Today, 8 December 2003

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    9 1 TODAY todayonline.com SHARE Monday DecemberB, 2003* mita (P) 002/11/2002
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    Financially-strong MediaCorp rules out merger with SPH
    563 1  -  Clement Mesenas TODAY IS SINGAPORE'S 2ND LARGEST CIRCULATING DAILY NEWSPAPER! by clement@newstoday.com.sg MEDIACORP is open to discussions if Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) wants to divest its TV business, MediaCorp Group CEO Ernest Wong said yesterday, in a statement to the media. But he
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    Lock icon Triumph of ignorance
    569 1  -  Ng Shing Vi Epileptics are normal people but few are willing to employ them by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE being a graduate, Mr Jason Ng, 32, has been actively looking for a job for the past two years without success. This is because when employers find out in his
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      55 1 /A=diaCorp Fudan University Lund University McGill University National University University of Auckland University of Birmingham University of British University of Edinburgh University of University of Glasgow University of University of Melbourne University of University of Nottingham University of Queensland University of Virginia of Singapore Columbia Freiburg Hong Kong New South
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      49 1 NEWSX\VIEWS help for couples Govt plans to set up infant care centres/4 arts explosion Your eight-page guide to the arts/27 to 34 irish beauty Rosanna triumphs but Asians dominate/39 shyam flops Spores fastest fails to qualify forlOOm final/60 I TOSHIBA United show their title race experience as rivals falter/56
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon V-Day for stars
      205 2  -  Elisa Chia Holland V drama serial bags eight Star awards by elisa@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS victory with a capital V for the cast and crew of Mandarin drama serial Holland V at the 10th annual Star Awards last night. Expectedly, the landmark 125-parter Singapore's maiden marathon show was
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      What golden handshake?
      910 3 News Comment/ Suva Kandiah Many retrenched staff see it as a 'boot' DID Singapore shoot itself in the foot by extending the retirement age from 55 to 62 in 1999? Its original intent in an era of labour shortages to force organisations to continue employing older workers
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      520 2 Save 5% GST on your insurance premiums Savings can fund extra insurance plan for one year GST will increase to 5% from 1 January accident insurance for added peace of 2004. NTUC Income will absorb the full mind. 5% GST on our general insurance plans It also means that the
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      6 2 NUMBERS TO REMEMBER Hfi BKk9 J
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Christmas Fair for charity
      55 4 Jose Raymond Almost 100 stalls selling a variety of food, consumer goods and handicraft items marked the 38th Christmas Fair organised by the Children's Charities Association. The event was held yesterday at the Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza and was officiated by Speaker of Parliament Mr
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      Helping hand for parents
      430 4  -  Pamela Pang Govt in talks with operators to set up infant care centres by pamela@newstoday.com.sg IN an effort to entice couples to have children, infant care centres may soon be set up to help parents take care of their little ones aged two to 18 months.
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      Steps to fight flu virus being put in place
      298 4  -  Lee Ching Wern THE new flu strain that has killed more than 10 children and infected thousands of elderly people worldwide may not have reached Singapore, but precautionary measures have already started. Over the weekend, about 700 senior citizens above the
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    • Singapore Snippets
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        Lock icon First gay help centre opens here
        80 6 AFP Singapore's first help centre for gays ana lesbians opened last weekend. The Pelangi Pride Centre will offer phone counselling services and recommend gay-friendly medical and legal service providers, said Fridae.com, Asia's leading gay website portal. It also has a library where people can
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        Lock icon Australian tourists still warded
        73 6 The Australian family involved in Saturday's accident at Orchard Road is still warded in hospital. The family was hit by a car while standing on a pedestrian footway. A 1 9-year-old man, who was driving the car, has been released on $5,000 bail. The 26-year-old tourist,
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      Asean 'too soft on Myanmar'
      387 6  -  Asif Ansar If left unsolved, Burmese problems can lead to regional woes, say activists by asif@newstoday.com.sg ASIAN opposition democrats and activists called on regional governments yesterday to take action against the military regime in Myanmar. Speaking from Singapore, they warned that the crisis in the
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      Lock icon It's really food for thought
      664 8  -  Ng Shing Vi Austrian couple set up innovative group to feed the needy by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg BAKERIES all over Singapore used to dump their unsold bread into trash bags each evening for disposal. The public was aghast at such waste. But there was nothing the bakeries
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  • LETTERS
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      Depends on who you classify as 'expaf
      233 10  -  Simon Foley I READ with interest the article, "Demise of the expat package?" (Today, Dec 4) as I am an expat who has been employed here on local terms for more than 11 years. I admit that in the first year, the company
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      Ample lots near Onan Rd
      362 10  -  Phillip Mah Why police had to summon obstructing vehicles I REFER to the letters on illegal parking in Onan Road (Today, Nov 26 and Dec 1, 3 and 5). The police are aware that churches, mosques, temples and other places of worship holding religious functions
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      Is football weekly breaking the law?
