Today, 11 March 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY L 11 C S CI 3-V March 11? 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Extraordinary offender
    584 1  -  Joy Frances by joy@newstoday.com.sg FOR a man accused of abusing the trust of five young boys and perhaps scarring them forever by molesting them the High Court witnessed scenes that would have been more suitable if a hero was being sentenced. As the 52-year-old hunched and emaciated man
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    Lock icon Faith and Mr Bush
    686 1  -  Ng Boon Yian by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg SWEARING is frowned upon in the White House. Bible study classes are held regularly. Every Cabinet meeting is opened with a prayer. US President George W Bush begins his morning by reading a book of evangelical mini-sermons, My Utmost for His
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Wanted: Shift in mindset
      557 2  -  Val Chua S'poreans must do an 'attitude U-turn', agree MPs during debate by val@newstoday.com.sg THE private sector may get a helping hand from the state in grooming the next Sim Wong Hoo but potential entrepreneurs eyeing instant cash from the Government will be disappointed. Mr Raymond
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      Lock icon Myanmar general in S'pore for medical treatment
      143 2 Reuters ONE of Myanmar's most powerful generals is now in Singapore for medical treatment Diplomats and sources close to the Health Ministry in Yangon yesterday said ViceSenior General Maung Aye left Yangon for Singapore on Sunday but gave no details about his condition
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      Malaysia's own goal
      529 3  -  Jose Raymond Foreign talent backlash after police round up Indian IT pros b> i ose(s>newstodav.com. sb KUALA LUMPUR At a time when countries are battling for top talent, Malaysia may have shot itself in the foot In what was meant to be a swoop on illegal immigrants
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      That 62 sell-by date
      165 3 WHY should the average Singaporean still expect to retire at 62, when the whole employment market is undergoing sweeping changes? Posing the question in Parliament yesterday, MP for Marine Parade GRC, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua argued that the concept of retirement at a certain legislated age,
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      'Smoking gun'
      369 4 Did Blix leave out damning information LONDON If the UK and US feared that the verbal presentation of the chief weapons inspector undermined their efforts to win support in the United Nations Security Council, they have found a new and potentially key piece of information that could act
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      Lock icon Short threatens to quit
      200 4 Agencies LONDON Britain's International Development Secretary Clare Short (picture) said on Sunday that she would resign if the country went to war with Iraq without the backing of a second United Nations resolution. Ms Short's announcement ratchets up the pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair, who
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  • HOME NEWS
    • Article
      The great name climbdown ...
      403 6  - The great name climbdown Jose Raymond Zoo shelves $100,000 name-change plan bj |ose@newstoday.com.sg ALMOST two weeks after it was revealed that the Singapore Zoological Gardens would be renamed, the plans have now been put on hold. Yesterday, the zoo's assistant manager for corporate communications, Mr Vincent Tan, said: "Currently, plans
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      Lock icon David reaches mountain top
      180 6 Channel NewsAsia DISABLED mountaineer David Lim (picture) has successfully reached the summit of Mexico's highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba. He achieved this feat at 7.30am last Saturday. At 5,700m, Pico de Orizaba is also the third-highest peak in North America. Mr Lim made it to the
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      M-cyclists collide and die
      78 6 TWO young motorcyclists died after their bikes collided and caught fire along Changi Coast Road at sam yesterday. Polytechnic student Benjamin Neoh, 20, and National Serviceman Tan Wei Zhong, 21, were heading towards Nicoll Drive when their motorcycles side-swiped each other, skidded and caught fire. Both
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      Bt Panjang LRT hit by power failure
