Today, 2 April 2003

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    15 1 TODAY We d n e s d <iy APrii i -> 2°° 3 mita(p)^ mm^ 1
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    Leslie Cheung kills himself
    325 1 VETERAN canto pop singer and actor Leslie Cheung (picture), 46, has died after he jumped off a hotel in Hong Kong's financial district in an apparent suicide. According to media reports, Leslie had stepped off the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong's Central district at about
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    Fresh fear
    664 1  -  Lee Ching Wern NUHdoc gets Sars despite protection by chiligweriiwiiewsi.ouay.coiii.sg bars epidemic took a disturbing twist as a doctor who had treated a patient wearing an N95 mask, gown and gloves still contracted the disease from her. Every day, the experts learn something new about this mysterious disease.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Serum hope for Sars
      76 2 SINGAPORE has started experimenting with a new form of treatment for Sars patients. The mother of index patient, Esther Mok, was given a dose of convalescent serum antibodies taken from recovered Sars patients on Monday night. So far, she has made progress as her requirement for
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      CJ's jolt for a hooligan
      464 2  -  Joy Frances Maximum jail term of 14 years and a tongue-lashing by j oy_newstoday. com.sg CHIEF JUSTICE Yong Pung How gave a young hooligan a nasty fright when he doubled his sentence only to be told by the deputy public prosecutor (DPP) that this went
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      Lock icon They locked themselves up with 'the beas'... so that others will be safe
      447 3 AFP HANOI When the deadly disease sweeping Asia began scything through the French hospital in Hanoi, doctors took a terrifying but instinctive decision to lock themselves away with the killer virus to prevent it escaping into the
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      Sars hospital's badge of honour
      686 3  -  Lee Ching Wern We will do our job to the best of our ability:TTSH CEO by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THE long corridors of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) are empty. The echo of heels striking the floor whenever the occasional nurse walks by wearing an N95 mask
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      Lock icon SARS UPDATE
      304 3 Livestock in southern China may be the source of the Sars virus, said sources close to the World Health Organisation. In some areas in Guangdong province, people live close to animals pigs, chickens, ducks are everywhere, the source said. A bird flu viral strain had claimed the lives
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      The cough that strikes fear
      489 4  -  Lee Ching Wern But it need not be a sign of Sars, so don't panic, say doctors by chinewernWnewstodav. com.se YOU panic when the man next to you in the MRT coughs. But what are the chances that he actually has Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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      Lock icon PM Goh's India visit is on
      129 4 -AFP PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong will go ahead with an official visit to India next week despite the Sars outbreak here. The Hindustan Times of India had earlier reported that the Sars problem in Singapore and other east Asian countries could result in
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      Santana and other acts give S'pore a miss
      365 4  -  Janice Lee by janice@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S concert scene has become the latest casualty in the war against Sars. Yesterday, two big names in the music industry, legendary guitarist Carlos Santana (picture) and UK singer Craig David, postponed appearances here this month, citing what
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      Nervous fingers and a PR disaster
      524 6  -  Elisia Yeo by elisiacffnewstoday.com.sg NEAR NAJAF (Iraq) As the sounds of cannon fire died down, US Army medic Sergeant Mario Manzano saw something he now wishes he hadn't In a car riddled with American bullets and filled with the dead and dying was a
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      YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS
      202 6 The onslaught on Baghdad continued with US cruise missiles bombarding the capital, including the main Presidential Palace complex. Meanwhile, US war planes attacked targets close to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The office of the Iraqi President denied reports from the Pentagon that members of Mr Saddam
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      Lock icon The pain of war
      70 6 -AFP photo An Iraqi man, who has lost his wife and three children, grieving after a coalition missile fell on Al Fedayliyeh, 15km southeast of Baghdad, leaving six people dead and 33 injured. The blitz to bring down the Baghdad regime struck President Saddam Hussein's Republican
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      Lock icon Israeli minister warns Syria
      187 6 AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar Al Assad about the might of the Jewish state as tensions between the two neighbours rose. Mr Mofaz was reacting to remarks made by the Syrian leader to the Lebanese daily, Al Safir, last
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      The fall of SPH's TV boss
      582 8  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Former MediaWorks CEO Lee admits he may have 'stepped on someone's toes' by kim@newstodav.com.se "UNCEREMONIOUS" is how Mr Lee Cheok Yew (picture), the former chief executive officer of broadcaster SPH MediaWorks, described the swift blow he received from his former employers. Still
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      Foie gras on menu despite formal protest from animal rights group
      424 8  -  Joy Frances by i oyCSnewstoday. com. se THE World Gourmet Summit held here from Mar 30 to April 12 has come under fire for two events where foie gras will be served. President of local animal rights group Animal
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      Lock icon Qantas plane from S'pore forced to land
      85 8 -AFP SYDNEY A faulty air-condi-tioning unit which caused smoke to enter the cabin of a Qantas Airways Boeing 767 flying from Singapore to Adelaide forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in central Australia yesterday. Officials said the aircraft, with 183 passengers
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      The Malaysian spin
      185 10  -  Christopher Teo Kian Lam Dr M should not criticise Singapore's policy on Iraq I REFER to your report, "Dr M regrets S'pore backing US on war" (Today, March 27). It was undiplomatic of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to criticise Singapore's position on the war in Iraq.