      152 10  -  Scully Patrick Fairley I REFER to your article, "When soccer tips are illegal" (Weekend Today, Dec 6-7). It was reported that police spokes person Audrey Ang said: "It is an offence to, unless exempted by law, announce or publish information relating to any horse
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  • IMAGING NEWS
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      Home printing: The painless way
      374 11 Stepi Click on the thumbnail of images to select photo. IN THE past, printing photos was a job for professional photographers. The novice photographer or home PC user was averse to home photo-printing as he viewed it as a daunting and tedious chore. A certain
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      Everything you need in a printer
      313 11 THE i9OSD bubble jet printer makes high-quality borderless prints of up to 4,Boodpi by delivering tiny two-picol-itre ink droplets that match photo laboratory standards. The machine prints photos directly from Pictßridge-enabled digital cameras or via a range of memory cards. Pick the picture you
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      A taste of pro digital photography
      264 11 FOR compact digital camera users who want to upgrade to SLR (Single Lens Reflex) models and film-based SLR fans who want to switch to digital, Canon has an affordable solution for you. Its digital SLR, the EOS 300 D, is powered by a CMOS
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Star Alliance partners to do away with paper tickets
      153 12 -AFP TOKYO Star Alliance, a network of the world's 15 leading airline companies, including Singapore Airlines, plans to equip itself with global electronic ticketing capabilities by the end of next year. The plan was endorsed by the chief executive officers of
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      Lock icon Cathay soars above rivals
      328 12  -  Tor Ching Li Its trans-Atlantic flights could affect Spore hub by chingli@newstoday.com.sg THINGS have been looking up for Cathay Pacific Airways since it received approval to ply the lucrative London-New York route last week, after three days of talks between the Hong Kong and UK governments.
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    • MarketWATCH
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        Your Ssl buys
        34 12 JK£ fen iK$ <M iuro (upiah 0.336' 62.74! 4.523: 2.214: 0.478! 4950 Peso 4$ Indian Rs Won C$ I'll a n NZ$ NTS 32.241 0.7909 26.568 693.7 0.7605 4.8229 0.9035 19.872
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        Lock icon Commodities
        27 12 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 407.300 Silver uss/oi 5.492 Platinum uss/oz 790.700 Information provided by Rubber centsAg 205.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 843 Brent crude uss/borrel 29.08
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        Lock icon Singapore
        71 12 Agencies THE market here ended on a listless note last week, with the ST Index closing up a point to end at 1,733 on Friday. Volume was a mere 410.4 million units worth $363.2 million. This contrasted drastically from the first half of the week, when daily volume surpassed
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      Lock icon Economic relationships
      490 14 Channel News Asia play an essential role in Sino-US ties THE US economy grew a sharp 8.2 per cent in the third quarter, much of which is fuelled by US consumer spending and the products Americans are buying often come from China. The US holds a trade deficit
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      Senoko gets new chief
      163 14 SENOKO Power has appointed Mr Roy Adair as its new president and chief executive officer to replace Mr Lav Khoon Char, who is retiring at the end of March next year. Mr Adair, who was previously CEO of Australia's Yallourn Energy, will take over the helm
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      Lock icon Chinese-style town to open in Dubai
      158 14 AFP DUBAI A vast Chinese-styled town that will be home to thousands of Chinese manufacturers and businesses will open in Dubai next September, the general manager of trade promoters Chinamex said yesterday. "Chinamexmart, a complete Chinese-style town, with China's largest commercial complex to be
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Cashing in on the 'flexible'
      715 16  -  Joel Ng An 'outperform' rating on MFS on a 12-month investment horizon by news@newstoday.com.sg MFS Tech has an interesting niche market in the area of flexible printed circuits (FPCs). Yes, it is also a producer of the more mundane stuff like printed circuit boards (PCBs),
