The Straits Times, 15 December 2002

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  • 601 1  - Stronger agency to police borders CHONG CHEE KIN Customs officers to come under Home Affairs Ministry to allow for speedy response to terror threats By VIGILANCE is the watchword and the Government's offensive against the threat of terrorism will gain a sharper focus from April 1 next year, when a
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  • 544 1  -  CHONG CHEE KIN Youth sends out message after his sister overhears conversation By< Recent arrests FOUR people, including two teenagers, hid been arrested in recent months for making hoax calls: Nov 1 A man was nabbed hi Woodlands after ho made two bomb
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  • NEWS FLASH
    • 150 2 BEING FREE AND FMENDLY SINGAPORE has many vulnerabilities as a sovereign city-state but sometimes does itself no favours by behaving in an arrogant way towards its immediate neighbours, some speakers at the Singapore Forum on Politics pointed out yesterday. Dr Eric Teo chaired the session and Professor Kirpal Singh
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    • 82 2 NOT ENOUGH TO BUY CONSUMERS in the United States appear to be shedding their worries just in time for Christmas sales. But they may face empty shelves when they get to the stores. Peoples concerns about Iraqi war clouds and plunging stocks made stores underestimate consumer demand. A report
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    • 96 2 ITS JUL IN TNE GENES THE Canadian-born Steven Pinker, 48, is the Peter de Florez professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his latest book, The Blank Slate, he argues that man is born essentially unequal. We are all
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    • 74 2 VALIANTLY, IN ENGUSH CHINESE superstar Zhang Ziyi, 22, was in town on Wednesday to promote her latest Visa commercial in which she stars with Mr 007, Pierce Brosnan. "This is my first time," she said of her maiden interview in slow, halting English. She started learning English in September
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    • Article, Illustration
      113 2 Who will beFifa Players of 2002? COME Tuesday in Madrid, Fifa will anoint one man and one woman its official Players of 2002. The votes are already cast, from national team coaches in 200 nations around the globe. In the men's category, the nominees are Oliver Kahn, Ronaldo and
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    • 163 2 Foster parents to get more money FOSTER parents will get more money to look after the children they take in. It was one ofthe incentives which the Ministry of Community Development and Sports announced yesterday to attract more parents to join its fostering scheme. Its minister, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim,
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    • 64 2 NO FEAR OF TERRORISTS MRS Jane Topping, 28, said as she walked down Oxford Street in London, hand-in-hand with her daughters Emma and Eliza: "I'm not worried. Christmas is coming and the shopping has to be done. If there's a terrorist attack, so be it." Europeans are going about
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    • 234 2 BUNA'S VILLAGE MUJONARES THE myth that India's wealthiest live in the country's big cities like Bombay has been shattered by the findings of an insurance company, which insures people in small towns and villages for mammoth amounts. Much ofthe money in small towns in India is in the hands
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    • 71 2 FUI LEADS GOLF WORID CUP WHILE Vijay Singh inspired Fiji to the second-round lead ofthe Worl d Cup in Mexico, Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing hoisted Singapore off the bottom. Playing in the foursomes, Mardan and Lam returned a seven-under-par 65 to be 21st of 24 teams. Two-times
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  • PRIME NEWS
    • 58 3 NOTHING RAUNCHY There was nothing raunchy about the incident, we made a very silly mistake. It was our fault and we are sorry/ —Chan (right), 25, »n immici yawn ate IMAGE TARNISHED This incident will tarnish our reputation andthatmay affect
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    • 571 3  -  MARC LIM CHIA HAN KEONG The suspension from international competitions may affect Stanley Chan and Andrew Foo's future sports careers Bv and ONE bad call cost national sailors Stanley Chan and Andrew Foo a night in a police station in Korea
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    • 253 3 Cut the smut out, and we'll sue LOS ANGELES Hollywood studios have taken legal action to put the smut back. Eight major studios filed a federal lawsuit in Denver on Friday agains video rental stores ane technology companies that allow consumers to watch films that have been altered to remove
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    • 539 40  -  ASAD LATIF Successful strike would have great symbolic value, says expert By This is asymmetrical warfare and it is impossible to guard against the range of soft targets that J I has now shifted to. Dr Abuza THE two reasons which make Singapore an attractive place to
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    • 454 40  -  DER WIN PEREIRA Bu INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA Indonesian police have stepped up security at churches around the country following revelations that Muslim militants behind recent bombings in Makassar were planning more attacks that were to peak on Christmas Eve. The plot is eerily
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    • 241 40 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong will make a two-day working visit to Indonesia from tomorrow at the invitation of President Megawati Sukarnoputri. The visit by Mr Goh, who will be the first head of government to visit Jakarta after the
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    • 340 5 FLASHED KNIFE When I went out of my shop, I saw her struggling with a man and hanging on to her bag. But when the man saw me, he just took out a knife and waved it at me to go back. A
