Today, 11 September 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY todayonline.com Thursday September 11,2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 390 1 Al Qaeda chiefs first TV appearance in more than a year BEIRUT The Qatar-based Arab TV station Aljazeera has broadcast a videotape showing Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and his top aide Ayman Al Zawahri. The channel said the recording had probably been made
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    • 162 1 Agencies NEW YORK Stocks sank yesterday as apparently new footage of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden rattled investors a day before the second anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks on the United States. Stock indices suffered their sharpest fall in more than a month. The
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 1058 2 As the world marks the second anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks on the United States, Choo Ai Leng, a Singaporean living in New York, revisits Ground Zero NEW YORK Ground Zero was my kampung. It was where I worked and played for nearly
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    • Article, Illustration
      499 3  -  Jose Raymond Former APB man slapped with 8 more charges ONE week after this newspaper broke the story of what may be Singapore's biggest ever embezzlement case, the man accused of the crime is back in court and slapped with eight more charges. Former Asia Pacific Breweries (APB)
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    • 343 3  -  Lee Ching Wern ALL of Singapore had been waiting to hear it and yesterday, Minister of State for Health, Dr Balaji Sadasivan, said it The medical student who has Sars was most likely infected in a laboratory. "His exposure to the Sars virus is most
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 97 3 Reuters STOCKHOLM Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed in the chest stomach and arms while shopping in Stockholm yesterday. A nationwide manhunt is on for her mystery attacker. Police said she was conscious when carried into an ambulance. There were no clues to a motive. At
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      • 68 3 -AFP WASHINGTON Former Enron treasurer Ben Glisan was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, becoming the first Enron official to go to jail over the accounting scandal. Glisan also agreed to forfeit US$l.3 million ($2.3 million)
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    • 290 4 Stowaway undetected at 3 airports, from NY to Dallas DALLAS US law makers were furious and aviation experts were baffled yesterday over how a homesick shipping clerk managed to slip past airport security measures to travel from New York to Dallas in an airline cargo crate. They
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    • 97 4 Reuters Australian police are investigating a major intelligence breach after a laptop computer which reportedly contained details of national maritime security was stolen. Police said the laptop was stolen during a break-in at the Department of Transport's Canberra headquarters on Aug 22. Thieves used an
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    • 183 4 Agencies DENPASAR The Muslim militant charged with masterminding and co-ordi-nating the Bali bomb attacks was sentenced to death yesterday. Imam Samudra was the second of the Bali bombers to be given the death sentence after his brother, Amrozi, was sentenced last month. Samudra waved
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    • 127 4 GAZA Israel retaliated swiftly yesterday to twin suicide bombings by launching a missile strike at the political leader of the militant Islamic movement, Hamas. Hamas official Mahmoud Al Zahar and his wife were wounded in the attack on his house, while his son and a bodyguard were
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    • global roundup
      • 73 4 AFP British writer JK Rowling was awarded a top Spanish cultural Erize yesterday for pushing ack the boundaries of literature by stimulating children worldwide to read and foster international understanding through her popular Harry Potter novels. The Prince of Asturias Foundation, created in
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      • 71 4 -AFP Lawyers and accountants who provide financial services to terrorists could face the death penalty under proposed legislation in Malaysia, local media reported yesterday. Amendments to the penal code submitted to Parliament on Tuesday aimed to punish not only terrorists but also those who
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 560 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Wrongful deduction of students' Edusave funds due to oversight, not ignorance AN HONEST mistake has left a school in Ang Mo Kio in an awkward situation. Mayflower Secondary School deducted $20 from each of its students' Edusave accounts to fund its concerts on
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    • 275 8 Channel News Asia Youths boarded ship only after Sars briefing TWENTY-EIGHT Singapore youth were nearly stranded at the Cruise Centre on Tuesday because of the latest Sars case in Singapore. The youths were supposed to board a ship, the Nippon Maru, from Japan, which is
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    • 93 8 AFP reported. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have issued arrest warrants for nearly 10,000 Singaporean motorists who failed to pay fines for traffic offences in Malaysia, Parliament heard yesterday. A total of 26,488 summonses had been issued to traffic offenders from Singapore between 2000 and last month.