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      Lock icon It's not over yet
      402 18 AFP Steel tariffs have been dropped, but the US still faces trade pressures WASHINGTON The move by United States to drop its controversial steel tariffs has eased fears of an imminent global trade war, but there are other skirmishes looming with Europe, China and other trading
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      Lock icon Scandal reveals system hiccups
      318 20 AFP Can China complement HK's system without compromising it? HONG KONG The Chinese government didn't allow Hong Kong regulators to contact an executive at a state-owned bank who is at the centre of one of the city's biggest recent financial scandals, a Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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      Lock icon Boeing confident of USAF 100-plane order
      107 20 -AFP DUBAI US aviation and defence giant Boeing has expressed confidence that the US Air Force will acquire 100 Boeing 767 tanker aircraft despite a Pentagon order that the US$lB billion-dollar ($30.6 billion) deal be put on "pause" amid an ethics investigation. "We are
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      Lock icon Contention set aside for US-Aussie FTA
      99 20 AFP CANBERRA Australian officials are confident of securing a free trade pact with the United States early in the New Year, although some of its more troublesome aspects may be set aside for the time being, the government said. Speaking after the final round
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Russians go to polls
      235 22 -AFP Boost for Putin expected in parliamentary elections MOSCOW Russians voted to elect a new parliament yesterday in polls that could bolster President Vladimir Putin's power ahead of a likely second term. The election will decide the 450 seats of the State Duma, the Parliament's lower
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      Lock icon French tycoon, wife killed in plane crash
      146 22 AFP LONDON A prominent French businessman and his wife were among three people killed on Saturday after their light aircraft crashed in central England, said a source close to the family. Mr Paul-Louis Halley (picture), 69 one of the principal shareholders in the
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      Lock icon Iraq WMD 'informant' speaks up
      144 22 -AFP LONDON Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had deployed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the run-up to the US-led war on Iraq which could be used on the battlefield in less than 45 minutes, an Iraqi officer told a British Sunday newspaper. The officer,
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      Lock icon global roundup
      110 22 AFP Snake-mail for Hari Raya A delayed gift for the Hari Raya festival may have saved a Bangladeshi woman from a nasty surprise since the package contained a live poisonous snake, a report said yesterday. The present was sent to Ms Shamima Nasreen Liya at a shop in
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      Lock icon US hit on deaths of Afghan kids
      219 24 AFP UN calls for inquiry, cites aura of fear KABUL The US military faced mounting criticism yesterday as it began its investigation into the accidental killing of nine children in an air attack on an alleged terrorist in Afghanistan. The United Nations called
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      Lock icon global roundup
      106 24 -AFP Elephant hijackers plague cane growers in Thailand Hungry elephants have gone on the rampage in eastern Thailand, ransacking villagers' plantations and forcing sugarcane trucks to stop so that they can raid their goods, a report said yesterday. Dry-season shortages have forced the 1 30 elephants from Ang
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      Lock icon Resignation over Senate attack
      145 24 -AFP CANBERRA The left-wing Australian Democrats, the third force in politics here for 26 years, was in disarray yesterday after its leader stepped down in disgrace over a drunken assault on a female senator. Liberal Party senator Jeannie Ferris, 62, was left with a bruised arm
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Anti-Americanism older than George W Bush
      931 35  -  Andrew Ferguson US posed a threat to European royalists and racists centuries ago, but the loathing of America today is as strong as ever by news@newstoday.com.sg ONCE upon a time, anti-Americanism was scientific. Now it is merely übiquitous. Or so at least it seems
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon BIF! BAM! SLAM!
