Today, 15 October 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY todayonline.com Wednesday October 15,2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 340 1 Reuters BEIJING China made history today when it became only the third country to launch a man into orbit. The launch was announced by the official Xinhua news agency. The rocket lifted-off at 9 am, putting the country into the exclusive space club pioneered by
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    • 426 1  -  Val Chua MR W CHAN KIM used to lecture on Japanese management theories to American undergraduates. The Korean would have no problems captivating his audience in Harvard in the 80s, he recounted. But in the 90s, he had a problem no one wanted
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    • 105 1 Reuters NEW YORK Stocks climbed yesterday, rising to fresh highs for the year on solid profits from companies like Johnson Johnson, but gains were capped by worries that robust earnings are already factored into the market The technology-packed Nasdaq Composite Index rose 9.66 points, or 0.50
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    • 140 1 AFP LONDON Australian firsttime novelist and reformed drug addict DBC Pierre yesterday won the Booker Prize, Britain's most famous and most coveted literary award, for his debut novel, Vernon God Little. Pierre, 42, headed a shortlist of six writers to win the contemporary fiction award and
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 202 2 Today photo by IT HAS been a good year for the President's Challenge. This year, the annual charity drive exceeded its target amount of $7 million by about $2 million. In addition, the number of volunteers from among the public also increased. As a result, nine beneficiaries
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    • 349 2 RM19.99 or less than $10. The figure has become so engraved in the minds of Singaporeans thinking of flying to Kuala Lumpur, that it might almost be AirAsia's nickname. But even as the no-frills carrier held a press conference yesterday to give
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    • 647 2  -  Elisia Yeo Lankan President slams her PM in S'pore by elisia@newstoday.com.sg ON THE international stage, countries are usually careful to project the best possible image to attract business deals and tourists. But Sri Lanka's President, Mrs Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, yesterday took an ongoing dispute with
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    • 652 3  -  Teo Hwee Nak by 'Significantly-improved' package by insurance giant appeases consumer body hweenak@newstoday.com.sg AFTER a long and very public spat, they are finally ready to move on. Yesterday, insurance giant American International Assurance (AIA) and consumer watchdog Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) quietly declared peace.
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    • 91 4 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians keen to become an astronaut under a space programme with Russia have been invited to submit their applications, a report said yesterday. Two candidates will be shortlisted next April, the New Straits Times reported. One will be a reserve candidate while
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    • 252 4 One of Osama's oldest is being groomed to be a leader in Al Qaeda WASHINGTON While the search for Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden continues, one of his oldest sons, Saad bin Laden, has emerged as a key figure among a small group that is allegedly managing
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      46 4 Chinese models pose during a photo shoot in Hangzhou, east China. Gone are the days of drab khaki uniforms as fashion-consciousness blooms in China. As the fashion industry grows, model agencies and a variety of professional beauty contests have started to mushroom. Reuters photo
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      • 76 4 -AFP A HIV-positive man was yesterday found guilty of two counts of grievous bodily harm for infecting two girlfriends with the virus. Mohammed Dica's conviction is believed to be the first successful prosecution in England and Wales for sexually transmitting a disease in 1 37 years. The 38-year-old
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      • 66 4 -AFP A 62-year-old Japanese professor won a spoof Nobel the Ig Nobel Prize for his chemical study on why a bronze statue in his city fails to attract pigeons. Dr Yukio Hirose, 62, professor of computational mechanics at Japan's Kanazawa University, said his investigation has led
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    • 185 4 BAGHDAD A suicide bomber killed himself and wounded 10 people when his car exploded outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad yesterday. US military spokesman Col Pete Mansoor said a car was driven towards the entrance of the heavily-fortified mission. It blew up, killing
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 80 6 MR PN Balji has resigned as executive adviser to MediaCorp Press. His last day of service will be Oct 31, 2003. As Mr Balji will maintain his relationship with MediaCorp Press on a project and consultancy basis, there will be no replacement appointed to his
