Today, 14 October 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    8 1 TODAY todayonline.com Tuesday October 14,2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Foreign suitor?
    721 1  -  Val Chua But OCBC chief says no rush to sell by val@newstoday.com.sg IN a statement that is bound to intrigue market watchers, the chief executive of OCBC Bank revealed his top wish: Lifting foreign ownership levels for local banks. This would effectively set the stage for a foreign
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Motorola boosts market
      94 1 Reuters NEW YORK Stocks rose yesterday, pushing the Nasdaq to its highest level since January last year, after surprisingly rosy results from the mobile phone maker, Motorola Incorporated, boosted hopes of investors for solid third-quarter earnings. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index rose 18.22 points, or 0.95 per
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      76 1 /*A=diaCorp TODAY IS SINGAPORE'S 2ND LARGEST CIRCULATING DAILY NEWSPAPER! B Annual Cashback Endowment 25 J ?$1 L Efil ni wMlm wkMim Payouts from year 2 to 24 only. Buying a life insurance policy is a long-term commitment. An early termination of the policy usually involves high costs and the surrender
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      No more maid display
      422 2  -  Ng Shing Vi MOM, AEAS issue guidelines for employment agencies by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg MAIDS are not commodities, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has told employment agencies. They must not be put on display in agency offices for viewing by prospective employers or members of the public. The
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      ValuAir to fly next year
      124 2 NEXT year is shaping up as one of budget airlines for Singapore. Its first budget carrier, ValuAir, will take off by the second quarterr, the company said yesterday. ValuAir, which is headed by former Singapore Airlines managing director Lim Chin Beng, yesterday signed a memorandum
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      Lock icon Al Ghozi's death: Gunfight or execution?
      354 2 Agencies MANILA Did fugitive Indonesian militant Fathur Rohman Al Ghozi die in a gunfight or was he executed? Philippine officials yesterday said the fugitive Jemaah Islamiyah bomb maker was killed in a shootout in the Mindanao region in southern Philippines on Sunday. Even as
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      Taiwan and the FTA freeze
      610 3  -  Elisia Yeo SM Lee on how Taipei's plan backfired by elisia@newstoday.com.sg A SESSION between Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and prominent business leaders was proceeding smoothly when the temperature was suddenly taken up a notch. Up until that point, SM Lee had painted his view
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      Lock icon Assassination bid
      417 4 Iraqi guerrillas try to kill oil minister, two other politicians BAGHDAD Guerrillas fighting the US-led occupation of Iraq stepped up their attacks yesterday by trying to assassinate the country's oil minister and two other politicians, hours after a car bombing outside the Baghdad Hotel in central Baghdad. Iraqi
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      Lock icon S Korea's Roh calls trust vote
      131 4 Agencies SEOUL Just seven months into the job, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun has called for a referendum, scheduled for Dec 15, saying he will quit if the vote goes against him. In a surprising announcement yesterday, Mr Roh said he had lost
      — Agencies  -  131 words
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Open for business in Iraq
      303 6  -  Tor Ching Li New govt's trade chief on mission to draw investment in nation's rebuilding by chingh@newstoday.com.sg chingli@newstoday.com.sg CAR bombs may be rocking Baghdad, but that has not shaken Singapore Inc's interest in business opportunities in Iraq. Major players in Singapore's trade, infrastructure and construction
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      Robber hits betting outlet for $44,000
      218 6  -  Jose Raymond A SINGAPORE Pools outlet operated by a local football club was robbed of $44,000. The robber was armed with a knife and seemed to have some understanding of how betting outlets work. The outlets usually have more cash on Mondays to manage
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      Lock icon Shop N Win
      63 6 Wong Khing Chong I Shopping paid off for Helen Tan Ching Luan (left) and Russia's Lagoisakaia Galina, each of whom won a Toyota Corolla 1.5 in the Shop N Zoom grand draw. The draw was organised by Shop N Save as part of its ninth anniversary celebrations.
