Streats, 7 March 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 7 March 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 611 1  -  by SARAH NG Girls these days have equal spending ability as boys and hence access to clubs, pubs, drinks and drugs so there are higher chances for them to sink to a habit of violence, drinking and drugs. -Dr Brian Yeo, psychiatrist IF
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  • morning rush
    • 52 1 STARTING next month, we will have three new mayors. Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon will be mayor of Bukit Timah district. Cheng San GRC MP Zainul Abidin Rasheed becomes mayor of Ang Mo Kio-Cheng San district and Jalan Besar GRC MP Yaacob Ibrahim will be the mayor of
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    • 52 1 NO Singaporeans were among the 35 pilgrims killed in a haj stampede which occured on Monday morning. Mr Abdul Halim Mohamad Amin, the vice-consul of the Singapore Muis haj delegates said that the Singaporeans performed the Stoning of Satan ritual at a different time from when the
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    • 32 1 thought as jokin g the m™id American student said he was going to school and shoot people. But he did two of his fellow studens were killed and 13 injured. PAGE 14
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 334 2 by KHUSHWANT SINGH GET a proper night’s sleep, it’s good for you. Elderly men especially need to sleep well or they may end up with problems such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction. Prof Peter Lim made this point yesterday at the Third National Congress
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    • 106 2 POLICE laid an ambush and arrested two men for unlicensed moneylending near Fu Lu Shou Complex along Rochor Road. The first suspect, 25, was found with a mobile phone, a SIM card and cash amounting to 552,390. The police also found a $5O note,
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    • 317 2 FEBRUARY 2001: A 15-year-old girl had sex with a man 30 years her senior in the carpark of the old Changi Hospital. They had met on an Internet chatroom where she shared intimate details about her multiple sexual experiences. The man was arrested five months later when
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    • 71 2 Friend: What are you looking at? Mr Bean: I know your PIN number. Hee, hee. Friend: Alright, what is my PIN number if you saw it? Mr Bean: Four asterisks! While in a drug store... Mr Bean: I'd like some vitamins for my grandson. Clerk: Sir, vitamin A,
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    • news scan
      • 147 3 A 70-YEAR-OLD man, Mr Lee Chiang Sia, was killed in an accident on Monday when he lost control of a 14-seater bus he was driving. The accident occurred at 8.09 pm at Toh Guan Road, at a carpark between Block 268 and Block 269, when
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      • 89 3 A MAN was trapped in the driver’s seat of his lorry on Monday after the vehicle plunged into a canal at Jalan Bahar. Mr Lee Hooi Koon, 55, had picked up the lorry from a carpark at 9.06 am that day. Apparently it went out of
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      • 135 3 WHEN axi driver Neo See Hua picked up a young man at the junction of Yio Chu Kang Road Hougang Ave 9 and Buangkok Green on Sunday he thought he knew the drill get to the destination and collect the tab. But the passenger was the one
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    • Article, Illustration
      54 3 FAREWELL: Police officers saluting the hearse carrying the body of Sergeant Benny Tan Chiew Leong yesterday. The police driver, who was killed in a road crash on Saturday, was given a ceremonial funeral at the Mount Vernon Crematorium. Police Commissioner Khoo Boon Hui and other high-ranking officers paid their
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    • 81 3 onekindact Nurerdawati Rahim: I was at the Bishan bus interchange when I saw a blue MPV (SDD3IBSL) stop at the traffic light But when the light turned green, it did not budge. Then I saw a man on crutches crossing the road. The driver actually waited for him
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    • 154 3 POLICE responded to a 999 call reporting a molest case at 4.45 am on Saturday, but ended up busting a gambling den instead. When the police reached a four-storey shophouse at Number 245 Outram Road they did not spot any sex offenders. What they did see
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    • 116 5 IF you want to know the latest happenings on television, here’s the magazine for you. You-Weekly, the latest Chinese TV magazine, will be launched by Focus Publishing, a subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings, on April 19. It is SPH’s first entertainment magazine. It contains listings
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    • 35 5 Muslims in Singapore yesterday marked Aidil Adha, or Hari Raya Haji, with the slaughtering of sheep in a Qurban ceremony. The meat is then distributed to those who attended the ceremony Pic: AP
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    • 65 5 Forget about trying to get tan today. There'll be showers in the late afternoon over northern, western and central Singapore. The rest of the island can and occasionally. windy. Temperatures t will reach ahighof3l°C. High tide will hit 2.5 m at 11.00 pm. Our weather girl
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    • Just a minute
      • 61 5 The Manpower Research and Statistics Department of the Ministry of Manpower is conducting a survey from now till April 15. If you are among the 6,000 households selected for the study, do cooperate so that the government gets accurate information to formulate and plan policies. All officers
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      • 63 5 Visit the Health Zone the next time you happen to be at the Singapore General Hospital. The Health Zone is an interactive health exhibition centre where you can learn about health the fun way. It is located at Level 2, Institute of Health (opposite the Outram MRT station). Admission
