Today, 2 December 2002

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  • 8 1 TODAY Monday December 2, 2002 I MITA(P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 1067 1  -  Jose Raymond by j o se@ne wsto day. c o m. sg THEY were once one of Singapore's richest and most famous families, worth several hundreds of millions. The family mansion at 178, Pasir Panjang Road home to the family behind the Tiger Balm empire
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    • 194 1 Agencies BAGHDAD-As the UN weapons experts launch a fifth day of inspections today, international pressure piled up on Iraq. The fourth day yesterday was marred by a deadly air raid on the port of Basra by US and British warplanes. Iraqi officials said four people
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    • 60 1 Reuters PAPEETE (Tahiti) Rescuers evacuated 127 tourists from a luxury cruise liner after a fire broke out on board near the Pacific Ocean isle of Bora Bora in French Polynesia yesterday. All the passengers, mostly US citizens, aboard the vessel, Wind Song, were taken off unhurt after what
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 456 2  -  Joy Frances PAP caucus outlines challenges A SOBER air prevailed at the People's Action Party's Cadres Conference yesterday, even as it was announced that the much-awaited decision on the GST hike would be revealed in Parliament on Thursday. While leaders outlined the challenges ahead for Singapore,
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    • 166 2 KUALA LUMPUR Democratic Action Party chairperson Lim Kit Siang challenged Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz on her silence about Malaysians being subjected to inspection by sniffer dogs in the country, reported Malay&iakini yesterday. It was reported on Saturday that
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    • 356 3 Dr M urges Malay owners not to sell land LANGKAWI Although the amendments to the Reserve Land Act offer more flexibility to utilising the land, Malay land owners should not lease out all their land, said the Malaysian Prime Minister (picture). Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir
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    • 166 3 LONDON The British government is to introduce radical reforms to ban the country's 55,000 firemen from striking, The Telegraph reported yesterday. It said that Prime Minister Tony Blair is in favour of outlawing industrial action in the fire service as part of
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    • 148 3 AFP BANGKOK Those out for a good time will be able to party all night long as Thai nightspots have been allowed to remain open until 6am over Christmas and New Year, police said yesterday. The tight restrictions on the venues will be eased and
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    • 446 4  -  Joy Frances TECH-sawy lawyers are freeing up hours of valuable time with a pioneering video-conferencing system between judges and lawyers launched earlier this year. Since June, one in 10 law firms active in court here have signed up for the voluntary method to cut down on queuing and
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    • 167 4 A 70-YEAR-OLD man was hit by an MRT train travelling from Woodlands to Marsiling on Saturday night and died on the scene. The man, a Malaysian from Muar in Johor, had apparently wandered onto the track between the Woodlands and Marsiling stations. His body was found
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    • 86 4 CRYSTAL Leisure Cruise Singapore yesterday launched its luxury cruise services at the Kallang Basin. The company's vessels will ply a route between the Singapore Indoor Stadium and Clifford Pier, offering sights of the Esplanade Theaters on the Bay, the Marina area and views of the lush Kallang
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    • 116 4 Channel NewsAsia HOW do you tell if your child is asthmatic? Or if he's suffering from an allergy, instead of just a runny nose? Now, a telephone hotline, a website and a team of doctors offer advice on these questions as part of a newly-launched asthma and
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 537 6 Group targets use of pelts in fashion magazines IT'S winter again in the West and many fashion houses like Fendi and Christian Dior are using fur in their latest collections. While it may be too hot for Singaporeans to don furs, some people here have been seen with
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    • 260 6 IT'S thumbs-up for a national master plan to preserve the old world charm of nostalgic hubs like Katong and Balestier but how about doing more? Such as help shophouse and heritage property owners conserve their buildings. Give property tax waivers or
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    • 229 6  -  Grace Tay WITH memories of the Bali bombings still fresh in their minds, some might have thought that the recent slew of security measures here were introduced in response to specific terrorist threats. But, the Ministry of Home Affairs has told Today that it was sheer
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  • LETTERS
    • 448 8  -  Diana Ong Young Singaporeans should start pointing finger at themselves I REFER to the article, "Dear Prime Minister", by Derrick A Paulo (Weekend Today, Nov 30-Dec 1). Like Derrick, I am concerned about our future. However, I have become even more concerned after reading the article.
