Today, 27 June 2002

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  • 7 1 TODAY Thursday June 27, 2002 MnA<p)W3/t 1/2001
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  • 87 1 Reuters 2:30 AM LATEST WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve policymakers decided yesterday to keep interest rates unchanged. The Fed announced that it voted unanimously to maintain the federal funds rate at 1.75 per cent. The more symbolic discount rate, charged to banks for loans directly from
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  • 707 1  -  Tan Hui Leng Chan Chao Peh Eyebrows raised as three top foreign execs leave THE local corporate scene saw something unusual this week: Three foreign high-fliers leaving top Singaporean companies in about as many days. And as all three companies are linked to Temasek Holdings, which is in
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 127 2 THE much-anticipated recommendations by the Economic Review Committee on how to fine-tune Singapore's Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme will be out in one or two months' time. This update was given by Minister of State for Manpower Dr Ng Eng Hen yesterday,
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    • 517 2  -  Francis Kan in amount of bogus profits declared JUbl when investors thought it was safe to trust big companies again, another once high-flier has sent shock waves through corporate America by admitting that it had cooked the books to the tune of almost US$4 billion ($7.2 billion).
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    • 60 3 A Muslim acttvtst destroying an umbrella advertising beer at a busy street in Jakarta yesterday to mark the United Nations international anti-drags day. He was among 200 members of the Front of the Defenders of Islam who raided bars and restaurants, smashing signs and slashing
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    • 153 3 No rush to divest —Ho Ching Channel News Asia MS HO CHING, the new executive director of Temasek Holdings, suggested yesterday that the state investment arm would not rush to divest its assets but will focus on improving them. This is despite a call from the Economic Review Committee to
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    • 326 3 Reuters Indonesia probes handling of Manulife case JAKARTA Indonesia's Ministry of Justice has taken three judges, who issued a bankruptcy ruling against an Indonesian unit of Canada's Manulife, off all cases while officials investigate the verdict. The ministry and the Jakarta High Court have launched investigations into allegations
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    • 210 4 Ms Raja's family waits THE family of Miss Selvarani Raja, who died after taking Slim 10, have not decided whether to sue those linked to the diet pill. Although they have sought legal advice, they are waiting for the coroner's report before deciding what they should do. The police said
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    • 495 4  -  Kim-Kyna Tan AS SINGAPORE gears up to be the Renaissance City for the arts, having the police "police" the arts may be seen as out of sync with the times. Come July 1, the police's Publication Entertainments Licensing Unit (Pelu) will hand over the function to the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

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  • HOME NEWS
    • 276 6 -AFP Latest restructuring exercise sees exit of 97 OCBC employees OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corp (OCBC) has laid off 97 of its staff in the wake of last year's takeover of Keppel Capital Holdings and its subsidiary, Keppel Tat Lee Bank. In an announcement, the bank said the latest retrenchments
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    • 110 6 GREENRIDGE Primary School student Lew Zi Jian (picture) wants to make Sing Tel bankrupt by folding as many red paper "hearts" as he can. As part of SingTel's three-month long Touching Lives Fund charity campaign, the telco will donate $1 for each folded "heart". The money goes
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    • 259 10  -  Joy Frances SINGAPOREANS will have one less occasion to join overnight queues for hot-ticket items. The National Day Parade organising committee will announce the venues of ticketing centres only on the day of distribution. So Singaporeans who want to
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    • 264 10 Channel News Asia THE North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) has given Singapore its stamp of approval for helping the agency to catalogue defence logistics. The Tier 2 Nation status was given to Singapore earlier this month. To keep the tanks rolling, planes flying and ships sailing,
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    • 297 6 A stamp in history v g Catch a glimpse of the first-ever joint stamps issued by Singapore Post and Pos Malaysia at the Stamp Exhibition and Fair. Featuring birds of the respective countries, the stamps feature the Singapore gj Asian Fairy Bluebird and Black-napped Oriole, along with the Malaysian Red-throated
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    • 272 8 Touch the lives of children in need. I Sing Tel Touching Lives Fund I ■yHLft' ip |P ■0:::' #M- j^ iH B&k fIL IMJ^ C J Oi-Thev could cum« from simjle-parentiimiilies B any of us. these children 1V: 'fif^H also huvß hcpe ami ilfHiiins l-iowiive £lj fnlti \W.\\ iipirations, they
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    • 106 9 1 Name: NRtC No.: Contact No.: Address:_ Give us your heart and we'll donate $1 to the Sing Tel Touching Lives Fund. h v r j i 1. Cot out the red squaFe. 3. Fold the red square 4. Foldihe bottom triangles to ttie 5. Create foldlines as indicated. b.
