Today, 13 November 2002

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      Water talks back to square one: Prof Jaya
      242 2 SOME four years after bilateral talks between Singapore and Malaysia began, things are now "back to square one", said Singapore Foreign Minister Prof S Jayakumar in an interview with the BBC last Friday. The latest twist in the protracted talks is Malaysia
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      Gory, bizarre
      358 2  -  Lee Ching Wern Details of Orchard Tower murders bared SINGAPORE'S most-talked about crime the double Orchard Towers murder unfolded in courts in Australia and Singapore yesterday. The details were gory and bizarre. In the Melbourne court, British businessman Michael McCrea, 44, is fighting extradition to Singapore, where he
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      Lock icon A simple affair
      347 3 AFP. Bali bombing operation cost $12,000 JAKARTA The Bali bombing operation was a simple and relatively cheap affair. It was not as sophisticated as many have assumed. Inspector General I Made Mangku Pastika, the chief of the investigation team, said the suspects talked about the operation, which
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      Lock icon Taiwan fears commando attacks
      169 3 Agencies TAIPEI Fears of a 911-style attack by Chinese commandos have prompted the Taiwanese Cabinet to reject calls for direct chartered flights to China. Any economic benefits arising from having such air links with China will be negated by the security and social costs that Taiwan
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      Lock icon Girls will also do NS in Malaysia
      158 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia aims to introduce compulsory national service by 2004 in a bid to instill patriotism and build national unity, Malaysian Defence Minister Najib Razak said yesterday. Datuk Seri Najib said the proposal requires all 18-year-olds, including girls, to be called
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      Lock icon White Paper on Jemaah Islamiyah
      73 4 Channel News Asia THE Government will publish a White Paper on the Jemaah Islamiyah arrests and the terrorism threat, early next year. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said the draft is ready, but his ministry is waiting for the ISA Advisory Board's recommendations after
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      Lock icon Doc and the medicine men
      412 4  -  Joy Frances REMEMBER Scan Connery in Medicine Man as the ethnobotanist researching traditional and unknown plant remedies in the remotest corners of the world? The inspiration behind that movie, Dr Michael Balick (picture), was in town yesterday. His insights can easily be overshadowed by his
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  • HOME NEWS
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      A game that led to tragedy
      279 6  -  Tor Ching Li MRT boy changes story THE boy who fell on the Bishan MRT tracks last Thursday has confessed that he was not pushed. Police investigations have revealed that Moses Tan Wei Han, 10, and his friends were playing a game of "catch"
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      More flood damage
      105 6  -  Rosalyn him ANOTHER building was flooded in the Sunday storm. Mr Henry Lim, owner of the Uncle Sam Gourmet restaurant in the Afro-Asia building said this was the first time in six and a half years that his eatery was flooded. He said damages were minimal at
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      Smooth moving robot in town
      158 6  -  Janice Liv IT took 14 years and about $15 million to design a robot that walks and moves like a human being. Advanced Steps in Innovation Mobility (Asimo) is the world's smoothest moving robot invented. Its flexible and smooth movements are due to I-WALK technology,
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      A timely single rulebook
      445 6  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by kim@newstoday.com.sg HUMAN tissue research has unlocked untold advances in the medical sciences but it has to tread the fine line between individual and societal interests. That's the thrust of the set of ethical guidelines advocated by the Human Genetics Subcommittee (HGS) under the
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  • LETTERS
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      Stained treasures
      545 8  -  Tay Swee Lin There is value in old or yrun-down' buildings WE would like to commend Michael Loh Yik Ming and X A Tan for taking the time and effort to state their views (Today, Nov 5) on the report, "People don't care" (Weekend Today, Nov 2 3).