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    • 218 8  -  Leong Sze Hian I REFER to the articles, "Forget levy, up maid's pay" {Today, Nov 29), and "The question that has no answer" (Today, Nov 27), and Andreas Rocksien's letter, "Raise pay, not levy" (Today, Nov 28). Mr Lim Hng Kiang's reply in Parliament
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    • 237 8  -  S Ramantirtham SINGAPORE'S Hindus will celebrate Thaipusam on Jan 18 next year. The organisers of the festival have undoubtedly tried every year to ensure that the festival runs as smoothly and effectively as possible. I have two suggestions, which 1 hope the organisers will consider implementing next year.
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 558 10  -  Val Chua as SGX tries to attract Chinese firms THE wooing game to get Chinese companies to list here may get harder for the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX). While the companies were keen to do so previously, thanks to Singapore's sophisticated local bourse, the reasons for such
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    • Market Watch
      • 118 10 THE market could not tap on the strong economic numbers in the United States last week and lost 32 points or 2.3 per cent. The weakness was across all major sectors except tech shares. For the rest of the market, there seemed to be profit-taking all around but on
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      • 55 10 Index Vd« Change Ph Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwnn Wfd 9215.56 *****.87 3025.20 4646.49 38.78 ■77.97 18.00 34.09 0.42 0.77 0.60 0.74 Korea Comp SET Index 724.80 364.90 10.26 0.61 1.44 0.17 Maria Comp Phils Comp Shenzen B tain 390.42 1047.22 194.85 3228.82 0.45 4.56 2.54
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      • 36 10 US$ 0.5664 UKE 0.365 Yen 69.4109 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.5705 Rupiah 5034.96 0.i1.i 24.6360 Pmo 30.3313 4$ 1.***** Indian Rs *****0 Won 684.650 C$ 0.8919 Yuan 4.6885 NZ$ 1.***** MT$ 19.7173
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      • 23 10 BLOOMBURG Gold uss/m 317.800 Silver uss/d! 4.435 Plofinum uss/ai 581,900 Rubber 18 i*As '49,75 Palm oil RH/'-cme 1567 Brenr tnde USJAmI 25.26
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    • 286 12  -  Chan Chao Peh A I,oookm submarine network to link Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore SINGTEL, Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) and PT Telekommunikasi Indonesia have inked an agreement to build a I,oookm submarine cable network linking the three countries. The Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore (TIS) cable, which will have a planned capacity
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    • 216 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Japan's No 2 automaker, Honda Motor Co, is racing to stamp its presence in South-east Asia with two new manufacturing bases in Indonesia and Malaysia, ahead of market opening under the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta). Tired of playing second fiddle
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    • 375 14  - After the storm Carmen Lee Value of Lindeteves-Jacoberg is emerging at current price level SHARES of the motor-maker, Lindeteves-Jacoberg (LJ), fell sharply over the past few weeks, partly on talk of shareholding changes. In one case, a fund management house, but not a substantial shareholder, reduced its portfolio of Singapore
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    • 136 14 THE best way to serve a customer is to go direct. And Nasdaq-listed Nature's Sunshine Products is doing this right here. The move follows recent amendments to the multi-level marketing law, under which "it was all right for a person to share commission from several
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    • 506 16 Reuters S Korea, Singapore top investment survey HONG KONG The investment popularity of Singapore and Thailand is running at a record-high and Hong Kong is back in favour with money managers preparing to make allocations for next year, a survey of Asian money managers shows. South
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    • 135 16 Reuters HONG KONG HSBC Holdings, one of Hong Kong's largest employers, is planning to freeze wages for its 13,800 local workers for a fourth year to curb costs, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday, citing a company spokesman. The wage freeze reflected economic conditions
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    • Article, Illustration
      433 18 -AFP SIA under pressure as Qantas, Air NZ plan tie-up SYDNEY Singapore Airlines (SIA) risks being frozen out of the lucrative Australian aviation market if it fails to react swiftly to the planned tie-up between Qantas and Air New Zealand (Air NZ), analysts warned. They suggested the most
