Today, 20 February 2002

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  • 548 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Telco learns from the school of hard knocks by cln<) peh@newstoday.com.sg AS phone companies go, it is harder to find one that's more in-your-face than the one that screams: "Push me out, put me in, turn me on!" And one that is owned by
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 31 1 HIM'A Ait kind" dampcncr f'c.je 2 instance Sin and Tan t hong Kee on S'porc's race i i Pci o I 8 Why Rofcii Brijaarh watch tlu- Afi movie Page 28
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 398 2  -  Francis Kan As OCBC and KeppelTatLee Bank merge, what happens to account numbers, cards? by francis@newstoday.com.sg COME Monday, the familiar green and white signages of Keppel TatLee Bank (KTB) branches will be a thing of the past. On that day, KTB and its parent OCBC Bank
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    • 348 2  -  Jose Raymond I by j ose@newstoday.com. sg THE furniture had been moved out of the living room. The art pieces had been hung on the walls of the three-room HDB flat in Empress Road. Inquiries began flowing in after this newspaper reported that artist Benjamin
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    • 192 2  -  Tan Hut Leng THIS is truly one moment in time. It is the one day to observe the perfect alignment of date and time. It is when 2002 2002 2002 (2002 hours, February 2, 2002) takes place. To mark this day, there
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    • 86 3 BANGKOK Singapore will work with Thailand to set up a national real estate information centre for Thailand, according to news agency reports. It is one project under the Singapore Thailand Enhanced Economic Relations (Steer) which was announced by Prime Minister Goh
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    • 104 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Indonesia and Malaysia embarked on wide-ranging talks yesterday but it appeared that both sides had different priorities. Jakarta's main concern was Kuala Lumpur's decision to reduce the number of Indonesian workers in Malaysia due to the recent riots. Malaysia was asked to reconsider the decision
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    • 194 3 Agencies JAKARTA The fight against terrorism will see a top Indonesian detective visiting Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. National Police General Da'i Bachtiar said Inspector-General Engkesmen Hilep, head of the National Police Detective unit, would leave today to "follow through the findings of these countries",
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    • 232 3 -AFP MANILA A decision not to release video footage of Muslim gunmen beheading captured Filipino soldiers is now being reversed. The gory video was taken by the Abu Sayyaf rebels and was found by troops who raided their jungle hideouts, Press Undersecretary Roberto Capco said.
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    • 355 3 He ran the airline and it gave contracts to a company that he allegedly controlled CONTRACTS given out to a German firm to develop two cargo hubs for Malaysia Airlines (MAS) are the subject of a police probe against the former boss of the airline, Tan Sri
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    • 170 4  -  Leong Phei Phei DESPITE being the most common cancer across genders, many Singaporeans still have a poor understanding of colorectal cancer. In a survey conducted by Professor Francis Seow-Choen, head of department of colorectal surgery at Singapore General Hospital, a significant proportion did not know
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    • 427 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim 30 years on, and aiming for racial unity by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg SINCE the introduction of national mainstream schools some 30 years ago, promoting racial integration has been the de rigueur for schools here. But in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks in
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    • 166 4 FORMER Fateha chief Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff has asked Malaysian lawyer Karpal Singh to fight for the parents of two Muslim girls who want them to wear the tudung to school. Newsradio 93.8 yesterday reported that one of the parents has been identified as Mr
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 88 6 Channel NewsAsia THE head of Malaysia's Puteri Umno, the women's wing of the country's ruling party, called on Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the Istana yesterday. Ms Azalina Othman is here on a four-day visit under the Singapore International Foundation's Friends of Singapore
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    • 374 6  -  Joy Frances Landlord, tenant in dispute K joyC'/'ruw i i'.com.sg DISPtJTKS between landlords and tt-nants are common but in a scenario that you might find inconceivable in Singapore some tenants of a Woodland- ffiW flat found their water and power -■•apply turned off abruptly. They were forced to
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    • 117 6 Channel NV.'-oAsia A C lIURCH in Tampines lost more than $100,000 when burglars broke into the premises on 'Vi'.mday nun uing. Police ray a worker at Lighthouse Evangelism church al i impines Street 82 was awakened when she heard uoises fxsta the kitchen at about
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    • 309 6  -  Elaine Quek EDWARD Goh had just finished his game of tennis at Safra when he was scouted as the lead for this year's Total Defence television commercial. And the two-day expericn' <- has taught him a couple of things about Total Defence. In the Ministry
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  • LETTERS
