Streats, 9 January 2002

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  • 16 1 STREATS WEDNESDAY January 2002 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 505 1  -  Filipino maid sold tablets illegally for self-abortion by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM NORMA Lleno Cortez was a nightmare for maid employers in Singapore the 45-year-old Filipino maid earned some money on the side selling Cytotec, a prescription gastric pill known to induce abortion. A drug like Cytotec is something that foreign
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    • 24 1 Renovate Now for a Hong Bao msm Call us on 338 8922 for your Home Improvement Loan Terms conditions apply CITIBANK where money lives
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    • 40 1 $100, in April and July. ‘morning-after” pills. on each charge. plgfl M He's 27, happily married He': and earns millions. But he rid spends only 10 per cent of a h the world's B 1 (CO a new ii Pic
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  • LOCAL
    • 406 2  -  Franchises offer money-making ideas by KAREN CHEN TIRED of being held ransom by the unpredictable job market? Be your own boss from selling kaya on toast to spinning a sushi bar to running a school. Opportunities abound at the MoneyMaking Ideas exhibition held tomorrow at the
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    • 131 2 THOSE living in the east can now visit Changi General Hospital (CGH) for psychological treatment. The newly set-up Psychological Medicine Department now has five full-time psychologists. Waiting time to see a doctor will be no longer than a week, reported Lianhe Zaobao. The department,
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    • 254 2 SHOCK -that was Mr Abdullah Tarmugi’s reaction when he heard about the arrest of 15 suspected Islamic terrorists said to be linked to Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda network. Mr Abdullah, the Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, was speaking in an interview with the BBC, which
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    • 165 2 -AFP SINGAPORE'S recession-mired economy is forecast to grow 3.8 per cent this year and 7.7 per cent in 2003, but the road is fraught with risks. Gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to continue to shrink up to the second quarter of this
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    • 476 3  -  2 decomposed bodies, wrapped in cloth, found in car at Orchard Towers by f SONNYPHUA PETER CHONG thought the stink from a car parked on the seventh floor carpark at Orchard Towers came from a dead rat. He looked under the car, but there was no rat.
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    • Article, Illustration
      262 4 Postal workers stole, used mailed credit cards AFTER a Singapore Post mailsorter found out by chance how to recognise an envelope containing a credit card, he and a colleague stole 42 of them. Rohaazman Ali was in October sentenced to two years in jail and Jamaludin A Samad
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    • 212 4  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM A 19-YEAR-OLD NSman grabbed a woman by the neck and snatched her handbag while two friends acted as lookouts. A court heard yesterday that on July 12 last year, Ms Hong Cheing Shan, 26, was about to enter the lift to go
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    • 131 4  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam FRUSTRATED by her nagging, a 34-year-old lorry driver threatened his wife with a knife and slashed her finger. A court heard yesterday that on Aug 9, Ang Boon Koon returned home to his flat at Pasir Ris after drinking. He and his wife
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    • 147 4  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam A MAN who claimed he could make people lucky stole their money to pay his debts. A court heard yesterday that Tan Shee Chuan, 47, had been running a shop selling materials for worship at North Bridge Road since 1985. In
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    • 81 4 onekindact The Clarks Thank you to the staff at Isetan and Mango, Ngee Ann City, for the care and assistance they gave recently when my sister-in-law passed out A gentleman staff member at Isetan found her a lounge chair in a quiet corner and a young lady gave
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    • news scan
      • 64 4 A 44-YEAR-OLD man was knocked down and killed as he tried to cross the Seletar Expressway (SLE) on Monday evening. A taxi travelling in the extreme right lane of the three-lane SLE was heading towards the BukitTimah Expressway (BKE) when it hit Mr Lim Hock Eng
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      • 70 4 BURGLARS broke into a karaoke lounge at East Coast Parkway and stole $BOO in cash and goods. The break-in was discovered by a cashier when she arrived at Harmony Karaoke at spm on Monday. She found the main door open and the latch tampered with. The burglars
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      • 77 4 FIRE engulfed eight stalls at Tanjong Pagar Plaza yesterday morning, but the blaze was quickly brought under control by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). After the fire started at 9.10 am, two fire bikes, two fire engines and a support vehicle arrived within five minutes
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  • FINANCIAL
    • 158 6 AS AT 9AM Singapore Mars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 0.9540 0.9710 Canadian dollar 1.1440 1.1680 Euro 1.6400 1.6590 NZ dollar 0.7840 0.8060 Sterling pound 2.6440 2.6710 US dollar 1.8410 1.8540 Local Mars to 100 units of foreign currency 8|
