Today, 20 October 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • 12 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday October 20,2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 452 1 AFP Tehran must show it does not have secret project VIENNA Europe's three main nations are ready to promise Iran nuclear technology, including supplying a light-water nuclear reactor, if Tehran takes steps to show it is not secretly trying to make atomic weapons, according
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    • 147 1 THE Singapore-based Bintan Lagoon Resort Ltd has been put into receivership to bring to an end long-drawn negotiations with its bondholders, The Business Times reports today. The company counts SembCorp Industries subsidiary Safe Enterprises and Keppel Land as its shareholders. Its $53 million worth of
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    • 93 1 AFP NEW YORK Wall Street shares swung lower yesterday as an early rally faded after oil prices bounced off their lows and climbed back above US$53 a barrel. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 58.70 points to 9,897.62 and the Nasdaq Composite Index
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    • 237 1 AFP WASHINGTON The United States said yesterday the ouster of Myanmar's Prime Minister by the country's military junta was a blow to marginal hopes the leadership might restore political and human rights or open a dialogue with detained opposition leader
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    • 552 2  -  Lee Ching Wern It should lead effort to promote language, culture chingwern@newstoday.com.sg AS THE Government tries to promote Singaporeans' interest in the Chinese language and culture, the Chinese community should take the lead and play a more active role in this effort, said
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    • 402 2  -  Ms Cheryl Fox CHANNEL News Asia presenter Cheryl Fox has been cleared of suspected drug consumption. The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) confirmed that a second urine test found no traces of drugs. Ms Fox had been released on personal bond on Oct 8 after
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    • 335 2 Channel News Asia NEWSPAPER and television standards will continue to improve despite the recent media mergers. This assurance came from Minister for Communications, Information and the Arts, Dr Lee Boon Yang, in reply to questions in Parliament on the
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    • 731 3 NEWS£S!£!££__ Irresponsible plastic addicts could cause full-blown crisis BRITAIN'S biggest banks came under fire this week for pushing credit-card debt in the country to a staggering $180 billion. The aggressive lending by financial institutions has caused such an uproar in the United Kingdom that the British Parliament
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    • 241 4  -  Ng Shing Yi FOLLOWING the recent industrial accidents the latest being the explosions and fire at the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway worksite on Sunday the Ministry of Manpower is raising the bar on occupational health standards. A professional body in charge of
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    • 355 4 -AFP Abdullah's govt won't allow gambling on soccer matches, world events KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday his government would not allow offshore betting on English Premier League soccer matches or on other international events. "No. No licence has been given
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  • HEALTHY BITES
    • 322 6  -  Melody Tan news@newstoday.com.se SESAME seeds have been an important and healthy part of the human diet since 1600 BC, according to some researchers. Loved for their nutty, delicate taste, they've even played a major role in a fairy tale:When AN Baba told the cave to "Open Sesame",
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  • singapore news
    • 204 6 Newsßadio 93.8 ESTABLISHMENTS in the growing multi-million dollar spa and massage industry will get more leeway in how they run their businesses, after the police accepted most of the recommendations the Advisory Panel for Licensing proposed last month. From December, the nine
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    • 549 8  -  Tor Ching Li Competition Bill targets economic 'quantum step': Balakrishnan chingli@newsto day, com. sg AGAINST the backdrop of the recent reconfiguration in the media industry, a spirited two-hour debate was held in Parliament yesterday over the second reading of the Competition Bill. Mooted with the
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    • 355 8 Tan Hui Leng THE Ministry of Education's shift to a five-day work week will not affect the quality of education provided by schools, said Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday. Responding to a question on the Ministry of Education's (MOE) guidelines from
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    • PARLIAMENTbriefs
      • 96 8 Channel NewsAsia money-la undering The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) has prosecuted more than 1 0 cases of money laundering over the past three years, but there is no clear uptrend in cases. Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Tharman Shanmugaratnam was responding
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      • 69 8 Singapore is working with Malaysia to resolve outstanding bilateral issues and develop new areas of collaboration, said Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday in response to a question from MP Mdm Ho Geok Choo on the "tipping point" leading to the wave of "good tidings"
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      • 91 8 About 860 Singaporeans renounced their citizenship between 1 994 and last year, said Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng yesterday. Roughly 8,100 foreigners a year become Singapore citizens, he added. In 2002 and last year, about half of those who renounced their citizenship were between the
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      • 75 8 The capital fund for Medifund has hit $1 billion this year, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. Medifund is an endowment fund set up by the Government to help those who cannot afford to pay their medical bills. Until last year, the capital
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    • 247 8 Channel NewsAsia A LIFELINE has been thrown to the ailing construction industry with the tabling of a Bill in Parliament yesterday to facilitate cash flow in the industry. The Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Bill allows parties to seek progress
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    • 593 10  -  Wong Fei Wan Lt Diva says he knew how to dunk NSmen safely feiwan@newstoday.com.sg ONE of the commandos accused of causing the death of Second Sergeant Hu Enhuai said the fatal incident would not have happened if he had been the one dunking the
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    • 235 10  -  Lee U-Wen RAFFLES Institution (RI), one of Singapore's top all-boys schools, will have a new headmaster for the next academic year. The new head will be Mr Bob Koh Chin Nguang, who will leave his current appointment as the Ministry of Education's
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    • SINGAPORE snippets
      • 89 10 Channel NewsAsia The government is extending relief measures for Singapore's four duck slaughterhouses. The package, which is worth $68,930, includes the waiving of rental fees and foreign worker levies. The new set of relief measures expires at the end of next month and is subject to review.
