Today, 29 December 2005

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    11 1 TODAY /A=DIJ\CORP incorporating iMTCBtS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Thursday December 29, 2005 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Ensuring a good mix
    652 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO Changes to gifted scheme to encourage interaction with mainstream students derrick@newstoday.com.sg FOR three weeks, a debate raged in this newspaper about whether Gifted Education Programme (GEP) students were elitist or ostracised. Either way, it was clear that an "us-and-them" mentality divided GEP students
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    Lock icon Bali airport jitters, so airlines act
    381 1  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com.sg THREE months after being notified that security at its Denpasar airport was not up to scratch, Bali has failed to plug the gaps. Now it must risk losing much-needed tourist dollars. The United States Department of Homeland Security and Australia's Department
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  • hot news
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      Moorthy or Mohammad?
      544 2  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Muslim burial for Everest hero, declares Malaysia's Sharia Court EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@newstoday.com.sg THE widow of an Indian Malaysian mountaineering hero who scaled Mount Everest was in tears yesterday after learning that he will be buried as a Muslim, against her wishes. Ms Kaliammal Sinnasamy (picture) had
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      isay NO LAW AGAINST COMMON SENSE
      790 3  -  WITH IZZY PEOPLE must be bereft of common sense these days. The plethora of self-help books, as well as laws that tell us where we can or cannot smoke and whose right of way it is on the road, certainly proves it It's not
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  • Singapore news
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      Envoys named
      101 4 ASSUMING his post in Canberra in February will be Singapore's next High Commissioner to Australia, Mr Eddie Teo. The former director of the Security and Intelligence Division and the Internal Security Department also served as Permanent Secretary in both the Ministry of Defence and the Prime Minister's Office.
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      Lock icon Honouring outstanding friends of S'pore
      186 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE will be conferring its prestigious Honorary Citizen Award on Hitachi's chairman emeritus Dr Tsutomu Kanai and Boston University president Dr Robert Brown for their contributions to the country in the field of electronics and education respectively. The award is the highest form
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      Time to move on for veteran unionist
      470 4  -  LEECHINGWERN NTWU s Ong Ah Heng to step down from past chingwern@newstoday.com.sg ON HIS 62nd birthday, two weeks from now, veteran MP Ong Ah Heng will step down from the helm of the National Transport Workers' Union (NTWU) after nearly 25 years of
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      Lock icon Train services hit after man's death
      310 4  -  JASMINE YIN A SINGAPOREAN died when he was hit by an approaching train at Kallang MRT station yesterday afternoon, bringing the westbound train services between Aljunied and Bugis to a standstill for almost an hour. The 32-year-old Indian man is believed to have jumped
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    • Article
      Higher pay for bus drivers
      274 6  -  TORCHING LI SMRT Corp rings in the changes, rolls out a five-day work week chingli@newstoday.com.sg A DISPARITY in the starting pay of bus drivers at Singapore's two transport operators was removed yesterday when SMRT Corp launched its Job Re-creation Programme Service Leader Scheme. Aside from
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      Lock icon Former newscaster seeks court protection from husband
      167 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG FORMER actress-model and parttime newscaster Christine Chan is seeking a personal protection order (PPO) against her husband for spousal abuse. The 37-year-old was a familiar face until she left television a few months ago to concentrate on her full-time career
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      Lock icon All under one Village roof
      148 6  -  LEE U WEN ST ANDREW'S Village in Potong Pasir started a new era yesterday when St Andrew's Junior College (SAJC) returned to the site it had left 28 years ago. The $90 million campus, which opened at the beginning of this year, houses the primary
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    • Article
      Norwegian salmon safe: AVA
      69 6  -  -TANHUILENG IT'S safe to eat Norwegian salmon, said the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) yesterday, after the fish tested negative for heavy metals. The AVA conducted tests on the fish after Russia banned it from Jan 1 next year because of "dangerously high levels of lead
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      556 5 Exciting activities, great shopping, wonderful food and nature await you in Sydney. Voted "World's Best City" 10 times by US travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler, this vibrant city will thrill you with its natural wonders and attractions such as the Blue Mountains, Hunter Valley and Port Stephens. The MasterCard Sydney
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      109 7 I DBS Credit Cards shakes up Christmas by topping H I the Tommy Hilfiger sale with an extra 10% discount. H /^i «T V* i**» •V>/' v*♦ a <** Enjoy a further reduction on sale items at Tommy Hilfiger. For one week only, from now till 4 January 2006. DBS
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  • world news
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      Lock icon India's Great Wall
      573 8 New Delhi building over-4,000km barrier against Bangladesh to stop militants and smuggling DELHI A race is on in India to construct a 4,023 km barrier that is set to rival the Great Wall of China. But the 3.65 m double fence packed with razor wire is not
