Today, 9 April 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    8 1 TODAY Wednesday April 9, 2003 < MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon US stocks flat
      44 1 AFP NEW YORK US stocks churned but ended little changed yesterday. The Dow Jones industrials index of 30 leading stocks closed down 1.49 points at 8,298.92, Standard and Poor's 500 slipped 1.64 to 878.29 while Nasdaq fell 6.57 points to 1,382.94.
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      Lock icon Israeli jets pound Gaza
      419 1 AFP 7 dead in first strike since Iraq war began JERUSALEM Violence flared in Gaza City late yesterday as Israeli jets and helicopters carried out missile attacks that left seven Palestinians dead, including three Hamas militants. It was the first major Israeli strike on on Gaza
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      Lock icon US consumers less gloomy: Surveys
      218 1 Reuters NEW YORK Two surveys released yesterday offered evidence that Americans were a little less gloomy in early April as US-led forces raced towards Baghdad. But there were only sporadic signs that consumers are ready to start spending again and wholesale inventories remain very lean,
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      That perfect imperfect match-making
      749 1  -  Rahul Pathak in New Delhi rahul@newstoday.com.sg A VERY odd couple decided to make music together yesterday and it seems they thought of everything. How to make their wares more attractive and their bases more accessible to each other; how to target other territories together; how to
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon TV crews under fire
      471 2 1 BAGHDAD-Itwas a grim day for media personnel struggling to bring words and images of the war in Iraq to the world when three journalists died after US strikes on their offices yesterday. Despite widespread knowledge that most foreign journalists were based at the Palestine Hotel
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      Lock icon US Abrams tanks fight for control of the strategic Al Jumhuriya Bridge
      200 3 THE BATTLE for Baghdad reached a high point yesterday as three American Abrams tanks moved onto the Al Jumhuriya Bridge yesterday. The bridge is a key artery and of historical significance. Bursts of fire roared from the muzzles
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      Baghdad's last stand
      568 3  -  Clement Mesenas Battle for Iraqi capital heralds coalition's final thrust to oust Saddam's regime by clement(gnewstoday.com.sg AS AMERICAN forces launched an allout assault on key government buildings in the heart of Baghdad yesterday, US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair met the media
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      YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS
      262 3 A British military spokesman said British forces in Basra need "a couple of days" before they can declare the city secure. The British army also said it had appointed a tribal chief to provide civilian leadership of the Basra province. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will meet his
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    • Article
      Outbreak at SGH worries WHO
      129 4 THE World Health Organisation (WHO) is concerned about the "unusual" cluster of 29 suspected cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) that occurred at the Singapore General Hospital. In its country watch, it said that the "officials inves- tigating the cause of the outbreak are
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      Lock icon Roach link?
      526 4 Reuters Fear in HK that Sars will spread rapidly DOCTORS still have not pinned down exactly how a deadly flu-like virus is spreading and more cases are pointing to possible new ways it is being passed from one victim to another. A top Hong Kong health official said
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      SARS UPDATE
      215 4 •The Registry of Marriages and the Registry of Muslim Marriages advise couples to attend the solemnisation with only their witnesses and immediate family members to minimise crowding. •The Singapore Medical Association and the Singapore Nurses Association has set up the Sars Relief Fund. Cheques should be sent to:
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      Media giants take precautions
      283 4  -  Derrick A Paulo AS THE number of cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) climbs in Singapore, media giants MediaCorp and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) are both taking precautions against the outbreak. MediaCorp, the parent company of this newspaper, announced yesterday that one of its employees
