Today, 14 March 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Friday March 14, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 TODAY -T I" 1 Cl 3.V* March 14» 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon US stocks stage rally
      62 1 NEW YORK The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average soared 269.68 pts, or 3.6 per cent, to 7,821.75. The Standard Poor's 500 Index rose 27.71 pts or 3.5 per cent to 831.9. The Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 61.54 pts, or 4.8 per cent, to 1,340.78, its biggest
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      Lock icon UN vote delayed
      36 1 UNITED NATIONS US and UK ambassadors told the UN Security Council there would be no vote on their resolution laying the groundwork for war with Iraq on Thursday or Friday, diplomats reported. Reuters
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      S'pore and the silence
      692 1  -  Derrick A Paulo by derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE United States' drive to launch a war against Iraq has left the world deeply divided, with proand anti-war camps up in arms. Yet, Singapore both the Government and the people seems disinclined to join the debate, especially in public. So
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      Not a crime
      508 2  -  Joy Frances Govt to remove taint from many regulatory offences, says Law Minister by j oy@newstoday.com. sg THE Government is looking into the decriminalising of a large number of regulatory offences, Minister for Law Professor S Jayakumar (picture), announced in Parliament yesterday. In answer to a suggestion
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        War drums beat louder
        270 3 LONDON The world moved a step closer to war with Iraq after Britain admitted yesterday that its hopes for a second UN resolution had faded. British opposition leader lain Duncan Smith said after meeting Prime Minister Tony Blair that war was more likely. "The Prime Minister
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        Lock icon Pneumonia alert: MOH monitoring cases
        184 3 Agencies THE Ministry of Health is monitoring the cases of three people admitted tohospital with pneumonia following a global alert issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a statement yesterday, the MOH said the three were admitted after they returned from a trip to
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        Lock icon Ten killed in Mumbai blast
        114 3 Agencies MUMBAI Ten people were killed and 75 injured when a bomb exploded on a suburban commuter train in one of Mumbai's busiest rail stations. The powerful blast occurred on a first-class women's carriage of the train at 8.45pm (11.15pm Singapore time) in the suburban
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      Mr Mohan takes over
      519 4  -  Lee Ching Wern NMP asks almost half of the 90 questions tabled yesterday by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg YESTERDAY was Nominated MP Chandra Mohan's (picture) day in Parliament Out of the 90 questions tabled, Mr Mohan fired almost half. Asking questions ranging from general elections to the Cabinet and
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      Lock icon Murder No 3
      333 6  -  Jose Raymond This time, the suspect is a woman by jose@newstoday.com.sg A MURDER in Holland Close yesterday afternoon possibly marked the third such crime of passion in Singapore in a week. A 35-year-old woman was arrested yesterday after she allegedly stabbed her 42-year-old lover, Mr Teo Hwa
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      In Parliament
      215 6 MINISTERIAL SALARIES: Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Inderjit Singh claimed that benchmarking ministers' salaries to private sector pay ironically puts pressure on the private sector. He asked the Government to relook the formula used to calculate the salaries of ministers and top civil servants. Deputy Prime Minister Lee
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      Old-age blues?
      500 8  -  Derrick A Paulo What counts is how you respond to a situation by derrick@newstoday.com.sg E+R M. This is not a mathematical formula but it could be the answer for a group of people very much in the news recently: The older workers, retrenched or otherwise. "If 'E' is
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      Lock icon 10 vehicles broken into
      79 8 Newsradio 93.8 THE windows of 10 vehicles were smashed and valuables stolen on Monday. Four such incidents occurred in the Windsor Hotel basement car park in MacPherson Road. Around US$6OO ($1,050) and a passport were stolen from a car. The cars had alarms but none were
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      Lock icon All aboard for a prize
      548 11  -  Tor Ching Li Yishun station overtakes 'regulars' like City Hall in annual competition by chingli@newstoday.com.sg YISHUN MRT Station used to be famous for the wrong reasons. "Everybody knows Yishun MRT because of the JI (Jemaah Islamiyah) case," said station manager Roger Foo, 44. But today,
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      Reservist magnet
      571 12  -  Grace Tay Guess what lured them back by grace@newstoday.com.sg MANY men dread receiving THAT letter. The one informing them of when they have to report for their in-camp reservist training. They see it as an inconvenience, something to be avoided. Meet two men who feel otherwise and even
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      Wanted: Mavericks
      302 16 But will the people, the law and the Govt be receptive to them? WE are a nation of campaigns and contradictions. These days, we are best off laughing at ourselves. Come May 31, the young and the restless will use Orchard Road as a playground, with a Government-organised
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      Sorry...
