Today, 24 October 2003

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    8 1 TODAY todayonline.com Friday October 24,2003* mita (P) 002/11/2002
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    City off Hope
    650 1  -  Tan Hui Leng $500m Biopolis will it sizzle or fizzle? by huilene@newstoday.com.se WHEN Biopolis the seven gleaming glass structures across from Buona Vista MRT station opens next Wednesday, it will carry with it the burden of proving its critics wrong: That it will end up as a
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    Through the eyes of a child
    417 1  -  Ng Shing Yi by shingyKgnewstoday.com.sg THE theme of the essay competition was "The Maid At Home". But what startled the judges was the level of resentment evident in the essays that some children felt towards their maids. True, most of the participants the competition
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      49 1 NEWS£\VIEWS mkimchi deal Proposed FTA with S Korea may save Spore $100m/16 home away from home Why Indian expats find it easy to adapt to S'pore/28H THE I A BRIDE Kill Bill Vol 1: J bloodbath/3 6j^ Star Hub's Weekend Green Guide Win Star Hub Cable TV subscription /64-65
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Egmar seeks $100,000 for this photo
      343 2  -  Jose Raymond Footballer sends letter of demand to SPH for his 'extreme em harassment' by iose@newstodav.com.sg HOME United footballer Egmar Goncalves is asking for $100,000 in compensation from Singapore Press Holdings for that photo of him published in Berita Harian, which exposed more than
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      Lock icon Redi to research Sars vaccine
      111 2 Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE and the US will begin joint research on a Sars vaccine. The research will be conducted by the Regional Emerging Diseases Intervention Centre (Redi). The establishment of the centre was announced during US President George W Bush's visit to Singapore on Tuesday.
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      A media giant on the defensive
      713 3 News Comment As its non-core assets are peeled away, SPH must remake itself to stave off competition A BALANCE sheet loaded with peripheral assets and idle capital is frowned on these days. But shareholders of Singapore Press Holdings are lucky that their company accumulated
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      Lock icon $30m IE S'pore project to help local firms soar abroad
      269 4 Shobha Tsering Bhalla IF you can't make it by yourself, try hunting in packs. This is why a number of Singapore companies will form strategic alliances when looking for business opportunities. They will join hands, share resources, ride on each
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      Love triangle killer gets 8 yrs
      425 4  -  oy Frances He stabbed lover's former boyfriend in row over her by. j ovfenewsroaav. com. se A DISHWASHER who killed his girlfriend's former lover was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to culpable homicide in the High Court yesterday. The
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Sistic extends claim deadline
      123 6 SINGAPORE'S biggest ticketing agency, Sistic, extended the deadline for ticket-refund claims for show cancellations to Nov 30. A total of 1,422 tickets worth about $100,000 for shows cancelled between March and June remain unrefunded. In a statement, Mr Kenneth Tan, director of sales and marketing, Sistic,
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      Lock icon Taiwan's finest fruit on S'pore shelves
      224 6 Pamela Pang SINGAPORE'S grocery shelves are the target of the latest aggressive exporter of agricultural produce: Taiwan. From now till December, you can get wax apples, loquats and mangoes at 30 supermarkets, including NTUC FairPrice, Cold Storage, Shop N Save and Prime, as part
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      Cure for MS is at hand
      414 6  -  Tan Hui Leng SGH team under Dr Xiao makes important discovery by huileng@newstoday.com.se A SINGAPORE medical research team has made a breakthrough discovery that could finally lead to a cure for multiple sclerosis (MS). After four years of painstaking effort, the 15-person team at
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      Lock icon $20m savings in health spending
      179 6 Newsradio 93.8 IMPROVEMENTS to clinical practices and logistics management resulted in over $20 million being saved on publichealth spending over the last two years. The National Healthcare Group (NHG) and Singhealth public healthcare clusters stated this at the inaugural Best Practices Sharing session yesterday. Among
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      Lock icon Cisco guard gets death sentence
      71 6 Channel NewsAsia THE High Court yesterday sentenced a former Cisco guard to death after he was found guilty of fatally shooting an ex-col-league in March this year. Ismail Abdul Rahman, 37, who lost his job five weeks before the shooting incident, had been charged with
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  • LETTERS
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      Information, please
      265 8  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong Perhaps, onus is on us to request for relevant govt data I REFER to your report, "Top-down transparency?" (Today, Oct 22). As the report noted, over the past few months, new facts have become public knowledge thanks to the Government's decision to open up
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      AirAsia chief should know better
      174 8  -  Wong Sek Choon I REFER to the report, "Battle for the skies" (Today, Oct 23). I was appalled to read AirAsia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes' suggestion that the Singapore authorities are part of some grand conspiracy to thwart his plans to attract travellers from Malaysia.
