Streats, 25 September 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 456 1  -  B y Wendy Tan THEY are known in some circles as the Sunna group. Exactly who and what they are, no one seems to know. But the militant group has been linked to Mr Abu Bakar Bashir, a 64-year-old cleric who is said to
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  • 312 1 PANIC hasn’t set in yet. But yesterday’s plunging stock markets and surging oil prices gave an indication of what could happen if a US-Iraq war started. The Straits Times Index fell 38.75 points, or 2.7 per cent, to a 10-month low. But more
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    • 43 1 T am not fighting against the American people but against the US government. It’s part of a crusade by America to attack Islam. The United States hates me because I struggle in the name of Islam.’ Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir PAGE 20
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    • 13 1 (PWho cares about the Asian Games? PAGE 30 Cause for wony PAGE 6
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  • STREATS locals
    • 299 2 HERE is a piece of good news in these times of increased fares and rates fixed line telephone charges will not go up. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has rejected SingTel’s application for such a rise. This
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    • 203 2  -  By_ Zubaidah Nazeer AN INDONESIAN maid employed to take care of a teenage girl did just the opposite. She drugged the girl with sleeping tablets so that a contractor, believed to be her friend, could have sex with the girl. Yesterday, Othman Mohammad, 38,
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    • 155 2  -  Reports by Zubaidah Nazeer TWO Indonesian men were jailed yesterday for an attempt to smuggle 28 birds of endangered species and 120 kg of turtle eggs into Singapore. Customs officers, acting on a tip-off, foiled the plan on Sept 13 after inspecting their fishing
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    • 107 2 SWEE BEE LENG delivers loaves of Gardenia bread by day, but, after work, he would imagine himself to be part of an elite military force. Fuelled by this obsession, the 30-year-old bought two air guns while on holiday in Hongkong, which he tried to
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    • 198 3  -  B v Yong Hui Mien IDENTITY cards issued from Sept 30 will no longer record the blood group of card holders. The reason for including the information on the cards since 1985 was to make it easy to match blood types for emergency
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    • 81 3 Reuters THE Government has identified 60 to 80 suspected members of the militant Muslim group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). “The local Jemaah Islamiah group is believed to comprise 60 to 80 members,” said a Ministry of Home Affairs spokesman. “It is important to note, however,
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    • 316 3  -  Customers question need to tip service staff By Cara van Miriah GIVE tips if you want good service is the advice of the Tourism Working Group (TWG). But would you leave money for a smile or thank you, bearing in mind that there is already a
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  • STREATS financial
    • 444 4 Tan was key in setting up company, says loss-making chip maker Wire services SINGAPORE Loss-making ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) yesterday said that former chairman Tan Bock Seng, who left earlier this year, has received $l.B million in compensation. The payment was made by Stats’
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    • 266 4 Wire services SINGAPORE Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, which told investors this month that it won’t meet a target that it reiterated two weeks earlier, said its disclosures were “appropriate”. The world’s No 3 provider of custom-built chips, which is seeking cash from its investors for
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    • 163 4 r -?'oo"r^ SINGAPORE PSA Corporation may take up stakes in US ports as it expands overseas to offset increasing competition at home. “PSA might consider ports in the US, the only missing piece in the global jigsaw puzzle,” new chairman Stephen Lee said
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    • 406 6 STI: 1,377.07 38.75 AP SHARES closed at a 10-month low yesterday on growing fears of a US attack on Iraq. The Straits Times Index fell 2.7 per cent, or 38.75 points, to 1,377.07, its lowest closing level since Nov 13 last year. Decliners outnumbered advancers
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    • 384 6  -  Singaporeans worry that living expenses may shoot up %y_ Gary Lim YESTERDAY’S plunging stock markets and rising oil prices could affect living costs here if the trend continues. While most Singaporeans are not pushing the panic button yet, many are already bracing themselves for
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    • 251 6 Wire services SINGAPORE High-end residential property sales plummeted 56 per cent in the third quarter, according to figures released yesterday. “Investors stayed prudent and selective in their purchases,” property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle said in a report on residential investment sales, a term generally
