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    21 1 TODAY /AehiaCorp incorporating utf6£itS Friday April 15,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 103/07/2004 TODAY /AsdiaCorp incorporating Friday April 15,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 103/07/2004
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    MOM to mums-to-be: Know your rights
    796 1  -  Jasmine Yin Discrimination issue to be discussed in Parliament next week jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg ACKNOWLEDGING that some employers may be unclear about their obligations under the law to women workers who become pregnant, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) says it will work with unions and employer
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    GIC pulled into S Korean tax probe
    388 1  -  Christie Loh christie@newstoday.com.sg SOUTH Korea's taxman has called on the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) in Seoul, as part of a probe into possible tax evasion by foreign funds under the control of United States-based Lone Star and the Carlyle Group, South
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      2% risk 'not small'
      330 2  -  Tan Hui Leng Take social ills of gambling addiction seriously: DPM huileng@newstoday.com.sg WITH the Government's decision on the casino due to be announced on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan has cautioned against taking too lightly the social costs of gambling. Speaking to the media yesterday
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        Before rushing into Reits...
        730 3  -  Mano Sabnani Investors shouldn't let enticing payouts blind them to property trusts' risks REITS or Real Estate Investment Trusts are now the flavour in Singapore and the region. Governments are offering tax incentives for Reits and there is talk of several billion-dollar Reits being floated in
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      NUS and Duke University join hands to form new medical school
      240 4  -  Tan Hui Leng THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and United State-based Duke University sealed an agreement to establish the NUS Graduate Medical School (GMS) yesterday. The GMS will offer a graduate-entry medical programme in collaboration with Duke University,
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      Lock icon Eruption fears in Indonesia
      492 4 AFP 11 volcanoes under close watch JAKARTA Indonesian scientists yesterday placed 11 volcanoes under close watch after a series of powerful quakes awoke intense subterranean forces and increased the chances of a major eruption. As tens of thousands spent a third night in temporary camps after
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      280 5 Jet Airways commences daily non-stop flights to Mumbai. The wait is over. From today, you have a choice best of luxuries along with the widest spread More importantly, you would be flying with when it comes to flying to India. Jet Airways is of transnational cuisine and entertainment. someone who
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      56 suicides linked to gambling
      525 6  -  Wong Fei Wan Psychiatrist says these make up 4% of death toll between 2000 and 2003 feiwan@newstoday.com.sg BETWEEN 2000 and 2003, 56 suicides here were associated with gambling, according to a psychiatrist who has been studying suicide trends here. Dr Chia Boon Hock, who is
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      Lock icon HDB flats' resale values down
      252 6 Channel News Asia VALUATIONS of Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale flats appear to have fallen, after a new rule under which only HDB-approved valuers are allowed to estimate the value of resale flats took effect The move was taken to help counter illegal cashback
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        President Mbeki to deliver 26th Singapore Lecture
        51 6 South African President Thabo Mbeki will deliver the 26th Singapore Lecture next Thursday, speaking on the theme Africa's Season of Hope: The dawn of a new Asia-Africa partnership. Those who wish to attend can contact the Institute of South-east Asian Studies at 6778
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        Lock icon Dermatologist fined for professional misconduct
        69 6 Channel News Asia A dermatologist has been suspended from practice for three months on two charges of professional misconduct and fined $1 0,000 by the Singapore Medical Council. Dr Joyce Lim Teng Ec of Joyce Lim Skin and Laser Clinic admitted that on two occasions
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        Lock icon Bread Talk founder charged with drink driving
        76 6 Channel News Asia Bread Talk founder and managing director George Quek has been charged with drink driving. The court heard that in the early hours of Oct 8, Mr Quek, 48, had apparently lost control of his Porsche and crashed into a police
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        SMU degree programmes are over-subscribed nine times
        63 6 The Singapore Management University (SMU) received a record 9,432 applications for the new academic year. This is nine times over-subscribed for the university's 1,100 places in its five degree programmes. Its Bachelor of Business Management programme proved most popular, drawing 4,730 applications for
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        Lock icon Drug trafficker caught trying to smuggle cannabis in rectum
