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  • 6 1 TODAY Thursday M.yso.itw. MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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  • 488 1  -  Joy Frances Developer's wife, daughter killed in his office by j oy@ne wstoday. co in. sg MR POH Teong Kang has been depicted in the press as a man in a hurry. From developing condominiums in Singapore to resorts in Malaysia to sinking his teeth
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  • 162 1  -  —Jose Raymond LAST year, in one of Singapore's greatest sporting achievements, Jesraine Ho stunned the bowling world when she was crowned the World Masters champion. Yesterday, she could only come in No 2 in the final. But the good news is that the World Masters
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 179 2 THE second woman to develop liver failure after taking Slim 10 is in critical condition now. It has become so bad that Ms Raja, 43, may not even be able to undergo a liver transplant. Said a National University Hospital (NUH) spokesperson: "Ms
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    • 424 2  -  Chung Lyn-Yi Web-based operator invites bids for air tickets, rooms by lynyi@newstoday.com.sg While other travel agents offer you transparency in terms of which hotel you will stay in or which airline you will fly Price line admits that you will only discover this when you are ready
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    • 308 2  -  Elaine Quek by elaine@newstoday.com.Sj; SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan and former CEO of fateha.com Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff are claiming trial to the charges brought against them in court yesterday. Both have pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a Labour Day rally,
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    • 137 2 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced yesterday that it would pro-rate the reduced road tax rates for renewals for the licensing period starting Sept 1 this year. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong had announced in his Budget
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    • 115 3 AFP NEW DELHI Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf has found a supporter in British Foreign Minister Jack Straw. Mr Straw said yesterday that he believed that General Musharraf was "genuine" in his commitment to crack down on terrorism. "I believe that General Musharraf is serious, but the
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    • 164 3 Reuters LONDON The next time someone asks you to give them five minutes of your time, you will be able to charge them. A British professor has developed a formula to help people find how much an hour of their time is worth. Professor
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    • 339 3 Agencies Indonesia's No 2 causes new stir JAKARTA Before the dust has settled over an earlier controversy, Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah Haz (picture) has jumped into a new one. He met religious cleric Abu Bakar Baashir, who has been linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah QI) terror network.
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    • 401 4  -  Tan Hui Leng See Page 10 by huileiig@newstoday.cora.sg INTERNATIONAL Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore) yesterday urged Singapore businessmen to consider western China as a region for niche investments. Echoing a proposal made by Chinese Vice-President Hu Jingtao during his visit here last month, Network China chairman Ng
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    • 93 4 SENTOSA will be transformed into a biker's haven when the Extreme Beach Carnival kicks off at Sunset Bay on Sunday. The event is part of the Great Singapore Picnic, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of the National Council of Social Services. Sentosa is hoping to attract
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    • 145 4  -  Leong Phet Phei ENGLISH-EDUCATED Chinese Singaporeans will again be the target of the Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC). The campaign will be brought forward this year from September to June to coincide with the annual World Book Fair. Singaporeans can expect a variety of activities this year,
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  • LETTERS
    • 206 6  -  Tan Hui Cheng HSA must not depend on declarations THIS letter is sparked off by the recent notoriety of Slim 10 and the article, "More tears and more questions" (Today, May 28). I am appalled, to put it mildly, that Chinese proprietary medicines and health supplements are not