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Reading, but not for fun
      371 6  -  Tor Ching Li Study shows many parents not talking to kids about books by chingli@newstoday.com.sg "HAVE you had dinner? Have you done your homework? Have you learnt your spelling?" These were the three perfunctory questions that Jack Neo would ask his on-screen son every day
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      Lock icon Bomb hoaxer gets 18 mths
      127 6 Channel News Asia A 48-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for 18 months for phoning in a false bomb threat. Ramiahthevar Thevadas had made the call on Oct 31 last year to the Internal Security Department. He claimed a bomb planted at Jade Precision Engineering on Tuas
      — Channel News Asia  -  127 words
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      Tighter controls after scandal
      304 6  -  Jose Raymond LAST week, many Singaporeans were disturbed to learn that a genetic study that went wrong saw several breaches of ethics by doctors from the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI). An investigation showed that under research led by former director Professor Simon Shorvon (picture), medical records
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      Delay in US plant opening
      170 6  -  Francis Kan FEAR of the Sars virus has caused a US semiconductor company to delay the opening of a manufacturing plant here. US-based Source Electronics said last Thursday that it had sent several people to set up a new plant in Singapore, but withdrew them
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      1998 7 Ml joins the readers of TODAY fjfL to thank our nation's nurses 1 Our nurses caring for the Sars patients deserve our support and gratitude. And we're glad that you agree with us. We've received an overwhelming response to our tribute to our nurses. We have included as many of
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  • LETTERS
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      Point of collapse
      189 8 when life's burdens become unbearable THIS is in response to Mr Marcus Lim's letter, "He chose to die" (Today, April 8). No one who commits suicide "chooses" to die. Suicide happens when problems exceed our resources for coping with the problems. The person who commits suicide is
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      What I said, what I meant
      120 8  -  David Hui I REFER to the report, "Regulator and her old job" (Today, March 12). I wish to clarify a statement made by me, which appeared in the story. I was reported as saying: "They are unhappy that when they bought (the policy) there
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      Walking around with Sars?
      85 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming AS more nurses fall victim to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus, I am struck by how they had attended to patients "who had yet to be diagnosed with Sars". Does this mean that these patients did not show any symptoms
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      Please keep your masks on
      134 8  -  Caroline Tan S N IN the light of the Sars outbreak, hospitals and some clinics are encouraging staff and patients to put on masks. During my last hospital visit for an annual check-up, I was given a mask. I was not offended to be offered
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      Public fear not unexpected
      378 10  -  Ananda Perera But medical staff's dedication is admirable I REFER to your front page report, "Beyond the tragic" (Today, April 8). Ms Esther Mok, 23, a former air stewardess, who has reportedly infected 106 people with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), has to endure the
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      Esther Mok not to be blamed
      222 10  -  Yee Jenn Jong I HAVE been disturbed by the way the media reported on the Super Infectors in the past few weeks, especially about Ms Esther Mok, who was identified as the first Super Infector. I was therefore glad to read your report, "Beyond
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      Support Esther in her distress
      225 10  -  Vasu Menon I REFER to your article, "Beyond the tragic" (Today, April 8), which reported that Tan Tock Seng Hospital is reluctant to release Ms Esther Mok, even though she has recovered fully from Sars. You reported that the hospital fears a public backlash and
