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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday December 30, 2004 MICA (P) 103/07/2004
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    Govt sets conditions for casino
    887 1  -  Val Chua Proposes levy for S'poreans, PRs; experts say investors may be concerned val@newstoday.com.sg AFTER nine months of national soul-searching, the contentious casino proposal still hangs in the balance, after the Government said yesterday it would go ahead only if investors submitted "compelling" plans for
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    Lock icon More fly to Phuket to seek missing loved ones
    752 1  -  Derrick A Paulo in Phuket derrick@newstoday.com.sg MORE Singaporeans flew to Phuket yesterday to search for loved ones even as those already there took their search to the outlying provinces and islands, as it became clear yesterday that most Singaporeans were outside
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    An early warning system is a priority
    717 1  -  Clement Mesenas, News Comment Foreign Editor clement@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the dust settles on the seismological tragedy that has hit southern Asia as it eventually will moves will hopefully be made to set up a tsunami early-warning system for the Indian Ocean. With the necessity
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  • hot news
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      Government to do more for gambling addicts
      181 2  -  Val Chua Even if the proposed casino does not take off, the Government will extend help to gambling addicts here. "We need to do more than what we are doing now. The ministry will step up services to people in need This is
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    • Waves of death The Aftermath
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        Lock icon Aid distribution problems threaten relief efforts
        585 3 Agencies TONS of food, medicines, clothing and other desperately-needed items have started arriving in countries hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami, but relief workers faced numerous hurdles in getting the much-needed supplies to survivors. The biggest challenge was in finding the means to
        — Agencies; AFP  -  585 words
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        Lock icon Markets move upwards
        360 4 -AFP Investors look beyond catastrophe, see good 2005 TSUNAMIS killed tens of thousands of people but the Indonesian and Indian stock markets are hitting record highs on perceived economic good times, in a sign of the brutal disconnect between investors and the poor who suffered the tragedy.
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        S'pore sends medical, rescue aid to Indon, Thailand, Sri Lanka
        398 4  -  Wong Fei Wan feiwan@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Government is stepping up its humanitarian and relief efforts to help her neighbours cope with the Sunday disaster. Between 600 and 700 personnel from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and Singapore Civil Defence Force
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        Employers heed Govf s call
        218 4  -  Ansley Ng EMPLOYERS here are heeding the Government's call to show "compassion and patience" to their foreign workers whose family members have suffered from Sunday's disaster. A SembCorp Marine spokeswoman said 73 Indian workers in its shipyards have flown home since Monday. The workers are
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      Nation rallies to help in relief efforts
      495 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Outpouring of concern for victims overwhelming huileng@newstoday.com.sg THE Salvation Army's annual Christmas kettling drive may be over, but this year it is deploying volunteers, beneficiaries and staff to send the familiar bells ringing in at least 16 locations around Singapore
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  • world news
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      Right to torture?
      354 8 Mystery CIA jet allegedly transports terror suspects to countries where torture is employed WASHINGTON A mysterious United States jet, registered to a ghost company, whisks terror suspects to countries that use torture, reported the Washington Post after it carried out its own investigation. The Gulfstream V turbojet,
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      Lock icon Yanukovich contests Ukraine poll results
      203 8 -AFP KIEV Ukraine's political crisis looked set to drag on after Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich contested the results of a weekend presidential re-run vote that he lost to opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. "Yanukovich's team filed a complaint just before midnight on Tuesday over violations in
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      Lock icon Power struggle underway in Pyongyang
      299 8 PYONGYANG A vicious power struggle seems be under way in North Korea. The country's leader Kirn Jong II has purged some of his closest relatives, accusing them of trying to seize power, The Independent reported. Quoting reports in Beijing and Seoul, the newspaper said the
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      Lock icon Love under the sign of Ursa Major, the Great Bear
      42 8 AP A young couple from St Petersburg, Russia, guests at a wedding ceremony, share a tender moment at an embankment of the Neva river, as a trained bear stands on a parapet.
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      Lock icon Life sentence for Indon terror suspect
      197 8 -AFP PHNOM PENH A Cambodian court yesterday sentenced Indonesian terror suspect Hambali and five others to life in prison for plotting a terrorist attack in the country. "The court sentenced Hambali, (Malaysian) Ibrahim and (Egyptian) Rousha Yasser to life in prison," presiding judge Ya
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon No change to Thai poll date
        47 8 AFP Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that Thailand's national elections slated for Feb 6 will go ahead as planned, despite the unprecedented disaster unleashed by the Asian quake. "It is not necessary to put off the election date," he said.
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        Lock icon Former US attorney-general joins Saddam defence team
        45 8 AFP Former US attorney-general and leftwing activist Ramsey Clark is to join the defence team of Saddam Hussein, a spokesman for Saddam's lawyers said yesterday. Mr Clark held the office of attorney-general under US president Lyndon B Johnson.