      58 16 IN the report, "Sun begins to set on Daimaru" (Today, March 13), we reported that Daimaru's three stores in Liang Court, Plaza Singapura and Bishan Junction 8 will close on March 31. This is incorrect The stores will close on March 16, while the Liang Court supermarket will close
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      Local youths do take up part-time jobs to help their families
      216 16 I REFER to the letter, "Free-spending youths and financial restraint" (Today, March 12), by Mr Jeffrey Law Lee Beng. I disagree with Mr Lee's comments. Not all local students expect their parents to satisfy their financial needs without question.
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      An awful waste
      275 17 I REFER to the report, "The great name climbdown..." (Today, March 11). There is a Tamil saying: "A good cow needs to be 'serviced' only once and good children need to be told only just once." This maxim is apparently lost within the Singapore context as it
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      Those ad estimates
      263 17 I REFER to the article, "Ad re-think" (Today, March 5), which brought attention to the move by Nielsen Media Research Asia to seek cooperation from media owners and agencies to provide an estimation of discount ad rates. We would like to thank Mr Farrell Meisel, Group COO
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      13 16 Catch this. Find out what's happening at Raffles City in tomorrow's Weekend TODAY.
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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        Lock icon Singapore
        98 18 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S key index fell after the Government said the economy may grow 2.7 per cent in the current quarter from a year ago, the lowest in 12 months. Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and the island's largest stocks led the declines. The Straits Times Index shed 1.91, or 0.2
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        World markets
        69 18 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 225 INDEX 7868.56 -74.48 -0.94 HANG SENG INDEX 8787.45 -87.54 -0.99 ASX ALL ORDINARIES INDX 2673.30 -13.80 -0.51 TAIWAN: WEIGHTED INDEX 4378.99 50.84 1.18 KOREA COMPOSITE INDEX 531.78 -0.03 -0.01 THAI STOCKEXCHG OF THAI 353.48 1.04 0.30 JAKARTA COMPOSITE INDEX 383.86 -3.39 -0.88
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        SGX most active
        54 18 fy volume War 13 iembCorp >ingTel chartered Jipitdldiul 'Food IMXTech [Tint latacrftUSS JniFood .eongHin Close 0.955 1.290 0.675 1.070 0.865 0.250 0.440 0.510 0.385 0.745 Change -0.020 +0.020 +0.020 +0.025 +0.005 -0.015 +0.005 -2.1 +1.6 +1.9 +3.0 +2.0 -2.9 +1.3 '000 11,544 10,024 7,988 7,883 7,712 6,574
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 18 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5714 Peso 0.3557 A$ 67.5500 Indian Rs 4.4562 Won 2.1718 C$ 0.5247 Yuan 5089.033 NZ$ 24.4296 NTS 31.3953 0.9642 27.2327 712.122 0.8447 4.7294 1.0441 19.8483
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        Commodities
        21 18 Gold uss/oi 343.25 Silver uss/oi 4.62 Platinum uss/oi 700.50 Rubber cents/kg 188 Palm oil RM/tonne 1517 Brent crude uss/barrel 37.83
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        SGX top rises
        80 18 By$ Mar 13 Close Change GreatEast 8.750 +0.350 SIA 9.800 +0.250 SIA200 9.800 +0.200 AseanSupremelOOUSS 4.440 +0.120 OUE 5.850 +0.100 C&C 3.540 +0.060 BukitSem 10.000 +0.050 HL Fin 1.800 +0.040 Semb Lag 1.660 +0.040 DelGro 500 2.460 +0.030 By percentage Mar 13 EKN Close Change 0.030 +100.0
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        SGX top falls
        78 18 By$ Mar 13 SPH 100 Close Change 17.100 -0.300 SPH 17.200 -0.200 Venture 13.500 -0.200 ITE 0.200 -0.110 Creative 50 10.200 -0.100 DBS 8.850 -0.100 F&N 7.900 -0.100 UOB Noble 9.500 -0.100 1.640 -0.060 JMH 400USS 5.800 -0.050 By percentage Mar 13 CSCW*****7 Close Change 0.005 -50.0
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      Lock icon Rock bottom
      130 18 Reuters Hang Seng falls to lowest close since '98 HONG KONG Hong Kong's key stock index fell yesterday to its lowest since the height of the Asian financial crisis in October 1998 with quality blue chip stocks suffering sharp losses on fears of a US-led war on Iraq
