Streats, 8 November 2000

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 8 November 2000 Another quality publication of >l* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Crash update
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      Lock icon Trio doing well
      59 1 SQOO6 survivors Farzana Abdul Razak, Army Major Ang Ming Chuan and UOB employee Ng Siok Chin, who were brought home on Sunday, are recovering in hospital. SIA stewardess Farzana had massive surgery on Monday but is now off the respirator. She was able to talk to Deputy
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      Lock icon Donate blood
      59 1 ABOUT 600 people have responded to calls to donate blood for the three crash victims now being treated at SGH. If you wish to donate, the National Blood Centre (NBC) will stay open until Bpm from today to Friday. An NBC spokesman has appealed to donors to come
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      Lock icon Three crash factors
      55 1 THE Taiwan Aviation Safety Council’s investigation into the cause of the crash will now focus on three areas: The physical and psychological condition of the three pilots, Organisational factors such as the training and fatigue level of its pilots, and, The environmental factor. Experts from Taiwan, the
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    Lock icon Counsellor says: Pilots in distress
    402 1  -  They need family They need understanding by Sarah Ng THE three SIA pilots who were at the helm of doomed SQOO6 are living in anguish. Shifting from hotel to hotel, enduring long hours of questioning and coming to grips with the tragedy seems worse than
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    Lock icon Don't expect this in S'pore
    95 1 FLAMBOYANT Hongkong pop star Karen Mok, known for her daring stage acts and outfits, will be uncharacteristically tame when she hits Singapore. Her record label, Rock Records, said she will hold her concert in Singapore on Jan 7 3 at the Indoor Stadium. But her
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    Lock icon Voting is on
    156 1 USElections BY the time you KpH read this newspaper, most of the votes in the longest and most expensive elections in US history will have been cast The combined presidential and senate elections are estimated to have costa massive US$4 billion (556.9 million). State contests taking place
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Pilots complain of confusion and potential hazards at Chiang Kai-shek airport Taipei had new plan for runway
      331 2 RUNWAY 05R which was used by the ill-fated SQOO6 was to become a taxiway hours after the crash. On Oct 3, Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration had issued a notice to airlines informing them
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      Lock icon Two couples who survived crash talk about their 'lucky'seats Seat change saved biologists
      336 2 AP PORTLAND, Oregon A couple probably saved their own lives when they changed seats just before SQOO6 took off and crashed. Deborah Brosnan (right) had asked a stewardess if she and her husband could move from the
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      Lock icon Staying in their seats saved their lives
      143 2 A BOARDING pass in his coat pocket probably saved the lives of Malaysians Mr He Jin Qiang and his wife. Mr He, 36, and Madam Li Chiu Yan, 39, were both seated in the tail end of SQOO6 on their way to Los
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    • CRASH update.
