Today, 3 April 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    8 1 TODAY Thursday April 3, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      When Sars clouds reason
      704 1  -  Discrimination, inside and outside S'pore by 1 Val Chua val@newsto day. com. sg PLEASE cleanse yourself before you return. And refrain from using the lift for two weeks. This was the shocking notice that greeted a nurse from Tan Tock Seng Hospital when she returned to
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      Lock icon US stocks soar
      59 1 -AFP NEW YORK US shares surged yesterday as investors cheered the US and British forces' advance on Baghdad. The Dow Jones industrials average soared 215.83 points (2.67 per cent) to 8,285.69. The Standard and Poor's 500 index shot up 22.52 points (2.62 per cent) to 880.99. The
      -AFP  -  59 words
    • GULF WAR II
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        Lock icon Another PR disaster by US forces
        189 1 Reuters BAGHDAD US missiles damaged a Red Crescent maternity hospital in Baghdad and other civilian buildings yesterday, killing several people and wounding at least 25, hospital sources and witnesses said. Residents said the nearby Baghdad trade centre complex and offices housing the Pharmacist and
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Singapore's seventh index case
      203 2  -  Lee Ching Wem THE mother of the Indonesian student who brought Sars into Singapore has been infected by the virus. This makes the 42-year-old Indonesian woman, who went to Hong Kong and Guangdong for a holiday last month, Singapore's seventh index case. Her 17-year-old son, a
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      Sars virus in HK sewage?
      675 2  -  Lee Ching Wern WHO says transmission could be via waste by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THERE is new evidence from the Amoy Gardens case in Hong Kong that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) may be transmitted through water or sewage systems. Revealing this yesterday in Hong Kong, Dr
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      Compassion guidelines for Sars leave
      238 2  -  —Joy Frances EMPLOYERS and their employees can look to Government recommendations for help in dealing with absenteeism due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). Yesterday, the Ministry of Manpower advised that employees under the home quarantine order have their absence treated as paid hospitalisation leave.
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      SARS UPDATE
      136 2 A woman is undergoing tests for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) in a hospital in the Western Australian capital. The 46-year-old was admitted to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital late on Tuesday, the state Health Department said. "She had recently travelled to Singapore as part of a visit
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      Lock icon Infection slows in China
      147 2 Agencies CHINA As a team of World Health Organisation (WHO) experts got ready to move into Guangdong yesterday to assess the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) situation there, the Chinese government put out figures to assure its people that the spread of the disease in China
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      Lock icon No live audiences for now
      88 2 Newsradio 93.8 FROM today, all programmes on MediaCorp TV will be recorded without a live audience. In view of the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), Mediacorp said it is taking this precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the virus. The move will
      Newsradio 93.8  -  88 words
    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Untitled
        51 3 The community must be aware of potential threats without being paranoid or alarmist, appreciate and understand the efforts of the authorities in ensuring Singapore's security and participate actively in national security initiatives. Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Wong Kan Seng, at the Police Workplan Seminar at Orchid Country Club this
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        Lock icon Sars in Brazil?
        103 3 Reuters SAO PAULO (Brazil) Brazil yesterday reported the country's first suspected case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). Sao Paulo's Health Secretary Luiz Roberto Barradas said a British journalist who had arrived in Sao Paulo on Monday to cover the Brazilian Grand Prix was hospitalised after showing
        – Reuters  -  103 words
      • GULF WAR II
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          Lock icon Into the 'reel zone'
          642 3  -  Ng Boon Yian Decisive battle for Baghdad at hand, fears of chemical attacks mount by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg THE LAST bastion of Iraq's pride Baghdad is in the crosshairs of the US forces. The Baghdad division of the elite Republican Guard has been destroyed and the vanguard of
          -AFP photo  -  642 words
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      Lock icon Religion as weapon
      562 4 Agencies Bush and Saddam wage war in the name of God BAGHDAD Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is well known for being a secular leader, a fact that has put him at odds with his Arab neighbours for years. But on Tuesday, Mr Saddam issued an emotional religious
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      Lock icon Uday's former double treated like dirt' at UK airport
      381 4 Reuters LONDON A former double of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's feared elder son Uday (picture) said yesterday he was treated "like dirt" by immigration officers who refused him entry into Britain over the weekend. "Honestly, I never had this before," 39-year-old
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      Lock icon Roh wins big as govt votes to send troops
      248 4 Agencies SEOUL It was a big gamble just weeks into the job but President Roh Moo Hyun yesterday won a major political victory when the Parliament voted to send non-combat troops to the war in Iraq. South Korea's National Assembly voted
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      YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS
      208 4 Turkey has agreed to let the US use its territory to re-supply US forces in northern Iraq with food and fuel after a visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Mr Powell, visiting to repair damage to relations wrought by Ankara's refusal to allow US troops to
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Uproar over upgrading
      591 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Condo owners unhappy that decision was taken by a minority of 50 by huileng(s>newstoday.com.sg WITH most Singaporeans being prudent with their finances, it is hard to imagine that the majority of the owners of The Waterside condominium (picture) would overlook a meeting to vote
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      Lock icon N-E Line delayed
      272 6 Newsradio 93.8 THERE has been yet another delay in the opening of the North-East MRT line. Senior Minister of State for Transport Khaw Boon Wan revealed yesterday that the line could start operating by the end of May, if ongoing trials by its operator, SBS, proceeded smoothly.