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      Lock icon Telstra eyes SingTel unit
      234 20 Bloomberg Aussie firm in talks forYellow Pages SYDNEY Telstra Corp is in talks to buy Singapore Telecommunication's phone directory business for $300 million, the Australian Financial Review said. "We can confirm that we are in early discussions with SingTel as we are with a range of
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      Cold Comfort
      612 22  -  Val Chua Shareholders weary of raw deal in Comfort-DelGro merger by val@newstoday.com.sg ON THE surface, the union is a match made in heaven. The planned marriage of Comfort Group and DelGro Corp, on paper, will create a stronger entity that fulfils the dreams of its grand planners. With
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      Lock icon An ominous buzz
      493 23 -Bloomberg Fear strikes Asian markets as shades of 1997 crisis surface TOKYO It has been almost six years since the darkest days of the Asian financial crisis. Now, there is a similar feeling of risk in the air not panic as much as fear that the region's
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      Lock icon HK will reduce deficit but...
      158 23 Reuters HONG KONG The Standard Poor's rating agency said yesterday that tax hikes and spending cuts in Hong Kong's new Budget will make a big dent in the territory's fiscal deficit but leave questions about its longterm fiscal model. "The Budget measures announced last week
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      Lock icon Not by speed alone
      544 24 Reuters What broadband really needs to become the next big thing of industry HANOVER (Germany) The high-speed Internet has emerged as a beacon for firms at CeBIT the world's largest electronics trade fair as computer gear makers, telecoms operators and consumers embrace the technology. French telecom
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      Lock icon S Korean refinery downgraded for fraud links
      160 25 AFP SEOUL Moody's Investors Service warned yesterday that the credit rating of South Korea's biggest oil refinery, SK Corp, could be downgraded. The US-based global risk evaluator said it was placing "the Baa3 long-term rating of SK Corp on review for possible downgrade"
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      Lock icon If's not over yet
      209 25 AFP Enron's endless saga WASHINGTON US authorities have charged two Enron Corp executives with criminal fraud while regulators separately charged the disgraced energy company with flouting futures trading rules. Charged in relation to a financial scam which inflated Enron's earnings by US$lll million ($195 million) in
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      Lock icon Pay dispute at AMP
      142 25 AFP SYDNEY Troubled Australian insurer AMP waded further into the prickly debate over employee payouts yesterday by paying a former chief executive much less than he had reportedly requested. AMP said it would pay Mr Paul Batchelor, who was stood down by the board in September
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      Lock icon Suicide economy
      592 26  -  William Pesek Jr Bloomberg Prolonged slump takes deadly toll on Japanese by news@newstoday.com TOKYO Mr Heizo Takenaka isn't a psychiatrist or grief counsellor but the man charged with ending Japan's economic slump is talking a lot about suicide these days. It's no mystery why. At least 600 Japanese
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      Lock icon Debt talks suspended
      256 28 Reuters as APP creditors' appeal ensues A SINGAPORE appeals court is due to decide next week whether to change the management at debt laden Asia Pulp Paper (APP), just as its restructuring talks stalled in Indonesia. The talks came to a halt after 11 countries with creditors
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      Ocean Sky launches IPO
      95 28 OCEAN Sky International, a home-grown multi-national company that makes apparel, launched yesterday its initial public offering of 92 million shares for its listing on the Singapore mainboard. Of the shares, 9.2 million are available for public subscription and 79.3 million for placement at 23 cents each.