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      • 108 10 Channel NewsAsia The imports from Johor and Melaka have not brought prices of chickens and eggs to pre-ban levels. During the six-week ban, the prices of chicken increased 50 per cent to $7 per kg, while eggs shot up 250 per cent to 55 cents apiece.
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  • world news
    • 346 12 AFP Initial glitches sorted out, say Florida officials MIAMI Florida officials said yesterday that initial glitches had been sorted out in early voting, which was marked by a strong turnout as the presidential candidates focused much of their attention on the key battleground state. State officials
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    • 196 12 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Americans are "very ignorant" and will probably re-elect a "liar" as their president, Malaysia's former Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said in an interview published yesterday in The Star newspaper. Dr Mahathir, in his interview, also referred to US President
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    • thisQUIRKYworld
      • 69 12 AFP Kiyokazu Komshi, looking to tmance his wedding, tried to convince his fiancee he had been kidnapped and that she should seek 15 million yen ($231,000) in ransom from his boss, police said yesterday. The 32-year-old was found safe on Monday in
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      • 31 12 A gingerbread house built by artists in Vienna is to be dismantled after neighbours complained it had become a magnet for rats, reported Ananova.com.
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      • 77 12 British inventor Mike Rooney has come up with a vacuum cleaner that hovers. The Airider hovers millimetres off the floor with a suction speed of more than 300km/h. The 44-year-old former door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman said he had always wanted "a weightless vacuum which
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    • 189 12 -AFP BANGKOK A Thai tiger zoo housing hundreds of the big cats was shut down yesterday as bird flu tests confirmed that 23 tigers died of the HSNI virus. Another 30 tigers have fallen ill. The head of Thailand's bird flu task force, Deputy
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    • 83 12 AFP THE British-born head of Care International's Iraq operations, Mrs Margaret Hassan, was kidnapped in Iraq early yesterday, said the aid organisation. Mrs Hassan, married to an Iraqi and a naturalised Iraqi citizen, has worked for Care in Iraq since 1992 and has lived there
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    • 423 14 Shoot-out ends longest manhunt in India's police history CHENNAI In the end, the deadly forest brigand went the way of the more than 150 people he had murdered in the treacherous terrains of the Western Ghat forests bordering the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka states in southern
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    • 223 14 -AFP PARIS Light years from the catwalks of Paris, France's first black supermodel, a reallife princess from Burundi, has decided to run for President in her native country when elections are held in April next year. Princess Esther Kamatari, 53,
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    • 214 14 -AFP KUWAIT CITY Some two million Asian maids working in Gulf Arab states without proper legal cover face various forms of maltreatment, including sexual abuse and non-payment of salary, according to an official study. The study, reviewed by Gulf social affairs and
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 62 14 -AFP Indian Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh said a school social science textbook used in the eth-nic-violence-prone western state of Gujarat portrayed Adolf Hitler as a role model.The book, aimed at 15-year-old students, praises Hitler and his Nazi regime and
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      • 54 14 AP California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger broke with the state Republican Party and endorsed a US$3-billion ($5.25-billion) bond meas- ure that would fund human embryonic stem cell research for treating a variety of diseases and injuries. Many conservatives oppose the controversial research because it
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      • 66 14 -AFP The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an artificial heart designed to keep a patient alive while awaiting a transplant. During trials, the heart, made by Syncardia Systems of Tucson, Arizona, was implanted in 81 patients awaiting transplants. Sev-enty-nine per
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    • 255 16  -  Family Dr James Dobson m Tbiws BBlJ by RELEASING THE REINS Everybody understands that teenagers are itching to get out on their own, to take over the reins of their lives and not have parents telling them what to do anymore. But this yearning for control
