Streats, 3 January 2002

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  • 17 1 STREATS THURSDAY 3 January 2002 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 535 1  -  by SARAH NG HERE'S some good news for the new year. Your worries about jobs and the state of the economy may get some relief. Economic figures released yesterday indicate that the worst of the economic downturn could be behind
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  • 281 1 Wire services SRINAGAR, India In a further escalation of tensions yesterday, a Pakistan-based terrorist group vowed to cany out “new deadly attacks” on India. “We are in possession of more deadly and sophisticated weapons and they will be fully used against the military
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  • morning rush
    • 76 1 A PROMOTION blitz for the Ministry of Manpower’s Work Skills Training Programme for executives starts this month. The $4 million programme offers courses for the jobless and those whose jobs are at risk. The course for the jobless is free, while those who are working pay a
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    • 44 1 YOUTH groups are being encouraged to apply to the National Youth Council (NYC) for a share of the Youth Organisation Capability Development Fund. Organisations can submit applications to the NYC until Jan 31. The application form can be downloaded from www.nyc.youth.gov.sg/yocdf/
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    • 35 1 Ahmad's ambition Singapore soccer's bad boy Ahmad Latiff Khamarudin wants to make it good this year by being the first local footballer to win the S-League golden boot award. PAGE 24 K Pic: Francis Lee
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  • LOCAL
    • 420 2  -  reports by SONNYPHUA NEW Year’s Day revelry at a pub in Wheelock Place turned tragic when a 21-year-old unemployed man was fatally stabbed in a fight. On the last day of 2001, Mr Tan Hock Chye had gone with some friends to Orchard
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    • 136 2 HE robbed her at knifepoint on New Year’s Day, but he was so polite about it. An 18 year-old student entered the lift at Blk 239 Hougang Street 22 at about 1.30 am on Jan 1. Before the doors closed behind her, a man ran
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    • 66 2 A 20-YEAR-OLD clerk experienced a bad ending to 2001, and two hours passed before she even became aware of it. On Dec 31, she went to Bugis Junction shopping centre at about 3pm. At 5.15 pm, she discovered that her haversack had been unzipped. A pickpocket
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    • 327 2  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM THE first day at a new school can be a nervewracking, scary experience for the parents. Especially careful planning was required by parents with more than one child starting at a new school yesterday. With a son starting his first year at kindergarten and
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    • 271 3 A DISTRAUGHT woman was one step away from death when a plucky counsellor pulled her to safety from 15 storeys up, ending her four-hour standoff with the SCDF emergency response team. Several eyewitnesses told Lianhe Wanbao that the 24-year-old woman, who works at a nightspot at
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    • 343 3 Employer gets 77 months jail A MAID was abused by her employer because she wasn’t working fast enough. The abuse began in mid-1999, soon after Ms Sulikah, then 27, started working for Lim Lan Eng, 41, a housewife, at her Marine Crescent home. Lim slapped
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    • 73 3 onekindact Lim Kar Hoe I am pregnant and I recently fell down near the canteen at Blk 20S Kallang Place, where I work. Thank you to the young Malay gentleman who offered me help. My baby and I are fine. If you wish to highlight a
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    • 213 3 THREE youths who spray-painted a bridge, the walls of a swimming complex and a canal came to a less colourful end yesterday they were placed under supervised probation by a court. Rozaimie Sahbi, 21, Muhamad Norfaizal Mohamed Paudi, 19, and Muhammad Hilmee Mohamed Ali, 21,
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    • 241 3 A FOREIGN worker who was ordered by the father of a three-year-old girl to leave his daughter alone, molested her anyway. Kotturu Hari Kiran, 26, lived near the family, had seen the girl and tried to get close
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    • 266 6 I REFER to “Make Expo-bound passengers alight” (Streats, Jan 2), a letter by Mr Alex Kwok. I understand how Mr Kwok and other MRT passengers going to Simei, Tampines and Pasir Ris feel about the inconvenience and discomfort of changing trains. After a
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    • 122 6 I STRONGLY disagree with the points made by Elaine Tan in her letter, “Feeling over-informed about my train journey” (Streats, Dec 28). I also commute on the MRT East West Line. While travelling from the west to my home in Pasir Ris it would be
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    • 169 6 I REFER to “Finding it too tough to be charitable” (Streats, Dec 31) and “Impossible for us to give away something useful to charity” (Streats, Jan 2), letters by Stella and Lily Sze respectively. My own experience is similar to that of both readers. I
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  • FINANCIAL
    • 156 4 AS AT 9AM Singapore dofiars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bill Offer Australian dollar 0.9400 0.9650 Canadian dollar 1.1500 1.1750 NZ dollar 0.7670 0.7890 Sterling pound 2.6790 2.7070 US dollar 1.8440 1.8560 Local dollars to TOO units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.89 12.14
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    • 325 4 STI will touch 1,800 mark this year: Salomon report Reuters SINGAPORE banks and property stocks are among the favourites of Salomon Smith Barney as it expects stronger prospects of a global recovery in 2002. In its Asia Pacific 2002 outlook, Salomon said there was