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    • 246 6 DIABETES patients' daily testing of their blood glucose levels is set to become less painful, less costly and more accurate thanks to an innovative product developed at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN). Diabetic patients typically have to test their blood glucose level four
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    • 122 6 THE former chief executive officer of NTUC Choice Homes, Lim Geok Hwee, pleaded guilty to three of 51 charges of criminal breach of trust at the subordinate courts yesterday. The 41-year-old government overseas merit scholar was removed as CEO in February after an anti-graft
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    • 417 6  -  Pamela Pang 85-year-old man goes back to school by nam ela@newstoday.com.s MR BONG Kirn Chong is a man with a mission. He wants to be able to translate Mandarin into English and vice versa in two years' time. That is an ambitious goal considering he could not
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      116 8 THE Singapore Teachers' Union (STU) yesterday launched a monthly magazine, Quest, which includes puzzles, activities and articles to help children understand current affairs and issues, such as CPF restructuring. Said STU general secretary Swithun Lowe: "Quest takes a unique non-academ-ic, fun-based approach to make difficult subjects such
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    • 448 8  -  Shibu Itty Kuttikal Local initiative provides venture capital for small-scale innovators by shibu@newstoday.com.sg A GROUP of educated and affluent overseas Indians and some of their friends of other nationalities are betting on the ingenuity of the marginalised. In the process, they are giving back
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    • 87 8 Visit us at the REAL WORLD REAL LEARNING REAL OPPORTUNITIES EXHIBITION The Exhibition offers you a variety of stimulating and innovative activities designed to maximise your potential. The first 300 readers to bring the PSB Academy centrespread supplement in this issue of TODAY to the Exhibition on 15 October and
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  • LETTERS
    • 336 10 Govt says airlines have been contributing to Changi's growth WE refer to the letter "Why so myopic?" (Today, Oct 11) by Mr Lee Kok Weng. We agree that "if Air Asia flies here, it will bring in direct, if not indirect economic benefits". Air services bring
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    • 228 10 I REFER to the letter "FAS, nurture local players instead of looking for more foreign talent" (Today, Oct 13) by reader Law Sin Ling. I would like to thank the reader for the feedback and wish to take this opportunity to clarify our position
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    • 60 10 IN THE report "Great Singapore Sale" (Today, Oct 13), it was stated that the M 3 convertible was not on the roads yet This is incorrect BMW Asia has clarified that Performance Motors Limited, the authorised distributor of BMW cars, has been selling and
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    • 408 12  -  Ng Weng Hoong SIM WONG HOO deserves yet another round of applause. While his risk-taking and entrepreneurship are well recognised, his latest act of helping Nanz Chong-Komo back on her feet is an act of leadership that holds
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    • 392 12  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong The issue is journalistic standards, not licensing I REFER to Mr Michael Backman's comment, "Is Singapore being paranoid?" (Today, Oct 8) and the reply from Ms X Bhavani, Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, "Backman's got it
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 350 14  -  Chan Chao Peh Caas willing to lengthen runway so carrier's Boeing 737 planes can take off by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S aviation authorities may be willing to lengthen the runway at Seletar Airport to accommodate Air Asia's planes if the airline chooses to operate out of the airport
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    • 297 14 Bloomberg Channel News Asia -AFP Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp said it prefers regulators to lift controls on foreign ownership of banks in Asia as this will enable OCBC to expand beyond Singapore by buying into other financial institutions in the region. The bank was clarifying remarks made by its
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    • 323 16 Bloomberg Telco re-offered 24.8% stake in Philippines' Globe Telecom DEUTSCHE Telekom AG, Europe's largest phone company, has revived an offer to sell a 29.4 billion peso ($938 million) stake in Globe Telecom Inc, the second-largest Philippine mobile phone company, to Sing Tel and Ayala Corp,
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 210 16 SINGAPORE shares closed lower yesterday on broad-based profit-taking, breaking an uninterrupted streak of eight sessions of gains. The ST Index shed 20.05 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 1730.73, but off a low of 1,728.06. Losers outnumbered gainers 217 to 170, while 202 counters closed unchanged or ungraded. Trading