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    • 398 16  -  d Clients will not 'fly' if specialists treat them well Letter from I REFER to your report, "Budget-airline effect" (Oct 15). The advice offered by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and Senior Minister of State for
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    • 285 16  -  MICHAEL KHOO I Letter from I I REFER to Jeremy Lim's article "In the lurch when funds run out" (Oct 14) where he argued against the proposal to cap the reserves of Institutions of Public Character (IPC) to five years. As the
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    • 261 16  -  SOON KIM HOCK Letter from LEONG Sze Hian's letter, "Scrapping cars after 5 years is a waste of money" (Oct 15) offers food for thought. This vehicle policy, the only one of its kind in the world, was apparently introduced
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    • 674 18  -  Teo Hwee Nak hweenak@newstoday.com.sg THE other day, my mum asked me to help her write a Chinese character she did not know. Moments after picking up the pen, I realised that I did not know the strokes either. I used to, but not anymore. As I
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    • 171 18  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I WAS heartened by the report "Wanted: Dog killer" (Oct 18) in which the Action for Singapore Dogs (ASD) and the public were reported to have offered a $2,000 reward to anyone who helps bring the killer to justice.
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    • 192 18  -  EDWARD WONG Letter from I Senior Manager (Employment Assistance Unit) Score WE refer Mr Jeffrey Law Lee Beng's letter, "Don't mark ex-cons, honour their employers" (Oct 14). We thank Mr Law for highlighting the need for the cooperation of employers in helping former offenders
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  • Businesstoday
    • 581 20 Agencies But central bank sees unemployment easing this year, salaries rising 3 to 5% THE ECONOMIC growth in Singapore will moderate in the "coming quarters" and consumer price inflation will rise next year, but unemployment will ease by the end of this year, said the
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    • market BUZZ
      • 156 20 Kids Company magazine and IMM are searching for little charmers in their Royal Charmers Cover Look Contest 2004. Open to boys and girls aged 4 to 6 (Category A) and 7 to 9 (Category B), the Royal Princess and Prince will win prizes worth
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      • 112 20 Fans, enthusiasts and members of the public got up close and personal with the legendary and much-loved Mini Cooper last Saturday at HarbourFront Centre. They ogled a fleet of Mini Coopers from the early models to the latest variant, courtesy the Mini Enthusiasts Club Singapore.
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      • 67 20 Diversity and creativity is evident in British cuisine. So, the "Tastes of Great Britain" event on Oct 1 6 attracted many culinary enthusiasts and Jamie Oliver fans who went down with their copy of TODAY, all eager to win a Jamie Oliver cookbook. The five winners
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 59 20 SHARE prices ended higher, boosted by a retreat in oil prices. The ST Index rose 1 9.68 points, or 1 per cent, to close at 1,970.23. Gainers led decliners 234 to 88 as 570.3 million shares worth $558.5 million were traded. Shares of banks widely viewed as proxies for
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      • 74 20 By$ Creative 50 19.800 +0.300 By percentage L&M 0.010 +100.0 F&N 14.300 +0.300 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 109.000 +0.200 LiangHual 0.020 +33.3 PKfch 0.050 +25.0 OCBC 13.600 +0.200 PNEIndW*****8 0.025 +25.0 Thai Prime200USS 10.700 +0.200 STIETF100 20.180 +0.180 Yongnam 0.025 +25.0 Jade 0.030 +20.0 TAC200USS 3.500 +0.140
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      • 71 20 By$ Jariline C&C 7.850 -0.200 By percentage Hilchins 0.050 -33.3 GreatEast 11.600 -0.100 BRCAsia 0.070 -17.6 SIA200 10.600 -0.100 CSC 0.025 -16.7 Fortune Reil HKS 6.150 -0.050 Oakwell 0.050 -16.7 SembCorp 1.580 -0.040 NOLDB ePW*****1 0.080 -15.8 SPC 3.540 -0.040 Nelwrk 0.060 -14.3 CSA 1.000 -0.030 Inchem
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      • 36 20 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5958 0.3314 65.102 4.6415 2.2642 0.4769 5425.1 24.689 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 33.611 0.8216 27.318 681.14 0.749 4.9315 0.8701 20.176
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      • 32 20 ST Index 1,970.23 +19.68 Dow Jones or 1.5 per cent, to $13.60. DBS was up 10 cents, or 0.6 per cent, to $15.50. United Overseas Bank rose 0.8 per cent to $13.40.
