Today, 7 November 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY Thursday November 7, 2002 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 124 1 Agencies NEW YORK It was a cut that took even Wall Street by surprise. The US Federal Reserve slashed key interest rates by half a percentage point to 1.25 per cent in a bid to boost a flagging US economy, sending stocks seesawing
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    • 263 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Overseas contributions up sharply SINGTEL said that its second quarter net profit for the year ended Sept 30 rose 10.1 per cent over the first quarter to reach $415 million. This is a fall of 25 per cent from the same quarter last year.
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      • 85 2 PACIFIC Internet this morning reported its third consecutive profitable quarter this year, with revenues of US$2l.B million ($38.3 million) and net income of US$O.3 million. Year-to-date, net income was US$l.2 million, compared with a net loss of US$7.6 million last year. The Internet service provider's third quarter
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      • 676 2  -  Val Chua ERC panel suggests abolition of popular housing scheme EXECUTIVE condominiums (ECs) that combine the best of private residential luxuries at subsidised prices may become a thing of the past That is, if the Economic Review Committee's (ERC) Land Working Group has its way. Yesterday, the
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      510 3 as Bush achieves dream of controlling both the Senate and the House of Representatives WASHINGTON It is the sort of green light that American presidents dream about US President George W Bush yesterday won a jubilant mandate for his legislative agenda and an attack against Iraq as his
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    • 98 3 Agencies HONG KONG The territory yesterday played down the threat of terrorist attacks after three men accused of trying to buy Stinger missiles for the Al Qaeda group appeared in court. "There is no known terrorist infrastructure or support base in Hong Kong," said
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    • 322 4  -  Rosalyn Lint AS-fiin-seekers digest the news that Sentosa is revising entrance fees from next Friday, Sentosa Development Council (SDC) is not resting on its laurels. Mr Gurjit Singh, SDC's director (property), said its master plan is well in progress, and in 10 years' time, the island should
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    • 414 4  -  Tan Yo-Hinn to unite family of St Andrew's schools THE construction of St Andrew's Village, which will bring together the family of St Andrew's schools, is to begin next year and completed by 2005. What's needed now is an injection of $10 million for the project The St
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 173 6  -  Sol E Solomon IMAGINE writing on a PC screen as you would on paper in your handk writing. You can do that with Microsoft's w Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system (OS), launched today. The new OS is a superset of Windows
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    • 357 6  -  -Joy Frances A^BUTTERFLY-FILLED garden in the grounds of Alexandra Hospital is a favourite spot for patients seeking a quiet and peaceful place. It's a healing environment, as the hospital's chief executive offi cer, Mr Liak Teng Lit, put it. Some of the staff relax in the garden
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    • 513 8  -  Joy Frances Tycoon promises he won't mix his clubs, cars and cash JUST days after he purchased Pinetree Club for $101 million, the man with many businesses is keen to assure members that he will not repeat the mis- takes of his predecessor who was also a man
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    • 331 10  -  Tor Ching Li "The course of true love ne'er '-'aid run smooth" wrote Shakespeare. Well, run an advertisement then. Readers of this newspaper might have been surprised yesterday to see an advertisement addressed to "Dear Catherine Lynn Van". Mr Yale Yap, who placed it, apologised for causing
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    • 234 10  -  Rosalyn Lint A FOURTH school to be set up by the Singapore Management University '(SMU) will offer a degree in Information Technology (IT) with a difference. In fact, the School of Information Systems Management (SISM) is already accepting applications for its
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  • LETTERS
    • 160 12  -  Kwan Ching Leong WITH the advent of the ez-link card, it is mandatory for all tertiary students to purchase electronic bus stamps for travel on airconditioned buses. However, I have noticed that there has been an increase in the number of
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    • 150 12  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming Why this preparatory exam? I REFER to the Education Ministry's letter "Post PSLE school selection part of MOE's effort to improve efficiency" (Today, Nov 5). Of course, the new policy makes sense and I applaud the new move as in six years' time, my
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    • 275 12  -  Simon Ng Yap Peng I REFER to the letter, "Check before taking degree" (Today, Nov 6), by Miss Joyce Chia from the Prime Minister's Office. I accept her explanation that the Civil Service will consider candidates with a degree from a university accredited by its
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    • 161 12  - A less friendly people? There are exceptions to the rule Ananda Perera I AGREE with Ravi Veloo's sentiments "Have we become a less friendly people?" (Weekend Today Nov 2-3 but there are exceptions to the rule. I had a nasty cycling accident at East Coast Park last year. Some rollerbladers
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  • BUSINESS COMMENTARY
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      962 14  -  Mano Sabnani What ERC report means for housing and public-listed property companies WHY is it all happening now, you might ask. Are the proposals on land use, property development and taxation designed to help over-committed property developers? Will the Economic Review Committee's (ERC) recommendations help property investors and
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 456 16  -  Francis Kan Bloomberg News. Background and ineptness given as reasons as SEC chairman resigns THE most surprising thing about Mr Harvey Pitt's (picture) 15-month reign as the US' top securities regulator is not his sudden resignation earlier this week, but why he was given the job in
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    • 80 16 A KEY executive of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing is jumping ship to join Singapore port operator PSA Corp as its executive deputy chairman. Mr Eddie Teh, currently a managing director of Hutchison Port Holdings, will take up his new position
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    • 196 16  -  Lee Yew Meng AFTER several quiet weeks on the housing loan front, Maybank has launched fixedrate loans for the first three years the first to do so here. A market watcher said the offensive could signal another home loan war, albeit a more subdued one.
