Streats, 5 September 2000

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  • 20 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 5 September 2000 Another quality publication of JT Singapore Press Holdings MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 48 1 SINGAPORE will be doing even more than it is already doing to control chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and limit damage to the ozone, said Environment Minister Lee Yock Suan at the 4th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific in Kitakyushu, Japan.
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    • 61 1 THE Singapore Tourism Board has revised upwards its growth forecast of visitor arrivals for this year to between 8 per cent and 10 per cent. We can expect to see an all time high of 7.6 million visitor arrivals this year, said Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister of
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    • 52 1 YOU will be receiving direct mail packages from the CPF Board if you are one of the 650,000 Singaporeans who have up to now not made the $lOO minimum contribution needed to qualify for the CPF Top-Up for 2000/2001. The letters will tell you how much you need
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  • 313 1 Meet Miss Mishra, undergrad, entrepreneur SHE is one in a million. And one that is the perfect picture of the entrepreneurial spirit that Singapore is pushing for. She is Miss Surachita Mishra, 23-year-old student millionaire, undergraduate entrepreneur. Miss Mishra got her millions together by starting an
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    • 31 1 MC Queen Diana Ser compares notes with KymNg it PAGE 21 wrence Chau v, Sports for you from I Hollywood V;:' PAGE 19 f Watch j TV with Tellytubby PAGE 18
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  • 379 2  -  Text: Sarah Ng SOMETHING beat the Monday blues yesterday morning. It had a distinct orange hue to it. And a name: Streats. Yes, for those of you who were looking out for it, and even for those who weren’t, Singapore’s first commuter paper sure
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          172 3 FIRSTLY, today ’s world stands in contrast to that of yesterday by our ‘connect-ness’ to the rest of the world. It is not just the Internet, and the world of knowledge and information that it opens up. But it is the way the world is organised today.
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        • 133 3 RECOGNISING that the marketplace is getting more crowded by the day with creative ideas and innovative inventions, our entrepreneurs will not only need to be creative and innovative, but also street smart. Otherwise, as related to me by an executive from Silicon Valley, the support of business
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          155 3 IN ASIA, there was already a bias (for cash-rich, brick-and-mortar companies): many of the bestknown dotcoms were controlled by well-established companies from Day One. But the concentration will increase. There will also be a shakeout of the venture capital business especially if stock markets turn down. Hundreds of
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    • 305 4 Young Singaporeans are hoping that technological advances will ease the population squeeze WITH Singapore’s population projected to swell to 5.5 million by 2040, young people hope new technology will help ease the squeeze. Some query Singapore’s need to have so many people.
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    • 241 4 FIBRE is important, and the month-long National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign starting on Thursday will remind you of that. To do that, the “2+2” formula was coined eat two servings of fruit and two servings of vegetables every day. Singaporeans are also advised to “Replace and Reduce” replace
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    • 126 4 FOUR shophouses on Balestier Road caught fire early yesterday morning. No one was hurt. The fire is thought to have begun in a motor repair shop at around sam. An eye-witness said flames shot through the roofs to a height of 10m. The police were notified of
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      • 93 4 A NIGHTCLUB boss was charged in a district court yesterday with killing an employee while they were in a bus travelling along the Central Expressway. Soh Gek Eng, 45, the general manager of Kabuki Deluxe nightclub at Cairnhill, is accused of murdering disc jockey Lee Teck
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      • 115 4 A TICKETING officer with a travel agency pocketed more than $2,000 in company money to fund his overseas holidays. Desmond Ng Kin Poh, 29, was in charge of counter sales and the collection of payments from clients of Chan Brothers Travel in Fook Hai Building, South Bridge
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      • 130 4 A 22-YEAR-OLD man who had been on the run since he allegedly stabbed a national serviceman to death seven months ago was arrested yesterday. He was caught in a police ambush at the National University Hospital. He is suspected to have stabbed Gunalan Sathasivam, also 22, at
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    • 258 4 It will be'one of the best, if not the best, new town in Singapore' FUTURE residents of new estates in Sengkang are likely to have fewer problems because most issues should be solved before they move in. The Sengkang Town Development Steering Committee will
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    • 269 5 riding a bicycle. The course will give us back our balance and confidence -Ms Lee Kim fook, 39, a former staff nurse, who left nursing about 10 years ago. She finds the K-skilling course very necessary THEY have not been practising nursing for three
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    • Just a minute
      • 50 5 The Manpower Research and Statistics Department of the Ministry o f Manpower (MOM) is conducting the labour force survey from Sept 7 to Oct 15. If your household has been selected for the survey, please be helpful to the interviewers. They carry identification cards issued by MOM.
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      • 31 5 The September school holidays have started. Students, don't miss the chance to get the latest educational aids and books at the Singapore Book Fair2ooo, which is on till Sept 10.
