Streats, 8 March 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 635 1 Stepped-up action on Arafat draws fire Wire services ONE sits on the brink of a trade war. The other is embroiled in a bitter war that has claimed thousands of civilian lives. Both are obstinate. Both put selfinterests above all else, the world be damned. And both
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  • MORNING RUSH
    • 91 1 Reuters WASHINGTON Citing encouraging signs in recent days, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has painted a rosier picture of the US economy. Yesterday, Mr Greenspan told a Senate committee: “The recent evidence suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array
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    • 94 1 UNEMPLOYMENT will continue to climb here despite more signs that the US economy is headed for a sustainable recovery, the Minister of State for Education and Manpower, Dr Ng Eng Hen, warned yesterday. Firms will still be wary about hiring permanent staff for some time, he
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  • STREATS local
    • 218 2 WHEN things are down, don’t go down with them. Pull yourself up. This was the rallying call from Minister of State (Education and Manpower) Dr Ng Eng Hen, on how to face the recession and survive it. “Singaporeans must have the never-say-die, never-give-up spirit,
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    • 455 2  -  By Wendy Tan NAOMI Koh loves music and gave an impromptu albeit a little off-key rendition of London Bridge. The three-year-old also chattered cheerfully about how “nice” kindergarten is. By all appearances, Naomi is just a regular little girl. But she
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    • 79 2 ONE KIND ACT M Ramamoorthy MY 60-year-old mother fell down while using an escalator at City Hall MRT station late last month. My sincere thanks to the people who showed kindness and concern by offering dressings and tissues to attend to her cuts and bruises.
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    • 903 4  -  The EM3 stigma: Real life meets reel life By Wendy Tan IT WAS uncanny. There they were three EM3 boys who were almost spitting images of the three boy actors in Jack Neo’s current controversial box-office hit, I Not Stupid. It was as if they had
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    • 297 5  -  B y Khushwant Singh THEY met in a psychiatrist’s waiting room at Mount Elizabeth Hospital on Oct 29. That same afternoon, the 38-year-old married woman ended up in a hotel room with Lai Jiat Thiam, 44, unemployed, where he allegedly outraged her modesty. Lai is
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    • 156 5 AFTER sniffing glue at a staircase landing, Ng Kum Kong, 30, unemployed, staggered home at 2.30 am on Oct 10 last year. But a neighbour had called the police. When Ng saw the officer, he went into his Hougang Avenue 7 flat, and challenged him
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    • 419 5  -  Blind artist wins Her World’s Woman of the Year 2001 award By Yvonne Kwok SHE was one of Singapore’s finest printmakers till an accident left her blind 13 years ago. Battling depression and suicidal feelings, artist Chng Seok Tin returned to her art, focusing on sculpture.
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    • 205 6 A 34-YEAR-OLD unmarried woman is to stand trial on a charge of throwing her nine-year-old daughter down a rubbish chute from her fifth-floor flat. A preliminary inquiry on her case yesterday lasted but 10 minutes before District Judge Chong Chin Chin ruled that there were
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    • 154 6 THE organisers of activities for the residents under the Northwest Community Development Council (CDC) are getting younger. As part of a plan to groom community leaders, some 60 students aged 13 to 22 will be picked for a youth council that will mirrors their adult
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    • 334 6 More cars to meet higher demand NO carpark charges, maintenance fees or insurance premiums. And you will be reimbursed for filling up the petrol tank. Car-sharing is the most convenient way to drive, as more than 2,000 people, mainly HDB residents, who belong to NTUC’s
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    • 322 6  -  by Zubaidah Nazeer IF YOU you see groups of people in white polo T-shirts flashing torchlights in a Tampines multi-storey carpark in the wee hours of the morning, don’t panic. They are part of a Vehicle Watch Group, an initiative under the Community Safety and Security Programme, launched
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  • STREATS financial
    • 442 8 STI: 1,794.31 5.28 Reuters THE Straits Times Index (STI) finished lower for the third straight day as banks yesterday dipped ahead of a key corporate result, but technology stocks were firm due to strength in their European and US peers. The STI closed 0.29