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      Readers want respect
      111 8  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng I REFER to the report, "Does media count?" (Today, Oct 23). Over the past decade, Singaporeans have shown a growing interest in national issues. Readers today expect to get the full story and not be left guessing. We do not want to turn
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      Lock icon Meet the MRT snake-catcher
      556 13  -  Ng Shing Yi by shingyi (Snewstoday.com.se THE Singapore Mass Rail Transit Corp (SMRT) system is one of the safest of such systems in the world, according to incident statistics. While there have been one or two casualties a year, it is a very low rate as
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      140 8 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax: 65 6534 4217; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg -XVo Branded Appapel S\ i Major US European labels for ladies, men, teens and children. £o*tdtm Qoa itcuLt'i
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      428 11 WHUffiM 1 mfllii lIITI< H SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAYSUNDAYMOMAYTUtaDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WFjNESOAYTHURSDW FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNQAI* iHi^f IWi WFJ»ISDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAYS zJS VT^^m
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  • BUSNIESS NEWS
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      Lock icon New work visa targets entrepreneurs
      156 14 Dow Jones SINGAPORE will introduce a new work visa programme aimed at attracting foreign entrepreneurs. Business plans not income, education, or country of origin will be the main criteria for the new visa. Known as EntrePass, the visa programme will start on Oct 31, the
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      Lock icon New rule for home loan recipients
      89 14 Channel NewsAsia FROM Jan 1, HDB flat buyers who take bank loans will have to pay a two per cent cash downpayment for the purchase. As announced earlier this year, bank loans used to buy HDB flats will be gradually aligned with private property
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    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        206 14 Dow Jones SINGAPORE shares ended sharply lower after Morgan Stanley cut Singapore stocks to underweight, dragging down blue chips that had rallied recently. The ST Index fell 38.30 points, or 2.2 per cent, to 1,732.96, but closed off a 1,720.07 intra-day low- I I I I I I I
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        Your S$1 buys
        35 14 US$ 0.5768 UK£ 0 34,, Yen ***** HK$ ***** LAU Euro 0.4887 Rupiah 4882.9 Baht 23.024 Peso 31.855 A$ 0.8184 Indian Rs 26-133 Won 681.39 c$ 0.752 y» NZ$ 0.9513 NTS 19.609
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        World markets
        60 14 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng 10,335.16 11,744.50 -554.46 -494.13 -5.09% -4.04% Ml Ordinaries 3,274.10 -31.20 -0.94% Taiwan Wtd 5,952.23 -89.63 -1.48% Korea Comp 754.14 -25.14 -3.23% KLCI 802.90 -2.21 -0.27% SET Index 604.77 +11.75 +1.98% Jakarta Comp 629.01 -17.16 -2.66% Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,364.44
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        Lock icon Commodities
        20 14 SGX, Bloomberg silver uss/.z 5.140 Platinum uss/oz 740.000 Information provided by Palm oil Hi*™ 1810.5 Brent crude uss/barrel 29.56
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        ST Index —1,732.96 -38.30
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        SGX most active
        56 14 By volume bartered )eyonics Hiap Hoe Close 1.760 0.305 0.030 Change -0.110 -0.010 -5.9 -3.2 'OOO 59,815 57,110 44,312 InerSave 0.515 +0.030 +6.2 38,788 Lee 0.580 +0.055 +10.5 37,084 3E Global 0.760 -0.040 -5.0 33,126 ntegra 0.110 32,409 .abroyMar MnaAvOil JniFiber 0.610 1.160 0.170 +0.010 +0.030 -0.005
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        SGX top rises
        82 14 By Close Changi Seaview 9.750 +0.301 Thai Prime200USS 9.050 +0.201 SC Global 1.440 +0.121 ShanghaiAC 2k HKS 0.580 +0.071 Dovechem 0.865 +0.05! Nam Lee 0.580 +0.05! EngKong 0.330 +0.051 KepCorp 5.750 +0.051 Shang Asia 2kHKS 7.150 +0.051 AceDyn 0.290 +0.04! )y percentage Close Change »eeHS W*****0 0.060
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        SGX top falls
        67 14 By$ Close Changi DBS 14.400 -0.701 SPH 19.800 -0.601 Venture 19.100 -0.601 Creative 50 18.400 -0.501 SPH 100 19.900 -0.501 STIETF100 17.480 -0.401 CITYDEV 6.050 -0.301 OCBC 12.000 -0.301 SIA 200 11.300 -0.301 )y percentage Close C Change :SCW*****7 0.020 -33.3 'anpacMedW*****90.010 (ingWanW*****4 0.015 .&M 0.015 -33.3