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    • 24 6 •AS AT SEPTEMBER 24 US$: 551.780 552.761 EURO: 551.740 Ss: 69.33 YEN Ss: RM2.134 Ss: HK54.381 Ss: 24.40 BAHT Ss: 5,085 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 97 6 Reuters NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) yesterday said it has appointed Mr Hans Hickler as chief executive of subsidiary APL Logistics. Mr Hickler, who is NOL group chief information officer, replaces Mr Dick Metzler, NOL told the Singapore stock exchange. APL Logistics specialises in global, end-to-end supply
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      • 55 6 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering and SMRT Corporation joint venture Tran Sys have won a $22.5 million contract to maintain the MRT fare collection system for the next five years. SBS Transit awarded Tran Sys the contract to maintain the automatic fare collection system at 43 train
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      • 56 6 Reuters CAPITALAND yesterday said it had bought a stake in a Beijing property developer, which owns a condominium site in the Chinese capital worth 520 million yuan ($ll6 million). The firm said in a statement that it acquired the 62 per cent stake in Beijing Ruihua Property
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    • 361 5 o o Like wanton noodles Prefer char-siew rice ASK FOR more vegetables I ask For Less Gravy What delicious choices we have eating out in Singapore! The best thing is, you can choose some of the tastiest and healthiest dishes in everyday places like your favourite hawker centres and food
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  • STREATS medical
    • 256 8 Mercury found at higher levels in fish LONDON Infertility problem? It might be due to raised levels of mercury in your blood, from high consumption of seafood. Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong studied 150 infertile couples undergoing IVF, and 26 fertile couples,
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    • 135 8 Reuters Health NEW YORK Drinking moderate amounts of wine, beer or hard alcohol is associated with better blood glucose control among healthy adults especially women, study findings show. Women who drank any kind of alcohol had a lower average blood sugar level over two to
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    • 118 8 Q Why does a woman feel more sexually aroused when she menstruates? A A woman having her menses may have various reasons to feel more aroused. One is that they feel liberated because on those days they will not get pregnant. The other is hormonal change. Once the
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 369 10 THE arrest of a second group of Jemaah Islamiah operatives has sparked another national debate on the potential threat the group can pose to the safety of our nation and its national integration. It may have caused some worries and fears. But more worrying is that
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    • 169 10 THE Tourism Working Group’s suggestion that we should give tips on top of the 10 per cent service charge if we get good service might be a little too generous. There was no suggestion of imposing a penalty if the service we get is
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    • 402 10 I REFER to “Many satisfied students” (Streats, Sept 23), a reply from the Singapore Institute of Commerce (SIC) to my earlier letter (Streats, Sept 20). I would like to refute the SlC’s statements point by point. SIC said that it made alternative arrangements with
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    • 249 10 Have Your Say E-mail 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. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that
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    • 497 11 THEY'RE STILL GOING STRONG I&J AFTER ALL THESE YEARS AND ARE WE SST The Tembusu, Flame of the Forest, Kapok, and Rain Tree you see on this page have a combined age of more than 300 years. Against all odds, they have jt not only survived decades of urban development
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  • STREATS regional
    • 39 13 A newly bomjackson’s chameleon perched on its father’s horns in the serpentaria at Sydney’s TarongaZoo on Monday. It was one of 22 newborn creatures bom at the zoo during the spring season births A si
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    • 394 13 Bloomberg JAKARTA The US hasn’t accused any Indonesian Islamic groups as being terrorists, not even the militant ones, said US envoy Ralph Boyce in a meeting with Islamic leaders to deflect chaiges the US is targeting Muslims. “The US has not
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    • 115 13 -afp JAKARTA Parts of the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra remained blanketed by thick haze yesterday but rains were expected to improve the air over West Kalimantan, meteorology officials said. “We have had local rains in several areas of Pontianak last night
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    • 239 14 KL to take over from tobacco firms -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has announced plans to use money from “sin taxes” on alcohol and tobacco to fund health programmes and sports activities. The new Malaysian Health Fund will take over the role played by tobacco companies
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    • 113 14 Reuters CANBERRA Australian courts have won the right to seize assets of people believed to have profited from crime, including literary proceeds from tell-it-all books, even if the suspects have not yet been convicted. The new law, passed by parliament late on Monday, puts the
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      34 14 Police using a water cannon on workers protesting outside parliament in Jakarta yesterday. The workers were demanding that MPs take a pro-union approach to new laws being debated in parliament Reuters