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    • 333 8 Reuters WASHINGTON US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick raised fresh hope on Wednesday that talks with Singapore on a bilateral free trade agreement could be completed in the coming months. “The US and Singapore are making excellent progress in
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    • 184 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR Senior officials from China and South-east Asia will meet next month to map out the formation of the world’s biggest free trade area, a Chinese official said yesterday. Mr Long Yong Tu, China’s trade negotiator, said that the delegations
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    • 22 8 US$: 551.823 552.603 EURO: $1,605 Ss: DM1.218 Ss: 70.90 YEN Ss: RM2.085 Ss: HK54.279 Ss: 23.77 BAHT Ss: 5,471 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 90 8 Reuters DELGRO Corporation Ltd said yesterday it had no plans to take its 75 per cent owned unit SBS Transit Ltd private after both shares jumped on the rumours on Wednesday. The statement came after a company official said that Delgro was not aware of any reason for
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      • 61 8 Reuters WASHINGTON US President George W Bush wants chief executives to be stripped of bonuses in certain misconduct cases under a package of initiatives meant to enforce corporate responsibility following the Enron collapse. He also wants to create a watchdog agency to monitor the accounting industry. The independent
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      • 73 8 -afp INDONESIA has given the former owners of failed banks three months to repay billions of dollars in loans and threatened to arrest those who fail to do so, chief economics minister Dorojatun Kuntjoro-Jakti said yesterday. The debtors agreed in 1998 to repay within four years some
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    • 385 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad urged Japan and South Korea yesterday to energise Asia’s flagging economies by finding again the post-war spirit that made them powerhouses. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir told a conference on the continent’s economic future
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    • 344 10 -AFP SYDNEY Australia’s economy shrugged off the effects of Sept 11 to expand 4.1 per cent in the last quarter of 2001 from a year earlier, official figures released yesterday showed. It was the highest annual growth rate since 4.2 per cent was achieved in
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  • STREATS medical
    • 190 14 Qlhad an abortion in 1999 But now I want to get pregnant. I have some bbod discharge from my anus. What causes it? A The blood discharge coming through the anus is most likely due to skin tears or piles. Piles are caused by prolonged constipation with hard
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    • 317 14 1 in 10 such children has birth defect AP PERTH Test-tube babies have double the usual risk of being underweight or having major birth defects, researchers say. But they say the findings should not necessarily discourage infertile couples from trying to conceive this way. A study
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    • 134 14 Reuters CHARLOTTE, North Carolina The spermicide nonoxynol-9 does not protect women against gonorrhea or chlamydia. Research also indicates it doesn’t kill pathogens that cause HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases once they enter the vagina. Lab experiments showed nonoxynol--9 could inactivate various pathogens, including those that
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    • 110 14 Reuters NARROW blood vessels in a woman’s eye could mean an increased risk of heart disease, meaning that heart disease should be treated differently in men and women. “Women with coronary heart disease (CHD) are different from men in several ways,” said Dr Tien Yin Wong of the
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    • 72 14 HEALTH FACT OUTER and middle ear problems can result in conductive hearing loss difficulty with the transmission of sound through the ear and into the brain, Problems with the inner ear can result in neural hearing loss, where the auditory nerves responsible for hearing are damaged. Although much
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 354 16 I REFER to “$5,000 deposit too much for HDB buyers to risk” (Streats, Feb 27), a letter by Mr Ooi Mun Siang. The $5,000 registration deposit is taken from applicants to buy new flats under the Fiance/Fiancee Scheme. The deposit, which can be paid by
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    • 115 16 I REFER to “MRT circle of convenience” (Streats, March 6). More than 10 years ago, the Government proposed the construction of underground city link roads to help speed up traffic flow between the city and suburban areas. Construction of the MRT Circle Line should
