Today, 24 April 2003

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    10 1 TODAY Thursday a p __i 2 2003. MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • Article
    CPIB investigates co-operative
    278 1  -  Jose Raymond THE Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) has begun investigating a prominent co-operative over the way in which it has allegedly mishandled the disbursement of some of its loans. The investigations started after the CPIB received several complaints from members of Telecoms Credit Co-operative (TCC) Limited.
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    That family's viewpoint
    700 1  -  Derrick A Paulo by derrick@newstoday.com.sg IN the last couple of days, the fury of an entire nation has been heaped on one family. Known simply as the family of eight, they have been under fire for apparently not listening to their general practitioner to stay put after
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    One more death at SGH
    119 1 THE cluster outbreak at Singapore General Hospital Wards 57 and 58 claimed another victim yesterday when a 74-year-old man died from Sars. Three new cases were also reported yesterday. The first was a 28-year-old female nurse from the National University Hospital who was infected by
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  • HOT NEWS
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      HK's cash balm
      541 2  -  Ng Boon Yian But will $2.7b relief package bring back the smiles? by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg HONG KONG tried yesterday to swat a mighty bug with a fistful of dollars, but experts were not sure the cure would work. To counter the devastation caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory
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      SARS UPDATE
      125 2 Johor's Health Department will quarantine 1 25 lorry drivers and attendants who visited the Pasir Panjang wholesale market. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will join Asean leaders in Bangkok on April 29 to discuss ways to tackle Sars. The Courage Fund saw a large injection of funds from two
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      SIA, UA slash airfares
      413 2  -  Val Chua THE much-battered travel industry got a boost yesterday from two major airlines. Singapore Airlines (SIA) and United Airlines (UA) have slashed airfares to certain destinations, in a bid to stimulate passenger revenue, which has been devastated by the triple whammy of disease, war and
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      Lock icon Policy split
      341 3 Agencies US State Dept hit for 'incoherent' diplomacy WASHINGTON The battle between the "hawks" and "doves" in the White House over Washington's foreign policy direction is now out in the open and the rift seems wider. Conservatives, led by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Newt
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      Lock icon Bashir treason trial opens
      132 3 Agencies JAKARTA The alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror network went on trial for treason yesterday in the highest-profile case since last year's Bali blasts. The trial is seen as a litmus test of Jakarta's commitment to anti-terrorism. As Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir stood
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      Lock icon Bird flu scare in Belgium
      125 3 AFP BRUSSELS An outbreak of bird flu, akin to that in Hong Kong in 1997, is spreading in northern Belgium, despite the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of chickens, officials said yesterday. The latest victims of the disease were discovered on a turkey farm in
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      20 2 MediaCorp salutes Healthcare workers Please donate generously to The Courage Fund. Call 1900-*****11. Each call is a donation of $5.
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Cabbies, keep windows down
      107 4 Newsradio 93.8 TAXI drivers have been urged to wind down all four windows and place a box of tissue at the back of the taxi at all times, from today. These suggestions were made by medical experts from the National University of Singapore's Environmental and Occupational
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      Tuas, Woodlands have heat scanners
      136 4 TWO thermal imaging systems have been deployed at Woodlands Checkpoint and one unit at Tuas Checkpoint to check travellers' body temperatures. This is a trial run, to assess if such equipment is needed at the checkpoints, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a
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      Virus killer
      267 4  -  Tor Ching Li Most Sars patients take well to Ribavirin by chingli@newsto day, com. sg medication is stopped once this is detected." Although the anaemia is temporary, damage such as the malformation of foetuses is not. Dr Wilder Smith told Today that all female patients are tested for
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      Lock icon Game player or rule breaker?
      682 7  -  Ng Boon Yian US wary of China's motives as it gains power by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg FROM hosting the 2008 Olympic Games to entering the world trading system, China a former pariah state seems to be on its way to being fully plugged into the international community.
