Today, 6 October 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday > October 6, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Arnie could be US President one day
      356 1 -AP Senate discusses changing Constitution to allow immigrants to become head of state WASHINGTON It's not about Arnold Schwarzenegger, the legislators indicated. However, the former actor and now California Governor was certainly one of the rising stars on many minds yesterday as a
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      Lock icon Stocks struggle, oil sets record
      112 1 AFP NEW YORK US share prices struggled yesterday as the crude oil price gushed to a record high in New York, passing US$5l a barrel for the first time. The Dow Jones Industrials Average fell 38.86 points to 10,177.68, the Standard and Poor's 500 Index
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      67 1 SEE PAGE X ""**fcl^\ k-t-mm*aam\\\ 'l-maimV^ V FICSMT TMIS SMIMEf [^fj 1 NEWSX\VIEWS PMLeein XL Signs tax treaty with M^sia's PM Abdullah/2 ■Jeremy Lim Hold it! The cane does more harm than good/3 Coffee with Mehar Singh, professional wrestler/20 Rohit Brijnath Get set for an explosive India vs Australia Test
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      Lock icon Tax talk sets tone for meet
      501 2 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE and Malaysia signed a new agreement to avoid double taxation yesterday. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart, Mr Abdullah Badawi, signed the agreement, which ensures that income earned in one country by a resident of the other
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      'Accident' destroys 83 safe deposit boxes
      270 2  -  Val Chua val@newstoday.com.sg WHAT began as routine renovation work at a DBS Bank (Hong Kong) branch over the weekend has turned into a nightmare for the bank and some customers. In what DBS described as a "human error", some 83 safe deposit boxes ended
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      Lock icon US vetoes move against Gaza ops
      116 2 AFP UNITED NATIONS The United States yesterday vetoed an Arab-backed draft resolution at the UN Security Council which would have called on Israel to end its deadly military operations in the Gaza Strip. Britain, Germany and Romania abstained from the vote, and the 11
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      Hold it! Don't reach for the cane
      956 3  -  Jeremy Lim |^|Eyy§comment_ Corporal punishment does more harm than good public caning, especially, should be banned TO cane or not to cane that is the question. As a child born with brittle bones, I thought I would be safe from being whacked. I
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      The $770,000 watch that got away
      209 4  -  Clement Mesenas LUCKY or unlucky, hole 13 at Sentosa's Tanjong course offered golfers a unique incentive yesterday. A handsome prize of a $770,000 Vacheron Constantin Minute Repeater watch awaited the golfer who could ace the 158-metre par-three in the Sincere charity golf tournament. The
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      Lock icon STORE LEADERS CONGRATULATE SBY
      141 4 President S R Nathan, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew have congratulated Mr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on his victory in the Indonesian presidential election. President Nathan, expressing confidence in Mr Yudhoyono's leadership, said that the Indonesian
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      Lock icon Mega may contest polls result
      413 4 But she also urges Indons to accept outcome JAKARTA Outgoing Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri is said to be planning on turning to the country's Constitutional Court to challenge last month's election result, which gave former-military general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono a landslide win. Mr Arif Wibowo,
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  • sinpore news
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      Chirac: Europe, Asia need trust
      279 6 FRENCH President Jacques Chirac, who arrives in Singapore this morning, said Asia and Europe should have relations "based on trust" which would help "forge a harmonious international order". Mr Chirac's comments come before a two-day Asia-Europe economic summit in Vietnam. Some countries from the European
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      Singaporeans, time to take your best shot
      355 6  -  Lee U-Wen SHUTTERBUGS, here's your chance to get published. But wait, only Singapore residents need apply. In the works is a photo art book to mark Singapore's 40th birthday next year and it has to be "100 per cent local effort". A brainchild
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      Customers will notice a well-trained sales staff
      539 6  -  Ted Chen tedchen@newstoday.com.sg TO GEAR up for business growth on the heels of a recovering economy, the local retail industry is beginning to pay more attention to training. Over the last few years, industry leaders such as Takashimaya, CK Tang, Metro and NTUC
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      Green awards for MNCs
      309 8  -  Tay Tsen-Waye More annual accolades from this year waye@newstoday.com.sg PREVIOUSLY restricted to local companies, multinationals can now compete for Singapore's most prestigious award for environmental protection and management the annual Singapore Environmental Achievement Award (SEAA). To be eligible, MNCs must have operated in Singapore for at
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      Great S'pore Sale rings in $4.6b
      227 8  -  burekha A Yadav THE shopping spirit seems to be well and alive in Singapore. This year's Great Singapore Sale (GSS), held from May 28 to July 25, saw a surge in retail sales resulting in sales of $4.6 billion in June and July. That
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      The defendants