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      • 78 5 If you are between 13 and 16 years old, you can participate in the Nokia and National Library Board Creativity k Programme's l Creative Thinking Workshop. Held every I Tuesday and Thursday until Oct 5, the free workshops will teach you with "thinking maps" to expand your
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    • 210 5 ARE WE being too harsh when we hand young offenders to the courts before warning or counselling them? Can we do more to give them a second chance and help them re-integrate into society? The community’s role in helping young people in trouble will be
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    • 79 5 Our weather girl says Hi! I'm Belle, your weather girl this fortnight. As you can see from the way that I'm dressed, I'm expecting rain today. It will be slightly hazy with showers in the early after- noon mainly over northern and eastern Singapore. The temperature will reach a high
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      623 6 An old mongrel, 118 dead seamen andyou TWO weeks ago, a wire-haired mongrel in Britain called Sandy finally found a home after waiting in an animal shelter for 12 years almost the full term of his natural life. Baffled by Sandy’s history of rejection, his keepers at
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    • 30 6 my foundation. Honesty. Truthfulness. Fairness. Don't be greedy. Don't cheat people. Tangs Department Store founder Tan Choon Keng in a 1996 interview. He passed away on Sunday.
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 247 10 -AFP World leaders slam the junta for detaining Aung San SuuKyi and her lieutenants YANGON International pressure mounted on Myanmar’s military government as it continued its crackdown on the leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). World leaders and exiled opposition
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    • 140 10 AP WELLINGTON Cops-and-robbers: toy pistols, rifles and shotguns. Not without a licence, says one New Zealand school. The Tahunanui kindergarten in Nelson, 140 km west of Wellington, now requires pupils playing with pretend guns to carry permission cards modelled on real-life weapon permits.
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    • 95 10 know or not The key to why women generally live longer than men may be their double X chromosomes, according to New Scientist magazine. Unlike men, women have two X chromosomes which produce slightly different cell lines, which can behave differently and may give women a
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    • news scan
      • 72 11 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong-based Emperor Group, chaired by tycoon Albert Yeung, will open a casino in North Korea next month, the firm said yesterday. The luxury complex is in the Rajin-Sonbong economic zone, some 550 km north-east of Pyongyang, close to the Chinese and Russian
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      • 72 11 -AP BANDA ACEH Security forces killed four rebels in strife-torn Aceh, Indonesia, a day after the government and separatists extended a ceasefire accord, police said yesterday. LTC Endang Emiqail Bagus, a local police chief, said three guerillas were killed on Sunday during a battle in the
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      • 90 11 -AFP HONGKONG A Vietnamese tourist was held for 21 days by authorities after she lost her passport a human rights group said on Monday. Ms Nguyen Thi Yen Loan, 29, would be “seeking justice” from immigration, prison wardens and police “for unnecessary detention as well as brutality and
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      • 75 11 -AFP COTABATO A fight over the honour of having the first dance with a village beauty queen led to a grenade attack which killed two and injured nine others in the Philippines on Saturday night. Farmer Joel Banaga brandished a hand grenade and pulled out its
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      • 82 11 -AFP PHNOM PENH Cambodian Premier Hun Sen left for the UN yesterday without an agreement to set up a genocide trial. Diplomats had hoped parliament would pass the laws for a joint trial ahead of Mr Hun Sen’s departure for the Millennium Summit. “I am not going
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    • 259 11 But keen on Japanese investment Reuters TOKYO Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday gave an upbeat assessment of ties with Japan but took a tough stance on a decades-old territorial dispute that is blocking the path to a peace treaty between the two nations. President Putin,
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    • 184 11 -AFP BEIJING China has produced its fastest-ever train, suggesting that it may not want to rely on foreigners when building expensive high-speed rails linking its major cities, state media reported. The bullet train, carrying an engine dubbed Blue Arrow, has a maximum speed
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 191 13 -AFP LONDON -A man and his three young children barely escaped death on Sunday after vigilantes set fire to their east England home, thinking it was the residence of a convicted paedophile, police said. The man, who was not named, managed to get
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    • web cites
      • 42 13 After a no-fun day at work, sit back, relax and enjoy some cyber games. Zapspot.com is full of intriguing games that will tease your mind. Just submit your e-mail address and it will send a new game to you weekly.
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      • 38 13 Hundreds of sites offer you the chance to play online games, but multimedia ones are the most captivating. Shockwave.com features all-time favourites such as Tetris. It also offers 1980 s arcade games such as Spy Hunter.
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    • 307 14 MOSCOW A Russian admiral on Sunday offered a new explanation for last month’s sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk, saying it might have been hit by a missile fired by another vessel. The Kursk plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea on Aug 12.