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      Lock icon Malaysian MPs become bloggers
      286 8 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's members of parliament (MPs) are plugging into the Internet and taking to blogging, in a move to connect with tech-savvy constituents, reported the New Straits Times. The newspaper said younger Malaysians are comfortable with the Internet and this move could reach a wider
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      Lock icon Ching Cheong's case to be filed
      194 8 AP HONG KONG A criminal case against Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong, charged in China with spying for Taiwan, will be filed with public prosecutors in Beijing early next month, Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang said yesterday. Ching, a China-born Hong Kong resident, was
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      Lock icon Indonesia on alert for attacks, kidnappings by militants
      228 8 AFP JAKARTA The killing of Malaysian bombmaker Azahari Husin by Indonesian police may spark revenge attacks and kidnappings for ransom, Indonesia's spy chief Syamsir Siregar warned yesterday. A string of recent bank and jewellery store robberies in Jakarta and neighbouring towns in
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • Article
        Lock icon CHIRAC AND THE DA VINCI CODE
        140 10 —AFP French President Jacques Chirac offered to help makers of The Da Vinci Code film in the Louvre, and suggested they cast his daughter's best friend in the leading female role, Newsweek magazine said. Producer Brian Grazer told the magazine that Mr Chirac allegedly
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        Lock icon THAKSIN'S OWN REALITY SHOW
        112 10 -AFP Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra hopes to boost sluggish public support for his government by appearing in his own round-the-clock reality TV show next month. Thailand's biggest cable operator ÜBC will follow the premier and air live footage of him 24 hours a day from
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    • Article
      This vitamin can halve cancer risk
      407 10 40-year review reveals power of Vitamin D LONDON A daily dose of Vitamin D could cut the risk of cancers of the breast, colon and ovary by up to a half, a 40-year review of research has found, reported The Independent. The newspaper quoted
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      The draw of the younger man
      239 10 TOKYO The number of women in their late 30s and 40s marrying younger men is growing in Japan, reported the Asahi Shimbun. The numbers have escalated nearly two-fold in the past 20 years, and analysts say that the trend is significant considering that fewer
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      567 12 ACCESSING A SLEW OF fc INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET HAS Jh iattm NEVER BEEN QUICKER Pf^Sl___i__ _> V «'j£jd\ A* Movie tickets, flight information, weather updates, football scores, movie trailers, music videos... these are the sort of __&__> things you'd look up on the Internet, but would you have
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      252 13 nn Brou9httOYOUby SJSKS lUI UU U U Across the island, many Singaporeans are enjoying 3G services. "\/nm rilinr Here's what some say about their personal 3G experiences. Exciting! I'm going a .^flK^: fm W -4*^ 3G is more appealing because we can >im r m H^—■ 8 show others what
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      See through transparency
      354 14  -  CHONG LEE MING Quality of leadership more important than following openness trend for governance Letter from I HOW might the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) episode impact Singaporeans' perspective on public governance? The Singapore Government upholds the principle that the key to good public governance is to have
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      Soiled by petty theft
      274 14  -  MURALI SHARMA Letter from THE Telok Kurau Park at the end of Joo Chiat Place is a beautiful area that abuts the canal. It was built at great cost and is a hive of activity both in the morning and the evening. But Ugly Singaporeans have
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      Speak up if you want good governance
      216 14  -  SEE LEONG KIT Letter from I REFER to the report "It isn't feedback fatigue" (Dec 24). A government cannot know all the answers to national issues. Good political governance can only come about from the collective input of politicians, civil servants and citizens.
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      65 14 NOBODY'S GOING TO RAIL AGAINST THIS: Today reader Percy Naval Khambatta would be perfectly happy to pay this fine. CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore and it could appear on this page. Giveyourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone numberand send a
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        ONE CHANGE TO S'PORE SCHOOLS-UNIFORMS?
        86 16  -  CHUAHINBEE: In recent years we have seen many changes to the school system, but I feel there is one area that has been sorely neglected school uniforms. It seems to me that the uniforms of some schools are decades old: The designs are outdated and
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        DANGEROUS NEGOTIATIONS AT TIONG BAHRU ROAD
        120 16  -  BERNARD TEO: nitinpnAiin k The narrowness of the pavement along Tiong Bahru Road, leading from Tiong Bahru Plaza to Boon Tiong Road, barely allows two people to pass each other. On one side of the pavement is Tiong Bahru Road, and on the other
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        SMS IN CHINESE TO AROUSE INTEREST IN LANGUAGE
        109 16  -  HENGCHOCHOON: Your report "Teaching Chinese the Cinux way" (Dec 28) offers a glimmer of hope for pupils struggling with the Chinese language, since "the percentage passes for these classes rose from 73 per cent to 91 per cent". If the results are
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    • Letter
      Maybe these will stop them...