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Three SGX men quit
      192 11  -  Tor Ching Li We have decided to rationalise our operations and reassess some functions. Singapore Exchange CEO Hsieh Fu Hua (picture)^^ JUST a month after Mr Hsieh Fu Hua was appointed as the new chief executive officer for the Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX),ithas announced changes in
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        127 11 -Reuters SHARES snapped a five-day rally to end sharply lower yesterday, led by selling in bank stocks such as DBS Group. Dealers said there was profit-taking across the board after the market finished at a 10-week high on Monday. Investors turned cautious as the focus shifted to the weak
        -Reuters  -  127 words
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        World markets
        57 11 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 8131.41 -118.57 -1.44 HANG SENG 8806.66 -155.55 -1.74 ASX ALL ORDINARIES 2940.60 -1.00 -0.03 TAIWAN WEIGHTED 4552.45 -23.38 -0.51 KOREA COMPOSITE 587.32 THAI SET 375.82 1.42 3.89 0.24 1.05 JAKARTA COMPOSITE 422.11 -1.70 -0.40 PHILIPPINE COMPOSITE 1107.75 17.09 1.57 CHINA SE SHENZHEN B
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 11 USS UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5614 0.3617 67.1915 4.3788 2.1333 0.5255 4982.03 24.1720 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 29.6991 0.9364 26.6174 703.683 0.8297 4.6470 1.0349 19.5469
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        Commodities
        21 11 Gold us$/oz 321.95 Silver us$/oi 4.42 Platinum us$/oi 613.00 Rubber centsAg 179.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 14.92 Brent crude us$/barrel 27.96
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        Straits Times Index Intraday Chart
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        SGX most active
        55 11 By volume Apr 8 Chartered DatacrftUSS ST Engg Ml L&M STAssemb TPV StarCrusUSS Serial SembCorp Close 0.685 0.575 1.830 1.300 0.010 1.320 0.490 0.205 0.140 1.180 Change -0.025 -0.015 +0.010 -0.040 -0.015 -0.010 +0.005 -3.5 -2.5 +0.8 -2.9 -3.0 -4.7 +3.7 '000 29,921 20,835 15,129 13,296 10,547
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        SGX top rises
        82 11 By$ Apr 8 Close Change Seaview 5.550 +0.150 DBS Bk6% NCPS *****.600 +0.100 By percentage Apr 8 Close Change El-Nets 0.010 +100.0 Hua Kok 0.045 +80.0 Isetan(S) 2.000 +0.080 Excel 0.020 +33.3 Noble 1.750 +0.060 Semb Lag 1.690 +0.040 Koh Bros W*****6 0.025 +25.0 SinSoonH 0.035 +16.7
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        SGX top falls
        80 11 By$ Apr 8 Venture Creative 50 Close Change 14.400 -0.400 12.000 -0.300 By percentage Apr 8 Close Change PanpacMed W*****90.005 -50.0 Goldtron 0.010 -33.3 SPH 100 17.600 -0.300 Netwrk W*****1 0.010 -33.3 UOB OCBC 10.800 -0.300 9.550 -0.250 Compact 0.030 -25.0 CSC 0.030 -25.0 DBS 9.400 -0.200
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      Political pawn?
      390 12  -  Francis Kan Lawsuit aims to annul STTelemedia's Indosat stake by francis@news today, com, sg SINGAPORE Technologies Telemedia's 42 per cent acquisition of Indonesia's second-largest telecommunications company Indosat has again come under fire, with 57 prominent Indonesians launching a lawsuit last Friday aimed at cancelling the deal. Parties to
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      Lock icon Sars chokes growth in East Asia
      154 12 Bloomberg NEW DELHI The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) may slow economic growth in East Asia by as much as one percentage point, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said. "I think it will be very bad," Mr Goh told reporters in
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      Lock icon A giant beefs up
      353 13 McDonald's plans to roll out high-class burgers NEW YORK Fast food giant McDonald's says it is changing direction and going up-market after suffering the first loss in its 55-year history, the BBC reported on its website. The company's executives have conceded that its approach is out
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      Lock icon Corporate briefs
      253 13 Bloomberg AFX-Asia AFX-Asia DIVIDENDS FROM EXCESS CASH: ST Engineering said it will return "excess cash" as dividends to shareholders if it does not make any new acquisitions or investments going forward. "If there is no better use for the excess cash, we are more than happy to return
      Bloomberg; AFX-Asia; – AFX-Asia  -  253 words
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      Bond funds shine, but...