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  • lookingback2004
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      Lock icon TIMELY DELIVERY?
      830 10  -  Tor Ching Li With every conceivable incentive in place, the wait for a baby boom is now in its 2nd trimester chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT'S the $800 million question for 2005: Will Singaporeans finally get their act together and buck the downward trend of the national Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
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      Lock icon THE UNITED STATES OF ASIA
      780 12  -  Shibu Itty Kuttickal but where do closer ties leave Bush? shibu@newstoday.com.sg FOR United States President George W Bush, this is the time to act to recapture the hearts and minds of the Asian people. In the wake of the deadly earthquake and tsunamis that have
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      Lock icon MAMMA MIA! WHERE ARE THE AUDIENCES?
      496 12  -  David Chew THIS year was one of mixed results on the arts scene. The most talked-about performances were Mamma Mia and Saturday Night Fever, while the most memorable "acting" was done, oddly enough, by audience members. Specifically, a latecomer to the Bobby McFerrin concert
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      DRAjMATIC TAKEOVER BIDS STEAL HIGHLIGHT
      729 14  -  Val Chua They made the biggest business stories on the local scene val@newstoday.com.sg CORPORATE takeovers on the local scene yielded some of year's most dramatic business stories. Here are three of the biggest. Tussle for United Overseas Land IT HAD all the ingredients of a
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      Lock icon ATHENS GOT IT RIGHT FOR THE BEST-EVER OLYMPIC GAMES
      544 14 Agencies EVERY Olympic Games provides us with defining moments. Some are obvious like Jesse Owens' four-gold feat in 1 936 in Berlin in front of a squirming Hitler. Or, like Muhammad Ali's lighting of the cauldron in Atlanta '96. Others are
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      Focus On The Family
      225 16  -  Dr James Dobson Tbows by THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOME As strange as it may sound, every household has a personality. You can usually detect within a few minutes if a home is light hearted and winsome, strict and rigid, or depressed and pessimistic. Every family
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      NEW YEAR'S GRIEF
      816 16 Should we be partying while the region mourns? IN THE outpouring of letters and hotline calls in the aftermath of the tsunami catastrophe, readers expressed everything from grief for the victims, to pride or shame in the way Singaporeans reacted. But the most common comment was on
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      Air pollutant levels in Punggol within safe limits
      370 16  -  FOONG CHEE LEONG I Letter from I PAAlin tftlin- FAIIA I Head, Pollution Control Department The National Environment Agency I REFER to the letter on air quality concerns by Mr James Chi ("Bad air is a long-term health hazard", Dec 27). The
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      HDB shop rents already flexible
      503 17  -  TAY BOON SUN I Moves also taken to help owners cope I t:ttcr from get I REFER to Mr Robert Teh Kek Hua's letter, "Be pro-active in helping businesses" (Dec 24). The review of contracted rent for JTC's lessees is applicable only to long-term land
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      Abuse case update
      55 17  -  TRISTAN SIM A;; I REFER to Ms Mci Tan's letter, "Flip side of abuse" (Dec 22) about an alleged case of child abuse reported last December. Investigations are still in progress. We have since informed Ms Tan about the latest update on the case following our earlier
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      Readers' 2005 wish list
      148 17  -  LEEKENGMIN TAN CHEK WEE hrt That the Government will do more for pupils with special needs, such as devoting more resources to special schools and the pupils. That the Government will provide more places in the local university for dentists, doctors and biomedical sciences. Give more
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      457 17 ELECTRICITY TARIFF REVISION Electricity tariffs will be increased by an average of 1.2% or 0.2 cent per kWh for the quarter, 1 January to 31 March 2005. The increase is primarily due to higher cost of electricity arising from higher fuel oil prices. The revised tariffs are given in the
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        World markets
        60 18 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Value *****.56 *****.38 4042.10 6088.49 Change Pis -42.57 +69.43 -6.50 +87.92 -0.37 +0.49 -0.16 +1.47 Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 884.27 907.58 664.46 1004.43 1822.83 233.28 6567.94 +5.84 +1.03 +2.07 +0.51
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 18 US$ 0.6113 UK£ 0.3171 Yen 63.01 HK$ 4.7528 RM 2.323 Euro 0.4491 Rupiah 5694.3 Baht 23.876 Peso 34.423 A$ 0.7853 Indian Rs 26.729 Won 637.28 C$ 0.744 Yuan 5.0593 NZ$ 0.848 NTS 19.58
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        Commodities
        21 18 Gold uss/oi 444.7 Silver uss/oi 7.035 Platinum uss/oi 870 Rubber centsAg 199.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1400 Brent crude uss/borrel 40.75
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        Lock icon Singapore
        112 18 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed flat in listless trade, with many investors still on holiday and as sentiment remained cautious following the tidal waves that swept across much of southern Asia on Sunday. The ST Index closed 0.30 point lower at 2,057.82, after peaking at 2,067.44 in the morning