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      • 72 5 If you have something interesting to say about East Asia's economic future, write an essay and if. send it to the Monetary Authority of Singaporeeconomic Society of I Singapore Essay Competition 2001 by June 30. The topic this year is East Asia in the New Economy: Opportunities
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  • Streatsmart Interchange
    • 335 4 I EMPATHISE with Ranee on the situations she has described (Ugly Singaporeans, Monday). This topic has been discussed over and over again through the years to the extent that I find it stale. It seems we are hopelessly stuck with the unfortunate status quo despite decades
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    • 110 4 IN response to Khadijah’s hope that “SBS does something about their drivers”, may I remark that they have already done so (Interchange, Monday). They are no long “bus drivers”, but have been upgraded to “captains”. That apart, there does not appear to be any
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    • 106 4 I HAVE also experienced bus drivers who do not look out for passengers who flagged and just go past without stopping. I had a rather unpleasant incident on Feb 23 at 9.30 pm, when my fiance and me were rushing to catch Bus 62
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 813 6 A friend of mine once bought a stone Buddha statue of the Gandhara style while on a visit to Delhi. The puzzling thing is, it consisted of just the head of the Buddha. I asked him what happened to the rest of the statue, and he mumbled an
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 91 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Police launched an air and sea search for 19 illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Pakistan, Nepal and Thailand whose boat capsized in rough seas off Langkawi. Seven others from the same boat six from Myanmar and one Pakistani were spotted by
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    • 232 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR An opposition leader was arrested late on Monday on suspicion of sedition, hours after Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s party lodged a police complaint against him. Members of the four-party opposition coalition yesterday denounced the arrest of National Justice Party youth leader Ezam
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    • 113 10 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR The wife of Anwar Ibrahim, the jailed rival of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, led Malaysia’s opposition yesterday in protesting the arrest of Ezam Mohamad Noor. “We uphold the right to peacefully assemble,” said Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. “A rally is not part of
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    • news scan
      • 116 11 -AP SUVA Fiji’s ousted prime minister Mahendra Chaudhury is coming under pressure not to seek reinstatement. A coalition party leader Tupeni Baba yesterday said Mr Chaudhury must step down from public life, while army commander Commodore Vorege Bainimarama was quoted as saying he was a national
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      • 91 11 -AFP BEIJING China yesterday warned the US against selling sophisticated destroyers and missiles to Taiwan, saying it would cause “serious dangers”. “The US should recognise the serious dangers involved. “It should rein in its wild horse riding on the side of the precipice,” Chinese Foreign
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      • 101 11 -AP SYDNEY Japan must lead a drive to stop the abuse of thousands of sailors working in virtual slavery on merchant ships in the Asia-Pacific region, an independent body said yesterday. The International Commission on Shipping a group set up to study shipping conditions,
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      • 64 11 Reuters MANILA The Philippine government will resume peace talks frozen since May 1999 with Communist rebels later this month in the Netherlands, officials said yesterday. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo told a news conference she had received “a very nice...a very optimistic letter” laying the ground for
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      • 56 11 Reuters PHNOM PENH Developed countries must stop the trading in cultural artefacts stolen from their poorer neighbours, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Cambodia, recovering from decades of civil strife, has long been a target of looters who steal ancient statues and sculptures and
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    • 263 11 12 top leaders, including Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra; were the targets -AFP BANGKOK Twelve top leaders and their families were the target of the blast which blew up a Thai Airways International jet on Saturday. The bombing was carried out by an
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    • 198 11 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has set up a high-level committee to counter a run of service cancellations by major airlines, a newspaper reported yesterday. British Airways and All Nippon Airways will stop flights to Malaysia by next month. Lufthansa and Qantas have
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    • 292 13 AP PEARL HARBOR A lengthy lunch for guests aboard a US submarine forced a delay in the emergency surfacing manoeuvre that ended in a fatal collision with a Japanese boat, an admiral testified. Rear Admiral Charles Griffiths, who led the Navy’s investigation into the accident,
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    • web cites