      – Newsradio 93.8  -  272 words
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      Coast Guard crew's biggest challenge
      350 6  -  Jose Raymond IT WAS a race against time. The crew of the Police Coast Guard vessel, Hammerhead Shark, had only 90 minutes to carry out rescue operations before the RSS Courageous sank. The collision between the navy cutter, RSS Courageous, and a cargo ship, ANL
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      Where's the respect?
      110 8  -  Sharon Ng I COMMUTE to and from work by train. I have noticed that whenever nurses in uniform step into the train, some commuters cover their mouths with their hands or with their sweaters. Some even get up from their seats if a nurse sits beside them.
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      A salute to TTSH's brave staff
      132 8  -  Sarah Seow Ming Hui I REFER to the article, "Sars hospital's badge of honour" (Today, April 2). I would like to salute the brave men and women of Tan Tock Seng Hospital who battle Sars head-on despite the knowledge that masks, gloves and gowns
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      Lock icon A nurse's sadness
      357 8  -  Cathy Ng When a hospital uniform keeps people away ON behalf of my Tan Tock Seng Hospital colleagues, I would like to thank Mr Vasu Menon, who wrote the letter, "The unsung heroes", (Today, April 1). His understanding and consideration made me feel that my efforts as
      -AFP photo  -  357 words
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      Snipping Nicole: Censors respond
      421 8  -  Ng Eng Ping WE write in response to Mr David Ngiau's article "Stop snipping Nicole" (Today, March 19) and a letter from Mr Christopher Robin "Rethink censorship policies" (Today, March 20). We would like to take this opportunity to inform readers about the Board of Film
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      GDP woes
      286 10  -  Lee Yew Meng Sars may have worse impact than Bali by yewm engcffnewstoday. com. sg JP MORGAN Chase and IDEAglobal have slashed Singapore's economic growth forecast for this year as the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) takes its toll. For the period spanning April to June,
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      Lock icon Funds boost ComfortDelGro shares
      180 10 Reuters SHARES of merged taxi and bus operator, ComfortDelGro, rose in active trading yesterday as funds adjusted portfolios in anticipation of the company's inclusion in key global stock indices. The marriage of taxi operator, Comfort Group, and bus service provider, DelGro Corp, created in March Singapore's
      Reuters; TORCHING LI  -  180 words
    • Market Watch
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        Your S$1 buys
        33 10 US$ 0.5651 UK£ 0.3594 Yen 66.6300 HK$ 4.4069 RM 2M71 ah 5 Baht 24.2538 Peso 30.0353 A$ 0.9397 Indian Rs 26.7721 Won 708.631 ,C, s I,^? J» \Z NTS 19.6621
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        Commodities
        22 10 Gold uss/oz 330.85 Silver uss/oz 4.400 Platinum uss/oz 640.50 Rubber ce„.sA g 181.5 Palm oil RM/tonne 1455.5 Brent crude ussA.arrel 29.78
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        Lock icon Singapore
        134 10 Reuters SINGAPORE shares closed higher on Wednesday, with Singapore Telecommunications rising on hopes its business would benefit from the war in Iraq and the spread of the virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). Singapore Airlines shrugged off news of more capacity cuts but property and hotels company
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        World markets
        49 10 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 8069.85 83.13 1.04 HANG SENG 8706.19 109.30 1.27 ILL ORDINARIES 2847.40 3.20 0.11 LAIWAN WTD 4311.56 -26.05 -0.60 KOREA COMP 542.92 4.36 0.81 SET 363.02 0.80 0.22 JAKARTA COMP 398.06 0.05 0.01 PHILIPPINES COMP 1051.96 13.89 1.34 SHENZHEN B 204.22 0.10 0.05
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        SGX most active
        58 10 Jy volume Vpril 2 ComfortDelGro SingTel chartered ices latacrftUSS CITYDEV itarCrusUSS STAssemb LeongHin iembCorp Close 0.820 1.430 0.645 0.350 0.530 3.600 0.205 1.220 0.760 1.060 Change +0.030 +0.060 +0.010 +0.010 -0.060 +0.005 +0.030 +0.005 -0.040 +3.8 +4.4 +1.6 +1.9 -1.6 +2.5 +2.5 +0.7 -3.6 'OOO 31,92' 14,79:
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        SGX top rises
        86 10 )y$ \prfl 2 JOB Close Change 10.900 +0.300 .IA 9.050 +0.200 ilA 200 9.050 +0.200 iPH 17.800 +0.200 :&c 3.980 +0.160 )BS 9.400 +0.150 jreatEast 9.300 +0.150 iTI ETF100 13.120 +0.120 Creative 50 11.200 +0.100 iPH 100 17.800 +0.100 By percentage April 2 L&M Close Changi 0.010
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        81 10 SGX Bloomberg By$ April 2 NalSleel Close Change 2.230 -0.100 CITYDEV 3.600 -0.060 F&N 7.900 -0.050 SembCorp 1.060 -0.040 fSM 0.170 -0.030 Bouslead 0.365 -0.025 HongFok CerebosPat 0.125 -0.025 1.870 -0.020 Innovalu 0.980 -0.020 MCL Land 1.000 -0.020 By percentage April 2 El-Nets Close Changi 0.005 -50.1
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      Time for clean set of books
      417 11  -  Chan Chao Peh Call for international accounting standard by chaupciKyncYysLuuay.ium.sß Wl 1H memories of unprecedented financial and accounting scandals still fresh in the mind of the business world, companies and regulators should try to ride on the momentum of calls for changes. "This is
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      Lock icon Fall in number of visitors in March
