Streats, 1 June 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets PRIPAT 1 4tme 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Terminated over broken 'contract'
    587 1  -  Two students told to leave over lack of commitment by KHUSHWANT SINGH TWO boys have been told not to bother coming back to school after the holidays. The reason: A broken “contract”. MacPherson Secondary School last week told the two Sec 5 students to leave after
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  • morning rush
    • Article
      Lock icon Chewing-gum ban to be lilted? Butt...
      92 1 Huff^Pufffi CHEW, don’t puff. And the law banning chewing gum in Singapore may be lifted to help you do that. Nicotine chewing gum, which coulc help smokers kick the habit, will be considered under a policy review by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA). Pharmacia,
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      Lock icon Zyban dosage wrong? Butt...
      164 1 Huff&Puff SWALLOW, don’t puff. Zyban, an anti-smoking pill touted as a quick and effective way to quit smoking, is to be more tightly controlled in Britain, BBC Online reported yesterday. The British Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) hopes to cut down the number of instances
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Withdrawal limits increased More Medisave help
      371 2 NOW you can use more Medisave funds to pay for selected treatment. The Health Ministry (MOH) has revised the annual Medisave withdrawal ceilings for inpatient psychiatric treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, renal dialysis, assisted conception procedures, anti-retroviral drugs for HIV patients and hospice care, (see table
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    • Article
      Lock icon Married life is like:
      60 2 morningsmile Going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that At a cocktail party, one woman said to another: "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger??"
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    • Article
      Lock icon New SCV rates
      281 2  -  by YVONNE KWOK SINGAPORE Cable Vision (SCV) subscribers may now pay only $2O a month to watch their favourite programmes. SCV yesterday sent out mailers to its customers explaining the new pricing system. The 265,000 households that are currently wired to SCV can either mail or fax
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Vicious attack at Boat Quay Footballer beaten to death
      333 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH PROMISING soccer player Sulaiman Hashim has died after a vicious attack by about seven men yesterday. He leaves behind a family reeling with shock and grief, and a host of unanswered questions. Sulaiman’s date with death came at
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      Lock icon Aggressive on the field, humble off it
      258 3  -  by TAN KIM HAN SULAIMAN Hashim was a humble lad. The 17-year-old, whose 18th birthday would have been on Monday, insisted he was not a good player when I interviewed him before the ITE Schools’ soccer final a fortnight ago. He told me
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      Lock icon Bus driver waited for me
      102 3 onekindact. May Ong I would like to thank the driver of service No 88 (*****321) for waiting forme at the bus-stop outside Seagate on May 24. The bus was at the junction when I spotted it, and tried to run to the bus-stop. I gave
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      Lock icon Gum over cigarettes? Not quite the same
      447 5  -  by NATALIE KUAN and NG HUI HUI NICOTINE gum may be allowed in Singapore, but whether it would be perceived as “the next cool thing” among young smokers and replace cigarette smoking is still not clear. Nine out of 20 smokers, aged 20
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      97 5 Our weather girl says Hi, I'm Isabelle Phua, your new weather girl. There will be showers over many areas in the afternoon and early evening over many areas. For those in Orchard Road, just seek shelter at the nearest mall and you can do your Great Singapore Sale shopping while
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From today...
        58 5 CPF members need not maintain a minimum sum which now stands at $65,000 before they can use their CPF savings to pay for tuition at tertiary institutions. This change allows for up to 40 per cent of CPF members' accummulated savings in their Ordinary Accounts (excluding the amount
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        Lock icon Check this out Great S'pore Bargain...