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  • LETTERS
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      Timely truth
      357 8  -  Ananda Perera Be frank, responsible and practical to help lick Sars I REFER to your front page report, "Crunch time" (Today, April 21). It is about time that China comes clean on the Sars epidemic which started there. The act of sacking ministers and officials does not create
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      One quarantine area for all
      144 8  -  Chia Ser Heng AFTER reading the recent letter from our Prime Minister, I was appalled to learn that 14 people had broken the Home Quarantine Order ("This is your PM writing" Today, April 23). Tough times require tough measures, so I would like to suggest
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      MOH should be alerted on suspected cases
      107 8  -  Tan Soo Chay THE RECENT spread of Sars at the Pasir Panjang wholesale centre shows that the measures taken against the disease are not sufficient. Perhaps the Health Ministry should consider making it a requirement for all clinics and hospitals to report the
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      An Upper House?
      97 8  -  Stephen Ooi Boon Ewe SOME time ago, I read with interest Today's report, "For the sake of S'pore the PAP should split" (Today, March 24). One idea I advocated when I entered politics during the Presidential Elections in 1999 was the creation of an Upper House of
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      Irony of WMD force
      146 8  -  Young Pak Nang ON APRIL 16, the press reported that Washington and London stressed that the search for Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) would take time, when they were asked about evidence of the "smoking gun". On April 19, the press reported that a special
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      A model trade deal
      299 10 US FTA to set bar for other pacts A US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) could provide a model for future agreements between the US and other Asean members, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. AmCham Singapore said it has urged the US International
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      Lock icon Telcoms unit boosts KepTel earnings
      122 10 Reuters KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation, a unit of Keppel Corp, reported yesterday a 14 per cent rise in first-quarter net profit, boosted by its telecom division. The company, which designs and upgrades cable networks with offices in Europe and Asia, said net profit for the three
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      Lock icon SPC net profit falls on weak demand
      109 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Petroleum Corporation said yesterday that its first quarter net profit dropped 12.4 per cent as demand fell. SPC, 77 per cent owned by Keppel Corporation, reported a net profit of $15.14 million, compared with $17.27 million a year earlier. SPC is
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        142 10 Reuters SHARES ended at a five-week low yesterday as initial cheer over Wall Street's rally failed to erase worries over the damage wrought by Sars. The Straits Times Index ended down 0.65 per cent, or 8.29 points, at 1,266.08, the lowest since the index closed at 1,234.42 on March
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        World markets
        56 10 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 225 INDEX 7793.38 HANG SENG INDEX 8519.60 2.92 -52.31 0.04 -0.61 ALL ORDINARIES INDX 2964.00 21.80 0.74 TAIWAN WED 4564.93 8.83 0.19 KOREA COMPOSITE 598.09 -5.23 -0.87 SET 375.39 -3.58 -0.95 JAKARTA COMPOSITE 447.69 4.95 1.12 PHILIPPINES COMP 1083.88 -33.24 -2.98 SHEN7HENB 217.15
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        Your S$1 buys
        37 10 U JJ UK£ Yen HKS RM EURO Rupiah Baht U.JUif 0.3565 67.6883 4.3863 2.1370 0.5136 4915.2208 24.0423 Peso AS Indian Rs Won CS Yuan NZS NTS 29.5335 0.9070 26.6232 685.5158 0.8138 4.6550 1.0074 19.5757
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        Commodities
        20 10 _ld us$/oi iilver us$/oi 'latinum us$/oi 4.57 640 lubber cents/kg 177.25 'aim Oil RM/tonne 1434.5 Irent crude us$/b„_l 29.91
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 10 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
        58 10 April 23 ACCS StarCrusUSS Close 0.395 0.170 Change +0.025 +0.005 +6.8 +3.0 '000 15,417 14,916 SingTel Chartered PFood 1.390 0.660 0.880 -0.030 -0.005 -0.085 -2.1 -0.8 -8.8 14,465 10,156 9,459 SembCorp NOL 1.180 1.180 -0.020 -0.010 -1.7 -0.8 8,750 8,479 UniFood 0.350 -0.015 -4.1 8,297 DatacrftUSS Medtecs