      87 10 Four commandos, Captain Pandiaraj Mayandi, 33; Warrant Officer S Balakrishnan, 45; Lieutenant Ng Chin Fong, 27; and Lieutenant Divanandhari Ambat Chandrasekharan, 28; are being charged with rashly causing 2nd Sgt Hu Enhuai's death and causing grievous injury to Capt Ho Wan Huo. Sgt Hu and Capt Ho's heads
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      First-time instructors
      549 10  -  Lee Ching Wern Two trainers had not conducted POW water exercise before chingwern@newstoday.com.sg DAY nine of the commando trial continued to shed more light on the training session that killed NS-man Hu Enhuai last year, as the commandos who "participated actively" in the dunking offered their take of
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        IVF hormone in a portable pen
        106 10 In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) is not just a costly procedure; it is also highly stressful for the couple. The hormone preparation has to be measured and put into containers and injected daily for 1 0 to 12 days after the start of menstruation. A device
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        Firms bid for low-cost terminal
        70 10 The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has received bids from 28 companies for the tender to design and build a low-cost terminal at Changi Airport. The bids start from $23 million. The tender was called at the end of July, after CAAS decided to
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Rwandans take day off to pick up plastic bags
        58 14 Thousands of Rwandans took Monday off work to pick up plastic bags as part of a government attempt to clean up the environment, according to the BBC. Some supermarkets were shut down for giving out plastic bags to their customers and
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        Lock icon HK goldsmith pays a hefty price for a pee
        60 14 AFP More than HK$l million ($216,288) worth of gold was robbed from a goldsmith when he was in a public toilet in Hong Kong's suburban New Territories area, police said yesterday. The attacker apparently struck the victim on the back of
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        Malaysian youths' dislike leads to durian glut
        60 14 There is currently a glut of durians in Malaysia and one reason for this is the dislike for the "King of Fruits" among the younger generation, said Deputy Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister Mohd Shariff Omar. "I don't really understand why. Probably, they
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        Romanians flee mistaking disco lights for aliens
        49 14 Residents of a village in Cristinesti, eastern Romania recently fled in panic after mistaking disco lights in a nearby town for an alien invasion, ananova.com reported yesterday. Police, who were called to investigate, later persuaded the villagers to return to their homes.
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        Lock icon Thai security solution: Back-facing pillion riders
        70 14 AFP The Thai army has come up with a new security solution for troops in its restive south: Soldiers riding pillion on motorcycles have been told to sit facing backwards to counter the threat of separatist gunmen. Despite complaints about the awkward riding position
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      Lock icon M'sia's inter-racial woes
      352 14 Abdullah seeks re-look at approaches to national unity PUTRAJAYA Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi called for a re-assessment of Malaysia's strategies and approaches to enhance national unity and stem the declining inter-racial mix in schools and universities. "Our diversity is our strength and it is an asset
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      Lock icon Thailand to destroy 5 million duck eggs
      142 14 AP BANGKOK Thailand plans to buy about five million duck eggs from farmers and destroy them to prevent the spread of bird flu, which has devastated poultry stocks and killed 11 people in that country this year. A panel of health and agriculture
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      Lock icon Israel backtracks on allegations
      119 14 AFP JERUSALEM The Israeli army appeared to backtrack yesterday on charges that Palestinian militants had been allowed to ferry arms in a UN ambulance, even as some government officials continued to lash out at UN staff. A top Israeli commander revealed that 13 UN employees had
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      Lock icon Israeli jets force plane to Cyprus
      77 14 AFP LARNACA Cyprus issued a strong protest yesterday after Israeli jets forced a German airliner into its flight control zone in what proved to be a false bomb alert. The Foreign Ministry summoned the Israeli Ambassador over the action taken against the Tel Aviv-bound
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      Lock icon How to cope with 200,000 refugees
      360 16 AFP Seoul's secret plans for Pyongyang's collapse SEOUL South Korea has reportedly prepared secret plans to take control of North Korea and to accommodate at least 200,000 refugees in the event of the sudden collapse of the communist regime. Major Seoul daily The JoongAng
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      Lock icon Nuke, missile worries from Iran
      135 16 AFP TEHRAN Iran declared yesterday that it had ballistic missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometres and could produce ones with a greater range. In a separate development, MPs in the country's parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill to force Tehran to resume uranium
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        Lock icon Malaysian corruption trial delayed till December
        45 16 AFP The corruption trial of Malaysia's former lands and cooperative development Minister Kasitah Gaddam was delayed yesterday after a court postponed his case to Dec 6. Kasitah is free on bail and has sought a review of the charges.
