Today, 4 February 2004

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    20 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com We d 11 c S d ay February 4, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 I
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    Lock icon A deliberate boob-boo?
    444 1 Agencies HOUSTON The game lasted over three hours, but it is a three-second shot towards the end of the half-time show that has the world all a-titten A brief glimpse of Janet Jackson's right breast, with a fancy, sun-shaped nipple ring. That boobylicious performance with Justin Timberlake
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    COEs and a surprise shortfall
    918 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Vehicle growth slow despite cheap COEs, record supply derrick@newstoday.com.sg NEW lows in Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices. Record supply of COEs. Such headlines in recent weeks have ushered in the Year of the Monkey with a whoop for motorists looking to buy
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      39 1 NEWSX^/lEWS Brave front Shankar goes behind bars/2 Toughest test President versus nuclear hero/3 Historic flight SIA starts flights with ultra long range Airbus/6 Sunny Goh Country club for the working class/24 HITMAN'S TARGET Japanese-Canadian striker joins S-League/3 9 F.v
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Shankar begins jail sentence
      235 2 Channel News Asia Puts up brave front as he bids family goodbye FORMER television presenter Vidya Shankar Aiyar spent his first night behind bars last night The presenter, who was convicted of molesting a 30-year-old woman twice, began serving his 16-month jail sentence, which includes four
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      Lock icon About 300 call for help over bird flu
      148 2 Channel News Asia WORRIED about the bird flu, about 300 Singaporeans called the 993 ambulance hotline over the past two weeks. Paramedics protected by masks, gowns and gloves responded to all the calls. But all were false alarms. The Health Ministry has
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      Lock icon Rogue or red herring?
      634 3  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Musharraf faces toughest battle in taking on national hero shobha@newsto day, com. sg ON THE one hand, there is a hard-nosed President who has survived by backing the United States staunchly when many people in his country were against it On the other,
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      Lock icon Indonesia has bird flu strain that kills humans
      214 4 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesia confirmed yesterday that it had been hit by the same strain of bird flu that has killed 13 people in Thailand and Vietnam. The results of the tests show that Indonesia is suffering from HSNI the only strain of
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      Confirmed: Powder is ricin
      329 4 Tests show white stuff found in US Senate mail room is powerful poison WASHINGTON The fear of bioterror attacks returned to Capitol Hill yesterday after tests on a suspicious white powder found in a US Senate office building showed it was the deadly poison ricin. The
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      Back to old design for new Causeway
      158 4 KUALA LUMPUR It is now back to the original design for the new Causeway. Mr Yahya A Jalil, executive vice-chairman and managing director of principal project contractor Gerbang Perdana, said the proposed bridge would be based on the original design, the New Straits
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  • HOME NEWS
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        NE Line to run longer
        91 6 longer The operating hours of the North-east Line will be extended tonight and tomorrow morning for Thaipusam. Devotees catching tonight's celebrations at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple on Serangoon Road can take the last train which departs Harbour Front station at 12.05 am. The first
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        SAF plane flies to Iraq
        49 6 A Singapore Armed Forces C-130 transport aircraft left yesterday morning for the Middle East, as part of Singapore's contribution to the multinational reconstruction effort in Iraq. Its crew of 31 personnel will carry out airlift, transportation and supply missions over the next two months.