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    • 134 14 AP TAIPEI US officials did something this month that they haven’t done for 23 years at their main office in Taiwan: Raise the US flag. History was made again this week as a Taiwanese president’s wife visited Washington for the first time in
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
      • 78 14 -AFP JAKARTA yesterday voiced concern over Australia’s plan to develop a rocket launch station on Christmas Island. “We understand they are determined to build a rocket launch port,” said Makarim Wibisono, the foreign ministry’s director general for Asia Pacific, on the sidelines of Indonesia-Australia security talks. Mr
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      • 71 14 AP LAWYERS for Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad have threatened jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim with bankruptcy hearings for refusing to pay RM35,381 (5516,564) in costs for a failed defamation suit, Anwar’s lawyer said yesterday. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir’s lawyers sent Anwar three letters demanding payment after the Court
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      • 72 14 -AFP SECURITY was tightened yesterday around schools in the strife-tom Philippine island of Basilan after the Abu Sayyaf hreatened to abduct teachers and students in retaliation for a military offensive. Provincial spokesman Alton Angeles said that the threat was contained in an intelligence report submitted to
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  • STREAIS global
    • FLASHPOINT IRAQ
      • 232 16 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO Former US vice-president A 1 Gore yesterday warned that America’s enemies “will be legion” if it embarks on the path of seeking world dominance instead of partnership and cooperation. He issued his warning at the Commonwealth Club, a respected San
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        52 16 These days US President George W Bush is having trouble convincing the UN Security Council to give him the mandate to take action against Iraq. And on Monday, at the White House, he also seemed to have a problem getting his dog Spot to listen to
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      • 341 16 Blair releases weapons’ dossier Wire services LONDON Britain said yesterday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had the capacity to launch a weapon of mass destruction with 45 minutes’ notice. A 55-page dossier setting out British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s case for action against Iraq
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      • 159 16 AP MAIN points from the British dossier: Iraq has illegally retained up to 20 A 1 Hussein missiles, with a range of 650 km, capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads. It has started deploying its A 1 Samoud liquid propellant missile and has
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
      • 85 16 AP A POLO RALPH LAUREN employee in the US is suing the fashion giant over its uniform policy, which she contends forced workers to spend as much as a third of their annual income on company fashions to keep their jobs. The complaint was filed by Ms
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      • 68 16 -AFP A TRANSSEXUAL who was barred from enrolling at a school for beauticians in California has won a legal battle to be allowed to attend classes, the transsexual and her lawyers said on Monday. The breakthrough came when the would-be beauty specialist reached a settlement with a chain
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      • 94 16 -AFP A MAN in Fiji has been charged with manslaughter after he allegedly speared his 11 -year-old daughter to death when he mistook her for a pig, police said yesterday. Police said the girl had gone outside to use the toilet and was speared on her return.
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      • 69 16 AP A CALIFORNIA scientist has genetically engineered male fruit flies with the equivalent of a switch that changes their sexual preference from heterosexual to homosexual. Mr Toshihiro Kitamoto spliced into certain neurons a gene that is sensitive to temperature. So when the flies moved from cool
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    • 161 18 -AFP GANDHINAGAR India’s western state of Gujarat yesterday stood poised on the verge of another bloody HinduMuslim riot. Tensions in the state were heightened as 23 people were killed and at least 20 injured when militants burst into a Hindu
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    • 299 18 Sole abstainer in M-East vote AP UNITED NATIONS The US stood alone early yesterday by abstaining as the UN Security Council approved a compromise resolution demanding that Israel cease actions around Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s West Bank compound and condemning terrorist attacks. The resolution, which passed
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    • 80 18 -AFP GAZA CITY Nine Palestinians were killed and 20 injured during an Israeli army incursion overnight into Gaza City using combat helicopters and tanks. More than 80 armoured vehicles withdrew from the city at dawn after destroying several buildings. Two militant activists were reported to have
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  • STREATS people