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    • 298 18 AFP SEOUL European Union {EU) inspectors will visit South Korea this week to ascertain whether leading semiconductor chip makers have violated trade rules and should be subjected to tariffs, reports said yesterday. The inspection will start tomorrow, Yonhap news agency reported. Infineon Technologies AG
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    • 262 20 -AFP US developing new laws in war against terrorism WASHINGTON To help it fight the war against terrorism and punish terrorists more effectively, the Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The system, which will apply to all terrorism suspects US citizens
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    • 178 20 MOMBASA Investigators are reexamining evidence that East Africa has been both a base and target for the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the past decade, the New York Times reported yesterday. Evidence of Al Qaeda's operations in Africa emerged even before the 1998
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    • 198 20 -AFP BEIJING Russian President Vladimir Putin (top picture) and China's leader-designate Hu Jintao (bottom picture) share apparent similarities that will help them at the crucial crossroads of China-Russian ties, said analysts. The two men appear to share many career characteristics
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    • 122 20 LONDON The UK government is planning to put armed undercover police on passenger flights to prevent terrorists hijacking planes, the Home Office said on Saturday. In the initial stages, undercover police officers will be introduced only on transatlantic flights and the scheme will be
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    • 97 20 Reuters LONDON The Irish Republican Army, which opposes British rule in Northern Ireland, is moving towards an historic declaration that its war with Britain is over, British newspapers reported on Saturday. The papers, citing no specific sources, said the IRA, which has waged a threedecade war
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    • 101 20 -AFP DHAKA A leading Islamist party, which is part of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), wants to establish an Islamic state. "We aim at seeing Bangladesh as an Islamic state and it will be done through
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 287 22 AFP. US, Iran hold secret contacts ahead of Iraq attack PARIS Behind their frequently harsh rhetorical exchanges, "Axis of Evil" member Iran and "Great Satan" the United States are coordinating secretly ahead of an attack on Iraq, said diplomats and analysts. Details of the contacts are sketchy
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    • 175 22 Virgin replaces high-tech trains after only 2 months LONDON Sir Richard Branson's Virgin group is now recalling 1970s diesel trains to replace its two-month-old, £1 billion ($2.7 billion) Voyager fleet to ply the main cross-country routes from south-west England to the north and Scotland, reported the Telegraph yesterday. Launched with
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      56 22 -AFP photo A dirigible, used by the military police to patrol the city, flies during the inauguration of a 82-m-tall Christmas tree on Saturday in a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest floating tree, it is illuminated by 2.8
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 623 25  -  N Gunalan Behind the furore over the issue of travel advisories WITH the recent spate of travel advisories being issued in the aftermath of the Oct 12 bomb blasts, I pity the government authorities which have had to undertake the unenviable task of issuing them.
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    • 340 25 -AFP PARIS As 60 cities marked World Day Against the Death Penalty last Saturday, there are signs that the fight for abolition is being won. More than half the countries in the world have expunged the capital punishment from their statute books. And 111
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  • UPFRONT
    • 491 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang The Necessary Stage explores pain and salvation in audacious play SHE'S Chinese, her costume looks a little bit different and, what's more, she's wearing fishnet stockings. Still, she evokes an unmistakably iconic image. Wonder Woman, it appears, is the main character of the
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 341 27  -  Janice Lee by j anice@newstod ay.com .sg HE'S a wanted man but not in the Osama bin Laden sense. Flown in by private jet on Saturday night, acclaimed tenor Jose Carreras (picture) is being put up at the Raffles Hotel and is being sponsored by MercedesBenz.