      155 6 THE SLRT's Bukit Panjang LRT service was affected yesterday afternoon by a power failure in parts of Choa Chu Kang. The power failure stalled all 11 LRT trains at 12.05pm. The system resumed service at 12.20pm when power supply was restored. However, an
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  • LETTERS
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      The nest factor
      376 8 or why some graduates reject job offers A RECENT news bulletin on MediaCorp TV's Channel 5 highlighted the fact that at least a third of last year's graduates are unemployed. A senior educator who was interviewed urged students to take up any job they could get and
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      Fast roads, slow roads
      165 8 THE letter, "Drivers are not stupid", by Mr Philip Lee Seek Kay (Weekend Today, March 8-9) singled out Lower Kent Ridge Road and the East Coast Park Service Road as stretches where there are excessive road signs. The elaborate markings are probably testament to the extent
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        64 10 THE market entered its fifth day of decline yesterday. The Straits Times Index showed some promise in the morning but fell in the afternoon as the market failed to hold on to the morning's gains. It broke the 1,220 level and closed at the intra-day low of 1,213.82, down
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        SGX top rises
        91 10 Mar 10 Close Changi CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY 12.9 0.3 SPH 19.9 0.3 KEPPELCORP 4.28 0.06 GREAT EASTERN HLDGS 8.9 0.05 JARDINE MATHESON HLDGS 5.95 0.05 OVERSEAS UNION ENT 6.05 0.05 SEMBCORP LOGISTICS 1.6 0.04 HOTEL PROPERTIES 0.93 0.035 NATSTEEL 2.04 0.03 fy percentage MarlO HOTEL PROPERTIES Close Change
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        World markets
        62 10 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 225 INDEX 8303.39 -135.13 -1.60 HANG SENG INDEX 9740.84 124.22 1.29 ASX ALL ORDINARIES INDX 2922.20 -10.00 -0.34 LAIWAN: WEIGHTED INDEX 4665.56 -6.21 -0.13 KOREA COMPOSITE INDEX 652.15 -1.70 -0.26 THAI STOCK EXCHG OF THAI 348.95 5.28 1.54 JAKARTA COMPOSITE INDEX 371.25 4.15
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5679 UK£ 0.3593 Yen 68.3700 HK$ 4.4292 RM 2.1577 Euro 0.5218 Rupiah 5128.205 Baht 24.6163 Peso 30.3689 A$ 1.0081 Indian Rs 27.4101 Won 686.316 C$ 0.8428 Yuan 4.7007 NZ$ 1.1360 NTS 19.7291
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        Commodities
        21 10 Gold uss/oz 318.35 Silver uss/oi 4.567 Platinum uss/oi 590.8 Rubber cents/kg 150 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1568 Brent crude uss/barrel 25.29
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        Straits Times Index Intraday Chart
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        SGX top falls
        83 10 Mar 10 Close Change UOB LTD 12.3 -0.2 DBS GROUP HLDGS 11.3 -0.1 HAWPARCORP 3.78 -0.06 HKLANDHLDGS 1.3 -0.06 KEPPELLAND 1 -0.05 JARDINE STRATEGIC HLDGS 2.49 -0.04 CYCLE CARRIAGE 3.74 -0.04 SINGAPORE LAND 3.2 -0.02 CAPITALAND 1.14 -0.02 WANT WANT HLDGS 0.63 -0.01 Mar 10 Close Change
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        SGX most active
        59 10 Jy volume MarlO >T Engg Chartered SingTel >ac Cent [Tint )BS )atacrftUSS iGX JOB .eongHin Close 1.630 0.665 1.240 0.200 0.440 8.900 0.545 1.240 9.400 0.745 Change -0.020 -0.015 -0.030 -0.020 +0.050 -0.040 +0.030 -0.150 +0.005 -1.2 -2.2 -2.4 -9.1 +0.6 -6.8 +2.5 -1.6 +0.7 'OOC 9,26i
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      Lock icon More tourists
      179 10 -AFP Indonesia, China and Japan are top sources TOURIST arrivals in Singapore increased 7.4 per cent to 641,159 in January from a year earlier following a promotion campaign ahead of the Lunar New Year, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said yesterday. "Continued promotion of the Singapore Visitor Kit
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      Lock icon Gain or loss?
      357 11 Bloomberg GE discloses real pension results in footnote FAIRFIELD (Connecticut) General Electric Co said on Friday in its annual report that its post-retirement benefit plans contributed US$BO6 million ($1.4 billion) to pre-tax earnings last year. Investors had to read a footnote 37 pages later to learn that
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      Lock icon Bars, gyms and more on SIA A380s
      49 11 Bloomberg photo This is a mock-up of the interior of the A3BO Airbus. Singapore Airlines is pressing ahead with plans to equip the new planes with bars, gyms and other features, defying concerns among analysts that the extras may reduce its profitability.