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    • Market Watch
      • 100 16 SHARES were mostly higher yesterday, in anticipation of the quarter basis point US interest rate cut last night The STI was up 20.59 points at one stage before profit-taking trimmed the gain to 13.7 points at 1447.74. There were two gainers to every falling stock. Volume was light with
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      • 3 16 STI 10-Day Chart
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      • 21 16 bold US$/oz 318.600 Silver uss/oi 4.495 Platinum uss/oz 581.000 Rubber centsAg 148.0 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1543 Brent crude uss/barrel 25.14
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      • 36 16 US$ 0.5672 UK£ 0.3640 Yen 69.4639 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.5692 Rupiah 5224.04 Baht 24.5774 Peso 30.0226 A$ 1.***** Indian Rs 27.4135 Won 693.136 C$ 0.8834 Yuan 4.6949 NZ$ 1.1455 NTS 19.6707
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      • 56 16 In. Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8953.29 +15.73 +0.18 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9773.98 3036.00 4725.34 +118.62 +28.30 +159.24 +1.23 +.94 +3.49 Korea Comp 682.56 +17.66 +2.66 SET Index Jakarta Comp 353.80 369.40 +1.97 -5.51 -0.55 -1.47 Phils Comp Shenzen B 1060.44 207.84 +18.13 -0.92
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      • 52 16 By value Nov6 DBS 35,383,230 UOB 27,534,648 Venture 22,623,863 OCBC 20,886,480 Chartered 14,829,810 By volume Nov 6 '000 Gtiraya 19,763 Chartered 16,371 DatacrftUSS 14,033 TPV 12,042 PFood 8,747 SIA 13,337,211 DatacrftUSS 10,190,650 Citiraya 9,949,845 SPH 9,372,566 STAssemb 9,178,300 '000 UniFiber 8,473 NOL 7,251 STAssemb 7,162 UniFood 7,150
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      • 77 16 Nov 6 Creative 50 Close Changi 13.700 +0.401 OCBC 10.500 +0.301 Venture 13.700 +0.301 STIETF100IOPV 14.602 +0.201 DBS 11.900 +0.201 F&N 7.750 +0.201 SPH 20.200 +0.201 SPH 100 20.200 +0.201 STI ETF 100 IMH 400USS 14.750 +0.151 6.050 +0.151 By percentage Nov 6 Goldtron Close Change 0.020
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      • 82 16 Bloomberg Nov 6 rhai Prime200USS Close Changi 4.500 -0.101 Goodpack Semb log 0.470 -0.081 1.670 -0.051 NewToyo 0.340 -0.031 CSA 1.330 -0.021 lull mo 0.400 -0.021 NalSleel 2.000 -0.021 SBSTransil 500 1.320 -0.021 HupSengH SupPack 0.095 -0.01: 0.185 -0.01: By percentage Nov 6 El Nets Close Changi
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    • Article, Illustration
      341 18 Bloomberg World Bank cuts growth forecast TOKYO East Asian economic growth may falter next year as a fall in stock markets and rising oil prices reduce demand for exports from the region, the World Bank said in its semi-annu-al outlook. The bank cut its growth forecast for
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    • 207 18 Bloomberg JAKARTA DBS Group Holdings, United Overseas Bank and a group of other Singapore companies may acquire resorts and properties worth more than 700 billion rupiah ($133.8 million) in Indonesia's Riau islands. The companies signed a preliminary agreement with PT Holdiko Perkasa, an arm
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    • 158 20 Reuters Creditors to restructure auto giant's $1.4b debt INDONESIA'S auto giant, PT International, said yesterday that it has reached agreement with six major creditors to restructure its US$B2O million ($1.4 billion) debt The six, who together hold 30 per cent of Astra's outstanding debt, need the support of
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    • 169 20 C2C, a cable company that is 60 per cent owned by Sing Tel, said that its sales for the third quarter ended Sept 30 was US$2O million ($35 million) US$7 million more than the previous quarter. The new contracts were signed with mainly
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    • 114 20 THE Philippines' second largest airline Cebu Pacific Air has become the 61st scheduled carrier to fly to Singapore's Changi Airport. And taking Cebu Pacific's inaugural flight to Changi Airport yesterday was the carrier's president and chief executive Lance Gokongwei. Mr Gokongwei is also the
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    • 70 20 GREEN Dot Payment Services has set up a new ''company to drive the non-transit business for the ez-link card. Called QB Pte Ltd, it will operate as the business and brand manager to develop the card into a multi-purpose card. The card, introduced in April for
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    • 271 22 Bloomberg MOBILEONE Asia (Ml), Singapore's second-largest mobile phone operator, will complete collecting investor feedback tomorrow on a planned share sale before filing documents with regulators, according to banking sources. The company will file preliminary share sale documents with the Monetary Authority of Singapore by Nov