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        ST Index: 2,057.82 -0.30
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        Lock icon SGX most active
        57 18 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by By volume Close Teledata 0.040 UniFiber 0.250 GlobalVoice 0.105 UTAC 0.520 Media Asia 0.170 STAl$ChPSGAeCW*****7 0.145 Flextech 0.380 Thakral 0.115 STATSChP 1.030 China Sun 0.405 Change -0.005 +0.020 +0.015 +0.005 +0.055 -0.005 -11.1 +8.7 +3.0 +3.6 +16.9 -1.2 'OOO 130,712 33,520 16,567
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        SGX top rises
        78 18 By Close Change Creative 50 24.100 +0.800 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 107.200 +0.300 UOB 13.800 +0.100 By percentage Close Change L&M 0.010 +100.0 LiangHual 0.015 +50.0 Unidux 0.070 +40.0 IDT 2.280 +0.070 CrealiveSGAeCW*****0 0.580 +0.060 IRECorp 0.020 +33.3 ITechGrp 0.045 +28.6 Creative DBeCW*****2 0.420 +0.055 Flexlech 0.380
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        SGX top falls
        78 18 By Close Change Thai Prime200USS 11.500 -0.500 JMH400USS 16.100 -0.300 STIETF100 20.580 -0.220 Jardine C&C 10.500 -0.200 CITYDEVW*****0 4.440 -0.140 Haw Par 5.100 -0.100 OCBC4.55SNCPS100 101.700 -0.100 By percentage Nippecrafl MediaS PNE Ind W*****8 MAE Engg Compact FHTK EKN Close Change 0.075 -28.6 0.015 -25.0 0.015 -25.0
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      Lock icon China eases yuan bank card use
      285 18 Bloomberg Cardholders can make payments in Singapore, Thailand and South Korea L-HIINA will let yuan-denominated bank cards be used outside the country for the first time in the latest easing of capital controls as the Chinese government prepares for a more flexible currency. Unionpay
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      Lock icon Temasek halts talks on Medco stake buy
      134 18 Bloomberg EVERITT Investments, a unit of Temasek Holdings, scrapped talks to buy a stake in Indonesia's biggest publicly traded oil company, Medco Energi Internasional. Negotiations "were halted for an indefinite period", Everitt's lawyer Melli Darsa said in a letter to the Indonesian Capital
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      Lock icon Bank Negara approves MPlant stake sale
      253 18 Agencies MALAYSIAN Plantations owner of Alliance Bank Malaysia said that its largest shareholder Langkah Bahagia got permission from the central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, to sell its 15.4-per-cent stake in the company. This approval likely gives Temasek Holdings the ability to buy a stake
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        Lock icon A year for Asia to remember... and forget
        871 20  -  William Pesek Jr SUDDENLY, the events of the year in Asia seem trivial. The fast-rising death toll from last Sunday's undersea earthquake and tsunamis eclipses everything else. The disaster, which has claimed at least 50,000 lives and perhaps far more, highlighted the
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        Lock icon GP Batteries issues profit warning as venture with Danionics falters
        279 20 Agencies GP INDUSTRIES' 49.1-per-cent owned associated company GP Batteries International issued a profit warning yesterday on its results for the financial quarter ending Dec 31, saying that a joint venture with Danish battery producer Danionics had incurred substantial losses since
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    A family AFFAIR
    1028 22  -  Yong Shu Chiang The two guys and a gal who play the Fockers keep up the banter offscreen COMEDIAN Ben Stiller laughed nervously, with a tinge of embarrassment, and looked set to curl up in a foetal position. Sitting next to him, all cuddly and touchy-feely, were
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    KIDS TAUGHT TO SPEAK – THE WRONG WORDS
    260 22 KIDS TAUGHT TO SPEAK THE WRONG WORDS THE twins who played Little Jack, the adorable infant grandson of Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), were reallife brothers Spencer and Bradley Pickren. When the Californian pair were cast, they'd not yet learned to speak. Director Jay Roach and his team took care
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    Lock icon It's not about the celebrities
    628 24  -  David Chew Wong on famous friends and moral ambiguity david.chew@newstoday.com.sg IT'S really not about the celebrities, according to photographer Russell Wong. "It just happens that the work I do is so public," he noted. Yet during our hour-long conversation, celebrities seemed to be all we
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      Lock icon Feminist writer Sontag dies
      291 25 -AFP American anti-war activist succumbs to cancer at 71 NEW YORK After a long struggle with cancer, American feminist author Susan Sontag died on Tuesday at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering medical centre at the age of 71. She passed away at 7.10 am (B.lopm Singapore time),
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      Who's reading what
      123 25 "Going clubbing" on New Year's Eve isn't all about partying for Zouk marketing manager Tracy Phillips. Tomorrow night will be no exception, with Zouk's Rich and Famous party. Not surprisingly, Tracy winds down with a good read... "I always read two books at the same time, just
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    MALL MAKEOVER