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      Has Afghanistan been forgotten?
      163 10  -  Vin Teo THE news coverage of the war in Iraq has pushed aside information on the political and economic progress being made, if any, in Afghanistan. I am certain a lot of readers would like to know how this former Taliban-controlled country is faring. There are
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      Don't call Sars victims 'super infectors'
      179 10  -  Lydia Kwek I WOULD like to comment on how some Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) victims have been labelled as "Super Infectors" (Today, March 31). Perhaps the health authorities might be correct in identifying these people as such, but couldn't they and the media
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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        World markets
        53 11 Index Value Change Pts NIKKEI 7986.72 14.01 0.18 HANG SENG 8596.89 -37.56 -0.44 ALL ORDINARIES 2844.20 -4.40 -0.15 TAIWAN WTD 4337.61 16.39 0.38 KOREA COMP 538.56 2.86 0.53 SET 362.22 -2.33 -0.64 JAKARTA COMP 398.06 0.05 0.01 PHILIPPINES COMP 1038.07 -1.60 -0.15 SHENZHEN B 204.12 1.04 0.51 MUMBAI
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 11 USS UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Bnht 0.5646 0.3582 66.7730 4.4036 2.1452 0.5186 5015.95 24.2111 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 30.1189 0.9352 26.7933 709.454 0.8286 4.6733 1.0203 19.6276
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        Commodities
        23 11 Gold us$/oz 335.25 Rubber cent, g 182.5 Silver us$/oz 4.460 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1469.5 Platinum us$/oz 643.00 Brent crude us$. rrel 31.04
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        Lock icon Singapore
        122 11 SGX Bloomberg Information provided by: SINGAPORE stocks recovered yesterday some of the massive losses suffered on Monday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index climbing 14.76 points to close at 1,282.58. About two counters rose for each one that fell. The STI futures contract for April settlement added 1.5 per
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        Straits Times Index- Intra-day Chart
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        SGX most active
        55 11 By volume April 1 NOL Close 1.020 Change -0.030 -2.9 'OOO 18,086 SingTel SembCorp ACCS StarCrusUSS Chartered 1.370 1.100 0.350 0.200 0.635 +0.030 +0.010 -0.005 +0.005 +2.2 +0.9 -2.4 +0.8 15,103 14,716 14,313 13,105 12,332 CirPlus 0.085 -0.005 -5.6 11,964 Ml 1.260 11,382 ComfortDelGro 0.790 10,552 Ocean
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        SGX top rises
        79 11 By$ By percentage April 1 Close Change Creative 50 11.100 +0.400 April 1 GRP Close Change 0.095 +72.7 UOB 10.600 +0.300 NelwrkW*****1 0.015 +50.0 JMH400USS 5.700 +0.200 CraflP 0.070 +40.0 CITYDEV 3.660 +0.120 DBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.100 +0.100 Yongnam GMG USS 0.020 +33.3 0.025 +25.0 SIA 8.850
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        SGX top falls
        83 11 By$ April 1 SPH Close Change 17.600 -0.200 By percentage April 1 SeeHSW*****0 Close Change 0.005 -66.7 SPH 100 17.700 -0.200 Koh Bros W*****6 0.015 -40.0 SingamasC 2kHKS 2.350 -0.175 BBR 0.010 -33.3 OUE 5.650 -0.100 SPP 0.035 -30.0 Semb Log 1.630 -0.070 EaslgaleW*****1 0.055 -26.7 KhongGuan
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      Lock icon Prices fall but no rush
      423 12  -  Lee Yew Meng Iraq war, Sars keeping buyers away from cheaper private properties by yewmeng(g>newstoday.com.sg PROPERTY buyers are adopting a wait-and-see attitude even as private home prices fell 0.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Analysts said there will be no rush
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      Lock icon Investors head north as rents fall
      383 12 Bloomberg CAPITALAND Ltd and Keppel Land Ltd may have trouble finding buyers for $6 billion of offices and malls as investors flee falling rents to seek higher returns in China and South Korea, brokers said. CapitaLand, South-east Asia's biggest developer and Keppel also face
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      Lock icon SingTel shares soar
      446 14  -  Chan Chao Peh Possible cash inflows fuel investors' interest by chaopeh(s>newstoday.com.s $65.5 million in cash. Since 1993, the company has invested $468 million in the Philippines' largest mobile operator. SingTel's stock also rose as investors warmed to news that Sing Post, its postal unit that is poised
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      Lock icon BIL steps up pressure
      153 14 Reuters LONDON Singapore's BIL International sought to tighten the screws on bid target Thistle Hotels on Monday by attempting to appeal to shareholders to remove chief executive lan Burke and his team. Thistle rejected the move. BIL is already Thistle's biggest shareholder with a 45.8 per
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      Lock icon The chips are down
      386 16 Bloomberg Chartered Semiconductor, Hynix may suffer from war A PROLONGED war in Iraq may derail a recovery in demand for semiconductors, hurting Asian manufacturers such as Hynix Semiconductor and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, analysts said. Market researchers such as Gartner have said chip sales may rise nine
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      Lock icon Another year of profit