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      Lock icon BIL hit by foreign exchange losses
      109 28 Bloomberg SINGAPORE investment firm BIL International said it was unprofitable in the first half of fiscal year 2003 mainly as a result of foreign exchange losses. BIL reported a loss of US$lB million ($31.49 million) for the six months ended Dec 31, compared with
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      Corporate Briefs
      196 28 IPO 3.9 TIMES SUBSCRIBED: Accord Customer Care Solutions said the retail tranche of its initial public offer (IPO) was 3.9 times subscribed. The provider of support services for makers of mobile communication and high-tech consumer products offered 137 million new and vendor shares for its IPO at 27
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      Lock icon Boost for market
      304 30 -AFP But Japanese investors call moves 'cosmetic' TOKYO Japan's ruling coalition parties have agreed to a set of measures which will boost weak stock prices and avert a financial crisis before the financial year ends in March, a top official said yesterday. The parties settled on a
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      150 32 Reuters LOS ANGELES Miami Vice star Don Johnson (picture) on Wednesday vowed to fight allegations that he was embroiled in a money-laundering ring, saying the news reports had caused him "irreparable damage". Johnson, 53, said there was absolutely no truth in a story originating
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      235 32 Teaching material sabotaged? KUALA LUMPUR A furore has erupted in Malaysia after teachers were given VCDs intended as teaching material that contained photos of scanti-ly-clad women. The VCDs had been supplied to teachers as part of the software rushed out to facilitate Malaysia's new initiative to teach Science
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      129 34 -AFP PHNOM PENH The Cambodian authorities have arrested two suspects over the killing of a high-ranking politician in the royalist Funcinpec party. According to an Interior Ministry statement, Mom Sophan, 29, confessed that he and a partner shot Mr Om Radsady, 51, a senior political adviser
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      75 34 Reuters photo The Cookie Monster, a character from Sesame Street, posing for pictures in Tokyo with television star Minako Komukai and a big cookie yesterday. The cookie, 3.5m in diameter, was made by Universal Studios Japan (USJ) as a promotion for a new attraction at
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      190 34 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police yesterday ordered an inquiry into the mass arrest of Indian IT professionals for alleged visa irregularities which has soured relations between the two countries. Kuala Lumpur police chief Dell Akhbar Khan said the probe would be given top priority. "We want
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      159 34 Agencies SEOUL Pressure is building for Washington to engage in talks with Pyongyang as reports said North Korea was preparing to launch a long-range ballistic missile in a possible new escalation of tension. According to Tokyo media reports, Pyongyang is preparing to test-fire the Rodong-1
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      130 36 LONDON The authorities in Britain have uncovered a vast "consumer chicken con" in which 60,000 tonnes of frozen chicken were doctored with hydrolysed pork and beef proteins, The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. Investigations revealed that more than half the chicken samples supplied to restaurants, schools
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      262 40 Manila pyramid scheme collected billions MANILA The woman who allegedly masterminded a multi-billion-dollar investment scam, which may involve law enforcement officials, has been arrested. Philippine police said on Wednesday they had arrested Rose Baladjay (picture), who allegedly swindled hundreds of people by coaxing them to invest some 125
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      166 42 Agencies LONDON The last all-female bastion at Britain's prestigious Oxford University has voted to keep men out College chiefs at St Hilda's are sticking with more than a century of women-only education, despite pressure in what has been dubbed the "Great Sex Debate"
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      178 42 -AFP LONDON It's the next best thing to buying the next round: From today, anyone on the Internet will be able to adopt an English country pub drinker for 20 pounds ($56.33) a year. Log on to www.pubs2ooo.com and take your pick from a growing list of
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      751 46  -  Adrian Tan Deal maker Richard Li's career proves creativity is no cure-all by news@newstoday.com.sg MR Richard Li has often been given less credit than he deserves owing to the fact his father is Li Ka-shing, possibly Asia's most powerful businessman. It is true that
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      489 52  -  Janice Lee The Usual Suspects are out to claim dance music for the masses by. ianice@newstodav.com.sg DANCE music seems to be for club snobs these days. Now, a trio of enthusiasts want to strip it of its nightswinging and beautiful people links and introduce it back