        90 5 Check this out Great S'pore Bargain For collectors of branded garments, look no further than Isetan. At the Scotts branch tel 733 1111 at Level 1, you can get up to 70 per cent off the ladies'ready-to-wear collection in the Designer Brands Sale now on till June 11. At Isetan
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  • Streatsmart column
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      Lock icon A week of sex and shopping
      643 6 IF YOU have been to Orchard Road or any suburban mall in the past week, you might have noticed women with glazed eyes and throbbing veins on their legs. These are sure symptoms of the Great Singapore Sale, which officially started last Friday. Except,
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      106 6 ■■l mm CRUCIAL ENCOUNTER FOR THE FIRST TIME. H gM UGHTIRQ THE WAY FOR A QUALITY LIFE Definitely one of the few times that a failed lighting is useful. But to make sure it does not happen again, why not take a closer look at OSRAM? The leading lighting manufacturers
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  • Streatsmart interchange
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      Lock icon Medical reasons not valid, says judge Shoplifting case lawyer convicted
      256 7 A LAWYER said yesterday she had taken items from a store because she was forgetful and distracted. The judge rejected her plea and found her guilty of stealing. After a four-day trial, Lilian Ong, 51, was convicted of stealing two
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Ex-photojournalist had sex with minor
      224 7  -  reports by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM PROJECT Eyeball photojournalist Birinus Alphonso Chan Tek Keng, 33, was convicted yesterday for having sex with an underaged girl, who was only 15 at the time. Sentencing will come later, after another related case is concluded. The court heard that Chan met
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    • Article
      Lock icon Chopper man gets 3 years
      193 7 A 37-YEAR-OLD salesman was sentenced to three years’ jail and eight strokes of the cane for slashing two men with a chopper outside a karaoke lounge in Geylang. At 2am on Jan 9, HooYee Ching, 32, approached Tan Wee Giap, 37, outside theT H karaoke
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Impeachment proceedings Gus Dur has a date(s)
      198 8 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s Upper House yesterday announced it will open impeachment hearings for President Abdurrahman Wahid on Aug 1. The speedy setting of a date for the session came a day after parliament called for the hearing, amid worries that Mr Abdurrahman might
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    • Article
      Lock icon Friends and foes say 'no' to emergency
      114 8 -Reuters JAKARTA Supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid converged on his presidential palace yesterday to demand he dissolve parliament after it began moves to impeach him. But close aide and Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab said: “I think this (declaration of emergency) is something which
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    • Article
      Lock icon What happens if he quits?
      182 8 betweenthelines fpiere is a popular view that Ms Megawati will automatically become president. Truth is, it might not be so straightforward. There is a legal ambiguity on the accession and this could be why Ms Megawati appears to look dazed of late. Constitutionally, the vice-president
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      Lock icon Thai PM remains popular Pressure to clear Thaksin
      230 11 Reuters BANGKOK Public pressure is mounting on Thailand’s Constitutional Court to clear Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of graft charges and allow him to push ahead with his ambitious and popular policy programme. The 14-judge court is to decide by July or August
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    • Article
      Lock icon Lightning kills two on soccer field
      102 11 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Two university students were killed and four injured when they were struck by lightning in Johor Baru on Wednesday. It was the third fatal lightning strike in Malaysia in 10 days. Muhamad Khairil Annuar, 23, and Mohamad Firdaus Janggus, 22, and
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    • Article
      Lock icon Party time?
      52 11 webcites Is organising a foam party giving you the jitters Engage the free service at Evite.com. All you need are your invitees'e-mail addresses. Key in the venue, time and other relevant information, pick a card design, and you can even choose to be notified of your respondents' decision
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    • Article
      Lock icon World No-Tobacco Day NZ smokers face isolation in bars
      334 13 Reuters WELLINGTON Smokers will be banished from New Zealand bars, restaurants and casinos unless a separate smoking room is provided under a proposed change in the law unveiled yesterday. The chairwoman of parliament’s health committee, Ms Judy Keall, said on World
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      Lock icon Puff zones at Japanese ministry
      255 13 Reuters TOKYO Non-smokers at Japan’s Health Ministry can breathe more easily it is limiting smoking to special areas for the first time. Smoking corners measuring 10-30 sq m the size of between one and three average bedrooms should be established in each section by the
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    • Article
      Lock icon WHO wants total ban