    • 514 8  -  Goh Ham Leng Florence and I want him in school but will a principal give him a chance? I HAVE an autistic son of pre-school age. I am looking for a primary school which is willing to pt' ai. De iprite the (Government's frequent statements
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    • 201 9  -  Lim Boon Hee I BELIEVE that Malaysia is setting a dangerous precedent by asserting that just because the tudung issue concerns Islam, the "Malaysian government could not stop people from voicing their opinions" on the issue and how the Singapore Government deals with
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    • 278 9  -  See Leong Kit Three groups who can make the difference I AM 54 and I hope my two cents worth of advice on the remaking of Singapore will help shape a better future for the next generation of Singaporeans. Mr Ravi Veloo should be commended for
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    • 156 9  -  Han Boon Kiat I DISAGREE with Mr Yeo Kok Seng's comments in his letter, "Scholars and their cages" (Today, Feb 18). There are just as many entrepreneurs who had excellent grades in school, but who cut short their academic quest to pursue their vision. Just
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 244 10 -AFP Moody's cuts ratings for Japan's top brokerage houses TOKYO Moody's Investors Service has cut ratings or downgraded the outlook on Japan's "Big Three" brokerage houses, due to concerns over the country's stock markets. The brokerage business was vulnerable "given the current Japanese capital and financial markets,
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    • 116 10 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's ports are expected to handle 33 per cent more containers this year than the previous year, helped by new customers and its growing transshipment volume, said Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik. "Our transshipment volume for January was at a record
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    • 136 10 -AFP TOKYO Consumer electronics giant Sony expects group operating profit for the year to March 2003 to reach 270 billion yen ($3.7 billion), more than double its fiscal 2001 forecast of 130 billion yen. "The rise is attributed to a sharp decline in operating costs
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    • 235 12 Bloomberg HONG KONG The computer distributor and systems integrator, Vanda Systems and Communications Holdings, is selling bonds convertible into 20 per cent of its shares to a unit of DBS Group Holdings. DBS Nominees, which holds shares for clients, will buy
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    • 118 12 Bloomberg FIRST Engineering, whose share price has more than doubled in the past year, is open to being bought out or forming a joint venture to expand globally and better serve customers such as Hewlett-Packard. "We have always had partners talking to us," said Mr J
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    • 283 13 AFP Traditional silk jackets, thanks to Apec SHANGHAI A Chinawide craze for traditional silk jackets sparked by world leaders wearing them at a summit in Shanghai has pulled a number of silk factories from the verge of bankruptcy. The trend began after the leaders, including Chinese
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    • 165 13 THk Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will provide technical a tsj .tauce to the Government Housing Bank of Thailand (GHB). I'or ayt n tarting May 2002, URA, under a Memorandum of Understanding (MolH sifiiied yesterday, will advise on system development and staff training, as well
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    • Market Watch
      • 90 13 SrNGAPORE shares fell for the third day led by weakened hank prices after bellwether DBS posted resnlts that were worse than what some analysts had expected. The ST Index ended 18.01 points lower at 1742.73 as fund managers conlinued to shift funds out of Singapore and into neighbouring markets.
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      • 92 13 INVKST* 'RS chose to ignore the regional downtrend yesterday and focused on Counters that report positive corporate developments and those that announced financial rt suits overnight. The KL Composite Index increased by 8.6 points to close at 729.7, a shade below the day's high, on healthy volume with 378,668
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      • 30 13 Sl*da Vofinni ('ODD] JurTech 140,767 Ipco 62,663 inylrd 18,998 Ml 15,649 yawn 15. 795 Slodts V«hnae ('MO| WohShing U.H7B IPC 13,530 ECS 10,335 JnyuHldg 10,062 TCIL3kKKS V.MO
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      • 57 13 Slock! Vohis 1 ii n m*m *****6 "19 2« Hc^g Seng All Ordinaries IQH-10.49 il 162.32 118 0.. }Vv '.Vtd 5861.6 10/ u -I.;K:n i:q Comp 782.2/ -S.I 2 "I Index 379.19 544 1.45 Jakarta Coh-ij 46O.7fl 1.65 0.36 Phii Comp Sheinen 8 1469 07 JtUJB ,30.24 ■0.9
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      • 40 13 SyS Qmc RH« niYCLV 6.70 0.30 DBS 14.30 0.30 OCBC 13.10 ■0.30 UQ8 11.30 0.20 m 6.80 -0.20 iPH 100 21.40 -0.20 iW 2140 0.20 D3S8li6 HffSltt fDI./U 0.20 "iepCcr IMN 400USS •106 5.50 0 21? 0.10
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    • 2871 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) For enquiries, please contact David Reducka at 870 3128 Fund Name NAV/Bid Price Oiler Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) Aberdeen Se Singapore Dollar Fund 1.0016 1.0017 Aberdeen Se American Opportunities 0.729 0.766 Aberdeen Se-Asian Fixed Income 1.164 1.2 Aberdeen Se-China Opportunities Fund 0.952
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    • 133 14 MERRILL Lynch has been ranked the most-read brokerage firm worldwide during the fourth quarter last year and for the calendar year 2001. The readership rankings by Thomson Financial, which provides information and technology to the financial community worldwide, was based on readership statistics compiled by First Call Insight.