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    • 310 6  -  4% ofS'poreans have investible funds of $200,000: survey by t SARAH NG SINGAPOREANS may have lots of cash stashed away but few know what to do with their money. That’s where financial planners come in. Consider this: The country boasts of more than 180,000 households with
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    • 1005 6 STI: 1,704.02 8.07 Reuters THE main share index closed higher for the fifth straight day yesterday on selected buying in some blue chips. The broader market sagged on profittaking and weakness in other markets. “Asian markets are overbought, so if they go into
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      • 88 6 Wire services LONDON Central bankers from the world’s 10 richest countries said yesterday that global economic recovery is on the way. Sir Edward George, governor of the Bank of England, said the mood had improved since they last met in November. “The situation in
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      • 67 6 Reuters DETROIT General Motors (GM) will select groups of white-collar employees aged 50 years and above for an early retirement package. This would enable GM to cut its enormous global workforce of 360,000 through attrition, voluntary buyouts and cuts in contract employment.
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      • 72 6 Wire services SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering Ltd, whose customers include Boeing and FedEx, said yesterday that its fourth-quarter profit rose by 12 per cent. Its profit for the quarter ended Dec 31 rose to $97.3 million, beating analysts’ average forecast of $94.8 million. The sales were
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      • 79 6 -AFP HOUSTON No 2 personal computer maker Compaq Computer Corp said it would post a profit for the fourth quarter instead of a loss. “The company’s revenue for the fourth quarter will exceed US$B billion ($l5 billion), yielding a profitable quarter,” it said
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  • MEDICAL
    • 190 8 Q: I always feel bloated and belch after a meal. What is the cause and how can I get rid of the wind? 4 Bloatedness and belching after a meal is a common complaint It may be due to an underlying peptic ulcer disease or some motor dysfunction
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    • Smoke signals
      • 338 8 Why people should quit -Reuters LONDON The children of women who smoke during pregnancy are at greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and obesity, new research suggests. The study, the first to link maternal smoking and a child’s diabetes, suggests that smoking deprives the foetus of
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      • 148 8 Reuters NEW YORK Younger female smokers are more likely to try to quit than their older counterparts, Swiss researchers report. Their study of more than 3,600 women aged 35 to 74 found that those under 55 were more likely to be past or current
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      • 85 8 -AFP SEOUL Schools here will soon be no-smoking areas. The country is aiming to make schools smoke-free by June as a study showed that teen smoking was on the rise, and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education was the first, on Friday, to designate all 1,171 schools in
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    • 85 8 healthfact It is true that smokers tend to gain weight after they quit. This could be because nicotine appears to raise the body's metabolic rate the speed at which it converts food to energy. After quitting, a smoker's metabolism returns to normal, burning calories more slowly. New
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  • 159 9 I HAVE observed during the past three months that there are growing numbers of pornographic VCD pedlars selling their wares around HDB areas and MRT stations. Such VCDs, including “hardcore” material, are being displayed openly on a daily basis as though it’s not illegal. My
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  • 154 9 AFTER my mother-in-law was admitted to National University Hospital (NUH) about two weeks ago, she underwent a blood transfusion. We were advised by the hospital that the supply of blood bags for her should be replenished and that it was standard for hospitals to encourage
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  • 209 9 I REFER to “Make HDB parking simpler for non-residents” (Streats, Jan 4), a letter by Mr Rajamani Gopalakrishnan. The writer suggested that the season parking system be extended to enable season ticket holders to park in other HDB carparks. HDB carparks are mainly for
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  • 156 9 MY two-year-old daughter and I were recently travelling on an MRT train when a man next to us began coughing in our direction and in the faces of other passengers. He made no attempt to cover his mouth. Within 24 hours,
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  • 145 9 I REFER to “Let us use CPF for commercial schools” (Streats, Jan 7), a letter by Ms Alice Lim. I would like to put in my two cents’ worth on this subject. I strongly agree with Ms Lim that the Government
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    • 38 9 Interchange have your say Streets is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email us at streats@sphxom.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 82 denting Lane, Singapore 349S67. You should indude your name, address and contort number.
