Streats, 6 September 2002

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  • 13 1 Streats FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com. sg MiTA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • MORNING RUSH
    • 83 1 AP A SPATE of bad news hit Wall Street hard yesterday. The US Labour Department reported that productivity rose just 1.5 per cent. Also, new claims for unemployment insurance fell last week by a seasonally adjusted 8,000 to 403,000. The Institute for Supply
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    • 101 1 Wire services AFGHANISTAN’S President Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt yesterday when a security guard fired at his car as it was leaving the governor’s mansion in Kandahar, witnesses said. The Kandahar governor, Mr Gul Agha Sherzai, was injured and three people were killed in
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  • 688 1  -  S’pore mosques, churches, temples, synagogues to mark 9/11 in prayer and gesture REMEMBERING 9/11 B v Deepa Vijiyasingam BELLS will quiver on Wednesday, ringing sweet and sorrowful, hollow and haunting. All over Singapore, the bells and gongs will sound at churches, temples and other places
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    • 60 1 Taiwanese star Jay Chou's choice of T-shirt was a billboard of lewd slogans suggesting drug-use and unnatural sex all in big bold letters. And his audience last Sunday included a Minister and a TV audience of 400,000. Was he aware of what he won LEWD &LOUD PAGE 31 We have
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    • 12 1 US$lOO for a barrel of oil? It’s possible, he says PAGE 21
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  • STREATS local
    • 221 2  -  By_ SarahNg TELEPHONES at events company Systemsel have been ringing non-stop since Streats ran a front page report about its rent-free bazaar stalls in Orchard Point on Wednesday. The organiser of the bazaar has received more than 100 enquiries in two days, said the
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    • 485 2  -  Citibank, DBS, UOB re-issue cards to those who visited M’sia, Indonesia By Wendy Tan MADAM Stella Koh received a puzzling phone call from a bank officer last Sunday afternoon. “Is your husband in Phuket?” he asked. “I was a bit shocked,” said the homemaker. “What was
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    • 98 2 CHANGI Airport will have a new rail system by the time Terminal 3 opens in 2006. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said yesterday that the $135 million project, which will replace Skytrain, will link all three terminals. The existing tracks will be kept, while the
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    • 230 3  -  Janice Wong MR TAN Teng Huat had his first taste of Newater 27 years ago. He was the first person to take a sip of reclaimed water here while working as an engineer at the Ministry of the Environment and heading the first pilot plant
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    • 244 3  -  Time to exploit fruits of 30-year research: PUB chief By Janice Wong THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) confirmed yesterday that it will decide by the end of this month if Newater will be mixed with reservoir water, as recommended by an expert panel in July this
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    • 220 4  -  By Yong Hui Mien THOSE at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) convocation ceremonies this year found themselves doing a double-take three times. All because three pairs of identical twins received their degrees this year. Not only do they look the same, they graduated from the same
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    • 210 4  -  By< Gary Lim A CABBY was yesterday convicted of twice molesting the maid he employed to look after his terminally-ill wife. Michael Jacob de Costa’s offences were exposed when his wife’s doctor, on a house visit to their Yishun flat, saw the maid crying. He later
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    • 224 4  -  Gary Lim THREE men were charged in court yesterday for offences relating to a scam involving jailed remittance agent Lam Chen Fong. Ivan Teo, 42, was alleged to have deceived Lam into believing that he could delay his warrant of arrest through a police contact on
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    • 287 4 IF you’re displaying an old URA/HDB parking coupon on your car, don’t get too worried if you see a flyer stuck under your windscreen wiper. The white URA flyer is just to inform you that coupon parking charges have been revised. A URA spokeswoman
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  • STREATS financial
    • 439 6 STI: 1,447.77 9.71 THE market dipped further yesterday, the ninth day of losses in the last 10 days, on rising concerns over a US-Iraq war and the state of the US economy. Sing Tel, Singapore Press Holdings and Singapore Airlines fell, pushing the Straits Times Index
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    • The numbers are positive but...