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        Lock icon Visibility was 900m
        146 2 THE Taiwan Aviation Safety Council Managing Director Dr Kay Yong revealed that runway visibility on the night of the crash was 900 m, and not 400 m as initially reported. He also said that the runway centre lights were on that night. However, it is still not
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        Lock icon Condolence messages
        69 2 CONDOLENCE messages from the governments of foreign countries have been pouring in following the crash of SQOO6 on Oct 31. Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Seychelles and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have all sent messages. The
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        Lock icon Buddhist rites
        59 2 Reuters BEREAVED relatives of passengers who died in the crash wept uncontrollably during a Buddhist rite yesterday, as dozens of monks chanted sutras. At the Taoyuan funeral parlour close to the airport, charred bodies, most burnt and dismembered beyond recognition, lay in coffins kept in refrigerated containers. Buddhists
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      Lock icon Cautious landlord ends up with faeces at doorstep
      342 3  -  by Winston Chong A LANDLORD, worried about about going to jail for harbouring illegal immigrants, played it safe by rejecting a suspected tenant and got faeces in return. His four-room flat was splashed with human faeces. Not once, but twice. Landlord Teo
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      Lock icon Big drop in handphone-driving cases
      115 3 TOUGH action on those who use handphones while driving has been an effective deterrent. Since July, all handphone-driv-ing offenders have been prosecuted in court. Previously, firsttime offenders were offered a compounded fine. The average number of handphone driving cases a month dropped to 45 cases
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      Lock icon Messages you'd never want to get
      86 3 morningsmile "Looking back over the years that we've been together, I can't help but wonder... What was I thinking?" “How could two people as beautiful as you...have such an ugly baby?" "I've always wanted to have someone to hold, someone to 10ve... After having
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      Lock icon She tried to forge 4D ticket
      204 3 SHE wanted the $lO,OOO lottery prize money badly and her ticket number was so close to the winning digit. Kitchen helper Chung Sow Yeng couldn’t resist the temptation. She altered the last digit, a zero, on her lottery ticket to an eight so that
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      Lock icon Teen bit maid, played game
      362 5  -  by Karen Wong A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who bit his maid on the breasts and assaulted her with a belt and a chair was a victim of school bullying, a court heard yesterday. But instead of reporting the bullying, he vented his frustration on the 26-year-old
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      Lock icon Tiger's (love) tale
      225 5 A TIGER was on the loose on Monday noon outside a coffeeshop at Geylang Lorong 13. But don’t worry. It was just a man in a tiger costume. And he was in that get-up in the name of love. Ouyang Houliang, 31, has been with his girlfriend
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      73 5 Our weather girl says If you're planning to go out for lunch today, don't forget to take your umbrella. There'll be showers with thunder in the afternoon over most areas. Temperatures will reach a high of 31 degrees Celsius and you can catch the high tide at 9.05 am (2.5
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this month...
        46 5 The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) launches a three-month-long programme, together with grassroots organisations, to educate you on your consumer rights. The outreach scheme will kick off in the Sembawang-Hong Kah Community Development Council (CDC) and will be extended to other CDCs later.
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        Lock icon Remember...
        45 5 To grandparents who enjoy telling folk tales or stories about your childhood: You have two more days before auditions start to share your treasury of tales with others as part of Senior Citizens Week 2000. You can get application forms from any community library.
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        54 5 If mind-boggling short plays are your cup of tea, go down to the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts at 12pm today after a quick bite of lunch. Contemplate on the meaning of life and death through intriguing skits performed by Nafa's drama students. Located at 111 Middle
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    • Article
      Lock icon $32m govt fund to boost skills
      240 6 New initiative targets certifiable skills training YOU and your skills are vital to Singapore’s economy. So from January, the government will pump some $32 million over three years to encourage the company or organisation you work for to send you for certifiable skills training.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Scholarships and mobility
      147 6 betweenthelines Knowledge Economy brings new challenges to human resource development For example, the mobility of talent across borders makes it harder to justify high public subsidy of graduates. In effect the taxpayers of a country which has lost its talent to another country are subsidising that loss.
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    • news scan
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        Lock icon Debt collector arrested
        127 6 AN alleged employee of an illegal moneylender was arrested after he was forcibly detained by a man on whose door he had pasted a demand for payment. The suspect allegedly knocked on the man’s door on Monday evening. Looking through the door’s peephole, the man saw the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Girl badly hurt by car
        83 6 AN 11-YEAR-OLD girl was seriously injured when she was hit by a car on Pasir Ris Drive 1 on Monday. The girl sustained fractures to her skull and right hand when she was knocked down by a car driven by a 63-year-old man as she
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        Lock icon Burglars net $14,800
        66 6 THIEVES stole $14,800 from a cupboard in a weekend break-in at a civil engineering construction firm. Mr Yeo Beng Tat, the owner of Hwa Seng Builder Pte Ltd, reported the theft at about 8.50 am on Monday after he arrived at his premises at Block 153, Bukit
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        Lock icon Biker slams into railing
        96 6 A MOTORCYCLIST and his pillion passenger were seriously injured when their vehicle hit a railing on a kerb that divides the carriageways of Yuan Ching Road. The pair were travelling along the road towards Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim at 7.55 pm on Monday when the 18-year-old driver
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      Lock icon Hot or not? Who cares
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon More money for health, education and defence: Australian PM Priority for social issues
      276 8 Reuters CANBERRA Prime Minister John Howard told government members yesterday that spending on social issues and defence takes priority. It was the first mention by the prime minister of possible spending on social issues, such as health
      – Reuters  -  276 words
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      Lock icon Is it in the mind?