      634 36  -  Nicholas Tse Some say it's all a sham, but the WWE stars certainly dazzle our 14-year-old contributor The audience went wild when the spotlights dimmed. Then came a brilliant display of multicoloured fireworks that was deafening. Thus began the muchanticipated World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) Passport to Smack
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      Lock icon Irish eyes are smiling
      510 39 AFP But Asians dominate Miss World top 5 SANYA (China) Ireland's 19-year-old Rosanna Davison began her reign as Miss World yesterday after beating 105 other women to the title w*- in China's first-ever staging of the international beauty 1p pageant "I'm so happy, it still hasn't
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      612 40  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Soul-meister Deepak Chopra on religion, race and how they co-exist with his work by shobha@newstoday.com.sg BUSH-WHACKING took on a whole new meaning when new age visionary Deepak Chopra told a forum of over 700 business people that the United States President and two of the
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      213 42  -  -Ted Chen IT TAKES a beauty to spot another. And last Saturday, 16 bold and beautiful people were sought after at Golden Village Plaza Singapura. This was part of the The Canon IXUS Factor Search to seek people who like the IXUS digital
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      357 42 Reuters/Billboard AFP photo Elliott's busy schedule may be at the expense of producing good music NEW YORK Missy Elliott does not believe in taking time off. Since the release of her dou-ble-platinum album, Under Construction, nearly a year ago, Elliott has maintained a nonstop schedule writing
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        657 44  -  -AFP Bollywood bigwigs may follow the Western ways of reeling in more cash MUMBAI Dissatisfied with the boxoffice earnings from their phenomenally popular films, Bollywood movie moguls are looking for ways to reel in extra cash as they take cues from the their Hollywood contemporaries. Though their
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        148 44 FANS of Hong Kong stars Tony Leung and Miriam Yeung are in for a treat. Shaw Organisation is offering you a chance to catch the popular pair in three upcoming films Infernal Affairs 111, Anna in Kungfu-land and Sound of Colours on one movie pass. The
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        279 46 Reuters Good Bye, Lenin! wins 6 top Europe Film Awards BERLIN A heart-warming German box office blockbuster, Good Bye, Lenin!, dominated the European Film Awards on Saturday, taking six top prizes at the 16th annual competition. The bittersweet German comedy about a son who conceals the fall
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        212 46 NEW YORK Independent film producers won a major court battle on Friday to stop the so-called "Oscars screener" ban, which prevents advance copies of films being sent to movie award voters. In his ruling, a federal judge sided with independent film producers who accused the
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        388 48  -  Rachel Fang James Cook University partners PSB Corp by rachel@newstoday.com.sg ONE is a leading force in helping working adults upgrade their educational qualifications in Singapore. The other is a world leader from Australia in several research areas. So, when Singapore's PSB Corporation (PSB Corp) and James Cook
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        612 49  -  Karman Tse Enjoy the season's best from Hokkaido ON OUR last visit to Keyaki, its green tea menu had us swooning, beaming and gushing "oishii" (delicious) over Chef Hiroshi Ishii's exquisite creations, presented like pretty mosaic in a neat bento box. This time, we were there to sample
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      1647 52 TV Are You Hot? Finale Highnotes The Nutcracker Lock, Stock and Two Moon Fairy channel B,7 P m Yours Truly, Asia cna, 9.32pm Chgnnel5 '10Pm Arts Central, 10pm Smoking Barrels Channel!, 10pm Mrs Feng's One of Sri Lanka's (T\ America's a.l" •fO: Win a stunning When street- jfl condition oldest
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      425 53 Reuters Indian skipper puts Australian attack to the sword Test cricket Australia v India First Test heading for a draw BRISBANE Saurav Ganguly scored his first Test hundred against Australia yesterday to give India a narrow first-innings lead on the fourth day. The India captain made a stylish
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      177 53 -AFP NEW YORK Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko underlined his status as the No 1 challenger to world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis with a ruthless two-round demolition of Canadian Kirk Johnson in their World Boxing Council eliminator on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Klitschko, who is gunning for a
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      541 53 -AFP GREENSBORO, North Carolina American athletes are willing to risk a sporting "death penalty" for taking a steroid-contaminated supplement in order to rid track and field of long-term steroid enhancements by dope cheats. US athlete support was unanimous
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      409 54 Agencies American finishes with a magnificent nine-under total on Grand Slam debut Golf PGA Grand Slam of Golf Furyk beats Micheel, Curtis and Weir KAUAI, Hawaii US Open champion Jim Furyk cruised to a massive eight-shot win in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf at the