      • 415 6  -  B v ChuaKongHo SINGAPORE can achieve 5.7 per cent GDP growth next year even if the US goes to war with Iraq, but only if it does so with the support of its Middle East allies. In this scenario, the
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      • 293 6 Reuters NEW YORK Private sector economists are rushing to raise forecasts for US economic growth after August vehicle sales hit their highest levels of the year. With 99 per cent of results in from car makers, analysts projected that North American-made
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    • 38 6 •AS AT SEPTEMBER 5 USS: 551.745 552.739 EURO: 551.738 Ss: 6734 YEN Ss: RM2.178 Ss: HK54.470 Ss: 24.17 BAHT Ss: 5,072 RUPIAH m i v. a t i. x i V a> a •> I -t m >
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  • STREATS medical
    • 231 8 First superinfection case shows importance of safe sex Reuters FRAUENFELD, Switzerland Swiss doctors have reported what they say is the first proven case of HIV superinfection in which an already HIV-positive person becomes re-infected with another strain of the virus. Researchers say the case highlights
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    • 153 8 Reuters LITTLE FORK, Minnesota Parents who delay talking to their kids about sex may miss the chance to play a role in their teens’ lives, experts said on Wednesday. Teens whose parents are involved in their lives are much less likely to have
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 164 10 AS institutions of advanced education, universities should realise that policies on personal privacy should be dictated not by laws or regulations but by respect for individuals. If universities do not respect the privacy of students, some of whom are our future leaders, where are we heading?
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    • 64 10 I WOULD like to point out the dangers of passive smoking. It is common to see people smoking in public places, causing a serious health hazard, especially for pregnant women and infants. To make Singapore a truly clean and healthy city, smoking in all public
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    • 144 10 AFTER reading the report “Brain drain pain” (Streats, Sept 5), I wondered why we should be surprised that an ACNielsen survey showed most Singaporeans who want to emigrate are professionals. The reality is that no country, including Singapore, wants to hand out citizenship to
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    • 349 10 WE refer to “Carpark fee hike was news to me” and “Sloppy planning causes inconvenience” (Streats, Sept 4), letters by Francis Chan and Michael Loh Yik Ming respectively. URA and HDB publicised the increase in parking charges as early as May 2002. We also
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    • 84 10 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, e-mail us at streats@sph.comsg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. Contributions should comprise no more than 200 words. We would prefer readers who write to our Vocal Page to use their
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  • STREATS regional
    • 113 12 AP WELLINGTON Singapore Airlines has come to the rescue of an injured Welsh couple held up in New Zealand because no airline would allow them to use bedpans in first class, the couple said yesterday. Tony and Jenny Legge can’t walk unaided
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    • 264 12 Filipina must return to M’sia to file complaint AP KOTA KINABALU Malaysian officials said yesterday that they would investigate claims that police raped a 13-year-old Filipina awaiting deportation in a detention centre. But they said that the girl must return to Malaysia to lodge a police
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    • 206 12 KUALA LUMPUR The water issue should be dealt with separately from a package of other issues being discussed with Singapore, two Malaysian dailies said yesterday in lengthy editorials. In an article headlined “Singapore’s ego disrupts flow of negotiation”, Berita Harian Malaysia accused Singapore of using
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    • 219 15 MPs want speaker out after graft conviction -AFP JAKARTA Akbar Tandjung should be suspended from the parliamentary speaker’s post, leading Indonesian MPs demanded yesterday. “The legislators now have a moral obligation to start the movement to suspend Akbar from his position as people’s representative,” said Mr Roy the
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    • 157 15 -AFP JAKARTA Akbar Tandjung is a seasoned and shrewd politician. He survived political upheavals that saw his mentor, dictator Suharto, ousted in disgrace and his political party vilified. But the three-year jail sentence handed down on Wednesday could be the beginning of his political demise
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    • 46 15 A fisherman carrying a freshly caught fish to the General Santos port yesterday. This southern Philippine city has become home to the world’s second biggest tuna fishing and processing industry, hauling in 12 billion pesos (Ss3l4 million) a year in exports AFP
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    • 149 15 -AFP BANGKOK In the latest bizarre pet craze to hit Thailand, where popular giant African cockroaches have just been banned, the deadly blue-ring octopus has reportedly become the latest must-have. The Bangkok Post said the beautiful but extremely dangerous octopus, whose rings glow electric
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    • 122 17 AP AUCKLAND For almost 20 years, Auckland’s Muslims had been misdirecting their prayers to Mecca by 30 degrees. This stopped in 1998, when surveyors were called in after worshippers said they felt that something was wrong, and the surveys confirmed that the mosque’s alignment was out.