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    • 472 4 STI: 1,625.69 ig 2.09 -AP SHARES closed slightly higher yesterday on the first day of trading in 2002 amid hopes of a first-quarter stock rally. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) closed up 2.09 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 1,625.69, off an intraday
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    • money scan
      • 70 4 -AP THE Asia-Pacific region’s telecommunications services market will grow by 20.6 per cent this year to US$ 161 billion ($298 million) despite the economic slowdown. Asia’s telecoms sector will “blossom” as people around the region including the massive populations of China and India continue
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      • 65 4 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s forecast of 3 per cent growth for the Malaysian economy this year is realistic and achievable, says economists. But concerns remained over the speed of implementation of projects tied to the government’s stimulus package and over external
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      • 65 4 Wire services SEOUL Hynix Semiconductor, the third-largest maker of computer memory chips, has raised prices for the third time in less than a month. Hynix raised long-term contract prices for its memory chips by 30 per cent, said spokeswoman Kang In Young. The
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      • 49 4 Reuters THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) said yesterday it enjoyed record derivative trading volume of 30.99 million contracts in 2001, surpassing top volumes in 1998 of 27.86 million contracts. This represented a 12.5 per cent growth over 2000, when 27.57 million contracts were traded. -Reuters
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      • 63 4 -Reuters KUALA LUMPUR -The former chief of Malaysia’s Multi-Purpose Holding Bhd (MPHB), which controls cash-rich lottery operator Magnum, vowed yesterday to return to manage the firms, threatening a tussle for management control. Dr Chan Chin Cheung holds a 15 per cent stake in Quantum Aspects,
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  • MEDICAL
    • 361 8 -AFP WASHINGTON Women taking birth control pills that contain high levels of progestin may have a better chance of avoiding ovarian cancer than women taking low-progestin ones, researchers here said on Tuesday. The findings by a group of scientists led by Joellen Schildkraut of Duke
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    • 102 8 healthfact CIGAR-smokers don't inhale, so there's less risk to health than cigarette-smoking, right? Wrong. Research has shown that cigar-smoking increases a person's risk of heart disease and cancer especially of the mouth, throat and lung. Cigar smoke has the same poisonous chemicals as cigarette smoke and is just
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    • 278 8 Reuters WASHINGTON Depressed people had clear positive physical responses to both drugs and sugar pills in a study. A research report released on Tuesday said that this could help explain the “placebo effect”, or when patients respond positively to a bogus treatment or drug. Researchers gave
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    • 146 8 -AP TAIPEI Health officials urged Taiwanese to usher in the new year by giving up smoking, a habit made expensive with the country’s admission into the WTO. Cigarette prices increased by an average of 30 per cent as Taiwan formally became a
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    • 206 8 -AP CHICAGO Too much vitamin A may increase the risk of hip fractures in older women, says a new study. A report in the recent issue of Journal of the American Medical Association says that women with the highest intake of vitamin supplements had
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    • 165 8 Ql MY three-year-old daughter falls sick every two weeks. How do I build up her resistance? A Toddlers are prone to infectious illnesses. Their resistance to viruses and bacteria is low, and they catch them quite easily. To build up resistance, ensure that she has a balanced diet
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  • REGIONAL
    • 322 11 Reuters SYDNEY Australian police have arrested 21 people for arson linked to more than 100 bushfires blazing around Sydney. Police have found two incendiary devices in bushfire areas. One is believed to have started a fire in Sydney’s northern suburbs on Ibesday which has
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    • 179 11 -AFP BANGKOK More than 500 people were killed across Thailand, mostly in road accidents, during six days of revelry marking the New Year holiday. The holiday death toll was 18 per cent higher than expected, with 541 deaths between last
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    • 179 11 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan and India are secretly developing military co-oper-ation despite the lack of diplomatic ties, the United Daily News reported yesterday. The two countries have started exchanging military intelligence and Taipei has sent a military attache to India, the Chinese-language daily said. India’s top air force
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    • 140 11 -AP WASHINGTON Chinese factory workers are preventing a US businessman from leaving their town until he pays U 5555,000 ($101,760) for the toys they say they made for him. US State Department spokeswoman Susan Pittmam said on Thesday that her department has contacted local Chinese authorities
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    • 147 11 WELLINGTON-The sheer numbers of drunken young women on the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, on New Year’s Eve overwhelmed local police. So many women were “completely out of it” that police could never have kept pace with the problem no matter how many staff were working,
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  • GLOBAL
    • 284 12 Tribal forces rush to be the first to capture Mullah Omar Wire services KABUL Anti-Taleban factions were yesterday scrambling to be the first to capture Mullah Mohammed Omar. Washington has put a US$5 million ($9.2 million) award for information leading to the capture of the Taleban chief.