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    • 81 6  -  Lint Boon Hee I AM intrigued by the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) assessment of the ez-link card (Today, May 22). The reason it has given for cards being "rejected" is that users are tapping their cards "too quickly or too slowly" or on the "wrong
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    • 304 6  -  Mohamad Roste Ahmad I HAVE enjoyed reading Ms Kathleen Kwan's probing musings on the pet peeves of ordinary Singaporeans. She has exhorted our senior citizens to emulate their American counterparts and she has questioned if it is really that costly to raise children. She has
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • Market Watch
      • 150 8 THE STI yesterday closed 24.21 points lower at 1,684.42 on a combination of forced selling and margin-selling. For every stock that rose, about five fell while 278 counters were unchanged. Volume was 341 million shares valued at $330 million, Singapore stocks followed a domino effect, tumbling one after another
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      • 5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 58 8 By volume May 29 AsiaMed UniFood TlraiVillag ST Engg ML lull '000 25,010 15,100 9,717 9,021 B,257 Want WctitUSS WesTech Penlon Unisled NWTeth 'OOO 7,325 6,803 5,759 5,581 5,524 By value May 29 OCBC DBS SPH Venture SIA 36,495,828 22,275,640 19,421,460 18,975,740 18,713,600 ST Engg Chartered UniFood
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      • 55 8 Index Valve Change Pis Nikkei 225 *****.00 -83.08 -.70 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries faiwon Wtd *****.66 3333.20 5623.23 -150.92 -2.80 ■46.30 -1.30 -.08 ■82 Korea Comp SET Index ::i!;m-n Cornp 835.19 409.11 520.69 -13.61 +6.07 +7.11 -1.60 +1.51 +1.38 ffifc Comp ihenzen B Wumbai 1323.42 207.55 3160.24 -1.70
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      • 37 8 US$ 0.5581 UK£ 0.3820 Yen 69.432 HK$ 1.3531 RM 2.1208 Euro 0.599 Rupioh -4935.7 Boht 23.711 Peso 27.933 A$ 0.9885 Indian Rs 27 336 Won 688.82 C$ 0.854 Y™ 4.6195 NZ$ 1,1672 mi 19.107
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      • 20 8 Golduw.i 325.500 Silver usj/ e 4.882 Platinum tiss/m 515.000 Rubber ™is/kg 129.25 Palmoii flu/nnns 1378 Brenl crude uss/tmrd 25.07
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      • 73 8 Way 29 Id Prime200US$ lll(|l'SCIl Close Change 5.100 +0.180 1.110 +0.060 4.880 +0.060 m 7.100 +0.050 tobinson iTEngg ilA Engg tepublk 5.700 +0.050 2.050 +0.040 2.280 +0.040 0.860 +0.035 'enton 0.130 +0.025 By percentage May 29 El-Nels Perrtan Close Change 0.025 +25.000 0.130 +23.810 HI 0.035 +16.667
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      • 78 8 Bloomberg May 29 Close Changi IrenlimSO 18.200 -0.501 ilA 13.100 -0.501 Venture 15.600 -0.401 UAZGO 13.200 -0.401 JOB 14.300 -0.201 ;HY!)EV 6.300 -0.201 iPH 100 21.300 -O.20I iPH 21.400 -0.201 JCBC 12.600 -0.201 IBS BkiKNCPS *****.700 -0.201 Sy percentage May 29 Close Chongi Si>mrestsW*****5 0.010 -33.33: teed
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    • 215 8 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has reported its fifth consecutive year of losses. It reported a full-year loss of RM835.6 million ($393.75 million), compared with a loss of RM417.4 million a year ago. "The numbers look better as these are all accounting writebacks. There
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    • 187 10  -  Chan Chao Pek MULTI-MEDIA messaging services (MMS) will start to appear in the second half of this year, an industry executive said. Although the early adopters is likely to be business users, the consumer market is expected to generate the volume, said Mr Paul-Henri Ferrand,
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    • 240 10  -  Val Chua S'pore plays incubator to China firms by va l@n ewsto d ay. c n ra. sg SINGAPORE will help and nurture Chinese high-tech start-ups by providing access to 6,000 multinational companies (MNCs) and venture capitalist (VC) funds. Mr Teo Ming Kian, chairman of the Economic Development
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    • 897 12  -  Mano Sabnani COMMENTARY Recent data should put to rest worries about Singapore's future by mano@news today.com.sg YOU know how Singaporeans tend to bury their heads in the sand and avoid looking up when they fear bad news. It happened in the last major recession in the mid-80s.
