Streats, 27 November 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets nsmmr 21 2001 Another quality publication of qJq* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • Article
    Lock icon The HIV heartstring
    511 1  -  Aids activists appeal, but govt remains firm on no-subsidy rule by 'ADAM HASHIDY THE Health Ministry considers it imprudent. Aids activists call it compassion. For one mother of four, the labels don’t matter. All Madam Elizabeth (who declined to be named) wants is financial help for drugs
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon ADB: S'pore on track
      57 1 SINGAPORE, with its diversification into non-traditional exports such as bio-medicals, is on the right track to recovery, said Pradumna B Rana, Asian Development Bank manager for regional economic monitoring unit. East Asian economies are expected to recover in mid-2002, with growth to be muted, said an
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      Lock icon Chinese arrivals up
      52 1 ARRIVALS from China Singapore’s fourth largest tourist market jumped 21 per cent last month. The Singapore Tourism Board aims to attract one million Chinese tourists by 2005. It is planning, among other things, an image advertising at the end of this year to feature Singapore as a
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      Lock icon Evergreen's M'sia move
      42 1 EVERGREEN Marine Corp, a Taiwanlisted, Singapore-based container shipping company, may soon relocate to Malaysia. The Business Times quoted Johor’s chief minister Ghani Othman as saying that the company is considering moving to the Port of Tanjung Pelepas in Johor.
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    Lock icon BG Lee wants you if...
    383 1  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM THE man widely tipped to succeed Mr Goh ChokTong wants diversity as a key quality of his team. There will be less commandcontrol. It could even be more accommodating of different styles and personalities. “These are our policies; this is the way
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      128 1 PM: Beyond2oo7 Would I be around to help (in 2007)? I think the answer is yes I may not be like SM, who said that even though he was going to be lowered down to the grave would get up if something goes wrong No, I am not SM. But
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Case takes on credit card companies Lower interest rates
      329 2  -  reports by SONNYPHUA WITH bank interest rates having dipped in the current economic environment, credit card interest rates should be revised downwards too, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) yesterday said. “With current inter-bank rates in some cases less than one
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      Lock icon Case's Stephen Loke victim of card boo-boo
      171 2 EVEN Case’s chairman for consumer affairs was not spared a credit company’s billing boo-boo. In September last year, he had applied for a credit card. He was offered one-year’s free use of the card. He told the credit card company that he would
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      Lock icon Tharman to focus on kindergartens
      365 2 ONE of the priorities of the new Senior Minister of State for Education is kindergarten education. Speaking in his new capacity, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that kindergarten education can prevent a “permanent underclass” of Singaporeans who are unemployable or are shunted into lower-end jobs. Mr
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      Lock icon Rail travail
      43 2 onekindact. Hartini and Md Farhan, Thank you for helping a man and a woman who fainted on an MRT train at about 6.30 pm on Nov 17. The train stopped at Tanjong Pagar station after the emergency stop button was pressed.
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    • 911, 2001 & 2007
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        Lock icon PAP will find it tougher in next GE
        470 3  -  PM's post-election post-mortem allreportsby DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM A CONFLUENCE of factors, heightened by the Sept 11 terrorist attacks which pushed the economy further into decline, gave the PAP an overwhelming victory in the recent general election. The timing was good,” said Prime Minister
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        Lock icon Give me names, new MPs told
        251 3 APART from fulfilling the promises made during the last election and restructuring the economy, the key to preparing for the next election, said PM Goh, was the renewal of candidates. He said that he expected the 25 new MPs to recommend at least two
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        Lock icon Switch to politics means pay cut for some ministers
        180 3 SOME new ministers of state stand to lose as much as $200,000 a month in salary with their new positions, said PM Goh. Their losses range from $lO,OOO to $200,000 a month. Two former top civil servants Monetary Authority of Singapore
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        Lock icon Personalities change, programmes will remain
        178 3 ALTHOUGH he will be stepping down as Prime Minister in a few years, PM Goh still plans to stick around to help out the new PAP team. “I may not be like SM, who said that even though he was going to be lowered into
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    • Dead and naked in Geylang
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        Lock icon Cleaner finds woman with tattoos on the floor