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      343 54 Reuters Golf Australian Masters, final day Allenby overcomes flu and stomach cramps MELBOURNE Overnight leader Robert Allenby won his first Australian Masters in a four-way playoff yesterday. Adam Scott took the playoff to a second hole where Allenby holed a birdie putt from three feet
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      457 55 Reuters Carlos, Ronaldo help Spanish champion triumph at Camp Nou Primera Liga Barcelona 1 Real Madrid 2 Rijkaard on the brink BARCELONA Real Madrid beat an over-cau-tious Barcelona side 2-1 on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to claim its first league win at Camp Nou in
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      291 55 Reuters Serie A Lazio 2 Juventus 0 Corradi, Fiore strike ROME Juventus coach Marcello Lippi rejected talk of a crisis after watching his side slump to its third consecutive defeat with a 2-0 loss against Lazio on Saturday (yesterday morning,
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      79 55 Reuters HONG KONG Ireland's Padraig Harrington clinched a nail-biting one-shot victory at the Hong Kong Open with two birdies in the last two holes yesterday. The world No 10 drew level with leader Hennie Otto of South Africa at the penultimate hole before snatching victory with a 20-foot
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      475 56 Agencies Red Devils show their title race experience as rivals falter English Premiership I Man United 4 Aston Villa 0 United gains ground on Chelsea MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson could afford a wry smile at Old Trafford on Saturday evening. A week ago, his side was only
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      116 56 LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said he has reached agreement with the club on a new contract and expects to sign the deal "very soon". "My contract is with my lawyer now and we will now go through it together," Ferguson said yesterday. "It is
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      108 56 LONDON England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has said he agrees with Fifa president Sepp Blatter that Rio Ferdinand should have been banned while awaiting a hearing over his missed drugs test, British media reported. The Swede also said the English Football Association was taking too long
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      591 57 AFP Yorkshire club finally shows some character against leader Chelsea English Premiership I Leeds 1 Chelsea 1 Draw gives Leeds psychological lift LEEDS Leeds United manager caretaker boss Eddie Gray believes his side's draw with Chelsea has helped strengthen a growing belief that his men are
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      332 57 LIVERPOOL Everton and Manchester City put their current struggles on public display in a desperate deadlock at Goodison Park, reported BBC Sport Online. Kevin Keegan's side will be happier with a point than an Everton team which looked a shadow of the one that challenged for a European
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      422 58  -  Ray Chen Men's champion Kelai wants to call Singapore home by ray@newsto day. com. sg SINGAPORE fans at yesterday's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon got a first-hand look at the running abilities of Kenya's fabled long-distance specialists. It was a 1-2-3 Kenyan finish in the men's race as John
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      228 58  -  Ray Chen LEE Kar Lun and his wife Toh So Liang captured the local men's and women's categories respectively in last year's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon. And the duo were tipped to repeat the feat in this year's race. Toh went into the race
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      241 58  -  Ray Chen CHINESE Taipei proved too good for the Singapore Reds when the teams clashed on Saturday in the final match of this year's International Rugby Board's (IRB) Asian Rugby Football Union competition. The home side defeated Singapore
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      666 59  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Shot put star smashes SEA Games record with a golden heave by in Hanoi yohinn@newstoday.com.sg SHE started the day a bundle of nerves. Lunch was wolfed down, hardly enjoyed. Dv Xianhui, Singapore's No 1 woman in the shot put, was determined not to
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      289 59  -  Stanley Ho by i in Hanoi stanley@newstoday.com.sg AT THE end of the second day of the swimming competition, Singapore's Nicolette Teo was crying her eyes out Happily, it was tears of joy for the youngster, who swam a super
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      591 59 ATHLETICS: Women's shot put 1) Dv Xianhui (Sin) 18.20 m 2) Zhang Guirong (Sin) 17.96 m 3) Juthaporn Krasaeyan (Tha) 15.41 m Men's discus: 1) James Wong (Sin) 56.49 m 2) Wansawang Sawusdee (Tha) 55.71 m 3) Kvanchai Numsomboon (Tha) 49.38 m BADMINTON: Singapore (women's) bt
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      659 60  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Hanoi Singapore's fastest man finishes ninth, fails to make SEA Games 100 m final AFTER his performance in 2001, yesterday should have been a historic occasion for UK Shyam. The national 100 m record holder with a 10.375 ec time landed the silver medal at
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      105 60 MALAYSIA'S Nazmizan Muhammad stormed home to take the gold in the blue riband men's 100 m race yesterday. Clocking a time of 10.47s in a rather slow SEA Games final, Nazmizan finished ahead of Thailand's silver medallist Sittchai Suwonprateep (lane three) and Indonesia's
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