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  • LETTERS
    • 290 12  - Fear factor Narayana Narayana and public transport monopolies I REFER to the letters, "Let buses be" from Mr Gary Ec (Today, June 25) and "Shouldn't PTC be neutral?" from Mr Lim Boon Hee (Today, June 25). The replies given by officials, usually to defend some policy or action, have led
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    • 300 12  -  Fauzie bin Omar Altway I REFER to the numerous letters and articles in the press recently regarding the Nat Steel management buy-out. The Nat Steel Employees' Union {NEU) is the house union that represents Nat Steel employees. With a history dating
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 314 14 Bloomberg World Com adds to European mistrust of US-style accounting LONDON World Com Inc's disclosure that it misreported US$4 billion ($7.2 billion) in expenses has done more than stun investors. It has given ammunition to Europeans who say American-style accounting and disclosure aren't for them. The US regulatory
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    • 219 14 -AFP SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output, driven by a strong performance from the biomedical sciences sector, rose 17 per cent in May from a year earlier. But given the recent economic data and the weak output of the electronics sector, economists did not revise their outlook
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    • Market Watch
      • 140 14 THE STI plummeted 33.65 points to 1,532.15 yesterday, affected by the lower close of major indices in the United States after telephone company World Com admitted that it had overstated its earnings over the past five years. There were more than six losers for every gainer while 276 counters
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      • 52 14 Index Value Change Us Nikkei 225 *****.56 422.11 ao: Hong Seng 411 Ordinaries ":ik. i'.'.'kl *****.92 3129.70 Si 23.04 253.06 -47.20 ■193.00 2.3' -1.4! ■3.6; Karen Comp SET Index Jakarta Comp 701.87 381.21 503.50 -54.05 ■17.32 -13.46 ■7,i: ■4.3! ■2.61 Phils torap Shenzen 3 1164.49 242.29 -33.40 +1.54
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      • 36 14 IKE fen H :ih (upiah 0.3722 68.159 4.1250 2.1558 0.5729 4924.4 23.655 i e j'.' A$ Indian Bs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS .".I Jl M 0.9858 27.717 682.98 0.B573 4.6959 1.1412 19.070
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      • 15 14 iilver us$/ai 10.500 4832 Rubber ttnuAg Pdm oil iM/ioniK 14D6 17.300 Brent crude us$/b«n
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      • 5 14 Straits Times index 10-Day Chart
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      • 57 14 iy volume lure 26 iemhMnr 'm Cell I linglEi i:if:i |i ML '000 21,763 20,038 18,580 16,578 Qicrhi WesTwh Chorlered Doyen UIL ir:l '0O( 16,21 12,63! 11,661 9,8+ 9,35: ly value lune 26 3BS iemhMor JOB Jinrs-ic KEC 68,438,024 48,817,770 44,594,224 40,512,430 29,660,743 SingTel Venture SembCarp SPH
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      • 72 14 lune 26 Close Change HoPlaza 0.665 +0.180 By percentage June 76 HoGCenW*****2 Close Change 0.020+100.000 3BS8k6XNCPS101[l!.6O0 +0.1 M Ho Plozn 0.665 +37.113 io Royal 1.350 +0.050 Ji:nillj 0.660 +0.030 CnftP 0.165 +17.857 0.080 +14.286 1oGCen 0.475 +0.025 Perianno 0.180 +12.500 [an 0.165 +0.025 ™dJunc 0.570 +0020 iingFwd
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      • 80 14 Bloomberg lune 26 Close Change iPH 19.400 -0.900 By peranlage June 16 Close Change 3oimslsW02]OI5 0.005 50.000 iPHlOO 19,400 -0.BOO /erilure 13.500 -0.700 Armsrrong W04QS20 0.015 -50.000 CSCW*****7 0.015 -25.000 [renlive 50 15.100 -G.70O A[maWG***** 0.020 -20.000 3BS 12.300 -0.400 STIEIHOO 15.430 -0.390 Strike WO6O4O5 0.020 -20.000
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    • 489 17  -  Val Chua Citibank opts for worldwide network over local one TALKS between Citibank and Nets to provide a debit payment service using the local electronic payment company's network are "not moving", despite months of negotiations, said a top bank official. "We are still in dialogue. But there
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    • 280 18  -  Chan Chao Peh Singapore inks first such deal between an Asian country and EFTA SINGAPORE signed its fourth free trade agreement (FTA) this morning. This time, it is with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) a group of four European nations. The Government hopes that the deal
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    • 1957 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Colt BSZ 2973 6600 E-moil lipper.nHO@reuters.com :nd Ni :und Hwne NAV/Bid Offef Price M ico 14/6 A leriKriSe-Chino Opportunities Fa 1.047 1.1 IK JKssarf^ 6" ai is 1 14/6 SierdetnSs JoppriEqlY 0.951 1 -.1 -hi jr-'Ji.. 1:-.ii '.-I- 1.273 1.33? ililw 11 i I S«Lfj i
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    • 164 20 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Mr Tajudin Ramli has kept his position as executive chairman of Technology Resources Industries (TRI) despite losing his shares in the company after failing to pay debts, shareholders said yesterday. The former Malaysian corporate heavyweight was re-elected director of TRI, the country's second-largest