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    • 64 14 There's more good news for the musically -inclined commuter. This portable mini-disk player displayed by a Sony employee in Tokyo lets you record and play 320 minutes on the conventional minidisk with long-playing mode. Sony will put the MD Walkman MZ-R9OO on the Japanese market by
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    • 127 14 Reuters NAPA, California A medium-sized earthquake jolted northern California’s wine country on Sunday, causing at least one serious injury and knocking out power to thousands as windows shattered, bottles crashed off store shelves and people were shaken out of their beds. “It felt like a
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    • 266 14 Reuters MADRID Spanish police kept searching on Sunday for five tonnes of cocaine they believe is hidden on a freighter seized on the high seas. But most of the ship’s crew were released after a three- day search failed to turn up any drugs.
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    • 50 14 gofigure SPH survey in August How many Singaporeans will speak up if they disagree with Government policies? Only one in 10. Ninety per cent of Singaporeans will choose not to speak up in public. But two in three will talk to friends and family. SPH survey in August
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    • news scan
      • 84 14 -AFP PARIS French truckers, farmers and ambulance drivers started a nationwide campaign of blockades of fuel refineries and depots in protest over high fuel prices. Protesters planned to block more than 70 refineries and depots from Le Havre, Cherbourg, and Granville on the northwestern coast to Donges
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      • 91 14 -AFP COLOMBO Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka as government troops advanced into territory held by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at Sarasalai, Maduvil and Nunavil in the northern Jaffna peninsula. A ministry spokesman said eight officers and 63 soldiers were killed in
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      • 114 14 -AFP KUWAIT CITY Kuwait Airways (KAC) admitted that a Kuwaiti passenger was forced to stand throughout a seven-hour flight from Bangkok because of a booking error. Mr Jassem Dashti said that although he was given a confirmed reservation for two seats aboard the Aug 25 flight from
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      • 76 14 AP GALVESTON (Texas) An unemployed shrimper lived with bodies believed to be his dead parents for as long as two months. Sheriff’s deputies who went to the home to check on the elderly couple discovered their bodies in a bedroom where the door had been taped
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      • 84 14 Reuters CAIRO Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital was the least his people could accept in a peace deal with Israel. “We are not going to accept a settlement at any cost,” the Palestinian president said at the
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 205 15 DARK is in, fair is out. At least that is what Peter Ho thinks. The light-skinned Taiwanese singer-actor is following Hongkong actor Louis Koo’s footsteps calling self-tanning ultraviolet lamps and gym equipment his best friends, reports Shin Min Daily News. Peter, last seen as a goofy
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    • 99 15 HE has dazzled his fans with his slick and snappy dance moves. Now, his next moves will be smoother and gentler. Fans of Heavenly King Aaron Kwok will soon see him executing fluid Taiji steps, reports Shin Min Daily News. In his music video
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    • 60 15 BACKSTREET Boy Brian Littrell, 25, was married on Saturday to Leighanne Wallace, 31, an extra on the set of the 1997 Backstreet Boys video As Long As You Love Me. About 300 people attended the ceremony. The couple bought a house earlier this year in Atlanta.
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    • 104 15 HOW did The Terminator enjoy his visit to northern Alaska? “I’ll be back”, he promised before leaving. Arnold Schwarzenegger, news anchor wife Maria Shriver and their four children arrived by private jet on Thursday, talked to whalers and flew in a helicopter. Then they joined hundreds of
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      • 494 18 tellu tubby Yvonne Kwok keeps you abreast of the best and worst on TV, every Tuesday and Thursday kwoklyy@sph.com.sg THERE are times when I like letting the little sicko in me out to play That’s when I sit in front of the TV stuffing
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        • Today's must-see TV...
          • 50 18 Bpm, TCS 5 It's the yellow-booted contractor's night, as TCS 5 brings you your weekly dose of the i hit sitcom plus a feature on The Making of PCK the Musical. In this episode, the Phua siblings get into trou- ble over the company's website.
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            48 18 9pm, TCS 5 This sitcom is shaping up to be a real crowd pleaser. Tonight's Disco episode follows Kelso and the gang as they trek down to the town's newly opened W disco. Expect lots of groovy dance moves and great 70s music like Fernando.
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          • 61 18 10pm, Arts Central Demi Moore took a pay cut of 50 per cent from her then asking price of $2l million a movie to star in this 1995 period drama set in 1660 s New England. The ex-Mrs Bruce Willis plays Hester Prynne, a woman who commits
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          • 52 18 8.30 pm, Eureka (SCV 34) This Emmy Award-winning series is to today's kids what Sesame Street was to yesterday's. Learn about science and nature the fun way with wacky scientist Beakman and a cast of lab rats, penguins and other assorted weirdos. Adults can learn a thing or
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            39 18 9pm, TCM (SCV 17) Bette Davis, one of Hollywood's a cinematic greats, won her second Oscar for her portrayal of a tempestous Southern belle caught between two men. This 1938 movie also stars a very dashing Henry Fonda.