    332 26  -  Re eta Raman Tampines Mall's latest pride and joy is the Level 4 Open Plaza reeta@newstoday.com.sg OVER the course of this year, Tampines Mall has undergone a makeover to emerge with a new look. Now a landscaped, green urban oasis, the mall is one of the first to
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    Lock icon 'Telecommute' scheme launched
    122 26 -AFP TOKYO Japan has launched a pilot Internet programme with the aim of having 20 per cent of the nation's work force "telecommute" from home by 2010, cutting down on the stress and family disruption caused by office life. Currently, four million Japanese, or 6 per cent
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    Lock icon Tech support for Japan's tourists
    51 26 AFP TOKYO Japan will lent out personal digital assistants with travel information and translation services to foreign visitors. The units with Chinese, Korean and English language software will be lent to selected tourists who land at Narita Airport The trial programme runs from February until
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      Kym Ng in TV ad with regional stars
      189 27 COME Jan 15, television viewers here will get to see Modern Beauty Salon's new TV commercial that stars its four ambassadors Taiwanese compere Bowie Tseng, local TV personality Kym Ng, Hong Kong actress Ada Choi and veteran actress Zhang Mm. The Modern
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      Fashion on show
      224 27  -  Pearlyn Tham Temasek Poly's design students exhibit their creations pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg THEMATIC museum displays would attract us so said 33.1 per cent of youths surveyed by the National Heritage Board in July. One such "thematic display" that would surely woo the younger generations is The Muse Fashion Exhibition
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      279 27  -  Pearlyn Tham HOW does Hollywood doyenne Catherine Zeta-Jones always look so ravishing? Good genes aside, one of her other secret weapons is Elizabeth Arden make-up. For the coming spring season, Elizabeth Arden has created three different looks for Catherine, who is also the brand's spokesperson, with
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      650 28  - to a bubbly new year CHEERS! Ch'ng PohTiong Party to a great festive spread complete with red, white and sweet wines toodggnewstoday.com.sg ANEW year is barely 48 hours away. As you go about preparing to usher in 2005, I'm sure one of your foremost priorities would be to ensure that
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      756 29  -  LJla Ilnytzky -AP Savouring the sights and shopping on the continent, with kids in tow By! WHEN my husband and I began planning an ambitious trip to five European countries, friends encouraged us to go without our teenage daughters. "Leave them home!" they exhorted. "You deserve
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        83 29 THE city of Kobe in western Japan has designated Jan 17 to Feb 20 as "Kobe Welcome Month". During this period, tourists can obtain guide books on the city and a welcome card by presenting their passports at these places: Kansai Airport Information; the Kobe Information Center;
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      518 31 Want to know how to sweep a girl off her feet? Try buying her you know. According to news reports, nine out of ten rapists last year flowers, using your charm or spiking her drink. were acquaintances, friends or relatives of the victim. Apparently, getting a one-night stand the old-fashioned
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      501 32 Agencies ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Aston Villa 0 Man Utd 1 BIRMINGHAM Ryan Giggs (picture) last night warned Manchester United's rivals: "We're ready to pounce." Giggs was once again outstanding, as visiting United beat Aston Villa 1-0 on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time).
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      503 32 -AFP Blues' boss wonders at his men's resilience, and the Gunners' extra day off ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Portsmouth 0 Chelsea 2 PORTSMOUTH, England Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho took a swipe at Premiership rivals Arsenal yesterday, just hours before the Gunners kicked off their match against Newcastle
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      204 32 -AFP CRICKET TEST Australia v Pakistan MELBOURNE Skipper Ricky Ponting (right) welcomed an early victory, as Australia went through the motions of another four-day Test win to clinch their threematch series against Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday. The home side claimed
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      552 33  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN Final beckons for Lions, as angry Avramovic slams Thai referee TIGER CUP SEMIFINAL, IST LEG Myanmar 3 Singapore 4 KUALA LUMPUR jose@newstoday.com.sg MYANMAR coach Ivan Kolev called it a crazy game. His Singapore counterpart Radojko Avramovic called the referee a joke. But it
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      356 33  -  STANLEY HO stanley@newstoday.com.sg FORGET where you come from, as long as you sign on with Team Singapore, no stone will be left unturned in the support you get. That is the message from Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Dr
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      86 33 LONDON Sri Lanka yesterday cancelled their cricket tour of New Zealand, following the tsunami disaster that has ravaged the country. The tour had been put on hold after the first one-day international was played on Dec 26, the same day the tidal waves struck the island
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