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    • 172 27  -  Kantian Tse BEHIND every culinary masterpiece is an unsung hero who tends to slip our minds as we become engrossed in enjoying its exquisite flavours. And as we lap up every morsel in mere seconds, do we realise how many days, weeks, months or even years of practice
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    • 161 27 Most popular Chinese cuisine restaurant: Crown Palace Restaurant Best Dish: Gold: (Tie) Victoria City Restaurant (Chef Chan Chun Fat Tony} and imperium Chinese Dining (Chef Daniel Kohj Silver: Silk Road Restaurant (Chef Chen Zhong Ming) Bronze: Jade (Chef Yong Bing Ngenj Most popular seafood restaurant: jumbo
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    • 612 28  -  Katrina Karini Li Bai's lobster promotion springs several tasty surprises WHEN you dine at the Sheraton Tower's Li Bai, it's easy to figure out why it is still one of Singapore's best Chinese restaurants. In fact, pencil in a lunch or dinner appointment at the Li Bai and
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  • PEOPLE EXCELLENCE 2002
    • 491 31 SINGAPORE Technologies Trainings Simulation Pte Ltd and The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore were awarded the 2002 People Excellence Award on Nov 28 at The Esplanade —Theatres on the Bay for their excellent people development efforts. They received their trophies from guest-of-honour, Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister,
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    • 720 32 The best organisations to work for are those that can bring out the best in their people. They develop their people to perform and excel. They are able to successfully align organisational and individual goals. To date, 327 organisations have embarked on the people excellence journey
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    • 515 34  -  Jenny Kong WONG KHING CHONG For CityCab drivers, skills upgrading is a breeze with Internet platform IT's time to change your perception of cab drivers behind a steering wheel ferrying passengers and thinking about the shortest route to take. Besides being road experts, cab drivers today are
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    • 546 34  -  Chan Seet Fun If there is a place where staff are treasured as valued assets, the National Heart Centre ranks at the top THE National Heart Centre's (NHC) health attendants were so happy to graduate with an Institute ofTechnical Education (ITE) certification that the/
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    • 505 36  -  Jenny Kong The Ritz-Carlton's staff take great pride in providing quality service PRIDE is big business at The Ritz-Cariton, Millenia Singapore. And providing quality service is second nature to the staff at the five-star luxury hotel. Snug in the pocket of each staff member
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    • 486 38  -  Amanda Koh Giordano earns worker loyalty with its dynamic work-and-learn environment THE staff at Giordano Originals (S) Pte Ltd have it good.They are one big family, get rewarded for learning and regard work as nothing short of fun. Ms Pauline Koh, 27, a senior shop manager,
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    • 576 39  -  4mbiga Raju That's ST Training Simulation's winning formula in People Excellence DURING the dotcom boom in the late *****, STTraining Simulation Pte Ltd (STTS) was threatened with brain drain. Its programmers and engineers were giving in to the temptation of forming their own start-ups. These professionals form
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    • 308 40 SPRING Singapore's (Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board) mission is "to raise productivity so as to enhance Singapore's competitiveness and economic growth for a better quality of life for our people". SPRING has three areas of focus: Productivity and innovation; standards and quality; and small and mediumsized enterprises
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    • 440 41  -  Jenny Kong World-renowned yacht maker achieves training standard IT is the careful attention to maintaining a personal touch among its employees that paved Grandßanks Yachts Pte Ltd's success in achieving the People Developer Standard (PD Standard). The 39-year-old Singapore-based yacht building firm is world-renowned for its
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    • 1550 42 This year, two more organisations join the distinguished list of People Excellence Award winners, while 106 organisations join the ranks of People Developer, bringing the total number certified since 1998 to 327 People Excellence Award winners PSA Corporation Ltd (2001) Robinsons Co Ltd (2001) ST Training
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    • 101 40 PEOPLE DE^>y ELOPER SINGAPORE DEVELOPING &sffi§K2 In The Organisation Is The |\t TOOUR GOAL OF PROVIDING Over the years, SATA has enlarged its original mission of diagnosis and treatment of patients with tuberculosis to becoming the advocate for affordable medicine and the provider of affordable quality healthcare. Without doubt, the
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    • 54 41 PEOPLE DE>^ ELOPER SINGAPORE We Believe People Is Our Greatest Asset... SI Our competitive edge is enhanced by equipping our staff with the knowledge and skills to meet the challenges ahead. Achieving the People Developer Standard is a testimony to our staff development. l»f?fJS[tM boSSIHIISs PEOPLE DEN^ELQPER S N C.