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      Hotline alert
      157 10  -  Mak Seek Hong How construction hazards can be contained I REFER to the report, "Condo blues" (Today, Nov 11). It was reported that some residents had detected signs of trouble since construction works at a neighbouring site began a few months ago. The Lengkong Gardens' residents had even
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      Spread the risk
      159 10  -  Chong Kok Peng MOST civil servants get an additional one per cent contribution in their Medisave accounts as a form of medical benefit As most Singaporeans can finance MediShield plans with their CPF contributions, the Government contribution would only aid civil servants in settling the co-payment (self-insurance)
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      Your vote is important
      304 10  -  him Su-Ling, WE refer to the article, "Accept 98 Holdings offer: Adviser" (Today, Nov 8). It reported that"... this (EGM) meeting could be viewed as pointless since the key men behind the (management) buyout Ang Kong Hua and two of his lieutenants have already thrown their
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      Let this unionist represent workers
      311 10  -  Jacob George I REFER to the report, "Union's stand" (Today, Nov 7). Mr Muhammad Ali Aman, secretarygeneral of the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) and the Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS), was given a choice to either get out of opposition politics or step down as
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Big move to IBM
      296 13 Bloomberg 500 DBS workers to switch jobs DBS Group Holdings said it would outsource $1.2 billion of information technology services to IBM to reduce costs. DBS said it would save about Ssso million in the first three years and reduce costs by 20 per cent during
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      Lock icon HK pips S'pore in economic freedom
      244 13 -AFX News HONG KONG Hong Kong was named the world's freest economy for the ninth consecutive year, just beating Singapore for the title, according to the Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. "In a year of
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      CPF interest rate unchanged at 2.5%
      86 13 THE CPF Board will continue to pay its three million members an interest rate of 2.5 per cent per annum for their ordinary accounts in the first quarter of 2003. This minimum rate is higher than the 12-month fixed deposit and savings rate offered
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      474 14 After two slips Bloomberg SGX to create crude oil futures contract... again SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) yesterday began its third attempt to create an Asian benchmark for crude oil and cut trading costs for buyers of a third of the world's oil. The SGX hopes its US dollar-denominated Middle East crude
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      Econ Healthcare seeks Sesdaq listing
      82 14 ECON Healthcare Singapore's largest provider of commercial nursing care services is seeking a Sesdaq listing and has lodged its prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. It set up its first nursing home in Singapore in 1987 and now operates five nursing homes and a
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      Lock icon Agilent to cut 200 jobs
      125 14 Bloomberg AGILENT Technologies Inc, a US maker of testing and measurement equipment, plans to cut 200 jobs in Singapore next month, or seven per cent of its workforce here. It cut 300 jobs here a year ago and did not replace another 300 workers who
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        60 14 THE STI index opened at 1393.40 and climbed steadily through the day, buoyed by bargain-hunting that left the index with a 1.60 point gain to 1405.99. Market breadth was positive but volume remained light on 233 million shares valued at $238 million. DBS, UOB, Great Eastern Holding, Keppel Corp
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 14 US$ 0.5668 UK£ 0.3568 Yen 67.7474 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.5609 Rupiah 5156.91 Baht 24.4691 Peso 30.1930 A$ 1.***** Indian Rs 27.3637 Won 683.639 C$ 0.8907 Yuan 4.6917 NZ$ 1.1481 NTS 19.5985
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        World markets
        55 14 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8464.77 +4.40 +0.05 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9613.84 2942.90 4676.47 +32.96 +5.50 +11.82 +.34 +0.19 +0.25 Korea Comp SET Index 654.43 343.98 -3.35 -6.38 -0.51 -1.82 Jakarta Comp 371.09 +8.52 +2.35 Phils Comp Shenzen B Mumbai 1055.29 188.97 2958.31 -8.02
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        Commodities
        21 14 Gold uss/oz 321.600 Silver uss/oi 4.572 Platinum uss/oi 575.700 Rubber centsAg 147.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1556 Brent crude uss/barrel 23.93
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        SGX most active
        59 14 By volume Novl2 BIL Intl Gtiraya PFood DatacrftUSS UniFiber Chartered TPV Pac Cent TTInt STEngg Close 0.545 0.485 0.870 0.675 0.050 0.865 0.585 0.285 0.405 1.700 Change +0.050 +0.010 +0.015 +0.025 +0.010 +0.020 +0.015 +0.005 -0.030 +10.1 +2.1 +1.8 +3.8 +1.2 +3.5 +5.6 +1.3 -1.7 'OOO 25,929
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        SGX top rises
        78 14 By$ Novl2 SPH 100 Close Change 19.900 +0.300 By percentage Novl2 BBR Close Change 0.015 +0.005 KepCor SPH UOB DBS 4.320 +0.100 19.700 +0.100 12.600 +0.100 11.400 +0.100 SeeHS IRE Corp Ezyhealth FHTK 0.065 +0.020 0.040 +0.010 0.070 +0.010 0.115 +0.015 GreatEast JMH 400USS 8.900 +0.050 6.000
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        78 14 Bloomberg By$ Novl2 SIA 200 SIA OUE Close Change 10.600 -0.400 10.500 -0.300 6.100 -0.250 By percentage Novl2 GMG USS LionTeckC Boustead Close Change 0.015 -0.005 0.090 -0.020 0.320 -0.070 Elec USS 1.940 -0.130 Broadway 0.095 -0.020 Venture 13.200 -0.100 L&M 0.025 -0.005 SATSvcs STIETF100 1.610 -0.090
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      Lock icon HSBC eyes insurer stake here
      173 15 Agencies HSBC Holdings Pic may buy a stake in Singapore's Keppel Insurance, as Europe's biggest bank by market value seeks to expand its business in the islandstate, the Business Times reported, without saying where it obtained the information. HSBC, which currently partners other insurance companies
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      Lock icon Capellas leaving HP
      231 15 AFP He may take the helm at World Com NEW YORK Hewlett-Packard (HP) president Michael Capellas (picture) is quitting, the computer giant said, as speculation mounted that he would take the reins at the embattled telecom group, World Com. Mr Capellas was leaving "to pursue other career
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      Lock icon Expensive street
      72 15 Agencies ORCHARD Road was ranked as the world's 12th most expensive shopping street, down a notch from its 11th placing last year, according to Main Streets Across the World 2002. New York's Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street shared first place with rents at US$7OO per square foot.