      235 13 -AFP GENEVA The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched World No-Tobacco Day by calling yesterday for a total ban on tobacco in all public places and denouncing efforts by big tobacco companies to downplay the effects of second-hand smoke. “Such bans offer a comprehensive solution to keep
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      118 13 SClfcNCfc F D MS l-B JUNE AT SINGAPORE SCIENCE CENTRE PUBLIC TALKS PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES Herbs Spices for the Household Science Centre Membership Drive Herbal First-Aid Kit Free Drinks for patrons at Omni-Theatre Amazing World of Honey Bees Discounts at Food Stalls NANPS-ON SESSIONS Crafts with Herbs Spices t Making Yogurt
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  • Streatsmart global
    • Article
      Lock icon Forget flowers and chocolates Gadgets are a girl's best friend
      287 14 Reuters Electronic gizmos as gifts arouse women, shows study LONDON Forget flowers. Today’s women would much rather be wooed with gadgets, according to new research published in Britain yesterday. No longer are men expected to swim shark-infested waters or scale
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    • Article
      Lock icon Internet shopping fills the baby gap
      191 14 -LAT-WP FROM conception and pregnancy to birth and toddlerhood, new technologies and the Internet are transforming life. Gap.com sells maternity clothes, not available in Gap stores. For some prospective parents, the Internet offers another kind of shopping: Couples looking to adopt can surf the
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    • Terror kids
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        Lock icon 'Dirt-poor' kids set dogs on cops
        369 15 -AP SANDPOINT, Idaho Six armed children took refuge in their home after releasing a pack of vicious dogs on police, a sheriff said on Wednesday. “They were dirt-poor. The kids didn’t have the right things to eat,” said Rev Dennis Day of St Joseph
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      • Article
        Lock icon Boy, 6, beat brother to death
        133 15 -AP NEW YORK A six-year-old boy killed his three-year-old brother last Monday by beating him with a baseball bat during a ball game. A funeral was held for the toddler on Wednesday, the same day police said they would not charge the elder boy
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    • Article
      Lock icon Obesity a global epidemic warn experts
      102 16 VIENNA Obesity is rising to epidemic proportions worldwide, health experts gathered here said yesterday. Delegates at the 11th European Congress on Obesity say the problem affects more than 300 million people world- wide 115 million of them in developing countries, BBC Online reports. Obesity
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    • weird world
      • Article
        Lock icon Too much of a good scent
        88 16 -LAT-WP LOS ANGELES Health care employees must be prepared to treat colleagues who have been assaulted by patients wielding... perfume. A report in the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice recounts an incident in which a female medical assistant with no history
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      • Article
        Lock icon Unbearable bear
        88 16 Reuters TORONTO A 180 kg black bear with a sweet tooth is on the wanted list in rural Ontario. He has clawed his way through the wooden doors of a small bakery to satisfy his craving for cakes and doughnuts. Ms Shirley Broadfoot, owner of the bakery north
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      • Article
        Lock icon Students or mercenaries?
        90 16 BROOKSVILLE, Florida Eighth-grader Kristen Dempsey found that acing an achievement test pays off literally. A week ago she received a US$3O ($52) cheque for scoring above average on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment test. The cheque was signed by her principal, the Christian Science Monitor reports. “It’s great,”
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        Lock icon Church 'sees the light'
        76 16 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil's acute power crisis is sparing no home, not even the House of God. A nationwide, power-saving drive has turned the country’s Catholic Church more toward the light of religion as it finds itself forced to cut earthly illumination. “This crisis is
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      • Article
        Lock icon LAPD uncovered!
        72 16 Reuters LOS ANGELES While the Los Angeles Police Department embarks on a major advertising campaign to upgrade its image, one of its female officers has decided to give the department a new look by shedding her uniform in Playboy magazine. Patrol Officer Ginger Harrison, 28, will appear in
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon The Next big thing New magazine sold out
      287 17 Reuters TAIPEI Media mogul Jimmy Lai sure knows how to make a lot of people nervous. And he has just the right tool for it his new Next magazine which hit the streets of Taiwan yesterday. With that, anxious celebrities ended their
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      Lock icon Bush twins in alcohol probe
      150 17 Reuters AUSTIN, Texas President George W Bush’s daughters are under investigation over alcohol, Austin police said on Wednesday. Police are investigating allegations that the First Twins, Jenna and Barbara Bush, both 19, tried to buy alcohol at a restaurant in Austin on Tuesday. Texas law
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    • Article
      Lock icon Can S'pore be Asia's cultural capital ?