        67 6 Channel News Asia A suspected drug trafficker was caught with 56 grams of cannabis hidden in his body. When arrested at the arrival hall of Harbour Front Centre on Wednesday evening, the 50-year-old shopowner removed a condom containing the cannabis, wrapped
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      Taufik, Sly to sing for free on May Day
      345 8  -  Lee [/-Wew FANS of Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah and runner-up Sylvester Sim will get to watch them perform for free as part of this year's May Day celebrations. The labour movement has invited the popular duo to sing at a carnival-cum-con-cert
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      Police to patrol MRT by August
      373 8  -  Ansley Ng SMRT: New unit to complement existing efforts ansley@newstoday.com.sg DO NOT be alarmed if you soon see armed policemen patrolling MRT train carriages. By August, officers will be deployed at MRT stations and trains, adding to the security efforts of the Singapore Mass
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      Down Syndrome awareness day
      231 10  -  Jasmine Yin THE abilities of people with Down Syndrome (DS) are often underestimated. To showcase the talents of this group, the Down Syndrome Association (DSA) will hold an Awareness Day at Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza tomorrow. The public will get a chance to mingle with
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      Financial workshop for single mothers
      126 10 SINGLE mothers looking to sort out their financial priorities and build a better foundation for their family's finances now have a bank to help them. ABN-Amro will hold a workshop tomorrow on money-management skills for more than 100 single mothers, especially those in the low-income
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      Use iconic buildings to promote S'pore
      750 10  -  Lee U-Wen Something like Eiffel Tower may draw tourists in u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WITH Singapore joining the worldwide race to develop new iconic buildings, developers here must ensure they do not forget the interests of one key set of stakeholders tourists. If managed properly, iconic structures
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      Lock icon China's online retaliation
      313 12 Agencies Chinese websites call for large-scale weekend protests against Japan BEIJING Chinese anti-Japan-ese websites and Internet discussion forums yesterday called for a second wave of massive protests against Japan this weekend in cities across the country. In popular instant messaging forums, netizens spread the word about the
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      Lock icon Australia to take in more skilled migrants
      216 12 AFP SYDNEY To meet the country's growing need for skilled workers, the government revealed yesterday that it will raise the intake of skilled migrants. Australia's labour shortage is already threatening its economic growth. It also plans to change the rules for those for
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      Lock icon Was deadly flu strain sent out knowingly?
      263 12 -AP WASHINGTON United States officials are still at a loss to explain how a potentially deadly strain of influenza could be sent to more than 4,000 labs around the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) is operating under the
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      Lock icon Arroyo orders crackdown on gunmen after former official killed
      203 14 AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has ordered the military to compile a list of all known hired gunmen as part of a crackdown following the murder of a former congressman. She ordered the national police to "come up with a
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      Beijing's losing hand
      373 14 As betting parlours get raided, many call for gambling to be legalised RUILI (China) Beijing has kicked off an anti-gambling campaign as a result of recent scandals involving party officials who squandered over US$l.5 million ($2.5 million) in taxpayer money in foreign casinos. As part of the
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      The city that never sleeps actually can't
      199 14 NEW YORK Residents in New York know that a secret of the "city that never sleeps" is that New Yorkers cannot sleep. The city has, finally, decided to do something about it It is trying to measure the mental health of its residents
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        Lock icon 10 Indons on corruption charge
        60 14 AFP Ten former city councillors in Indonesia's Java island city of Solo are facing possible life in jail after being accused of corruption to the tune of 4.2 billion rupiah ($730,000). They allegedly inflated the operational costs in the city budget. The clamp-down is part
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        Lock icon Tsunami hero or assault suspect?
        66 14 AFP An Australian man hailed as a hero after saving up to 20 people when a tsunami hit Thailand appeared in an Australian court after police seeking him on assault charges recognised him in a television interview. Thomas David Connell, who was dubbed "the good
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        Lock icon Holy items in unlikely places
        49 14 AP Authorities in Brunei are urging shopkeepers to show respect for items bearing Quranic verses or the word "Allah", following complaints that such products were displayed on the floor. If they continued to place such items in "inappropriate places" the items would be seized.