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    • 320 13 AP BEIJING Citing changes in the world situation, China has announced plans to raise defence spending. Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng said much of the 141 billion yuan ($3O billion) military budget would go to higher salaries and to improving technology. Mr Xiang said the 18 per
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    • 183 13 Reuters KABUL The Taleban has halted shelling two giant Buddhas for now, but is determined to smash all the statues it can next week, reports said yesterday. The Taleban envoy to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, quoted by the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), ruled out
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    • 170 13 £3 i_ °SUp uFp THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY-AUSTRALIA UNSW is a world leader in teaching and research and is recognised internationally as an important centre of learning. For four successive years UNSW has been ranked as one of the top ten universities in the Asian region in
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 271 14 Recent shootings at US schools May 26, 2000: 13-year-old student allegedly killed his teacher, Barry Grunow, on last day of classes in Lake Worth, Florida. Nathaniel Brazill is charged with first-degree murder. Feb 29,2000: 6-year-old boy shot and killed 6-year-old classmate at Buell Elementary School
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    • 459 14 -AFP SANTEE, California Two students are dead and 13 other people injured after a grinning 15-year-old opened fire on students and staff at a high school. The boy, a ninth-grade student at Santana High School, fired at
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    • news scan
      • 113 15 AP LONDON Railway operators can’t be faulted for a train collision that killed 10 people last week, said an interim report released yesterday. The Health and Safety Executive said the Feb 28 incident in which a Land Rover careered onto a track, derailing two
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      • 78 15 -AP WASHINGTON US Vice-President Dick Cheney, 60, underwent surgery yesterday to clear a partially blocked artery. Doctors said preliminary tests showed Cheney, who has a history of heart trouble, had not suffered a heart attack, is well and could likely resume his normal schedule by the end of
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      • 93 15 -AFP LONDON Seven seamen were missing early yesterday after a German trawler sank off the coast of Scotland. Nine crewmen were evacuated by helicopter before the Hansa went down 400 km west of Tiree, on the west coast of Scotland. “The nine who were recovered
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      • 97 15 AP COLOMBO Nineteen Sri Lankan policemen, facing charges of standing by while 25 former Tamil rebel child soldiers were massacred by a mob, said they were being wrongly tried. The children were killed by a mob of about 3,000 villagers who stormed a government-run rehabilitation centre
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      • 77 15 -AFP GENEVA Millions of young girls, some as young as 10, are forced into marriage every year, Unicef said yesterday, while calling for an end to the practice. The appeal was made in a report released to coincide with International Women’s Day, which will be marked
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    • 118 15 Reuters SAN ANTONIO, Texas Running a drug patrol is tough for a man and tougher for a woman. Lieutenant Brian Lunan will soon be able to tell just how much. Bexar County Sheriff Ralph Lopez yesterday said Lt Lunan, his deputy, will keep his
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    • 297 16 -AFP COLOMBO The Sri Lankan army has begun experimenting with the anti-impotence drug Viagra, in a bid to raise the morale of soldiers recovering from war injuries, the military said Monday Injured soldiers battling depression and other mental problems could benefit from the
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    • 127 16 AP ROCHESTER, Minnesota A two-year-old boy who nearly froze to death after he wandered out of his family’s home was awake and talking. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic said Les “Paulie” Hynek showed no signs of frostbite on his feet, but his hands were still being
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    • 495 16 iiTHAMES THE FIRST CHOICE IN BUSINESS EDUCATION Adeline Ng Managing Director of a public-listed financial dotcom company Graduate of Thames a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Accoi/ntancy Studies from University of Portsmouth m iv Business DOC (Mons) Administration Marketing BA (Hons) University of Portsmouth Travel Tourism Accountancy Studies "Established as
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 94 17 Reuters A CALIFORNIAN woman came forward on Monday to claim a US$B9 million (Sslss million) lottery prize, the largest individual jackpot ever awarded in the state’s Super Lotto game. Lottery officials said Ms Sang Cho arrived at their Sacramento office on Monday to claim the prize
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    • 169 17 Reuters ECONOMISTS have begun to doubt the staying power of the 10-year-old US expansion but not the vigour of the man behind it Alan Greenspan. The Federal Reserve chairman celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday, just a few days after the anniversary of the record-break-ing period of
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    • 235 17 ARCHITECT I M Pei has appealed, but the bulldozers are not backing off. They are circling a Shanghai mansion occupied by members of his clan in China, and could flatten the building any day. Shanghai is being spruced up for a meeting
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    • 167 17 Reuters FORMER German tennis star Boris Becker said on Monday that he admired British tycoon Richard Branson and that he saw himself as a successful entrepreneur “Richard Branson is my role model,” Mr Becker told Germany’s Handelsblatt business daily. “I like his business style.”