      182 11 AFX-Asia VISITOR arrivals in February rose 2.3 per cent year-on-year to 612,897, boosted by more tourists from Indonesia and China, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said. However, the uptrend is expected to reverse in March after the STB's announcement last week that visitor
      – AFX-Asia  -  182 words
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      Travelling light
      401 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Sars and war force SIA to cut passenger flights by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg FLAG carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA), hit by the double whammy of a worldwide virus and the war in Iraq, said that it is reducing its passenger carrying capacity by 13.6 per cent, or 60
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      Lock icon Disease scare hits US business trips to Asia
      256 12 Reuters LOS ANGELES Some US businesses are banning travel to Asia as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) scare spreads, a survey of corporate travellers has shown. The televised quarantine at San Jose International Airport of American Airlines Flight 128 from Tokyo
      Reuters  -  256 words
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      Lock icon Let's meet via video
      232 13 Bloomberg Sars and war also boost orders for phone conferences SINGTEL, South-east Asia's biggest phone company, and other phone companies in Asia may benefit as companies use conference calls increasingly and cut back on travel because of the Iraq war and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).
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      Lock icon Corporate briefs
      251 13 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia DBS ROTATES AUDITORS: DBS Group Holdings has nominated Ernst and Young to replace its current auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), in accordance with a new ruling that requires local banks to rotate their auditors every five years. UOB and OCBC which are also audited by PwC told Today
      – AFX-Asia  -  251 words
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      Lock icon No loss claims for sick or quarantined staff
      292 13 Reuters COMPANIES faced with business disruption from the mandatory quarantine of workers because of the Sars illness sweeping the region will face difficulties claiming for losses, Asian insurance firms said. Sars, which has killed at least 65 and infected many more worldwide,
      — Reuters  -  292 words
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      Lock icon Turbulence in the air
      352 14 Reuters Air Canada files for bankruptcy, more airlines announce cuts in jobs, flights AIR Canada, the world's No 11 carrier, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday and more major airlines announced cuts in jobs and flights to cope with the crisis in global aviation. Never in
      – Reuters  -  352 words
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Bid for bail
      284 15 Anwar's application may be heard KUALA LUMPUR Jailed former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (picture) may get his bail application considered by Malaysian courts on April 8, his lawyer, Mr Sankara Nair, said yesterday. Keadilan, the political party formed around Anwar and headed by his wife Wan
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      Want a free mobile phone? Strip
      114 15 MOSCOW Twenty young Russians stripped naked in a shop to win a free mobile phone in a promotion to mark the first day of spring, reported AFP. The Euroset chain had posted a large sign outside its shop that read: "Anyone who comes naked
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      Lock icon Hijacked for 15 hours
      150 15 AFP MIAMI For the second time in two weeks, a hijacked Cuban airliner landed in Key West, Florida this time 15 hours after a man saying he was armed with grenades seized the plane and demanded to be flown to the United States. Authorities said the
      AFP  -  150 words
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      Lock icon 2 boys nabbed for bomb plot
      92 15 -AFP LOS ANGELES Two students have been arrested on charges of plotting to bomb a high school, police said. The boys, whose identities were withheld because of their age, found instructions to make a pipe bomb on the Internet, but were missing one of
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      Another Davao blast kills 13
      192 16 DAVAO (Philippines) At least 13 people were killed and 35 others injured in an explosion yesterday night that ripped through a wharf in the southern Philippine city of Davao, officials said. A security official who did not want to be named said the blast, the
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      Lock icon No Superman
      264 16 -AFP US special forces killed in hunt for terrorists WASHINGTON US special forces, whose Superman image has created an aura of invulnerability around them, have unexpectedly disclosed heavy casualties in their worldwide hunt for Osama bin Laden and his terror associates. Addressing a congressional panel on Tuesday, Deputy
      -AFP; Getty Images  -  264 words
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Unmasking the mighty dragon
      1028 20  -  William Pesek Jr If China can't come clean on the Sars crisis, how can investors expect to get reliable data on its economy? by news@newstoday.com.Sß TOKYO Officials in Beijing consider themselves high-minded realists and dismiss doubters as paranoid fools. They silence critics questioning their honesty. They