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        SGX top rises
        80 10 By$ Apr 23 Close Change Venture 14.400 +0.200 Singalron 0.335 +0.105 DBS Bk 65. NCPS*****.300 +0.100 GrealEast 9.800 +0.100 Iselan(S) 2.140 +0.100 Berger 0.170 +0.070 OUE 5.550 +0.050 APB Breweries 4.940 +0.040 GPBal 1.890 +0.040 GeneMedix 0.465 +0.035 By percentage Apr 23 Berger Close Change 0.170 +70.0
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        84 10 Bloomberg By$ Apr 23 LeongHin Close Change 0.195 -0.570 SPH 16.200 -0.300 Over&Gene AS 0.100 -0.200 STI ETF100 12.940 -0.160 C&C 4.100 -0.100 Creative 50 11.300 -0.100 OCBC 9.300 -0.100 Shang Asia 2kHK$ SingamasC 2kHKS SIA 200 4.600 -0.100 2.250 -0.100 8.700 -0.100 By percentage Apr 23
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      Lock icon No respite for consumers
      345 12 Reuters Prices rise for fifth month in a row SINGAPORE consumer prices rose for a fifthstraight month in the year to March, pushed up by higher oil prices during the Iraq war. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) could drive food costs higher next month. Food
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      269 12 Bloomberg BIL EXTENDS OFFER DEADLINE: BIL International has extended its offer to buy Thistle Hotels by 10 days to May 2. Thistle again urged stockholders to reject the bid. BIL has received acceptances for the bid from holders of 0.3 per cent of Thistle stock, or 1.36 million
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      Help for hotels
      107 14 HOTELS, which have been hard hit by the Sars outbreak, have been given extra property tax rebates. From May 1, gazetted tourist hotels will be given a rebate of $2,000 plus 30 per cent of the property tax payable, after existing rebates. This compares to rebates of
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      Home loan cheer
      358 14  -  Lee Yew Meng ABN AMRO cuts first-year rates for HDB and private property by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg ABN AMRO has cut the interest rate on its private property and HDB loans to 1.33 per cent in the first year, down from 1.55 per cent. The interest rate of 2.33
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      The Capricorn wins construction excellence award
      173 14 THE CAPRICORN in Science Park II has won its owners the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore (BCA) Construction Excellence Awards. The property is an asset of Ascendas-MGM Funds Management, the manager of A-Reit (Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust). The Capricorn building, by Wee
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      Uptake of MMS services, phones still low
      244 14  -  Chan Chao Peh IN THE past few months, the mobile phone industry, which includes both operators and equipment sellers, have been pushing hard for users to take up multimedia messaging service or MMS. However, a survey by marketing research firm, J D Power
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      Lock icon Ananda eyes telco
      275 16 Bloomberg Maxis joins race for Indonesia's No 3 mobile phone firm JAKARTA Billionaire Ananda Krishnan may bid for a stake in Indonesia's No 3 mobile phone operator, PT Excelcomindo Pratama, people familiar with the transaction said. The Indonesian mobile phone market is forecast to grow a third
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      Lock icon Bharti swings to the black
      117 16 Reuters NEW DELHI Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, India's largest cellular services provider, said yesterday it swung to a profit in the fourth quarter on the back of higher subscribers and growing revenue. Bharti Tele-Ventures, in which SingTel has an effective stake of 28.5 per cent, reported
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4055 16 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, r_ periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilafions is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or
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  • INFO TECH
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      Virtual banking
      395 18 Customers are flocking online for wide range of services THE adoption of Internet banking has reached a point where online interactions are moving beyond simple transactional and informational services, as bank customers become more reliant on the Web. A growing number of potentially high-value "mass affluent" customers are
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Back to Iraq?