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      • 59 20 By volume Close BeautyChina 0.695 SPH DB eCW*****8 0.270 STATSChP 1.010 GuangzhaolFB 0.315 ShanghaiAsia 0.250 Bio-Treat 0.815 PSCCorpR 0.010 Noble Grp 1.070 Autron 0.230 ACCS 0.775 Change +0.055 +0.010 +0.035 +0.025 +0.015 +0.010 +0.010 -0.010 +0.025 +8.6 +3.8 +3.6 +8.6 +6.4 +1.2 +0.9 -4.2 +3.3 'OOO 20,459
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      • 60 20 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.86 Change Pis +99.24 +0.91 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.55 3715.00 5807.79 +119.81 +5.10 +35.67 +0.92 +0.14 +0.62 Korea Comp 855.77 +7.50 +0.88 KLCI 851.74 +0.05 +0.01 SET Index 661.00 +14.49 +2.24 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 853.39 1778.85
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      • 25 20 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Gold uss/oi 416.7 Rubber censAg 237.75 Silver uss/oz 6.945 Palm oil 1407.05 Platinum uss/oz 839 Brent crude uss/borrei 48.35
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    • business news
      • 225 24 Dow Jones UNLIKE Temasek Holdings, the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) will not shed more light on its investments and investment performance anytime soon, Acting Second Minister for Finance and Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Raymond Lim Siang Keat said
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      • 124 24 ENGINEERING services group SembCorp Industries said yesterday that its wholly-owned subsidiary SembCorp Utilities would sell its entire 30-per-cent stake in Malaysia's Sime SembCorp Engineering (SSE) for RM6S million ($28.6 million). The stake will be sold to Pesida Equipment, a unit of Malaysian conglomerate
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      • 508 24  -  Lee Han Shih peccaviO! 3@yahoo.com ytdg THE warming of the relationship between Singapore and Malaysia is good for almost everyone. One of the exceptions is Singapore Airlines (SIA), which might lose control over the popular Singapore-Kuala Lumpur shuttle flights. How much
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      • 128 26 Dow Jones CAPITAMALL Trust (CMT), a real estate investment trust, will distribute to unit holders $18.97 million, or 1.57 cents a unit, for the period from Aug 2 to Sept 30. This is is higher than the $18.17 million, or 1.51 cents a unit
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      • 132 26 Dow Jones SEMBCORP Industries said yesterday that its engineering unit had clinched a $220-million housing contract in Dubai. SembCorp Engineers and Constructors will build 2,700 apartments near Jumeirah island in Dubai for United Arab Emirates (UAE) developer Nakheel. Nakheel is behind many of the
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      • 297 26 Country can take in $252b: PM Singh Dow Jones NEW DELHI India can soak up as much as US$l5O billion ($252 billion) in infrastructure investments providing a huge investment potential for Asean, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday. Sending a clear signal to the
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    • savvy investor
      • 627 28 Dow Jones Low rainfall and high oil prices prompt HSBC Asset Management to downgrade short-term outlook HSBC Asset Management has turned bearish on India's stock market due to low rainfall and record-high oil prices, which could stoke inflation and slow growth. "In the next few months, there
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    • 717 32  -  David Chew david. chew@newstoday. com.sg FOR the first time in 14 years, the Cultural Medallion has been presented to a photographer. Last night at the Istana, 54-year-old Teo Bee Yen received the honour from Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts. The Cultural
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    • 291 32 Jeanine Tan SAMMI Cheng is looking for a younger man. No, she's not looking to replace her beau, Andy Hui, whom she broke up with earlier this year. She's on the lookout for costars for future films. After all, Johnnie To, who directed
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    • 282 32 IT PAYS to know your target audience, as MediaCorp TVl2's Kids Central and Channel News Asia (CNA) will tell you. Kids Central notched the biggest jump in viewership among TV channels, according to the Nielsen Media Index figures on TV viewership, released by
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    • 636 34  -  lan De Cotta The Eagles bring down the house with three encores,, but fans are still left desperate for more ian@newstoday.com.sg TRIPLE encore: that was the house verdict on the Eagles concert at the packed Singapore Indoor Stadium on Monday night, and I couldn't agree