      31 8 American pseudoscience buster James Randi shows how tricksters bend objects like a metal spoon at a conference organised by China Atheism Society Pic: afp Pic: AFP
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    • news scan
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        Lock icon KL to buy Russian copters
        77 8 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian air force is to buy Mi-17 helicopters from Russia to replace its ageing Sikorsky S-61 Nuri fleet, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said. He said discussions on specifications and a contract were being held and the number to be acquired
        -AFP  -  77 words
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        Lock icon Army corporal threatened
        102 8 -AFP SYDNEY An army corporal who blew the whistle on brutality in Australia’s armed forces has been harassed and received death threats. Roger Price, deputy chairman of the government’s parliamentary defence sub-committee inquiring into the allegations, said Corporal Craig Smith had received telephone death threats and had
        -AFP  -  102 words
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        Lock icon Thai elections expected
        118 8 Reuters BANGKOK Thailand’s elected lower House of Representatives is likely to be dissolved tomorrow, paving the way for a general election around the end of the year. Wissanu Krea-ngam, secretary-general to the cabinet of Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, said Mr Chuan was seeking an audience with Thai
        – Reuters  -  118 words
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      Lock icon Rebels fire rocket grenades 68 escape from prison
      232 9 AP GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines About 100 suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail early yesterday and freed a rebel leader and 67 other prisoners. The attackers fired rocketpropelled grenades at the jail in the village of Apupong in southern General Santos City in
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      Lock icon US embassy in Jakarta reopens
      110 9 AP JAKARTA The US embassy in Jakarta reopened its visa section yesterday after a two-week suspension of consular services due to an unspecified security threat. It was shut to the public on Oct 25 after receiving what it described as a “credible threat”. The partial
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    • know or not
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        Lock icon What was the first chewing gum?
        41 9 It was the flavourless Adams New York Chewing Gum Snapping and Stretching, developed by New York inventor Thomas Adams and introduced in 1871. Flavoured gum followed in 1875 And bubble gum a decade after that
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        Lock icon Who invented the peace symbol?
        51 9 trivia@shagmaiUom The forked symbol was created in 1958 as a nuclear disarmament symbol by the Direct Action Committee, and it was first shown that year at peace marches in England. The symbol is actually a composite of the semaphore signals N and D, representing nuclear
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      Lock icon KL body to probe police brutality claims
      117 9 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission said yesterday that it would look into complaints of police brutality at a rally on Sunday. At the rally by supporters of jailed ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, police were seen attacking some detainees. An official with
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      Lock icon Tommy afraid to go to jail: lawyers
      149 9 AP Inmates have made death threats against him JAKARTA The fugitive son of former dictator Suharto remained in hiding yesterday as his lawyers claimed that inmates at a Jakarta penitentiary had made death threats against him. Frustrated prosecutors said they were now ready
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon 96 killed in Nigeria Petrol truck slams into cars
      281 10 AR AFP LAGOS, Nigeria At least 96 people were killed when a truck transporting petrol slammed into a line of parked vehicles in south-west-ern Nigeria and exploded. “I have never in my life seen an accident like this,” Osun State Governor
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      Lock icon Siamese twin critical
      136 10 -AFP LONDON Mary, one of the three-month-old Siamese twins who were undergoing controversial surgery to separate them, has died as expected, Sky News reported yesterday quoting medical staff. Jodie, the stronger twin, was in a “critical but stable condition” after the marathon operation at St Mary’s Hospital
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      Lock icon Healthy man gives his heart away