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    • 197 16 I REFER to “Police response unsatisafactory” (Streats, March 6), a letter by Maggie. In the incident to which the writer refers, the two officers from Bedok North Neighbourhood Police Centre were despatched as soon as the first call was received by the police. When
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    • 228 16 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. ENTRY COUPON STREATS LEE HWA LUXURIOUS JmL /=T7 >: 7: MMMHH H
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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  • STREATS regional
    • 285 19 -AFP BEIJING In pursuing capitalist goals while officially retaining communist ideals, China is bound to enter grey areas like awarding a socialist medal to private entrepreneurs as was proposed yesterday. The plan to honour model “socialist” businesspeople with a commemorative
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    • 284 19 Wire services BANGKOK Muzzling the media appears to be part of an attempt by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s year-old government to consolidate power amid growing popular dissatisfaction, analysts say. In a new flare-up, the premier was yesterday forced to deny front-page
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    • 191 19 KUALA LUMPUR Accusations of cronyism may tempt Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to abandon the New Economic Policy (NEP), Chinese daily Sin Chew Jit Poh reported yesterday. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir, however, said the matter will be left to the next generation of leaders to
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    • 191 19 -AFP SYDNEY Poorly paid Indonesian women had to pull down their pants for female company doctors to prove they were menstruating if they wanted leave from a shoe factory supplying Nike and Adidas. Australia-based Oxfam Community Aid Abroad (Oxfam CAA) Nike Watch campaign
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    • 374 20 -AFP JAKARTA Suspected terrorist leader Abu Bakar Bashir yesterday filed a US$lOO million ($lB3 million) lawsuit against the Singapore government for slander and libel. Abu Bakar has filed the case despite an Indonesian justice official saying last week that
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    • 91 20 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesian prosecutors yesterday charged former president Suharto’s flamboyant son, Tommy, with the murder of a judge who sentenced him for graft. Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra, already in detention, was accused of masterminding the July 2001 murder of supreme court judge Syafiuddin Kartasasmita. Premeditated murder
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  • STREATS global
    • 452 21 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR As countries lined up to threaten the US with legal action over steel tariffs, the incoming chief of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) urged negotiations and warned that a full-blown dispute could take years to resolve.
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    • 33 21 A veiled woman looking at the Dara (right) and Sara dolls, which were launched as Iran’s national dolls, seeking to preserve Islamic culture and replace American Barbie dolls AP
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    • 280 21 Wire services WASHINGTON US tactics in the battle of Gardez have been criticised by military officers, who said air strikes should have continued for days or weeks before ground forces were sent in. “The way we lost those seven guys was a repeat
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    • 144 21 -AFP RAJASTHAN Indian police have arrested 70 bookmakers who fuelled rumours about riots to encourage bets on the chances of sectarian violence in Gujarat state spreading to other areas. The Hindustan Times reported yesterday that the bookies living in the north-western state of Rajasthan, adjacent
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    • 495 23  -  Steel tariffs: Good politics, bad policy Analysis DOUG PALMER Reuters WASHINGTON US President George W Bush’s decision to slap substantial tariffs on imported steel may help his fellow Republicans in upcoming elections, but analysts are calling it bad trade policy, particularly for a self-styled champion
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  • STREATS people
    • 312 26 -afp JAKARTA Indonesia’s parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung has been detained after the attorney-general’s office finished questioning him over graft allegations. “Akbar Tandjung is officially a detainee of the attorney-general’s office beginning today,” said office spokesman Barman Zahir.