      262 16  -  ERICCHUA MOHAMAD NOOR ABDULLAH Personnel to police the workers Letter from I REFER to the letter by Mr Haj Mohamed "The HDB can't stop them, neither can the Police (Dec 28). When the US Navy anchors in Singapore waters, and thousands of their personnel come
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      Kind gesture was best Xmas present
      128 16  -  DOROTHY TSE ACCOLADE Letter from JUST as violence is contagious, so is a kind act and so I am hoping this one kind act will lead to another. A million thanks to the person who picked up my wallet, cancelled my bank card for
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      246 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY............... THE SIGN COLLECTION For about 25 years I've had a very unusual collection. Some people accumulate stamps and coins and trinkets, but I collect signs. Signs are very interesting because they tell you something about the people who write them. Let me
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      Cracking their heads over shoddy flooring
      342 18  -  QUEK HWA HWEE Why not let HDB flat-buyers supervise installation work and choose own fittings? Letter from I WATCHED the MediaCorp TV Channel 8 news segment at 10pm, in which it was reported that the owner of a 4-room premium flat discovered that his
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      Gantry? Almost feels like a toll trap
      216 18  -  GEORGE LIM Letter from I REFER to the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) reply, "Bras Basah ERP gantry necessary" (Dec 19), to Mr Mo Jiamin's letter. The reply makes no sense to me. The ERP gantry at Bras Basah Road seems placed to trap
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon A YEAR OF CORPORATE SCAMS
      1348 20  -  CHRISTIE LOH Top 5 commercial scandals that rocked Spore in 2005 christie@newstoday.com.sg SINCE last year's shaming of China Aviation Oil (Singapore), or CAO, and Informatics Holdings, case after case of alleged mischief have continued to rock Corporate Singapore in the past 12 months. This year's
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Growth to shift to Asia, Europe: DBS
        231 22 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Stronger recovery in these regions to offset moderation in US expansion next year ECONOMIC growth in Japan, the rest of Asia and Europe will step up a notch next year in a rebalancing away from the United States, DBS Bank said
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      • Article
        Unifiber has not made decision on mill price
        138 22  -  CHRISTIE LOH UNITED Fiber System (Unifiber) yesterday refuted a report that it had fixed a price for the takeover of Kiani Kertas, one of the biggest paper pulp mills in East Kalimantan in Indonesia. The denial was with reference to a report
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        CORPORATEBRIEFS
        176 22 Oil and gas engineering services firm Federal International is placing out 42 million new shares, or 19.97 per cent of its present issued share capital, at 33 cents each. The net proceeds of $13.4 million will be used to fund acquisitions, business investments and for working capital. Ezra Holdings
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      • marketwatch
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          ST Index— 2,337.89+2.95
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          Lock icon Singapore
          133 22 Dow Jones SHARES closed flat in thin trade yesterday amid a lack of strong leads and lacklustre sentiment, with many fund managers and retail investors absent due to the year-end holidays. The ST Index ended up 2.95 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 2,337.89. In the broader market, decliners
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          Lock icon World markets
          64 22 SGX, Dow Jones and Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 16,194.61 +225.21 +1.41 Hang Seng 15,101.54 -82.04 -0.54 Australia ASX 4,755.60 +27.90 +0.59 Taiwan Wtd 6,524.40 -7.19 -0.11 Korea Comp 1,368.16 -5.39 -0.39 KLCI 895.55 +1.04 +0.12 SET Index 705.29 -1.18 -0.17 Jakarta Comp 1,164.14 +2.43 +0.21 Phils
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          SGX most active
          53 22 Euraptron 0.200 DBS DB 8CW*****3 0.115 +0.020 -0.005 +11.1 -4.2 19,140 13,602 UniFiber 0.205 +0.005 +1.0 13,204 SingTel 2.630 -0.020 -0.0 12,250 Celestial 0.535 -0.015 -2.7 11,321 Gen Int 0.365 9,371 STXPO 0.900 -0.035 -3.7 0,767 Pearl Energy 1.470 +0.050 +3.5 0,553 Rotary 0.520 GlobalVoice 0.105 -0.005
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          SGX top rises
          71 22 Fortune Reit HK$ 5.950 +0.300 China Dairy W*****4 0.010 +100.0 F8N 10.300 +0.200 Serial W*****6 0.040 +100.0 0CBC4.5%NCPS100 102.400 +0.200 FHTK 0.025 +66.7 Nikkei225DBeCW*****0 1.630 +0.190 Unidux 0.065 +44.4 DBS 16.500 +0.100 SIASGA8CW*****6 0.020 +33.3 Jardine CSC 11.500 +0.100 HSI*****SGA8PW*****6 0.265 +32.5 JMH400US$ 16.000 +0.100 Abtsrra 0.025
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          SGX top falls
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 22 0.6006 Peso 31.875 UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro 0.3457 70.345 4.6565 2.2705 0.5037 A$ Indian Rs Won C$ I Yuan 0.8238 27.129 608.28 0.7019 4.8484 Rupiah Baht 5,900.5 24.611 NZ$ NT$ 0.8813 19.888
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          Commodities
          19 22 ■old US$/oz 510.80 Rubber cents/kg Silver US$/oz 8.805 Palm oil RM/tonne 1/407 56.34 'latinum US$/oz 975.00 Brent US$/barrel
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      SEX IN THE SUBURBS
      1173 24  -  David Chew With Sex and the City behind her, Parker says she's now just a housewife (and not a desperate one) MEETING Sarah Jessica Parker in person for the first time can be a bewildering experience. Thanks to her highly-success-ful HBO television series Sex and the
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    • PARKERON...