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    • 250 16  -  Richard Seak The Ascott to use London base for entry into Europe THE Ascott Group, one of Singapore's leading operators of serviced apartments, continues to establish its brand name in the United Kingdom by announcing a major re-branding exercise for 680 of its apartments there. Ascott also revealed
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    • 113 16 THE 24-unit Kim Keat Gardens off Balestier Road will be launched for sale this Saturday. The 99-year leasehold project comprises 22 apartments of three plus one bedrooms of slightly over 1,300 square feet and two penthouses with roof garden averaging 2,400 square feet. Net prices start
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  • E-LIFE NEWS
    • 505 14  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim NTUC Income gives home-owners a one-stop solution to their household problems HE may have had a bad experience with dodgy contractors only once, but he remembers it forever. When Mr Tan Lye Soon wanted chemical cleaning services for his air-conditioner at home, he thought a
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 313 18 Transport Minister latest to fall from series of scandals LONDON Scandals cost the job of a third key minister in Prime Minister Tony Blair's government on Tuesday with the resignation of Transport Minister Stephen Byers (picture). The others were Mr Peter Mandelson, who quit twice in
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    • 233 18 Agencies WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation is all set for a makeover. From a mission that was set up to solve domestic crimes, such as bank robbery, it is now planning to focus on fighting terrorism, the New York Times reported yesterday.
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    • 133 18 AFP COLOGNE Former tennis star Steffi Graf has won a legal battle against Microsoft for fake nude photos of her that were posted on its Internet service by users. A German court upheld a previous ruling made in December that photo montages of nude
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    • 152 18 Reuters BANGKOK In the first significant move since her release from house arrest, Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to start an opposition newspaper in the military-run country. The 56-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, recently released from 19 months of house arrest, said
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1040 20  -  Sunny Goh as the IDA-SingTel case so aptly illustrates FIRST, it was a Hong Kong businessman who popped the question. Then, a similar query was raised by a Chinese official, albeit in a more diplomatic manner. By the time I left the function, which was an opening
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    • 167 20 pptf ;k5»*A HI fcsl be Raffles International is proud to present 2 exceptional hotels and a world of rejuvenation, dining ami entertainment at Raffles City; Swlssotel The Stamford being Southeast Asia's tallest hotel; Raffles The Plaza, the epitouw ofmodcrn contemporary elegance; Equinox being Singapore's latest dining and entertainment complex; Antrita
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    • 65 20 Discover how to Refresh Your Life over a Cup of Coffee! I Date i 2 Jiin 2002 (Sunday) Time 9.30am 11.15am (English Service) 1130am lpm (with Mandarin interpretation via he;ul\ets) Venae I I'an Pacific Hotel, Level 2, Ocean 3 Pastor i Rev. Or John I. i m Online Sermon: www.thelivingfailh.org
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  • UPFRONT
    • 505 22 -AFP An Afghan and a fighter that's how Dr Massouda Jalal sees herself KABUL Afghan doctor Massouda Jalal (picture) is one of few women chosen to sit on the Loya Jirga, the traditional assembly that will select a new government, and she is ecstatic about it. "To
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    • 295 22  -  Serene Foo by s ere ne@ne wstoday. c o m.sg MONOLOGUES written by women about women and brought to life on stage by an actress will, no doubt, involve some feminist spins. But here's the twist: FruitPlays, about the female psyche in situations of abuse, is helmed
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  • HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
    • 689 23  -  NiaySKTeo Exercise is a must if you intend to keep fit Exercising is vital to keeping fit, and is one of the keys to good health. Regular exercise helps to prevent heart disease and strengthens the heart and the lungs. Why exercise? have shown that exer3cise, if
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  • INFOTECH
    • 352 24  -  Eamon Hickey This camcorder/ with a 22X zoom lens, gives good image quality Product Reviews a$ ro. cnel. com/reviews by CANON'S MV55Oi MiniDV camcorder (picture) shoots high-quality videos with little fuss and comes with some unexpected extras, including a wide-range 22X zoom lens and Canon's Advanced Accessory
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    • Downloads
      • 38 24 Short for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator, Mame lets you relive the golden age of the video arcade on your PC. Available demo evaluation downloads include Crystal Castles, Burger Time, Joust, Xevious, Donkey Kong, Tempest and Space invaders.
