually every building above four storeys has a lift, Otis has successfully shot to the top of the industry since its setup here in 1949. The company is one of the 20 model companies
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    • 137 4 VISITORS to the Singapore Polytechnic (SP) Courses and Careers Fair can see how ships are berthed and learn how to navigate them without getting wet through a virtual simulator. Tours to the simulator will take place at noon and 3pm today and tomorrow and at
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    • 125 4  -  Elaine Quek A TRADING company yesterday paid a high price for trying to evade tax. Bee Tack Enterprise was fined $2,000 and ordered to pay a penalty of about $125,300 a sum three times the amount it should have been taxed. Instead of reporting
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      170 4  -  Leong Phei Phei SCHOLARS don't have to work during school breaks to make money, as all their expenses are taken care of. But for Public Service Commission (PSC) scholar Sandra Ho (picture), the threemonth school break she had each year were spent trying her hand at different internships.
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    • 195 3 Is your lift safe? Most of us live and work in high rise buildings. To get in and out of them, we use the lift. On average, we use them over ten times everyday. Yet, few of us ever get caught in the lift. Why? That's because companies like Otis
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    • 126 6  -  Shankar Rajan AS Singapore revisits issues of race relations and integration, I want to share a very pleasant experience we had recently. Two friends of ours, my wife and I attended the Saraswathi Kindergarten fund-raising dinner organised by the kindergarten, which is managed by
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    • 474 6  -  Wang Yixing CHINA-BORN women have been getting a lot of flak over the past few years, mostly regarding their alleged opportunistic ways. They are accused of marrying local men for money and permanent residence. The press helped fuelled this perception by focusing on a few
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    • 427 8 System optimises use of scarce road space WE refer to Henry Tan's letter, "The Shanghai solution to CTE woes" (Today, Jan 25). The Central Expressway (CTE) is a major expressway connecting the north and north-east-ern sectors of Singapore to the city. To use vehicle registration
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    • 134 8  -  Narayana Narayana I REFER to the article "The slow horse?" (Today, Feb 1). One does not necessarily have to believe in fengshui or astrology to appreciate geomancer Tay Thong's honest views based on his knowledge of those arcane subjects. His predictions are based on formulae which
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 653 10  -  Chan Chao Peh STT teams up with Hutchison Whampoa to bid for Global Crossing by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg HONG KONG'S Li family businesses and Singapore Inc's stable of govern-ment-linked companies are not exactly the best of pals especially after Mr Richard Li, son of Mr Li Ka Shing, mobilised the
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    • 74 10 STARHUB has launched backhaul services, which lets other telecom operators link their networks between submarine cables and local switch centres. Previously, SingTel was the only seller of these services. Besides StarHub, three other firms are likely to launch a similar service within this quarter. "There will be an
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    • 102 12 -AFP PALO ALTO (California) Shareholders of Hewlett Packard (HP) will vote on whether to approve the company's plan to merge with Compaq Computer Corp on March 19. Compaq also confirmed that its shareholders will be able to vote on the deal on March 20. The merger,
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    • 50 12 -AFP DUBLIN Allied Irish Banks (AIB) said yesterday that it had discovered fraud involving about US$75O million ($1.37 billion) committed by a foreign exchange trader in a US subsidiary. The fraud could cut the bank's net profit by 596 million euros ($945.98 million), it said.