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    • 250 26 AP WASHINGTON Former US president Bill Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Independent Counsel Robert Ray contended in his final report on Wednesday. Writing his last chapter on the affair that damaged
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    • 127 26 OXFORD She’s been at University College for a term and she should be hitting the books. But Chelsea Clinton is hitting the town instead, reported the Electronic Telegraph. Just before Christmas, she and her father, former US president Bill Clinton, were serenaded by U2’s Bono
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  • easy STREATS
    • 707 28  -  For the boy leads in I Not Stupid life hasn’t been any different since the movie became a sleeper hit at the box-office BU- Stephanie Goh WHEN asked how life has changed since appearing in that monster of a local hit, I Not Stupid, the three
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    • Article, Illustration
      406 29  -  Foodie two-shoes By WILEEN CHANG THINK dim sum or dianxin, and you might drool at the thought of munching on siew mai, har kow (prawn dumplings) and chee cheong fun (rice flour rolls). These dim sum staples take on new twists as creative chefs became creative when foie
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    • 217 29 JACKIE CHAN managed to get time off from his busy schedule to attend his mother’s funeral in Canberra, Australia, on Wednesday, reported Hongkong’s The Sun yesterday. The gongfu star was shooting in Thailand for the movie, Highbinders, when his 87-year-old mum died last Thursday. His wife, Lin
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    • 476 30  -  By i Cara van Miriah REMEMBER the October Cherries, Joe Chandran of the X-Periment, The Quests or Patrick Lee of Speedway? They and many other bands and singers who got the crowds grooving in the 60s and 70s will be back on stage soon. They
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    • 145 30 WHEN birds grow up, they fly away. This saying has proven true for Little Swallow Vicki Zhao, of My Fair Princess fame, as she bid her mentor Qiong Yao goodbye this month. Vicki shot to regional fame as a perky princess in the TV drama
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    • 78 30 JUST weeks after he broke off with British actress Minnie Driver, actor Harrison Ford is back enjoying his single life. The Indiana Jones star has been spotted with TV’s Ally Mcßeal, Calista Flockhart, along New York’s Madison Avenue. Flockhart, 36, who adopted baby Liam two years
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    • 88 32 TICKETS for Sammi Cheng’s ’Shocking Colours concert here are so hot that already 90 per cent have been snapped up, leaving only the $135 ones. That would mean that on March 22 at the Indoor Stadium, there would be more than 9,000 people the biggest turn-out for a
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    • 183 32 HONGKONG playboy Louis Lo appears to be going off his rockers. As if blabbing about his old flames Anita Yuen, Carina Lau and Pauline Sun wasn’t enough, the ex-tycoon went for further exposure literally. And for that, he was thrown out of the Four Seasons Hotel
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    • 75 34 Put away that umbrella for the weekend. Today, it will be fair everywhere except for partial cloud cover in the west. The fair weather will continue over Saturday and Sunday. Today, the temperatures will range between 25°C to 33°C and the tide will reach 2m at
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    • Just a minute
      • 125 34 If you know of any inspiring teachers, nominate them for the President’s Award for Teachers 2002. The award honours teachers for their commitment and for being role models. Nomination forms must be submitted by March 30 and can be obtained from schools or at wwwl .moe.edu.sg Find
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        207 34 LATIN DANCE SHOWCASE Borders Books and Music Tomorrow, 4.30-5pm Free Get sexy with salsa at the second of the Latin Dance showcases and workshops held every Saturday at Borders. This is a lead-up to the Streats Singapore International Latin Festival on April 6 and 7. If the 15-minute dance
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      • 49 34 The Little Maestros City Square, Raffles City Level 1 Today, lpm and 7pm Free The Little Maestros are a brass ensemble from Opera Australia who show you how music can be interactive. With popular classics, nursery rhymes and original songs, this promises to be a lunch time treat.
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      • 66 34 URBAN NATURE Chijmes, Caldwell House Gallery, Victoria Street Till March 14, llam-Bpm daily Free Call 6337-7810 This collection of photographs showcases the work of 15 of Argentina’s top photographers a lead-up to the Streats International Latin Festival on April 6 and 7. Get up close with the city of
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      • 51 34 Informatics Career Fair 2002 When: March 8-10, llam-Bpm Venue: Suntec City, SICEC Hall 603 604 Booth 28 Thames Preview Talk: School of Business/O A Levels When: MarchB, 7pm Venue: Plaza By the Park, Level 1 Pathway to a US Degree When: March 11, 7pm Venue: Carlton Hotel, Empress Room
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        66 35 9pm, Channel i Veteran superhero the Tick (Patrick Warburton) leaves his domain in a remote bus station and heads to the City to combat crime. With his partner, the Mothman (David Burke), he prepares to spank the behind of injustice. His first foe: the Red Menace, an antiquated
