Today, 21 November 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    • 159 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg TO THOSE who leave their countries to work in Singapore and then get into trouble here this organisation was the answer to a prayer. But the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics, fittingly called Home, is now
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    • 520 2  -  -JASMINE YIN A HELPING HAND: About 1,000 needy senior citizens gathered at Neptune Theatre yesterday for lunch ana entertainment organised by the Tiong Bahru Community Centre to bring cheer to elderly participants who receive assistance from grassroots and community groups. Minister for Community Development Youth and Sports
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    • 820 3 But the bigger question is: Can you be a good mother and a great creative director? NEIL FRENCH ON OCT 6, the iconic creative director's remarks at a Toronto conference he was alleged to have called women in the advertising industry "crap" caused
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    • 150 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA ADVERTISING'S premier event AdAsiaOs opened in Singapore last night with some 500 delegates here to discuss the advertising strategies for "Winning in Asia' —the theme for the 3-day conference. AdAsiaOs will also hold its largest exhibition ever, showcasing some
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    • 587 4  -  DERRICK A PAULO MOE may set common test to aid in re-entering schools derrick@newstoday.com.sg IF SINGAPORE wants its citizens to work overseas, it must do more to help returning Singaporeans find a place for their children in schools here. Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said
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    • 660 6  - IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT MY IC SAYS Margaret Thomas This 'Anglo-Chinese' does not want to be defined by race SOME 30 years ago, a fortune teller gazed at my palm and said, among other things, that I was closer to my mother than to my father. This puzzled me because
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    • 720 6  -  Yvonne Lim Always dreamed of being Irish and now I'm smiling SOME people wish they were movie stars, geniuses or born beautiful -1 always wanted to be Irish. It would take too long to explain that odd obsession, so let's just go
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    • 397 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MediaCorp refutes suggestions that it profited from NKF Cancer Show MEDIACORP has refuted suggestions that it profited from the NKF Cancer Show. NKF had paid MediaCorp $2.5 million to produce the show. But most of that cost went towards paying for commercial TV
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
      • 104 8 -938UVE A man drowned yesterday in a canal nearthe Tanah Merah ferry terminal. The police said the victim, a Malay man in his 50s, was fishing when the accident happened. It is believed the man encountered breathing difficulties when he was submerged in water as he tried
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      • 99 8  -  ANSLEYNG Took Leng How, 23, sentenced to death in August for the murder of eight-year-old Huang Na, will learn today at the Court of Appeal if he will escape the noose During the high profile trial, Took's lawyer had tried to convince the court that
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    • 271 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE THE financial plight of low-income Singaporeans will be debated when Parliament sits today, with several questions tabled. Member of Parliament (MP) for Tampines GRC, Ms Irene Ng wants to know if low-income or jobless Singaporeans who sold their
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    • 309 8  -  -JASMINE YIN SENDING close to 800 SMS messages a month paid off for Mr Andy Wong, 18, as he became the fastest SMS texter in this year's Sing Tel SMS Shootout competition. The Victoria Junior College student won $25,000 worth of prizes, including $12,000
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    • 785 10  -  TORCHING LI To be opened byyear-end, revamped community club will target working youths in town chingli@newstoday.com.sg STANDING out in a grassy field in town is the newly renovated Telok Ayer Hong Lim Green Community Club (CC) radiant in a fresh coat
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    • 270 10 THE "Phantom of the Chinese Opera" will manifest itself next month in Thailand, and then the United States, possibly, after it first materialised in Singapore. And pupils from the Bukit Panjang Government High School (BPGHS) will happily accompany their creation. Last Friday, the
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    • 569 11  -  TREVOR TAN USA's Team3D takes Counter Strike gold in World Cyber Games 2005 finale trevor@newstoday.com.sg THE highlight of the final day of the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2005 at Suntec City saw last year's Counter Strike gold medalist Tea m3D (picture) from the United States