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    • 665 10 Which of the following animals do you most relate to? A The dog. B The snake. C The monkey. D The owl. When you arrive at a party, do you... A Look for someone you know. B Nothing. You don't really go to parties. C Look for someone you don’t
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  • REGIONAL
    • 385 11 WASHINGTON The war on terror could soon move its focus to Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries, the US deputy defence decretary said yesterday. In an interview with the New York Times, Paul Wolfowitz said that
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    • 243 11 SYDNEY Almost 7 million kangaroos are to die this year after Australia increased its annual cull quota. Animal rights groups yesterday condemned the move as the biggest ever killing of Australia’s national symbol. Environment Minister David Kemp said the quota will rise from 5.5
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    • Article, Illustration
      45 11 CHILD'S PLAY: A sculpture titled Red Memory by Chen Wenling being displayed on Shenzhu Beach in the south-eastern Chinese port city of Xiamen on Monday. The sculptor said his work was an expression of his fond memories of childhood Pic Reuters Pic: Reuters
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    • 265 11 -Reuters TOKYO Nearly half of Japan’s people no longer feel safe in their own country, according to a survey published yesterday. The country is split down the middle between people who think it’s safe and those who think it isn’t, according to a survey of
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      • 110 11 TENSE women like to hug hairy men who haven’t showered, US scientists say. Women aged 20 to 45 who sniff a chemical found in men’s skin and body hair feel secure and happy, researchers at the University of Utah said. They studied a steroid derived from
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      • 88 11 A POLICE chief had a burger bar manager arrested after his burgers weren’t ready on time. Chief Joseph Elizarde of Inverness, Florida, rang Happy Dayz Diner to order two hamburgers for lunch, Ananova.com reported. He rang again 20 minutes later and became upset because owner Butch Ramsay said
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      • 70 11 PANDAS are to get their own “dating agency”. Scientists at a conference in Beijing hope the agency will improve the breeding success of captive pandas, who have little interest in sex, perhaps because many are closely related. Experts think most of the world’s captive pandas are now
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      • 65 11 GERMANS think they know why a male rhinoceros at Berlin Zoo hasn’t fathered a single calf in three years he’s British. London-born Yohda, 15, hasn’t been able to get his German mate pregnant in three years of trying, Ananova.com reported. “As a native Briton, Yohda seems to
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  • GLOBAL
    • 123 13 Apple CEO Steves Jobs introducing the new iMac at the Macworld Conference and Expo 2002 in San Francisco on Monday. it features a swiveling flat-panel, 15-inch LCD display on a hemispherical pearl-white base Pic Reuters Pic Reuters Sony employee Yukiko Ito showing off the second
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    • 307 13 Pakistan 'has to shut down anti-India groups' Wire services NEW DELHI Pakistan yesterday came under unprecedented pressure to act against terrorists fighting India’s rule in Kashmir. In one of his strongest statements yet, US President George W Bush urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to intensify
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    • 158 13 Wire services JERUSALEM The 50 tonnes of weapons seized from a ship last week was on its way to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the ship’s captain has admitted. Omar Acawi, 44, who captained the Karine A on its journey, told Israeli television and
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    • 276 13 Reuters KABUL Three former Taleban ministers have surrendered to Afghan forces, but the hunt for Mullah Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden is still proving fruitless. “Among those who surrendered were former minister of defence Mullah Übai Dullah, minister of justice Mullah Tlirabi and minister of
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  • PEOPLE
    • 358 14 PALM HARBOR The teenager who flew a Cessna into a Florida skyscraper acted alone, he wrote in a note that was found in the plane’s wreckage. Charles Bishop lived with his mother, Julia Bishop, reported Tampa Bay Online. But the only company he kept was
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  • easy STREATS
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      787 15  - Rich Frugal According to 27-year-old entrepreneur Khoo, he works a lot border than He plays and spends his money on his businesses, noton himself by YVONNE KWOK WHEN you’re young, charismatic and manage five companies with a combined turnover of $2O million, there are some assumptions people might make about