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      • 60 16 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Korea Comp Value 10,966.43 11,856.02 3,291.60 5,938.42 766.52 Change Pis +180.39 -105.95 +8.60 -34.05 +9.50 +1.67 -0.89 +0.26 -0.57 +1.25 KLCI 782.63 -9.11 -1.15 SET Index 568.47 -10.12 -1.75 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 648.72 1,365.12
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      • 22 16 Gold uss/oz 374.200 Silver uss/oi 4.950 Platinum uss/oz 727.000 Rubber cents/kg 216 Palm oil RM/tonne 1 668 Brent crude uss/barrel 30.89
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      • 36 16 US$ 0.5802 UKE 0.3482 Yen 63.204 HK$ 4.4868 RM 2.2049 Euro 0.4957 Rupiah 4859.3 Baht 22.833 Peso 31.664 A$ 0.8411 Indian Rs 26.349 Won 665.40 C$ 0.7661 Yuan 4.8026 NZ$ 0.9709 NTS 19.563
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      • 55 16 By volume Close Change '000 Hiap Hoe BBR Allgreen Ipco Interra Chartered Vikay Ind GMG USS rhakral L&M 0.030 0.045 1.140 0.150 0.315 1.820 0.140 0.055 0.160 0.015 +0.005 +0.030 +0.005 +0.020 -0.010 -0.005 +0.010 +12.5 +2.7 +3.4 +6.8 -0.5 -3.4 +22.2 80,533 72,933 72,135 54,897 46,074
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      • 72 16 )y Close Change :h0DBeCW*****61USS138.400+l 9.900 iC Global 1.350 +0.160 Remind 1.170 +0.110 SreatEast 11.100 +0.100 ISH500USS 3.520 +0.100 DUE 6.600 +0.100 Seaview 9.100 +0.100 SIA 11.500 +0.100 Sincere 1.750 +0.080 By percentage CSCW*****7 Close < 0.035 Change +75.0 AcmaW*****6 0.015 +50.0 IRE Corp 0.055 +37.5 CSC 0.075
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      • 78 16 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by )y$ Close Change :&N 11.400 -0.400 :iTYDEV 5.900 -0.350 )BS 14.100 -0.300 :&N 100 11.400 -0.300 XBC 11.500 -0.300 JOB 13.900 -0.200 /enture 19.900 -0.200 (epCorp 5.700 -0.150 Creative 50 18.800 -0.100 )y percentage Close ioldlron 0.030 Change -14.3 WiaS 0.035 -12.5
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    • 398 18 Channel News Asia Figure 5 times that of 2Q at $1.89 billion SINGAPORE'S property investment sales rose almost five times in the third quarter from that of the previous quarter, rebounding from a slow first half, CB Richard Ellis said in its quarterly report The rise
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    • 139 20 AFP BANGKOK The United States and Thailand will announce plans to begin negotiating a free-trade agreement ahead of next week's Apec summit, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday. Dr Thaksin, who will hold bilateral talks with US President George W Bush on the eve
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      244 20 AFP Significant effort needed for Asean, India to achieve joint economic goals EFFORTS by South-east Asia and India to forge closer economic ties face many political, economic and bureaucratic hurdles and will require significant effort from both sides to succeed, the World Economic Forum's East Asia summit
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    • 99 20 -AFP SHANGHAI Computer giant Dell aims to triple sales in China to US$6 billion ($10.4 billion) within the next several years, state press reported yesterday. "Given the local market size, we are aiming to increase our annual sales in China to US$6 billion
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    • 583 22  -  Caroline Baum Commentary The rising dragon is losing manufacturing jobs so fast, it can hardly be called a 'job thievery' nation by news@newstoday.com.sg YOU know all those US manufacturing jobs that have been high-tailing it to China? China sure is doing a lousy job of
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    • 178 17 Over the past 20 years, University of Southern Queensland has established itself as one of the top providers of distance education. You can now enrol for a USQ course in our state-of-the-art campus right here in Singapore. And that's not all. Informatics now offers the unique Retrenchment Protection Programme*, which
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    • 317 22 BERT DECKER is an international communication guru who has appeared on NBC's TODAY What do Charles Show as commentator for the U.S. Presidential elections, and who founded Decker Schwab, Zig Ziglar Communications, Inc., building it to become the premier communication training company Bruce Wilkinson have in the world. Bert is
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • 288 24 Agencies CHINA-based KXD Digital Entertainment expects to raise $33.5 million from an initial public offering of 160 million shares at 23 cents each. The company, which designs and manufactures digital video and acoustic products, will offer 7.5 million shares to the public and 152.5 million shares
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    • 214 24 Dow Jones PICC Property Casualty Co expects to go public in Hong Kong next month in one of Asia's biggest initial public offerings this year, hoping investors will regard it as an attractive route into China's huge insuiance market The Chinese
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    • WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ...