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    • 320 14 Bloomberg Analysts had forecast higher profits for SembCorp unit SOUTH-EAST Asia's biggest civil engineering group, SembCorp Logistics, said profits for last year rose 91 per cent as its partnership with Kuehne and Nagel International boosted revenue. Profits rose to $89.8 million from a restated
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 170 15 NEW YORK .)on"t believe everything the Pentagon says. At least that's what a report from Lhc New York Times is implying. 'he 'entagon has launched a multibillion dollar misinformation campaign designed to make people love America, l!u report said. The Office of Strategic Influence has
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    • 71 15 Agencies S G 'ORE ci nld be affected by haze in the next two months, the Ministry of the Environment and the Meteorological Service said yesterday. As the wind changes directioi after two we< ks, the smoke from forest and peat fires in Malaysia and the
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    • 332 15 TOKYO US President George W Bush could not stop heaping praise on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during his visit to Japan. For two consecutive days, Mr 1 -ush hailed Mr Koizumi as a "great reformer", expressing confidence in the latter's leadership at a time when Mr
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    • 246 17 Hong Kong downplays robbery HONG KONG To be in the thick of a robbery was certainly not part of the itinerary for a group of tourists from mainland China. The 13 members were in a watch and jewellery shop in the upmarket Pacific Pl.iza on a busy Monday
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    • 192 17 HONG KONG The election for the territory's new Chief Executive is slated for next month. But the incumbent, Mr Tung Chee-hwa, knows he has ah. idy won the contest. Mi Tung filed his nomination papers yesterday, saying thai almost every member of the select committee
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    • 71 17 -AFP BBIJING A Bill has been proposed to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SME§) to remain competitive following China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The China Daily reported that the Bill will set up a special fund to provide stable long-term financial support
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    • 168 17 What the regional papers said yesterday Thft Star/Mi fays/a All forms o# open burning Ivtmvod All rorms or open burning, except ror cremation and the burn lg oF any abides as part of religious rifts and >.-orsbip, he m been baimed Oi part )f sliicter mea.-;ure.s to overco;ne ILI e<
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 655 18  -  Constance Singam Tan Chong Kee As we mark Racial Harmony Day, here are points to ponder by and PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong is right in identifying racial harmony as his major concern. Singaporeans may want to reflect on what racial harmony means and what it takes
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    • 14 18 Tomorrow Singaporeans should be more self-reliant in their housing needs, says Ma no Sabnani
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  • UPFRONT
    • 619 19 Reuters The new generation of debutantes are walking down runways rather than aisles PARIS [)ebutantcs ain't what they used lu I Ono upon a time, the daughters of illustrious families waited for the day they were presented to society, launching their search for an ideal husband.
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    • 427 19 -Ratim WASHINGTON Men in the twilight years of their lives tend to be more ready to express thrir feelings than their spouses. A study in the latest issue of Communication Quarterly said older husbands became more emotional sometimes shedding tears —when discussing their relationships while
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    • 556 20  -  Amy Lim How financial planning can make it happen by ANYTIME is the right time to start learning about financial planning and investments. You don't have to wait till you reach a certain age, get the perfect job or have the right amount in your bank
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    • 173 20  -  Vasu Menon by SOUTH Korea and Singapore have done better than other North Asian bourses this year due to strong buying by fund managers. South Korea was up by nine per cent from Jan 2 to Feb 18 while Singapore gained 8.3 per
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 323 21  -  Serena Sim How Ng Hui ended up as Apple on Living With Lydio NG HUI (picture) bears little resemblance to Apple, the character she plays in Living With Lydia, a MediaCorp TV sitcom now showing on Channel 5. In reality, the 22-year-old student is a pretty and
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    • 86 21 A SPECIAL edition of Who Wants To Be A ixMillionaire? shown on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 last week proved to be a big hit with viewers. The first installment of the special on Feb 13, which featured local and overseas hosts as guests, attracted more than
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    • 113 21  -  -Janice Lee IT'S that time of year again when glitter and glamour takes the limelight in the celebrity quest to win a Grammy. The 44th Grammy Awards will be aired live and exclusively on Channel 5. As the recording industry's most prestigious award, the Grammy is presented