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      85 52 TONIGHT, head down to the University Cultural Centre Hall for a free Chinese cultural performance. An award-winning troupe from the Tsinghua University of Beijing will perform folk songs and dances, as well as traditional instrumental pieces and classical works as part of the National
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      494 68 -AFP Japanese players lack match practice Golf Dynasty Cup, Day 1 Asia v Japan SHENZHEN Hsieh Min Nan is banking on national allegiances to get Asia's top golfers off to a flying start against Japan in the inaugural Phoenix Dynasty Cup here today. There were few
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      598 69 AFP Sri Lanka praying New Zealand falls as two sides fight for last semi-final spot Cricket World Cup Super Sixes India v New Zealand Live, today, 4pm, Ch37 JOHANNESBURG With Australia, India and Kenya already guaranteed a place in the semi-finals of the World Cup, New Zealand
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      506 70 The Mailman continues to deliver as he joins Abdul Jabbar in points landmark NBA Utah Jazz 111 Orlando Magic 108 Malone also makes key steal ORLANDO Karl "The Mailman" Malone is not 10th on the all-time steals list without a reason. On a night when he scored
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      286 71 AFP RANCHO SANTA FE Phil Mickelson finally may have the advantage over Tiger Woods. On July 28, Woods and Ernie Els will face Mickelson and Sergio Garcia in The Battle at the Bridges, a one-round, bestball exhibition event televised live in the United States. ABC television,
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      166 71 Reuters ADELAIDE Netball Australia (NA) must pay Trudy Gardner A56,750 ($7,000) in damages for discrimination after it banned her from playing in the national league while pregnant, an Australian court ruled yesterday. NA imposed a ban in June 2001, saying it feared for players' welfare
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        388 72 Reuters MALAGA A sharply taken first half strike from Dely Valdes gave UEFA Cup debutant Malaga a 1-0 win over Boavista in their quar-ter-final, first leg match at the Rosaleda this morning. The Panamanian international scored at the far post after fine work from
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        451 72 Reuters Battle of Britain sees Liverpool drawing first blood UEFA Cup Quarter-final Celtic 1 Liverpool 1 Heskey nets precious away goal GLASGOW Liverpool gained the upper hand in its all-British UEFA Cup quarter-final against Celtic thanks to Emile Heskey's away goal in a 1-1 first-leg draw.
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        375 72 -AFP UEFA Cup Quarter-final Lazio 1 Besiktas 0 Inzaghi celebrates return with goal ROME Lazio striker Simone Inzaghi marked his return from a one-month layoff with a fractured wrist by scoring the winner in the 1-0 win over Turkey's Besiktas in their UEFA Cup
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      323 73  -  Tan Yo-Hinn bj yohinn@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the NTUC Income S-League's new official drinking water was unveiled at 11am yesterday, the sponsorship deal stood at $500,000 for one year. But a little over half an hour later, it became a three-year deal worth $1.5
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      387 73  -  Stanley Ho NTUC Income S-League Sinchi 1 Sembawang 1 The Stallions get the extra point by stanley@newstoday.com.sg HE'S done it again. Thai international Pitipong Kuldilog helped Sembawang Rangers snatch a 1-1 draw from what had seemed for a long time like certain defeat against Sinchi
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      191 73 AFP LONDON Thailand has pulled out of badminton's Sudirman Cup mixedteam world championship following protests concerning the draw for the tournament. The Thais yanked their team out of the March 18-23 competition in Eindhoven after protests to the International Badminton Federation
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      593 75 If Mr Capello knows anything about Martin Keown, he would know he is not a cheat. I saw it (Totti's arm) coming. I tried to avoid it and he caught me in the eye. That is why I went down. Arsenal defender Martin Keown, answering Fabio
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      126 75 -AFP BIRMINGHAM Beckham is keen on a move to Italy. But it is David's wife, Victoria, who wants to live there. Her admission means a move to Italy could become a real possibility for the Manchester United and England star Beckham as his wife wants to
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    744 77  -  Tan Hui Leng It helps patients pay less cash for medical treatment by huileng@newstoday.com.sg WHEN 63-year-old Mr Ng Tong Leong (picture) was discharged from the National University Hospital in December last year, he had chalked up $4,486 in medical bills, almost enough to make him sick again.
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    156 77 MEDISHIELD is another scheme that's been helping Singaporeans pay their medical bills. One such person is retiree David Khoo (not his real name). The 66-year-old was admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Dec 16, 2002, after being diagnosed with fibromatoses of muscle ligaments and
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