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    • 676 5  -  SIM CHI YIN Inspired by Sunday Times report, woman is coordinating the delivery of leftover bread from bakeries to charity homes B__i DOUGH BE ON THE SAFE SIDE "PEOPLE think it's so wasteful for us to throw away leftovers," said Mr David Tan, general
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  • WORLD
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      37 6 TOMMY ME IS FMDvnni TMEAIS~JMM CttZYMHIBB, lACBI__IS_JCNK_I, MV, IT UTS IF A shopper in Paris, where 1,000 extra law-enforcement officers, one of whom is seen here guarding a department store, ha ve heen deployed AP
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      53 6 TM NOT MIMED. CHMSTMAS B COMM MM TK SNMTMOMSTOK IQOME. M TMBOTS fl TDMMST ATTACK, SOOEIT.' Mrs Jane Topping, 38, on shopping in Oxford Street, London. The public, oat in Force to do their Christmas shopping, has been ashed to be en the alert for suspicions Inciting packages
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    • 673 6  -  GRACE SUNG Security has been stepped up in major European cities against possible terrorist threats ahead of Christmas celebrations By EUROPE CORRESPONDENT BRUSSELS Concerned about terrorist attacks? Not the Europeans. They are going about their Christmas holiday shopping merrily, seemingly impervious to
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    • 404 7 Iran women lawmakers seek to abolish stoning They hope to get the approval of clerics before submitting a Bill to outlaw this method of punishment for adultery TEHERAN Iran's female legislators have launched a campaign to abolish death by stoning as a punishment for adultery, saying it has harmed Iran's
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    • 100 7 AMMAN Jordan yesterday said it had arrested two members of the Al-Qaeda network for the killing of a US diplomat in Amman in October. Mr Laurence Foley was gunned down in front of his house in Amman on the morning of Oct 28 as
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    • 290 7 BLASTS IN BOGOTA Rebels were targeting lawmakers, says President BOGOTA (Colombia) A book bomb and a suitcase bomb, apparently targeting legislators, exploded in Bogota, wounding at least 16 people. President Alvaro Uribe said the Friday night blasts were an attack by leftist
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    • 216 7 ATHENS An assailant fired several rifle shots at a car carrying Athens' first woman mayor, injuring her driver seriously and then fleeing before being arrested, police said. The attacker, who was caught by police after a short chase, was identified as Giorgos
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    • 113 8 Pope accepts Boston cardinal's resignation VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of embattled Cardinal Bernard Law, who became the highest-ranking church figure felled by a widespread sexualabuse scandal that has shaken the Archdiocese of Boston. Cardinal Law resigned on Friday as Boston archbishop, the Vatican announced.
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    • 465 8 They show the country their physical blemishes and go under the surgeon's knife before live cameras for all to see NEW YORK In what appears to reflect America's obsession with reality shows, men and women are now willing to appear before television
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    • DATELINE ASIA
      • 106 8  -  Nirmal Ghosh TOP HONOUR FOR VETERAN DIRECTOR VETERAN film director Yash Chopra, 70 and still directing, has been given the film industry's topmost honour, the Dadasaheb Phalke award. With his brother B.R. Chopra and son Aditya, he has powered the Bollywood scene for decades. In 1975, he launched an
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        123 8  -  Mary Kwang Courteous Tung's four golden phrases BID TO GATHER FEEDBACK CHIEF Executive Tung Chee Hwa is said to have four golden phrases which he uses frequently during meetings to gather feedback from different groups of people. According to an Apple Daily commentator, the four statements are: I attach
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      • 131 8  -  Reme Ahmad WILY pouncum IN HIS ELEMENT DATUK Jamaludin Jarjis went through the gauntlet of reporters' questions in his maiden appearance as the new Second Finance Minister, giving him a taste of what life will be like in the powerful post. But the veteran politician, who was sworn in
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        143 8  -  Edward Tang DOING IN JAN. WHAT HE DOES BEST A HIGH-PROFILE murder suspect, who is a doctor by profession and is now in custody in a maxi-mum-security prison, is Painter Chen Yifei wants tourists kept out of Zhouzhuang. doing behind bars what he does well outside. Sorachart Sirichote has
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      • 106 8  - CHIN A Jason Leow PAINTER LAMENTS TOWN'S BLKHT CHINA'S most celebrated modern painter, Mr Chen Yifei, has the dubious honour of bringing hordes of tourists to Zhouzhuang, an ancient and closed water town known as the Venice of the Orient. One of his paintings, Memories Ot Hometown, was a gift
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    • 533 9 UN arms inspectors swoop in on record 1 1 sites SIGHTS 1 SADDAM UN also gives Iraq to the end of the month to declare all of Its scientists involved in banned weapons programmes BAGHDAD United Nations arms inspectors swooped in on a record 11 sites in Iraq yesterday after
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    • 506 9 Monitors 'not likely' to find anything UN PREDICAMENT Scientists also unlikely to divulge information BAGHDAD It was the first time weapons inspectors had entered one of President Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces. Iraqis were jittery about giving them access. Relenting, the Iraqi guards opened the gates, and the inspectors rushed in.