      106 16 AFX-Asia HONG Leong Asia expects double-digit net profit growth this year on a turnaround of its Singapore building materials operation and sustained growth of its businesses in China. "We are seeing double-digit (profit) growth," Hong Leong Asia chief executive officer Wrix Gasteen said. He said the
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      Lock icon S'pore Power bid fails
      122 16 moomoerg SEOUL After talks to sell the LG Power Co to Singapore Power broke down, LG-Caltex Oil Corp, the oil refining unit of South Korea's sec-ond-largest industrial group, bought a 74 per cent stake in its affiliate company. LG-Caltex, the nation's second-largest oil refiner, bought 26.5
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      Lock icon Friends of Net
      395 18 -AFP HK, Singapore are Asia's friendliest for e-commerce HONG Kong and Singapore offer Asia's friendliest environments for Internet-based business, reflecting their governments' strong support for electronic commerce, a survey by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) showed. In contrast, the lower rankings of countries such as Thailand
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      235 18 -AFX-Asia ■AFX-Asia ■AFX-Asia AFX-Asia PROFIT FALLS: LAFE Technology said net profit last year fell to U5515.93 million ($28.15 million) from U5521,377 million in 2001, after a fall in the volume of sales as well as a US$l.9 million provision for the impairment in value of a long-term investment
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      Lock icon Crisis of confidence
      340 22 -AFP More large Japanese manufacturers say economic conditions are unfavourable TOKYO The Bank of Japan's latest Tankan survey shows business confidence fell in the past three months, with the large manufacturers' index slipping to minus 10 from minus nine. The index of large non-manufactur-ers showed their confidence
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Casualty of e-mail scandal
      132 24 Reuters President Ricardo Lagos has accepted the resignation of Central Bank Governor Carlos Massad, following a scandal in which confidential financial information was leaked from Mr Massad's personal computer via e-mail to a private sector brokerage. Markets were shocked in early February when the Central Bank
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      Lock icon $1.8b fraud: Chairman fired
      312 24 Reuters NEW YORK A fresh financial scandal reared its ugly head yesterday, this time with the firing of HealthSouth Corp's chief executive and chairman, Mr Richard Scrushy (illustration), a central figure in a probe into more than US$l billion ($1.76 billion) of possible accounting fraud. HealthSouth,
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      Lock icon Cough, cough ... trial adjourned
      172 24 Cough, cough trial adjourned Reuters LONDON The trial of a British army major accused of cheating in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire TV quiz, with the help of a coughing accomplice, was adjourned because of an outbreak of coughing among the jury members. A court official said the
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      186 25 AFP HAVANA A man with two hand grenades was holding 46 people hostage on board an airliner at Havana's international airport, demanding that he be flown to Miami, officials said in a statement early yesterday. The Soviet-made AN-24 airliner was en route from Nueva
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      257 25 Medan rocked by bombs on successive days JAKARTA The Indonesian city of Medan was rocked by a second bomb blast in as many days yesterday but there were no casualties, police said. North Sumatra police spokesman Amrin Karim said the bomb was placed under a gas
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      120 25 Reuters MBABANE (Swaziland) Listeners to the state-run radio station thought it had its own correspondent in Baghdad covering the war until legislators spotted him in Parliament over the weekend. "Why are they lying to the nation that the man is in Iraq, when he
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      1069 26  -  Shaun Seow CNA boss takes a hard look at US media coverage of the war in Iraq BOSTON (Massachusetts) Since arriving in the United States about two weeks ago, I have been doing a very American thing: Watching television. Lots of it. And this is not
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      605 28  -  Elisa Chia Turn Left,Turn Right the first Chinese movie produced by Warner Bros Pictures, Hong Kong's Milkyway Image and MediaCorp Studio's Raintree Pictures boasts of two gorgeous leads in Gigi Leung andTakeshi Kaneshiro.Today met up with them in Hong Kong to suss out their chemistry. THERE
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      443 28  -  ElisaChia BELIEVE him. Takeshi Kaneshiro (picture) insists that he has not forsaken Chinese showbiz. Neither did he deliberately choose his projects only from the Land of the Rising Sun in the past two years. In the words of the 29-year-old heartthrob,
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      433 30  -  Elisa Chia 'Feuding' DJs race to the finish to settle their score by elisa@newstoday.com.sg MR LOH Keng Fatt, where art thou? Class 95 FM's Flying Dutchman, 47, was searching high and low for the copy editor of The Straits Times Life! section yesterday outside the Cathay