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 243 45 -AFP BEIJING The DVD rights for a new action thriller by famed Chinese director Zhang Yimou have been sold for 17.8 million yuan ($3.5 million) in China, breaking the record in a market plagued by video piracy. The DVD licence for the star-studded
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    • 313 45 -AFP MANILA Influential Roman Catholic bishops in the Philippines have warned the public against the latest James Bond film for its casual sex and largescale violence. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said there was nothing new to appreciate in the
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    • 1439 46 On TV Earthvisions Bears of the j^tf^Sk Jfc r Monday Mega Movie Highnotes A Celebration Straight Talk with Young Sun and Moon AMs Central, 9pm iL'OV^' Hfi 2: Cruise Control Chs,7pm of Christmas Arts Central, 1 Opm Ming Channel NewsAsia, 7.32pm For centuries, traditional medicines have Annie and her boyfriend,
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  • SPORTS
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      359 47 -AFP FUKUOKA Sydney Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera won a shoulder-to-shoulder battle against Japan's Tsuyoshi Ogata yesterday to defend his title in the Fukuoka international men's marathon. The 24-year-old Ethiopian, last year's world champion, kicked into high gear just before the home stretch to cross the finish line in
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    • 796 48 Hot Philadelphia extends winning streak to seven games NBA Wizards 94 76ers 95 Jordan can 'I make final play WASHINGTON Michael Jordan had the ball in his hands with the game on the line. But the Philadelphia 76ers came away with the win yesterday. Allen Iverson scored
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    • 189 48 AFP TEHRAN Iran's world record weightlifter Hossein Rezazadeh (picture) has been awarded a car and 200 square metres of land on a Gulf island to keep him from defecting to Turkey, local media reported yesterday. Late last month, Rezazadeh smashed the world record in
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    • 290 49 -AFP FANLING Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson secured his maiden Tour victory after six second-place finishes by winning the Omega Hong Kong Open by two shots yesterday. A five-under-par final round of 64 put Jacobson 16-under for the event, cosanctioned by the European and Asian Tours. Argentina's
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    • 484 49 -AFP INDIO Tiger Woods and his friend Mark O'Meara won the most skins, but it was Phil Mickelson who led the moneymakers after the opening nine holes of the US$l million ($1.7 million) Skins Game here yesterday. World No.l Woods, his Florida neighbour O'Meara, sec-ond-ranked
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      405 50  -  Jose Raymond Geylang's new manager-coach O'Donell is youngest in S-League HIS coaching experience may not be extensive. His biggest jobs to date have been as coach to Sydney's Penhurst in the West Premier League. And the Singapore Cricket Club. But that has not stopped Geylang United from appointing
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    • 81 50 Today photo by LOCAL figure skating starlet Lydia Leong mesmerises the audience with an exquisite layback spin at Skate Singapore 2002, held on Saturday. Although the 15-year-old put on an eye-catching performance in the Freestyle 8 category, she could only come in second behind Malaysia's Lim
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    • 274 50  -  Kelvin Phang OVER 3,000 Singaporeans kicked off the inaugural Singapore Sports Festival (SSF) at Choa Chu Kang's Sports for Life centre yesterday. Participating in the South West District Games 45-and-over cum Family Dance Fiesta, visitors, young and old, were treated to a day of funfilled
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    • 385 50 -AFP PERTH Australia crushed England by an innings and 48 runs here yesterday in the third cricket Test to wrap up its eighth successive Ashes series. Trailing by 271 runs in the first innings after making a paltry 185 before the home side cracked 456,
