Streats, 6 December 2000

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 6 December 2000 Another quality publication of gß* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Fourth university for Singapore?
    186 1 SINGAPORE could have a fourth university for polytechnic graduates to upgrade themselves. Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan said a high-level committee will be set up to look at this and other options. Each year, more than 1,000 polytechnic graduates enter the National University of Singapore, Nanyang
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    Lock icon Zahara gets two months
    494 1  -  by r SHEELA NARAYANAN FORMER TV presenter and celebrity Zahara Abdul Lateef last night spent the first of many nights at the Tanah Merah Women’s Prison, after she was jailed for two months for abusing her maid. The 39-year-old mother of two had pleaded guilty to
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Wet December
      64 1 EXPECT wet days for the rest of December. There’s going to be more rain than is usual this time of the year, says the weathermen. During the next two weeks, there will be moderate to heavy rain with windy conditions on two to three days, and scattered showers
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    • Article
      Lock icon MPs online
      54 1 RESIDENTS of Pasir Ris, Tampines and Aljunied GRCs will soon be able to chat online with their Members of Parliament. The project, “Community Connected”, is the first of its kind. It will be launched in February in the North East district, and is the brainchild of the North
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      Lock icon Wired Central
      47 1 OVER the next two years, the Central Community Development Council will set up computers with broadband Internet access at Residents’ Committees and Community Centres for free use by residents. Besides installing computers at 22 CCs and 70 RCs, eight CCs will have IT resource centres.
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      Lock icon PM Goh sets sights on 2007 election
      379 2 THE People’s Action Party has fired its second salvo ahead of the next General Election which must be held within the next 20 months. On Sunday, Brigadier-General (NS) Lee Hsien Loong announced that the PAP has lined up at least 12 new potential
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      Lock icon AMP proposal under fire again
      307 2 THE Association of Muslim Professionals’ collective leadership proposal came under strong criticism again by PM Goh Chok Tong when he addressed PAP cadres last Sunday. He first shot down the idea last month at an AMP conference. The reason for Mr Goh’s criticism: If implemented,
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        Lock icon Man hit by MRT
        125 2 COMMUTERS were delayed yesterday morning when the train service between Aljunied and Tanah Merah was suspended for 45 minutes due to a fatality. According to police, shortly before 8.15, a man jumped onto the track at Eunos station and was hit by an eastbound train. Said
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        Lock icon Bangla worker robbed
        133 2 A 23-YEAR-OLD Bangladeshi worker was robbed on his way to his hostel on Saturday night. On Dec 2, at 10pm, Mr Amir Noor Md Molla got off a bus at Eunos Link and started walking towards the Kaki Bukit Hostel. At Kaki Bukit Road 1, two men
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        Lock icon Decomposed body found
        96 2 THE decomposed body of 58-year-old Ong Chee Ching was found on a bed in his oneroom flat in Hougang Ave 3. The police were notified on Sunday morning after neighbours noticed a foul smell coming from the unit. The police knocked the door down when no one
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        Lock icon Family home ransacked
        64 2 WHEN Lee Tee Guan and his family returned home on Dec 3, they found the main door was locked from the inside. When the police arrived, they found the unit ransacked and all the bedroom drawers forced open. The iron grille of the living room window was
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      Lock icon All's forgiven
      241 3 TITIK Rinawati has forgiven her employer, Zahara Abdul Lateef, for scalding her in a moment of anger. Miss Titik,lB, said in a statement made the day before: “In spite of what she did to me, I forgive her from the bottom of my heart.” Her statement was included
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      Lock icon Ringleader forged documents
      221 3 A SYNDICATE ringleader was found guilty yesterday of conspiring with other Chinese nationals to forge several documents and work-permit cards. Zheng Zhiqiang alias Yu Jian Feng, 29, was sentenced to a total of nine years and six months’ jail, and was also ordered to receive four strokes
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      Lock icon More S'poreans multi-lingual