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  • LETTERS
    • 213 10  -  Low Wai Choong I REFER to the report "Government costs hotly debated" (Today, Sept 10). In it, grassroots leaders questioned the high pay of ministers, wasteful practices of civil servants and mistakes committed by senior management of GLCs. Ministers' pay is subject to
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    • 285 10  -  Kathleen Beard They undergo similar training so don't begrudge them their fees AS THE mother of a veterinary medical student, I wish to respond to the letter from Gerald Ang Joo Huat (Today, Sept 9) concerning the costs of animal medical care. I wonder if Mr
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    • 81 10 IN OUR report "Sars strikes, with mystery" (Today, Sept 10), we included a statement from Singapore Airlines that departure screening was being conducted at Changi Airport. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore clarified yesterday that the screening of arriving passengers has been on-going. It added that there
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    • 185 10  -  Arcot Baskaran Arun Ganesh I REFER to the letter "Awards only given if entries are up to standard" (Today, Sept 8) by Ms Koh Pek Hoon from National Arts Council (NAC). I thank Ms Koh for her reply that the NAC-SPH Golden Point literary award
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 297 12 Capita Land selling bonds worth $500 m backed by 3 malls PROPERTY giant Capita Land plans tc sell $500 million worth of five-year bonds backed by three Singapore malls it agreed to buy. The developer is looking to buy Bukit Panjang Plaza for $161.3 million and Rivervale
      — Agencies  -  297 words
    • 104 12 Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings and other Singapore banks may face higher defaults on home loans following the Government's decision to cut CPF contributions, research firm Standard Poor's (S&P) said yesterday. DBS, United Overseas Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp have said they are prepared to
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    • 191 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE has set up a $100 million fund to help companies and universities invest in research into marine technology such as shipboard systems and oil rig components, to compete with low-cost rivals in China. The fund, to be spread over 10 years, will
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    • marketWATCH
      • 164 12 Dow Jones SINGAPORE shares closed lower yesterday, a day after it confirmed a new Sars patient, with Sars-sen sitive stocks like banks and property shares among the losers again. The STI fell 13.43 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 1,566.7. The index dropped 2.6 per cent on Tuesday aftei
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      • 36 12 US$ 0.5699 UK£ 0.3583 Yen 66.595 HK$ 4.445 RM 2.1657 Euro 0.5077 Rupiah 4820.3 Baht 23.088 Peso 31.419 A$ 0.8641 Indian Rs 26-'O2 Won 666.857 C$ 0.779 Yuan 4.7172 NZ$ 0.9743 NTS 19.408
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      • 58 12 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 10,856.32 10,810.31 3,220.10 5,623.43 -65.72 -236.51 -17.40 -57.26 -0.60% -2.14% -0.54% -1.01% Korea Comp Closed KLCI 736.23 -6.60 -0.89% SET Index 560.57 +3.02 +0.54% Jakarta Comp 572.85 -12.44 -2.13% Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 1,292.52
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      • 26 12 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 383.000 Silver uss/oi 5.250 Platinum uss/oz 709.500 Information provided by Rubber cents/kg 191.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1405 Brent crude uss/barrel 27.62
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      • 54 12 By volume Close Change 'OOO Chartered GES AsiaFoodP TPV Cosco Inv Datapulse Singpu StarCrusUSS Pac Andes DatacrftUSS 1.270 0.680 0.265 0.755 0.480 0.360 0.695 0.295 0.340 1.130 +0.030 +0.020 +0.010 +0.010 +0.015 +0.025 +0.005 +4.6 +8.2 +1.3 +2.1 +4.3 +3.7 +1.7 66,593 57,187 45,410 27,551 26,659 20,467
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      • 83 12 )y$ fenture Close I 20.600 Change +0.500 By percentage Close CSCW*****7 0.015 Change +50.0 .osco lnvRCCPS*****4 2.360 +0.310 CraflP 0.095 +35.7 iobinson )UE 6.850 6.600 +0.200 +0.150 Wepco 500 0.360 LHT 0.080 +24.1 +23.1 law Par 4.220 +0.140 ChipEngS W*****2 0.035 +16.7 Creative 50 18.100 +0.100 Casa