      • 68 24 SNP Corp ($1.29) BUY DBS Vickers Securities SNP Corp's pan-Asian footprint is beginning to bear fruit. The turnaround of its Leefung unit in Hong Kong, a recovery in overall publishing and specialty printing businesses coupled with further cost synergies should underpin stronger earnings in FYO4. We raise our price target
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      • 114 24 DBS Vickers Securities Hong Leong Asia ($1.98) STRONG BUY While the five per cent sale in China Yuchai International (CVI) would reduce Hong Leong Asia's realisable net asset value because our target price for CVI is higher than the actual selling price, HLA would
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      • 46 24 Ascott ($0,465) BUY DBS Vickers Securities Ascott has made significant strides towards becoming a leading global serviced residence operator through the disposal of non-core assets and strategic acquisitions in Australia and Europe. An expanding portfolio in the current up-cycle in the hospitality industry will drive growth.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 134 26 Reuters RIYADH Hundreds of Saudi protesters took to the streets here yesterday in a rare show of public opposition, demanding reforms, during the kingdom's first human rights conference. The show of defiance came a day after Riyadh announced that it would hold
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    • 179 26 Reuters SEOUL The leader of South Korea's main opposition party, which controls parliament, said yesterday President Roh Moohyun should first disclose details of an aide's politicalfunding scandal before any proposed confidence vote. On Monday, Mr Roh called for a referendum on Dec 15, saying
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    • 330 26 But Thai NGOs plan to protest anyway BANGKOK With the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit approaching, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is taking pains to present a positive impression of Bangkok, the venue of the summit He ordered the cleaning up of the streets of
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    • 38 31 AFP photo Russian strongman Fakhridin Akhnazarov from The Great Moscow Circus, which will perform in Hong Kong from mid-December, pulls a van laden with people at a shopping mall in Hong Kong.
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    • 179 31 -AFP PARIS Sex and shopping have long been the stuff of fantasy, but now a Parisian department store is bringing the heady mix to life with an event that allows lonely hearts to shop for their suppers and potential partners at
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    • global roundup
      • 55 31 Reuters A vicious crow, which had attacked people over the weekend and eluded German police, was apprehended after it got drunk on cat food laced with fruit schnapps, Dortmund authorities said on Monday. A police spokesman said the crow was sleeping off its
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      • 62 31 Reuters An Orthodox Bishop has offered to put confession boxes in every Cypriot school for teenagers to seek repentance for their sins. Whether they are nabbed for smoking or other transgressions, the bishop reckons the sanctuary of a school confessional would put teenagers
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      • 76 31 -AFP Under pressure to compromise, the US on Monday proposed that the UN Security Council set a Dec 15 deadline for Iraqis to schedule elections and draw up a constitution. It was the first time the US has set a
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    • 272 31 Editor defends stories on Arnie's alleged molests LOS ANGELES In the aftermath of the recent recall election in California, the Los Angeles Times attempted to end the controversy over its stories of 16 women allegedly humiliated sexually by Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger. In "The Story Behind the
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    • 696 32  -  Ivy Singh Lim to lure more tourists to Singapore attracted by our new lifestyle THE staid reply, "What, a farm in Singapore?", never fails to amaze me when I tell people I'm actually a farmer who lives on a farm. Another common response
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    • 311 32 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Coming soon to a Windows PC near you: Apple Computer's popular iTunes online music store. The computer maker is set to unveil this week the long-prom-ised Windows-compatible version of its online music service. Last week, it sent invitations to reporters
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    • 796 34  -  Yong Shu Chiang by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg More acting roles won't mean retirement from wrestling for The Rock THE Rock is a pretty good actor, really. Anybody who's watched the wildly popular World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star in the ring will know him as a
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    • 369 36 SRA AWARDS 2003 The SRA Awards 2003 honours the very best of Singapore's retail industry COME Oct 21, the Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) will announce the winners of the SRA Awards 2003 at a ball at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore. About 600 key retailers and industry