        189 5  -  by SONNYPHUA THE quiet suburban neighbourhood at Jalan Molek, off Lorong 24 Geylang, was abuzz yesterday morning after a woman was found dead in a room in one of the two hotels there. It is understood that the woman, a Eurasian Singaporean
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        Lock icon Last date for a 'regular'
        202 5 A FAMILIAR face at a fourstorey budget hotel at Lorong 8 was found dead, naked and lying on the bed at 3.30 pm on Sunday. The 58-year-old selfemployed, married man, whose name was withheld by the police, had checked into a room with a woman
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      63 5 It will be cold, damp and dreary today, with showers expected over many areas in the afternoon except in the south, which will be cloudy. Temperatures will range between 23°C and 31 °C, with the tide reaching 2.5 m at 9.30 pm. November's weather girl Streats
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      Lock icon Other Geylang deaths
      127 5 IN February last year the body of a Bangladeshi woman, 20, was found in a room at the Fragrance Hotel in Lorong 6. She was on a social-visit pass. Police found her on the bed, in her underwear, a TV antenna cable around her neck. In September
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        66 5 g People Who care for the elderly can get some professional advice at a forum on Mobility and Related issues in the v Elderly chaired by Dr Chris Lien of the Changi General Hospital. It's on tomorrow, 7pm-9pm, at the Marine Parade Community Club Activity Room 3
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        Lock icon Remember...
        98 5 Mendaki waives fees for its tuition classes for needy Muslim students. Applicants' household income must be under 1,000 a month. Those from single-parent families or students who have been abandoned by paren ts and are now living with relatives may also apply. Visit the Mendaki office at 51 Kee
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      Lock icon Midnight murder 'It was only a joke'
      594 6  -  reports by I KHUSHWANT SINGH Facts of the case Anthony Ler Wee Jeang, 34, a web designer, is on trial for masterminding the murder of his estranged wife, insurance agent Annie Leong, 30. Also being tried is a 15-year-old student, who cannot be
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      Lock icon Unnatural sex led to divorce
      140 6 WHILE his wife, Madam Annie Leong, was pregnant with their daughter, Anthony Ler was denied sex, and that was why he had an affair with Ms Berinda Ho in early 1997. “I’ve a high sex drive,” he said, when crossexamined by Mr Edwin Seah, the
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      Lock icon Abuse 'like sparring'
      99 6 WHEN asked by Mr Subhas Anandan about physically abusing Ms Berlinda Ho, 25, a sales and marketing executive, with whom he had an affair for more than three years, Anthony Ler said that it was like sparring. While he had a certified first-dan black belt in ninjado,
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    • news scan
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        Lock icon Music conservatory born
        114 6 SINGAPORE has taken a major step in its drive to be recognised as a “renaissance city for the arts”. The National University of Singapore and Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute yesterday signed an agreement to set up the Singapore Conservatory of Music. “Making the arts and culture
        -AP  -  114 words
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        Lock icon Baby will be born in jail
        105 6 DRUG user Tan Poh Choo, 23, will have no choice but to give birth behind bars. Tan (right) was given the enhanced minimum sentence of three years’ imprisonment for a repeat offence of consumption and possession of methampetamine and ketamine. Tan, who is unmarried
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        Lock icon A smashing guest
        104 6 SECK Wai Huang flew into a rage at the River View Hotel on Oct 27 at about 8.03 am. He threw an ashtray, decorative stones, a glass of water and a glass table top. The result: Almost $5,100 in damage. It didn’t end there. He resisted arrest
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        Lock icon Snatch-theft bungled
        98 6 A PLAN for a snatch-theft went awry when the thief skidded and fell from his getaway motorcycle. A court heard yesterday how jobless serial offender Khng Leong Eng, 47, bungled his getaway on the stolen motorcycle and was trapped by the victim. On the morning of Oct 20,
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  • Streatssmart regional
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      Lock icon Economic aftershocks of war Early Asia upturn unlikely: ADB
      242 7 -AP ASIA'S economic suffering will be prolonged by the effects on the US economy of the war in Afghanistan, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday. There is a growing concensus among analysts that the Sept 11 attacks on the US
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      Lock icon M'sia looks inward for growth
      129 7 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Acknowledging that its economy has slipped into recession, Malaysia is looking inward for signs of growth. Bank Negara governor Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz said that the economic contraction was partly due to a high statistical base in the third quarter of 2000.