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    • 384 51 Agencies LONDON Lennox Lewis has revealed that his clash with Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko next spring may be the first of a threefight sequence that could include a re-match against Mike Tyson. Many questioned whether Britain's world heavyweight champion, 37, would
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      416 51  -  Stanley Ho Second consecutive defeat for Lions as Poulsen slams team STUPID. That was how Singapore national coach Jan Poulsen described the goals conceded by the Lions in their 3-1 defeat against Jordan on Saturday. Jordan's Saman Halsa struck twice within the space of four minutes early in
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    • 329 51  -  Stanley Ho REZAL Hassan's bid for a place in the final 20 of Singapore's Tiger Cup squad is hi jeopardy. Unless the SAFFC custodian picks himself up, pulls up his socks and improves his game. That is according to national goalkeeping
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        494 52 Reuters Last-minute change clinches Davis Cup championship PARIS Every team needs a mascot and Boris Yeltsin is convinced he was Russia's good luck charm at the Davis Cup final, which his team won 3-2. Within seconds of Mikhail Youzhny winning the deciding singles, Yeltsin was clambering with difficulty
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      • 130 52 HARARE (Zimbabwe) Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been banned for one match and fined half his match fee after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute during yesterday's one day international between Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Match referee Clive Lloyd summoned Shoaib to
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      • 90 52 Reuters BERLIN Werder Bremen confirmed its status as Bayern Munich's most dangerous rival for the German title with a 3-1 victory over Vfß Stuttgart yesterday. The victory kept the northerners in second place, six points behind Bayern, who had a 2-0 win over Hertha Berlin on
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      • 299 52 Reuters MADRID Darko Kovacevic (picture) struck twice as Real Sociedad strengthened its position at the top of the Spanish first division yesterday with a 2-1 win at home to a Barcelona side that finished with nine men. Patrick Kluivert put Barca ahead
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  • Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2002
    • 543 53  - Join the fun run! Tan Yo-Hinn Or soak in the carnival mood and cheer the runners on SHE is a top executive who prefers to keep a low profile. So, even if she's well-known in financial circles, not many will know that she also has a passion for sports, more
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    • 493 53  -  Tan Yo-Hinn n the last of our series on the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, we spoke to two local runners, Lim Le-Anne and Ernest Wong, and found both had their own approach towards the mental game EVER wondered what goes through the mind of a
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    • 714 54  -  r Neil Humphreys Coverage of the Dudek helps Uruguayan steer United to its first Premiership win in five attempts English Premier League Liverpool 1 Man United 2 by in Anfield neil@newstoday.com.sg He never ripped off his shirt in celebration this time; he should've ripped off Dudek's instead.
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    • 423 55 English Premier League Newcastle 2 Everton 1 NEWCASTLE Newcastle broke Everton's stubborn resistance and its heart with two late goals to snatch a dramatic win at St James' Park yesterday, reported BBCSportOntine. Everton, reduced to 10 men, led through Kevin Campbell's 16th minute goal and looked en
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    • 149 55 LEEDS A Harry Kewell wonder goal was not enough to stop Leeds from posting its fifth successive loss at Elland Road this season as it went down 2-1 to an equally struggling Charlton. Leeds has now lost nine games in the Premiership and under-fire manager Terry Venables's
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