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      Lock icon Tories slam Blair plan to step down
      325 15 Agencies But support for Labour rising, opinion poll shows LONDON Yesterday's Guardian/ICM opinion poll gave Britain's prime minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party a nervesteadying six-point lead in the run-up to the May 5 elections. The recent survey puts the party's support
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      Lock icon Poison attack terrorist gets 17 years
      218 15 Agencies LONDON An Algerian Al Qaeda terrorist who stabbed a policeman to death and planned poison attacks in Britain was sentenced yesterday to 17 years' jail after being told by the judge that he was part of an operation to "destabilise society". The attempt
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      Lock icon Clinton: US image needs makeover
      237 15 AP UNITED NATIONS The United States should try to build a world of more friends and fewer enemies by following the principle that guided Americans after the devastating Asian tsunamis: Helping people because it was the right thing to do, said former US president Bill
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        Ray of hope for democracy in Iraq?
        506 20  -  Simon Tisdall How Baghdad may spur Middle East reforms IT WOULD not be justified to get too excited. But last weekend's peaceful demonstration in Baghdad by thousands of supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr was one of several signs that
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    Focus On The Family
    251 22  -  fsdfsdf Tbiws by j TRUE COMMITMENT When you consider the many, many pressures that couples face today, nothing short of an ironclad determination is going to hold them together when the hard times come. And the hard times will come, as we all know. I'm reminded
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      Gambling on risk of addiction
      662 22  -  SNG TZE CHEOW CHIANG MING YU TERENCETEO TAN THUAN SENG Today's cover story, "What gambling problem?" (April 14), on the findings of a survey conducted by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) drew a reaction not only from a Government minister, but
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      Rangers have stepped up park patrols
      298 22  -  WONG TUAN WAH I Letter from I I"! I !"1_ Director, Conservation National Parks Board I REFER to the letter "Protect the parks from poachers" (April 8). We share the writer's concern and have stepped up ranger patrols to deter such behaviour. Our rangers
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      Paid to coach, not be pundits
      189 24  -  ASH TAN PEI CHEON It's unprofessional of S-League managers to moonlight asTV commentators Letter from HAVING been an avid S-League fan since its inception in 1996 and a regular who attends at least two matches per week, it really irks me to see full-time
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      Use health information booklets to ensure continuity of polyclinic-provided care
      357 24  -  JANET LAU and VIVIAN HENG Letter from Manager, Corporate Communications, Sing Health Polyclinics Manager, Corporate Development Communications, National Healthcare Group Polyclinics WE REFER to the letter by Lim Boon Hee, "Government clinics must ensure chronic sick keep records" (April 9).
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      No relief from comics
      574 26  -  KENNETH FOO Clarence Lim He just wants to draw for a living, but an indifferent local audience has left him looking abroad for opportunities (ace in the crowd I 24, comic book artist SINCE the age of three, Kenneth Foo (picture) wanted to draw comics for
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      700 28  -  mr brown Excuse me what are you doing typing frantically about a tremor while experiencing it? SINGAPORE has been receiving its share of tremors lately from the earthquakes nearby. While earthquakes are serious events and should not be a source of humour, like many things in
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      209 28 PROSTATE AWARENESS PUBLIC FORUM Singapore Urological Association and Singapore Cancer Society invite you to find out. The forum, organized in support of Prostate Awareness Week, aims to enhance the awareness of prostate diseases in the community. Date: Saturday, 23 April 2005 Tickets: Buy your tickets now through SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg
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      284 31 Singapore's very own Inchl" 6 Auth^ c Offer valid from 15/4/2005 to 21/4/2005. Limited to 4 packs per product per customer unless otherwise stated. While stocks last. We reserve the right to limit quantities. Trimmings and props not included. Traders not allowed. Except: BBES, BN(B), CL(B), HHM, JW, NUC, RGN,
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      349 32  -  Chow Perm Nee Plan to have a joint futures energy exchange here is shelved pennnee@newstoday.com.sg A JOINT project to set up a futures energy exchange here between the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), the world's largest energy bourse, has been
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      91 32 Channel News Asia CAPITALAND has bought another 10 per cent stake in Bugis Junction for about $139 million, bringing its stake in the mixed retail, office and hotel development to 30 per cent. The developer agreed to buy the stakes from Parco
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        49 32 SHARE prices closed lower. Traders said that investors focused on Wall Street's overnight losses in the absence of strong domestic leads. The ST Index shed 5.5 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 2,168.59. Decliners outnumbered advancers 248 to 151 as 545.3 million shares worth $609.6 million were traded.