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    • 222 12 -AFP Biomed industry goal on track SINGAPORE'S nascent biomedical sciences industry is on track to double its output to $12 billion by 2005, according to Mr Philip Yeo, chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. He added that fixed-asset investments of around $900 million were expected
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    • 127 12  -  Chan Chao Peh ASIAN exporters are set for a recovery in four months' time as fresh orders come in from their main American customers to replenish their depleted inventories, says the investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). The new US orders for computers and electronic
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    • 86 12 Channel NewsAsia WITH a slowdown in air cargo traffic after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks and the anthrax mail scare, many expect global distribution companies to falter. However, the leading logistics and distribution firm, TNT Express Worldwide Singapore, managed to post 20 per cent growth last
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    • 1867 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Nome NAV/Bid Price Offer Prio iirdeen Asset Management (Asia) n een Se Singapore Dollar Fund 1.0014 1.0015 r< een Se American Opportunities 0.732 0.769 re een Se Asian Fixed Income 1.17 1.206 r( een Se Mal.qysian .Equity 1.215 1.277 n een Se Singapore
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    • Market Watch
      • 130 14 SHARES rose on bargain-hunting yesterday after a 3.3 per cent correction over the past three days. The market bucked the regional downtrend with the ST index adding 20.98 points to 1,748.61. There were about 1.7 gainers to every fall, while 310 counters were unchanged. Volume was 471 million shares
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      • 88 14 THE broader market continued to consolidate yesterday ahead of the three-day Chinese New Year break beginning next Monday. The benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index ended 5.1 points lower at 715.2, led by falls in selected index-linked heavyweights. However, gainers outpaced losers, 409 to 238. Another 202 issues closed unchanged.
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      • 27 14 Your S$1 buys US$ UK£ 0.5455 0.3856 Rupiah Baht 5618.7 23.970 Yen 72.912 Peso 27.933 HK$ 4.2545 A$ 1.0749 RM 2.0729 Rupee 26.560 Euro 0.6290 Won 718.22
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    • 597 16  -  Richard Seah SME 500 by SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) typically keep a low profile. Most are private limited companies, excused from the need to announce their financial results and corporate developments. They are also Asian, family owned and traditional in outlook, which usually means a darker shroud
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      322 17  -  Nadeson Pillai Taking wooden products to new level by DESPITE dropping out of school before taking his 0 Level examination, Roland Chew (picture) did not give up. He resumed his studies while working as a shipping clerk. "I did my 0 Levels at Lembaga (the equivalent of
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 395 19 Agencies His comments allay anger over Bush's 'axis of evil' address WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to soften the international rumbling against President George W Bush's controversial "axis of evil" comment in his first State of the Union address. Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations
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    • 101 19 KABUL An Arab prisoner who claims he was Osama bin Laden's cook says his former leader is now in Chechnya, the London Telegraph reported. Mohamad Akram, a Saudi, said Osama had first gone to Pakistan, then returned to Afghanistan before travelling to the rebel Russian province via Iran.
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    • 148 19 KARACHI After almost two weeks of intense investigations, a London-trained Islamic leader has emerged as a chief suspect behind the kidnapping of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Three men arrested in Pakistan had identified Sheikh Omar, leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammad extremist group, as the source of e-mail containing
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    • 313 20 Agencies Local elections victory may improve his credibility PHNOM PENH The sweet victory of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (picture) at the local elections has reinforced his position as the nation's undisputed leader, observers said. Opponents had hoped that the elections would break Mr Hun
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    • 158 20 -AFP HONG KONG New measures were introduced yesterday to curb the latest outbreak of the bird flu, after chicken sales plunged 80 per cent aheac of the Chinese New Year, Each batch of chickens will have to be checkec five days before being
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    • 126 20 AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has backed Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho who is implicated in the sale of government bonds. When asked about the fate of Mr Camacho, alleged to have taken part in a pre-bidding ahead o an auction of multi-million-dollar zero-coupon bonds, Mrs
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    • 204 21 Agencies BUENOS AIRES Chickens let loose by fanners protesting against the Argentine government ended up in the cooking pots of the unemployed this week. The farmers had decided to make a show of letting the chickens loose on the steps of
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    • 149 21 What the regional papers said yesterday The Jakarta Post/ Indonesia Aeon ntwwpyy connnond reinstated Disregarding protests, the military officially restored on Tuesday the Iskandar Muda Military Command in Aceh, appointing the current head of military operations, Brigadier-General Jai Yusuf, as its first commander. The Bangkok Post/ 'Thailand Two top officials
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    • 215 21  -  Hong Kong iMail. HONG KONG The employees of one of the two largest property agencies here are used to the threats uttered by those in the trade. However, they had a rude shock early on Tuesday when the glass doors and walls of 15 branches of Centaline