      131 3 MORE Singaporeans now read and write two or more languages. Compared to 45 per cent in 1990, 56 per cent of Singaporeans today are multi-lingual. Compared with the Chinese, the Malays have the highest proportion who are literate in English and their mother tongue 77 per cent
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      Lock icon Logical question
      122 3 morningsmile_ It was the end of the day when a cop parked his police car in front of the station. As he gathered his equipment, the police dog was barking in the back of the car and the cop saw little Billy nearby, staring at him. "Is that
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      Lock icon Stranger to the rescue
      107 4 onekindact- Daniel Lint/14, student WISH to thank a man who helped me and my friend at the Bedok Swimming Complex on Saturday afternoon. The incident happened around 5.30 pm. My friend stepped on some glass and injured himself. The man saw that my friend was hurt
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      Lock icon Axe murderer is still at large
      244 4  -  by EDWIN KOO Brother-in-law gets 18 months jail forshielding suspect FOURTEEN years after a bloody axe murder in a Singapore home, the killer is still at large. But the man who shielded the suspect was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday. Yeap Biong
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      Lock icon Boy dies after severe nose-bleed
      147 4 A BOY with a nose-bleed was taken to hospital on Sunday night, but died soon after. Lianhe Wanbao reported that Madam Lee Yayian, 41, a hawker assistant, returned home at Bukit Batok West Avenue 4 from work at 10.30 pm and noticed that her son
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      64 5 Our weather girl says Carry that umbrella with you wherever you go today. Expect showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening over most areas. Temperature will reach 33 °C. High tide will reach 2.2 m at 6.58 pm. Weather girl Annie Yang from Carrie Models. Outfit from
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      Lock icon Top schools are over-hyped: SM
      463 5  -  by KAREN CHEN DON'T worry about enrolling your child in a well-known primary school. The advantages that he might gain from six years of primary education in a top school cannot be sustained by the end of secondary school. By the time he reaches the
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this month...
        47 5 You can view the Christmas Light-Up 2000 from the comfort of your home. i-One.Net International Ltd has installed 18 cameras along Orchard Road for you to enjoy the festive lights 24 hours a day on the Internet. Log on to www.i-one.net. Until Jan 5.
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        Lock icon Remember...
        59 5 If you are caught in Changi Airport on a late weekend night, there's a new bus service that can take you back to the heart of the city. The SBS Nite Owl 36M plies between Tomlinson Road and Changi Airport via Orchard Road. From midnight to 4am (from the
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        60 5 Good news for pet lovers. You can play with a Bengal cat, American hairless terrier and other animals when you go down to Liang Court from noon to Bpm. Patting time I is at 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm, 1 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm and I
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      Lock icon Keeping Up With Singaporeans
      279 6 betweenthelines. £r Singapore builds a free-trade network beyond Asean, its success is likely to benefit its neighbours. For its part, Singapore will have to allay fears that its other partners may use free trade without arrangements as a back door to get into Asean markets without
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      Lock icon Let's do it for our country
      686 6 "WHY won’t you go into politics?” my editor asked our group of young and nervous reporters one morning last month. It was the day after the prime minister’s National University of Singapore’s Society Millennium Lecture where, among other things, Mr Goh touched upon the
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Erap mistresses in trial ordeal
      223 7 -AFP Manila President Joseph -strada’s mistresses are to be called as witnesses at his forthcoming Senate corruption trial, exposing them to a “humiliating” ordeal, a prosecutor said yesterday. Mr Estrada left the 11-member House of Representatives prosecution team no choice after he blocked a request
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      Lock icon Aussie TV, radio forced off the air
      155 7 -AFP AP SYDNEY The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) was forced off the air yesterday after its 4,000 employees walked out over fears that its independence and integrity are being destroyed by budget cuts. The strike, which followed a string of staff cuts and
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      Lock icon Where did ventriloquism come from?