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        Gen Sutarto honoured
        58 6 The Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian National Defence Forces, General Endriartono Sutarto, was conferred the Distinguished Service Order (Military) by President S R Nathan yesterday. This is Singapore's highest military award and it recognises Gen Sutarto's role in forging closer ties between the two countries' armed forces. He
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        New member for PSC
        61 6 Mr Po'ad bin Shaik Abu Bakar Mattar has been appointed to a five-year term as a member of the Public Service Commission (PSC). Mr Po'ad, 55, certified public accountant and senior partner of Deloitte and Touche, was conferred the Public Service Medal in 2002. His appointment
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        Yes, to Rome Convention
        67 6 Singapore yesterday acceded to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation. Known also as the Rome Convention, its objective is to fight piracy ana acts of terrorism at sea and to eliminate safe havens for such offenders by requiring
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      Lock icon SIA begins non-stop flights to Los Angeles
      426 6 Channel News Asia New ultra long-range Airbus makes historic inaugural flight THE futures of Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Changi Airport are symbiotically intertwined. And with aviation facing fiercer competition in the years ahead, it will become even more crucial for both to think
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      Lock icon Celebrities turn artists for charity
      273 6  -  Janice Lee LOCAL and international personalities from the world of art, theatre, music, sport, business and government gathered yesterday to unveil the roaring success of their creativity. Their individually-cus-tomised masterpieces, brushed onto life-sized fibreglass lions, have been lovingly created for "Sing Art A Brush with
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      CPF at work on family maintenance case
      153 8  -  Ng Hock Keong WE refer to Ms Eileen Tan Ec Lian's letter, "What's keeping the CPF from releasing court-ordered cash?" (Today, Jan 31). Ms Tan asked why the Board could not pay a lump sum maintenance of $50,000 from her ex-husband's CPF account,
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      Cut red tape in emergencies
      254 8  -  Scully Patrick Fairley Hospital rules should not endanger lives I REFER to the letter, "Ambulance attendants need guidelines on where to take emergency victims" by Mr lan Foo Hee Yang (Today, Feb 3). It is a tragedy when a death results from compliance to administrative
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon UOB fined $4.1m
      186 11 Dow Jones Manila court orders it to pay damages to Farmix MANILA A Manila court ordered Singapore's United Overseas Bank (UOB) to pay 135.6 million pesos ($4.1 million) in damages to a group of minority shareholders whose rights had been overlooked when UOB had acquired a Philippine
      – Dow Jones  -  186 words
    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        139 11 Dow Jones SHARES ended lower yesterday in cautious trade, weighed down by mounting concerns about the spread of bird flu, traders said. The ST Index closed down 3.23 points, or 0.2 percent, at 1,845.13, but was off an intra-day low of 1,817.46. Losers led gainers 272 to 82, while
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        ST Index: 1,845.13 3.23
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        SGX most active
        60 11 By volume lapan Asia SingTel ipeedy-Tech \EM-EVER Alee Poh Cosco Corp -ederal Close 0.100 2.070 0.875 0.400 0.015 0.790 0.590 Change -0.010 +0.070 -0.030 -0.010 +0.040 -0.010 -9.1 +3.5 -3.3 -2.4 +5.3 -1.7 '000 77,14; 39,951 37,12' 33,431 31,401 28,58i 28,241 :HTK Chartered >ac Cent 0.085 1.760
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        SGX top rises
        76 11 By$ JMH 400USS Close Change 9.200 +0.650 GreatEast 11.400 +0.500 Haw Par SingTel SingTel 100 VibroPwr 4.960 +0.100 2.070 +0.070 2.060 +0.070 0.275 +0.065 SingTel 10 Goodpack Cosco Corp 2.060 +0.060 1.110 +0.050 0.790 +0.040 CSA 1.240 +0.040 By percentage Close Change L&M 0.015 +50.0 VibroPwr 0.275
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        Your S$l buys
        36 11 US$ 0.5902 UK£ 0.3244 Yen 62.3314 HK$ 4.5901 RM 2.243 Euro 0.4751 Rupiah 4,995.1 Baht 23.1548 Peso 33.112 A$ 0.7778 Indian Rs 26.702 Won 691.04 C$ 0.7904 Yuan 4.8853 NZ$ 0.876 NTS 19.675
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        Commodities
        21 11 Gold uss/oi 403.500 Silver uss/oi 6.170 Platinum uss/oz 817.000 Rubber centsAg 214.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1798 Brent crude uss/barrel 29.93
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        World markets
        60 11 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.92 Change Pis -134.81 -1.25 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.01 3277.80 6252.2 +90.03 -9.40 -67.73 +0.69 -0.29 -1.07 Korea Comp 839.87 -15.02 -1.76 KLCI 818.94 +1.83 +0.22 SET Index 699.75 +32.42 +4.86 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 730.31 1437.67
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        83 11 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by fenture Close Changi 21.500 -0.501 Creative 50 19.200 -0.401 \PB Breweries 6.950 -0.251 DBS 15.200 -0.201 Fortune Reit HKS 5.150 -0.201 lardine C&C 5.900 -0.201 KepCorp OCBC 6.800 -0.201 12.300 -0.201 >PH 18.800 -0.201 CerebosPac 2.980 -0.121 By percentage Close C ChipEngSW*****2
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      Lock icon Ness Display to hire 300 for $120m Tampines plant
      191 12 Channel News Asia SOUTH Korean start-up Ness Display will hire over 300 staff starting next month for its new factory in Singapore. The facility, costing US$72 million ($l2O million), will develop flat display for mobile devices using cutting-edge technology. The factory
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      Xilinx sets up HQ in S'pore
      326 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Logic device maker plans to hire 200 chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg XILINX, a California-based semiconductor designer, has set up its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore and expects to hire 200 staff within the next six years, company executives said yesterday. The company makes programmable logic
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      Thai APB expansion work done
      101 12 THAI Asia Pacific Brewery (TAPB), 35 per cent owned by mainboard-listed Asia Pacific Breweries, announced yesterday it had completed a 2.9-bil-lion baht ($125-million) expansion of its brewery in Nonthaburi, Thailand. The expansion doubles TAPB's brewing capacity to 200 million litres annually, or the equivalent of
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      Nera rings in lower $13m profit
      59 12 TELECOMMUNICATIONS and IT solutions provider and contract manufacturer Nera Telecommunications reported a net profit of $13.1 million, or 3.64 cents a share, for the year ended Dec 31, down 38.2 per cent from $21.25 million, or 5.9 cents a share, in the year earlier.
