Today, 12 December 2005

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  • 11 1 TODAY Frew incorporating iMTCiItS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Monday December 12, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 721 1  -  SHARON VASOO Asean must close ranks, drop barriers, or lose out: PM Deputy Foreign Editor sha ron@newstoday.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR The China story runs on and on. India, the Gulf States and Eastern Europe are becoming magnets for investment But if somebody wanted to sink
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  • 246 1 -AGENCIES SYDNEY Racial violence sparked off a full-fledged riot in Australia yesterday, severely tainting the country's tolerant and laidback image. An issue that had started heating up after two lifeguards on Cronulla beach were beaten up last week allegedly
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  • hot news
    • 446 2 -AGENCIES Residents north of London see roofs being blown off; police treat blasts as an accident HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (England) Massive explosions struck a fuel depot near London before dawn yesterday, filling the sky with orange flames, shattering the roofs of homes nearby, injuring at
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    • 190 2 TV viewers witnessed a bit of entertainment history last night. Four singing talent contest winners came together for the first time to help raise funds for a worthy cause. Anugerah winner Kairul Anuar, Singapore Wo/Taufik Batisah, Project SuperStar'sTan\Ne\ Lian and Vasantham Star's Mohd Shabir took
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    • 819 3  -  TERENCECHONG To be global, must we rethink our conservative outlook at home? IF SINGAPORE'S policy-making style had to be summed up in a phrase, it would be selective globalisation: The conscious effort to encourage certain forms of globalisation and discourage others. The Government,
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    • 496 3 -AFP LONDON Mr Martin Halstead is not yet 20, but this week sees the take-off of his own low-cost airline, Alpha One. At an age when his contemporaries have little more than university essays to worry about, the 19-year-old is well
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  • Singapore news
    • 294 4 SHARON VASOO KUALA LUMPUR Southeast Asia's regional grouping is likely to include human rights and democracy as a clause into its first Constitution, but it is not expected to deviate from its abiding principal of non-interference. The declaration, known as the Asean Charter, is to
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    • 391 4  -  SHARON VASOO Not worth souring ties over perceptions, says PM sha ron@newstoday.com.sg AN OLD question got a fresh airing and a new perspective yesterday. Mr lan Buchanan, who sits on the board of directors in Southern Bank Ventures (Malaysia), posed the question about Temasek Holdings'
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    • 405 4  -  ASIFANSAR asif@newstoday.com.sg THE MOST anticipated dance music event of the year, ZoukOut, turned out to be a workout for the record 18,000 revellers in more ways than one. The festival making a return to the newly renovated Siloso Beach where it
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    • 136 6 -CHANNEL NEWSASIA GENEROUS financing schemes will ensure no student is deprived of the opportunity to study in independent schools, said Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Hamizah Nordin, 12, was in the news after she got an aggregate score of 273 in the PSLE but chose to go to
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    • 505 6  -  ANSLEYNG Relocated residents are happy with Sers completion of Goodview flats a nsley@newstoday.com.sg SIX years ago, when told that they would be moving out of their homes in Hillview Avenue and relocated to new flats in Goodview Gardens under the Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme
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    • 447 6  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com. sg ONE of the first British newspapers to cash in on the "pink wedding" rush following last Monday's legalisation of gay ties in Britain was not the "pretty-in-pink-paper" Financial Times, but The Times and The Daily Telegraph. And one of
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  • world news
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 85 8 -AFP Chileans went to the polls yesterday in a presidential election that is likely to propel single mother Michelle Bacheletto the top job in the country. If she triumphs, she will be the first female president of Chile and the first woman elected
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      • 100 8 -AFP Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was given bail after he admitted to police his car hit a 13--year-old boy and fractured his leg in the city of Mumbai, police said yesterday. The accident happened in the crowded Mumbai suburb of Andheri on Saturday. "My car
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    • 542 8 —AFP Chinese media says 3 dead; officer in charge nabbed, local reports put figure at 30 BEIJING A Chinese official who ordered security forces to open fire on protesters last week has been arrested, state media said, ending a news blackout on the clash but
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    • 173 8 -AP SEOUL North Korean leader Kirn Jong II (picture) issued an order banning all talk of power succession in the communist country, said South Korea's Yonhap news agency yesterday. However, the intelligence community has questioned the report's credibility. Mr Kirn has instructed his aides
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    • 205 8 -AP PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria) A Nigerian jetliner carrying 110 people including at least 65 school children crashed in stormy weather as it approached this southern city. At least 103 people on board were killed. It was Nigeria's second major airplane accident in seven weeks,