      67 7 knowornot. Ventriloquism goes back to ancient Rome, where holy men mixed prophecy with pizzazz. They did not just predict but threw their voices so that their predictions seemed to come from outside. The Romans believed that voices originated from bellies. The Latin word for belly
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        Lock icon HK lauds EU visa move
        84 9 -AFP HONGKONG Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee Hwa yesterday welcomed a reported decision by the European Union (EU) to grant visa-free access to residents of China’s special administrative region (SAR). “The decision is a milestone in the HKSAR government’s campaign to enhance travel convenience
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        Lock icon 2-headed baby born
        82 9 AP SHANGHAI A baby girl with two heads was born on Oct 24 to a farm couple in southeastern China, a hospital spokesman said on Monday. The 27-year-old mother arrived without warning at Wenzhou Medical University hospital on Oct 21 and was already near her due date,
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        Lock icon 5 die in Indon floods
        52 9 AP JAKARTA Floods on Indonesia’s Sumbawa island have killed at least five people and left thousands of others homeless, officials said yesterday. Three people were still missing on the island, some I,oBokm east of Jakarta. Monsoon-triggered floods have killed more than 200 people in Indonesian
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        Lock icon Foreign labour on rise
        80 9 Reuters TOKYO Japan said on Monday that the number of foreigners working legally in the country had continued to rise over the past few years. The number of officially recognised foreign workers in Japan rose 8.2 percent to 207,093 as of June 1, 2000 from the
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      Lock icon Listening pleasure
      96 9 Webcites Aural Stimulation I Music sites are scattered across cyberspace. Catering to audiences who like English, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean pop, Vivamusic.com gives surfers news and happenings on the music scene from the four major markets. They have superb collections of music videos from Japan and Korea. Aural
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      Lock icon 2 ex-PMs in Mori's cabinet
      255 9 -AFP TOKYO Japan ’s embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori announced a new cabinet yesterday, placing two former premiers in his reshuffled team. Mr Mori retained his key Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, who was prime minister between 1991 and 1993, while another former premier, Ryutaro Hashimoto,
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      Lock icon Drunken gropers, so women-only rail cars
      178 9 Reuters TOKYO A Japanese railway company will run special femaleonly carriages on its trains over this year’s holiday season in an effort to protect women from drunken gropers. A spokesman for Keio Electric Railway, which operates trains from central Tokyo to the city’s crowded
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      Lock icon Suicide bombing in China
      108 9 Reuters BEIJING A suicide bomber killed himself and two others outside a hotel in China’s central Hunan province, a local official said yesterday. The man hijacked a taxi, loaded it with explosives and tried to gain access to a hotel in Xiangxiang city on Monday morning,
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Last chance for Gore to stake claim
      233 10 -AFP It's back to the Florida Supreme Court TALLAHASSEE, Florida US Vice-President Al Gore got the last chance to stake a claim for the White House when the Florida Supreme Court heard his appeal yesterday. Mr Gore’s chances were dealt a second, more
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        Lock icon World's oldest man dies
        98 10 Reuters OKLAHOMA CITY A 111 -year-old Oklahoma farmer recognised last May as the world’s oldest man by the Guinness Book of Records has died in a nursing home, a spokesman for the home said. Benjamin Harrison Holcomb came into the spotlight when he was named the
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        Lock icon Kangaroo dies in Austria
        81 10 Reuters VIENNA Austria is sometimes confused with Australia and tourists have been known to ask where the nearest kangaroos can be found. T-shirts emblazoned with “No kangaroos in Austria” sell well. But the joke backfired when a motorist ran over and killed one of the hopping
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        Lock icon Unborn babies in danger
        89 10 Reuters WASHINGTON Fearing a repeat of the thalidomide disaster that caused birth defects in thousands of children, doctors often tell pregnant women to avoid most medications. But that thinking, promoted by scarce research in the area, is depriving women of needed therapies that might help them
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        Lock icon Mars may have had lakes
        74 10 Reuters PASADENA, California Mars may have been a land of lakes long ago, with layers of rock like those found in the Grand Canyon, Nasa said on Monday They added that the rocks may harbour fossils of ancient life it any existed. Nasa’s Mars Global
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      Lock icon German mothers lack govt support