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        Lock icon Guilty plea in 'Incest Island' sex abuse case
        58 16 AFP Dennis Christian, one of seven men facing 55 charges of sex offences against young girls on the Pacific island of Pitcairn, has changed his plea to guilty and admitted sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. Christian's sentencing will not take place until
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        Lock icon US quark researchers win Nobel Physics Prize
        47 16 AFP US scientists David J Gross, H David Politzer and Frank Wilczek yesterday won this year's Nobel Physics Prize for increasing "our understanding of the force that ties together the smallest pieces of matter, the quarks," the prize jury said.
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      Lock icon 93 years for man in incest case
      154 17 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian truck driver has been sentenced to a total of 93 years in prison and 58 strokes of the cane for committing incest with four daughters aged 14 to 20 years. The 40-year-old man pleaded guilty to forcing his
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      Afghan women warned
      319 17 KABUL As Afghanistan prepares for Saturday's historic presidential election, a human rights group says the poll has been undermined by warlords and hardline Islamic Taliban fighters, who are threatening and attacking women to scare them away from the polling booths. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)
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      Lock icon Powerless husband
      164 17 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday welcomed the release of two Indonesian women who had been held hostage in Iraq for three days. But as the husband of one of the women, Ms Istiqomah, expressed relief yesterday he said he would be powerless to prevent his wife from returning to
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      Focus On The Family
      210 18  -  Dr James Dobson Tfrosys FGD SAFETY IN LEARNING Most children, whether in primary or secondary school, tend to admire teachers who can be strict without being unpleasant. A teacher who can control a class without being oppressive or mean is almost always loved by her students.
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      isay NURTURE OUR SPECIAL TALENTS
      583 18  -  Chang Siew Ngoh IN his column, "Normal people, it's time to remove those blinkers" (Oct 1), mr brown wrote that a greater effort should be made to nurture special talents. I strongly agree. My heart has been touched many times while watching performances by children
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      Use your head, not your heart, Idol voters
      448 18  -  CHOP YUN SONG, Letter from GFD I REFER to Mr Billy Lee Han Tiong's letter, "For Singapore Idol, we vote from the heart" (Oct 6). I voted for Leandra because I thought she did very well, even though she didn't perform as
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      600 20  -  Jeanine Tan coffee with MEHAR SINGH 50+, professional wrestler I i eamne(gnewstoday. com.sg HAVE you heard of Mehar Singh? Mr Mehar (picture), who claims to be Singapore's only remaining professional wrestler, declared that people in Singapore^ know who he is. He takes out faded posters from theM
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      Single mothers, speak up now
      409 20  -  TAY SIEW CHING] Letter from" I AGREE with Ms Lew Sye Ping's letter, "Don't deprive single mums of benefits" (Sept 28). The State should be more considerate towards single mothers. In fact, I urge the people and Government to face up to the reality and
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      Lock icon Norway's richest man buys 3% of NOL
      124 22 Bloomberg MR JOHN Fredriksen, an oil tanker magnate and Norway's richest man, bought as much as 3 per cent of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) two weeks after selling a 4-per-cent stake in NOL, the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv reported. Mr Fredriksen paid an
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    • market BUZZ
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        Carrefour's 41st global anniversary takes off
        154 22 This month, the Carrefour Suntec City and Carrefour Plaza Singapura stores will be transformed into a highflying budget carrier called Carrefour Air. Staff will be in air-crew attire, in-flight announcements will be made and turbulent sales are expected. Lovely "stewardesses" will distribute sweets and
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        California Fitness' makeover challenge
        125 22 California Fitness' Ultimate Makeover Challenge is giving four lucky Singaporeans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to trade in the extra pounds for a better physique and great health. The four participants will undergo a six-week head-to-toe makeover programme worth a total of $58,000. The first in Asia, California
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        Food for thought
        133 22 Food From the Heart (FFTH) held a food drive last weekend at Bishan Junction 8. The food drive was held to raise non-perishable food supplies that will go to the 774 needy individuals and 95 welfare homes FFTH supports. The public was encouraged to donate food products