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      • 64 35 lam, Channel 5 Ditto outsmarts his grandfather, the Kaiser, in the bidding war for Wesley Industries. But victory comes at a terrible cost the Kaiser suffers a stroke. Ditto is tom between family loyalty and loyalty to his firm. Meanwhile, how will HSD deal with Hunter Lasky’s betrayal of
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      • 114 35 MORE on the Russell Crowe acceptance speech saga. Longtime Oscars producer Gil Cates has spoken up for dear ol’ Rusty after the latter attacked BBC executive Malcolm Gerrie for editing his Bafta speech. Well, sort of. Cates, who has produced 10 Oscar broadcasts, is
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    • Article, Illustration
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    • 458 35 Yourdai AQUARIUS JAN 20 -FEB 18 Patience wears thin. Focus wanders. You’re no longer as excited about finishing what you began. Continuity is important if you want to keep your new friends. The wind may not blow this way again for some time. TAURUS APR 20-MAY 20 You stand on
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    • 473 39  -  SSC wants one out of two Singaporeans to play sports By_ Lim Han Ming THE Singapore Sports Council (SSC) wants one out of two Singaporeans to take part in sports by 2005. But the council will have its work cut out for it as the growth in
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    • 347 39 Sports participation has increased from 34 per cent in 1997 to 38 per cent in 2001. It tends to be higher among: a) men b) the young and singles c) the socio-economically “better-offs” It is lower for the sedentary category, in particular, the blue-collar workers and housewives, but
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    • 502 43  -  Brazilian Luciano fires blanks in third straight match By I Adam Hashidy NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Home United 0 Tampines Rovers 0 HIS barren run continues. But Tampines Rovers striker Luciano De Oliveira, who failed to find the net after three outings, will find sympathisers
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    • 366 44 -Wire services LIVERPOOL Liverpool’s delight at the stunning win over title rival Newcastle was deflated by another injury to Michael Owen. The England striker damaged a hamstring in the second-half and immediately signalled to come off. He now looks likely to miss Liverpool’s vital
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    • 453 44  -  Soccer talk By TAN KIM HAN SCHOOL children often run riot when the teacher’s not around, but behave like altar boys once sharp footsteps are heard along the corridor. And so it was with the Reds of Liverpool, who could only manage one win out of nine
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    • 234 44 Chelsea 3 (Meichiot 18, Gudjohnsen 29, Forssell 82) Fulham 2 (Saha pen-20, 73) Leeds 2 (Fowler 46, Harte pen-78) Ipswich 0 Liverpool 3 (Murphy 32, 53, Hamann 75) Newcastle 0 Manchester United 4 (Beckham 15, 64, van Nistelrooy pen-43, 76) Tottenham 0 Southampton 1 (Svensson 38) Middlesbrough 1
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    • 295 45 LEEDS Deportivo La Coruna wants to sign Mark Viduka (right) to spearhead its attack in a move that looks certain to hasten the break-up of David O’Leary’s troubled Leeds squad. Already a target for some of Europe’s most prominent names, headed by Roma and
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    • 509 45 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Manchester United 4 Tottenham 0 MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson’s unprovoked and uncharacteristic attack on title rival Arsenal this week served as a stark indication of just how badly he wants to retain the Premiership
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    • 344 45 Wire services LEEDS David O’Leary believes that the Brian Kidd saga could prove to be a turning point for Leeds. The manager watched his side end its 10-game winless streak with a 2-0 victory over relegation-threatened Ipswich. Kidd was mobbed by relieved Leeds
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    • 321 47 Reuters BIRMINGHAM Ronald Susilo, Singapore’s sole representative at the All England badminton championships, will catch an early flight back home after he lost his second-round match yesterday morning. The 22-year-old Singapore permanent resident’s hopes of progressing to the last 16 were dashed by China’s
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      • 123 47 TABLE TENNIS SINGAPORE’S Jing Junhong entered the semi-finals of the US$2OO,OOO ($366,000) Qatar Open in Doha after winning both her matches yesterday. Jing beat Japan’s Satoko Kishida in straight sets 11-4, 11-7, 11-3, 11-9. Kishida had earlier eliminated Singapore’s world No 12 Li Jiawei in the
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        • 105 47 -AFP LONDON Arsenal has decided not to appeal the three-match ban meted out to its French international striker Thierry Henry, it emerged here yesterday. Henry’s ban, for improper conduct after the final whistle of Arsenal’s home defeat to Newcastle in December, will begin with immediate effect. Arsenal
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        • 98 47 Reuters MADRID Triumphant Deportivo Coruna coach Javier Irureta said his side had played a match worthy of a centenary as it beat Real Madrid 2-1 in the 100th Spanish Cup final on the night of Real’s 100th birthday on Wednesday. Irureta’s side took a 2-0 lead through
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