      262 11 Reuters Wouldn't want to be a young mother today -they are under so much pressure to offer their children everything. They are completely overtaxed. Social worker Roswita Winterstein BERLIN German mothers are suffering from a shortage of statefunded child care, particularly when compared to the
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      Lock icon Arafat bears arms
      196 11 -AFP GAZA CITY In an unusual display of force, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat brandished an automatic weapon on his return on Monday to Gaza City from a visit to Qatar. Mr Arafat accused the Israeli army of cooperating with Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip in blocking
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      Lock icon Prevent a cash crisis – spend, spend, spend
      146 11 Prevent a cash crisis spend, spend, spend justbelieveit. Reuters DUBLIN Irish people should smash open their piggy banks and spend the I£3o million ($57 million) worth of coins they are hoarding to prevent a Christmas cash crisis, the central bank said. The central bank, struggling to meet demand for cash
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      Lock icon Website survey diagnoses medical conditions Headaches go online
      266 12 Reuters CHICAGO A Chicago dentist believes his computerised questionnaire will revolutionise the practice of medicine it diagnoses medical conditions online. The recently launched website headachesearch.com has a 13-page survey which aims to find diagnoses for the causes of chronic headaches that affect
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      Lock icon Scottish 'Fat Tsar' to fight heart diseases
      114 12 -AFP LONDON Scots are to have a “Fat Tsar” to persuade them to dump a diet of deep-fried food and sugary soft drinks. The move comes after a study by London’s University College revealed that Scots have the worst rate of heart attacks
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      Lock icon UK mulls curfew on children in high-crime areas
      200 12 -afp LONDON The British government is considering a plan to impose a curfew on children in high-crime areas, a newspaper report said on Monday. The scheme coincides with a police murder inquiry after the death of 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor in a
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Julia is actress with most clout in Hollywood
      257 13 Reuters LOS ANGELES Pretty Woman” Julia Roberts is the first actress to make it on Hollywood Reporter’s list of the 50 most influential women in show business. She was ranked No 3, based on her ability to turn small projects into major
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      Lock icon Francis to have a lightning wedding
      113 13 WEDDING bells may ring very soon for actor Francis Ng. The Golden Horse Best Actor Award winner told a press conference on Monday that he had a piece of “good news”. V*! “After getting the Golden Horse, I will be walking down the aisle
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      Lock icon Cheney due for another heart attack
      219 13 Reuters WASHINGTON Mr Dick Cheney, who will become US vice-president if Mr George W Bush is named the winner of the presidential election, is very likely to have another heart attack, said a top cardiologist Mr Cheney, 59, suffered a heart attack last month.
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      Lock icon Funeral plans for Princes William and Harry
      238 13 Reuters LONDON Princes William and Harry have listed their funeral preferences in a bid to prevent the kind of arguments that raged over the interrement of their mother, Princess Diana, in 1997. The move followed the British government’s request to members of the
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      Lock icon Sharon is looking for love
      627 15  -  The Media Corp actress will go on the prowl when she jets off to New York for her studies. Meanwhile; hot babe Lum May Yee takes you through her preparation for the Big Date. Turn the page to find out by KAREN CHEN IF you’re
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      Lock icon How to be a knock-out date
      251 16  -  by f Diana Ser ONE of Singapore’s premier babes, Lum May Yee, shares with us her secrets to preparing for that Big Date. 7pm: Before jumping into the shower, she blasts her stereo. What gets her into the mood? “Going-out music, funky music,” May
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        Lock icon ALLY
        68 16 9pm, TCS 5 For Ally Mcßeal fans who simply can- not wait for the next season to hit local TV, here’s a series of bitesized morsels. The half-hour V episodes feature un-aired I scenes from the original I series that didn’t make it to f the dramedy proper. Tonight,
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        Lock icon THE INVINCIBLE SQUAD
        62 16 10.30pm, TCS 8 After she’s found unconscious in the hospital toilet, Ziling goes mad and bites Sifeng. She has to be subdued with an electric prod. It seems Ziling suffers from a hereditary condition that causes madness. Meanwhile, Jiajun discovers that Wenying and Xueren are having an
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        86 16 10pm, Central A gritty black comedy about yakuzas in Korea, this action movie stars Shiri’s (Korea’s current box-office hit) actors Han Seok Gyu, Choi Minsik and Song Gangho. Growing up amid organised crime, Tae Ju is a hitman hoping to become the No 1 man in his group.