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        56 32 In. Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.17 Pis -74.35 Ch hange -0.64 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.40 4082.30 5976.68 -27.22 -52.70 -21.40 -0.20 -1.27 -0.36 Korea Comp 953.92 -27.39 -2.79 KLCI 877.23 +3.00 +0.34 SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 1108.43 1887.47 267.36
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        41 32 Dow Jones Among the losers, oilrig builder SembCorp Marine fell 4.3 per cent, or 9 cents, to $2.03, while rival Keppel Corp fell 1.8 per cent, or 20 cents, to $10.90 as oil prices slipped to sixweek lows.
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        41 32 SGX, Bloomberg US$ 0.6084 UK£ 0.3212 Yen 65.311 HK$ 4.7452 RM 2.312 Euro 0.4711 Rupiah 5773.9 Baht 24.03 Peso 32.903 A$ 0.7823 Indian Rs 26.618 Won 615.42 C$ 0.7535 Yuan 5.0356 NZ$ 0.8407 NTS 19.186 Information provided by',
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        101 34 Channel News Asia FOLLOWING an aborted attempt last year, Crown Hotel at Orchard (picture) has been put up for sale again. A minimum bid price of $325 million has been set for the tender, which closes on June 3. A receiver and
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        208 34  -  Valeric Law SINGAPORE'S second-largest property trust, Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit), is paying its unit holders a total of $84.2 million, or 9.56 cents a unit, for the full year ended March 31, 2005 an 85 per cent increase over the previous
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        310 34  -  Val Chua Troubled company to pursue $1.3 m owed to it val@newstoday.com.sg THE Greatronic saga came to the fore again yesterday, when the troubled firm sacked its chief executive officer Lim Kok Koon, after dismissing his resignation last week. In a statement to the Singapore
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        349 36  -  Christie Loh christie@newstoday.com.sg THE super rich now get ultra protection. Amidst the ongoing jostle for a slot in the well-heeled's wallet, Citibank has turned up the heat by offering its new platinum credit card with free critical illnesses and hospitalisation coverage. Citibank has roped
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        402 38 -AFP WASHINGTON China needs to rein in runaway investment, raise borrowing costs and relax its currency to retain control over its booming economy, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF said that China was
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        183 38 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia completed a long-awaited global bond issue to raise USsl-billion ($1.6 billion), capitalising on fresh interest in the emerging markets on the back of more favourable conditions. State treasury director-general Mulia Nasution confirmed the sale, saying the 10-year bonds, which carry a
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        327 40 AFP Indonesia's largest bank investigated for corruption JAKARTA Indonesia's prosecutors said that they have begun a corruption probe into more than 1 trillion rupiah ($174 million) in loans extended by Bank Mandiri, the country's biggest lender. Prosecutors are also investigating whether the bank's chief executive ECW Neloe
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        177 40 SYDNEY The Australian subsidiary of investment guru Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is being investigated over its reinsurance practices, the financial watchdog said. The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (Apra) said that it was examining the activities of General Reinsurance Australia (General Re), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
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      216 42  -  Mervin Tay DESPITE currently serving the last six months of his National Service, Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah is still very much in the limelight The 23-year-old will be holding his first album showcase at Kallang Theatre on Tuesday. He will also be performing with Malaysian Idol
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      532 42  -  Nur Idayu Suparto The Malaysian Idol's career has not quite taken off idayu@newstoday.com.sg NEXT Saturday, an 18-year-old SingaporeMalaysia music gala that was suspended in 1998, will resume. The highlight of Muzika Ekstravaganza, a collaboration between MediaCorp TV 12's Suria and Radio Television Malaysia (RTM), will be a duet
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      333 44  -  Mervin Tay mervin@newstoday.com.sg WHAT would make two wives swap lives with each other for a fortnight? "I just wanted to be on television," said Christie Baker, who stars in one episode of Wife Swap, a new reality TV show that premieres today at 10.35pm on the Hallmark Channel
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      392 46  -  opoipoip Finally, a film out of Hollywood that makes you think nnlnlnlnlnlnl The Assassination of Richard Nixon FORMER United States President Richard Nixon's lies during the Watergate scandal in 1974 didn't just kill off his presidency: They also spurred a disillusioned everyman into plotting to assassinate
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      266 46  -  poipoipoip nsdndndndndnddndn LAST month, a local undergraduate commented, at a ministerial forum, that the sight of a man holding hands with a woman of a different skin colour made his "skin crawl". This movie, a contemporary take on 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, should set him thinking.