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    • 236 12 WASHINGTON The US has permanently changed for the better after Sept 11, most Americans told a Washington Post-ABC News poll. More than half the people polled said the tragedy has transformed their lives. An overwhelming majority also believes that the cost of President
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    • weird world
      • 70 12 Reuters A WELLINGTON policeman’s career is all shook up. Brian Childs, the reigning Australasian Elvis impersonator champion, left the force after being ordered by police bosses to choose between his blue uniform or Blue Suede Shoes, the Evening Post reported. Superiors said Jailhouse Rock after
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      • 82 12 Reuters A BUNCH of balloons bearing posters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat descended on northern Israel on Tuesday, where they were popped by explosives experts. Israeli sources said the posters were strapped to 40 balloons with ribbons in the Palestinian colours of red, white, green and black. The
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      • 79 12 POLICE in New Zealand have asked speeding motorists not to moan when they’re fined. “We’ve had a gutsful of people blaming police for giving them a ticket when they are clearly exceeding the speed limit,” Inspector Dave Cliff, head of traffic in the Southern district, said this week,
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      • 122 12 RUSSIANS in Kaluga, south of Moscow, spent New Year in the dark, the BBC reported. The local power company has made repeated efforts to connect about 20 villages to the grid, but to no avail. Every time the company lays power cables, thieves steal them to
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    • 215 12 Reuters BUENOS AIRES Thousands of Argentines yesterday banged pots and pans in a baptism of fire for new Peronist President Eduardo Duhalde. Mr Duhalde, a long-time powerbroker on the populist wing of the Peronist Party and who is the fifth president in
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    • 199 12 WASHINGTON The American Airlines Airbus which crashed in New York in November was involved in an accident while it was being built, the Washington Post said yesterday. The Nov 12 crash of Santo Domingo-bound Flight 587 killed 265 people as it plunged
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  • PEOPLE
    • 146 13 -AP MERCER, Pennsylvania Schoolboy Christopher Portman’s classmates thought he was joking last year when he told them he was running for mayor. He wasn’t and on Tliesday, the 19-year-old took the oath of office as mayor of Mercer, a borough of 2,391
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    • 310 13 Amien rises again Reuters JAKARTA Kingmaker Amien Rais slammed Indonesia President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday, saying she was too lowprofile, inconsistent and “wishywashy”. Dr Amien, speaker of the legislative body that sacked Mr Abdurrahman Wahid as president six months ago, enabling then-vice president Megawati to take over, said:
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  • easy STREATS
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      434 15  -  stephanie@theMOVlES by STEPHANIE GOH The Others Directed by Alejandro Amenabar Starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, AlakinaMann, James Bentley IN case you haven’t noticed, we’re in an era where the louder and more garish the special effects, the better or so it seems. When The Mummy returned last year,
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    • 221 15 The Others creepy or just sleepy? Reviewers'takes ***** ’ra-MmMf. S,. n-rj, n S\"rr\ fr<, /V n has thrown herself into her role as if it were Lady Macbeth on the London stage, with formidable results. Los Angeles Times reviewer Kenneth Turan No rating available Jiffy ny reasonably wideawake
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    • 481 16  -  After last year's shocking Shopping and F***ing that depicted graphic sexual acts, the theatre company delves into yet another potentially controversial topic, this time about love between two teenage boys by YVONNE KWOK THE wording on the flyer is provocative enough to cause a double
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    • 717 18 Reuters LOS ANGELES The soldiers are mostly young, often scared, never “cool”. There is no romance, no pretty nurse waiting tearily back at base. No swashbuckling hero arrives to save the day. And the grim, chaotic firefight offers no easy answers. After months of Hollywood
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    • 197 18 NEW YORK Eileen Heckart, the lanky, gravel-voiced stage and screen actress whose skill with comedy and drama won her an Oscar for Butterflies Are Free, two Emmys and a special Tony for career excellence, has died. She was 82. Heckart, who had had cancer for three
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    • 167 18 LONDON British actress Jane Leeves A looks set to become one of the highest paid TV actresses in the US after agreeing to a new deal with the makers of Frasier. The BBC reported that the 40-year-old, who plays Daphne Moon in the