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    • 247 11 ADRIAN LIM, 17 Referee, Counter Strike My job is to maintain control over the teams, like how a football referee guards against fouls. I check for cheating and exploitation of bugs in the game to ensure there is fair play. I would say the Korean and US
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    • 350 12 Whether baby makes four, five or six, the change in your family JfT will undoubtedly both excite J 't and confuse your children. What can you do? Wait until the pregnancy is showing before" breaking the news; this will make the wait seem shorter for the sibling-to-be. Involve your child
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  • world news
    • 327 12 -AFP Phone calls could prevent disputes turning into 'military threats' TOKYO -Japan's defence chief yesterday appealed for talks with his Chinese counterpart and suggested setting up a hotline before disputes over energy and other issues escalate into a "military threat". Defense Agency director-general
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 112 12 -AP Utno Animal rescuer Michelle Murray, i/vho abandoned 35 kittens in two parks, has been sentenced to a night in the i/voods without food or shelter. "How would you like to be dumped off at a park late at night, spend the night listening to
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      • 86 12 -AFP Japan's Mr lakeru Kobayashi, best known as the world champion speed hot dog eater, devoured 67 mini hamburgers in eight minutes in Chattanooga, Tennessee over the i/veekend to win the World Hamburger Eating Championship. Mr Kobayashi won US$lO,OOO ($17,000) by defeating 14 American rivals
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    • 282 12 —AFP TITHWAL (India) Rivals India and Pakistan opened their frontier in earthquake-hit Kashmir over the weekend to allow people to cross on foot for the first time in nearly six decades and search for relatives. Grandmother Begun Jan became the first of 24 people
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    • 239 12 -AFP RABAT The Moroccan security forces arrested 17 Islamist extremists with ties to the Al Qaeda network as they were setting up a terrorist cell, officials in Rabat said yesterday. "The Moroccan security services have just dismantled a terrorist structure as it was being formed," a
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    • 254 13 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has urged other countries not to perceive it as being a springboard for terrorists, even though some of its citizens have been linked to militant activities overseas, news reports said yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak expressed regret
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    • 405 13 —AGENCIES Villagers alleged Thai soldier responsible for massacre, govt say Muslim rebels did it NARATHIWAT Five people, who claim to be from a southern Thai village where a family of nine was brutally massacred last week, allegedly told media from neighbouring Malaysia that the atrocity
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    • 751 14  -  ZOFEEN EBRAHIM Rape victim highlights plight of Pakistani women news@newstoday.com.sg KARACHI Quiet dignity envelopes her slender frame, downcast eyes and nearly inaudible speech. But the more Ms Mukhtaran Mai withdraws into herself, the more she becomes the woman of steel who dared take on the might
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    • 224 16 —AP HILLSDALE (Michigan) The mayor who lost his reelection bid to a high school student by two votes said he won't seek a re-count, clearing the way for 18-year-old Michael Sessions (picture) to take the oath of office on Monday. Mayor Doug
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    • 505 16 —AFP Demand to learn Mandarin soars across the US WASHINGTON From well-to-do families hiring Mandarinspeaking nannies for their tots to students in crammed Asian studies programmes, demand for Chinese language instruction is booming like never before in the United States. In a country that has
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    • 470 18 —AGENCIES Tamil Tigers claim Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority'will never accept' Tamil goals COLOMBO Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels yesterday reacted angrily to the election of hardline President Mahinda Rajapakse, saying it showed that the island's Sinhalese majority had no understanding of Tamil aspirations for a
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    • 302 18 —AFP LOS ANGELES Harry Potter cast a spell on North American film-goers over the weekend as the scariest film in the teenage wizard series grabbed USslOl.4 million ($172.29 million) at the box office, early figures showed yesterday. The highly-anticipated opening of Harry Potter and the