      -AP  -  129 words
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      Lock icon Shanghai to take in laundry
      243 7 Reuters SHANGHAI This city aims to wash away one of its oldest practices the drying of laundry along busy streets. City officials said yesterday the bustling commercial hub would increase fines on residents who drape laundry from diapers to underwear to quilts on bamboo poles
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      Lock icon Some parking tickets stick
      195 7 -AFP darwin An Australian motorist flew 3,000 km return from Cairns to Darwin to fight a Asloo ($92) parking ticket but lost his court case due to a technicality. Mr Troy Hopley made the journey across northern Australia last week only to be told by Darwin
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  • WAR
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      Lock icon Bloody battle breaks out at prison, hundreds killed Taleban massacre
      353 8 Wire services MAZAR-E-SHARIF Hundreds of Pakistani, Arab and Chechen prisoners of war were killed on Sunday night as US jets launched airstrikes to help Northern Alliance forces quell a prison uprising. American jets bombed a mud-walled fort here to put
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      Lock icon No more shadow boxing
      56 8 An Afghan boxer (above) exercising under the poster of Mohammed Ali in a small boxing club in Kabul suburbs on Saturday. Mirasudin (right), an veteran Afghan boxing champion of the *****, getting ready for exercise. Under the Taleban, boxing was forbidden as 'anti-lslamic'and clubs worked behind
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      Lock icon 50 Indonesians captured
      107 8 -AP JAKARTA Northern Alliance forces have captured 50 Indonesian volunteers fighting with the Taleban. Iqbal Siregar, the head of the Islamic Youth Movement, said that the prisoners were part of a group of 300 Indonesian Muslims dispatched to Afghanistan to help defend the Taleban. Mr Siregar said
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      Lock icon False alarm wakes up Prez
      156 8 WASHINGTON On the night of Sept 11, President George W Bush and First Lady Laura Bush were roused from their bed and rushed down to the bunker below the White House because an aircraft had been spotted flying towards the President’s mansion. Describing his day
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      Lock icon Kabul newspaper back
      89 8 -AFP The first newspaper to be published in Kabul since the Taleban fled the city sported a picture no one would have dared publish during the Islamic regime's rule women without their veils. The photograph was taken during a demonstration in Kabul some days after the Nov
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      Lock icon Extortion rises
      91 9 Reuters From improvised road tolls to the shakedown of shopkeepers, extortion is on the rise across Afghanistan as Taleban rule crumbles. Several checkpoints have been set up by armed men along the road linking Kabul to Jalalabad and Torkham at the Khyber Pass border with Pakistan. Regular drivers
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      Lock icon Marines take airports; ready for Kandahar assault Troops move in
      439 9 KABUL American soldiers moved into position yesterday to fight their first pitched battle of the Afghan war. The Marines took two airports while US jets continued bombing Taleban positions in and around Kandahar. Heavy fighting between the Taleban and attacking
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      Lock icon Alliance won't join offensive
      243 9 Reuters KABUL The Northern Alliance will not send any troops to fight the Taleban in Kandahar, Alliance Foreign Minister Dr Abdullah Abdullah said yesterday. This is a major blow to the US, which has ridden piggyback on the rebels throughout Afghanistan. Washington has been forced to
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    • war diary
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        Lock icon Pakistan on alert
        77 9 Wire services PAKISTAN fortified border security with Afghanistan yesterday, sealing main entry points, said Major-General Rashid Qureshi, official spokesman of President Pervez Musharraf. In some cases, pictures of A 1 Qaeda members and Arab fighters have been supplied in an effort to spot them. Meanwhile in Bonn,
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        Lock icon UK stands down
        84 9 OVER 6,000 British troops look set to be taken off a 48-hour standby in the wake of the collapse of Taleban control in much of Afghanistan. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was expected to announce in the House of Commons yesterday that some, if not all, of the
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        Lock icon Germans fly in aid
        75 9 -AP GERMAN transport aircraft yesterday began flying humanitarian and military supplies to the Incirlik air base in Tlirkey, relieving some of the burden on US Air Force crews. A Luftwaffe C-160Transall airplanes flew into Ramstein Air Base yesterday from its base in northern Germany loaded with