      233 17 Can S'pore be Asia's cultural capital Just one question I think that's a definite possiblity. We have invested to make that happen, it seems to have become a priority. Look at our neighbours, most are focused on finding economic stability. With commitment and investment, it is not so out of
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  • easyStreats
    • Stephanie @the movies
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        Lock icon War? What war?
        429 20 JUST like the unfortunate soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor, I was unaware that a war was impending. There I was, sitting through line after line of what screenwriter Randall Wallace deemed “pearls of wisdom” being mouthed by gorgeous creatures. I was beginning to suspect that they had
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      • Article
        Lock icon Take 5
        256 20 What are the reviewers'and moviegoers' verdicts on the war saga? Read 0n... Reviewers'takes Tacked on clumsily to this awesome action spectacle is a love story so insipidly melodramatic it makes you wonder why a US$ 135-million movie could not hire a better scriptwriter than Randall Wallace (Braveheart). Life!
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        Lock icon Reelity bites
        362 21 Pearl Harbor: Box-office hit or not? DESPITE some analysts’ forecasts that Pearl Harbor would become the first film to top the US$lOO million ($lBO million) mark on its debut, the film opened with U 5575.2 million ($135 million) last week. But Disney officials pointed out that given its
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      Lock icon Special ingredients show way to Chicken rice heaven
      405 22  -  I twoshoes by Wileen Chang WHERE: The Big Bird (The Chicken Rice Restaurant) 271 Bukit Timah Road, HOI-07, Balmoral Plaza Tel: 734 6022 Openings: 7 am to 11 pm daily OR: 35 Selegie Road #Ol-07 Parklane Shopping Mall Tel: 339 4705 Openings:
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    • Article
      Lock icon Full-concert kit, after all
      177 24 FANS of local singer Kit Chan, rejoice. You will get to see all of the 28-year-old’s costumes during her concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium next Saturday, after all. Thanks to an honest taxi-driver. The singer’s record company was hard put when fashion designer Edric Woo
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    • channel scan
      • Today's mustsee TV...
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          Lock icon DRIVE
          46 24 Bpm, TV Works Hongkong-style action with martial arts star Mark Dacascos as a prototype enhanced human on the run from Chinese-hired hit men. The fugitive receives aid from an unlikely bystander (Kadeem Hardison), and they embark on a mission to find out about his origins.
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          Lock icon BANZAI MY KIDS
          26 24 Bpm, Channel U Guo Liang and Quan Yifeng interview the audience to find out why many children feel their parents don’t understand them.
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          Lock icon ABOUT ROMANCE
          48 24 10.30 pm, Channel U Popular hosts Hu Gua and Gao Yi Ping are “matchmakers” of single men and women of similar educational and career background, brought together in the hope that they will find love. An intelligent programme, with an interesting exchange of opinions among participants.
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          Lock icon FLUBBER
          81 24 7.30 pm, Channel 5 In this remake of The Absent-Minded Professor, Robin Williams fills the role of Professor Philip Brainard, made famous by the befuddled Fred MacMurray. 01’ Phil is so wrapped up in his scientific experiments he even forgets about his wedding to Medfield College President Sara Jean
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          Lock icon GRANDMA AND HER GHOSTS
          50 24 Bpm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Doudou, 5, moves in with his grandma in a small town in Taiwan and discovers she has the supernatural ability to catch ghosts. Doudou accidentally releases a ferocious ghost that creates havoc in grand-ma’s house. A superb Taiwanese animated movie.
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      Lock icon There's more to comics than just drawing
      596 25  -  by SARAH NG WRITE, direct and act. These three buzzwords may sound like job descriptions in Tinseltown. But for Taiwanese cartoonist Lin Cheng-Te, 36, they describe his every waking moment. They define his life. “Producing comics is like making a movie. It’s more
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      Lock icon Stars' bizarre slimming regimes
      244 26 WHAT lengths would you go to to remain slim? Would you consider harbouring worms in your tummy? Voluptuous Hongkong exactress Veronica Yip apparently did just that in the past. She reared ‘hui chong’ (roundworms) in her abdomen so she could eat as much as she wants
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      Lock icon Charlie to make a comeback?