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      • 81 12 By$ DBS Close Change 12.300 -0.300 By percentage Close Koh Bros W*****6 0.030 Change -25.0 SPH 100 17.900 -0.300 Nobel Des 0.115 -23.3 SingamasC 2kHKS 3.850 -0.275 GMG USS 0.020 -20.0 SPH 17.900 -0.200 PSL 0.120 -20.0 UOB 12.300 -0.200 MultiChem W*****6 0.050 -16.7 KepCorp APB Breweries
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    • 163 14 KUALA LUMPUR Budget airline Air Asia will sign an agreement in two weeks' time with Johor's Senai Airport Terminal Services (SATS) to operate in Senai, The Star reported yesterday. "We have pretty much decided we are heading to Johor," Air Asia's CEO
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    • 227 14 Dow Jones SINGAPORE-BASED Pan Asia Paper, the leading newsprint supplier in Asia excluding Japan, has forged a US$3OO million ($525 million) joint venture with a Chinese company to build and operate a newsprint mill in China's northwestern province of
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    • 396 14  -  Lee Yew Meng This and CPF cut putting off buyers of new ECs by! yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg PRICES of new leasehold condominiums and executive condo (EC) units are coming under pressure from not only the recent CPF rate cut but also the weakness in resale prices
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    • 258 15 Channel News Asia Bloomberg United Overseas Bank said its wholly-owned unit United Investments Ltd has agreed to sell its 45 per cent stake in Affin-UOB Holdings Sdn Bhd for RM48.53 million ($22.3 million) to Affin Holdings Bhd. The deal is subject to regulatory approval. Kian Ann Engineering has
      — Channel News Asia; — Bloomberg  -  258 words
    • 230 15 Bloomberg Airline plans to fly to Shanghai two to three times a week AIR India, India's biggest overseas carrier, is planning its first regular flights to China to tap increasing trade and investment as tension eases between Asia's two fastest-growing economies. The carrier plans
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    • 110 15 NEW YORK A US federal judge has given the go-ahead for the lawsuits filed against airlines, aircraft makers and operators of the World Trade Center over the Sept 11 attacks to proceed, BBC reported yesterday. About 70 people are suing American Airlines, United Airlines, aircraft manufacturer
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    • 414 16 AFP Banks better prepared now should the disease recur A REPEAT of the Sars outbreak is unlikely to do any major damage to Asian banks as they are already starting to view the disease, like terrorism, as one of the risks to include in their
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    • 3281 16 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Trie data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services. periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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    • 389 17  -  Chan Chao Peh Disputes slow its efforts to promote free trade by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg THE World Trade Organisation (WTO), which has deviated increasingly from its original mission of promoting trade liberalisation, runs the risk of losing its importance, if the current round of talks does not bear fruit
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    • 193 17 -AFP BUENOS AIRES Argentina failed to make a US$3 billion ($5.3 billion) payment due on Tuesday to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), pushing the nation into default on its foreign debt The Argentine government said it has failed to reach a debt
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    • 159 18 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is pushing Boeing, the world's biggest aircraft maker, to offer industrial partnerships and production technology to make the country's proposed purchase of 18 newer F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets (picture) more affordable. "It's the cost, the finance, and whether they
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    • 311 18 Reuters Poor states to hurt most if talks on farm subsidies fail CANCUN Deeply divided over the make-or-break issue of farm subsidies, rich and poor countries began five days of talks yesterday aimed at preparing the ground for a deal to tear down barriers to global trade. Progress