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      Lock icon Deutsche Telekom's record net loss
      148 11 -AFP HANOVER The German telecommunications giant, Deutsche Telekom, said yesterday it chalked up a staggering net loss of 24.6 billion euros ($47.1 billion) last year, the biggest loss ever posted by a European company, compared with a loss of 3.5 billion euros a year earlier.
      -AFP  -  148 words
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      Lock icon CBD rents plummet
      126 12 Agencies SINGAPORE'S prime office rentals fell 20.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year compared to the same period the previous year, but managed a gain of 0.9 per cent from the third quarter, an industry report said yesterday. Meanwhile, vacancies in the central business
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      Corporate Briefs
      200 12 ST AERO JV: Singapore Technologies Engineering unit, ST Aerospace, has signed a US$9B million ($l7O million) jointventure with China Eastern Airlines (CEA) to set up a commercial aircraft repair facility in China. ST Aero will own a 49 per cent stake, with CEA holding the remainder. The company
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      Lock icon Sun rises on free trade?
      298 12 AFP Asean, Japan start talks on FTA KUALA LUMPUR Senior officials from the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) and Japan began negotiations yesterday on a framework to create a regional free trade agreement (FTA) within a decade. The meeting in Kuala Lumpur was the
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      Nets CEO steps down
      129 12 MR WEE Tew Lim has resigned as chief executive officer of Nets, after more than 17 years with the company that manages the network for electronic fund transfers. Mr Wee, 58, will remain until March 31, after which he will take on an advisory role. A
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      Lock icon Temasek drops adviser
      85 12 Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings, the Singapore Government's investment arm, has dropped Goldman Sachs as an adviser, three weeks after Indonesian officials said it had hired the US bank to advise on a bid for Bank Danamon. A Temasek official declined to say whether Temasek has hired another adviser.
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      Lock icon Banks slump as Nikkei falls below 8,000
      198 14 Bloomberg TOKYO Japanese stocks fell as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc and other banks slumped on worries that their stock losses will increase before the fiscal year ends this month. The Nikkei 225 stock average closed 1.3 per cent lower to end yesterday's
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      Lock icon Beer money
      263 14 Bloomberg Tsingtao to expand in Asia and beyond BEIJING Tsingtao Brewery Co, China's biggest brewer, is in talks with a South-east Asian brewer to make its trademark beer outside of China for the first time, the company's president,Mr Jin Zhi Guo, said. Mr Jin said Tsingtao was also
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      Lock icon From Ist to 4th
      261 16 -AFP S'pore slips as China tops business destination survey SINGAPORE has slipped from first to fourth place in a survey of top destinations for business trips in the Asia-Pacific region. A poll of 5,479 people in 13 regional economies by credit card giant, MasterCard International, last
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      Lock icon PSA's 29% growth
      138 16 Bloomberg PORT operator, PSA Corp, moved 29 per cent more containers last month than it did in the same period a year earlier, boosted by its operations in Europe and China. The company handled 1.99 million 20-foot containers worldwide last month, it said on its website. Its
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      Lock icon China to ease rules on stocks
      406 17 Bloomberg BEIJING China's regulators spent the last three years opening the country's equity market to overseas investors. Now, they may allow China's citizens, who have US$l.l trillion ($1.9 trillion) tucked away in savings accounts, to buy stocks abroad. China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange
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      Lock icon Hutchison shares drop on funding plan
      181 17 -AFP HONG KONG Shares in Hutchison Whampoa slumped yesterday after the company said it will inject £650 million ($l.B billion) into its British third generation mobile communications unit, Hutchison 3G UK, dealers said. Hutchison 3G UK is 65 per cent owned by Hutchison Whampoa.