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    • 198 9 MOSCOW Iraq is "teaching" its critics a lesson by breaking business deals witn them, as Russia and Australia have found out On Thursday, Baghdad cancelled a major contract with a consortium led by Russia's largest oil company Lukoil to develop a field
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    • 576 10 EU seals deal to admit 10 new members Agreements with 10 new members are sealed after four years of hard bargaining which only ended at the eleventh hour Funding package THE European Union will pay 40.83 1M8 ewes (Ss74 billion) over tht 2004-2006 period In form aid other subsidies for
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    • 296 10 Cranes define Athens skyline as Games near ATHENS In almost any direction that a visitor here turns, there is digging and building, refurbishing and reconfiguring. Bulldozers carve paths for new and expanded roads. Cranes loom over building sites. The billboards say it all: The 2004 Olympics are coming. Athens, in
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    • 119 10 OTTAWA Canada took a step towards ending the trade in "blood diamonds" by adopting a Bill to control the import and export of rough or uncut diamonds mined in conflict areas. The Bill brings Canada in line with its commitment to the Kimberlv
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    • 345 11 He expresses concern that a potential conflict of interest controversy would affect the consulting firm he presently owns WASHINGTON Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has resigned as chairman of a panel investigating the Sept 11 attacks, citing controversy over potential conflicts
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    • 266 11 SMALLPOX VACCINE WASHINGTON President George W. Bush has ordered members of the US military serving in high-risk areas to take the smallpox vaccine and said he will be inoculated as well. "Our government has no information that a smallpox attack is imminent, yet it
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    • 585 12 in A ll Opposition claims government is I RHU using two construction sites to develop nuclear weapons, though Washington does not believe it has made them yet. 10 A A US intelligence reports say it I HHH recently bought uranium in Africa and
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    • 377 12 Pyongyang should not break deals in hopes of aid WASHINGTON US President George W. Bush has ordered a stop to "business as usual with North Korea, as Washington steps up a policy ot diplomatic encirclement to force Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear
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    • 222 12 Pyongyang 'will remove cameras, seals on its own' SEOUL North Korea has hinted it would remove seals and surveillance cameras from its nuclear facilities on its own if the nuclear watchdog does not do so immediately. On Thursday, Pyongyang announced it was reviving its frozen nuclear facilities to generate badly
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    • 274 13 Pyongyang wants 'slanderous' Bond movie banned SEOUL James Bond may have beaten North Korean baddies in his latest movie. But in real life, his "nemesis" is alive and wants him taken out North Korea wants the United States to stop screening Die Another Day, saying the 20th Bond movie slanders
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    • 599 13 EU to rethink ties if N. Korea persists Pyongyang's nuke plans could put grouping's support for a $9-billion peaceful energy project at risk COPENHAGEN Reacting to North Korea's plan to switch on its nuclear programme again, the European Union (EU) together with other global players has urged Pyongyang to seek
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  • CHINA
    • 615 14  -  LAWRENCE CHUNG Leaders of Kuomintang and People First Party agree to form an alliance in a move to prevent Chen's re-election as President By THE STRAITS TIMES TAIWAN BUREAU TAIPEI Taiwan's two main opposition parties yesterday agreed to form an alliance by
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    • 270 14 TAIPEI President Chen Shui-bian has stressed the significance of forging a cooperative relationship between the central and local governments in his first post-election meeting with newly re-elected Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou. At the Friday meeting, Mr Chen
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    • 322 14 Planned HK law peaks fears over lack of freedom HONGKONG A planned new seeuritv law in Hongkong has raised fears about a lack of freedom here to their highest levels since the territory reverted to Chinese sovereignty, according to a survey. Fears about losing personal, media and academic freedoms have
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    • 66 14 XINHUA No clash but only a click here as modern, contemporary gizmo meets venerable, creaky hands. Madam Tao Ermei, 105, is tickled to find her image on the screen of a digital camera in Taizhou, in east China's Zhejiang province. Appropriate too that this should happen not far
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    • 353 14 JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE QUESTIONED HONGKONG Justice Secretary Elsie Leung has apologised to Hongkong's top judge after a lawyer representing the government suggested that Beijing could overturn a ruling by the territory's highest court, a justice spokesman said. Ms Leung apologised to
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  • ASIA
    • 630 15  - When burgers fail to excite... McRice just might LAWRENCE CHUNG McDonald's Taiwan will offer four rice dishes across the island from tomorrow to jump-start stagnant sales BY THE STRAITS TIMES TAIWAN BUREAU TAIPEI Faced with stagnant sales, the McDonald's chain in Taiwan has come up with a new recipe that
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    • 52 15 RICE STILL A STAPLE LAWRENCE CHUNG MCDONALD'S new menu, featuring rice dishes like the one above, is designed to meet the needs of groups such as parents, who take their chilcuen to the outlets for hamourgers, and then proceed to Chinese restaurants for their rice staples after their children finished
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    • 325 15 Bid for slice of launch market gets a boost TOKYO Japan's state-of-the-art H-2A rocket, carrying one Australian and three Japanese satellites, blasted off successfully ye«erday as it made another step forward in its bid for a slice of the satellite-launch market dominated by Europe
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    • 231 15 Ex-Customs chief of Shenzhen gets life for graft BEIJING Shenzhen's former Customs chief has been sentenced to life imprisonment for taking bribes worth nine million yuan (Ssl.9 million). The Intermediate People's Court in China's southern boom town handed down the sentence to Zhao Yucun on Friday, reported Xinhua news agency.
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    • 188 16 Red alert in Delhi after cops kill 2 rebels NEW DELHI A red alert was declared in New Delhi yesterday after police gunned down two suspected armed Pakistani militants at a roadblock on the outskirts of tfie Indian capital, a senior police officer said. A third militant escaped and was
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    • 45 16 AP The chief chef of the Sheraton Hotel in Bombay, Mr Dev JJesai, probably doesn't mind sharing his kitchen with this group of novice cooks. These Miss India 2003 contestants are learning about a diet plan specially designed for them.