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      Exel's logistics hub
      43 15 THE UK-listed logistics giant, Exel, is building a $23 million supply chain hub in Singapore's new Airport Logistics Park. The company held the groundbreaking for its hub yesterday. It has been awarded business headquarters status by the Economic Development Board.
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      Lock icon Prudential buys F&N mall
      166 16 Reuters PRUDENTIAL Property Investment Managers has bought a stake in a Singapore shopping mall worth $335-million owned by Fraser Neave (F&N). LaSalle Investment Management Inc said yesterday it had acquired a controlling stake on behalf of Prudential, the largest institutional property investor in Britain. The statement
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      Bandwidth plan
      95 16  -  Chan Chao Peh SINGTEL said that Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), the largest Internet service provider (ISP) in Vietnam, plans to double its bandwidth capacity through the Sing Tel Internet Exchange (STiX). VDC, which has close to 60 per cent share of the subscriber market in Vietnam, is buying
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      More cab licences
      61 16 COMFORT Group, Singapore's largest taxi firm, said it has clinched 150 more taxi licences in China's Jilin province. The company had, in September, secured its first lot of 180 cab licences there. Comfort said it plans to expand its taxi fleet further in Jilin in the next
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon 66 tornadoes and counting
      58 17 AFP photo VIOLENT storms lashed across the eastern United States on Monday, spawning a wave of tornadoes and driving rains that killed 36 people, injured more than 200 and left entire communities flattened in their wake. At least 66 tornadoes have affected Mississippi, Alabama, Ohio and
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    • The twin threats
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        Lock icon Experts warn Australia
        292 17 -AFP SYDNEY Two terrorism experts believe that Hambali, South-east Asia's most wanted terrorist leader, had visited Australia to establish a network there. US-based terrorist expert Zachary Abuza said Malaysian officials had told him that Hambali had visited Australia to set up a network but it was not
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        Lock icon Blair prepares Britons
        189 17 AFP LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday urged the British people to steel themselves against terrorist threats. "This is a new type of war, fought in a different way by different means. But, as with all wars, it will test not just our ability to fight
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      Lock icon Transsexuals have rights, too
      98 17 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's transsexuals should be fully recognised as women, according to a well-known senator. Mr Wallop Tangkananurak, a noted social activist, said: "First, they are women both physically and psychologically and, second, their legal status should be recognised as women to protect them from sexual
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      Lock icon Queen's inquiry
      128 17 AFP LONDON Britain's Queen Elizabeth II may order an independent inquiry into the collapse of the Diana butler theft trial and allegations of a royal cover-up over an alleged rape. The royal family has had to deal with new revelations since the collapse of the butler trial on
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      Lock icon Price of support
      231 18 AFP Pakistan's Islamic union knows it's key to forming a govt ISLAMABAD Pakistan's new powerful Islamic alliance has laid down its conditions for forming a government with pro-regime parties. Mr Qazi Hussain Ahmed (picture), vice-president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), said the alliance will only accept President
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      Lock icon Found: Last body
      69 18 -AFP MANILA With the body of the last passenger of the crashed Fokker-27 aircraft recovered yesterday, the authorities have ended rescue operations and are now working to retrieve the wreckage and the black box. Nineteen of the 34 passengers died in the crash; 15 were rescued. The
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      Lock icon North Korea's oil politics
      134 18 Reuters TOKYO Stop the delivery of oil to North Korea and it will likely withdraw from the arms reduction programme, a diplomatic source close to Pyongyang said yesterday. The scenario will raise tensions sharply in one of the world's last remaining Cold War hot spots. "The
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      Lock icon Doubting Pyongyang
      115 18 Agencies TOKYO Japan yesterday questioned the reliability of North Korea's information about kidnapped Japanese after the remains Pyongyang claimed were those of a male abductee turned out otherwise. North Korea returned the cremated remains of Kaoru Matsuki, kidnapped in 1980, whom they said had died in a car
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Wings of change