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      S'pore ahead in Cyber Games
      57 8 SINGAPORE got off to a good start at the World Cyber Games in Seoul beating Kazakhstan yesterday. Fifty-five countries are vying for the U*****,000 ($603,000) prize money. "The Kazakhs are pretty good in online gaming," said a spokesman for Samsung Asia Pte Ltd, the sponsor
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      Lock icon 'Let's be realistic'
      440 8  -  Elisia Yeo King Abdullah says countries bordering Iraq shouldn't send troops there by elisia@newstoday.com.sg LET'S cut the rhetoric and start taking a constructive stand on Iraq, said Jordan's King Abdullah II yesterday. Speaking to reporters here a day ahead of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) meetings
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      Lock icon Carjacking ring busted
      129 8 Newsßadio 93.8 SINGAPORE police recovered from a car-smuggling syndicate 23 stolen Malaysia-registered vehicles, which were to be exported to countries like Indonesia and the Seychelles. These were mostly four-wheel drive vehicles between three and six months old, worth a total of over $1.2 million. ClD's deputy director
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      Lock icon They shot the right Merlion to win
      79 8 Francis Chin Nanyang Polytechnic students Tobias Low (left), 20, and Guo Zheng Liang, 7 9, won $3,000, camera phones and other goodies in the final of SingTel's Incredible Race on Saturday after their rivals snapped a picture of the wrong Merlion.The rivals had
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      Residents have a role in protecting car parks
      141 10 I REFER to the letters "Patrol in car parks needed" (Today, Oct 9) and "HDB should setup 24-hour uniformed patrol" (Today, Oct 11) by Mr Abdul Islam. On their patrols, our parking wardens do look out for suspicious characters loitering in car
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      Bittersweet pill for trivial errors
      508 10  -  Benjamin Chen Minhao Student laments teacher's approach to discipline AS IF verbal reprimands were insufficient, an increasing number of teachers seem to be resorting to bizarre forms of punishment. Ever since the Ministry of Education adopted its stance against corporal punishment, it seems as if
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Analysts, dealers to separate
      185 12  -  Francis Kan by francis@news today, com, sg RESEARCH analysts from stockbroking firms will have to be separated from other departments to avoid conflicts of interest, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) said. "A securities member will be required to separate research functions from its dealing, corporate finance and
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    • marketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        216 12 Dow Jones SGX, Bloomberg SINGAPORE shares closed higher on Monday with technology stocks in the lead due to the upbeat outlook for Intel Corp and IBM's earnings. The ST Index closed up 4.74 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 1,750.78, the highest level since April 17 last year. The
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        SGX most active
        57 12 By volume Vikay Ind Chartered BBR El-Nets UniFood Integra EastTech NeoCorp SPC Adroit Close 0.145 1.830 0.040 0.025 0.600 0.110 0.730 0.075 1.350 0.110 Change +0.030 +0.090 +0.010 +0.015 +0.005 +0.025 +0.015 +0.070 +0.005 +26.1 +5.2 +33.3 +2.6 +4.8 +3.5 +25.0 +5.5 +4.8 'OOO 62,599 55,281 30,392
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        SGX top rises
        75 12 By Close Change /enture 20.100 +0.600 F&N 11.800 +0.400 rhai Prime200US$ 8.650 +0.400 F&N 100 11.700 +0.300 ZITYDEV 6.250 +0.200 DBS 14.400 +0.200 KepCorp 5.850 +0.100 XBC4.5MPS100 102.500 +0.100 KIM 1.200 +0.100 )y percentage ISC W*****7 Close Change 0.020 +100.0 ieeHS W*****0 0.060 +71.4 SBR 0.040 +33.3
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        SGX top falls
        78 12 By Close Change Stamford TyreW*****0 0.510 -0.660 :&C 5.850 -0.200 jealive50 18.900 -0.200 DUE 6.500 -0.100 >IA 11.400 -0.100 ilA 200 11.400 -0.100 RSH 0.500 -0.060 IMH 400USS 7.200 -0.050 Robinson 7.950 -0.050 KepLand 1.740 -0.040 By percentage Close Ch Stamford TyreW*****0 0.510 hange -56.4 8H 0.500
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        World markets