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      Private property upturn soon
      481 14  -  Lee Yew Meng Analysts expect prices to bottom out in the fourth quarter or early next year by yewmengO'newstoday.com.sg ALL signs point to a recovery in the private residential property market next year, underpinned by rising prices of bigger HDB resale flats. Analysts are expecting property
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      The kimchi connection
      401 16  -  Derrick A Paulo Pact with S Korea expected to reap $100m savings for S'pore by dernckWnewstoday.com.sg FIRST, it was sushi and J-pop. Then came kimchi and Korean dramas. The flavour of the moment in Singapore may have changed, but it is not occurring only in the cultural
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      corporate briefs
      205 16 KXD Digital Entertainment's initial public offering of 1 60 million shares at 23 cents each was 12.7 times subscribed. Its 77 million retail shares were 243 times subscribed. The company, which supplies and designs digital video and acoustic products, will begin trading on Monday. Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation
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      Lock icon CSM Q4 loss forecast to fall
      369 18 Bloomberg Credits rise in sales of chips for computers, mobile phones CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing forecast its smallest quarterly loss in two and a half years after sales of chips used in computers and mobile phones rose. The company forecast a fourth-quarter loss of about
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      Lock icon ST Engineering unit buys Nasdaq-listed firm for $37m
      134 18 Dow Jones SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering said one of its units, Vision Technologies Kinetics, has bought Nasdaqlisted Miltope Group for $37 million. Subject to approval, the deal will make Miltope a whol-ly-owned unit of Vision. The amount to be paid includes $700,000 reserved
      — Dow Jones  -  134 words
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      S'pore consumer prices up
      113 18 CONSUMER prices in Singapore rose for the third straight month in September, driven by higher prices of food and other key items such as health care and education. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.7 per cent last month compared to that for the same period
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      Lock icon Widening of trade doors
      61 18 Reuters photo Cyclists riding past a US soft drink company's billboard in Beijing yesterday. US trade representative Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday that China will have to open its doors wider to US goods and make progress in tackling problems such as rampant counterfeiting if it
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      Lock icon Demand for credit seen to grow in '04
      195 18 Dow Jones DEMAND for credit will improve as Singapore's economy emerges from a slump, DBS chief Jackson Tai said in an optimistic assessment that means banks could see higher earnings next year. "You'll see that credit demand will increase as the economic
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      Lock icon Flextronics posts net loss of $174m in Q2
      204 18 Dow Jones FLEXTRONICS International swung to a loss in the fiscal second quarter, hindered by steep charges for early debt repayment and restructuring. The electronics contract manufacturer reported a net loss for the second quarter of US$lOO.l million ($174.3 million), or 19
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      333 17 MITSUBISHI fck PRESENTATION PRODUCTS REVOLUTIQNIZINGCOLOR" Changes for the Better THE PROBLEM J^ The new Chairman arrives from L^jfc New York in 24 hours. The Strategy jr -j Presentation is ready but your WHAT DO YOU DO? J i i S ill Y*'*^^ v f fl A W THE SOLUTION [^^3/0^
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  • Sawy Investor
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      Asia is still cheap
      331 20  -  Vasu Menon Region is attractive because of its fast-growing economy by news@newstoday.com.sg ASIAN markets have rallied sharply from their lows in March/April this year (Tablel). Fund managers continue to shift money into Asia because the region is still attractive. The re-allocation of funds from other regions
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    • What The Experts Say ...