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      Listening to the businessmen
      724 17  -  Grace Tay grace@newstoday.com .sg THE Government may be propounding its mission to make Singapore pro-business, but some businessmen have found there are too many speed bumps for businesses along the 'New Economy' highway. Mr Jeffrey Lim, for example, found the minimum requirement to have two shareholders
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  • INFO TECH
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      Serious business
      536 18  -  Brian Nad el This laptop is wireless LAN-ready and has a DVD-RW drive by news@newstoday.com.sg AS CORPORATE as a blue suit and a tacky tie, Toshiba's Satellite Pro 6100 (picture) is a nononsense desktop-replacement notebook that comes with a 2.2GHz Pentium 4-M processor, ""v 512M8 of RAM, one
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Briton jailed
      129 19 HONG KONG A court here sentenced a Briton to four months in jail yesterday for perjury by using a forged medical document in his lawsuit against Singapore Airlines (SIA). In the document, Stephen Olding had claimed that he had swallowed glass fragments in a drink served on an
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      Lock icon Arafat to share power
      77 19 AFP RAMALLAH (West Bank) The Palestinian Parliament voted overwhelmingly yesterday to create the post of a Prime Minister before launching a debate on the powers to accompany the new office. The move could see Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat forced to share his sweeping executive mandate. Mr
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      Lock icon Where's the link?
      279 19 Agencies PM Howard under fire for linking Iraq to Bali blasts SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister John Howard sparked an uproar yesterday when he linked the Bali blasts, which killed 88 Australians, to his arguments for going to war against Iraq. While on a trip to New Zealand,
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      Online Bush game on website is hot craze
      172 20 THOUSANDS of web surfers are flocking to an online game in which players as peace doves try to defecate on US President George W Bush, while evading missiles shot by his Defence Secretary Mr Donald Rumsfeld. The game (picture) was launched last
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      MCA mafia?
      278 20 Youth leader hints at triad involvement KUALA LUMPUR Only a week after its leader attacked the growing trend of money politics within the party, the Malaysian Chinese Association has faced another barrage of criticism. This time round, it is about alleged triad influence in the party, the second-largest
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      Lock icon Maltese yes'to EU
      81 20 Reuters VALLETTA Malta has voted to join the European Union (EU) in a referendum hailed by the European Commission as a historic and positive signal for the group's enlargement Some 53.6 per cent of voters on the Mediterranean island endorsed a government proposal to join the enlarged
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  • COMMENTARY
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      How to cushion the blow
      821 21  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla PSA layoffs highlight perils of badly planned retrenchments STUDENTS of management studies would have had a field day recently witnessing a classic real-life example of bad management played out in the public arena by one of Singapore's flagship companies. PSA Corporation employees
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon Scared stiff? So what?
      470 22  -  Serene Foo Go ahead and realise your dreams, says motivational speaker "FEEL the fear and do it anyway." Australian Kay Cottee (picture) was the first woman in the world to complete a solo, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the globe in 1988. And when those words
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    • DAILY BREW
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        Lock icon REBEL NO MORE
        128 22 AFP HONG KONG'S Cantopop star, Nicholas Tse (picture), emerged from a self-imposed hiatus from show business yesterday by saying he was not a rebel. Tse told the US-based weekly magazine, lime, that He was not a rebel any more, "not because I've changed but because back then,
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        SCREAM ...
        110 22 SCREAM THE bosses at Warner Brothers seem to be smarting over Josh Hartnett's rejection of the lead role in the new movie on the Man of Steel, according to the World Entertainment News Network. They are still in the process of finding the perfect Superman for the planned trilogy on
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        59 22 ACTRESS Minnie Driver's new love is 62-year-old New York billionaire Ted Forstmann, said People News. Forstmann, of the investment banking company, Forstmann Co, has been a regular guest at Driver's Miami Beach home in California. Driver, 33, has been involved with older men like Harrison Ford in
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        HELLO, I'M JENNIFER AFFLECK
        75 22 SINGER-actress Jennifer Lopez (right) may go by another moniker soon, after she ties the knot with Daredevil star Ben Affleck (left). She said she will adopt her fiance's surname after her marriage to him and will use it personally and professionally, said the World Entertainment News
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        472 24  -  Chen Sze Kai Everybody's gongfu fighting in Heartlanders by news@newstoday.com.sg Conine Adrienne is tied to a forklift. Vincent Ng storms in to rescue her. The baddie whips out a gun and the director shouts: "Cut!" I find the cast of Heartlanders on the last day of shoot in
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        548 24  -  Lynette Leong bj news@newstoday.com.sg MILK and dairy products have found their way into more Singapore homes of late. Besides the packs of milk that many people drink for their daily dose of calcium, other examples of food that contain milk or dairy products include bakery products, some bread
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        360 26 -Reuters Lead up to Oscars sees Chicago amassing awards LOS ANGELES Can the Chicago fire be put out? The film musical made from the 1975 Broadway show burned up the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday, winning the prize for best ensemble work by
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        297 28  -  > Pauline DLoh mmmbmSbbK«t Blackbeans, chilli and ginger sweeten up a difficult vegetable TWENTY years ago, I would not have touched it with a 10-foot pole. Not voluntarily, anyway. My grandmother used to cook an egg-drop soup using slices of bitter gourd. My lips still pucker at
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        RECIPE
        289 28 BITTER GOURD STIR-FRIED WITH B LAC KB E AN, GINGER, CHILLI AND GARLIC Ingredients: (Serves four or more) I large bitter gourd, sliced I tablespoon dry salted black beans I tablespoon minced garlic I tablespoon minced ginger I tablespoon chopped, seeded red chilli I tablespoon vegetable oil Method: 1.