        57 12 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 11,961.97 3,283.00 5,972.47 +26.14 +16.80 +102.59 +0.22 +0.51 +1.75 Korea Comp 757.02 -0.87 -0.11 KLCI 791.74 +1.08 +0.14 SET Index Jakarta Comp 580.02 644.43 -2.13 -0.38 -0.37 -0.06 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,384.43 249.61 +39.23 -4.92
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold uss/oi 372.900 Silver uss/oi 4.915 Platinum uss/oz 726.100 Rubber centsAg 214.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1594 Brent crude uss/borrel 30.76
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5807 UK£ 0.349 Yen 63.096 HK$ 4.4894 RM 2.2067 Euro 0.4922 Rupiah 4866.3 Baht 22.682 Peso 31.779 A$ 0.8395 Indian Rs 26.347 Won 665.34 C$ 0.7671 Yuan 4.8065 NZ$ 0.9681 NTS 19.538
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      The FTA puzzle
      458 15  -  Derrick A Paulo Forum tackles issue of whether FTAs promote multilateralism by derrick@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE has five bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) but there are still questions about whether such pacts swamp or shore up the multilateral system. At the East Asia Economic Summit 2003, participants voiced concerns
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      Lock icon corporate briefs
      211 15 Channel NewsAsia Dow Jones \j i Bloomberg AFP AFP New telecom licensees in Singapore are committed to investing US$2 billion ($3.5 billion) by 2005 and these investments will create 2,500 jobs, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang said at the ITU Telecom World 2003
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      Lock icon Ibra wants improved bids for Bank Lippo
      156 16 Agencies THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra), tasked with reforming the country's banking sector, said yesterday it might halt the divestment of Bank Lippo unless interested parties improved their bids. "If they can't strengthen their consortiums, I think I could stop the divestment
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      Lock icon China to defend yuan peg
      385 16 -AFP It will present benefits of a stable yuan at Apec BEIJING China will head for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Thailand next week, ready to defend its stand against rising pressure to abandon the yuan-US dollar peg and to argue that a
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Lock icon The India factor
      664 18  -  William Pesek Jr Commentary Entrepreneurial and management skills will give it an edge over China by news@newstoday.com.se CHINA-ENVY is reaching fever pitch as nations struggle to compete with the world's most dynamic economy. The "China-all-the-time" mindset is making it difficult for others in Asia to get attention.
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2111 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The dala 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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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Safely separated
      307 20 -AFP Surgeons in US, Italy separate two sets of toddler twins DALLAS/ROME Teams of surgeons in the US and Italy separated two sets of conjoined twins successfully over the weekend after complex and lengthy operations. In Dallas, US surgeons separated a pair of two-year-old Egyptian twins, born joined
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    • global roundup
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        Lock icon Iraq war victim gets new arms
        66 20 Reuters The Iraqi boy who lost both arms and most of his family during the US-led war on Iraq has been fitted with artificial limbs successfully, Britain's Daily Mirror reported yesterday New arms for 13-year old Ali Ismaeel Abbas, whose armless torso, horrific burns
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        Lock icon Disease kills Tasmanian Devils
        48 20 -AFP Experts are to discuss how to tackle a disease which is killing off large numbers of Australia's largest marsupial predator, the Tasmanian devil. The cancerous disease has killed about 90 per cent of the Tasmanian devils in an area on the east coast.
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        Lock icon Psychiatric patients burnt alive
        42 20 Reuters At least 30 psychiatric patients, some of whom were sedated, were burnt alive at a hospital in Western Belarus on Sunday after a patient set fire to the building. Firemen evacuated 31 patients and found 30 corpses.