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    • 146 18 -DPA WELLINGTON Ethnic Chinese are dominating international methamphetamine drug rings in New Zealand, the country's police has warned the government, news reports said today. To help tackle crime gangs at the source, the police want the government to pay for an officer to be stationed
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 99 19 —AFP Researchers at Keio University in Japan have discovered drinking a few cups of coffee a day could lower the risk of high blood pressure, reported the Tokyo Shimbun yesterday. The study looked at 4,554 men, aged from their 20s to 70s, who visited
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      • 90 19 —AFP Parents of pupils who attack or threaten their classmates could be fined up to £1,000 ($2,920) under British government plans for school reforms, schools minister Jacqui Smith said ahead of Anti-Bullying Week and following a surge of violent cases in schools. She said a
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      • 76 19 Two Malaysian pig farms in Penang have been closed down after at least 10 pigs were found dead with symptoms of the foot and mouth disease, reported the New Straits Times. State Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Committee chairman Azhar Ibrahim said blood from about 400
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      • 110 19 —AP Ms Zhou Weihui, whose best-selling novel Shanghai Baby was banned in China for its sexual content when it was published in 1999, said she self-censored her newest book because the Chinese government allowed her to return home from abroad, the South China Morning Post said
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      • 115 19 —AFP Japan's space agency said yesterday it had suffered a glitch for the second time on a landmark mission to extract samples from an asteroid 290 million km away from Earth. The space agency said it could not confirm whether its Hayabusa spacecraft had dropped
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  • Voices
    • 471 20  -  LIUFOOKTHIM Letter from IT WAS a proud day for me in 2001, when my wife handed me a letter from the Ministry of Education indicating that my eldest daughter had qualified for the GEP. She had gone through two qualifying rounds of tests and made it
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    • 448 20  -  Letter from MICHELLE QIU YOUR report gives the impression that GEP students are mentally unprepared for the curriculum and that students do not like being in the GEP. Having just graduated from the GEP after three years, I beg to differ. I may not be
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    • 257 22  -  GOHKAIGNEE Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Insolvent despite $lm in account" (Nov 18) by Mr Francis Zhan, president of the Association of Management Corporations in Singapore (Amcis). Mandatory audited accounts meet legal requirements but rarely do they meet
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    • Not soldiering on alone ...
      • 264 22  -  ELLEN CHENG Letter from COINCIDENTALLY, just less than an hour after reading Dr Kanwaljit Soin's practical and relevant article, "Helping grandma when grandpa's gone" (Nov 18), I received news that my immediate neighbour had died of colon cancer. I visited his
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      • 192 22  -  CHANG SIAKKWEE Letter from I REFER to Merlin Kwek Bee Ling's letter, "Burden lies on the women" (Nov 19). I wonder how she come to the conclusion that "most men do not even give their parents monthly allowance" are there statistics? If not,
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    • 656 23  -  GEORGE NG VINITARAMANI Digital artist and cyber gamer enjoys life and play again after 5-year recovery from stroke at age 18 in the crowd 24, digital artist and cyber gamer AS THE World Cyber Games wrapped up yesterday, George Ng proclaimed, after trying out many
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    • 215 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON m THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN Divorce carries lifelong negative implications for children. It's now known that emotional development in children is directly related to the presence of warm, nurturing, sustained and continuous interaction with both parents. Anything that interferes with the
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    • 584 24  -  TANG LI I WAS highly amused to read about how Singaporeans were not having sex ("Sexless in the city," Nov 9.) The results of the survey seemed to confirm the image that many people have about Singapore it's a nice and clean
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    • 161 24  -  HARRY CHI A Letter from I REFER to the commentary "Service without the spurs" (Nov 16). A customer-ori-ented culture is possible, but it has to start in schools and be reinforced at home. Adult Singaporeans are more or less set in their ways.