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    • 623 19  -  speaking by Lawrence Chau You used to read about them; now read them as they write for Streats. Personality Talking is a twice-weekly column penned by celebrities. Today, ex-Showbuzz host Lawrence Chau brings you juice directly off the grapevine from Hollywood, where he will be
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        436 21  -  by Diana Ser by Francis Lee DIANA SER, columnist-compere, compares notes with compere extroadinaire Kym Ng, who was voted Friday Weekly's top show host. IF YOU believe in angels, then you must believe that livewire Kym Ng is the closest we’ve got to one. Well, on TV, at
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        330 28 Guess her job, win a SwatchL Name: Dhiana Age: 30 Gets on bus at: Tampines Gets off at: Katong lam... A mother of two. But people I meet for the first time always think I’m single. My daughters are Fathin Hasya-syah, who’s two, and Syifa Hannany, nine months
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    • easyStreats sports
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        • 81 30 -AFP SYDNEY -Olympic athletes were urged yesterday to rethink their sponsorship ties with sportswear giant Nike amid claims it was exploiting workers in Indonesian factories. The multinational company, which is promoted by athletes such as Olympic champion Michael Johnson, was accused by human rights group Community Aid
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        • 98 30 -AFP SYDNEY- Star striker Nwankwo Kanu (left) was absent yesterday when Nigeria, the 1996 Olympic soccer champion, landed in Australia to fine-tune for its defence. Kanu, who set up two goals in Nigeria’s upset 3-2 win over Argentina in the gold medal game at Atlanta, is caught
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        • 65 30 -AFP SYDNEY Aboriginal protesters plan to form a human chain for Olympic visitors to drive past as they fly into Sydney. Protest organiser Jenny Munro said yesterday that they aimed to draw international attention to what they see as government misinformation about Aboriginal issues. “What we are
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        • 59 30 -AP SYDNEY Olympic athletes arriving for the Games have been hit by a blitz of drug tests, i Australian Sports Drug Agency !(ASDA) chief executive Natalie Howson proved critics wrong when her testers swooped on stars such as Britain’s former world record-breaking hurdler Colin Jackson (above)
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        • 95 30 -AFP GOLD COAST (Australia) Canadian Olympic high jumper Mark Boswell made a bad start to his Olympic campaign yesterday when he lost his wallet containing more than US$ 7,000 cash at Brisbane airport. Boswell, 22, believes he left his wallet in the luggage trolley at the
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      • 466 30 Reuters But the Chinese athletes run risk of failing drug tests BEIJING Looking for an extra burst of speed? How about a little deer’s horn. Aches and strains? Perhaps a dose of sea horse in alcohol. And for stamina, a dash of turtle’s blood may do
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      • 27 30 Britain's Olympic hopeful for the 200 metre breaststroke Jamie King reveals an Olympic rings tattoo on her thigh at a training session Pic: Reuters
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      • 368 31 AP Russian Marat Safin was so illprepared for his third round match that he had to run around for socks and clothing. He got the right sizes and went on to win his match NEW YORK First Marat Safin borrowed trouble. Then he had to borrow socks. Then
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      • 216 31 AP Th is was his first game since a 1998 friendly against Argentina RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil) Living up to the hopes pinned on him by fans, veteran attacker Romario scored three goals in his comeback to international play as Brazil thrashed Bolivia 5-0 in a World
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      • sport scan
        • 57 31 -Reuters LONDON Michael Owen (right) hopes his equaliser against world and European champions France will earn him a place in England’s starting lineup against Germany next month. Upset at having been left on the bench, Owen came on as a substitute to volley home England’s 86thminute
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        • 63 31 -AP NEW YORK South Korean qualifier Lee Hyung-Taik, the biggest long-shot remaining at the US Open, received a hero’s welcome on Sunday at two restaurants in New York’s Korean neighbourhood. Television cameras followed Lee to Nam San, where he nibbled on sushi, and Kum Kang San,
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        • 65 31 -AFP RIETI (Italy) World champion Michael Johnson completed his pre-Sydney Games race programme on Sunday with a 400 m in 44.46 seconds, the third fastest of the year Kenya’s Daniel Komen broke an 18-year-old meeting record at the Rieti Grand Prix when he won the 5,000
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    • 492 22 [5 m ■c If it's your birtbdaymciay you're sharing it wrn A Welch, Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You’ve missed your big chance. For now there are other things to do, new people to meet and a whole range of possibilities to cultivate. In a different game, you
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 326 24 1 < > I Streat The story so far... No match for Hua Wuque, Xiao Yuer loses the duel despite using all his skills. As the rain washes Xiao Yuer's face paint away, Hua Wuque realises who he has been fighting. While recovering from his defeat, Xiao Yuer suggests to
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