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    • 411 16 The two are hacked to death hours before a re-vote in four cities in state election, expected to deliver a win for the ruling nationalist party AHMADABAD Two workers from the ruling Hindu nationalist party were hacked to death by political rivals hours
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    • 434 17  - Reservoir of wealth in small Indian towns NIRMAL GHOSH Point driven home by top public sector insurer receiving mammoth policy orders from small towns Bu INDIA CORRESPONDENT S2OOM: Shock policy order This month, the Life Insurance Corporation of India received a gigantic, 5-billion-rupee (Ss2oo--million) life insurance policy order from a
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    • ASIA FILE
      • 78 17 SOUTH Korea will purchase about US$534 mil- lion (***** million) worth of Russian weapons in a deal that will scrape away part of the j US$l.95 billion that Moscow owes Seoul, the South Korean Defence Ministry said. Tbe Seoul govern- ment has decided to
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      • 33 17 THREE people were executed in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, convicted of trafficking 1.7 kg of heroin and 5.4 kg of Ecstasy, state press said yesterday. AFP
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      • 28 17 NORTH and South Korea finished clearing landmines yesterday in {> reparation for transport inks across their heavily fortified border, Seoul s Defence Ministry said. Reuters
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      • 47 17 ENAMUL Haque Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi journalist working for the British news agency Reuters, has been arrested after he reportedly misquoted a government minister as saying that the Al-Qaeda might have been responsible for a series of theatre bombines in the country. AP
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      • 79 17 THE families of seven newborns, who were injected with wrong drugs at a Taiwan hospital recently, have decided to sue four employees, including the hospital chief, tor causing harm to their babies. According to the China Times, they want the Pei Cheng Women's and Children
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    • 76 17 Stars and stripes shredded MANY ofthe more than 50,000 demonstrators in front of Seoul City Hall take part in ripping apart huge American flags as they protest against the acquittal of two US servicemen who struck an d killed two South Korean girls with their military vehicle. They demanded changes
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    • 304 17 SEOUL Despite US President George W. Bush's apology, thousands of South Koreans rallied yesterday to protest against tne deaths of two South Korean girls who were hit by a US military vehicle. In Seoul, an estimated 50,000 people crowded
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    • 601 18  - End ofthe road for Bangkok's 'walking mall' EDWARD TANG Thaksin decides to end year-old experiment in the Thai capital as the road closure seems to be doing more harm than good Bu THAILAND CORRESPONDENT I M A 1 1 i.rl' g~ .i^.l^ KVt I j > j_ j\ A 1
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    • 209 18 POACHING IN INDONESIA SURABAYA Navy chief Bernard Kent Sondakh has threatened to sink any foreign fishing vessel that tries to sneak into Indonesian waters. "If they are found entering Indonesian waters illegally, it is better for them to be sunk," Antara nev I
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      • 39 18 A COURT in southern Vietnam has sentenced five inmates of a drug rehabilitation centre to up to nine years' jail for organising a June breakout of nearly 400 inmates, state-controlled media reported yesterday AP
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      • 57 18 IN A move to centralise command and coordination among Thailand's diverse anti-drug agencies, a joint command centre ior suppression has been set up. It will be headed by Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh. Defence Minister Thammarak Issarangkura said the new centre will help speed up work
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      • 42 18 PRESIDENT Xanana Gusmao of East Timor chided his citizens yesterday for trying to politicise deadly riots earlier this month. He said in Dili peace will depend on ensuring that democracy thrives in the newly independent country. AP
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      • 85 18 THAILAND'S Forensic Science Institute has confirmed that a teenage girl who died while un- dergoing liposuction treatment at a Chiang Mai clinic was given an overdose of anaesthetic after her veins became clogged with fat. An autopsy on 17--year-old Siriporn Muima also found that anti-nau-sea medication
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      • 63 18 THE United States on Friday issued a strongly worded statement to the Cambodian government to take immediate steps to halt political violence ahead of elections next July. In the latest of a regular series of statements on the issue, the State Department condemned a rash
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    • 48 19 AP An Indonesian soldier wields a garden hoe as he walks past a pile ot Kult rifles in front of a mosque in Banda Aceh. The troubled province's restoration is on with the signing of a truce between Jakarta and the Free Aceh Movement.