    • 154 20 Reuters HONGKONG A multi-lingual, multi-billionaire with Dutch citizenship has been named by North Korea to head its new special economic zone. Orchid magnate Yang Bin, 39, is the chairman of Euro-Asia Agriculture (Holdings), a grower of orchids and vegetables that was
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    • 416 20 JOGJAKARTA Wanted Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, secure at his base here, challenged the US yesterday to make its case against him and warned that jailing him would provoke Muslims. Intelligence agencies are focusing more intently on him following information provided this month by suspected
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  • easy STREATS
    • 699 22  -  By Yvonne Kwok Critics might say that the Emmys are not entertaining because the same shows win year in and out But we can thank the Emmys for highlighting some shows that so far areflying just below the radar of public consciousness THE SHIELD What it
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    • 143 22 Reuters NEW YORK -John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, took the stand yesterday in a battle with her late husband’s personal assistant over the ownership of photographs, letters and other memorabilia. She is suing Frederic Seaman (above) for allegedly stealing the personal articles, including 374 family
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    • 133 22 AP ACTOR Jackie Chan has come to the defence of Hongkong singer Nicholas Tse in his trial on charges that he avoided taking responsibility for a car crash. In a prepared statement read to the court on Monday, he said: “If such a capable young man falls
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    • 75 22 MADONNA is lined up to appear in a cameo role in Richard Curtis’ new film, Love Actually, opposite (who else?) Hugh Grant. Peoplenews.com reported yesterday that the pop diva is in talks to appear in the film, about a love-starved prime minister (Grant) who falls for his tealady
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    • 308 24 Reuters SEOUL A South Korean film about a real-life elderly romance has received positive reviews at the Cannes Film Festival but has raised the wrath of censors in South Korea. A seven-minute long, steamy septuagenarian sex scene in the film, Too Young To Die,
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    • 98 24 Reuters LOS ANGELES -Miss Universe pageant officials have “fired” the reigning Miss Universe, Russian cop Oxana Fedorova (right), and will replace her with Miss Panama, Justine Pasek. A spokeswoman for the pageant declined to elaborate on the reasons but a source close to the matter said that
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    • 144 26 WILMA RUDOLPH is another of our “Never Quit” people. Childhood illness left her with a paralysed left leg. At nine, she tossed her brace and at 13, she entered a race. She came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came
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    • Just a minute
      • 119 26 Need a mid-week breather? Relax during your lunch hour with a concert featuring staff and teachers from the Cristofori Music School (North East Cluster). Today, Ipm to 1.30 pm, library@esplanade (8 Raffles Avenue,#o3-01). It’s free. Is the residential market bottoming out the way it did three years
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    • Happenin’
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        50 26 THE PUNCHLIHE COMEDY CLUB Bar None Marriott Hotel Tonight $5O Get ready for a night of laughter with comedians Tim Clark, Kevin Gildea and Reginald Hunter. The trio are familiar faces in the British comedy scene. They have also travelled around the world, winning audiences with their witty humour.
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        44 26 ANTHONY ROBBINS Singapore Indoor Stadium Oct 11-14 Package starting at $1288.50 from Sistic Robbins will show you ways to enhance your own success and teach you the secrets of unleashing the power within you. The seminar also promises to be educational and entertaining.
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      • 97 26 LANTERN FUN-TASY Chinese Garden Till Sunday Tickets at $l3, $9, $7, $5 Lantern Fun-tasy promises to take you on a spectacular journey of dazzling lights and sounds. In a truly magical experience, visitors can expect an East meets West ambience where Mickey Mouse and his toon friends will make
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        86 26 VANESSA MAE GREATEST HITS TOUR 2002 Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre Tonight, 8pm Tickets at $151, $120, $100, $71 from Sistic The violin virtuoso will perform with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a twohour concert. It’s bound to be an explosive pop performance. FASCINATING RHYTHM WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 57 28 10pm, Channel i Andy and Tracy seem to have the perfect life good jobs, a happy marriage and a new house they want to fill with children. But Tracy is suddenly forced to undergo an emergency suigery that ends her fourweek pregnancy and renders her infertile. Starring Nicole Kidman,
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        82 28 llpm, Channel 5 In this final episode, secrets are exposed and unanswered questions resolved when Mulder goes on trial for the murder of Knowle Rohrer. When the military court finds Mulder guilty, Doggett and Skinner break him out of jail. The next morning, Doggett and Reyes find that