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      199 47  -  piopoipoip aalalalalloleodoo GERMAN actress Franka Potente, best remembered for her role in the frenetic alternate-reality 1998 film, Run Lola Run, is all out of breath again in Creep British writer-director Christopher Smith's first feature. She stars as Kate, a party gal who falls asleep and gets locked in a
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      340 47  -  piopoipoip Controversial Sahara is a rollicking guilty pleasure nooolnnnoooonnnllos Sahara DOES a movie have to make sense to be any good? Tim Burton's Big Fish made a case for tall tales last year and Sahara, a rollicking movie based on one of Clive Cussler's adventure novels, is
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        325 48  -  Yong Shu Chiang shucmang@newstoday.com.sg THE black-and-white style of the South Korean movie, My Generation, which plays at the Singapore International Film Festival tonight (Siff), indicates that the reality portrayed within is bleak. In the debut feature by director Noh Dong-seok, 32, the ennui of restless, unemployed young adults,
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      276 60 Agencies CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PSV Eindhoven 1 Lyon 1 (2-2 aggregate, PSV win 4-2 on penalties) LONDON AC Milan will meet PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League semi-finals, regardless of Uefa's disciplinary meeting today to discuss Inter Milan's fate. Crowd trouble by Inter fans during
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      591 60 Agencies After three defeats, Reds want revenge in battle of Britain CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Juventus 0 Liverpool 0 (Liverpool win 2-1 aggregate) LONDON Every English club have been forced to play in Chelsea's shadow this season. Dominant in the English Premiership, winners of the League Cup and
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      211 60 TURIN Juventus and Liverpool fans threw missiles at each other before the Champions League quarter-final second leg at Stadio Delle Alpi on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Much work had been done in the days before the game to promote friendship
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      646 61 Agencies With two teams in the Champions League semi-final, Premiership justifies its hype LONDON The English Premiership is finally living up to its incomparable hype. For years, Manchester United flew the English flag almost single-handedly on the continent as Arsenal and Co failed to deliver. The
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        253 54 NBA Washington 93 Chicago 82 WASHINGTON Larry Hughes scored 23 points and Gilbert Arenas added 21 as the Washington wizards clinched a National Basketball Association playoff berth for the first time in eight years, beating Chicago 93-82 on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The
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        423 54 BASEBALL Boston 2 New York 5 BOSTON, Massachusetts Curt Schilling, who played a starring role in Boston's first World Series victory since 1918 last year, struggled in losing his 2005 season debut 5-2 to the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball
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        594 55  -  TAN YO-HINN Singapore's Dynasty Cup debutant not bothered by Japan skipper's title boast GOLF Visa Dynasty Cup yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TWO years ago, Japan crashed to a humiliating nine-point defeat to Asia at the inaugural Visa Dynasty Cup. Stung by the margin of defeat, Japan assembled a star-studded
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        298 55 AFP SHENZHEN, China Chinese hero Zhang Lianwei (below) has "Smiling Assassin" Shigeki Maruyama, the world No 24, firmly in his sights at the Visa Dynasty Cup showdown between defending champions Asia and Japan. The Chinese No 1 will team up with countryman Liang Wenchong
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