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        DANCING
        45 25 "I never dance I'm too embarrassed. It was the most difficult thing to do in the movie. Challenging I love, embarrassing and jackass I can't do. There are lots of songs that make me dance inside, but I never run to the dance floor."
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        GETTING DOLLED UP
        31 25 "I've certainly enjoyed the benefits and love getting my hair done, it's nice to have someone do your hair! I only know how to do a ponytail unfortunately
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        HER TYPICAL DAY
        44 25 "I wake up, take my son to school, pick him up, cook dinner for my husband, go to the theatre, put my son to bed, simple things you miss when you're working. There's a lot to be said for simple things."
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        SEX AND THE CITY AND WOMEN'S LIBERATION
        31 25 "Time will tell if we actually did anything on that scale. We were hired hands, and I was happy to be involved in that."
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        BODY MAINTENANCE
        49 25 "I have to work a lot harder now, it sure ain't what it used to be. My body doesn't snap back into shape like it did when I was 20. Yes, I work pretty hard at it, otherwise I've got free weights at home a 28-pound baby."
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      Franz Ferdinand plays S'pore in Feb
      176 27  -  ZULOTHMAN THEY'VE made fans out of hiphopper Kanye West and Snoop Dogg and in February, they're coming here. Glasgow-based art rockers Franz Ferdinand (picture) catapulted to worldwide fame on the strength of two albums' worth of new wave, pop punk and garage rock-derived tunes.
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      Lock icon LIBING'S LOVE LINES
      494 27  -  EUSACHIA Actress' memoir a record of career and friendship elisa@newstoday.com.sg SHE may have lost her man but newly single Yang Libing will have you know she won a lot of unexpected love in the process. Speaking to Today, the 40-year-old MediaCorp artiste who launched her memoir Yang
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      Lock icon Rock vs metal makes for a Mus-go gig
      116 27  -  —ZULOTHMAN HERE'S a New Year treat for fans of Malay rock: On Dec 31, two veterans will do a one-time gig at Hougang Mall. For the first time, Mustaffa Din, or Mus, who sang for hard rock legends May and Wings in
      COURTESY OF XTREME MUSIC  -  116 words
    • in cinemas
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        Cinematic gems return
        488 28  -  ASHRAF SAFDAR Non-profit Cinematheque to screen old South-east Asian films from January ashraf@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS stored in a coffeeshop refrigerator for 30 years before being unearthed last year by a team from Southeast Asia Cinematheque. The movie, Ring of Fury, starring a Singaporean karate master finally had
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      • INADDITION...
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          ROCKER PAYS OFF ALLEGED SEX VICTIMS
          80 30 Former British rocker Gary Glitter, 61, paid US$4,OOO ($6,660) to the families of Vietnamese girls whom he is accused of sexually abusing in exchange for their cooperation, his lawyer said yesterday. Attorney Le Thanh Kinh said Glitter, in jail since Nov 19, has given
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          ROWLING 'DREADS'7TH POTTER BOOK
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      804 46  -  Rohit Brijnath 24 things we'd like to see in 2006 ATHLETES mindful of history: Courtesy cars, presidential suites, million-dol-lar pay-days. Athletes believe it is their birthright But all of it was built on the sacrifice of their predecessors who played for nothing and fought for a
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        725 44  -  JOSE RAYMOND Young Lions will head north for FA Cup, Malaysian U-20 to play in Spore Cup jose@newstoday.com.sg AFTER a lapse of 11 years, Singapore will make a return to Malaysian football competition. But it will not be in the Malaysia Cup of old. Yesterday, Football
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        272 45 -AFP HANOI Two more Vietnamese footballers were arrested yesterday, bringing to four the number detained over allegations of match-fixing in the recent South-east Asian games, an official said. "Midfielders Huynh Quoc Anh and Le Bat Hieu of the under-23 team were arrested
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