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    • 359 19 Taiwanese leader and a business team are due to hold talks with Yogyakarta governor this week a trip that ruffles Beijing's feathers JAKARTA Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is scheduled to visit Indonesia this week and meet Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, a
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    • 71 19 MANILA Eighty-five people arrived back in the Philippines after being deported by the United States, Foreign Secretary Bias Ople said yesterday. They were the second batch of Filipinos deportee following tightened US immigration rules since the terror attacks on Sept 11 last year. About 70 per cent
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    • 67 19 MANUKA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday put the military and police on high alert to safeguard the public, particularly in the capital, from terror attacks during the Christmas holidays. Mrs Arroyo said a meeting with security officials assured her that "the 17,000-strong Metro Manila police
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    • 279 19 S-E ASIAN TERROR GROUPS TOKYO Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has agreed that there is a direct link between the suspected terrorist groups in Malaysia, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries and the Al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden. "The terrorist groups in South-east Asian
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    • 79 19 JAKARTA Officials from more than 30 countries and international institutions are to meet in Bali on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss money laundering and terrorist-financing measures in the region. The two-day meeting, the first big international meeting to be held since the Bali blasts in the
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    • 309 18 Phone home for X'mas Calling cards which let you make international calls from public phone booths are in demand, even in mobile phone-crazy Singapore. But they are just one way to call friends and loved ones at home for Christmas. You can 7 \r i mMW ____mfc'-* --n uith A
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 633 21  -  LESLIE LAU Finding itself behind S'pore and Thailand, it adopts Chinese signboards and smiling Michelle Yeoh posters to catch up By IN KUALA LUMPUR Top draw TOURISM commercials featuring actress Michelle Yeoh (left) have been given much credit for the
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    • 449 22 It wants information on deals conducted by the steel company via institutions in the two countries NEGERI SEMBILAN The Anti-Corruption Agency is seeking the help of the Japanese and Hongkong authorities in its probe into the alleged misappropriation of billions of
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    • 91 22 Meet the minister and get car washed KUCHING For a fee, Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister George Chan will provide a car wash today at the state's Finance and Public Utilities Ministry car park. The service is one ofthe highlights ofthe ministry's meet- the-public-cum-charity programme. Dr Chan, who is also Industrial
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      • 49 22 THE Malaysian Armed Forces has been placed on alert for floods in the East Coast states with the onset of the northeast monsoons. Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said the armed forces were working with the civilian authorities to deploy military equipment Bernama
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      • 38 22 MOVE TO HIGHLIGHT RISKS OF MADETES THE Health Ministry is intensifying efforts to create more public awareness on diabetes. Health Minister Chua Jui Meng said diabetics were at greater risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. Bernama
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      • 55 22 A POLICE corporal allegedly assaulted a 19--year-old trader after finding out that he had taken out his 15-year-old daughter without his knowledge. Mohamad Nairn, from Kampong Kuala Inah, Pulau Sebang, was allegedly beaten up by the girl's father after he sent her back at midnight.
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      • 43 22 37 -RMTUNELTO DIVERT WATER CONSTRUCTION of a 37-km tunnel to channel water from Pahang to Selangor in central Malaysia will start next year. It will cost US$l.5 billion (552.7 billion), that will be loaned by Japan, said Works Minister S. Vellu yesterday. Xinhua
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      • 37 22 THE Pilgrims Fund Board has assured the safety of Malaysians performing the Haj in Saudi Arabia next year. Board Chairman Zainol Mahmood said the board was monitoring the Middle East closely. Bernama
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    • 700 23  -  WONG SHER MAINE WMfTED (Must be kind and responsible) MCDS increases allowances and support services in a bid to double the number of foster parents next year KIND souls who take on the responsibility of nurturing a stranger's child can expect
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    • 511 24  - Tiger, Tiger burning bright THERESA TAN It's hard to miss the eye of the Tiger as beer ads beckon from hawker centres, coffeeshops and even the expressways Bu TIGERS have invaded Singapore, prowling the side streets as well as the skyline. Everywhere you turn, from coffeeshops to buses, it is
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    • 189 24 A 62-YEAR-OLD woman was stabbed to death and her husband and son-in-law were hurt when they were attacked yesterday in an HDB block in Choa Chu Kang. All three are China nationals, as is the 33-year-old man that the police are holding as the
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    • 357 24 ENGLISH is coming along fine. But there's still mathematics and science to worry about. Giving his take on how Malay students have made marked improvements in the Primary School Leaving Examination and General Paper in the A-level examinations, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, the
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    • 144 24 RECOVERY operations to tow a DC-8 aircraft away from Changi Airport's Runway 1 may take several days, because of the soft ground conditions on the grass verge. The plane, which belongs to Arrow Air, an American freight company, overshot the Changi
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    • 851 25  -  PAUL JANSEN Consultative approach will become increasingly important, but more should also step forward to serve and not just criticise, say forum panellists Bu The people perceive the highly publicised efforts by the Government to reach them and get their views prior to
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    • 171 25 Society offers political science network RULING party politicians and their rivals are both welcome in a new organisation launched yesterday for political scientists and those interested in the subject. One of the founders of the Political Science Association (Singapore), Associate Professor Lee Lai To, said the doors were open to
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    • 397 25  -  SIM CHI YIN Bu SINGAPORE has many vulnerabilities as a sovereign city state but sometimes does itself no favours by behaving haughtily with its immediate neighbours, some speakers at tlie Singapore Forum on Politics pointed out yesterday. In a panel discussion on Singapore's international relations, Dr
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    • 312 25 THE Malay/Muslim community needs to debate more openly the issues that have put it in the spotlight recently, sociologist Chua Beng Huat said at a campus forum on politics yesterday. And political science lecturer Hussin Mu talib agreed. "The Muslim community has
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    • 891 26  -  LI-ANN WEE Organiser of Miss Singapore World contests defends pageant choice and denies rumours of foul play 'Manu have asked me whether Sharon bought her title. It wasn't so! Sharon was clearlu the best choice overall. She speaks English, French and Bahasa Indonesia
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    • 1136 28  -  ABLINA ARSHAD In the second part of our series in which we catch up with people who have been affected by news events ofthe year, we get an update on our fairy tale princess What 1ai»i»!:\i:i) :"m;\... I 1992: SIA stewardess Julita Aishah Abdul Latif.