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      • 203 37 -AFP LOS ANGELES The urbanedged animated film Shark Tale swam to the top of the North American box office for the third week in a row. The computer-animated flick, featuring celebrity voices such as Will Smith and Angelina Jolie,
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    • 574 42 -AP Ortiz the hero again, Yankees just glad to go home with chance to close series US BASEBALL PLAYOFFS Red Sox 5 Yankees 4 BOSTON Just like the game that seemed it would never end, Boston's season just won't end. David Ortiz's single on the
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    • 252 42 AFP NEW DELHI India's star batsman Sachin Tendulkar batted at the nets for the first time in two months yesterday, but his chances of playing in next week's third Test against Australia remain uncertain. There was good news for the visitors, though, as skipper Ricky Ponting
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    • 645 43 Agencies Fergie admits his constant tinkering is not working LONDON In an astonishingly frank admission, Sir Alex Ferguson (picture) said he must take his share of the blame for Manchester United's stuttering start to the season. Many pundits have questioned his constant tinkering this season
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    • 306 43 LONDON Adrian Mutu will not face a second drugs test after admitting to testing positive for cocaine, the English Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) has revealed. The Chelsea striker's acceptance of the positive test means he forfeits any right to a B sample being
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 854 44 AFP Striker finally gets off his mark for Madrid CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP B Real Madrid 1 Dynamo Kiev 0 MADRID England striker Michael Owen finally found the net in a Real Madrid shirt as he got the only goal in Real's 1-0 win over Dynamo Kiev
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      • 391 44 AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP A Liverpool 0 Deportivo 0 PARIS As Michael Owen celebrated his first goal for Real Madrid, Liverpool, the team he left behind in the summer, could only draw 0-0 at home to Deportivo La Coruna in Group A.
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      484 45  -  STANLEY HO Cameroonian club's S-League bid in doubt following Queen's Cup farce stanley@newstoday.com.sg PLANET FC's bid to join the S-League now looks in serious doubt, following a shocking revelation yesterday that challenged the credibility of the Cameroonian club. It has been well documented that Planet claimed to have
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    • 457 45 SAA V LUAN-XIAOXU TIME FOR SSC TO STEP IN you serious Jose Raymond AFTER four years in a rut, the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) once again became a core sport in April. It looked as if the good times were about to roll for the National Sports Association, under the
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    • 204 44 League Home Team Away Team Ma*<-h Kick Off (Singapore date/time) STRIKE! AUaish Home United Thu, 21/10/04 2.00 am UE Champions Anderlecht W Bremen Thu, 21/10/04 2.45 am UE Champions Rosenborg PSV Thu, 21/10/04 2.45 am UE Champions Paris SG Porto Thu, 21/10/04 2.45 am UE Champions Valencia Inter Thu, 21/10/04
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    • 317 46 SWIMMING Academic awards: 2 Inter-School: C Division Girls Team (1st); C Div Boys Team (3rd); B Division Girls Team (4th); 14 golds (5 new records) National: Junior Age Group: 19 golds, 19 silvers, 13 bronzes (29 new records); National Age Group: 16 golds, 15 silvers, 8
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    • 842 46 President S R Nathan and the First Lady paid a visit to the Singapore Sports School yesterday. The school has been in operation at its Woodlands campus for 10 months now. While there have been some hiccups. Tan Yo-Hinn finds out that the school is breaking
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    • 95 47 Badminton: 1 1 (7 boys, 4 girls] Bowling: 8 (6 boys, 2 girls) Football: 1 1 (all boys) Netball: 9 (all girls) Sailing: 8 (3 boys, 5 girls) Swimming: 14 (6 boys, 8 girls) Table Tennis: 8 (5 boys, 3 girls) Track and Field: 18
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    • 391 47  -  da dan@newstoday.com.sg RISING early has always been a problem for 12-year old Roanne Ho. The alarm clock has been her constant enemy as she struggled to wake up for school every day. But dashing out of her Yio
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    • 405 47  -  -DanPek AT FIRST glance, Desmond Boey looks and acts like a typical 12-year-old. He watches movies with his friends and plays tennis in his spare time. But when he steps on to the track, he suddenly stands out from the common
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