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    • 157 24  -  ADELENEYEQ Letter from Public Relations Manager, Tampines Town Council WE REFER to your report, "No strays does not equal to no responsibility" (Nov 18). We thank the writer for her valuable feedback. Our social responsibility message seeks to educate and engage the
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    • 209 26  -  JENNYCHEE Letter from I REFER to Lynette Tan-Soon's letter, "What will it take for us to be kind?" (Nov 19), and Mr Nicklas X Hansen's letter, "Pushing and shoving for a seat" (Nov 18). I was in Seoul not too long ago travelling on
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    • 408 26  -  CHIANG MING YU Simpler to ask offenders to appear in court Letter from I AM disturbed by Singapore Customs' reply ("Strict procedures when escorting offenders", Nov 16) to Mr Lawrence Scow's letter concerning the handcuffing of people who infringe the three-quarter tank rule.
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    • 184 26  -  MOHAMAD NOOR ABDULLAH Letter from I REFER to the letter from a maid ("So stressful to have no time off") and an article on maid abuse ("Two faces of abuser"), both in your Nov 19 issue. I empathise with Margs D's sorrows even machines need time
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  • Businesstoday
    • 368 28 BLOOMBERG China to do so 'unswervingly' but cautiously, says President CHINESE President Hu Jintao said after meeting with United States President George W Bush that China would "unswervingly press ahead with reform" of how it manages its currency exchange rate. Changes will be made
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    • 114 28 BLOOMBERG QANTAS Airways chairman Margaret Jackson said that allowing greater competition on its US routes would not necessarily be lucrative for rival carriers such as Singapore Airlines. "The facts are that last year Qantas had 400,000 empty seats" on its Pacific routes, Ms
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    • 309 28 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Ailing national carrier Malaysia Airlines must be prepared to cut costs in order to overcome the financial crisis it is facing, former managing director Abdul Aziz Rahman said. He said that the airline should not spend excessively, especially in
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    • marketwatch
      • 127 28 —AFP SHARE prices here could trade lower in the week ahead due to concerns that rising interest rates would hurt economic activity, dealers said. "The prospect of rising interest rates and the fact that liquidity has shrunk will combine to dampen the market outlook," Kirn Eng Securities research Seah
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      • 36 28 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5884 0.3426 70.084 4.5622 2.224 0.4997 5929.9 24.233 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 32.052 0.8024 26.921 609.81 0.6994 4.7564 0.8561 19.789
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      • 26 28 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Gold US$/oz Silver US$/oz Platinum US$/oz Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent crude US$/barrel 486.70 8.05 986.10 275.75 1410.50 57.21
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    • Article, Illustration
      347 29 -BLOOMBERG Opec unlikely to cut supply: President THE Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is unlikely to cut output as prices drop, because demand is rising with winter in the United States and Europe, the group's president said. Opec president Sheikh Ahmad Fahd Al Sabah, who is
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    • 193 29 DBS Bank will be a lead partner and the first bank partner for Singapore 2006, the largest financial sector event to be hosted here. Next September, more than 16,000 international delegates will attend the event, which includes the 2006 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors
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    • 150 29 REED Exhibitions is conducting a major strategic review of its aerospace and defence events in the Asia-Pacific region. "Following the failure to reach agreement on a new venue for Asian Aerospace in Singapore for 2008, this is an appropriate time to conduct a full
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    • business news
      • 681 30 DOW JONES Singapore's tertiary institutions plan to tap the capital market UNIVERSITIES in Singapore are treading into territory where few other colleges in the region have gone before the capital markets. With the Government granting schools greater independence as part of its plan to make