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon MEN IN A MAZE
      992 21  -  Serene Foo and Elisa Chia Trail Leslie left behind by news@newstoday.com.sg WAS it a three, four or five-way love triangle that pushed Leslie Cheung over the edge two days ago? The 46-year-old Cantopop star reportedly left a suicide note hinting he was suffering from emotional problems
      – AFP and Apple Daily photos  -  992 words
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      Arts festival gets bold with productions despite budget cut
      390 21  -  Yong Shu Chiang THE Singapore Arts Festival will soon be back, but with a slimmer budget and trimmer programme compared to its predecessor last year. This year's festival has not been spared the economic woes here and abroad, but with $6.5
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      Big in China
      447 22  -  Elisa Chia Ray's portrayal of monk earns him venerable fame by elisa@newstodav.com.sg WITH a macho attitude and booming voice that at times make him sound arrogant, actor Ray Liu Leung Wai (picture) is nothing like the mildmannered venerable master he plays on Dharma. The Chinese epic drama
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      DAILY BREW
      288 22 MAD ABOUT PEACE CONTROVERSIAL superstar Madonna (picture) has cancelled the US release of her new video which contains anti-war images, deeming it inappropriate to air it at this time, reports AFP. Her decision was spurred by the I growing public pressure on US celebrities not to criticise the
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Horror scorcher
        536 24  -  Yong Shu Chianj Carefully crafted to make your skin crawl May FILM REVIEW THE publicity posters for May (picture), showing a pale-skinned girl with dramatic red lips and ringed by menacing scissors, hint at the horror lying within. But, people who think that this is a third-rate fright
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        Lock icon New home for Toronto Int'l Film Festival
        260 24 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter TORONTO The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled plans on Tuesday for a new home to be built in downtown Toronto, where the parents of homeboy Ivan Reitman once operated a car wash. The director-producer of Evolution and Six Days, Seven Nights
        – Reuters/Hollywood Reporter  -  260 words
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        One film, two reviews
        542 26  -  David Ngiau Romantic comedy Just Married is great as a trailer, but bad as a film Just Married FILM REVIEW Just Married TRAILER REVIEW THE most remarkable thing about Just Married a soppy romantic comedy disguised as a screwball laugh-fest is that it's a textbook example
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        216 26 AFP VLADIVOSTOK (Russia) Television chiefs in Russia's far-eastern maritime region have been ordered to cut back on Hollywood movies and other US productions in order to counter "American propaganda" during the US-led war on Iraq, local officials said yesterday. An official told AFP that
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        165 28  -  Cathleen Tung THE detrimental effects of chemicals on our skin, including those in cosmetics and even skincare products, are well known. In one's daily skincare regime, however, it seems unavoidable that some synthetic chemical component or other is present in the cleansing products. The only thing
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      160 31 Reuters SARASOTA Top seed and defending champion Jelena Dokic lost in the opening round of the Sarasota Open on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), falling 6-3, 6-3 to Argentina's Paola Suarez in the season's first claycourt event The 19-year-old Yugoslav was joined at the
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      342 32  -  S Murali by murali@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in Singapore, top golfers from Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia have not been deterred from flocking to next week's Singapore IT Federation (SITF) Golf Masters. The 69-strong field of golfers
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      356 32 -AFP AUGUSTA Augusta has scrapped a controversial plan to introduce an age limit of 65 years for past champions to compete in The Masters. Hootie Johnson, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament, said that the lifetime exemption for past
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      189 33 -AFP HONG KONG Eric Saint-Martin, one of the top jockeys in racing-mad Hong Kong, said he would leave the territory yesterday because he feared for the safety of his family during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak, reports said. Frenchman Saint-Martin said
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      231 33 Reuters SHARJAH Surprise semi-finalist Kenya can show its World Cup run was no flash in the pan in the four-nation Sharjah Cup, which gets under way today. The Kenyans are still on a high after their stunning progress to the last four in
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      536 34  -  Tan Yo-Hinn After Sars outbreak, SSC advises its associations to by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg WITH anxiety growing over the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), it was perhaps inevitable that the virus would hit the local sports scene hard. Well, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) has decided to act in
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