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    • 249 22 Agencies But Senate panel will press for answers from Lay WASHINGTON Former Enron chief executive officer Kenneth Lay is likely to play dumb when called to testify next week. A Senate panel has voted to summon Mr Lay to testify on his role in the biggest bankruptcy
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      52 22 Reuters photo The ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya was witness yesterday to an "engagement" ceremony of elephants at a conservation park north of Bangkok. The colourfully-dressed Nangtongte (left) and bride Jamruree will be married in a ceremony on Valentine's Day. Breeders hope to have them mate to conserve
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    • 154 22 Reuters LONDON The police have advised motorists here to lock their cars while driving after a series of murders and muggings on the streets of London were reported. "There's been an explosion in street crime," said the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens. "They are arrogant,
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    • 185 22 -AFP BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra should halt his weekly radio programme ahead of new local elections next month, according to an opinion poll. Some 38 per cent of the 1,325 Bangkok residents surveyed by the Rajabhat Suan Dusit Institute said the programme, Prime
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 722 24  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla by WILL Daniel Pearl ever be found alive or will he just be another grim statistic in the annals of investigative journalism? If the current stalemate in the search for his whereabouts is anything to go by, it looks increasingly like the latter
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      469 26  -  Elisa Chia by. elisa@newstoday.com.sg The worst seems to be over for the Fair Princess THE Fair Princess from China is starting to flash that megawatt smile of hers again, some four months after being caught in a political maelstrom. Vicki Zhao Wei (picture) appears to have survived the
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  • INFOTECH
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      • 67 28 PALM has showed developers a test version of a new operating system designed to make handhelds more powerful and secure, as well as better able to connect to wireless and corporate networks. Although the final version won't be ready to ship to developers until mid-year, Palm
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      • 30 28 SINGAPORE-BASED Webvisions has achieved ISO 9002 certification for its managed hosting services. The company provides colocation, Internet security, load balancing, disaster recovery, network monitoring and content management services.
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      • 15 28 THIS tutor for Windows is a comfortable way to learn the touch-typing system.
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      • 29 28 THIS creates personalised calendars primarily for family use. Intuitive dialogues and a wizard guide you through the process of creating and modifying event entries for your calendar.
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      • 35 28 THIS is a unique way of simulating Formula One motor racing. It features up to 50 teams ana 100 drivers, and stores historical Grand Prix statistics such as winners and lap records.
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      • 29 28 THE program is an Internet boosting utility that modifies a number of settings in the Microsoft TCP/IP stack to give you the fastest way to access the Internet.
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    • 504 28  -  Sol E Solomon Users can expect more than just a name change by solomon@newstoday.com.sg SOMETIMES having a company's name that is synonymous with a particular product type could be too much of a good thing. Facing such a problem was Acer Communications Multimedia, the part
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    • 218 28  -  John Lui by products@asia.cnet.com LATEST from the Satellite Pro 6000 range of notebooks from Toshiba is a new top-end model (picture) that improves on the older Satellite Pro 4600. Toshiba has incorporated a faster I.I3GHz Pentium 111-M into the machine. Over 200g in weight and
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      • 49 28 PROS: Larger I S-inch screen, yet thinner and lighter than its predecessor Good for optional Wireless LAN and Bluetooth capabilities Dual-boot gives choice of Windows XP orWindows 2000 CONS: Requires external floppy drive Video memory takes 16MB bite out of main memory PRICE: $4,699
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    • 156 28 AMD has launched what it claims to be the highest overall performing processor for notebook PCs the mobile AMD Athlon 4 processor 1500+. Joining the AMD Athlon XP and AMD Athlon MP chip line, this processor will be identified with model numbers, as opposed to
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    • 514 30  -  Elisa Chia 'Wild' couple on Caldecott Hill to become parents in the Year of the Horse by elisa@newstoday.com.sg ONE golden couple on Caldecott Hill would be looking forward to more than just the Year of Horse this festive season. A "Horse" baby is on the
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  • VALENTINE'S DAY
    • 412 32  -  Serena Sim by serena@newstoday.com.sg THINKING about Valentine's Day brings to mind that period in my life when I was blindly following Tom, Dick, Harry and Sally in lamenting the over-commercialism of significant dates. That was supposed to be a cool thing to do. To be
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    • 376 34  -  Serene Foo FILMING on location in Milan, Italy, must mean great shopping and sightseeing. Unfortunately for actor Richie Ren, his visit included having to strip, out in the open, as well. The Taiwanese star's latest Chinese New Year offering is Marry A Rich Man, a
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    • 431 35  -  David Ngiau THIS movie got Jack Neo star. You know Channel 8 Monday comedy night? Liang Po Po and Money No Enough? That one lak, that Jack. Okay, enough fooling around. I not stupid, you know. I R film critic. With Not Stupid, Jack Neo calls
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      26 35 I Not Stupid (Opens Saturday) You know what? I not stupid!" Jack (riehl. with egg on his face) laughs it up with Richard Low.