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    • 166 10 -AFP WASHINGTON Americans are putting up "holiday trees" and shopping in stores that wish them a "happy holiday". For American conservatives who denounce the so-called "war on Christmas", this is no merry December. They are seeing red as "Merry Christmas" has been replaced by "happy
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    • 403 10 -AGENCIES Says it may strike if Iran continues its nuclear drive JERUSALEM A senior Defence Ministry official said yesterday Israel has not ruled out a military strike against Iran if the country advances further in its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Mr Amos Gilad
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    • 160 10 Yes, integrity just look it up -AP SPRINGFIELD (Massachusetts) In a year filled with political wrangling, natural disasters and pop culture curiosities, Americans turned to Merriam-Webster to help define it all. Filibuster. Refugee. Tsunami. Each was among the dictionary publisher's 10 most frequently looked-up words among some seven million users
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    • this quirky world
      • 57 10 -AP Animal behaviourist Patricia Simonet said when dogs make that excited panting noise while playing or anticipating a walk, they're actually laughing. Washington-based Ms Simonet said dog laughter comforts other dogs. When played a recording of "play panting" at a shelter in Spokane Valley,
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      • 67 10 The British embassy in Germany launched a website for the 2006 World Cup last Friday that includes handy German phrases for England fans, such as "He was sick as a parrot" or "He puked his guts up," reported Reuters. The website {www.britishembassy worldcup.com) is
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      • 60 10 -AFP A British Santa was sacked and booted out of his grotto by bouncers for chatting too long with children. It was more "Go! Go! Go!" than "Ho! Ho! Ho!" for actor Alan Seymour, 57, who refused to stick to a strict 30-second
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    • 860 12 -AFP Binay has turned bankrupt Makati City into a boom town MANILA To the poor of Manila's Makati City, mayor Jejomar "Jojo" Binay is a saint. But to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), he is a political thorn in her side who prompted one newspaper headline writer to
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  • Voices
    • 670 14  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN MYTHREE-month-old baby, Anidus, was recently warded at XX Women's and Children's Hospital, where we came into contact with many student nurses on practical attachment. One particular nurse caught my attention. She seemed to have more experience, more desire to learn,
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    • 140 14  - Noisy birds roosting in trees a danger? LIM BOON HEE Letter from IF NOT for the danger of bird flu, the cacophony of birds chirping madly in the trees at the carpark outside Somerset MRT station would have been considered an avian-lover's paradise. However the congregation of birds coming to
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    • The airport passenger's headache: Making short trips worth the cabbie's while
      • 159 15  -  SHIRLEESENG Letter from 1 AGREE with Mr Raymond Tan. Only three days ago, I went to fetch my husband from Terminal 2 of Changi Airport. We were greeted by the taxi driver with a big smile and he helped us load our
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      • 197 15  -  HENGCHOCHOON Letter from IN HIS letter "$l5 for a 5-min ride" (Dec 10-11), Mr Raymond Tan seems to feel it is a rip-off when he has to pay $15 for a short ride home from the airport However, we should also think
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    • Some tips for Mr Taxi Driver
      • 164 15  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I REFER to the report, "That fare incentive" (Dec 9). The basic responsibilities of a taxi driver are to ensure the safety of passengers, take the shortest route and charge correct fares. If the driver goes the
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      • 149 15  -  STEVE KNGO Letter from I REFER to SMRT's initiative. Firstly, it is not right for taxi drivers to ask customers their preferred route. There is no such thing as a "preferred route", only the shortest or quickest. The annoying thing about local
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      • 136 15  -  ANGELAPNGPINPIN Letter from FURTHER to this talk about money-back guarantees and tipping, I notice many taxi drivers have stopped helping passengers load and unload their luggage. Once, at a taxi stand, my husband helped an Indian lady with a baby to put
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    • 217 16  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I BONDING IN MARRIAGE In marriage as in courtship, there's a simple rule of thumb for intimacy: take your time. Some interesting research has been done recently on the emotional bonding between husbands and wives. According to Dr. Donald Joy, a couple
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    • 305 16  -  DENIS DISTANT No details of effect on warrants when firm makes a rights issue of shares Letter from HOLDERS of warrants issued by SGX-listed companies have a financial interest in the issuing companies, although they do not get copies of the annual report nor receive dividends,
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    • 151 16  -  EILEEN NGYU TING Letter from I WAS in a 10-day work attachment recently and felt the experience had been beneficial. My school, Singapore Chinese Girls' School, has been opening up places for Secondary 3 students to apply for this work experience programme. I was assigned