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    • 84 17 -AFP BEIJING China and Germany have agreed to a deal on what to do with 15 North Korean refugees sheltering in a German Embassy school here, both sides said yesterday. Although neither would comment on the details, it seemed likely the group would be permitted to leave
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    • 68 17 AP SEOUL The nation’s millionaire soccer chief, Mr Chung Mong Joon, said yesterday that he would run for president in the December election. Mr Chung, 50, an independent legislator with no political affiliation, has long been considered a possible contender. His popularity surged following
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    • 244 17 It’s discriminatory, say Aussies Reuters SYDNEY A gym in Sydney meant only for Muslim women is sharpening the divide between right-wingers in the Anglo-Celtic mainstream and the Islamic minority. The tiny second-floor gym in the suburb of Punchbowl, which is about 13 per cent Muslim,
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    • Article, Illustration
      89 17 -AP TH E floor of this church cafeteria in Seoul was bloodied after a man stabbed 10 kindergarten children on Wednesday. Police were seeking a warrant yesterday to charge the suspect, named only as Hwang (left), with attempted murder. Police Lt Cho Chang Dong said that without a
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  • STREATS global
    • 370 21 Former Saudi oil minister sees Iraq attacking Kuwait, Saudi Arabia Reuters MESSERY, France Former Saudi oil Minister Zaki Yamani predicted on Wednesday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein would respond to a full-scale US attack on Iraq by firing at Saudi Arabia and Kuwait,
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    • Article, Illustration
      32 21 A shop in Calcutta displaying statues of Nobel peaceprize winner Mother Teresa on her fifth anniversary of her death yesterday. The statues were on sale for 100 rupees each (553.60)
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    • 190 21 ap WASHINGTON The quickening of war drums on Iraq within the Bush administration is reviving accusations at home and abroad of US unilateralism, a stubborn willingness to go it alone on a range of fronts. None doubt the American military’s ability to carry out the regime
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    • 195 21 AFP NEW YORK A lawsuit filed in a US district court in Manhattan on Wednesday charges that the Iraqi government had advance knowledge that Osama bin Laden was targeting the Pentagon, the White House and New York City before last year’s terrorist
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
      • 70 21 A CANADIAN Parliament committee has called for legalising marijuana use by adults, increasing pressure on the government to shift drug laws far from the US’ zero-tolerance policy. The report by the Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs released on Wednesday recommended that criminal records for possession of marijuana
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      • 103 21 Reuters THE Sri Lankan government cleared a major obstacle to peace talks by lifting a ban on the island’s Tamil Tiger rebels, but officials said yesterday that foreign governments would not follow suit. They also said Velupillai Prabhakaran, the reclusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of
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    • 112 21 AP NEW YORK US President George W Bush’s job approval has dropped to 60 per cent in a poll released yesterday by the Pew Research Center for the People the Press. His approval is in the mid-60s in several other recent polls. Mr Bush’s approval was at
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    • REMEMBERING 9/11