      566 14  -  Vasu Menon more than half of Singapore's unit trusts post losses by news@newstoday.com.sg LATEST data from Lipper shows that 56 per cent of the 381 funds in Singapore's unit trust universe recorded losses in the first quarter of this year as uncertainty about the war in
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      Lock icon Surplus remark sends Opec into a huddle over cutting production
      111 14 -AFP VIENNA Opec will hold an extraordinary ministerial meeting here on April 24 to consider a possible reduction of its oil production, a source, who declined to be named, said. The comments came a day after Opec president and Qatari
      -AFP  -  111 words
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      Lock icon Federal to buy Technics stocks
      125 14 AFX-Asia FEDERAL International has applied to buy 1.25 million Technics Group shares at the IPO price of 22 cents each. The shares represent five per cent of the 25 million new shares Technics is selling through the IPO. The IPO closes today and trading is
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      Lock icon Three more years for Zeti
      76 14 Channel News Asia MALAYSIA'S central bank governor, Ms Zeti Akhtar Aziz, will head the bank until 2006. The Star newspaper, citing sources, said Ms Zeti's appointment had been extended for another three-year term. Bank Negara officials declined to comment on the report. Ms Zeti, the
      — Channel News Asia  -  76 words
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      Lock icon Powered down
      389 16 LA J ±icio -AFP Malaysia's Feb industrial output drops KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's industrial output dipped 0.90 per cent from a year ago in February. This was due to a slowdown in electricity and manufacturing growth, the Statistics Department said yesterday. The electricity sector fell 8.9 per cent while
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      Mr Comfort steps down for China job
      282 16 TAXI operator Comfort Group says its group managing director and chief executive officer Goh Chee Wee (picture) is stepping down. Comfort says following its merger with DelGro to form ComfortDelGro, the post of group managing director and CEO of Comfort Group has become
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      Lock icon Stratech reverses loss
      88 16 AFX-Asia STRATECH Systems said it posted a net profit of $12,000 in the first quarter, reversing a year-earlier loss of $5,733 million, on strong sales. Sales rose to $4,973 million in the first quarter from $1,251 million, boosted by new contracts. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the company said
      – AFX-Asia  -  88 words
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      Lock icon US Senate steps in
      322 18 Reuters It plans to hold hearings on Global Crossing majority stake sale LAS VEGAS The US Senate Commerce Committee plans to look into Global Crossing's planned sale of a majority stake to two Asian firms, the chairman of the panel's communications sub-committee said on Monday. The
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3651 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, FnniliripV frill RS?-?97^-(l(lflfl periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compila- H fions is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Globe wins Public Service Pulitzer
      161 19 Agencies NEW YORK The Boston Globe won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday for its coverage of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. In handing out its Public Service award, the Pulitzer Board cited the Globe for "its courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual
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      Don't focus on No 2
      288 19 Najib asks members not to be distracted by issue of party deputy KUALA LUMPUR Senior leaders of the United Malay National Organisation (Umno) have agreed that the party's focus should be on preparing for elections and not on the appointment of the deputy president of
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      Lock icon Protest at Paris art auction
      133 19 Agencies PARIS Protesters let off stink bombs and hurled fake euro notes on Monday to protest the auction of about 5,500 items collected by the late poet Andre Breton, the "Pope of Surrealism". "You are murdering the poet," a protester shouted, reflecting widespread anger in
      — Agencies  -  133 words
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      Lock icon Visa-free entry curbed
      106 19 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government has drastically reduced the number of countries whose nationals can enter the country visa-free for short visits, officials said yesterday. A presidential decree came into force on March 31, reducing the number from 48 to 11. Tourism Minister I Gede Ardika was
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      Lock icon Japan's dividend of peace gets smaller
      161 20 -AFP TOKYO Japan will focus on promoting peace in war-torn areas in disbursing its official development assistance (ODA). Japan's ODA has been falling since it dropped 10.4 per cent year-on-year in the financial year from April 1998. "Severe economic and fiscal situations" was the
      -AFP  -  161 words
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      Lock icon Hail to the chief
      61 20 AFP photo Newly-installed Philippine military chief General Narciso Abaya (right), and President Gloria Arroyo salute the Philippine colours at a military hand-over ceremony in Manila for Gen Abaya. At the ceremony, President Arroyo announced the arrest of two people in connection with a recent series of
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      Lock icon Wait is over