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    • MONEY
      • 424 29 Retailers may not have enough stocks WASHINGTON Consumers in the IL.ited States appear to be shedding their worries just in time for Christmas sales. But they may face empty shelves when they get to the stores, analysts say. People's concerns about Iraqi war clouds and
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      • 273 29 ATLANTA Stock market investors are putting history to the test with their trading patterns in the first half of the month. Typically a positive month for stocks, the maior indexes as of Friday have fallen anywhere from 5 per cent for Standard Poor's index to 7-9
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      • 338 29 NatSteel directors push for 98 Holdings' takeover bid INDEPENDENT directors of steel manufacturer NatSteel have once again recommended that shareholders accept 98 Holdings' offer to take over the company. This is because 98 Holdings' current offer price of $2.05 a share "represents an immedi*ately realisable and certain proposition", they said
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      • 263 29 NEW YORK Ms Janet Reed plans to limit holiday shopping to compact discs at her neighbourhood Barnes Noble rather than designer clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue or Barneys New York if transit workers strike tomorrow. "You have to change your strategies," said Ms Reed,
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      • 157 29 SINGAPORE has asked Virgin Blue Airlines, the Australian discount carrier founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, to fly to the island state as part of its network expansion. "We have written to Vir§in Blue to encourage lem to operate to Singapore," said Mr Albert Tjoeng,
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      • 168 29 CONNECTICUT Worldwide semiconductor sales increased 1.4 per cent this year, boosted by sales of chips used in personal computers (PC) and consumer electronics, according to market researcher Dataquest. Based on initial statistics by Gartner's Dataquest unit, sales rose to U*****.4 billion (*****.4 billion) from
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    • FAMILY MONEY
      • 245 30 Chances are, you are one ofthe many people these days despairing over what to do about your shrinking investments. You have tried to do the right thing, seeking growth by putting money in shares. But now, vour stockbroker seems to be making more in commissions
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      • 616 30 TNE MOTLEY FOOL www.fool.com THIS is the site that spawned many imitators. Founded by Drothers Tom and David Gardner, The Motley Fool philosophy is to apply a com-mon-sense, no-holds-barred, irreverent approach to money and discuss it applies to the various facets of one's life. Fools here refer
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      • 641 30 HOW TO READ A FINANCIAL REPORT By John A. Tracey John Wiley and Sons, 1999 Paperback, 192 pages You know that the financial report is the most important part of a company's annual report, but why does it have to be so abysmally boring and full of
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      • 220 30 SO YOU'VE spent some time studying a few fundamentals and the market, and you decide it is time to get your feet wet. Which brokerage do you start with? If you have decided you are going the DIY route, do not waste time with full-service brokers because
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    • 951 25 Family Diary January 2003 issue A Family Education Programme Bulletin by the Ministry of xZommunity Development ond Sports An Alternative Date When most of us think of going on a date, the Play Tourist first thing that COmes to mind is dinner and a Make y° ur wa X Chinatown,
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      350 31 POT SHOTS Anil Menon s takeon the week's^ Heavy petting: In Taipei, a marriage suffered irreversible damage after a cat insisted on sharing its master's marriage bed. Though the wife didn 't quite fancy Furry purring sweet nothings to her, she put up with it until it began liaving wet
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    • 3310 31 In parts ofthe Middle East, Asia and Africa, where there is a sharp divide between the rich and powerful, and the poor and marginalised, madrasahs have become a refuge for those for whom modernity has brought little solace. Husaun Haqqani examines how geo-politics, sectarian conflicts and poverty
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      • 296 32 A REMINDER put out by the Public Utilities Board (PUB) recently about private rainwater collection is a little baffling, though the rationale is sound. Trade professionals with the capacity to design and build commer-cial-sized water-retention structures engineers, architects, developers and contractors were told that diversion of rainwater
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    • 1118 32  -  Dominic Nathan THE WAY I SEE IT EVERY year, as many as 1,000 patients here die needlessly because of medical errors made in hospitals. But don't everybody rush to get your loved ones out of hospital just yet. The dramatic revelation, made in a recent Singapore Medical
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    • 902 32  -  Nirmal Ghosh CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK An ambitious highway project looks to ease congestion between major cities in India by widening the lanes, but the countryside's manv trees will be the victims of such a massive construction project. NEW DEHLI India's countryside is the stuff of legend, and much
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    • 882 33  - Berlin remakes its past future Warren Fernandez Just as visitors once came to see the Berlin Wall and how it divided this city, many now come to see how the city is remaking itself in its absence FROM the charming bistro at the posh Hotel Adlon, you look out onto
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    • 1423 34  -  Cheong Suk-Wai Pinker The Brain In short The 17th-century theory that we are born with no notion of good or evil and are shaped by culture and circumstance, may be politically correct, but is scientifically wrong, says MIT psychologist Steven Pinker. In his new
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    • 361 34 Chinese watch out CHINESE President Jiang Zemins "Three Represents" theory, propounded at the recently concluded 16th Party Congress, embraces successful businessmen, once reviled as "evil capitalist-roaders", into the Communist Party. Cynical Chinese political observers have however spun the original Chinese words "san ge dai biao" into "aai san ge
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    • 579 34 'The worst fallout off The Blank Slate is not that people misunderstand the effects of the genes. It is that they misunderstand the effects off the environment/ Prof Steven Pinker THE BLANK SLATE By Steven Pinker (561 pages Penguin Putnam Books) $34 WARM, witty
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      475 35 Hef "CTlre noi all angels ministering spirits sen/ "w VS[ /o serve those who will inherit salvation?" VI VIVIEN QUAHE MEI LIN AGE: 47 was called home to be with the Lord on 14 Dec 2002, leaving behind loved ones. Beloved Husband: Steven Seah Seow Kang Father: Mother: (Reginald Quahe
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      279 35 KWEE SIM DJIANG Age 84 passed away peacefully on 13 Dec 2002 We will always cherish fond and dearest memories of your love and sincerity and the joy you brought to so many lives. Dearly missed by Wife Rosalind Ho Kit Sum Daughter Margaret Stafford Son-in-law Tan Lian Ouee Grand-Daughter
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      253 35 J One Sort/ is my sAepherd; lT yJ shaft not want. T^afm 23:1 ONG CHENG POH AGE: 88 was called home to be with the Lord on 14 Dec 2002, leaving behind loved ones. Children: Sons-in-law: Mary Goh Saw Tin (Yap Kim Swee, deceased) Alice Goh Saw Choo Michael Poh
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      305 35 Gs -Surely goodness and mercy shall follow *fc-jl me all the days of my life; and I xrill dwell g in the house of the £grd forever. shabu 2:)H I SONG TAT MING AGE: 61 Yras cadedhome to he wtrfi the Lord on 14 Tkcemher 2002, (caving behind (cned ones.