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    • 580 39  - Of snakes and dreams Low Shi Ping A heady mix of Chinese folklore and cult comics by shiping@newstoday.com.sg TAKE a step back in time to the ancient world of Madam White Snake. Then visit the Land of the Dreaming, where Lord Morpheus resides. Finally, slip back into the present where
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    • 201 39 MUSIC Time: 2.30pm to 3.30pm SCO Chinese New Year Concert Venue: The Wellness Sanctuary, The Singapore Chinese Orchestra presents fes- Suntec City Mall tive music to celebrate the coming of spring. Entry: $5 Date: Tomorrow and Saturday Enquiries: Call 338 7667 Time: Bpm Venue: Singapore Conference Hall subTEXT Reading Entry:
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  • SPORTS
    • 690 40  -  Leonard Thomas There was no way Sir Alex could leave behind something so divine Comment by leonard@newstoday.com.sg BIG developments always elicit a myriad of opinions and theories. In that regard, the tremor that came out of Old Trafford on Tuesday would have sent the Richter scale
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    • 660 40 IN PART two of the chat with former England and Manchester United captain Bryan Robson, LEONARD THOMAS gets personal with the man dubbed Captain Marvel. I remember it vividly, that summer night in Rotterdam in 1991. Majestic Barcelona had
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    • 425 41 Agencies YANGON Singapore's number one Mardan Mamat has gone "soft" in his search for the elusive first title on the Asian PGA Tour. It's not that he is no longer battle-hardened in his bold attempt for glory. He has switched to softer shafts on his
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    • 297 41  -  Kelvin Phang by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg WITH 18 holes remaining, a third of the 63-strong field still has a realistic chance of winning the Heineken Challenge today. Fast greens and strong winds made for difficult scoring conditions on the opening day of the 36-hole competition at Orchid Country
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    • 464 42  -  Kelvin Phang Badminton officials unhappy thatTaufik's status is still unclear by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg BAN Taufik Hidayat from all tournaments until the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) clears the air with us. That is the appeal that the Indonesian Badminton Federation (PBSI) is making to the International Badminton Federation.
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    • 447 42  -  Stanley Ho NTUC Income Challenge Cup Singapore v North Korea National Stadium, Bpm TONIGHT, in the Tiger Beer International Series match against Singapore, the players from North Korea will be under close scrutiny. That is because some members of the South Korean Football Association
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    • 266 43  -  Stanley Ho Asian Cup Winners Cup Home Utd 0 Chongqing Lifan 2 Protectors face uphill battle in second leg THE Protectors dream of a historic Asian Cup Winners Cup semi-final date was all but thrown out of the window after it lost 0-2 to
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    • 105 43 ZURICH Lengthy bans for doping imposed in Italy against Lazio's Dutch international defender Jaap Stam and Spanish international midfielder Josep Guardiola of Brescia will extend to international matches, Fifa said yesterday. The disciplinary committee of world football's governing body decided after a meeting on Tuesday to
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    • 270 43 Reuters LONDON The World Boxing Council (WBC) said that Lennox Lewis must face Mike Tyson before other opponents, it was reported yesterday. Following Tyson's failure to secure a licence to fight in Nevada, Lewis said that he would not
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    • 255 43 Reuters MELBOURNE Boeta Dippenaar hit 79 not out as South Africa scored 191 for two to beat New Zealand by eight wickets with 4.5 overs to spare in the first final of the one-day triangular series yesterday. Dippenaar shared an unbeaten 139-run
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