      297 20 -AFP Security Council to start N Korean N-crisis talks NEW YORK Six months after the Korean nuclear crisis began, the UN Security Council will, for the first time, discuss the issue today, despite opposition from China and Russia. The United States has been pressing the United Nations
      -AFP  -  297 words
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon PTP needs another big fish
      1157 21  -  Oon Yeoh But the Johor port faces a daunting task against a restructured PSA by news@newstoday.com.sg MALAYSIA'S Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) has created quite a stir. In just three years, it has risen to the rank of 21st among the world's top ports. When
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      1267 22  -  Janice Lee 1 in Los Angeles Hollywood good guy Morgan Freeman admits to having a very dark side by janice@newstoday.com.sg HE'S been regarded by many as one of the greatest living actors of all time. This "late bloomer" in the film industry started out as the "Easy
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      337 24 Agencies Tearful stars, fans mourn for Hong Kong icon HONG KONG Hundreds of grieving fans gathered outside a funeral parlour in Hong Kong yesterday to pay their last respects to Cantopop star and actor Leslie Cheung, who plunged to his death from a hotel here a
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      333 27 AFP LONDON Fulham manager Jean Tigana, on his way out at the end of the season, contests chairman Mohamed Al Fayed's verdict that he has not delivered value for money. Tigana has splashed out £43 million ($ll9 million) on players but Harrods owner Al Fayed tore up
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      354 28  -  Stanley Ho Despite tragic loss, top Singapore golfer will tee off at Laguna today I by stanley@newstoday.com.sg HIS whole world crumbled with the death of his beloved wife last Friday. But like a true professional, Singapore's top golfer Mardan Mamat has decided to play on. The 35-year-old has
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      132 28 Reuters GEORGETOWN Brian Lara and Steve Waugh will have contrasting points to prove as West Indies tackles world champion Australia tomorrow at the start of a Test series to relish. The 33-year-old Lara, back in charge of the team after Carl Hooper's demotion, will
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      356 29 Reuters AUGUSTA There was only one thing more unpopular than Martha Burk at the US Masters on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) and that was the appalling weather. For the first time in 20 years the gates to Augusta National were closed to
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        626 30 Agencies Champions League quarterfinal Real Madrid 3 Man Utd 1 Scholes, Gary Neville will miss 2nd leg MADRID Luis Figo curled in a spectacular opener and Raul struck two virtuoso goals to lead Real Madrid to a 3-1 win over Manchester United in a sparkling Champions League
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        146 30 Reuters MADRID Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson hailed Raul as the world's best player after the Spanish striker's two goals helped Real Madrid to a 3-1 victory. "I hope he doesn't like travelling," said Ferguson with the second leg at Old Trafford in mind. "Failing
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        300 30 Reuters Champions League quarter-final Ajax Amsterdam 0 AC Milan 0 Milan fancied to progress AMSTERDAM Ajax Amsterdam and AC Milan battled to a goalless stalemate in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final to leave the Italians favourites to
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      739 31  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg TALK about someone who could put "bums on seats" in Singapore football and the name V Sundramoorthy (picture) inevitably crops up. As a player, he was blessed with feints, back-heels and dazzling dribbling skills. Sundram used to attract fans in droves wherever
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      307 31 Stanley Ho FOLLOWING a week under quarantine, the Singapore national rugby sevens team has been cleared of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). Upon their return from Sars-hit Hong Kong last Monday where the men's and women's teams spent six days taking part
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      69 31 NEW DELHI Twenty two athletes at India's national games in December, including 13 medal winners, have failed dope tests, the country's Olympic committee said yesterday. Nine tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. Bronze medal-winning rower Lakshman Singh has been banned after his urine samples confirmed the
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      73 31 NEW ORLEANS Syracuse won its first National College Athletic Association basketball championship, holding on for a 81-78 victory over Kansas yesterday. Hakim Warrick blocked a potential tying three-pointer with less than a second left as Syracuse erased the memories of its last championship game in the Superdome, a
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      80 31 ATHENS International Paralympic Committee (IPC) officials said yesterday intellectually disabled (ID) athletes could compete in the 2004 Paralympics, but they would not be awarded medals. The IPC dropped events for intellectually disabled athletes after the 2000 Sydney Games scandal when two-thirds of the intellectually disabled athletes were described
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      75 31 LONDON Belgium's Kirn Clijsters will reach a career-high No. 2 next week, breaking the Williams sisters' stranglehold at the top of the world tennis rankings. World No. 1 Serena Williams and her elder sister Venus have occupied the top two spots since June 10, 2002. Venus' decision not
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