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    • 826 36 GOLF Singapore's Lam and Mardan off the bottom with seven-under 65 PUERTO VALLARTA (Mexico) While Vijay Singh inspired Fiji to tne second-round lead of the World Cup, Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing hoisted Singapore off the bottom. Playing in the
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    • 959 36 BASKETBALL NBA: Phoenix 99 Philadelphia 91. Orlando 111 Golden State 85. Seattle 91 Toronto 79. Indiana 94 Denver 72. Boston 115 Cleveland 100. New Jersey 79 Washington 65. New York 97 Miami 92. Memphis IM Houston 109 (OT). Milwaukee 101 Portland 79. San Antonio 97 LA Clippers
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    • 363 36 MOTOR RACING PARIS FIA president Max Mosley pushed his threat to pull out Formula One racing from Europe one stage further when he sent a warning letter to the European Commission. The International Automobile Federation's World Motor Sport Council met in Monte
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    • 337 36 CRICKET LONDON Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan has been named the top Test bowler in history, ranking alongside top batsman Don Bradman. Cricket bible Wisden analysed the performance of every player and assessed it against factors like opposition strength, career length and importance of each
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    • 285 36 squash ANTWERP (Belgium) Canadian Jonathon Power's dream of a second World Open squash crown was shattered when a freak injury forced him to quit his semi-fi-nal against Australian third seed David Palmer yesterday. Friday the 13th was also a bad
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      • 62 36 WORLD No 1 Tiger Woods underwent knee surgery on Thursday and may miss the season-opening Mercedes Championship on the 2003 US Professional Golfers' Association Tour from Jan 9-12. The 26-year-old underwent a successful one-hour procedure to remove fluid inside and outside the anterior cruciate ligament, according
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      • 75 36 DIFFICULT CUP TIE FOR LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL was paired with AJ Auxerre in the toughest tie of soccer's Uefa Cup fourth* round draw on Friday, but there was relief for fellow-fa-vourite Lazio after it drew Poland's W; sia Krakow. Victory for Liverpool, though, would give the fourtime European champion a potential
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      • 54 36 HOME United is holding trials for its Under-16 team for next season. The soccer trials are on Dec 16, 18 and 20 at the Ane Mo Kio Secondary School field from 8.30-10. 30am. Only those bom in 1987 and 1988 are eligible. For enquiries, call
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      • 62 36 GEYLANG United will be holding its sixth Young Eagles Soccer Camp from Dec 18-21 at Costa Sands Resort, Pasir Ris. It is open to children between six and 15 years old. The package price for members is $157.59. For nonmembers, it is $185.40. For enquiries
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    • 1164 37  -  PEH SHING HUEI BASKETBALL While he loves his life in the US, Wang's NBA career has not taken off Bu Bateer's lack of playing time also means less money for poor kids back home 'He still stands out despite his age. He has an
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    • 241 37 MEMPHIS Yao Ming recorded his fourth straight double-double with 18 points and 15 rebounds but the Chinese giant still could not prevent Memphis rrom winning 114-109 on Friday. Wang Zhizhi and Mengke Bateer, however, were nothing more than spectators as the San Antonio
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    • 337 37 LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Lakers hit bottom on Friday. At least, they hope so. J amal Mashburn had 21 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, and Baron Davis added 18 points and eight assists as the New Orleans Hornets routed the three-time defending champions
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    • 395 38  -  MARC LIM SOCCER Coach Poulsen replaces the off-form striker with Azhar from Geyiang B MIRKO GRABOVAC had told Timesport that he deserved to be benched for Singapore's opening Tiger Cup tie against Malaysia on Wednesday. After all, he had not scored in
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    • 31 38 AP Egyptian twins Hossam (left)and Ibrahim Hass, of Egypt's Zamalek, mark a second African Champions League triumph together, 15 years after winning it with Al Ahli in 1987.