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    • 83 22 AFP WASHINGTON The bankrupt telecom giant, World Com, may end up with revenue overstatements totalling more than US$9 billion ($15.8 billion) as part of a settlement with regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission has, on its part, filed an amended complaint against the company, alleging that
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    • 1314 23 6 November 2002 SS SHAREHOLDERS' CHOICE All capitalised terms used herein shall, unless otherwise defined herein, bear the same meaning as those defined the »c ompany in the circular (the "EGM Circular") dated 6 November 2002 and issued by Nat Steel Ltd to its shareholders (incorporated in the Republic of
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 287 24 Agencies Dr Mahathir does it again to Australia SYDNEY Australia has been left at the door of Asean, yet again. For the third time, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad opposed Australia's application to be admitted as a permanent dialogue partner at the Asean summit, the
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    • 297 24 Agencies JAKARTA Detained Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir may be stripped of his Indonesian citizenship because he failed to report to the Jakarta embassy during his 14 years of exile in Malaysia, police said yesterday. Mr Bashir never told the embassy he wanted to
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    • 84 24 -AFP SEOUL Tens of thousands of striking South Korean workers returned to work after planned labour reform laws were dropped, officials said yesterday. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, which led the strikes on Tuesday, said the proposed amendment introducing the five-day work week in South Korea
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    • Article, Illustration
      270 27 Reuters Jiang's protege set for top party post BEIJING -He may be a little-known man outside the party and not well-liked by members but he has the patronage of the top man in the country. He was even introduced by his mentor, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, to US
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    • 202 27 Agencies LONDON Former royal butler Paul Burrell said Britain's Queen Elizabeth II warned him that his close relationship with Princess Diana could put him in danger, the Daily Mirror reported. The revelations came in Mr Burrell's first interview published yesterday since being acquitted of stealing scores
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    • 109 27 Agencies LONDON Washington and Paris have reached agreement on a UN resolution on Iraq, a US politician said yesterday without specifying the terms of the deal. "We have reached agreement with the French," Mr Jim Kolbe, elected to the House of Representatives for Arizona, told BBC
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1110 30  -  Dr Khoo How San The belief that Spore profits sinfully from water has been Mahathir's ace HOPEFULLY, the commentary by Ng Boon Yian (Today, Nov 5) has helped to shed some light on the twists and turns of the Malaysia-Singapore water issue. My hesitant tenor is because, in
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    • 366 30 Reuters CANBERRA Australian Muslims used the start of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan yesterday to condemn extremists whose campaign of violence has triggered a backlash against Muslim communities. The 500,000 Muslims among Australia's 20 million population have reported a dramatic increase
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  • UPFRONT
    • 584 32 -Reuters Bush marriage under the microscope in new book WASHINGTON Twenty-five years ago on Tuesday, George W Bush and Laura Welch married in Midland, Texas, after a whirlwind courtship that the future US First Lady initially thought had a "fat chance" of going anywhere. They were
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    • 88 32 BEIJING China completed blocking the Yangtze River at the US$27 billion ($47.5 billion) Three Gorges Dam yesterday, paving the way for the world's biggest hydroelectric and flood-con-trol project to come on stream next year. In front of a flag-waving crowd of
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      416 34  -  Yee Wei Zhen Peranakan show mixes recipes with dramedy APERANAKAN chef at the Merchant Court Hotel is playing a Peranakan matriarch in MediaCorp TV Arts Central's Ways of the Matriarch. What's more, she will share her recipes on the eight-episode series. Shirley Tay, 56, plays Pearlyn Chew,
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    • 99 34 Reuters SOUTHERN belle Reese Witherspoon (picture) is heading further south to the Pole in fact In her next film, the star of Sweet Home Alabama will play a US marshal in Whiteout, an Antarctic whodunit adapted from a series of novels by Greg Rucka. Reese plays
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  • TIMEOUT