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      • 274 31 —AFP Trust to list on Friday but cool response from investors HONG KONG The price for the world's largest property trust in Hong Kong has been set at the upper end of the range at HK$lO.3O ($2.25), said a press report The price
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      • 523 32  -  LEE U-WEN There are life lessons to be learnt from every failure, says Prof Finkelstein u-wen@newstoday.com.sg MOST people prefer to look at success stories to learn from them. In Professor Sydney Finkelstein's (picture) case, he prefers to do the exact opposite: He studies failures instead. Enron, Arthur Andersen,
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      • 619 33  -  BITTLESTON A little tact will go a long way in mending relations Management motivation and you Part 4: Difficult bosses WE'VE all met them. Many of us have worked for them. I call them The Bully Boys. They rule by fear, not reason. They
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    • 179 36 —AFP HANOI Disgraced 1970s glam rock star Gary Glitter (picture) was arrested while trying to flee Vietnam for Thailand and accused of having sex with underage girls, Vietnamese police and state media said on Sunday. He was detained at the Ho Chi Minh City airport
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    • 533 36  -  Neil Humphreys ■■^""■I THEATRE REVIEW by E \A Twist of Fate, Esplanade IN recent months, Singapore's stage performances have been patchy at best. Award-winning turns have been hampered by immature scripting, great dancers have been let down by pretentious concepts and on, one or two occasions,
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    • 712 44 -AP Clinton pays tribute to Ali for his boxing skills, and for being a force for peace LOUISVILLE, Kentucky Muhammad Ali can still draw a big crowd. The boxing great took centrestage in his hometown Saturday night to celebrate the opening of the Muhammad Ali Center, a
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    • 416 44 -AP NBA Dallas 119 Detroit 82 DALLAS The Dallas Mavericks set a season-high for points, but their work on the defensive end was a major factor in ending the Detroit Pistons' bid to remain the NBA's lone unbeaten team. Josh Howard scored 26 points and Dirk
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    • 567 45 -AFP World No 1 pips Yokoo in a playoff to post his seventh win of the season GOLF Dunlop Phoenix MIYAZAKI, Japan A limping Tiger Woods outlasted Kaname Yokoo at the fourth extra hole to successfully defend his title at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament here yesterday. Woods,
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    • 196 45 —AFP PORTLAND, Oregon Floyd Mayweather moved up in style on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), posting a sixthround knockout of Sharmba Mitchell in his first fight at welterweight. Mayweather, the World Boxing Council junior welterweight champion who is considered by many now to be the best pound-for-pound
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    • 353 45 —AFP CRICKET TEST Australia v West Indies HOBART, Australia Dwayne Bravo (picture) dedicated his fighting century against Australia in the second cricket Test to the victorious Trinidad and Tobago World Cup football team. The 22-year-old Trinidad allrounder defied Australia's best four bowlers with a
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    • 667 46  -  S Murali Lam's stat will hold up against the biggest hitters in the wo rid EVERYBODY knows that Lam Chih Bing hits a long ball. But just how long he hits it is slowly but surely coming to the fore, as he squares off against
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    • 442 46  - Happy Welsh, but the English SMURALI THEY sat one table away. But the contrast between the two teams was as clear as Algarve's famous fisherman's soup. The Welsh team of Stephen Dodd and Bradley Dredge looked calm and composed, perhaps aware of what was in store as the rain continued
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    • 218 46 1 Wales (Bradley Dredge, Stephen Dodd) 61 67 61 2 England (Luke Donald, David Howell) 59 69 63, Sweden (HenrikStenson, Niclas Fasth) 61 67 63 4 France (Raphael Jacquelin, Thomas Levet) 63 70 61 5 Denmark (Anders Hansen, Soren Hansen) 64 68 66 6 Argentina (Ricardo Gonzalez, Angel
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    • 400 47  -  CUBBY LEONG RUGBY, 2005 CUP Bedok Kings 26 Brewerkz Bucks 24 cubby@newstoday.com.sg IN A thrilling climax to the rugby season, Bedok Kings were crowned the 2005 Cup champions after they defeated the Brewerkz Bucks 26-24 at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium on Saturday.