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        Lock icon SCARFIES
        88 16 7pm, Cinemax (SCV 59) This is New Zealand’s answer to the UK’s Shallow Grave. This edgy black comedy sees a group of university students making plans to stay in an old abandoned house. To their surprise, they discover a large crop of marijuana plants in their new home and
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      Lock icon With eyes wide shut
      417 17  -  tm witch's hour by Cara van Miriah IF blind dates make you queasy, how would you feel about a blind date contest? Four people are game enough to give it a go and have signed up for a Blind Date Contest to be held at China
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      Lock icon What would encourage you to join politics?
      297 23 f Just 1 one question! Nothing. I'm not interested in politics, especially politics in Singapore. There's really nothing to get excited about. Tan Wen Ren, 26, accountant If I agreed with the policies that the government has; I wouldn't mind joining because I
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        Lock icon Sixers must not go into sevens
        384 25 DENVER Is this the beginning of the end? Are the cracks starting to show? The Philadelphia 76ers, the team with the best record in the National Basketball Association at the moment, crashed to the modest Denver Nuggets by losing 98-105 on Monday. But no
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        Lock icon Knicks' 'big back court' dips Clippers
        234 25 AP NEW YORK Glen Rice scored 21 points, and Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston added 19 apiece on Monday, as the New York Knicks had its highestscoring game and largest margin of victory this season in a 106-78 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.
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        Lock icon Ailing Boro is hoping Venables still has the magic touch
        475 26 -AP LONDON Unwanted by England since Euro ’96, Terry Venables now has the job of rescuing ailing Middlesbrough. He can prove the Football Association was wrong to appoint Sven-Goran Eriksson as the next England coach instead of him. And, by
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        Lock icon Wenger disagrees with Vieira's misconduct charge
        207 26 Reuters LONDON Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira was charged with misconduct by the English FA on Monday following two incidents in the Premiership game against Leeds on Nov 26. The FA reached the decision after its video advisory panel reviewed clashes involving the Frenchman and
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        Lock icon Mets lose bid to land Korean Koo
        236 27 -AP NEW YORK The New York Mets lost in their bid to obtain South Korean pitcher Koo Dae Sung when his team decided to deal him to a Japanese club. “The Mets made a legitimate effort to acquire him,” the pitcher’s agent, Alan
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        Lock icon Kasyful strikes gold at X-Games
        256 27 KASYFUL Azeem saved the best for last when he struck gold on the opening day of the Junior Asian X-Games in Phuket, Thailand. He had earlier won a bronze in the Bicycle Park event on Monday, where competitors try to perform as many tricks as
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      496 18 WEDNESDAY O 6 December 2000 >:•: The story is about. Yuan Jlan Ping who gets more than he bargained for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything, from girl problems to gang fights; from baseball matches to flower arrangement classes.
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      224 19 w The story so far... Xiao Yuer lost all trust for Tie Xin Han, who had tried to drug the water. He demanded to search him for the treasure. Tie pleaded for him to stop, but fell asleep soon after. To protect himself, he muttered something strange. He wondered aloud
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