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      836 32  -  David Ngiau Our 'emotional' commentator now makes a practical case against silly snips CULTURAL capital, the term being bandied about in Parliament these days in discussions about promoting art and creativity here, sounds faintly financial. In this practical country of ours, where everything comes down
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        218 33 Reuters/Variety American movie-goers in the mood for laughs LOS ANGELES Year-on-year ticket sales at the North American box office fell for the third consecutive weekend as the war in Iraq took its toll. With TV viewers glued to cable news channels and broadcasters preempting ads
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      1357 34 W\ 17 (J 1 >?______________________________________________. TV Jfe First Touch 2 That's m n c. IT Channel News Asia, 10.33 am i An Aids patient causes a stir in I^_Hh '_H' _fl^^^. //;c hospital, while Kelly (Vernetta "-BE r__k Lopez, left) and Hock Seng's rela- '*m\9~~'^*'' tionship plummets to new depths
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      567 35 AFP Philly makes playoffs after another improbable win on the road NBA Orlando 113 Philadelphia 118 (OT) Iverson, Thomas star for 76ers ORLANDO His pull-up jumper touched nothing but net and Allen Iverson froze, pointing a finger towards Monty Williams, who leapt off the bench as
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      494 35 Reuters SAO PAULO Ferrari's world champion Michael Schumacher has welcomed Formula l's decision to delay a ban on "driver aids" until next year. "I have never hidden my opinion about electronic aids," the Italian team's website quoted the five-time
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      352 36 AFP Badminton Japan Open Returning Dane sounds warning TOKYO Two-time champion Peter Gade of Denmark lashed out at international badminton regulations after being forced to qualify for the main draw at the US$lBO,OOO ($319,000) Japan Open yesterday. The former world No. 1,
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      85 36 AUGUSTA A field of around 94 players will tee off in the opening round of the U.S. Masters here next week, organisers said yesterday. The total is 102, but Augusta officials expect eight ageing past champions to decline to play. Some of the older past champions accept they
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      114 36 ROME AC Milan's veteran Brazilian midfielder Leonardo said yesterday he is retiring from football early so that he can concentrate on his duties as the Italian club's assistant vice-president. The 33-year-old, who played in the 1998 World Cup final defeat by France, returned to Milan last October having
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      92 36 BRIDGETOWN Recalled West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara says he has no regrets about giving up the role in 2000, but felt he could not turn it down again. Lara was surprisingly reappointed to the job on Monday, replacing Carl Hooper, after the West Indies had a miserable
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      45 36 WELLINGTON All Blacks winger Jonah Lomu is to take a four-week break from rugby after a flare-up of his chronic kidney problem, New Zealand rugby officials said yesterday. The rugby veteran is suffering from nephrotic syndrome, a rare and serious kidney disorder.
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      607 37 Reuters Yankees enjoy mixed opening day as Japanese slugger debuts inToronto Major League Baseball Blue Jays 4 Yankees 8 Soriano grand slams, Jeter hurt TORONTO The New York Yankees may have another Broadway hit on its hands, Hideki Matsui turning in a promising performance yesterday in his
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      413 37 AFP LONDON Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon appears to have ruled out manager Alex Ferguson making any big buys for next season. Kenyon, who yesterday announced reduced profits of £20.3 million ($57 million) for the six months to the end of January, said United
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      915 38  -  S Gulam Council members must dare to express their own opinions GOAL 2010 will soon be changed to Goal 2014 or even Goal 2018. Looking at the current state of Singapore football, especially the standard of the national team, it would be foolish to
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      472 39  -  ran Yo-Hinn As Jaguars slip further, Under-23s roar on NTUC Income S-League Tanjong Pagar 2 Young Lions 3 Jaguars still without a point by yohinn(s)newstoday.com.sg THREE days ago, Tanjong Pagar United coach Moey Yoke Ham said there would be no cause for concern if his side did not
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      191 39 Tan YoHinn IT OVERSHADOWED Singapore's participation at the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens. It has forced the postponement of the Singapore Hockey Federation's men's and women's Premier League. Now, three more sports events have been postponed due to growing concern over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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      298 39  -  Tan Yo-Hinn IT'S a case of so far so good for the Singapore rugby contingent that returned from the Hong Kong Sevens on Monday. In a statement released yesterday by the Singapore Rugby Union (SRU), all 28 members were said to be free
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