      792 22 But are you ready, asks SIA boss At the 57th SIA Group Business Meeting on Oct 25, Singapore Airlines chairman Koh Boon Hwee (picture) spoke on the challenges facing the airline. Here are excerpts from his speech: YOU have all heard about the proverbial frog in boiling
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      133 22 LAVISH I flavours J OF CAPTIVATING THAILAND I From 8-21 November 2002, feast ORCHARD on the royal lavish spreads of I Thai cuisine specially prepared by Chef Prapairat Wongdee and her team, specially flown in from the luxurious Rembrandt Bangkok Hotel. To spice things up further, you could be the
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  • UPFRONT
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      705 23  -  Serene Foo Raintree sees upside in adapting local books GREAT literary works don't always translate into great movies. Nor do they necessarily score at the box office. Yet Raintree Pictures, the film-making arm of MediaCorp, plans to produce two movies based on novels written by celebrated
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      429 25  -  Janice Lee ONLY half a year after a traumatic hospital experience, MediaCorp artiste Pierre Png (picture) is back on his feet. What could have been a tragedy when his girlfriend's life was in danger turned into a much-talked-about fairy tale: He risked his own life to save
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      107 25 FANS of the musical, Singin' in the Rain, can rejoice. The cast of the popular production, which starts on Nov 13, will be slippin' and slidin' in the rain for eight more shows, extending its run to Dec 8. On Saturday, the cast gathered
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      158 26  -  Rosalyn Lint THOSE of you who were looking forward to the biggest outdoor party this year Zouk Out only to find out that it will be postponed, fret no more. Head down to the Padang this Saturday for a free open-air concert-cum-dance-party from 9pm
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      306 26  -  Elisa Chia Heavenly King may try producing or directing HAVING stepped off the Heavenly King pedestal for some time now, Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung (picture) has only one goal in life to take things easy. The proud father of a two-year-old girl is now enjoying
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      258 26  -  Pearlyn Tham THIS Embassy doesn't grant visas but it will grant you hip status. Embassy (picture) is a new 20,000 square floor restaurant-cum-disco that takes two floors at the Esplanade. Its stylish quotient is guaranteed to make it an ideal postopera venue
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      426 27  -  Pearlyn Tham SHE didn't mind it at all when her friends tried pulling her hair one strand of it to be exact. In fact, Lily Lie even encouraged them to do so. "I plucked out a strand and it didn't break even when my friends tried to pull
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      277 28 Do not try this at home Reuters SEATTLE A 15-year-old boy in Washington suffered serious burns when he set himself on fire last Friday. The boy, from the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington, was trying to re-enact a stunt from MTV's controversial show Jackass, police said. He had soaked his
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      699 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang After making his first feature in 1985, writer-director IT might have taken Mark Romanek 17 years to make his second feature film, but the idea for the upcoming stalker-thriller One Hour Photo developed very quickly. The 43-year-old film-maker, well-known and acclaimed in
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      197 28 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD In a first for the James Bond franchise, MGM plans to spin-off a spy vehicle based around the character of Jinx, played by Halle Berry in the latest Bond instalment Berry has already agreed to reprise her role in Die Another
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      346 29 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES Eminem has shocked the music world for the last few years. Now, it's the movie industry's turn to be bowled over by the controversial rapper. The enfant terrible of the hip-hop community grabbed the No 1 spot at the North
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      357 33  -  Janice Lee Lives of three ladies depicted in dance IT'S all about one woman's journey. But bharatanatyam dancer Nirmala Seshadri (picture) also embraces other women's pains and hopes in her new production, Journey to the Beloved. Her one-and-a-half-hour solo performance integrates dance, music and poetry to give expression
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      97 33 THEATRE Christmas and the Gargoyle Who Wouldn't Say Thank You About "Gargoyle" Magruder that grumbles a lot at children. Date: Until Nov 22 (No performance on Mon) Time: 3pm (weekdays), 12pm (weekend) Venue: DBS Arts Centre Home of the Singapore Repertory Theatre Price: $15 Ticketing: Call Sistic at 6348