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    • 365 20 AFP Dollar strength depends on market: Bush KANANASKIS (Canada) US President George W Bush said that the US dollar's strength is at the mercy of the markets, adding to the greenback's woes as a fresh accounting scandal erupted. "My position is that the dollar will seek its level
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    • 45 20 Bloomberg UNITED Engineers Malaysia (UEM) will raise RM2.3 billion ($1.07 billion) by selling Plus Expressways shares. UEM will sell 630 million shares, a J P Morgan Chase Co source said. The shares will be traded on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange next month.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 436 22 Jan election may see new Palestinian leader JERUSALEM Mr Yasser Arafat will let Palestinians decide his fate as a senior official announced yesterday that presidential elections will be held between Jan 10 and 20. It may seem paradoxical for Mr Arafat, who never attached much importance to
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    • 140 22 -AFP MANDALAY (Myanmar) Pro-democra-cy leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday arrived here to a tumultuous welcome on her first political trip outside Yangon since she was released from house arrest last month. The cheering crowd of some 5,000 people packed the streets, climbed trees and
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    • 117 22 -AFP WASHINGTON Hong Kong has topped the list of the world's freest economies again, followed by Singapore and the United States, according to a study released yesterday. The sixth annual Economic Freedom of the World Report uses 37 criteria to produce the index. The criteria includes the
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    • 53 22 I was disap- JBk pointed with the intervention from the palace but I was not angry because knew the panel of judges were under political pressure. Tommy Suharto, who testified in his murder trial yesterday that farmer President Abdurrahman Wahid had interfered in the courts to overturn Tommy's previous acquittal
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    • 244 22 Agencies HONG KONG In a setback for pro-democracy activists, Chinese Vice-Premier Qian Qichen has said that Beijing is against any rapid change in Hong Kong's electoral system including full democratic elections. The South China Morning Post quoted him yesterday as saying that the current system, which produces
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    • 16 22 TOEFL TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEW COMMENCEMENT DATE 6 JULY 2002 X. J
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 954 24  -  Dharmendra Yadav Goals in sight, we have to find a strong reason to achieve them RECENTLY, I wrote to a newly-appointed Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) to congratulate her and to encourage her to make a difference for Singapore. She replied: "Thanks, will try to do
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    • 253 24 Agencies MADRID Despite warnings from Basque politicians and church leaders that it could backfire, Spain's Parliament yesterday passed a Bill banning Batasuna, a Basque separatist party. The government accuses Batasuna of being the political arm of the outlawed Basque nationalist group,
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  • UPFRONT
    • 512 26  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim A Chinese-American author predicts the collapse of China WHILE the increase in direct foreign investments to China 1 spells a boom, some people are thinking more in terms of doom and gloom. Mr Gordon Chang (illustration^ author of The Coming Collapse of China, belongs
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    • 195 26 -AFP PARIS American scientists have found an unlikely use for caffeine as an environmentallyfriendly pesticide to kill slugs and snails. Quite by chance, they found that a one-to-two per cent solution of caffeine killed slugs and snails, and a concentration as low as 0.01 per cent was
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    • 319 26  -  Janice Lee A WISE man once said: "When you drink, don't drive". And another mysterious wise man will put this into play for many this Saturday, making the streets of Singapore a safer place. As part of Guinness' new marketing campaign, 40
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous

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  • INTERIORS
    • 721 28  -  Collin Low How a 3Osomething created his dream home FANCY turning an old threeroom HDB flat into a home that is cosy and contemporary, on a small budget? That's the task Arik Soh had to undertake. The proud owner of a flat in Clementi, Arik is a swinging
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  • INFOTECH
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    • 261 30 War Craft fans can have an Ore-smashing time at this party DON'T fret when the World Cup ends this weekend because a party of another kind will take place on Tuesday. The War Craft 3 Midnight Celebration Party celebrates the launch of War Craft 3: Reign
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    • 208 30 MSN Singapore's sponsorship of the recent Singapore Arts Festival was the third year in a row that the online portal contributed to the annual event. As the official online sponsor, MSN Singapore has provided about $500,000 a year, totalling $1.5 million over the
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  • CITYSTYLE