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        Lock icon Matching Osama's DNA
        82 9 US officials will seek tissue samples from Osama bin Laden’s relatives in Saudi Arabia, to be able to run DNA tests on his remains if he is found dead, Time magazine will report in fresh runs, cyber journalist Matt drudge said yesterday. “Matching what’s known as mitochondrial
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      189 10 Meet the monsters from Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. at Junction 8 this Christmas! •'S' JUNCTIONS (17 November 24 December) mm -—O' 5 <& DiSNEY/PIXAR From the Creators of '&mmr PIXAR INC Be ready for monstrous fun when you come to Junction 8 this Christmas! frdettC Monstrous Funland 'A. I*o 'i r
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon First human embryos cloned Debate rages on
      193 11 Reuters WASHINGTON Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Massachusetts have succeeded in creating the world’s first cloned human embryos. The embryos grew for only a few hours and are still so unformed that some ethicists and scientists remain divided over whether they
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      Lock icon Suicide bomber injures two
      122 11 -AP JERUSALEM A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up near an Israeli checkpoint in the Gaza Strip yesterday. The bomber was killed and two Israeli border policemen were lightly injured in the blast near the Erez crossing in northern Gaza, the Israeli military said. There was
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon The rise and fall of a Philippine Muslim leader Rebel, governor... now, prisoner
      263 12 -AFP ZAMBOANGA Philippine Muslim leader Nur Misuari went from a rebel separatist guerilla leader to a governor of an autonomous region, but his unique career appears to be nearing an end in a jail. The former political
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      Lock icon Sipadan link?
      113 12 Malaysian authorities are investigating Nur Misuari's role in last year's kidnappings in tourist resorts in Sabah, Manila's ambassador to Kuala Lumpur said yesterday. This is likely to delay Nur Misuari's deportation to Manila, according to Ambassador Jose Brillantes. The Philippines conducted an election to pick Nur Misuari's successor
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      Lock icon Presidential healer
      100 12 -AFP DHAKA Bangladesh’s new President Badruddoza Chowdhury, a doctor, will continue treating patients, a presidential palace spokesman said yesterday Dr Chowdhury, sworn in this month, also used to be a TV presenter. Mr Abu Zafar Mohammad Iqbal said Dr Chowdhury had started treating officials and staff at the
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Our man Pang
      672 13  -  We begged and we pleaded. And finally we got an embarrassed and reluctant Adrian Pang to watch his performance in the Hollywood film. Spy Game by YVONNE KWOK ADRIAN PANG was groaning. “Please, please don’t make a big deal out of this. The director of the show,
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      Lock icon It's gotta be magic
      709 14  -  by STEPHANIE GOH LIFE with magic, it’s fantastic. That’s probably the mantra of the cast and crew responsible for Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone, what with the incessant “ke-chings” of box-office cash registers since it first premiered in the UK less than three weeks ago.
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      Lock icon Upsets by the number
      554 15  -  te//ytuhby by Yvonne Kwok IT WAS a night of upsets on Sunday’s Star Awards 2001. Chen Liping’s fans were upset. Christopher Lee’s fans were upset. I upset. Let me name the ways: upset #1 Yes, so Liping and Chris were deluded from the Top 10. But
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      Lock icon No laughing matter
      451 16  -  by STEPHANIE GOH He had the audience in stitches without meaning to at Star Awards on Sunday. But an indignant Nick Cheung insists he was trying to be serious WITHOUT meaning to, guest presenter Nick Cheung triggered a laughing fit at the Star Awards on Sunday night.
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon MAKANSUTRA
          61 16 8.30 pm, TV Works Who created fish head bee hoon soup? Who can claim ownership of the recipe? Makansutra plunges into the thick of the stories swirling behind this simple dish cooked by not-so-simple folk whom Seetoh gets into some hot soup with. Also see what happens when cabbies
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          Lock icon HAPPY RULES!
          95 16 Bpm, Channel U Kym Ng, Bryan Wong, Lina Ng, Guo Liang and Lynn Poh host this new magazine show, made up of three main segments. City Search offers tips on how to enjoy life. Where To Eat Today scours Singapore for mouth-watering food, and Ultimate Challenge, hosted by
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          Lock icon PHUA CHU KANG PTE LTD
          27 16 8.30 pm, Channel 5 Singapore’s favourite contractor catches election fever when Margaret runs for president of the Phua’s housing estate Residents’ Committee.