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    • 27 19 With just one Chinese drama serial under her belt. Celeste Chong is already making her presence felt on television. To find out more, turn to Page 21
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  • easyStreats
    • 460 21  -  by I KAREN CHEN MEDIACORP darling Fann Wong had better watch out! If the industry buzz is anything to go by, Fann has a contender for her spot on Caldecott Hill. She’s none other than current “it” girl Celeste Chong. Apparently, she has bowled over
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    • 464 22  -  Techno dance music isn't just for the young. One club is making sure that the older set feel right at home by by Cara van Miriah A CLUB'S music policy dictates and defines its image, say the big boys of the entertainment industry. And many
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 72 22 7.30 pm, Channel 5 We don’t kid our- selves, it’s not the contestants who are the stars, i but Mel C and 4 the boys from I Al. These yodel- 1 ling popsters 1 will be thrilling the crowd with 1 their latest hits and, oh,
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        • 84 22 10pm, Central i You won’t be watching this dry-eyed. RoberIto Begnini gives a I sterling performance (he won a Best Actor f Oscar nod for this movie) as a loving Jewish husband and father who is separated from his wife during the Holocaust. Meanwhile, he tries to
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        • 68 22 10pm, AXN (SCVI9) It’s a post-apocalyptic world, two years after a comet hits the Earth, plunging it into perpetual darkness. Enter a lone bounty hunter who must protect an innocent widow and her baby, who carry the antibodies to a plague that’s running rampant through the cities. Their
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        • 65 22 3pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) Louis Koo stars in this series of ghost stalk ries. The first one deals with some k youths who get a into trouble at a graveyard. m The second I deals with Mrs r Du and her undead husband, while the last fea-
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        • 57 22 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) The most powerful criminal organisation in the city, untouchable by the law, is being exterminated. The FBI and the local police track down a group of vigilantes who turn out to be a renegade SWAT team on a mission to fulfil the people’s
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    • 163 26 WAS Gladiator hunk Russell Crowe a target of kidnappers? No comment, said his people. London newspaper Sunday People, on the other hand, reported that there was a plot to grab the actor at the British premiere of his movie Proof of Life and hold him
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    • 215 27 IT'S been barely a month since she launched her singing career and Singapore’s Stella Ng is already prepping up for a concert in May. On Feb 15, the 20-year-old Ryoko Hirosue lookalike released in Taiwan her debut album. It shot up the Top 10 album charts in
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    • 158 27 .'A NS of heavenly king Andy Lau and just-married J-pop heartthrob Takashi Sorimachi, keep your eyes wide open. You may just bump into them in Singapore when they come to film their movie collaboration, You I. And don’t be surprised if you see one chasing
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    • 243 27 ACTRESS Carol Cheng may look like a strong lady, but when it comes to marriages, she has her insecurities. Carol, recently rumoured to be the third party in actor Dayo Wong and Singaporean model Sharis Lau’s relationship, told the Hongkong media that her
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    • 235 28 YOU are what you eat. That's the general saying. But apparently, this saying does not apply to some stars, who are so lucky that they can still have trim bods without having to watch their diets and forego supper, reported Shin Min Daily News yesterday. Who
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    • 310 31 Recently a Straits Times reader complained that cyclists endanger pedestrians'lives by cycling on walkways. Cyclists have responded by criticising the lack of regulations and consideration for those who wish to cycle as an alternative one question No. Because I can't cycle
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 338 33 LONDON Leeds United manager David O’Leary has rounded on Alex Ferguson after the Manchester United boss accused one of his players of cheating, reports soccernet.com. Ferguson claimed lan Harte had dived and tried to get United goalkeeper Fabien Barthez sent off in Saturday’s 1-1 draw.
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      • 408 33 Reuters r PREMIER LEAGUE L Sunderland 1 Aston Villa 1 1 LONDON Sunderland manager Peter Reid said his team was unlucky not to secure three points in his 250th game in charge after Aston Villa secured a 1-1 draw on Monday. Villa’s Julian Joachim opened the
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      • 92 33 •Basketball Reuters ATLANTA Karl Malone scored 30 points and John Stockton added 22, but it was solid defence at crunch time that enabled Utah Jazz to beat Atlanta Hawks 109-102 in the NBA championships on Monday. With the contest tied at 93-93 with 5:51
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      • 77 33 •Soccer Reuters ROME AS Roma said on Monday it had signed Bari’s Antonio Cassano, the most promising teenager in Italian soccer, for 60 billion lire (5550.48 million). The Italian league leader said Cassano, 18, would join on a fiveyear contract from the start of next season
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      • 286 34 Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Panathinaikos vMan U (tomorrow). iii PARIS First the good news. Manchester United captain Roy Keane has recovered from his knee injury to give his club a boost before today’s (tomorrow 3.30 am, Singapore time) Group A Champions League match against
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      • 130 34 Standings and remaining fixtures GroupA P W D L F A Pts Man United 4 2 2 0 6 2 8 Valencia 4 1 3 0 3 1 6 Sturm Graz 4 2 0 2 4 5 6 Panathinaikos 4 0 1 3 2 7 1 Remaining fixtures:
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      • 612 35  -  by TAN KIM HAN HE is a mega star. The sort who commands US$56 million ($98 million) in transfer fees and is sure to be part of the game’s folklore whenever talks centre on the world’s best players. Yet Luis Figo was just another name
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