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      343 31 Text Styling: Serena Sim Hair Makeup: Trimmers (The Adelphi) Clothes: l-vanity (International Building) Photography: Ernest Chua The Search for the Face of Today is a search for the person who best represents the woman of the new millennium. Witch this space every Thursday to get to know
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    • 219 31 Skincare Series BOTH are fruits which offer as many benefits to the skin when eaten as when applied externally. Most people know that cold cucumber slices, when placed over the eyes, help to relieve tiredness and puffiness. Take it from Cleopatra, the ancient Egyptian
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 393 32  -  JeffYeo A fair just for Singaporean wine-lovers COLD Storage wants to bring wine appreciation to the masses. And it plans to do this through offering value bargains on wines at its wine fair at the Centrepoint Atrium which is on until Sunday. "Good wines are meant to be
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    • 432 32  -  Janice Lee SOME people find piano recitals a bore, but this year's ÜBS Private Banking 9th Singapore International Piano Festival aims to prove otherwise. This year's festival will boast a premiere showcase of interna-tionally-acclaimed pianists playing in our concert halls. The programme with artists chosen
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 353 32  -  Yee Wei Zhen TWO celebrities, two languages and one crossover. Aaron Aziz from Suria and Vincent Ng from MediaCorp Channel 8 (picture) may never have developed their beautiful friendship if not for Channel s's latest series, Heartlanders. They play police officers and they hit it off
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 578 33  -  Reuters/Variety Ismail Merchant turns from Victorian England to Indians in Trinidad NEW YORK Like any storyteller, Ismail Merchant gets bored telling the same tales over and over. So for Mystic Masseur, Merchant's fifth film as director, now playing in the US, he dropped the stiff upper
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    • 452 34  -  Yong Shu Chiang FILM REVIEW Bend It Like Beckham (Now showing) EVERY young, aspiring footballer has a dream like this It's the night of the big game and the home team, down a goal with only seconds left, needs some inspiration. You go up for a header,
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    • 135 35  -  Reuters/Variefy HONG KONG Hollywood director John Woo plans to ask Nicolas Cage and Chow Yun Fatt to star in his next film, Land of Destiny. Woo said that Destiny, about Chinese and Irish railway workers in the US in the 19th century, will
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    • 176 35 THANKS to Mike Myer's spy spoof Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). The 81-cm-tall Troyer,who played Mini-Me, is now a regular guest of Playboy boss Hugh Hefner and has even modelled nude for the magazine, reports World Entertainment News Network. "I got my first invitation
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    • 643 37 It's one record of Nickiaus' that Tiger is not keeping pace with ATLANTA The comparisons keep flying, and they won't stop until Tiger Woods (picture) one day matches and then surpasses Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 professional major championships. Is there any doubt now that
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    • 406 37 -AFP LOS ANGELES You can add Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson's name to the list of those speaking out about the use of steroids by Major League Baseball players. Speaking to USA Today, Jackson went so far as to issue
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    • 333 38 Reuters LONDON Torn from his beloved Centre Court, seven-time winner Pete Sampras became the latest corpse on Wimbledon's graveyard of champions, falling in an epic fiveset second-round defeat yesterday to 145th-ranked Swiss George Bastl. The 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6, 6-4 defeat marks the earliest
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    • 530 38  -  Kelvin Phang A LATE injury could affect the chances of former World Masters champion Jesmine Ho, who left this morning with the rest of the Singapore team for the Asian FIQ championships in Hongkong. Said the 36-year-old spinner: "My hand has been hurting since
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    • 90 38 -AFP LONDON England captain Nasser Hussain will be hoping his side's domination over Sri Lanka will continue when the two sides contest a one-day international at Trent Bridge tomorrow. England completed a 2-0 Test series victory over Sri Lanka earlier this month and Hussain will hope to translate
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    • 77 38 LISBON Portugal coach Antonio Oliveira has been sacked, the country's football federation (FPF) announced on Tuesday in the wake of the team's first round exit from the World Cup. FPF president Gilberto Madail said a fax had been sent to Oliveira on Tuesday to tell him the news,
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    • 73 38 PARIS Ferrari and its two drivers, Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, were jointly fined US$l million ($1.76 million) yesterday by Formula One's world governing body, over the controversial finish to last month's Austrian Grand Prix, Schumacher, who was gifted the race after team-mate Barrichello was ordered to