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    • 372 38 JAKARTA Some 100,000 fans are expected at Jakarta's Bung Karno Stadium today to watch Indonesia play Myanmar as the co-host targets its first Tiger Cup title. However, soccer officials in Indonesia, which was the losing finalist in 2000, are wary of the hype. The way
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    • 940 39  -  ROB ON SUNDAY SOCCER Yes, Ronaldo should be Player ofthe Year, but isn't football a team game? 808 HUGHES THEE IN IK RVRRMvt After a stunning World Cup, Ronaldo (centre) should pip Zidane (left) and Kahnfor the World Player of the Year award,
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    • 419 39 LONDON Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger firmly believes his side will wrap up the English Premiership title in the next two months. The Gunners travel to Tottenham today, with the Frenchman insisting his side's break from the Champions League which resumes only
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    • 117 39 HORSE RACING THE successful run of jockey Saimee Jumaat and trainer Charles Leek looks set to continue at the Singapore Racecourse today when they team with the promising Angel Of Joy in the $75,000 Benchmark 90 over 1400m. Hot on the heels of last
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    • 207 38 Tiger Cup details GROUP A (Hosted by Indonesia): Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar. Cambodia, Philippines. Fixtures Dec 15: Indonesia v Myanmar (kick-off, 5.05pm Indonesian time), Vietnam v Cambodia (7.35pm). Dec 17: Philippines v Myanmar (4.05pm), Cambodia v Indonesia (6.35pm). Dec IS. Myanmar v Cambodia (4.05pm), Vietnam v Philippines (6.35pm)' Dec 21: Cambodia
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    • 626 40  -  CHIA HAN KEONG SOCCER Draw at Boro leaves it in third Elace, one point ehind Arsenal and Man United By CHELSEA missed its chance to leapfrog Arsenal ana Manchester United to the top ofthe English Premiership alter being neld to a 1-1 draw at
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    • 40 3 Posed picture: ALAN LIM it is normal to teel a tinge ot jealousy when you see your loved one getting along with a member ofthe opposite sex. But you may need help when jealousy becomes an overriding preoccupation.
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    • 927 4 BIRDS OF A FEATHER: while the male Asian koel (left) has all-black plumage like the crow, the similarity ends there. The koel both male and female have red eyes, a green beak and a longer tail than a crow. Female koels (above) also have
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    • 249 4 IT IS easy to mistake the male Asian koel for a crow because both have all-black plumage. But closer inspection will show that the koel both male and female have red eyes, a green beak, and a trimmer body size and longer tail than the crow.
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    • 15 1 Hope of Christmas Special Produced by the Special Projects Unit Marketing Division Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 331 2 It pays to be good friends with a chef, especially if it's Mr Giordano Faggioli, 34, chef at DOMVS the Italian Restaurant, Sheraton Towers Singapore. Since his return to Singapore less than two months ago (he worked in Singapore for a year in 2000), he has already
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    • 526 3 Singapore is a natural melting pot of CHO and PEGGY TAN speak to some home traditions they will observe here. Sweet treats Mrs Agnes Verrier, 32, is from Grasse, the perfume capital ofthe world, in the south of France. ("It's a beautiful place but very smelly actually!'')
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      242 3 Sim bang Gabi is traditionally a series of dawn masses that take place for the nine days before Christmas, and culminate in a midnight mass on Christmas Eve. In Singapore, the Filipino community has modified it slightly to make attendance more convenient. The masses are held in
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    • 198 3 Call her a true global citizen. Ms Justine Moss, 36, a freelance writer and part-time radio presenter, originally hails from the United Kingdom but moved to temperate Sydney to escape the cold, then finally to sunny Singapore. A naturalised Australian (she holds British and Australian citizenship), she's
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    • 531 6 That warm fuzzy feeling Memories of Christmases abroad make the festive season all the more special for some local personalities, as TRISTAN CHAN finds out. Beatrice Chia, theatre director, actress and associate artistic director of Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble "I have loads of favourite Christmas memories. They usually include my
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    • 925 7 Looking for Christmas tunes to jazz up the festive atmosphere? DOUGLAS TSENG recommends his top 10 CDs Alvin £nd The Chipmunks not included. Did you know...? Tht fin t AnHrican caul, Jesus is Born, was written ill 1649 by miaiitsr named John do Brebeur. This was
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      457 9 It is that time of the year again when children make their wishes for the newest toys. ADAM KOH looks at the top 10 gifts to put under the Christmas tree. TAKE THE WHEEL They may be too young to sit behind the wheel but it
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    • 496 10  -  KELVIN BIK Siemens Singapore and students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic put together a coffee table book to raise funds for the Riding for tne Disabled Association of Singapore. WBy T"X T^ e Doing A 1/%/ Little Good is a charity coffee table publication for the Riding
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      288 11 Spare a thought for the less fortunate help fulfill their wishes for the holiday season. Despite a poor economy, Christmas should still be a time of giving, especially to needy children and the disadvantaged in Singapore. That is the message that charitable organisations want to bring across,
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    • 667 12 Thanks to the Boys' Brigade Sharity Gift Box, Reynold Lim and his friends have discovered the true meaning of Christmas, reports ADAM KOH. HOW YOU CAN HELP tf^tre an mnm tf tfet Rmm ttot tfct Sits «0 1MB MMC9 hUS dHMPHI MM nvril m hi Hritasi
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    • 540 15  -  ROSS WILKINSON Serve up some delicious cocktails, sans alconol, that all in the family can enjoy. WBy Everybody enjoys a drink at Christmas after all, it's one of the few times in the year when you can really let your hair down for a celebration
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      397 16 1. Flower power Fresh flowers always brighten up a desk, and they don't have to cost the earth. Just get a couple of stalks of marigolds and arrange them in this Rektangle vase for a present that costs under $10! $5.90 at Ikea, 317 Alexandra Road. 2.
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      382 20 Light up the holidays with the warm glow of candlelight. With the wide range of colours, designs and textures, there is something to fit every decor and budget. GOLDEN GLOW Dress up a classic pillar candle with a Christmas wreath for instant festive cheer (above). $26.50 for
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