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        Lock icon Sincere Watch — BUY ($1.78)
        72 20 Sincere Watch BUY ($1.78) OCBC Investment Research Sincere Watch (SW) is engaged in retailing and distributing branded luxury watches. SW has captured a bigger market share at the expense of other local retailers, including Cortina and Hour Glass. Our price target of $2.45 is based on a conservative Price Earnings
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        Lock icon CapitaMall Trust — HOLD ($1.28)
        102 20 CapitaMall Trust HOLD ($1.28) Phillip Securities Research CapitaMall Trust (CMT) reported positive results this week. Boosted by the inclusion of the yield accretive IMM Building into its portfolio of suburban malls, CMT generated $36.9 million in gross revenue and $23.9 million in net property income. It achieved a distribution per
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2259 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The 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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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Saudis 'in nuke acquisition bid'
      381 22 AFP. Oil for know-how deal with Pakistan: Israeli officer WASHINGTON A top Israeli I intelligence official yesterday backed reports that Saudi Arabia was trying to acquire nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan, a drive that could have wide-ranging repercussions in the Middle East. Earlier, The Washington
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    • global roundup
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        Lock icon Now, back to my attorneys
        31 22 AFP Two days after Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad surprised the court with his self-defence, he handed the defending job back to his defence lawyers.
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        Lock icon Questions over Iraq building fund
        83 22 Reuters Christian Aid, a prominent tsrmsn aid agency, accused Iraq's US and British administrators yesterday of failing to account for up to US$5 billion ($8.7 billion) in oil revenue and other money that is meant to go toward rebuilding the country. Christian Aid said its
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        Lock icon GM takes car name change in hand
        79 22 Reuters General Motors Corp will rename its Buick LaCrosse car sold in Canada because the name for the car is slang for masturbation in Quebec. Embarrassed GM officials, who declined to be named, said it had been unaware that "LaCrosse" was a term
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      Lock icon UN made itself an easy target
      203 22 AFP UNITED NATIONS Mismanagement, incompetence and a string of security breaches made the UN headquarters in Baghdad an easy target The conclusions were drawn in a damning independent report, ordered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to look into the August attack which killed 22 people
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      Lock icon Protestors clash with police over concert
      164 22 VCW.U.V-VJ YVJ.U.I J.IV-J. J-/ Reuters MANAMA Bahraini Islamists fought pitched battles with police late on Wednesday during a protest after the country's Parliament refused to ban a concert by sultry Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram. About 200 protesters tried unsuccessfully to block streets leading to
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      Lock icon Meet Miss Afghanistan
      80 22 Miss Afghanistan Vida Samadzai broke her country's 30-year hiatus from the international beauty contest scene at the Miss Earth pageant in Manila yesterday. "My country wants peace more than anything," the 25-year-old told a Philippine newspaper. "We see this pageant as one way of implementing change in
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      Lock icon Columbine gunmen's rehearsal for a massacre
      201 22 Agencies LOS ANGELES Americans got a chilling glimpse on Wednesday of the two Columbine High School gunmen practising for their rampage, which left 13 people dead in 1999. Police released a disturbing home video shot about six weeks before the Colorado school massacre in
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  • HUMOUR
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      Lock icon Head and shoulders, eyelids and toes
      1123 24  -  mr brown Checks of various appendages and miscellaneous body parts reveal that all is well in the mr brown household I WAS going to write about my recent ordeal with a toe infection, which resulted in half my right big toenail being surgically removed.