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      • 131 36 Camp Streetwise for Young Entrepreneur Engage your children in this three-day, two-night camp where your children will experience and learn the basic concepts and practical skills of entrepreneurship, develop creativity and build self-confidence, work with others in a team and practise integrity and honesty. The trainers are Raymond Tan,
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      • 122 36 Fun for Good Fund-raising Family Carnival Celebrate Singapore Children's Society's 50th anniversary at the Fun for Good fund-raising family carnival during the November school holidays. The carnival will host a string of activities for children and parents. Children can participate in games that teach them about health
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    • 568 36  -  Elisa Chia Will Spore shine at this year's Asian Television Awards? TT is a salute to the stars of the J.Asian television industry. And Singapore could well be shining bright at the upcoming seventh annual Asian Television Awards. Of the 121 nominations, Singapore the host country is
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    • 145 36 IF you are among the 1,500 privileged people who have received an invitation to the Asian Television Awards on Dec 4, take note that the event will be held at the University Culture Centre and not at the MediaCorpTV theatre. The organisers had decided to move it to a "neutral
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  • FOOD FORUM
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  • CITYSTYLE
    • 435 40  -  Pearlyn Tham Its denim gets a rugged, American Mid-West feel IF you're old enough to remember tapered jeans and frizzy perms, then you will remember an apparel brand called Lea. The brand, which made its debut in Singapore in 1975, was popular during the 80s
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    • 280 40 IN Singapore, where boutiques and department stores are aplenty, shoppers know where to head immediately when they want to buy a pair of jeans or a swimsuit But, in a country where the closest to freezing that Singaporeans would ever get are office cubicles, most are stumped
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    • 677 41  -  Pearlyn Tham Test out your Dockers outfit for the office, outdoor and disco AT the Dockers store in Tangs, you can see yourself in a different light, literally. That's because in the fitting room here, you have a choice of white light, sunlight and soft light,
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    • 34 41 Ladies decked out in elaborate hats at the Fashion on the Field parade at the Melbourne Cup while the gentlemen are more serious about horsyjacjn^jnr^^ around. —H Reuters photos
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    • 542 41  -  Toh King Yu, Miss Ever Soft SO far, I have talked about facial scrubs, cleansers and moisturisers. They have one common purpose to help you get and, hopefully, maintain good skin. However, they won't be of much help if you
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  • INCINEMAS
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      • 400 42  -  David Ngiau FILM REVIEW Double Vision TV/TV COLLEAGUE Serene Foo, who generally i.V.Lreviews Hong Kong films, has reviewed plenty of horror movies this past month: Haunted Office, Demi-Haunted and The Era of Vampires. But when press materials for Double Vision arrived in our newsroom three
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      • 280 42 TWO cops a Taiwanese who's open to the possibility of the supernatural and his American counterpart, who has absolute faith in science, set out to solve a series of grisly and baffling murders in Taiwan. The mystery begins when a CEO is found dead in his
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      • 385 42  -  Yong Shu Chiang FILM REVIEW Double Vision E'S easy to see why the new Taiwanese thriller ouble Vision is generating so much hype. The film, the island-state's most expensive ever with a reported US$5 million ($B.B million) budget, has a fine cast, a respected
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      494 44  -  Yong Shu Chiang Fine performances in coming-of-age tale FILM REVIEW The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys GROWING up, sometimes it feels like there's all the time in the world. It is in such moments of carefree indolence and acts of mischief that we find the "altar boys" of
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    • 93 44 -AFP LOS ANGELES Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged to be married, entertainment television channel ET quoted sources close to the couple as saying. Lopez also dropped heavy hints that marriage may be on the cards during an MTV programme on Tuesday. When asked
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      557 46  -  David Ngiau FILM REVIEW The Four Feathers WHAT a rousing tale. But, what a seriously outdated story it also is. The Four Feathers is a daring effort, the first from director Shekhar Kapur after his multiple-Oscar nominee Elizabeth (1998). Based on a 1902 novel, Feathers celebrates the