      133 10 justbelieveit LONDON They've been broken, lost, shattered and torn apart but Briton Robert Moss is the first person literally to give his heart away. Mr Moss's 61-year-old ticker, which was replaced with a better one in August, will be prominently displayed in a new
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        Lock icon Politician goes topless
        77 10 Reuters VANCOUVER One candidate bared all in the interests of the homeless in Canada’s federal election, but her rivals vowed not to expose their own naked truth. The issue arose when a candidate in Vancouver appeared topless in a calendar for a women’s crisis centre. Lorrie Williams’
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        Lock icon Pay up or die
        86 10 Reuters ALMATY, Kazakhstan A Kazakh man received US$95O ($1650) in back pay and social benefits, after threatening to blow up his former boss with a hand grenade. Viktor Belyayev, 52, took the head of the Namys geological company hostage and demanded wage arrears and compensation for
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        Lock icon Grow beards for services
        68 10 Reuters KABUL Afghanistan’s ruling Taleban will not provide any services to men without beards, residents of the capital Kabul said. A decree issued by Taleban’s reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said citizens without beards would not be considered for jobs or any other services. “Growing a
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        Lock icon $63,000 for GI Elvis jacket
        90 10 Reuters LONDON Elvis Presley’s US army uniform, complete with the stain where he leant against a newly painted window, is up for sale and could fetch £25,000 ($63,000), auctioneers said. The jacket was issued to Elvis for his posting to Germany. At a press conference
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      Lock icon Closest US race in 40 years
      336 13 AP Americans choose between 'uniter'and 'fighter' WASHINGTON Americans are electing a president in what is the closest election in 40 years. They have to choose between Republican George W Bush’s promise to be a “uniter not a divider” and Democrat Al Gore’s claim that
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      Lock icon Al Gore in sleepless 11th-hour blitz
      251 13 -AFP FLINT, Michigan- US Vice-President Al Gore was set to end a 30-hour election campaign marathon early yesterday. He was launching middle-of-the-night rallies in hotly contested Florida after criss-crossing battleground states trying to drum up support. During stops in lowa, Missouri, Michigan, and Tennessee,
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      Lock icon Bush sticks to message
      116 13 -AFP DAVENPORT, lowa Republican presidential candidate Mr George W Bush hammered home his top campaign themes on a last dash for the White House. Mr Bush’s message was the same cutting taxes, revamping social security and restoring dignity to the Presidency. He arrived in Davenport, lowa,
      -AFP  -  116 words
    • poll scan
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        Lock icon One notch for Bush
        78 13 -AFP WASHINGTON First to the polls in the presidential election were voters in the small mountain hamlets of Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location, who plumped for George W Bush. The earliest results came in moments after midnight yesterday from the two New Hampshire settlements. In Dixville
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        Lock icon Hillary ends campaign
        91 13 -AFP NEW YORK First Lady Hillary Clinton ended a bruising campaign for a seat in the US Senate on Monday with an appeal to rake in every vote. With hours to go before polls were due to open at 6am (6pm Singapore time) yesterday, New York One
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        Lock icon Nader pushes for NY
        103 13 AP NEW YORK Ralph Nader, the Green Party presidential candidate, called Mr Gore and Mr Bush Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and said that the two candidates were both beholden to the corporations that finance much of their campaigns. “When it comes to corporate power, the only difference
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        Lock icon Forget the name game
        90 13 -•AFP LOS ANGELES One traditional way of predicting election winners is of no use this year in past presidential votes the candidate with the longer last name is more than twice as likely to win. This year Al Gore and George Bush are tied for the
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      Lock icon Robbers pose as hostages