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    • 219 18 Bloomberg TOKYO Japan's economy grew at the fastest pace in two-and-a-half years in the second quarter, almost double the government's initial estimate, as manufacturers boosted spending on factories and equipment to fill rising overseas orders. Gross domestic product (GDP) rose one per cent from the first
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  • INFO TECH
    • Article, Illustration
      367 20  -  Chan Chao Peh Take pictures, play games with Motorola's E365 by chaopeh@newstoday.com.s£ REMEMBER the mid-1990s when one of the more popular mobile phones was the black, clamshell-shaped Motorola StarTAC? Then, only serious corporatetypes carried the StarTAC. The young and the fashionable limited themselves to Motorola Classic pagers. Much
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 181 22  -  Agencies NEW YORK In a stand-off that mirrored the divisions within the United Nations Security Council over Iraq, a vote on lifting sanctions against Libya was postponed after a French veto threat "I don't want to talk about any more delay," said
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    • 345 22 Agencies .wirSStS NEW YORK Under a heightened state of alert, America will today mark the second anniversary of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, revisiting the traumatic events that re-shaped the country and sent it to war. A year after the highly emotional and media-saturated first anniversary, today's Ground
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    • global roundup
      • 77 22 Reuters A car bomb attack in Iraq killed one person and wounded 53, including six US defence workers, in the northern city of Arbil on Tuesday evening. It was the fifth car bomb attack in Iraq in five weeks. A US soldier
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      • 66 22 Reuters With more than 60 delegates in Manila for a summit of South-east Asian national police chiefs, Philippine officers were ordered to step up security at the capital's tourist and nightspots to prevent the guests from falling prey to crime gangs. "Pre-empt unscrupulous elements from
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      • 91 22 AFP A radio-controlled model aeroplane swooped into the grounds of Sydney's Silverwater Metropolitan Prison in what guards described yesterday as an unusual "break-in attempt", possibly linked to contraband smuggling. "It provided a good and perhaps amusing test for surveillance systems and security staff but there
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    • 147 24 Reuters MANCHESTER In their search for identity, many young British gays were flouting safe sex and trying to catch HIV and Aids, said a British researcher. Ms Melissa Parker of Brunei University said the booming gay sex pub, club and sauna scene in London
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    • 180 24 Reuters LOS ANGELES A group representing major record labels on Tuesday reached a US$2,OOO ($3,400) settlement with the New York mother of a 12-year-old girl, less than a day after the industry sued her and 260 others for illegal song-swapping. The first settlement was
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    • Article, Illustration
      320 24 Agencies $150 m payout for 540 sex-abuse victims BOSTON The Archdiocese of Boston on Tuesday agreed to pay US$B5 million ($l5O million) to settle more than 500 sex-abuse lawsuits that have rocked the US Roman Catholic Church. The proposed deal, reached after secret weekend talks, would mark the
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 952 26  -  Dharmendra Yadav Know your rights and be shameless about it by news(gnewstoday.com.sg BY next year, Singaporeans are likely to benefit from a Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act. Being the legal kaypoh that I am, I decided to take a quick look at the draft legislation to
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    • 126 26 The Fair Trading Bill will be a step forward for human rights specifically the economic rights of the consumer. But if its various mechanisms are to succeed, the common man has to stand up and be counted. Singaporeans are, however, a tame lot generally, when
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  • WATZUP?