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    • 1636 48 On TV Be Nice To People eh 8,i0.30 P m Thursday Night Movie Shark Attack channel 5, io P m Ayam Kampong Suria, 9.30 P m Beyol)l'tne a<°&c Xiaoming does well academically, but he is PSdfl Che Mah, Che Nab and their daughters sell A marine biologist heads for Port
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  • SPORTS
    • 759 50 DUBLIN So numerous was the demand for Roy Keane's autographed shirts and footballs in Ireland before the infamous fallout prior to June's World Cup that the kit-man Johnny Fallon had perfected a fine forgery of his signature. That's the politically correct version Keane's supporters
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    • 208 50 AFP DUBLIN John Aldridge and Joe Kinnear yesterday emerged as the bookies' favourites for the Republic of Ireland manager's job. Another favourite, former Leeds manager David O'Leary, has ruled himself out of contention. Ex-Liverpool favourite John Aldridge, a former manager of Tranmere, is emerging as the hot favourite.
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    • 328 50 Reuters BRISBANE England's gamble on bringing unfit players on a demanding Ashes tour of Australia had further repercussions yesterday with allrounder Andy Flintoff rated a major doubt for the opening Test, starting here at the Gabba today.
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    • 498 52 Agencies Forget Rooney, coach Moyes has been the real revelation at Goodison LIVERPOOL The awakening of the sleeping giant that is Everton can be attributed to one man. David Moyes' fierce ambition and attention to detail has transformed the club that for so long has been in
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    • 293 52 AFP MANCHESTER David Beckham has been hailed as the "ultimate professional" after refusing to let the security scare surrounding his family affect his performance on the field. Beckham was offered the chance to take some time off after the weekend revelation that a plot
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    • 113 52 LEEDS Terry Venables has warned angry Leeds fans he will not back down in the ongoing David Batty saga. Batty has been frozen out at Elland Road since Venables' arrival four months ago, which has baffled supporters who see the 34-year-old as a hero. With Leeds in the
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    • 452 54  -  Stanley Ho FOOTBALL was everything to him. Even a hole-in-the-heart condition last season failed to keep Singapore international Tan Kirn Leng off the football field for long. But now, with his best footballing years still ahead of him, the 25-year-old Tampines Rovers wingback
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    • 222 54  -  Stanley Ho AS THE dark clouds parted for rays of sunshine at the National Stadium at Kallang yesterday, Singapore's hopes in next month's Tiger Cup competition also brightened. Four-time S-League Golden Boot winner Mirko Grabovac had his first full training session with the Lions yesterday. He's
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    • 424 55  -  Kelvin Phang GORAN Bergendorff may have enjoyed tremendous success as Singapore's national bowling coach. But the 61-year-old Swede firmly believes the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) is unlikely to extend his one-year contract, which ends next month. "There is
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    • 527 55  -  Jose Raymond FAS wants all privately-run academies to be registered THERE certainly is a substantial amount of money floating around the football industry these days. With the Goal 2010 project to reach the World Cup Finals looming larger than ever across the horizon, more money is
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    • 85 55 JAMSHEDPUR Ramnaresh Sarwan hit a four on the last ball of the day to give the West Indies a dramatic four-wicket victory over India in the first one-day international of a sevenmatch series yesterday. By the final over, the visitors needed six, but lost Ridley Jacobs for a
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    • 65 55 SOTOGRANDE Retief Goosen and Padraig Harrington, who are locked in battle for the 2002 European Tour order of merit title, have been drawn together for today's opening round of the Volvo Masters. Goosen leads Harrington by 23,119 euros ($40,574) going into this week and needs to finish no worse
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    • 78 54 lODAY i 111 IE Wißi I INTERNATIONAL 111 B SERIES CONTEST UHaHH^SH I j Send all completed contest forms to fax no. *****477. All entries have to be received by Friday midnight, 8 Nov 2002. Who will captain the Lions when Singapore takes on Indonesia this Sunday? Nazri Nasir n
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