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      Lock icon Confidence in first half rises
      395 14 Dow Jones Electronics cluster most optimistic, more hiring seen in Q1: EDB survey MANUFACTURERS in Singapore are optimistic about business conditions in the first half of this year, amid the economic recovery in the United States, Europe and Japan, the Economic Development Board (EDB) said
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      143 14 The semiconductor and doto storage segments of the electronics cluster ore expecting o higher demand for their products, while consumer electronics manufacturers are predicting a seasonal slowdown in the first half of this year. i *iok V imam ®G LOU*^ INSTITUTE OF INFO-COMM TECHNOLOGY GET A TQPil!BcHil»l^Si^RiE^ FROI^I Aj^BDlA^Sgjg^M Why
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Lock icon Fund managers still bullish on Asia
      719 16 Dow Jones They believe bird-flu outbreak will not be as damaging to economies as Sars despite markets being hit HONG KONG International fund managers remain bullish on equities in Asia excluding-Japan their favourite region for equity investment despite stock markets being hit by worries
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      1690 16 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 Enquiries: verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or
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  • CAREERS
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  • INFOTECH
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      Lock icon Fast-paced fighting, Japanese-style
      324 18 Dawn Ong GAME REVIEW FROM Microsoft Game Studios, Japan, comes Magatama, a third-person, 3D action game. Set in medieval Japan, the Shogunate is at war with Yamato's forces. Chaos reigns as the Shogunate forces find themselves facing an enemy that has teamed up with a powerful high
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      Lock icon New site for SCO
      359 18 Agencies American software firm changes domain after MyDoom attack THE SCO Group, target of an online email spam attack, has launched a new website, www.thescogroup.com, after an email worm knocked its sco.com site off the Internet The severity of the MyDoom attack has shocked the Internet
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      A six-colour photo printer for home use
      294 18 WITH the increasing affordability of highresolution digital cameras, the demand for a convenient home photo-printing solution is rising. Epson has the solution for the home user. Equipped with Inkdividual photo cartridges for greater economy, this six-colour Stylus Photo R2lO photo printer delivers 5,760x1,440
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      Lock icon One box to rule them all
      641 19 Source: Reuters With the Xbox, you can play games, watch DVDs and listen to music MIKE Tan, 16, slowly scanned the desolate fortress landscape through the laser sight on his M 4 carbine. He had his index finger against the trigger ready to fire.
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      Get more out of your Xbox with Samsung
      475 19 TO GET the best out your Xbox game console, you need a television set such as the Samsung LCD TV model LS-17E34C or LS-15E33C which gives you the clearest vision. Samsung's LCD TV offers precise digital pictures without errors thanks to its
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Blair calls for probe into 'false' reports on Iraq
      429 22 Move comes after US plans to investigate intelligence data LONDON Bowing to growing pressure, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday called for an inquiry into apparent false intelligence reports over Iraqi weapons after Washington agreed to its probe. The United States
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      Lock icon Sharon wants Jews to quit Gaza
      195 22 Agencies JERUSALEM In about four months time, a unilateral plan by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to separate Israel from the Palestinians will be applicable, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Israeli public radio yesterday. "The aim of this plan is clear and Prime
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Perth holds security talks with Asian restaurateurs
        57 22 AFP Following racist arson attacks on three Chinese restaurants over the weekend, Asian restaurateurs in Perth yesterday met senior government and police representatives to discuss extra security. The public meeting was attended by Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian restaurant owners, who are worried
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        Lock icon Taiwanese President calls for demilitarised zone with China
        70 22 Reuters Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian yesterday called for the "establishment of a demilitarised zone (including removal of combat personnel, equipment and deployed missiles), creating a buffer zone in terms of time and space to facilitate negotiation" with China. Mr Chen also said
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        Lock icon Philippine movie king admits to illegitimate child
        63 22 AFP Philippine presidential front-runner Fernando Poe confessed yesterday to fathering a child out of wedlock, dashing his hopes of presenting a wholesome image to voters in the devoutly Catholic nation. Mr Poe, who is married to actress Susan Roces, admitted in an interview
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        Lock icon Role reversed as former California Governor turns actor
        61 22 Reuters In a bizarre twist of events, ousted California Governor Gray Davis is treading the path of his successor, Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger, by going into acting. The former adversaries even traded thespian tips when they attended the Super Bowl party on Sunday.