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    • 145 16  -  RAYMUND KOH Letter from I AM a frequent user of Claymore Hill and observed that the traffic snarl in front of the American Club is caused by the many vehicles waiting to turn into the club. For security reasons, the police
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  • Businesstoday
    • 680 18 —AFP Free trade will be discussed, but no major breakthroughs expected at WTO meet HONG KONG The World Trade Organization (WTO) meets in Hong Kong this week with little hope of forging a compromise between the European Union and the United States on farm
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    • Article, Illustration
      286 18 FLEA AND EASY! It was a twin celebration on Dec 3 and Dec 4, a two-in-one toast to youth and the endless possibilities it brings. On one end of the *scape youth park was the Lime Flea Market (picture) a cluster of 60 stalls run by young budding entrepreneurs,
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    • 184 19 -BLOOMBERG PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Singapore's plan to establish cross-trading of securities with Malaysia should be expanded to other South-east Asian countries. Singapore Exchange, which runs the island's securities and derivatives market, in January said it intended to have a trading
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    • marketwatch
      • 169 19 -AFP SHARES are expected to trade higher this week, lifted by an optimistic outlook for the property sector, dealers said. The bid of $1.38 billion placed by Capita Land, the largest property developer in South-east Asia, for a prime plot of land in Orchard Road reflected confidence in the
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      • 26 19 Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 529.50 Silver US$/oz 9.085 Platinum US$/oz 1,006.90 Rubber cents/kg 287.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,389.50 Brent crude US$/barrel 57.31 Information provided by I
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  • business news
    • 799 20  -  DAVID BIRD -DOW JONES Global inventories near historical lows, expected to drive first-quarter gains news@newstoday.com.sg NEW YORK No one in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is calling for higher oil prices, but the trend in global inventories suggests benchmark New York crude
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    • 362 21 She's now size 'S', thanks to Theresa's revolutionary internal-external therapy! Gaining weight in your middle age is fairly common. But MediaCorp artiste Jin Yin Ji is doing the exact opposite! She's losing weight, with more impressive results
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    • 699 22  -  LOHCHEEKONG Research scientist wants to make the business plan competition in NUS the best in Asia cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THERE are good scientists, and then there are good businessmen. The two, however, don't always come in one package. Dr Bernard Leong does not quite accept that as
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    • 175 22  -  Thomas K. Mattingly 'It is very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space' Modern living has cometo rely on more action than inaction. This is ironic given the claim that technology would create more leisure time when in fact we have
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    • 641 23  -  JOHNBITTLESTON Organising yourself is basic, next stop is prioritising and focusing on real issues MANAGEMENT, MOTIVATION AND YOU-PART 7: TIME THE TRUE ASSET TIME is valuable and yet we squander it because we are frightened of having to do things we don't want to do
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    • 1503 24  -  Clement Mesenas Author Jeffrey Archer opens up about life behind bars, praises his devoted wife HE WAS to be addressed as Lord Archer, I was not to ask him any questions about his incarceration in Her Majesty's prisons and he could be a general pain in the
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    • Article, Illustration
      447 26  -  David Chew Dickens'tale gets quirky Broadway twist MUSICALREVIEW rv by A Broadway Christmas Carol, Art House CHRISTMAS wouldn'tbe Christmas without light-hearted stage parodies and some good, old-fashioned musical numbers. Kathy Feininger's A Broadway Christmas Carol provides both by taking Charles Dickens' famous tale of Mr Scrooge spreading misery
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    • 66 26 Iceland's Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir began her reign as Miss World 2005 yesterday after beating 101 other women in a global pageant staged on Saturday in Sanya, China. The 21-year-old student, who is the daughter of Miss Iceland 1983, topped a field of beauties that included
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    • 68 26 Fans of top South Korean actor Jang Dong Gun, take note: He will arrive in Singapore on Wednesday on Cathay Pacific flight CX7I7 at 12.50pm to publicise his new film The Promise, which opens here on Thursday. Jang will meet his fans at The
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    • 84 26 In a Christmas special, the Singapore Film Society (SFS) is organising screenings of the first two films in acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's The Earthquake Trilogy. The screenings will take place at the Singapore History Museum at Robertson Walk. Where Is The Friend's Home will
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      278 27  -  Mervin Tay 0 by Mayday Final Home Singapore Concert 2005 IN A video dip shewn between costume changes at Mayday's concert on Saturday night, guitarists Stone and Monster said they were having so much fun, "itdoesn'tseemlikeaconcert". Indeed, the Taiwanese rock band's sellout gig scored on the strength of an
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    • in cinemas
      • 497 28 -AGENCIES Pioneering comic Pryor dies of heart attack at age 65 LOS ANGELES He was a groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars, but Richard Pryor died on Saturday of a heart attack.