      366 20 Reuters UN wants arms inspectors to complete the job UNITED NATIONS Another storm appeared to be brewing at the Security Council where most members want UN inspectors to return to Iraq and finish the job, but the Bush administration made it clear there was no role for
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      Lock icon Greenspan good for another term: Bush
      227 20 Reuters WASHINGTON DC President George W Bush backed another term for Mr Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve helm, ending speculation about the White House's plans after a rift over the need for new tax cuts. "Yes, I think Alan Greenspan should get another
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      Lock icon N Korean jets in rare flights as talks begin
      240 20 Agencies SEOUL Amid a three-way talk over the nuclear crisis that got underway yesterday, North Korean jet fighters was reported to have launched rare long-distance flights this week to counter US and Russian surveillance flights over the Sea of Japan. South
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      Lock icon ALL TELEVISION AND INTERNET OUT
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      Yesterday's Developments
      265 20 British Labour backbencher George Galloway (in a videograb above) denied today that his antiwar charity, the Mariam Appeal, had received financial backing from Saddam Hussein's regime. The Daily Telegraph, which revealed that Mr Galloway took a slice of Iraq's oil earnings worth £375,000 1.48 million) a year, said
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      Lock icon Majaysian Jl leader, Bali suspects nabbed
      126 20 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesian police have arrested 17 Muslim militants, including a key leader of the militant Jemaah Islamiyah 01) Islamic network and three men named as suspects in the Bali bombing case, a senior official said yesterday. National police chief Da'i Bachtiar told reporters
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon After Saddam
      1157 22  -  John Gee The US may be appreciated by ordinary Iraqis for toppling the regime of President Saddam Hussein but it must be mindful not to overstay its welcome by news@newstoday.com.sg THE overwhelming advantages of the US-led forces in military technology and firepower gave it a battlefield victory over
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  • WATZUP?
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      TENDERLY YOURS, SPIKE
      935 24  -  Adeline Goh It's a love triangle between Buffy, her wannabe lover Spike and his admirer Adeline Goh.Talk about doomed affairs by adeline@newstoday.com.sg I'VE been dying to write this piece for a very long time. Not because the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally made its
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      Are you OK?
      290 26  -  Joy Frances Kindness means being Sars-free by joy@newstoday.com.sg THIS year's Kindness Week will kick off this weekend with an added dimension the current threat of Sars. In addition to numerous school activities such as visits to homes for the aged and donation drives, healthcare workers will be
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      Lock icon UK pop group S Club to disband
      233 26 Reuters/Billboard LONDON British pop group S Club (picture) has ended months of speculation by announcing that its members will officially part ways at the end of next month. The six remaining members of the band Rachel Stevens, Bradley Macintosh, Tina Barrett, Hannah Spearritt,
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    • CITY STYLE
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        Lock icon Snipped in a snap
        453 28  -  Cathleen Tung Our reporter finds out whether QB House hair salon lives up to its name by cathleen.tung@newstoday.com.sg i4 RE you due for a hair- t\ cut?" asked my editor. r^^ "Err I guess so. X I replied, a tad uneasy. The last time I went
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        Clubbers let their hair down at Zouk
        232 28  -  CathlemTung IT WAS a hair-raising event at Zouk last Saturday night Not in the spine-tingling sense, of course. It was L'Oreal Studio Line's Spring/Summer 03 Hair Fashion Show, which also saw the launch of its latest range of products. Titled "Give Shape to
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    • TRAVELLER
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        Travel for two
        482 30 Pregnancy should not be an obstacle to a holiday, but precautions must be taken THERE is a time and place for everything and when it comes to travel, women must sometimes decide whether pregnancy is the time and Borneo the place! Certainly, pregnancy should not be a
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        Bahrain bans Sars-hit areas
        74 30 BAHRAIN yesterday banned the entry of travellers from Sars-hit countries, reported Gulf News. The ban covers China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. The country's Civil Aviation Affairs said the ban covered passengers who had left these countries less than 10 days before their arrival in Bahrain. Saudi