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  • WATZUP?
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      Home away from home
      908 28  -  Jeanine Tan The Indian expat community is growing, and more are settling down in Singapore by jeanine@newstoday.com.sg FIVE years ago, two Indian expatriates would have been able to hold a "private" conversation in the middle of a crowded MRT train. Not these days. There would be
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      271 62 Agencies LONDON Top British sprinter Dwain Chambers is set to lose around £2 million ($5.9 million) if he is dumped by sponsors after testing positive for a banned drug. Chambers' lawyer admits the European champion failed an out-of-competition test for the banned
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      461 62  -  Stanley Ho Four-time winner to race under local flag F1 Powerboat World Championship Singapore Grand Prix Welshman returns from retirement by stanley(s>newstoday.com.sg AFTER a three-year absence, four-time world champion Jonathan Jones will make a dramatic Singapore return at the Union Internationale Motonautique Formula 1 Powerboat World
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      219 62 AFP MIAMI Alex Gonzalez belted a game-winning home run in the 12th inning and the Florida Marlins beat the New York Yankees 4-3 here on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to level the World Series and spoil the final start of Roger Clemens. Florida's
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      660 63 Agencies Fergie only interested in three points Champions League Group E Rangers 0 Man Utd 1 Neville hails his most important goal GLASGOW Sir Alex Ferguson claimed he had been involved in too many high-profile matches over the years to allow "Battle of Britain" talk to
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      Lock icon Flying Fijians find their scoring boots at last
      238 63 AFP Rugby World Cup Fiji 41 Japan 13 Tuilevu, Ligairi orchestrate victory TOWNSVILLE, Australia Fiji finally came good here yesterday as it ran in five tries to see off a gallant Japan 41-13 in their World Cup Group B clash and set
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      161 63 Tan Wee Boon IF Singapore national coach Raddy Avramovic perseveres with his plan to introduce younger players into his senior squad, he would have been disappointed by what he witnessed last night at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The Singapore under-18 team failed to deliver the winning performance
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      54 63 THE registration deadline for the Osim Singapore Triathlon 2003 has been extended to Oct 30. And organisers will waive the late fee of $10 for participants who register after the original deadline of Oct 18. However, no further entries will be accepted after Oct 30. To register,
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      703 64 Agencies Tiger joins a star-studded field at Disney World LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida Tiger Woods. Jim Furyk. Davis Love 111. Vijay Singh. Nick Price. A star-studded field is gathered in Orlando for the Funai Classic at Walt Disney World Resort, which starts this morning
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      318 64 SEOUL South Korean golfer Pak Se Ri (picture) became the sixth woman to play against the men this year when she teed off with Korean players at the 2003 SBS Super Tournament yesterday. Playing with the weight of expectations on her
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      205 65 Tiger Woods Making history is one thing but the main factors that could spur Woods are the money and Player of the Year titles. Vijay Singh, second on the money list and Woods' main rival for the season's money crown, could overtake the
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      487 65 Reuters Garcia and Olazabal lock horns on home soil MADRID Two of Spain's top players go into the Madrid Open, which teed off last night (Singapore time), aiming to stay in the top 60 in the European Tour money list to seal their places in next week's end-of-season
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      977 66 Agencies Shearer joins the exclusive club of Only the late Milburn has now scored more goals than veteran striker NEWCASTLE After a month of missed drugs tests, rape allegations and accusations of sexual assault in the English Premiership, it is reassuring that some things haven't changed. On Tuesday
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      145 63 3 I Match Kick Off Home Team Away Team (Singapore date/time) Sheffield Utd Reading Sat, 25/10/03,2.45 am Liverpool Leeds Sat, 25/10/03, 7.30pm Bolton Birmingham Chelsea Manchester City Newcastle Portsmouth Manchester Utd Fulham Sat, 25/10/03,10.00pm Wolverhampton Leicester Aston Villa Everton Southampton Blackburn Real Madrid Racing Sun, 26/10/03,1.30 am Deportivo Valencia Sun,
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