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    • 521 36  - If I Win contenders in five categories share their thoughts on the SRA Awards See Yen Theng Category: Best New Entrant of the Year Contender: Whitemud, a niche boutique retailing a wide range of high quality and unique natural bath and body care products sourced internationally "It is an honour
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    • 514 37 THE year 2001 ushered in a new game plan to achieve international reach for Aspial Corporation Limited (ACL), previously known as Lee Hwa Holdings Ltd. This took the form of Aspial the fine jewellery brand that lathers itself with images of the
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        508 38  -  Yong Shu Chiang Today photo by After a tussle with censors, film finally hits local screens by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg AT a Toa Payoh kopitiam, film-maker Eric Khoo is taking a swig of his favourite lager and puffing on a cigarette. It's a time to relax and celebrate,
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      • 261 40 Reuters LOS ANGELES Heads rolled and limbs flew at the North American box office over the weekend as director Quentin Tarantino's latest movie Kill Bill Vol 1 left its competition for dead. The homage to gongfu flicks sold about U5522.2 million ($38.3 million) worth of tickets
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      • 276 40  -  Yong Shu Chiang THE award-winning UK filmmaker behind rock band REM's new music video, Bad Day, will showcase some works during a talk at The Substation tonight Tim Hope is in town for local drama group spell#7's digital arts festival. A self-taught animator and
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    • 474 52 After a wild Game Four, Boston and New York get their minds back on the game Major League Baseball Red Sox 3 Yankees 2 Boston levels series at 2-2 BOSTON Baseball was back on the agenda for the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees on
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    • 246 52 Reuters ST LOUIS A rampant St Louis Rams handed the Atlanta Falcons their first shutout defeat since 1993 in a 36-0 rout on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). St Louis (3-2) won its ninth consecutive home game while the Falcons suffered their fifth loss in
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    • 690 53  -  Jose Raymond by j ose@newstoday.com. sg Budget constraints mean Jalan Besar Stadium cannot house tribute to footballers THE likes of Mohammed Noh, Majid Ariff, Quah Kirn Song and Terry Pathmanathan will have to wait a little longer for their stories to be told. The
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    • 463 53  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg THE list just keeps getting longer. With just a game to go in the NTUC Income S-League, Tampines Rovers' Dcs Bulpin has become the 10th coach to leave the club over the last eight seasons. The Englishman was
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    • 159 53  -  Tan Wee Boon CHINESE club Sinchi FC ended its rookie season in the NTUC Income S-League in style when it beat Balestier Khalsa 3-1 at the Jurong Stadium last night In a robust match that ended with both sides reduced to 10 men, goals from Li Kin and
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    • 568 54 -AFP Tennis chief promises match-fixing probe, but admits can't stop betting PARIS Tennis authorities have promised to probe claims that players are deliberately throwing matches to win bets placed on the Internet. But Mark Miles, chief executive of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), admits it would
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    • 491 54 Agencies MANCHESTER Rio Ferdinand may be asked to provide records of his mobile phone calls to back up his claim that he did not wilfully miss a drugs test last month. His lawyers may use the records to form part of the
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 516 55 Blues remain unbeaten after goalless draw at Birmingham BIRMINGHAM Chelsea leapfrogged Arsenal to go to the top of the Premiership this morning despite being held to a goalless draw by Birmingham. Chelsea is unbeaten after eight matches and leads its London rival on goal difference, proving that
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      • 269 55 LONDON England football captain David Beckham has parted company with his commercial agents and pledged to concentrate on playing for both his country, ahead of next year's European championships in Portugal, and for his club Real Madrid. Beckham announced this morning
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      • 133 55 -AFP GOSFORD, Australia Argentina is back in the quarter-final hunt at the Rugby World Cup after smashing minnow Namibia 67-14 in a Pool A match here yesterday. The Pumas, who fielded their second-string team after a dismal loss to Australia last Friday, were too strong for the mismatched
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      • 281 55 MELBOURNE, Australia The All Blacks have almost given up on the fitness of centre Tana Umaga and could announce he is out of the World Cup today. Vice-captain Umaga ruptured knee ligaments against Italy and has been on the treatment
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