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      75 34 AFP RAJKOT India was awarded the abandoned third one-day international against the West Indies yesterday but saw its image damaged as the match was called off after crowd trouble. The host was cruising at 200-1 off 27.1 overs, chasing the imposing West Indies total of 300-5, when
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      365 34 AFP Giants slugger Bonds wins a record fifth award NEW YORK San Francisco Giants left-fielder Barry Bonds (picture) is winning Most Valuable Player awards so fast and so often, he doesn't know what to do with them. Yesterday, he became the only player in major
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      190 34 AFP DALLAS The Dallas Mavericks are making good on their vow to beef up their defence. The reward is the only unbeaten record in the National Basketball Association. The Mavericks continued the best start in club history yesterday with an 82-73 victory over the Portland
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        770 35  -  Tan Yo-Hinn WITH the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon less than a month away, getting ready for the big day must be on the minds of many participants. You may not be a serious competitor, but being prepared will help ensure that you perform
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        327 35  -  I \J\J \J I Tan Yo-hinn RUNNING a marathon, especially an international one like the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, need not be a daunting affair. As Mike DeNoma, Group Executive Director of Standard Chartered Bank (picture), pointed out, running can be a highly
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      604 36 where no Magpie has ever gone before Champions League Group E Feyenoord v Newcastle Live, tomorrow on Ch23, 3.30 am ROTTERDAM Newcastle United is aiming to go boldly beyond its past European exploits when it lines up against Feyenoord in their Champions League showdown here at the
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      224 36  -  Toh Boon Ngee SAMUEL Lee (picture) got an early birthday present when he shot the first ace at the Tiger Skins Hole-In-One Challenge at Boat Quay yesterday. "I lined it up, took a shot, it bounced once and then went straight in," said Lee, who will
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      213 36 AFP LOS ANGELES Kirn Clijsters of Belgium did what few could in 2002. She defeated world No. 1 Serena Williams 7-5, 6-3 yesterday to capture the WTA Tour Championships. Clijsters, seeded fifth, posted her first career victory over Williams, whose eight titles in 2002 included the French
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      603 37  -  Toh Boon Ngee And we can beat Singapore, says Indonesia's star striker SINGAPORE may have beaten Indonesia on penalties last Sunday, but should the two teams clash again in the Tiger Cup next month, at least one man is confident the result will be reversed. "If
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      442 37  -  Stanley Ho IF MATCH-FIXING is not checked and a vice-like stranglehold kept on it, it will leave Asean countries with no future in football. This was the chilling warning sent out by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) General Secretary Dato Peter Velappan, after revelations that
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      Daly hopes
      93 37 DONGGUAN American John Daly makes his Chinese debut at the inaugural TCL Classic this week looking to recapture some of his early-season form. The TCL Classic is the mainland's first million-dollar Tour event and is the richest full-field event on the Asian PGA-run Davidoff Tour. Along with two-time
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      84 37 DENVER For seven years, the Raiders were perfectly awful in Denver, but yesterday, Oakland's Rich Gannon was almost perfect Quarter-back Gannon set a single-game National Football League record with 21 consecutive completions and connected with Jerry Rice for two of his three touchdowns as the Raiders coasted to
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      63 37 CARDIFF Fan Zhiyi, the China defender who was Asia's 2001 Player of the Year, has agreed to play for Cardiff City until the end of the season, the Welsh club announced yesterday. Cardiff, which plays in the second division of the English league, has agreed personal terms with
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      53 37 PORT OF SPAIN West Indies' leading batsman Brian Lara has been cleared of involvement in match-fixing following an investigation, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said yesterday. The match-fixing investigation followed an Indian criminal report saying that a bookmaker had offered or paid money to nine non-Indian
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      455 38  -  Jose Raymond Lions skipper vows to recover from serious bout of stomach flu WHAT is stomach flu compared to a life-threatening motorcycle accident and a mysterious illness that renders one immobile? Nothing, according to national skipper Nazri Nasir. Even though he was hospitalised last Thursday for
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