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    • 456 47 Kiwis slam dream still on after England come up short RUGBY England 19 New Zealand 23 LONDON New Zealand coach Graham Henry gave Scotland fans the message they had been dreading, when he said the All Blacks' gritty 23-19 win over world champions England had been "the
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    • 321 47  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THEY starred in the national under-19 side in the mid-90s, before going on to establish themselves as regulars for Singapore. Now, flanker Andrew Kwong and prop Mark Lee are doing their bit to give something back to the
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      521 48  -  TANYO-HINN Dong won't be defending his gold after coming up short in final trial yohinn@newstoday.com.sg DONG Enxin will not be defending his shot put title at the SEA Games in the Philippines, scheduled from Nov 27-Dec 5. The national thrower failed to meet the qualifying mark of 16.48
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    • 456 48  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg IN 2003, the Singapore women's gymnastics team were the surprise package of the Vietnam Games, when they clinched three silvers and a bronze, Singapore's first gymnastics medals in nearly 10 years. Not since the late Jacqueline Choy won an uneven
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    • 547 49  -  Jose Raymond SEA Games semi-final spot in jeopardy after opening day loss IN THE end, the sound of bells ringing from a nearby church just prior to the start of the Young Lions' opening match against Vietnam might as well have been a death knell. Singapore
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    • 402 49 —AFP TENNIS Masters Cup Final SHANGHAI David Nalbandian pulled off an enormous upset yesterday when he came from two sets down to win a nail-bit-ing Masters Cup final against limping world No 1 Roger Federer. Nalbandian, seemingly out of it after losing the first two
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    • AFTERNOONEDITION
      • 451 50 '—AFP Barca finally admit interest in Gunner, Wenger is fearful WIGAN Arsene Wenger has admitted that Arsenal might have to win this season's Champions League if they are to have any hope of hanging on to Thierry Henry. Yesterday, Barcelona stepped up their interest in the striker
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      • 286 50 -AFP PRIM ERA LIU A Athletic Bilbao 0 Alaves 2 MADRID —Javier Clemente's third stint at his beloved Athletic Bilbao didn't get off to the best of starts as they went down 2-0 to fellow strugglers Alaves yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). The former
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      • 355 50 -AFP SERIEA Fiorentina 3 AC Milan 1 FLORENCE, Italy -Fiorentina underlined their credentials as serious challengers for the Serie A title with an impressive 3--1 home victory against AC Milan yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Luca Toni opened the scoring for the hosts before
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    • 954 51 -THE OBSERVER As concern grows over Best's fading health, a scribe remembers a fun-loving man who was nobody's fool BILL ELLIOT news@newstoday.com.sg MAC, the village newsagent, had The Sun open on the page led by the medical bulletin on George Best He pointed at the story.
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    • 333 51 LONDON Football legend George Best's family were maintaining a bedside vigil as he remained unconscious in intensive care yesterday. The 59-year-old former Manchester United and Northern Ireland star is on a life support machine in London's Cromwell Hospital, reported BBC Sport. Best suffered a lung infection and a
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    • 545 52  -  Lee U-Wen But time will tell if Irishman's ghost has been truly purged GUTTED. That was the word I heard the most as I chatted with fellow Manchester United fans on Saturday. No prizes for guessing the subject of our conversation. "We'll feel (Roy Keane's) loss, absolutely,
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    • 178 52 LONDON Former Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld (picture) has claimed Manchester United have offered him a position. Hitzfeld, who won the Champions League with Munich and Borussia Dortmund, said he would welcome a return to football after 18 months out of the game. Hitzfeld
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      • 475 53 AFP Hasselbaink clinches come-from-behind win for Middlesbrough ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Middlesbrough 3 Fulham 2 LONDON -Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink fired home the winner as Middlesbrough twice came from behind to beat Fulham 3-2 in a pulsating Premiership contest at the Riverside Stadium yesterday (this morning, Singapore time).
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      • 360 53 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Tottenham 1 West Ham 1 LONDON Anton Ferdinand headed an equaliser in the last minute of injury time to earn West Ham a dramatic draw at Tottenham in a Premiership clash yesterday. The Hammers seemed set to lose the London derby after Mido headed Spurs in
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