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      Lock icon SIA to sell stake in Air New Zealand
      312 22 AFP Sale part of plan to monetise non-core assets SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) plans to sell its 6.3-per-cent stake in Air New Zealand, officially ending its costly venture in the now government-controlled carrier. SIA said it would place its 37,833,309 ordinary shares in
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      Lock icon Liang Huat Aluminium chairman charged
      91 22 Channel NewsAsia MAINBOARD-LISTED Liang Huat Aluminium chairman and managing director Tan Yong Kee has been charged for not complying with disclosure requirements. In July this year, Liang Huat had announced that there was a discrepancy between Mr Tan's actual and publicly-dis-closed interest in the company's
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      Lock icon New York oil hits new high of US$50.49
      136 22 AFP LONDON The main New York oil contract climbed to a new record high level of U5550.49 a barrel in electronic trading yesterday on worries about production stoppages in the Gulf of Mexico. Light sweet crude for delivery in November gained US
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      MOF rebuts S&P's fiscal report card
      397 24  -  Val Chua Lower figures result from 'different definitions used' val@newstoday.com.sg FOLLOWING a recent Standard Poor's (S&P) report that compared Singapore's fiscal policies unfavourably to Hong Kong's, the Ministry of Finance yesterday hit back with its own defence. Among other things, S&P had said last
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        Singapore
        70 24 Singapore shares ended lower yesterday as investors quickly took profit after the benchmark index's early rise. The ST Index fell 2.15 points, or 0.1 per cent, to close at 2,01 1.7, after trading between 2,004.1 and 2,018.5. On the broad market, decliners led advancers 171 to 150, while volume
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        SGX top falls
        73 24 )y$ (epCorp lukit Sem 8.300 -0.150 13.200 -0.100 By percentage GulTech LiangHual 0.015 0.015 -25.0 -25.0 law Par 5.000 -0.100 NOLDB 0.070 -17.6 XBC 14.100 -0.100 GMG USS 0.025 -16.7 )UE 7.150 -0.100 G&W Group 0.170 -15.0 >IA 10.900 -0.100 Digiland 0.035 -12.5 ilA 200 11.000 -0.100
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        SGX top rises
        80 24 By$ By percentage Creative 50 19.300 +0.200 El-Nets 0.015 +50.0 APB Breweries 7.550 +0.150 LKN 0.040 +33.3 JSH 500USS 6.850 +0.150 PakTech 0.060 +20.0 Shang Asia 2k HKS 8.650 +0.150 PNE Ind W*****8 0.030 +20.0 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 108.800 +0.100 Koh Bros 0.115 +15.0 JMH400USS 14.400
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 24 uss UK£ Yen HKS RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5927 0.3322 65.779 4.6219 2.2523 0.4823 5384.8 24.538 Peso AS Indian Rs Won CS Yuan NZS NTS 33.355 0.8213 27.1775 681.41 0.7537 4.9056 0.8852 20.079
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        STIndex- 2,011.7 -2.15
        30 24  -  Dow Jones high of 2,01 8.5. But profit-taking soon sapped most of the gains, mainly in blue chip counters like OCBC, SingTel and Keppel Corp, traders said.
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        SGX most active
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        World markets
        60 24 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.8 Change Pis +2.2 +0.02% Hang Seng All Ordinaries *****.1 3705.0 -28.15 +1.9 -0.21% +0.05% Taiwan Wtd 6081.0 +3.0 +0.05% Korea Comp 884.8 +4.0 +0.45% KLCI 853.9 +4.0 +0.47% SET Index 673.9 -5.3 -0.77% Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 861.3 1833.4
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      624 35 Yankees' batsman Sheffield provides explosive insight on Giants' superstar CALIFORNIA Major League Baseball's star slugger Gary Sheffield was testifying before a federal grand jury in San Francisco in 2003, when a prosecutor held up the testosterone-based steroid known as "the cream", supplied by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative
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      475 35  -  STANLEY HO stanley@newstoday.com.sg THERE will be only one thing on the minds of Bedok Youth United FC players when the 7-Eleven Futsal Challenge 2004 kicks off next month to win the coveted Challenge Cup. Last year, the neighbourhood youth football club were knocked out in
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      508 36 Agencies Gunners' new stadium to be named after Asian airline LONDON Chelsea might be the richest club in London, but their main sponsors are about to join forces with their major Premiership rivals. To rub salt in the wounds, Arsenal's new home will be named the
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      331 36 Mega Becks is a Real success off the pitch Agencies MADRID, Spain Whether he dominates, distresses or doesn't play at all, David Beckham can still expect to be around at Real Madrid for the foreseeable future. The Spanish giants revealed the true value of their midfield star at their annual