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        Lock icon Militant cells can be handled
        56 20 Reuters Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said there were Islamic militant cells in the country, but they represented a small minority and did not pose a threat to national security. "Yes, there will be cells in Malaysia, but they are a minority and we can
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        Lock icon Taiwan FM's quit offer rejected
        45 20 AFP Taiwanese Premier Yu Shyi-kun yesterday rejected Foreign Minister Eugene Chien's offer to quit over Taiwan's loss of diplomatic ally Liberia to China. Liberia re-opened links with China over the weekend. Taiwan replied by severing ties with the African nation.
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      A future without men
      436 22 Another 5,000 generations and men will go the way of the dinosaur, says professor MELBOURNE Can you imagine a future without men? You'd better, because it is not improbable. According to a new book, the last of the blokes will disappear from the earth in the
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon The excitement of Indon politics
      1067 24  -  Wimar Witoelar by news@newstoday.com.sg People now have the good fortune of electing their leader AS I boarded the taxi to Changi airport, the driver asked me in a friendly way: "You from Indonesia? So how is Jakarta? Any riots still?" Without thinking I said: "We
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon That winning smile ...
      1050 26  - That winning smile Serene Foo by serene@newstoday.com.sg EVEN clad in a casual, white long-sleeved top and blue jeans, with shades on her perky nose and her hair neatly tied at the back, Michelle Saram couldn't escape notice. It took a while for the two guys outside the cafe where this
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    • FEATURES/HEALTH
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        On the wings of MADAME BUTTERFLY
        558 28  -  Janice Lee BALLET dancer Goh Chan Hon was thrown into a strange world at the age of eight when her family moved from China to Vancouver, Canada. Born and raised in Beijing, Chan Hon was plunged into a culture foreign to her, but she
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        Save your skin esteem
        259 28  -  Genevieve Woo OUR skin protects us from elements such as UV rays from the sun, disease and infection, which can cause skin to dry and wrinkle. More than 90 per cent of skin that has aged prematurely occurs as a result of environmental and chemical damage.
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Spurs stay on shelf
        184 30 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LONDON Clocking air miles in support of his new release, Mystic River, Clint Eastwood charmed a packed house during a screening of the drama at London's National Theatre last Tuesday. But the 73-year-old star who said he has no plans to retire and intends
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    • BUSY COOK
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        Chicken cordon bleu
        935 32  -  Pauline DLoh Breaded chicken breast fillet with melting Swiss cheese centre THIS is classic restaurant fare and was really popular once upon a time. The magic words were cordon bleu after the famous cooking school in France. Prenouveau and pre-fusion, they spelt the last word in sophisticated
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      To Orchard for Carrefour
      509 33  -  Justine Moss Its second outlet at Plaza Singapura provides another one-stop shopping destination by eatout@newstoday.com.sg CARREFOUR, the first operator to start the hypermarket business in Singapore, celebrates its sixth birthday here this month. It's hard to believe that Carrefour's only six years old as it seems
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      She fought and won
      726 34  -  Lynette Leong Doctors, loved ones and having a right attitude helped Marianne overcome breast cancer by news@newstoday.com .sg A t^ M\ m Mdm Marianne \w \m Pereira went for a y j mammogram (breast x-ray) five years ago, she received a piece of news feared by
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      The truth about breast cancer
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      Lock icon Waugh hails Hayden
      509 51 Agencies Australia skipper lauds record-breaking batsman as one of the greatest PERTH Australia's Matthew Hayden is the world's No 1 batsman, captain Steve Waugh said after the opener hit a record score of 380 in the first Test against Zimbabwe which ended here yesterday. "Right now he's
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      187 51 Agencies FLORIDA The Florida Marlins' Josh Beckett struck out 11 batters in pitching a two-hit shutout here Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), sparking a 4-0 win over the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series. The Marlins, facing a must-win situation to sustain their title hopes, pulled
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      323 51 AFP NFL Colts 20 Panthers 23 (OT) Kansas City joins perfect Carolina INDIANAPOLIS The Carolina Panthers overcame an injury to star running back Stephen Davis to beat the Indianapolis Colts in an overtime showdown of American football's unbeaten teams here Sunday (yesterday morning,