      238 15 AP CULVER CITY, California Three armed robbers stormed a discount store before dawn as workers stocked shelves for Christmas. The three were later captured wearing store uniforms and trying to escape among the hostages released. Omar Samuels, 22, of Altadena, and Larson Bass, 20, of Inglewood,
      – AP  -  238 words
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      Lock icon Blood donors
      62 15 gofigure -ST What percentage of Singaporeans donate blood? Only 2 per cent, or 40,000 people. The figure for the US and Britain is about 5 per cent Women made up about 30 per cent of Singaporeans who donated. And 78 per cent did so as they felt that
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      Lock icon Indian court to rule on star kidnap swop
      143 15 Reuters NEW DELHI India’s Supreme Court was set to rule yesterday on whether the comrades of a forest bandit who was holding a movie star captive, should be released from prison. Film star Rajkumar is being held by notorious outlaw Koose Muniswamy
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      Lock icon Italians spend 2 years of their lives seeking car park
      112 15 -AFP ROME Car-crazy Italians spend nearly seven years of their lives inside their cars and two years looking for a place to park it, according to a survey published this week. The ANSA survey found that Italians were spending three
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      Lock icon Illegals get a tow to Italian port
      87 15 -afp ROME A ship packed with 1,200 illegal immigrants, believed to be mostly Turkish Kurds, was towed to a port on Italy’s southeastern coast late on Monday after being discovered drifting with a broken rudder. Italian coast guards who had boarded the stricken
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        Lock icon Yugo jail rocked by riot
        101 15 -AP NIS, Yugoslavia Serbian prisoners have taken over their jail and set cell blocks on fire, demanding to be included in a proposed amnesty for Kosovo Albanian political prisoners. Prison warden Miodrag Djordjevic said he expected justice ministers to arrive as of yesterday to meet
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        Lock icon French schools ban beef
        76 15 -AFP PARIS Beef was pulled off the menu in more French schools yesterday amid a growing mad cow disease scare. Authorities in the southern city of Bordeaux became the latest to pull beef from nursery and primary school canteens. On Monday, education boards in Toulouse, Caen
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        Lock icon Victim's mother plans vigil
        114 15 -AFP NEW YORK The mother of a shot IRA dissident will picket a New York fund-raiser for Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. Margaret O’Connor, whose son Joseph was shot in front of her Belfast home last month, will hold a vigil outside the Sheraton Hotel where
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      50 17 Ekin Cheng earns and spends 4.4 million THAT'S how much Hongkong star Ekin Cheng earned this year, from seven movies, including Tokyo Raiders, and five advertisements. But all of it didn’t go into his bank account. Most of was used for his monthly payments for his five apartments in Hongkong.
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        403 33 -AP LONDON- If soccer pedigrees counted for points, Manchester United, Barcelona and Juventus would already have qualified for the next round of the Champions Cup. Instead, they stand on the brink of elimination. The three powerhouse teams, which have all won the title
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        293 33 -AFP BARCELONA Spanish giant Barcelona has reportedly offered a 400-million pesetas (553.95-million) cash incentive to AC Milan to beat English Premiership side Leeds in its Champions League tie today, according to the daily Catalan Sport newspaper on Monday. The paper claimed that the
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        246 35 -AFP CHIANGMAI Myanmar and the Philippines face off in a do-or-die Tiger Cup showdown today. Both sides lost their opening Group A matches on Monday and another defeat will mean they are out of the running. Myanmar was beaten 1-3 by host Thailand.
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        385 35 -AFP SONGKHLA Nguyen Hong Son, Vietnam’s best midfielder in recent years, says this will be his last Tiger Cup. The player plans to pursue a degree in law. But, before he hangs up his boots, he is determined to play a major role
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        163 35 -AFP SONGKHLA Malaysia produced superb football here yesterday to register a clinical 5-0 win over Laos that kept its Tiger Cup campaign firmly on track. The Malaysians, who drew 0-0 with Vietnam in their opening group match on Sunday, will savour the win after
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