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    • Just a minute
      • 80 20 NTUC Fair Price is extending its discount programme for the whole 0f2002. Besides offering up to 20 per cent discount for rice and 200 essential items, there will be price cuts for another 200 items such as biscuits and batteries. There will also be an additional 5 per cent
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      • 100 20 Electricity for domestic customers and small businesses will be cheaper 15.02 cents per kWh, down from 16.46 cents. The cost has fallen due to a price cap set by the Energy Market Authority and a fall in fuel prices. United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Overseas Union Bank
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    • 76 20 The sky is getting so blue and sunny that last week's continual downpours are but distant memories. So have some fun in the sun, before rainy days come back again to a neighbourhood near you. Temperatures will range between 24°C and 32°C with the tide reaching
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    • Happenin'
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        119 20 re:MIX DBS Arts Centre, 20 Merbau Rd, Robertson Quay Saturday till 20 Jan Tickets at $32 and $25 Call Sistic at 348-5555 A musical that depicts Generation Y’s clubbing lifestyle. Touted as Dick Lee’s first clubland musical with the Singapore Repertory Theatre, re:MIX is the first of a “creative
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      • 41 20 RENAL AWARENESS Bedok Community Library Tomorrow, 7.30 pm Free With early detection, some forms of kidney disease can be controlled. Learn about the functions of the kidney, the common types of kidney disease, their signs and symptoms, and preventive measures.
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        47 20 REMEMBERING SAMSUI WOMEN Ying Fo Fui Kuan Tomorrow till 20 January, 9am-spm Free Call 9588-3572 for more information. Samsui women played an important role in the history and heritage of Singapore. The exposition will be displayed via text, photos, paintings, sketches, video interviews and audience interactions.
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        57 20 THE ART OF CARICATURES National Reference Library, Courtyard Tomorrow, 7pm Free Ever wondered how some artists remain sane? Have a sense of humour, that’s how. Watch the caricaturists from Ashira Studio at work. You may even get to have your caricature sketched on the spot. Pick up some tips
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    • Tune in TV & Movie news
      • 35 21 Bpm, Channel U Sheng and Yong manage to escape whenYun’s spirit injures Er and returns to the past by manipulating the Yin Yang Wheel. Yong prevents Se’s death, but not his own.
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      • Article, Illustration
        67 21 10pm, TV Works Based on the true story of FBI undercover agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco, who in the 1970 s infiltrated the mob in what was to become one of the most successful mole operations ever. However, Donnie never expected that he would be pulled into
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      • 35 21 11.30 pm, Central While being interrogated by the Nazis, Alfonse has a heart attack and the Resistance decides that he must be either rescued or eliminated. Rene is sent to do the job.
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      • 53 21 7.30 pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) College kid Kris investigates a creepy mansion that her family owned, hoping to find out more about herself. Instead, she sees some ghostly goings-on and before she knows it, is caught up in a warlock’s plan to finish a ritual with her
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      • 125 21 STAR WARS or Lord Of The Rings? More than 4,000 Star Wars fans can’t decide which one to pledge their whole-hearted allegiance to, and want the best of both worlds. They’ve fired furious e-mails and joined an online petition demanding that George Lucas
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    • Article, Illustration
      135 21 altivo bar 109 Mount Faber Road Mount Faber Cable Car Station Tel: 270-8855 www.altivo.com.sg SITUATED at what must be the most scenic spot in Singapore, Altivo Bar is truly a gem. It’s not just a lovers’ paradise but a yuppies’ retreat as well. Sip your wine on top
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    • 474 22  - Cheap-tease the naked truth uncovered by WINSTON CHONG THEY'RE meant to raise your heart rate, or at least your eyebrow. But you’d be disaapointed, if you knew the truth. Yes, the models look like they’re in the buff. That’s the intended effect in advertisements like those of ABC Stout and
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 499 20 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com Your January's weather girl Streats reader Adelene Koh Outfit Top Shop Make-up Angela Choo @*****422 Pic Francis Lee AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Aquarius runs up against a matter of faith. You’re more likely to polarise the opposites than you are to win any new converts.