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    • 585 16  -  witch'sHOUß by KARA vanMIRAH MORE parties, new nightspots and lifestyle products a handful of players in the entertainment industry are determined to keep fresh ideas rolling despite the I general mood of caution during the economic downswing. Last month, Papa Joe’s converted the Peranakan Museum and back alley
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    • 164 18 RECORD company EMI has denied reports that it paid songbird Mariah Carey US$5O million ($92 million) to buy out her contract with Virgin Records, which EMI owns. The New York Post last week said that EMI paid the amount to rid itself of Carey’s five-album US$BO
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    • 78 18 TALK about multi-talented. We know Canadian rock star Bryan Adams can sing, but he can shoot? Photographs, that is. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has picked him as one of four photographers to take her Golden Jubilee portraits, reported People News. Adams apparently is become
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    • 89 20 Some of you may be drenched by passing showers in the morning and afternoon and will be cussing and swearing at the sky. But think about how the rain helped to put out the bushfires in Sydney. That could help put the smile back on your
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    • 197 20 Just .a minute You've seen people doing it and you may even practice it yourself. But do you really know what qigong and the different types of 'qi'are? Join Master Tek Siaw this evening from 7-Bpm at Library@Orchard as he talks about the applications of qigong in
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    • Happenin'
      • 39 20 LINDY HOP COURSES YMCA, 10rchard Road Tomorrow till Feb 14 $63 (members), $66 (non-members) Call *****88 for enquiries Learn to do the Lindy Hop in six weeks. This course starts tomorrow and you should be nimble-footed by February.
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      • 52 20 VOICES IN THE PARK Pasir Ris Park (next to PA bungalows) Sunday, 5.30-7 pm Free Bring the mats, chicken curry and bee hoon. Local a capella groups Budak Pantai, Nanu and Key Elements are treating you to an evening of contemporary, classical and pop songs. Time for a picnic
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      • Article, Illustration
        64 20 THROUGH MYANMAR EYES Arts Seasons Gallery, 5, Gemmill Lane Till Jan 27,11am-Bpm (Tue-Sat), 12pm-7pm (Sun) Free Te 1221-1800 More Singaporeans are trooping to Myanmar for a slice of the exotic. The country is all that and more. Get an insight into sacred sites, traditional ceremonies and daily life in
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        56 20 FUNKTION 54 -GOTTAGO DISCO! Fat Frog Cafe (behind The Substation) Friday, Bpm $65 Relive the disco era and do your bit for children in East Timor. Featuring live performances by a five-piece band, Phase-2-Phase and DJ Venus Flytrap. All proceeds from the event will go in aid of Unicef
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      • 64 20 re:MIX DBS Arts Centre, 20 Merbau Road Thursday till Jan 20,8 pm $32 Tickets from Sistic, tel 348-5555 Sick actress notwithstanding, Dick Lee’s clubland musical will go on. A story about the exploits and values of Singapore’s Generation Y, re:MIX is brought to you by a bunch of young
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    • Tune in TV & Movie news
      • 43 21 7pm, TV Works It’s graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and it’s time to party. The nerds will become studs, the jocks will be humiliated, and freshman crushes will blossom into grown-up romance. A coming-of-age movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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      • Article, Illustration
        72 21 Bpm, Channel U Debut of a new Channel U drama about a popular game show host, Ren. His colleague, Hao, finds Ren repulsive since he never appreciates her work. Ren’s professional life is further complicated by his personal one, when his wife elopes with another man. Ren
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      • 94 21 10pm, Central A black comedy about a psychological love triangle set in the corporate culture of the ’9os. Two junior executives on a six-week business trip (Aaron Eckhart and Matt Malloy), both of whom have been recently hurt by women, devise a horrible plan to
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      • 183 21 TWO Star Wars fans have begun their wait to catch Episode II: Attack Of The Clones, more than four months before it opens. Mr John Guth and Mr Jeff Tweiten, of Seattle’s Star Wars Society, have pitched tents outside the Seattle Cinerama Theater, vowing
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    • Article, Illustration