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        Engineering geek names baby son after software programme
        75 22 A self-confessed engineering geek, who decided that the practice of adding "Junior" or "II" after a boy's name was too common, named his newborn son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0, after a software programme. The BBC reported that the original Mr Cusack took
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        Lock icon First planet outside solar system with oxygen and carbon
        40 22 AFP Scientists have discovered a planet outside the solar system which has both oxygen and carbon in its atmosphere. The planet, named Osiris, orbits around a star similar to the sun.
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      817 24  -  Sunny Goh The PA should release the running of its community clubs 'back to the people' I LOVE a good challenge, especially one as tempting as proffering an anti-organisation view to test the current new climate of political openness. Mr Ngiam Tong Dow, an
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      281 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang THE nails on Taiwanese singer Show's thumbs are painted dark green, those on his fourth fingers are sparkling silver and those on his pinkies are black. Show real name Luo Zhixiang, nicknamed Xiao Zhu (Piglet) was in town last Thursday to
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      670 26  -  Elisa Chia MICHELLE Chong wanted to get something off her chest. Leaning forward while looking me full in the face, she protested: "It's actually not my personal website at all!" A recent Today article, announcing the rising star's crossover from SPH Media Works to MediaCorp, had
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      626 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang The king of style on Lost inTranslation and getting his groove back shuchiang(gnewsto day, com. sg BRYAN Ferry recalled going on holiday with an Italian-American friend who was always on the phone and had a habit of running to her room to write.
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      155 28  -  Serene Foo A BOLLYWOOD-style film, made in Singapore and shot in Desaru, is set to screen in Asia, Europe and the US in April. Produced by Singapore-based Golden Sun Movies, Remember Me is a revenge flick, complete with song-and-dance and fight sequences. The story revolves around
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        172 29 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES Hip-hop comedy You Got Served, distributed by Screen Gems, has clipped the wings of last weekend's soaring box office champion, The Butterfly Effect. The street-dance film, featuring the recently split R&B group B2K, stepped its way into the top
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      122 29 \OX OFFICE TOP 10 In the US (Jan 30-FebD RANKING MOVIE WEEKEND CUMULATIVE WEEKS IN GROSSAJSS GROSS/USS CINEMAS 1 You Got Served $16.12 m $16.12 m 1 2 (1) The Butterfly Effect $9.56 m $31.74 m 2 3 (2) Along Came Polly $9.31 m $66.00 m 3 4 (5) The
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      340 34 -AFP But Aussie captain Fitzgerald defends Philippoussis TENNIS Davis Cup ADELAIDE Australia's Davis Cup captain John Fitzgerald jumped to the defence of under-fire team member Mark Philippoussis yesterday as the player was questioned over his furious row with Pat Cash in the wake of his dismal Australian
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      485 35 AFP Brady dreams of emulating 49ers legend and building a dynasty SUPER BOWL MVP striving for perfection HOUSTON Super Bowl hero Tom Brady began a whirlwind victory tour yesterday while the New England Patriots contemplated defending their crown, still in shock after a dramatic American football title-game triumph.