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    • 205 22 STREATS BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION Call 1900-911-0005 Win Tickets to an Exclusive Preview Catch all the action in this hilarious comedy. Complimentary tickets for 120 lucky Streats readers are up for grabs. Just call us with the correct answer and you could win! QUESTION: In Corky Romano, Chris Kattan plays
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  • Sports
    • 563 23 Manchester City leads Division One clubs with high ambitions Reuters LONDON -The new soccer year dawns with a clutch of English football’s most famous sleeping giants desperately trying to stir themselves to reclaim what they believe is their rightful place in the top flight. Fans of Manchester City,
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    • 318 23 -AP Championship Los Angeles Clippers /12 Portland 97 LOS ANGELES Racing down the court with the game still very in doubt in the fourth Quarter, Quentin Richardson s potted a streaking Darius Miles °n the opposite wing. Richardson never broke stride as he passed the
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    • 471 24  -  Ahmad Latiff J targets golden boot in the new season by ADAM HASHIDY AHMAD Latiff Khamarudin is out to make history. He wants to be the first local player to win the S-League topscorer award. Said the 22-year-old: “The golden boot is on my mind. It
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    • 222 25  -  by LIM HAN MING GORAN Bergendorff (left) is back. The widely-travelled bowling coach from Sweden stepped on Singapore soil last night after a 14-hour flight from I Copenhagen, Denmark. Bergendorff, 60, who was in charge of the national team in 1998 before returning home
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    • 431 25  -  American coach believes in individual training by LIM HAN MING CUSTOMISE training regimes for elite bowlers. That is one of the recommendations, Pat Henry (right), director of coaching of USA Bowling, has in mind for Singapore bowling. The 48-year-old American bowling consultant is here on the invitation
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    • 93 25 BOXING Reuters HAVANA Boxer Mike Tyson was involved in a heated confrontation with journalists in his Cuban hotel lobby on Tuesday, shouting and tossing crystal balls at them and lightly punching one cameraman on the head, witnesses said. Tyson, on a tourism trip to the Caribbean island,
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    • 86 25 SOCCER LONDON Kieron Dyer is poised to sign a new contract with Newcastle, quashing talk of a move to either Leeds or Manchester United. The England midfielder, who has two-and-a-half years left on his current deal, told the Daily Mail: “My agent and the chairman
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    • 87 25 TENNIS -AFP SYDNEY Former world No 1 Martina Hingis claimed yesterday she was still good enough to beat the big players now dominating women’s tennis. The 21-year-old, here to defend her Sydney International title next week, said she was confident she could regain the world
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    • 649 26 Wire services ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE- Leeds 3 West Ham 0 LEEDS Putting behind the negative publicity of the recent court case involving its stars Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate, Leeds gave its fans a New Year present by going top
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    • 70 26 Leeds 3 (Viduka 4,7, Fowler 50) West Ham 0 Charlton 3 (Robinson 16, Parker 32, Euell 61) Ipswich 2 (Bent 1,5) Chelsea 2 (Gudjohnsen 20, Hasselbaink 45) Southampton 4 (Beattie 7,73, Pahars 55, Marsden 64) Liverpool 1 (Gerrardso) Bolton 1 (Nolan 78) Middlesbrough 1 (Festa 50) Everton
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    • 174 26 Team P WD L F A Pts 1. Leeds 21 11 8 2 33 17 41 2. 20 11 6 3 41 24 39 3. Newcastle 20 12 3 5 38 25 39 4. Liverpool 20 11 5 4 30 20 38 SMan Utd 20 11 3 6
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    • 244 27 LONDON Most football fans believe that players are greedy and are only interested in money, according to a survey. Only the likes of Manchester United’s David Beckham and Liverpool’s Michael Owen were seen as the exception to the rule, BBC online reported. Less than half
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    • 471 27 MANCHESTER Manchester United is ready to sort out the future of manager Alex Ferguson (left) once and for all as it steps up the hunt for his successor. United chief executive Peter Kenyon and his fellow board members are preparing to
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