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    • 69 38 APIA The three Tuilagi brothers who made Sainoan rugby history last week by appearing in the same Test side, were again picked on Tuesday for an upcoming Tour of South Africa. "The Tuilagi family can be very proud of their three sons Fereti, Henry and Alesana for
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    • 638 39 Reuters New book says Springboks' decline is due to racist policies JOHANNESBURG South African rugby administrators are accused of plotting to force whites out of the sport in a controversial new book by a group of disaffected Afrikaner rugby personalities. The seven contributors to 'Struggle Rugby, A
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    • 241 39 Reuters LONDON Leeds United manager David O'Leary has urged the club not to sell England defender Rio Ferdinand to English Premier League rival Manchester United. The 23-year-old Ferdinand has become the subject of feverish transfer speculation over the last week after an impressive
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    • 334 39 -AFP LONDON Seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe yesterday hit back at claims by former wife Tatum O'Neal that he took steroids during his comeback tennis career. O'Neal alleged in an interview with American network ABC's 20/20 news programme due to
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      606 40 Reuters Korea's rising stars now eyeing big leagues SEOUL South Korea's extraordinary run in the World Cup has showcased a team full of fresh, young talent to the top clubs in Europe. But one of its two current stars already in Europe Ahn Jung Hwan is refusing to
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    • 425 40 AFP SEOUL Ireland's Robbie Keane must be hailed as one of the greatest strikers in the 2002 World Cup for the Irishman has done what no one else in the tournament has managed put a goal past German captain and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn.
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    • 693 42  -  Rohit Brijnath THE South Korean placards read DREAMS DO COME TRUE and though they suggested what was to come in the semis, it encapsulated better what had happened so far. From world No. 40, with barely 2000 registered players, to the cusp of the World
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    • 481 42 SAITAMA French Football Federation (FFF) vice-president Michel Platini confirmed yesterday that Roger Lemerre will be replaced as coach of the national team, reported onefootball.com. And he admitted he has already identified his successor. "The FFF president Claude Simonet will make
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    • 646 44  -  S Gulam ||||13gferBeer Match of the Day Brazil 1 Turkey 0 Poor Turks fail to rise to the occasion WAS it a World Cup semi-final match? Where were the fireworks? Frankly, the Brazilians seemed like they were out for a stroll! Blame Turkey for not playing
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    • 415 44 -AFP TAIPEI Senegal's government apologised yesterday for the actions of its nation's World Cup team during a goodwill trip to Taiwan, but denied reports the squad members had hired prostitutes during the visit. Local media reports have created a
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    • 125 44 Tuesday night's World Cup semi-final match between Germany and Korea Republic achieved record ratings and viewership figures. An average of 912,000 viewers aged four and above tuned in to the game, which was telecast 'LIVE' on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 from 7.20pm. This
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    • 635 45 Reuters BERLIN Millions of superstitious Germans, who have watched their longshot side grapple and claw its way to the World Cup final, are convinced the power of a tiny talisman planted on the pitch is bringing good fortune. A "lucky penny" that has been buried on or
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    • 102 45 -AFP SEOUL German coach Rudi Voeller believes Brazil is the clear favourite to beat his side in the World Cup final. "Brazil is the favourite. The team has the best individual players," said Voeller, speaking after Ronaldo's winning goal against Turkey sent Brazil into a
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    • 187 45 SHANGHAI Dundee defender Fan Zhiyi has denied claims that he, along with his international team-mates, accepted a bribe to throw China's World Cup opener against Costa Rica, reported the Guardian Unlimited. Ronald Gomez and Mauricio Wright wrapped up an easy 2-0 win for the Central Americans
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    • 652 46 Reuters iWorld Cup semi-final I Brazil 1 Turkey 0 Sowtfs American giant in seventh final SAITAMA No matter the toe-poke. It was a sight that the whole of Brazil, and its legions of fans all over the world, had waited four years for. To see
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    • 324 47 -AFP SAITAMA Six goals in six games. Not quite like Brazilian legend Jairzinho's 1970 effort of a goal a game, though, but it'll do. Ronaldo is almost back to his explosive best. And he's already looking ahead to Sunday's final. Brazil has to be at
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