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      • 32 24 This bookmark manager helps you find, organise and access any data you choose. The programme includes a bookmark manager, an FTP client, a file launcher and a userdefined meta search engine.
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      • 31 24 This can record any sound that your sound card plays without losing quality and convert it to MP3. Use hot key "ctrl+alt+f" to start recording and "ctrl+alt+h" to end.
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      • 21 24 This is a set of low- and highlevel data and audio CD management utilities integrated into a common intuitive shell.
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    • 183 25 Raffles Marina goes wireless IN keeping with its reputation as a trendy spot for sailing, entertaining and dining, Raffles Marina is also a "high-tech hot spot" for Internet users, following the installation of a wireless local area network (LAN). Club members, visitors berthed in the marina and business
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    • 218 25  -  Sarah Chua HAVb you ever felt that it s a chore to catalogue your dig ital photos and e-mail them to your friends or print them? Kodak has introduced a digital camera to help you with these problems. The Kodak EasyShare CX4230 digital camera comes with
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    • 206 25 A Clie for all reasons SONY Singapore has unveiled its Clie PEG-NR7OV/G PDA (picture) that features the industry's first high-resolu-tion, full-colour rotating LCD screen with a built-in digital camera and MP3/ATRAC3 audio player. It packs a host of new perform ance features in a stylish magnesium exterior. The first handheld
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    • 131 26 WHAT better way to lounge around in style during the summer season than to slip into a pair of comfortable denims? These days, the challenge is to own the most unique piece of denim you can find, which shouldn't be too hard, with designers getting more creative
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    • 273 28 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD A two-hour TV movie dramatising the story of American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh is in the early stages of development at the cable channel FX. The film's tentative title is American Taliban. As the Lindh case is still unfolding, the exact plot of
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    • 500 28 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES Hollywood's summer movie season is off to a record start, fuelled by the Star Wars-Spider-Man duel as well as three strong top 10 debuts. North American ticket sales for the Friday-to-Monday Memorial Day weekend totalled US$2OO.l million ($341 million), the biggest gross of
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    • 488 30 Reuters Original Darth Vader, Dave Prowse, wants in on Episode 111 LONDON Darth Vader is itching to get back into battle with his lightsaber but he has to convince Star Wars creator George Lucas first. British strongman Dave Prowse, who epitomised the "dark side" as Darth
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    • 225 30 APPARENTLY, George Lucas' reinventing Star Wars isn't going to stop with the new prequel trilogy. According to Ain t It Cool News, Lucas is working on inserting Natalie Portman into The Return ofthejedi, otherwise known as Episode VI. Presumably, Portman's Amidala character will
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    • 173 32 BRITNEY Spears has a cameo role in the latest Austin Powers film as a Femme Bot and will use her breasts to fight off Mike Myer's goofy superspy. According to a source who has seen the script, Powers wanders on to the set of
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    • 238 32 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES While Hollywood focuses on the record US$2O6 million ($351 million) weekend at movie box offices led by Star Wars and Spider-Man, another blockbuster may magically soar past them after its sales are totalled. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, last year's hit with
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    • 115 32 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES It looks like Lance Bass of boy band 'N Sync has the right stuff at least as far as the Russian space agency is concerned. Bass has qualified for a seat aboard a rocket flight to the Internationa] Space Station. He is
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      556 33  -  Gillian Wong Hong Kong's dragon lady and local star comedian become pals filming Channel s's new comedy by ollian@ne wstoday. co m. sg EXPECT sparks to fly when Hong Kong's dragon lady, Carol Cheng, meets drag queen extraordinaire Kumar on MediaCorp TV Channel s's latest comedy Oh Carol!.