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      201 36 AFP GENEVA, Switzerland Top seeds Lazio of Italy drew last year's semi-finalists Villarreal, English Premiership side Middlesbrough and the experienced Partizan Belgrade in the Uefa Cup draw yesterday. Greek minnows Egaleo were the other team drawn in Group E, but they were not
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      202 36 -AFP LONDON Michael Owen (right) promises to silence the critics calling for him to be axed by England, after a troubled start to his career with Real Madrid. The 24-year-old's place in his national side is under serious threat for the first time since
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      445 37  -  STANLEY HO Cameroonian side will be good for the S-League, say FAS FOOTBALL FRIENDLY S-League Selection 1 Planet FC 3 stanley@newstoday.com.sg SAY what you want about S-League wannabes Planet FC, but they delivered on the field last night and look set to become the third foreign
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      374 37  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE last time they were in Singapore, it was only their under-21 squad. But in January, the full first-team squad could feature here. Swiss league champions FC Basel could be set to return to Singapore, as part of their
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        105 37 bKIDCitIUWIN, Barbados Tiger Woods (right) spent Monday snorkeling off the coast of Barbados, as police and private security agents patrolled the public beach of Sandy Lane luxury resort, where islanders kept talking of an imminent wedding to Swedish model Elin Nordegren. Five hundred red roses
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        79 37 DEERFIELD, Illinois Scottie Pippen, who teamed with Michael Jordan to form a tandem that drove the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles in the 1 9905, is expected to retire after 17 seasons, an NBA source said yesterday morning [Singapore time). Pippen, 39, is
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        60 37 LONDON Crystal Palace beat 10-man London rivals Fulham 2-0 to register their first win of the season on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) and finally move off the bottom of the Premiership. Palace, promoted last season, secured the three points with secondhalf goals from Andy Johnson,
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        54 37 BALTIMORE, Maryland Priest Holmes scored two touchdowns as the Kansas City Chiefs won their first game of the season, with a 27-24 victory over the Baltimore Ravens, yesterday (Singapore time). Holmes rushed for a career-high 33 times for 125 yards, as the Chiefs captured their first
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        68 37 LONDON Everton are planning to build on their unexpectedly strong start to the Premiership season by luring out-of-favour Chelsea midfielder Scott Parker in the January transfer window. Manager David Moves has cash to spend following the sale of Wayne Rooney to Manchester United and Goodison
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      301 38 Agencies MANCHESTER Manchester United fans are organising shareholders and supporters to fend off any bid for the world's biggest soccer club by US billionaire Malcolm Glazer, reported BBC News online. Glazer is believed to be the so-far unnamed investor behind
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      194 38 AFP LYON Chile's Olympic Games gold medallist Nicolas Massu, the top seed, crashed out of the 791,000-euro ($1.6 million) ATP tournament here yesterday losing 6-3, 6-4 to Argentina's Agustin Calleri. Massu, the world No 12, was promoted to top seed when Britain's Tim Henman pulled out
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      159 38 AFP ZURICH, Switzerland England and Manchester United teenage sensation Wayne Rooney has made it on to the shortlist for Fifa's 2004 Player of the Year award. Rooney figured in a group of 35 candidates for the coveted football honour released by
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      109 38 Adriano (BRA), Roberto Ayala (Arg), Michael Ballack (Ger), Milan Baros (Cze), David Beckham (Eng), Gianluigi Buffon (ITA), Cafu (Bra), Cristiano Ronaldo (Por), Deco (Por), Didier Drogba (Civ), Samuel Eto'o (Cmr), Luis Figo (Por), Steven Gerrard (Eng), Ryan Giggs (Wai), Thierry
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      277 38 AFP LONDON Japanese driver Takuma Sato was handed the perfect boost on the eve of his home Grand Prix when his BAR-Honda team confirmed him as one of their drivers for next year. The 27-year-old Sato, who is eighth in the world championship
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      925 39  -  ROHITBRIJNATH Today sports columnist Rohit Brijnath is looking forward to one of the great events of 2004 India v Australia in a Test cricket series that is bound to grip both countries and millions of fans. So instead of his regular prose every
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      188 39 -AFP FIRST TEST India v Australia BANGALORE, India As India were hit with the news that batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar had failed to recover from a tennis elbow injury, Anil Kumble said yesterday he hopes to claim his 4OOth wicket on home turf, when the
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