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      • 136 28 AP A MARINE park in Florida has asked the US government for permission to capture Keiko, the whale of Free Willy fame, and put him on display. The National Marine Fisheries Services said it received an application earlier this month from the Miami Seaquarium to transport
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      101 28 DISTURBED Believe THE Chicago quartet was a band which headbangers felt they could, well, Believe in. This latest album is both a consolidation and an evolution for Disturbed. Working with the same producer and mixer as before, the result is the same muscular, confrontational power that made The
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 449 28 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Friendship isn’t ironclad right now. You should be listening instead of assuming. Be accepting about what you hear. Tolerance buys you the time you need to act responsibly. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 After a slow beginning, you find your comfortable
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  • STREATS sports
    • 539 30  -  Lack of live Asiad coverage hardly an issue among Singaporeans By Lim Han Ming IN four days’ time, the southern city of Busan in South Korea will fling open its doors to 44 countries for the 14th Asian Games. Team Singapore will send 92
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    • 221 30 77/ follow the fortunes of our Singaporean athletes, especially since we have some gold medal hopes in sailing. I have always followed our athletes’ performance at regional competitions. They may not win all the time, but I’ll still support them because I’m Singaporean.’ Chua Ruey Yeong,
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    • 564 32 -AP SUTTON COLDFIELD, England Tiger Woods barely had time to celebrate his World Golf Championship victory when he was reminded to join nine fellow Ryder Cup players and US captain Curtis Strange (right) for a team dinner. “I should
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    • 324 32 Reuters SUTTON COLDFIELD, England Bernhard Langer (right), the grand old man of European golf, plays in his 10th Ryder Cup this week 21 years after his first. But he fears it could be his last. The 45-year-old German, who is married
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    • SPORTS SCAN
      • 120 32 GOLF -AP SUTTON COLDFIELD, England After a three-year wait, the Ryder Cup finally returned with a real jolt an earthquake that shook central England early on Monday morning. It roused European captain Sam Torrance from his sleep. He said: “We didn’t know what it was, whether it was
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      • SOCCER
        • 86 32 Reuters LONDON Chelsea, gunning for second place in the English Premier League, fell short when it was held to a goalless draw by Fulham on Monday. A victory by two goals would have lifted Chelsea into second place on 15 points, two behind leader Arsenal and equal
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        • 72 32 Reuters GLASGOW Scottish football referees confirmed on Monday what fans have always suspected they need glasses to help them do their job. The nation’s match officials announced a sponsorship deal with leading British opticians Specsavers in an agreement that will cause chuckles throughout Scottish stadiums. The contract,
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    • 62 34 (Today, 2.30 am tomorrow) Group A Borussia Dortmund (Ger) v Auxerre (Fra) PSV Eindhoven (Ned) v Arsenal (Eng) Group B Spartak Moscow (Rus) v Valencia (Spa) Liverpool (Eng) v FC Basel (Swi) Group C Real Madrid (Spa) v Genk (Bel) AEK Athens (Gre) v AS Roma (Ita) Group
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    • 109 34 LIVERPOOL V BASEL IX2 Liverpool 1.27 Draw 5.00 Basel 7.10 1/2 GOAL Liverpool (-11/2 Goals) 1.70 Basel (+1 1/2 Goals) 1.95 Total Goals 0 Goal 12.00 1 Goal 5.80 2 Goals 4.10 3 Goals 3.90 4 Goals 4.50 5 Goals 6.40 6 Goals 11.00 7 Goals 22.00 8
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    • 178 34 Reuters LONDON PSV Eindhoven coach Guus Hiddink has received a death threat, warning that if he has as much success with the Dutch club as he enjoyed with South Korea at the World Cup, he could be shot. Hiddink told the London Evening Standard he had
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    • 533 34 Arsenal’s mindset while playing away will be on trial CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal EINDHOVEN, Holland There is nothing left for Arsenal to conquer at home. But now the double winner has to prove it has the courage and selfconfidence to be the same team when
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    • 189 34 Reuters MILAN Roma captain Francesco Totti has urged the team’s fans to get behind the players and put an end to the protests which have followed the team’s poor start to the season. Roma faces Greek side AEK Athens in the Champions League tonight (2.30 am,
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    • 532 35 Houllier confident star striker will turn things around quickly Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Liverpool v Basel LIVERPOOL Liverpool has two minor problems ahead of the visit of the Swiss double winner. One is the continued absence of Czech striker Vladimir Smicer, who is still recovering from a
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    • 340 35 Reuters MADRID The long-awaited debut of Real Madrid’s new signing Ronaldo (below) has been put on hold because of a minor ankle injury, the club said yesterday. Coach Vincente del Bosque told reporters that the Brazilian striker would not be included in
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