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    • 182 33  -  -Low Shi Ping A DELIGHTFUL babe, a love Xistory and more music these are among some of the new offerings on television next month. Come June 16, a new interactive music programme called i2u will begin on SPH MediaWorks' Channel i. The channel will also offer
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    • 141 33  -  Elisa Chia /CELEBRITY footballer Lim Hai, ex-badminton world champ Zhao Jianhua and MediaCorp News presenter Tung Soo Hwa (picture) kicked off a 15-day charity drive organised by MediaCorp Capital Radio 95.8FM on Tuesday. Deejays from the Mandarin station will be going round the island to request
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    • 1706 34 The Economic Review True Files channel 5, 10pm Miss Universe 2002, Live channel s, 9am Layar Kemarau Kasih Thursday Midnight Movie Committee's Proposal, Live a housewife and two young How will our own I^*V Sl™ 3^m ornot'o Chu-chiang Channel NevMsia, Ham children were stabbed to Nuraliza Osman fare in i
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    • 468 35 But tennis' pin-up girl Kournikova crashes out in the first round PARIS A colourful Serena Williams (picture) eased into the second round of the French Open yesterday with a straight sets win over Slovak Martina Sucha, as Russian beauty Anna Kournikova crashed at the first hurdle. The
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    • 338 35 Reuters MELBOURNE Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action will continue to create controversy with cricket fans, Australia's Shane Warne said yesterday. "The fact with Muralitharan -1 think his action will always create speculation with people, just the Joe Public saying, 'Does
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    • 202 35 Reuters MADRID Real Madrid's Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos has confirmed speculation that he is on the target list of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, but insisted that he was not planning to leave the European Champion. "The interest from Manchester United is not new,"
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    • 132 35 Match I Match 2 Jurong v Balestier Jurong East Stadium 30 May 7.30pm Geylang v Tanjong Pagar Bed ok Stadium 30 May 7.30pm 1X2 1X2 (1] Jurong $1.38 (X) Draw $4.50 (2] Balestier $5.50 (1) Geylang $1.32 (X) Draw $4.70 (2) T Pagar $6.30 1/2
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      53 36 Contemplating the possible end of their championship reign, Laker stars (from left) Mark Madsen, Mitch Richmond, Shaquille O'Neal and Devean George watch the final moments of the Sacramento Kings' 92-91 victory, during Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference finals. The win gave the Kings a 3-2 lead.
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    • 391 36 AFP SACRAMENTO Mike Bibby had 23 points, including 17 in the second half, to spark the Sacramento Kings past the Los Angeles Lakers 92-91 yesterday and put the two-time defending National Basketball Association champion on the brink of being eliminated from the playoffs. Los Angeles hosts Game
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    • 370 37 AFP Veteran midfielder will replace the injured Zidane SEOUL Youri Djorkaeff (picture) is expected to stand in for the injured Zinedine Zidane in France's World Cup curtain-raiser against Senegal tomorrow, but he believes the Real Madrid star is irreplaceable. Djorkaeff was part of France's World Cup-winning
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    • 324 37 AFP TOKYO England captain David Beckham has become the latest obsession for Japanese women as local media coverage on the Manchester United midfielder with movie star looks soared ahead of the World Cup. "I have never seen such a beautiful face," said 17-year-old student Yoko Hatada.
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    • 227 37 MORE than 144 golfers from the local business community got together at Raffles Country Club for the Prime Minister's Friendly Golf Tournament Challenge Trophy 2002 yesterday. Organised by the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce Industry (SMCCI), this year's event took on the theme
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    • 240 37 If s fun, if s free and it won't cost you your reputation. Here, some marketing men engage in the predictions game. think that England will beat South Africa by a convincing 7-0 in the World Cup final, Michael Owen will score one try and David Beckham
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    • 869 38  -  Jose Raymond Fifa presidential elections Though accused of corruption i he still routs Hayatou SEOUL Fifa president Sepp Blatter (picture, left) swept to an amazing election victory and a second, four-year term yesterday, despite a damaging campaign that exposed deep rifts within world soccer's
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    • 359 38 Reuters SEOUL Lennart Johansson, one of the most experienced leaders in world soccer, said he was prepared to resign yesterday as the Shockwaves from Sepp Blatter's convincing victory in the bitterest Fifa presidential election campaign in history started
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    • 721 39  -  |S. Murali A dark horse should emerge to challenge the established world order by niurali@newstoday. coin, sg UNTIL France gatecrashed the proceedings in 1998, the World Cup used to be one of those exclusive little celebrity parties that only the select few get invitations to. Think
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