      • 281 26 NEW YORK -Of the 200 people who fled to the 78th-floor lobby of the World Trade Center on Sept 11 to catch express lifts to the ground floor, only 12 survived. The stories of some of the 12 and others who passed through the lift lobby
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      • 361 26 Car bomb goes offin Kabul business district as Sept 11 nears Reuters KABUL A senior police officer blamed Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda network and Afghanistan’s ousted Taleban rulers for a deadly car-bomb blast in Kabul yesterday, less than a week before the anniversary
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  • STREATS people
    • 142 28 -AFP FOR his leadership after the Sept 11 attacks, he emerged as “America’s mayor”. Now, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has become a high-priced consultant, biding time ahead of a possible return to politics He has also signed two hefty book deals for
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    • 311 28 -afp RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is a male chauvinist. That observation is from someone who should know his wife. Regarding a woman’s role in life, Mr Putin’s views are clear, Mrs Lyudmila Putin, 45, says in a biography of the Russian leader
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  • easy STREATS
    • 634 31  -  By_ i Yvonne Kwok Taiwanese R&B king Jay Chou may be taken to task for wearing an obscene shirt at Sunday’s Singapore Hit Awards THE writing on the shirt was pictureclear and crude. “(Use) cocaine...up my nostrils, spread it on my ****y too. I like it
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    • 105 31 COULD Jay Chou have been unwittingly breaking the law by wearing such a T-shirt in public? Said lawyer Leonard Loo: “In theory, the organisers of the event and the person wearing this type of shirt with vulgarities on them have contravened public licensing conditions. “Whether they
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    • 293 33  -  By i Wileen Chang MOVE aside, bar-top dancers. The table-top swinger from Italy is here. She climbs onto a table, swirls, twirls and even strips down to a bikini top. And all the while she’s tossing a pizza. Truth be told, watching Oriana Tirabassi in
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    • 490 33  -  Adam About Town By ADAM HASHIDY BAD service and I, we’re like newfound lovers.We seem to go everywhere together. Hand-in-hand, cheek-to-cheek. Or should it be check-to-check as it always happens in restaurants? Maybe it has something to do with my cock-a-snoop attitude.
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    • 125 36 A FORESTRY expert in Kalimantan has said that the forest fires there will only get worse over the next few weeks. The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reading in Central Kalimantan has gone beyond 700, way past the danger level of 300. Three people with respiratory illnesses
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    • Just a minute
      • 128 36 There’s a magic show at HealthZone from noon to 1pm today. Find out about healthy living the fun way. The exhibition is at Level 2, Health Promotion Board, 3, Second Hospital Avenue, tel: 1800-435-3616, e-mail: HPB_Health_Zone@hpb.gov.sg It’s open 9am-5pm from Tuesday to Saturday, and lpm-spm on Sunday.
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    • Happenin’
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        42 36 MILIEU PERANAKAN PLACE (Formely Papa Joes) Sept 25-27 7.30pm-10.30pm Tickets $5l at ticketcharge.com.sg The 1 Nitestand Comedy club is celebrating its first birthday with three more comedians Nick Wilty, Lawrence Mooney and Kevin McCarthy. Get ready for a night of laughs.