      151 26 FORMER Hongkong actress-singer Charlie Young may have retired from showbusiness, but she’s still hot property. Although she left the limelight in 1997 to open an image consultancy firm, Starz, with her Singapore beau, Khoo Shao Tze, film-makers are still trying to cast her in their
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      Lock icon JLo the heroine
      169 30 IT pays to know your civil defence moves. That’s what Jennifer Lopez might just say if she were here now. She saved the day and her boyfriend during a spot of drama at a Los Angeles eatery The Ivy, reported Peoplenews.com yesterday. The Latin lovely and Cris
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      Lock icon Rapper Eminem's big screen debut
      171 30 Reuters LOS ANGELES Critically acclaimed film director Curtis Hanson, whose credits include Wonder Boys and LA Confidential, will team up with foul-mouthed rapper Eminem to make a fictional movie about a troubled hip-hop star, trade paper Daily Variety reported in yesterday’s edition. The untitled Universal
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      Lock icon Kidman stalker may countersue
      146 30 Reuters SANTA MONICA, California An aspiring actor and would-be US presidential candidate accused of stalking actress Nicole Kidman was ordered on Wednesday to stay away from her for three years. But angry Matthew Hooker, 40, saying he had always behaved as a proper gentlemen, vowed to
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Philadelphia noses ahead as... Snow falls on Buds
        524 31 NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Philadelphia 76ers 89 Milwaukee Bucks 88 -AP PHILADELPHIA His sprained ankle was actually broken. But Eric Snow decided to take the risk and play anyway. Without him, Philadelphia couldn’t have won. Snow, limping at times, hit two jump
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        Lock icon Speak up for help – or be damned
        483 32 Speak up for help or be damned SOME weeks ago, I made a clarion call in this newspaper to the National Sports Associations (NSAs) to get their act together. Perhaps NS A chiefs don’t ride the MRT, and hence don’t read this column. Perhaps some of them did read it,
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        332 33 CONFEDERATIONS CUP Brazil 2 Cameroon 0 -AFP KASHIMA, Japan A second string Brazil proved too good for African champion Cameroon as it started its Group B Confederations Cup campaign with a 2-0 win yesterday. Goals in the space of
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        24 33 Japan defeated Canada 3-0 to top Group B on goal difference. Shinji Ono, Akinori Nishizawa, and Hiroaki Morishima were the scorers.
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        157 34 TENNIS Reuters PARIS Fifth seed Pete Sampras was knocked out of the French Open in the second round 6-7(4), 3-6, 2-6 by Spain’s Galo Blanco yesterday, leaving his Grand Slam collection incomplete for yet another year. Blanco, who has never achieved much success in Paris, bowing out
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        89 34 •GOLF -AFP BEIJING Tiger Woods (left) will make his first ever trip to China at the end of the year to challenge three leading Asian professionals. The World No 1 is scheduled to appear from Nov 9-11 at the Mission Hills Golf Club in the southern
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          58 34 SHIZUOKA, Japan Singapore’s under-23 soccer team held Japan’s JatcoTT to a goaless draw in a friendly match here yesterday. The Cubs put up a solid defensive wall against the marauding Japanese semi-professional team. Said Singapore under-23 coach Flemming Nielsen: “We were under pressure throughout...but out defence prevented
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          76 34 Reuters LONDON Dutch international Edgar Davids and Portugal’s Fernando Couto have been suspended from all football matches with immediate effect, FIFA said yesterday. The suspension will run until the end of the openended ban imposed by the Italian authorities after the players tested positive for illegal substances.
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        396 35  -  by PETER SIOW WILL Fandi Ahmad (below) play? Or will he not? That is the million-dollar question Singapore Armed Forces FC fans will be asking themselves as they stream through the turnstiles for today’s home match against Jurong FC at Choa Chu Kang
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        565 35  -  NTUC Income S-League Gombak 0 Balestier Central 1 by LIM HAN MING HE had just returned from national duty. But in two months’ time, Gombak United’s Thai defender Choketawee Promrut could hit the road again. That’s because Thailand is through to the
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