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        HOW BITTER TURNS SWEET WITH A LITTLE KITCHEN ALCHEMY
        222 28 SALTED blackbeans, chopped ginger and minced garlic is a Cantonese combination of ingredients used in a vast variety of dishes. Called si chup or soy gravy, some variations often require the addition of chilli, while others add spring onions, coriander or
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      410 32 AFP Ferrari determined to fight back at Sepang MELBOURNE Stung Ferrari promised its legions of fans yesterday that the thoroughbred Formula 1 team would bounce back at the next Grand Prix in Malaysia after its podium wipeout in Australia. I The mighty Italian team, with 12 world constructor's
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      155 32 LOS ANGELES Shaquille O'Neal scored 39 points and had 10 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers cooled off the Philadelphia 76ers 106-92 in NBA action yesterday. Kobe Bryant added 28 points and nine assists for the Lakers, who have won nine of their past 10 games as they
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      586 33  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Bodybuilding back in the sports awards limelight after Asian Games exploits by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN 1992, Azman Abdullah took home the country's Sportsman of the Year award after winning the middleweight crown in the Asian Men's Bodybuilding Championships. He repeated the feat the following year
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      840 34  -  Leonard Thomas Tricky visit of Capello's Romans could decide Gunners' European fate Champions League Grp B Arsenal v Roma Live, tomorrow morning, 3.30am, Ch5&23 by. leonard@newstoday.com.sg ALEX Ferguson chooses to call it arrogance. The continued public utterances coming out of Highbury that a treble previously only
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      323 34 -AFP I Champions League Grp A Inter Milan v Newcastle Live, tomorrow morning, 3.30am, Ch24 PARIS It's Christian Vieri against Alan Shearer as Newcastle seeks to complete its Houdini escape act in the Champions League against Inter Milan today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time).
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        198 35 FORMER world motorcycling champion Barry Sheene has died after a long battle against cancer, reported BBCSportOnline. The 52-year-old, who was awarded the MBE in 1978, had cancer of the throat and stomach. He died in a hospital on Australia's Gold Coast yesterday. Sheene won the World 500cc
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        203 35 Reuters JOHANNESBURG Sri Lanka coach Dav Whatmore lashed out at his players after their 183-run World Cup Super Six defeat against India yesterday, accusing them of lacking fighting spirit "We thought we had a little bit of fight in the previous game against Australia which I was hoping
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        99 35 ARSENAL'S Robert Pires has been named Barclaycard player of the month for February, reported BBCSportOnline. The Frenchman netted both goals as the Premiership champion began the month with a 2-1 victory over Fulham. He was also on target in the Gunners' 5-1 hammering of Manchester City and
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        532 35 Agencies Former England manager given the boot by Sunderland SUNDERLAND Howard Wilkinson has been sacked as manager of Sunderland, the struggling English premier league club announced yesterday. "The board has decided it is in the best interests of the club and its supporters to make a change immediately
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        292 35 AFP, BBCSportOnline LONDON Alex Ferguson yesterday gave Roy Keane (picture) a vote of confidence in his wish to one day become a club manager. The Manchester United manager insisted that fiery midfielder Keane, who said recently he would like to manage a
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