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      • 62 36 SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL 24-HOUR ENDURANCE KART RACE Sentosa Tomorrow 3pm-3pm Tickets $l2, $l6, $2O, $26, $3O at www.ticketcharge.com.sg Ready for an adrenalin-pumping race and an overnight party? Get geared up for some action as 50 international and local karting teams pit their skills in a non-stop test of skill, strategy
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        105 36 THE SINGAPORE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS LANTERN FESTIVAL Sept 21 6.30pm-9pm Tickets $16 and $11 The zoo’s annual Lantern Festival will feature laser lights and fireflies. Expect activities related to this Mid-Authum festival such as traditional favourites the Lantern Moon Walk and a visit to the Night Safari. More details at
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      • 65 36 SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Violin Explorers Series Victoria Concert Hall Sept 13-14 8.15 pm Tickets $3B, $2B, $22, $l7, $l2 at sistic.com.sg Acclaimed British violinist Lorraine McAslan is the soloist in Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto. It is a romantic showpiece which combines passionate moments and lush melodies. English conductor
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 55 37 10pm, Channel i Sylvia (Kristin Davis of Sex and the City) ditches her boyfriend at a highway bar and a friendly trucker (Meat Loaf) offers her a ride. Sylvia soon discovers that the cargo being hauled is a trailer full of dead bodies and that the driver is not
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      • 67 37 8.30 pm, Channel 5 Mrs Lam, the callgirl mother, contracts Aids and her life, already difficult, becomes unbearable. She can’t work, the neighbours shun her and she’s thrown out of her apartment. Unexpected help in the form of Aunty Rose, the neighbourhood gossip. Jamal, now insecure over Zarina’s increasing
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      • 148 37 MATT DAMON, who stars in The Bourne Identity, which opens in Singapore this weekend, could become the thinking person’s action hero. He said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald recently that the appeal of The Bourne Identity was that it was character-driven rather
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    • 489 39 FA wants even injured players to report for duty in future Wire services LONDON Furious England manager Sven Goran Eriksson has hit back after being denied two of his top stars by Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. He will now demand that every national player turns
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    • 89 39 Reuters LONDON Liverpool striker Michael Owen (above) will captain England in the friendly against Portugal on Saturday after David Beckham was ruled out with an injury, the BBC reported yesterday. Owen was handed the skipper’s armband as Beckham will miss the game at Villa Park with
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    • 311 40  -  FAS, NTUC to launch VCD on football techniques By Tan Kim Han THE first locally-produced VCD on football techniques will be launched on Sunday. It will demonstrate the right skills in eight departments passing, controlling, turning, running with the ball, dribbling, shooting, heading and goalkeeping. The
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    • 109 40 NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Balestier 4 Sengkang 6 Clementi 1 Gombak 1 SENGKANG Marine emerged tops in a 10-goal S-League football thriller at the Toa Payoh Stadium last night, beating host Balestier Central 6-4. The hero of the night was lanky Sengkang defender Daniel Hill, who
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    • 208 40 Reuters NYON, Switzerland Players forced to take part in meaningless friendly internationals are compromising their domestic league performances, Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier (right) said on Wednesday. Houllier took a swipe at the international football calendar and the call-up of players for games like England’s clash with
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    • 158 40 LONDON Manchester United captain Roy Keane is set to fight the Football Association’s charge that he brought the game into disrepute, reported BBC yesterday. Keane faces two disrepute charges, the first for being “improperly motivated” in his now infamous challenge on Alf Inge Haaland. The second
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    • 386 42 Venus cruises past Seles to join sister Serena in semis as Mauresmo downs Capriati Reuters NEW YORK -Twice defending champion Venus Williams rebounded from a hesitant fourth-round performance by scoring an emphatic 6-2,6-3 victory over Monica Seles on Wednesday to ease into the US Open
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    • 115 42 Reuters NEW YORK -France’s Amelie Mauresmo says it’s time she or anybody else broke the Williams sisters’ domination of women’s tennis. After reaching the US Open semi-final with a tough three-set win over Jennifer Capriati, the Frenchwoman was asked if it was a good
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    • 339 42 Wire services NEW YORK World No 1 and defending champion Lleyton Hewitt (right) battled past weary Moroccan Younes El Aynaoui 6-1, 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 on Wednesday for a US Open semi-final showdown with Andre Agassi. “If I play Andre it’s going to
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    • 383 44 Argentina hands NBA players first international loss in 10 years Wire services WORLD BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Team USA 80 Argentina 87 INDIANAPOLIS The basketball universe changed forever on Wednesday. The most powerful nation in the history of the sport lost a game. Argentina pulled off a victory
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    • 260 47  -  By. Adam Hashidy MARK Chay (right) will strive to break “Uncle Siong’s” national 100 metres freestyle record at next month’s Asian Games. With just 20 days left to get into tip-top shape, the swimmer knows that he is in a race against time.
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