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      627 52 Agencies Golfer Stephenson apologises for Asian slur KAHUKU, Hawaii She claimed her slur against Asian golfers was not racially motivated and asked to have her controversial quotes changed. Nevertheless, golfer Jan Stephenson has admitted she was wrong. Yesterday the Australian issued a written apology to the Asian
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      324 52 Agencies LAS VEGAS, Nevada Australian Stuart Appleby birdied the first playoff hole to defeat Scott McCarron and win the US$4 million ($6.89 million) Las Vegas Invitational on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The two players both found the fairway at the par-four 18th before hitting
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      Lock icon Tiger won't change schedule to beat Vijay
      201 52 AFP ORLANDO World No 1 Tiger Woods (right) will not add any events to his schedule in the final month of the US PGA Tour season to hold off Fiji's Vijay Singh for this year's money crown. Woods, speaking at a sponsored event
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      483 53 Agencies England defender says Italian doing a great job at Chelsea English Premier League Birmingham v Chelsea Terry urges Ranieri to stay BIRMINGHAM Birmingham's Premiership match against Chelsea tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) could see the visitor go top and the home side move up to
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      Lock icon Dream team to stay
      260 53 -AFP SUZUKA Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn warned yesterday that its world championship winning dream team will run for years. The Italian giant battled its way to a fifth consecutive world constructors' championship here as Michael Schumacher claimed his record-breaking sixth drivers' title. There had been
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      Lock icon Swedes slam referee for World Cup blunder
      371 53 Agencies Women's World Cup final Germany 2 Sweden 1 Germans hit controversial winner LOS ANGELES Sweden claimed a match official in the women's World Cup final admitted the Romanian referee blundered in awarding a free-kick which set up Germany's golden goal winner. Germany
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      Lock icon Injuries hit big guns
      551 54 Potential body blow for All Blacks as Umaga suffers serious knee injury Rugby World Cup Rugby powerhouses limping SYDNEY A mounting injury toll has taken the gloss off the opening round of World Cup matches for the main contenders. While the tournament's big guns Australia, New
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      Lock icon Chasm between rugby giants and the minnows growing
      315 54 Agencies MELBOURNE Canada's 41-10 loss in its opening World Cup match against Wales on Sunday again emphasised the widening gap between the professional and amateur game. Besides captain Colin Charvis, the rest of Wales' players are professionals and they simply ground down
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      Lock icon Sophie wins
      165 54 -AFP HOUSTON Sweden's Sophie Gustafson fired a final-round eight-under-par 64 here yesterday to capture the LPGA Samsung World Championship after not being penalised for two controversial incidents. Gustafson finished at 14-under-par 274, two strokes ahead of Australian Rachel Teske and American Beth Daniel. Gustafson appeared to address her
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      80 54 MADRID The men's professional tennis tour vowed yesterday it would stop at nothing to keep the sport clean amid accusations of match-rigging. Last week bookmakers suspended betting on the match between Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Fernando Vicente in Lyon six hours before it was due to start after receiving
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      Worried Alpay
      81 54 LONDON Aston Villa has refused to comment on Turkish defender Alpay's claims he might be forced out of the club by the fans after his Euro 2004 clash with David Beckham. Alpay confronted Beckham after he missed a first-half penalty and then poked him in the face as
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      533 55  -  Stanley Ho Despite two losses, Avramovic refuses to throw in the towel by stanley@newstoday.com.sg IN HIS first competitive outing with Singapore, the Lions misfired in front of their own fans and lost 3-1 to a 10-man Kuwait in their Group B Asian Cup qualifier. The return
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        236 55 LEICESTER Brazilian striker Rivaldo has issued a come-and-get-me plea to English Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur. Desperately needing to resurrect his playing career, the out-of-favour AC Milan striker hopes the club he snubbed last summer would rekindle its interest in signing him when the transfer
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      420 55 Football Euro 2004 playoffs Spain-Norway tie will be close FRANKFURT Scotland drew the short straw yesterday when it was matched with Holland in the playoffs to qualify for next year's European Championship finals in Portugal. Scotland coach Berti Vogts said:
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