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    • eatout
      • 425 29  -  AMYVAN Pack in patience along with a good appetite, as the food is worth waiting for f ood@newstoday.com.sg CHUYI, a new Chinese restaurant located in the lively Siglap vicinity, seems to have kept a low profile since it set up shop about six
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      • 485 33 —AP NBA's longest losing streak and secondlongest winning streak come to unlikely end NBA Atlanta 94 San Antonio 84 ATLANTA The Atlanta Hawks already had demonstrated that they could play with good teams for three quarters. On Saturday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), they finally finished
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      • 276 33 -AP GOLF Australian Masters MELBOURNE Robert Allenby (below) became the first player to win Australian golf's "Triple Crown" wins in the Open, PGA and Masters on consecutive weeks, with a playoff victory in the Mastercard Australian Masters yesterday. Allenby paired the first playoff hole at Huntingdale
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      • 387 33 -AP GOLF Target World Challenge THOUSAND OAKS, California Darren Clarke usually brings up the rear at the Target World Challenge, a week where his best times are off the golf course. But when he opened with a 65 to get into contention, that
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      • 353 34 —AFP SYDNEY Australians were yesterday coming to terms with drawing champions Brazil in the 2006 World Cup finals, with press reports upbeat that the Socceroos could match the favourites. Under a frontpage headline of "We're ready to do battle", The Sunday Telegraph quoted
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      • 564 34 -AGENCIES Rooney says England owe World Cup victory to Swede boss LONDON Wayne Rooney has revealed that the England squad want to win the 2006 World Cup for boss Sven-Goran Eriksson. England will face Sweden, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago in Group B at next
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        583 35 -AFP Rising Indian star claims first Asian Tour title in season finale GOLf Volvo Masters BANGKOK A star was born when India's Shiv Kapur lifted the US$6OO,OOO ($1 million) Volvo Masters of Asia title yesterday, beating last year's winner and countryman Jyoti Randhawa by two strokes. The 23-year-old
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      • 284 35 -AFP NEW DELHI Anil Kumble led India's fightback with four quick wickets, after Sri Lanka's fellow spinner Muttiah Muralitharan had demolished the hosts with a seven-wicket haul in the second Test yesterday. Sri Lanka were strongly placed at 175-2 in their first innings in reply to
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      • 443 36 -AFP UNSPORTING BEHAVIOUR I Angry Arsenal manager accuses Newcastle captain of gamesmanship ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Newcastle 1 Arsenal 0 NEWCASTLE Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger launched a furious attack on former England skipper Alan Shearer, after watching his side slip to a 1-0 defeat to Newcastle at St
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      • 315 36 -AFP UNSPORTING BEHAVIOUR II ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea 1 Wigan 0 LONDON Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was forced to defend his players' sportsmanship after their 1-0 win over Wigan at Stamford Bridge. Wigan boss Paul Jewell was unhappy that Chelsea's William Gallas on the advice of his
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      • 509 37 -AFP I $47 MILLION BETS New Portsmouth boss Redknapp claims he's not involved in betting controversy PORTSMOUTH Harry Redknapp has insisted he had no idea about the millions of pounds gambled on his return to Portsmouth. Earlier this week, internet betting exchange Betfair revealed that
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      • 358 37 -AFP LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez claims Liverpool will fly out to the World Club Championship in Japan in near perfect shape after consolidating their position as the English Premiership's form team. The Reds earned their seventh successive league victory against Middlesbrough on Saturday and also equalled a
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    • 405 38  -  DARREN LAI TABLE TENNIS ITTF Volkswagen Pro Tour Grand Finals da rren@newstoday.com.sg BARELY a week after the heartbreak of being upstaged by compatriot Zhang Xueling in the recent SEA Games table tennis singles final, Singapore's top paddler Li Jiawei suffered another
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    • 973 39  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Aided by able Solheim Cuppers in Team International, Sorenstam lands first victory as captain weekeat@newstoday.com.sg EIGHT Rolex Player of the Year awards and 66 LPGA victories dot world No 1 golfer Annika Sorenstam's career highlights. Now, add captaining Team International to victory
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    • 549 39  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS a scoreline that left many surprised. While they were up against a worldclass international field at the inaugural U*****,000 ($1.6 million) Lexus Cup a matchplay style team event pitting the 12 best women golfers from Asia
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