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      Lock icon 'lt wasn't Gong Li's fault'
      161 19 MUCH ink has been spilled about how Gong > Li “dumped” long-time h beau Zhang Yimou, i Six years on, Gong Li’s mother spills the beans on the spilt. She told Oriental gjjpr Daily News that the break-up had more to do with the 50-year-old
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        Lock icon Man Utd's grip on title is looking slippery Crumbling empire
        486 20 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Arsenal 3 Man United l] -Wire services LONDON A 25-mmch unbeaten run. That is Mandgplter United’s target now as it gojpmto the middle part of the Premiellnip season after losing to ArsenalJF Blunders ap«K, the champion was
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        24 20 K Leeds 1 (Smith 18) Aston Villa 1 (Kachloul 35) L Liverpool 1 (Heskey 22) Sunderland 0 Middlesbrough 0 Ipswich 0
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        189 20 Team P W D L F A Pts 1. Liverpool 12 8 2 2 22 11 26 2. Leeds 13 6 6 1 16 8 24 3. Arsenal 13 6 5 2 28 15 23 4. Newcastle 13 7 2 4 23 17 23 5. Aston Villa 13
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        Lock icon Wenger: 'Title race more open'
        237 20 -Wire services LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger praised his young “lions”for their character in the win. He also defended his compatriot Fabien Barthez’s increasingly tarnished reputation. Barthez was fortunate not to be sent off after being booked for clashing with Matthew Upson, and then kicking
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        Lock icon Fitness woes for Lions Banking on veterans
        487 21  -  by /LIM HAN MING TIGER 5s Singapore v Egypt SINGAPORE'S futsal coach Tay Peng Kee is a worried man. No, he’s not losing sleep over the prospect of facing African futsal champion Egypt in the opening match of the Tiger 5s starting today.
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      • SOCCER
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          Lock icon Romario scores hat-trick
          68 22 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Veteran striker Romario scored a hattrick as Vasco da Gama hammered Sao Paulo 7-1 in the Brazilian championship on Sunday. Romario’s goals all came in the second-half, taking the topscorer’s tally to 21 this season. The 35-year-old has been left out of the
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          Lock icon Ronaldo returns as substitute
          93 22 Reuters MILAN -Twice World Player of the Year Ronaldo made an 18minute appearance as a substitute as Inter Milan returned to second place in Serie A with a 2-0 win over Fiorentina. It was the Brazilian’s first appearance since his ill-fated comeback against Lecce on Nov
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        Lock icon Hoppe demands public apology
        100 22 BOWLING FORMER national bowling coach Ron Hoppe has demanded a public apology as well as damages from Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress president DrT T Ong for“defamatory statements made against him publicly”. In a press statement, the American coach stated that “there was no need for Dr
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        Lock icon Heartbreak for Australia again Uruguay makes it
        451 22 -AP r WORLD CUP PLAY-OFF Uruguay 3 Australia 0 (Uruguay MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay For Uruguayans, sheer joy. For Australians, pure misery. Twelve years after Uruguay last qualified for the World Cup, the team beat Australia 3-0 to advance to next year’s finals in Japan
        -AP  -  451 words
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        Lock icon Carter gets even with Philadelphia
        263 22 NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS Toronto Raptors -Af\ TORONTO Right from the start, Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors made the statement that perhaps they might rule the National Basketball Association’s Eastern Conference this season. The Raptors scored the game’s first 11 points and did not trail, and Carter
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        Lock icon Return of 'Zico'?
        360 23  -  Sembawang wants to add to its Thai brigade t»y HAN KIM HAN GOOD news. Thai captain Kiatisuk“Zico” Senamuang (above), he of the sparkling smile and dazzling goals, may return for another S-League season. Released by Singapore Armed Forces FC after just one year, Kiatisuk had looked like
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        Lock icon Warriors sign four new recruits
        287 23  -  by y TAN KIM HAN THE changing of guards continues at Singapore Armed Forces FC. It has signed four new recruits for next season. They are Jeykanth Jeyapal (25), V Selvaraj (31), Jerry Bartholomeusz (27) and Winston Yap (25). For winger Jeykanth and midfielder Selvaraj,
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