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        Everest in Disneyland
        63 30 DISNEY's Animal Kingdom unveiled plans on Tuesday for a new high-speed train adventure through the Himalayan Mountains called Expedition Everest, which will open in 2006. Al Weiss, president of Walt Disney World Resort, also announced the opening of Epcot attraction Mission: Space on Aug 15 and Disney's
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        513 32  -  David Ngiau Bumbling hero unable to save film laden with puerile gags Johnny English FILM REVIEW LIKE the Austin Powers movies, Johnny English is a spoof of old spy thrillers in general, James Bond movies in particular. But unlike the three Austin films, Johnny English
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        159 32 CALISTA Flockhart (picture, right), best known as the titular star of the TV series, Ally Mcßeal, has hinted that she and Harrison Ford (picture, left) are going to announce their engagement soon. "I spoke to Calista a few weeks ago," said a friend. "The big
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        458 34  -  Serene Foo His talents wasted in this slapdash fare Bulletproof Monk FILM REVIEW FROM the way Hollywood portrays Asians in their celluloid offerings, most of us are probably martial arts experts or coldblooded yakuzas with the occasional Oriental philosophical inclinations. In his latest action caper,
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        149 36 APHOTOGRAPHofJim Carrey on the cover of Entertainment Weekly (EW) has stirred up a bit of a fuss. Bearing a striking resemblance to Keanu Reeves, Carrey has been accused on undergoing plastic surgery. Either that or very heavy airbrushing, both of which the actor's representative and
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        159 37 It's The Sound of Money JULIE I Andrews has blocked a planned documentary on The Sound Of Music into jeopardy by refusing to allow her image to be used in it, reports World Entertainment News Network. The twohour documentary, produced by Digital Ranch for American cable TV station A&E, was
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      274 40 Agencies MILAN Inter Milan's remarkable passage into the Champions League semifinals has come at a price. Christian Vieri, whose goal in Valencia on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) allowed Inter to progress, faces a long injury-lay-off. Inter said on its official website yesterday that
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      230 40 Reuters LISBON Boavista's confident players claim they have no intention of sitting back and defending their slender advantage when they host Scottish champion Celtic in their semi-final, second-leg match today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). The Portuguese side came away from Parkhead two weeks ago with a
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      309 41  -  Tan Yo-Hinn by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg JURONG FC captain Rafi Ali and his play-er-coach V Sundramoorthy have responded to the Football Association of Singapore regarding the fracas that marred the recent NTUC Income S-League match between Woodlands Wellington and Jurong FC. Video evidence appeared to show
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      67 41 FANS attending NTUC Income S-League matches are strongly encouraged to make a contribution to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) fund. Launched two weeks ago by the National Healthcare Group, the Courage Fund aims to provide relief to families of needy Sars patients and healthcare personnel affected while
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      66 41 LOS ANGELES Nine-time Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis indicated yesterday he had tested positive for three banned substances, but had been let off by the United States Olympic Committee. He told the Orange County Register. "There were hundreds of people getting off. Everyone was treated the
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      80 41 MINNEAPOLIS Troy Hudson scored an NBA playoff franchiserecord 37 points and handed out 10 assists as the Minnesota Timberwolves evened their firstround series with the Los Angeles Lakers at a game apiece with a 119-91 win. Minnesota also got a huge game yesterday morning from Kevin Garnett, who
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      76 41 TASHKENT Thailand's BEC Tero Sasana became the first side to book a place in the inaugural AFC Champions League final after a 1-0 loss to Pakhtakor was enough for a 3-2 aggregate victory. Sasana repelled attack after attack by the host, which finally got the goal it deserved
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      457 43 Agencies After West Ham manager Roeder suffers stroke LONDON West Ham United directors were considering yesterday who should take over as manager in place of Glenn Roeder, who collapsed with a minor stroke following Monday's 1-0 English Premiership win over Middlesbrough. The relegation-threatened club's directors were
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