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 178 22 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES Bypassing two of the year's most Oscarnominated films, the American Society of Cinematographers gave its best feature film photography award to Roger Deakins for The Man Who Wasn't There. He has been nominated for the ASC's motion pictures award five previous
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    • 497 22  -  Elisa Chia with the laughs in this chortle-out-loud film FILM REVIEW Fat Choi Spirit (Opens Tomorrow) EVERYONE loves to fat choi (Cantonese for strike it rich) and this has never been more true than now, considering the bleak economic climate. From Hong Kong's movie land comes this
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    • 379 23 Reuters/Variety SYDNEY Will Smith, an Oscar nominee for his role as legendary heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, says he's delusional and it's got him where he is today. "There's a wonderful delusional quality I possess that allows me to attempt things that are really bad ideas,"
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    • 67 23 I 1 I I I I 0 (3) (1) (2) (4) (5) (6) (10) I Not Stupid (Mandarin) Kate Leopold Collateral Damage Marry a Rich Man (Mandarin) Chinese Odyssey 2 (Mandarin) Shallow Hal Affair of the Necklace R(A) Black Hawk Down NC-16 Amelie (French)— R(A)
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    • 251 23 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES Just days after actor Sylvester Stallone launched his US$l7.3 million ($29.49 million) lawsuit against his former business manager, claiming he was urged to hold onto Planet Hollywood stock while the company plummeted into bankruptcy, the counter-attack has begun. "I call him Stallone
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    • 210 23 -AFP LOS ANGELES Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has become the second-highest grossing film in history, its makers said on Monday. The film, which sparked a global social phenomenon after its released last November, has overtaken the record set in 1997 by
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    • 402 25  -  Janice Lee Of Mice and Men touches on job-hunting during the Great Depression by janice@newstoday.com.sg IN conjunction with the centenary of John Steinbeck's birth, Imaginarts celebrates with an adaptation of his classic Great Depression text, Of Mice and Men. In exploring the complex bond between two migrant
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    • 325 25  -  Sian E Jay by ARTIST Baet Yeok Kuan's sculptures for his latest solo exhibit, Dilation, represent the relationship between the individual and the environment. Living in the age of technological advances may not always bring advantages, Baet said. Sometimes, technology confuses the
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  • JOBBEAT
    • 605 26  -  Jeffrey Tan Be prepared, handle outbursts tactfully and call the cops only as a last resort INCIDENTS of violence at the workplace are rare in Singapore, compared to the US, where an estimate puts the number of victims of workplace violence at above two million
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    • 185 26 -Reuters SYDNEY You don't have to be white, male and mid-dle-aged to make it to senior management in Australia, but it helps. Though there are increasingly more women in the middle management ranks and in the workforce in general positions at the top
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    • 563 27  -  Razali Abdullah by razali@newstoday.com.sg Reds should forget Europe if it wants to win the title IT BEGAN with a smash-and-grab win at high-flying Manchester United. Next came a routine 1-0 defeat of lowly Leicester. Then, it turned on the style. Title challenger Leeds, its defence
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    • 122 27 SINGAPORE football fans can look forward to some great football nights as live Uefa Champions League soccer is about to return to free-to-air television. From now till mid-May, Channel 5 will screen a total of 16 Champions League clashes. With the tournament starring
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    • 242 27 Reuters Champions League Nantes v Man United Fergie confident of away win LONDON If there is one team in Europe grateful for the Champions League taking a 10 week break, it must be Manchester United. It was enduring a rough spell at home
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    • 532 29  -  Jose Raymond That's what companies are doing these days by jose@newstoday.com.sg A YEAR ago, Singapore sprinter U K Shyam had nothing. No sponsor and no money. His track aspirations dangled on a knife edge. But egged on by several close friends, he persevered. He trained hard on
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    • 181 29  -  Patwant Singh by patwant@mediacorpnews.com BRITISH golf legend Nick Faldo yesterday said that he wants to captain the European Ryder Cup team in 2004. The Englishman already holds the most number of appearances in the Ryder Cup, with 11 appearances to date. He is here
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    • 439 29  -  Kelvin Phang by: kelvin@newstoday.com.sg SOME golfers, like vintage wine, get better with age. And Nick Faldo (picture) could prove that at the US$9OO,OOO ($1.65 million) Caltex Singapore Masters, presented by Carlsberg. This was the view of Frenchman Jean Van De Velde,
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    • 558 30  -  Stanley Ho Yes I can, says Home's Jason Withe S-League Geylang v Home United Eagles seek revenge HE'S got a Uefa A licence coaching certificate. He used to play for West Bromwich Albion in the English League. And he has won the Thai
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