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      385 35 AFP RUGBY England injury-hit ahead of Six Nations BAGSHOT, England Lawrence Dallaglio, England's newly-appointed captain, has insisted he will put his own stamp on the leadership of the world champions. The 31-year-old, in his second stint as England skipper, has a hard
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      147 35 LOS ANGELES A heavyweight fighter said he was paid money to use fake names in losing five times to the same boxer in the *****, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. According to prosecution documents filed in a federal sports bribery case, the
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      Lock icon Shag suspended, LA Lakers lose
      193 35 AFP LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O'Neal (picture) was suspended for one game by the National Basketball Association yesterday for his expletive-laced rant after a 84-83 victory over Toronto. Angry at officials, O'Neal cursed twice during a live television interview. The tirade will
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      375 36 Agencies LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson's attempts to end the war have failed. His enemy has no intention of calling a truce. Irish racing tycoon John Magnier has brushed off reports of a peace-pact with Ferguson by demanding precise details of the Manchester United manager's case
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      514 36 Agencies Having a window failed to curb spending dominance of 'Big Three' LONDON The transfer window closed yesterday having failed in its objective. Established to prevent big clubs from snatching players from their poorer cousins during the season, the Premiership giants still carved up the major
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      EPL'S JANUARY TRANSFERS
      537 36 ARSENAL In: Jose Antonio Reyes, Sevilla, £7 million rising to a possible £17 million Out MoritzVolz, Fulham, undisclosed fee; Stathis Tavlaridis, Lille, loan; Rami Shabaan, West Ham, loan; Jerome Thomas, Charlton, £100,000 ASTON VILLA In: Nolberto Solano, Newcastle, undisclosed Out Peter Enckelman, Blackburn, £150,000; Mark Kinsella, West
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      458 37 Agencies GOLF Els also expresses reservations MELBOURNE Australia's Greg Norman has made his feelings on the subject clear. Women have no place in men's golf events. While the man nicknamed The Shark called for an end to women competing in men's tournaments, world No 2
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      272 37 Reuters LONDON Sergio Garcia, boosted by a tie for ninth at the Phoenix Open on Sunday in his first start of the year, is confident he will qualify for Europe's Ryder Cup team to take on the United States in September. The 24-year-old Spaniard,
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      Lock icon No guarantee for Fang
      448 38  -  TANYO-HINN Former Asian champ's place in the national squad down to STBC panel yohinn@newstoday.com.sg He may have finished 20 points ahead of second-placed Lim Zhong at the recently concluded selection trials for the 2004 national team. But Andrew Fang's donning of Singapore colours this season will
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      Lock icon SGA signs deal, looks for director
      189 38 Channel News Asia. SINGAPORE and Malaysia have signed a deal to develop golf in schools and to get more heartland kids swinging a club here. The agreement with Malaysia will allow junior players to use courses in Johor and arrange for Malaysian coaches to
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      301 38  -  Tan Yo-Hinn IT WAS her first time back in the pool competitively after her SEA Games exploits last December. Crowned the best female athlete of the Vietnam Games with a haul of six gold medals, Singapore's swimming queen Joscelin Yeo was delighted
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        Pathan, Laxman star for India
        80 38 MELBOURNE Seamer Irfan Pathan, 1 9, took a career-best four for 24 as India bowled Zimbabwe out for 1 35, before stuttering to a four-wicket win in their one-day triangular series encounter in Perth yesterday. Vangipurappu Laxman, who has made three centuries in the triangular
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        Francis' solo joy in IDEC
        78 38 BREST, France Francis Joyon (right) completed a solo round-the-world non-stop voyage here yesterday in an astonishing 72 days 22 hours 54 minutes, beating the previous record by 20 days. Joyon, in his 27-metre trimaran IDEC, became the first man to sail solo round the world
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        97 38 LONDON Formula 1 will continue with the revised points system introduced in 2003 despite Ferrari criticisms that it is unfair, FIA president Max Mosley said yesterday. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has criticised the system, which awards points in a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 format instead of
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        65 38 BASEL, Switzerland Newlycrowned Australian Open champion Roger Federer was greeted by fans ringing cow bells in the airport arrival hall wnen he flew in here yesterday from Melbourne. Federer, who became the first Swiss man to win a Grand Slam event when he triumphed at
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        Ljungberg out, Reyes in?
        82 38 LONDON Arsenal's Swedish midfielder Freddie Ljungberg could be out for three weeks with a rib injury, the club reported yesterday. It could force new £1 6 million ($5O million) signing Jose Antonio Reyes into a more prominent role. Ljungberg sustained a cracked rib in Sunday's 2-1
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      482 39  -  TAN YO-HINN Albirex winger targets 20 goals in rookie season yohinn@newstoday.com.sg ALBIREX Niigata will play 27 S-League matches this season, and Issey Nakajima Farran aims to average almost a goal a game. Only 19, the confidence of the youngster is admirable, when he revealed his personal
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