    • 517 28  -  Janice Lee This Englishman gets cosy in Singapore ENGLISH pop chart-topper Daniel Bedingfield loves Singapore. He thinks durians taste good and that women here are the hottest in the world. And while he was in town last week, he walked around "spitting on pavements regularly"
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    • 183 30 -Reuters LOS ANGELES Even though shock jock Howard Stern's radio and television show features scantily clad women and raunchy chatter, regulators ruled it as a news programme on Tuesday. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision thus exempts Stern's raunchy and opinionated
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    • 347 30  -  Serene Foo Heavenly ranking for ZoeTay in poll of 70,000 zbNOW readers by serene@newstoday.com.sg CALDECOTT Princess Farm Wong may have made headway into Hollywood but Zoe Tay (picture) proves she is still Queen of the hill and people's hearts. In the zbNOW Asia's Top 50 Idols Readers'
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    • FOOD FORUM
      • 759 31  -  Justine Moss Simple ingredients, ample nutrition by eatout@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a bewildering variety of goods on our supermarket shelves. Today and NTUC Fair Price supermarkets bring you a consumer column that will help you read the labels, assess the products and make the best choices. OVER
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        492 31  -  Soon Fee Moi Risky experiments MASOTTINA PINOT GRIGIO Country of origin: Italy Region: Veneto (near Venice) District: Piave DOC Grapes: 100% Pinot Grigio (or Pinot Gris) Vintage: 2001 Alcohol content: 13.3% by volume Price: $27 (including GST) MASOTTINA BARBERA D'ASTI "LA LUNA EL FALO" Country of origin:
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    • DVDS
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        286 35  -  Yong Shu Chiang Extras give Chicago DVD a leg up Chicago Alliance Wonderfully boisterous fun, this year's Best Picture Oscar-winner has Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones as two murderous jailbirds seeking to be acquitted and hoping to cash in on their notoriety. Whether decked out in fancy
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      • 194 35 Video Van Following her successful turn in Chicago, Queen Latifah takes on a character with the same last name as that film's Mama Morton in this comedy vehicle. As Charlene Morton, she's the uncouth ex-convict who intrudes into the humdrum, suburban existence of square tax attorney
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      • 185 55 EMIRATES crossed a new milestone in July when more than one million people contacted the Dubai-based carrier in a single month. The number of consumers who contacted Emirates call centres and reservation and ticketing offices around the world has been rising steadily. In July, it passed
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      • 294 56 A FAMILIAR name in the airline industry here, Stephen Thompson, will take over the top job for Qantas in the United Kingdom and Europe from this month. Stephen was the regional general manager for Qantas and British Airways in Asia and
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      • 444 56  -  Richard Seah Of food, scenery and farm-stays in Taiwan by news@newstoday.com.sg THE first thing I liked about setting foot on Taiwanese soil was the fact that its capital, Taipei, does not sleep. I had arrived close to midnight and was pleasantly surprised to find a major
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      • 305 59 Reuters LONDON Reigning champion France, Sweden, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic all booked their places in next year's European championship finals. The penultimate round of games finally produced the first qualifiers but also left a mass of teams hoping the last round of fixtures on October
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    • 1009 60  -  Rohit Brijnath This world l\k^ and she'll W\ IT'S a bit absurd this question that is being asked of Kirn Clijsters these days: Is she too nice? As if being pleasant, and charming, and dignified, all of which she is, is some sort of sporting misdemeanour. But, indeed,
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    • 301 60 Reuters BRUSSELS Justine HeninHardenne (picture) vigorously denied insinuations that she was doped when she beat Belgian rival Kirn Clijsters at the US Open last weekend. On her return to Belgium yesterday, she was received by fans as well as
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    • 538 61 Before Kenyon, Abramovich had approached Scotsman MANCHESTER In a shock revelation yesterday, it was reported that Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had rejected an approach to take over as Chelsea boss during the summer. The Manchester Evening News newspaper claimed the United boss was contacted shortly
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    • 304 61 Agencies MADRID Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has launched an astonishing attack on former star Claude Makelele, dismissing him as a player who "couldn't use his head and rarely passed the ball more than three metres." The Spanish champion sold Makelele to Chelsea for a fee of
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    • 63 62 CAPE TOWN One of two black members of judge Edwin King's investigation into allegations of racism in the Springboks' squad has resigned in protest at the postponement of the inquiry. Julian Smith said yesterday that he had not been consulted about the decision to delay work until 2004
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    • 86 62 DUBLIN World Cup semifinalist Turkey warmed up for its crucial Euro 2004 qualifier with England next month with a thrilling 2-2 draw with the Republic of Ireland here on Tuesday. The visitors had fought back from going a goal down to a superb individual effort by David Connolly
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    • 328 62  -  Jose Raymond China-born Zhang and Dv will not receive their citizenships in time for SEA Games by jose@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S hopes for a shot putt gold at this year's SEA Games in Vietnam have been dashed. China-born permanent residents Zhang Guirong, 25, and Dv Xianhui, 21,
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