      135 21 THE POTTER'S HOUSE by Rosie Thomas CRITICALLY acclaimed British author Rosie Thomas returns with this story which revolves around two women embroiled in an estranged relationship. Kitty, an Englishwoman who is abandoned by her husband, leaves London to start her life afresh. On her journey to the Greek
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    • 571 22 -AFP While Lord of the Rings dominated the AFI Awards, it's a tough call on which movies will hog the Oscars LOS ANGELES Goblins and hobbits may well rule at the Oscars, but Hollywood experts say it’s too soon to make an accurate call. The field
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    • 169 22 Reuters LOS ANGELES Actress Whoopi Goldberg will return as host of the Oscars in March after taking a two-year break from the high-profile job, officials announced on Monday, k The 74th annual Academy Awards ceremony on March 24 will mark Goldberg’s fourth turn at the
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    • 269 23  -  by < DIANA SER SHE will not do it, not even for charity. That was what TVB actress Charmaine Sheh told reporters yesterday when asked if she would attempt Cecilia Cheung’s car stunt. The latter was badly hurt last Friday when the charity car stunt
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    • 486 20 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com Streets reader Adelene Koh Outfit Miss Selfridge Make-up Angela Choo @*****422 Pk Francis Lee 10am-9pm, Sat 10am-spm, Sun l-spm. Closed on public holidays. (Tel: 332-3255) AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Aquarius has a hard time breaking into a closed circle. Your determination is admirable, although something
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  • Sports
    • 333 24 Wire services CHICAGO Michael Jordan’s wife has filed for divorce, seeking to dissolve her 13-year marriage to the world’s most famous basketball player, the Chicago Tribune reported on its Web site on Monday night. In a petition filed on Friday in Waukegan, Illinois, Juanita Jordan,
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    • 436 24 Sixers posts best offensive game of season r NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Philadelphia 76ers 116, LA Clippers 92 PHILADELPHIA-Allen Iverson showed he is about more than scoring. He recorded his first career triple-double, collecting 30 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds as Philadelphia 76ers coasted to a 116-92 win over
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      430 25 Owen and Henry in strikers' showdown Reuters LONDON Arsenal’s Thierry Henry (below) and Liverpool’s Michael Owen (right) go goal hunting at Highbury on Sunday in round three of the fiercest strikers’duel in European soccer. Henry and Owen are the hottest forwards in the British game at the moment,
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    • 254 25 LONDON Chelsea midfielder Jody Morris has been charged in connection with an alleged nightclub assault. Morris was charged with affray and actual bodily harm after he attended Belgravia police station in central London by appointment, a Scotland Yard spokesman said. The 23-year-old from Epsom, Surrey,
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    • Article, Illustration
      430 26 mited asked to double its price for Argentinian captain VALENCIA, Spain Valencia has advised Manchester United to more than double its £ll million ($29 million) offer for Roberto Ayala (left). Valencia’s president Jaime Orti told onefootball.com: “Ayala is a key player and we are only willing to let
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    • 210 26 MANCHESTER Manchester United has increased its original £2.5 million ($6.65 million) offer for striker Paolo di Canio to £3 million. West Ham had earlier asked for £3.5 million, but agreed to cut £500,000 from it. But the main sticking point regarding Di Canio’s transfer
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    • 99 27 •SOCCER SINGAPORE'S Krishnan Visvananthan has been picked as an assistant referee for the World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea. He was among the list of 72 names released by the world governing body Fifa yesterday. The 43-year-old Housing Board technician .will be the
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    • 91 27 •TABLE TENNIS SINGAPORE'S top table tennis doubles pair of Jing Junhong and Li Jiawei will participate in the Dawei Pro Tour Grand Finals to be held in Tianjin, China, from Jan 10 to 13. The duo qualified for the year-end finale by virtue
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    • 85 27 •TENNIS -AFP MELBOURNE World No 1 Lindsay Davenport pulled out of the Australian Open with a knee injury, Tennis Australia said yesterday. The 25-year-old American injured her knee at the WTA tour champ ionships in Munich in November and has not fully recovered. Her withdrawal
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